The hometown of the Hundred Battles General - Chronicle of Admiral Su Zhenhua

□ Wang Youfei

"The general died in a hundred battles, and the hero returned in ten years." In March 1958, a brave man who had walked out of the Sandun Mountains in Pingjiang County returned. He once went to the battlefield, cold light illuminated the iron coat, fought in blood, died nine times, made outstanding contributions to the victory of the Chinese revolution, changed from a soldier to a general, and he was the founding general Su Zhenhua.

One

In 1958, during the Yangchun festival, the Pingjiang County CPC Committee received a phone call from the Hunan Provincial Military Region, informing that a responsible person of the Central Military Commission was coming to Pingjiang and that arrangements should be made for a good reception.

On the morning of March 10, Wang Xiaoliang, secretary of the Pingjiang County Party Committee, went to the silt section of the Ongjiang River and waited at the highway connection from Changsha to Pingjiang. The canola flowers in this mountain field are golden, and everywhere there is spring light and birds singing. When the trolley came to the boundary of the Ongjiang River, Secretary Wang went up to greet him, only to see Su Zhenhua, the political commissar of the Navy, smiling and squinting. After shaking hands with each other and greeting each other, Secretary Wang reported: "It is just as our county party committee held a meeting of the heads of the county party committee and the district offices here in Ongjiang. Su Zhenhua heard that a cadre meeting was being held in The Yongjiang River and proposed that he wanted to participate. Secretary Wang said: "The chief has just returned, or rest first, and the deputy county magistrate Chen Ding'an will accompany you to the county seat first." If you want to attend the meeting, I'll talk about it tomorrow. ”

When the car reached the ferry port on the south bank of the Miluo River in the county seat, Su Zhenhua excitedly introduced himself to the secretary and guard accompanying him: "This is the Miluo River, which is the county seat of Pingjiang." In 1928, when the City was attacked in February, the peasant army was stationed on this side of the river. We fired cannons at the city, crowds of people, shouting and killing, it was really loud! He pointed to the east and said, "That's a pontoon bridge, and in 1930 I crossed the river from that bridge to find Mr. Peng to join the Red Army." So fast, I've been out for 28 years, and I didn't dream I could come back today. ”

Su Zhenhua waited for him to enter the city and stayed at the county guest house to rest. The next day, Commissar Su arrived at Ongjiang accompanied by Deputy Governor Chen. He sat down at the meeting hall and listened carefully to the reports and discussion speeches of responsible persons in various places. After dinner, Wang Xiaoliang made a summary of the meeting and specially introduced: "Political Commissar Su came back to his hometown yesterday and attended our meeting today. He is an alternate member of the Central Committee, a member of the Central Military Commission, and a political commissar of the Navy, and he now asks the Soviet political commissar to give instructions. ”

Su Zhenhua immediately stood up and greeted the participants: "Hello folks! I came from Guangzhou this time, and I took a leave of absence to come back to see. There are no instructions, I will talk about some feelings. Then he said in his speech: It is very happy for me, a citizen of my hometown, to see that Pingjiang is engaged in socialist construction with the vigor of moving mountains with the vigor of a fool and a man moving mountains. Having left my hometown and leaving the countryside for too long and knowing little about the situation, I attended the meeting today and listened to the speeches of some comrades, and I was very inspired, and I felt that everyone was full of confidence and full of enthusiasm, and this was a question of revolutionary will. In carrying out socialist construction, we must strengthen our revolutionary will, muster up all our vigor, and dare to think and dare to do it. Second, the policy is clear and the measures are concrete, which is a matter of working methods. Now that the work policy, objectives, and tasks are clearly defined, the key is to grasp implementation. Third, there is great boldness and in-depth and meticulous work, which is a matter of leadership work style. In the past few years since the liberation of Pingjiang County, the work achievements have been very great, and the central authorities have proposed that after three years of hard fighting, it is entirely possible to change its appearance. The people of Pingjiang in the old base area have a firm and tenacious revolutionary will, and this is very worthy of inheritance and development. I hope that everyone will carry forward the fine traditional style of the revolution and win new victories in the Great Leap Forward. Secretary Wang then praised that the instructions of the Soviet political commissar are very important, and we must resolutely grasp the work well in accordance with the instructions of the Soviet political commissar and win new victories in the Great Leap Forward. After the meeting that night, Secretary Wang accompanied The Su Political Commissar to the county town guest house to rest.

On the third day, political commissar Su, accompanied by Secretary Wang Xiaoliang, went to Chengguan to visit the county-run Pingjiang Tea Factory. Under the leadership of Zhang Jinduo, the director of the factory, they saw the tea-making workshop and visited the national tea specimen sample display. After listening to Director Zhang's briefing on the output and sales of tea processing in the factory, Political Commissar Su asked about the workers. Director Zhang said that most of the factory is female workers, and Secretary Wang said: "This tea factory has solved the work problem of nearly 500 female workers in Chengguan. Commissar Su said: "Running industry can solve the problem of employment among the urban population." ”

Then, the Soviet political commissar went to the Sanyang Xinmin Senior Cooperative in the eastern suburbs and visited four peasant families with different populations, laborers, and livelihoods, and carefully understood their living conditions such as population, labor, production, and rations.

