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Source: Contributed by Xinan Luo
This is a statue of Luo Binghui. Xinhua News Agency
My father Luo Binghui's marriage and children
Text/Luo Xin'an
（2020、6、7）
At 8:00 p.m. on January 14, 2014, I was reading a book when I suddenly received a call from my old friend Zhao Jinchuan from Beijing.
It turned out that he had heard that my father and a daughter were staying in Yan'an to work as farmers. Because of her difficulties in life, someone was ready to help, so I checked the situation first.
I told him: "Liu Fengying, who worked as a farmer in Yan'an, was not my father's daughter, but the daughter of my father's ex-wife Yang Houzhen and the disabled (without right arm) old Red Army liu zhengming." ”
After hearing this, Jin Chuan said anxiously, "You must write out these situations, otherwise no one will know about it later." ”
Putting down the phone, I immediately opened the computer and searched the Internet, and found that the Government of Baota District of Yan'an City identified Liu Fengying as Luo Binghui's daughter in 2012. Faced with the matter related to my father's marriage and children, the sense of responsibility to uncover the "dusty history" suddenly emerged.
One
To make these things clear, we must start with my father's life experience.
My father, Luo Binghui (1897-1946), was a native of Yiliang County, Yunnan Province, of Han ethnicity. He is a senior general of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and one of the 36 military experts recognized by the Central Military Commission. The movie "From Slave to General" is based on him.
My father's life was a legendary life, and he grew from a poor peasant to a proletarian revolutionary and a military man. He joined the Communist Party of China in July 1929, led the Ji'an Uprising in October, and joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. During the founding of the Central Soviet District, he participated in one to five anti-encirclement and suppression wars and won the second-class "Red Star Medal". During the Long March, he served as the commander of the Red Ninth Army, the only corps to be subordinate to the First, Fourth, and Second Fronts. The Anti-Japanese Democratic Base Area in Huainan, which his father participated in and founded, stretched all the way to the vicinity of Nanjing, the "capital" of the Japanese and puppets, and fought heroically for six years on the "side of the bed" of the Japanese and puppets. He invented the "plum blossom pile tactic" specifically for dealing with the Japanese army; he was a famous sharpshooter, drawing his gun and hitting birds, firing a hundred shots; he loved the people like his relatives, and the masses called him "Luo Qingtian"; he trained troops extremely strictly, enabling the troops to attack and defend Bijian, and making the Huainan base area the most stable anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines in central China. To this day, his legend is still widely circulated in the places where he fought.
My father's relationship and marriage experience are also legendary, but they are only poorly known due to issues such as privacy.
Two
Although my father served as a soldier and an official in the old army for more than ten years, and once held an important position, he was as untouched by "eating, drinking, and gambling", especially in the treatment of men and women, which was very famous in the Dian Army. Two things written in my father's autobiography may be quoted here to illustrate.
The first, in early 1921, Gu Pinzhen of the Dian Army rebelled against Tang (Ji Yao), and my father fled with Tang Ji Yao to Hong Kong as an aide-de-camp. "There was a division commander's little wife who lived with Tang Jiyao in Hong Kong, and she liked me very much, but I resolutely refused to accept all the money and objects, and she asked me to go to Shanghai with me to live, and at that time, a staff adjutant also advised me to make a good relationship with her, mainly to be able to cheat money, and he also enjoyed a part. I didn't agree, so he scolded me for being stupid, and he couldn't meet such a good thing. ”
Second, in early 1922, my father, together with three people, went to Guilin, Guangxi Province, to defect to Sun Yat-sen. While passing through Guiyang, the three of them looked for an old woman to contact the prostitute. "The old woman brought the woman, and the woman was so ashamed that she was red in the face, did not speak, fidgeted, and her eyes were red and swollen because of the pain of crying, and her face was full of sorrow, and she knew that she was forced to look at it. Under the temptation of the old woman, he gradually smiled and told him what had happened. At that time, the three people who were traveling together were all fascinated and bought this woman from many sides, but this woman was very cold to them, just willing to be close to me, and the three of them were going to leave when they saw this, saying that it was better to let Luo. I wouldn't, but the woman wouldn't let me go. After they left, I talked to this woman for another hour or two, and the woman wanted to kiss and hug me, and I was indeed a little moved, but my moral conscience told me that I could not do this, but should help this woman escape from the tiger's mouth, reunite them as husband and wife, and give her fifty oceans and tell her to leave here to find her husband. All three of my companions said I was a fool, but the guests in the inn said I was a promising young man of integrity. ”
The above two events had a great influence on the old days of the Dian Army, and the father's integrity, kindness, and sitting in peace were passed down as beautiful talk by the robes. It is not difficult to see that Luo Binghui is not only not the kind of man who spends his heart, but also a rare decent man.
