In June 1971, there was a man standing at the gate of the Jinan Military Region."
beggar
He looked at the sentry and wanted to say something, but he hesitated a little, did not say anything, and had to walk around at the gate of the military district, and finally he seemed to have made up his mind to say to the sentry standing guard at the door: "
I came to look for yang Dezhi, commander of your military region, something, can you help to report it?
The sentry looked at the ragged old man and said without hesitation:
Commander Yang Dezhi is not here now
。 ”
The old man asked, "
So when will you Commander Yang come back?
The sentry shook his head and said, "
Military secrets, no comment.
The old man did not get the answer he wanted, so he crouched at the gate of the military region and kept looking at the vehicles entering and leaving the military region.
You are not allowed to look at it this way, the people sitting in the car are all chiefs, what are you going to do?
”
The old Khan saw the sentry's embarrassment, so he had to ask the soldier for paper and pen, and in a few moments he wrote a letter, and the old man handed the letter to the sentry and said:
You handed this letter to you Commander Yang, who will know my identity when he sees it.
Then the old man said very firmly:
He will definitely come to see me!
The next day, the Jinan Military Region
Yang Dezhi
When the commander returned to the military district, the secretary was reporting to him yesterday's report, and when he learned that someone had written to him, he immediately asked someone to fetch it. However, when he read the letter, his expression suddenly changed, his majestic face was covered with tears, and the secretary next to him was not lightly frightened by his reaction, because he had never seen the commander so out of shape.
Then the commander, with a weeping voice, spoke:
Just go! You go and get people back!" immediately!
After listening to the commander's instructions, the secretary immediately drove to the old man's residence, accompanied by Commander Yang Dezhi. After seeing the old man, Commander Yang said in a trembling voice:
After many years of separation, now you have also changed a lot, what have you experienced over the years?
Then, the question is, what kind of identity is this old man, which can make Commander Yang Dezhi pay so much attention?
He was wrongly remembered and suffered for decades
The old man's name was
Li Xiang
Formerly
Hou Lixiang
Born in 1912 in a small village in Jiangling County, Hunan Province, their living conditions were not optimistic, and most of the time they could not fill their stomachs. Although life at home is difficult, his parents hope that he will one day be able to get ahead, or under pressure to send Li Xiang to private school.
However, Li Xiang only attended private school for four years, and then had to drop out of school to make a living, in order to alleviate the pressure at home. At that time, I studied in a private school for four years, and I could be regarded as a cultural person. But unfortunately, when Li Xiang was twelve or thirteen years old, both of his parents died, and he was the only one in the original warm home.
In 1927, Li Xiang took the savings left by his parents and went to Jingzhou alone to make a living, when he was still young, he only wanted to make money to fill his stomach, and his future plan was to find a good job. However, because Li Xiang's body was weak and thin, no one in Jingzhou was willing to hire him.
In this way, Li Xiang looked at the bustling scene on the street, but his heart was very uncomfortable, he thought:
Doesn't Jingzhou have a place for me?
Just then he met a beggar, and the beggar saw Li Xiang and asked:
What is your name?
Li Xiang saw that the beggar did not look like a bad person, nor did he have any malicious appearance, so he said honestly:
My name is Li Xiang (Hou Li Xiang), so what is your name?
The beggar nodded satisfactorily and said, "
Li Xiang (the beggar mistakenly thought he was surnamed Li), this name is really good, my name is Liangzi, I am older than you, you can call me Brother Liang.
"This man named Liang Zi is not really a beggar, he is an underground party, and a beggar is just one of his identities. What Li Xiang didn't know now was that because this time his name was wrong, he suffered many tribulations later, of course, these were all afterwords.
Through some communication between the two, Liang Zi knew that Li Xiang was busy looking for a job these days, and it was too late to eat, of course, the most important thing was that there was no money to eat. Therefore, Liang Zi gave Li Xiang a few copper plates and asked him to buy something to eat and fill his stomach. Although Li Xiang did not want to take the beggar's money, but now that his stomach was already hungry, he had no choice but to take these few copper coins and fill his stomach first.
Subsequently, Li Xiang, who had already eaten, found Liangzi and told him that he was very grateful to Liangzi, at which point Liangzi suddenly asked Li Xiang a question, he said:
Would you like to go with me to Wuhan to find a job?
