In 1955, the Party Central Committee held a Chinese the People's Liberation Army in Beijing to award the title for the first time, thus commending the founding fathers for their great contributions in the cause of the War of Resistance and Liberation.
However, at the conferment ceremony,
Zhou Enlai
However, he found an anomaly - the award of the title was over, the whole audience left the field, but a general still stood still. Looking closely, the comrade's eyes seemed to reveal a faint dazedness...
Premier Zhou walked up to him and asked cordially, "Comrade, why haven't you left the scene yet?" ”
The general scratched his head and replied, "I haven't read my name yet!" ”
How is it possible to miss a person? Premier Zhou sensed that something was wrong, and immediately sent someone to investigate the reason, and after some investigation, he learned that this was a oolong.
The general's name was indeed on the list of conferred titles, and he was not able to come to power for a reason.
Figure | conferment ceremony
The general's name is
Yellow Mars
, is a native of Henan, born in 1909.
Under the faint rule of the Qing government, various evil forces emerged in an endless stream, Huang Mars's hometown was victimized, and the peasants who were unable to resist could only flee.
Huang Mars's family was not rich, and after this disaster, it was even worse, and slowly, the family could not even meet the simple food and clothing. What is even more fatal is that Huang Mars's mother was already seriously ill before leaving, and the wind and food on the road made her condition even worse.
A family that is not rich in the first place, where can there be money to treat her? Soon after, Huang Mu lost her life in a bump.
When people die, they have to go into the ground for safety, which is a tradition handed down from ancient times by Chinese, but the Huang Martian family, who are shy in their pockets, can't even get the burial fees. Just at this time, the crowd had arrived in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, and in order to bury his mother, Huang Mars voluntarily sold himself in exchange for a sum of money.
The man who bought him was Huang Jufa, a porcelain worker in Jingdezhen. Jingdezhen's porcelain is famous enough, and he has saved a good savings from many years of travel and opened a porcelain factory with a friend. Although the scale is small, there is no problem in earning the living expenses of the family.
Figure | Yellow Mars
For a variety of reasons,
Yellow polyface
He and his current wife do not have their own children, and after buying Huang Mars, the couple initially really treated him as their own child. Not only did it keep him alone, but it also sent him to school for a period of time.
Of course, he did not go to school for a long time, even though Huang Mars's grades in the academy were always among the best, and his adoptive father, who did not have a forward-looking vision, let him drop out of school early and enter the porcelain factory as an apprentice. For the sake of his future, Huang Jufa also set him a child bride. In this way, the trajectory of Yellow Mars' life seems to be visible.
Although that kind of life is a little boring, it also contains a taste of plain happiness, and with the love of parents and elders around, Huang Mars did not feel pain.
However, just when everyone thought everything was on the right track, things changed – Huang Mars's adoptive mother was weak and lost her life to an illness soon after.
Huang Mars's departure made Huang Mars grief-stricken, and although Huang Jufa was also in pain, he quickly returned to his former calm and married a new wife.
The stepmother's temper is fiery, and seeing Huang Mars, a child who is not related to the Huang family, but has been spending the Huang family's money, is very unpleasant, and always gives him a trip for no reason. Huang Jufa looked in his eyes, but was silent.
This situation did not last long, and in 1926, Huang Jufa also fell seriously ill and died on his sickbed. When the stepmother saw this scene, she remarried without looking back.
Picture | Jingdezhen, Republic of China
Huang Mars once again lost his loved ones, and what is even more fatal is that in order to treat Huang Jufa, the Huang family has exhausted all their assets, and before Huang Jufa loses his life, they even owe a bunch of foreign debts.
In order to return the debt faster, Huang Mars had to enter the porcelain factory to install the kiln. It was still a very intense physical work, and Yellow Mars gritted his teeth every day, even in winter, and the sweat on his body could soak his clothes.
After such a hard year, he can only earn more than a hundred yuan, this money is not to mention the debt, even to meet the family's food and clothing are a bit difficult, in the face of soaring prices, Huang Mars slowly feels powerless.
