General Xu Shiyou is a legendary hero, his sentence: "Before he died, he was loyal to the country, and after his death, he was filial to his mother." "Show the pride of the Chinese bloody boy, and the general's life has three marriages, and each marriage has some legendary things...
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Xu Shiyou was born on February 28, 1905 in Xujiawa, Macheng County, Hubei Province (present-day Xuwa, Xinxian County, Henan Province) to a poor peasant family, and his father died when he was young, and in such turbulent times, a single mother raised several children alone, and the hardships were self-evident.
General Xu Shiyou
Due to the poverty of his family, when Xu Shiyou was eight years old, he left his mother and went to the Shaolin Temple in Songshan To learn the art of learning martial arts for eight years, learning a good skill of flying cornices and walking on the wall.
However, just when he returned to his hometown to visit his relatives after completing his studies, he accidentally killed the landlord Evil Shao, who was bullying people, and the landlord colluded with local government officials to arrest him everywhere, and Xu Shiyou had to abandon his home and leave the temple and wander around in his hometown.
He later joined the army of the warlord Wu Peifu and joined the Communist Youth League of China in September 1926, when Xu Shiyou left the army and returned to his hometown.
Shortly after returning home, the mother saw her son grow up. As the saying goes: "Men should marry, women should marry." So he went around asking his relatives and friends to pay respects to Zhang Luo.
Soon, her mother found a neighboring village woman named Zhu Ximing for Xu Shiyou. Born in 1901, he is 4 years older than Xu Shiyou.
She is hardworking, dutiful, and a member of the village Women's Rescue Association. Xu Shiyou is a great filial piety, coupled with the early death of his father, he is very filial to his mother. Since his mother had a crush on this girl, Xu Shiyou obeyed his mother's orders and followed her mother.
In the spring of 1924, on a bright spring day, under the control of his mother, Xu Shiyou hired a flower palanquin and a few drummers to marry Zhu Ximing back home. After marriage, the two young people have a strong relationship and live a harmonious and happy life.
Xu Shiyou's mother
However, Xu Shiyou and Zhu Ximing only spent three days like honey before receiving the battle order.
So he bid farewell to his mother and his newlywed wife, and Xu Shiyou led his troops into battle. Her mother and Xi Ming were at home before making military shoes, and sometimes joined the laundry team to the front line to comfort. In those years of smoke and smoke, Xi Ming could only occasionally reunite with her husband in the middle of the night.
Zhu Ximing and Xu Shiyou had three boys, all of whom were called "Black Men", and the first two died prematurely. After giving birth to the third boy, Xu Shiyou only saw one side, and then faced the sound of gunfire, led his troops to evacuate the Eyu-Anhui base area and turn into a distant battlefield. Since then, there has been no news.
The child has grown to 3 years old and has no name, and Xu Mu and Zhu Ximing are looking forward to Xu Shiyou going home to give the child a name. However, as the days passed, I could not wait for Xu Shiyou's figure.
The soldiers are in chaos and the war is raging. Xu's mother also did not know whether her son was still alive in the world, listening to the shouts of her grandson, often facing her daughter-in-law's four eyes, speechless and condensed. The flowers fell and blossomed, the grass withered and prospered, and Xu Shiyou still had no news. The bold Mother Xu finally gritted her teeth and took it upon herself to find an honest farmer, Xia Changwen, for her daughter-in-law. After being persuaded by people to go left and right, Zhu Ximing obeyed Xu Mu and left his grandson to spend a hard time with his grandmother.
After Zhu Ximing remarried, he did not have any more children, and he often returned to Xu Mu's side when there was nothing to do, chatted with Xu Mu, and helped do some housework. More than a dozen spring, summer, autumn and winter passed, and the black man grew into a teenage boy. Xu Mu's hair was all white, and she no longer looked forward to her son, when he died.
But at this moment, the whole country was liberated, Xu Shiyou's name was published in the newspaper, he became a high official, and he was the commander of the Shandong Military Region.
When Zhu Ximing learned that Xu Shiyou was still alive, he was both happy and sad. Happily, the relatives I miss deeply are still alive in this world, and I am sad that I have another belonging. Before that, Xu Shiyou misheard the rumors and thought that Xi Ming was dead and had re-formed a family.
After liberation, Xu Shiyou took his mother to live in Jinan, and when the mother and son were together, the mother often told her son how good and filial piety her daughter-in-law Zhu Ximing was.
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Soon after Xu Shiyou set out on the expedition, he heard a legend that due to the frenzied retaliation of the Kuomintang troops and local reactionary forces, the Humane Burning and Looting of the Soviet Area was carried out, and his mother and little sister fled home, their fate was unknown, and their wives and sons were unfortunately killed.
