The friendship of the revolutionary years is often the test of life and death and the interdependence of suffering, and the deep affection in it makes us still move today, such as the founding major general Liu Bingyan and the founding lieutenant general Kuang Fu Zhao.
On June 4, 1996, General Kuang Fuzhao died of illness, and according to the agreement before his death, General Liu Bingyan, who was 81 years old, disregarded the persuasion of his family, rushed thousands of miles to pay the funeral for his comrades-in-arms, and personally planted an evergreen pine.
Two years later, General Liu Bingyan also followed, and his ashes were buried next to General Kuang fuzhao, and the tombstones of the two were only a few meters apart.
A half-century-long engagement, a pair of comrades-in-arms who are inseparable from life and death, once their story was reported, immediately touched countless people!
One of the protagonists of this story, General Kuang Fuzhao, has been introduced before the history inn, and today we will look at another protagonist: Liu Bingyan.
Liu Bingyan, a native of Lixian County, Hebei Province, liked to read since childhood, joined the Chinese Left-Wing Writers Union at the age of 17, and was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University at the age of 19.
However, in the face of the invasion of the Japanese Kou, Liu Bingyan felt more and more powerlessness of the literati, so he decided to throw his pen into the pen and replace the pen with a gun to fight against the Japanese.
Because of his cultural skills, after Liu Bingyan joined the Red Army, he basically served as a special commissioner, director of the political department, chief of staff, and other positions, and did not serve as a brigade commander and division commander until the period of the Liberation War.
After the founding of New China, Liu Bingyan was also not idle, and led his troops to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and then immersed himself in the construction of the machinery industry and missile forces. Today, China's rapidly rising aerospace industry is precisely with General Liu Bingyan and others as the founders and pioneers.
Among the works left by Liu Bingyan, there are professional war strategy works such as "Tactical Problems in the War of Resistance Against Japan" and "Problems of Struggle Tactics in the Beijing-Tianjin-Bao Triangle", as well as humanistic works such as "Selected Poems of Liu Bingyan", which are worthy of being high-quality students of the department of Chinese of Peking University.
After briefly talking about General Liu Bingyan's military resume, let's return to his life-and-death agreement with General Kuang Fuzhao.
Back in June 1946, Liu Bingyan and Kuang Fuzhao were working together in the Jizhong Military Region, Liu Bingyan was the commander of the 10th Military Subdistrict, and Kuang Fuzhao was the political commissar of the 10th Military Subdistrict.
One day, Ren Zimu, chief of staff of the detachment of the 10th Military Sub-district, was injured and sent to recuperate, and the three people who were originally old acquaintances lived in a room together, which could take care of the wounded and talk and chat.
However, Ren Zimu's injuries were too serious, and when Liu Bingyan woke up the next day, he suddenly found that Ren Zimu had stopped breathing!
The comrades-in-arms who were still chatting with them last night suddenly disappeared, and Liu Bingyan and Kuang Fuzhao were very sad, that is, at this time, the two germinated the idea of "life and death pact".
Liu Bingyan was the first to push his heart and sighed at Kuang Fuzhao: "I hope that after we die, one will be buried on the banks of the Daqing River, and the other will be buried by the Yongding River, so that although he dies, he can still protect one side completely!" ”
General Kuang Fuzhao is also a man of temperament, plus the two have been partners for many years, and he said bluntly: "This is too far!" If we sacrifice, we will be buried with each other, not even in a coffin! ”
Then, Liu Bingyan added, "I also want to plant a tree, and a pine tree is the best!" Not afraid of the cold, tenacious and upright! Therefore, the two of them made a promise of life and death after their deaths!
After the founding of New China, Liu Bingyan and Kuang Fuzhao each focused on the construction cause, and rarely had the opportunity to meet again, but they never forgot the promise of that year.
It was not until June 4, 1996, with the death of General Kuang Fuzhao, that Liu Bingyan understood that it was almost time to fulfill the agreement.
On July 21, 1998, General Liu Bingyan died, and his family buried his ashes next to the tomb of General Kuang Fuzhao in accordance with his will, only a few meters away.
In the place where they had fought, two old comrades-in-arms were reunited after a gap of half a century!