Why didn't Xu Shiyou participate in the Huaihai Battle?

Xu Shiyou's whereabouts after the Jinan campaign became the focus of discussion in many articles. Some said that he was dismissed from office by Su Yu, and some said that he "recovered from illness" because he did not become the commander of Hua Ye. There is no basis for this statement. The truth is that Xu Shiyou stayed in Shandong and continued to command the troops of the Shandong Military Region to complete the task of liberating the entire territory of Shandong.

Xu Shiyou in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War

After the Battle of Jinan, Xu Shiyou did not lead his Shandong Corps to participate in the Huaihai Campaign (by the political commissar Tan Zhenlin and the deputy commander Wang Jianan to participate in the war). When the Third Field Army was reorganized on February 6, 1949, Xu Shiyou served as the first deputy commander of the Shandong Military Region, and the commander of the corps was succeeded by the former deputy commander Wang Jianan. He also lost his participation in important battles such as the liberation of Nanjing and Shanghai.

The Shandong Military Region at that time was higher than the Corps.

There are four Shandong Military Regions in history.

The first Shandong Military Region was established in January 1942. Its predecessor was the Shandong Column formed by the Eighth Route Army guerrillas in Shandong. Li Yu was the political commissar (the commander was vacant), Wang Jianan was the deputy commander and chief of staff, and Jiang Hua was the deputy commander and chief of staff. Director of Political Department. At this time, Xu Shiyou was the commander of the Jiaodong Military Region.

The second Shandong Military Region was established in March 1943. The 115th Division and the leading organs of the Shandong Military Region were ordered to merge to form the new Shandong Military Region. Luo Ronghuan served as commander and political commissar, Li Yu served as deputy political commissar, Xiao Hua served as director of the Political Department (Lin Biao and Xiao Jinguang were appointed commander and deputy commander respectively in August 1945, but none of them took office), Xu Shiyou still served as Jiaodong Military Commander.

The third Shandong Military Region was established in October 1945. Luo Ronghuan led most of the Shandong Military Region's organs and main troops to the northeast one after another. The New Fourth Army, which headed north to Shandong, officially led the Shandong Military Region.Chen Yi served as the commander, Jao Shushi as the political commissar, Zhang Yunyi and Luo Binghui as the deputy commanders, Li Yu as the deputy political commissar, Chen Shiju as the chief of staff, and Shu Tong as the director of the Political Department. Xu Shiyou is still the commander of the Jiaodong Military Region.

The fourth Shandong Military Region was established in February 1949. Zhang Yunyi and Xu Shiyou served as commanders successively, Kang Sheng and Shu Tong served as political commissars successively, under the jurisdiction of Jiaodong, Bohai, Luzhongnan Military Regions, Jinan garrison headquarters, Xuzhou garrison headquarters, Changwei Special Zone and other units. The military region was reclassified as Jinan Military Region in February 1955, and it is one of the twelve military regions of the entire army.

Xu Shiyou left the command position from September 24, 1948. It is publicly stated that he was "recuperating" in Jiaodong, and his commander of the Shandong Corps was represented by Wang Jianan. After the reconstruction of the Shandong Military Region, Xu Shiyou served as the deputy commander of the Shandong Military Region. A few months later, Zhang Yunyi was transferred to the second secretary of the South China Branch (later secretary of the CPC Guangxi Provincial Committee and chairman of the Guangxi Provincial People's Government), and Xu Shiyou took over as the commander of the Shandong Military Region.

Historically, the location of the Shandong Military Region has always been at the level of a strategic region. Even after the establishment of the Third Field Army, the newly formed Shandong Military Region Commander Zhang Yunyi is the former First Deputy Commander of the New Fourth Army (acting as the New Fourth Army Commander during this period), a member of the Central Committee, and the Deputy Commander of the East China Military Region (this position is higher than Su Yu's Huaye Deputy Commander) The position is concurrently the commander of the Shandong Military Region. The political commissar is Kang Sheng, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, deputy secretary of the East China Bureau and secretary of the Shandong Branch.

