After speaking, the third brother Yubi walked away with firm steps.

On August 13, 1945, the battle to liberate Chiping began. The county brigade of the third brother Xu Yubi had been reorganized into the third regiment and one battalion of the fourth division at this time, and the third brother served as the battalion commander. The 1st Battalion took part in the battle and seized the task of the main attack.

On the 14th, the fourth Yuxi led the district team and the migrant labor team, and was busy preparing the grain and grass for the night, and when the day was about to dawn, Yuxi had just laid down and was about to rest for a while, when suddenly Zhu Fengsheng, the correspondent of the third brother, woke up Yuxi. He said to Yuxi with a gloomy face: "District Chief Xu, the battalion commander is injured. ”

Yuxi sat up abruptly and asked, "Where is the injury?" ”

"Lungs."

"Isn't it amazing? Where is he now? ”

"Brought here."

Yuxi was anxious, and shouted loudly: "If you don't hurry up and go to treatment, what are you carrying here for?" ”

Tears flowed from Zhu Fengsheng's eyes and said, "You don't have to go, the battalion commander has sacrificed." ”

Hearing this, the fourth Yubi's head suddenly swelled into a big bucket, and he fainted suddenly. In less than three years, three brothers in the Xu family died in battle, the eldest brother and the fifth brother were not cold, and the third brother has now shed the last drop of blood for the liberation of the Chiping people, how can it not make people grief?

"District Chief Xu, District Chief Xu!" Zhu Fengsheng saw Yuxi wake up, and said to Yuxi in a deep voice, "When the battalion commander died, let me tell my family, don't be too sad, he asked me to pass on a paragraph he copied to you." 'There will be sacrifices if you have to struggle, and the death of people is a common occurrence, but when we think of the interests of the people, when we think of the suffering of the majority of the people, we die for the people, and we die as we deserve. ’”

Yuxi silently listened to Zhu Fengsheng finish reading the words that the third brother copied in the notebook in neat fonts, as if the figure of the third brother appeared in front of him again......

The third brother went to Jinan Pickle Factory as an apprentice before the "77 Incident" and suffered a lot. During this period, the eldest brother Xu Yushan had already participated in the revolution, and under the influence of the eldest brother, coupled with his own suffering and dilemma, he continued to receive communist education, and he joined the Communist Party of China.

On December 27, 1937, Jinan fell, and the third brother Yubi was so anxious that he immediately went home and joined the anti-Japanese army with his eldest brother.

In 1941, Xu Yubi went to the military region to study in the rotation training class, and after graduation, he was assigned to the Fourth Army Divisional Headquarters as a reconnaissance staff officer.

At that time, the environment deteriorated, the Japanese pseudo-puppet was rampant, there were many pillboxes everywhere, and the blockade ditches were criss-crossed, and he often braved the cold storm and night to march 1,200 miles to complete the reconnaissance and communication mission. In the course of reconnaissance and communications, he was sometimes scattered by the enemy, sometimes lost his way due to unfamiliar geography, cloudy and rainy, and sometimes frostbitten, bitten, and bruised by falls in the bitter cold and summer.

The third brother was the first head of the Boping Third District, and in the winter of 1942, he was the deputy of the Boping County Brigade, leading the armed struggle in this county. Because of his strict training in the military region, the third brother was brave and resourceful, and he often led the county brigade to come out of nowhere and deal heavy blows to the enemy by surprise.

The enemies in the area of Chi and Boping were very afraid of the county brigade, and the traitor soldiers bet: "If anyone lies and is blind, he will meet Xu Yubi when he goes out." ”

At that time, Boping County was an area where Japanese puppets were concentrated and their activities were very rampant, and it was also the intersection of Jinan, Jilin, and Liaoyu highways, and its political and military position was quite important. The Japanese army stationed a squadron in Boping County, the public security army stationed in a regiment, and more than 4,000 local puppet troops.

In 1943, the Shihu Bunker, located along the Jiliao Highway and in the middle of Chiboping County, had become an important military intelligence base for the Japanese puppets and stubbornness, and also directly threatened the development of our party's underground work. Xu Yubi saw it in his eyes, was anxious in his heart, and was determined to get rid of this thorn in his eye.

On the autumn night of this year, under the condition of doing a good reconnaissance in advance, he quietly came to Shihu's bunker with five soldiers and soldiers in overseas Chinese costumes, and came to knock on the door of the bunker: "Outside, brothers, give me some water to drink?" ”

"Which part?" The doorman asked again.

"Luo Zhaorong's soldiers, can't you hear it, come here all day long."

Seeing that there was nothing suspicious, the gate guard slowly opened the door, Xu Yubi rushed in with a pistol, forced the door guard into a corner, and then lowered his voice and ordered him: "We are the Eighth Route Army, if you want to live, don't shout." When the gate guard hesitated, he forcibly seized his gun, and then led five soldiers into the pillbox.

At that time, the 20 puppet soldiers were still asleep, Xu Yubi asked the soldiers to pick their guns first, and then pointed the guns at the sleeping soldiers, and suddenly yelled: "Surrender the guns and don't kill, we are the Eighth Route Army." ”

The sleeping enemy suddenly woke up, but there was really nothing to be done about it, the guns were gone, and there was still no effort to fight. There was a squad leader who wanted to resist stubbornly, and he took out a gun from under the pillow and wanted to shoot, but he was shot by Xu Yubi, fell crooked on the bed and never got up again.

