There is a kind of love in this world called Mom, great and selfless. However, for most people, moms are limited to themselves, or limited to their own children.
Wu Lanying is a native of Cangxi County, Sichuan Province. Sichuan Guangyuan female Red Army, the wife of the founding lieutenant general Liu Zhong. She is a famous female soldier of the Red Army, a two-gun female Eight Road, in the cruel war years, her own children died prematurely, but she adopted many children of her comrades-in-arms, interpreting a great legend of maternal love in the difficult years of the revolutionary years.
In March 1933, the Red Fourth Front entered Sichuan to open up the Sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base area, and a large number of women joined the revolution. Under the strong leadership of the organization, more than 400 outstanding women were selected from many outstanding women who signed up, and the "Red Fourth Front Women's Independent Battalion" was established in Tongjiang County, Sichuan Province. Since then, the first regular women's armed force of the Red Army has been born. Subsequently, the Red Army successively formed women's independent regiments (1st and 2nd regiments), and in February 1935, on the basis of two women's independent regiments, a women's independent division was reorganized and established in Wangmiao Street, Wangcang County. Marshal Xu Xiangqian said in "A Review of History" that this heroic female soldier unit "fought tenaciously and bravely during the sichuan-Shaanxi period, the Long March and the arduous years of the Western Route Army, and set up a glorious banner in the history of the Chinese women's movement" (People's Publishing House, 2016 edition, p. 159).
Today, when people open the historical materials, they will find that many of the female soldiers in this heroic unit are from the northwest region of Sichuan, they are not only the Mulan in the army who fought bravely, the deeds and spirit deserve to be written in a big book, and there is also such a common feature, people are beautiful, songs are sung well, like larks one by one, leaving a moving song in the history of our army.
In 1937. Yan'an. A simple cave dwelling. A pair of revolutionary lovers came together. Groom Liu Zhong, groom Wu Lanying. The organization approved their marriage report. Liu Zhong used 27 yuan of edge coins to buy yam eggs and bud valley noodles to organize the wedding, and the leaders came to congratulate him, but there was not a piece of sugar at the wedding in the difficult years. Then put on a show, and singing has become the most convenient. Liu Zhong's voice was rough and bold: "There are bold revolutionaries and boldness, and they are afraid of setting up knives and guns around their necks; cutting off their heads and necks, and digging out their hearts, livers, and intestines." Wu Lanying's voice was sweet: "Sister Eighteen, Brother Nineteen, pick up the hoe and dig the lotus; as long as the brother knows the sister's wishes, he will go with the Red Army." ”
Liu Zhong joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1929 and joined the Communist Party of China in the same year. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he successively served as quartermaster of the Red Guards in Shanghang County, platoon leader of the Red Army School, political commissar of the 19th Brigade of the Third Column of the Red Fourth Army, political commissar of the 36th Regiment of the 12th Division of the Red First Army, political commissar of the 33rd Regiment of the 11th Division, political commissar of the Fifth Regiment of the Second Division, chief of the Organization Section of the Political Department of the First Red Army, and chief of the Reconnaissance Section of the Corps Headquarters. He participated in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations in the Central Soviet Region and the 25,000-mile Long March. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the commander of the third brigade of the Chinese Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, the president of the Sixth Branch School, the commander of the Jinyu Joint Defense Army and the deputy political commissar of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the commander of the Second Military Subdistrict of the Taiyue Military Region, and the commander of the 386th Brigade of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region, and participated in the Hundred Regiments War and the struggle to open up the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Anti-Japanese Base Area. During the Liberation War, he successively served as the commander of the 10th Brigade of the Fourth Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region, the chief of staff of the Fourth Column, the commander of the Taiyue Military Region, the commander of the 15th Column of the North China Military Region, and the commander of the 62nd Army of the 18th Corps.
This year, Liu Zhong was 31 years old, Wu Lanying was 21 years old, and Wu Lanying was exactly 10 years older. People asked Wu Lanying, "How did you fall in love with Liu Zhong?" Wu Lanying said truthfully: "Although he is honest and honest, he will fight." "Love in the revolutionary years is so simple, loving someone does not require much reason, only like-minded revolutionary ideals are enough. At that time, Wu Lanying was working in an accounting school, and more than 40 female colleagues in the school had partners, but she was still single. The comrades-in-arms then introduced Liu Zhong, who was then the commander of the third brigade of the Anti-Japanese Resistance Brigade, to her, Liu Zhong had a cheerful personality and did things crisply and neatly, and after a period of time, the two had feelings, and marriage was a natural success.
