As we enjoy all this beautiful life, please do not forget the hard-won success of this prosperous and prosperous world, which is the result of the hard work of several generations of people and the solid foundation laid by hundreds of thousands of revolutionary martyrs with their lives.
In the revolutionary years when the war was raging, the heroic revolutionaries fought against the enemy for the sake of the good wishes in their hearts. I don't know how many people fell forever, even those who ushered in the founding of New China were full of scars, and some of them were even mutilated.
Among the founding generals, there were 12 one-armed generals, one of whom fought a first regiment in the world during the War of Resistance, created the first army under the world during the liberation period, and made great contributions to the development of the motherland's petroleum industry after the founding of the country, and became vice premier many years later. Speaking of which, many people may already know who he is, and this founding hero is Lieutenant General Yu Qiuli.
He was injured several times and lost his left arm
Ji'an, Jiangxi, a famous old revolutionary area, was born here in 1914. Because his family was poor, he couldn't eat enough, let alone go to school, and he didn't even have a formal name at that time.
In 1929, under the leadership of our Party, the Ji'an peasant armed forces launched a riot, and Yu Qiuli, who was only 15 years old at the time, also joined the ranks of the uprising. After the uprising, these rebel forces were incorporated into the Red Army, and when he first joined the army, Yu Qiuli felt that he had become a Red Army soldier and should have a formal name, so he begged the instructor to give him a name.
When the instructor heard that he was born in the autumn, he said, "Why don't you call it 'Autumn', which means that you were born in the autumn." Yu Qiuli was of course very happy to hear it, "Qiuli" is not only good to hear, but also poetic, and since then he finally has a formal name.
After joining the army, Yu Qiuli fought bravely, was intelligent, and made very rapid progress, and he joined the party in the second year of joining the army and became the squadron leader of the Red Guard Brigade. He rose from an ordinary soldier to a meritorious founding hero, and it was not easy to go along the way, and he was wounded many times on the battlefield.
In 1931, Yu Qiuli led the Red Guards to cooperate with the Red 20th Army to launch the Battle of Qiliping, the battle was very fierce, during the battle Yu Qiuli was scratched by a stray bullet on the head, and the blood flowed like a flood, but he only simply stopped the bleeding and bandaged it, and persisted until the end of the battle. Due to his serious injuries, Yu Qiuli was temporarily unable to return to the front-line troops. But he could not stay idle, so he found a position in the local Soviet district government. Later, he returned to the army after recovering from his injuries and was promoted to political instructor of the military team of the Red Army School.
This injury was no more common to Yu Qiuli, who had experienced hundreds of battles, and the most serious was during the Long March of the Red Second and Sixth Armies.
In March 1936, after the Red Army entered the Wumeng Mountains in Guizhou, political commissar Yu Qiuli and regimental commander Qian Xing were ordered to lead the Red 18th Regiment to set up an ambush at Debazhang to block the enemy. When the two men came to the front line to observe the enemy situation, Yu Qiuli suddenly noticed that in the distance, the enemy raised his gun and strafed here.
Yu Qiuli's hands were fast, and he pushed the cost down, but he was a step too late, and several machine gun bullets hit his left arm, and the broken bones even passed through the skin and flesh exposed.
The Red Army's medical conditions during the Long March were rudimentary, unable to perform surgery, and even lacking in medicinal materials. Only protective treatment could be carried out, and Yu Qiuli endured severe pain and dragged his injured arm to follow the team to continue the long march. It was not until four months later, when the Red Army arrived in Huixian County, Gansu Province, that it had the conditions to find a military doctor to check it out.
When the gauze was lifted, the military doctor found that the wounded arm was full of maggots and had become black and necrotic. Fortunately, there are maggots that continue to eat carrion, so there is no infection, otherwise for such a long time, Yu Qiuli would have been in danger of life. The arm could not be saved, in order to prevent the injury from worsening, only amputation surgery could be performed, and since then our army has had one more one-armed general.
He Bingyan's best partner
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yu Qiuli served as the political commissar of the third guerrilla detachment of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and became a partner with the commander of the detachment, He Bingyan. The two were old acquaintances, at first He Bingyan was the leader of the Red 18 Regiment, yu Qiuli was the secretary of the general branch of the regiment, and later He Bingyan was promoted to the commander of the Red Fifth Division, and Yu Qiuli became a partner with the new regimental commander, Qian Xing.
This time, Yu Qiuli was made the political commissar of the detachment, which was also proposed by He Bingyan, and the two had known each other for many years and cooperated very tacitly. Yu Qiuli lost his left arm, He Bingyan lost his right arm, and both were one-armed generals, so they both called themselves "one-handed".
When the third detachment was established, there were only 304 people, and under their leadership, it took more than a year to grow to more than 5,000 people, becoming a well-known local anti-Japanese team. They can fight and fight, and the locals say who the "number one" is, and the people call them generals who "wear a pair of gloves together".
In 1940, the third detachment was reorganized into the Eighth Regiment of the 358th Brigade, He Bingyan was promoted to deputy brigade commander, Yu Qiuli was still the political commissar of the regiment, and also concurrently served as the regimental commander.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yu Qiuli was also promoted to the position of brigade political commissar, and the Eighth Regiment carried forward and created brilliant achievements under the leadership of the new regimental commander, and many years later the Eighth Regiment was reorganized into the First Regiment of the First Division of the First Army of the People's Liberation Army. Therefore, Mr. He said: "After eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yu Qiuli fought the first regiment in the world."
Yu Qiuli not only brought out the "First Regiment of the World", but also created the First Army, and in 1949, when the First Column of the Northwest Field Army was reorganized into the First Army of the People's Liberation Army, Yu Qiuli was the deputy political commissar. His old partner He Bingyan served as the commander of the army, and the military political commissar was Liao Hansheng.
Throughout Yu Qiuli's military career, during the Red Army period, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the liberation period, they all became partners with He Bingyan, and the two grew up together and made progress together in the war years of bullets and bullets, and also formed a deep comradeship.
The family were excellent
After the end of the award, Yu Qiuli was promoted to political commissar of the General Logistics Department, and in 1958, he was personally appointed by the chairman as the minister of petroleum industry, and he did not live up to the trust of everyone, launched the petroleum conference war, successfully developed the Daqing oil field, let New China get rid of the hat of "poor oil country", and also provided a guarantee for the industrial development of the motherland.
In the 1970s, General Yu Qiuli was elected vice premier and became a vice-state leader, and among the 177 founding lieutenant generals, his achievements were also very high.
The general position is high and powerful, but the work and life have their own standards, and they will never let their relatives take shortcuts through themselves. In the 80s, his nephew Yu Heigukao Military Academy, his results were not ideal, and he wanted to say hello to his uncle Yu Qiuli, but Yu Lao did not agree. Later, after her niece Yu Manxiu joined the army, she wanted to enter the military school, but the cultural points were not enough, and she also found Yu Lao to be accommodating. Elder Yu received the call and just said, "There is no need, if you can go up, you can go up, and if you can't go up, you can go home and farm."
The general was very strict with his relatives, and the children's later achievements under his teachings were very high, the only son Yu Hao was a major general, and his wife Ye Wenshan was Ye Shuai's daughter.
The general's noble character and brilliant life have influenced the development of his children, and many people have also achieved high achievements under his guidance. Qinghong, who had worked next to him, was also the child of a revolutionary, and his father was Zeng Shan. Under the cultivation of his father and the guidance of Elder Yu, he achieved great achievements many years later, serving as vice chairman and becoming a leader at the level of zhengguo.