General Xu Shiyou, one of china's 57 founding generals, is known as the "Monk General", as a shaolin disciple, he began to study martial arts at the age of eight, and served as the honorary chairman of the Chinese Wushu Association.
However, what few people know is that there is also a female warrior from Wudang in our army, who is not only the twelfth generation of Taihe Fist, but also a pair of iron fists that make General Xu Shiyou difficult to resist.
He Ziyou, born in 1913 in Cangxi County, Sichuan Province, although he is a daughter, he does not love red makeup and loves arms, and has been accepted by Wudang Taihe as a closed disciple since he was a child.
In 1933, the enemy army successively attacked Shanhaiguan and Rehe, a large part of China's territory fell one after another, as a person who practiced martial arts, He Ziyou was taught Chun Chun Wude by his master since childhood, and in October of the same year, she resolutely bid farewell to her parents and master, and joined our army to embark on the revolutionary road.
After He Ziyou joined the army, because of her high martial arts, she soon became independent, and the number of women's independent regiments reached thousands at the highest, and she not only served as the chief instructor of the women's independent regiment, but also served as the leader of the reconnaissance platoon.
Unfortunately, the only female armed force in our army was abolished after the Western Route Army broke the Qilian Mountains, but He Ziyou's legendary life had just begun.
During the period of the great strategic shift of our army, she often passed through dangerous mountains in various places, where most of the bandits were plagued and often obstructed the advance of our army, but our army was also a division of benevolence and righteousness, and moreover, fighting with bandits would also affect the speed of the march, so she once went deep into the bandits' caves during the Long March, punched the bandit leader "Black Seven", and forced the mountain bandits to make way for our army.
Not only that, once on a reconnaissance mission, He Ziyou led three comrades to the county seat to catch the "tongue", but unexpectedly at the checkpoint was strictly searched by the enemy and extorted money from her, He Ziyou suddenly reached out and clasped her pulse door and shouted:
Whoever dared to come up, Lao Tzu took his life on the spot!
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When the rest of the enemy troops saw this, they were immediately overwhelmed and could only watch their leader being taken away by the Red Army, so she was also known as "He Tie Fist".
General Xu Shiyou, who was then the commander of the Nanjing Military Region, often invited He Ziyou to drink, both of whom were people who practiced martial arts, and the way of drinking was also different from ordinary people:
Pour the wine into a basin, dip the steamed bun in the wine, and drink it as you eat.
General Xu Shiyou could drink four or five pounds of liquor at most, and He Ziyou had never been drunk, which made the two soon become friends of Mo Rebellion, although "He Tie Fist" was famous, but she was a woman on the battlefield after all.
In 1937, He Ziyou married Zhou Zikun, the commander of our army, and had a daughter, and as a result, three years later, Zhou Zikun was unfortunately shot by the enemy during the breakthrough, when He Ziyou was pregnant in her belly, and after learning the bad news of her husband in the hospital, she was heartbroken, so she made up her mind not to marry for the rest of her life.
After leaving, she still devoted a lot of energy to the construction of the anti-Japanese base area, and worked hard for the cause of our party all her life, and later she raised two children to grow up, in order to inherit her husband's legacy, and let them all join the army to serve the motherland when they reached adulthood.
He Ziyou truly achieved what the great man said that women can hold up half of the sky, and in 2016, He Ziyou died of illness in Nanjing at the age of 103.