Xu was a soldier all his life, and fought against the Kuomintang army, Japanese army, puppet army, American army and Vietnamese army in China. On the war stage, this "Shaolin general" has a brilliant command ability.
He is good at blocking wars and has the reputation of "defending as Mount Tai". 1927, local tyrants in Futian River assembled local armed forces such as militia and Red Gun Association and launched an attack on the peasant associations in Macheng and Shunhe districts. Wherever they went, they burned, robbed and fought bloody battles. In May, Xu was appointed as the captain of the township volunteers. He ordered the volunteers to build fortifications, pile up stones and logs, and set up sentries day and night to monitor the enemy. One day, the evil gentry of Futian River led more than 800 people to attack, and Xu quickly assembled 20 or 30 volunteers to fight. A burst of gunfire pushed the enemy who was about to climb the top of the mountain to the mountainside. When the enemy's shock subsided, the teacher of the Red Gun Club had long hair, bare chest and bare arms, and danced and said a spell: "Kunlun Mountain, wrapped in hardware, is a diamond body given by Guanyin. King Kong's body, refined gas in the abdomen, can block thousands of guns against halberds, and guns and bullets can't penetrate the body ... "After reading the spell, the teacher cut off the goat's head behind him with a knife, and the enemy soldiers were so ghostly that they immediately screamed and rushed up. When the enemy climbed twenty or thirty meters away from the top of the mountain, Xu gave a "hit", steel guns, bird heads and pine cannons rang in unison, rolling wood and rolling stones poured down like flash floods, and members of the peasant associations who heard the news shouted for help, and there was a cry of the enemy in the valley. When the teacher once again "read the mantra" to organize an attack, Xu shot it and killed it. The bandits were immediately discouraged, leaving a corpse everywhere and never daring to look around again.
1934, when the Red Fourth Front Army counterattacked the siege of Liuxiang Road 6, the "Wanyuan Defence War" commanded by Xu was a famous battle to block the enemy. Liu Xiang invested more than 200,000 troops in an attempt to cross the Yangtze River eastward from the north of the Yangtze River along the Sichuan-Shaanxi border, focusing on attacking the eastern front, capturing Wanyuan and its nearby areas, and then the East and the West joined forces to destroy the Red Army. Xu (then deputy commander of the army) spent three months in Damian Mountain and Qingshan areas south of Wanyuan. The altitude of Damian Mountain is more than 1.500 meters, with high mountains and deep valleys, steep slopes and dense forests, which makes the troops build several trenches to 10 on the mountains, and then cut down big trees to form a "wooden city" with a thickness of three or four meters. Bamboo sticks and Luzhai are all over the gentle slope, and the ring and rolling wood are piled up in steep places. On July 16, Liu Xiang's eight brigades launched a storm under the cover of planes and artillery. Charge the enemy like watching a big drama, and a wave of charges reached five or six times in the morning. Xu told the Red Army to take up the battle calmly. When the enemy rushed to the front of the position for dozens of meters, all kinds of firearms fired together and rolling stones rolled down. The enemy soldiers panicked and fled in a hurry. The Red Army soldiers jumped out of the trenches and waved broadswords to chase after them. The enemy's charge was shattered again and again ... Because of the enemy's repeated shelling, the position was beaten like a newly plowed farmland, and it was a deep footprint. In some areas, there is little soil and hard stones, and it is too late to repair fortifications. The soldiers dragged the bodies of the enemy, head to head and foot to foot. It is covered with a layer of residual soil to form a simple fortification. Look for it in the enemy's corpse when the bullets are gone, and pick it up in the enemy's corpse when the gun is broken. If they are addicted to cigarettes, they will still pick them up in the pile of corpses ... Liu Xiang is extremely anxious about losing troops. He gave an order: those who attack Wanyuan will be rewarded with 30 thousand silver dollars, and those who give up their positions without authorization will engage in military law, and the brigade commander will not personally execute them. As soon as this order came out, the head of the enemy brigade went into battle shirtless, and the battalion and company commander formed an officer death squad to charge, fearing that the former would be shot on the spot regardless of officers and men. The plane was bombed and shelled, and the soldiers who were controlled by the group rushed up like a ball. Although all kinds of firearms of the Red Army swept towards the enemy like a storm, and one enemy after another fell, the enemies behind them still surged forward, and some even jumped into the trenches. Xu commanded the reserve team to fight with the enemy's broadsword, and the intersection of the two armies was red, and the bloody clothes could not be distinguished from the bloody blades. After more than 70 days of fighting, Xu remained firmly in power after defeating Liu Xiang's 65,438+hundreds of thousands of people. After the siege of Route 6 was shattered, Liu Xiang claimed in his appeal to Chiang Kai-shek that the siege cost190,000 silver dollars, 5,000 officers were killed and 80,000 soldiers were injured. Since then, it has been unsustainable. Please exempt yourself from your duties. The battle of Wanyuan accounts for about half of the losses.
