On January 7, 1974, General Wang Shusheng passed away at the age of 69. The stars will fall, and the mountains and rivers will cry together. Xu Shiyou was so grief-stricken when he heard the news that he cried so much that he fainted. Due to his unwell health, he had to instruct his wife Tian Pu to fly to Beijing the next day to offer condolences on his behalf.
Among the generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Wang Shusheng can be described as obscure and unknown. What is the reason why Wang Shusheng and a generation of fierce generals Xu Shiyou have formed such a deep friendship? Let us brush away the dust of time and reveal the legendary revolutionary process of the general.
Take care of the old and the young, and fulfill the world's friends and filial piety
In China in 1927, bloody rain and wind. The Chiang Kai-shek clique went on a killing spree. In order to implement the spirit of the instructions of the "Eighty-Seven" conference, Wang Shusheng, Pan Zhongru, Wu Guanghao, and others launched armed insurrection in Macheng and Huang'an, Hubei Province, known in history as the "Jute Uprising." Among the troops involved in the uprising was a brave leader of the Peasant Self-Defense Force, named Xu Shiyou.
Wang Shusheng and General Xu Shiyou, both from Macheng County, Hubei Province, were born in 1905 and both embraced revolutionary ideas in 1926 and began armed struggle in 1927 with the Jute Uprising.
Xu Shiyou was born poor, the family has 7 brothers and sisters, his parents are farmers, all year round hard, but it is difficult to ensure that the family of 9 people have food and clothing. When he was 8 years old, in order to eat a mouthful of food to survive, his mother sent Xu Shiyou to the Shaolin Temple as a miscellaneous servant, and when he returned home at the age of 16, he had to send him away overnight because of the bully who bullied his eldest brother.
Since then, he has wandered the world until he embarked on the road of revolution. Xu Shiyou was a great filial piety, and all his life he chanted "when he dies, he will guard the grave for his old mother".
As Xu Shiyou's childhood playmate and the guide of the revolutionary cause, how could Wang Shusheng not know.
Before Xu Shiyou joined the revolution, he married a wife in his hometown, Zhu Ximing, who was intelligent and virtuous, very filial to the old mother, and took the child Hei Ling's family of three to rely on each other. In 1932, in order to break the encirclement and suppression of the Eyu-Anhui base area by Chiang Kai-shek's army, Xu Shiyou, who was then the commander of the 34th Regiment of the 12th Division of the Red Army, followed his old superior Wang Shusheng to carry out a strategic shift and went to Sichuan and Shaanxi to create a base area.
After the Red Army left, the landlord militia group took crazy revenge on the families of the Red Army, many of Xu Shiyou's relatives were brutally killed, Xu's mother was also arrested and beaten, and her home was burned twice. In order to save the lives of her daughter-in-law and children, the enlightened Mother Xu forced Zhu Ximing to remarry, and she took her grandson to hide in Tibet and begged for a living.
After Wang Shusheng learned of this, his heart was like a knife, and he paid for it and quietly asked someone to build a house for Xu Mu so that the grandchildren could have a safe place. Xu Shiyou was extremely grateful after knowing.
In fact, at this time, Wang Shusheng's family was also suffering from the brutal killing of the enemy, even the family members were not spared, and 17 brothers and sisters of the Wang family went forward to succeed and died one after another, so that after the surrender of Japan, Wang Shusheng was excited when he saw the guide of the revolutionary road and the son of his cousin Wang You'an, and hugged him: "My Wang family still has a human race!" ”
In the winter of 1938, Wang Shusheng was appointed deputy commander of the Jinji-Hebei Yu Military Region and director of the People's Armed Forces Department, and Xu Shiyou was appointed deputy brigade commander of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division.
Wang Shusheng specially summoned Xu Shiyou and said to him: "They have all arrived at the door of the house, next time I don't know what year and month I can come, so I quickly take the time to go home to see my old mother!" ”
Xu Shiyou patted his head on the door: "Alas, it was too busy, almost forgot", returned to the army to explain, and quickly ran home. When I went home, my family was already dilapidated, but my mother was very optimistic, not mentioning the hardships of these years, but happily urging Shiyou to quickly name her grandson. Xu Shiyou's nose was sour, and he knelt down for his mother.
In 1948, Wang Shusheng was appointed commander of the Eyu Military Region and led troops to restore the Dabie Mountain base area. Xu Mu heard that it was Wang Shusheng's team, so she went to the troops and asked to see the chief. Wang Shusheng recognized Xu Mu at a glance, was very surprised, and warmly entertained the grandchildren.
Xu Mu said that she originally did not want to trouble the troops, but seeing that her body was not as good as a day, even if she could not do it one day, no one would take care of her children, and she wanted to send her grandson Xu Guang to Xu Shiyou. Wang Shusheng told the old man that Xu Shiyou was commanding troops to liberate Shandong, and that the war was tight and far away, and there were many inconveniences, so that the grandchildren could live in peace of mind.
This stay was more than half a year, Wang Shusheng took good care of the elderly and children, and waited until the war situation eased and the road was safe, and then personally sent someone to send the grandchildren to Xu Shiyou.
