General Su Yu
At the same time, Military Commission also allocated General Xiao Jinguang (deputy commander), General Xiao Hua (deputy political commissar), and General Li Jukui (logistics support) to Su Yu as his deputy.
Obviously, Chairman Mao wanted to lead Su Yu to fight against the United States and aid Korea.
Why was Peng Dehuai's team who finally led his troops to participate in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea?
It turned out that Su Yu fell ill at this time. Su Yu was injured many times and injured his head twice, leaving serious sequelae. He often had headaches and dizziness during the War of Liberation. Su Yu recuperated in Qingdao .
Chairman Mao sent Luo Ruiqing to learn about Su Yu's condition himself, and Su Yu really couldn't go to the front line.
Chairman Mao had to look for a "substitute"!
Su Yu and Peng Dehuai
As a result, Lin Biao was also a ill person. In addition, Lin Biao himself did not agree to send troops to North Korea, so Chairman Mao recalled General Peng in the northwest. In the end, the Northeast Frontier Defense Force renamed Volunteer Army , and Peng Dehuai replaced Su Yu as commander and political commissar, General Deng Hua replaced General Xiao Jinguang as the first deputy commander and first deputy political commissar, and Hong Xuezhi and Han Xianchu were also deputy commanders.
Part of the head of the Volunteer Army Command
General Su Yu was not lucky, and his old illness relapsed at a critical moment and it did not improve for a long time. Given the limitations of medical conditions at that time, it was not until after his death that the root of the disaster was three shrapnel left in his head.
Many Su Fen believes that if Su Yu could lead his troops to resist the U.S. aggression, he would definitely be the founding marshal in 1955. Do you agree with this view?