In the spring of 1930, in the area of Lijiahe in Songzi, Hubei Province, a yellow-skinned peasant descendant with a scarred face found a Red Army team passing by here. The old commander of the unit asked him what he was going to do, and with a sad look on his face, he gritted his teeth and said resolutely, "I want to be a soldier!" I want revenge! ”
In 1952, when the gritted-toothed young man returned, he had become the commander of a military district. But when he returned to his hometown, he found his former wife leading a strange man to his knees trembling in front of him.
The wife cried and said, "The bully who stole me heard that you came back and was already scared and hanged." I really can't live, there is no way to marry someone else, please forgive me. ”
Things are people and things are not things, and tears flow first. This scene can't help but make this commander who is already full of wind and frost have mixed feelings. His thoughts were pulled back to more than 20 years ago, when he resolutely joined the army in order to repay the "revenge of taking his wife", and he could not imagine that this grudge also made him mistakenly hit and bump into the revolutionary career of a lifetime of military horses.
The commander's name is Li Wenqing, and the story of his love-hate separation with his wife dates back to the drought in 1917.
01- The landlord young master took over his newlywed wife
Li Wenqing is a native of Lijiahe, Songzi, Hubei Province, born here in 1910 to a poor peasant family.
As a farmer who depends on the sky to eat, the whole family spends all year round pointing to the 7 acres of thin fields rented from the landlord's family, living a tight life, barely able to eat enough.
Although the Li family is poor and poor, the older generation of rural people pay great attention to the inheritance of incense. Li Wenqing's parents considered that their son was a single seedling, so when Li Wenqing was not yet 20 years old, he took the initiative to marry his cousin Zhou Yumei. First, the second elder hopes that the daughter-in-law will come through the door as soon as possible and can add Ding to the Li family as soon as possible; second, the two families will be related to each other, and they can save a lot of dowry money.
In this way, Under the painstaking arrangement of his parents, Li Wenqing married his daughter-in-law early. I thought that when my daughter-in-law entered the door, one more person in the family would have more strength, and the days would get better and better, but who knew that the heavens were not beautiful.
In 1927, when Li Wenqing was 17 years old, there was a major drought in Hubei that had not been encountered in a hundred years, and the crops were almost grainless, and the family could not even eat enough than before.
In desperation, Li Wenqing had to go to Gong'an County, a hundred miles away, to do long-term work, while Zhou Yimei went to work as a maid for the landlord's second young master, Li Xuewu.
During the days when he was a long-term worker, Li Wenqing got up early every day and was greedy and greedy, working hard and complaining, just to keep this job, but who knew that God had joked with him again.
One morning in 1930, Li Wenqing went to herd cattle before dawn. But not long after he had pulled the cow out of the shed, the cow went on a rampage like madness, ran into the crop field and began to nibble wildly at the wheat seedlings in the field.
Li Wenqing desperately chased after it, and it was not easy to restrain this mad cow. Just when he was glad that he had not caused the catastrophe, the cow's belly was visibly swollen and larger, and finally it swelled alive.
When the landlord learned that a cow had died in his house, he was furious. Although some people said that the cow had died of "grass madness," the landlord insisted that Li Wenqing had killed the cow, not only deducting his salary for a year, but also blowing him out of his home.
This senseless disaster made Li Wenqing feel frustrated. With nothing, he thought of taking his wife home and making another plan to make a living, but when he came to the landlord Young Master Li Xuewu's house, as soon as the other party heard that he had come to pick up Zhou's sister, he kicked him out with kicks and beats. Li Wenqing learned through the servants of the Li family that his wife had already let Li Xuewu take it.
On that day, Li Wenqing carried a scar on his back, stumbled and walked home in despair. Along the way, thinking about the landlord's framing of himself and the insults his newlywed wife had received in the Li family, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he could not swallow this breath. That night, Li Wenqing, who was angry from his heart, raised a knife and prepared to go to Li Xuewu to fight.
However, this scene was bumped into by an uncle of the Ben family. The uncle snatched the knife from Li Wenqing's hand and told him in a serious tone, "Aren't you going to die in vain?" People are rich and powerful, and their arms can't twist their thighs, so they can just get people back! ”
The uncle saw that he was unwilling and worried that Li Wenqing was in a hurry and was going to have an accident, so he gave him an idea and asked him to bring some gifts to the Third Young Master of the Li Family, that is, Li Xuewu's younger brother, to intercede, and see if he could entrust him to bring Zhou Yimei back.