On the fourth day, before the Soviet political commissar was leaving Pingjiang, Secretary Wang convened a meeting of the members of the standing committee of the county party committee who were at home and asked the su political commissar to give instructions. Su Zhenhua said: "I don't have any instructions, let's talk about personal opinions." He said: After listening to the speeches and discussions at the cadre meeting, I went to the rural areas of Sanyang to investigate the situation of several peasant households and felt: First, we must attach importance to carrying out technological revolution. Starting with the improvement of tools, and then gradually developing into semi-mechanization and mechanization, it is necessary to adapt to the great development of workers' and peasants' production and to consider this question as early as possible. Second, we must vigorously develop the economy of mountainous areas. Pingjiang is a mountainous county, has always been bamboo, wood, tea, oil, paper and other specialties, can use the rich resources on the mountain, more processing industry, running industry can solve some people's work problems. We must adapt ourselves to local conditions, and this is the policy for developing local industries. Third, we must pay attention to resolving the problems of the masses' actual lives. Some people have a large number of people who eat and a weak labor force, and their lives are difficult, and some peasant households report that there is a serious shortage of food. We must pay attention to showing concern for the people's woes, find ways to solve similar problems, and ensure the livelihood of the masses.

Secretary Wang praised: "The political commissar of the Soviet Union is of high level, in the end he is a person who has served as a secretary of the provincial party committee, is very good at local work, and is of great guiding significance to our work." All of us must conscientiously study and comprehend it and implement it in our work. He proposed to ask the Soviet political commissar to help support the construction of Pingjiang. Su Zhenhua said: "As long as it can be done, it is possible." When you get to Beijing, you can come to me and ask about the Naval Temple. ”

Two

Su Zhenhua has been away from his hometown for 28 years, and he has returned home on leave, but he is busy attending meetings, visiting factories and villages, investigating people's feelings, and only taking time to visit relatives. According to Su Zhenhua's relatives in Pingjiang, Su Zhenhua had eight brothers and sisters, and when he was born, because his family was poor, his parents thought that their children could not afford to support them. The old grandmother heard them talking and the children crying outside the door, and she was reluctant to kiss the flesh and bones, and hurriedly said: "The cub has come to the world, I will eat less in the future, leave him behind." ”

He ranked seventh and was named Su Qisheng. At a young age, he followed his father and brother up the mountain to collect firewood, planted seedlings in the fields, and worked with his back to the earth all year round. At the age of 10, my grandmother and father died one after another, and after burying my relatives, the family became even poorer. In this year, the brothers separated the family, Su Qisheng did not share any property, only shared the debt, and his mother was dependent on each other, and it was difficult to live. In 1926, the Pingjiang peasant movement was in full swing, Su Qisheng joined the children's group, in 1927 joined the Young Pioneers, and joined the group in August. In the spring of 1928, he participated in the Pingjiang peasants' attack on the city, and in July he heard that the county town had "rioted", he went out of the mountains for the first time and ran to the county seat to join the Red Army. Su Qisheng returned and joined the Red Guards, joining the guerrillas in 1929. The mother saw that this son often ran outside in the middle of the night, always wanted to go out to be a soldier to eat food, was very worried, once asked the fortune teller to calculate a "eight characters" for him, this gentleman said that Su Qi's life is big, he will "ride a white horse, take a big boat." In the summer of 1930, Su Qisheng heard that the Red Army had returned to Pingjiang County, and one night, he left home without his mother and rushed over the mountains to join the Red Army in the county seat.

Su Qinhui, the granddaughter of Su Zhenhua's second brother Su Juntao, was originally a member of the Pingjiang County CPC Committee and director of the County Women's Federation, and was later transferred to the provincial procuratorate as a full-time procurator of the provincial procuratorial committee. Talking about the return of the Soviet political commissar to his hometown, Su Qinhui said that when the seventh uncle went to join the Red Army, he considered being afraid of Lian and his family, and did not tell his family that when he passed by the tailor shop where the second brother worked in the county town, he pulled the bucket hat worn on his head and covered his face. Since leaving home for nearly 20 years, he has missed his mother and relatives at home all the time, but he has gone all out to fight in the north and south, and has no time to return to his hometown to visit his relatives. The family did not know that he changed his name after joining the Red Army, and has not been heard from since he left. It was not until 1949, when he led the army to liberate Guizhou and became the secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, that he contacted Pingjiang County to inquire about the news of his family's relatives, fang knew that his family had suffered hardships, and that his old mother and four brothers were still alive. He hurriedly took his old mother to Guizhou to meet and stay. After he transferred to the navy, he took his old mother to live in Beijing for a while. The second elder brother who learned to be a tailor made a home in the county town, and the old mother followed the second brother to live in the county town after returning to her hometown. When I returned to Pingjiang this time, I visited my old mother who lived in the county town, my second brother and four brothers, and other relatives, who had not built roads or cars in the remote Gaifangdong hometown in the Sandun Mountains, and my uncle had never been able to go back since he joined the Red Army.