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From a farmer to a general, Xu Shiyou's growth is inseparable from Wang Shusheng's care and cultivation.
"Lao Tzu" has a cloud: those who make good use of people, for the sake of the bottom. It is said to be an indisputable virtue, it is to use human strength, and it is to match the heavens and the ancients. It is said that people who are good at selecting generals must be very humble to people, they do not compete with their subordinates, but are good at creating conditions for their subordinates to give full play to their abilities, and they are the most powerful people in the world.
Wang Shusheng is such a person.
Whether in the years of revolutionary war or in the years of peaceful construction, General Wang Shusheng was always modest and cautious, acting in a low-key manner, even to the extent that he was not familiar with the public, but his prestige in the army was very high.
In addition to the battle achievements of the bloody battle, he was more good at leading the troops and excavating the talents of the generals, and six of the eight commanders of the eight major military regions of New China were cultivated by him. All his life, he has made great achievements in battle on his head, and the fierce generals behind him are like clouds.
General Xu Shiyou, founding general, commander of the Nanjing Military Region. In November 1927, he participated in the "Jute Uprising" led by General Wang Shusheng, and grew from an ordinary soldier to the commander of the Red Fourth Army, the commander of the Jiaodong Military Region, the "Seventy-fourth Division" of the Kuomintang, sweeping Shandong and Fighting Jinan, with outstanding merits.
General Chen Xilian, founding general, commander of the Shenyang Military Region, a native of Huang'an, Hubei Province. At the age of 14, he joined the Edong Army led by Wang Shusheng, and at the age of 22, he served as the commander of the 769th Regiment of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, attacked Yangmingbao at night, annihilated the Huang Wei Group, and served as the first artillery commander of New China after liberation.
General Li Desheng, founding major general, commander of the Beijing Military Region, a native of Xinxian County, Henan. In 1930, he joined the Red Army in the Eyu-Anhui base area founded under the leadership of Wang Shusheng, captured Xiangyang with "three passes with a knife", fought in the front line of Battle in Ganling, and grew from a "little red devil" to a vice chairman of the Military Commission of the Republic.
General Qin Jiwei, founding lieutenant general, commander of chengdu military region, hubei huang'an people.
At the age of 13, he participated in the "Jute Uprising" with Wang Shusheng, and later accompanied Wang Shusheng to serve as a platoon commander, company commander, battalion commander, regiment commander, and division commander in the Red Fourth Front Army; during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the independent detachment of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army; during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and Aid Korea, he served as the commander of the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army; and he became famous in the First World War of Shangganling, and became famous in the First World War of Shangganling, and was promoted to the minister of national defense.
General Wang Bicheng, founding lieutenant general, commander of the Kunming Military Region, a native of Macheng, Hubei Province. In 1927, he participated in the "Jute Uprising" with Wang Shusheng, and later accompanied Wang Shusheng to the battalion commander in the Four Fronts Army.
After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as regimental commander and brigade commander of the 16th Brigade in the New Fourth Army, commander of the 6th Column of the East China Field Army during the War of Liberation, and won successive victories in the battles of Suzhong and Laiwu, and Meng Lianggu killed Zhang Lingfu, laying the foundation for victory in the "Battle of Jincheng" to resist the United States and aid Korea.
General Han Xianchu, founding general, commander of fuzhou military region, hubei huang'an people. In 1927, he followed Wang Shusheng to participate in the "Jute Uprising", and later joined the Xiaogan guerrillas and the Red 25th Army, and after the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as deputy commander, deputy brigade commander and brigade commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, led the army to liberate Hainan Island in 1950, and served as the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army to resist the United States and aid Korea.
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In addition, the founding generals Chen Zaidao, Wang Jian'an, Zhou Chunquan, Wang Hongkun, Fu Zhong, Guo Tianmin, Hong Xuezhi, Li Jukui, Liu Zhen, Song Renqian, Song Shilun, Wang Xinting, Xie Fuzhi, zhang Zongxun;
Founding Lieutenant Generals Nie Fengzhi, Pi Dingjun, Zhang Caiqian, Liu Fei, Li Tianhuan, Xu Binzhou, Zhan Caifang, Zhang Renchu, Xu Shenji, Zhang Chiming, Zhang Tianyun, Hu Qicai, Wang Jinshan, Wu Xianen, Zheng Weishan, Liu Changyi, Li Chengfang, Zhou Xihan, Bao Xianzhi, Zhou Zhijian, Chen Qingxian, Han Wei, Du Yide, etc.
They were all former subordinates of General Wang Shusheng and were deeply favored by General Wang Shusheng's reconstruction.
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Gan is a ladder, and the red chapter shines for thousands of autumns
After the smoke of gunfire cleared, General Wang Shusheng, who was known as a "tiger general" in the army, retreated in a hurry, took the initiative to strive for logistics, immersed himself in the modernization of military equipment, and paid close attention to the cultivation of national defense scientific research talents.