It is unlikely that Xu Shiyou will not participate in the Huaihai Campaign because of his emotional state.
The Huaye Inner Corps led by Xu Shiyou and Tan Zhenlin was also called the Huaye Field Corps. At this time, the outer corps of Chen Yi and Su Yu had been renamed the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Field Army and the Southeast Field Army. After Xu Tan Corps (later known as Shandong Corps) launched a major counter-offensive after completing the Jiaodong Defense War,Participated in the launch of the Zhoucun Campaign, the Weixian Campaign (Jiaoji Railway), the Yanzhou Campaign (Jin-Pu Railway), and the Jinan Campaign. After the Battle of Jinan, Xu Shiyou continued to return to Jiaodong to recuperate, and did not attend the Qufu Conference to study the Huaihai Campaign. In the Huaihai campaign launched thereafter, the commander of the Shandong Corps was represented by deputy commander Wang Jianan. This move was interpreted by many as Xu Shiyou pretending to be sick or having a conflict with Su Yu.

In fact, it is not only Xu Shiyou who are in conflict with Su Yu, but also Song Shilun and Ye Fei. There is a saying that the central government wanted to re-establish the East China Field Army on the basis of the Shandong Corps, with Xu Shiyou as the commander. At the end of September 1948, Chen Yi and Su Yu insisted that the Southeast Field Army would return to Shandong, and Chen Yi was appointed as the commander of Huaye, which made Xu Shiyou dissatisfied. Although this statement coincides with the time when Xu Shiyou returned to Jiaodong to recover from illness (Xu Shiyou's return to Jiaodong to recover and the return of Chen Yi's Southeast Field Army) Both were at the end of September 1948), but Xu Shiyou read the award order in the Shandong Corps on September 24, and did not attend the Qufu Rectification Conference held on October 4, 1949. Apparently, he left after reading the commendation order and did not come back to attend the meeting. It should be because of illness and not other reasons.

Someone suggested that the rectification movement at the Qufu Conference was aimed at Xu Shiyou, but it was actually wrong.

The telegram from the Central Military Commission to the East China Bureau on October 30, 1948 was very clear: "Comrade Sushi: It has been nine months since the Central Ziyu Electric Power, and two and a half months have passed since the Cold Power. The central government's system of requesting instructions and the implementation of the anti-discipline and anarchy in the army, against the bad style of empiricism and guerrillaism without asking for instructions beforehand and not reporting after the fact, have so far not expressed their attitude or stated their reasons. After all the corps, it is really inconsistent. You are the political commissar of the East China Military Region and the entire army of Huaye. I hereby instruct you to convey the will of the central government and deal with this issue.And look forward to the results. Military Commission Thirty Hai. ”

The former secretary of the Huaye Party Committee at that time was Su Yu. The Central Military Commission named and severely criticized Su Yu’s failure to ask for instructions and report. Of course, Su Yu’s external corps not only had a poor record but also had many internal conflicts. In fact, the focus of the rectification campaign was Chen Shiqu and The 3rd, 8th and 10th verticals of Tang Liang's 3rd Corps. Moreover, Xu Tan's Corps has completed three investigations and three reorganizations in January, and Su Yu's 1st Corps has carried out an army reorganization in Puyang, Henan, only Chen Tang's 3rd Corps needs Make-up lessons (according to Chen Yi's statement, three verticals are arrogant, one, four, six are arrogant, eight verticals are better, and ten verticals cross the Yellow River privately.) Obviously, there were many problems in the external corps commanded by Su Yu at that time.

