Before Zhu De entered the middle school in Shunqing Province (present-day Nanchong), his parents took charge of it and married his cousin Liu Shi, who was two years older than him, according to the old marriage customs. Although Liu Shi has the virtues of loyalty, hard work and virtuousness, it is far from the conditions in Zhu De's heart, and the people in his mind must have great ambitions, ideals and pursuits.
Zhu De in order to escape the nominal husband and wife, from Shunqing Province to Chengdu, in 1909 into the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall, and then in order to pursue the ideal, the Southern Expedition to the Northern War, has not returned to Li Jiawan's home, after the founding of New China, Zhu De learned that Liu Shi is still alive, in order to thank Liu Clan for loyalty to the Zhu family, dedication to the Zhu family, intend to take her to Beijing for the elderly, honest and simple Liu Shi did not want to leave his hometown, until 1958 died of illness, at the age of 74.
In 1912, Zhu De served as a military instructor in Yunnan Daowutang, and was introduced to marry Xiao Jufang, an 18-year-old girl from Kunming Normal College, who was lively and cheerful, did not wrap her feet, pursued progress, and liked Zhu De, and gave birth to Zhu Qi in the fourth year after marriage. In the spring of 1917, Xiao Jufang was unfortunately infected, and later became more and more ill, lying on a sickbed, unable to do anything, and unfortunately died in 1919.
Just when Xiao Jufang was terminally ill and Zhu De was powerless and had no time to take care of his sick wife and young son, Cheng Pinghui, a subordinate of Zhu De's army, saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, so he introduced his 21-year-old cousin Chen Yuzhen to Zhu De.
After getting married, Zhu De entrusted his son and Xiao Jufang to Chen Yuzhen's care and concentrated on his work. Chen Yuzhen is an educated and knowledgeable woman, reasonable, xiao Jufang died of illness, regarded Zhu Qi as a parent, fulfilled the responsibility of a mother.
In 1913, Zhu De was appointed commander of the Dian Army. Because of his outstanding achievements, he later served as deputy regimental commander and regimental commander, participated in the patriotic war against Yuan Shikai's restoration of the imperial system, and was promoted to major general brigade commander in 1917, participating in the war of defending the Law against the Beiyang warlords.
During the war and horse chaos, Zhu De heard that his wife Chen Yuzhen had been killed by a Sichuan warlord.
The October Revolution in Russia and the May Fourth Movement in China gave Zhu De hope, and in 1922 he abandoned his post to look for the Communist Party of China in Shanghai and Beijing, met Chen Duxiu, and in September of the same year went to Germany to study and met Some Communists such as Zhou Enlai.
In November, he joined the Communist Party of China in Berlin and later transferred to the Soviet Union to study. When Zhu De went abroad, he was accompanied by Ms. Kaijiang of Sichuan and He Zhihua, a teacher who can speak English and German, and the two lived together, and then transferred from Germany to Study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow.
In 1926 they had a daughter named Zhu Min. Unfortunately, later Zhu De and He Zhihua gradually became estranged and broke away from the husband and wife relationship due to their different interests.
Zhu De returned to China in the summer of 1926 to engage in the work of military movement and the establishment of revolutionary armed forces, and in August 1927 he participated in leading the Nanchang Uprising, and after the defeat of the rebel army, he participated in the transformation of the remnants of the rebel army and the establishment of new armed forces.
In January 1928, Zhu De, Chen Yi and others, with the cooperation of the Xiangnan Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, launched the Shonan Uprising. Zhu De commanded the troops to capture the county seat of Leiyang County, and in the work of carrying out armed struggle and establishing local political power, he became acquainted with Wu Ruolan, who led the peasant movement and was responsible for the propaganda work of the Soviet Women's Department in Leiyang County.
Wu Ruolan, born in 1906, a native of Leiyang, Hunan, his father was a poor teacher. She is tall, her skin is brown and ruddy, her ears are short, she is very energetic, and from a distance, people tend to see her as a young man.
Wu Ruolan studied at the Hengyang Provincial Women's Third Normal School. The school had secret communist organizations, and she was educated by the party, embraced Marxist-Leninist ideas, and actively participated in revolutionary movements, such as solidarity with the Shanghai workers' strike, organizing propaganda teams, and supporting the Northern Expedition.