Huang Mars, who wanted to live in peace, sensed the cruel exploitation of the working people by the bourgeoisie, why did he work so hard and still could not change his fate? Why can the bourgeoisie inhumanely trample on the efforts of those at the bottom? Huang Mars lamented the injustice of fate and at the same time had the idea of changing everything. After some exploration, he joined the Juying Society.
In 1929, with the assistance of the comrades of the Red Army, the Juying Society changed the new class to the Apprentice Federation, during which time Huang Mars and the Communists
Yu Jinde
and members of the Komsomol
Zhang Bingsheng
Got in touch and became friends.
Yu Jinde and Zhang Bingsheng were both great Red Army soldiers, telling Huang Mars many stories of the Red Army's participation in the struggle of the revolution and the reactionaries, and slowly, Huang Mars also planted a Red Army dream in his heart, and he began to understand that in that chaos, only by joining the revolutionary army could he get the opportunity to truly change his destiny, and could the people of his country embark on the right path of not being oppressed by anyone.
At that time, most of the workers were suffering, and in addition to the busy work, what everyone was most looking forward to was the arrival of payday and the four traditional festivals.
Pictured| Jingdezhen workers
Needless to say, on payday, who can not be happy to get paid? In addition to this day, when the four traditional festivals arrive, workers and friends in Jingdezhen can also get an additional income.
According to the regulations, whenever The four traditional festivals in China came, the merchants in Jingdezhen had to invite their workers to a meal, indicating that when doing business thereafter, the wealth was rolling in and the luck was in full swing.
After the start of many factories, the Dragon Boat Festival is also coming, at this time, the factory owner needs to give some welfare materials to each worker, not only to send blessings to the workers, but also to encourage everyone to redouble their efforts and work well.
The boss earns a lot of money every year, wears gold and silver, and is very rich. Supposedly, that small expense should not be enough to hang teeth, but there is a boss who is a dime iron rooster. He was eager to let the workers work for him 24 hours a day without paying him.
How could you possibly be willing to give workers money for nothing?
A month before the Dragon Boat Festival, factory owners were thinking about how they could save more money. So, a few days before the party, the factory owner ordered the cooks to prepare only less than a pound of wine per table, as well as a few small pieces of meat, and their dishes looked too shabby compared to the sumptuous food at other tables.
Huang Mars had worked in this factory and had been exploited by the boss, and when he knew that the boss was going to do such a thing, he was so angry that he decided to help the workers and teach the boss a lesson.
On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, Huang Mars held a meeting, most of the participants were Communist Party members, as well as porcelain factory workers, the purpose of the meeting was to discuss how to ensure that workers can get their due benefits on holidays.
When the meeting was first attended, the participants were not very excited, and the crowd sent representatives to negotiate with the factory owner politely, hoping to get a satisfactory result. However, the boss has been in the industry for many years, and his face has been extremely thick, and no matter how the representative persuades him, there is no intention of wanting to change.
As a last resort, the Fuliang County Committee of the Communist Party of China organized a large-scale strike with tens of thousands of people participating. Unable to find someone to work, the factory owner finally compromised, agreed to invite the workers to a good meal, and finally sent 1,000 yuan to everyone as compensation.
In this workers' strike activity, Huang Mars performed very well, actively calling on workers to struggle to the end, going door to door to do ideological work for workers, and showing a consciousness that was different from ordinary people. Therefore, the party organization began to give him additional cultivation.
His superiors decided to send him to the Geyuan Military and Political School in the Northeast Gansu Special Administrative Region to serve as the secretary of the regiment branch, and in 1931, Huang Mars joined the Communist Party of China under the introduction of Yu Jinde.
From then on his revolutionary path began
。
Pictured | Yu Jinde
After leaving the Military and Political University, Huang Mars was transferred to the Fourth Guerrilla Group in Yiyang, Jiangxi Province, to serve as a political commissar. Some time later, the Fourth Guerrilla Group merged with the guerrilla column of Guiyuwan to form the Gui (Xi) Yu (Jiang) Wan (Nian) Guerrilla Column Club, and Huang Mars served as the director of the club. In February, the club was reorganized into the 1st Regiment of the Red Guard Division, and Huang Mars was appointed secretary of the Youth League Committee and director of the club.
