1. Su Yu, Courtesy name Yu was a Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.
15 Facts About Su Yu
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Su Yu was considered by Mao Zedong to be among the best commanders of the PLA, only next to Peng Dehuai, Lin Biao and Liu Bocheng.
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Su Yu fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War and in the Chinese Civil War.
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Su Yu commanded the East China Field Army during the Chinese Civil War.
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Su Yu was born in Huitong County, Hunan province on August 10,1907, to an ethnic Dong family.
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Su Yu took part in the Northern Expedition and later the Nanchang Uprising.
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Su Yu emerged as one of the ablest guerrilla commanders in the Jiangxi Soviet during the 1930s.
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Su Yu did not join the Long March because he was tasked to fight against the Nationalist troops for a delaying action, and stayed in the south of Zhejiang until 1937.
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Su Yu established himself as one of the Communist armed forces' most capable commanders, winning a series of skirmish campaigns against overwhelming enemies - the Kuomintang army, puppet regime forces and the Japanese army.
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Su Yu was the commander of the PLA in the famous and much propagandized Menglianggu Campaign.
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Su Yu was the major commander during the Huaihai Campaign.
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Su Yu was made a da jiang in 1955, one of ten men to receive this second-highest rank.
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Su Yu served in numerous positions, including Chief of the People's Liberation Army General Staff Department in the 1950s.
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Su Yu died in Beijing on February 5,1984, at the age of 77.
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When Su Rongsheng was only three years old, Su Yu forced him to learn how to swim by giving him only a piece of bamboo as a float, and pushed him into the water in front of his mother, and prohibited anyone from attempting to save Su Rongsheng.