Ten vertical commanders Song Shilun and Su Yu's contradiction lies in the fact that in August 1947, Song Shilun's Ten Columns fought against the Kuomintang Qiu Qingquan Corps under the command of the Outer Line Corps, and was forced to cross the Yellow River north by the order of Chief of Staff Chen Shiqu (loss of more than 1,500 officers and soldiers, more than 4,000 soldiers and more than 500 migrant workers accompanying the army). Later, he was criticized and dismissed (remained) during the rectification movement at the Qufu Conference (October 5, 1948 to November 3, 1948). This conference was chaired by Nao Shushi, because Su Yu did not find out that Chief of Staff Chen Shiqu had an order. (November 1995, Chen Shiju recalled in his book "Three Years Upside Down: A Memoir of the Liberation War", "Unexpectedly, the cunning fifth division of the enemy suddenly appeared and attacked with the eighty-fourth division, taking our tenth column. We were in a very passive situation as we pressed into the narrow area between the Yellow River and Dongping Lake. In order to get rid of this situation, Tang Liang and I ordered the tenth column to gather troops immediately to cross the Yellow River and withdraw to the north bank.") Song Shilun felt aggrieved and dissatisfied with Su Yu. , The knot between the two was not resolved until the end.

Xu Shiyou and the soldiers practice Shaolin sticks

The conflict between the first vertical commander Ye Fei and Su Yu has a long history. Liu Ying is a senior general of the Red Army, and he served as the military division and political commissar of the Red Army. .In 1935, he led the Southern Zhejiang Advancement Division into Zhejiang,He served as secretary of the CPC Fujian-Zhejiang Border Provisional Provincial Party Committee and political commissar of the Fujian-Zhejiang border military region. The interim provincial party committee Su Yu was appointed as the director of the organization, and Ye Fei was appointed as the propaganda minister and secretary of the provincial party committee. Since Ye Fei was originally the secretary of the East Mindong Special Committee and the political commissar of the Red Army Mindong Independent Division, the new Fujian-Zhejiang Provisional Provincial Party Committee is composed of Liu Ying and Su Yu's advancing division and the Mindong Special Committee and the Independent Division. Both the southern Zhejiang guerrilla zone and the Mindong guerrilla zone have some selfishness and hilltopism, and there was a disagreement on whether Liu Ying or Huang Dao (killed during the Anti-Japanese War) served as the interim provincial party secretary. Ye Fei announced that the Mindong Special Committee will withdraw from the interim provincial party committee. . In the autumn of 1936, Liu Ying sent a letter to Su Yu in the name of the temporary provincial party committee, asking Su Yu to take the opportunity to meet Ye Fei, escort Ye Fei to the provincial party committee, and send an armed force to supervise the execution. One day after dinner, when Ye Fei and Chen Ting (head of the Mindong Independent Division) attended Su Yu's banquet, they were disarmed and detained. He fled when he was attacked by the Kuomintang army during the escort. After that, Ye Fei was expelled from the party, and Su Yu said in his later memoirs: "The detention of Comrade Ye Fei led to the disintegration of the Fujian-Zhejiang Provisional Provincial Committee." Liu Ying died in 1942 when he was the secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee. This matter is described in different books such as Ye Fei's Memoirs, Chen Ting and Huang Feng's memoirs, Mindong Athletes' Battles, Zhong Dahu, the former deputy political commissar of the Fujian Provincial Military Region's memoirs, Bloody Journey, and General Su Yu. One theory is that Su Yu is to blame, the other is that Su Yu detained Ye Fei "against his will" and offended Liu Ying because Ye Fei escaped.

There is another way of saying that Ye Fei and Jieyu are in conflict. When the Meng Lianggu campaign was mobilized, Ye Fei did not attend the meeting, and later refused to serve as an interlude on the grounds of insufficient troops. Later, Ye Fei commanded three divisions as the main attack, and the unsatisfactory results were criticized by Chen Yi. Moreover, Ye Fei's later memoirs mentioned that Su Yu basically used words such as "assist Chen Yi" or participate in command, indicating that although the two were together from the New Fourth Army to Huaye and the Third Field Army,There is indeed a contradiction. And Ye Fei, who was the commander of the column at the time, did not participate in the Huaihai campaign "due to illness"; his column was commanded by deputy commanders Zhang Yixiang, Liu Fei and political commissar Tan Qilong.

