During the war years, there was such a legendary figure in the ranks of our army, who was born as a Shaolin martial monk, who was proficient in kung fu with his fists, feet, knives and sticks, who was addicted to alcohol all his life, and who won many battles after participating in the revolution, and set a precedent for military commanders to participate in death squads to fight in the front line of fighting.
He has slashed 36 enemies in a row with a large knife and participated in the death squad 7 times
He is the first master of the whole army, the captain of the big knife death, the Shaolin general Xu Shiyou.
What has General Xu Shiyou experienced in his life? What kind of existence does he have on the battlefield?
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General Xu Shiyou was born in 1905 in Xinxian County, Henan
When he was young, his family was very miserable, often he did not have enough to eat, in order to survive at a young age, he was sent to the Shaolin Temple by his family to become a monk, originally for the sake of a hungry life, he did not expect that General Xu Shiyou was actually a good seedling who learned martial arts. During the Red Army period, General Xu Shiyou, a Shaolin warrior monk, decided to go down to the mountains to fight for the poor people, and left the Shaolin Temple to devote himself to military career.
A large knife went to the battlefield, and the death squad repeatedly achieved good results in battle
Dashanzhai is located in the territory of Xinxian County, is a local group of endangering the people of both military bandits, large landlord nature of the armed forces, cottage from 1929, full of weapons and well-defended, this group of armed forces have repeatedly sabotaged the revolution, confrontation with the Red Army, in order to uproot this force, in May 1930 Marshal Xu Qianqian ordered General Xu Shiyou to personally lead a death squad to Dashanzhai to uproot this enemy stronghold.
After General Xu Shiyou led the soldiers to the vicinity of Dazhai, the enemy was very arrogant by virtue of its superiority in weapons, occupying a condescending advantageous position, constantly firing cold guns at the Red Army troops behind the fortifications such as the built city walls, and the battle was once very difficult. Seeing that he could not attack for a long time, General Xu Shiyou was in a hurry, and when he could not think of an effective way, the teapot he was holding in his hand fell on the quilt, and General Xu Shiyou made a clever move to cover the wet water quilt on the square table and make a simple shield, so that the soldiers could advance against the "square table", so that they could resist the enemy's fire strafing and also attack Dazhai.
Without further ado, General Xu Shiyou immediately organized everyone to create "shields" and decided to take the lead and lead the warriors to attack. After the battle began, General Xu Shiyou carried a table in one hand and a large knife in the other, people blocked killing, Buddha blocked killing Buddha, the enemies in Dazhai were stunned, and the little minions responsible for guarding the village were killed by General Xu Shiyou before they could react, killed on the spot, and quickly attacked the inside of the village. Subsequently, with the cooperation of the death squads, the large army also broke through the gate of the village and annihilated the enemy.
However, in the previous melee, General Xu Shiyou was unfortunately shot, and passed out on the spot, the soldiers all thought he was sacrificed, and after the battle, they gathered around General Xu Shiyou's "corpse" and cried, but they did not expect that General Xu Shiyou actually woke up, and comforted the soldiers who were immersed in grief, he just slept beautifully. General Xu Shiyou of the First Battle of Dazhai played his own Shaolin master's momentum, and also made the soldiers gradually familiar with the combat style of his commander personally going to the battlefield to kill the enemy.
In the spring of 1931, the Kuomintang once again launched an attack on the Red Army, and in order to achieve victory, Chiang Kai-shek also specially sent his confidant Yue Weijun to lead the elite 34th Division to the base area to encircle and suppress the Red Army
。 After careful analysis, the command headquarters believes that the current 34th Division has already committed a major taboo for soldiers, and blindly going deep alone in such a forward-looking manner has created an opportunity for our army to break through the front.
It was immediately decided to concentrate the strength of five regiments and use the tactic of enveloping and sneaking attacks to attack the Kuomintang troops currently stationed in shuangqiao town. However, this operation was also very dangerous, first of all in terms of army weapons, which were the elite divisions under Chiang Kai-shek, equipped with advanced elite weapons, and the Red Army was inferior in equipment and far from the number of combatants.
At the critical moment, General Xu Shiyou took the initiative to ask for battle, leading his own team to take on the task of this surprise attack while assuming the enemy's frontal firepower, the battle soon began, General Xu Shiyou led his 28 regiments to engage in a firefight with the enemy, the enemy carried out a fierce blow to the Red Army according to the favorable terrain, and accompanied by repeated bombardments by fighter planes, the soldiers could not attack for a long time, General Xu Shiyou decided to lead the death squad to fight to the death, crawling on the ground and creeping forward, crawling and fighting, after touching the vicinity of the enemy's fortifications. At the sound of an order, the warriors and the enemy began to fight with a white blade, General Xu Shiyou brandished a large knife in front, one enemy after another, the warriors were encouraged, bravely killed the enemy, annihilated the enemy,
Yue Weijun, commander of the model 34th Division of the Kuomintang
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Won the battle
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In 1933, the Red Fourth Front came to the Sichuan-Shaanxi region to open up a new anti-Japanese base area, and after receiving information, the Kuomintang side decided to encircle and suppress the Red Fourth Army
"Six-way encirclement and suppression"
Combat. The gap between the enemy and us was obvious, and at the beginning they occupied the terrain and organized defensive operations against the enemy, and this insistence was more than four months, in order to repel the enemy's attack, General Xu Shiyou often took his large knife and personally came to the front to fight back the enemy's offensive, and sometimes even the blade could be cut down.
