In 1955, General Xu Shiyou was named the general of the new China, and his revolutionary career was very brilliant, serving as deputy chief of staff of the People's Liberation Army, commander of the Nanjing Military Region, commander of the Guangdong Military Region, and vice minister of national defense. The general not only made great achievements in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, but especially in the Sino-Vietnamese self-defense counterattack war, leading the Chinese army to crush the Vietnamese army, which made the aggressors pay a painful price!
In 1979 Vietnam invaded Cambodia and repeatedly violated our borders, after our repeated warnings were ineffective. Chairman Deng Xiaoping issued an order to safeguard national sovereignty and severely crack down on the aggressors. Regarding the candidate for the commander-in-chief of the army, Deng Xiaoping believed that Xu Shiyou had the demeanor of a general in leading the troops, but he was a good drinker and had a tough personality, and when he hit the red eye, he sometimes even disobeyed the orders of his superiors.
After much deliberation, Chairman Deng resisted the pressure and handed over the marshal seal of the troops to Vietnam to Xu Shiyou, xu Shiyou's ability really did not disappoint Deng Xiaoping, in the counterattack against Vietnamese self-defense, Xu Shiyou led the PLA 41st Army, 42nd Army, 43rd Army, 54th Army, 55th Army and 50th Army's Eastern Front Corps, taking Lang Shan in a storm, but at this time the central government issued an order to withdraw.
Xu Shiyou looked at the map of the headquarters and sighed: Now the front is all plains, a horse Pingchuan, tank artillery can come in handy, in less than two hours we can enter Hanoi! Sure enough, something that worried Chairman Deng happened, Xu Shiyou did not obey the withdrawal order, he ordered the army to continue to march to Hanoi.
The army went down the Lang Shan and stretched for tens of kilometers, the Vietnamese capital Hanoi was in a hurry, the Vietnamese government offices were frightened to withdraw from Hanoi, and Xu Shiyou, who received the battle situation at the command post, was overjoyed and laughed: Scared fart isn't it? To beat them up!
However, the pressure exerted by the international situation on us had to make people worry about the consequences, and when we advanced into Hanoi, we had to consider the consequences, and the central authorities once again issued an order that the troops must be withdrawn, and Xu Shiyou vigorously pleaded with Deng Xiaoping to let him take Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, but after careful consideration, the chairman denied Xu Shiyou's proposal, and Xu Shiyou very reluctantly issued the order to withdraw the troops!
It is said that when he returned to China, because everyone understood his temper, he did not want to touch the fire of General Xu Shiyou, and the last one went hard, which can be imagined that the consequences are very embarrassing, but General Xu Shiyou is this kind of straight-forward character, and his contribution to the country is worthy of everyone's respect!