1936年底,中共中央在延安开展了对张国焘长征途中阴谋分裂党、分裂红军的批判运动。由于这场运动采用了极“左”的做法,激起了原红四方面军官兵的强烈不满。血气方刚的许世友第一个站了出来,并串连了一批在红大学习的原红四方面军的高中级指挥员,秘密商定于1937年4月4日午夜后从北门城墙脚下的水沟爬出去,重返大巴山打游击。事情泄露后,中央大为震惊。中央保卫局局长周兴亲率中央警卫团以迅雷不及掩耳之势冲进红大,将许世友、詹才芳、洪学智、陈再道、陈锡联等30余人一起抓去,投入大牢。 作为“反革命武装集团”的首犯,许世友受到了最严厉的惩罚。在大牢中,他被带上手铐,后又被加上了脚镣;每餐吃的是很差的饭菜,原本每天必喝的酒也给断了。 At the end of 1936, the CPC Central Committee launched a critical campaign in Yenan on the plot to split the Red Army on the long march of Zhang Guotao. As a result of this campaign, a very “leftist” approach has been aroused strong dissatisfaction among officers and soldiers of the former Fourth Red Army. Xu Shiyou, a bloody fist, stood out for the first time and linked a group of high and mid-level commanders of the former Red Fourth Army studying at Hongdadao. They secretly agreed to hold the water from the foot of the northern city wall after midnight on April 4, 1937 Ditch climb out, return to Daba Hill to play guerrilla. After the incident was leaked, the central government was greatly shocked. Zhou Xing, director of the Central Security Bureau, led the Central Guard Corps to rush into Hongdae at a lightning speed and arrested more than 30 people including Xu Shiyou, Zhan Caifang, Hong Xuezhi, Chen Zaidao and Chen Xilian and put them in jail. As the first criminal of the “counter-revolutionary armed group,” Xu Shiyou was the most severely punished. He was handcuffed in jail, then put on his toe; every meal eats poor food, and the wine he drinks every day is broken.