Xu Shiyou's life in the military, with the Chinese Nationalist forces and the Japanese, pseudo-army, the U.S. Army, the Vietnamese Army have fought. In the war arena, the "Shaolin general" commanding skills, radiated bright light.
He was good at blocking battles, and had the reputation of "guarding like Taishan" In 1927, the Futian River tycoons gathered the militia and the Red Rifles and other local armed forces and attacked the Farmers' Association of the multiplying horse and the Shunhe District. Wherever they went, burning and looting, bloody rain. May, Xu Shiyou was appointed as the township volunteer team leader, he made the volunteer team in the enemy must pass through the road - the ancestor of the temple mountain fortifications, stacked stones, logs, day and night sentries, monitoring the enemy. One day, Futianhe bad gentry led a crowd of more than 800 people came to violate, Xu Shiyou hastily gathered 20 or 30 volunteers to meet the battle. Cracking a burst of volley gun, the enemy is about to climb to the top of the mountain pressed to the mountainside. The enemy is a little bit of shock, the Red Rifle Club teacher master cloak hair, bare chest, arms, hands and feet, reciting incantations: "Kunlun Mountain, wrapped around the hard body, the Goddess of Mercy gave the body of the King Kong. Vajra body, belly refining gas, can block ten thousand guns can prevent halberd, guns and bullets do not enter the body ...... "read the incantation, the teacher master a knife cut down behind the head of the goat, the enemy soldiers are really like ghosts possessed like, immediately howling rushed up. When the enemy climbed to the top of the mountain from twenty to thirty meters, Xu Shiyou a "fight", steel guns, bird cannons, pine guns, rolling logs, ringing stones such as flash floods, pouring down, heard the members of the Farmers' Union shouting to help the war, the valley rang a piece of the enemy's wailing. When the teacher again "read the words of truth", organize the attack, Xu Shiyou shot him dead, the bandits were suddenly discouraged, leaving a piece of corpses, scattered, and never dared to look east.
In 1934, the Red Army counterattacked Liu Xiang's 6-way siege, Xu Shiyou commanded the "Battle of Wanyuan", a famous battle of resistance. Liu Xiang invested more than 200,000 troops in an attempt to fight eastward along the Sichuan-Shaanxi border from the northern part of the river, concentrating his main force on the eastern front, capturing Wanyuan and its vicinity, and then combining east and west to destroy the Red Army. Xu Shiyou (then deputy commander of the Red Ninth Army) stood firm in the south of Wanyuan's Da Mian Shan, Qing Shan area for three months. Dafen Mountain is more than 1,500 meters high, high valley deep, steep slopes and cliffs, virgin forests are dense, Xu made the troops according to the situation of the mountain to construct several to 10 trenches, and then cut trees into three or four-meter-thick layers of "wood city", slow slopes are covered with bamboo sticks, deer Zhai, the steep and dangerous place to pile up the ring, logs.July 16, Liu Xiang Department of the eight brigades, under the cover of the aircraft artillery, launched a fierce attack. Under the cover of aircraft artillery, launched a fierce attack. Charge enemy troops like watching a big show like a sea of people, wave-type charge in the morning up to five or six times. Xu Ling Red Army calmly responded to the battle, to be the enemy rushed to the position in front of dozens of meters, a variety of firearms opened fire, rolling wood ring stone tumbling down, the enemy soldiers panic and chaos, head in hands, the Red Army soldiers jumped out of the trench, waving the sword to chase and kill, the enemy's charge was crushed again and again,......, due to the enemy repeated artillery bombardment, the position was hit like a freshly plowing and harrowing the The position has been beaten like a plowed and harrowed plowed field, and a foot is a deep footprint when you step on it. Some sections of soil less stone hard, fortifications flat too late to repair, the soldiers dragged the enemy corpse, head to head, foot to foot barricade up; covered with a layer of pumice into a simple fortification. Bullets played light, to the enemy corpses to find, the gun played bad to the enemy corpses to pick, smoke addiction or to the corpses pick, ...... Liu Xiang on the loss of troops and no progress in anxiety, he issued a decree: the capture of Wanyuan reward silver yuan 30,000, unauthorized abandonment of the position of the military justice, divisions, brigade commanders do not personally come to the front line of commanders to be executed. This order, the enemy brigade commander bare shoulders to supervise the war, battalion, company commander composed of officers daredevil charge, fear of not forward, regardless of officers and men were shot on the spot. Aircraft bombing, artillery bombardment, group charging soldiers like a rolling ball upward. Although the Red Army's various firearms like a storm sweeping towards the enemy, groups of enemies have fallen, but the back of the enemy troops are still surging up, some even jumped into the trenches. Xu commanded the reserves and the enemy to fight with swords, the two armies, where the armament meets, red, indistinguishable from blood-stained cloth and blood-stained blades. After more than 70 days of fierce fighting and hundreds of attacks by more than 100,000 people of Liu Xiang, Xu Shiyou still firmly held his position. 6 siege was crushed, Liu Xiang called Chiang Kai-shek to "apologize to the field electricity", claiming that the siege cost 19 million silver yuan, 5,000 officers died, 80,000 soldiers lost, and it is difficult to continue, please remove the duties of this and other positions. The number of soldiers lost, the battle of Wanyuan accounted for about half.
