Chapter 2 Small order

Xu Shiyou is a famous general in our army. During his military career for more than half a century, he was in the army and horse, lived and slept in the open, bloody and bloody, and went through life and death.His special history and special character made him known as a legendary general in the whole army and among the people of the whole country. Xu Shiyou's history is very unusual, and his war history is even more unusual. In August 1926, when he served as the company commander of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the Wuhan National Revolutionary Army, he accepted revolutionary ideas and joined the Communist Youth League in September of that year. In August 1929, when the Great Revolution was at a low ebb, he transferred to He was a member of the Communist Party of China and returned to his hometown that month to join the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army.In November of the same year, he participated in the famous jute uprising and started a long revolutionary career in the people's army.

During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he successively served as squad leader, platoon leader, battalion commander, regiment commander, deputy army commander and division commander, army commander, and cavalry commander of the Red Fourth Front Army. Anti-"encirclement and suppression" and the Long March in the Sichuan-Shanxi Soviet Area.He participated in the death squad 7 times, served as the captain of the death squad twice, and was injured 4 times, showing the spirit of fighting for the revolution. In 1934, when fighting against the "three-way siege" in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Area, he commanded three regiments to defend Wanyuan County, Sichuan. The enemy with superiority held on for 3 months and made a major contribution to defending the Sichuan-Shanxi base.

In late August 1935, when Comrades Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai led the Red Army on the Long March to the north and walked out of the grassland, the 49th Division of the Kuomintang Hu Zongnan's troops took a seat in Gansu to "block and suppress". The enemy fought fiercely for two days and two nights, wiped out the enemy, and opened the door to march to Gansu. Due to Zhang Guotao's separatist activities, Xu Shiyou's Red Fourth Front Army went back and forth to the grassland three times, going through all kinds of difficulties and dangers. In July 1936, when he crossed the grassland for the third time, the cavalry unit under his command served as the vanguard and fought frequently along the way, creating favorable conditions for the Red Fourth Front Army to cross the dangerous pass and go north to Gansu.After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he entered the Red Army University for further study and devoted himself to the struggle to liquidate Zhang Guotao's crimes.

Not long after the Anti-Japanese War began, Xu Shiyou followed Commander-in-Chief Zhu De to the Taihang Mountains and devoted himself to the great Anti-Japanese War. In October 1938, he served as deputy brigade commander of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.At the end of the same year, under the command of Comrades Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, they marched into southern Hebei. In early February 1939, he and Comrade Chen Geng, the brigade commander, lured and wiped out a reinforced infantry squadron of the Japanese army in the Xiangchenggu area south of Weixian County, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders. In September 1940, he served as the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Shandong Column. On the same day, the puppets fought fiercely on the coast of the Bohai Sea and on both sides of the Qinghe River. In the spring of 1941, he commanded the Eighth Route Army and local armed forces in the Jiaodong area to sweep away the enemy and puppets, opening up a new situation in the anti-Japanese struggle in the Jiaodong area.

In February 1942, he served as the chief of staff of the Shandong column. In October of the same year, he served as the commander of the Jiaodong Military Region. The enemy was terrified. In the spring of 1945, he led troops to crusade against the Kuomintang surrender faction Zhao Baoyuan, Kewandi, and Zhanzuo Village, swept across the banks of Wanglong River, and cleared the obstacles of Jiaodong Anti-Japanese War. During the War of Liberation, Xu Shiyou successively served as commander of the 9th Corps of the East China Field Army, commander of the Eastern Front Corps (later called the Shandong Corps), deputy commander, commander, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Shandong Military Region, and member of the Shandong Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In the first half of 1947, under the command of Comrade Chen Yi, he led his troops to participate in the Battle of Laiwu and the Battle of Menglianggu.In August of the same year, together with Comrade Tan Zhenlin, he commanded four columns and two divisions, and successively won the battles of defending Jiaodong and Zhang (dian), Zhou (cun), Chang (le), Wei (county) and Yan (zhou). It smashed the key attack of the Kuomintang army on Shandong.

In September 1948, together with comrades Tan Zhenlin and Wang Jian'an, he commanded the troops to conquer Jinan City, the capital of Shandong Province, annihilated 100,000 Kuomintang troops, and captured Wang Yaowu alive after eight days and nights of fierce fighting in accordance with the deployment of the Central Military Commission and the East China Field Army Command. In the more than 20 years of revolutionary war, Xu Shiyou fought in the South and the North, made outstanding military exploits, and made indelible historical contributions to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xu Shiyou went to North Korea in 1953 to serve as the commander of the 3rd Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteers.He participated in the summer counteroffensive campaign that broke through the enemy's defenses in the Jincheng area and promoted the realization of the Korean Armistice. After returning to China, Xu Shiyou successively served as the second deputy commander of the East China Military Region, the third secretary of the Party Committee, the deputy chief of the general staff, the commander of the Nanjing Military Region, the second secretary of the Party Committee, the deputy minister of national defense, and the secretary of the East China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. First Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee, Commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, First Secretary of the Party Committee, Member and Standing Committee Member of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China. He was awarded the rank of general in 1955, and was awarded the first-level August 1st Medal, the first-level Independent Freedom Medal, and the first-level Liberation Medal.During this period, Xu Shiyou focused his energy on safeguarding national defense security and strengthening the construction of the army. He traveled to the front lines of coastal defense and went deep into the grassroots and national defense construction sites.

In 1964, under the leadership of Ye Jianying, Luo Ruiqing and other comrades, he actively promoted the "Guo Xingfu teaching method" and launched a vigorous mass military training campaign. In January 1974, when he was the commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, he commanded the self-defense counterattack of the Paracel Islands, severely punished the invading South Vietnamese troops, and safeguarded the dignity and territorial integrity of the motherland. His achievements in history have been recorded in "Memoirs of Xu Shiyou". The book I am writing now is mainly about his life, work and combat command in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam in 1979.This was Xu Shiyou's last battle. He was already 74 years old when he fought this time.I was his assistant, I was a witness, and I wanted to give a true account of what he was like during this operation.

Subjective wishes do not equal objective reality.Does the book I wrote reflect the real situation of Xu Shiyou? I would also like to ask the head of the Guangzhou Military Region, comrades in the forward command post of the Military Region, and the majority of commanders and fighters who participated in this battle to correct me.