One day in 1982, a staff member of the Party History Research Institute in Lu'an, Anhui Province, suddenly came to a factory in Hunan Province to look for a 53-year-old worker.
Subsequently, the staff said to the worker named Xu Minqing,
"Your father was a Red Army commander.
This sentence stunned everyone present, and also made Xu Minqing stunned.
So what's going on here? Is Xu Minqing's father really a military commander as the staff said? Let's take a closer look at the detailed process of this matter.
In the 1980s, when local governments responded to the call of the Party Central Committee and began to look for the descendants of martyrs, the party history staff in Lu'an, Anhui Province, found that Xu Jishen, the former commander of the Red First Army, had children.
So according to this clue, he continued to search, and finally found xu Jishen's son named Xu Minqing, and this Xu Minqing is now working as a worker in a factory in Hunan.
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Therefore, after packing up the relevant materials, the staff immediately set off and traveled thousands of miles to this factory to look for Xu Minqing, and after finding Xu Minqing, they disclosed the news to him.
However, Xu Minqing's reaction exceeded the staff's expectations, Xu Minqing did not believe that this news was true for a while, but said loudly,
His father's name was Xu Continued
So what's going on? Could it be that the staff got it wrong?
After careful discussion and comparison between the staff and Xu Minqing, it was determined that Xu Minqing was the son of Xu Jishen's military commander, so what was the situation of Xu Minqing's continued situation? Let's slowly reveal.
In 1901, Xu Jishen was born in a peasant family in Lu'an, Anhui Province, one family was still relatively wealthy, and the second was that the Jiangnan region, which had been popular since ancient times, allowed Xu Jishen to go to school.
According to the data, Xu Jishen is particularly intelligent, he can memorize ancient poems at the age of four, and after attending private school, compared with his peers, Xu Jishen can be called a "genius"!
For the arts and sciences taught by the teacher, Xu Jishen can easily integrate it, and Xu Jishen's intelligence also doubles the pressure on the teacher who teaches him, so Xu Jishen can only constantly change private schools or teachers.
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During his private school studies, Xu Jishen was fond of fighting unevenly, and there was often a large group of companions gathered around him, all headed by Xu Jishen, and later Xu Jishen followed the famous Confucian Zhang Shuchen to study and began to recuperate.
However, at this time, the Qing Dynasty had long since perished, and Xu Jishen had no place to show even if he was full of economy, so Xu Jishen decided to continue his studies.
In 1919, the May Fourth Movement broke out, and Xu Jishen had already come into contact with the idea of proletarian revolution at this time.
Therefore, he took the lead in participating in the demonstration and demanded that the Beiyang government reject the Paris peace talks.
In 1920, Xu Jishen was admitted to the Provincial First A Industrial School, and later transferred to the First Normal School, during which Xu Jishen was also able to further contact revolutionary ideas and joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League the following year.
In 1923, Xu Jishen was forced to flee to Shanghai because he led students to beat up and bribe elected provincial legislators, and in 1924 he was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy, and successfully joined the Communist Party of China that year.
During his studies in Huangpu, Xu Jishen not only gained a deep understanding of the proletarian revolution, but also mastered a lot of military knowledge and became an excellent military commander.
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After completing his studies, Xu Jishen participated in two eastern expeditions, and in the battle, Xu Jishen took the lead in heroic leadership, leading his soldiers to successfully defeat the enemy army and make battle achievements, and then Xu Jishen was appointed as a company commander.
After the northern expedition began, Xu Jishen was transferred to the Ye Ting Independent Regiment, followed the troops all the way north, attacked the city and seized the land, took the lead as a soldier, under the command of Xu Jishen, the troops he led successively made many military achievements.
Xu Jishen was later transferred to the regimental commander.
After Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12 Coup", he wantonly slaughtered Communists and progressives in Shanghai, and Wang Jingwei also responded to Chiang Kai-shek's call to implement a reactionary policy, and Xu Jishen was forced to go underground.
In May, Xu Jishen was seriously wounded in a battle and went to Shanghai for medical treatment, at which time Wang Jingwei heard the news of Xu Jishen, so the special agent came to comfort him.
And the fact is that the condolences are false, the surrender is true, wang Jingwei promised that as long as Xu Jishen defected to the Communist Party, then he would be granted the post of commander of an independent division, and Xu Jishen flatly refused to do so!
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After the wounds were healed, Xu Ji cautiously returned to the front line to command, but at this time the reactionaries suddenly launched a mutiny, Xu Jishen was surrounded, and at the moment of crisis, Xu Jishen personally led three companies to charge, and the bullet broke Xu Jishen's ribs, but Xu Jishen still gritted his teeth and insisted on fighting on the front line.
Soon, under the leadership of Xu Jishen, the troops broke through the siege, but they also suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat into the mountains to rest, and after resting, Xu Jishen developed on the spot.
Lead the people of Eyuwan to carry out revolutionary struggle.
Under the leadership of Xu Jishen, the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District flourished vigorously, not only repelling many encirclements and suppressions by the reactionaries, but also developing the troops from more than 2,000 to more than 5,000, with more than 5,000 light and heavy machine guns.
Xu Jishen was therefore appointed commander of the First Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
Originally, with Xu Jishen's command ability and military achievements, if it was in New China, then at least the rank of major general was awarded, but unfortunately came.
In 1931, Zhang Guotao held the military and political power in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region, and Xu Jishen expressed explicit opposition to Zhang Guotao's policy of staying away from the Soviet Region.
This caused Zhang Guotao great dissatisfaction, in Zhang Guotao's view, this is to provoke his own authority, coupled with the provocation of the secret agents at that time, so Zhang Guotao made a judgment that Xu Jishen was going to betray the revolution!
So
Zhang Guotao immediately ordered Xu Jishen's arrest
After some severe torture, Zhang Guotao never got the "evidence" he wanted, so the angry Zhang Guotao ordered,
Shoot Xu Jishen!
In November 1931, at the age of 30, Xu Jishen was killed by Zhang Guotao, while Xu Jishen's son, Xu Minqing, was still in his infancy waiting to be fed.
After Xu Jishen was killed, Xu Jishen's wife did not know it, but with the passage of time, the situation of not hearing anything for a long time also made her wife understand that her husband Xu Jishen may have been killed.
The grief-stricken wife took Xu Minqing away from Xu Jishen's hometown to settle in Hunan, and was not prepared to tell her son about Xu Jishen, but when Xu Minqing was more than ten years old, a sudden serious illness crushed his wife's body.
The wife lying in bed knows that her time is short, and if she does not tell her son about his father, then the child will not know who his father is for the rest of his life.
So he called the young Xu Minqing to the front and said to him slowly,
"Your father was a regimental commander of the Nationalist army named Xu Jishen." Soon after he finished speaking, he passed away.
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At that time, Xu Minqing misheard "Xu Jishen" as "Xu Continue" because of his young age, but Xu Minqing still firmly remembered that his father was the "regimental commander of the National Army".
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, various places carried out population surveys, and Xu Minqing took the initiative to report the news in order to find his father, "His father's name is Xu Continuing, and he is a national army commander."
Coincidentally, there was really a regimental commander of the Nationalist army at that time named Xu Continuing, so Xu Minqing's identity was also identified as a descendant of the Nationalist Army, and in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially in the ten years period, he was very dissatisfied with the Kuomintang, and xu Minqing suffered some unfair treatment.
Later, Xu Minqing simply did not finish reading the book, so he went to a local factory as a worker, which was more than ten years, until the Lu'an Party history staff found Xu Minqing, Xu Minqing knew the true identity of his father.