Xu Shiyou entered Shaolin at the age of eight, and at the age of sixteen, he was "vulgar", because of this experience of "renunciation", many people jokingly called him a "monk", and even Chairman Mao sometimes laughed at him as "Xu Monk".
The eight-year academic career not only honed his mental tenacity, but more importantly, learned a high-level martial art, paving the way for him to kill enemies in the army and serve as a death squad seven times in the future.
In 1938, Xu Shiyou, who had just finished studying at the Party School of the Northern Bureau of the CPC, was sent to Shandong to open up a base area, and at that time, Shandong's public order was very poor, the Japanese and pseudo-stubborn (the three forces of the enemy) often came out to burn and encroach, the local armed forces of the CPC only had one 3 brigade, or had just been converted from local troops to regular troops, combat quality and commander-in-command level needed to be improved, Xu Shiyou wanted to rely on these people to establish a base area on the land where Japan and puppetry were rampant, it was very arduous.
Xu Shiyou's answer to this was: "As long as xu Shiyou is there, there will be 3 brigades and a base area." Then he rushed to Shandong to take up his post, somehow, the news of his coming to Shandong was leaked, just arrived at the "Dahewan" village in the direction of Shandong, encountered the Japanese puppet army encircled and suppressed, the number of nearly a thousand people, and Xu Shiyou only brought one squad of fighters with him this time, and the situation was very dangerous.
The guards wanted to lead the enemy away and cover Xu Shiyou's evacuation, Xu Shiyou shook his head and did not speak, at this time a militia fighter who was more than half a hundred years old also planned to lead the enemy away, Xu Shiyou shook his head and still did not speak, as time went on, the night gradually deepened, and the encirclement circle of the Japanese and pseudo became more and more "thick".
Suddenly, Xu Shiyou asked the militia captain, "Comrade Li Fangzhou, are there horses in the village?" Li replied, "Yes, there are about 20 horses, chief, what do you want horses to do?" Xu Shiyou replied, "In this way, we will have a way to break through, but the villagers will lose some horses!" Li Fangzhou replied: "As long as our Eighth Route Army can break out of the siege, the villagers will be willing to take their lives, no matter how many horses it has." Hearing this, Xu Shiyou smiled.
An hour later, the villagers brought more than a dozen horses, Xu Shiyou let everyone tie grass targets on the horse's back, tied firecrackers on the horse's tail, and when the night underworld reached out and could not see five fingers, suddenly there was a cry of rushing to kill, the villagers lit the firecrackers on the horse's tail, and more than a dozen frightened horses rushed out of the village. Seeing this scene, the puppet army of the four bread raiders hurriedly shouted: "The communist army has broken through, so chase it!" ”
Before long, the enemy focused its attack on the dozen or so frightened horses running wildly, and chased them to intercept them. Xu Shiyou saw the opportunity and quickly led the guards to raise their horses and rush out of the encirclement.
Xu Shiyou was running wildly with the soldiers, while calculating the distance to the base area, suddenly there was a hissing sound of war horses, Xu Shiyou knew that the enemy was about to catch up, at this time the guard squad leader followed up and said: "Brigade commander, I am your guard squad leader, and it is my duty to ensure your safety." ”
With that said, he ordered the two warriors to protect the brigade commander while leading the other fighters to break out to the west and lead the enemy away. The enemy did not know that there was deception in it, immediately adjusted the target of the shooting, and rushed towards the guard squad leader like a tide.
At the same time, Xu Shiyou, escorted by two guard warriors, came to the open space in front of the Shaolin Temple in Songshan.
The abbot of the monastery was meditating and reciting Buddhist scriptures in the courtyard, and when he saw Xu Shiyou and others, he asked, "Where did the Ru generation come from, where did they go, and why did they rush into this courtyard?" Xu Shiyou replied: "Ordinary people Shiyou (formerly known as Xu Shiyou) and other prostrations to the elders." Later, Xu Shiyou elaborated on his origins, including the situation in which he was once a Shaolin monk, then threw himself into the revolution to expel the Japanese Kou, and is now surrounded and suppressed by the Japanese Kou.