02- Resolutely joined the army in revenge for taking revenge on his wife
Listening to his uncle's advice, Li Wenqing was no longer willful.
The next day, he walked all over the village to several relatives of his own ethnic group, borrowed a sum of money a little bit in the east and a little in the west, bought some gifts, and knocked on the door of Young Master Li San's house with a hard scalp. However, the scene of the meeting between the two sides was unexpected by Li Wenqing.
Before Li Wenqing could speak, one of the Third Young Master's smoking guns had already smashed into his head, and the other party scolded fiercely: "You bandit, do you still want to kill me?" ”
Immediately after, a group of dog legs around him began to beat him around Li Wenqing, and finally threw him out of the door of the Li family. This time, Li Wenqing was also completely enraged, he wiped the blood from his mouth, and secretly said in his heart: "This vendetta does not repay Lao Tzu's oath not to be a man!" ”
At that time, when the Red Army led by He Long was active in the Songzi area, Li Wen had heard early in the morning that the Red Army was the army of the poor, so from that moment on, he was determined to join the army to avenge.
Since then, Li Wenqing has been squatting and waiting at the mouth of the village every day before dawn, afraid of missing any opportunity to join the army. Finally, one evening, he received news that the Red Army troops had passed by in a neighboring village, so he rushed over in a hurry.
On that day, Li Wenqing saw that this unit carrying long guns, short cannons, large knives and spears was crossing the river, and he was so excited that he did not think about it, he pulled up his pants legs and followed the team to the opposite bank.
After officially joining the ranks of the Red Army, Li Wenqing quickly transformed his resentment against his enemies into a driving force for practicing his skills. In the team, he trained hard and fought bravely, and in less than a year, he became a platoon leader and a squad leader.
At the beginning of 1931, the second year of Li Wenqing's military service, the Red Army moved to Songzi, Changyang and other places. Once, Li Wenqing had just finished a mission with one of his platoons not far from his hometown, and when he saw the enemy under his eyes, the flame of revenge quickly burned Li Wenqing's sanity to the ground.
He immediately took a few warriors with him and rushed to the direction of his hometown to find Li Xuewu to seek revenge. But this time, Li Wenqing pounced, it turned out that Li Xuewu had already heard the news and fled before he came, but Li Wenqing hated Li Xuewu so much that he lit his house with a fire. The consequences of the matter can be imagined.
After returning to the army, Li Wenqing was imprisoned for not observing organizational discipline, but he was not convinced. Li Wenqing said to the instructor: "I have violated discipline by taking people home to avenge myself, and the leaders have criticized them correctly." But I joined the Red Army in order to find revenge for the evil and the revenge of taking my wife. ”
The instructor enlightened him and said, "You have a vendetta against Li Xieshao, but which person in our company does not have a vendetta?" We must not only remember personal vendettas, but also class enmity. If you think about it, Li Evil Shao occupies your wife, you go to reason, and he beats you in turn, why is this? Because they have the power in their hands, we can only avenge the class if we overthrow this cannibalistic regime. ”
This conversation made Li Wenqing suddenly enlightened, and the three words "class hatred" were deeply engraved in his heart from then on. Since then, with the great improvement of ideological consciousness, Li Wenqing's battles have become more and more refined, and he has also been appreciated by Boss He.
03- The life-and-death friendship between the "One-Eyed General" and Boss He
In April 1931, during the anti-encirclement and suppression battle in Fangshan County, Hubei Province, Li Wenqing was unfortunately seriously wounded. His right leg tibia was pierced by shrapnel, his abdomen was also pierced by bullets, and his intestines flowed out of his body, and he was already dying with a bowl.
Due to the heavy casualties of the combat troops, the rescue force could not keep up, and Li Wenqing, who was on the verge of death after being wounded, has not been carried away. It was not until the evening, when the headquarters passed by here, that the military commander He Long saw Li Wenqing lying motionless on the side of the road, thinking that he had died, so he asked someone to bury him, and only then did he find that he was still alive.
Subsequently, He Long personally summoned a stretcher, gave some instructions, and sent Li Wenqing to a peasant family in Badong Wanxian Cave to recuperate. Two months later, Li Wenqing returned to the team after recovering from injury.
In order to repay He Long's life-saving grace, Li Wenqing became more and more courageous in the War, and the following year he was promoted to the commander of the third company of the Nineteenth Regiment of the Red Third Army.