After joining the Communist Party of China in 1926, she returned to Leiyang to take charge of the work of the Women's Federation, leading the fight against local tycoons and fighting inferior gentry. After the defeat of the Revolution, the enemy searched for her everywhere, and each time she was astute to escape danger.
After Zhu De led the Red First Division to Leiyang, Wu Ruolan participated in the armed uprising led by the Laiyang County CPC Committee, was responsible for women's work, and then responded to the call of the county party committee and led a group of young people to join the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.
In his contact with Wu Ruolan, Zhu De saw that she was naïve, lively, intelligent, cultured, pursuing progress, willing to endure hardships, and liked her from the heart.
Wu Ruolan saw that Zhu De was loyal to the revolution, full of confidence in the future of the struggle, and full of concern and love for the common people: he was a big official, but he was warm and easy-going.
Wu Ruolan developed a good feeling for Jude's simplicity, loyalty and reliability, and felt that he needed someone who cared for him, and soon she married Jude.
After the troops led by Zhu De and Mao Zedong met in The City of Tong, the Red Fourth Army was established, with Zhu De serving as the commander of the army, Wu Ruolan, doing the work of mobilizing the masses, and she was responsible for the agrarian revolution in the village of Sonan in Ninggang County.
Not only did she write well, but she also had good marksmanship. The slogan of the propaganda team was usually written by her. Once, she led two female soldiers out to write slogans, several enemies attacked, she killed 4, and the rest fled.
She accompanied Zhu De to the Battle of Qixiling, and she used two guns to charge with the warriors, fought a mighty battle, won the victory, and was praised by everyone!
When the Red Army moved to jitan, Xiangshan, and Zhenxia areas of Xunwu County, it was strongly attacked under Zhenxia, Zhu De led the team to block the enemy, and Mao Zedong led the Thirty-first Regiment to break out. The blocking team commanded by Zhu De suffered heavy casualties and was scattered, and finally only a few people were left around, and it was difficult to break out of the way.
At the beginning of the battle, Wu Ruolan had been with Zhu Dejun, and she could shoot with both hands, often carrying two short guns. She and a platoon led by Jude opened heavy fire on the enemy to cover the siege of the troops. Because they were at the end, the enemy concentrated his forces to pursue and encircle.
In order to protect the commander's command of the breakthrough, Wu Ruolan quickly turned to another place and opened fire on the enemy fiercely, directing the enemy's attention to herself, but unfortunately she was hit by the enemy's machine gun and was seriously wounded.
She lay on the ground and shot her enemies, killing two or three enemies, and finally the enemies rushed up from her back and held down, taking her gun, and she rolled on the ground to fight the enemy to the death, and was beaten to the head and bled.
Wu Ruolan was taken to Ganzhou, where the enemy learned from the interrogation of other prisoners of war that she was Zhu De's wife, and threatened her to confess the internal situation and action plan of the Red Army and the situation of the local Communist Party.
The enemy used all kinds of tricks, and seeing that she could not be brought to her knees, on February 12, 1929, she kidnapped the scaly Wu Ruolan and took her to the execution room in the Ganzhou Wei Mansion and killed her. She suppressed the severe pain during her execution and shouted revolutionary slogans, causing the masses on both sides of the road to shed tears.
After Wu Ruolan was killed, the enemy vented his animal nature, engaged in intimidation and propaganda, cut off Wu Ruolan's head, hung it on a shelf made of firewood sticks, wrote in large characters "Wu Ruolan, wife of the communist bandit leader Zhu De," placed it on a bamboo raft, and drifted down the Ganjiang River to achieve their evil purpose of "showing the public along the river."
Wu Ruolan's sacrifice shocked cao zhi, Zhu Tinglan, Wu Zhonglian, He Zizhen, Kang Keqing, and many other female comrades who were familiar with her, and everyone was very sad, and they could not eat that night, tearfully mourning this indomitable comrade-in-arms, determined to learn from her excellent qualities and maintain her unfinished career.
