In the 60s of the last century, Guo Xingfu created and integrated the experience of other instructors and created a training method called Guo Xingfu's teaching method, which was widely promoted throughout the army.
As the main inventor of this teaching method, Guo Xingfu became a model for the whole army to learn during that period. However, the rest of Guo Xingfu's life was full of ups and downs. So, what's the story behind this great coach?
What was his life like afterwards?
Guo Xingfu was born in 1930 in a peasant family in Yan'an Village, Zouping County, Shandong Province. In order to make a living, he joined the Kuomintang army at the age of 14, and served as an orderly and then as a correspondent.
However, in the army, he gradually realized that the Kuomintang was not a team for the welfare of the people, so the idea of leaving the Kuomintang army germinated in his heart.
In September 1948, in the Battle of Jinan, Guo Xingfu joined the rebel army, became a member of our army, and served in the 13th Column of the East China Field Army, participated in the Huaihai Campaign, the Battle of Crossing the River, the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Zhangxia, and gradually emerged as an outstanding grassroots officer.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was assigned to the Nanjing Military Region and served as a platoon commander of the training battalion of the 12th Division of the 34th Army. In 1959, he was transferred to the second company of the 100th regiment, first as a platoon commander, and then promoted to deputy company commander and company commander.
During his tenure as a company commander, he invented a unique set of teaching methods that provided strong support for his training career.
When Li Desheng was the commander of the 12th Army in 1961, he went to the second company of the 100th Regiment to squat. During the squatting period, he found that the teaching method of Guo Xingfu, the deputy of the second company, was very imposing.
Li Desheng immediately inquired about the identity of the commander and fighter of the staff officer next to him, and learned that he was Guo Xingfu, the deputy of the second company. Li Desheng kept Guo Xingfu's name in his heart, and organized a meeting of army and division-level leaders to select several training methods, including Guo Xingfu, in the hope of selecting the most suitable training method for the whole army.
Deputy Commander Wang Bicheng was attracted by Guo Xingfu's training methods and decided to popularize them in the Nanjing Military Region. Subsequently, Zhang Zongxun, deputy chief of general staff, accompanied by Wang Bicheng, learned about Guo Xingfu's teaching method, and was also deeply attracted and decided to promote it nationwide.
Under the advocacy of the chief of the General Staff and Marshal Ye, who is in charge of the work of the Central Military Commission, the whole army has set off an upsurge of studying Guo Xingfu's teaching method, and Guo Xingfu has become a model for the whole army to study.
Guo Xingfu, who was an instructor at the Nanjing Military Region's Senior Infantry School, should have had a good life after becoming famous. However, during the special period of ten years, he was ruthlessly **, physically and mentally exhausted, and scarred.
In order to put an end to this painful ordeal, he decided to kill his three children first and then commit suicide with his family. After killing the child and energizing it, Guo Xingfu passed out.
After the neighbor woke him up, he went back to the kitchen, picked up a knife, and slashed himself a dozen times. After being sent to the hospital, Guo Xingfu's life was saved, but his physical and mental wounds were difficult to heal.
Guo Xingfu was sentenced to 20 years in prison for accidentally killing his three children. After the end of the special period, Li Desheng, then commander of the Shenyang Military Region, appealed for him, hoping that the case could be retried.
Soon after, Guo Xingfu was acquitted and went to the Nanjing Military Region to serve as deputy director of the Tactical Research Office of the Infantry School. In 1979, the relevant departments rehabilitated Zhaoxue and restored his military and party membership.
Finally, he retired in 1983 as a deputy divisional cadre at the age of 55. Although his life is over, his spirit will always be remembered.