This battle not only deterred the arrogance of the Japanese puppets and cut off their military intelligence sources, but also captured 21 rifles, 500 rounds of ammunition, and 300 grenades.

In the early spring of 1944, Luo Zhaorong, the commander of the Boping traitor regiment, sent four squadrons to build a stronghold in Caitun Shahuang Xuzhuang, which is located in the three borders of Boping, Qingping, and Gaotang, in a vain attempt to control the scope of activities of our party and our army. In order to speed up the progress, the enemy and puppet forced more than 3,000 migrant workers from the county to build walls and pillboxes during the day, and at night to sleep in Houchang Village, five or six miles away, and escorted them by a puppet army team.

After the county brigade received the information, it immediately conducted research and analysis, and Xu Yubi decided to take advantage of the favorable conditions of the county brigade to ambush Xinglong Temple.

In the middle of the night, he led more than 50 soldiers of the county brigade to ambush in an empty courtyard at the head of the village.

At about 8 o'clock in the morning of the next day, when the puppet army escorted the migrant workers to pass by, Xu Yubi led his troops to suddenly appear and ordered the trumpeter to blow the trumpet, while all the soldiers were shouting: "We are the Eighth Route Army, surrender the gun and not kill!" "Migrant workers, don't you hurry up and run!" "Don't build turrets for devils, don't build strongholds for devils."

When the enemy puppet army heard this, they couldn't figure out how many Eighth Route Army troops were coming, and the situation was chaotic for a while, and the migrant workers also scattered and fled. After more than 10 minutes of fighting, the county brigade captured more than 30 enemies, captured more than 30 rifles, 1 pistol, 500 rounds of ammunition, and more than 100 grenades, but our troops did not suffer any casualties.

In November 1944, more than 2,000 enemy puppets stationed in Chi, Bo, and Qing counties carried out a large-scale sweep of the base areas around Hutun in China.

At that time, our county-affiliated organs and county brigades were active in Xujia Hutong. One morning, the scouts discovered that the enemy was moving westward in the direction of Fengtun, and more than 100 people from our county brigade and county-level organs were surrounded in the villages of Luozhuang and Songzhuang in Hutun, and the situation was very critical.

After Xu Yubi received the information, he responded calmly. He first analyzed the enemy's situation, then concealed the personnel and troops in the Xixiao River, and then mobilized the troops for battle. After observing the terrain and the enemy's situation, the troops were ordered to move south in the river embankment and rush towards the enemy-occupied area.

When the troops moved to the Hutun Bridge, they found that there were a small number of puppet troops guarding the bridge, but no large number of puppet troops were found. He immediately ordered a platoon to rush up and seize the bridge, leading the troops and agency personnel to run forward.

By the time the enemy spotted us, we had already rushed two or three miles away, and it was too late for the enemy to pursue us. Then we marched 15 miles in a hurry, and settled down in Xinzhuang in the north of Chiping City, and after counting, there were no casualties among our army and agency personnel.

Due to Xu Yubi's courage and leadership, by the time of the liberation of Boping in 1946, the Boping County Brigade had grown from the initial dozens of people to five companies, four district squadrons, a security team, and a reconnaissance platoon, with a total of more than 1,000 people. Cooperated with the main force in more than 50 large and small battles, pulled out many large and small strongholds, and annihilated nearly 1,000 Japanese puppet troops.

The third brother usually cares about the soldiers and loves the common people. Xu Qingzhi and his family of seven members of the county traffic team were killed by the enemy, and only a seventy-year-old grandmother and a three-year-old son survived. After hearing about it, the third brother used the allowance he saved to buy eggs, noodles, baked cakes, etc., and visited the family three times, helping the elderly take care of the housework as if they were in their own home.

Every time the third brother went to a village, he first visited some poor people's homes. The life of the family, the crops in the field, the wedding, the funeral, and the worries he encountered, he asked everything, no matter who had difficulties, he tried to find a way to solve them. There is not a single men, women and children in Boping who does not know him, and he will live forever in the hearts of the people of Boping!

After the third brother died, the local people buried him in Baiguantun, north of Chiping.

In the spring of 1947, the entire northwestern part of Shandong was liberated, and Li Jianmin, who had fought with his eldest brother, came to Boping and became the county magistrate of Boping County. At Li Jianmin's suggestion, the Boping County Party Committee decided to hold a memorial service for the three martyrs of the Xu family.

The county appointed someone to pick up the body of the third brother Xu Yubi from Baiguantun in the north of Chiping, and the body of the fifth brother was also taken out of the brick mound and re-buried, and at the same time, the bones of Grandma Xu were moved back from Qiying's mother's house, but the body of the eldest brother Xu Yushan was not left.

On the day of the memorial service, the masses within a radius of more than ten miles came, and in addition to the coffins of the third and fifth brothers, there was also a spiritual plaque of the eldest brother Xu Yushan on the platform. Li Jianmin, the county magistrate, personally delivered a eulogy.

In his eulogy, he said: "...... The three martyrs Xu Yushan, Xu Yubi, and Xu Yuzhen, in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, fought bravely for the liberation cause of Chiping and Boping, and selflessly contributed everything they had, and they died gloriously! The people of the whole county should learn from them! ”

The Xu family's family cried to death, and the people attending the memorial service were all sad and wept when they saw this scene, and the venue was full of crying. At the funeral, thousands of people followed the coffin to see off the three brothers of the Xu family on their last journey.