Since the ancient loyalty and filial piety are difficult, the moment the warrior decides to step onto the battlefield, he must be mentally prepared to never see his flesh and blood relatives again in his life.
Liu Zhong, the founding lieutenant general, was no exception, and he never returned home in the more than 20 years he had been in the army.
In the era of inconvenient communication, he could not get any news from his family. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he once entrusted people to find more than 20 unheard mothers, hoping to bring his mother to his side, so as to fulfill the filial piety that he owed. However, the man failed to bring the news of his mother as he wished, saying that he did not know the whereabouts of his mother...
The years are merciless, and strangers are strangers.
Liu Zhong did not dare to imagine what happened to his mother, and he did not even dare to determine whether his mother was still alive.
Impatient, he asked the organization for leave as quickly as possible, and even before he could pack his bags and carry some money and necessities, he embarked on the road back to his hometown to find his mother, and rushed back day and night.
Back at home, looking at the familiar and dilapidated house, Liu Zhong's heart was sour. The search shouted around, and sure enough, there was no trace of the mother. Liu Zhong decided to ask the villagers in the street to see if anyone knew the whereabouts of his mother, and he thought in his heart and walked towards the street.
Halfway down the road, Liu Zhong inadvertently caught a glimpse of a ragged, disheveled old woman begging along the street, and the old woman's figure was very similar to her mother's!
Liu Zhong didn't have time to think about it too much, striding close to the old woman, only looking at it, the tears couldn't stop coming out of his eyes.
This begging old woman is Liu Zhong's old mother, whom she has not seen for more than 20 years!
Liu Zhong pounced, fell to his knees in front of the old woman, and cried out in pain
"Mother, I'm back, and filial piety is back!" ”
His mother also recognized him and stepped forward to hug Liu Zhong, who was kneeling on the ground. Mother and son hugged each other and cried bitterly, and the villagers who were watching could not stop wiping their tears.
In the era of war, too many people have been displaced, separated from their families by yin and yang, how can the mother and son who can see each other again after more than 20 years not cry with headaches?
Born in a chaotic world, he joined the army to serve the country
It is said that heroes do not ask about provenance, but sometimes we will find that heroes will also "pile up" out. In fact, it is logical,
If you want to open up and guard a revolutionary base area, you must have countless revolutionaries of the older generation sweating, shedding blood, and shedding tears in this land.
It is not so much that this revolutionary base area has cultivated their group of heroic figures, but that they have deeply rooted the ideas of revolution in this land.
Liu Zhong was born in a place where heroes "gathered" - Caixi.
Shanghang Caixi is the hometown of China's famous generals and the hometown of heroes, and the "Eighteenth Division of the Ninth Army" praised by posterity is here, which is the place where the revolutionary conviction is deeply rooted and where General Liu Zhong's revolutionary thought sprouted.
Liu Zhong's nickname is "Taiping", and his name is full of the simplest expectations of his family, hoping that he can be safe and healthy in the chaotic world, without disaster or difficulty. Perhaps it is precisely because of this selfless love that Liu Zhong was able to rub shoulders with the god of death several times in the rain of bullets and bullets, and finally returned home.
But the hero is always fighting against the tribulations, and like many famous generals, Liu Zhong was born into poverty and tasted the bitterness of life early. When he was very young, his grandfather and grandmother died, and later, his father became seriously ill and bedridden.
In order to make a living, Liu Zhong learned to work with a mason master when he was twelve.
"Teach the apprentices, starve the master", the apprentices are generally not good, at the beginning, the master did not teach the workmanship skills, every day just let Liu Zhong do some chores. But Liu Zhong was down-to-earth, diligent and intelligent, and knew that it was useless to talk more, so he just did the work arranged by the master well. But even so, Liu Zhong still couldn't avoid being beaten and scolded by the master, and the people who did the work did not have any reason, and it was a scolding to look unpleasant.
The optimistic and strong Liu Zhong did not feel anything, but his mother often felt wronged and sad for him.
Whenever he saw Liu Zhong, who was skinny and skinny, his mother would hold him and cry silently, and he would slow down and speak
"Son, it's all because our family is so poor that there is no way but to make my son suffer like this." However, my mother believed that my son would definitely have a day in the beginning. ”
Beaten and scolded by the master, Liu Zhongshang could swallow his anger, and what made him most indignant was the oppression of the landlord. Liu Zhong has not eaten a good meal since he was a child, the family worked hard and hard, and at the end of the year, there was still not enough rent, every year was the landlord's New Year, and the poor were too difficult.
