Admiral Shiyou, surname Xu. During the revolutionary war, he made countless meritorious achievements and made immortal contributions to the cause of liberation. The highest chief once spoke highly: "Shiyou is a general who has played the eastern half of the sky!" Amazing, remarkable! ”
General Xu was born in February 1905 in Xujiawa, Hepu Village, Tianpu Township, Xinxian County (then part of Macheng County).
When General Xu was born, he had two older brothers, and his grandmother hoped to have several more grandchildren, so she gave him a nickname of "Youde".
When General Xu was a teenager, his father Xu Cunren died in poverty and illness, and his mother pulled their brothers and sisters up with hard work.
Later, due to his family's poverty, General Xu entered the Shaolin Temple to do miscellaneous work, learn martial arts, and get the Legal name "Yongxiang". At the Shaolin Temple, General Xu studied hard and practiced hard, and practiced a good martial art, proficient in all kinds of martial arts.
After returning from studying art at the Shaolin Temple, in 1924, under his mother's Zhang Luo, he married a woman from a neighboring village named Zhu Ximing.
Soon, General Xu joined the Red Army with his second brother Xu Shisheng.
"Hundred good filial piety first", General Xu is a great filial piety. After he joined the army, he would often cry bitterly because he dreamed of his mother. During the Red Army's conquests, he twice passed through his hometown and returned home to visit his mother. Once, when he visited his mother, because of an incident, his heart was like a knife, and he knelt in front of her with tears and told a lie.
Here's the thing.
After joining the Red Army, Xu Shisheng and Xu Shiyou (Xu Shiyou) brothers fought bravely and well, and made many military achievements.
After the establishment of the Eleventh Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Xu Shiyou successively served as a squad leader, platoon leader, battalion commander, and commander of the Thirty-fourth Regiment of the Twelfth Division of the Fourth Army of the Red Fourth Front.
In 1932, General Xu led his troops to sichuan and shaanxi with the Red Fourth Front army and threw himself into the struggle to create a revolutionary base area in Sichuan and Shaanxi.
In the autumn of 1932, When General Xu was accompanying the army to fight, he passed through his hometown.
One night, when camping in Xizhangdian Village, not far from Xujiawa in Hepu Village, Tianpu Township, General Chen Geng, commander of the 12th Division of the Red Fourth Front, learned that General Xu's hometown was nearby and specially arranged for him to return home to visit his relatives.
It has been three years since General Xu returned home to visit his mother in 1929, so why wouldn't he want to go home? Why don't you miss your mother? But for the sake of the revolution, we must put the overall situation first. He said seriously: "Division commander, military affairs are in my body, I can't do without it!" ”
"Go back and stay for one night, return to the team tomorrow morning, the rest of the things will be arranged by me, you can go with confidence, see the big lady, and say hello on my behalf." General Chen Geng smiled and urged him.
Xu Shiyou bowed to the division commander and strode towards Xu Jiawa.
Back home. After entering the house to see his mother, before he could greet him, General Xu burst into tears and knelt down on his knees: "Mother, the son of filial piety has made you suffer..."
General Xu joined the revolution and became the target of the "Qingxiang Regiment" for manhunt. "If you can't catch Xu, just ask his mother!" Therefore, the Qingxiang regiment tied up Xu Mu and forced him to inquire about the whereabouts of General Xu. Xu Mu gritted her teeth and did not say a word.
Later, When General Xu heard that his mother had been arrested, he was furious. He took out a pen, brushed and wrote a few words, and sent someone to give them to the leader of the Qingxiang regiment. After the leader read the letter that was paid as "Captain Xu of the Artillery Team", he was immediately frightened and pale, and quickly released Xu Mu.
For years gone, the mother was always worried about her son. Seeing her son's safe return, Mother Xu was very happy.
She stroked her son's head for a long time and said, "Child, don't you cry, although your mother doesn't know anything, she knows that what you are doing is a good thing to save the poor, and your mother will not stop you..."
After a long talk. The mother asked again, "Son, what is the situation with your second brother?" In those years, when you two went to the army together, why didn't he even carry a message to me in the past few years? Your fourth brother died last year, if your second brother had a good villain... This..."
Facing his mother's hair, General Xu froze and his heart trembled. How do you tell your mother?
It turned out that in the "Baiqueyuan Incident" in 1931, Guotao (surnamed Zhang) borrowed some names to mistakenly kill a group of Red Army commanders and fighters in order to cut off dissidents, including Xu Shisheng, the second brother of General Xu.
On May 11, 1931, Guo Tao and others in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District announced the abolition of the Eyu-Anhui Special Committee and the establishment of the Eyu-Anhui Branch Bureau and the new Eyu-Anhui Military Commission. Guo Tao served as the secretary of the sub-bureau and the chairman of the Central Military Commission. After that, Guo Tao used his power to carry out large-scale mutilation of the cadres and fighters of the Red Fourth Army at that time in Baique Garden, and more than 2,500 Red Army commanders and fighters were mistakenly killed in that place alone. Among them is Xu Shisheng.
At that time, Guo Tao personally ordered Xu Shisheng to be buried alive. This unfortunate news, General Xu has been hiding from his mother.
But now, in the face of my mother's question, how to answer it?
Really? How hard a blow to the mother! Lying? Can't bear to cheat on your mother!
After a long time, General Xu cleared his throat, calmed his emotions, and pretended to be relaxed: "Mother, my second brother and I are not in the same unit, and I have not seen him for a long time..."
Xu Mu was a little disappointed after hearing this, and she confessed: "Oh, seeing your second brother, you said to him, don't worry about me, beating Jiang Bandit is a big deal!" ......”
When General Xu heard this, his heart was like a knife, he couldn't hold back any longer, tears were about to flow out, he quickly stood up and walked to the door, shouting into the kitchen: "Xi Ming, is the meal good?" I'm already hungry. ”
"I'll take a look." Mother said and went to the kitchen.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, General Xu walked quickly out of the courtyard door, and in a dark corner, he put his head against an old willow tree and cried bitterly.
The next day, when it was almost dawn, General Xu came to his mother and said softly, "Mother, I should leave, you don't have to get up when you are old." ”
When the mother learned that her son was leaving, she got out of bed in her clothes and stuffed a bag of eggs into Shiyou's hand: "Son, the mother will cook the eggs for you in the middle of the night and take them to eat on the way." ”
"Mother, I'm young and strong, I don't need this, or keep it for you to make up for it!" General Xu shoved the egg into his mother's hand.
"You hold it!" The mother said involuntarily, stuffed the egg into her son's clothes, pulled the collar horn for her son, tugged on the cuffs, and then put her hand into the sleeve of her son and touched the thickness.
Looking at the silver-haired mother, think about the misfortune of the second brother and the illness and death of the fourth brother. General Xu had mixed feelings, and could not bear it any longer, and the tears fell down, crying: "Mother, the filial piety of doing children, let you suffer alone at home..."
"Mother is willing to let you be loyal, filial piety is only for me, loyalty is for the poor of our whole world!" After beating away the Jiang bandits, are you still afraid that you will not have a good life? His mother tearfully urged him to hurry up.
When he was about to step out of the gate, General Xu suddenly turned around, fell to his knees, tears poured down, and shouted: "Mother, I don't know when I will be able to come back when I leave, you will be worshiped by your son!" ”
After going out, General Xu secretly swore: "I live to be loyal to the country, and after I die, I will do filial piety for my mother; I cannot serve my mother when I am alive, and I will be buried next to my mother after I die." Day and night companionship. ”
General Xu said goodbye to his mother this time, but unexpectedly it was too long. When mother and son met again, it was 17 years later.