In the Spring Festival of 1948, an old rural lady dressed in ragged clothes brought a young man of about twenty years old to the headquarters of the Jaw Yu Military Region under the jurisdiction of the Central Plains Military Region. The two men had been wandering at the gate of the headquarters, and from time to time they looked inside, and soon attracted the attention of the PLA soldiers on duty at the gate, and after observing for a while, the PLA soldiers stepped forward and asked: "Old lady, is there anything that can help you?" ”
The old lady's grandson heard this and hurriedly said, "We are here to find someone." The PLA soldier smiled and asked, "Who are you looking for?" At this time, the old lady trembled and took out a small package from her arms and handed it to her grandson, who immediately opened the package, only to see that there was a letter in it, and then handed the letter to the hands of the People's Liberation Army.
When the PLA soldiers saw the letter, they understood that the old lady had come to look for her son, but there was no such person as the name in the letter, which made the PLA a little helpless. After much entanglement, the PLA soldiers still reported the letter to the leaders, and finally the letter came to the hands of Wang Shusheng, commander of the Eyu Military Region. Wang Shusheng was very happy after seeing the letter and said, "It can be said that it has been found, and Monk Xu must be very happy to know." ”
Then he rushed out of the office and took the old lady to the headquarters. Monk Xu is also General Xu Shiyou, but who is this old lady? What kind of relationship do the two have? Today, the curator will take you to understand the story of this. Before the start of the main topic, new friends should not forget to pay attention to it, so that it is convenient to review the previous content and not miss the wonderful content later.
Flesh and blood, uprooted from home
This old lady was Xu Shiyou's mother, and this young man was also Xu Shiyou's son. Prior to this, Xu Shiyou wrote a letter to find his relatives and entrusted Wang Shusheng to find his mother and son in the Dabie Mountains, and Xu Shiyou and his family had not seen each other for sixteen years. Time passed, and a long time had passed, and the letter finally reached the hands of Xu Shiyou's mother. When the old lady learned the news that Xu Shiyou was still alive, she was also full of tears of excitement and took her grandson thousands of miles to the garrison of the headquarters of the Jaw Yu Military Region.
General Xu Shiyou was born in Macheng County, Hubei Province, and his birth also brought hope to his family. But at the same time, in the social environment at that time, the general people lived in poverty, and the same was true of Xu Shiyou's family, which can be said to be a family of disciples. Therefore, after Xu Shiyou was born, he was in a state of not having enough to eat for a long time.
After that, Xu Shiyou's parents decided to send Xu Shiyou to the Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts, although his body was more tired, but he could still have food to eat in the Shaolin Temple. At that time, Xu Shiyou was still young, only eight years old, and did not know what the Shaolin Temple was for, but his mother just told him that he could become stronger and not be bullied.
In this way, Xu Shiyou stayed in the Shaolin Temple and began to practice martial arts. Years later, Xu Shiyou has changed from a thin child to a brave man, and his body is much stronger. But just when Xu Shiyou returned to his hometown to visit his relatives, it was Xu Shiyou's extraordinary strength that caused trouble.
Xu Shiyou, who returned to his hometown, heard that there was a bully nearby who did evil all day, which made the village very uneasy. As a result, Xu Shiyou, who had been practicing martial arts for many years, was very angry and determined to teach this bully a good lesson. Xu Shiyou, who was hot-blooded, rushed out of the house to find this bully and directly taught him a lesson, but he did not think that this bully could not resist Xu Shiyou's fists and feet, and was actually beaten to death.
Out of human life, Xu Shiyou also panicked, and did not know what to do. If you stay in your hometown, then the police will definitely find themselves. So Xu Shiyou prepared to return to the Shaolin Temple overnight, but halfway through, Xu Shiyou thought that it was not safe to return to the Shaolin Temple, so Xu Shiyou embarked on a journey of leaving his hometown and wandering.
In that war-torn era, Xu Shiyou really didn't know what to do, and he didn't have much dry food and coils on his body. I had to come to the field and temporarily started a short-term job. Later, seeing that there were troops recruiting people, Xu Shiyou, who had a good physical fitness, enthusiastically signed up and joined the ranks of the Kuomintang warlords. Soon after, the warlords were in a scuffle, and Xu Shiyou left the warlord's ranks again, and returned to his hometown after several turns.