Xu Shiyou has "attack as a tiger" said. 1936 July, Xu rate cavalry (then commander of the Red Army cavalry) more than 3,000 people "to raise food, scouting the road". Traveled to Aba, the town was empty, from the hard to find the two Tibetans mouth to learn, Aba Tusi Mo Sang know the Red Army through the north, sinisterly all the masses away, food, livestock transfer, want to fight with the Red Army. Mozang armed thousands of people, each can ride good shooting, night shooting incense fire 3 guns do not hit, that is regarded as waste, sacks sunk into the river. 15 night, Xu Shiyou in the Segou ****ba area found kilometers away from the fire, from time to time came the sound of the horse, after reconnaissance, it is the Mozang armed, about 5,000 people. Xu ordered the troops to multi-way concealment to receive the enemy, an order, many grenades thrown into the fire, with the sound of the explosion, burning firewood rose up in the air, the sparks went straight to the sky. Enemy horses were frightened, neighing and scurrying, enemy soldiers were either blown up or trampled to death by the frightened horses. The Red Army cavalry raised his saber in the enemy remnants of the left and right to kill, Mo Sang 20 years of operation of the armed forces in a moment of destruction.
Sometimes, Xu Shiyou saw the opportunity to attack the enemy's head organs, like a tiger to pull out the heart, so that the enemy was caught off guard. 1945 spring, he has twice set aside the periphery, attacked the pseudo-army Zhao Bao Yuan lair. The first time Zhao fled in disguise, only to be spared; the second time Zhao was killed, the head of the public, tens of thousands of people were either killed or wounded or captured. The most amazing battle is the battle of "Zhoucun" In March 1948, the western section of the Jiaoji Road, there are more than 40,000 people in the enemy 32 divisions and other Kuomintang troops, guarding the east of Zhangdian, the west of Mingshui, the north of Qidong, south of the Boshan, the division commander Zhou Qingxiang for the commander-in-chief, the rate of the division in the city of Zhoucun. Xu Shiyou learned that the enemy every city must defend, see the town set up defenses, force dispersion; Zhoucun City, less than 5 battalions of the enemy, weak fortifications, paralysis and laxity, and then force row, decided to lead the army far away from the attack, the surprise victory. After 7 days of night and day forced march, about to meet the enemy, heavy rainfall, the night sky so dark that you can't see your fingers. At this time, Zhou Qingxiang aware of, hastily contraction of troops for self-defense, urgently convened a meeting of brigade commanders to deploy the Zhou village defense. I seventy-eight regiment on the way in, found side by side with the ranks of the team wearing a big cap, they grabbed prisoners to ask, learned that is ordered to rush to Zhou village of the enemy 141st brigade. The regimental commander whispered to order the whole regiment rushed into the enemy team, intercepted the enemy tail a, groups of the enemy confused as prisoners. I seventy-sixth regiment tailed another enemy team, night dark rain, the enemy does not notice, the regiment straight into the Zhoucun city. At midnight, Xu led the attack, Zhou Qingxiang still do not know our army number, strength, Zhou Department of wired communications only call once, communication hub group was hit by our artillery, the enemy brigade commander is still on the way back to the Department, command all paralyzed, reinforcements handover defense unclear, soldiers looking for officers, officers looking for soldiers, a chaos. After a day of fighting, in addition to Zhou Qingxiang escaped in disguise, the defenders and reinforcements 15,000 people were all annihilated. Zhoucun was killed, the other defenders of the enemy soul scattered, afraid of "heavenly **** army", have abandoned the city and fled, there is a little resistance to abandon the city "delivery", and even away from the Zhoucun hundreds of miles of Laiwu, the enemy of Mengyin also fled the wind. Xu Shiyou sent troops to attack in all directions, 12 days to wipe out 38,000 people.
