On September 27, 1970, founding general Li Tianyou closed his eyes permanently in Beijing. The doctor saw that the electrocardiogram was in a slow straight line and hurried to inform a small secretary at the door:
"Quick! Go and inform the Party Central Committee, General Li Tianyou, did not save it! ”
At this time, Zhou Enlai was in the office, the nib of the pen was constantly sliding, and he was troubled by tedious work. When the secretary came in to inform him of the news, he saw the pen in his hand, revealing a painful face. The secretary was a little embarrassed, but when he saw this highly respected prime minister, tears fell from the corners of his eyes.
Zhou Enlai said:
The secretary comforted Zhou Enlai:
"Prime Minister, you have to mourn, and your body bones are also very important!"
At this time, Zhou Enlai could still listen to it and mourned Li Tianyou to himself. His friendship with Li Tianyou was only established after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it was already so painful. He suddenly remembered Peng Dehuai and Deng Xiaoping, who had already known Li Tianyou on the battlefield, and if he knew the news of the death of his old friend at this time, he did not know what kind of pain it was!
Li Tianyou, who can attract many big people to mourn for him, was awarded the first Red Star Medal by Mr. Peng at the age of 19, and the first time Deng Xiaoping saw him on the battlefield, he knew that he would become a great instrument in the future. He remained in the Soviet Union for six years of the War of Resistance, but in 1955 he was awarded the rank of founding general. What did such a legend experience?
First, the little devil head, who was not blessed by God, began to kill a bloody road in the battlefield
Li Tianyou was born in 1914 in Gaopozhai, Guangxi Province, there are five brothers and sisters in the family, in the chaotic years, the parents cherished this son very much, so they named him Tianyou, hoping that his life would be blessed by heaven. Although the name is good, Li Tianyou did not live a life of being blessed by heaven, but instead said it himself:
"Everything I have come to fight for is my own life, and Heaven has never blessed me!"
Li Tianyou had read private school for two years when he was a child, and he knew some words, but providing for his children to read was really a burden for parents who farmed the land, and Li Tianyou did not want his parents to bear too much of a tired burden, so he gave up his studies and began to follow his parents to herd cattle and cultivate the land.
Growing up, he learned some fist and foot kung fu with a big brother who fled the wilderness, and at that time Li Tianyou was very interested in martial arts, so he practiced hard day and night, and soon achieved a little success, and also created a set of boxing techniques. After having a good figure, he began to punish the bullies on the street, and he was never very polite to those who bullied the poor.
His parents heard that he was always out of trouble, afraid that he had really become a street, and they chanted to him every day, hoping that he could follow the so-called right path. At that time, Li Tianyou also had the idea of going out and breaking in, and the young man did not long to live a life like his parents, so he turned around and packed up a few clothes and went to serve as a soldier for Li Mingrui in Guangxi.
Li Mingrui rejected Houlu, a high-ranking official whom Chiang Kai-shek wanted to give him, and went further and further down his revolutionary road. After the warlord melee between Jiang Gui and Gui, the Gui clan was directly expelled from Guangxi, and Li Mingrui's troops became more and more difficult to fight, and his anti-Chiang war ended in failure. There were not many people willing to stay by his side at that time, li Tianyou was one of them, and this began to change his life.
In 1929, Deng Xiaoping established a cooperative relationship with Li Mingrui, and Li Tianyou also joined the Communist Party and began to revolutionize the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In the same year, the Youjiang Rebellion broke out, and the Communist Party officially established a workers' and peasants' armed territory in Guangxi, which included a credit to Li Tianyou, who was also in the ranks of the uprising, when he was only 15 years old.
In the Youjiang Rebellion, 15-year-old Li Tianyou did not consider his own life and death at all on the battlefield, but just rushed forward with one heart, pursuing the belief that killing one is one, killing a pair will return to the original. In the battle of defending the city and alley, more than two thousand bandits tightly surrounded Li Tianyou's troops, but they did not see that he was afraid in the slightest, but instead continued to occupy the high ground, and once the enemy charged, he retreated once, until the enemy did not dare to commit another offense.
Moreover, while engaging in the ideological work of the common people, Li Tianyou, a young man, was even more blunt, shouting at the people who had no interest in recruiting soldiers at all:
"Comrades listen to me, my name is Li Tianyou, my parents hope that God can bless me, but at this time in the chaotic world, everyone can't eat enough, clothing and warmth, how can God bless everyone!" If you want a way to live, you still have to rely on yourself! Today the Red Army is in front of you, the moment to change your destiny is in front of you, do you still plan to wait for God to remember you! ”
As soon as these words were said, the speed at which ordinary people signed up for the Red Army's conscription rose steadily. When Deng Xiaoping saw this scene, he showed a meaningful smile. He said to his comrades:
"This little devil's head will become a great instrument in the future!"
After saying this, Deng Xiaoping made an exception and promoted him to deputy company commander of the special agent company, and Li Tianyou's promotion road officially began.
