Among the 57 founding generals, General Xu Shiyou is undoubtedly a legendary one.
He was the only one of the 57 founding generals to be buried.
Tu-57 founding generals
In the battle, Xu Shiyou forgot his life and death, fought with the enemy wits and courage, and in life he was extremely filial to his parents and relatives, and when marching and fighting, he would often weep in his sleep because he missed his mother.
He once said: "Faithful before death, filial piety after death", the parents who received the skin of the body had to move forward bravely on the battlefield for the sake of the country and the people, but after death, he resolutely did not cremation and did not want to damage the body of the receiving parents.
But it was such a loyal and filial founding general who wanted to kill his own uncle when he returned to his hometown, and finally was stopped by his mother kneeling down, and Xu Shiyou received the Browning pistol that had been loaded.
Why did this Xu Shiyou, who was known for his loyalty and filial piety, kill his own uncle? What is the secret hidden in this? Could it be Xu Shiyou's communiqué of personal vendetta?
In fact, it is really not, all this must start from the grudge between Xu Shiyou and his uncle.
Tu - Xu Shiyou - Founding General
Shaolin learns martial arts and protects the homeland
Xu Shiyou was not a young master born with a golden spoon, he was born in Macheng County, Hubei Province, and his family has been poor farmers for generations.
He has lived a life of lack of food and clothing since he was born, and at the age of 7, he has hardly eaten a full meal, let alone a happy childhood.
At the age of 8, in order to support his family, Xu Shiyou went to the local Shaolin Temple as a small miscellaneous servant.
When he first went to the Shaolin Temple, Xu Shiyou's main task was to do some chores for the temple, such as cleaning, carrying water and chopping wood, and so on.
Although there is a lot of work every day, it is still very boring, but Xu Shiyou does not feel bitter at all, because doing these chores in the Shaolin Temple can support himself, the family lacks a mouth to eat, and his mother does not need to work so hard.
Xu Shiyou stayed in the Shaolin Temple for a while and gradually became familiar with the Shaolin Temple, so Xu Shiyou began to sneak around and learn Shaolin fists and feet with the martial monks of the Shaolin Temple.
Xu Shiyou's time at the Shaolin Temple may not seem happy to us, but it is very important and precious to Xu Shiyou.
Doing chores honed Xu Shiyou's will, and learning fist and foot kung fu also allowed Xu Shiyou to have a very strong body, shaping Xu Shiyou into a Zhengzheng iron man.
Recalling this time at the Shaolin Temple, General Xu Shiyou also said with open-minded humor: "Wu Song, who once fought tigers in Jingyang Gang, only studied at the Shaolin Temple for 6 years, and I stayed in the Shaolin Temple for 8 years, two years more than him." ”
My mother's sister was almost sold and made a vendetta against her uncle
At the age of 16, Xu Shiyou left the Shaolin Temple to join the army.
At first, Xu Shiyou joined the Kuomintang army, but not long after Xu Shiyou discovered that the Kuomintang troops were cruel and unkind, corrupt and unkind, so after less than a year, Xu Shiyou left the Kuomintang army and returned to his hometown.
After returning to his hometown, Xu Shiyou, who was highly skilled in martial arts and had joined the army, was elected as the captain of the Peasants' Self-Defense Force, and also served as the captain of the Peasant Artillery Brigade.
During his tenure, Xu Shiyou led the team to participate in the famous "Jute Uprising" in China's modern history.
Figure - Ruins of the Jute Autumn Harvest Uprising Conference
Contrary to Xu Shiyou's loyalty and righteousness, his uncle Xu Cunli was a typical "reactionary."
Xu Cunli is the chief of Xu Jia'ao, and like those overbearing land snakes on the TV series, Xu Cunli has been bullying the people, cleverly seeking money and wealth in the name, and using his own small power to run rampant in the township, doing all kinds of evil.
During the Great Revolution, peasant death squads needed to raise money from some "big households" in the village, and Xu Shiyou did not hesitate at all, and set this "big household" uncle who often plundered the money of his neighbors as the target of attention.
After learning the news, Xu Cunli came to the home of his nephew Xu Shiyou with a valuable gift and five hundred pieces of ocean that night, hoping to use this money to bribe Xu Shiyou and let him delete himself from the list of funds to avoid being taken more money.
But Xu Shiyou did not eat his set, he enforced the law impartially, and resolutely did not accept bribes from Xu Cunli.
