In the suburbs of Beijing in the last century, there lived an old man, and the old man seemed to like rainy days, and whenever it rained, he would move out of the basin from home.
But what is strange is that after the rain stops, the old man will run to the countryside to find a few old farmers and ask: "Is the rain thorough?" Has the drought been lifted? ”
The old farmers did not know what kind of character he was, only as a strange person to accompany, his mood seemed to have a lot to do with the change of weather, if it did not rain for a long time, the old man would be restlessly pacing at home, and his mouth would say: "It is drought again, and the peasants will suffer." ”
No one could have imagined that this strange old man was actually the famous General Huang Kecheng behind him, Huang Kecheng was worried about the country and the people, and his style could be described as a model for the party, but the saddest thing about him was that he had been separated from his beloved wife for several years at this time.
The former is one of the ten generals, the latter is Known as the talented daughter of Qingdao University Tang Dihua, the story of the two of them, like the ups and downs of a flat song, singing forty-five years of love.
The story of Huang Kecheng's glasses
In the ranking of china's top ten generals, Huang Kecheng's character is the same as his name, especially honest, dare to tell the truth, even Chairman Mao has particularly praised this quality of his: "Huang Kecheng's work style I appreciate, seek truth from facts!" ”
As an old revolutionary, Huang Kecheng made great contributions to the party's struggle process, because he dared to tell the truth, insisted on his own character, and even in his private life, the wedding night also had to make a three-chapter agreement with his bride, Tang Dihua, and later became a deed that everyone talked about.
In addition to the characteristics above the personality, Huang Kecheng also has a very significant feature in appearance, that is, he always wears a pair of thick glasses on his face, which is because Huang Kecheng is very obsessed with reading.
But at the time of his birth, during the reign of the Qing Dynasty, he was living in a feudal and backward countryside in Hunan.
Although his family was poor, Huang Kecheng's parents borrowed from east to west, relying on the help of relatives, he finally went to a private school for a few years, Huang Kecheng was very talented in learning, playing small notes was fast, and the "Three Character Classic" was memorized well.
Because he loves to read, but he is suffering from poverty, Huang Kecheng often looks for classmates with slightly better families to borrow books, and when he returns home, he will pick up the lamp to read at night, and return it early the next morning.
So in the middle of the night, the next door neighbor can always see a faint light in Huang Kecheng's small room, which also makes Huang Kecheng a later myopic eye.
In that turbulent and displaced dynasty, there were not many opportunities to read, and even many new and progressive books were banned, and Huang Kecheng was young but precocious.
He understood that learning knowledge was one of the few opportunities to change his destiny, so he cherished the collection of every book he bought, which also laid the groundwork for him to meet his beloved wife Tang Dihua in the future.
Huang Kecheng joined the Red Army in 1925, it was during the workers' and peasants' movement, the domestic situation was turbulent, Huang Kecheng although he looked quiet, but on the battlefield he had a fearless life and death momentum, and soon from a small soldier to the position of regimental commander.
This was only two years spent in the Northern Expedition, but even though he was promoted to the command, Huang Kecheng still liked to take the lead in the charge when fighting.
Because he wears glasses, his identity is often exposed on the battlefield, which also brings him many killings.
Peng Dehuai, the old superior, criticized him for this: "Lao Huang, as a commander, how did you get old enough to rush to the front line?" You wear such a large pair of spectacle lenses all day long, you are a big official at first glance, and the enemy does not hit you who?
Dare to tell the truth, really do the real thing Huang Kecheng
After the end of the Northern Expedition, Huang Kecheng still worked under Peng Dehuai, at this time he served as a political commissar, as the saying goes: "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility", this man with a straight personality is not only loyal to the party, but also dared to stand up first when there was dissent.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup d'état and carried out several encirclement and suppression operations against the Red Army, the largest of which huang Kecheng participated in five times, and in 1930 someone proposed a plan to "attack Wuhan and drink the Yangtze River".
After huang Kecheng learned the news, he immediately drafted a report and made a suggestion to the party organization: "It is unrealistic to put forward the idea of seizing Wuhan now, because the conditions for seizing Wuhan are not yet met." ”
Huang Kecheng's proposal is like a sunny day suddenly splitting a thunderbolt, and the characteristic of his daring to sing the opposite tune is that there is no place, no occasion, and even for his life-saving benefactor Peng Dehuai.
