In 1955, the People's Liberation Army officially implemented the rank system, the Central Military Commission to all the officers and men of the People's Liberation Army made a great award, this award not only means that the People's Liberation Army gradually moved towards regularization and modernization, but also the recognition of many founding fathers, and affirmed their contributions over the years.
Among the founding generals awarded in 1955, the most eye-catching are the ten marshals and ten generals, who are the leaders and founders of the major field armies of the People's Liberation Army in different historical periods, who have made significant contributions to the establishment of this army and made outstanding achievements in the cause of the country's liberation.
However, in the process of building the People's Liberation Army, there are also many genius-like generals like meteors across the sky, fleeting, did not live to the founding general in 1955 to award the medal, Lu Dongsheng is a very typical representative.
1. Chen Geng's best friend
When it comes to Lu Dongsheng, many people will be very unfamiliar, but most people know General Chen Geng. The relationship between General Chen Geng and Lu Dongsheng is like the relationship between Yang Liqing and Wei Dabao in "The Right Way in the World is Vicissitudes", in 1908, Lu Dongsheng was born in Xiangtan, Hunan Province, to a poor sharecropper family, and the family life was very poor.
When Lu Dongsheng was very young, he herded cattle for a local landlord, and after the owner of the cow was the general of the Xiang Army, the owner of the cow had a little young master who was five years older than Lu Dongsheng, and this little young master was the figure who later influenced the fate of Lu Dongsheng's life- Chen Geng. Although Chen Geng was born in the family, his family was also very wealthy, but since he was a child, he liked to act heroically and righteously, and he loved to fight unevenly, and he did not regard Lu Dongsheng as his servant, but regarded Lu Dongsheng as his younger brother. Lu Dongsheng has had a very good relationship with chen geng since he was a child.
In 1916, despite his family's opposition, Chen Geng threw himself into the Xiang Army, and also participated in the crusade against Wu Peifu and the Movement to Protect the Law. In the second year after Chen Geng ran away from home, Lu Dongsheng, who was not yet ten years old, left the Chen family to work in a factory in Xiangtan, where he lived a life of eight years of inferior cattle and horses.
During the period of working outside, Lu Dongsheng understood a truth, that is, in the chaotic world at that time, it was necessary to make a revolution and overthrow this old world like the eldest brother Chen Geng, so that the poor could have a new life. In 1925, after hesitating for a long time, Lu Dongsheng finally made up his mind and went to join the army, serving as a soldier in Tang Shengzhi's Fourth Army of the Xiang Army. In 1926, Tang Shengzhi's troops were reorganized into the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and together with the National Revolutionary Army in the south, they carried out the Northern Expedition.
When Lu Dongsheng went to Wuhan with the troops, he met Chen Geng, who was the commander of the special service battalion, and Chen Geng was very happy to see Lu Dongsheng, and immediately pulled his little brother into his unit, and the two became comrades born and died in the same trench.
Under the influence of Chen Geng, Lu Dongsheng began to gradually study Marxist thought. In July 1927, after Wang Jingwei rebelled against the revolution, Chen Geng was forced to hand over the secret service battalion, and Lu Dongsheng followed Chen Geng to Nanchang. On August 1, 1927, Lu Dongsheng and Chen Geng participated in the Nanchang Uprising, responsible for the protection of the General Headquarters of the Nanchang Uprising, ensuring the smooth progress of the uprising and the establishment of a new order.
After the Nanchang Uprising, Chen Geng was appointed commander of the 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment, 3rd Division, 20th Army of He Longbu, and Lu Dongsheng served as Chen Geng's aide-de-camp. When the rebel army was moving south to Guangdong, it encountered the Kuomintang army many times, Chen Geng was shot in the left leg, Lu Dongsheng desperately covered Chen Geng to break through the siege, and after losing contact with the large troops, Lu Dongsheng took care of Chen Geng who was wounded in the leg to shantou, and then from Shantou to Hong Kong, and then from Hong Kong to Shanghai, and found the CPC Central Committee organ. On December 7, 1927, after Chen Geng's introduction, Lu Dongsheng joined the Communist Party of China and followed Chen Geng to work in Shanghai Teco.
2. Famous generals of the Red Army
At the beginning of 1928, the superiors considered that Lu Dongsheng was brave and brave, and he was familiar with the situation in Hubei, Hunan, so he sent him to escort Zhou Yiqun and He Long to lead the armed struggle in northwest Hunan Province. After that, Lu Dongsheng left his friend Chen Geng and began to act alone, gradually becoming a first-class fierce general under He Long.
After Lu Dongsheng escorted He Long, Zhou Yiqun arrived in northwest Hunan Province, He Long, Zhou Yiqun quickly established the CPC Northwest Hunan Special Committee. This area is He Long's hometown, he knows the geography and people here very well, and it was here that He Long started his career when he started a revolution with two kitchen knives. In just over a month, He Long relied on his prestige
More than 10 branches of the indigenous armed forces of the relatives and the old tribe were gathered, a total of more than 3,000 people, and an army was formed, with He Long as the commander.
