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Yongding Red Revolution History Tour No. 38 :
Genealogy of the founding generals of Yongding: Su Qisheng, the general of the Hundred Battles
Su Qisheng (1909-1967), a native of Dade Village, Guzhu Township, Yongding District, Longyan City, was awarded the rank of major general in 1955 and served as deputy director of the Political Department of the Navy.
Founding Major General Su Qisheng
In 1928, he participated in the Yongding Rebellion, and in July 1929, he was incorporated into the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and joined the Communist Party of China in the same year. After that, he successively served as a squad leader of the Red 20th Army, a platoon leader and company political instructor of the Red 12th Army, and a political instructor of the 1st Regiment Company of the 1st Division of the Red 1st Army. In the spring of 1934, he entered the Political Science Department of Ruijin Red Army University in Jiangxi. Later, he served as the political commissar of the Second Battalion of the Red Army Cadre Regiment and the political commissar of the Teaching Regiment of the Headquarters of the Red Second Front, and participated in the five anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns in the Central Soviet Region and the 25,000-mile Long March. He participated in battles such as Nanxiong Shuikou in Guangdong, Lushan in Guizhou, and Hongda Widow River in Yunnan. During the Long March, when he was serving as the platoon leader of the cadre regiment, at the foot of Loushan Pass in Guizhou, he was ordered to lead the whole platoon to meet the enemy attacking from the flanks, hold the position, and ensure the smooth passage of Luo Binghui, commander of the Eighth Army, and other chiefs through Loushan Pass. In the winter of 1935, in the Battle of Wayaobao, he commanded the troops to fight heroically and completed the task of defending the Party Central Committee.
During the period of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as deputy regimental commander of the 120th Division Teaching Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, director of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the 120th Division, political commissar of the Independent Second Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, deputy director of the People's Armed Forces Department of the Party Committee of the Northwest Jin dynasty and director of the General Headquarters of the Militia, deputy director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Left Guard Corps, and political commissar of the Military Industry Bureau of the Central Military Commission.
At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army repeatedly organized huge troops to besiege the Eighth Route Army, which was active in the Jizhong Plain, causing great damage to the Japanese base areas. Faced with such a situation, He Long decided to draw troops from the 120th Division to open up the battlefield, and at the same time organize three detachments to go to various places to be responsible for consolidating the existing sub-district troops, assisting local party organizations, mobilizing the masses, and expanding the anti-Japanese armed forces. Su Qisheng, then political commissar of the Second Independent Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, led his troops to fight in the enemy's heavy encirclement. Under the extremely bad situation of the struggle, Su Qisheng organized everyone to seriously analyze the situation and find countermeasures. "The enemy is outnumbered, and the weapons and equipment are not comparable, so it is certainly not possible to be tough." What are our strengths? The support of the people is our greatest advantage, and we must make good use of this advantage. Su Qisheng said. He led the troops, relying on accurate reconnaissance and the cover of the masses, to strike the enemy flexibly and flexibly. While attacking the enemy, Su Qisheng also gave full play to his advantages of being educated, able to propagate, and understanding the masses; while organizing operations and destroying the enemy, he mobilized the masses and did a good job in grass-roots organizational work; the troops rapidly grew from more than 100 in 1939 to more than 4,000. The troops led by Su Qisheng have always been active in carrying out guerrilla warfare on both sides of the Ya River, striking hard at the enemy, and constantly expanding and consolidating the anti-Japanese revolutionary base area in Jizhong province, thus creating good conditions for the 120th Division commanded by He Long and the troops of the Jizhong Military Region to strike at the Japanese army.
During the Liberation War, he successively served as director of the Political Department of the Rehe Military Region, deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Jirecha Military Region Chinese, deputy political commissar of the Chahar Military Region, and political commissar of the 208th Division of the North China Military Region. In 1948, in the Battle of Pingjin, he was ordered to lead the Independent Seventh Division and four independent regiments under the command of the Nineteenth Corps, to undertake the task of blocking the attack, and to fight with the Kuomintang army for a week in the civil engineering area between Xinbao'an and Huailai, blocking the enemy's western reinforcements, so that the Nineteenth Corps successfully annihilated the enemy's Thirty-fifth Army, and cooperated with the Forty-first Army to annihilate the enemy's Sixteenth Army at Huailai Nanshan.
In 1964, Mao Zedong received representatives of the Naval Political Work Conference, and the former left was Su Qisheng
After the founding of New China, he successively served as director of the Political Department directly under the Logistics Department of the North China Military Region, deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Logistics Department of the North China Military Region, deputy director and director of the Political Department of the Navy of the East China Military Region, deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the East China Sea Fleet, and deputy director of the Political Department of the Navy.
In 1955, he was awarded the rank of major general, and was awarded the Order of August 1, Second Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom, Second Class, and the Liberation Medal, First Class. In February 1967, due to overwork and ineffective rescue, he died in Beijing at the age of 58. In June of the same year, he was posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr.
In his long revolutionary career, Su Qisheng always maintained the true color of a communist. Whether in the arduous war years or in the period of peaceful construction, he always set strict demands on himself with the high standards of communists, lived a simple life, and never engaged in specialization. In the case of being terminally ill, he still often went deep into the troops, always fought in the front line of work, bowed down to the cause of the party and the building of the people's army, and died later.
【Source: Research Office of Party History and Local History of Yongding District Committee of Longyan City, Longyan City, Longyan City】