One day in August 1979, an old man, supported by his daughter, appeared at the door of the Troops of the Lanzhou Military Region. The soldier on duty immediately stepped forward and asked, "Hello, comrade, what are you doing?" ”
The old man took a few rough breaths and said, "Hello, I came to find my old comrade-in-arms, and I heard that he was leading troops here." ”
When he learned that the old man was looking for his comrades-in-arms, the soldier on duty first gave the old man a military salute, and then said: "What is the name of your comrade-in-arms, I will call you to contact you." ”
The old man replied, "His name is Xiao Hua, and he is the political commissar of your Lanzhou Military Region." ”
The soldier on duty was stunned at first, and then said, "Are you talking about General Xiao Hua?" ”
The old man said, "If there is no second political commissar named Xiao Hua in your military region, it should be him." ”
After determining that the old man was looking for Xiao Hua, the founding general of the country, the soldier on duty did not dare to delay at all, and immediately called the political department of the military region, but General Xiao Hua was not in the military region, and the company went down to guide the work, and could only convey this news.
When General Xiao Hua learned of this news, he thought that the soldiers of the army were joking with him. After all, General Xiao Hua is a veteran soldier of our army, and his comrades-in-arms are generally either promoted to the founding fathers or buried in the yellow soil with the war.
With doubts and confusion, General Xiao Hua rushed back to the Lanzhou Military Region overnight. In the guest house of the military region, General Xiao Hua saw this limping old man, the eyes of the two looked at each other, and all kinds of memories of the past came to mind, and his eyes slowly turned red and wet.
General Xiao Hua took the initiative to go forward and shake the old man's hand and said, "It's you, Old Lu, why did you come to me now, I thought you were dead." ”
Who is the old man whom General Xiao Hua called "Old Lu"? Why did Xiao Hua think he was dead, and what kind of story did this old man have?
Joined the Party in the line of fire and joined the Red Army
The old man's name was Lu Zimei, born in 1898 in Shenqiu County, Zhoukou, Henan Province, and his family was poor when he was a teenager, but Lu Zimei's parents insisted on sending him to the school hall to study, hoping that he would be able to honor his ancestors in the future. As an adult, Lu Zimei did not want to stay in her hometown and wanted to go out and make a career.
Lu Zimei first ran to the northwest and joined Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, and with the spirit of daring to fight, Lu Zimei was soon promoted to company commander. In 1930, with Feng Yuxiang's crushing defeat in the Battle of the Central Plains, Lu Zimei's forces were gradually annexed by Chiang Kai-shek. After reorganization, this unit was called the 26th Army, and since the army was absorbed from the remnants of Feng Yuxiang, Chiang Kai-shek was not at ease with this army and only wanted to use this army to deplete the strength of the Red Army.
Soon after, Chiang Kai-shek began to act, and the 26th Army was all transferred to Jiangxi to fight the Communists, and the soldiers in the army were unwilling to do such a cannibalistic thing, so they fled. It was at this time that the Communists took notice of this army and decided to win it over, to turn enemies into friends, and to turn it into our army.
Coincidentally, Zhao Bosheng, chief of the general staff of this army, is an undercover agent of our party lurking under the eyes of the enemy, and Zhao Bosheng knows very well where the backbone of this unit is
After understanding our party's policy, Lu Zimei quickly expressed his willingness to accept the leadership of the Communist Party, and his only request to the organization was to join the Communist Party and become a party member.
After a rigorous review, Zhao Bosheng and Yuan Hezun served as Lu Zimei's introduction to the party and helped Lu Zimei join the party.
Upon arrival in Ningdu,
The 26th Army launched the "Ningdu Uprising" that night, a force of 17,000 people who collectively defected and joined the battle sequence of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and was subsequently reorganized into the Fifth Red Army. Lu Zimei was promoted to battalion commander by virtue of being both a party member and a backbone of the army
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In the following two years, Lu Zimei led the ministry to ganzhou, Shuikou, and Shunchang. The battles of Longyan, Dongpo, and Huangpi were fought more than a dozen times, large and small. In the baptism of war, Lu Zimei's command ability has been improved step by step.
In 1933, Lu Zimei was transferred to the Position of Regiment Commander of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, and it was at this time that Lu Zimei and Xiao Hua, who was already the political commissar of the division, met. When they first met, Lu Zimei couldn't believe that this young teenager was his leader, after all, at that time, Xiao Hua was only 17 years old, and Lu Zimei was already 35 years old.
In the following time, Lu Zimei was completely convinced by the small leader Xiao Hua, who, although young, understood a lot and was an old revolutionary. In the course of the third and fourth anti-encirclement and suppression campaigns, Lu Zimei obeyed the instructions of his superiors and repeatedly made military achievements.
Until the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, Lu Zimei led the troops to follow the Red Army in the Long March, and when the Red Army decided to cross the Wu River, Lu Zimei was ordered to use the strength of a regiment to serve as the rear guard of the whole army and block the attack of a division of the enemy army alone.