In this regard, Li Xiang immediately agreed, he wanted to change places and maybe he could find a suitable job.
Therefore, that night, Liang Zi and Li Xiang set off from the Shashi Yang boat wharf to Wuhan, and after arriving in Wuhan, Liang Zi introduced Li Xiang to a guest house to work, and the work of the guest house was relaxed and managed, and Li Xiang immediately agreed. However, Li Xiang has not seen Liang Zi since then.
It is worth mentioning that this guest house was opened by the underground party comrades of our party, so Li Xiang slowly came into contact with revolutionary ideas here, so he was responsible for entertaining guests during the day, and at night he raced against the clock to study culture, and in a short period of time, there was great progress.
In May 1928, Li Xiang finally "left the school", he was organized and arranged to participate in the work of the local revolution in Jiangxi, and from that moment on Li Xiang began to truly participate in the revolutionary work. At the time of registration, because he was accustomed to using the name "Li Xiang", he did not use his original name.
The following year, when the Red Army was expanding, Li Xiang joined the 5th Company of the Second Battalion of the 14th Regiment of the 5th Division of the 3rd Red Army through the recommendation of local cadres, and became an ordinary Red Army soldier. In March of the same year, Li Xiang was in the company commander
Peng Shaohui
After his introduction, he officially joined the Communist Party of China and became a true member of the Communist Party.
Later, the war broke out in full swing, and the Red Army continued to transfer its living forces in order to preserve its living forces, and during a rare break, the Soldiers of the Red Army gathered by the river to wash their clothes, including Li Xiang. At that time, they had already roasted the sweet potato, and everyone was looking at me at you, and I looked at you, and there was a desire to eat in their eyes.
Before they could decide who to eat, they received a notice from the March Registry:
Please register each company one by one!
Li Xiang also walked over, but unexpectedly, the registrar knew Li Xiang, and when he saw Li Xiang come over, he waved his hand and said:
Li Xiang, you go to your busy bar, I helped you fill in ha!
When Li Xiang heard him say this, he left with confidence.
However, what he did not know was that heaven had made a joke for him again, and this registrar, like the soldiers, liked to call him Li Xiang affectionately, so the registrar always thought that his name was Li Xiang, and he did not know that "Hou Lixiang" was his real name. In this way, Li Xiang once again "rubbed shoulders" with his real name, which led to his use of the name "Li Xiang" for more than ten years.
I believe everyone is also very curious, why li xiang has not changed his name back for more than ten years? There are three reasons for this:
First, many people in Hou Lixiang's family were of the same surname, so most of them only called people by name when they called people, and they would not call them by name and surname, and he did not react for a while.
Second, the name "Li Xiang" he felt more cordial, plus everyone shouted so, he did not want to change. Moreover, he has always thought that everyone is called "Li Xiang" instead of "Li Xiang".
Third, when he finds out that his name is wrong and is bent on correcting it, the warriors will put him together with the monkey, indicating that he is like a monkey with a frizzy personality and is not reliable. Fortunately, Li Xiang could only give up changing his name and use the name "Li Xiang".
1934 was the most crucial year for the Red Army, when the Central Red Army fought the fifth anti-"
Encirclement
"The battle was lost, so the Red Army was forced to start the Long March. Li Xiang's Red First Army was reorganized, and Li Xiang was transferred to the Red First Division, One Regiment, One Battalion, and One Company of the Red First Army because of his outstanding ability, and the commander of the Red First Army at that time was exactly what was mentioned above
。
Later, because Li Xiang's performance in the battle was appreciated by Yang Dezhi, he was quickly reused by Yang Dezhi and was soon promoted to battalion commander. The relationship between the two of them also became better and better, and during the Long March, Li Xiang followed Yang Dezhi's side to open the way for the Red Army, and he also participated in the famous "forced crossing of the Dadu River" combat mission.
In addition to that, he participated
Fly to capture Luding Bridge, attack Loushan Pass, Lazikou
and other important battles. As a member of the vanguard, Li Xianghe
Zhou Enlai
Not only did they have a very good relationship, they are the kind that can joke, let's take a look at how they met.