Xu Shiyou recuperated in Jiaodong before the Battle of Jinan, and went back to recuperate after the battle. The removal of Xu Shiyou's post is a historical joke.

Su Yu returned to Shandong at the end of September 1948 in the name of the deputy commander of the Southeast Field Army and the commander of the First Corps. It was only at the Qufu meeting in 1948 that it was decided to rebuild the East China Field Army and replace the commander with Su Yu. At that time, Xu Shiyou's Shandong Corps or East China Field Corps had no affiliation with Su Yu. Su Yu's troops were subordinate to Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping's Central Plains Bureau, while Xu Shiyou's troops were subordinate to Nao Shukoushi's East China Bureau. The commander of the regiment who wanted to remove Xu Shiyou was not only Su Yu, but also Nao Soseki. Because the East China Field Corps and the Shandong Corps were directly commanded by the Central Military Commission after the Battle of Jinan (which was commanded by Nao Shushi for a period of time). In terms of management immunity, the troops that returned to Suyu in Shandong were also under the leadership of Nao Shushi's East China Bureau and the East China Military Region.

When the four columns of the Shandong Corps participated in the Huaihai War, Wang Jianan was the deputy commander and acting commander, and the commander of the Corps was still Xu Shiyou. It was only after Xu Shiyou was transferred to the Shandong Military Region that Wang Jianan was promoted to commander of the Seventh Corps.

Xu Shiyou commanded the Shandong Military Region to undertake the task of liberating the entire territory of Shandong.

command to launch the instant green campaign. After the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin in February 1949, the People's Liberation Army changed from the stage of strategic offensive to the stage of strategic decisive battle with the main force of the Kuomintang army. Most of the main forces of the Kuomintang have been wiped out, the enemies in East China, the Central Plains and the north of the Yangtze River have retreated to the south of the Yangtze River, and the vast areas north of the Yangtze River have been liberated. At this time,In Shandong, Qingdao, Jimo and Changshan Islands are still occupied by the Kuomintang army. To this end, the main force of the People's Liberation Army is preparing to cross the river at the same time. On April 25, 1949, the Shandong Military Region proposed to the Central Military Commission to prepare for the launch of the Qing (Island) and Ji (Mexico) Campaign to cooperate with the main force's advance in the south of the Yangtze River.

On April 28, 1949, on behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission, Mao Zedong issued an order "Agreeing to Hold Threatening Attacks on Qingdao", approving the Shandong Military Region to launch the Qingjie Campaign to liberate Qingdao. At the same time, the participating troops are required to "avoid fighting with the US military", because Qingdao, as a US naval base, has been stationed with 10-15 warships of the Western US Pacific Fleet and 3 squadrons of the Naval Air Force, which are brigade-level units. (U.S. troops later voluntarily withdrawn on May 4).

The 32nd Army, 50th Army, Second Navy Military Region and other sea, land and air forces of the Kuomintang's 11th appeasement area (corps level, commander Liu Anqi) are stationed in Qingdao. The number of troops is about 50,000. The local troops of the Shandong Military Region supplemented the field army in large numbers to prepare for the battle across the river. The combat troops of our army near Qingdao are mainly the 32nd Army and the Jiaodong Military Region Garrison Force formed in February 1949. There are only 12 regiments that can participate in the war, with a strength of about 30,000 people. Therefore, the East China Military Region called the Shandong Military Region on May 28, and planned to assign the 24th Army's Yeliu and Mechanized regiments to strengthen the offensive force in Qingdao.

The main force in attacking Qingdao was the 32nd Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army under the command of the Shandong Military Region. Commander Tan Xilin, Political Commissar Peng Lin, Deputy Commander Liu Yong, Chief of Staff Zhao Yiping. The battle started on May 3, 1949, and Qingdao was occupied on June 1, and the Qingdao garrison was established.

commanded and launched the Battle of Changshan Islands.

