On October 1, 1949, New China was officially founded, and the next day, the Guangzhou Liberation Campaign sounded the clarion call. This time, our army's opponent was the remnants of the Kuomintang who held 150,000 troops, Yu Hanmou, and the nationalist army had exhausted its strength, and the 150,000-strong army had all collapsed in just twelve days, and our army officially liberated Guangzhou.
In order to celebrate this event, the newspaper published photos of Ye Jianying, Chen Geng and Deng Hua, the great heroes who liberated Guangzhou at that time. Once it spread, the whole country celebrated. However, what no one expected was that Deng Xianshi, a small Red Army soldier of the 46th Army of the People's Liberation Army, had been crying at this photo published in the newspaper.
The comrade-in-arms came to ask him what was wrong, and he took out the photo that he had treasured for many years, and the photo showed his father Deng Duohua, who was only one word away from Deng Hua. The pixels of the photos at that time were far from enough, and the two photos were not very clear to see people's facial features, but from the perspective of body shape, Deng Hua and Deng Xianshi's father, Deng Duohua, were indeed very similar.
The comrade-in-arms said to him:
"He is the commander of the Battle of Guangzhou, the senior chief!" You haven't seen your dad in more than twenty years, so don't daydream! ”
Deng Xianshi said this like a dream, but he still felt that General Deng Hua in the newspaper was very kind, which gave him a sense of familiarity that he had never felt before. He still read and read the newspaper, and when he thought of his father, whom he had never met, tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.
When the instructors of the 46th Army heard that Deng Xianshi was depressed all the time, he reminded him:
"Commander Deng Hua, you may not be blessed to be his son, but if you really want to understand, you can write him a letter!"
Deng Xianshi was clicked again, so he took up his pen and began to write letters, thinking about it before and after thinking about it, he wrote heavily: Dear Commander Deng Hua, are you my father?
This letter went through many times before it reached the hands of Commander Deng Hua, Deng Hua opened the letter and looked at it, his heart directly mentioned the throat eyes, and when he saw the fallen Deng Xianshi, was it not his eldest son who had been lost for many years!
First, the love of children is light, and the family and the country are heavy
When Deng Xianshi made this incident, he had to start with Deng Hua himself.
Deng Hua was born in a small village in Hunan Province at the end of the Qing Dynasty, his family is a scholarly Mendi, in education is very willing to spend money for Deng Hua, so Deng Hua has read books since he was a child, and he is a relatively well-established person among young people. Since the age of fifteen, he has frequently participated in the patriotic movement, and at the age of seventeen, he joined the Communist Party, and his life goal is very simple, and he is bound to find a path suitable for Chinese him.
When Deng Hua was seventeen years old, it coincided with the Ma-Ri Incident, and he could only return home temporarily, waiting for the opportunity to return to the battlefield in the future. That is, in this year, he obeyed the orders of his parents and married Qiu Qing'e, a fellow villager, as his wife. Although the two are matchmakers, they get along very well after marriage, and Deng Hua has thought at this time that this is the woman he will accompany for the rest of his life.
But in the midst of chaos, children's private feelings are not tolerated. Less than three years after the two were tender and sweet, Deng Hua decided to participate in the Shonan Uprising, and followed Chen Yi and Zhu De to Jinggangshan to contribute to the Jinggangshan revolutionary base area.
At this time, Deng Xianshi had just been born, and Deng Hua gave him this name in the hope that he would be like a sage, have excellent and beautiful character, and live in a poetic world all his life. Leaving his wife and son was a very difficult choice for Deng Hua. But he thought that if he wanted the next generation to live in a poetic world, he should start his work from his generation, so he gritted his teeth and decided to go away.
At that time, he swore to his wife Qiu Qing'e:
"If I can keep this life, I will definitely come back." If I die, I will ask someone to bring you a message, and you will not have to be a widow for me, but you should seek your good fortune. ”
After saying this, Deng Hua left without looking back.
After Deng Hua ascended Jinggang Mountain, he began to rush forward without a life, and the first thing that made him famous on the battlefield was the Ping-type Guan Dajie. At that time, he commanded the battle together with Yang Dezhi, the commander of the 685th Regiment, and their opponent was the top Itagaki Division in the Japanese Kou.
At present, Deng Hua did not have much possibility of winning this battle, but he just won it and annihilated more than 1,000 Japanese, which was the first huge victory won by the Chinese Red Army since the War of Resistance Against Japan. It was this battle that made Deng Hua begin to rise in the reputation of the Eighth Route Army, and from then on, no one in the Chinese Red Army did not know Deng Hua.
2. Deng Hua has twenty-two sons, and his life and death are uncertain
In the War of Resistance Against Japan, Deng Hua was very handy in fighting sparrow battles, and it seemed that no matter how weak the army was handed over to him, he could fight a very handsome battle in which the weak won the strong. In the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region, give him a company of troops, and he will be able to contain a total of three thousand Japanese troops. His military command ability was so strong that as soon as rikou encountered Deng Hua on the battlefield, he began to suffer from headaches.