Liu Zhong hated these landlords and rich people very much, and because they were rich and unkind, they would only oppress and oppress the poor people.
In the middle of the night, Liu Zhong would think: Why is this world born unequal? Why should the poor be born oppressed? Why don't the poor have a head start and don't have the right to control their own destiny? At this time, Liu Zhong could not understand the revolutionary ideas, and he was troubled by these questions, but there was no answer.
Until 1927, when the Nanchang rebel army passed through Shanghang, Liu Zhong personally saw the rebel soldiers rescue the toiling masses from water and fire. The revolutionary flame in Liu Zhong's heart was ignited at once. Although, at this time, Liu Zhong was still in a state of ignorance about the revolution, and even less did he understand our Party.
But he was quite convinced in his heart that the revolution would be the light that would illuminate him, the light that would illuminate the thousands of poor people. The Communist Party is the contingent that rescues the common people and the source of light for the revolution!
Where there is oppression, there is resistance. In 1929, a peasant movement broke out in Liu Zhong's hometown, and this peasant movement gave Liu Zhong hope of dominating his own destiny.
Coinciding with the recruitment of the rebel army, he decided to join in and bravely stood up and resisted to the end.
When he returned home, he told his parents what he thought.
Liu Zhong's parents only had one son, Liu Zhong, so Liu Zhong's father opposed him to participate, worried that he had something to do. Liu Zhong said:
"Our ancestors have been oppressed by landlords and gentry for generations, what is the meaning of such a life?" Now that the Communist Party can lead us to turn over and look up, what is so terrible about it?
Although the mother was reluctant to have this only son, she understood the truth that the good boy was determined to be in the four directions, and she knew that for Liu Zhong, even if he rebelled against thousands of hardships, it was better to live a humiliating life of oppression. So
She forcibly endured the reluctance in her heart, telling Liu Zhong to run to the path she chose, it was worth it, serving the country, and when she should stand up, bravely stand up, which is what a good boy should look like!
He also helped Liu Zhong gain his father's approval.
In this way, Liu Zhong voluntarily joined the revolution without scruples. Not long after living up to his mother's expectations and joining the revolution, Liu Zhong became one of the leaders of the armed rebellion of the peasants in Caixi Township. Later, in July 1929, he officially joined the Communist Party of China, and in the same year, he joined the Red Army and officially began his military career.
Metamorphosis in the midst of storms
Because of his mother's encouragement and support, coupled with the path he firmly believed in, Liu Zhong, who joined the Red Army, was promoted quickly, and two years later he was promoted to regimental-level cadre.
Beginning in 1930, Chiang Kai-shek, who was increasingly jealous of the communist forces, began to carry out large-scale "encirclement and suppression" of the revolutionary base areas.
Liu Zhong successively participated in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns of Longgang, Dongshao, and Shuikou, and gradually grew into an excellent Commander and Fighter of the Red Army after the baptism of the battlefield.
Under extremely harsh and harsh conditions, he continued to command the battle on a stretcher despite his own serious injuries.
He once commanded fighters to shoot down a fighter plane circling over our army, and it was shot down with machine guns.
It is not an exaggeration, it is true that looking at the enemy planes that often flew to investigate the situation of our army, Liu Zhong, who was the political commissar of the 33rd Regiment of the Red 11th Army at the time, was greatly displeased and ordered the soldiers of our army: "Shoot it down." ”
The soldiers understood that it was not to hit the plane, but to hit the pilot. So the soldiers of our army began to try continuously, after all, the enemy pilots have absolute superiority, and they are not so easy to be hit, and the pilots of the enemy aircraft also think that they are going to shoot the planes, and when they look at the soldiers of our army who are shooting, they can't help but laugh, and just when he is self-satisfied, a bullet is rushing to fly. In the end, the pilot of the enemy plane was injured and had to land the plane on our army's territory.
He also served as the vanguard of the army and completely annihilated a division of the Kuomintang
。
After that, with excellent command ability and good at doing the ideological work of the soldiers,
He was transferred to the newly established Reconnaissance Section of the Headquarters of the First Red Army.
The Reconnaissance Section's reconnaissance work is dedicated to the Force Commander and is an important factor in determining whether a campaign can be won, with strict requirements and a high difficulty factor. Such an important work, the party organization so trusted to Liu Zhong,made his heart feel very proud.
Although Liu Zhong, who has a limited level of education, is very worried that he will not be fully qualified for this job, he did not have any idea of flinching in the face of this appointment.
He decided to learn and work while doing, and strive to achieve results that exceeded expectations and live up to the high expectations given by his superiors.