In the face of this uncle who has always been a disaster in the township, Xu Shiyou actually can't see it in his heart, and today he even dares to take money to bribe himself, Xu Shiyou is angry and does not fight, looking at Xu Cunli, who is full of smiles, and scolds:
"You are a traitor to the Xu family, I see you can still bounce around for a few days!"
Xu Cunli did not succeed in giving gifts and also invited a scolding, Xu Shiyou scolded like this, Xu Cunli was embarrassed and angry, so he carried the gift and angrily left Xu Shiyou's house.
But what Xu Shiyou did not expect was that his uncle would lose his conscience to this point, and Xu Cunli, who was ashamed and angry, did something bad to Xu Shiyou's family soon after.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek's counterrevolutionary clique took the lead in undermining the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation and set off a bloody storm of massacres of revolutionaries.
Soon after, this bloody storm also blew into the Dabie Mountains. The "land snake" who could not come out to do evil after being severely beaten by the revolutionary fighters saw that his big brother began to take advantage and took the opportunity to fight back.
Xu Cunli, who had previously been frightened by the peasant death squads and did not dare to do evil, began to return to his old ways and oppress the people. Thinking that before he was an "elder", he was actually scolded by Xu Shiyou, a nephew who "did not know how to lift", Xu Cunli had a heart of revenge.
One day, Xu Shiyou took the death squad and went to the Mulan Mountains to fight guerrilla warfare, and his mother and three younger sisters stayed at home.
Unexpectedly, my uncle, who usually climbed the Three Treasures Hall without anything, actually found his mother and sister who went up the mountain with the villagers to hide from the Qingxiang Regiment with gifts.
It was good food and drink and good words said a basket, Xu Mother knew that her uncle was not at ease, but she reached out and did not hit the smiley face person, Xu Mother still hardened her scalp and Xu Cunli circled for a while, Xu Cunli saw that she could not get any benefits and had no choice but to leave.
Xu Mu knew that the uncle was not good, and at first thought that he just wanted to find out the whereabouts of Xu Shiyou, until the traffickers found him later, and only then did she know that this uncle with a black heart and liver was actually going to sell himself and his daughters to the traffickers.
I came to that trip with gifts in order to trick the mother and daughter four into the delivery place scheduled with the trafficker.
Seeing that a plan could not be achieved, Xu Cunli actually threw this trafficker to the door and prepared to rob it, and finally got the help of the nobles, and the mother and daughter four were not sold to the trafficker by Xu Cunli.
Tu - Xu Shiyou's mother
Xu Shiyou valued his mother's family, and Xu Cunli knew that if he waited for Xu Shiyou to return from the mountain and knew that he wanted to sell his mother and sister, he would definitely come to the door to take his life.
Therefore, Xu Cunli was ready to strike first, so he kept sending people to keep an eye on the big and small intersections entering Xu Jiawa.
In the blink of an eye, Xu Shiyou had been fighting guerrilla warfare in Mulan Mountain for more than half a year, and he missed his mother and sister very much, plus there was an extreme shortage of food on Mulan Mountain during that time, so Xu Shiyou decided to take two teammates and return to Xu Jiawa after dark.
As soon as he entered the intersection of Xu Jiawa, Xu Shiyou was targeted by Xu Cunli. Xu Shiyou had just returned home and knelt in front of his mother to express his thoughts to his mother, Xu Cunli led the qingxiang group to surround Xu Shiyou's house.
Xu Cunli pretended to be looking for Xu Shiyou's family, sent someone to knock on the door, heard the knock, Xu Shiyou and his comrades-in-arms climbed to the big locust tree at the urging of their families to hide.
Just as Xu Shiyou's comrades-in-arms had just climbed up the tree on their front feet, Xu Cunli and the qingxiang regiment kicked the door open and rushed in.
Seeing that Xu Shiyou could not be searched, Xu Cunli arrested Xu Shiyou's uncle, or Xu Shiyou's grandfather desperately stopped him, and Xu Shiyou did not go to Xu Cunli desperately.
After Xu Cunli left, Xu Shiyou also hurriedly left home. Before leaving, Grandpa solemnly handed a shotgun to Xu Shiyou's hand and said to him: "I am old, this one you carry is more useful than what I put at home." ”
Xu Shiyou's uncle fell into the hands of Xu Cunli, suffered a lot of hardships, and the skin and flesh wounds were not less, although in the end, under the grandfather's many points, the uncle was rescued, but when he was rescued, there were few pieces of good skin on his body.
