Among the founding major generals, there was a general who had followed two major generals of our army, namely Xu Shiyou and Han Xianchu, two generals, because of this person's cleverness and ability, plus his ability to recruit good warriors, he became the most capable cadre under Xu Shiyou and Han Xianchu at different times. And this legendary general is Xu Guofu, and friends who know the history of the Four Fields should know that this person is also a famous general of the Four Fields.
Then, today Xiaobian will take you to understand the life experience of "Xu Guofu".
Xu Guofu, Anhui Lu'an people in 1931 he joined the Red Army, just joined the army when he was only 17 years old, because of his young age, so the head of the Red Army arranged for him to serve as a correspondent, not to go to the battlefield, just to pass on documents and a kind of work, not a combat unit, but was opposed by Xu Guofu, saying that I wanted to transfer to the front line troops, not a correspondent, and said that I joined the Red Army in order to liberate all the poor people in the world, if I was afraid of death, I would not join the Red Army, it was at his insistence that Xu Guofu agreed, Xu Guofu transferred to the combat unit.
Sure enough, Xu Guofu proved with his own actions that he was an outstanding Red Army soldier, and in the period of land reform, he also participated in the Red Fourth Front Army's Six-Way Anti-Encirclement and Suppression War, and later Zhang Guotao followed the needs on the battlefield and decided to form a cavalry division of the Red Fourth Front, and Xu Shiyou, the general who had the strongest combat ability at that time, served as the division commander and was responsible for training cavalry, and at this time Xu Guofu was the commander of the division, and he was smart and capable, and soon got the heavy responsibility of the division commander Xu Shiyou, and in many future battles, Xu Shiyou let the cavalry regiment he led take the main offensive task, and xu Guofu became the most effective cadre under Xu Shiyou, but this was the Red Army period.
However, later, Xu Shiyou and Xu Guofu were separated, the main reason was that Xu Shiyou had made some mistakes at that time, was locked up, and when he was released, he also served as the deputy brigade commander of the 385 Brigade, but it was not long before Grandpa Mao was sent to Shandong and established the Shandong Anti-Japanese Base Area. At this time, Xu Guofu was sent to Ji'nan, still engaged in cavalry work.
By the time of the Liberation War, Xu Guofu went to the northeast, while Xu Shiyou was still in Shandong. It was also during this period that he became a powerful general under Han Xianchu.
At that time, he served as the deputy commander of the Ninth Division of the Third Column, and the commander of the Third Column was Han Xianchu, and it was also under the command of Han Xianchu that Xu Guofu engaged Liao Yaoxiang's starting force, the 22nd Division, in the Battle of XiushuiHe, and as a result, he annihilated the commander of the Tiger Head Division, and also greatly improved the status of the Third Column in the Northeast Field Army.
In fact, Xu Guofu was not only Xu Shiyou, Han Xianchu's right-hand man, he himself was also a tough general, in the subsequent battlefield Xu Guofu had outstanding achievements, like in the battle with the Gui clan he and his brother troops joined forces to annihilate the Gui clan ace steel Seventh Army, including in the later anti-US war Xu Guofu participated in the first to fifth battles, until the victory of the volunteer army did not return to China.
Throughout Xu Guofu's military career, he successively followed Xu Shiyou and Han Xianchu to serve under the command of two famous generals, and at the same time, through his own efforts, he eventually became a fierce general with great military achievements.