When it comes to the founding general Xu Shiyou, almost everyone knows. He had three marriages in his life, the first two of which were unsatisfactory. In 1924, 19-year-old Xu Shiyou, under the arrangement of his mother, married a woman named Zhu Ximing in a neighboring village. Zhu Ximing is three years older than Xu Shiyou, very virtuous, and keeps the family in good order. Three years later, Xu Shiyou joined the Red Army and followed the troops everywhere to fight, and the husband and wife gathered less and left more.
In late July 1932, old Chiang mobilized 300,000 troops to launch a fierce attack on the Eyu-Anhui Soviet region, and because the enemy was outnumbered, the Red Army could not repel the enemy's attack for more than two months and was forced to move to the Sichuan-Shaanxi area. After the fall of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Area, the enemy burned and plundered everywhere and forced the female family members of the Red Army to remarry. Xu Shiyou's hometown of Xu Jiawa was also affected, and his fourth brother Xu Shisheng and his wife Zhu Ximin were arrested by the reactionary vigilante group. Soon after, Xu Shisheng was brutally killed by the enemy, and Zhu Ximin was forced to remarry.
Due to the chaos of the war and the lack of information, Xu Shiyou mistakenly believed that his wife Zhu Ximing had been killed with his brother, and he was sad for a long time. Political commissar Wang Jian'an saw that Xu Shiyou was in a depressed mood and that there was no one to take care of his life, so he introduced him to an object, the woman's name was Lei Mingzhen, who was serving as the county magistrate in Daxian County at that time. Xu Shiyou is no stranger to Lei Mingzhen, when the Red Army was fighting local tycoons in Daxian County, he met with Lei Mingzhen many times because of his work relationship, and lei Mingzhen, who was spicy and capable, left a deep impression on him.
At that time, Xu Shiyou was famous in the four reds, so Lei Mingzhen was also willing to associate with Xu Shiyou, and personally knitted a sweater and gave it to Xu Shiyou as a promise of love. In October 1934, Xu Shiyou and Lei Mingzhen married. At the wedding, Chen Xilian and Chen Zaidao and others quipped to Xu Shiyou: "Commander, monks can please wives, why can't we ordinary people?" Xu Shiyou was very proud and joked: "Who told you to make slow progress?" If you fight a good war and become a military commander, can't you get married? ”
In late June 1935, the Red I and Red Iv Fronts met at Maogong. At that time, after a hard battle, the Red Army had been sharply reduced from more than 80,000 people at the time of departure to more than 10,000 people, while the Red 4 had nearly 100,000 people, and the soldiers were strong. Zhang Guotao's ambitions swelled, and he began to constantly demand power, and after becoming the general political commissar of the Red Army, he was still not satisfied, and he insisted on going south. In the end, the main force of the Red Army went north, and the main force of the Red Fourth army went south. At the beginning of the south, the red four consecutive battles won consecutive victories, and Zhang Guotao once shouted out the slogan of "fighting to Chengdu and eating rice".
Soon after, the main force of the Red Fourth lost in the decisive battle of Baizhangguan, suffered heavy losses, and was forced to move north. Xu Shiyou followed the troops to Yan'an and entered the Kang Da study, Lei Mingzhen was assigned to Yan'an County to work as a woman, although they could not see each other often, but both of them were always worried about each other. Soon after, the "Approval Movement" was also launched in the Anti-Japanese War, and some of the Red Four soldiers were also affected. Xu Shiyou couldn't think straight for a moment, so he contacted more than a dozen people to prepare to leave Yan'an and return to Daba Mountain to fight guerrillas.
The matter was quickly reported to his superiors, and Xu Shiyou was imprisoned. At that time, this was a very serious matter, and Xu Shiyou was once prepared for the worst. Due to his depressed mood, Xu Shiyou very much wanted to see his wife Lei Mingzhen, hoping to get a few words of relief from her. Unexpectedly, Lei Mingzhen never came to see Xu Shiyou, but only entrusted someone to bring him a package and a letter. The contents of the letter made Xu Shiyou very sad: "In order to protect the purity of the revolution, we have cut off our affairs once and for all, and I firmly demand a divorce!" Please sign! Lei Mingzhen".
Xu Shiyou opened the package with his hands in a hurry, only to see that the sweater of the promise had been cut to pieces. Lei Mingzhen's move was equivalent to sprinkling another handful of salt on Xu Shiyou's wound, he borrowed a pen, and on Lei Mingzhen's letter requesting divorce, he forcefully wrote down the 4 words of "resolute divorce" and signed his name. Soon after, Xu Shiyou's affairs were properly resolved, and he was appointed by his superiors as the deputy brigade commander of the 386 brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
At that time, the Eighth Route Army had only three divisions and six brigades, and the deputy brigade commander was already a very high position. After Lei Mingzhen learned of this news, she regretted her impulse very much, and she confessed her mistake to Xu Shiyou many times and hoped to remarry, but xu Shiyou refused. Soon after Xu Shiyou came to the Taihang Mountains, Lei Mingzhen chased after him and asked Chen Geng to help him. As early as the Red Army period, Chen Geng was Xu Shiyou's superior, when he was the commander of the Red 12th Division, and Xu Shiyou was the commander of the 34th Regiment. Now Chen Geng is the brigade commander of the 386 brigade, and Xu Shiyou is the deputy brigade commander, still his subordinate.
Lei Mingzhen knew that Chen Geng was a warm-hearted person, so he asked him to help him say good things for himself, but no matter how Chen Geng persuaded, Xu Shiyou just would not agree to remarry. In the end, Chen Geng locked Xu Shiyou and Lei Mingzhen in a small room, hoping that the two could have a good talk. Unexpectedly, Xu Shiyou was not willing to talk to Lei Mingzhen at all, and actually broke through the door. When Xu Shiyou was killed, Lei Mingzhen not only did not come to visit, but also personally cut the sweater of the promise, which made Xu Shiyou heartbroken. Therefore, no matter how others persuaded him, he just refused to forgive Lei Mingzhen. Soon after, Lei Mingzhen married the director of an arsenal in Lüliang, and Xu Shiyou married his third wife Tian Pu in Shandong.