Xu Shiyou has always been vigilant in his life, looking at these past events, do you think he is "afraid"
General Xu Shiyou is a famous senior general of our army, who has devoted his life's efforts and painstaking efforts to the revolutionary cause and established indelible merits. General Xu is a legendary general, he has a heroic personality, love and hate, brave and good at war, and loyal. However, it was such a straightforward and heroic general, even after liberation, he was always vigilant and always armed with a gun.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many generals have lived in the battlefield full of smoke and smoke for the past few decades, either recuperating or participating in various activities. General Xu Shiyou, on the other hand, returned to the pastoral life, he liked to grow vegetables and raise pigs, but he also had a very high degree of vigilance. He also built his residence with a defensive function, and personally arranged guards, and there were secret codes in and out of the house day and night, and a series of very cautious behaviors. Every night when he goes to sleep, he also has a gun under his pillow. When General Xu did this at that time when peace had been liberated, many people could not help but think that he was too cautious and too timid.
General Xu Shiyou studied martial arts in the Shaolin Temple for 8 years, had a good kung fu, and later joined the party, through his efforts, from an ordinary soldier, slowly progressed, and finally became the founding general of our country. A lifetime of great achievements. He participated in the famous War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, and so on, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was already a septuagenarian, and he personally commanded the Vietnamese Self-Defense and Counterattack War, and so on. Presumably, if General Xu was "timid", he would not have had this record.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, General Xu served as the deputy brigade commander of the 386th Brigade and single-handedly commanded the classic Battle of Xiangchenggu in the plains guerrillas. Later, he was sent to Jiaodong to develop mines into tactics, and the Eighth Route Army mine warfare has been famous ever since. The "anti-surrender operation" in Jiaodong crushed the "Anti-Eighth Coalition Army" headed by Zhao Baoyuan, the "winter counter-sweeping" smashed the great sweep commanded by Okamura Ninji himself, and the "anti-encroachment and breaking the cage" basically broke the enemy's division and blockade of Jiaodong, and later took the lead in launching a local counteroffensive, and in one autumn offensive operation, it wiped out more than 5,000 Japanese puppet troops, liberated more than 1.4 million people, and expanded the base area by 5,000 square kilometers. Before the Japanese surrendered, the Jiaodong anti-Japanese armed forces developed rapidly, and the base areas were completely connected. Even the chairman praised "Xu Shiyou hit the red half of the sky in the east of Jiaodong, remarkable!" ”
Compared with timidity, it is more appropriate to describe it as agility, and another point is that after decades of fighting in the military, a deep habit has been formed. For example, he also insisted on wearing shoes without shoelaces, carrying a gun all year round, and remaining alert at all times. Even when you go to bed at night, you always pay attention to the movement outside.
It is precisely because of his agility and vigilance that he can survive in so many battlefields.
And General Xu has been in the army for so many years, the requirements of the army are very strict, and the training in the Shaolin Temple is also very difficult, from his 8 years of arduous training in the Shaolin Temple in his youth, getting up early and sleeping late, not in "miscellaneous", or in "practicing", and then decades into battle. This habit of alertness, constant readiness for battle, and a high degree of self-discipline has been thoroughly integrated into his life, and General Xu has been known for his bravery and good fighting, not afraid of life and death, and the "timid" statement is self-defeating.