Taiyue fiercely promoted Chu Daming first. Chu Daming, this name, in today's readers' impressions, has no fame, but this warrior was the premier fierce general under General Chen Geng at that time, known for being good at fighting hard battles, and General Chen once praised:
Taiyue was fierce and pushed Chu Daming first.
In 1947, in
Battle of Fenxiao In the middle of the street village
In the middle, Chu Daming, as a deputy brigade commander, in order to boost morale when the troops were frustrated, he moved his headquarters forward to a position 60 meters away from the enemy, and was hit in the chest by the enemy's heavy machine guns, and died heroically, at the age of 32. Previously, Chu Daming had been wounded 28 times, with as many as 62 large and small wounds, and was rated as a "special combat hero".
When the bad news came, Chen Geng shed tears of grief, which was also the second time in his life, he waved his pen to the Central Military Commission and wrote a telegram:
Central Military Commission: Comrade Chu Daming is 32 years old, a native of Henan, joined the Party in 1931, and is currently the deputy brigade commander of the 10th Brigade of our column. He struggled hard for the cause of the party and the people for 16 years, was wounded more than 20 times in glory, and in each battle he was a pioneer and a soldier, regardless of his life, and his heroic spirit of sacrifice will always be admired by the whole army, a combat hero of our army, and a great role in improving the fighting style of the troops. Unfortunately, he made a glorious sacrifice in the Battle of Fenxiao, which was indeed a great loss to our party, and the whole army was very sorry for him.
Thanks
1947.2.4
Since then, the Central Military Commission has specially awarded Chu Daming the title of "Special Combat Hero", which is the second time he has received this honor, but the hero is buried in the place where he fought and can never wake up again.
The hero's achievements and bravery were widely known in that era, but before his sacrifice, there was a strange relationship, which is little known.
On February 8, 1946, in a cemetery on the northwest slope of QuCun Village, Shanxi, one
Officers of the Eighth Route Army,
Armed with a Colt pistol, he chased a woman, who was the deputy brigade commander
Chu Daming
, the woman's name
Zhou Yu
, is his new wife.
Zhou Yu's cape was scattered, and while circling around the grave, he whimpered and cried, and his youthful and sweet face was full of tears. Chu Daming, on the other hand, turned his gun upwards, chasing after him and shouting: "Shoot you, shoot you." ”
The deputy brigadier general wants to shoot and kill people, and is it his wife? Such a major matter, the sentry did not dare to be idle, and quickly reported to the brigade headquarters.
Director of the Political Department
Thunder clouds
Pull up the Brigadier General
Zhou Xihan
, all the way to the cemetery outside the village. When Zhou Yu saw that the savior was coming, he suddenly flashed behind Zhou Xihan, gasping constantly while still crying.
"Old Chu, stop! What are you doing here? Zhou Xihan roared loudly and intimidated Chu Daming.
"Hey, I didn't mean to hurt him, we're having fun!" Chu Daming grinned and put the pistol back into the holster, and it could be seen that just now he really did not want to hurt Zhou Yu, because the safety of the gun was not opened at all.
"Are you kidding me like that?" Zhou Xihan had a serious face, and the bull's eyes were round.
"He's kidding me!" But I don't like jokes! Zhou Yu sensibly gave Chu Daming a round field, and there were tear marks on his face.
Zhou Yu pulled out his legs and ran home, while Zhou Xihan and the others returned to the brigade headquarters, lei Qiyun found two female propaganda team members and asked them to go to Chu Daming's house and talk with Zhou Yu, mainly for fear that she would scare out a good villain and do psychological counseling work.
Chu Daming did not move, he relied on the sunset, facing a small branch 30 meters away, raised his gun and fired three shots in a row, without false fire.
After a few shots, Chu Daming sat on the ground, pulled up a piece of dry grass, and chewed it in his mouth little by little.
After a while, the guard shouted, "Deputy Brigadier General, your sister-in-law told you to go back to dinner!" "Don't go, prepare the horses, let's go to the Twenty-Ninth Regiment!" Chu Daming and the guards galloped all the way to the west and complained to Tian Ya, the commander of the third battalion.
What is bitterness?
"Bitter" in Chu Daming is not satisfied with this marriage at all, he has no love for his wife Zhou Yu, only affection, and his heart is to treat Zhou Yu as a sister.