Three
My father had three marriages. His first wife, Li Guixiu, was a native of Yiliang, Yunnan, and had a son, Luo Daixun (1913-1950), with my father. Since joining the Dian Army, my father has never returned. Luo Daixun died unjustly at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
My father's second wife, Yang Houzhen (1908-1977), a native of Ruijin, Jiangxi, had a daughter, Luo Zhentao (1929-1983), with whom my father. In April 1937, he divorced Yang Houzhen with the approval of Chairman Mao.
His father's third wife, Zhang Mingxiu (1918-2011), a native of Guangyuan, Sichuan, met in Yan'an through the introduction of He Changgong and married in September 1937 with the approval of Chairman Mao. He has a son and a daughter with my father. One son is me.
My father's second wife, Yang Houzhen, was the daughter of a rice merchant in Ruijin County. After my father led the Ji'an Uprising in 1929, she joined the revolution. In October 1934, the Central Red Army began the Long March, and Yang Houzhen participated in the Long March as a relative. During the Long March, my father was in the Red Ninth Army, and Yang Houzhen was in the Central Column, and they never met. The Red Ninth Army (later renamed the Red Thirty-second Army) was successively subordinate to the First, Fourth, and Second Fronts, and it was already October 1936 when it reached northern Shaanxi. They had not met for more than two years during the Long March.
In October 1935, Yang Houzhen arrived in northern Shaanxi with the Central Column a year before my father. In order to solve the problem of treatment of the wounded and disabled Red Army, the Central Ministry of Health created the Hospital for the Disabled of Honored Soldiers of the Red Army. Because Yang Houzhen was injured (third-class disability) during the Long March, he was arranged to be treated and recuperated in the hospital. In the hospital, Yang Houzhen has a relationship with Liu Zhengming, the hospital's instructor. In December 1936 their daughter Liu Fengying was born.
When my father arrived in northern Shaanxi and learned that Yang Houzhen was giving birth in the hospital, he immediately became angry and pulled out a gun to go to the hospital to find Yang Houzhen to settle the account. Later, after Zhou Enlai and Zhu De did their work, my father gave up. He was divorced in April 1937 with the approval of Chairman Mao. Their divorce is recorded in the Annals of Luo Binghui (Yunnan Nationalities Publishing House, June 2008, first edition), compiled by the Party History Research Office of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Later, his old comrade-in-arms He Changgong (former political commissar of the Ninth Red Army) introduced my father to Zhang Mingxiu, a Red Army cadet in the third phase of the Yan'an Anti-Japanese War. They married in Yan'an in September.
Four
One day in April 2010, a woman, Ms. Mo Xian, came to visit, saying that she was Yang Houzhen's granddaughter-in-law. She said her father-in-law, Liu Gangfu, was the child of Yang Houzhen and Luo Binghui. I asked her about Liu Gangfu's birthday, and she replied: March 1938. I immediately opened the "Annals of Luo Binghui" and told her: Luo Binghui and Yang Houzhen divorced in April 1937, so Liu Gangfu could not be Luo Binghui's children.
In fact, the matter itself is not complicated, it is artificially complicated. In Yunnan, as early as 1991, Yang Shenghua, former director of the Propaganda Department of the Yiliang County CPC Committee, wrote in an article published in the 6th series of "Zhaotong Literature and History Materials": "After the Start of the Long March, Luo Binghui's wife Yang Houzhen moved with the Central Column, and the two failed to meet. Yang Houzhen was injured during the Long March, and the military doctor Liu Zhengming treated and nursed him, and the two had a love affair. Luo Binghui, who went to Yan'an, was ineffective and had to divorce and break up. In 1979, Yang Shenghua participated in the visit and investigation organized by Yiliang County.
I think that although Liu Fengying is not Luo Binghui's daughter, she is also the daughter of two old Red Army soldiers and should be taken care of.
Throughout his life, my father, Lo Ping-fai, always regarded reputation as important as life. His cleanliness and self-sludge, which did not stain, were already extremely rare in the old army days. After joining the revolution and becoming a senior general in the Red Army, he became more strict with himself, which is well known. Many years after the death of his father, there was a "child problem". I, as his son, have a responsibility to come forward and clarify.
