He was a child dressed in patches, very kind, but bullied. The temple monks saw that he was kind and thin, and that he was bullied, so they taught him superb boxing and martial arts. On a cold night, he took the youth of the village and embarked on the road of the Red Revolution.
After the founding of New China, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and his superior Deng Xiaoping commented: "He is a fierce general, and he is invincible in battle. He was known as the "fierce flying" in the army, and after a thousand battles, his hands, legs, waist, crotch, and hips all left scars on the battlefield.
At the age of 65, he assisted Xu Shiyou in commanding the counterattack against Vietnamese self-defense. In his later years, his physical pain was often unbearable, but he was still upright and loose, maintaining the solemn demeanor of a soldier. His life was full of splendor, and after several legends, he was once carried out of a coffin.
From witty tailors to Red Army soldiers
He is
Liu Changyi
, born in Hubei Province. His family's ancestors were farmers, and he has lived in poverty for as long as he can remember. His father sent him to a private school, hoping that he would study well and live a good life. However, in less than half a year, because he really could not borrow money, Liu Changyi had no choice but to drop out of school.
Pictured| Liu Changyi
After dropping out of school, his father wanted him to learn a technique to make a living, so he sent him to learn art as a tailor. Two years later, Liu Changyi returned to his hometown and learned from another master, surnamed Chen, who was a member of the Chinese Communist Party. As soon as the two of them saw each other, Master Chen often asked Liu Changyi to go out to deliver letters and hand them over to underground CCP personnel to pass on information.
Once, Master Chen took a note to Liu Changyi and said:
You send it to Master Moziqiao No. 48, he is a white and fat master, bald, a bit of a hometown accent, remember to go back quickly, pay attention to the people who come and go.
Liu Changyi got the note and immediately set off, and after a while, he came to the door of Mozi Bridge.
He fixed his gaze, only to see that there was a seal on the door, and there were several agents wandering around, and his body trembled with fright. At the critical moment, he was in a hurry, pretending to be indifferent and walking forward, and when he reached the intersection, he encountered a special agent to search for himself. He grabbed a note with the popsicle he had just bought, mixed it in ice water and swallowed it in his stomach, tactfully dodging the investigation.
In the summer of 1929, his hometown became the Soviet District, and under the influence of the red revolutionary trend, he led 20 young people in the village to join the revolution. When they came to the recruitment office, the recruitment office said that it would not accept hemp seeds and leprosy, and Liu Changyi asked rhetorically: "Can't there be revolution in hemp seeds and leprosy?" "Leave the head of the recruitment office speechless and successfully enlist."
After seven days of recruit training, Liu Changyi officially became a Red Army soldier. As a warrior, he stood out for his super high martial arts. This stems from the adventures of his childhood, when Liu Changyi was poor, often unclothed and hungry, so he grew very thin and weak, and was often bullied by children in the village.
He ran to the back mountain of the village and met a temple monk, who saw that he was kind-hearted and bullied, so he decided to teach him boxing and protect himself, and Liu Changyi also learned a martial art.
With his super high martial arts and extraordinary courage, Liu Changyi rose from an ordinary warrior to a platoon leader step by step. His superiors went through Xu Xiangqian, Xu Jishen, and Chen Geng, all of whom were once prominent figures at the Whampoa Military Academy and outstanding military figures in the people's army.
Liu Changyi was very impressed by their men, and the march was more courageous, he once said:"
I didn't go to the Whampoa Military Academy, but I have a teacher who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, and I am a re-disciple of the Whampoa Military Academy.
”
Carried out of the coffin
In December 1932, the Red Fourth Front advanced into northern Sichuan and created the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area. After training, Liu Changyi was able to write and fight, and was deeply liked by the chief. Two years later, due to Liu Changyi's excellent performance, he was promoted to company commander of the Red Army, and successively participated in the siege of Liu Xiang's Sixth Road and the defense of Wanyuan.
When Wanyuan was defending the war, he personally came to the position to observe the situation, and suddenly encountered a sudden attack from the enemy, a shell landed next to him, the shell exploded in an instant, and he fell in a pool of blood. After the battlefield smoke passed, the comrades-in-arms saw Liu Changyi fall on the battlefield, a piece of shrapnel passed from his left chin through his right cheek, his teeth were almost knocked out, he was unconscious, and immediately carried him to the hospital for treatment. Due to the poor condition of the field hospital, he lost too much blood and fell into a coma for ten hours.
