"Brother Fang, it was the motherland and the people who gave me a second life. Although I am a person in my seventies, as long as I still have a breath, I will definitely contribute to the motherland and the people! One day in October 1977, an old man with silver hair appeared in front of the tomb of martyr Fang Zhimin in the foothills of Meiling Mountain in the western suburbs of Nanchang City, bowed deeply, and cried silently, as if he had infinite emotions in his heart to tell. Who would have thought that this man would have been a prominent figure thirty years ago, and only two years ago he had walked out of prison. This person is Huang Wei, the former commander of the Kuomintang Twelfth Corps, a "nerdy" general who has only changed under the infinite tolerance and care of the motherland and the people.
Huang Wei is a native of Guixi, Jiangxi, and his parents are full-fledged farmers. When he was young, Huang Wei studied at the county's first higher primary school and achieved excellent results. Later, his father died early, so Huang Wei wanted to find a career as soon as possible to support his family. In 1918, at the age of 14, Huang Wei was admitted to the Jiangxi Provincial Fourth Normal School, hoping to return to his hometown as a teacher sooner. And here, Huang Wei met a man who changed the fate of his life.
Fang Zhimin, and Huang Wei were fellow countrymen, but five years older than him, and were studying in the preparatory department of the Provincial Grade A Industrial School. The two met by chance, Huang Wei admired Fang Zhimin's knowledge, Fang Zhimin admired Huang Wei's efforts, and the two soon became good friends who talked about everything. In life, Fang Zhimin has always cared for Huang Wei like a brother, and Huang Wei also pays respect for each other like a brother, taking care of each other like a real family.
At that time, the collision of social ideas was fierce, especially on campus. One day, Huang Wei went to find Fang Zhimin, and accidentally saw progressive books and periodicals such as "New Youth" in his dormitory, so he casually flipped through them. At first glance, it was like an empowerment, attracted by the new ideology in the book. He immediately asked Fang Zhimin, "Brother Fang, why do you have so many good books here?" Now that there is chaos outside, is it okay to read this kind of book? ”
In fact, the reason why Fang Zhimin put these books on the surface is that he hopes that his little brother can see and accept new ideas. Huang Wei is simple in thought, but firm in will, and has a tenacity that never returns. If he can be introduced to the right path, he will become a person who is beneficial to both the country and the nation. So Fang Zhimin smiled and replied, "What can't you read in these books?" Don't teachers often say that we should learn more and see more? Now, there are many people in the school who have these books, if you want to read them, take them and read them! ”
Since then, Huang Wei has found Fang Zhimin for another purpose - to borrow books. Under the influence of these progressive books, his thinking began to change, he realized the importance of national liberation, and even began to accept Marxism, planting the germ of communism in his heart.
After graduating from school, Huang Wei got an errand in the primary school in his hometown as he wished. However, at this time, his vision has been broadened, and he no longer only thinks about the little thing of supporting his family every day. He and Fang Zhimin still maintain contact, and they are still very influenced by this big brother ideologically. Finally, one day, Huang Wei began to openly propagate communist ideas in schools and started a student movement.
Huang Wei's behavior offended the big households and gentry in his hometown, and these people united to do things, and finally made Huang Wei unable to stay in his hometown and could only come to Fang Zhimin. When the brothers met, Fang Zhimin asked Huang Wei what he planned next, and Huang Wei said that he did not want to teach anymore, but wanted to join the army and take the road of military salvation.
This kind of thinking and Fang Zhimin hit it off. At this time, the Whampoa Military Academy had been established, and Fang Zhimin was also planning to apply for the examination. After discussion, the two decided to immediately leave for Guangzhou and go to the Whampoa Military Academy to realize their dream of serving the country.
But things are so tortuous. When the two came to Guangzhou, they found that the enrollment of the Whampoa Military Academy had not yet begun, and Huang Wei's entanglement had been spent. The so-called penny is difficult to defeat the hero, with the ideal of Huang Wei, really feel the economic pressure. Moreover, according to the regulations, an introducer is required to enter Huangpu, but Huangpu has no introducer. How can this be done? Is Huang Wei's dream of a soldier about to be interrupted?
Later, it was Fang Zhimin who reached out to help. He entrusted the relationship and found a job for the shy Huang Wei, which solved his urgent needs. Later, he found Zhao Xingyi, the head of the underground party in Jiangxi, and asked him to be Huang Wei's introducer. At this point, Huang Wei was able to stay and wait for the enrollment work to begin.
Soon after, the initial entrance examination of the Whampoa Military Academy began, and Fang Zhimin and Huang Wei successfully passed the test with their own knowledge accumulation. However, when the re-examination was about to begin, Huang Wei heard that Fang Zhimin had not taken the exam. At that time, Huang Wei seemed to have fallen into the main heart, and immediately panicked. He quickly found Fang Zhimin and asked why.
Fang Zhimin faced this fellow countryman, his expression was very flat, and said: "I have my own business to be busy temporarily, and I can't take the exam." You go to the exam first, study hard after entering the school, and I will go to you later. ”
Huang Wei was even more panicked in his heart, and said with red eyes: "Big Brother Fang, I am not a person who can make friends, you are my only friend." And I lack knowledge and don't know if I can keep up with the pace of learning. With you there, I'm sure I can learn a lot from you. If you don't go, what will I do in the future? ”
Fang Zhimin was still very plain, and said to Huang Wei: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Old Brother Huang, I believe you can do it." As long as you study hard, there is nothing that cannot be overcome. I really have my own business, and when I'm done, I'll definitely go to you, you can rest assured. ”
Fang Zhimin did not say in the end that he was going to do anything. In fact, he had already joined the Communist Party of China, and the opportunity to give up the examination for the Whampoa Military Academy was assigned by the party to go to Jiangxi to carry out revolutionary work. However, for reasons of confidentiality, he could not tell Huang Wei the truth, which made the little brother always confused.
