In 1937, Xu Shiyou submitted an application to the party organization: he and his wife Comrade Lei Mingzhen resolutely divorced, and later, the main force of the Red Army in Yan'an actively responded to the revolutionary call of the united anti-Japanese front, went down the mountain to accept Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang reorganization, and formed the Eighth Route Army.
When Xu Shiyou followed Zhu Laoyou and crossed the Yellow River to the Taihang Mountains to participate in the War of Resistance, Lei Mingzhen also chased after him, hoping to reunite with Xu Shiyou and find Chen Geng, the brigade commander of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army at the time, for help. But Xu Shiyou said to Chen Geng with great sadness: She smashed my heart, it is impossible, what is going on?
The content of this issue is a useful history, deciphering Xu Shiyou, why should he resolutely divorce his wife Lei Mingzhen? And why did he say to Chen Geng who came to help them reunite: Lei Mingzhen has already smashed my heart? What happened to the untold secrets?
Photo of Xu Shiyou when he was young
Xu Shiyou and Lei Mingzhen divorced: he smashed my heart
Admiral Xu Shiyou had three marriages in his lifetime, and his first wife was named Zhu Ximing, when Xu Shiyou learned from the Shaolin Temple and returned to his hometown in Xinxian County, Henan Province, to join the Red Army, serving as the leader of the peasant volunteer brigade and the captain of the artillery. It is said that the male university should be married and the female should be married, and Xu Shiyou's mother saw that her son had grown up and become a talent, and hoped that he could quickly get married and continue the incense for the Xu family.
Soon after, the mother did find a good and lovely child, a woman named Zhu Ximing from a neighboring village, although she was 4 years older than Xu Shiyou, she was born beautiful, beautiful and moving, and intelligent, capable, advanced in thought, was a member of the Women's Rescue Association, and her son was a perfect choice for integration.
Only three days after the marriage, Xu Shiyou went out to fight
In the end, Xu Shiyou was a person who had received revolutionary new ideas and new cultural education, and he was very disgusted by this ancient feudal parental fate. But he is also a well-known filial piety in the ten miles and eight townships, coupled with the early death of his father, since his mother has taken a fancy to Zhu Ximing, then marry her into the door, or give his mother a companion.
So in 1924, on a sunny, cloudless zodiac auspicious day, under the dedication of his mother, Xu Shiyou paid for a few drum bands and a large flower palanquin, and married Zhu Ximing into the xu family's gate with beautiful scenery.
However, the revolutionary war was urgent, and only three days after Xu Shiyou and Zhu Ximing were married, he suddenly received an order from his superiors, and under the face of his mother and wife, with their faces full of reluctance and worry, they took off their happy clothes and changed into military uniforms and rushed to the front line to fight.
Although his wife Zhu Ximing did not go to school for a few days, she also knew that her husband was a person who did great things, and he did not obstruct too much, so he and his mother knitted military uniforms and shoes for the Red Army officers on the front line at home, and did some things within their power for the revolution.
Sometimes, Zhu Ximing will also risk the danger of guns and bullets to the most dangerous front line to comfort, Xu Shiyou is also gradually touched by Zhu Ximing's gentleness, the feelings of the two families quickly warmed up, although they have lived in two places for a long time, but the life is as sweet as honey.
During those war years when the future could not be seen, Zhu Ximing could only be reunited with her husband by chance in the dead of night. Zhu Ximing gave birth to three children for Xu Shiyou in his lifetime, because the countryside has always paid attention to "relying on the name to support", so Zhu Ximing gave the three children a nickname of "Black Man".
But what I didn't expect was that the first two children died prematurely before they could grow up, and only the third child survived strongly, but Xu Shiyou only took a look at it in his busy life, then turned around and hurried to the battlefield, and followed the army to the Eyu-Anhui revolutionary base area to transfer and retreat, and did not receive any news for a long time.
Xu Shiyou's eldest son, Xu Guang
In the blink of an eye, the child is 3 years old, Zhu Ximing and Xu Shiyou's mother are waiting for him to come back and name the child, but as the days go by, Xu Shiyou has never heard from him, the soldiers outside are in chaos, the cannon fire is every day, Xu Shiyou's mother is worried all day, and she is not sure whether her son is still alive in the world.
His first wife, Zhu Ximing, was forced to remarry
Winter came and spring came, year after year, Xu Shiyou's mother watched her daughter-in-law haggard day by day, and finally made a decision with great determination: Zhu Ximing had to remarry, she was still young, and she could not guard Xu Shiyou for a lifetime.
Therefore, the mother took care of the relationship everywhere, and took it upon herself to find a farmer named Xia Changwen for her daughter-in-law, so that she could remarry and start a new life.