In May of the same year, the Red Guard Division lost the War of Resistance, the division commander died heroically in the war, and the 1st Regiment Commander disappeared, and since then, the burden of leading the 1st Regiment to fight has fallen on the shoulders of Huang Mars. Later, this regiment was changed to the Independent 10th Regiment of the Red Army, and Huang Mars served as political commissar.
Although the troops suffered heavy losses, the soldiers were still full of courage to fight under the encouragement of political commissar Huang Mars. Under the leadership of Huang Mars, the soldiers fought a deadly battle with the enemy at the Fenglian River, and with tenacious will, our army won the victory, and Huang Mars's unit became strong because of the capture of the weapons of the Kuomintang reactionaries.
With this victory, the warriors had more confidence in defeating the enemy, and under the call of Huang Mars, the Red Tenth Army participated in 3 anti-"encirclement and suppression" battles. In every battle, Huang Mars's unit always rushed to the forefront, and such a mighty momentum attracted the admiration of his superiors. In 1933, under the direction of the organization, the Red Tenth Army merged with the Thirty-first Division of the Red First Army to form the Red Eleventh Army.
The troops followed the leaders into the revolutionary base area, and Huang Mars's position was adjusted accordingly, and he was appointed political commissar of the Ninety-fifth Regiment of the Thirty-first Division of the Red Eleventh Army.
The name Huang Mars was changed after he joined the Communist Youth League, before that, he had been named after Huang Jufa gave him Huang Huosheng, and after the Decisive War of Resistance, he changed his name to Huang Mars, just like his name, Huang Mars always rushed into the enemy army like a huge Mars when he started the war, and used his bravery to defeat the enemy."
burn
"Exhausted.
Figure | Yellow Mars (right)
Like a machine, Yellow Mars seems to fight tirelessly.
Such a mighty general impressed everyone, and his comrades and subordinates once joked: "Where is This Mars?" Clearly a fierce man! "This saying spread among the troops, and Yellow Mars began to be called"
Commissar Official
”。
After the victory of the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, his superiors sent Huang Mars to Ruijin to study, and after a period of training, he was transferred to the headquarters of the Red Army to cooperate with the troops' surprise work.
In the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, Huang Mars also led the 7th Regiment to defeat the Kuomintang 2nd Division.
In February 1934, Huang Mars led a team to defeat the new Kuomintang 52nd Division, and in April of the same year, the Kuomintang reactionaries intended to capture Naturalization City, and Huang Mars led the Red 7 regiment to the rescue.
In the case of extremely unequal combat effectiveness, the Red 7th Regiment sent a telegram ordering naturalization city to withdraw as soon as possible, and then cooperate with the main army to intercept the enemy army. Unfortunately, Huang Mars received the wrong information, which seriously delayed the battle, and naturalization city fell into the hands of the enemy.
For a long time since then, the people of Naturalization City have lived under the oppression of reactionaries, which makes Huang Mars very remorseful.
What he didn't know at the moment was that this was just the beginning of the nightmare.
Because of the emergence of traitors in the ranks, the party organization in Shanghai suffered a huge impact. Not long after, the fifth failed campaign against "encirclement and suppression" came from the front. In order to preserve the revolutionary flame, the soldiers of the Red Army were divided into two groups under the last resort, one group stayed behind and one group embarked on the road of the Long March.
Figure | Soldier of the Red Army (oil painting)
Many people know that the Red Army of the Long March was very difficult, but they do not know that the Red Army contingent that remained behind was equally difficult.
Huang Mars was one of the soldiers who remained in the Red Army, and before leaving, the organization appointed him as the political commissar of the Hangdai Independent Battalion, staying in southwest Fujian, where he kept for three years.
After forcing away the large red army troops, the Kuomintang reactionaries began to deal with the Red Army troops left in the south.
