Chapter 21 Love of Ten Marshals-8

Because China's modern revolutionary war started from the south, most of the founding generals were from the south.Ten marshals, 9 south and 1 north, and 9 southerners are concentrated in Lianghu and Sichuan-Guangzhou provinces.If the origins of the "Ten Generals" are added, the balance will be even more unbalanced, Hunan 6 (Su Huang Chen Tan Xiao Xu), Hubei 2 (Xu Wang), Guangdong 1 (Zhang), Sichuan 1 (Luo).That is to say, among the 20 founding marshals and generals, 9 from Hunan, 5 from Sichuan including Chongqing, 3 from Hubei, and 2 from Guangdong, only one is from the north.Among the 57 founding generals, 9 were from the north, and 19 from Hunan Province.This pattern formed by history has continued to this day. If northerners want to stand out, they must work ten times harder.Therefore, as the only Northern Marshal, Xu Qianqian (1901-1990) struggled through a truly arduous journey.

Xu Shuai's face can be seen at a glance. He is the most miserable among the ten marshals. According to "Dongbo God's Appearance", he is the one who is riding a donkey and holding a mop to chase a tiger.When he applied for the Whampoa Military Academy, he was almost rejected because he was suspected of being a "big smoker".Chiang Kai-shek called him once, but he didn't see his ability, and regretted it later.Xu Shuai fought a difficult battle, and his marriage was also very rough.In fact, Xu Xiangqian has many firsts in military history. For example, he is the only one who has held the three highest military positions of Chief of General Staff, Minister of Defense (and Vice Premier of the State Council), and First Vice Chairman of the Military Commission. "Grand Slam".He was the highest general in the Communist Party in the first phase of Whampoa. The Kuomintang offered a reward of 100,000 to 200,000 yuan for his head, which was the same price as Zhu De and Mao Zedong.He was the youngest commander-in-chief of the front army during the period of the Red Army. He was the general who commanded the largest number of troops. , Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and other veterans who have stood tall in several eras.In the anti-six-way siege he commanded, 80,000 people resisted 200,000 and wiped out 100,000; in the Battle of Jinzhong, 60,000 people wiped out 100,000 enemies;Lin Biao, Suyu and Liu Bocheng should also admire such an astonishing record.It's a pity that there is not enough publicity. People think that he is only awarded the marshal by relying on the veteran qualifications of the Whampoa Military Academy and the Fourth Front Army.So don't be fooled by Xu Shuai's "bitter look" on the surface, he has a grand strategy in his heart, and even a mighty "spring spirit".

Xu Shuai was born in Wutai, Shanxi in 1901, at the same age as Chen Yi. His real name was Xu Xiangqian, and his baby name was Yincun.My father was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty and taught in the village. At the age of 20, his parents arranged for him to marry the elegant and hardworking Zhu Xiangchan in his hometown. At that time, Xu Xiangqian worked as a teacher in the school run by Yan Xishan, with a monthly salary of 20 yuan, and lived a relatively well-to-do life.Two years later, a girl was born, named Songzhi.Zhu Xiangchan unfortunately died of illness when the child was one year old.At this time, Xu Xiangqian lost his job, left home to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy, and then went to war alone, making his home all over the world.After Song Zhi was brought up by her grandparents, she was taken to Yan'an by Nie Rongzhen and trained as a military doctor.

In 1929, Xu Xiangqian, who had already mastered strategy, came to the Hubei, Henan, Anhui and Soviet Areas to display his military talents, and soon became a famous general who made the national army fearful.In one battle, he jumped off a cliff and injured his leg.While recuperating from injuries, she was introduced to marry Cheng Xunxuan, an 18-year-old female Red Army woman from Huang'an, Hubei at the end of the year. The two are very affectionate.Cheng Xunxuan is the secretary of the Jinzhai County Party Committee, and his three older brothers and one younger brother all participated in the revolution.She is bold and pungent, and speaks frankly. Xu Xiangqian once said that she "has no one on guard" and advised her to be cautious.