Changshan Islands are located in the Bohai Strait between Liaodong Peninsula and Shandong Peninsula.It consists of 10 large islands with residents and 22 small islands without residents, such as Changshan Island, Dangji Island, Heishan Island, Huangcheng Island, and Temple Island in the north and south. In October 1947, when the Kuomintang army launched a key attack on the Shandong Liberated Area, it was occupied by the Kuomintang 8th Army, and then the navy took over the defense of the "Changshan Island Patrol Office".

After the Qing (Island) (Island) (Ink) campaign ended, the Shandong mainland was completely liberated, and the Changshan Islands became the only base of the Kuomintang army in the north, with more than 1,600 troops stationed there. There are two transport ships, eight gunboats and radar detectors and other equipment.

The Kuomintang army, relying on the Changshan Islands to control the Bohai Bay, not only frequently disturbs the coastal areas and destroys fishery production, but also seriously threatens the maritime traffic and foreign trade between the three major liberated areas of Northeast China, North China and East China.

On June 22, 1949, the Shandong Military Region called the East China Military Region and the Central Military Commission in the names of Zhang Yunyi, Kang Sheng, Xu Shiyou, and Yuan Yelie: "In order to facilitate maritime traffic, seize the only naval stronghold in the north of the Chiang Kai-shek bandit, to consolidate national defense, build For the sake of coastal defense, we plan to send a team to attack Changshan Island." The East China Military Region agreed to a telegram on the 27th, and strengthened the 72nd Division of the 24th Army (division commander Kang Lin, political commissar Zhang Chuangchu), and cooperated with the two guard brigades of the Jiaodong Military Region to attack. In order to strengthen artillery support, the East China Military Region dispatched two battalions of the 13th Howitzer Regiment of the Special Forces Column to the north to participate in the battle. The Central Military Commission also called back the East China Military Region on the 30th and informed the head of the Shandong Military Region, agreeing with the operational opinion on the capture of Changshan Island.

According to the instructions of the Central Military Commission and the East China Military Region, the Shandong Military Region is composed of the First Deputy Commander Xu Shiyou, the Chief of Staff Liu Yunpeng, the Secretary-General of the Political Department Sun Xiaofeng, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Jiaodong Military Region Pei Zongcheng, and the Deputy Political Commissar of the North Navy Division Zhang Jialuo. The headquarters is under the unified command of Deputy Commander Xu Shiyou, the 72nd Division of the 24th Army of the East China Field Army, the Mountain Artillery Battalion of the 24th Army Artillery Regiment, the 4th and 5th Brigades of the Jiaodong Military Region, the 13th Howitzer Regiment of the Special Forces Column, and the local troops of the North Navy Division.Carry out a sea-crossing offensive operation against the enemy of the Changshan Islands.

On July 20, 1949, Xu Shiyou visited the command post and ordered the artillery unit to conduct a test artillery bombardment on the enemy positions on Nanchangshan Island.

At 19:00 on August 11th, the attacking troops set sail from Penglai in three groups to launch an attack. On the 20th, the entire Changshan Islands was liberated. There were 224 casualties in this campaign, more than 200 people below the enemy battalion commander were killed, 1,305 people below the enemy battalion commander were captured, and 10 ships of various kinds were captured.

This battle pioneered a successful case of "the army fights the navy, and the sailboat fights the warship". For this reason, our military used wooden boats to cross the sea and held larger-scale landing operations to establish confidence and accumulate experience. This is the last battle of Shandong battlefield in the war of liberation, so far the whole of Shandong has been liberated.

The above situation shows that Xu Shiyou began to command the liberation of the whole territory of Shandong not long after he recovered from his illness, and did not leave the battlefield.

Conspiracy historiography cannot be used to interpret historical figures.