Huang Mars understood that the warriors had been shrinking in the base area, and one day they would face the situation of no retreat, and they could only be wrapped in dumplings by the enemy, and if they wanted to win a real victory, they could only bravely face them. After completing the realization of life and death, Huang Mars led the warriors to Shanghang, preparing to fight with the enemy for life and death.
Attacks by the Kuomintang reactionaries also followed, and the enemy carried out two encirclements and suppressions in the western Fujian region alone.
In the first encirclement and suppression campaign, the independent battalion fought hard and finally repelled the enemy's clearance, but the second battle was not so easy, and the Red Army troops suffered a huge impact in the case of the enemy's outnumbered.
The defeat in the battle plunged the warriors into a deep decadence, and in order to change the status quo, the organization ordered that the troops be managed by Yellow Mars.
At this time, the Kuomintang army was still attacking our army's garrison, and while Huang Mars was managing the troops, he also led the Red Army fighters and revolutionary masses to carry out guerrilla warfare with the enemy.
The most important part of guerrilla warfare is to hide oneself, and in order to do so, the people enter the mountains and hide from the eyes and ears of the Kuomintang.
It is indeed safer than before, but the people in the mountains are also facing a cruel test.
Pictured| Red Army soldier
First of all, the conditions in the mountains are extremely harsh, and even if it is just a rain, there is a risk of landslides. In addition, it is inconvenient to travel in the mountains, and it is not easy for a large group of people to have a full stomach.
No one in the army knew what kind of food in the mountain could be fed, and in order to let everyone eat more food, Huang Mars led by example and took the lead in trying all the food in the mountain that could be swallowed. Just like Shennong tastes a hundred herbs, sometimes eating food that should not be eaten, Huang Mars can only endure with a strong perseverance, survive the poisonous period, and then try the next food.
The place where Yellow Mars and the warriors live is a cave, the bare stone slab cool air into the body, every winter, everyone can only curl up to warm each other, such a life of people for three years, Yellow Mars often jokes with his comrades-in-arms, saying that he is about to degenerate into primitive people.
With the help of the central authorities, the three-year guerrilla career finally came to an end, but the fighters still did not get a rest. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing,
At that moment of life and death, the warriors answered the call and rushed to the front line to fight!
Under the arrangement of the organization, the guerrilla group led by Huang Mars was reorganized into the third regiment of the second detachment of the New Fourth Army, with Huang Mars as the regimental commander.
Just after arriving at the front line, Huang Mars found an important problem - the weapons of the enemy and us were really too different. This problem caused our army to always suffer heavy losses, and seeing this scene, Huang Mars did not panic at all, he stood at the forefront of the team and ordered his subordinates: Grab the enemy's weapons back!
In July 1938, Huang Mars led fighters to destroy a Japanese military train and captured a large amount of military supplies, which increased the combat effectiveness of our army several times.
Pictured| Japanese devil
In August, a large number of Japanese troops launched an offensive against our army's garrison, Xiaodanyang, and Huang Mars was not in danger, commanding fighters to resist the enemy. Every critical moment, Huang Mars can always seize the opportunity to lead everyone to escape from the enemy's encirclement. Under his wise command, our army eliminated more than fifty Japanese troops without being damaged by one man, and finally won the victory.
The unwilling enemy attacked again, and in December of the same year, the Japanese Army Fengshan Shaozuo led more than 2,000 Japanese puppet troops to press the border again, launching an attack on the 351 heights in the northeast of Hengshan. The menacing enemy divided into four routes and marched from four directions toward our army's positions in an attempt to produce an encirclement and suppression effect and eliminate all our soldiers.
After Huang Mars learned the news, he was still able to calmly respond, and he ordered two companies to stay in the position, and the rest of the fighters all rushed to the 351 heights to block the enemy.
The 351 Highland is located on the border of Anhui and the Soviet Union, and is a fortress of the Hengshan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Base, which has a very strong strategic significance for our army.
This battle can only be won, not defeated!
In the initial stage, the Japanese puppet armies around Hengshan, Taowu, and Xiaodanyang united to launch an offensive against the location of the first battalion of the second detachment, and our army quickly launched a counterattack, and the two sides fought fiercely for more than five hours, and finally the enemy retreated.
