Among the founding fathers, almost everyone came out of the bloody storm. Many people have paid a lot and sacrificed a lot for the final victory of the revolution. One of the founding generals, a family of 66 people, was brutally killed by the enemy, and he was the founding general Xu Haidong.
Like many revolutionary martyrs, Xu Haidong was born into poverty. In 1900, Xu Haidong was born in Xujiaqiao Village, Huangpi, Hubei Province. The Xu family has only half an acre of land and lives by firing kilns and selling pots and pans. A few broken huts are just a barely place to stay. The Xu family is the "kiln flower" in the eyes of others.
The family conditions are like this, Xu Haidong can only follow his father and brother to do kiln work early. This kiln worker has been doing it for 11 years.
In 1925, a man named Miser Jitang found Xu Haidong. The two of them were childhood friends, and Miser jitang later went to Wuhan to study. He studied in Dong Biwu's school, accepted Marxism-Leninism while studying, and joined the party organization. This time, he returned to his hometown to do research and propagate the revolution.
Miser Jitang knew Xu Haidong very well, knew that he was born poor and had a lot of vigor, so he put the focus of development on Xu Haidong.
After chatting with Miser Jitang several times, Xu Haidong gradually found himself finding a glimmer of light in the darkness. He also gradually understood many revolutionary principles. For the first time, he felt that he should change his fate and go out for a walk.
Therefore, Xu Haidong came to Wuchang with Miser jitang. When he arrived in Wuchang, Xu Haidong found a job with the help of The Miserly Jitang: selling water is to send water to the door for residents.
While working, Xu Haidong followed Stingy Jitang and others to continue to understand the revolutionary principles.
Time passed day by day, Xu Haidong's work was also on track, although the money was not much, but the good guys had an income. And with the continuous learning of these days, Xu Haidong has finally found his own direction of faith in life.
On April 8, 1925, Xu Haidong joined the Party with honor. He used the money he had earned from selling water to pay his first membership fee.
Soon after joining the party, Xu Haidong went south with Shi Jitang and others to join the Northern Expeditionary Army. After joining the Northern Expeditionary Army, Xu Haidong participated in the Northern Expedition. Under the tempering of the war, Xu Haidong gradually grew into a qualified military talent. In the Battle of Tingsi Bridge, Xu Haidong led a platoon to defeat the enemy's artillery, and became famous in the first battle.
In 1927, Xu Haidong participated in the Jute Uprising and also participated in the creation of the Eyu-Anhui Su District. After this process, No matter how fierce the enemy's encirclement and suppression was and how harsh the environment he faced, Xu Haidong never wavered. He not only threw himself into the revolution, but also mobilized his fourth brother, fifth brother and several cousins to join the Red Army.
In the battle against the Kuomintang reactionaries, Xu Haidong commanded flexibly, and the troops under his command were haunted, often killing the enemy on horseback. The enemy hated Xu Haidong to the bone and offered a huge reward to take Xu Haidong's head. At the same time, they ran to Xu Haidong's hometown and massacred Xu Haidong's family and relatives.
Years later, survivors of the Xu family recalled the brutal massacre, saying that 66 people were identified as dead. Of these, 27 were close relatives and 39 were distant relatives, and in total, 66 members of Xu Haidong's family died under the enemy's butcher's knife.
Such a deep hatred of the blood sea made Xu Haidong's heart cut like a knife. However, such a despicable action of the enemy could not crush Xu Haidong's revolutionary will, and Xu Haidong responded to the enemy with a fiercer battle, a more tenacious revolutionary will.
In 1934, Xu Haidong became the commander of the Red Twenty-fifth Army. Under the leadership of him and political commissar Wu Huanxian, the Red Twenty-fifth Army fought many victorious battles and smashed the enemy's three-month "encirclement and suppression" plan for the revolutionary base areas of Eyuwan from July to October.
