Founding General Xu Shiyou, married three times in his life!
Xu Shiyou's wife is named "Zhu Ximing", and Xu Shiyou is a fellow villager, born in 1901, four years older than Xu Shiyou. The marriage between the two of them was not free love, but was completely arranged by the mother.
After ending his miscellaneous service career at the Shaolin Temple, Xu Shiyou returned to his hometown in Macheng County, Hubei Province, and served as the leader of the peasant volunteer brigade and the captain of the artillery brigade in the peasant movement led by our party.
As the saying goes, "a man should marry, a woman should marry", Xu Shiyou's mother saw that her son had grown up, so she hurried to marry a daughter-in-law for her son.
In fact, Xu Shiyou at that time was not yet 20 years old, and according to the current point of view, he had not yet reached the "legal age of marriage"! However, as a well-known filial piety in the ten miles and eight townships, Xu Shiyou did not dare to go against his mother's wishes, so he had to agree to this family affair.
In the spring of 1924, Xu Shiyou officially married Zhu Ximing back home. However, three days later, Xu Shiyou received a battle order from his superiors, and Xu Shiyou had to bid farewell to his mother and new wife and lead his troops to the battlefield.
Figure | Admiral Xu Shiyou
In that glorious years of smoke and smoke, the fate of Xu Shiyou and Zhu Ximing, a newly formed family, was destined to be bumpy and bumpy! They had three sons, but the first two died shortly after birth.
When the third child was born, Xu Shiyou was fighting with the enemy on the battlefield, and later he had just met him, and because of the tension of the war, he had to lead his troops to a farther battlefield.
When the child grew to three years old, Xu Shiyou's mother and wife Zhu Ximing were looking forward to Xu Shiyou going home to name the child, but as time passed, they could not wait for Xu Shiyou's figure.
In that era of war and chaos, Xu Mu did not know whether her son was still alive in the world!
The flowers blossom and fall, spring goes to spring, and Xu Mu, who has waited day after day, has never heard of her son. Later, the hometown also said that Xu Shiyou died in a battle.
Although Xu Mu did not want to believe these gossip, she could not wait for her son's news for a long time, which gradually made her believe all this. Therefore, in order not to let the daughter-in-law stay alone in the empty house, Xu Mu, who knew the great righteousness, took it upon herself to find an honest man named "Xia Changwen" for her daughter-in-law.
After Zhu Ximing remarried, he never had a child again, and usually returned to Xu Mu when there was nothing to do, to help do some housework and take care of his life.
Soon after Xu Shiyou followed the troops on the expedition, he heard rumors that the reactionary forces had carried out crazy revenge on the revolutionary family, his mother was forced to flee from home, her life and death were unknown, and her wife and son were unfortunately killed.
Due to the misheard the rumors, Xu Shiyou later re-established a family!
But in fact, Zhu Ximing was not killed, but took the child with Xu's mother and Xu Shiyou's sister, uprooted from home and wandered around.
During the exile, Xu's mother unfortunately fell ill, the little sister and the child were still young, the family was not clothed, hungry, and life was extremely difficult. At this time, Zhu Ximing has become the pillar of the family.
In order to solve the problem of food and clothing, Zhu Ximing tried all kinds of methods, and even ran to the mass grave to pick up the clothes of the dead, and came back to make shoes and socks to change grain, which saved the life of the family.
After liberation, Xu Shiyou took his mother to Jinan to live, Xu Mother would tell her son from time to time how good her daughter-in-law Zhu Ximing was and how filial piety she was, Xu Shiyou listened to it, and often sighed, perhaps in his heart, he did indeed owe his wife.
Xu Shiyou's second wife was named "Lei Mingzhen", a native of Daxian County, Sichuan, a female Red Army soldier who had participated in the Long March, who was studious and enterprising, bold and bold, and after the Red Army's Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, she was assigned by the Central Organization Department to Yan'an County as a women's minister, saying that she was a "female hero", which is not an exaggeration.
Soon after Xu Shiyou arrived in Yan'an, he was deeply attracted by this enthusiastic woman and soon fell in love. Finally, with the mediation of some comrades-in-arms, the two finally knew and fell in love with each other and held a wedding in Yan'an!
Zhu Ximing is different from Lei Mingzhen, Xu Shiyou and Zhu Ximing had no emotional basis before marriage, but marrying Lei Mingzhen is completely the result of mutual admiration, and the two respect each other after marriage and have deep feelings.
Later, after Xu Shiyou was transferred to the cavalry commander of the Red Fourth Front, he was ordered to collect a large number of cattle and sheep for the troops to eat, and the careful Lei Mingzhen collected the wool discarded by the troops after slaughtering the sheep, rolled them into wool, and knitted the first sweater in xu Shiyou's life.
However, the weather is unpredictable! What people never expected was that the marriage between Xu Shiyou and Lei Mingzhen was actually broken because Xu Shiyou declared itself in the liquidation of "Zhang Guotao's wrong route".
What's going on here?
It was one day in March 1937, after Yan'an received the news of the defeat of the Western Route Army, many of the cadets of the Red Fourth Front army in the Anti-Japanese War were deeply saddened by this, and Xu Shiyou was even more distressed.
Soon after, the Politburo convened an enlarged meeting (known in history as the "Yan'an Conference"), the second item on which was devoted to Discussing Zhang Guotao's mistakes.
At the meeting, Zhang himself first did the examination. Although Zhang listed the serious mistakes he had made in his inspection, when he analyzed the reasons for his mistakes, he believed that they were "due to insufficient estimation of the political situation and neglect of the party's leadership." In addition, during the inspection, he vigorously defended some specific erroneous facts.
