Li Youlan's father was a famous patriotic industrialist and was also known as the "father of Chinese apples".
Under the influence of his father, Li Youlan resolutely chose to embark on the revolutionary road, and met her first husband at the beginning of the revolutionary road, but the good times were not long, and within two months of the new marriage, the husband of the deputy commander was betrayed and sacrificed by traitors.
The strong Li Youlan did not immerse herself in pain, she put all her energy into the work, her strength, her dedication to the work attracted Zhang Aiping.
Under the unremitting pursuit of Zhang Aiping, Li Youlan remarried, and the two of them had been together for decades, zhang Aiping was awarded the founding general in 1955, and gave birth to three sons who were cattle people, each with achievements.
Rich women join the revolution
Born in Ningbo in 1919, Li Youlan's father was a patriotic industrialist, very familiar with Sun Yat-sen and others, and his father often taught his children to actively participate in patriotic activities.
In 1938, Li Youlan wanted to go to Yan'an to join the revolution, and her idea was supported by her father.
When Li Youlan, who was only nineteen years old, heard that the office of the Eighth Route Army was located in Wuhan, she resolutely embarked on the road to Wuhan herself.
On the way to the Wuhan office, Li Youlan met more than a dozen young men and women of the same age as her, and listening to their words, she also went to find the Wuhan office of the Eighth Route Army, all of whom were patriotic youths, and soon Li Youlan became acquainted with them and joined their ranks.
When Li Youlan and a dozen of them arrived in Wuhan after many hardships, they found that the situation in Wuhan was very grim, and there were Kuomintang eyeliners everywhere.
Li Youlan could only act separately, trying their best to get rid of the secret agent's tracking, which was really too difficult for these young people.
When Li Youlan and they finally came safely to the door of the Eighth Route Army office, they were particularly excited, and surrounded the staff who came out to receive them in the middle, and you said one word at a time: "Comrade, we are students, we want to go to Yan'an, I heard that Minister Zhou Enlai is here, let us meet." ”
A staff officer on duty came out to Li Youlan and said, "Students, Minister Zhou is too busy to receive you today. ”
Li Youlan They did not go, they silently walked out of the door, found a place at the door that did not get in the way, and began a long wait.
Finally, in the middle of the night, they saw Zhou Enlai, who had been busy all day.
As soon as they met, Zhou Enlai said to Li Youlan: "Students, welcome to you, come and go, sit down and rest, wait for a day, tired." ”
Then he said: "I know your demands, and the Communist Party warmly welcomes your joining." Students, I know that you want to go to Yan'an, but according to the current war situation, you can't go to Yan'an for the time being. ”
Hearing this, the students began to turn their heads and ears, talking about it, and they were very disappointed.
At this time, Zhou Enlai said again: "Students, don't be disappointed, you can't go to Yan'an, you can go to the Office of the New Fourth Army in Nanchang, everywhere is a revolution." ”
When the students listened, they became excited again, and under the introduction of Minister Zhou Enlai, Li Youlan decided to transfer to Nanchang.
Short first marriage
When we arrived at the Nanchang office, the office assigned jobs according to the students' situation.
Because Li Youlan has a more cheerful personality and is articulate, the office arranged for her to be responsible for propaganda work in order to deepen the people's patriotic thinking.
Li Youlan has a strong affinity, the propaganda language is vivid and easy to understand, the people are very fond of listening, and the office can often receive letters from the people praising Li Youlan.
Her leaders admired this young girl very much and appreciated Li Youlan's achievements in her work, so the leaders would often send Li Youlan to represent her office to attend some various study and training courses held by the New Fourth Army.
Because of his outstanding appearance, Li Youlan quickly gained the reputation of "a flower in the army" in the office, and also won the favor of many young men and male officers, including Xiang Ying, who later became Li Youlan's husband.
Li Youlan and the deputy commander first met at a speech conference of the New Fourth Army, when Li Youlan was giving a warm speech on the stage, and Xiang Ying, who was then the deputy commander of the New Fourth Army, was immediately attracted by this heroic and articulate girl on the stage.
At that time, there were many knowledgeable young people in Yan'an who joined the revolutionary ranks, but in Nanchang, there were very few girls like Li Youlan who were both knowledgeable and beautiful.
Xiang Ying immediately launched a passionate pursuit of Li Youlan.
He is very concerned about Li Youlan's life and work, and all of Li Youlan's speeches will never be absent as long as he has time.
Li Youlan is just a little girl who has just entered the world, and Xiang Ying participated in the creation of the New Fourth Army, the current deputy commander, Li Youlan has heard xiang Ying's heroic deeds before and admired him, and finally Li Youlan's hazy girlish heart was captured by Xiang Ying.
In 1941, with the blessing of his colleagues, Li Youlan and deputy military commander Xiang Ying entered the palace of marriage, when Li Youlan was twenty-two years old.
However, the misfortune came so quickly that less than two months after Li Youlan and Xiang Ying were newly married, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly launched the Anhui Southern Incident, and Xiang Yinghe, then deputy commander of the army, led the troops to urgently transfer, and as a result, when the transfer passed through Jing County, it was raided by nearly 80,000 Kuomintang troops.
Xiang Ying led the troops to engage in a seven-day and seven-night battle with the Nationalist army, Xiang Ying's troops were finally defeated because the enemy was out of ammunition and food, and Xiang Ying and Deputy Chief of Staff Zhou were lucky enough to fight to the death to break through, but who could have imagined that Xiang Ying did not die at the hands of the enemy, but died at the hands of the rebel guards.
