History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
Wu Xinquan, who was being treated at the People's Liberation Army Hospital in 1981, received a call from her family saying that an old woman who had gone to Beijing for medical treatment because of a serious illness had come to her home and hoped that he would give some help. At that time, Wu Xinquan was an outstanding commander of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and he was also a senior general in a high position. How could an old woman have to come to him for help? Feeling strange, he immediately asked, "What is the old woman's name?" The other side of the phone replied: "Peng Xiulan."
After hearing this name, Wu Xinquan was shocked and immediately sat up straight and shouted: "Quick, arrange the best doctor to treat him." Then Peng Xiulan was arranged to receive treatment at the People's Liberation Army Hospital, and at this time, many founding generals of the Central Committee received a notice from Wu Xinquan, and immediately put down their affairs and went to the hospital to visit the old woman. So who is this Peng Xiulan?
Peng Xiulan, an ordinary woman in rural Hunan, but she has a very good father, who was the direct leader of many generals in China. Peng Ao was born in 1903 in a small mountain village in the southeast of Yueyang County, and after the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, as a patriotic youth at that time, he actively organized demonstrations and organized many strikes in Yueyang to fight for fairness for the masses. In 1926, he was introduced to the Party by General Liu. After joining the Red Army, he participated in the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Battle of Jinggangshan and the Battle of Ganzhou. In the battle, he took the lead as a soldier, organized death squads to charge, repeatedly defeated the enemy's strongholds, created a battle example of winning more with less, and was commended by the military department, from the platoon commander to the division commander.
In January 1933, the Kuomintang army organized the fourth encirclement and suppression. On February 10, Peng Ao came with his troops to the outskirts of Nanfeng City, where he was ordered to take charge of the attack on Nanfeng. At two o'clock in the morning, he led several regimental cadres to go deep into the forward positions of the Nationalist army for reconnaissance, but unfortunately exposed the target, was shot by enemy machine guns, and he could not wake up when he was shot in the forehead, at the age of 30.
Master Peng had just started a family at that time, and after his sacrifice, only his wife and daughter were left at home. The two were very miserable and eventually stayed in the countryside to do their duty, and even after the founding of New China, they did not ask the state for any resettlement. Until 1981, Peng Xiulan went to Beijing to seek medical treatment because of her serious illness, because the expensive medical expenses were completely unsupportable for families who were not rich. Peng Xiulan's children had to find Peng Ao's old subordinate Wu Xinquan, so there was the opening scene.
After confirming Peng Xiulan's identity, the hospital exempted the elderly from medical expenses, and many of Peng's subordinates also came to visit after hearing the news, although they are now in high positions, but the admiration and gratitude for the old leader are still in their hearts.