After Zhu De learned the news of Wu Ruolan's heroic righteousness, his heart was like a knife and tears were gushing. Later, he liked orchids and cultivated orchids, as a way to pin his night thoughts on his beloved wife Wu Ruolan!
When Zhu De was 43 years old, he met a girl who was less than 17 years old who was diligent and studious, yearned for revolution, pursued the progress of the times, was not afraid of danger on the battlefield, and bravely shouldered heavy burdens at work.
Kang Keqing, formerly known as Guixiu, was born in the autumn of 1911 on a broken fishing boat on the Ganjiang River in Wan'an County, Jiangxi, because it was the season of osmanthus flowers in the south, so her parents named her Guixiu.
In October 1930, Kang Keqing, who was already the commander of the Third Company of the Red Army's Special Service Regiment, was not satisfied with the name "Kang Guixiu" given to her by her family, felt that she was too girly, wanted to change her name, and asked someone in Ji'an to help name it, and the person suggested taking the name "Kang Keqin".
As soon as she listened, she felt that the name was good and good, but she felt that the "diligent" character was too much and it was troublesome to write, and she felt that a person was not enough to be diligent, and that he should also be more demanding of himself, so she decided to change the word "diligent" to "qing", indicating that she should move forward along a clear and correct road. Since then, her name has been Kang Keqing.
Because of her poor family, Kang Keqing was adopted by a family named Lord Luo Qi as a "Wanglang daughter-in-law" shortly after she was born.
In the Luo family, Kang Keqing learned to do farm work at the age of six or seven, such as collecting firewood, pulling pigs and grass, herding cattle, and also learning to do some housework, such as making shoes, pushing and grinding, cooking, and doing almost all housework. Especially in the outer herding of cattle, he became the head of the children of his friends and developed an indomitable character. In the village, she took the lead in everything that could promote the progress of the times, and the villagers called her "daughter-in-law king".
Encouraged by the news of the victory of the Northern Expedition, Kang Keqing participated in the local agricultural movement and did women's liberation work. In 1926, he joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League and then joined the Party, and soon joined the Wan'an Guerrillas, and in the autumn of 1928, he went to Jinggangshan to join the Red Army. In the Women's Group of the Red Army, she lived happily with He Zizhen, Zeng Zhi, Wu Ruolan, Wu Zhonglian, Zhu Tinglan, Zhang Liang and other sisters
Before Kang Keqing became the Red Army, he thought that "Zhu Mao" was a person, and after becoming the Red Army, he knew that it was two people, and he was the supreme leader of the Red Army, and Kang Keqing later recalled that the impression of the first time he saw Zhu De was that he was medium-sized, strong, wearing a gray and white military uniform, wearing grass shoes on his feet, a servant in the wind and dust, always smiling, revealing kindness in his might, and easy to look like a kind peasant. .... Keqing recalled this period of history: "I didn't expect that I would form a lifelong partnership with him later!" ”
After the Red Army laid siege to the Yangtze River, Zeng Zhi, an organizational officer of the former committee of the Red Fourth Army, found Kang Keqing and suddenly asked without a head and a head: "What is your impression of Commander Zhu?" ”
Kang Keqing didn't know what Zeng Zhi's intention was for asking this, so he said bluntly: "There are very few military commanders like him, unlike those who are officials in the White Army." Although Commander Zhu was a high-ranking official, he did not have an official frame, could fight with soldiers, and could fight and learn. ”
Zeng Zhi was very happy to hear this, so he asked bluntly with a smile: "If you want to marry him, are you willing?" Kang Keqing felt helpless and said in a daze: "Don't make this joke, how is this possible!" ”
"No kidding, what I said is true!" Zeng Zhi immediately said solemnly, "Commander Zhu likes you very much, and the organization hopes that you will combine with him." Since Wu Ruolan's sacrifice, he is very mentally miserable, and after you marry him, you can help him in life, which is the greatest comfort for him! ”
"He's a good captain and a good leader, but not my husband!" Wu Ruolan sacrificed, you came to me, found the wrong person! I was too far away from Commander Zhu. On age, I am not yet 17 years old, he is already a middle-aged man of 43 years old: on the level, I am naïve in thinking, the theoretical and cultural knowledge is very poor, and now he has just begun to understand the text, and he has left a foreign, has theory, and has knowledge; on status, he is a military commander, I am just a Soldier of the Red Army, the gap is really too big. Kang Keqing said a lot of reasons for disagreement like a cannon.