At first, Zhu Ximing refused and insisted on filial piety to his mother for Xu Shiyou, but he could not resist his mother's daily persuasion, so he sat in Xia Changwen's flower car with tears in his eyes and remarried, leaving only the child and his mother to rely on each other for their lives. But even if he remarries, Zhu Ximing will often come back, talk to his mother, and name the child Xu Guang to raise him.
Fast forward more than ten years later, the revolution was victorious, new China was founded, Xu Shiyou still did not have any news, and his mother and Zhu Ximing no longer looked forward to it, only when he was dead.
Xu Shiyou was awarded the rank of general
But at this moment, Zhu Ximing accidentally saw an article in the newspaper recording the founding fathers, and was pleasantly surprised to find that Xu Shiyou not only did not die, but also made great military achievements, became a high official of new China, and became the commander of the Shandong Military Region.
When Zhu Ximing told his mother the news, he was both happy and sad in his heart, happy that Xu Shiyou was still alive, sad that he had remarried, and belonged to another family, and it was difficult to continue the frontier with Xu Shiyou.
Later, when Xu Shiyou returned to his hometown, returned home to visit his relatives, and took his mother to live in Jinan, Shandong, his mother would often talk about how good his daughter-in-law Zhu Ximing was and how filial piety to himself.
When he heard that in order to take care of his seriously ill mother and young children, Zhu Ximing's family went to the mass grave every night, pickpocketed people's clothes, came back to make shoes and clothes, and sold them to the market for grain to eat, Xu Shiyou, who was as strong as iron, also sighed and couldn't help but shed tears.
Free love and Lei Mingzhen married
Xu Shiyou's second wife was named Lei Mingzhen, and at that time, after Xu Shiyou left home and retreated with his army to the Eyu-Anhui base area, he heard rumors that Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary forces had carried out a brutal and bloody suppression of their hometown in order to retaliate against the Red Army, and slaughtered the families of Communists everywhere.
The mother and sister were forced to run away from home without any news, while his wife Zhu Ximing died in the war with her son. For a time, Xu Shiyou was distraught, but at the most critical juncture of the revolution, Xu Shiyou shouldered a heavy responsibility, and it was impossible to verify the truth or falsity of the news, and could only pour all the boredom and anger in his heart into the revolutionary battlefield, kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and avenge his mother, wife and children.
During the 25,000-mile Long March of the Red Army, after the red first and red fourth fronts met in victory at the jiajin snow mountain, the scenes of many revolutionary partners fighting side by side and the two of them were deeply in love, which made the cadres of the Red Fourth Front led by Marshal Xu Qianqian look envious.
Xu Shiyou inspected the troops
Therefore, in order to calm the hearts of the army, Xu Shuai issued a new instruction to the whole army through the headquarters of the Four Fronts Army: As long as they are cadres at or above the military level, they can find revolutionary partners in the base areas and start a family. There is no doubt that Xu Shiyou fully meets this criterion.
Therefore, he soon developed a great affection for the young woman in the revolutionary ranks, Lei Mingzhen, who was a hot-blooded young woman who pursued progress in ideology and progress, with a solid family and a very cultured family, and after joining the Red Army in 1933, she was arranged to work in the Non-Smoking Bureau, 11 years younger than Xu Shiyou.
However, Lang has a concubine intention, Lei Mingzhen's revolutionary party spirit is very strong, and he does not resent marrying a general who leads soldiers to fight, so under the mediation of everyone, the feelings of Xu Shiyou and Lei Mingzhen quickly heated up, and in 1935, under the mediation of political commissar Comrade Wang Jian'an, the two officially married a revolutionary couple.
If Xu Shiyou's first marriage was a last resort by his mother's feudal arrangement, then his union with Lei Mingzhen is a typical free love. After marriage, Xu Shiyou and Lei Mingzhen respected and loved each other, and for this relationship, Xu Shiyou hated that he could not pay everything to be good to Lei Mingzhen.
And Lei Mingzhen also understood Xu Shiyou's intentions, after being transferred to the secretarial work, she also specially collected a large amount of cattle and wool in Tibetan areas, and personally knitted the first sweater of her life for her husband, which made Xu Shiyou very moved.
In 1936, after the victory of the three main long march forces of the Red Army in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, Xu Shiyou was recommended by his superiors to study at the University of the Red Army, while Lei Mingzhen was organized and arranged to be responsible for the women's work in the Yan'an base area. Although the husband and wife are busy with official business and do not see each other several times a year, their feelings are better because they share a common revolutionary belief and pursuit.
But at this time, a sudden storm made this enviable relationship suddenly come to an end in 1937, and Xu Shiyou and Lei Mingzhen also parted ways, and even Xu Shiyou angrily left a sentence: There is no need to see each other again in this life, why is this?
