In the magnificent and arduous years of China's revolutionary war at the beginning of the last century, countless revolutionary pioneers, for the sake of the liberation of the people and the independence of the nation, resolutely chose to embark on the revolutionary road, carried forward the indomitable will, and the belief that revolutionary ideals were higher than heaven.
During this period, there was also a family of young and old who all went to join the Red Army, they braved the rain of bullets and bullets, born into death, fought bloodily, went forward and followed, and left a legendary story that was recorded in the annals of history. Here is the story of a family of nine Red Army, and in the final victory of the revolution, only three brothers and sisters were left, and its heroic deeds were enough to shock the world and cry ghosts! It's breathtaking and admirable.
The owner of this family is named Li Huirong, and his wife is called Wang Lishi, an ordinary farmer in Zengjiawan Village, Beipai River Field, Daxian County, Sichuan Province, whose ancestors have been farming for generations, have not enough land to eat, and live on rented land.
Li Huirong had to carry grain over the mountains and go to the county town one hundred and twenty miles away to exchange salt and earn money to make a living. Just as the family was struggling with the warlord's rampant conquest and tyranny, when the flat land was thundering, Comrade Xu Xiangqian led the Red Fourth Front Army into Sichuan, and with the strong cooperation of the local party organization and the Red Army guerrillas in eastern Sichuan, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet District was created in one fell swoop! The red flag was displayed, the eight parties echoed, and the toiling masses took up their swords and guns and joined the revolution.
Inspired by the red-hot revolutionary situation, all nine members of Li Zhongquan's family defected to the Red Army. The eldest brother Li Zhongpan led the Red Guards to cooperate with the Red Army, the second brother Li Zhongchi dragged the sick body and the fourth brother Li Zhongbai to raise grain for the Red Army to lead the way, and the fifth sister Li Zhongzhen led the women's team to rescue the wounded.
In October 1933, Li Zhongquan served as the political commissar of a large detachment of the Red Army guerrilla group in Pujiachang, returned to his hometown of Beipaihe, and actively organized and mobilized the masses to fight the local tyrants to divide the land, establish local political power, and rapidly develop the Red Army team. At the end of the year, the Sichuan warlords began a frenzied counterattack, brutally killing the families of the Red Army and the revolutionary masses.
The Li family is a famous local red fortress household, and after the Red Army left, the reactionaries first "washed blood" in such revolutionary families. Therefore, when the main force of the Red Army withdrew, Li Zhongquan's parents resolutely took their young siblings with them, and the whole family defected to the Red Army. Since then, the family has led the way for the Red Army, delivered letters, collected food, cooked, washed clothes, and cared for the wounded and sick... Soon after, his father, Lee Hye-young, fell ill and passed away. Her mother, Wang Lishi, carried her sick body and three young siblings with her, and followed the Red Army to climb snowy mountains and cross meadows.
After the start of the Long March, her mother, Wang Lishi, was 53 years old and had been wrapped in small feet since she was a child, but in order to support her son, she still followed the Red Army step by step, and she used a pair of small feet to walk more than 20,000 miles step by step. On the Long March Road, Li Zhongquan saw his mother three times.
The first time was in April 1934 in Maoyu Town, Tongjiang County, he was preparing to lead the troops to evacuate, when he suddenly found an elderly woman walking at the entrance of the village, looked closely at his mother, and reached out to grab her. The military trumpet had been sounded, and he held a bag of fried rice on his back to his mother and said, "Mother, you can rest assured, victory is at hand." ”
In March 1936, in the county seat of Baoxing County, the mountain city, he once again met his mother, li zhongbai, the fourth brother, Li Zhongbai, the fifth brother, and the younger sister Li Zhongqiu, who were following the main force of the Red Army. Loved ones are especially happy to meet each other. His mother, who was more than half a hundred years old, repeatedly said to Li Zhongquan: "It's okay, the mother can go, she can go down with the Red Army." "Mother is old, because of fatigue and lack of nutrition, her legs are swollen like a purple radish. At this time, the second brother Li Zhongchi and the eldest sister Li Zhongzhen had already died gloriously in the battle. The family met in a farmhouse under a snow-capped mountain, with a thousand words. Many years later, Li Zhongquan still remembered his mother's instructions: "Son, go, hit the enemy fiercely!" ”
The last time he saw his mother was in May 1936, when Li Zhongquan, who had been appointed political commissar of the 2nd Independent Division of Jinchuan, led his troops across the meadow for the third time, and once again encountered his mother, who had been away for 3 months, and her mother had a large poisonous sore on her stomach. At this time, although Li Zhongquan had served as the political commissar of the division, he did not have the medicine and salt that his mother needed most. Mother and son faced each other with tears in their eyes, speechless.