In 1932, Cheng Xunxuan was executed in Zhang Guotao's "Baiqueyuan Suppression of Rebellion". He was only 21 years old. Xu Xiangqian was heartbroken, but his revolutionary will did not waver in the slightest.Later, the West Route Army was wiped out, Xu Xiangqian disguised himself as a peddler, almost begging all the way, fled back to Yan'an alone, met Geng Biao who came to meet him, he called "Geng Biao", and tears came down.But unexpectedly, Xu Xiangqian, who had escaped from death, met with Peng Dehuai, the deputy general manager of the Eighth Route Army, took out more than 10 gold rings from his body, and said: "This is what the organization gave me to pay for the road. It’s time to use it, and hand it over to the public.” This is how the Communists at that time, no matter how much injustice or persecution they endured, they never changed their obsession with the revolution, and borrowed a poem to describe it: “Break it into pieces, and I am loyal to every piece.” !" Mao Zedong said to Mr. Xu: "If you keep the green hills, you don't have to worry about running out of firewood. It's good that you can come back, as long as there are chickens, there will be eggs."

But on the issue of marriage and love, Mr. Xu has been disheartened for a long time.He missed his wife, Cheng Xunxuan, who died unjustly, and devoted his life to his mother, Wang Xiuzhi, who died unjustly.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he couldn't bear to tell the old man the news of Cheng Xunxuan's death, and often told Wang Xiuzhi that the job of Xunxuan had been transferred again, so he couldn't see you.From Beijing to Shaanxi, then to Qinghai, then to Xinjiang, and finally to the Soviet Union.The kind old man always believed in this simple son-in-law until 1972, when Wang Xiuzhi passed away at the age of 96.Before dying, the old man looked at the orange Xu Shuai peeled for her, smiled and shed tears.She took Xu Shuai's hand and said, "Qianqian, you are a kind person. I will die with peace of mind if Xun Xuan follows you!" When Teacher Kong saw this material, he almost shed tears.

In fact, many Red Army female officers and soldiers have always liked Xu Xiangqian, and he used to have a "Women's Independence Group" under him, with more than a thousand lively and strong girls, lush and green, but Xu Shuai just couldn't get emotional.I heard that some cadres went to the women's group for nothing. He was furious to Zhang Qinqiu (Ms. Chen Changhao), the political commissar of the women's group, and said: "Your group is a combat team, not a wife's reserve team. The women's group should make a rule that no love affairs are allowed. Speaking of love, gay men are not allowed to hang out in the group, not allowed to marry, not allowed..." As a result, the women's group said that Xu always was a "weird person", a "feudal brain", and "seeing women makes a miserable face".

It was not until 1940, when Mr. Xu went to work in Shandong, that he was persuaded to marry a female cadre, Wang Jing, and had a daughter named Xu Luxi.Three years later, Xu and Wang broke up because of emotional disagreement (one said that Wang didn't want to have any more children).Xu Xiangqian was transferred back to Yan'an from Shandong. First, he fell off his horse and was injured, and then he fell ill and became even more depressed.According to the analysis of experts from the Second Institute of Psychology of Dongbo Academy, Xu Shuai is a mature and serious person, and he doesn't like those yellow-haired girls who know nothing and know how to run wild.

(with photo): Xu Xiangqian and Huang Jie Until the "May 4th" Youth Day in 1946, through the cooperation of some "big sisters", the 45-year-old deputy commander and chief of staff of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Shanxi-Sui joint defense and chief of staff Xu Xiangqian married the 36-year-old director of the Yan'an Nursery School Huang Jie.The wedding ceremony was very different. First, they played poker—the most advanced game in Yan’an at that time, and then killed a duck for a big meal (Mr. Kong was most interested in this), and then entered the bridal chamber together.Huang Jie, a native of Jiangling, Hubei, is also a veteran revolutionary.Girls' Generation ran away from home to escape marriage. She was a student of Xu Xiangqian in the Wuhan Military Academy in the 1920s, and she was a classmate of the famous female martyr Zhao Yiman.She joined the party in 1928 and was born and died for more than ten years. She is a heroine with a legendary experience. She was arrested and imprisoned when she worked underground with Zhou Enlai in Shanghai. She was saved from a heavy sentence with the help of Soong Ching Ling.Before being arrested, Huang Jie married Zeng Zhongsheng, an important leader of the Communist Party of China. Soon Zeng Zhongsheng was sent by Nie Rongzhen to serve as the secretary of the special committee in the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Soviet Areas, and became comrades-in-arms with Xu Xiangqian.The common revolutionary ideals and similar painful experiences make Xu Xiangqian and Huang Jie a lifelong husband and wife.They had two children: Xu Xiaoyan and Xu Xiaotao.Xu Shuai likes children very much, and sometimes plays the huqin for them.At this time, Xu Luxi shouted: "Father is killing chickens again!" Xu Shuai laughed heartily when he heard this.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Huang Jie was in charge of personnel affairs in the Ministry of Textiles. He died at the age of 97 in 2007. According to his will, Xu Shuai's descendants scattered some of Xu Shuai's ashes into the Yangtze River along with Huang Jie's.