Finally, Huang Wei, under the persuasion of Fang Zhimin, left with tears in his eyes. He had always believed in his heart that Brother Fang would really come to him one day, and then the brothers could study together again. But no one could have imagined that this parting would actually become a farewell for the two of them!
After that, Fang Zhimin engaged in revolutionary work in Jiangxi and Jiangsu, established the Red Armed Forces, and became one of the earliest founders of the Red Army. Huang Wei lost the guidance of his eldest brother and gradually embarked on a crooked road. On April 12, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek staged a coup d'état and purged the Communists, kicking off the rupture between the Kuomintang and the Communists. Huang Wei's classmate Chen Geng gave up his generous treatment and chose to follow the Communist Party on a bright path. Huang Wei, on the other hand, adhered to the dogma that "obedience is the duty of a soldier" and became a general under Chiang Kai-shek.
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To be honest, people like Huang Wei are very pleasing to the leaders. He worked hard enough and was firm enough, but he had no opinion, and often the tasks sent down from above, he would definitely complete them with the determination to die. But for the right and wrong of the leader, he never cared about it, and never questioned it. Such an "old scalper" who worked hard to the death was especially interested in Chiang Kai-shek's appetite. Therefore, Huang Wei continued to rise under Chiang Kai-shek, and finally became the commander of the Twelfth Army of the Concubines on the eve of the Battle of Huaihai.
However, if we really want to talk about war, Huang Wei's level can only be regarded as moderate. He and Zeng Guofan, the leader of the Xiang Army at the end of the Qing Dynasty, were the same kind of people, and it was his style to fight to the death in a hard camp. But once faced with a real master of tactics, his set does not work. In the Battle of Shuangdui, Huang Wei was caught in the old classmate Chen Geng's strategy of "encircling the division must be que", and as a result, he suffered a tragic defeat, and almost all of his army was destroyed, and he himself became a prisoner.
After Huang Wei was captured, the bookish stubbornness came up again, never admitting his guilt, believing himself to be nothing more than a defeated soldier. And even if he is defeated, he is unwilling to admit it, always clamoring for the People's Liberation Army to let him go, and the two sides will decide between male and female. Later, when he entered the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center, Huang Wei was also the least active in reform, unwilling to take notes, unwilling to listen to lectures, always making trouble with other students, and even fighting.
However, for Huang Wei, his heart may have changed long ago. He had five types of tuberculosis, and any one of them was fatal. When he was in the Kuomintang army, he had no time for treatment. Now in the war criminals management center, the Communist doctors have reached out to him. After four years of treatment, not only was Huang Wei's illness cured one by one, but he was not asked for a penny. This kindness, Huang Wei will not be untouched. It's just that the bookish atmosphere in his head is really too deeply affected, so that he doesn't dare to face his own transformation.
Because of this stubbornness, Huang Wei stayed in the war criminals management center for 27 years. Even when Gong Delin withdrew, he was transferred to Fushun. One by one, his colleagues were pardoned, and in the end only a few people such as him and Shen Ce were left. In the end, Chairman Mao waved a big hand and pardoned them all in 1975.
Even after the amnesty, Huang Wei still did not change his "dead duck mouth hard" characteristics. In an interview with reporters, he still stubbornly said: "My thinking has not been transformed." We who are soldiers never ask about politics, the old society is like this, and the new society should be even more so. "It was a very awkward scene at one point.
However, the people's government was tolerant of Huang Wei. Not only did he not pursue his unspeakable faults, but he also cared about him everywhere in life. Even the perpetual motion machine he designed that went against the common sense of physics was designed and produced by the government with him.
In 1977, Huang Wei was invited to participate in the National Day celebration ceremony. The smiles on the people's faces and the achievements of socialist construction made this stubborn veteran very touched. After the celebration was completed, he decided to be accompanied by his youngest daughter, driving south, and taking another look at the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.
Soon after, Huang Wei and his party came to visit the Nanchang Revolutionary Martyrs' Memorial Hall. Looking at the cultural relics and explaining paragraph by paragraph, Huang Wei's stubborn psychological defense line was finally broken, and he said his true voice with tears: "So many people who seek happiness for the people have become martyrs, but I, a sinner who is unforgiving to the people, live intact." I am a war criminal, but after liberation, I was magnanimated and reformed, and I really owe the people thanks to the party! ”
In Meiling Mountain, a western suburb not far from the Martyrs' Memorial, Huang Wei once again met his elder brother Fang Zhimin, who had been missing for many years. Only at this time, the two were separated by yin and yang, and Huang Wei could only see the tombstone of the eldest brother. Remembering Brother Fang's guidance and education for himself, Huang Wei was once again in tears. He bowed deeply for three times, and then choked up and said, "Big Brother Fang, Big Brother Fang!" I'm Huang Wei! I am sorry! More than fifty years ago, you guided me to the Whampoa Military Academy. You taught me to be a true soldier, to be a useful person to the country and the people. But I have failed you, I have been fighting for the reactionaries, and I have brought deep disasters to the country and the people... I, I'm sorry for you..."
Huang Wei's life. He once had such a good opportunity to run to the light, but he went astray at the most critical time. His stubbornness, which would have made him a staunch revolutionary fighter, made him the toughest enemy of the people. Sometimes in life, it is really a wrong step and a wrong step. Fortunately, in his later years, he lost his way and returned to the embrace of the people. Later, he joined the CppcC and devoted himself to the study of military history, making positive contributions to the seriousness of the country's history.