"Wen" is mostly used to describe the state of softness, as opposed to "wu"; while "Qing" has the meaning of "clean" and "silent". Therefore, the name "Wenqing" sounds more like a reader who does not like to be noisy and clean.
However, Li Wenqing and his people are very different from this. Although he was honest and upright, he was not a weak scholar, but a predatory soldier.
In 1955, the Republic issued a list of the first major generals of the founding of the country, with a total of 1,042 people. Of the more than a thousand people, nine generals lost their eyes because of the war, and Li Wenqing was one of them.
From officially joining the Red Army in 1930 to the founding of the Republic in 1949, Li Wenqing fought countless battles large and small in the past two decades. From an ordinary Red Army soldier to later the commander of the military region, the road that Li Wenqing walked was very difficult for people to imagine.
When we turn the title page of history and go back to the youth of this old hero, we find that this road began with a feud that did not share the heavens.
In 1910, Li Wenqing was born into a rural family in Songzi County, Hubei Province. The family had little land, and in order to support their family, like most peasants before liberation, Li Wenqing's family could only go to the landlord's fields to work in exchange for grain.
In 1926, Li Xinren, a large landowner in Songzi County, leased li Wenqing's family seven acres of land and three rooms. Who would have thought that these acres of land were all "slag land" that was difficult to feed. No matter how long Li Wenqing's family worked hard, they could not save enough grain to survive.
There is only one child in the family, Li Wenqing, who is sparsely populated and understaffed to work. Therefore, his father told Li Wenqing about his family affairs so that he could get married and have children as soon as possible. The other party is Li Wenqing's cousin, surnamed Zhou, because she is the smallest in the family, so everyone calls her "sister".
Because the two families were relatives, the Zhou family did not let the Li family pay the dowry money, and the wedding was not a big deal, and the two families only had a meal together, and it was regarded as the completion of the marriage. Shortly after the marriage, Zhou Yimei, under the introduction of Uncle Li Wenqing, went to work as a maid in the home of the second young master of the landlord, Li Xiwu.
Although Li Wenqing and his cousin are not a loving couple who are like Mandarin ducks and glue like paint, the two have known each other since childhood, have a good relationship, and live in harmony.
However, the good times did not last long, and soon after the marriage, the two were forced to separate the two places.
At that time, it happened to encounter a rare drought in Songzi County, and the crops were not harvested, and the whole family was about to starve to death. In order to make a living, Li Wenqing had to run alone to the home of Old Master Wang in Linxian County to do long-term work.
Here the mountains are far away, more than a hundred miles away from home, Li Wenqing rarely has the opportunity to go home. In order to earn money, he got up early in the master's house to work greedily, herding cattle, farming, and carrying coolies, and he did everything. Despite this, due to the harshness of the host family, Li Wenqing can only take home only a few hangings.
Li Wenqing was driven out after working in the Wang family for more than a year, and he had nowhere to go but to return to his hometown.
Li Wenqing did not expect that after returning home, there would be even greater bad news waiting for him.
When he returned to the village, he remembered his wife, who was still working at the Second Young Master's house. So Li Wenqing went in the direction of Li Xiwu's house, planning to take his sister home and reunite the husband and wife. As a result, when he got there, Li Wenqing didn't see his sister at all, and he was driven out by the Li family.
After returning home, Li Wenqing's father told him. It turned out that the Second Young Master took advantage of Li Wenqing's departure from home and forcibly occupied Zhou Yimei, who was working in his home.
Hearing this, the enraged Li Wenqing turned into the kitchen, picked up the kitchen knife on the board, and immediately ran out of the house, planning to settle accounts with Li Xiwu.
Fortunately, on the way, Li Wenqing was stopped by a great uncle of the Family. Uncle Had already heard about this matter, so he advised Li Wenqing not to be tough and go to the Third Young Master to intercede, so that maybe his sister could come back.
Who knows, the Third Young Master and his brother are all the way to the goods. As soon as Li Wenqing stepped into the gate, he blasted out.
Li Wenqing was angry and hateful, so he secretly swore in his heart: The revenge of taking his wife is not shared in heaven, and one day, Lao Tzu will definitely slaughter Li Xiwu!
At that time, the Red Army was making a revolution in Songzi County, specifically cracking down on the evil land lords. Li Wenqing, who learned of the Red Army's deeds of eliminating evil for the people, longed for it, so Li Wenqing stayed at the entrance of the village every day to inquire about the whereabouts of the Red Army.