Xu Shuai spent the first half of his life in exile, but his name was changed from "Xu Xiangqian" to "Xu Xiangqian" and "slowly forward".In the second half of life, it will become more and more flat, just like Mao Zedong said, "where there is a chicken, there is an egg".Xu Shuai's fellow Wutai, Yan Xishan, the native emperor of Shanxi, holds Xu Xiangqian in high regard. In 1937 when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated, he met Xu Shuai and said very affectionately: "Qianqian, you can go home and see how I treat your family. I am not Chiang Kai-shek. My relatives do not recognize me. I, Yan, am worthy of my folks!" Kong The teacher has been to Wutai, and also to the "Kenanpo" where Yan Xishan painstakingly chose during the Anti-Japanese War—in case of being unable to withstand the Japanese army, you will be in northern Shaanxi after crossing the Yellow River—and deeply felt Yan Laoxi’s loyalty to his hometown .Yan Xishan once sighed and said: "Shanxi is a place where talents are produced. There are Bo Yibo in literature, and Xu Qianqian in military. If these two people are used by me, I can rule the whole of China. Unfortunately, they all went to the Communist Party. "This Yan Laoxi is also dead-headed, so why don't you also go to the Communist Party to pinch it?

In fact, Xu Xiangqian is also a good writer with a wide range of interests. He loves singing, photography, reading, musical instruments, sewing, handicrafts, and calligraphy. He also raised a monkey on the Long March, and he was the only one among the top ten marshals. Those who knit sweaters are on par with Shanghai men!The "Battle of Yixiangtangpu" written by an old man in his 80s is very bold: "The majestic Taihang rises, and the bowstring is hidden in the pass of Lishe Road. The ground-moving army sang triumphantly. Flicking the fingers for forty years, the long-term view of spring is in the world.” This spirit can’t help but remind people of a famous play, which is just used to end this article: “Knowing that the journey is difficult and dangerous, the more The more difficult and dangerous, the more forward." Some references in this article: "Biography of Xu Xiangqian" (Contemporary China Publishing House, November 1991), Geng Biao's "Memoirs of Geng Biao" (Liberation Army Press, 1991), "Review of History-Marshal Xu Xiangqian's War Memoirs" (Liberation Army Press, 1987), Xiaoliang, Wen Jun, "The Mystery of the Three Marriages of the Founding Marshal Xu Qianqian" ("Wenzhou Evening News", September 17, 2006), Chuang Min, Yu Ze, "Marshal Xu Qianqian and His Wife Huang Jie" ("Dadi" No. 86, February 1999) Issue), Zhang Lin, Ma Changzhi, "Marshal Xu Xiangqian of China" (CCP Central Party School Press, January 1995), "The Ashes of Marshal Xu Qianqian and His Wife Scattered into the Yangtze River Yesterday" ("People's Daily", July 2, 2007), Mei Shixiong , Xu Zhuangzhi, Li Dawei, "Wang Quanyuan: Nine Deaths, Female Leader" ("Beijing Youth Daily" 2004/08/12), Zhang Lin "Xu Xiangqian's Extraordinary Road" (People's Publishing House, March 2004), "General Wang Shusheng" ( People's Liberation Army Literature and Art Publishing House, May 2005), Cui Xianghua "Xu Shuai and His Family" ("Liberation Army Daily" November 5, 2001), Dai Dunfeng and Ju Jing "A Pen as a Dowry" ("Southern Weekend" 2006 September 14), Xiao Weili, "Commoner's Marshal Xu Xiangqian in the Eyes of Children" (Yangtze Evening News, August 14, 2007).