In February 1932, during the Battle of Shilipu in Jigongzhou, Hubei Province, Li Wenqing, who had been recuperating at the Liuguan Red Army Hospital in Honghu Lake because of a left-back shot, could not wait for his wounds to recover, so he took the initiative to ask for help and participate in the anti-encirclement and suppression battle.
In the fierce battle between the Nineteenth Regiment of the Red Third Army and the Hubei warlord Xia Douyin's troops at the Waji Temple for 7 days and 7 nights, Li Wenqing ignored the right eye that was grazed by the shell, and after a simple bandage, he continued to aim and shoot with his left eye and command the battle.
Since then, due to frequent wars, Li Wenqing's eye injuries have not been treated. Gradually, his right eye began to be unable to see clearly, and the paroxysmal headache caused by the eye injury also caused him to endure many unimaginable pains in the years of battles.
Until later, when the Red Army completed the Long March and arrived in Yan'an, the conditions improved, and He Long personally explained to Lin Biao, the minister of health, that He Wenqing was arranged to go to the Soviet Union to treat his wounds as soon as possible. However, before Li Wenqing could leave, his unit was ordered to advance into Daqingshan to open up an anti-Japanese base area.
Li Wenqing, then chief of staff of the 715th Regiment, voluntarily gave up the opportunity to go to the Soviet Union to treat eye injuries in this situation and led his troops on an expedition to Suiyuan.
Until August 1945, when Li Wenqing was the commander of the 2nd Military Subdistrict of the Jinsui Border Region, he was completely blind in his right eye, and more and more frequent and severe headaches tormented him. Only then was he admitted to Yan'an Peace Hospital under the "order" of Mr. He and underwent surgery to remove his right eyeball.
After the successful operation, He Long also joked with Li Wenqing: "Now the brain shell is no longer painful, but it has become a 'Blind Li'!" ”
In his later years, Li Wenqing often said that his life was picked up by Mr. He, but dramatically, in the military career that followed He Long for many years, Li Wenqing was almost shot by He Long twice.
04- He Long twice ordered that he be shot
One was during the Long March, when Li Wenqing, then the commander of the 5th Division and the 15th Regiment of the Red Second Army, was ordered to cut off the queen. However, when the team led by Li Wenqing reached the edge of the grass, it was obviously inadequate.
"Snowy, the road is vast, the plateau is cold, and the cooking is starved of grain", as the troops in front ate very little wild vegetables, grass roots, and bark that could be eaten, plus Li Wenqing's regiment was reduced in a large number of non-combat troops along the way, and the large army of more than 3,000 people was left behind, leaving less than 600 people.
But while the exhausted warriors were still struggling to crawl, there was a fierce gun battle on the other side of the grass a few kilometers away from them. The fifteen regiments in charge of the break should have gone to reinforcements, but at this moment, they were already at the end of the crossbow and were powerless.
Li Wenqing later learned that this was Boss He's favorite cavalry that had been encircled and suppressed by the enemy, and all the members had died heroically because they could not get reinforcements. At the subsequent meeting of cadres, He Long couldn't help but be furious, and in anger, he ordered Li Wenqing to be tied up, saying in a loud voice: "Shoot!" Shot! Shot! ”
When the executor pulled Li Wenqing out, he felt ashamed that he did not cry out for injustice or ask for forgiveness, but only roared: "Let Lao Tzu die on the anti-Japanese battlefield!" ”
At the moment of the first attack, the roar alarmed Liu Bocheng, who asked "people under the gun to stay" on the spot, and asked Li Wenqing in detail about the situation at that time. Considering that the regiment led by Li Wenqing did not understand at that time that the cavalry platoon was surrounded, and second, the whole regiment had completely lost its combat effectiveness, Liu Bocheng suggested to He Long that "there is forgivability."
Afterwards, Li Wenqing, who was spared death, was demoted to a soldier and was punished to the front line to carry ammunition.
Another time Li Wenqing was ordered to be shot was on the anti-Japanese battlefield.
At that time, Li Wenqing, who was dismissed from his post, had been studying at Kang Da for a while. Later, due to the urgency of the war on the front line and the urgent need for military cadres, Li Wenqing filled the vacancy and became the commander of the 715th Regiment of the 120th Division.