Propaganda team members Zhang Xuemei and Wang Yueqiao were ordered to come to Zhou Yu's house and chat with them to relieve their boredom. The two young female soldiers, similar to Zhou Yu's age, were eighteen or nineteen-year-old girls, with similar personalities and more heartfelt words. Zhou Yu said with grievance that she couldn't understand why Chu Daming didn't love himself, and since he didn't love himself, why did he marry her?
Strange people, strange answers
On September 9, 1944, the Second Qingfu Campaign was in a white-hot phase, and neither side could eliminate the other for a while and a half, and the casualties were very large.
Chu Daming, commander of the 20th Regiment, commanded the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Companies to launch a general attack on the headquarters of the enemy's ace 72nd Division. Chu Daming liked to go deep into the front line to command in battle, and he believed that a good commander must let the soldiers see the superior chief standing with him, "there will be no greed for life, and the soldiers will have the heart to die", so that morale will be drummed and the battle can be won.
During the battle, an enemy bullet hit Chu Daming's abdomen, and he fell to the ground in response, but only asked the hygienist to simply bandage him until the end of the battle, and he was willing to sit on a stretcher.
At this time, Chu Daming was already in a coma due to excessive blood loss, the wound was infected, and the bumps along the way woke him up from the coma, "Water, water, water....", Chu Daming groaned in a low voice, wanting to drink water. But there is no village in front, no shop in the back, where to get water? Just when the warriors were at a loss, three plainly dressed women passed by, who helped solve Chu Daming's thirst problem and sent Chu Daming to the garrison with the warriors.
After the operation was completed, Chu Daming recuperated in the hospital, and many people came to help take care of the wounded and sick. 17-year-old Zhou Yu was among them, she combed a big black braid, she ran before and after to find rice soup for Chu Daming to drink. The attentive girl, still holding a bowl, used a small wooden spoon to feed Chu Daming porridge little by little.
The medical director is a high-achieving student who graduated from the medical school of Tongji University in Shanghai, the same age as Chu Daming, and she is also a girl who seeks progress.
The love of combat heroes of that era seemed natural
。 When Chu Daming could walk, the medical director accompanied him to the river for a walk, and she boldly proposed that if she could be combined with a hero like Chu Daming, it must be her happiest thing.
Put in the general military, dealing with soldiers, weapons, battlefields all day long, suddenly there is a young and promising girl to confess to herself, not to say that she will be full of promises, at least will consider it carefully, after all, the army of that era, men and women, the soldiers of that era, there is not much chance to encounter this kind of "beautiful thing".
But Chu Daming was not an ordinary person, "Aren't you afraid of being a widow?" This was Chu Daming's first and only reply to the girl.
This sounds reasonable, it is for the woman's consideration, but the medical director who has a high education and good education still has a romantic mood in his bones, "Are you not afraid of being a widow?" This sentence, to her, was so rude, so rude.
When Chu Daming said these words, it was like a basin of ice water for three or nine days, pouring all over the girl's head, making her feel cold!
Warmth, flowers, poetry, sweetness are all nothing, this is not the love he wants, the medical director did not hesitate to stay away from Chu Daming and cut off his thoughts about him.
After the soldiers heard about this incident, they all felt that Deputy Brigadier Chu had done the right thing, soldiers must be prepared for sacrifice, and soldiers must think about women, and they cannot be so selfish. Even after Chen Geng knew about this, he shook his head, smiled and said, "This boy really can't speak." ”
Taking advantage of the opportunity that Chu Daming was still recuperating, the political commissar of the hospital introduced him to a female college student who graduated from Luyi in Yan'an, and she also admired and respected this "Xia Boyang"-style hero of the Military Region and wanted to make love with Chu Daming.
But when she plucked up enough courage to express her love, Chu Daming still jumped out of the sentence "Aren't you afraid of being a widow?" ”。
The girl also left Chu Daming without hesitation, and she felt that this hero was a strange person and lacked the minimum "emotional intelligence".
Fiancée, right next to me
The two "blind dates" failed, Chu Daming's "weird", the people in the hospital all understood thoroughly, and the female doctors and nurses did not want to have half a thought about him. After a long time, people found that There was often a little girl from the countryside around Chu Daming who came to take care of him.
