In October 1985, the founding general Liang Xingchu died of a heart attack and ineffective rescue.
The old man on the hospital bed lay quietly, slender in stature and with a serene face.
He was known as the "founding general" and made indelible contributions to the founding of New China, and from 1930 onwards, every step of the Chinese revolution was marked by General Liang Xingchu.
However, such an old man with outstanding merits had a wish that had not yet been fulfilled before he died.
He hoped to write his own biography, but due to physical reasons, he did not write it, and this wish was not fulfilled. After his death, his wife made her only request to the government to revisit the place where Liang Xingchu lived, to imprint the life of the legendary general on paper, to write a biography, and to fulfill her husband's unfulfilled wishes.
The wife's friendship with General Liang Xingchu was touching, and this request was also reasonable. The wife personally visited the place where the general lived before his death, to touch, to listen, to feel, to reminisce, which was a special gift for General Liang Xingchu and a different kind of encounter for Ms. Ren Guilan.
The central authorities immediately issued instructions for this request: agree.
So today we can unfold the picture written by General Liang Xingchu with his life and dedication and merit.
The opening of the scroll is the birthplace of General Liang Xingchu, the village of Yupi in Luling County, Ji'an, Jiangxi.
Don't look at this small village is inconspicuous, but it is a place where dragons and crouching tigers are hidden, and the scenery of Xiangpi Village is beautiful, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and it is known as the "first village of Luling culture".
The land of Zhong Ling Yu Xiu is from the ancients, so The village is also known as the General Village. From this small village came out of the three founding generals, Lieutenant General Liang Xing, Lieutenant General Liang Biye, and Major General Liang Renjie, which is rare in the history of China's revolution.
General Liang Xingchu was born in 1913 in The village of Xiangpi, Liang Xingchu grew up with a slender body, but did not look sick, but gave people a sense of leanness.
The cheekbones are high, the face is long and wide, and there are four front teeth, two tiger teeth, and two canine teeth, revealing a sense of wit. In particular, when laughing, the four front teeth are exposed, which looks funny and funny, such an image naturally reminds people of the monkey king Sun Wukong, so Liang Xingchu is also known as "Liang Monkey".
It seems that in order to fit his appearance and make it play its greatest advantage, Liang Xingchu has been cheerful and lively since he was a child, jumping up and down, mischievous, and truly like a Sun Monkey who has entered the heavens and the earth.
For this reason, the father is, Liang Xingchu's father is just a peace and self-keeping smith, a lifetime of rules, like most parents in China, hope that their children can study well, the future of the glory of the ancestors.
Therefore, he had high hopes for Liang Xingchu from an early age, and Liang Xingchu personally broke this high hope. In the school, he mischievously tricked people, and repeatedly taught and did not change, and was dissuaded by the school teacher.
For this reason, Liang Xingchu was not less beaten, his father always hit Liang Xingchu in the most severe and painful way, he hung Liang Xingchu upside down and beat him with a whip, but at this time Liang Xingchu was like a tough weed, patting his ass, patting his head, revealing four front teeth And hey hey smile and run away, completely unmoved.
Later, my father reluctantly gave up his desire to let the boy continue to study, and instead wanted him to have a skill like himself, so as to support himself.
So he arranged for Liang Xingchu to go to the tailor shop to learn to be a tailor, Liang Xingchu was not interested at all, he deliberately made trouble, and cut the long shirt that was made of missing arms and legs, and the tailor master was so angry that he almost beat people, and even let people take this boy away.
Later, the battlefield shifted from the tailor shop to the barbershop, liang Xingchu became an apprentice in the barbershop, and seemed to be not interested in haircuts, so Liang Xingchu once again played the tried and tested trick-or-treating skills, cutting the guests' hair like a colander, one with hair and one without hair. Sure enough, the barber shop master couldn't stand him anymore and hurriedly asked his father to take the man away.
The father had a headache for this son, and the repeated moves made Liang Xingchu more and more courageous, while the father became more and more angry.
So his father decided to teach this boy a lesson, and this time he arranged for Liang Xingchu to go to the blacksmith shop, thinking that it takes strength, carefulness, and patience to strike iron. Let Liang Xingchu contribute and punish him.
Who knew that this time Liang Xingchu actually persevered, he looked at the burning flame in the furnace, like a huge tongue of fire, engulfing all darkness, like magic, he liked to look at such a fire, look at such a wanton fire, look at such a passionate fire.
It is as if this fire can bring strength to itself, and I hope that like fire, it can swallow the darkness and bring people the power to life.
In this way, Liang Xingchu finally had his first real job. He persisted for 3 years, until 1930, when he wanted to leave the blacksmith shop, Liang Xingchu was still reluctant to give up, he solemnly bowed to his master, thanked the master for his sincere teachings; thanked the blacksmith shop that carried his memories; thanked him for these 3 years to make him a man with strength, dreams, perseverance and perseverance.
