In the history of our army, there are many talents in the four wildernesses, and today, I will introduce you to a little-known "foreign commander" of the four wildernesses, in the eyes of his son Liu Weidong, his father Liu Zhen, which is quite dashing
"In Harbin in the northeast, my father was extremely spirited, wore a watch, wore a suit, lived in a White Russian Western-style building, and ate Soviet Western food. Fighting the war on the front line command, usually return to Harbin for a meeting. During breaks, dancing, hunting, taking pictures, everything. Loved driving around on a motorcycle."
Liu Zhen is Hubei Xiao touching, born in 1915, when he was a child, he let go of cattle, but also came over a hard day, he joined the revolution at the age of 15, and later became a member of the Red Army, although Liu Zhen was born poor, but he had obvious requirements for his own clothing, he wore clothes, although the Red Army was very poor at that time, but no matter how poor he was, he did not wear torn clothes, if the clothes were torn, he also had to sew them neatly and neatly.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Zhen served as the political commissar of the 688 Regiment of the 344th Brigade, and once he asked the brigade commander Xu Haidong for a leave of absence to take a trip to Taiyuan, Xu Haidong approved it, and after Liu Zhen arrived in Taiyuan, he bought a watch, a pen, and a Japanese camera, and when he returned, Xu Haidong scolded him, at that time, the Eighth Route Army generally did not have much money, and now Liu Zhen still bought something that was not too useful, naturally he was scolded, even so, Liu Zhen was not annoyed, nor did he refute it.
After the days got better, Liu Zhen's taste in life came up again, he wore a suit, clothes and jackets, and homemade suspender pants to wear, comrades-in-arms looked at it, they all marveled, good you Liu Zhen, is simply a "foreign commander" from this spread, Liu Zhen has the nickname of foreign commander, when in Harbin, Liu Zhen is interested in all new things, all kinds of foreign gadgets, such as motorcycles, cars and so on.
Liu Zhen likes to drive, but there are often many "car accidents" incidents, once, Liu Zhen driving a motorcycle on an outing, suddenly encountered a pedestrian who jumped out of the side of the road, the general looked at it, turned quickly, but unexpectedly drove the car into the ditch, a moment of anger, Liu Zhen even did not want the car and left.
In 1949, when the Siye Division went south, Liu Zhen was then the commander of the 39th Army, when he was ordered to go to South China and other places, according to his level, it was equipped with a driver, but Liu Zhen was happy for a moment, and before he had driven a car, he volunteered to take the deputy commanders Wu Xinquan and Li Xueshan to the south, and when the car drove to the Xuefeng Mountain in Western Hunan Province, there was an accident.
Xuefeng Mountain is more than 1500 meters above sea level, the mountain road is rugged, for such a novice driver, the difficulty is very large, General Liu Zhen does not believe in evil, he wants to drive up, just when he and his comrades-in-arms have a laugh, suddenly the car stopped, quickly backwards, the people on the car were shocked to sweat, but behind the cliff, this down, not crushed to pieces?
At this critical moment, the car suddenly touched a stone on the side of the road, this stone made a great contribution, blocking the way for the car to retreat, at this time, the generals on the car hurried down, everyone was surprised and happy, this scene, they made up a song for Liu Zhen."
Liu Junchang, highly skilled, drove up the mountain and ran backwards, not a stone big brother Bao, all reimbursed under the Baizhang Cliff"
Since this incident, Liu Zhen finally woke up and thought that he was not the material for driving, so he never touched the steering wheel again, and in 1955, Liu Zhen was awarded the rank of general.
In his later years, General Liu Zhen was still personable, in 1992, Liu Zhen often went to Guangzhou to play, he was wearing a red washed gauze jacket, a red gold tie, Italian leather shoes, bystanders, they thought it was a returned old overseas Chinese.