The reputation of General Xu Shiyou should be unknown to everyone. This tough general who made outstanding contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation should not be forgotten. After the founding of New China, he did not hesitate to praise the generals who were in the same batch as General Xu Shiyou, and he was almost impeccable in terms of personal charm and command.
However, General Xu Shiyou is also a well-known grumpy general in our army, and it is precisely because of this that General Xu Shiyou's military career is also extremely extraordinary. Most people only know about the general's combat situation, but little is known about his side as an ordinary person.
In fact, his married life is also different, and he was abandoned by his wife when he was most depressed. However, despite this, in the decades after the divorce of his ex-wife Lei Mingzhen, when he asked him for help, he still only replied with 8 words of help. Let's get to know this extraordinary general.
General Xu Shiyou on the battlefield
Among the commanders and fighters of the older generation on the mainland, many of those who joined the revolution early were actually from poor backgrounds, so they did not have much culture themselves, and the same was true of General Xu Shiyou, but although he did not read much, his command style was very decisive and vigorous.
General Xu Shiyou's hometown was Henan Province, but in the past that place was close to Hubei Province, because there were the first batch of revolutionaries there, so in General Xu Shiyou's hometown, many outstanding revolutionary predecessors like him were born.
Because General Xu Shiyou, like most of his revolutionary ancestors, was born into poor peasant families, either from his ancestors who farmed the land for generations or herded cattle, after he was born, there was no other schooling expense that no economic strength in the family could afford.
At a very young age, General Xu Shiyou had to take on the responsibility of supporting his family, and it was precisely because of the dual pressure of the real society and the family that General Xu Shiyou came out to storm the rivers and lakes when he was not very old. Legend has it that during this period, General Xu Shiyou also once worshiped a master, because the general was young and vigorous at that time, so he wanted to learn a one-and-a-half-move, and accidentally met a person who practiced martial arts, so he worshiped him as a teacher.
Of course, at the beginning, he considered that there might be opportunities to sell street art, so he went to learn martial arts, and later went to the Shaolin Temple to study. It is precisely because General Xu Shiyou came out very early to break in, so he joined the revolution very early, and he can be regarded as one of the oldest revolutionary predecessors on the mainland.
Although general Xu Shiyou's performance in all aspects after participating in the revolution was very satisfactory, General Xu Shiyou had a very bad disadvantage, that is, he loved to drink very much. However, it is very strange that although General Xu Shiyou has a habit of drinking heavily, when he is doing the right thing, he never delays things because of drinking, which may be related to his previous experience of learning martial arts.
When we first joined the revolution, after we had our own armed forces, General Xu Shiyou began to lead troops to fight, and although he slowly became a general in the revolutionary ranks, General Xu Shiyou still maintained the habit of charging at the front.
Because his marksmanship was very accurate, he should be the general with the best marksmanship among the commanders and fighters at that time, so although he was one of the commanders, General Xu Shiyou was always indifferent to such things as charging into the battlefield.
The emotional life of the general
Most people only know the image of General Xu Shiyou fighting bravely in the Revolutionary War and the War of Liberation, but few people have ever understood the general's marriage and emotional life, which is actually very unsmooth.
General Xu Shiyou's first marriage was with the village next door to him, because the woman married, because he was born earlier, so the habit of parental orders and matchmakers handed down during the feudal period at that time still existed.
Therefore, under the influence of arranged marriage, he married a girl from the next village, although the two people were not free love, but after marriage, his wife bore him three sons, but unfortunately in that era, the medical and health conditions were very backward, and only the third son survived.
And General Xu Shiyou's second wife, Lei Mingzhen, is what we mentioned in the title today. The two of them met and fell in love during the revolution. In the Yan'an base area at that time, the two people met, and then slowly came together, and finally married, although Lei Mingzhen did not give birth to a child for General Xu Shiyou, but because they met in the revolution, the feelings of the two people were very firm under the influence of revolutionary friendship.
However, this kind of married life was not the end of General Xu Shiyou, and in the later special period, General Xu Shiyou fell into trouble, and as a result, at this time, as the wife of General Xu Shiyou, Lei Mingzhen not only did not side with her husband.
Moreover, she also issued a public statement saying that she would break the boundary with General Xu Shiyou, and one of the main means of dividing the boundary was to dissolve the marriage contract. Although General Xu Shiyou was very sad and sad, since the other party had already proposed it, there was nothing he could do.
Ex-wife asked for help
In that era, people had their own difficulties, and it was common for fathers and sons to turn against each other, let alone between husband and wife. Moreover, General Xu Shiyou himself has already put it down, and it is not the turn of us outsiders to judge the matter.
Decades after General Xu Shiyou and Lei Mingzhen divorced, when General Xu Shiyou was already very powerful, one day he suddenly received a call from his secretary saying that there was a letter from him, and when this letter was delivered, General Xu Shiyou found that it was a letter from his ex-wife Lei Mingzhen.
After seeing this letter, General Xu Shiyou realized that his ex-wife was looking for help from himself, because Lei Mingzhen's son had some obstacles when he was a soldier at that time, and there was no way but to write to General Xu Shiyou.
Although after so many years, General Xu Shiyou's personality is still bold, and he did not say much after seeing this letter, but only wrote eight words: The son inherits the father's business, of course. Then, the matter was solved.
epilogue
Through this incident, we can see that in the very difficult and difficult revolutionary era at that time, it was not easy for everyone, especially those revolutionary ancestors who gave their youth for our national rejuvenation and liberation.
They left their families, careers, lives and marriages behind, and revolutionary martyrs like General Xu Shiyou are heroes who deserve our memory and respect.
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