The day after receiving the order, Liu Zhong rushed to the headquarters to report. The leader directly in charge of the reconnaissance section was Zuo Quan, who told Liu Zhong that because the reconnaissance task was relatively heavy, the Central Army Headquarters decided to set up a reconnaissance section, and encouraged Liu Zhong:
"You have been a regimental commander and a political commissar, and I believe that you will be able to complete the reconnaissance tasks entrusted to you by the organization beautifully."
He also asked him if there was any problem with the work arrangement.
Liu Zhong said that he completely obeyed the arrangements of the party and the leadership, and Zuo Quan was very pleased, so he immediately ordered Liu Zhong to be equipped with horses and police officers, and then asked Liu Zhong to find relevant books for Chen Zhong to learn the knowledge of investigation, and finally, the investigation materials and the reconnaissance team were handed over to Chen Zhong.
The members of the reconnaissance team entrusted to Chen Zhong were not idle people, but elites who had been transferred from all over the world, and their political consciousness, technical ability, or knowledge reserves in all aspects were outstanding.
Their task arrangement was to fuse and sort out the enemy situation that had come from reconnaissance and report it to the chief.
Usually, it is also necessary to draw a map for combat purposes, as well as a marching route.
If possible, it is better to capture the enemy and probe from its mouth about the enemy's intentions and combat operations. In addition, it is also responsible for covering the operations of our army, large and small.
Every task of the Reconnaissance Section is extremely important, and at the same time the difficulty is not small, which is undoubtedly a big challenge for Liu Zhong, who lacks experience in reconnaissance. In order to let Liu Zhong, who was studying and doing things at the same time, grow up faster, Zuo Quan asked him to turn in the "Enemy Intelligence Bulletin" every half a month.
At the beginning, the report submitted by Liu Zhong was very confusing and full of loopholes.
He had thought that there must be a serious criticism. But what he did not expect was that Zuo Quan did not accuse him, but instead patiently marked out the problem on the briefing, and the dense briefings made Liu Zhong very encouraged, and he studied harder.
Soon, the efforts had remarkable results, and Liu Zhong's "Bulletin on the Situation of the Enemy" was extremely well written.
Zuo Quan did not expect Liu Zhong's progress to be so rapid, he was very emotional: "The circular you are writing now is concise and clear, basically you don't need my help to correct it, I don't know if the manuscript you wrote for the first time is still there, you can find out and compare it, you will find that your progress is very large." In the face of the leader's affirmation, Liu Zhong was very happy and worked harder to improve his reconnaissance qualities.
In the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, Liu Zhong led the reconnaissance team to quickly find out the enemy's plan of action and route, and helped our army achieve considerable results.
He also led the reconnaissance team all the way north, went deep into the enemy's interior, and handed over the enemy's situation to the superiors one by one, so that our army could know itself and the other and calmly face the enemy. He also led his troops to blow up the enemy's bunkers, intercepted many of the enemy's transport materials, and exhausted various methods to make it difficult for the enemy's activities to be carried out.
Military career, shine
Under the leadership of Liu Zhong, the reconnaissance team grew rapidly and performed prominently, and was known as the "clairvoyance" and "tailwind ear" of the Long March team, and was highly praised by the central leaders.
We all know that when marching and fighting, soldiers and horses do not move, and grain and grass go first. However, the Long March of the Red Army did not have sufficient logistical support, and it was always a big problem for Red Army soldiers to eat along the way. In order to solve this inevitable big problem, the reconnaissance unit led by Liu Zhong has another important task, that is, to be responsible for giving the large troops
Find food
Luo Ruiqing, director of the Political Protection Bureau of the Red First Army at that time, told Liu Zhong: "It takes more than ten days before and after our army to pass through the large meadows, and it is facing the arduous predicament of being deserted, with no food, and no mouthful of water, so your reconnaissance team is also responsible for finding any rations that can be eaten." Maybe the only grass that can be eaten in the whole big meadow is grass, then you will detect the grass that can be eaten, please be careful and serious to find, the more the better, this will be the key to our army through the grass. ”
Therefore, Liu Zhong led the team members and other soldiers to constantly dig up grass roots, taste various weeds, and look for water sources. Although the grass is full of grass, but there are very few that can be eaten, bitter and difficult to swallow is not a problem, the terrible thing is that many wild grasses can poison people.
It can be said that Liu Zhong and his team tasted all kinds of grass for the large troops of the Red Army.
