In 1982, the staff of the Party History Office of Lu'an District finally found Xu Minqing, an old worker, at the Xiangtan (Jiangnan) Machine Factory after several twists and turns. The staff said to Xu Minqing: "After investigation and confirmation, your father is a martyr and the number one commander of the Red First Army. ”
After hearing this, the 53-year-old Xu Minqing was excited and tears flashed in his eyes. Until then, Xu Minqing had always thought that his father was the head of the Kuomintang army. Because of this, he was once misunderstood and suffered a lot.
According to Xu Minqing, his mother told him since he could remember that his father's name was "Xu Continue", and that he was a kuomintang leader. After liberation, when Xu Minqing filled out his files, he also wrote "Leader of the Kuomintang Regiment" in his father's column.
Later, in order to find out the true situation of his father, Xu (Minqing) ran many times and wrote many letters to inquire, but the reply he got was that there was no such person. Until 1982, when Xu Minqing was 53 years old, thanks to the help of Comrade Bao Jinfu of the Party History Office, the investigation confirmed the true identity of his father.
After verification by Comrade Bao Jinfu, it turned out that Xu Minqing's father was not called 'Xu Continue'', his real name was Xu Jishen! Xu Jishen's identity was not the head of the Kuomintang regiment, but the first commander of the First Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
Xu Jishen was a very outstanding marshal of our army, an outstanding general and military figure in the early days of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In his early years, he was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy and participated in two expeditions at the Whampoa Military Academy, where he made great achievements.
During the Northern Expedition, Xu Jishen served as the battalion commander of Ye Ting's independent regiment and participated in many battles such as Pingjiang and Heshengqiao, with outstanding military achievements.
When the Red Army formed the First Red Army, the supreme commander named Xu Jishen as the commander of the First Red Army, and his deputy (deputy commander) at that time was Xu (forward), and in 1955, Xu was awarded the rank of founding marshal.
The Red First Army had three divisions and one reserve. At that time, the commander of the reserve was Wang (Shusheng), who later became the founding general.
The commander of the heavy machine gun company of the 29th Regiment of the Red 12th Division of the Red First Army was Hong Xuezhi, who later became the founding general.
Xu Jishen was a military man with both wisdom and courage, who fought countless battles and made many military achievements.
Many years later, General Hong Xuezhi still remembers this battle vividly, "Commander Xu, there is courage and strategy, a few words before the battle aroused high morale, in the battle, everyone is like a fierce tiger descending the mountain, the enemy is completely unstoppable!"
However, such a distinguished military commander was killed in November 1931 at the age of 30.
In 1931, after Zhang (Guotao) presided over the work of holding the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District, he acted arbitrarily. As a result, Xu Jishen explicitly opposed Zhang's erroneous military policy of staying away from the Soviet zone and taking risks to attack, which caused Zhang's dissatisfaction and jealousy.
Later, Zhang (Guotao) took advantage of the trap of Kuomintang agents to arrest Xu Jishen, who was fighting in the front, interrogate him illegally, and finally kill him secretly. Xu Jishen was only 30 years old when he was killed.
In 1945, Xu Jishen, who had suffered injustice, was rehabilitated and posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr.
After Xu Jishen was killed, his wife took her two-year-old son Xu Minqing into anonymity. In the chaotic world, Xu Minqing's mother concealed Xu Jishen's identity and real name, telling the child only that his father was a Kuomintang officer leader.
Later, Xu Minqing was fostered in his uncle's house, and after several turns, his mother also died. When Xu Minqing grew up, he didn't even know his father's real name, thinking it was called "Xu Continued".
In the early 1980s, in order to find out the true situation of his father, Xu (Minqing) went many times and inquired many times, and the reply was that there was no such person. It wasn't until 1982, when Xu Minqing was 53 years old, that he finally figured out who his father was.
In 1982, the staff of the Party History Office went through many twists and turns to finally find out the true situation of Xu Minqing's father and found Xu Minqing. At this time, Xu Minqing, 53, was an old worker in a town-run factory.
When the staff said to Xu Minqing, 'Your father is a martyr and the number one commander of the Red First Army'," Xu Minqing, 53, was excited after hearing this. At that moment, he couldn't help but cry loudly, and the tears fell like rain. At this time, more than half a century had passed since Xu Jishen's death.
Knowing that he was the son of a Red Army general, Xu Minqing submitted an application to join the party, but after many years of long-cherished wishes, he did not have any requirements.
Xu Minqing has 4 sons and daughters, all of whom are self-employed or laid off and reemployed. Over the years, despite the family's difficulties, the Xu family has never made any demands on the organization and has been living an ordinary life.