In 1955, Wang Shusheng was appointed director of the General Ordnance Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Every year, he must issue hard targets to select cadets to study in military engineering colleges and the Soviet Union, increase the proportion of college graduates to join the army year by year, and cultivate a large number of high-tech professionals for China's ordnance scientific research.
In 1959, after General Wang Shusheng was transferred to the Academy of Military Sciences, he built a systematic military technology intuitive teaching and research center for the air force, navy, armored troops, anti-chemical warfare troops, engineers, artillery, railway troops, and signal troops, and completed the teaching of higher military academies and logistics colleges and the knowledge collection and training tasks of cadres at and above the division level of the whole army.
It has laid a solid talent foundation for China's military modernization.
Chairman Mao Zedong was very satisfied with Wang Shusheng's work achievements and called him "a hero in the production of China's ordnance industry."
Wang Shusheng's life was simple, and his sleeves were fresh. The long years of war left Wang Shusheng with an old wound, and in his later years, he was still tormented by chronic diseases such as heart disease and hypertension, and his health deteriorated, but the life car that was equipped for him according to the regulations of the organization was categorically rejected by him.
In February 1973, General Wang Shusheng was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. During his serious illness, Zhou Enlai, Xu Xiangqian, Ye Jianying, Li Xiannian and other party and state leaders visited the hospital one after another.
Premier Zhou Enlai held his hand tightly: "Comrade Shusheng, you are a good comrade of the party and a person who has made great contributions to the revolution. Marshal Xu Qianqian came to visit the hospital and said, "You are a heroic warrior of Dabie Mountain!" ”
On January 10, 1974, the memorial service of General Wang Shusheng was held in Babaoshan, Beijing, presided over by Ye Jianying, and Xu Xiangqian read a eulogy, highly praising the legendary life of General Wang Shusheng's revolution and highly affirming General Wang Shusheng's great contribution to the Chinese revolution. General Wang Shusheng's former comrades-in-arms and friends were present to mourn.
When Wang Shusheng died, Xu Shiyou, who had just been transferred to the Guangzhou Military Region, wept bitterly when he heard the bad news, and was filled with grief, remembering the years of the battle they had walked together, and this stout tough man actually fainted from crying and fell to the ground, unable to walk, and had to rest in bed, so he had to entrust his wife Tian Pu to go to Beijing to mourn on his behalf.
Wang Shusheng is not only a fellow villager and playmate, but also a guide for Xu Shiyou to embark on the revolutionary road, an old superior during the Red Army period, and a representative of the generals of the Red Fourth Front.
After Wang Shusheng's death, General Qin Jiwei was very saddened, and on behalf of the commanders and fighters of the Red Fourth Front, he wrote an article entitled "Remembering Our Deputy Commander-in-Chief Comrade Wang Shusheng" to commemorate his memory and praise Wang Shusheng:
"He was a leader of the peasant movements in Huang'an and Macheng during the period of the Great Revolution, a deputy commander-in-chief who was deeply respected and loved by the commanders and fighters of the Red Fourth Front, a right-hand man to Commander-in-Chief Xu Qianqian, an outstanding military commander of our army, and an example for us to learn from."
On May 26, 2005, on the occasion of the centenary of Wang Shusheng's birth, Liu Huaqing, former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, deeply remembered the old chief and wrote an article highly praising General Wang Shusheng for "growing from a rural youth in the Dabie Mountains to a senior leader of the party and the army, and establishing immortal merits for the liberation of the Chinese people." ”
Conclusion
General Wang Shusheng had the wisdom to see the heroes, trained and cultivated a large number of revolutionary generals for the people's army, and was affirmed by the organization and the gratitude of the generals, but he was grateful to the people of Dabie Mountain all his life.
In June 1947, wang Shusheng, who was ill, took the initiative to ask for a battle: "Fight back to Dabie Mountain!" ", to implement the central government's strategic goal of "dingding the Central Plains". In June 1949, Wang Shusheng, in line with the original intention of "repaying the debts to the people of Dabie Mountain", took the illness and directed the dabie mountain bandit suppression operation, annihilating 15,000 stubborn bandits.
Dabie Mountain has not forgotten its excellent children.
In 1987, in accordance with Wang Shusheng's last wish, the people of his hometown moved some of his ashes to the Macheng Martyrs' Cemetery and buried them under Dabie Mountain, but the general's wish to return to the arms of his mother in Dabie Mountain was fulfilled.
Wang Shusheng Memorial Hall
In 2007, the Macheng People's Government established the Wang Shusheng Memorial Hall in the Macheng Martyrs Park, and at the entrance of the exhibition hall stands a bust of General Wang Shusheng, with the inscription of Marshal Xu Qianqian engraved on the back: Wang Shusheng is a heroic warrior of Dabie Mountain. The exhibition hall in the museum is divided into seven parts according to the order of the general's revolutionary career, and the battle process of Wang Shushengda from the Macheng Uprising to the generation of generals is fully displayed with detailed information.
Macheng Martyrs Cemetery is now a national classic red tourist attraction, Wang Shusheng's tomb Cangsong Cypress, quietly standing, for the world to admire.