There has never been an absolute thing in the world, absolute good and bad, black and white, more often than not, it is actually a gray area.
The "I Ching" once said: "One yin and one yang is the Tao", which also shows that all things in the world are complementary to each other, that is, the truth of opposites and unity, and people are the same. There is no absolute good man and no absolute evil man, a good person also has his own evil side, and a person who is infinitely evil will also have a good factor.
The people have a temperature, and history also has a memory, but all those who are helpful to history and those who serve the people will be remembered. Maybe some people's external identity does not look particularly "decent", but what they do will "justify" their entire person and become an admirable person.
For example, the character wrestler Shang Hua in the movie "Busan Trip", his tall body and a majestic appearance, let people who are not familiar with him have the first impression of that kind of "bad trouble" role, but I did not expect that in the critical moment of the whole car behind him, he was a good husband and good father who was particularly responsible and responsible. Although he lost his life in the end, his efforts for his wife and children made behaviors that moved onlookers.
In fact, there are many people of this type, such as Long Yun, the only warlord in China buried in Babaoshan Mountain, although he bears the identity of "warlord leader", but what he has done is awe-inspiring, and he is a well-known national hero.
The awe-inspiring Dian Army
Speaking of China's iron-blooded division, many people may immediately think of the Sichuan Army. As everyone knows, during those turbulent years, the Dian Army was also a very brave existence, they once fought from the far southest to the far north of China, and their footprints were all over the motherland, not only the army that traveled the farthest in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but also the army that participated in the most battles for the founding of New China.
As we all know, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, all provinces in our country sent troops to resist the War of Resistance, and Yunnan was no exception. After the Lugou Bridge Incident, Yunnan has sent 420,000 troops to the front, with their fierce way of fighting, the Dian Army was once famous throughout the country and even the world, and also fought many famous battles, such as the Battle of Taierzhuang, which is also the famous battle of the Dian Army.
At that time, the Dian Army defeated the Japanese Steel Army and the Fifth Division and the Tenth Division here, and according to post-war statistics, the Sixty Corps of the Dian Army suffered more casualties and fewer casualties.
Seeing that the 420,000 Dian army went out of the province to resist the war, and the number of casualties in the end reached 220,000, they were all admired, because they were famous for daring to rush, dare to fight, dare to die, and dared to confront the Japanese Kou who was called "permanently undefeated" at that time, so as long as there was a glimmer of hope, they would not give up their determination to kill the enemy, and they would sacrifice so many soldiers.
Among the 420,000 soldiers of the Dian Army, 200,000 of them were assembled by Long Yun, the "King of Yunnan" at that time, he was an authentic native of Yunnan, and he was also a Dian army who was not afraid of sacrifice! His practice of rallying the Dian army to resist the war is also worthy of being a national hero.
Construction of the Burmese fortress
In fact, Longyun's contribution to the country is far more than this, as well as the construction of the Burma Road. It should be known that Yunnan belongs to the plateau terrain in China, and building roads here not only consumes huge manpower and material resources, but also requires technology, so it is very difficult to build a road to Myanmar here.
But Longyun did it, and on the winding Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, a road was built to transport strategic supplies over the lofty mountains and mountains to the Burmese battlefield.
In order to build it, Longyun organized a large number of staff, rushed to work day and night, and completed more than 1,000 kilometers of construction in less than eight months, which is a world miracle and has also made indelible contributions to China's protracted War of Resistance.
Grassroots warlords
In fact, Long Yun did not achieve it overnight, and his success was not easy than others. Long Yun was born in 1884 in Yunnan to a landlord family that retained the remnants of slavery, a warm and brash Yi boy, although the family still had money to let him study, but because of the extremely remote location of the family, Long Yun has never had the opportunity to read and write.
When he was six years old, his father unfortunately died, and his mother had to take him and his younger siblings back to his mother's house, and it was at this time that he had the opportunity to go to Zhaotong with his cousin to study.
When he was studying, Long Yun was also fascinated by martial arts, and worshiped the Sichuan martial arts master Ma Desheng and others to practice martial arts, and became acquainted with Zou Ruoheng, a native of Yongshan County, and the three became brothers, and were known as the "Three Musketeers of Zhaotong", and were also quite prestigious in the jianghu.
As an adult, Long Yun and his friends engaged in the business of reselling beads, but it never worked. Forced to make a living, Long Yun finally decided to join the army, but because he was armed with martial arts, he was soon selected as an excellent soldier to study in the Army Lecture Hall, the highest military school in Yunnan at that time. This was a school that was not inferior to the later Whampoa Military Academy, and the soldiers born here were all very brave and invincible, and So was Long Yun.
There used to be a French instructor here, who was also very strong in martial arts, but he did not have martial arts, did not have the temperament of a teacher, and often set up a ring in the school for students to go up and compete with him.
Saying that it was a competition, in fact, it was an opportunity to humiliate Chinese, and every Chinese soldier who lost would be named "the sick man of East Asia" by him, which made it difficult for the soldiers in the school to accept for a while.
After Long Yun knew about this matter, he took the initiative to ask Miao to compete with the other party, and finally beat the other party with his high martial arts, and he also became famous in the school, and it was Long Yun's resolute and courageous style that made him famous step by step in his subsequent military career, and finally became the existence of the "King of Yunnan".
His later support for the national war of resistance against the Yunnan Army and the construction of the Burma Road also made him a national hero, and when he died in 1962, even if he was a warlord, he was buried in babaoshan Cemetery, and he is the only warlord buried here so far.
brief summary:
Long Yun's life is full of legends. But his heart is still full of patriotism, which cannot be refuted, because what he has done proves even more, and there is a way that guns have no eyes.
The author believes that Long Yun, as a veteran who has been in the battlefield for a long time, knows this better, but for the sake of the country, he has walked in the front line of defending the motherland without hesitation, and this boldness alone is worthy of the solemn respect of our descendants.
He also represents a man who does not have a perfect view of right and wrong, and perhaps some people do not understand his warlord approach, thinking that he is a "reckless man" who only knows how to fight for territory and speak with weapons.
However, after understanding his behavior during the War of Resistance, we will find that in addition to his status as a "reckless man", he is also a very affectionate and admirable patriot.
Perhaps it is precisely because of the temperament of the sons and daughters of China in his bones, the practice of standing up in the moment of crisis in the motherland, that he will eventually become the only warlord buried in the Babaoshan Cemetery after a hundred years, in fact, this is not only a respect for him, but also a kind of remembrance of him and a memorial to a national hero.