At the end of the Long March, Liu Zhong caught the enemy's cavalry spies at Liupan Mountain, and learned from them that the cavalry company of the Northeast Army was resting nearby. Chairman Mao and General Manager Peng immediately ordered the Red Army troops to surprise the cavalry company, and the enemy army was instantly swept away by the wind.
The captured horses were distributed to the soldiers of the reconnaissance company, and the efficiency of the reconnaissance unit increased several times at once.
With the development, the special detachment of the cavalry regiment of the First Army of our army was gradually established on the basis of the reconnaissance company.
By July 1936, there were already 4 cavalry companies, and Liu Zhong was appointed commander and political commissar of the special detachment of the cavalry regiment.
This cavalry unit later participated in the Battle of Zhiluo Town, the Battle of Mountain Castle, and the East Crossing of the Yellow River. At the time of the Xi'an Incident, it was this cavalry team that forwarded the letters of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng to General Manager Peng, and was the backing of the troops of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng.
In addition to leading reconnaissance units and cavalry regiments, Liu Zhong also played his old profession, the skills of masons.
After the Long March, in order to better complete the revolutionary cause, a large number of high- and middle-level cadres were transferred out to study at the Anti-Japanese War in Yan'an. Liu Zhong was also among them, and was retained to teach because of his excellent grades. During his time at the school, he also helped the school solve the problem of student accommodation.
There were too many students, and accommodation became a problem, which made Luo Ruiqing, who was the vice principal at the time, a bit of a headache. When he heard that Liu Zhong had once worked as a mason, he quickly approached him to discuss the matter of digging a cave to increase the dormitory. Liu Zhong did not have any unnecessary words and directly took over the matter. He led the students to dig 30 caves in just 10 days. After the student accommodation problem is solved,
Luo Ruiqing praised him directly:
"Comrade Liu Zhong, you really have two sons."
Live up to expectations and be full of glory
In May 1942, Liu Zhong, then commander of the Yujin Joint Defense Military Region, received an order to escort Comrade Deng Xiaoping to Zhongtiao Mountain to open up a base area
。 At this time, the Japanese puppet army, which was launching the "May Sweep" in the border area of Jinyu, was trying to attack the hinterland and attack the head organs of the Jinyu period.
On the evening of May 9, after the meeting, Deng Xiaoping, Liu Zhong, and their party went to bed early. At midnight, Liu Zhong's wife noticed a slight movement around her, so she hurried to reconnoiter, only to find that they had fallen into the encirclement of the Japanese Kou. Sensing that the situation was not right, she reported the situation to Liu Zhong,
Upon hearing this, Liu Zhong quickly found Comrade Deng Xiaoping and took him with him to transfer.
After more than twenty days of wandering, crossing mountains and mountains, and fighting with the Japanese and Kou several times in the middle of the way, he finally broke out of the siege, and Comrade Deng Xiaoping also turned the crisis into safety. After escaping,
Comrade Deng Xiaoping clasped Liu Zhong's hand and said:
"This time, it's really thanks to you."
During the Liberation War, Liu Zhong participated in the Shangdang Campaign and served as the brigade commander of the 386 brigade in this campaign.
He led the main force, using his pioneering "one scoop of water" style of play, and took the city of The First Son in only 10 minutes.
This battle, in which our army was short of ammunition and food, turned defeat into victory played a great role in Chairman Mao's victory in the Chongqing negotiations.
During the Battle of Linfen, Liu Zhong served as chief of staff of the Fourth Column and personally commanded the front. This battle was won three battles and three victories, and Huang Zhengcheng, the brigade commander of The "First Brigade under Heaven" of Chiang Kai-shek's army, was directly captured.
In October 1946, Liu Zhong was unanimously elected by five brigades at the commendation meeting held in Qinyuan County, Shanxi, and finally won the honorary title of "Combat Hero".
After liberation, Liu Zong was appointed commander of the Western Sichuan Military Region.
In 1955, Liu Zhong, who had distinguished himself in battle, was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in Beijing.
Returning to his hometown to find his mother, loyalty and filial piety are both complete
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, Liu Zhong, who was once glorious and could finally return to his hometown, decided to take the old mother to his side, sent someone to inquire fruitlessly, and rushed back to his hometown to find his mother who was missing.
Finally, he found his mother who was begging on the street, the mother and son hugged their headaches and cried, and Liu Zhong kept saying: "The son is not filial piety, the son is not filial piety!" ”
Finding his mother, whom he had not seen for many years, Liu Zhong's hanging heart finally fell to the ground, and he swore to the old mother:
"For the rest of the day, I will personally serve you, mother, and I will no longer let you suffer and be tired."