"Don't do it if you're losing money, come if you're making money" is Xu Shiyou's guideline for fighting a war. Xu often lead the troops and several times the enemy circling, once part of the enemy army isolated to become "exposed rafters", will be killed. In this way, he led the troops, step by step, to advance to Jiaodong. Jiaodong 3 sides around the sea, shaped like a bull's-eye, east and west of the narrowest, the Kuomintang Fan Hanjie Department is entrenched here, foot, artillery, Tan and the sea, land and air forces are well-equipped, such as Xu Shiyou frontal duel, poorly equipped troops, will be annihilated; and then retreat to the east, only to the sea to feed the fish. Xu Shiyou and retreat and see, aiming at the combination of the enemy eight divisions and nine divisions, on the night of September 22nd, the rear guard to change the vanguard, peacefully from the "cracks" in the jump to the back of the Fan Hanjie, Fan presumptuously concluded that the rate of Xu tens of thousands of people breakout is "avoiding the war and fleeing", unbeatable. Only two divisions in two tail chase, a large number of people continue to the east. 10 days later Xu suddenly dial horse back, turn around and kill "horseback", around the tail chase of the enemy sixty-four divisions in Fanjiaji. Will be annihilated by the enemy division commander Huang Guoliang, on the telegraph in the Ming language loudly call for help, Fan Hanjie realized that the situation is serious, back to the division in 3 ways to rescue. Xu Shiyou order to surround the point of reinforcements, stay Huang Guoliang call for help to attract reinforcements to the pocket formation drilling, only 8 days time to annihilate the enemy nearly 20,000, so that Fan Hanjie's comb tactics into nothing.
September 1948, Xu Shiyou disk horse bow, ready to attack the KMT Shandong Provincial Government and the second appeasement area headquarters, Shandong's largest fortified city - Jinan. The world was watching to see if the battle would be won or lost. Foreign prophets had asserted that the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) would definitely hit a wall in front of modern fortifications, and even some of our friends were skeptical of our army's capabilities. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek in order to keep Jinan, especially the preparation of the "war plan": Wang Yaowu Department of 110,000 people defending Jinan, Huang Botao and other three regiments of 170,000 people configured Xuzhou, at any time to help the north, "inside and outside, to defeat the **** army". Chiang Kai-shek had repeatedly cautioned Wang Yaowu: "Jinan is a strategic place, must be solidly defended." "If you do not work with fury and determination, you will die without a burial place." Furthermore, Jinan City is divided into peripheral, outer city, inner city 3 layers of fortifications, barbed wire, deer fortress, trenches, minefield, bunker dark fort, etc., the depth of the configuration of up to sixty or seventy meters. Tall walls up to 10 meters thick, and there are airplanes to help the war. Therefore, if you can not quickly Jinan, our army will be Huang Botao, Wang Yaowu north-south pincer attack. East China field army decided: Xu Shiyou rate 140,000 people for the "attack corps", Su Yu rate 140,000 people for the "reinforcement corps".