In 1930, the troops led by He Long happened to pass by the village next door to Li Wenqing's hometown, and when Li Wenqing heard about it, he immediately rushed over, only to see that the Red Army troops were crossing the river, so he also followed. In this way, Li Wenqing became an ordinary soldier in the first company of the eleventh regiment of the Red Second Army.
In the second year of the battlefield, Li Wenqing almost made a "glorious sacrifice." It was during a campaign against encirclement and suppression in Hubei, when Li Wenqing was seriously wounded and dying, almost being treated like a corpse. Fortunately, He Long found Li Wenqing, and he was saved.
In 1932, Li Wenqing fought the enemy to the death at the Waji Temple, and his right eye was unfortunately grazed by the shell skin. But he simply bandaged it and then went back into battle. After that, Li Wenqing's right eye was visually impaired. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Wenqing was completely blind in his right eye and could only rely on his left eye to identify things. That's how the name "One-Eyed General" came from.
Despite the greater impact of the visual impairment, Li Wenqing was still one of the fierce generals under He Long.
During the Long March, during the long journey of 25,000 miles, Li Wenqing was a pioneer and was wounded more than seven times. In the Battle of Wawutang, he and his comrade-in-arms He Bingyan led the death squad to charge the front, opening a bloody road for the large army at a critical moment.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Wenqing, as the commander of the Qiyi Regiment, commanded the soldiers to annihilate more than 800 Japanese troops in the Qihui area. The battle has long been seen as an example of the massive annihilation of Japanese troops in the plains. Subsequently, Li Wenqing was promoted all the way to the chief of staff of the Second Military Subdistrict of the Jinsui Military Region because of his many military achievements, and at the same time served as the commander of the Second Military Subdistrict of the Yanbei Military Region.
During this period, Li Wenqing led his generals to open up the anti-Japanese base area behind the enemy in Daqingshan, and then went to many places in Jinzhong and launched many contests with the Japanese army invading China, all of which achieved good results.
During the Liberation War, Li Wenqing was promoted to chief of staff. In 1947, in the Battle of Yanqing, Li Wenqing led more than a thousand people to capture Qinglu City in one fell swoop, annihilating more than 4,100 Japanese Kou people.
After the founding of the Republic, Li Wenqing took up his post in Sichuan Province, and was promoted to commander of the military region. After that, Li Wenqing participated in the Campaign to Liberate the Great Southwest, the Sino-Indian Border Operation, and the Self-Defense Counterattack Operation against Vietnam, and made outstanding achievements.
In 1952, Li Wenqing returned to his hometown of Songzi County to visit his relatives, but his parents had long since disappeared.
Li Wenqing inquired everywhere and learned that since Li Wenqing had followed the Red Army on his long march away from home, the second young master Li Xiwu, in order to retaliate against Li Wenqing's family, had burned down the Li family's house and driven Li Wenqing's parents out of the Li family river.
Li Wenqing was originally the only son in the family, and after he left, his parents had no one to rely on. After being expelled from the village, Li's father and mother Li could only live by begging. After Li Wenqing returned to his hometown, he sent people around to inquire about his parents' news, but it was fruitless.
When the culprit, Li Xiwu, learned that Li Wenqing was about to return to his hometown, he was very frightened, fearing that he would retaliate against him. So the day before Li Wenqing returned to Songzi, he hanged himself at home.
Twenty years later, when Li Wenqing stepped into the dilapidated old house on the banks of the Li family river, there was only dusty furniture in the house. The dimly lit room was empty except him. Looking at this familiar old house, Li Wenqing fell into contemplation.
Just as his thoughts were getting farther and farther away, the old wooden door was suddenly opened, and before he could turn around, the people who came were already kneeling. Li Wenqing turned his head to see that this was his former wife, Zhou Yimei. I heard that after Li Xiwu was tired of Zhou Yimei, he sold her to someone else as a wife, and the man next to her should be her husband.
Sister Zhou knelt in front of Li Wenqing, crying incessantly, trembling and begging Li Wenqing's forgiveness.
In fact, Li Wenqing had never had a grudge against Sister Zhou. What made him indignant at the beginning was Li Xiwu's arbitrariness and roguery. After staying in the army for so many years and seeing many scenes of life and death, these past grievances have long been the clouds of the past for Li Wenqing.
Li Wenqing bent down to help Zhou Yumei and his wife and said, "The fault is not yours, you are also a victim." ”
Text/Genki Girl QMQ
Resources:
1. "The Smoke of Gunfire Dissipates, and The Grievances of History Drift with the Wind- Li Hai, the Eldest Son of General Li Wenqing, Talks About His Father", Xiao Xingwen
2. "Chu Tian General Star Archives No. 007 - Major General Li Wenqing", Zhang Junjun