In order to save his life urgently, the Red Army Hospital found several soldiers and gave him a blood transfusion for treatment. Because of the poor conditions, there was no blood test at that time, it was possible that the blood type was wrong, and he had a high fever. A few days later, his face began to be red, swollen and deformed, and he continued to be unconscious, and the chiefs came to visit.
Xu Shiyou, the division commander, came to Liu Changyi's hospital bed, looked at Liu Changyi, whose face was swollen, and couldn't help but shout: "You can't go!" Then he shouted to the doctor: "Doctor, you must save Liu Changyi!" ”
A few days later, the hospital doctor informed that Liu Changyi had died. When the comrades-in-arms heard this news, they were very sad, but the deceased was dead, and they had to let him go into the ground. On a stormy day, comrades-in-arms brought a coffin and put Liu Changyi into the coffin to prepare for his funeral.
Since Liu Changyi was injured, the guard Hu Shaorong has been with him, and for many days and nights when he was lying on the hospital bed, he thought countless times that Liu Changyi could wake up. He looked at Liu Changyi lying in the coffin, pounced on the coffin and shouted:
Company commander, you wake up quickly, you can't go, company commander, you wake up, you can't go, we need you!
His call did not awaken Liu Changyi, and it was at this moment that he looked at Liu Changyi's body as if something was missing, and he remembered Liu Changyi's love gun. Liu Changyi loves guns very much, often wipes the love gun and never leaves his body, the troops who have captured the gun, he is always the first to praise, love the gun as fate.
So he took out Liu Changyi's love gun before he died, and prepared to shove the love gun into his hand and send him on the last journey. When Hu Shaorong shoved the pistol into his hand, he felt his hand trembling. Hu Shaorong was shocked, could it be that Liu Changyi had come back from the dead? He carefully touched Liu Changyi's hand again, placing it under his nose, probing his breath to confirm that there was still a slight breath.
He hurriedly dried his tears and shouted in surprise:
He's alive, he's alive!
Everyone went to touch Liu Changyi's sniffles to confirm that he was not dead, and hurriedly carried him out of the coffin and sent him to the Red Army Hospital for treatment. In this way, Liu Changyi became a general who was carried out of the coffin.
After this catastrophe, perhaps because of the favor of heaven, Liu Changyi returned to the hospital for treatment, and soon he was mostly better. He was a man who could not stay idle, and before he could fully recover from his injuries, he asked to be discharged and returned to the army. In 1935, Liu Changyi served as the leader of the regiment and embarked on the long march, all the way through the meadows, grain shortages, cold weather, very difficult.
Liu Changyi looked at his hungry and cold comrades-in-arms and couldn't help but think of his childhood experience, and the taste of not having enough to eat was very uncomfortable. So he decided to kill his war horse to help everyone get through the difficulties. Comrades-in-arms persuaded one after another: "You are the regimental commander of the unit, and the regimental commander has no war horses, how can you command the battle?" ”
But Liu Changyi did not feel so, he felt that the life of a warrior was the most important. He was an acute child and shouted, "Is the warrior important or my war horse important?" Hurry up and kill it. "In the end, the war horse was killed, and everyone managed to survive the difficulties. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Changyi served as the chief of the reconnaissance section of the 386 brigade.
The 386th Brigade frequently reported good news at the base point, all of which were inseparable from Liu Changyi's intelligence work. After that, he developed a young anti-Japanese guerrilla column and led the troops to participate in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments.
In 1941, Liu Changyi led his troops to the mountainous areas of Qi County, Shanxi Province, to carry out guerrilla struggle. He received information that the Japanese would escort supplies south on the afternoon of April 12. Liu Changyi got this news and felt that the opportunity could not be lost. At dusk that day, he led his troops to the site ahead of time and set up an ambush.
As night fell, the Japanese troops did indeed enter the ambush area, and Liu Changyi gave an order that the soldiers rushed down the battlefield, and in just over half an hour, all the Japanese troops were annihilated. Because of his outstanding performance, he was soon promoted to deputy commander and often received information from enemy forces.