Second, the company commander of the little tiger team, holding a knife in one hand and a gun in the other
Li Tianyou's daring to rush and dare to break through is well-known on the battlefield, and comrades in the same company have seen him rushing into the enemy army and have always called him "Little Tiger Company Commander." But this little tiger was on the battlefield and was wounded many times.
In February 1930, Li Tianyou was injured in the foot during the Battle of Long'an, but he still took the lead in the charge and ignored his injuries. Subsequently, he also directly took advantage of the battle situation to fight on the outer line, and was wounded and advanced into Guizhou. By May, at the Battle of Ma'anshan, the old wounds had not healed, and new wounds had been added, and the entire footboard had been shot through three times, but he was still strong and began to go north with the Red Army, and no one knew how he had supported it.
In the Battle of Ganzhou in 1932, he still did not withdraw from the battle in the case of three shots in a row, but instead relied on himself to hold the steel knife in one hand and the machine gun in the other, close-quarters slashing and long-range headshots, and won the battle.
As Li Tianyou suffered more injuries, the greater his exploits became. When he advanced into Guizhou in 1930, he was promoted from deputy company commander to company commander, and then in Guizhou he captured a large number of weapons and ammunition, as well as more than 10,000 yuan of real gold and silver, and even covered the shift of the positions of the chief and important organs, he has changed from company commander to deputy regiment commander, and then to regiment commander.
Until the time of the Eastern Expedition to Fujian, he took the order to gnaw down the hard bone of the enemy's 366 regiment, and even Peng Dehuai was touched by his military command ability and directly awarded him a third-class red star medal, at this time Li Tianyou was not yet 20 years old. The so-called young heroes are like this.
By the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, Li Tianyou was already the commander of the Fifth Division, and the enemy's nine charge was all blocked by Li Tianyou, in short, if the enemy wanted to win, he could only step over his body. At the time of the Long March, Li Tianyou was already the chief of the operations section of the headquarters, and Li Tianyou was present in the battles of crossing the Red River and flying over the River.
However, at the time of the War of Resistance Against Japan, it was rare to hear from Li Tianyou, except for the initial Ping-type Guan Dajie and his participation, he was almost absent from the anti-Japanese battlefield.
Third, the first tiger general on the battlefield of liberation, and one taiping in 100,000 mountains
The reason why Li Tianyou was absent from the anti-Japanese battlefield was related to the injuries on his body. He charged forward on the battlefield, completely ignoring it, and regarded himself as an iron beast. But he was not beaten with iron after all, and the old diseases of his body recurred repeatedly, and he quickly fell. At that time, the medical conditions in china were very limited, and after thinking about it, the party organization decided to send him to the Soviet Union for treatment, and at the same time, it could also allow him to enter the Frunze Military Academy for further study, so at the time of the War of Resistance, there was no Li Tianyou.
By the time he returned to China, the War of Resistance had come to an end, but the War of Liberation soon began. Therefore, many people cannot understand why a soldier who is absent from the anti-Japanese battlefield can qualify as a founding father, and that is naturally because of his contribution to the liberation battlefield.
The battlefield of liberation is no better than the battlefield of anti-Japanese resistance, guerrilla warfare is no longer the main mode of combat, and the Kuomintang is good at fighting in large corps, so on the battlefield of liberation, this kind of large-scale army combat method has become the key to victory. Li Tianyou studied in the Soviet Union for six years, and this knowledge came in handy at this time. He began by becoming the commander of the First Column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army and was responsible for training soldiers. It was at this time that Li Tianyou's title as the "First Tiger General" of The Four Wilds had already spread.
In the Siping Offensive, Li Tianyou annihilated more than 10,000 enemy troops, and summed up the offensive techniques and began to promote them in the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army. In the Battle of Liaoshen, Li Tianyou once again annihilated 30,000 enemy troops. In the Battle of Pingjin, Li Tianyou annihilated more than 130,000 enemy troops.
These figures sound frightening, not to mention the efforts and pressures that Li Tianyou himself has put into each battle. Without Li Tianyou, a large area of the country would not have been liberated so quickly, after all, the liberation war at the beginning was expected by everyone, it would take more than five years, but in the end, more than three years would have been decided, of which Li Tianyou had a great credit.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Tianyou did not idle, but began to carry out large-scale suppression of bandits to ensure the people's stable life. In 1950, bandits in Guangxi carried out up to 40 attacks on our army, but under the command of Li Tianyou, none of the bandits succeeded. In addition, Li Tianyou was also merciless when he launched a general attack on the bandits, and nearly 40,000 bandits were directly killed at gunpoint, and since then the 100,000 mountains in Guangxi have returned to tranquility, and the people have no longer suffered from this bandit.
No one ever thought that a small teenager who came out of GaopoZhai in Guangxi Province would return China's great rivers and rivers to a prosperous taiping decades later. It is precisely because of Li Tianyou's many meritorious deeds that Zhou Enlai will be sad when he hears the news of his death. All he did for the people should have bought him a long life and good health. It is indeed a pity to return to heaven at the age of 56.
Text/Lamb
References: "Guangxi Historical Celebrity - Li Tianyou", Journal of the Party School of the CPC Guilin Municipal Committee