However, the old man could not bear such a hard life after all, and on July 7, 1936, on the eve of the victory of the Long March, he closed his eyes. Li Zhongquan, who was already the political commissar of the independent division at that time, was crying so darkly that no one could persuade him.
In the battle to defend the newborn Red regime and on the arduous Long March, Li Zhongquan had five relatives who sacrificed their precious lives. The eldest brother, Li Zhongpan, was elected chairman of the Soviet government of Beipai Hechang Township, served as the political commissar of the Red Guards regiment of the Thirty-third Army, led the Red Guards to cooperate with the Red Army, and was innocently killed for false accusations of adultery. The second brother, Li Zhongchi, dragged his sick body to raise food for the Red Army and led the way, and followed the Red Army to die in battle. The fifth sister, Li Zhongzhen, served as the chairwoman of the Soviet in Beipai Hechang Township, and led the women's team to rescue the wounded for the Red Army, and died during the Long March.
It is gratifying that in October 1936, after the confluence of the Red First, Second, and Fourth Fronts, The four brothers and sisters of Li Zhongquan finally completed the Long March, successfully arrived in northern Shaanxi, and gathered at the foot of the Pagoda Mountain in Yan'an. In order to commemorate this historic moment, the four brothers and sisters took a photo in the revolutionary holy land, that year, Li Zhongquan was 22 years old, the fourth brother Li Zhongbai was 18 years old, the fifth brother Li Zhongheng was 15 years old, and the younger sister Li Zhongqiu was only 9 years old. Their faces are full of heroic looks and pride.
After this reunion, for the sake of the revolutionary cause, the brothers and sisters were separated again: Li Zhongquan was still working in the Kang Da; the fourth brother Li Zhongbai went to study and work at the Qingyang Infantry School in Gansu Province; and the fifth brother Li Zhongheng went to the 359th Brigade as an interpreter and telegrapher, and unfortunately died of illness in northern Shaanxi. The younger sister Li Zhongqiu stayed in Yan'an to study.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Zhongquan participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan, Liberation, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and successively served as the political commissar of the division, the political commissar of the military, the acting political commissar of the air force of the Beijing Military Region, and the second political commissar of the air force of the Nanjing Military Region. He was awarded the rank of major general in 1955 and retired in 1983.
Li Zhongbai successively served as squad leader, director of the warehouse, political commissar of the division logistics department, political commissar of the military training brigade, political commissar of the warehouse, and adviser to the factory bureau of the logistics department of the Shenyang Military Region. After retiring, he enjoyed the treatment of a full teacher, and died in Shenyang on April 18, 2002 at the age of 85 due to illness.
Li Zhongqiu first worked in the Yan'an Cultural and Labor Corps, and then went to a Red Army family school in northern Shaanxi to study culture, and in early 1939 he was transferred to the 13th session of the General Staff Communication School to study communication work. In 1940, Li Zhongqiu was transferred to the headquarters of the Central Military Commission to do communications work. In March 1949, the headquarters of the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission entered Beiping. Li Zhongquan, Li Zhongbai, and Li Zhongqiu brothers and sisters also met in Beiping on this day of great victory, and of course they were very happy. Li Zhongqiu, 21, is already a mother of two children. In 1950, when the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, Li Zhongqiu and her husband Shen Changrong were ordered to work in Shenyang, were awarded the rank of colonel, and served as the training brigade leader of the military region, and died on August 6, 1965, at the age of less than 40.
Today, a patriotic education base has been built on the basis of the original site of the former residence of General Li Zhongquan, and the people of their hometown have used this way to remember the iron heart of this family on the revolutionary road, keep firmly in mind the mission, and make contributions to the revolutionary cause.