Conspiracy historiography is not a true reflection of historical events or people, but a compilation of history. Deliberately distorting historical facts for the sake of personal values, and evaluating historical figures by derogating, distorting, or using dark psychological speculation.

In fact, in the history of the CCP, many leading cadres left their posts due to illness. Xu Haidong, who served as deputy commander-in-chief of the Jiangbei Command of the New Fourth Army and commander of the 4th Detachment, left the battlefield due to illness in 1941 to recuperate for 15 years, and was awarded the rank of general in 1955. Lin Hao, the political commissar of the 129th Division, left due to illness, and Deng Xiaoping later took over as the political commissar of the 129th Division. In September 1937, Lin Biao went to the Soviet Union for medical treatment due to an injury. After returning, he had been working in Yan'an to recuperate, and was not sent to the Northeast until the war of liberation. Both Xu Shiyou and Ye Fei did not participate in the Huaihai campaign due to illness, and even Su Yu fell ill from fatigue in the third stage of the Huaihai campaign, and was commanded by Chief of Staff Chen Shiju on his behalf. In 1949, when the Battle of Taiyuan was fierce,Xu Xiangqian, the first deputy commander of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region, also handed over the command to Peng Dehuai due to illness. Although Lin Biao, Xu Shiyou, Ye Fei, Su Yu, Xu Xiangqian and others left the battlefield due to illness, their positions were not relieved. The central government did not re-appoint, but was temporarily represented by others.

In the eyes of some people, as long as they leave the battlefield, they always have to figure out a story, as if these people who leave the battlefield can neither be injured nor sick. Even steel sometimes rusts. During the war years, those who were born and died on the battlefield were inevitably not injured or ill. It is unfair to use personnel conflicts or make false comments about their departure.

Some people suggested that several main columns of Xu Shiyou's Shandong Corps were assigned to three different corps when Sanye was established, and none of the Shandong Corps remained, which shows that Xu Shiyou was contemptuous. Looking at it this way, two of Su Yu's old columns of the New Fourth Army were assigned to the Seventh Corps formed by the Shandong Corps, including the second column of the New Fourth Army's Peng Xuefeng New Fourth Army's fourth division and the fourth column of the New Fourth Army's first division commander, which belonged to Wang Jian'an. corps.

When the Third Field Army was established, the leadership of the Shandong Corps was reorganized into the Seventh Corps (Wang Jianan, Tan Qilong, four armies), with jurisdiction over 21 (2 columns of the New Fourth Army), 22 (3 verticals of the Luzhong Military Region), and 23 (Su Yu of the New Fourth Army). The 4th column of any division commander's team) and the 35th Army (Lu Zhongnan Military Region troops and Wu Huawen Uprising troops). None of them was the column of the former Shandong Corps, only the 35th Army composed of the Lu Zhongnan Army and the Wu Huawen Uprising Army was under the command of the former Shandong Corps. Although Huaye Sanzong became famous in the Luzhong Military Region, he later joined the Outer Corps with Su Yu.

The Shandong Corps and the Shandong Military Region's 7th and 8th Corps form the 25th and 26th Corps of the Eighth Corps (three armies of Chen Shiqu and Yuan Zhongxian), and the 9th Corps becomes the 27th Corps of the Ninth Corps (four armies of Song Shilun and Guo Huaruo). ,The Bohai Column became the 33rd Army of the Ninth Corps, and the 10th and 13th Columns became the 28th and 31st Army of the Tenth Corps (Ye Fei and Wei Guoqing). At this time, the 32nd Army, armed with the Jiaodong Military Region, was still under the command of the Shandong Military Region. There are still about 420,000 troops in the East China Military Region and more than 580,000 troops in the 14 corps of the Third Field Army. As the commander of the Shandong Military Region, Xu Shiyou served as the commander of the Third Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteers in 1953. After returning to China, he served as the second deputy commander of the East China Military Region in February 1954, and served as the deputy chief of staff of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in October. In March 1955, he was appointed commander of the Nanjing Military Region, and in September 1959, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense and Commander of the Nanjing Military Region. In January 1974, when he was the commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, he directed the Xisha self-defense counterattack. In 1979, in the counterattack against Vietnam, he commanded the frontier troops in the Guangxi direction to successfully conduct a self-defense counterattack operation. In 1980, he served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission.