In the Battle of Jialing River, the Red Army, who had already served as the commander of the Army, broke through the Jialing River in a battle, General Xu Shiyou, as a soldier, once again rushed into the middle of the enemy to launch a white-knife battle, killing 36 people in a row, the enemy was frightened by him, and fled without much resistance. After this battle, Liu Huaqing, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, lamented that Xu Shiyou had set a precedent for military commanders to participate in death squads. A large knife slashed at the enemy's heart, completely frightening the enemy, and also playing the prestige of General Xu Shiyou as "Tiger General".
In August 1935, the Red Army that came to the northwestern border area was once again surrounded and suppressed by the Kuomintang, this time Chiang Kai-shek even sent the general Hu Zongnan, in order to block the footsteps of the Red Army, Hu Zongnan led his 49th Division to encircle the Red Army's Right Route Army in the Gannan area, in order to smoothly march the main force and open the road to northern Shaanxi, Xu Shiyou once again took on the big responsibility, and launched a two-day entanglement with Hu Zongnan in the front, and when the bullets were finished, he fought with bayonets, and finally successfully completed the counterattack and severely damaged the enemy. The road north of the Red Army was completely opened.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has revived the style of a warrior monk
After the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, General Xu Shiyou, under the arrangement of the Central Committee, went to kang da for further study and preparation for the coming war of resistance against Japan.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, General Xu Shiyou returned to the battlefield again, and under the instructions of the central authorities, went to the Hebei region to carry out anti-Japanese work, during which he and General Chen Geng jointly commanded the ambush battle of Xiangchenggu, setting a record for winning more with less.
At the beginning of 1939, the Japanese army mobilized four divisions, more than 30,000 troops, equipped with a large number of aircraft and artillery, and drove to the base area of our army in the southern Hebei region, with the intention of carrying out a large-scale sweep here
After receiving the information, in the face of the enemy's menacing force, our army actively organized a battle and decided to ambush the Japanese who had come to sweep up. At that time, General Xu Shiyou held the post of deputy brigade commander of the 386 brigade, and Xu Shiyou's troops who had previously fought in the local area had also encountered this unit of the Japanese Kou, and they still had a certain understanding of the enemy, plus the enemy did not know as much about the local terrain as the Red Army, and After analysis, General Chen Geng and General Xu Shiyou believed that the possibility of victory in an ambush was still very large.
So the two men went to the enemy's only way to investigate, and finally selected the enemy who was stationed in Wei County at that time as the object of ambush training, and fought the arrogance of the enemy well. The two then decided to set the final ambush in the northwest direction of Xiangcheng Gucun, where the terrain was favorable for concealment and for direct attacks on the enemy.
After all the preparations were completed, Wei Jie, the commander of the 688th Regiment, under the instructions of General Xu Shiyou, went to the predetermined location to carry out an ambush. On February 9, Wei Jie led the warriors to Xiangchenggu, in order to attract the enemy, he also specially tailored the tactics of "night attack" Weixian for them, and the enemies in the city were really deceived and immediately chased out.
Under the command of their superiors, the soldiers of the 688th Regiment pulled away from the enemy for a distance not far away, and the Japanese army followed behind step by step, and soon entered the predetermined encirclement circle; when they reached the vicinity of the south grassland in Xiangchenggu, the soldiers heard the battle signal and immediately opened fire on the enemy, and the Japanese army fell into chaos in an instant, and the little devils crashed into the encirclement like headless flies, and our army launched a crazy strafing, and one of the captains of the Japanese Kou was killed on the spot. Soon the enemy reinforcements arrived, and in order to annihilate more enemies, our army pretended to be invincible, and fought and retreated, and the enemy pursued all the way and fell into the encirclement circle again, and was completely annihilated by our army.
This campaign is a typical case of ambush warfare in the plains of North China, and our army has won more with less, which has verified the correctness of the anti-Japanese guerrilla operation behind the enemy and the ambush operation according to the time and place. After the victory in the battle, he was also praised and commended by Wei Lihuang of the North China Military Region, and Chiang Kai-shek was also full of praise for the victory in this battle, which greatly encouraged the determination of the Chinese military and people to resist the war. In this battle, General Xu Shiyou showed his extraordinary command ability, making people realize that the Eighth Route Army, who was born from the Shaolin warrior monk, not only killed the enemy bravely but also had a considerable degree of combat wisdom.
General Xu Shiyou famously said, "People die like lights out, but the head is killed but the bowl is a big scar."
It also shows his extraordinary courage and determination not to be afraid of death. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when he was the commander of the Jiaodong Military Region, General Xu Shiyou also fought with a bayonet with an officer of the little devil, and General Xu Shiyou did not blink an eye, and he was killed with a knife, and directly hacked the little devil to death. It can be seen that this Shaolin warrior monk has real kung fu on his body, and he must also lament that this Japanese officer's luck is really bad and he picked the wrong person.
Chairman Mao once commented during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that General Xu Shiyou had shouldered half of the anti-Japanese resistance in the Jiaodong region, which was truly remarkable.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, General Xu Shiyou was awarded the rank of general
After serving as commander of the Nanjing Military Region for many years, after being transferred to the Guangzhou Military Region,
He also participated in the command of the counterattack against Vietnam and recreated the battle achievements
。 He was an excellent commanding general of our army and made great contributions to the founding of New China.