Say goodbye to your loved ones and join the revolution
After returning home, Xu Shiyou originally wanted to make a makeover and settle down and be filial to his mother, but at the time when the revolutionary team was in the bud, many revolutionary teams were also born in Xu Shiyou's hometown, and after thinking about it again, Xu Shiyou joined the revolution. After joining the army, Xu Shiyou participated in the jute uprising, fought against the local local gentry, and actively carried out the agrarian revolution. It was also the jute uprising that let Xu Shiyou know that the communist team was a team that really did practical things for the people, which was different from the team of the Kuomintang warlords. As a result, Xu Shiyou was even more determined to follow the Communist Party, adhere to the belief of revolution, and re-fill the hope for society.
In 1932, Xu Shiyou followed the Red Army team to the Eyu-Anhui base area, Xu Shiyou also bid farewell to his mother and his wife who had just been married for a long time, and resolutely left home and threw himself into the revolution. Since ancient times, Zhongxiao cannot have both, and her mother also respects and understands Xu Shiyou's choice. After Xu Shiyou left his hometown, because the news at that time was still very closed, his mother did not know what Xu Shiyou was in outside.
Casualties are inevitable on the battlefield, and Xu Shiyou's mother has always been worried about him. During the years that Xu Shiyou left his hometown, his family never heard from him. Xu Shiyou's mother even persuaded Xu Shiyou's wife, Zhu Ximing, to remarry. Zhu Ximing was in a good youth, and at first he did not agree, but in the end he also chose to leave the family.
But fortunately, there is also Xu Shiyou's son Hei Ling and his mother as a companion, Zhu Ximing has been helping his mother since leaving home, so that his mother's life can be barely survived. As Hei Ling grew up day by day, it was not easy to raise a child at that time, and it was for an elderly mother.
But the mother has no complaints, Xu Shiyou's departure has made the mother feel very uncomfortable in her heart, and now hei ling is the mother's all hope. Hei Ling is also more sensible since he was a child, although it is more difficult to live with his mother, but the two are so dependent on each other that they have been living.
Sometimes hei ling would ask grandma where daddy was, and every time grandma heard it, she couldn't help but burst into tears, so she had to say to hei ling: "Your dad is doing big things far away, and when he's done, he'll come back to you, and he'll bring you a lot of good food and a lot of new clothes." It was in this expectation that the black man passed the day by day.
With the passage of time, hei ling gradually grew into an adult, and learned from his grandmother the fact that his father participated in the revolution. But now, Xu Shiyou has been away from his hometown for more than ten years, and there has been no news, and Hei Ling and grandma have gradually thought that Xu Shiyou is no longer alive.
The sensible black man then shouldered the heavy responsibility of taking care of his grandmother, and the two of them could be regarded as poor and happy. At this moment, in 1948, the black man and the grandmother received a letter, and the new black man jumped up excitedly and told the grandmother: "Grandma, Daddy is still alive, Daddy is looking for us." When Grandma heard Hei Ling's words, she immediately cried out and said, "Great, great, Heaven bless." The mood of the two people who had lost and regained could not be calmed for a long time.
It turned out that after Xu Shiyou left the Eyu-Anhui base area with the Red Fourth Front, he immediately participated in the establishment of the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area, and then he failed to oppose "encirclement and suppression" and threw himself into the Long March of the Red Army. Xu Shiyou also became a senior general of the Red Army during the Long March. Then the Anti-Japanese War broke out in full swing, and Xu Shiyou participated in the battle non-stop, serving as the deputy commander of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
Soon, Xu Shiyou came to the Shandong region and, according to the orders of the organization, came here to establish the Shandong Anti-Japanese Base Area. He has successively held a number of important posts here, and has also made major contributions to the establishment of the Shandong Anti-Japanese Base Area, consolidating and carrying out the anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines.
No sooner had the War of Resistance Against Japan ended than Chiang Kai-shek turned his face and did not recognize anyone, unilaterally tore up the Double Tenth Agreement, and began a civil war. During the Liberation War, Xu Shiyou continued to stay in Shandong to carry out work, and after the formation of the East China Field Army, Xu Shiyou served as the commander of the Ninth Column of the East China Field Army, and at the same time was also the deputy commander of the Shandong Military Region.