Liu Zhong's mother looked at him seriously, as if she saw the shadow of the young Liu Zhong who insisted on joining the army and serving the country, and she knew that the words spoken by her son's expression were determination. She touched Liu Zhong's face and said, "My son has not changed at all, and it is still the same as before, but the mother is old, and the mother has humiliated you." ”
Hearing this, Liu Zhong's tears couldn't stop falling, and he couldn't imagine how these mothers lived. Seeing his mother's wrinkled and frosted face, Liu Zhong knew that his mother must have suffered no less over the years, and his heart was full of mixed feelings, and he secretly swore that he must honor his mother well and not let her worry about herself for life.
After that, Liu Zhong took his old mother, whom he had not seen for more than 20 years, to his side. No matter how busy he is at work, Liu Zhong will take time to accompany his mother, eat with her, talk about his experience over the years, and listen to his mother talk about what has happened over the years.
In her free time, I will accompany my mother to walk around.
Liu Zhong's mother was very relieved to see that her son was now doing a great job and hanging herself on her heart, but gradually she did not want to stay by her son's side.
Aizi's heart is endless, she began to feel sorry for her son, and did not want her son, who was busy with work, to work harder because of her own fatigue, she decided to return to shanghang's hometown.
On this day, Liu Zhong came to accompany his mother to dinner again, and at the dinner table, Liu Zhong and his mother were discussing where to go next time they had time to accompany their mother to relax. Liu Zhong's mother slowly put down her own bowl and chopsticks and tentatively said to Liu Zhong:
"Mother thought, or will mother go back to her hometown to live?"
Liu Zhong's mother asked cautiously, because her son repeatedly told her to stay by his side and enjoy his old age.
Sure enough, hearing that his mother was going to return to his hometown, Liu Zhong was shocked and disappointed, and he asked eagerly: "Is it that I have too little time with you?" The mother shook her head, "Is that uncomfortable?" Mother still shook her head. Liu Zhong looked at his mother, who shook her head frequently, and knew that her mother felt that she had become a burden to her son.
Liu Zhong said to his mother, "Didn't the mother herself say that from now on she would guard her son's life?" "Trying to keep her mother who wants to return to her hometown."
Liu Zhong's mother no longer spoke, she was also very conflicted in her heart, Liu Zhong saw her mother hesitate, she hurriedly said: "The mother will stay by her side with confidence, and the child will guard the mother, and the child will be steadfast." Liu Zhong's mother could only nod her head and agreed to continue to stay.
But this matter did not end, it was only the beginning, and then from time to time Liu Zhong's mother would express her desire to return to her hometown, and Liu Zhong did not agree.
Until one day, a little earlier after Liu Zhong's work ended, he bought some pastries for his mother on the street and hurried home. Pushing open the door, he found his mother sitting alone by the window, her eyes looking into the distance. The sky is not bright anymore, Liu Zhong's mother is facing the light, the back shadow is a large clump of black, as if it is tightly shrouded in loneliness, Liu Zhong looked at his mother's back, and his heart was flooded with infinite pain.
He realized that when he was no longer there, his mother was alone in the house lifeless.
Liu Zhongqiang choked up and shouted, "Mother, I'm back!" ”
Before going to bed at night, Liu Zhong came to his mother's bed and took the initiative to say: "Mother, if you really want to go back to your hometown, go back to live for a few days, if you want to come back, we can come back at any time." Mother Liu looked at her son excitedly, smiled and said, "Good." ”
Because of his work, Liu Zhong was unable to personally send his mother home, so he arranged for guards to escort her back to shanghang's hometown, and asked the guards to walk around with the neighbors, asking them to help take care of his mother occasionally. The villagers were happy to help take care of the old lady. Despite this, Liu Zhong still could not rest assured of his mother, and from time to time he wrote letters to his home, sent money, and sent various things, and he had to run every three to five years. The villagers all said:
"Mother Liu is blessed, and her son is born and filial."
In this regard, Liu Mu always smiled back: "Yes, God cares." In Mother Liu's view, it is already an endless blessing that her son can be safe.
In the era of strife, many soldiers like Liu Zhong resolutely stepped onto the battlefield for the sake of the motherland's great rivers and mountains.
For the sake of the revolution, they separated from their loved ones, even died goodbye, and spilled their youth and blood on the land they loved.
Some people died in battle, never returned, and some people returned home in fine clothes, but found that they were already separated from their families by yin and yang.
Salute to the thousands of revolutionary fighters who selflessly dedicated themselves to the revolutionary cause like Liu Zhong!