In the afternoon of September 1955, a solemn ceremony was held at the Zhongnanhai Purple Light Pavilion. The generals who made outstanding contributions to the Liberation War were awarded military ranks one by one, and Premier Zhou issued them with orders and medals.
But at the end of the ceremony, there was still a medal box on the stage, and there were three medals in the box that no one had taken, and a letter of order with the rank of lieutenant general had not been issued. Premier Zhou saw the situation and looked down from the stage, and it turned out that there was another person standing alone in the waiting queue for the award.
Premier Zhou recognized the man, who was Huang Mars, who was in charge of preparing for the establishment of the military procuratorate.
Why did Huang Mars, who was 46 years old at the time, accept the appointment at the conferment ceremony, and what kind of story did he have?
Huang Mars was born in 1909. At the age of 7, Huang Mars followed his parents from Henan to Jiangxi. Along the way, they starved and suffered a lot. Unfortunately, Huang Mars's mother fell seriously ill in such a difficult environment and unfortunately passed away. Huang Mars's father had no money to treat his mother's funeral, and in desperation, he could only sell Huang Mars to a family surnamed Huang in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi.
The family has no children, so they are very fond of the young Yellow Mars. Coupled with the fact that his adoptive father, Huang Jufa, made a living in the porcelain business and had a solid family, so Huang Mars lived a good life after being sold.
But later, Huang Mars's adoptive mother fell seriously ill and died shortly after.
The stepmother who remarried his adoptive father scolded Huang Mars at every turn, and seemed to reject the only son in the family. Huang Mars also thought about running away from home, but for the sake of his adoptive father, he stayed.
When Huang Mars was 15 years old, he married under the supervision of his adoptive parents and had a child with his wife the following year after marriage. In the same year, Huang Mars also began to work as an apprentice in his adoptive father's porcelain factory, sharing the business affairs for his adoptive father.
But fate seems unwilling to treat Yellow Mars well. In 1926, his adoptive father died of illness and his stepmother remarried. The porcelain factory is also facing closure due to business downturn, and the Huang family still owes 5,000 yuan in debt. Huang Mars can only sell his property to pay off debts and support his family by doing hard work.
At the same time, the domestic situation was constantly changing, and Chiang Kai-shek continued to persecute our Party personnel after he seized the power of the Kuomintang. Huang Mars, who works hard in the factory, meets Yu Jinde, a communist party member, and Zhang Bingsheng, a member of the Communist Youth League, and the three of them become friends. Huang Mars also saw the shameful behavior of the Kuomintang in persecuting our party members, and he was very angry. Moreover, Huang Mars gradually began to contact progressive ideas in the process of getting along with the two of them, and he also had the idea of joining our party in his heart.
Because Huang Mars's factory was under the control of the Kuomintang, the factory leaders were supported by the Kuomintang and tried their best to exploit the workers.
In addition, the same situation is also true at several local factories. These workers launched a strike movement during the Dragon Boat Festival in 1929, exposing the ugly face of the factory leaders and the Kuomintang in colluding to oppress the workers. Yellow Mars was also involved in the movement.
The strike movement was over when the criminal activities between the Kuomintang soldiers and the factory leaders were exposed, and they could only promise the workers that they would improve their food and pay their wages on time. But how can the Kuomintang side give up? After the strike movement, Huang Mars and a large number of workers who led the movement were fired from the factory.
In 1930, our Party established a Soviet government in Jiangxi, and the Red Army was recruiting soldiers. Huang Mars joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In November of the same year, he became a member of the Chinese Communist Youth League with his outstanding performances.
In January 1931, Huang Mars was sent to study at the Geyuan Military and Political School in the Northeast Region of Gansu Province, where he met Fang Zhimin, Xue Zizheng and other outstanding Communist Party members. Under their influence, Huang Mars grew rapidly and joined the party in April of the same year.
Huang Mars, who graduated from the military and political school, was sent to various places to perform military duties. He successively served as the political commissar of the Fourth Guerrilla Brigade in Yiyang, Jiangxi, and the political commissar of the Ninety-fifth Regiment of the 13th Division of the Red Eleventh Army.
After the Outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Huang Mars served as the commander and political commissar of the Third Regiment of the Second Detachment of the New Fourth Army. Once, his three regiments were attacked by more than 3,000 Japanese troops. Moreover, the Japanese also flew planes, and they hovered over Hejiawan, the garrison of the Three Regiments, and shell after shell fell around the camp, and the situation was very urgent.
At that time, there were still Kuomintang troops stationed near the Third Regiment of the New Fourth Army. However, not long after the Japanese attacked, the Nationalist troops fled. In the face of the enemy's onslaught, Huang Mars had no intention of fleeing, he boosted morale, and led the comrades of the three regiments to fight desperately to resist the Japanese attack. In this battle, the Japanese army was killed and wounded by our army more than 300 people, and several planes in the sky were also knocked down. The Japanese army could only retreat when it saw the situation.