Xu Su is known as "attacking like a tiger". 1July, 936, Xu led more than 3,000 cavalry (then commander of cavalry of the Red Fourth Front Army) to "raise food and explore the road". When I went to Aba, the town was empty. I learned from two Tibetans who have been hard to find that Mousang, the Aba chieftain, knew that the Red Army would go north through this route and drove everyone away in a sinister way, transferring food and livestock and fighting the Red Army. There are thousands of armed men in Sangmu. They all ride well and shoot well. Those who miss three shots at night will be put into sacks and sink into the river as waste. 15 night, Xu found small flames thousands of meters away in the area of Segou * * * Ba, and horses barked from time to time. After reconnaissance, it was armed by Mosang, with about 5000 people. Xu ordered the troops to pick up the enemy in multiple ways. At one command, many grenades were thrown into the fire. With the explosion, the burning firewood rose into the air and Mars soared into the sky. The enemy horse was frightened and screamed, and the enemy soldiers were either killed or trampled to death. The Red Army cavalry held high their sabres among the remnants of the enemy, and the armed forces that Mo San had operated for 20 years were destroyed in an instant.
Sometimes, watching the fighter plane go straight to the enemy's head office is like grabbing food from the tiger's mouth and catching the enemy off guard. 1945 spring, twice put aside the periphery and went straight to Zhao Baoyuan's lair. The first time Zhao fled in disguise, he only survived; The second time Zhao was killed and beheaded, and tens of thousands of people were killed or captured. The most amazing battle was the battle of "surprise attack on Zhoucun". 1March, 948, more than 40,000 Kuomintang troops, including the enemy's reorganized 32nd Division, entered the west section of Ji Jiao Road. They were stationed in Zhangdian in the east, Mingshui in the west, Qidong in the north and Boshan in the south, with Zhou as the commander in chief and leading their troops to Zhoucun City. Knowing that the enemy will defend every ideal city and seeing that the city is indestructible, Xu fled in all directions; Zhoucuncheng was less than 5 battalions on the defensive, and its fortifications were weak, so it was decided to lead the army to attack from a long distance and make a surprise attack. After seven days of marching at night, when we were about to meet the enemy, it rained heavily and the night sky was dark, so we couldn't see our fingers. At this time, Zhou also realized that he quickly contracted his defense, and urgently called a meeting of the brigade commander to deploy Zhoucun's defense. On the way in, my 78th regiment found that several of the teams walking side by side were wearing big caps. When they asked about the prisoners, they learned that they were ordered to go to Zhoucun to help the enemy's 14 1 brigade. The colonel whispered that the whole regiment rushed into the enemy team and stopped part of the enemy's tail. Groups of enemies became prisoners in a daze. Our 76th regiment followed another enemy team, and it rained heavily at night, but the enemy didn't observe it. The regiment went straight to Zhoucun City. At midnight, Xu came with a great army. Zhou doesn't know the serial number and strength of our army yet. We only talked about wired communication once. The communication hub group was hit by our artillery fire. The commander of the enemy brigade is still on his way back to the headquarters, and the headquarters is completely paralyzed. The handover of reinforcements is unclear, and soldiers are looking for officials, and officials are looking for soldiers. What a mess. After a day of fighting, except for Zhou's escape in disguise, all the enemy troops and reinforcements were wiped out. Zhoucun was defeated, and the other defenders were scared out of their wits. Some people abandoned the city and fled, some people resisted abandoning the city, and even the enemies of Laiwu and Mengyin, which were hundreds of miles away from Zhoucun, fled. Xu sent troops to attack everywhere, killing 38,000 people in 12 days.
