In the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Martyrs' Cemetery, which is covered with pines and cypresses and paved with greenery and flowers, rests in peace two commanders of the Red Fifteenth Army, one is the highest-ranking general of our army in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the famous deputy chief of the general staff of the Eighth Route Army, General Zuo Quan.
The other was Li Qingyun, the commander of the Red Fifteenth Army, who died earlier than Zuo Quan and died young.
Li Qingyun, zi Tiqing, born in 1903, a native of Jiazhuang, Cheng'an County, Hebei Province, studied private school with his grandfather when he was a child, and was admitted to the county's national high school in 1916, and was a student with excellent character and learning. After graduating two years later, he went to teach at Dong Fan Yan Primary School. At that time, the Beiyang warlords who had lost power and humiliated the country were in power, and the Area around Cheng'an was in a serious drought, and the society was very dark. Worried about the country and the people, he decided to join the Wuhan Military Academy from Wuhan, and because of his excellent grades, he stayed in the school to teach after graduation. The Northern Expeditionary Army conquered Wuhan and was hired as a military instructor at the Wuhan branch of the Huangpu Military Academy, where he became an active member.
In July 1927, Wang Jingwei rebelled against the revolution, wantonly arrested and massacred Communists and progressives, Li Qingyun disguised himself as a peasant party and escaped from Wuhan, returned to his hometown, and joined the Northwest Army as a captain and staff officer of the military department, and became acquainted with the "general who really did not want money", the chief of staff Zhao Bosheng. Subsequently, he followed Zhao Bosheng and successively served as a staff officer of the brigade headquarters, and soon After, At the invitation of Sun Lianzhong, the commander-in-chief of the Twenty-sixth Route Army, Zhao Bosheng was appointed chief of staff of the Twenty-sixth Route Army.
In February 1931, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Twenty-sixth Route Army to go to Jiangxi to "suppress the communists", Li Qingyun was determined to go to the Jiangxi front to find a party organization, and the troops were sent to Ningdu, Jiangxi, and then he got in touch with Liu Zhenya, an underground party member of the captain's staff of the Seventy-third Brigade, and became one of the first party members to develop, and carried out secret work in the Twenty-sixth Route Army.
Later, Li Qingyun served as the commander of the Cadet Company of the Seventy-third Brigade, and he successively developed 7 party members in the company, and secretly established a special branch in the Twenty-sixth Route Army, with an officer-chief branch and a soldier branch, and Li Qingyun served as the secretary of the soldiers' branch and participated in a series of work in planning the uprising. In order to familiarize himself with the roads and terrain to the Soviet zone, Li Qingyun pulled the cadet company into the field for several days in the name of the exercise.
At dusk on December 14, 1931, the time for the uprising was coming! Zhao Bosheng, Dong Zhentang, Li Qingyun, and others held an action meeting at the brigade headquarters of the Seventy-third Brigade to seriously study and make careful arrangements for the uprising. After the meeting, Li Qingyun returned to the cadet company, immediately gathered the activists of all classes, and excitedly announced: We are about to be liberated! Everyone immediately boiled over.
Then Li Qingyun made arrangements for the division of labor among the troops: Tonight, we must especially strengthen our vigilance, from the intersection of Ningdu County to the East Gate and North Avenue, the student company will be responsible, and it is necessary to set up double posts, strengthen simple fortifications, and detain all pedestrians who cannot answer the password. The fourth and seventh shifts went to occupy the headquarters radio.
That night, in the dark of the night, the sky was drizzling with drizzle, and the calm night covered up the extremely unstable scene. The hour hand pointed to 10 p.m., and a crisp gunshot pierced the night sky, announcing the beginning of the uprising. The rebel troops acted together according to the predetermined target, and the sound of gunfire, artillery, and shouts of death resounded throughout the city of Ningdu. At 6 a.m., the battle was all over.
The whole army of the Twenty-sixth Route Army was successful in uprising! Li Qingyun excitedly tore off the collar badge and hat emblem of the Kuomintang army. He instructed the soldiers: "Carry a few more guns and send them to the Soviet area." Immediately, 17,000 people of the whole army rushed to the Central Soviet Region and reorganized into the Fifth Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and Li Qingyun was appointed as the commander of the 129th Regiment.
After Li Qingyun's glorious Red Army soldiers, he fought very bravely, successively leading his troops to attack Ganzhou, joining the Eastern Route Army, marching east to Fujian, and successively occupying Longyan and Zhangzhou. After the Battle of Zhangzhou, he was promoted to commander of the Red Forty-third Division.
In particular, in early July 1932, the Red Army fought a fierce battle against the Guangdong army invading the Soviet zone at Shuikou Wei in Nanxiong, Guangdong. Shuikou Polder sits on a hillside and is on a precarious terrain. The Cantonese army relied on the soldiers to have enough food, occupied the top of the mountain as a stronghold, and built fortifications to wait for work. Division commander Li Qingyun went deep into the forward positions, carefully observed the enemy's position, and studied ways to break the enemy. With cheng zhu in his chest, he reported to the general command: "I have attacked!" "Command the troops to avoid the frontal positions where the enemy's fire is strong, look for their weak points, and come up with a drill tactic, surprise them, and directly pound the enemy's rearguards." The sword flashed, the killing sound was deafening, and the enemy's position was suddenly in chaos. The heroic Red Army fought fiercely with the enemy for three days and three nights, defeated the attack of seventeen or eight regiments of the Cantonese Army, defended the southern part of the Soviet zone, and was commended by the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet. In this battle, Li Qingyun commanded well, performed well, made great achievements, and was promoted to the commander of the 15th Red Army, becoming a senior general in the early days of the Red Army. At this time, it was only half a year before Li Qingyun led the uprising to join the Red Army.
During his tenure as commander of the Red Fifteenth Army, Li Qingyun humbly consulted and studied with Zuo Quan, the political commissar of the Red Fifteenth Army, actively assisted the political cadres sent by his superiors in his work, and often went deep into the company to supervise the cadres' change of work style and the soldiers' observance of discipline, so that the troops could change rapidly in ideology and work style, and their combat effectiveness would be greatly enhanced.
Just when Li Qingyun was about to make new contributions, at the most intense moment of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" operation in the Central Soviet Region, Li Qingyun led the Red Fifteenth Army to undertake the arduous task of resisting the enemy's attack on the northern front of the Soviet Union. The environment was very harsh, one after another, his body was dragged down, unfortunately overworked, suffering from the very dangerous malaria at that time, the comrades-in-arms wanted to send him to the rear hospital, he resolutely refused: "The war is so tight, how can I leave!" "As a result, his illness became more and more serious, and he even had a high fever and a coma.
Li Qingyun still insisted on commanding the troops to fight with illness, and as a result, his illness became more and more serious, he was originally a tall and strong man with a strong physique, and finally he was skinny and bone-skinned, and when he was sent to the rear hospital for rescue after he was unconscious, he was just carried to the vicinity of Fujita Township in Yongfeng County, with his unpaid ambition, he died for a long time, lying in the green mountains of su district, only 3l years old.
Zhuangzhi died before he was paid, and the hero was wet with tears. Decades later, whenever his comrades-in-arms came to the place where two soldiers had sacrificed before and after the Red Fifteenth Army, they would sigh with a sigh: If these two could reach the founding of New China, at least above the founding general.