In 1941, Huang Mars served as the political commissar of the second detachment of the New Fourth Army and the political commissar of the old third regiment, and the New Fourth Army was besieged by more than 80,000 Kuomintang troops on the way north, while there were only more than 9,000 troops in the New Fourth Army. During the breakout, Yellow Mars's thigh was hit by a bullet, and the blood flowed. However, the Kuomintang offensive did not decrease, in order to lead the fighters to break through, Huang Mars endured the pain, hurriedly bandaged the wounds and continued to take up the gun to fight the enemy.
However, due to the huge disparity in strength between the enemy and us, a large number of Red Army soldiers unfortunately died, and Huang Mars proposed that the troops disperse and break through. His proposal was agreed by the military commander Ye Ting and the deputy commander Xiang Ying. Subsequently, Huang Mars led a team of warriors to break through to the northwest,
After 7 days and 7 nights of bloody battles with the warriors, they finally broke through the enemy's 14 blockade lines and killed a bloody road.
At this time, there were only 72 warriors left in the team, including Yellow Mars.
After the troops converged with the underground guerrillas, Huang Mars could not care less about treating his wounded leg, and he went to the Jiangbei guerrilla column to report the course of the battle to the organization. Because the Japanese army deliberately lured the Kuomintang troops, the Kuomintang army spread our army's marching route to the Japanese army, causing the Japanese army to pursue and attack our army. Soon after, Huang Mars dragged his injured leg and participated in the battle, even if the armed forces of the enemy and us were disparity, Huang Mars still broke the illusion of the enemy wanting to "suppress" our army with the soldiers.
The shrapnel left on Huang Mars's thigh was not removed until after the founding of New China.
In 1949, the Kuomintang refused to sign the Kuomintang-Communist peace agreement, exposing its true purpose of wanting to start a civil war again, and the Central Military Commission decided to launch a general offensive against the Kuomintang troops entrenched south of the Yangtze River, known as the Battle of crossing the River. The Twenty-fifth Army, where Huang Mars was located, was responsible for crossing the river from Xiliangshan, annihilating the enemy's Twentieth Army on the other side, and clearing the way for our army to go south.
On the other side of the Yangtze River, Huang Mars fought with the Japanese army many times, and he knew the terrain there very well, so Huang Mars suggested to his superiors:
"The river surface is wide, and the opposite is a lake and moor, and it is difficult for the troops to deploy after crossing the river, so it should be changed to Wuwei Oil Mill Zui to cross the river."
The superiors adopted this suggestion. Due to the proper choice of landing route, the Twenty-fifth Army was able to quickly go ashore to break through the enemy's river defenses after crossing the river, and successfully defeated Chiang Kai-shek's "ace army" the Twentieth Army in less than 30 minutes, and launched the first battle of the Battle of Crossing the River.
After the liberation of Nanjing, Huang Mars led his troops to pursue the fleeing enemy troops, and he annihilated the 20th Army of the Kuomintang Army in the Wuhu Bay area, the commander Yang Gancai was killed on the spot, and the commander of the enemy's 123rd Division, Jing Jiamu, was captured. Soon after, Yellow Mars annihilated the enemy 99th Division and a security brigade. He also annihilated more than 9,000 enemy troops in the Mentang area of Guangde County, making great contributions to the liberation of Shanghai.
Huang Mars also participated in the campaign to liberate Xiamen, and after the liberation of Xiamen, Huang Mars threw himself into the reconstruction of Xiamen. He assisted Ye Fei, director of the Military Control Commission, in his work, encouraging the masses to resume production while suppressing price gouging and disrupting the market, so that Xiamen could restore normal social order in a short period of time.
In May 1955, Huang Mars began to shift the focus of his work to the preparation of the military procuratorate. In September, the ceremony in Zhongnanhai began, and Huang Mars was invited to the waiting queue under the stage. However, when the ceremony was about to end, Huang Mars was still not called to the stage to accept the medal, and there were still three medals left on the stage, namely the Order of August 1 of the Second Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the First Class, and the Liberation Medal of the First Class.
Premier Zhou saw Huang Mars in the audience, and after asking Huang Mars, he learned that he had not heard the host read his name. Premier Zhou hurriedly checked with the host, only to find that the host mispronounced "Yellow Mars" as "Yellow Fire Qing" when reading the name, and Huang Mars thought that it was a soldier with a similar name at that time, so he did not come to the stage.
In order to award Huang Mars, Premier Zhou asked the musicians to replay the music, and changed the previous model of 20 people taking the stage to accept the appointment, and immediately reopened a medal ceremony for Huang Mars.
When everything was ready, Huang Mars took a step toward the podium. In a solemn music, he received the title order in the hands of Premier Zhou and the three medals that belonged to him. Subsequently, Huang Mars raised his hand and gave a military salute to Premier Zhou.
The founding lieutenant general, who fought for twenty years for China's liberation cause, finally received the honor he deserved.
In the same year, Huang Mars was appointed deputy procurator general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and chief procurator of the Military Procuratorate by the central government, and he also became a deputy to the Third National People's Congress.
From then on, Huang Worked in his post until his death on April 27, 1971, at the age of 62.