Without killing Xu Shiyou, Xu Cunli was both unwilling and very afraid, so he again swept the Qingxiang regiment and went to ambush him on the road leading to leave the village.
Xu Shiyou and two comrades-in-arms came to the village entrance and were preparing to leave. A dozen or so people from the Qingxiang Regiment suddenly jumped out and surrounded the three of them at once.
The three men immediately fought with the Qingxiang Regiment, and Xu Shiyou used his Years of Shaolin Kung Fu to repel many enemies, but two of his comrades died under the enemy's knife.
The grief-stricken Xu Shiyou fought with the enemy as if he were not going to die, and finally defeated the enemy. Xu Shiyou endured grief and buried the remains of the two comrades-in-arms.
The personal vendetta of selling his mother, coupled with the blood feud of his comrades-in-arms, Xu Cunli's fish and meat townspeople, Xu Shiyou and his uncle Xu Cunli's vendetta can be regarded as a conclusion.
Picture - Xu Shiyou
The uncle defected to the Kuomintang and killed the Red Army indiscriminately
Later, Xu Shiyou became a Red Army soldier.
Although Xu Shiyou stayed in the Kuomintang army for a while, he did not go to the front several times.
Although Xu Shiyou did not have much actual combat experience, he was very brave in every battle, and with a sharp spirit of "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers", in just three years, Xu Shiyou went from a no-name pawn to several levels in a row and became the leader of a regiment.
At this time, Xu Cunli became a lackey of the Kuomintang. On the one hand, he "donated funds" to the Kuomintang troops, and on the other hand, he also obeyed the Kuomintang's arrangements very much and killed the Red Army soldiers.
At this stage, the relationship between Xu Shiyou and his uncle Xu Cunli is not just a family vendetta and a personal vendetta, but also a "national hatred" between the two.
By brutalizing the soldiers of the Red Army, Xu Cunli was fueling the arrogance of the Kuomintang and the arrogance of the Japanese aggressors.
Yi Jin returned to his hometown and almost killed his uncle
As the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea entered its final stage, Xu Shiyou was already a founding general.
In the past 20 years, Xu Shiyou has been developing revolution everywhere, and unconsciously he has been away from home for nearly twenty years, and after the new China has settled down, Xu Shiyou, who has no battle to fight, misses his relatives and hometown more and more.
Xu Shiyou repeatedly asked for leave to go home to visit his relatives and villagers, and the central authorities also agreed to Xu Shiyou's request to return to his hometown.
Now Xu Shiyou is already a great general, and he has returned to his hometown in proper clothes.
When Xu Shiyou was fighting outside, his parents and relatives were taken care of by the villagers a lot, so this time Xu Shiyou made up his mind to repay the villagers and his family well.
Before leaving, Xu Shiyou specially instructed the staff to bring two cooks and enough savings.
But this is really not what Xu Shiyou wants to show off to the villagers, Xu Shiyou said: "We sincerely mourn those dead comrades-in-arms and comfort those villagers who have contributed to the revolution." ”
In 1950, Mao Zedong asked his son Mao Anying to return to his hometown instead of his own savings to visit the villagers and support those villagers whose lives were really difficult.
Photo - Mao Anying
Driving two jeeps, General Xu Shiyou and his entourage drove all the way to the depths of Dabie Mountain, although the car was more than several times faster than riding a horse, but Xu Shiyou, who was like an arrow, still felt that the journey was very long.
When they reached the deep mountains and old forests, the car could no longer continue to move forward, and General Xu Shiyou and his entourage changed to riding horses. Along the way, Xu Shiyou finally returned home.
Xu Jiawa's fathers and fellow villagers heard that General Xu Shiyou had returned to his hometown to visit his relatives today, and they gathered at the entrance of the village early in the morning, looking forward to seeing this "loyal and filial general" who had come out of Dabie Mountain.
I saw Xu Shiyou riding on a tall horse wearing a green military uniform, wearing a large brimmed hat, and carrying a Browning pistol around his waist.
Xu Shiyou returned home, and immediately asked the entourage to set up a few large cauldrons in his own yard, slaughter pigs and sheep, and make a big feast to comfort his father and fellow villagers.
Xu Shiyou personally went to the door to greet the villagers, and after the opening of the banquet, he also ate meat and drank wine with the villagers, and talked about the world.
Xu Shiyou's feast was to entertain the villagers, so the villagers of the eight townships and seven villages and eight passes in ten miles came, and the number of people was so large that they raced out of the Xu family for more than 3 miles.