According to intelligence, he found that every two or three days, the Japanese army had to go to Wuxiang, Yushu and other places to transport ammunition and materials. He decided decisively that this was another rare fighter. After analysis, he concluded that the Japanese army would set out again on the 16th to transport supplies.
The night before, he had commanded the troops and had come to Wuxiang in advance to lay an ambush. On the 16th, the soldiers did see the Japanese enter the ambush area, and he immediately ordered the battle to begin. But as soon as the battle began, he immediately realized that something was wrong, there were more than a hundred Japanese troops, protecting a group of Japanese officers.
But the battle had already begun, and even though there were Japanese officers, they could not be mistaken. After a fierce battle, Liu Changyi led the soldiers to kill more than 60 Japanese officers and men, and captured many weapons, light and heavy machine guns, pistols, and rifles. When the chief learned of this news, he could not help but praise Liu Changyi:
This battle was fought very well, and it was fought beautifully!
After the battle, everyone learned that this was an inspection group of officers escorted by Japanese troops, preparing to go to various places to inspect the situation, but they did not expect to be served by Liu Changyi. Since then, he has led the troops through many battles, made many achievements, and became a mature commander.
What is particularly impressive is that in battle, he invented the earth tank, the earthen cannon. The so-called earth tanks, earthen guns, are covered with water-soaked quilts on tanks and cannons to launch an attack. The quilt, which is soaked with water, is not afraid of bullets and can withstand some enemy attacks.
In August 1945, he began a strategic counteroffensive against Japan, and he led his troops to surround and annihilate the puppet army Li Changyou's troops. Li Chang had troops stationed in wild boar ditch, and the terrain was very dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. He commanded the troops to use earthen tanks and earthen guns, and the battle lasted for three days and four nights, and successfully won the battle.
Tell the doctor to cut boldly
In 1946, Liu Changyi, who was the deputy commander of the Eighth Route Army, was ordered to lead his troops to Guangshan and prepare to annihilate the Kuomintang army Liu Zhi's troops. As the troops advanced to the Eight Mile Pan, they engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy. During the battle, Liu Changyi accidentally hit 5 bullets and immediately fell into a coma.
The soldiers urgently carried Liu Changyi to the hospital for treatment, and because the injuries were too serious, Wang Shusheng and others invited the minister of health of the military region
Pan Shizheng
Carry out rescue and treatment. Pan Shizheng saw that Liu Changyi had been shot in the body and had to undergo surgery immediately, but the current conditions were limited, and there were no anesthetics, anti-inflammatory drugs and other items. He looked at Liu Changyi's injury and was very embarrassed, not knowing how to be good.
At this time, Liu Changyi woke up and heard their speeches, he wanted to speak but could not say it, and signaled the medical staff to bring paper and pencil. He got a pen and paper and wrote it down on the paper."
Bold discount
"Three big words.
Pan Shizheng and the people present looked at these three big crooked characters and couldn't help but shed tears. Pan Shizheng under rudimentary conditions operated on Liu Changyi. During the operation, beads of sweat appeared on Liu Changyi's forehead, and he endured severe pain without making a groan. The surgical staff who were assisting on the side could not bear to look down and tilted their heads to the side.
Due to too many bullets, two surgeries were performed to remove some bullets and shrapnel, but due to the poor environment, some bullets and shrapnel could not be removed. After the operation, he had a constant fever, fell into a coma, and on many occasions almost lost his breath, and his life was in danger. Even the organization has prepared a coffin for him again, preparing for the aftermath.
What was even more serious was that the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered the encirclement and suppression of the troops of the Central Plains Military Region, and the situation was urgent. When Zhou Enlai learned that Liu Changyi had been seriously injured, he immediately issued instructions: "Immediately send Liu Changyi by plane to beijing hospital for treatment." After receiving the instructions, Wang Shusheng conveyed the instructions to Liu Changyi.