By 1948, when the Kuomintang was clearly at a disadvantage in the war and the war was slightly less tense, Xu Shiyou wrote a letter looking for his relatives and asked his old leader Wang Shusheng to help find his mother and son in his hometown. At that time, Wang Shusheng was serving as the commander of the Jawyu Military Region, and his location was in the Area of Dabie Mountain, which was Xu Shiyou's hometown, so Xu Shiyou would entrust this matter to Wang Shusheng. After Wang Shusheng received Xu Shiyou's letter, he also attached great importance to it and immediately sent someone to take this letter out to find Xu Shiyou's family.
Soon after, the letter came to the hands of Xu Shiyou's mother, and naturally learned the news that Xu Shiyou was still alive. Therefore, he rushed all the way to the station of the military region headquarters with the black man, so that the picture mentioned at the beginning appeared.
After Wang Shusheng knew that someone had come looking for you with a letter, he hurried to the door of the headquarters, warmly shook Xu Shiyou's mother's hand and said, "Big Lady, we can be considered to have found you, if there is no news of you, we don't know how to explain it to Comrade Xu Shiyou." ”
After many years of separation, a long goodbye reunion
At this time, Xu Shiyou was still directing the battle on the front line, so Wang Shusheng first arranged Xu Shiyou's mother and hei ling in his home, and it was not until the end of 1948, when Xu Shiyou's side was slightly more stable, Wang Shusheng sent Hei Ling to Shandong to meet Xu Shiyou.
Because of Xu Shiyou's mother's health, they did not go together. This is sixteen years later, Xu Shiyou saw his son again, his heart was full of guilt, he had not heard any news for more than ten years, but he had wronged this old man and young man. Hei Ling told Xu Shiyou that Zhu Ximing had remarried, and Xu Shiyou inevitably felt some sighs in his heart, and after a little stunned, he said: "Good, good." ”
In these days in Shandong, although the father and son have not seen each other for many years, they still get along very well, and Xu Shiyou also changed his son's name to Xu Guang. When Xu Shiyou asked what his son wanted to do in the future, Xu Guang said proudly, "I want to be like you, as a soldier to fight." ”
Soon after, Xu Guang joined the army and went to the East China Military and Political University Shandong Branch to study. During his time in the army, Xu Guang's performance also made Xu Shiyou feel very pleased, and his performance was excellent, and he was commended by his superior leaders many times. In 1965, because Xu Shiyou worked outside for many years, and Xu Shiyou's mother was getting older, her physical condition was far worse than before, but she was unwilling to follow Xu Shiyou to live in Shandong, and insisted on returning to her hometown to spend her old age.
In desperation, Xu Guang gave up his treatment in the army and returned to his hometown to work to facilitate the care of his grandmother. Soon after, Xu Guang changed careers and returned to his hometown. Before leaving, Xu Shiyou held a farewell banquet for his son, during which he thanked Xu Guang many times, so that he could perform filial piety for himself and go home to take care of his old mother.
Xu Guang, who returned to his hometown, took care of his grandmother while contributing to the construction of his hometown, until a year later, his grandmother died. Subsequently, Xu Shiyou offered to let Xu Guang return to work in the army, but Xu Guang refused, Xu Guang knew that there was a father struggling outside, and he was more willing to stay in his hometown and make his own contribution to the people in his hometown.
Until October 22, 1985, Xu Shiyou died of illness in Nanjing at the age of 80. After learning this bad news, Xu Guang was uncomfortable in his heart, and blamed himself for not being able to send the last journey by his father's side, and then buried Xu Shiyou's body in Xu Jiawa according to his father's last wishes.
General Xu Shiyou has made contributions to the motherland all his life, made countless military achievements in his nearly sixty years of military service, and is an outstanding military commander of our country and has made important contributions to the party and the revolution. I believe that these Xu Shiyou's mothers are also understandable, although the time spent with their sons is not long, but they know that their sons are people who do great things outside, and they have never complained.
After his death, Xu Shiyou's children also acted in a low-key manner, contributing to their hometown and motherland in their own way, and did not make any demands on the organization.
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