Childhood experiences can have a very important impact on life, and behind the impeccable love is Wu Lanying's resistance to suffering, and thus has revolutionary ideals. On the first day of the Chinese New Year in 1916, Wu Lanying was born in a poor peasant family in Wujiaping, Sanchuan Township, Cangxi County, Guangyuan County, Sichuan Province, because she was the third oldest in the family and was a girl, she had the nickname of "Three Sisters".
At the age of 3, the mother of the third sister died; at the age of 4, the father of the third sister died again. The third sister thus became an orphan who had lost her parents and was raised by her brother-in-law. The brother-in-law did not have land to cultivate, rented land from the landlord, because the harvest was not good, could not afford to pay the rent, and by the time the third sister was 7 years old, she had already owed a lot of debts to the landlord. Thinking about it, there was no good way to repay the money, and the brother and sister-in-law were helpless and sent the third sister to the landlord's house to work to pay off the debt.
What can a 7-year-old girl do? But in the eyes of the landlord, she must have been a laborer. Therefore, the landlord's family cut the grass, herded cattle, cleaned the courtyard, collected firewood and cooked rice, and so on, all of which were left to the third sister to do. It is not that their children do not have heartache, do a good job of landlords do not squeak, do not do well to face a beating.
After seven years of ups and downs, the third sister is 14 years old, leaving many scars on her body that are as long as time. In order not to be abused again, she escaped back to her brother's house one night in the middle of the moon. The brother was startled, she showed the scars on her body, the brother was silent for a long time, and then thought of the brother-in-law. My brother-in-law's name is Yuan Jing, in Zhaohua, and he is my secret underground party member. The brother said, "You escaped, and the landlord will soon catch up with you... This year, the poor can't survive, let's run away together! Subsequently, the two brothers and sisters came to Zhaohua together and surrendered to Yuan Jing.
Through Yuan Jing's introduction, the brother quickly joined the party, and the third sister helped the sister to do some housework, cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the children. Although the brother-in-law's home is not a secret contact point, some underground Party members often live in the brother-in-law's home as relatives, on the one hand, to avoid the arrest of the vigilante groups; on the other hand, to agree on some specific matters.
After a long time, the third sister vaguely felt what these people were doing, and even became familiar with some people. Everyone felt that although the third sister had not read a book, she was meticulous, intelligent and sensitive, and was a revolutionary "good seedling", so they recommended her to be a secret correspondent of the underground organization. In this position, she did an excellent job, was unanimously recognized by her comrades, and later recommended her to join the Communist Youth League. At this time, she had an official name, Wu Lanying, which was given to her by the comrades of the underground organization.
The third sister is very excited, an ordinary name, for her not only is it a "rite of passage", but also means that she has gone to the bright road, no longer in the landlord's house to abuse girls. She walks on thin ice, works more carefully and earnestly, works hard, and thus has some opportunities to learn. However, the good times did not last long, and in the spring of 1932, due to the appearance of traitors inside the underground contact point, her brother and brother-in-law were heroically sacrificed, and she was also quickly targeted by the enemy.
One night, the third sister and sister who had already slept were awakened by a violent slamming of the door, and the sister felt that things were not good, so that the third sister escaped through the back door. After a night of running, the third sister hid herself in a ravine and escaped the enemy's pursuit. Subsequently, the third sister found the person in charge of another secret contact point of the organization, reported the news that the organization was destroyed, and asked the organization to make corresponding preparations. At the end of that year, the third sister signed up for the Red Fourth Front, truly embarked on the road of revolution, and became a female soldier.
At first, the third sister was assigned to the propaganda team of the 91st Division of the 31st Army as the leader of the propaganda team, but when she learned that only the women's independent regiment could go to the front, she took the initiative to ask to join the independent regiment. On the first day of the Chinese New Year in 1935, on her 19th birthday, and on this day, her superiors agreed to her request, and she served as the platoon leader of the first company of the independent regiment, and later became the company commander.
Cutting off her long hair, tying her leggings, and carrying her rifle, the third sister, like the other female soldiers of the Independent Regiment, trained hard and was always ready for war. At this time, she buried the sacrifice and pain of her brother and brother-in-law deep in her heart, and realized her revolutionary ideals step by step, and by the time of the Long March across the snowy mountains, she was able to skillfully use her two guns with her left and right hands.
