If a person wants to achieve great things, he must learn to retreat to advance, retreat is only to better accumulate energy, in order to better advance, among the founding generals of the mainland, there is a major general Li Shuiqing who deeply understands this truth, originally he had the opportunity to become a military commander, but for a better future, he chose to give up.
In 1918, Li Shuiqing was born in Jishui County, Jiangxi Province, joined the Red Army in 1930, he started as a headquarters attendant, grew up step by step, and by the time of the Long March, he had become an instructor of the three companies of the thirteenth regiment of the First Red Army.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as a battalion political instructor for the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and during this period, the famous Battle of Pingxingguan occurred, and Li Shuiqing also led his troops to participate. In this battle, Li Shuiqing personally killed a Japanese officer, and in the later part of his life, every time he recalled the scene at that time, he was very excited.
After the Battle of Pingxingguan began, the Japanese army launched a fierce attack on the position that Li Shuiqing was responsible for, and the battle soon turned into a position war, the Japanese army pulled out its bayonet and engaged in a white-knife battle with our army, Li Shuiqing was always brave in battle, just after he cut down several Japanese soldiers in a row, a Japanese officer came to him, Li Shuiqing looked at his muscular body, and immediately became cautious, because he knew that this officer was different from other Japanese soldiers, which could be seen from his posture of holding the knife steadily.
Just when the Japanese officer was furious and pulled out his bayonet to stab him, Li Shuiqing first used the large knife in his hand to shake it falsely, and then pulled out the gun in his hand and aimed it at the Japanese officer's chest.
For this matter, Li Shuiqing later recalled that when the Japanese army invaded China, it never talked about fairness, and there was no fairness to fight with them.
In his life, there was another thing that made him feel supremely honored, that is, his division became the benchmark of the founding ceremony and walked in the forefront.
In 1949, before the founding ceremony, the chairman personally ordered Li Shuiqing's 199th Division and asked him to select the best soldiers to participate in the founding ceremony. After receiving the task, Li Shuiqing quickly threw himself into training, and after several months of hard training, his division was highly praised by the marshal when he was inspected in advance by Zhu Laozong, and on the day of the founding ceremony, the uniform movements of this unit and the energetic appearance surprised everyone present, and the 199th Division was also rated as the first division of the founding ceremony.
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Li Shuiqing entered the Korean War with the army, and he made many military achievements in the battlefield, and soon became the deputy commander of the 67th Army. After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, because of the unfortunate death of Li Xiang, commander of the 67th Army, the state wanted him to serve as a military commander. But he politely refused. The reason is that he wants to return to school, learn cultural knowledge, and make a greater contribution to the country. The state thought his ideas were forward-looking, and they were not reluctant.
Later, he entered the Nanjing Military Academy and graduated with considerable honors.
After leaving the school, he successively served as the commander of the 67th Army, the deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region, the commander of the Second Artillery Corps, and later joined the Central Military Commission, making outstanding contributions to the country. If he did not choose to continue learning at that time, there would be no later achievements, which is worth learning.
On August 31, 2007, the general died in Beijing at the age of 89.