In 1949, the Party Central Committee decided to unify and reorganize the Red Army, at which time the Northeast Field Army was changed to the Fourth Field Army as we later became known. The four fields were divided into four corps, the four corps of 12, 13, 14, and 15 respectively, and how the commander of the four fields made a choice, also made the Party Central Committee think for a long time.
In the end, relying on personal ability and merit, the 15th Corps was handed over to Deng Hua, after all, in the former Northeast Field Army, Deng Hua was already the commander of the 7th Column and the commander of the 44th Army, and the soldiers below were very convinced of his ability.
In the Battle of Western Liaoning, he once commanded the 7th Column to run 90 kilometers overnight, and in just 17 days, he directly captured five cities in western Liaoning, and the strength of the three divisions and regiments of the Kuomintang was all annihilated by Deng Hua, creating a good story of invincibility and invincibility.
In the subsequent campaign to liberate Guangzhou, It was also Yu Hanmou's 150,000 troops who directly turned into the end of the crossbow and were destroyed in an instant. It was this battle that gave Deng Hua the opportunity to recognize his son Deng Xianshi.
Deng Hua had no place to live in the southern conquests and northern wars all these years, and there was no condition at all to take Qiu Qing'e and Deng Xianshi to his side, and Qiu Qing'e had already fallen seriously ill and died in 1938.
After Deng Hua received the news, he also thought about taking Deng Xianshi to his side to raise him, but the transportation was inconvenient, and he still had to fight. After the War of Resistance Against Japan, before it stopped, the War of Liberation began again, deng Hua only felt that he was rushing to one battlefield after another, there was no time to rest, and the idea of receiving Deng Xianshi to his side was delayed.
Deng Hua occasionally saw the new recruits in the army, and he would also think that he still had a son of the same age in his hometown, but what this son looked like, he couldn't figure it out, even if he was still alive, Deng Hua didn't know.
On Qiu Qing'e's side, she had not received news from Deng Hua for many years, and she had long thought that Deng Hua had been killed on the battlefield. Deng Xianshi has not seen his father since he was a child, and the role of his father has always been missing during his growth, which has also become his lifelong regret. All his father had left him was a blurry photograph. He grew up looking at this picture, and when his peers could snuggle in his father's arms, he could only look at the photo and fantasize about how warm it should be to snuggle in his father's arms.
After Qiu Qing'e's death, Deng Xianshi's regret for his father was even deeper, and he once heard his mother say that his father was a soldier who was loyal to the country and a high-ranking officer, which also made Deng Xianshi, who was young at that time, also have a belief in joining the army, and he wanted to become a soldier like his father.
So after Deng Xianshi graduated from Changsha Literature and Art Middle School, he joined the People's Liberation Army that liberated Changsha at that time. He thought that if his father was still alive and the two really had a father-son relationship, they would eventually meet again on the battlefield!
Third, when father and son meet, the tiger's eyes are tearful
As soon as Deng Hua received Deng Xianshi's letter, he was already like an arrow in his heart, and he was only eager to fly to his son's side to see him. When he left home, he was still ignorant of Deng Duohua, now he was the commander of a large army, and Deng Hua, who had been tempered by war, had long been a human being, and he did not know whether he could still recognize his son Deng Xianshi when he saw him again.
Coincidentally, at this time, Chen Geng had just returned to the headquarters in Guangzhou, and he happened to have two nephews serving as soldiers in the 46th Army in Hengyang, Hunan, and Chen Geng wanted to send the chief of staff who was on a business trip in Hengyang to take his nephew over. When he talked about this matter, Deng Hua was suddenly very excited, and he said to Chen Geng:
"My long-lost son is also in the 46th Army!"
After understanding the ins and outs, he calmed down and said:
"This is not right, when I get there, I will ask the chief of staff to take your son and let your grandfather and son have a meeting that spans twenty-two years!"
Chen Geng did exactly what he said, and did what he said. In less than half a month, a jeep stopped at the entrance of the headquarters of the 15th Corps, and sitting on it were the chief of staff and Chen Geng's two nephews, as well as Deng Xianshi. At that time, as soon as the political commissars and directors of the 15th Corps heard that Deng Hua had a long-lost son, they all rushed to the door of the headquarters to see what Deng Huasheng's child looked like.
Deng Xianshi got out of the car timidly, looked at a bunch of people around him, and almost scared him back. Everyone was wearing military uniforms, but Deng Xianshi still recognized his father at a glance, he was slightly more blessed than in the photo, but his figure was still straight. The first time Deng Xianshi saw Deng Hua himself, that sense of familiarity inexplicably surged into her heart. For the first time, he believed that flesh and bones were connected, and it turned out that there would really be some induction.
Deng Hua was already in tears at this time, and he strode towards Deng Xianshi and embraced his son, whom he had not seen for twenty-two years.
If it were not for the war, Deng Xianshi would have been able to have such a hug from her father since she was a child. Why should a hug span twenty-two years? But fortunately, his father Deng Hua has used his flesh and blood to create an era of peace for him, so that he can truly live in a poetic world!
Text/Lamb
References: "Deng Hua's Military Record", Chen Junyuanye, Hou Yuechao, Zeng Junkai