In 1930, a Red Army led by He Long was operating in Songzi County, Jingyi Road, Hubei Province; just as the soldiers of this unit were crossing a river, they suddenly found a young man in the rear jumping into the river and swimming desperately in their direction.
When the young man swam ashore, the soldiers were shocked to find that the young man in front of them had wounds everywhere, especially after being soaked in the river.
The whole person seemed to be a bloody man
。
In the face of the shock of the warriors, the young man did not care at all, casually pulled the clothes on his body to cover the wounds on his body, and then shouted at the crowd
"I'm going to join the army!" ”
Li Wenqing
At this time, a commander of the Red Army came over, looked at the young man in front of him with a stubborn look in his eyes, and asked him why he had to join the Red Army as if he did not want to die!
I saw that the young man's eyes were full of hatred and anger, and he gritted his teeth and said word by word: "I want revenge!" ”
The name of this young man in front of him is Li Wenqing, and in the revolutionary war after that, he will become a fierce general under He Long.
In the 1955 ceremony, the rank of major general was awarded.
At this time, the reason why he desperately joined the army to avenge himself was not long ago
The landlord bully Li Xuewu's revenge for taking his wife is said.
Going out as a long-term worker, he came home to find his wife occupied
Li Wenqing was born in 1910 to a poor peasant family in Lijiahe Village, Songzi County, Hubei Province. Like most of the poor peasants at that time, Li Wenqing's family was exploited by the landlords' rent and wage labor, and the whole family lived a very hard life. Even if you work hard with your hands, all year round,
The whole family is only barely able to maintain food and clothing
！
As the only son in the family, when Li Wenqing first became an adult, he was told a family affair by the family, and the other party was his cousin Zhou Yimei who had been with his green plum bamboo horse since he was a child;
After getting married, Li Wenqing worked harder to make this family live better; but the good times were not long, and in that year, his hometown suffered a drought that was rare in a hundred years!
The family, which was already a miserable family, was even more difficult after the drought, coupled with the exploitation of the landlords, the family would almost not survive.
Landlord bully in film and television
In order to continue to survive, Li Wenqing had to leave the village and go to another local landlord's house to do long-term work; and his wife Zhou Yimei also went to a nearby landlord to leave home as a maid;
Li Wenqing, who had planned to earn some change to provide for his family's life, failed because the landlord's cattle died without warning, and was not only driven out by the landlord, but even the previous wages were not given to him; Li Wenqing, who had nothing, could only return to Lihe Village again.
After returning home, Li Wenqing arrived at Li Xuewu's house to prepare to take his wife Zhou Yimei home.
However, he found that his wife had been occupied by Li Xuewu
, himself was also bombarded out. After returning home, Li Wenqing's heart was full of hatred and anger, and he grabbed a kitchen knife in the kitchen and went to Li's house to take revenge!
The family rushed forward to stop him, and one of the uncles of the family directly rebuked him: "
The Li family is rich and powerful, we can't fight others, you will only send them to death in vain, and it will drag down your parents!
”
Although Li Wenqing was full of anger in his heart and was eager to stab Li Xuewu to death, he understood that his uncle's words were right, and his family was a poor peasant family, and he could not fight the landlord. Then his uncle suggested to him to send some gifts to the Li family, and don't let his wife take them back! Li Wenqing listened to his uncle's advice and went to Li's house again.
The next day, Li Wenqing used the family's few savings to buy some gifts to go to Li Xuewu's home; although Li Wenqing smiled and spoke kindly to the Li family, he was still severely humiliated by the Li family.
Li Xuewu's younger brother, Young Master Li San, took a smoking gun and slammed Li Wenqing's head fiercely: "I heard that you want to kill my second brother, do you want to kill me now?" ”
After fiercely humiliating Li Wenqing, Young Master Li San ordered the domestic servants to drag Li Wenqing out and beat him severely, and then throw him out of the door! Li Wenqing, who was covered in scales, did not care about the pain on his body, but just stared at the door of the Li family deadly, and indeed secretly swore in his heart.
This vendetta will not be repaid, and the oath will not be a man
Joined the army to avenge snow hate
In 1930, a Red Army led by He Long happened to be operating near Li Wenqing's hometown; before that, Li Wenqing often heard that there was an army called the "Red Army"
Fight the local tycoons and divide the fields
, to stand out for the poor peasants.