Liu Changyi was very touched after hearing this, and he was very grateful to the central authorities for their concern and love, but he considered that Peiping was a Kuomintang united front area, and his visit to Beiping would add a lot of trouble to the organization. He said firmly: "Thank you Vice Chairman Zhou for your concern, but I am dying, and I will die on the battlefield, and I will not leave the troops." ”
Pictured| Zhou Enlai
After learning of Liu Changyi's opinion, Zhou Enlai issued instructions to send comrades to Wuhan to buy medicines and instruments as soon as possible, and immediately operate on Liu Changyi to save his life. A few days later, the medicines and instruments arrived, and Pan Shizheng performed three more surgeries on Liu Changyi.
This time, all the bullets and shrapnel in his body were finally removed. In this way, under the special care of Zhou Enlai, Liu Changyi once again escaped from death, creating a miracle of resurrection from the dead, and his injuries gradually improved. At the end of May, the Kuomintang prepared to gather a large army to suppress the border.
When the battle was about to come, Li Xiannian remembered this tiger general who could fight, came to the hospital to see Liu Changyi, and said: "How is your body?" He replied decisively: "I am ready, ready to fight at any time." The young doctor beside him couldn't help but say, "Chief, your leg and wound are still suppurative!" ”
Liu Changyi looked at the doctor and said firmly:
I'm not so squeamish, bandaged, and still able to march and fight.
The young doctor had no choice but to walk away.
Central Plains Breakout
In June, Chiang Kai-shek gathered 300,000 troops and attacked the Central Plains Liberated Areas in an attempt to wipe out the Central Plains Liberated Areas in one fell swoop. Liu Changyi received orders from the central authorities and led his troops to break through on the south road. On that day, it was raining heavily in the sky, and Liu Changyi and Wang Shusheng led their troops all the way to the southwest. Along the way, he endured the sharp pain of the suppuration of the wound on his leg and marched all the way.
When the troops came to Yangpingkou, they were suddenly blocked by the 185th Division of the Sixty-sixth Army. Wang Shusheng immediately led his troops to the west, and suddenly the enemy drove an ironclad train, dividing the troops into two sections, only a small number of people passed through the railway, and most of them did not pass through the railway. So the two sides fought on both sides of the railway. What was even more critical was that Wang Shusheng received news again, and another group of troops rushed to them in an attempt to encircle and suppress our army.
In the face of the serious enemy situation, Wang Shusheng was very anxious, and at this critical moment, Liu Changyi rushed to say: "Commander, please give an order, let me lead the troops to destroy these enemy troops." After permission, Liu Changyi turned around and mobilized his soldiers to come to the enemy bunker. He personally commanded light and heavy machine guns and covered the blasting group to blow up the bunkers.
However, the enemy's fire was very fierce, and the demolition team rushed up several times but was suppressed. Liu Changyi ordered: "We must take down the enemy bunkers, it is related to the breakthrough of the entire army." The warriors replied firmly:
Rest assured, sir, that we will all die on the battlefield.
"At this time, the warriors had no distractions at all, and only had fighting in their hearts.
Liu Changyi rolled up his sleeves, personally operated the machine gun, and with all the light and heavy machine guns, opened fire together. On the battlefield, bullets and artillery fire were continuous, and the demolition team took this opportunity to rush to the front of the bunker and blow up the bunker in one fell swoop. This explosion made the enemy troops blocking the railway very frightened and quickly adjusted their strategic deployment.
Among them, the three bunkers of the enemy army, like the evil in the middle, the eye of the machine gun howled one after another, and once suppressed the firepower of our soldiers. In the face of the enemy's fire suppression, the fighters all blushed and asked again: "Deputy Commander Liu, let's attack again." Liu Changyi pondered for a moment and decisively ordered:
Bring our dirt tanks and prepare to attack again.
The earth tanks once again showed their magic, blowing up the three bunkers one after another. The enemy troops blocking along the railway line let out a desperate howl, and Liu Changyi took the lead in getting up and shouting: "Blow the charge trumpet!" Suddenly, the charge horn sounded in the sky, and the soldiers, led by Liu Changyi, were like fierce tigers descending the mountain and rushing towards the enemy army. In the end, the troops broke through the enemy's breakthrough and successfully passed through the Pinghan Railway, completely smashing Chiang Kai-shek's encirclement and suppression plan.