One afternoon, Zhu De came to the women's group again, Kang Keqing felt as if someone had arranged it in advance, how no one else was there, only she was alone, felt particularly unnatural, excused that there was something, stood up and left. Jude smiled and said, "Don't go first, I have something I want to talk to you about." "
Kang Ke asked to know what Jude was going to say to her, and since he couldn't walk away, he had to bow his head in shame, far away from Jude. Zhu De cordially approached Kang Keqing's side and asked Kang Keqing to sit down. Kang Keqing reluctantly sat on the stool and turned half his back towards Jude.
Zhu De did not mind at all, and said sincerely: "We are all revolutionary comrades, and we do not talk about those feudal old beings." Everyone in the Red Army is equal, whether as an officer, a soldier, a commander or a soldier. With this, we can unite as one, overcome difficulties and make continuous progress. ”
Zhu De saw that Kang Keqing only shyly bowed his head and did not say a word, paused for a moment, and said very sincerely: "We are engaged in revolution and anti-feudalism, and if we have something to say, we will say it directly." I like you very much, I think you are studious and self-motivated, bold and spicy, have many advantages, and are promising comrades. Hope you marry me. Although there are some gaps between us, this will not hinder us.
Get married, I'll help you, you'll give me a lot of help, and we'll be a good revolutionary partner. Can you promise me? "
Kang Keqing was blushing, thinking for half a day, did not answer directly, she felt that Zhu De was a big army commander, so sincerely proposed to herself, felt that it was difficult to refuse, Zhu De only hoped that Kang Keqing would think about it and give an answer earlier.
At the age of 16, he became the leader of the Youth League
The next day, Zeng Zhi came to ask Kang Keqing how he thought? "Haven't thought about it yet!" Kang Keqing answered very crisply. "What's so bad about this, Commander Zhu is so good, he personally proposed to you, you promised not to finish!" Zeng Zhi said, and pulled Kang Keqing to Zhu De's residence.
Zhu De was reading a book in the house when he saw Zeng Zhi and Kang Keqing coming, and he quickly got up to greet him. After Kang Keqing entered the house, he glanced at it: The house where Zhu De lived was not large, surrounded by a wooden wall made of paint and oil, there was a table, two rattan chairs, a bench, a wooden bed supported by a bench, covered with gray military blankets, a neatly folded military quilt, a cloth bag covered with a white towel as a pillowcase, and two briefcases on the side of the bed.
There was also a flat shoulder and two ropes, and a horse lamp hung on the wall. The simple furnishings eliminated most of Kang Keqing's nervousness. As she watched, she paid attention to what zeng zhizhi said to the military commander. Zeng Zhi said, "Commander, I sent her to you, so let's talk!" It seems that my task is almost complete. ”
After Zeng Zhiqi, Zhu De asked Kang Keqing some questions, and Kang Keqing sat on the side out of the girl's self-esteem and did not say a word. Zhu De saw Kang Keqing's thoughts, so he said: "It seems that you are embarrassed to answer, can you do this, as long as you do not object, you agree, can you?" Kang Keqing was still sitting in his chair, motionless.
Judd smiled, "Well, I repeat, can you promise to marry me?" At this time, the room was very silent, and Kang Keqing seemed to be able to hear the rapid beating of her heart, because this was the moment that determined her life's fate. Zhu De's sincerity touched Kang Keqing, and she could not refuse to him! After waiting for a few minutes, Judd said happily, "Well, you've promised me!" "
Since then, Zhu De and Kang Keqing have more contact, and everyone knows their marriage relationship. Soon, they were married. Mao Zedong, Chen Yi, Tan Zhenlin, He Zizhen, Wu Zhonglian, Zeng Zhi, etc., attended the wedding. The wedding was simple but lively!
The marriage and love of Zhu De and Kang Keqing has the characteristics of military marriage in the war environment, there is no romantic love before marriage, the love of husband and wife is after marriage, and the marriage cultivated and developed in actual life is also sweet, and it will also be happy to grow old!