When he knew that this army was moving around, Li Wenqing's heart made a decision: he must join this army, only in this way can he avenge his hatred. After that, Li Wenqing appeared at the mouth of the village every day to wait for the appearance of this army; but many days had passed, and this army still did not appear, and Li Wenqing's heart was full of anxiety and uneasiness;
Finally, half a month later, the villagers ran to his house and told him that the Red Army was passing through a neighboring village at this time! When Li Wenqing heard this, he immediately got up and ran in the direction of the neighboring village! In a river in a neighboring village, Li Wenqing finally saw this army, completely disregarded the pain on his body, rolled up his sleeves, Li Wenqing jumped into the river, and swam towards the Red Army on the opposite side of the river.
When the army was resting, a chief came to Li Wenqing and asked him why he was so desperate to follow them!
Li Wenqing wiped the blood on his face with his sleeve, his eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and said word by word:
"Revenge!"
After learning about Li Wenqing's encounter, the chief could not help but sigh:
Our task in the Red Army is to make people like you no longer appear
！”
In this way, Li Wenqing joined the Red Army and became a glorious soldier.
Red Army soldiers
After returning to his hometown, he burned the Li Mansion
After becoming a soldier of the Red Army, Li Wenqing fought heroically by relying on the spirit of not bearing hardships and not being afraid of difficulties, and repeatedly made meritorious achievements, and was soon promoted to squad leader and platoon leader.
A year later, Li Wenqing's army once again turned to the vicinity of his hometown of Songzi; recalling the insults that the Li family had insulted themselves a year ago and taken away their hatred for their wives; the anger in his heart was once again burning, so Li Wenqing rushed to the Li family with several soldiers;
After hearing the news, Li Xuewu was immediately frightened and scattered, and fled overnight; by the time Li Wenqing arrived at the Li family, the people of the Li family had already escaped completely!
This made Li Wenqing hate his teeth and itch, and directly burned Li House with a torch!
After returning to the company, Li Wenqing was immediately imprisoned and severely criticized by the instructor of the zhi company.
Li Wenqing admitted to the instructor that he had violated discipline, but he said that even if he did it again, he would still do so, because his original purpose in joining the Red Army was to take revenge.
Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
In the face of the stubborn Li Wenqing in front of him, the instructor did not continue to criticize severely, but turned to patient enlightenment:
"Wen Qing, hatred is also big and small, and it is also divided into personal hatred and class hatred; you think about how many soldiers in our army have the same hatred as you!" If everyone takes revenge on their own without permission, as you do, you can kill whoever you want. What is the difference between us and the cannibalistic landlord class? As soldiers of the Red Army, we must put class hatred first, only in this way can we let more people not be oppressed by the landlord class! ”
The instructor's advice, Li Wenqing listened carefully into his heart;
Class hatred
These few big characters were also deeply burned into Li Wenqing's heart.
Personal feuds turned into "class vendettas," and Li Wenqing fought bravely
In April 1931, the Red Army and the Kuomintang troops fought fiercely in the area of Zigui County in western Hubei! During the battle, Li Wenqing's company was violently attacked and exploded by enemy artillery fire, and the shrapnel was fiercely embedded deep in Li Wenqing's right thigh; then the bullet passed through his abdomen, and even the intestines flowed out;
Li Wenqing, who only had one breath left, was lying on the side of the road, and near the evening, there were still no comrades-in-arms; Li Wenqing thought that he was going to die here, just at this moment,
He Long's troops passed by and saved Li Wenqing
and sent to a nearby farmer's home to recuperate.
He Long
A few months later, Li Wenqing, who had recovered from his wounds, returned to the team again; in order to repay He Long's life-saving grace, he fought even more heroically in the subsequent battles, regardless of life and death;
In 1932, during the battle with the Kuomintang troops at Honghu Lake, Li Wenqing, who was at the forefront, was pierced by the enemy's bullets in the left shoulder; after the battle, Li Wenqing was sent to the hospital to treat his wounds, but soon the Red Army and the Kuomintang army fought again!
Ignoring the injuries on his body, Li Wenqing once again participated in the battle, fighting fiercely with the enemy for seven days and seven nights.
