A report on Su Yu, Liu Bocheng and Jiangxi–Fujian Soviet

Su Yu in his Senior General uniform (1955)
Liu Bocheng in his Marshal uniform
Su Yu in Battle of Suzhong (Central Jiangsu)
(L-R): Li Da, Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng and Cai Shufan in NRA uniform
Su Yu, holding map wearing dark uniform surveying the battlefield before the Menglianggu Campaign started in 1947.
Hong Xuezhi, Xiao Hua, Su Yu, and Chen Geng in 1955 (left to right)
Su Yu, Chu Qing, and their two sons Su Rongsheng and Su Hansheng in Shanghai, September 1949

He was considered by Mao Zedong to be among the best commanders of the PLA, only next to Peng Dehuai, Lin Biao and Liu Bocheng.

- Su Yu

(The other three are Lin Biao, commander of the CPC, and Kuomintang commander Bai Chongxi, and CPC commander Su Yu.) Officially, Liu was recognised as a revolutionary, military strategist and theoretician, and one of the founders of the People's Liberation Army.

- Liu Bocheng

He emerged as one of the ablest guerrilla commanders in the Jiangxi Soviet during the 1930s.

- Su Yu

Liu was sent to the Central Soviet Territory, the CPC's power base in Jiangxi.

- Liu Bocheng

The only exception was Su Yu, who managed to escape.

- Jiangxi–Fujian Soviet

Chief-of-general-staff: Liu Bocheng

- Jiangxi–Fujian Soviet
Su Yu in his Senior General uniform (1955)

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Peng Dehuai in his Marshal uniform

Peng Dehuai

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Prominent Chinese Communist military leader, who served as China's Defense Minister from 1954 to 1959.

Prominent Chinese Communist military leader, who served as China's Defense Minister from 1954 to 1959.

Peng Dehuai in his Marshal uniform
By his mid-thirties, Peng was one of the most senior generals in the Jiangxi Soviet (1934-1935).
Peng Dehuai commanded the largest communist offensive in the war against Japan.
A statue of Peng now stands on the Chinese border with Korea, on the place that Peng crossed into North Korea in 1950.
In 1953, Peng signed the armistice agreement which ended the Korean War.
After returning to China from the Korean War, Peng became engaged in a rivalry with Mao Zedong over the political future of China (photo: Hou Bo).
Following the Korean War, Peng rose in prominence and is here seen welcoming Kim Il-sung to Beijing in 1955.
During the Great Leap Forward, many farmers were forced to work in primitive backyard furnaces in order to produce poor-quality steel.
Peng Dehuai (1966) was brought to Beijing in chains by Red Guards, where he would be tortured and publicly humiliated for years.

Peng was one of the most senior generals who defended the Jiangxi Soviet from Chiang's attempts to capture it, and his successes were rivaled only by Lin Biao.

Mao opposed all of those initiatives but at first focused his dissatisfaction on other marshals, Liu Bocheng and Luo Ronghuan, whom Mao accused of "dogmatism" (uncritically assimilating methods borrowed from the Soviet Union).

Peng developed a strategy with his chief of staff, Su Yu, to bombard the islands so intensely that the morale of their defenders would collapse, which would eventually lead to the islands' surrender.