Preface
In May 1942, Liu Ying was arrested and martyred in Fangyan, Yongkang, Zhejiang. Two days later, Ding Kuimei, the widow of Liu Ying, who escaped and arrived in Shanghai, gave birth to her son Liu Xirong. Since Su Yu and Liu Ying are old comrades-in-arms, he has always been concerned about the safety of the descendants of the martyrs living in the white area.
In 1946, the underground party organization finally contacted Liu Xirong and his sister, and sent the brother and sister safely to Su Yu's side. Su Yu and his wife Chu Qing took care of their sister and brother as if they were their own children. Su Yu fell ill and lived in the hospital in his later years, and Liu Xirong went to the hospital to visit Uncle Su.
During the chat, Su Yu said with relief: "As the secretary general, you have to work hard......"
The comradeship between Su Yu and Liu Ying
In 1934, Liu Ying was transferred to the Red Seventh Army as the director of the Political Department, and Su Yu was the chief of staff of the regiment at that time. Since then, the two have been fighting side by side for years. Not long after, the Red Seventh Army was ordered to form a "northbound anti-Japanese advance team" headed by Fang Zhimin.
This advance team fought bravely and made many meritorious contributions in containing the enemy forces and covering the transfer of the main force. In 1935, after Fang Zhimin was arrested and sacrificed, Su Yu and Liu Ying led part of the Red Army that broke through the encirclement and established the "Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Advance Division", with Su Yu as the division commander and Liu Ying as the political commissar.
After the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the advance division was renamed the "Fujian-Zhejiang Border Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps". At the beginning of 1938, the Party Central Committee instructed the guerrilla corps to be incorporated into the New Fourth Army. In March of the same year, Su Yu led the main force of the army to the anti-Japanese front, while Liu Ying stayed in Zhejiang to continue the struggle. After that, Liu Ying served as the secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and vigorously promoted the province's anti-Japanese salvation movement.
After the "Southern Anhui Incident," the anti-communist activities of the Kuomintang became more and more rampant. Gu Zhutong, commander of the Kuomintang Third Theater, issued an order to Liu Yisheng, director of the Zhejiang Provincial Office of the Central Bureau of Unification: "The underground activities of the CCP should be changed from monitoring and reconnaissance to sabotage and attack. In order to avoid the sabotage of the Kuomintang, Liu Ying led the provincial party committee organs to fight in different areas.
Unfortunately, in February 1942, Liu Ying was arrested for being a traitor. After Liu Ying was arrested, the enemy was overjoyed. Kuomintang Wenzhou Inspector Zhang Baochen said proudly: "Capturing Liu Ying alone is better than capturing 100,000 enemies." It can be seen from this that Liu Ying's status is high and her ability is strong!
In order to obtain valuable information from Liu Ying, Liu Yisheng immediately rushed to Wenzhou, and he wanted to interrogate Liu Ying in person. After Liu Ying was arrested, she was ready to sacrifice. Therefore, when he is faced with the coercion and temptation of the enemy, he repeats only one sentence: "You will not get anything." ”
On March 20, Liu Ying was escorted to Fangyan, Yongkang, the temporary seat of the Kuomintang Zhejiang Provincial Government. Two days later, Chen Fangting, a traitor who betrayed Liu Ying, came to persuade Liu Ying to surrender on the orders of Liu Yisheng. Liu Ying scolded him directly: "You are a pug that gets under the crotch of reactionaries." Chen Fangting was scolded and left, and found nothing.
In order to extract something useful from Liu Ying's mouth, the enemy inflicted all kinds of torture on him. Although Liu Ying was covered in bruises, he never revealed a single secret of our party to the enemy. He told the enemy: "You can have me at my mercy alone, but our comrades will fight better." "After months passed, the enemy also lost patience.
On May 18, 1942, Liu Ying was brutally murdered.
Su Yu took care of the children of martyr Liu Ying
Two days after Liu Ying's death, his son Liu Xirong was born. At that time, in order to take revenge and continue the revolution, Liu Ying's widow Ding Kuimei hurriedly sent her son to her mother's house and went to the liberated area alone to find the party organization.
After Su Yu learned that his old comrade-in-arms Liu Ying had died, he was very sad. After he learned that Liu Ying's children were in the white area, he was very worried. So, he sent people to the white area several times to look for the children. Hard work pays off! In 1946, the underground party organization found Liu Xirong and his sister and sent them to the liberated areas. Since then, the sisters and brothers have followed the people's army commanded by Chen Yi and Su Yu in the southern and northern wars, and traveled in northern Jiangsu and Shandong.