When Li Youlan received the news of her husband's sacrifice, the whole person was instantly petrified, she couldn't believe her ears, her husband who had been married for less than two months was really dead?
He hadn't said goodbye to himself yet, and just left?
She suddenly fell ill, did not eat or drink for several days, and washed her face with tears. Leaders and colleagues often came to visit her and enlighten her.
A sentence from the leader woke up Li Youlan, and she said: "Xiao Li, you are still young, and Deputy Commander Xiang does not want to see you like this, you have to cheer up, you want to let Deputy Commander Xiang go with peace of mind!" ”
Li Youlan is worthy of being a strong revolutionary, and she decided to pick herself up, continue to firmly follow the revolutionary road, and use her intense work to dilute the sadness in her heart.
Just at this time, the organization was preparing to send a comrade to a shorthand training class for further study, Li Youlan actively signed up, and the organization took into account her situation and quickly approved it.
Met the beloved Zhang Aiping
After arriving at the shorthand class, Li Youlan immediately threw herself into intense study, and she quickly graduated with excellent results because of her talent and diligence.
The job of a stenographer is to travel from place to place as a minuteer for major meetings.
At the beginning of 1942, Li Youlan was transferred to northern Jiangsu as a meeting recorder.
Because Li Youlan performed extremely well in the minutes of each meeting, it was almost zero error rate.
At that time, Northern Jiangsu was preparing to hold the first enlarged meeting of the party committee, and Li Youlan was recommended by the organization as the recorder of the meeting.
During the meeting, Li Youlan listened carefully to the speeches of the leaders and carefully recorded them so as not to miss important information.
Suddenly, the chief on the rostrum ordered General Zhang Aiping, deputy commander of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army, and asked Zhang Aiping to talk about the development of the guerrillas and their experience.
Perhaps because she was temporarily ordered, Zhang Aiping did not speak immediately after standing up, there was a brief pause in the venue, Li Youlan thought that Zhang Aiping had to think about how to speak for a while, and she also took the opportunity to rest her sore wrist.
Just as she put down her pen to prepare her fingers for the activity, Zhang Aiping's fluent voice came from the rostrum, and Li Youlan quickly grabbed the pen and recorded it nervously.
The day after the end of the meeting, Zhang Aiping received the minutes of the meeting sent by Li Youlan, and the handwriting on the minutes of the meeting was very beautiful, and the content of the records was concise and comprehensive.
In fact, his speech at the meeting this time was the language of the on-site organization, many of them lacked logic and organization, and many words were said at the time and he could not remember afterwards, but now the recorder's record is so comprehensive and meticulous, indicating that the basic skills of this recorder are very solid.
Zhang Aiping couldn't help but look up at the recorder, and in front of her was a tall, well-looking girl in a military uniform, who was also looking at the chief in front of her with her bright eyes.
This meeting made Zhang Aiping begin to pay attention to the girl quietly, and after inquiring about it, he knew that the girl's name was Li Youlan, and the girl's short unfortunate marriage.
Zhang Aiping was very distressed about this poor and strong girl, and he began to pursue Li Youlan.
In a small talk between the two, they were surprised to find that they had met as early as 1938, when Zhang Aiping was the staff officer on duty who prevented the students from seeing Zhou Enlai, and Li Youlan was one of the students who were blocked.
But when Zhang Aiping proposed to Li Youlan, Li Youlan rejected him.
It turned out that Li Youlan's identity as the widow of Xiang Ying's deputy commander was too heavy, and Xiang Ying's status in the New Fourth Army was too high, and the exchanges between Li Youlan and Zhang Aiping had already caused gossip in the barracks, although Li Youlan already had an indelible good feeling for Zhang Aiping, but she did not dare to go any further.
But Zhang Aiping was not intimidated by the rumors, he still persistently loved Li Youlan and was good to Li Youlan.
Finally, Zhang Aiping sent an application report to the superior leader Chen Yi to marry Li Youlan, and received the approval signed by Chen Yi and the sincere blessings of Chen Yi's boss, and also gave the couple a Parker fountain pen as a new wedding gift.
On August 8, 1942, Li Youlan and Zhang Aiping were married under the witness of Commander Chen Yi.
After marriage, the two were very happy, and soon Li Youlan gave birth to three sons and a daughter for Zhang Aiping, and the couple's requirements for the children were not relaxed, not at all spoiled, this correct education made the children successful in the future, especially the three sons were called cattle people.
The eldest son, Zhang Xiang, graduated from the Kazakh military industry, joined the Second Artillery Corps at the suggestion of his father, made great contributions to the construction of the mainland's national defense cause, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, Zhang Aiping was awarded the rank of general in 1955, so the world says that General Zhang Aiping and the eldest son are "father and son generals".
The second son, Zhang Sheng, was highly accomplished in literature, compiling some military books, and also served as deputy director of the General Staff Department with the rank of colonel.
The youngest son, Zhang Pin, although not as big as his two older brothers, is still excellent, he is also a soldier, serving as an executive in the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, and belongs to the rank of colonel.
Li Youlan's life is enviable, although she experienced a short and sad marriage, she bravely accepted the second marriage and spent decades with her husband, Admiral Zhang Aiping.
Although she also experienced many tribulations during this period, she never abandoned her husband, and finally, General Zhang Aiping died of illness in 2003 at the age of 93, and nine years later, Li Youlan also drove to Hexi to see her beloved husband at the age of 93.
This loving couple even died at the same age, which can be called a confirmation of true love.