Xu Shiyou, a special character with a special character.

Xu Shiyou is a legendary figure with many stories about him. This senior general, known as Monk Xu, served as the commander of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army under Zhang Guotao during the territorial revolution. During the Long March, he served as the avant-garde of the Red Army as a cavalry commander. During the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Geng, who served as the brigade commander of the 129th Division, was the deputy brigade commander of the 386th Brigade, the brigade commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Shandong Column, and the commander of the Jiaodong Military Region. He carried out combat missions under the command of the 115th Division. During the War of Liberation, he served as the commander of the Nine Columns, the Eastern Front Corps (later known as the Shandong Corps), and the deputy commander and commander of the Shandong Military Region under the New Fourth Army, Huaye and the East China Military Region. Participated in the Battle of Laiwu, the Battle of Menglianggu, the Battle of Jiaodong, the Battle of Zhang (shop) Zhou (village), the Chang (Le) Wei (county), the battles of Yanzhou, the Battle of Jinan, the Battle of Qingji and the Changshan Islands and other major battles. After the founding of the country,He served as the commander of the Shandong Military Region, the Commander of the Volunteer Army Corps, the Nanjing Military Region Commander, the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, the Deputy Minister of National Defense, and the Guangzhou Military Region Commander. Commanded the Eastern Front Corps in the Xisha counterattack and the Vietnam self-defense counterattack. He dared to act in his life, was loyal to the Party Central Committee and Mao Zedong and was hated by some people for this. No one knows how many martial arts he has, but it is rumored in the market. The No. 8 Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing where he lives is a veritable experimental field and vegetable garden, which not only feeds pigs, but also raises fish and rabbits. He was "loyal in life and filial piety after death" and insisted on being buried with his mother.

Xu Shiyou fought in Jiaodong, Shandong for 16 years, and married a Jiaodong wife, Tian Pu. It is said that when choosing a secretary after leaving Shandong, one condition must be attached, that is, a native of Jiaodong.

Former Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Liu Huaqing commented on Xu Shiyou: "It is unprecedented for an army commander to join the death squad." A special character with special character, special experience, and special contribution."

Mao Zedong said: "Xu Shiyou is a soldier. Chen Yi fights, relying on Su Yu in the south and Xu Shiyou in the north. Xu Shiyou has made half the sky in Jiaodong popular, amazing, amazing!"

Xu Shiyou's life It is rare to talk about colleagues. Although some "Xu Fan" and "Corn Fan" have created many rumors between Xu Shiyou and Su Yu, none of them can find evidence to support the discord between the two. He has experienced the Fourth Red Army, the Central Red Army, the 129th and 115th Divisions of the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, the East China Field Army, the East China Military Region and other units. Men's men have worked, even when they have fallen out of favor,It is also rare to hear him speak ill of these people. These senior superiors and other colleagues rarely commented negatively on Xu Shiyou. Later, although he became a member of the Politburo, his position was still the commander of the military region, and he did not jump up and down. This is not easy in the new Chinese officialdom where the political situation is unpredictable.

Xu Shiyou left the Shandong Corps and returned to Jiaodong for about four months to recover. During this period, he was fighting the Huaihai Campaign. Xu Shiyou stayed in the Shandong Military Region and did not participate in the Huaihai Campaign, thus missing the strategic decisive battle of liberating the whole country, causing misunderstanding and criticism by some people later. Because in the eyes of many people, as a warrior, he should participate in all battles, otherwise it is abnormal, and I don't know what logic this belongs to.