Nie Fengzhi is Xu Shiyou's favorite general, and he respects Xu Shiyou very much. After Xu Shiyou retreated to the second line, he did not go to Beijing, but settled in Nanjing. There is a very important reason, the commander of the Nanjing Military Region at that time was Nie Fengzhi. Nie Fengzhi takes great care of Xu Shiyou.
However, once, Nie Fengzhi openly scolded Xu Shiyou, and said in a very stern tone, I want to talk to you about a matter of principle. After Nie Fengzhi finished speaking, Xu Shiyou was speechless and speechless. What's going on here?
Nie Fengzhi's wings hardened, he dared to scare the old chief, didn't he take Xu Shiyou in his eyes?Not really.
The incident was caused by the three founding lieutenant generals of the Nanjing Military Region, they were Wang Bicheng, who was the deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region at the time, Lin Weixian, who was also the deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region at that time, and Bao Xianzhi, who was the deputy political commissar of the Nanjing Military Region at that time.
All three of them are good assistants to Xu Shiyou. When the movement arose, the rebels besieged the Nanjing Military Region and wanted to defeat Xu Shiyou, Xu Shiyou was forced to leave and hide in Wuxi, which was not safe, and he hid in the Dabie Mountains.
Xu Shiyou is gone, and the three founding lieutenant generals are still presiding over the work of the Nanjing Military Region. The rebels continued to besiege the organs of the military region, and Xu Shiyou called from Dabie Mountain and asked Wang Bicheng and others to shoot. After careful consideration and discussion with several military commanders, Wang Bicheng believed that it was absolutely impossible to shoot a gun.
The three founding lieutenant generals also met with the rebels and handled the matter relatively calmly and properly. After Xu Shiyou returned, he was very dissatisfied with the three founding lieutenant generals and asked them to go to a Xi class, and then the three founding lieutenant generals could not stay in the Nanjing Military Region.
In front of Xu Shiyou, he said, you should raise your noble hand to Wang Linbao and keep people under the knife. Xu Shiyou still refused to give up, criticized the three lieutenant generals by name, and deducted their hats. In 1979, after reporting to the Military Commission for approval, the Nanjing Military Region led by Nie Fengzhi finally rehabilitated Wang Linbao and overturned all slander and untruths.
That's the end of it. However, at the 1984 meeting of the East China Group of the Central Advisory Committee, Xu Shiyou said in his speech that there were three veteran Red Army soldiers in the military region, and they all walked through the grassland, and their problems have not yet been explained.
As soon as these words came out, the four seats were in an uproar. Xu Shiyou is still criticizing the three founding lieutenant generals. Wang Bicheng is also a member of the Central Advisory Committee, he listened to Xu Shiyou's speech, and originally wanted to refute it, but because of time constraints, he forcibly did not speak, but wrote a note and forwarded it.
Then Nie Fengzhi came to talk to Xu Shiyou. He was entrusted by the chairman of the Central Military Commission to talk to Xu Shiyou. Nie Fengzhi persuaded him with good words at first, and in the future, don't talk about Wang Bicheng and they are rebels, it's not good to talk about it like this.
Xu Shiyou asked rhetorically, why don't you let them talk about it, they are rebels, and they can't talk about it yet?His attitude is still very tough, and he does not budge in the slightest. Nie Fengzhi's hard persuasion was ineffective, so he had to aggravate his tone, and he was going to scold the old chief, he said, Commander Xu, I want to talk to you now about a matter of principle.
Xu Shiyou was a little confused, and asked rhetorically, what is the principle problem?Nie Fengzhi also asked rhetorically, let me ask you, you keep saying Wang Linbao, are you really criticizing Wang Linbao, or are you criticizing the current Nanjing Military Region Party Committee?
This is a very harsh question. Indeed, it has risen to the level of a matter of principle. Xu Shiyou understood Nie Fengzhi's tone, and was a little anxious, and asked, When did I approve the Party Committee of the Nanjing Military Region?
Nie Fengzhi said: This is not a rumor made up by me, the facts are here, and the Wang Linbao issue was made by the party committee of the Nanjing Military Region a few years ago and unanimously agreed to be rehabilitated
It was still Nie Fengzhi who knew Xu Shiyou, and only Nie Fengzhi scolded Xu Shiyou like this, leaving Xu Shiyou speechless. Nie Fengzhi forced Xu Shiyou into a corner. If he criticizes Wang Linbao again, it will be against the party committee of the Nanjing Military Region.
No matter how big Xu Shiyou's temper and energy are, it is impossible for him to go against the entire military region. A few months later, Xu Shiyou finally shook hands with Wang Bicheng and made peace, and the two old comrades-in-arms met with a smile and a grudge. A year later, Xu Shiyou died of illness.
References: "Xu Shiyou's Later Years" and "Centennial Chronicles").