When the elder heard this, he said, "Monks have always cherished compassion, so I will take you in for a few days!" "Let Xu Shiyou and others change into monk costumes and mix among the disciples of the monastery, thinking of waiting for a few days to withdraw and then leave, without thinking that the warriors who had attracted the enemy before were arrested, and one warrior had defected, so their whereabouts were also exposed."
On this day, dozens of Japanese troops and hundreds of puppet soldiers broke into the Shaolin Temple, and the exits of the temple were already guarded by the Japanese army, at this time, a fat puppet army suddenly took a few steps forward, grabbed the elder's robe, and angrily roared: "Old thing, quickly hand over the eight roads hidden here!" Otherwise, the Imperial Army will want your head! ”
More than 200 disciples in the monastery saw the menacing Japanese and falsehoods, and all gathered together to confront them, and the elder naturally did not admit the fact that Xu Shiyou was here, he said:
"How can we monks who are pure-hearted and widowed, who have always cherished compassion, who have always followed the purpose of martial arts and fitness, and who have never asked about politics, do things that conceal the Eight Paths?"
The fat man did not believe it, but the soldier who had rebelled before died of his wounds, no one had seen Xu Shiyou's appearance, the fat man ran to the Japanese officer and told him about his current situation, the Japanese officer carefully looked at the Shaolin disciple in front of him, and suddenly, he pointed at Xu Shiyou and asked: What are you doing? Is it the eight-way?
Just as Xu Shiyou was preparing to break the net of death, the elder came out again to break the siege: "This disciple's Dharma name is 'Puhai', he was originally a miscellaneous servant of the monastery, and he only began to chant the sutra and practice martial arts not long ago, he is not the Eighth Way. ”。
The Japanese officer did not believe it, the soldier's intuition told him that this person was not simple, but he could not say where it was not simple, and suddenly he thought that since he was a disciple of the Shaolin Temple, he was bound to know a little about Shaolin fist and foot, and he knew Shaolin fist, so it was better to let him have two moves with himself, and the real disciple or the false monk would know it when he tried it.
Thinking of this, the Japanese officer threw his military uniform to the ground, tightened his waist with a belt, and greeted Xu Shiyou with a gesture: "Your Shaolin monk, let's try and test." ”
Xu Shiyou listened to my wishes, he had already held his stomach and had nowhere to scatter, since you yourself came to the door, don't blame me, you know, Xu Shiyou once said: "Wu Song who fights tigers has only studied art in Shaolin for 6 years, and I have studied for 8 years, two years more than him", Xu Shiyou compared himself to Wu Song, indicating that he is very confident in his martial arts.
In fact, the two sides were ready to start attacking, Xu Shiyou first swept the legs of the hall, only one move kicked the Japanese officer to the ground, the Japanese officer climbed up, full of anger and pounced, Xu Shiyou pulled along, followed by a stumbling leg, and threw the Japanese officer heavily on the ground, the Japanese officer pounced again, fell, lay again, and fell...
The puppet army watching the battle saw that the Japanese officers were beaten so badly, and they were furious: "Little Shaolin monk, how dare you offend the imperial army?" As he spoke, he aimed his gun at Xu Shiyou, at which point the Japanese officer got up from the ground and gestured to the puppet army not to shoot: "The ring is a dance, there are wins and losses, how can you use a sword." ”
Then he stretched out his thumb and shook it in front of Xu Shiyou and said, "Your kung fu is very good, authentic Shaolin disciple." Then, in his half-baked Chinese language, "there will be a period after that, and there will be a period after that." After saying this, he led the Japanese puppet army away.
In this way, with a "ring competition", Xu Shiyou successfully escaped from danger, and after breakfast the next day, Xu Shiyou bid farewell to the elders and monks of the Shaolin Temple, took two guards and fighters, and embarked on a journey to the Anti-Japanese Base Area in Shandong again, until half a month later, Xu Shiyou successfully arrived at the garrison of the 36th Brigade of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army.
Since then, Xu Shiyou led his troops to fight in Jiaodong, fighting the Japanese puppet army in a frightening battle, establishing a solid base area, and at the same time harvesting a lifelong lover.