Peng Dehuai decided to lead his troops to attack Zhangzhou in 1932, but at that time, the Red Army team was already seriously injured and almost on the verge of collapse, which was a risk, and Huang Kecheng stood up and quarreled with Peng Dehuai.
However, facts have proved that the subsequent Zhangzhou offensive operation was indeed not a rational approach, and the action was full of mistakes and loopholes.
In order to reduce losses, Huang Kecheng openly resisted the order to retreat on the battlefield, although he recovered some of the Red Army's strength, but he was also punished afterwards, and Huang Kecheng argued on the basis of reason.
After Peng Dehuai learned of this incident, he sighed: "Everyone says that my bones are hard, and I see that Huang Kecheng's bones are ten times harder than mine!" ”
Afterwards, Peng Dehuai found Huang Kecheng again to advise: "In the future, if you give such an opinion, you will be expelled from the team." ”
Huang Kecheng didn't think so: "I'm not dumb, how can I not say something?" ”
Such an answer amused Peng Dehuai and made everyone understand Huang Kecheng's temper, but everyone could not deny that what Huang Kecheng said and did, whether right or wrong, made great contributions to the party organization.
It was such a tough guy who dared to be bold, and he also ushered in his own tenderness in 1937.
Huang Kecheng's first love is a girl named Tang Dihua, Tang Dihua is sixteen years younger than Huang Kecheng, and the two have very different birth experiences.
Because of his father's background, Tang Dihua was influenced by higher education, and when he grew up, he not only graduated from Qingdao University, but also attracted the attention of party organizations in anti-Japanese activities.
Although this "Iron Lady" looked elegant and gentle, she was fierce in her work, and after joining the party, she was arranged by the party organization to serve as the secretary of the Funing County CPC Committee.
She was only nineteen years old that year, and it was precisely because of this opportunity that this talented woman met the "bookworm" Huang Kecheng.
In 1940, Huang Kecheng led the troops to Funing County to make arrangements, and at the same time, Tang Dihua also received instructions from the party organization to raise money and food for the troops of the Eighth Route Army in the south.
The former was the famous Commander Huang, and the latter was the second in command of the county government, and of course the two of them had to meet each other to explain the task, so Tang Dihua went to the army to look for Huang Kecheng, and this first meeting impressed Tang Dihua.
At that time, Huang Kecheng was standing next to a horse, and the tall horse looked very thin, not at all like the rumored general, but like a teacher in the school.
In fact, Huang Kecheng's scholarly appearance was often ridiculed in the army that his body was not good, especially his old comrade-in-arms Chen Geng also joked like this: "Old Man Huang, Old Man Huang, as far as your body is concerned, live for three years at most, and grasp the revolution!" ”
Of course, this is also because Huang Kecheng himself suffers from tracheitis, only in his early thirties, he looks sick every day, but he is very kind with people.
Huang Kecheng and Tang Dihua love because of "books"
After meeting with Huang Kecheng, Tang Dihua explained his job and left, and neither of them would have thought that they would become soul mates who would stay together for a lifetime in the future.
Because of work reasons, Huang Kecheng and Tang Dihua often had communication, and they gradually became familiar with each other, and once she and her colleague Yang Chun went to report to Huang Kecheng.
Yang Chun suddenly secretly said to Tang Dihua, "Today we can rub a delicious meal!" ”
These words made Tang Dihua confused: "How do you know that he has delicious food?" ”
Yang Chun explained, "You didn't see Lao Huang's tin box?" Wherever he went, there must be good food in it. ”
After the two finished reporting their work, Yang Chun joked that Huang Kecheng opened the box to see what delicious food was distributed to everyone.
But to their surprise, when the box was opened, it was not a good food, but a book that had been turned over and worn out. Tang Dihua also loved reading, and immediately picked up a few books and opened them to look at.
This look of hers made huang Kecheng, who was standing on the side, laughed: "Hahaha, it turns out that Tang Girl is also a bookworm!" After saying that, he instructed the guards to go to the street to buy a piece of pork, and when they came back, several people ate a meal.