One day, Zhou Enlai went to the Red First Army to inspect the work without prior notice, and just happened to meet Li Xiang, who immediately saluted him, Zhou Enlai nodded, and then asked about Li Xiang's name and the current position. Li Xiangdu told Zhou Enlai truthfully that he soon remembered this soldier who took his work seriously, and also remembered the name "Li Xiang".
Later, Li Xiang was attacking
Xiaohe Town, Sichuan
At that time, the bullet pierced his neck, fortunately the bullet avoided his vital point, and if it was a little more deflected, it would probably be sacrificed. Although he was badly injured, he survived. During this period, Zhou Enlai also paid special attention to Li Xiang and carefully inquired about his condition.
The experience of life hanging on the line like this is more than this time, and the other time is in the attack
Ganquan Village, Shaanxi
At that time, Li Xiang's right thigh bone was almost shattered by the enemy's bullets. It was not until the Red Army successfully met the division that Li Xiang was transferred to the hospital behind the Wayao Fort for treatment.
After Li Xiang recovered, he was promoted to commander of the 13th Regiment of the Red 1st Division of the Red 1st Army. At this time, Yang Dezhi was no longer his immediate superior, and Yang Dezhi was transferred to the Second Red Division as a division commander.
In June 1935, he was appointed former enemy commander and head of the Propaganda Department of the First Regiment
Deng Xiaoping
He came to the Red Regiment's residence to write propaganda slogans, and at that time, It was lime pulp and buckets that were helped by Li Xiang. During this period, the two chatted with each other, and when Deng Xiaoping learned that Li Xiang could write, he asked Li Xiang to help write slogans.
After Li Xiang finished writing, Deng Xiaoping praised:
Your handwriting is still quite good!
To Deng Xiaoping's praise, Li Xiang responded:
What's the use of writing well? I am the 'King of White Characters' and can only write white characters
。 After Li Xiang finished speaking, Deng Xiaoping carefully read the slogan he wrote from beginning to end.
Finding that there was no "white character", he said to Li Xiang:
You wrote very well, I read it correctly, what you wrote is not 'white word', it is correct!
Li Xiang said with a smile:
How is it not a 'white word'? Minister Deng, the words written in lime paste are all 'white characters', and what you write is also 'white characters'.
At this point, Deng Xiaoping was amused by Li Xiang and said:
You are a person who really tells jokes, what is your name?
Because he was used to using the name "Li Xiang", his answer was still the word "Li Xiang". And Li Xiang successfully made Deng Xiaoping remember him because of this joke with Deng Xiaoping.
In 1937, Li Xiang came to the "
Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University
"Studying, where he is the easiest and happiest day. There, he was not only exposed to many new cultural knowledge, but also met many new comrades-in-arms, and the most impressive was the one with a pair of thick and black eyebrows
Xu Shiyou
Once, during a meal, Li Xiang did not give Xu Shiyou a rice spoon after eating, and Xu Shiyou stared at Li Xiang when he saw it, as if asking why he did not give him a rice spoon. Li Xiang also stared at Xu Shiyou, but just did not give him a spoon, Xu Shiyou threw Li Xiang's hat aside on a whim, and when Li Xiang went to pick up the hat, Xu Shiyou and his comrades-in-arms laughed very cheerfully.
Therefore, the next day, Xu Shiyou learned li xiang's appearance, and did not give him a rice spoon after eating, wanting to see what Li Xiang would do. As a result, Li Xiang also learned from Xu Shiyou's previous practice, throwing Xu Shiyou's hat aside, Xu Shiyou was not angry, but took the opportunity to give the rice spoon to the warriors around him, which was Li Xiang's turn to be surprised. During the period of study at Kang Da, as long as the two were together, many interesting things would happen, and the warriors around them would also be happy.
In 1938, Li Xiang was appointed after the completion of his study of Kang Dafang
Deputy Head of the Central Guard Corps
He was mainly responsible for the task of protecting the head of the Central Committee, so that Chairman Mao could be seen all day during his work. Mao Zedong also liked to talk to them in his leisure time, and Li Xiang was very active in it, often making the crowd laugh.
However, after a while, Li Xiang's body was somewhat unable to cope with it, so his body was left with various dark wounds during the perennial war, so his body could no longer withstand high-intensity battles, and he was forced to apply to the organization to be transferred to the rear.