Xu Shiyou, I will not love you anymore, from today on a knife and two
At the end of 1936, when the Western Route Army failed to carry out the Ningxia Campaign, almost the entire army was destroyed. Many people believe that this is Zhang Guotao's responsibility, but at the same time, xu Shiyou and Wang Jian'an, and some of the main cadres and generals of the Red Fourth Front, have also been criticized.
After Xu Shiyou came down from the Shaolin Temple to join the army and make a revolution, he was bent on fighting for the party and the people, but now he was suffering from this kind of senseless disaster and felt very wronged, so Xu Shiyou, who was straightforward in nature, suddenly had the idea of leading the team to leave Yan'an and go south to Daba Mountain in Sichuan to continue fighting guerrillas.
However, before this matter could be carried out, Wang Jian'an informed Chairman Mao upwards, which provoked the wrath of the head of the party group headquarters, and Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou immediately held a meeting to resolve that Xu Shiyou would be suspended from his post on the spot and locked up for reflection.
Xu Shiyou felt that he had run into a catastrophe, his heart was like ashes, and he had a premonition that the ending might not be good, so he asked the guards to carry a letter to his wife Lei Mingzhen, hoping that she could come to visit the prison, see the last side of herself, and count the last thoughts in her life.
But half a month passed, Xu Shiyou still did not wait for his beloved wife who was thinking about twilight and thinking day and night, and the guard only took a cigarette given by Chen Geng for the second time. Xu Shiyou grabbed the cigarette with a scorched face and threw it aside, asking the guard: What about the letter, what about the letter I gave you? Did you send it to Ming Zhen?
The guard opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, but brought in another package and a letter from the door. With a sigh, he said: I have delivered, but Sister Lei has now become the women's minister of Yan'an, and this time I only entrusted me to hand over this package and letter to you.
Xu Shiyou opened the envelope and said a resolute sentence: Xu Shiyou, I hate you very much, I will not love you anymore, I will never fall in love with a reactionary, for the sake of my revolutionary purity, we will start to cut it off twice from today, I ask for a divorce, you must divorce me, please sign the divorce application.
Originally thought that what was waiting for was comfort, but I did not expect that Lei Mingzhen would resolutely draw a line with Xu Shiyou, Xu Shiyou was angry after reading it, his hands trembled, and he roared lowly: Leave, must leave, I resolutely divorce.
Xu Shiyou in Tiananmen
Lei Mingzhen completely smashed my heart
Later, under Chairman Mao's personal interrogation, Xu Shiyou's affairs were turned into small and minor matters, and finally properly resolved, and in 1937, after the Yan'an Red Army went down the mountain and was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, Xu Shiyou was reinstated from his post, followed Zhu Laozong across the Yellow River in the east, and went to the Taihang Mountains in Shanxi, North China, to fight against Japan.
Lei Mingzhen saw the situation and was very regretful of his past impulses and deeds, so he wrote many letters to ask For Xu Shiyou's forgiveness, and later personally chased him to the Taihang Mountains, and asked Chen Geng, the commander of the 386 Brigade, to help her make peace, hoping to remarry Xu Shiyou.
But Xu Shiyou did not appreciate it, nor did he want to forgive her, he did not even want to be in the same room with her, and after he slapped the door and broke it, he left without turning his head, which also completely hurt Lei Mingzhen's self-esteem, and the love between the two was completely broken.
Afterwards, Xu Shiyou only said a word lightly in the face of Chen Geng's doubts: At the beginning, the letter that Lei Mingzhen wrote to me had completely smashed my heart.
General Chen Geng
Finally, in order to completely break Lei Mingzhen's thoughts, Xu Shiyou held a wedding with Comrade Tian Pu, a female propagandist of the Eighth Route Army, in 1943, after winning the Victory of Shandong Wandi against Japan, and formed a revolutionary partner. Tian Pu is Xu Shiyou's third and last wife, and the two are in the same boat through thick and thin, and have walked together for more than 40 years of revolutionary glory.
Tian Pu also gave birth to 2 sons and 4 daughters for Xu Shiyou, a total of 6 children, namely the second son Xu Jianjun, the third son Xu Yuanchao, the eldest daughter Xu Li, the second daughter Xu Sangyuan, the third daughter Xu Huashan and the fourth daughter Xu Jinjian, and took and raised Xu Guang, the eldest son born to Xu Shiyou's ex-wife Zhu Ximing.
Xu Shiyou's third wife, Tian Pu
After the founding of New China, Tian Pu also sat all the way to the position of Minister of Letters and Visits of Jiangsu Province and Deputy Director of the Cadre Department of the Nanjing Military Region, and by the end of June 2017, Tian Pu died of illness in Beijing at the age of 93.