During the meal, Huang Kecheng and Tang Dihua chatted about their feelings about reading, and the two could be said to have met and hated each other late, and there was a tendency to pity each other, and this also made Huang Kecheng begin to seriously examine Tang Dihua, the little girl.
Over the years, he had never considered his own emotional problems in the southern and northern wars, and thirty-eight years had passed in a flash, and the young and beautiful female county magistrate in front of him had touched the line of defense in his heart at this moment.
Huang Kecheng has a habit of not telling others about his past, but as the contact with Tang Dihua becomes more and more frequent, he gradually opens his heart, and Tang Dihua also begins to truly understand Huang Kecheng's glorious deeds.
He had torn apart the Kuomintang blockade four times in the first civil war, crossed the Chishui River four times, and left the south bank of the Xiang River with the figure of his troops fighting, and any experience was the tempering of blood and tears.
When Tang Dihua was in his twenties, he couldn't help but feel good feelings for Huang Kecheng, and it could even be said that he admired him.
Until later, through the arrangement of the county magistrate Song Naide, Huang Kecheng waited for an opportunity to be alone with Tang Dihua, and he very frankly showed his love to Tang Dihua, thinking that he would be rejected.
But I didn't expect that Tang Dihua actually agreed directly, which made Huang Kecheng shy.
He then carefully told Tang Dihua that he still had many problems with his body, and he was older, and tracheitis often recurred: "Elder Chen Geng laughed at me: Yellow blind man, I see your body bones, live for three years at most!" Everyone thinks that my body is not good, and I will not live long. ”
For Huang Kecheng's honesty, Tang Dihua was touched from the bottom of his heart: "You are only in your 30s now, what is this small illness, as long as you pay attention to your body, I see that you will have no problem living him for another 20 years!" ”
Wedding Night, the story of three chapters of the Law of The Covenant
The two were in love, naturally did not need to think too much, and married in 1941, when Huang Kecheng had reached the age of thirty-nine.
His life has gone through several times before the ghost gate is closed, and the year of lizhi is a good fate, which can be said to make him feel extremely lucky, and he is also very spoiled for Tang Dihua, but in the face of discipline, Huang Kecheng is extremely principled.
In order not to let the family affect his work, he also made three agreements with Tang Dihua on the wedding night: First, we are all party members, we must put the interests of the party first, we must not hinder the interests of the party because of the interests of marriage, and we must not harm the interests of the party because of private interests. ”
For her husband's idea, Tang Dihua was a little dissatisfied in her heart, especially felt that the second article was too macho, but she still chose to understand and support.
The two did not hold a wedding, did not even go through a formality, just simply said hello to friends, everything is carried out as usual, in front of the gate even Zhang Yuan word is not posted, but the material simplicity, did not affect the feelings between the two, their life after marriage is still very sweet.
With this love, Huang Kecheng and Tang Dihua spent forty-five spring, summer, autumn and winter together, they fought together in the northeast, and they also carried the revolution in the south, and together they ushered in the founding of New China.
Tang Dihua has said that what he is most afraid of is winter, because the cold temperature will aggravate Huang Kecheng's tracheitis condition, whenever late at night comes.
Tang Dihua's ears were full of her husband's violent coughing, and she could only accompany him without abandoning.
Rao was like this, and Huang Kecheng did not have a short life as Chen Geng said at the beginning, he lived happily to the age of eighty-four, although in the end he could not escape the poisonous claws of the disease.
In 1986, shortly before his death, he was still treated in the hospital, but such treatment was resisted by Huang Kecheng, who more than once pulled out the life-sustaining infusion tube on his body.
The reason is only: "I am such a person who runs out of oil, I can't do anything for the people, why should I spend the people's money?" ”
Just a year after huang Kecheng left the world, Tang Dihua did not cry, but wrote a poem to commemorate his lover: "For people to recover what to ask for, less in times of national danger, firmly believe in Marxism-Leninism, young people from Rong, lifelong exhaustion, fortunate to see the Chinese nation standing gloriously, that is, death without regrets, looking up to the heavens, not to pity people, the country's fortunes are rising day by day, talented people, it is a pity not to follow the comrades of the whole party to do their best." ”