General Xu Shiyou and Chairman Mao
In those days, soldiers were in chaos. General Xu Shiyou could not verify the authenticity of the information, and with the development of the revolution, Xu Shiyou led his troops away from his hometown.
With the failure of the fifth "anti-encirclement and suppression" campaign, the Red Army embarked on the Road of the Long March. During the Long March, Xu Shiyou met his second wife, Lei Mingzhen.
Shortly after the end of the Long March, Xu Shiyou arrived in Yan'an. Through the mediation, the two went from acquaintance to Long March Road, from acquaintance to love, and soon held a wedding in Yan'an.
After marriage, the two of you respect and love each other, respect each other as guests. 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. The attentive Lei Mingzhen collected the wool, seized the time to rub it into a woolen thread, and knitted the first sweater of his life for Xu Shiyou.
However, after the news of the fiasco of the "West Route Army" reached Yan'an, a storm broke out in Yan'an, and the two's originally happy marriage finally ended in tragedy.
In the subsequent "Criticism Movement", due to the ultra-left approach adopted, many officers and men of the former Red Fourth Front were implicated, which aroused strong dissatisfaction among the officers and men of the former Red Fourth Front.
Xu Shiyou was the first to stand up and contact some high- and middle-ranking commanders of the former Red Fourth Front, who were studying at the Red University, and prepared to return to DabaShan to fight guerrillas. After the matter was leaked, Xu Shiyou was imprisoned.
In March 1937, the expansion of the "criticism of Zhang" struggle made Xu Shiyou feel aggrieved. A few days later, Xu Shiyou, who was not yet politically mature enough, had the idea of quietly taking the old troops back to Sichuan to fight guerrillas, and began secret preparations.
When Wang Jian'an, the director of the Anti-Japanese War Department, learned of this incident, he made a report upwards, which caused a shock to Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. Xu Shiyou and more than 10 senior generals of the Red Fourth Front were imprisoned.
At that time, Xu Shiyou felt that he had run into a catastrophe, and he could not speak clearly about anyone, so he regarded everything as very dark. In the midst of the disaster, Xu Shiyou missed his wife even more. He asked his classmates to convey ideas to his wife, hoping to meet them.
After that, Xu Shiyou looked forward to it day by day. But half a month has passed, and I have not yet seen my wife who thinks about it day and night.
I don't know how many days later, the classmates of Kang Da brought a message to Xu Shiyou: "Lei Mingzhen has been promoted to the minister of father and daughter of Yan'an County, she handed me a package and a letter, let me forward it to you!" With that, he handed the letter and package to Xu Shiyou.
After Xu Shiyou opened the letter, he said that he wanted to divorce Xu Shiyou and asked him to sign it.
After Xu Shiyou saw it, he was furious and immediately wrote on the note: "Resolutely divorce!" Xu Shiyou. ”
Later, with mao Zedong's personal intervention, the expansion of the "approval of Zhang" was corrected, and Xu Shiyou survived and re-led his troops to fight.
Lei Mingzhen regretted his momentary impulses. Many times he wrote to Xu Shiyou to confess his mistake and asked for remarriage, but Xu Shiyou refused.
General Xu Shiyou and his son
When Xu Shiyou went up the Taihang Mountains with Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, Lei Mingzhen took the initiative to ask to go to the anti-Japanese front and went to the Taihang Mountains together, Chen Geng and Chen Xilian locked Xu Shiyou and Lei Mingzhen in a room, hoping that they would have a good talk and communicate and understand, but Xu Shiyou broke through the door and went away.
And so the two men's short marriage ended...
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In the spring of 1941, at the age of 36, Xu Shiyou led the Independent Regiment of the Qinghe Military Region into Jiaodong. At that time, Xu Shiyou had already experienced two marriages, and he was busy leading soldiers to fight all day, and there was no one to take care of his life.
The comrades around him were also very anxious, so they helped him find several good candidates.
At that time, there were several girls working in the tannery in the base area, and when the subordinate asked Xu Shiyou to go to the photo, he glanced at one of the girls. Embarrassed Xu Shiyou said directly: "Just her!" It can be said that Xu Shiyou fell in love with this girl at first sight, and the girl who was photographed was Tian Pu.
Subsequently, under the guidance of colleagues, Xu Shiyou and Tian Pu were together. After the promise, the skillful Tian Pu made a pair of "pro-army shoes" for Xu Shiyou, and Xu Shiyou also gave the girl a bullet. Although Xu Shiyou looks like a big old man, his heart is still very delicate.
Xu Shiyou said: "I have nothing, only this small warhead, to give you as a souvenir." This was the time of the Wanyuan Defense War, the enemy hit me in the shoulder, I used the tip of the knife to cut through the skin and flesh to cut it out, so many years, has been with me. ”
General Xu Shiyou's family photo
After that, Tian Pu learned about Xu Shiyou's relevant deeds from the mouths of others, and also understood Xu Shiyou more deeply, and accepted him in his heart. After the two spent two years together, Tian Pu truly understood Xu Shiyou as a person, admired him very much, and his feelings became deeper.
