"Village chief, I heard that the first female general of New China is coming back, what should I do?"
At this time, a middle-aged man from a rural area dressed in simple clothes looked at the village chief with a sad face and told his worries.
It is reasonable to say that the female general returned to her hometown, and the people should line up to welcome her, why was this man so worried?
It turned out that he had once abused this female general, and the female general was his child daughter-in-law, and this female general was the first female general in our new China, Li Zhen.
She used to be a child bride in this man's house, and suffered humiliation and torture.
Now, after she returned to her hometown, she saw that she had beaten her ex-husband, and she didn't do anything, but asked someone to bring him a word.
So what exactly is this sentence? Let us all look down together and enter the extraordinary life of the first female general in New China.
She was sold as a child bride and fled to join the Red Army
Li Zhen was born in 1908 in a poor rural village in Liuyang, Hunan Province, with four sisters in a family with harsh living conditions, and even basic food and clothing were difficult to meet.
Especially after the death of her father, there was not even the only pillar in the family, and it was even more difficult to maintain life.
In desperation, when she was six years old, her mother sold to a rich local family as a child bride.
Child brides-in-law are a kind of undesirable oppression of women in feudal society, and when the woman is very young, she will be raised in her in-laws' house to wash and cook, and when she is older, she will marry the man directly to continue to serve.
Li Zhen sold the family surname Gu, the ancient family has a very vicious mother-in-law, in this generation is notoriously poisonous.
In this way, Li Zhen lived a life under the fence, getting up early every day and working for the Gu family in the dark, even the lowest subordinates were inferior.
Not only did she not have enough to eat every day, but she also had to go up the mountain to cut firewood, and she was not allowed to rest and shout tiredness.
Finally, after ten years of inhuman torture in the Gu family, Li Zhen grew up and prepared to marry her husband Gu Tianshun.
She pinned all her hopes on her husband, hoping that after she passed the door, she would have a righteous identity, and the Gu family would be kinder to herself.
What she did not expect was that Gu Tianshun was not a good husband, his temper was very grumpy, and he still called her like a squirrel.
Not only that, the Gu family also prevented her from escaping, restricting her personal freedom everywhere, Li Zhen really couldn't stand such an inhuman day, and found the opportunity to try to escape several times, but the result was unsuccessful.
And every time Gu Tianshun caught her back, he would teach her a lesson and beat her hard with a wooden stick, causing her to lie motionless on the ground and open her flesh.
After she had suffered several domestic violence, her heart was like death, and she gave up the idea of running away, she could only admit her fate and accept her own life of humiliation.
Later, with the development of the liberation movement, the climax of the revolution was set off in all parts of the countryside.
The men, women and children in the village that Li Zhen saw actively participated in the army, and their hearts also ignited the desire to realize the value of their lives and serve the country.
At the thought of joining the army, Li Zhen was excited in her heart, and every time she met a Red Army soldier who was preaching revolution on the street, she stopped and watched.
Thinking about how to apply for the army, fortunately she participated in several activities organized by the Red Army.
Her actions were soon discovered by her husband, Gu Tian Shun, who ran directly to the parade, grabbed her by the hair and took her home, inevitably beating her badly.
However, this time Li Zhen did not feel afraid, but her heart wanted to join the army more firmly, and finally one day, she told the Gu family that she was going out to cut firewood, so she hurried out.
Finding a Red Army team, crying and shouting to join them, the Red Army soldiers saw it and quickly comforted her, and when she was emotionally stable, they slowly told their story.
The Soldiers of the Red Army sympathized with her plight and immediately applied to the organization and agreed to her request to join the army.
After the Gu family knew that Li Zhen had left as a soldier, they had no choice but to send a letter of resignation in anger and completely dissolve the marriage relationship with Li Zhen.
The Gu family thought that after they issued a letter of resignation, they would definitely make Li Zhen a "woman who was divorced" and could not lift her head in the village and drowned by the spit star.
But they were wrong, and Li Zhen was free from then on and ushered in her brand-new revolutionary career.
He joined the revolution and married Zhang Qilong
Li Zhen's original name was not this, she did not even have a name, but called her "DanWazi".
After she came to the army, she officially named herself "Li Zhen", which seemed to be enough to express her chastity to the revolution.
