During the revolutionary period, Xu Shiyou was wounded seven times because he bravely took the lead in the charge every time, but each time he used his fingers to cut the bullet out of the wound, and then put on some pumpkins to bandage it. You say that if the general were an ordinary man, could he do that?
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xu Shiyou served as the commander of the Nanjing Military Region. Once a Soviet delegation visited Nanjing, and one of them, a Soviet officer who claimed to be a Hercules, had to compete with the general. For this reason, the officer lifted the drum-shaped stone pier in the camp and trembled three times, and everyone present was calmed by his terrifying momentum. Only to see Xu Shiyou smile slightly, raise his arm and lift the stone lion at the entrance of the camp, and also run around the camp. Onlookers were dumbfounded. At this point, everyone finally understood that the title of the general martial arts master was not in vain.
In addition to a martial art, General Xu Shiyou also looked very "frightening", he looked black and bearded, and at first glance he looked like Zhang Fei and Li Kui in history, so the general was also called "Fierce Zhang Fei" and "Live Li Kui".
In the summer of that year, the general inspected the "Good Eighth Company on Nanjing Road", and when he saw that the soldiers were eating pumpkin porridge for lunch, he called the cooking squad leader and asked him: "Are you full of food?" The squad leader replied, "Report chief, eat well." The general grabbed the shovel, stirred it in the pot a few times, and said loudly: "Fart, how can you eat so thin?!" After that, the general went to the company commander and the instructor and said to them: "If the country has difficulties in grain, we must also ensure that the soldiers have enough to eat, otherwise, the soldiers will not be able to stand guard and eat." Smashing pots and selling iron, but also let the warriors eat well and eat well. ”
In 1985, the general died of liver cancer, and he had a wish before his death, that is, to "live loyal to the country and honor his parents when he dies." After being chartered by the central government, Xu Shiyou was the only founding father to take a burial. But at his memorial service, a strange thing happened.
At that time, the farewell ceremony of the general's body was to officially begin at three o'clock in the afternoon, before that, the sky in Nanjing was very clear and cloudless. But just after the farewell ceremony began, the sky, which had been very clear, was suddenly densely clouded, thunder was loud, and torrential rain poured down like a flood. The originally depressing farewell ceremony, accompanied by this heavy rain, added a few sadness. The people who attended the memorial service thought that God was crying for General Xu Shiyou.