Like many ordinary families, revolutionary families had the burden of childbearing. The year after starting a family with Liu Zhong, Wu Lanying gave birth to her first child. However, soon after the birth of the child, Wu Lanying marched with the child on his back, and as a result, because the child was too small and traveled long distances, he finally died on Wu Lanying's back. Today, people no longer know how Wu Lanying faced this lost child, but behind this must be a huge pain of a mother tearing her heart and lungs, and it is this huge pain that later achieved the great maternal love of Wu Lanying's "saving her adopted son and giving birth".
In the winter of 1940, shortly after Wu Lanying gave birth to her second-year child, she stayed behind in the rear and organized her to take care of more than 30 children in the rear. At that time, there was a shortage of materials in the rear, in order to make the more than 30 children fill their stomachs, Wu Lanying took out the childcare fee of his own son to buy sticks for these children to eat, but he was reluctant to eat for his own children. As a result, more than 30 children survived well, while their two-year-olds died of hunger.
The third child, Qingzhang, was born in 1942 in Xiang County, Hebei Province. The little girl is very beautiful, well-behaved and cute, and the uncles and aunts around her are very fond of her. But shortly after the Spring Festival in 1946, Xiao Qingzhang fell ill. At this time, only 3 days after Wu Lanying gave birth, in order to treat Xiao Qingzhang's illness, she braved the snow to find her husband. After the husband listened, he went to find a doctor for Xiao Qingzhang without saying a word, and the result was that the horse was exhausted and died in the snow, and invited her husband, but Xiao Qingzhang left because of the lack of medical treatment.
In this way, heart-wrenching tragedies one after another, in less than 10 years, Wu Lanying lost 4 children in succession, but she left the hope of life to the children of comrades and comrades again and again.
Zhen Ziming, a native of Taishan County, Guangdong Province, from 1917 to 2007, joined the revolution in August 1938 and successively served as accountant, chief of units, section chiefs, division chiefs, deputy ministers, directors, deputy directors of the Finance Department of the General Logistics Department, deputy commander of the Production and Construction Corps of the Xinjiang Military Region and director of the Logistics Department. In 1941, Zhen Ziming was appointed as the accountant of the Anti-Third Regiment, and his wife Li Jinxue gave birth to a son. Soon, Zhen Ziming and Li Jinxue were ordered to go to central China with the troops, but who would take care of the children? This originally had little to do with Wu Lanying, but she and her husband Liu Zhong took the child over.
This child's name is Zhen Huaizhi. In order to make Zhen Ziming and Li Jinxue feel at ease on the front line, Wu Lanying raised Zhen Huaizhi with childcare fees on the one hand, and on the other hand, he reduced his family's allowance to buy clothes and food for Zhen Huaizhi. A few years later, Wu Lanying sent Zhen Huaizhi to study in the name of Liu Zhong's son, and it was not until 1949 that Zhen Ziming brought Zhen Huaizhi back.
After the founding of New China, Liu Zhong successively served as commander of the Xikang Military Region and commander of the West Sichuan Military Region, and in 1955 he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and Wu Lanying began to turn behind her husband, wholeheartedly supporting her husband's work, maintaining the true color of a worker and peasant, without the delicate atmosphere of the wife of an official or the wife of a general. She had 11 children with her husband, and the revolutionary journey had left them losing 5 of them, but they were relieved that 6 of their children had grown up and were very competitive. And the children they adopted and cared for during the war years have also grown up, and some have even become the pillars of the motherland, and they do not forget to come to see Wu Lanying every New Year's Festival and call her "Mother Liu".
A foreign writer said that the greatest pain a person can suffer is that the mother loses the child, and the child loses the mother. This kind of pain is very intense and terrible, and it can move the heavens and the earth to cry ghosts and gods, tear up the liver and lungs. But Wu Lanying never told her children about this, and before she died in 1982, she clasped her husband's hand and said affectionately: "I left first, and in thirty years we will meet again in front of Marx." Behind her, her deposit in the bank was only 4,000 yuan, and she left such a long-winded exhortation to her children: love the motherland and be a good person.
In August 2002, General Liu Zhong died in Beijing. A few years later, his daughter Liu Xuan read the following message in a notebook he had donated to the museum: "Zheng'an was born on May 8, 1938, not on October 28, 1938... In the Brick Wall Field Hospital; Xing'an is August 39 (Gengzi Day), Qingzhang was born on January 15, 1942 (Xin Wei Year), the third child, Qing'an was born on March 17, 44 (Jia Shen Year)..." And people really know Wu Lanying's deeds in recent years, mainly through the movies "Mingxin Years" and "Wu Lanying", which are all biographical feature films of revolutionary historical figures based on Wu Lanying's deeds, so the image of the heroic mother is forever alive on the silver screen.
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