During the Battle of Qihui, Li Wenqing captured a delicate pistol, the Red Army was poorly equipped at that time, and the soldiers loved the occasionally captured sophisticated weapon for ten minutes, and Li Wenqing was no exception. He was tempted to keep the pistol for his own use, but the commissar in charge of counting the spoils "adhered to principle" and took the gun.
Later, when Li Wenqing learned that the political commissar had privately given the pistol to a female student in Yan'an, he was greatly angered: "Lao Tzu wanted it, but he took it to please the little girl, which is really not interesting!" He went to question the commissar. At first, it was still a half-joke, but as soon as the rough words came out, the smell of gunpowder came up.
Angry and frustrated, Li Wenqing pulled out his pistol and put it on fire. In this way, he and the political commissar ran lifelessly in the front, and the other danced in the back with guns, causing a storm in the city. At first, Li Wenqing only wanted to scare the other party to dissipate, but he bumped into the "muzzle" of the Yan'an rectification.
Later, someone seized on this matter and said that He Long's troops had too heavy habits of banditry, which caused Boss He to be angry: "What is this blind Man Li going to do?" Subsequently, He Long ordered someone to tie up Li Wenqing and straighten out the Fa on the spot. Fortunately, at the critical moment, someone stood up to intercede, and Li Wenqing was able to be lenient and demoted from regimental commander to battalion commander.
05- From a vengeful offspring to a general-like soldier
After having had two "escape from death" experiences, Li Wenqing also seriously reflected on his shortcomings and learned lessons from them.
After that, he started his job as a battalion commander, and later became the regimental commander, the chief of staff of the military sub-district, and the chief of staff of the Third Army of the First Field Army in the Southern Expedition and the Northern War.
In August 1947, Li Wenqing was ordered to lead the 3rd General Independence and 2nd Brigade of the Northwest Field Army to cross the Yellow River in the west and go to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region to fight. During this period, he commanded the 2nd Independent Brigade to conquer Qingjian City, annihilated more than 4,100 people of the enemy's reorganized 16th Division, the 24th Brigade Brigade, and its direct subordinate units, and captured the enemy's lieutenant general Liao Ang.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Wenqing served as deputy commander of the Chengdu Military Region for a long time.
After this, New China suffered a sudden change, and Mr. He was unfortunately affected by civil unrest. During this period, people with ulterior motives found Li Wenqing many times and asked him to expose Mr. He, but Li Wenqing only needed to write about how He Long guided him to the revolutionary road and how to save his life.
Someone once asked him: "He Long wants to shoot you twice, why are you still shielding him?" ”
Li Wenqing did not change his straightforward heart for many years, and said: "You know a ball!" ”
This is a real Li Wenqing: frank, responsible, happy to be vengeful, and love and hate.
In 1952, at the age of 42, Li Wenqing returned to his hometown in Hubei Province again after 20 years of absence. Since he left the army, he had never seen his father or sister again. Li Wenqing came back this time, in fact, holding on to the last glimmer of hope, hoping to meet them, but a wish for many years.
However, in fact, as early as that year, after Li Xuewu heard that the Red Army had withdrawn from the Honghu Su District, he had a grudge against him and burned down their family's house and sold Zhou Shumei to them as his wife. Since then, Li Wenqing's parents have left their hometown and never returned, while Zhou Yimei has followed her current husband.
It's just that at this time, Li Wenqing is no longer the "stunned Qing" who only knows revenge, when he heard about this series of tragic encounters of Zhou Yumei, he lifted up the couple who were kneeling on the ground, and Li Wenqing said kindly: "You are also suffering people, and now that the whole country is liberated, no one dares to oppress us anymore!" When he knew that the couple's life was tight, Li Wenqing also generously funded them with some money.
On the contrary, the evil young li Xuewu at that time never dared to believe that Li Wenqing would let himself go, so just by hearing the sound of the other party's return to his hometown, he was frightened and hanged himself. This is exactly what good and evil will eventually repay!
In 1955, at the first ceremony of the founding of new China, Li Wenqing was awarded the rank of major general.
Throughout General Lee's life, he embarked on a military career in order to repay his personal revenge for taking revenge for his wife, but in the baptism of revolutionary war, he gradually sublimated personal hatred into class hatred, and transformed his personal nostalgia for small families into great love for the country and the people.
In the ranks of the People's Liberation Army, it is precisely because there are countless soldiers like General Li who understand the overall situation, seek great love, give up their small families, and give up their small homes for everyone that our army has truly achieved invincible and invincible!
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