The villagers in line not only wanted to feast on Xu Shiyou, but also wanted to see General Xu Shiyou and thank the great hero who helped the villagers fight away the Japanese and the local tyrants and gentry.
Now that the days are stable, and it has happened to be a good day for Xu Shiyou to go home, the villagers are all smiling, and at this time, there is a person who seems out of place with everyone. The man frowned bitterly, cowering, as if he had done something wrong.
This person is Xu Shiyou's uncle Xu Cunli.
Xu Cunli had done a lot of things that hurt nature and reason and harmed Zhongliang, but now that he saw that the revolution had triumphed and Xu Shiyou had returned to his hometown, he was naturally worried about being afraid, afraid that he would be punished by justice.
However, because he was Xu Shiyou's uncle again, he still had a bit of luck, thinking that xu Shiyou would go around his life for the sake of his relatives.
Xu Cunli's wife encouraged Xu Cunli to say: "Xu Shiyou is a founding hero, people may have forgotten those ugly things you did, you also followed everyone to attend the welcome ceremony, and by the way to explore Xu Shiyou's attitude." ”
In this way, Xu Cunli also went to the Xu family. But Xu Cunli knew that he was wrong, and he cowered and did not dare to go forward, until the people behind him pushed him forward, and he entered the xu family's door.
As soon as he entered the door, Xu Shiyou recognized Xu Cunli, and immediately his anger and blood surged up, and he said angrily: "Xu Cunli, you killed so many Red Army soldiers that they dared to come today!" ”
With such a reprimand, Xu Cunli was so frightened that all three souls and seven spirits were lost, and he collapsed to the ground at once. Looking at this majestic nephew in front of him, he knelt down and cried:
"Commander Xu, in the past, those things were forced by the Kuomintang to do, and if I don't do them, they will kill me, I can't help it, please, for the sake of our uncles and nephews, let my uncle go."
Looking at this slave-like and knee-crushing uncle, Xu Shiyou was even more angry, and an arrow rushed to Xu Cunli, pulled out his pistol and put it on Xu Cunli's head, and said angrily:
"Blood debt must be repaid with blood!" The country is three against five, how to miss the head of you villain! Today, I promise Shiyou to take your dog's life! ”
Xu Mu, who was entertaining guests at the end, heard that something was wrong, and rushed over and told Xu Shiyou to stop.
Originally, Xu Shiyou's bullets had already been loaded, his fingers were pressed on the trigger, and listening to his mother shout like this, Xu Shiyou calmed down a little, but the gun was still on Xu Cunli's head.
Xu Mu had to kneel down, hug Xu Shiyou's legs, and cry and beg Xu Shiyou to forgive this indisputable uncle.
Looking at his mother kneeling in front of him, Xu Shiyou completely calmed down, collected his pistol and said, "Mother, I will not kill him if I listen to your words, but this matter cannot be left unsolved, xu Cunli must accept the trial of the party and the state." ”
In the evening, after everyone had dispersed, Mother Xu said to Xu Shiyou, "Your uncle deserves to die for his sins, but he still has wives and children in his family, and if your uncle dies, what will your aunt and your nephews and nieces and nephews do?" ”
Listening to his mother's words, Xu Shiyou also returned to God, during the day he was too impulsive to abuse lynching, Xu Cunli did evil to be punished by the laws of his own country, but he must not shield this uncle.
After the banquet, Xu Shiyou summoned the county's organ dictatorship and arrested Xu Cunli, the big villain. And also specially instructed the leaders of the county:
"In this matter, how you should investigate it, how you should judge it, don't think that he is my uncle Xu Shiyou, just hold it high and let it go, we must find out clearly, and then hand him over to the people's court, we must let him be punished as he deserves!"
Finally, after verification by the county public security bureau, the county people's court tried and Xu Cunli was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In 1957, Xu Cunli fell ill and died in prison.
Treating Xu Cunli, Xu Shiyou was selfless and resolute not to favor personal feelings, but Xu Shiyou did not transfer his hatred and Xu Cunli's hatred to Xu Cunli's family, and since Xu Cunli was imprisoned, Xu Shiyou would send living expenses to his aunt and niece every month.
Born in a chaotic world, poor and poor, but able to have great ambitions and defend the country;
Fei Huang Tengda does not forget the roots, does not forget the original, and does not forget the mother;
Holding a heavy fist but strictly demanding children, not promoting a little corruption, this is the real backbone of China.
Xu Shiyou, the founding general of the country who is loyal and filial, is really a strange person!
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