In times of peace, we cannot understand people's desire for peace in times of war. Because the years of war and chaos have shocked the whole society. Because of the factors of war, many people may not even be able to figure out their own origins. For example, the Xu Minqing mentioned in this article is an example. He wasn't told his true origins until he was 53: he was the son of a founding father.
Xu Minqing's mother died during the war years. Before his death, his mother told him of his own lineage as a child: that is, your father's name is Xu Jishen, your hometown is Lu'an, Anhui, and your father held the position of regimental commander in the army. Xu Minqing kept all of this in mind. However, because Xu Minqing was too young at the time and fell into a state of injury because of his mother's critical illness, he eventually confused his father's name - he wrote down his father's name as Xu Continued. After all, children often have times when they remember the wrong content. Xu Minqing did not expect that he had misremembered his father's name, which led to many historical misunderstandings.
Because at that time, the Nationalist side had a regimental commander named Xu Continuing. In this way, Xu Minqing unconsciously confessed to his father, and there was a false recognition of the oolong situation.
In the early days of the founding of New China, the issue of a person's origin was of great concern. Especially before the 1980s, whether you were studying at university or joining the army or recruiting workers, you first needed to assess the composition problem. Xu Minqing is considered to be the son of the commander of the Nationalist Army in the archives, so many opportunities of course can not be his turn.
In this way, Xu Minqing lived in a state of unmotivation, until the year he was 53 years old, things changed. It was in 1982, when the relevant departments found Xu Minqing and informed Xu Minqing that in fact, his father was Xu Jishen, and he was a senior general in the Red Army era. In this way, the mystery of Xu Minqing's life was solved.
Xu Minqing's father was Xu Jishen. It is said that Xu Jishen threw himself into the student movement as early as before and after the May Fourth Movement. Before and after the Great Revolution, Xu Jishen joined Mr. Sun's revolutionary army and began to run for the overthrow of the warlords. In order to be able to work in the army, Xu Jishen also studied at the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924 to study military affairs. You know, the first cadets of the Whampoa Military Academy were also enrolled in this year. From this point of view, Xu Jishen hypothesized that he chose to stay in the Nationalist Army that year, and he could also be regarded as one of the elders of the Nationalist Army.
However, Xu Jishen, who pursues progress, certainly does not consider glory and wealth. In this way, Xu Jishen quickly joined the red organization after coming into contact with the red organization.
After graduating from military school, Xu Jishen was promoted to the rank of major in a very short period of time. He also participated in two eastern expeditions by the Guangdong Nationalist Government, which at that time had only one base area, Guangdong, but even so, eastern Guangdong was still under the control of the warlord Chen Jiongming. Chen Jiongming has the support of the British behind him. Although Chen Jiongming's power could not be compared with Zhang Zuolin and Wu Peifu in the north, he was also a very strong opponent for the Nationalist government.
So these two crusades are actually very thrilling. Even Old Chiang was almost captured alive by the enemy during the Crusade. In the midst of the dangerous battles, Xu Jishen turned the tide many times and made important contributions to the favorable development of the war situation.
In July 1926, the Guangdong Nationalist government officially announced a crusade against the three giants of the Beiyang warlords. Xu Jishen served as the battalion commander of Ye Ting's Independent Regiment. In the Northern Expeditionary Army, Ye Ting's independent regiment was one of the most ace troops. Many of the strongholds and strongholds that were difficult to capture were eventually captured by Ye Ting's independent regiment. The battalion under Xu Jishen's management also took part in almost all the important combat tasks undertaken by the Independent Regiment. Because of Xu Jishen's outstanding military achievements, at the end of the year, he was promoted to regimental chief of staff of the 73rd Regiment. In the rank system of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the rank corresponding to this position was about colonel- lieutenant colonel.
In April 1927, the situation suddenly changed, and the Northern Expedition Came to an abrupt end. Zhang Zuolin in the north and Lao Jiang in the south invariably attacked the Red organization. However, at this time, there were conflicts and mutinies within the Kuomintang because of the struggle for power and power - for example, Lao Jiang and Lao Wang both wanted to be the boss, so the two sides needed to win people and horses. Lao Wang knew that Xu Jishen was a talent, so he co-opted Xu Jishen, saying that as long as Xu Jishen was willing to mix with himself, he would immediately appoint Xu Jishen as a division commander. The rank is also major general.
Of course, Xu Jishen's participation in the revolution was not for the sake of glory and wealth, so he resolutely refused Lao Wang's solicitation. After the period of the agrarian revolution, Xu Jishen was ordered to go to Eyuwan to lead the Red Army in a military struggle.
Speaking of Eyuwan, during the agrarian revolution, this was the second largest base area after the Central Soviet Region. Even Ruijin had an idea: that is, to link the Central Soviet Region with the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region through armed struggle, but due to geographical factors and objectively speaking, Lao Jiang's military strength did have a little advantage, so this plan did not succeed.
In fact, among the three main forces of the Red Army, the Central Red Army was stationed in the Central Soviet Region, and the Four Fronts Army was located in the Eyu-Anhui region. The importance of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region also made it necessary for the central authorities to consider sending some generals with strong ability to carry out construction.
Of course, while attacking the Central Soviet Region, Lao Jiang also sent troops to attack the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region many times. Xu Jishen made many immortal achievements in resisting the enemy's encirclement and suppression of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet region. The most representative of these is the situation in February 1931. At that time, Lao Jiang dispatched a large number of troops to attack Eyuwan. Xu Jishen was then the commander of the 11th Division. He was ordered to resist Lao Jiang's attack. At that time, Xu Jishen's first opponent was the 1st Brigade of the 12th Division of the Nationalist Army. Although Xu Jishen's one division dealt with one brigade of the Nationalist army, it sounded like Xu Jishen had an advantage. But this is not the case. Because the strength of a division of the Red Army is actually only a few thousand. The strength of a brigade of the Nationalist army is also about this number. The most important thing is that the weapons on the old Chiang side are better than those of the Red Army, so Xu Jishen is under great pressure. However, Xu Jishen still snatched a large amount of military materials from the enemy through the means of surprise attack, and then reduced the enemy to pieces, and eliminated a large number of enemies through mobile warfare. And on March 9, he and other Red Army troops attacked a division of the Nationalist army, capturing more than 5,000 enemy troops and achieving a great victory.
As a result, the encirclement and suppression of Lao Jiang was not successful, and the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Area was expanded. However, at the end of the year, Xu Jishen sacrificed.
When Xu Jishen was killed, his wife was not with him because of the war, and she did not understand her husband's position, and only thought that her husband was still the regimental commander. Therefore, I told Xu Minqing: Your father is the regiment leader.
Military enthusiasts believe that if Xu Jishen lived to 1955, with his seniority and ability, he would have been awarded the rank of general.