On November 11, 1934, the Red Twenty-fifth Army began the Long March in the name of the Second Advance Detachment of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to the North to Resist Japan, and Xu Haidong and his soldiers embarked on the Long March.
Xu Haidong's Red Twenty-fifth Army was a special kind of team, "most of the combatants in this army are only from thirteen to eighteen years old. A large proportion of them are only sixteen or seventeen-year-olds, and some are even younger. At this time, Xu Haidong was also very young, but 34 years old.
Along the way, Xu Haidong continued to encourage these young warriors. They broke through the enemy's encirclement and blockade again and again, and they crossed one natural danger after another, and broke through the ghost gate again and again.
The difficult and dangerous road did not make Xu Haidong and this group of young warriors lose their fighting spirit. On the contrary, fighting with heaven and earth has tempered their will and become more courageous in the war.
After a long march, Xu Haidong's Red Twenty-fifth Army was no longer a fledgling baby army, but an elite division with a good style.
In the autumn of 1935, the Red Twenty-fifth Army arrived in Yongping Town, Northern Shaanxi Soviet District, and met with the victorious divisions of the Red Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Armies led by Comrade Liu Zhidan, and reorganized into the Red Fifteenth Army, with Xu Haidong as the commander of the army.
After arriving in northern Shaanxi, Xu Haidong was looking forward to the arrival of the Central Red Army. He constantly sent troops to fight the enemy to cooperate with the central Red Army moving north.
Finally waiting for the Central Red Army, Xu Haidong was very excited. Then something happened that made Xu Haidong a "creditor" of Chairman Mao.
At this time, the Central Red Army had traveled a long way to northern Shaanxi, and the personnel were greatly reduced, various materials were also very scarce, and there was not much logistical funding. In desperation, Chairman Mao sent Yang Zhicheng to borrow 2,500 yuan from Xu Haidong with an IOU he had written by hand.
Xu Haidong read the IOU, and without saying a word, he asked people to send 5,000 yuan to the Central Red Army.
Although Xu Haidong's troops arrived in northern Shaanxi earlier at this time, the funds were more generous than those of the Central Red Army, but it was about to be winter, and the troops were also faced with the purchase of winter clothes, with a total of only more than 7,000 yuan. Once the 5,000 pieces are gone, there are only more than 2,000 left, how to spend the winter of the troops?
Xu Haidong and his logisticians tried to continue to raise money to buy winter clothes while doing the work of the soldiers, he said, "We just don't eat, don't wear, starve, and also support the central authorities." ”
Xu Haidong's 5,000 yuan made the Central Red Army very moved, and Chairman Mao even said, "Xu Haidong is sending charcoal in the snow" Many years later, many people have forgotten about this matter. Chairman Mao still remembers, he said, "Thanks to Xu Haidong's 5,000 pieces."
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xu Haidong served as the brigade commander of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, leading his troops to fight on the anti-Japanese front. However, after many years of military career, Xu Haidong's body was scarred. The pain of the illness destroyed the body of this iron-blooded boy little by little, and finally Xu Haidong fell ill on the battlefield, and could only leave the front line and return to the rear to recuperate.
After a short recuperation, Xu Haidong returned to the battlefield. However, he soon fell ill again, and in January 1940, Xu Haidong fell ill on the battlefield of eastern Anhui due to long-term fatigue and a recurrence of his old illness, and had to leave the front line of battle again.
Since then, Xu Haidong has faded out of the line.
Although in the later period, Xu Haidong was far away from the battlefield and did not lead the troops to make meritorious achievements. However, because of his outstanding contributions to the revolutionary cause in the early stages, in 1955 he was awarded the rank of great general, and received the Order of August 1, First Class, Independence Freedom Medal, First Class, and Liberation Medal, First Class.
On March 25, 1970, Xu Haidong died of illness in Zhengzhou at the age of 70.
Chairman Mao's appraisal of Xu Haidong highly summed up his glorious life: he was a man of great merit to the Chinese revolution and a banner of the working class
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