During the war-torn years, the living conditions of the troops were very difficult. Liu Xirong recalled that even the commanders and fighters could not eat enough, but the canned food and other food captured at the front line were first delivered to the children who accompanied the army. On the march, fearing that Liu Xirong's sister and brother would be hungry, Su Yu's wife Chu Qing would often make some cakes for the children to eat.
In winter, afraid that Liu Xirong's sister and brother would freeze, Chu Qing used a military blanket to make a smaller military uniform to keep the children warm; As soon as the march arrived at the camp, Su Yu first settled the borrowed house and settled the sisters and brothers to live first.
During the march, Liu Xirong remembered one thing very deeply: at that time, there was a mountain road that was particularly difficult to travel, and the troops led a tall mule with a basket on each side of their backs, so Su Yu put the sister and brother in two baskets and walked with the troops. As soon as the two children sat down, they were very happy, singing military songs as they walked, as if they had moved away from the battlefield filled with gunpowder.
In this way, Liu Xirong and his sister survived the arduous war years under Su Yu's care and grew up day by day. At that time, Liu Xirong found that every time he had to fight, or was in the middle of a war, Uncle Su Yu could not close his eyes and rest with peace of mind.
By the time of the Liberation War, Su Yu had become a "victorious general" who led hundreds of thousands of field troops. At the same time, the burden on his shoulders became heavier. Due to his long-term career as a horseman, Su Yu inevitably became ill from overwork.
In order to make Su Yu recover as soon as possible, after liberation, the central government let Su Yu go to the Soviet Union for a period of recuperation. Under the care of Soviet medical personnel, Su Yu's physical condition was much better. When returning to China, Su Yu discussed with Chu Qing and brought back some exquisite Soviet toys to Liu Xirong and his sister.
Similarly, Su Yu and Chu Qing also gave teaching gifts such as slide projectors to the children of the children of cadres of the Nanjing Military Region. Like Liu Xirong, these children lost their fathers or both parents in the war. Su Yu and Chu Qing are very careful, not only caring about the growth of the children of the martyrs, but even the third generation. Liu Xirong recalled that on one occasion, Uncle Su Yu and Aunt Chu Qing gave my son intellectual toys.
After Liu Xirong and his sister grew up, Su Yu and Chu Qing were still very concerned. Su Yu attaches great importance to Liu Xirong's learning and progress. When he was working in the province, Su Yu reminded him: "If you are young, you can't just sit in the organs, but you have to go to the grassroots level to study and temper in actual work." ”
My sister once told Liu Xirong that she worked in the Beijing Army, and if she didn't go to Uncle Su Yu's house on holidays, she would receive a phone call. When she got married, she was in a special era, and her mother was "censored". Su Yu and Chu Qing are like her biological parents, handling her marriage.
Su Yu encouraged Liu Xirong
Su Yu lived in the hospital in his later years, and after Liu Xirong visited his sick mother, he went to the general hospital to visit Uncle Su Yu. After entering, Liu Xirong saw Su Yu eating a piece of roasted sweet potato. Su Yu said with a smile while eating, he was used to eating when he was fighting guerrillas, and he was very accustomed to eating.
Then, the two began to talk. Liu Xirong, as usual, reported on his work in recent days. Su Yu asked him, "How many people are there in Wenzhou?" Liu Xirong replied: "There are already 6 million." Su Yu said: "At the beginning of liberation, there were only more than 2 million. Liu Xirong took over and said: "Yes, in 1950, the statistics were 2.8 million. ”
Liu Xirong said that the old comrades in southern Zhejiang miss Uncle Su very much, and asked him to pay tribute on his behalf. After hearing this, Su Yu nodded with a smile, and said sincerely, thank you, hello comrades. Speaking of Liu Xirong's current position, Su Yu praised with satisfaction: "As the secretary general, you have to work hard!" Liu Xirong modestly said that he has not done enough in all aspects, and it is the party's education and training.
After chatting for a while, Su Yu's time for diagnosis and treatment arrived. Liu Xirong had to get up and leave, what he didn't expect was that this was the last time the two met. Later, Liu Xirong learned that when Su Yu was seriously ill, he also inscribed the mausoleum rebuilt by martyr Liu Ying.
Talking about General Su Yu, Liu Xirong commented: "Greatness comes from the ordinary. Just Uncle Su's care and care for the bereaved family of a sacrificial comrade-in-arms for decades is enough to see the noble character of Uncle Su. ”
References: "Remembering Uncle Su", "In the Days by Comrade Liu Ying's Side"