She herself said that since she had joined the revolution, she would not regret it, and would always be a revolutionary person, even willing to sacrifice for the revolution.
Probably because she has been climbing the mountain since she was a child, Li Zhen's physical fitness is particularly good, and she fully has the physical qualities that a qualified female soldier should have.
Soon after she became a female soldier, she encountered the "April 12" counter-revolutionary incident, the Kuomintang side constantly encircled and suppressed the Red Army, and she could only go underground with other Communists.
When Li Zhen was on an underground guerrilla mission, he befriended two revolutionary comrades-in-arms, Namely Zhang Qilong and Wang Shoudao.
The three of them led their comrades in a deep mountain and old forest to fight against the Kuomintang troops.
Unfortunately, there were traitors in the ranks, and Zhang Qilong was betrayed and arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang.
When Wang Shoudao and Li Zhen learned of this news, they were very shocked and felt that they would do everything they could to rescue their comrades-in-arms.
Zhang Qicheng was imprisoned in the city, and the entrance to the city was closely guarded by Kuomintang soldiers, and it was difficult for underground party members to enter.
When the organization was discussing the specific rescue plan, Wang Shoudao put forward a bold idea, that is, to let a female comrade pretend to be a bride and sit in a flower palanquin.
The other fighters formed a procession to send their relatives and entered the gate of the Kuomintang guard with honor and integrity.
The plan was approved by most of the people, and everyone decided to give it a try.
So the question is, who wants to risk playing this bride? Li Zhen volunteered to volunteer after hearing this, and told the organization that she was willing to play this bride.
Immediately after everything was deployed, the rescue operation began, and everyone dressed up in disguise, and happily carried Li Zhen in the flower palanquin into the city gate.
The Kuomintang soldiers at the city gate saw the sending team and did not have great suspicions, plus they received good wine and good meat from the team, and immediately let them into the city.
After entering the city, Li Zhen and the others immediately changed into weapons and equipment, went to the place where Zhang Qilong was imprisoned, and began to attack.
The Kuomintang troops did not have time to take precautions at all, and they were beaten by Li Zhen and others, and Zhang Qilong was successfully rescued by them.
After Zhang Qilong was rescued, he saw Li Zhen wearing a red wedding dress, and he was fascinated by her at a glance.
Even the comrades around them joked that the bride was coming, and Li Zhen was immediately red in the face by them.
In this way, both of them formed a revolutionary feeling in their hearts, and Zhang Qilong took advantage of the fact that when there was no one, he found Li Zhen and directly expressed his love, and also directly asked if he would marry him.
Li Zhen had long been fascinated by Zhang Qilong's heroic killing of the enemy and shyly agreed to him.
In this way, two revolutionary young people who met in the fires of war, because of the same revolutionary stand and belief in saving the country, walked into the palace of marriage hand in hand.
The two supported each other and became an enviable pair of revolutionary couples.
Zhang Qilong
After marriage, the two did not spend a lot of time together, and her husband Zhang Qilong has always been on the front line to carry out revolution.
Li Zhen has always been in charge of women's work, doing a good job of providing adequate anti-war assistance for frontline fighters.
Then the war suddenly tightened, the Kuomintang directly entered Liuyang, and both of them successively accepted the work arrangements of their superiors and needed to go to different places to work separately.
In those days, even if the two were reluctant, they also needed to obey the orders of their superiors.
Zhang Qilong went to work in the Xiangzhang revolutionary base area, while Li Zhen stayed in the local area to continue the work of underground organization.
During the transfer operation, Li Zhen and other female fighters dispersed from the troops and encountered the enemy army.
Their group of female soldiers was weak and fought heroically against the enemy, but in the end they were defeated.
Almost all of Li Zhen's other female comrades-in-arms died, and only five people, including her, survived.
After the five survived, they were attacked by the enemy, and they desperately fled to the cliff on the mountain, forcing them to a situation where there was no way out.
Li Zhen watched the burning eyebrows and decided to lead the female soldiers to counterattack under the cliff, without weapons, they carried large stones to the bottom of the mountain, holding the belief that death was like a homecoming.
Who would have thought that Li Zhen at this time was actually pregnant, she touched her stomach, and felt that if she surrendered at this moment, her husband and the child in her belly must not be able to forgive her.