In the case of the enemy being outnumbered, Lu Zimei did not fear, but instead took the lead in charging forward, leading the whole regiment to carry out a counter-charge against the enemy, and defeated the enemy's attack of one division in one fell swoop.
After the battle,
Lu Zimei's regiment suffered excessive losses, and the central authorities decided to reorganize and merge the unit into the Fourth Regiment of the Second Division of the Red Army, and Lu Zimei still served as the regimental commander, and the political commissar of the Fourth Regiment was General Yang Chengwu.
Leader of the Vanguard Regiment, Flying capture Luding
Lu Zimei, who became the commander of the Fourth Regiment, also had a heavier burden on him, and although he was no longer required to serve as the rear guard of the large army, Lu Zimei led the Fourth Army into the vanguard of the Red Army, opening a road for the organization. After the Zunyi meeting,
The Red Army decided to cross the Chishui River four times, disrupt the enemy's tracking direction, then cross the Jinsha River, forcibly cross the Dadu River, then turn over the snowy mountains, cross the meadows, and finally reach northern Shaanxi to join the Red Twenty-fifth Army.
The previous plans were still relatively smooth, but here at the Dadu River, the Red Army had to stop. It was the rainy season, and the Dadu River was so turbulent that it was impossible to transport all the tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers to the other side of the river with only a few small boats. What's more, there are still Kuomintang troops in the rear who are in hot pursuit, and once they stay here for a long time, they are bound to be doomed.
Soon, the commander of the Red Army gave orders,
Lu Zimei was asked to lead the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment to launch a capture battle against the Luding Bridge in the upper reaches of the Dadu River
。 When the Fourth Regiment of the Red Army received the order, it was still more than 200 miles away from the target Luding Bridge, in order to ensure that the large troops were transferred as soon as possible and out of the dangerous environment.
Lu Zimei led the soldiers to launch a rapid march overnight, during which they fought fiercely with small groups of kuomintang troops on many occasions, with light rain in the sky and soldiers stepping on muddy water and advancing in the dark night. After a day and night of rapid marching, Red Army soldiers finally arrived near the Luding Bridge in the early morning of May 29.
Luding Bridge is a bridge body composed of more than ten iron chains, and the bridge body is covered with wooden planks to enable people to pass normally. However, since the Kuomintang army had planned to annihilate the Red Army in one fell swoop at the Dadu River, it also took precautions against the Luding Bridge, the only way to survive.
At this time, only bare iron chains were left on the bridge, the wooden planks on the bridge had been completely dismantled by the Kuomintang troops, and behind the bridge was Luding City, where two reinforcement regiments of the Kuomintang were stationed, and these reactionary troops formed a defensive line with Luding City as the main defense, and on the west side of the Luding Bridge, the Kuomintang set up multiple firepower nets and deliberately snipped and captured the Red Army fighters of the Luding Bridge.
As the day gradually brightened, the Kuomintang troops found the Fourth Regiment of the Red Army on the other side of the Luding Bridge.
Some Kuomintang soldiers shouted loudly, "Come here, hurry up and fly here."
Looking at the disgusting faces of this group of enemies, Lu Zimei personally stepped forward to command, and gave priority to selecting Communists from the Fourth Regiment, and formed a commando team to launch a strong attack on Luding Bridge.
22 commandos, armed with short guns and wooden planks in their arms, climbed the iron ropes while paving the way for the follow-up troops. At this time, the enemy on the opposite side discovered the red army's move, they picked up their guns, and shot at the soldiers crossing the bridge, many of whom were laying the bridge, were inadvertently hit by bullets.
The rain of bullets did not stop the determined Red Army soldiers, who still laid the bridge board unhurriedly and advanced step by step to the other side of the Luding Bridge. The enemy troops guarding the bridge were anxious, and they knew that once this group of Red Army soldiers successfully crossed the Luding Bridge, they would certainly not be able to defeat the Red Army, so this group of vicious enemies put forward the idea of burning the Luding Bridge, hoping to prevent the Red Army fighters from crossing the bridge through the fire.
The fire ignited in an instant, and the bridge crossing commando was forced to stop,
At this critical moment, Lu Zimei shouted: "Comrades, fight, everything is for victory, rush." ”
After hearing the encouragement of the regimental commander Lu Zimei, the soldiers of the commando team plucked up their courage and carried the fire to the enemy on the opposite bank. Subsequently, other fighters also quickly passed through the Luding Bridge and launched a charge on the opposite bank, and the enemy troops on the opposite bank did not expect that the Red Army could cross the Luding Bridge so quickly, and the head-hugging rats who were beaten for a while were swept away.
After two hours of fierce fighting, the Red Fourth Regiment successfully captured the Luding Bridge and completely destroyed the enemy troops stationed on the opposite bank, which bought more time for the transfer of large troops and completely broke Chiang Kai-shek's idea of annihilating the Red Army along the Dadu River.
