On the battlefield full of war, every heroic soldier is a hero with patriotic feelings, and for a great ideal, he will not hesitate to sacrifice his precious life and fight with the enemy to the end. However, in the dangerous war years, there is not only the abandonment of family affection, the sacrifice of comrades-in-arms, but also the germination of love.
An excellent father was her guiding light
When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937, the military and the people of the whole country united to resist the aggression of the Japanese Kou, and many young students who were studying in schools heard about the war situation on the front line every day, and they could not calm down and study, only thinking about how to make some contributions to the great cause of national anti-Japanese resistance. At that time, many patriotic students came to Yan'an from thousands of miles away to find a way to realize the ideal in their hearts, and Li Youlan, who was still a young student, also had such an idea.
Her origin is very rich, but she was able to give up the superior living environment and willingly come to this northern Shaanxi province, which is not rich in materials, which is what she thinks in her heart and is also the result of her father's encouragement and support.
His father's name was Li Shanxiang and he was born into a large family in Zhenhai, Zhejiang. The family has been in business for many years and has made a lot of family wealth, and his father Li Lianshui is also a four-pin member of the Qing court household department. Li Shanxiang has been pampered since childhood, but has a patriotic feeling, secretly joined the revolutionary party in his early years, and after the establishment of the Republic of China, he embarked on the road of industrial salvation, founded various factories in Panjin, Liaoning Province, improved apple varieties, the famous "Red Marshal" is his successful cultivation, so he is also known as the father of Chinese apples, in addition to building schools, recruiting poor children to study for free.
It can be said that every bit of his life is affecting the physical and mental development of his children, and Li Youlan grew up in this family atmosphere and became a young intellectual woman with patriotic ambitions. In 1938, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Youlan, his younger siblings and several like-minded young people planned to go to Yan'an to join the Eighth Route Army, and their father agreed and supported them.
They first took a boat to the Eighth Route Army office in Hankou, and after seeing Zhou Enlai, they shouted that they must go to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution. Zhou Gong looked at this group of spirited young students with a smile and said:
"It is not easy to go to Yan'an from here, let alone say that you are southerners, not to mention whether you are suitable for the dry and rainy climate there, even if you eat millet every day, you can't stand it, it is best for you to go to the New Fourth Army, but you will adapt quickly, or you will be able to devote yourself to the cause of resisting Japan as soon as possible."
Zhou Gong persuaded them with his words, and arranged for someone to send these young people to southern Anhui and became soldiers of the New Fourth Army Field Service Regiment. Li Youlan and his eldest sister Li Caizhi engaged in pro-democracy work, and his younger brother Li Zhiguang was assigned to the ZhangjiaDubing Station as an accountant.
Met and fell in love with Zhang Aiping
At the end of 1938, due to the needs of the war, the military department decided to train a group of shorthand personnel. This job position is not high, but the burden is not light, it must have a super high academic qualification and loyalty to the party, after layers of selection, Li Youlan, who has just joined our party, was honored to be elected and became the first batch of trainees in the training class.
Li Youlan has a strong cultural background, a very good memory, coupled with several months of hard training, and the mutual help of her peers, her shorthand score has improved rapidly. After graduation, she was assigned to the New Fourth Army, and at the end of 1940, she and a group of non-combatants of the military department were escorted out of southern Anhui, went to Shanghai, northern Jiangsu, and finally entered the Central China Party School.
At that time, the young and beautiful Li Youlan attracted the attention of many people, and was also known as "a flower in the army", and later Xiang Ying hugged the beauty, but the two children were married less than a month ago, and the Anhui Southern Incident occurred, causing her to lose her husband. Under the persuasion of the organization and comrades-in-arms, Li Youlan quickly came out of his grief and threw himself into work.
In early 1942, the Central China Bureau held a meeting in Shan Jia Gang in northern Jiangsu, and Li Youlan was temporarily transferred to serve as a stenographer for this meeting. During the meeting, she listened carefully to the speeches of each participant, carefully buried her head in shorthand, and her selfless work demeanor attracted the attention of one person, who was Zhang Aiping, who was then the deputy commander of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army.
At that time, Liu Shaoqi inadvertently created an opportunity for their acquaintance to fall in love. It turned out that the Ninth Brigade of the Third Division led by Zhang Aiping had a remarkable record, and before it was only a local guerrilla, it quickly became a main force that could fight and fight, so Liu Shaoqi asked Zhang Aiping to make a report and summary of the growth process of the Ninth Brigade, and the recorder was Li Youlan.
In fact, when Zhang Aiping was talking on the stage and speaking methodically, Li Youlan also noticed this young and promising general of the New Fourth Army in his spare time, and felt that this person was very good, describing things as exquisite and vivid, and he was all substituted into the artistic conception.
When Li Youlan finished the manuscript for Zhang Aiping to see if there was a supplement, Zhang Aiping was deeply attracted by this good article with good ideas and literary style, in order to promote the relationship between the two, Zhang Aiping proposed to learn shorthand from her, but Li Youlan did not refuse.
After a few days of contact, Zhang Aiping's handsome and elegant, literary and martial demeanor and temperament slowly impressed Li Youlan, and finally they fell in love.
He was blessed by Commander Chen Yi
During the revolutionary years of war, they were not given too much time to talk about love, and with the strengthening of their feelings, they also had the intention of getting married. However, Li Youlan, as Xiang Ying's widow, is opposed to their feelings by many people, and they hope that Li Youlan can always cherish her feelings with Xiang Ying and keep her chastity.
These arguments and objections will not destroy their feelings, but marriage must be applied to the organization, that is, with the consent of Chen Yijun. Can Commander Chen combine the two of them? On the way to find Chen Yi, Zhang Aiping was a little worried in her heart.
But after he took out the marriage application and explained the history, Chen Junchang immediately smiled, not only immediately agreed to the application, but also gave Zhang Aiping the fountain pen he had used for many years to express his blessings for their happy marriage.
At that time, the third division's station was 15 kilometers away from the Central China Bureau Party School, and on the wedding day, Zhang Aiping brought her bride with a white horse, and a small grass house was their cave house. Although life was unstable during the war years, there was no fear of having a lover by his side.
From 1942, they walked hand in hand for more than 60 years in the Spring and Autumn Period, and experienced many unforgettable periods, becoming a loving couple who shared hardships and hardships. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, her husband Zhang Aiping became a homable founding general and later became a vice premier, while his son-in-law achieved even more, served as the chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and became a leader at the level of the state.
Under the influence of their parents, most of the children of the general and his wife also joined the army, and the most successful was the eldest son, Zhang Xiang, a lieutenant general.
summary
Throughout Li Youlan's life, she had a rich and happy childhood life, and more fortunately, she also had a great father, and it was under the guidance of her father that she threw herself into the revolutionary cause and realized the great ideals of her youth.
Coming from the war years, she knew the difficulty of revolutionary soldiers in that era, and the most valuable thing was that she pursued her husband who loved her, cared for her, and accompanied her all her life. In the war years, the general can also use a camera to record the bits and pieces of their lives in addition to the war, although the years destroy their young faces, but the beautiful moments will also be frozen in that moment, which is the best gift that her husband has given her in this life.