As mentioned in the previous article, the revolutionary hero Li Shuoxun has created brilliant achievements in his short life experience of 28 years, successively leading the development of armed revolutionary movements in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong and other places, and also forming three armies of the Red Army within half a year.
In the case of the Red 14th Army, commander He Kun and military political commissar Li Overtime all died early, but among the survivors came out a number of celebrities, the founding general Zhang Aiping, the founding hero Huang Huoqing, and Liu Ruilong, who was once vice minister of agriculture.
During the Liberation War, Liu Ruilong served as the logistics commander of Sanye, and compared with the generals who led the troops in the front, his responsibility was equally heavy, especially in the Huaihai Campaign, in which hundreds of thousands of people participated in the battle, in addition to the officers and men fighting on the front line, there were a large number of militiamen, millions of troops, and the daily consumption was astronomical. Even so, the rear personnel still relied on rudimentary wheelbarrows to continuously transport various materials to the front line, and the victory of this battle was the credit of millions of migrant workers in the rear, and it was inseparable from Liu Ruilong's leadership and planning.
Join the Road to Revolution
In 1910, Liu Ruilong was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. He was really a child with a hard life, less than three months after he came to the world, his father died unexpectedly, and after taking care of the aftermath, his mother did not know where to go in the future life, fortunately, thanks to the help of his uncle, this orphan and widow survived the difficulties.
Although the family is poor but not short-sighted, when it comes to the age of schooling, the mother bites her teeth and sends her son to a private school to study, in order to provide him with education, the mother does not know how much suffering she has suffered over the years. Liu Ruilong was well aware of his mother's difficulties, and was admitted to Nantong Normal School with excellent results at the age of 15.
During his study in Nanshi, he and Yun Ziqiang became close friends, Yun Ziqiang's brother is Yun Daiying, he often tells Liu Ruilong about the revolutionary ideas he heard from his brother, and later under the recommendation of Yun Ziqiang, Liu Ruilong also had the privilege of knowing Yun Daiying, and it was this special experience that made Liu Ruilong change his outlook on life and resolve to devote himself to the revolutionary cause.
In 1927, when the revolutionary cause was at a low ebb under the shadow of the white terror, Liu Ruilong chose to join our party at this time, which was enough to show his loyalty to the revolutionary cause. Under his efforts, Nantong Normal Established a Party Branch, with Liu Ruilong as The Secretary of the Party Branch, and at that time, Gu Minyuan, Jiang Shangqing and other revolutionary patriotic youths all joined the Communist Youth League and the Communist Party under his influence.
One of the founders of the Red Fourteenth Army
In 1929, the jiangsu peasant armed forces developed rapidly, and Li Shuoxun, secretary of the provincial military commission, planned to integrate the scattered armed forces in various places so that they could play a greater role. Liu Ruilong, then secretary of the Nantong County Party Committee, participated in the creation of the Red Fourteenth Army.
It was very difficult to form an armed force of workers and peasants in the heart of the Kuomintang's reactionary rule, and it was easy to attract the attention of the enemy; not long after the formation of the contingent, it was "encircled and suppressed" by the enemy's heavy troops; after more than a year of arduous struggle, the Red Fourteenth Army still failed, and Liu Ruilong, who survived, was also transferred to the Provincial Military Commission as a committee member.
At that time, due to Gu Shunzhang's rebellion, many revolutionary comrades in Shanghai were arrested, and some people did not withstand the enemy's torture and defection, because Liu Ruilong's identity was exposed, it was no longer suitable to stay in Shanghai, originally the organization planned to send him to study in the Soviet Union, but thinking of the dangerous revolutionary situation, he decided to stay in China to continue working, at this time the Red Front army had just entered the Sichuan-Shaanxi region and was in urgent need of cadres, so Liu Ruilong was sent to work in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet region.
From Shanghai to Sichuan and Shaanxi to cross several provinces, the middle of the road thousands of miles, this journey is not easy. Fortunately, Cui Feng, a traffic officer who was appointed by the Northern Shaanxi Special Committee to report to Shanghai to report on his work, accompanied by Liu Ruilong disguised as a businessman, and Cui Fengyun disguised himself as a buddy, and along the way there was no danger and finally arrived in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Su District, serving as the director of the political department of the Red 29 Army, and later promoted to military political commissar.
Once Liu Ruilong went out with two platoons on a mission, and Zhang Zhengwan, who was mixed into the revolutionary ranks, took advantage of the meeting of the military headquarters to jointly launch an attack with the enemy, and during the battle, officers at all levels of the Red 29 Army, including the commander Chen Qianlun, sacrificed more than forty people, and the enemy took advantage of the rare opportunity of this group of dragons to launch a fierce attack on the Red 29 Army, and the whole army suffered heavy losses.
When Liu Ruilong returned, he led people to look for the lost Red Army fighters, and finally only gathered more than 120 people, plus two platoons around him, to form a guerrilla group in southern Shaanxi, and later Liu Ruilong was transferred to the Sichuan-Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee as the propaganda director, and the guerrillas were also incorporated into the Red Fourth Front.
The Soviet zone had just been established, the external environment was still very harsh, and it was necessary to quickly mobilize the masses in the Soviet zone, so that the ranks of the Red Army could be strengthened and the power of the workers and peasants consolidated. To this end, Liu Ruilong has done a lot of work, and he demanded that "wherever the Red Army develops, the Party's propaganda will go!" So the diamond flower team, chalk team, posting team, literary and art team, workers' and peasants' troupe and other organizations came into being.
As a leader, Liu Ruilong's work is very heavy, during the day he has to print slogans and distribute leaflets with everyone, and at night he also has to plan programs and write slogans, and there are still more than 4,000 slogans that he personally planned and wrote.
The Western Route Army died nine times
After the Long March reached northern Shaanxi, Liu Ruilong followed the Red Front to participate in the Western Expedition, and as soon as this contingent of more than 20,000 people entered the Hexi region, it was surrounded and blocked by the Majia Army, and the Red Army officers fought bloodily, causing great casualties to the enemy, but after all, the enemy was outnumbered, and the Western Route Army fought less and less, and finally lost to Hexi.
Liu Ruilong once spent two months in the mountains with the pursuing Bi Zhanyun detachment, and finally was captured. They were taken to the Zhangye Detention Center, where they still did not give up their resistance. They established party branches in prison, continued to fight against the enemy, and resolutely did not become traitors even under the severe torture of the enemy. Fortunately, the second cooperation between the two parties broke out in the War of Resistance, and the captured personnel were also freed.
After the founding of New China, Liu Ruilong served as the secretary general of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and was later transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture.
Liu Ruilong was born as a peasant, and he has fought battles for all these years, understands the difficulty of peasants, the importance of grain, resolutely opposes extravagance and waste, and starts everything from himself.
When he visited the field, he never attended the banquet, ate only simple meals, refused to accept gifts, and had to pay for his own meals after eating. Elder Liu has been fighting for many years, there are many injuries and diseases on his body, often painful, once when he went out to investigate, the other party was his old subordinate, understood the situation of Elder Liu, very carefully arranged for him to live in a high-end hotel, but Elder Liu refused, only lived in a simple guest house, and warned his subordinates not to do so in the future.
The veteran general did not live a life of fame and fortune and honesty, and the children educated were also very good, and several sons and daughters achieved good results, especially the second daughter Liu Yandong was also elected vice premier.