Captured by the enemy, returned home to propagate
In July 1935,
The troops entered the barren mountains and wild mountains, and in order to figure out the direction of the road, Lu Zimei led two guards to a nearby village to ask for directions
It so happened that the village was already under the control of the Kuomintang reactionaries, and the whereabouts of Lu Zimei and his party were soon discovered by the enemy and surrounded them. Seeing that it was getting dark, Lu Zimei and the two guards discussed separating and breaking through.
After the breakthrough was successful, Lu Zimei quickly rushed to the garrison of the troops, and saw several figures in the night, Lu Zimei thought that it was the red army's rescue, so he shouted: "Is it the comrades who came to the rescue?" ”
The figure on the other side was stunned at first, and replied with a smile: "It is my comrade who came to arrest you." As soon as Lu Zimei heard that she had met the enemy, she quickly turned her head and ran, but she was still successfully captured by the enemy.
In the face of the interrogation of the enemy,
Lu Zimei only said that he was a man in the Red Army and knew nothing. The enemy saw that he was dressed in rags, and did not look like an official at all, so he slowly believed his words. This group of enemies did not understand the traditions of the Red Army at all, and the Red Army paid attention to eating and living with the soldiers, and could not engage in special treatment, so Lu Zimei, as the regimental commander, naturally dressed the same as the ordinary Red Army.
After being arrested, Lu Zimei lived a life of being a partner for the enemy, and after a long time, this group of Kuomintang soldiers was not strict with Lu Zimei's guards, and Lu Zimei took the opportunity to escape, but at this time it had been more than two months since he was captured, and Lu Zimei could not find a large army at all, and could only return to his hometown in Henan first.
In 1938, Lu Zimei learned from the mouths of the villagers that the Communist Party had established an anti-Japanese revolutionary base in northern Shaanxi, so he took the initiative to go to the confluence, but due to the Japanese blockade of road traffic, Lu Zimei could not reach northern Shaanxi at all.
In the following years, Lu Zimei also went to Dabie Mountain and Xiangxi to look for troops, but during the War of Resistance, the troops had no place to live and had been constantly moving, and Lu Zimei did not find troops.
Repeated searches without results,
Lu Zimei cherished the spirit of revolution everywhere and dedication to the cause of communism, and actively propagated the spirit of communism in her hometown.
In 1947, Henan's hometown was liberated, Lu Zimei was elected as the township chief with many years of experience in the struggle, and in the Battle of Huaihai, Lu Zimei organized a 1500 peasant army to deliver food and ammunition to the Platon Army on the front line.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lu Zimei repeatedly reflected the situation to his superiors and asked to restore his party membership, but due to the long history, Zhao Bosheng, who originally submitted the application for Lu Zimei to join the party, has died, and the organization cannot define Lu Zimei's identity, and can only delay it again and again.
Lu Zimei
In 1979, Lu Zimei was seriously ill, and her left leg was unable to walk normally because of the shrapnel left over from the war in the early years, and in the last few years of her life, the only thing Lu Zimei wanted to do was to be recognized by the party.
In August of that year, Lu Zimei, with the support of her daughter, ran from her hometown in Henan to the Lanzhou Military Region to look for xiao Hua, a former comrade-in-arms, hoping to get his help.
After learning that Xiao Hua was not there, Lu Zimei could only take her daughter to the guest house of the troops and wait. At night, General Xiao Hua hurriedly returned from the company to the military region, and when he learned that his old comrade-in-arms was waiting for him at the guest house, General Xiao Hua rushed to the guest house without stopping.
Xiao Hua
The two met and looked at each other. General Xiao Hua suppressed tears and said, "It's you, Old Lu, why did you come to me now, I thought you were dead?"
For the questions of the old comrades-in-arms, Lu Zimei smiled bitterly and did not speak. After the two sides sat down, Lu Zimei told General Xiao Hua about his experience over the years and explained his intentions. After general Xiao Hua listened to the experience of his old comrades-in-arms over the years, he burst into tears, and then took the initiative to write a letter of certification to Lu Zimei and found a military doctor to see the old comrades-in-arms.
In 1982, the Shenqiu County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to restore Lu Zimei's status as a soldier in the Red Army and provide corresponding treatment according to the discharge of the Red Army. And the following year, Lu Zimei was restored as a party member
In 1985, Lu Zimei left in a hospital bed with a smile, and at the last moment of his life, the old Red Army did not carry a little regret. In the last two years of his life, Lu Zimei's former comrades-in-arms visited the hospital one after another, including Yuan Bloody, a veteran who introduced Lu Zimei to the party.
Although he did not complete the revolutionary road in its entirety, this old party member still held the principle that every post was shining, carried forward the spirit of Marxism, and dedicated his life to the cause of communism.