In this battle, Li Wenqing's right eye was injured by the wipe of shrapnel; due to the failure to receive timely treatment, Li Wenqing would often suffer from intermittent headaches! After enduring unimaginable pain for ordinary people, Li Wenqing still insisted on completing the Long March;
In 1934, due to the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Red Army had to make a strategic shift and began the Long March; at that time, Li Wenqing's Red Second Army was the last to withdraw, and the Fifteenth Regiment led by Li Wenqing was responsible for the break of the entire large army and walked to the end of the entire army;
When the troops set out, each soldier could only receive 5 kilograms of barley noodles, but it took more than 20 days to get out of the meadow, and these grains were far from enough;
The Red Army crossed the meadows
In order to save rations, Li Wenqing only ate a handful of barley noodles every day, and the whole person was so hungry that only his backbone was left, as if he could fall down as soon as the wind blew.
Soon, all the food in the army was eaten, and the soldiers could only dig up grass roots, put the bark of the tree, and roast the belt to fill the hunger;
Hunger tormented the soldiers like the devil, but the warriors were not defeated in the slightest; they were supporting each other and marching forward little by little on the vast grass;
After coming out of the meadow, all the warriors were ragged and bearded; but their eyes were all determined.
Li Wenqing sighed:
"The soldiers of our Red Army are soldiers with firm convictions!"
When crossing the meadow, Li Wenqing was often tortured by the pain in his right eye, and after the troops arrived in Yan'an, He Long personally arranged for Li Wenqing to go to the Soviet Union for treatment, but at that time, the anti-Japanese war situation was urgent, and Li Wenqing took the initiative to give up the opportunity to go abroad for treatment and went to the anti-Japanese base area to lead the troops to fight behind enemy lines.
Later, his
The right eye is completely blind and can only be removed. After the operation, He Long jokingly called him
"Lee The Blind"
Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Anti-Japanese Base Area
After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Li Wenqing, chief of staff of the 3rd Column of the Northwest Field Army, led his troops to annihilate more than 30,000 people of the Kuomintang 29th Army in the Battle of Yichuan in conjunction with other columns.
After the founding of New China, he was also assigned to the southwest region to suppress bandits, where a large number of Kuomintang agents lurked; under The deployment of Li Wenqing, these reactionaries were wiped out in a short period of time;
For so many years, he has always regarded "class hatred" as the driving force for his continuous fighting, and it is precisely this motivation that allows him to persist in walking the road of the Long March when he is hungry and dead, so that he can persist in going to the enemy's rear base areas to resist Japan despite the blindness of his right eye, and let him lead the army to make great achievements during the Liberation War.
It was precisely this impetus that inspired all the Communist fighters to fear hardships and life and death, and led the Chinese to defeat Japanese imperialism, overthrow the Kuomintang bureaucratic capitalism, and establish a new China.
Founded new China
After many years, he returned to his hometown and met the deceased again
In 1952, the new China at this time had been fully stabilized and rapidly developing peacefully; Li Wenqing, who had been away from home for many years and fought in all directions, also returned to his hometown again in this year; more than twenty years had passed, and all kinds of things in the past had long disappeared, and things were not human, Li Wenqing could not help but sigh.
The news of Li Wenqing's return soon spread throughout his hometown and caused a great sensation throughout Songzi County; the people of his hometown warmly welcomed Li Wenqing home;
But when he returned home, Li Wenqing was surprised to find two people kneeling in front of him, one was a strange man he did not know, and the other was his wife Zhou Yimei, who had been occupied.
From the other people, he has learned that after he burned Li Xuewu's house, Li Xuewu frantically retaliated against his family and drove his parents out of Lijiahe Village, where he is still missing; and Zhou Yimei was also sold to her current husband.
Li Wenqing (first from left)
Li Xuewu, on the other hand, immediately committed suicide after hearing the news of his return.
The husband and wife were constantly kowtowing to Li Wenqing and confessing their mistakes, and Li Wenqing lifted them up and said in an amiable tone: "Everything that happened in the past is not your fault, it was all forced by those bully landlords, and now that the landlord class has been overthrown, the future life will only get better and better."
At this time, Li Wenqing suddenly remembered the "class hatred" that the instructors had said to themselves when he first joined the Red Army, and that they had worked hard for so many years to overthrow those privileged classes and let the common people really live a good life.
Moreover, Li Wenqing confirmed that they had indeed done this, and under the leadership of them, the Communists Chinese the people overthrew the privileged classes of imperialism, bureaucracy, and feudalism, and let the broad masses of poor people truly turn themselves into masters of the country