"Do not lose money, make money", this is Xu's war principle. Xuchang led the troops to deal with the enemy several times. Once some enemies are isolated and become "outcrop rafters", they will be killed. In this way, he led his department, step by step, to Jiaodong. Jiaodong is surrounded by the sea on three sides, with a trumpet shape and the narrowest thing. Fan Hanjie of the Kuomintang is entrenched here, and its troops, guns, tanks and air force are all ready. If you fight Xu head-on, your troops and equipment will be crude and the whole army will be wiped out; Further east, the only way is to feed the fish in the sea. Xu stepped back and looked at the junction of the enemy's eighth and ninth divisions. On the night of September 22, he replaced the defender with a striker and jumped safely behind Fan. Fan jumped and led tens of thousands of troops to break through, which was an "escape from the war" and was vulnerable. Only two divisions and soldiers split into two roads, and a large number of troops continued to advance eastward. 10 days later, Xu suddenly returned to his horse, turned around and killed the "returning carbine", and surrounded the enemy's sixty-fourth division in Fan Jiaji. Huang Guoliang, the soon-to-be-annihilated enemy commander, shouted for help in plain language on the walkie-talkie. At this time, Fan Cai realized that the situation was serious, so Li Bing went to save him in three ways. Xu ordered the encirclement to point to Dawan, and stayed to call for help to attract reinforcements to drill into the pocket array. In just eight days, nearly 20 thousand enemy troops were wiped out, which wiped out Fan's comb tactics.
1September, 948, Xu Zema bent his bow and prepared to attack Jinan, the largest fortified city in Shandong, where the Kuomintang Shandong provincial government and the headquarters of the second appeasement area were located. The victory or defeat of this battle depends on the world. Foreign prophets assert that the China People's Liberation Army is bound to run into a wall in the face of modern fortifications, and even some friends are skeptical about our army's ability. At the same time, in order to keep Jinan, Chiang Kai-shek specially drew up a "battle plan": Wang Bu 1 10000 men stuck to Jinan, and the Third Corps of Huang 17000 men deployed Xuzhou to help the north at any time, "attacking from inside and outside and defeating the * * * army". Chiang Kai-shek warned Wang many times: "Jinan is a strategic place and must be adhered to." "Without hard work and firm will, there will be no good end." Furthermore, Jinan city is divided into three layers of fortifications: the periphery, the outer city and the inner city, including barbed wire, Luzhai, trenches, minefields and open bunkers, with a depth of 60 to 70 meters. The tall city wall is 10 meter thick, and there are planes to help. Therefore, if we can't attack Jinan quickly, our army will be attacked by Huang and Wang. The East China Field Army decided to appoint 654.38+04,000 as the "siege corps" and Su Yu as the "reinforcement corps".