Therefore, after Zhang's examination, the participants began to speak one after another, exposing the mistakes of his separatism and warlordism with a large number of facts, and pointing out the harm caused to the Party and the Red Army by his mistakes.
Due to the expansion of the struggle of "approving Zhang", Xu Shiyou felt very aggrieved, "There is no grandfather here, there is a place to stay for the grandfather, let's go!" ”
Xu Shiyou, who was not politically mature enough at that time, finally had the idea of quietly leading his old subordinates back to Sichuan to fight guerrillas, and also began to make secret preparations.
As a result, after the "East Window Incident" was known to Wang Jian'an, the director of the Anti-Japanese Defense Department, he made a report to his superiors, and Xu Shiyou and more than a dozen senior generals of the Red Fourth Front Were imprisoned and also put on a series of "crimes."
At this time, Xu Shiyou can be said to have fallen to the extreme, but these are nothing, because he always firmly believes that the party will definitely give him a chance and return his innocence.
But he felt that he owed his wife Lei Mingzhen, so he asked someone to carry a message, hoping to come and meet him, and he wanted to apologize for not being able to grow old with her.
As a result, Xu Shiyou finally failed to wait for the wife he thought about day and night, but a "broken book"!
In order to draw a clear line with Xu Shiyou, Lei Mingzhen brought Xu Shiyou a note that read: "Xu Shiyou I hate you!" I will never love a counter-revolutionary! In order to preserve the purity of the revolution, we cut off our affairs in two, and I resolutely demand a divorce! Please sign! ”
After Xu Shiyou saw it, he was furious and immediately wrote on the note: "Resolutely divorce!" Xu Shiyou! ”
Later, under chairman Mao's personal interrogation, Xu Shiyou's grievances and mistakes were finally properly resolved. After that, Lei Mingzhen regretted his impulsiveness, so he confessed his mistake to Xu Shiyou many times and hoped to remarry, but Xu Shiyou did not agree from beginning to end.
At that time, some people took the initiative to find Xu Shiyou, hoping that they could break the mirror and reunite, but they were rejected by Xu Shiyou, who said: "I must not forgive Lei Mingzhen!" When her husband was wronged, she not only did not feel sympathetic, but instead kicked off, and even threw stones on her husband's head, how can I continue to live with her? No one can persuade them! ”
In August 1937, after the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, Xu Shiyou followed Commander-in-Chief Zhu De to the Taihang Mountains, and Lei Mingzhen also "chased" all the way.
After Lei Mingzhen arrived at the Taihang Mountain, the chiefs all knew her thoughts, so they talked to Xu Shiyou one after another, hoping that he could forgive Lei Mingzhen, but Xu Shiyou was still stubborn.
In the end, Chen Geng and Chen Xilian even asked the guards to lock Xu Shiyou and Lei Mingzhen in a room and forced the two of them to meet and explain the matter clearly.
But Xu Shiyou did not appreciate it, smashed the door with one slap, and flew away, and he also shouted to Chen Geng: "Bondage is not a husband and wife." I am your soldier, I will listen to you for other things, this thing, it will not be done! "It made Chen Geng look helpless!"
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xu Shiyou became a founding general, and Lei Mingzhen went to work in a factory and is said to have married the director of the factory. Decades after the two divorced, Lei Mingzhen suddenly wrote a letter to Xu Shiyou, who begged him to do things as his former wife.
Lei Mingzhen hopes that Xu Shiyou can help her children enter the army as soldiers!
After receiving Lei Mingzhen's letter, Xu Shiyou said eight words lightly: "It is natural for the son to inherit the father's business." Finally, he personally approved it and gave Lei Mingzhen's children some opportunities. Finally, after passing the test of the troops, Lei Mingzhen's children finally put on military uniforms.
The general has experienced hundreds of battles and iron bones in his life, which has made countless enemies feel frightened, but in this matter, the general has shown some tenderness, and is indeed a person who cherishes love and righteousness.
Xu Shiyou's third wife, tianpu, was born in 1922 in Laiyang, Shandong Province, 17 years younger than Xu Shiyou.
In early 1941, Xu Shiyou began to lead the Independent Regiment of the Qinghe Military Region into Jiaodong and fought in Shandong for sixteen years.
No woman can't make a family! Xu Shiyou, who has been divorced for several years, leads soldiers to fight all day, and his life has become more and more casual because he has no one to take care of him. Seeing that Commander Xu worked for the military all day and there was no one around to take care of him, the comrades-in-arms were very distressed to see it.
Therefore, his logistics minister Gao Dashan took it upon himself to find a handsome girl for him in the tannery in the base area, "Tian Minglan" (later renamed Tian Pu).
In the spring of 1943, Xu Shiyou and Tian Pu were officially married. Because they were in the most difficult years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the wedding of the two was very simple, a bag of sweet candy, a cup of tea, and a group of comrades who lived and died together.
The two are still a typical "flash marriage", in the words of Xu Shiyou: "Meet each other and ask each other whether they agree or disagree, both sides agree, get married in 5 minutes, and be happy and crisp." ”
However, like his wife Zhu Ximing, Xu Shiyou and Tian Pu were in a hurry to fight a war on the front line a few days after their marriage.
Tian Pu and the general have been together for more than forty years after marriage, have two sons and four daughters, and are really white-headed and old. Xu Shiyou lamented many times before his death: "Tian Pu is my faithful partner in life", and said that he will be a partner again in the next life.
In summary, it is the three legendary marriages of the founding general Xu Shiyou!