Before the start of the battle, Xu Shiyou made the troops simulate the terrain and fortifications in Jinan, practicing sweeping the periphery, attacking the city, boarding the city and street fighting. At the same time, he bluffed to make the southwestern Lu troops attacked the airport, railroad, so that the enemy mistakenly thought Xu Xu will attack Xuzhou, until Xu Shiyou Department of sudden and courageous action of multiple breakthroughs in the periphery of the Jinan defense line, Wang Yaowu is only like a dream. Xu west line corps swooped Changqing, threatening the airport, Wang Yaowu judgment Xu main force in the west, and fear of air access is cut off, urgent reserve force (two brigades) Chi aid, Xu east line corps in the suburb of the suburb of the heights of Maoling Mountain, Yanchi Mountain, Wang and delusion Xu main force in the east, and two brigades of reinforcements not yet based on a stable foothold, and then turn around to go to the east line. Wang Yaowu is most anxious to figure out the direction of Xu Shiyou's main attack, the hand of the maneuvering force east to west, exhausted. Waiting for him to find out is the east and west of the attack, east and west of the peripheral positions are all lost, Jinan City, the back of the enemy. Thereafter, Xu Shiyou soldiers under the city, will be to the edge of the trench, focusing all the artillery fire fierce attack, tall walls and city fortifications should be the sound of the decadence, assault troops braved the bombing of the enemy aircraft and smoke, plunged straight into the city ...... after 8 days and nights of fierce fighting, total annihilation of 110,000 of the enemy defenders. Wang Yaowu fleeing in civilian clothes, because long wearing a military cap forehead baked a crescent-shaped white marks, was our troops found, captured. Xinhua News Agency published an editorial on this occasion, "Celebrating the Great Victory of the Liberation of Jinan," and Chairman Mao Zedong, in revising this editorial, added in his own handwriting, "This is a proof that the powerful attacking ability of the People's Liberation Army has become irresistible to the Kuomintang armies, and that no Kuomintang city has been able to escape from the attack of the People's Liberation Army." Jinan has been both conquered, Heze, Linyi, Yantai defenders fled without a fight, except for Qingdao and a few other isolated points, Shandong was liberated.
Once the battle started, Xu Shiyou was courageous and fearless, leading the way. He often said, "people die like blowing lamps, kill the head but a bowl of scars." He had 7 times to participate in the death squad, 5 times as the death squad leader. Usually on the battlefield, his left hand to carry a very heavy knife, his right hand carrying a barge gun with the nose open; when the situation is urgent, ? Charge forward, once his very heavy sword swung open, cut with the dead, hit with the wounded, such as the tiger swings sheep. "Battle of the knife source", his command post is located more than 200 meters away from the front position. In the enemy swarmed up to break through the front position of the critical moment, Xu (then deputy army commander) with counterattack troops, the first to rush into the enemy. An enemy commander waved his pistol and shouted, he flew over and slashed his head, I don't know whether the knife was too fast or cut too hard, the guy's head rolled a long way down the hill, and his body staggered forward a few steps.
How high is his Shaolin Temple martial arts, no one knows the details, but from his occasional exposure of a half a star, has been enough to shock the world. He had been wounded seven times, each time, he was hard to use his fingers to snap the bullet out of the wound, paste some pumpkin flesh to get rid of the problem (at that time, there was a lack of medical care and medicine). He could "push off" a large piece of the bark of a pine tree with one palm. He sped on his horse. Reaching out and wrenching the branches of the tree, two legs a clip, a cat waist can put the war horse column hanging off the ground. At night when the meeting rest, colleagues want him to "show his hand", he said he hid himself and no one can find. When the crowd returned to the conference room, in the bright lights, searching all four walls of the conference room and not find him, he was under the conference table "hehehe" a smile, we realized that he was close to the back of the desktop, hidden in the "table belly". One year, the Soviet Union military delegation to visit Nanjing, a Soviet officer to move the drum-shaped stone pier, other officers boasted that he was "Hercules". Xu Shiyou in the colleague's courage, on the spur of the moment, a grab shirt, hands high stone lion around the field 3 times, won thunderous applause, and then steadily put the stone lion to the original stone seat. Soviet army "Hercules" face, also go to lift the stone lion, but unfortunately exhausted his strength, he moved the lion does not move. Xu Shiyou also proficient in stick fighting, knife fighting, boxing and wrestling. He taught the knife art of fast-paced, flexible, completely broke through the Kuomintang troops bayonet fighting rhythm and attack and defense moves, so his troops in the physical combat repeatedly prevailed. On one occasion, when the bullets ran out, he led a small number of troops to rush into the enemy group, and hard to fight for four hours with the big knife, expelled the enemy from the position.
