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During the Red Army period, General Wang Jian'an and General Xu Shiyou were close comrades-in-arms, and they were both well-known generals of the Red Fourth Front. Under the leadership of Xu Shuai, General Xu Shiyou and General Wang Jian'an participated in the jute uprising, and the Eyu-Anhui Su District and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Su District all counter-"encircled and suppressed" all of them were Xu Shuai's beloved generals.
In the bloody storm, General Wang Jian'an and General Xu Shiyou wrote an immortal history with one article and one weapon. In the years of the beacon fire, they faced the rampant enemy and silently dedicated their lives in order to break the shackles of the old society and liberate the toiling masses.
In the anti-"six-way siege" in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region, General Xu Shiyou had already served as the deputy commander of the Red Ninth Army, leading his troops to defend Wanyuan City. At this time, the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang gathered fifty regiments in a vain attempt to break through the positions of the Red Ninth Army. General Xu Shiyou ordered his troops to counterattack, and he took the lead in rushing down with a large knife, killing more than a dozen enemies at once.
Under the bloody battle of the officers and men of the Red Ninth Army, the enemy's attack was repelled, and General Xu Shiyou squeezed his waist, looked at the dense enemy corpses under the position, and celebrated the victory with the soldiers. At this time, General Wang Jian'an was also shouldering heavy responsibilities, and at this time he was the political commissar of the Eighty-eighth Division of the Red Thirty-Eighth Army, and commanded the Eighty-eighth Division to fight and attack the enemy with the sacrifice of Wang Lieshan, the commander of the Eighty-eighth Division.
Comparing the experiences of General Wang Jian'an and General Xu Shiyou, during the Red Army period, General Wang Jian'an held more of the position of political commissar, while General Xu Shiyou held the position of commander. After the Red Fourth Front arrived in Yan'an in victory and met with the main Red Army, General Xu Shiyou and General Wang Jian'an and other famous generals of the Red Fourth Front entered the Kang Da to study.
In March 1937, the wave of "approval of Zhang" arose, and some comrades also involved the generals of the Red Fourth Front. When General Xu Shiyou heard the words of these comrades, he immediately jumped like a thunderbolt, and he said: "If you have something to say, just say it, point at the bald man and scold the bald head, what a good man!" ”
General Xu Shiyou had a straight personality and could not tolerate sand in his eyes, but as soon as his words came out, he attracted more criticism and was accused by the comrades present of "wearing panties." General Xu Shiyou was angry, vomited blood, and was rushed to the hospital for treatment. In his hospital bed, General Xu Shiyou felt that he had been wronged, and he wanted to be angry here, so he might as well go back to Sichuan to fight guerrillas.
General Xu Shiyou said that he would do it, and immediately contacted other generals of the Red Fourth Front Army of the Anti-Japanese War, and everyone discussed going back to Sichuan to fight guerrillas together. On April 4, when it was agreed to leave, there was still a change, and it turned out that someone had "informed". General Wang Jian'an, a political commissar by birth, was highly principled, and after agreeing to return to Sichuan, he thought that this was a wrong behavior, and he lost his way and chose to report it to the Anti-Japanese Defense Department.
Soon after, General Xu Shiyou and other Red Fourth Front generals who were preparing to leave were imprisoned in cave dwellings. General Xu Shiyou was extremely dissatisfied with General Wang Jian'an's "whistle-blowing" behavior and scolded General Wang Jian'an. General Xu Shiyou did not admit his mistake, and he practiced martial arts every day in the cave, waiting for his superiors to give him a grievance.
The news reached the great man, who heard that some of the generals of the Red Fourth Front had been imprisoned by the Anti-Great Defense Office. He calmly looked at this issue, believing that the generals of the Red Fourth Front were right, and released General Xu Shiyou and others. The great man himself went to the cave, met General Xu Shiyou, and bowed to the imprisoned red fourth front officers to apologize.
The great man's broad mind touched General Xu Shiyou, and he admired this chief from the bottom of his heart. Soon after, General Xu Shiyou took the initiative to ask for orders to go to the front line of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in North China to participate in the war. His superiors eventually appointed him as deputy brigade commander of the 386th Brigade, fighting with General Chen Geng on the anti-Japanese front.
Later, General Xu Shiyou led his troops into Shandong and created the Jiaodong Anti-Japanese Base Area. Dramatically, at this time, General Wang Jian'an was also in Shandong, leading the army and people of Luzhong and waging a resolute struggle against the Japanese Kou. The two generals were famous generals in hundreds of battles, and they actively created anti-Japanese base areas, seized bunkers, ambushed the Japanese puppet army, and beat the Japanese Kou to the urine stream.
As the merits of the two generals in the anti-Japanese battlefield in Shandong became more and more important, the soldiers and civilians of the Shandong Anti-Japanese War called them "Shandong Shuangxiong". The great man knew that the problems between the two could affect the work, so he set up a bureau for the two famous anti-Japanese generals to reconcile on their own. In August 1948, General Su Yu was ordered to command the battle to liberate Jinan, and the Shandong Corps was responsible for siege operations.
At this time, General Xu Shiyou served as the commander of the Shandong Corps, and in order to successfully liberate the city of Jinan, his superiors appointed General Wang Jian'an as the deputy commander of the Shandong Corps. General Wang Jian'an rushed from Xibaipo to the Tai'an Headquarters of the Shandong Corps to meet with General Xu Shiyou.
General Xu Shiyou was recuperating at this time, and when he heard that his superiors had appointed him as the commander of the siege to liberate Jinan, he immediately rushed to the headquarters of the Tai'an Corps. After General Xu Shiyou arrived at the front, the great man immediately sent a telegram saying, "You have arrived at the front, and you are very relieved." ”
General Xu Shiyou saw the kind words of the great man and said to his subordinates: "This is a great trust in me!" We must capture the city of Jinan. After General Xu Shiyou learned that his deputy was General Wang Jian'an, he also let go of his past grievances. He took out his salary and asked his wife to prepare a simple banquet for General Wang Jian'an.
Although the banquet is simple, the aroma of wine is pervasive, and the aroma of Shandong sorghum wine wafts everywhere. After General Wang Jian'an arrived, General Xu Shiyou was already waiting for him, and the two looked at each other without words. General Wang Jian'an looked a little cramped, but General Xu Shiyou opened the conversation box first. At the wine table, Xu Shiyou raised his glass and said to General Wang Jian'an: "Lao Wang, since Yan'an, this is the first time we have drunk wine. Let the past pass, and no one should mention it again. Come, I'll do it first. ”
When General Wang Jian'an saw the heroic General Xu Shiyou, he immediately raised the wine glass in his hand and drank the wine out of the cup. General Wang Jian'an responded with a smile: "Old Xu, when we conquer Jinan City, I invite you, let's drink it again." In this way, the two revolutionary comrades shook hands and made peace, and began to actively prepare for the siege of Jinan, and the years of grievances were written off.
On September 16, 1948, the Battle of Jinan was officially launched, under the command of General Xu Shiyou, General Tan Zhenlin and General Wang Jian'an, 140,000 soldiers of the Shandong Corps fought bravely to liberate Jinan City in eight days. As the political commissar of the Shandong Corps, General Tan Zhenlin recalled in his later years: "Two tigers, one is Lianpo and the other is Lin Xiangru, and the superiors let them fight Jinan, and staged a general harmony under the city of Jinan." "The analogy of General Tan Zhenlin can be described as apt, and the wisdom of the great man is impressive.