preface
It is said that the battlefield is changing rapidly, and no amount of wind and grass can be ignored, and the vigilance of Xu Shiyou, the famous founding general of our party, is not ordinary.
Even after the victory of the Liberation War, Xu Shiyou still maintained a sensitive vigilance, and did not dare to sleep too hard even when sleeping. Some people think that this is the performance of General Xu Shiyou's "fear of death", but is this really the case?
First, habit is the case
Xu Shiyou was born as a soldier and did not go to military school and received formal military education.
His combat experience was summed up according to the actual situation, because he was gradually promoted from a soldier, and General Xu Shiyou also retained a lot of the combat habits of his previous time as a soldier.
For example, General Xu Shiyou never wore lace-up shoes, and only wore lace-up leather shoes on very few formal occasions.
The reason why General Xu Shiyou did not wear leather shoes with ties was mainly because General Xu had personally experienced the story of his comrades-in-arms who died because they wore leather shoes. When General Xu Shiyou joined the Red Army, once the enemy raided the camp in the middle of the night, General Xu Shiyou stepped on the straw shoes and threw himself into battle as soon as he found the movement, but the captain of the tent with him was wearing the leather shoes of the captured enemy troops, because the leather shoes needed to be tied, so it was delayed for half a minute to tie, and then because of this half-minute difference, the comrades were hit by flying bullets and sacrificed in front of General Xu.
After witnessing the death of his comrades in arms because of wearing leather shoes and straps, General Xu Shiyou was reluctant to wear leather shoes anymore.
In addition to wearing shoes carefully, General Xu Shiyou was more cautious about the location of the command headquarters, often considering it repeatedly when choosing the address of the army headquarters. Some people will think that the location of a tangled headquarters is a bit of a fuss, but this still has to go back to the time when General Xu Shiyou was in the Red Army, when the troops experienced a rapid march to escape from the enemy's pursuit, and the soldiers were exhausted and lay on the ground. But what was not expected was that the enemy took advantage of the night to touch and try to surround and annihilate the troops, but the sleeping warriors did not find the enemy's intentions.
Fortunately, the headquarters set up at the head of the village, due to the occupation of the commanding heights, Xu Shiyou detected the enemy's attack in time, and the fighters were able to escape from the encirclement and run to the mountain to hide.
When summing up the lessons of this battle, Xu Shiyou said that the main reason why the troops were able to detect the enemy's movements was that the headquarters could be transferred in time once the situation was discovered at the head of the village, and if the headquarters was set up in the village, once the enemy was heavily surrounded by heavy troops, it would be difficult for our army to escape.
Therefore, after that battle, when setting up the command post of the team, General Xu Shiyou will definitely choose the headquarters at the head or end of the village, and never in the village.
Once, when the troops captured a town, the staff wanted Xu Shiyou to rest well, so they chose an ancestral hall in the political class as a command post.
As soon as Xu Shiyou saw the location of the command post, he was very angry, and immediately chose the site in the village, and ran for more than twenty miles to find a school on the edge of the village to settle the command post.
At this time, Xu Shiyou instructed the people around him to tell them that the marching command post should not only consider comfort, but must fully consider the geographical environment and adapt to local conditions, otherwise they covet temporary comfort, and the enemy will not be able to run when he comes. Under the prudence of General Xu Shiyou, we avoided the loss of our army in some small details.
2. Carry a gun with you
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was hard to exchange peace, and it was reasonable to unload the army and live and work in peace and contentment. However, Xu Shiyou still maintained a high degree of vigilance during the war, carrying a gun with him, and Chairman Mao greatly appreciated Xu Shiyou's high vigilance and specially approved him to bring a gun to meet himself.
Even when he was critically ill and hospitalized, General Xu Shiyou had a pistol under his pillow to prevent problems.
In the early days of reform and opening up, when inspecting the Guangzhou Military Region, Xu Shiyou deliberately stressed at the meeting to maintain vigilance, and even took Shaolin Kung Fu as an example, saying that shaolin temple practice is a kung fu that can quickly wake up with the wind and grass. The advantage of this kind of kung fu is that it can prevent problems before they occur, and in case someone sneaks in while sleeping, they can fight back to save their lives. Xu Shiyou taught our soldiers that we must have the ability to detect as soon as we move, after all, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, the enemy may sneak up on us at any time, and once we lack vigilance, it will be our own lives that will be buried.
After retirement, Xu Shiyou lived in Nanjing, as soon as he entered the residence, the first thing Xu Shiyou had to do was to transform the residence inside and out, especially in the arrangement of defensive measures, Xu Shiyou personally selected the building, carefully inspected, including the guard's residence guard position, the patrol route was General Xu Shiyou personally, focused on inspection, and strived to achieve no leakage.
Since the overall situation of the world has been decided, very few generals who have unloaded their armor and returned to the field have moved closer to wartime in terms of security measures. However, General Xu Shiyou not only domesticated military dogs in the courtyard, but also arranged for guards to patrol everywhere. Since the residence is next to the street, in order to prevent problems, it is also specially stipulated that insiders should use a secret code when knocking on the door. At that time, the responsible persons of military regions throughout the country could be said to have been able to find the second one if They could be as vigilant as Xu Shiyou.
Xu Shiyou can be said to be an extraordinary security measure, which has puzzled many people, and even felt that General Xu was greedy and afraid of death, but I think this is not the case at all.
The reason why General Xu Shiyou has always maintained vigilance is purely the embodiment of his decades of military career. As a soldier of our party, General Xu Shiyou has gone through the process of our party's arduous victory in the revolution, and it is inevitable that he will think of danger in times of peace and dare not relax his vigilance.
General Xu was never a greedy person who was afraid of death, and when he joined the army in the early years, he personally led the troops to the battlefield many times and served as the captain of the death squad, and even at the time of the Long March of the Red Army, Xu was almost already a division commander, and it was supposed to be mainly based on command, but he still formed and personally led the death squad to charge on the front line of the battlefield, known as the "commander of the big knife army".
epilogue
As a soldier of our party, Xu Shiyou made great contributions to the victory of our party's revolution.
General Xu Shiyou, grateful for the difficulty of the fruits of our party's revolutionary victory, has always been vigilant; he is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death; on the contrary, General Xu Shiyou is a soldier who is thinking of danger in times of peace and has a very high sensitivity, and is a real famous general of our party
。 General Xu Shiyou's sensitive reflexes and his character of always keeping an eye on dangers are worth learning.