He was thick and less literate, tough and fearless. Soldiers asked him to sing the flower-drum opera, although the opening of the opening is inevitably off the board, but the request is always answered, he always sang so flavorful, so forgetful. He believes that the dance knife and stick, chopping and punching, can be used in combat, but also to strengthen the body, he is Shaolin Temple "class" origin, so always very happy to teach or perform martial arts, and even in his seventies when he was still teaching the staff around the stick, seriously correcting other people's one move a style. He loved smoking, warriors just sucked the dry pouch, he ran his hand through the "mouthpiece", holding on to smoke; others use his pouch "addiction" he did not intervene, but as long as the battlefield or practice, he stood on the horse, immediately became an inviolable general.
"Cultural Revolution", Xu Shiyou's fearless character is manifested to the fullest. Once, the East China Sea Fleet commander Tao Yong's four children to find Xu Shiyou, met immediately cried: "Uncle Xu, save us!" It turned out that Tao Yong was persecuted to death, and his children were homeless. Xu Shiyou heard, greatly moved, wide captain said: "Do not be afraid, I'm a red safe." He ordered to bring a person in charge, stood in the middle of the house with his legs crossed, and said sternly: "Tao Yong and I came out to revolutionize together, I don't care what is said outside. He's fallen on hard times, and I'm partial to his children." "Put 'local' can not, will be persecuted, to be put into the red safe, told them to join the army." "We're not recruiting this year!" "My troops are recruiting." He an order, there have been 40 children of cadres in distress to put on the uniform. One time, a group of people want to fight him, he took a car to Dabie Mountain. At that time, the provisions of the higher-ups, "do not fight back, scolded not to return the favor", Xu Shiyou do not eat this set. When he arrived at an intersection, he ordered to stop the car, looked at the terrain, and then ordered: "Blockade. Set up machine guns for me, dare to climb this slope, shoot on sight!" Soon a few "spies" from the mass organizations came after him. They look at the "military restricted area, may not approach" that line of big words, and then look at the black hole of the gun, wandering for a long time do not dare to go up the slope, and then, the mass organization of the procession drove, they are vast and powerful, shouting "Down with Xu Shiyou!" "Catch Xu Shiyou alive!" When the few "spies" a little report, they immediately stopped, peeping down the slope to watch, who do not want to take the head to the muzzle of a gun. As a result, they shouted slogans at the bottom of the slope, and then, like the diversion of the river, turned and slipped away.
In the fall of 1968, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was completed and opened to traffic, Xu Shiyou cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony, the Central News and Record Film Studio made a documentary film film. Later, at a meeting in Beijing, Zhang Chunqiao said to Xu in a conspiratorial manner, "Your footage stands out, you're trying to get 'me as the core' in East China!" When Xu Shiyou heard this, he became furious, he slammed the table and scolded, "Let go of your bullshit! I didn't make the movie, I don't want 'me as the core', you want 'me as the core'! "
This powerful and feared tiger general, in front of his own mother, is always a respectful filial son. 1654, Xu Shiyou took a car to Macheng, and then walked to catch dozens of miles of mountains, back to his hometown of several decades of separation. When he heard that his mother was collecting pine firewood in the nearby mountains, he immediately went to pick her up with his guards. Seeing his aged mother was about to carry a large bundle of pine branches, he felt a pang of sorrow in his heart. He hurriedly instructed the guard, "Quickly! You carry it." Xu's mother was not happy: "He came all the way to our home, he is a guest, how can you ask him to carry it? Mom can carry him, but you can't?" Xu Shiyou hemmed and hawed, pushed away the guards, and carried the bundle of firewood himself. Xu Shiyou received his mother in Nanjing, but the old lady used to picking up their own firewood to burn, picking their own water to eat the days, but on the sleeve of the idle meal is not accustomed to. Live time is not long, she said: "everywhere is a house is a door, want to plan a piece of barren land to grow some vegetables are not a place, or back home to live at ease." Xu Shiyou persuasion, still can not be retained. A thought of gray-haired old man still live alone, self-labor self-food, a thought of his mother in order to their "peace" and eat long fast (lifelong do not eat meat), feel sorry for the mother. 1985 when he learned that he suffered from cancer, knowing that he must die, leaving his last words: "alive can not serve the mother, after death to do filial piety. Mother, after death to do filial piety." Asked to be buried at the foot of Xu mother after death, and always accompany his mother in the ground.