Before the start of the campaign, Xu ordered the troops to simulate the terrain and fortifications of Jinan and practice sweeping the periphery, attacking the city, boarding the city and fighting in the streets. At the same time, air cannons were used to make southwest Shandong troops harass airports and railways, making the enemy mistakenly think that Xu Jiang was going to attack Xuzhou. It was not until Xu broke through Jinan's peripheral defense line with lightning speed that Wang Cai woke up from a dream. Xu's Western Corps rushed to Changqing, threatening the airport. Wang judged that Xu was in the west, fearing that the air passage would be cut off. He urgently ordered the reserve team (two brigades) to come to the rescue, and Xu's eastern corps was even at the commanding heights of Maoling Mountain and Yanshan Mountain in the suburbs. Wang jumped away from Xu's main force in the east and ordered two brigades with unstable base areas to reinforce and turn around to the east. What Wang is most worried about is that he is not sure about the main direction of Xu's attack, and the mobile forces at hand are diverted from east to west. He is on the run. When he found out that it was an attack from the east and the west, all the peripheral positions of the east and the west fell, and Jinan City was caught between Scylla and Charybdis. Since then, Xu Jiang Enemy at the Gates, near the moat, concentrated all the artillery fire and attacked fiercely. The tall city walls and fortifications will be sung down, and commandos will brave the bombing and smoke of enemy planes and go straight into the city ... After eight days and nights of fierce fighting, the adowa general 1 1000 will be on the defensive. Wang plainclothes fled, because he wore a military cap for a long time, and a crescent-shaped white mark was baked on his forehead, which was discovered and captured by our army. Xinhua News Agency published an editorial "Celebrating the Great Victory of Jinan Liberation". When President Mao Zedong revised this editorial, he personally added, "This proves that the powerful offensive capability of the People's Liberation Army is irresistible to the Kuomintang army, and no Kuomintang city can escape the attack of the People's Liberation Army." Jinan was defeated, Heze, Linyi and Yantai fled without fighting, and Shandong was completely liberated except for a few isolated points such as Qingdao.
At the beginning of the war, Xu was fearless and charged. He often said: "People die like blowing a lamp, but killing their heads is just a bowl of scars." He joined the death squad seven times and served as the captain of the death squad five times. Usually, he holds a heavy broadsword in his left hand and a mauser pistol with a nose in his right hand; In case of emergency, he rushes forward. Once his heavy waist knife swings away, the person who cuts will die, and the person who hits will be injured, just like a tiger swinging a sheep. During the "Battle of the Knife Source", his command post was located more than 200 meters away from the forward position. At the critical moment when the enemy swarmed and broke through the front position, Xu (then deputy commander) took the counterattack troops and rushed into the enemy group first. An enemy commander waved a pistol and shouted. He flew over and it was really a knife. I don't know whether the knife was cut too fast or too hard. That guy's head rolled down the hill for a long time, and his body staggered several steps forward.
No one knows how good his Shaolin Temple martial arts are, but what he occasionally reveals is enough to shock the world. He was injured seven times, and every time he pulled the bullet out of the wound with his fingers and burned it into melon pulp (which was short of medicine at that time). A pine tree with a small washbasin can "push off" a large piece of bark with one hand. He galloped his horse. Reach out and pull the branches, with a clip on your leg and a bow, you can lift the horse and train off the ground. Colleagues let him "shine" during meetings and breaks at night. He said he couldn't find anyone hiding. When everyone returned to the conference room and searched the empty conference room under the bright light, but he couldn't be found, he smiled "hey hey" under the conference table, and everyone found him clinging to the back of the desktop and hiding in the "table belly". One year, when a Soviet military delegation visited Nanjing, a Soviet officer held up a drum-shaped stone pier. Other officers praised him as a "Hercules". Under the cowardice of his colleagues, Xu had a whim, grabbed his coat, held the stone lion high in his hand and circled the field three times, winning thunderous applause, and then firmly placed the stone lion on the original stone seat. The Soviet "Hercules" could not face it, but also carried the stone lion. Unfortunately, he tried his best to move the lion. Xu is also proficient in stick, fencing, boxing and wrestling. The knife method he taught was fast-paced and flexible, which completely broke through the advance and retreat rhythm and attack and defense tactics of Kuomintang troops in bayonet warfare. Therefore, his troops have repeatedly gained the upper hand in hand-to-hand combat. Once, when all the bullets were gone, he led several troops into the enemy group and it took four hours to drive the enemy out of the position.