However, this was not the entire offensive of the Japanese army, and a few days later, the enemy attacked again, and the troops divided into four ways to try to encircle and annihilate the New Fourth Army at Yokoyama.
Our army reacted immediately, the special agent company of the third regiment of the second detachment covered the withdrawal of the direct subordinate team, and Huang Mars commanded the fighters to set up an ambush in the area of Bowang and raid the enemy in the direction of Honglanbu, and three hours later, the enemy suffered heavy damage.
The main force of the Third Regiment occupied the Hengshan Heights, and when the enemy soldiers besieged the mountain in three ways, they were confronted by our army, and the Third Company and the Ninth Company rushed to support and attacked the enemy from the flank.
Occupying the high ground advantage, when the enemy wants to go to the mountain, Yellow Mars will always use trees, rocks and other disguises to fight with the enemy in a roundabout way, and consume the enemy's combat strength little by little.
When the enemy wanted to launch another attack, Huang Mars, who felt that he had reached a good opportunity, changed his tactics, so when the Japanese puppet army went up the mountain again, it was surrounded and suppressed by a large number of troops of our army, and the army suffered heavy casualties and could only flee into the wilderness.
Since then, the defensive battle of Yokoyama has ended with the victory of our army.
Just when Huang Mars and the soldiers of the New Fourth Army were immersed in the tense resistance war, the crowd was once again "backstabbed" by Chiang Kai-shek. In 1941, the Anhui Incident broke out, and Chiang Kai-shek commanded a large number of Kuomintang troops to surround the New Fourth Army and launched an offensive.
Yellow Mars was also surrounded by enemies, and at that critical juncture, there was only one thing on his mind-
Escape
Under his leadership, his men began to struggle to break through, and after paying a huge price, the people managed to escape. This move also left the Communists with hope of victory.
Some days later, the soldiers who successfully broke through were reorganized, and they formed the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army, and Huang Mars served as the political commissar of the 55th Regiment of the Nineteenth Brigade of the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army, and continued to fight on the front line.
His efforts paid off, and in 1955, when the central government decided to award him the rank of general, he was included in the list of lieutenant generals.
After learning about this incident, Huang Mars was so excited that he almost couldn't sleep, and that rank was not only a symbol of honor, but also a reward and high hope for him by the party organization.
On the day of the award, Huang Mars, dressed in a neat military uniform, stood up straight next to a group of comrades-in-arms, waiting for his superiors to award him the title. Strangely enough, until the crowd receded, he didn't seem to hear his name, which clearly stated that he had his name on the list of lieutenant generals! Why didn't he just shout at him? Yellow Mars was puzzled.
Just then, a kind voice came from the side: "Comrade, why haven't you left the scene yet?" ”
Huang Mars turned his head to look at it, and it turned out that Premier Zhou had found the abnormality and came to talk.
Huang Mars was well aware of Premier Zhou's ability to handle things, and when he saw him come forward, it was like finding the main bone, and he hurriedly said:
"I haven't read my name yet!"
Figure | Yellow Mars (second from right)
The prime minister was very attentive when he heard about it, and immediately arranged for someone to go to investigate, and after a while, everyone found that this was just a oolong - there were too many generals who needed to be awarded titles that day, and in order to save time, more than a dozen generals were generally allowed to participate in the awarding of titles. It may be that there are too many readings, and the staff mistakenly pronounced Huang Mars as Yellow Fire Blue, which led to Huang Mars saying that he did not hear his name.
After learning about this incident, Premier Zhou quickly arranged a separate award for him, the ceremonial music sounded again, Huang Mars was dressed in a military uniform, and his face was solemn and walked from the stage to the front of the stage, Premier Zhou gave him a title alone, and soon Chairman Mao also came forward alone to award him a medal of honor.
Since then, the 1955 award ceremony has been successfully concluded, and every general has received his or her due merit!
Now that the mountains and rivers are unharmed, the country is safe and the people are sincerely grateful for the great contributions made by these great people in the development of the country.