In 1930, Liang Xingchu joined the Red Army. Liang Xingchu said: "Fighting is more exciting than striking iron, I like it." Since then, Liang Xingchu has gone through hardships like Sun Wukong to pursue the path in his heart.
At that time, it was a grim period of confrontation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and Liang Xingchu joined the Red Army just in time for the Red Army's first "anti-encirclement and suppression" war, a year in which Chiang Kai-shek launched nearly 100,000 troops to encircle and suppress the central base areas.
The commander-in-chief of the front line was Zhang Huizhan, who graduated from the Hunan Lecture Hall and the Japanese Non-Commissioned Officer School; for this general who had drunk foreign ink and learned advanced military theoretical knowledge, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, who was backward in equipment and was not born with a high degree of education, could not ascend to the hall of elegance at all.
Therefore, without seriously studying strategy and tactics, he blindly followed up, arrogantly and aggressively, and entered the pocket array set up by the Red Army at Longgang, where he was defeated and captured.
In this campaign, Liang Xingchu gave play to the spirit of the Chinese soldiers who dared to fight and dare not be afraid of death, holding a machete in his hand, his eyes were tightly staring ahead, serious and terrible, his teeth were clenched, and every force was tightened, and the "fierce god and evil spirit" slashed like a sword in no man's land, and the blood splashed three feet, and finally killed the red eye, although he was shot in the leg, he still did not care about desperately fighting.
Because of his unusual bravery in battle and his cleverness, he was promoted to the position of regimental headquarters communication squad leader with this battle.
In the ambush battle of Yuduhe in 1933, Liang Xingchu was still fighting with the enemy without a life, who expected that at this time a bullet penetrated Liang Xingchu's cheeks, bleeding on the spot, unable to speak, breathing became very difficult, but Liang Xingchu was notoriously brave and insisted on commanding the battle until the last moment.
Under the heroic command of Liang Xingchu, the whole company repelled the enemy's attack 7 times and made outstanding contributions to the victory of the ambush battle.
The battle was over, the tense state suddenly relaxed, Liang Xingchu fell in response, the comrades urgently carried him to a safe place, due to the poor medical conditions at that time, Liang Xingchu missed the best treatment time, so this time Liang Xingchu was in a coma for three days and three nights and did not wake up, and the comrades thought that the company commander had died.
One by one, they lost their souls, some were in tears, some wanted to cry without tears, some were stunned and could not accept this fact, everyone bought the coffin, just the day before the burial, everyone was silent, unwilling to speak, silently feeling the passage of time.
It seems that after receiving everyone's silent retention, Liang Xingchu actually woke up, and all of a sudden the air became relaxed, and since then, Liang Xingchu, who has been "destined to be big", has had the reputation of "iron strike".
Liang Xingchu, who escaped from the Ghost Gate Pass, did not retreat in fear of the enemy, but became more and more courageous in the vietnam war, and was excited when he saw the enemy, and as soon as he arrived on the battlefield, he was the unstoppable "iron strike" Liang Xingchu. From a somewhat impulsive and reckless young general to a heroic and fearless Red Army commander who charged into battle, Liang Xingchu spent 8 years, was wounded nine times, promoted to the ninth level, and just happened to be wounded once and promoted to one level, which is rare in the history of revolution.
The Black Mountain Blockade War made Liang Xingchu famous in the world.
The Montenegro Blockade took place during the Liberation War, and Montenegro was of great strategic importance in the northeast at that time, and it was the only corridor from Shenyang to Jinzhou. Therefore, at that time, in the northeast battlefield, Montenegro became the top priority.
In the autumn of 1948, the Northeast Field Army conquered Jinzhou, forming a trend of "closing the door and fighting dogs" against the Kuomintang army. In order to save the fate of defeat, Chiang Kai-shek organized two major armies to advance east and west, hoping to reoccupy Jinzhou and open the way.
Among them, the line from Montenegro to Dahushan became the top priority of blocking the Kuomintang army. The Northeast Field Army first carefully studied the strategic terrain, and when considering the candidates for the blockade battle, everyone agreed to let Liang Xingchu take charge of this mission.
Therefore, the superiors ordered Liang Xingchu to lead the soldiers of the Ten Columns to seize the time to establish fortifications along the Great Tiger Mountain of Montenegro, and to block the enemy here and prevent him from advancing.
In order to show his determination, at the combat meeting Liang Xingchu said categorically: "The Ten Columns will fight until the main army comes, and I will lead the soldiers to resist desperately, even if the last person left in the Ten Columns will continue to fight, and the enemy will not be allowed to advance even if they are desperate." There will be a will to die, the soldier has no greed for life, Liang Xingchu issued a military order in such a way that there is no way to retreat.