In 1939, the organization agreed to Li Xiang's request, and later Li Xiang went to the Wuhan Eighth Route Army Office, where he was then the head of the office
Ye Jianying
He received him personally, and then introduced him to the underground party organization in Hubei Province, and some days later Li Xiang was transferred to his hometown.
Because Li Xiang's family already had no parents, he had to find a place to stay, so he came to his cousin's house. Under the introduction of his cousin, Li Xiang married a peasant girl, Li Xiang still lived in his uncle's house after marriage, he felt that this was very troublesome for his cousin, so he decided to find something to do, earn some money and try to move out early.
Identity certificate is stolen, life into a "desperate situation"
At that time, many people in the village liked to play cards, so Li Xiang rented a house from his uncle's family and opened a card room. The business of the card room has gotten better and better with time, which naturally arouses the bad thoughts of unscrupulous people. The two thieves saw that Li Xiang's family's business was so good, and they wanted to catch some "good things".
Li Xiang wrapped his military officer's card, the disabled soldier's card, the documents traveling between the red and white districts, and even many things that could prove his identity, all wrapped in straw paper and put them into a small suitcase, and specially hid this small suitcase under his bed.
However, these two thieves are habitual criminals, and they know where the owner's family likes to hide valuables.
Soon, the thieves found the suitcase hidden under the bed by Li Xiang, and the thief thought that the suitcase contained some treasure, so he immediately stole Li Xiang's suitcase. After finding that there was no money they wanted, they abandoned the box, and on the other side, Li Xiang found that the box was missing like a deflated balloon, looking loveless.
In this way, after staying at home for three days, Li Xiang closed the card room, and he began to regret opening this card room in order to support his family, doing something good, why open the card room? Now, all the things that can prove his identity have been lost, and his hope of returning to the team has been ruined.
At the beginning, he was ready to recuperate at home for two or three years, and when his health was better, he would return to the army, but overnight, the documents and honors he had exchanged for more than ten years were gone. Now, even if he wants to return to the team, he has no chance, because he does not have any documents to prove his identity.
Wave after wave of unevenness arose again, and his superior gave him an order:
Hurried to the Honghu area of Zhuhe Town, Jianli County, and in the capacity of 'Hou Wenbin,' the kuomintang's pseudo-joint security director, he infiltrated the enemy's interior to carry out work.
When the superior saw that he had a melancholy look, he asked Li Xiang what was going on, and after learning that Li Xiang's documents had been stolen, he comforted:
There will be a way without documents, and the organization will definitely prove your identity for you, you don't have to worry about this.
With the comfort of his superiors, Li Xiang's heart felt much better, and he also believed that the organization would help him prove his identity. Therefore, he went to carry out the mission under the pseudonym "Hou Wenbin", and in April 1940, not long after "Hou Wenbin" took office, the Kuomintang 128th Division conquered jianli county and Zhuhe town, and the underground organization in the area was also dismantled by the kuomintang.
Li Xiang and all the surviving underground workers quickly went into hiding according to the orders of the Jiangling Party Committee, because everyone was scattered and hidden at that time, and Li Xiang was the same. In this way, Li Xiang completely lost contact with the local organization, not to mention his identity as a Communist Party member, at that time, the central county party committee of Gangneung
Wei Xi
Before he could prove it to him, he lost contact.
In July 1942, our army
Zhang Xiulong, commander of the 15th Regiment of the Third Military Subdistrict of the Eyu Border Region
After Li Xiang, who was hidden in Qianjiang, learned the news, he visited Zhang Xiulong and informed him of his identity and planned to return to the team.
However, what he did not expect was that just as he was preparing to join Zhang Xiulong, the enemy just attacked the direction of Xiongkou and interrupted the conversation, and Zhang Xiuquan immediately moved with the army, so Li Xiang lost his organization."
Joseph
"Opportunity. Later, Li Xiang tried many times to find the organization to return to the troops, but he knew his identity at that time
Wei Xi, secretary of the Central County Party Committee of Jiangling, and General Ye Jianying, the correspondent who had come to him at the beginning, and others
, have left Gangneung.
That is to say, in the local area, no one can provide him with identity proof to prove that he is Li Xiang, and Li Xiang, who has been running for a long time, has not been able to restore the identity of "Li Xiang" in the end. In the end, Li Xiang could only return to his hometown, where he had no direct eaves, no own fields, and could only rent other people's houses.