After the Battle of Huaihai, Liu Changyi's old wounds recurred, and he appeared suppurative and sent to Beiping for treatment. After Liu Changyi recovered from his injuries, he was appointed by the central authorities as deputy commander of the railway public security forces. Together with commander Luo Huasheng, he formed the Railway Public Security Force, which took over hundreds of bridges and tunnels.
At the age of 65, he led soldiers to fight
In 1954, China and the Soviet Union signed an agreement on the joint use of the Lushun Naval Base.
The central authorities issued an order to reorganize the former organs directly under the Ministry of Railways into the Lushunkou Naval Base Headquarters, with Liu Changyi as deputy commander. In 1955, the central government awarded the rank for the first time, and Liu Changyi was awarded
Founding Lieutenant General
。
In 1956, Liu Changyi succeeded the commander of the Lushun Naval Base, and the naval construction at this time was very difficult, and then there were special agents looking at the tiger, and there were US aircraft patrolling and circling. After taking office, he was well aware of the dangers he was currently facing, and immediately organized troops to conduct anti-enemy landing training, and set up minefields and lay out minefields near the coast of the sea area. Liu Changyi opposed the copying of the Soviet experience, saying: "What suits China, we must study hard, and if it is not suitable for China, we cannot copy it." ”
In his work, he often went deep into the troops, guided the work, and personally explored the terrain. He remembered the Sino-Japanese War in China, which was a fierce battle, and he told the soldiers to always remember the lessons, strive to build a strong navy, and never let history repeat itself.
Around the 1950s, Chiang Kai-shek sent planes to harass the Shandong Peninsula. In order to strengthen military defenses, Liu Changyi actively organized soldiers' exercises. Late one night, Liu Changyi was resting, when suddenly the phone rang, he picked up the phone and listened, and the enemy plane appeared in the sky again.
He jumped out of bed and came to the headquarters in his pajamas, musing in his heart that this was the second time today that he had spotted a trail of an enemy plane, and this time he would have to knock it down no matter what. He immediately ordered the fighters to attack the enemy aircraft, and after a while, the soldiers found traces of the enemy aircraft in the foggy sea.
Because the sea fog is thick and it flies very low, it is still difficult to defeat it. Liu Changyi decisively ordered:
Be sure to think of any way to knock it out.
Then he sent lighting machines to cooperate with the battle.
After half an hour of urgent pursuit, the fighters successfully shot down the electronic reconnaissance plane and annihilated all the personnel on the plane. The news reached Beijing, and the Central Military Commission issued a commendation order. One day in December, enemy planes appeared again on the coast of Liaodong Province, and pilot Wang Hongxi flew the plane into battle, taking down enemy planes in one fell swoop and capturing the enemy major general alive.
In 1973, Liu Changyi came to the Nanjing Military Region as a deputy commander, in charge of the training of the troops, he commanded the troops to vigorously carry out military training and improve the combat ability of the soldiers. At the age of 65, under the appointment of the central government, he successively assisted Xu Shiyou in commanding the counterattack in self-defense against Vietnam and fighting in the direction of Guangxi.
During the battle, Liu Changyi, 65, personally came to the scene of the position to observe the sentry and boost morale. The soldiers all advised him that it was enough to look at the map at the headquarters, but he insisted that he should come to the battlefield in person, and only when he came to the battlefield in person could he be assured.
After the end of the Guangxi campaign, he remained in Guangxi to take up garrison duties. During this period, he personally led the soldiers, ran all over the border, selected fortification points, sentry points, and which soldiers were placed in which position, he had to look at them one by one and personally determine them. The whole trip lasted for nearly 50 days, and Liu Changyi ran around and successfully completed the fortification mission.
In 1984, Liu Changyi retired and returned to an ordinary life. Due to years of experience of fighting wounds, his body was full of scars, and when it came to the rainy season, the wounds were painful. However, after many years of combat life, whenever he appeared in front of the masses, he was in a straight posture and always maintained the character of a soldier.
In 1999, after years of combat experience, the war on the battlefield destroyed his body, bullets and shrapnel robbed him of his health, and at the age of 85, he died of illness.
Liu Changyi was a founding lieutenant general who was carried out of a coffin through several legends, and was the founding hero of new China. We are far from finished with his story. Liu Changyi is a bold, outspoken general, unfold his life, you will find many legendary stories.