The Westward Advancing Corps of the Kuomintang Army, also known as the Liao Yaoxiang Army, was all equipped with American weapons and equipment, and its combat effectiveness was very strong. Montenegro's commanding heights 101 highland is a stone mountain with no grass, due to the tight time of time, the fortifications established by the PLA soldiers and the local people are not strong enough, coupled with the late autumn, the northeast is suffering from the severe cold, the winter clothes of the PLA soldiers have not yet been distributed, all of which is doomed to Montenegro will be a cruel and bloody battlefield.
Under such vastly different conditions, Liang Xingchu led the soldiers of the Ten Columns to fight fiercely with the elite Kuomintang troops for 3 days and 3 nights, and finally defended the Black Mountain after several changes of masters, Liao Yaoxiang's army lost the possibility of moving west and the precious time to retreat to the south, and at the same time our army also closed the door for the Kuomintang army to escape.
It is worth mentioning that before the Montenegro Blockade War, Ren Guilan happened to be transferred to the battlefield to do medical care, Ren Guilan studied medicine at Sun Yat-sen University for 5 years when he was young, and gave up superior conditions after graduation to join the revolution.
In that era of smoke and smoke, Ren Guilan repeatedly disregarded his own safety on the battlefield to rescue the wounded, pulled countless young lives back from the death line, and made his own special contribution to the victory of the war.
It was when they were doing medical care in the battlefield that Ren Guilan and Liang Xingchu fell in love with each other and became a couple. It is an enviable Red Army couple. During the Liberation War, she followed her husband to fight most of China, and also traveled to most of China, so why is this not a special romance?
In 1950, the Outbreak of the Korean War, Liang Xingchu led the Thirty-eighth Army was one of the first troops to enter the DPRK, due to unfamiliarity with the Korean battlefield and getting wrong information, a campaign of the Thirty-Eighth Army ended in failure, Liang Xingchu was peng Dehuai commander "little foot woman" "rat general" scolded fiercely, Liang Xingchu was ashamed and embarrassed, vowed that the second battle must fight a beautiful turnaround battle!
The first battle did not inflict heavy damage on the enemy, and the United Nations army also believed that our army was only a symbolic attack, so it decided to launch a general offensive from the east and the west, and arrogantly shouted that the operation would end before Christmas.
Our army decided to make a plan, pretend to be weak, and let the enemy lower its guard in order to lure the enemy to go deeper, wait for the opportunity to fight one or two annihilation battles, and push the front forward.
The task of enticing the enemy was entrusted to the Thirty-eighth Army, and the Thirty-eighth Army pretended to be defeated, and MacArthur really thought that the Chinese army was "poorly prepared to fight, and fled in fear", and was even more arrogant.
After nearly seven days of fighting in Tokugawa, Sansho-ri, the U.S. army had to admit that they had suffered a "shameful rout." Liang Xingchu commanded the Thirty-eighth Army and the Shame of the Snow, and Peng Dehuai personally issued a commendation order shouting "Long live the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, long live the Thirty-eighth Army."
After the warriors heard about it, one by one, they were filled with strength, and they shouted with their arms, "Long live the Thirty-Eighth Army, long live!" Liang Xingchu was also overjoyed, and he finally proved himself once again with his own talent, and did not disappoint Commander Peng.
Liang Xingchu thus became the commander of the "Long Live Army" and was recorded in history.
General Liang Xingchu has been galloping on the battlefield for decades and has experienced hundreds of battles. His life experience is an important part of our military's war history, and it is also an example that our descendants need to look up to and learn from.
General Liang Xingchu has very rich historical materials and literary works, but unfortunately he was burned down on the way back to Beijing with his wife, and all the photographs and materials turned into ashes, and Liang Xingchu and his wife were heartbroken. Ren Guilan knew that her husband had always wanted to have a biography of his life, so after the death of General Liang Xingchu in 1985, Ren Guilan began his own way of collecting historical materials.
In order to fully reproduce the legendary military career of General Liang Xingchu, Ren Guilan traveled all over the motherland, looking for the place where General Liang Xingchu stayed, looking for people who had been in contact with General Liang Xingchu.
For more than ten years, it has always been a person, no, in fact, there is another person, he is in his own heart, with himself also looking at the bricks and tiles of his life, a grass and a tree, it seems that people's hearts are really connected, Ren Guilan often feels warm in his heart, she knows, that is he giving himself strength!
"He is my husband, the person I like, I stay where he has been, touch the things he has used, look at the grass and trees there, and in the darkness I feel that he is next to me, looking at me, the so-called seeing things and thinking about people, but this is it." 」 Ren Guilan recalled with tears.
For the sake of history, for the sake of her husband, and for the sake of future generations, Ren Guilan spent 16 years and wrote a 400,000-word book "Commanding the Long Live army", which reproduced the brilliant life of General Liang Xingchu for us.
Closing the picture, we now look back at the 73-year life course of the founding general, which is really magnificent, ups and downs, and wonderful. His whole life accompanied the growth of the motherland, participated in several major wars in the process of the founding of new China, and made outstanding military achievements, and the title of founding general was well-deserved.