Li Xiang had already confessed his fate, he had not gone to the organization again, and he did not want to think about the identity of "Li Xiang" anymore, so he wanted to live the second half of his life in such a plain way. However, after the founding of New China, the whole country was carrying out land reform, because his identity as "Li Xiang" had not been confirmed, so he could only go home to participate in labor.
This may be a happy thing for others, but Li Xiang panicked like a great enemy, because although he was born in the countryside, he could not cultivate the land, and even the most basic agricultural work could not be done well, and finally Li Xiang could only feed the public cattle. At that time, he would often tell the peasants about what had happened during his Long March, but it would only attract their ridicule, and he was completely chilled.
Until, on October 1, 1961, Li Xiang saw his two former superiors in the newspaper, and Li Xiang felt that he could gamble and that the chiefs would definitely help him restore his identity, so Li Xiang immediately wrote a letter to the General Office of the Central Military Commission, the general content of which was to hope to get in touch with the two generals.
After sending the letter, Li Xiang was a little uneasy, he knew that only the expression of words was pale and weak, not to mention that the hope of getting in touch with the chiefs was still very slim. After waiting for several months, both generals sent a letter back to Li Xiang, and sure enough, the chiefs hoped to further confirm Li Xiang's identity.
Prove your identity! Prove your identity! It's proof of identity again! Li Xiang has now been "
identity
Both words made my head bigger. However, now it is impossible to see the chief without identity proof, and when will the identity of the chief himself be confirmed without seeing the chief? Therefore, li xiang, who was impatient, immediately went to the relevant authorities to prove his identity, but was mistaken for a letter that wanted to forge.
This also led to the fact that every letter that Li Xiang wrote later was intercepted, and since then the letter he wrote to the chiefs has never been sent again, and the two generals are still a little impressed with Li Xiang, and after not receiving a reply, they wrote a letter to Li Xiang again, but unfortunately, the letter has long disappeared because of the layers of transmission, and Li Xiang has not been able to receive the letter from the chiefs.
At this point, Li Xiang's heart is really like ashes, every day he regrets that he opened that card room, if he didn't open that card room, his own proof would not be stolen, and he didn't have to be like this all day for himself."
"Rush. Whenever he tried to end his life, he was stopped by his wife, who encouraged him to one day regain his identity.
In July 1972, when Li Xiang was undergoing labor reform in the forest farm of the commune, he accidentally saw the newspaper that Yang Dezhi would be appointed by the Central Military Commission
Commander of Jinan Military Region
Li Xiang was very happy about the news, and since he already knew where the chief was, it was easy to handle it. He made a bold decision to go to the Jinan Military Region to find the old chief.
After a seven-day trek he finally reached Jinan, but the image had become and during the journey"
"It's no different. Therefore, there will be a scene where a beggar does not walk at the gate of the Jinan Military Region at the beginning. As soon as Li Xiang arrived at the Jinan Military Region, he encountered yang Dezhi's absence, so he had the idea of writing a letter, and when the chief returned and saw the letter, he immediately invited Li Xiang to his home.
Yang Dezhi did not need any proof at all, at a glance he confirmed Li Xiang's identity, he hugged Li Xiang, and in the process of chatting, both of them had red eyes. Later, Li Xiang explained his name to Yang Dezhi, and Yang Dezhi gave Li Xiang 200 yuan and a letter of introduction to let him find it
Zeng Siyu, commander of the Wuhan Military Region
Prove identity.
However, God just likes to joke with Li Xiang, and after Li Xiang arrived at the Wuhan Military Region, Zeng Siyu just happened to go on a business trip. Because, worried about the family, Li Xiang had to go home first, but he was misunderstood by the director of the Revolutionary Committee and confiscated all his belongings. It was not until a few months later, when Yang Dezhi came to Jiangling County to look for Li Xiang, that the director of the Revolutionary Committee realized that he had misunderstood Li Xiang, so he returned all the belongings to him.
In the end, with the proof of Yang Dezhi, Yang Yong, and Wei Xi, who was once the party secretary of Jiangling County, Li Xiang finally regained his identity and also restored his treatment as a Red Army. The only regret is that he left the army for too long and finally failed to restore his party membership!