This girl is Zhou Yu, she grinds out sour date noodles at home, plus white noodles and eggs, to make small cakes, fragrant and sweet and appetizing, specially brought to Chu Daming to eat, while she nibbles on black noodle cakes.
She also roasted yam eggs for Chu Daming, washed his face and feet, went to the mountains for him to collect wildflowers, and inserted them in vases bundled with bullet casings, and he never refused.
However, after being able to get out of bed and move around, Chu Daming no longer let Zhou Yu do these things.
Zhou Yu is a bitter girl, during the Devil's Great Purge in 1942, her father and brother were shot and killed by the devil, she and her mother luckily escaped a disaster, but her mother was seriously ill from then on, Zhou Yu wrapped up all the things outside the family, cutting grass, planting land, beating grain, spinning flowers, weaving, burning fire, cooking, frying medicine, making military shoes.
Zhou Yu took advantage of the fact that there was no one in the house and proposed to Chu Daming that he wanted to become the Eighth Route Army, but Chu Daming said no, saying that Zhou Yu could not do the work of the troops and would become a burden to the troops.
Zhou Yu begged: Regiment Leader (Chu Daming is still at the regimental commander level at this time), do you want me? I'll make you an aunt.
Chu Daming smiled and said, I am nine years older than you, it is not appropriate, besides, the army has been fighting, cadres and soldiers can not start a family, but I can treat you as a sister.
This promise directly misled the little girl Zhou Yu, who thought that this was a euphemistic expression of Chu Daming, and he liked himself.
Since then, the 17-year-old Zhou Yu has lived happily every day and worked harder for the troops. I don't know when it was said in the regiment that Zhou Yu was the fiancée of the head of the Chu regiment.
In March 1945, Zhou Yu's mother died, and she ran to Chu Daming to cry. Out of sympathy and pity for the girl, Chu Daming took out his meager allowance and disability money and gave it to Zhou Yu.
The troops were about to move and fight a big battle, zhou Yu could not follow, she had to return home, the courtyard was full of weeds, and there were two dilapidated caves, and now she was the only one left in the house.
Guarding this miserable cold, Zhou Yu spent the night in the cave. The next morning, the female director of the county women's rescue association came to knock on the door, and Zhou Yu, like seeing a loved one, threw herself into her arms and cried loudly.
Chu Daming was a fighting hero of the Eighth Route Army, and the troops fought on the front line, and we women's rescue association had the responsibility to take good care of his fiancée. Comrade Zhou Yu, from today onwards, you will be a staff member of the County Women's Rescue Association.
A year later, Zhou Yu rode a donkey and, accompanied by the director of the County Women's Rescue Association, generously came to the brigade headquarters of the Tenth Brigade.
Qu Village
She came this time to marry Chu Daming.
After the brigade headquarters arranged for them to stay, "Deputy Brigadier Chu is getting married!" This news was like a wing, spreading throughout Qu Village, the entire Tenth Brigade.
Brigadier Zhou Xihan reported to Commander Chen Geng that the headquarters meeting approved Chu Daming's marriage, and after Liu Zhong, the brigade political commissar, was busy, Zhang Luo was on the wedding, and the soldiers were also jubilant and happy for the deputy brigade commander, but only Chu Daming looked indifferent.
When the director of the Women's Rescue Association found out that something was wrong, he asked Chu Daming what was going on? Chu Daming succinctly and concisely explained his relationship with Zhou Yu, and said that he and Zhou Yu were a military-civilian love affair, not a romantic relationship.
People looked at each other, the brigade commander consulted with the political commissar and the director of the political department, the marriage report had been approved by the party committee of the headquarters, the county party committee and the people in the village knew that Zhou Yu had come to get married, the personnel of the organ were handling the marriage, and the soldiers were waiting for the celebration with joy.
The key is that Zhou Yu, a simple and kind good girl, is only eighteen years old, and she came to marry Chu Daming wholeheartedly. If you Chu Daming does not get married, what will happen? The blow that Zhou Yu girl suffered was extraordinary, and the consequences were unimaginable, and how did you Chu Daming explain to the commanders and fighters and the masses?