Seeing that the position was about to fall, Li Zhen and four other female fighters made the feat of jumping off a cliff and shouted "Long live the Chinese Communist Party."
Their feats seemed to have touched the heavens, and after five people jumped off a cliff, Li Zhen and a female comrade-in-arms miraculously survived and retrieved a life, but the child in her belly was not saved.
After Li Zhen, who was full of scars, was found by the team, she was sent to the military hospital for treatment, and while she was still in treatment, she learned from others that her husband Zhang Qilong was in a bigger crisis.
Zhang Qilong was once again imprisoned in prison for some reasons, and Zhang Qilong, who was in prison, filed for divorce from Li Zhen in order not to involve his wife.
Li Zhen was desperate after knowing this, and reluctantly accepted her husband's divorce agreement, and since then the two have been separated and separated, each begging for a living.
Went to military school for further study and married Gan Siqi
After Li Zhen regained her singleness, she devoted all her energy to revolutionary work, and in order to improve her cultural quality, she applied to go to a military academy for further study.
In the school, Li Zhen performed very well, was appreciated and valued by the organization, and after graduating from the military academy, Li Zhen was appointed as the head of the organization department of the Revolutionary Military Region.
In this position, Li Zhen worked every day without sleeping and forgetting to eat, completely forgetting to take care of herself, and her colleague Chen Chunying was very distressed after seeing it, knowing that she still had a knot in her heart that had not been untied.
So after Chen Chunying's matchmaking, Gan Siqi was introduced to Li Zhen, who understood his friend's good intentions.
However, he had already been married twice, and his status was low, and he was not worthy of the famous General Gan Siqi.
Unexpectedly, my friend did not give up, saying that Gan Siqi had already had a good feeling for her, which completely disrupted Li Zhen's mood.
For the sake of my friend's strong introduction, I agreed to meet with Gan Siqi.
After the two met, they were almost at first sight, and they were very happy to see each other, and Li Zhen was gradually admired by Gan Siqi and accepted his show of love.
In 1935, Li Zhen and Gan Siqi were officially married, and soon after the marriage, the Red Army suffered the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression and began the Long March.
During the Long March, even if Li Zhen was the leader, he had to live a hard life like a soldier, but at this time, Li Zhen became pregnant again.
Gan Siqi felt very happy after knowing it, and she was very worried about whether her wife's body could eat and drink, she knew that her husband was busy at work, and she did not want to cause trouble to her husband.
During the fatigue of the Long March, Li Zhen was severely malnourished and the child was born prematurely.
Premature babies were already fragile, and without adequate milk to provide, they died soon after.
After the death of the child, both husband and wife fell into the pain of losing their children, not only that, Li Zhen also lost her fertility since then.
After so many tribulations, Li Zhen had already cultivated a strong heart and looked at everything very openly.
In particular, shortly after the victory of the Red Army's Long March, the Chinese Communist Party troops turned the crisis into safety, giving her a particularly great revolutionary incentive.
After the founding of New China, Li Zhen and her husband Gan Siqi were awarded various medals of honor.
When they heard the news of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the couple was also willing to ask Miao to be the commander again and lead the troops to attack North Korea.
After the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Li Zhen was awarded the rank of general upon his return from Korea.
Even Premier Zhou Enlai praised her one after another, saying that she was the first female general in New China.
It was after this that Li Zhen returned to his hometown, where the people were very welcome when they knew that the female general was coming, and only the Gu family was afraid and worried that Li Zhen would find their family to settle accounts.
How could Li Zhen argue with the ignorant people, she entrusted people to tell Gu Tianshun that she no longer remembered revenge, but instead thanked them for letting them embark on the revolutionary road without hesitation, so that they had a strong self today.
Li Zhen, the first female general of New China, went from being a child bride who was oppressed in the countryside to resolutely participating in the revolution and eventually becoming a female general respected and loved by the Chinese people.
She is like a wild rose from the crack of the stone, composing her wonderful revolutionary life.
Perhaps joining the revolution was Li Zhen's helpless move in that war years, but her loyalty to the revolution and patriotic enthusiasm are worth learning from the new youth of each of our times.
As long as we are strong enough in our hearts, we can change our lives and realize the value of our lives.