After two years of contact, in 1943, Xu Shiyou and Tian Pu were successfully married. The wedding ceremony was very simple, there were no firecrackers, no feasts, only a bag of sweets, a cup of ordinary tea, and the soldiers who were born and died with Xu Shiyou. Although the wedding was very simple, it was memorable.
On the occasion of the new marriage, Xu Shiyou was very excited after drinking a few drinks. The comrades around him all know that General Xu Shiyou is "pregnant with absolute learning", and at the invitation of his comrades-in-arms, Xu Shiyou performed a shaolin kung fu for everyone on the spot.
However, the comrades attending the wedding were not satisfied, so they asked Xu Shiyou to show his marksmanship. Xu Shiyou chose the venue outside the door and let his wife Tian Pu serve as his assistant.
Xu Shiyou walked over to his wife and said with a smile, "Oda, come and be my assistant!" ”
Speaking, Xu Shiyou divided the flowers offered by the guests into three bouquets, placed them on the bride's shoulders and the top of his head, and comforted the bride: "Don't be afraid, don't move, let's open our eyes for the guests and help them have fun." ”
Tian Pu, who knew her husband very well, smiled and nodded. At this time, Xu Shiyou hurriedly left the bride five or six steps away, took out the shell gun and pointed it at the bride, with the three gunshots of "ding, ding, ding", the flowers had fallen from the top of the bride's head and shoulders, and everyone present clapped their hands and shouted to impress everyone.
General Xu Shiyou and colleagues
Performing a gun to beat the bride at a wedding, I am afraid there are very few in this world. This unique wedding, how many years have passed, people are still talking about it.
During the Liberation War, Tian Pu served as Xu Shiyou's life secretary. Xu Shiyou moved to various places, and the two were separated for many years, until after the founding of New China, Xu Shiyou became the commander of the Shandong Military Region, and the two were reunited.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, in 1953, Xu Shiyou was ordered by Mao Zedong to fight in Korea. When she was about to give birth, Tian Pu was about to give birth, but she did not complain, but asked her husband to choose a name for the child to be born.
Xu Shiyou said boldly that the birth of a daughter is called "resisting the United States" and the birth of a man is called "aiding the DPRK." For this dinner that sent her husband on the expedition, Tian Pu added four dishes and a pot of Moutai wine. Seeing the wine, Xu Shiyou smiled. When Xu Shiyou triumphed, Xiao Yuanchao was already 3 years old.
In 1955, Xu Shiyou was transferred to the commander of the Nanjing Military Region. Tian Pu also went to Nanjing to work, serving as the director of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee's Letters and Visits Department.
Originally, Xu Shiyou did not agree to her coming out to work, because the housework was already tiring enough. But Tian Pu always wanted to contribute to the country, and she finally persuaded her husband to work in this position for 15 years.
Tian Pu and her husband have been together for more than forty years after marriage, and Xu Shiyou once sighed before his death: "Tian Pu is my faithful partner throughout my life. And claimed to be a partner in the next life.
Tomb of General Xu Shiyou
After Xu Shiyou's death in 1985, Tian Pu devoted himself to passing on her husband's legacy. She compiled Xu Shiyou's "Ten Years in the Red Army", "My Sixteen Years in Shandong" and other relevant articles into "Memoirs of Xu Shiyou", which was published by the People's Liberation Army Publishing House.
She also organized a writing and film crew, taking Xu Shiyou's childhood as the main line, and filmed the upper and lower episodes of the TV series "Young Xu Shiyou", which was well received by the audience.
In December 2013, Tian Pu, who was already 89 years old, dragged his body that had just recovered from illness and wrote eight big characters for Xu Shiyou, who was in preparation, at the Jiaodong Memorial Hall. On June 30, 2017, Tian Pu died in Beijing at the age of 93.
The life of General Xu Shiyou is quite legendary, and the general's three marriages show the fierce and tender side of the general.
Although the first marriage was a mother's covenant, Xu Shiyou also respected his wife as a guest. But because I was in that turbulent era, my life and death were uncertain. The yin and yang were mistakenly separated, and even after many years, the general's heart was uneasy.
The second marriage is the general's free love, but when the general suffers injustice, he needs to be cared for by his lover, but he is betrayed, perhaps this is the most unforgivable thing for the general!
The third marriage accompanied the general's life, especially at the wedding, when the shell gun was pointed at the bride, and the three gunshots of "ding, ding, ding" were fired! It shows the heroism and self-confidence of the general...
Although the general has left us, the legend of the general will always be enjoyed, and the chinese people will not forget the contribution of the general's life...