They brought Zhou Yu to her and asked her what her attitude was? Zhou Yu said firmly:
I love Chu Daming and am willing to serve him for the rest of my life, and I will not change until I die!
When Chu Daming heard these words, he still looked indifferent, and he said to Miss Zhou:
I am a soldier, I can go to the battlefield at any time to fight, and I will kill people in battle, are you not afraid of being a widow?
Chu Daming thought that after he said these words, Zhou Yu would definitely leave himself bored like the medical director and Lu Yi female student in front of him.
Hey, this time he made the mistake of empiricism. His words played a role in the two intellectual young women in front of him, but they had no effect on the simple and unpretentious rural girl in front of him.
On February 5, 1946, Chu Daming and Zhou Yu held a wedding. The picture of a better life that Zhou Yu envisions is that two sons have children together, cultivate land, spin yarn and weave fabrics, for the sake of her husband and children, Zhou Yu is not afraid of suffering and tiredness.
However, before Zhou Yu's words were finished, Chu Daming became angry, reprimanded her as a backward element, and pulled her own hind legs.
I said that some of our cadres didn't want to fight after they got married, and it turned out that you mothers-in-law were the victims. Lao Tzu must shoot you today!
Zhou Yu thought that her husband would just light a fire, but when she saw that Chu Daming really pulled out a pistol, she took the road and fled, so there was a scene where the couple ran around in a circle in the cemetery.
In late June 1946, when The south of Huzong invaded the Jinnan region, the brigade issued a notice to the cadres and fighters who had asked for leave to visit their relatives, and all of them returned to report within three days.
On the third day, most of the comrades reported on time, and a few insisted that they had not received the notice and refused to return to the team. In order to strictly enforce military discipline, with the assistance of the local government, dozens of people were tied with straw ropes and escorted to the brigade headquarters.
Chu Daming did not shoot them, but personally untied them, and he reprimanded them well, saying:
At the moment of the great enemy, everyone returns to their combat posts, does a good job, and makes up for the merits. If anyone is afraid of death, run backwards, be a deserter, and then I will calculate the old account together.
Chu Daming still took the lead in charging the front as always, this counterattack, he was wounded again, his intestines were cut by the enemy shell skin, due to the hot weather, the wound was infected, after major surgery, he finally pulled Chu Daming back from the god of death.
Although Chu Daming was lucky to survive again, his body was very weak after years of new injuries and old injuries. In order to take care of her husband, Zhou Yu, together with the guards, went up the mountain to catch wild pigeons, picked up pigeon eggs, went into the dense forest to beat wild boars and wild sheep, and thought of finding protein to supplement Chu Daming's nutrition.
After more than 5 months of meticulous care, Chu Daming met the criteria for discharge, at this time the troops had once again opened up and marched west, but Chu Daming, as a deputy brigade commander, was left by his superiors to continue recuperation.
The general would rather die on the battlefield than after the old battle.
Chu Daming lived like a year, but he knew that if he acted too anxious, his wife Zhou Yu would definitely not let himself go, and the soldiers sent by the headquarters to "watch over" would not let him go.
So he pretended to be a lover of the family and did not want to fight, and stayed with Zhou Yu all day long, giving her a rare warmth in the past. In the early morning of November 19, the moon was shining, the earth was quiet, and only the sentries were faithfully performing their duties.
Chu Daming glanced at his sleeping wife next to him, got up and put on a military uniform, sneaked out of the house lightly, walked out of the village, rode a war horse on a mountain road, and rode the moonlight with the guards, through Beiping Town, over Yunque Mountain, and chased after the large army.
At dawn, Zhou Yu cried again, and her husband did not quit, she knew that he could not leave the army, and when the comrades-in-arms were still fighting, no matter who it was, they could not tie Chu Daming to the gentle township.
However, this time on a long trip, Chu Daming never returned, the god of luck did not take care of him again, two months later in the Battle of Fenxiao, Chu Daming was hit by the enemy's machine gun when he was commanding the battle on the front line, and died heroically, at the age of 31.
Zhou Yu in the rear got this bad news, and suddenly felt the sky spinning and fainted. When she woke up, she looked to the northwest with tears in her eyes, and she wanted to ask her husband, who made her infinitely admired and aweed:
Do you love me? Have you ever loved me like I love you?