Xu (190 1- 1990), formerly known as Xu, formerly known as Xu. Wutai county, Shanxi province. Graduated from the first phase of Huangpu Military Academy. He used to be the instructor, staff officer and deputy head of the sixth mixed brigade teaching camp of the Second Army of the National Army. 1927, captain of Wuhan Central Military and Political School, joined China * * * Production Party in the same year. During the Guangzhou Uprising, he served as the captain of the Sixth United Front of the Workers' Red Guards.

During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he served as the representative of the Fourth Division of the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants 10 Regiment, the chief of staff and division commander, the deputy division commander of the 31st Division of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants, the deputy division commander and division commander of the First Division of the Red Army, the chief of staff and commander of the Red Fourth Front Army, the commander-in-chief of the Red Army's Right Army and the vice chairman of the Red Army Military and Political Committee. Participated in the Long March.