On February 29, 1928, He Long led the armed uprising of Sang Zhi, and Lu Dongsheng also participated. However, the uprising ended in failure, and the troops were scattered, leaving three or four hundred men, but by June of the same year, the army had expanded to 1500 men. In 1929, Lu Dongsheng served as a pistol company commander at the headquarters of the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
From 1930 onwards, Lu Dongsheng served as a battalion commander in the Red 2nd Army, the commander of the 20th Regiment of the 7th Division of the Red 3rd Army, the political commissar and division commander of the Xiang'e West Independent Division, and led his troops to participate in the struggle to create and defend the Xiang'e Western Soviet District. In the autumn of 1932, under the condition of the fourth encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang army and the shift of the main force of the Red Army, Lu Dongsheng still led a small number of troops to fight guerrillas in the Jingmen area of Hubei Province. In the spring of 1933, after the meeting with the main force, he was appointed as the commander of the Red 3rd Army Instruction Regiment, and soon became the commander of the 7th Division. In October 1934, he was appointed commander of the 4th Division of the Red 2nd Army, and later led his troops to participate in the opening up of Qiandong, Xiang'echuan and Qiansu Districts and the Long March.
In 1934, Lu Dongsheng served as the commander of the Fourth Division of the Red Second Front, and on the Long March Road, the troops led by Lu Dongsheng were the absolute main force of the Red Second Front, leading the troops to attack and defend well, and repeatedly built up their feats, which was deeply valued by He Long, the commander-in-chief of the Red Second Front. In the special period, Lu Dongsheng has also always supported He Long.
In 1937, the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, the main force of the Red Second Front was reorganized into the 120th Division, lu Dongsheng was appointed as the brigade commander of the 358th brigade of the 120th division, but for various reasons, Lu Dongsheng did not arrive, Zhang Zongxun took over his post, and Lu Dongsheng went to kang da to study. In 1939, Lu Dongsheng went to the Frunze Military Academy in the Soviet Union to study, and in 1942, Lu Dongsheng went to the Northeast Anti-Japanese Democratic United Army in the Soviet Far East to work in the teaching brigade.
3. Unfortunately killed
In 1945, when the Soviet Red Army attacked the Kwantung Army, Lu Dongsheng and the 88th International Brigade fought in the northeast together, and after returning to China, he served as the commander of the Harbin Garrison District and the commander of the Songjiang Military Region. At the end of 1945, Japan surrendered, and the area was still under Soviet military control, but the Soviet military discipline was not strict, and there were often scattered soldiers who came out to rob.
On the evening of November 16, 1945, Chen Yun, Liu Da, and other principal leaders of the Northeast Bureau arrived in Harbin from Changchun, and soon after arriving in Harbin, they held a meeting with Lu Dongsheng and other major leaders and established the North Manchuria Branch of the Northeast Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, with Chen Yun as secretary.
At the end of the meeting, someone remembered that Chen Yun's luggage was still there
In the former organ of the Cpc's Binjiang Working Committee, I wanted to find someone to take it. Liu Da was Chen Yun's secretary and was originally asked for him to get it, but Lu Dongsheng felt that there was chaos outside, and he knew Russian, so it was convenient for him to personally pick it up, and then Lu Dongsheng and one of Chen Yun's guards went out.
On the way back from collecting luggage, Lu Dongsheng and the guards encountered two Soviet troops who were robbing, and Lu Dongsheng immediately stepped forward to stop them, and then asked them for their names and names in fluent Russian. The two Soviet soldiers were afraid that the matter would be punished, so they snatched Chen Yun and the guards' luggage and pistols, escorted him and the guards to a secluded place, and the bullet hit Lu Dongsheng's temple, Lu Dongsheng died on the spot, and Lu Dongsheng's guards rolled down the slope to survive.
After this incident, Chen Yun was very sad, Liu Da was also very remorseful, Lu Dongsheng's coffin was first parked in the Bliss Temple, and later buried in the forest farm of the Agricultural College, and the tombstone was engraved with 7 big characters: "Tomb of Lu Dongsheng Martyr". When He Long heard the news of his death, he was deeply hurt and commented on Lu Dongsheng:
As a comrade of a worker background, he relied on his enthusiasm for the revolution, and in the course of continuous study and battle, he tempered himself into a strong commander of the people's army.
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In 1955, when the founding general was awarded the order, Xu Guangda, as the representative of the Red Second Front, was awarded the rank of general, but if Lu Dongsheng lived, with his seniority, this great general rank was probably his, but unfortunately fate made people, such a famous general died tragically at the hands of two Soviet soldiers.