After Su Zhenhua left Pingjiang, Secretary Wang Xiaoliang conveyed the contents of the two speeches of the Soviet political commissar at the subsequent meeting of cadres in the whole county, and praised him: The Soviet political commissar is the highest level and the most authoritative among the old chiefs, and Chairman Mao said that he is "a typical example of the intellectualization of workers and peasants."

It was 1936, and after the Long March, Su Zhenhua was selected to study in the first advanced class of the first section of the Red Army University. He overcame difficulties with amazing perseverance, studied hard, and was praised by Mao Zedong as "a typical example of the intellectualization of workers and peasants" because of his rapid progress in study and excellent grades. In June 1939, the fifth phase of the "Kang Da" went to the anti-Japanese front to run a school, and was merged with the North China United University to form the Fifth Column of the Eighth Route Army, with Su Zhenhua as the commander of the First Regiment. In May 1940, Su Zhenhua was transferred to the political commissar of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the political commissar of the Luxi Military Region, and also served as the chairman of the Luxi Military and Political Committee. He participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and made many achievements in various battles. In February 1949, Su Zhenhua served as the political commissar of the 5th Corps of the Second Field Army, and after leading his troops to participate in the Battle of crossing the river, he liberated more than 20 towns such as Quzhou, Jingdezhen and Shangrao, and in November of the same year, he also sent his division to the southwest to liberate Guiyang. Su Zhenhua, who has experienced hundreds of battles, can do a good job as a political commissar and lead the army on expeditions, and Deng Xiaoping once commented: "Su Zhenhua is the political commissar who can fight the war. ”

After the founding of New China, Su Zhenhua successively served as secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, commander and political commissar of the Provincial Military Region. In April 1954, Su Zhenhua was transferred to the Navy as Deputy Political Commissar and Director of the Political Department. In 1955, Su Zhenhua was awarded the rank of general. In February 1957, he was appointed Commissar of the Navy. In 1959, he became a member of the Standing Committee and Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Military Commission. In 1972, under the personal supervision of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, Su Zhenhua resumed his work and served as the first political commissar of the Navy and the first secretary of the Navy Party Committee. In 1973, he attended the Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China and was elected as an alternate member of the Politburo.

Three

Su Qinhui recalled: During the unforgettable National Day of 1976, she and several relatives just went to her uncle's house in Beijing. The seventh uncle went out for a meeting and did not return for several days. During this time, the family was as calm as usual, and one day my uncle came back, bought several crabs, and said with great pleasure: "It's like fighting." Make a good dish and celebrate. A family member asked, "What to celebrate?" He forked and said, "Isn't it a rare visitor from my hometown?" In fact, an earth-shattering event has occurred in Beijing, and the Party Central Committee has taken drastic measures to smash the "Gang of Four" in one fell swoop, and the uncle has been keeping it a secret, and the family does not know it.

After many days, my uncle came home and said, "I've been going to work in a southern city recently." The younger son asked, "To which city in the south?" He replied, "I can't tell you now, I'll know when the time comes." Later, I learned that the southern city my uncle was going to was Shanghai.

It turned out that on the morning of October 12, 1976, the Politburo of the Central Committee held a meeting and made a major decision to immediately send a central working group to take over Shanghai. Ye Jianying proposed: "We must send an old comrade who can hold down Taiwan, whether in the army or in the localities." I think Comrade Su Zhenhua deserves this post. "Shanghai has a base for the Navy's East China Sea Fleet, and it is convenient to work." Comrade Su Zhenhua went to Shanghai, and I think it is the most suitable. Ye Shuai's proposal was unanimously approved by the other Politburo members.

Subsequently, Su Zhenhua, together with Ni Zhifu and Peng Chong, members of the Central Working Group, quickly flew to Shanghai to convey the spirit of the central authorities, carry out in-depth and meticulous work, find out a large amount of incriminating evidence in the "Gang of Four" black stronghold in Shanghai and its organizational structure, and completely destroyed the "Gang of Four" Yu Dang gang in Shanghai without spending a single shot, thus making contributions to the stability of Shanghai. On October 26, 1976, the Party Central Committee decided to reorganize the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and appointed Su Zhenhua as the first secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and the director of the Municipal Revolutionary Committee. In August 1977, Su Zhenhua was elected a member of the Politburo at the First Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

During the Spring Festival in 1979, Su Zhenhua was hospitalized with sudden physical discomfort and died of pericardial rupture on February 7, 1979 at the age of 67. After Su Zhenhua's death, Hua Guofeng presided over the memorial service, Deng Xiaoping delivered a eulogy, and the flag at half-mast in Tiananmen Square mourned for him. In the 2007 Qing Ming Dynasty, part of Su Zhenhua's remains were buried in the Martyrs' Cemetery of Pingjiang County, where the people of his hometown will always remember this loyal son who fought for the motherland and the people all his life.