He is stout, quiet and fearless. The soldiers asked him to sing Huagu Opera. Although it is inevitable that he will leave the string as soon as he opens his mouth, he always gives whatever he wants. He always sings with good taste and is easy to forget. He believes that dancing with knives and axes can not only be used in actual combat, but also strengthen the body. He is a "training class" in Shaolin Temple, so he is always willing to teach or perform martial arts. Even in his 70 s, he taught the staff around him to persist and seriously corrected other people's tricks. He loves smoking. The soldier just finished smoking his cigarette case. He stroked the "cigarette holder" with his hand and was still smoking while holding it; It doesn't matter if others hit the nail on the head with his pipe, but as soon as he went to the battlefield or training ground, he immediately became an inviolable general.
In the "Cultural Revolution", Xu's fearless character was vividly displayed. Once, the four children of the commander of the East China Sea Fleet found Xu, and immediately burst into tears when they met: "Uncle Xu, help us!" It turned out that Tao Yong was persecuted to death and his children were homeless. Hearing this, Xu was deeply moved. Kuan Wei said, "Don't be afraid, this is a red safe." He ordered the person in charge to be called, stood in the middle of the house with his legs crossed, and said sharply, "Tao Yong and I came out for the revolution together, and I don't care what is said outside. He is in trouble and I have to take care of his children. " "If you don't put it in the local area, you will be persecuted. You should put it in the red safe and let all the children join the army. " "Don't recruit this year!" My recruit. He ordered the children of 40 fallen cadres to wear military uniforms. Once, a group of people wanted to beat him, and he went to Dabie Mountain by car. At that time, the superior stipulated that "if you don't fight back, you won't talk back", but Xu didn't buy it. When he reached the crossroads, he ordered to stop. After inspecting the terrain, he ordered: "blockade. Give me all the machine guns, and whoever dares to climb this slope will be killed! " Soon several "spies" from mass organizations followed. They looked at the big words "no entry into the military restricted zone" and the dark muzzle, hesitated for a long time and dared not go up the mountain. Then, the team of mass organizations came, mighty and impressive, shouting "Down with Xu!" "Take monk Xu alive!" After a brief report, the "spies" immediately stopped to watch under the slope, and no one wanted to hit their heads on the muzzle. As a result, after shouting slogans at the bottom of the slope, he turned around and slipped away like a diversion.
1968 Autumn, Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was completed and opened to traffic. Xu cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony, and the Central News Recording Film Studio filmed a documentary. Later, at a meeting in Beijing, Zhang Chunqiao said to Xu strangely, "Your lens is outstanding. You want to engage in' taking me as the core' in East China! " Xu Youshi flew into a rage. He patted the table and scolded, "Bullshit! I didn't make this movie. I don't want to take me as the core. You want to take me as the core! "
This mighty general will always be a dutiful son in front of his mother. 1654, Xu took a bus to Macheng, walked dozens of miles of mountain roads, and returned to his hometown for decades. When he heard that his mother was picking up pine branches and firewood on the nearby mountain, he immediately took the guards to pick them up. When he saw his 70-year-old mother about to carry a large bundle of pine branches, he felt a burst of sadness in his heart. He quickly ordered the guard: "Hurry up! You take it. " Xu Mu was unhappy: "People came to our house all the way, and they were guests. How can we let them carry us? " ? Mom can recite, can't you recite? "Xu Youshi hey smile, pushed open the guards, oneself carry firewood bundle up. Xu took her mother to Nanjing. The old lady used to collect firewood and carry water by herself, but she was not used to doing nothing. After living for a short time, she said, "There are houses and doors everywhere, and there is no place to dig a wasteland to order food. I'd better go back to my hometown and live a comfortable life." Xu tried everything to persuade him, but he still couldn't stop him. I feel sorry for my mother when I think that the white-haired old man has to live alone and earn his own living, and that her mother has to eat a long vegetarian meal for her own "peace" (she will never eat meat and fish in her life). When he learned that he had cancer on 1985, he knew that he would die, leaving his last words: "You can't serve your mother when you are alive, but you should be filial when you die. "It is required to be buried at Xu's mother's feet after death and always accompany her underground.