In 1955, New China held a large-scale awarding ceremony, not only for the needs of military modernization and reform, but also to commend those heroes and soldiers who made great contributions to the founding of New China amid the rain of bullets and bullets.
Five-five titles
Among the first batch of founding generals to be awarded, there were 12 one-armed generals and 9 one-eyed generals, all of whom lost part of their bodies forever for the establishment of New China. The protagonist of today's story is the one-eyed general Li Wenqing.
The story of General Li Wenqing's participation in the Red Army is also worth telling.
Like many founding generals, Li Wenqing was born in a poor family, and his family did not even have a piece of land of his own, and the whole family could only make ends meet on 7 acres of land rented from the landlord's family, and life was tight.
When Li Wenqing was 20 years old, he followed his parents' wishes and took his cousin Zhou Mimei as his wife. There is no newlywed Yan'er, only running for a living. After marriage, his wife Zhou Mimei chose to go to the family surnamed Li to work as a servant in the family of a landowner, while Li Wenqing farmed at home. However, against people's wishes, there was a sudden drought that year, and Li Wenqing's crops were not harvested. In order to support his family, Li Wenqing could only bid farewell to his newly married wife and leave his hometown to work for people in Gong'an County, 100 kilometers away.
General Li Wenqing
However, this time, things are broken.
Li Wenqing worked for a year, but because the cattle he was herding for the landlord's family suddenly died violently, the landlord deducted his annual salary and bombed him out.
His arms couldn't twist his thighs, and seeing that he had worked hard for a year but nothing had fallen, Li Wenqing could only swallow his breath and return to his hometown. After returning home, Li Wenqing thought that his wife was still working as a servant in the Li family, so he thought of visiting his wife. Unexpectedly, after arriving at the Li family, Li Wenqing not only failed to see his wife Zhou Mimei, but was driven out by the Li family servant with a fat beating.
The well-wisher next to him told Li Wenqing that it turned out that Li Xuewu, the second young master of the Li family, took a fancy to Sister Zhou's beauty and took over Sister Zhou.
In the face of his wife being forcibly occupied, Li Wenqing, as a young man in his 20s, was just when his blood was strong, how could he endure such a strange humiliation, turned around and went home to pick up a kitchen knife and wanted to go to Li Xuewu's name. Fortunately, one of Li Wenqing's clan uncles stopped the impulsive Li Wenqing in time and told him: The Li family is rich and powerful, and the family members are a large group, don't you rush over alone to send death for nothing?
After listening to the words of the clan uncle, Li Wenqing calmed down, thought for a while, gritted his teeth and bought a little gift, wanting to find someone to intercede with the Li family so that he could put his wife back. Unexpectedly, the Li family did not appreciate it at all, and couldn't help but beat Li Wenqing again.
At this time, Li Wenqing also thoroughly understood that this Li family landlord had been damaged to the bone marrow.
Li Wenqing is determined to take revenge.
He heard that the Red Army was active in this area, so he thought that Farer would join the Red Army. In 1930, Li Wenqing finally waited for the arrival of the Red Army and successfully joined the Red Army. And this unit is exactly a unit under the Second Red Army led by Mr. He, and since then, Li Wenqing has gradually grown into a tiger general under Mr. He.
Mr. He
After joining the Red Army, Li Wenqing poured out all his anger against the Li family landlords on the battlefield, and rushed forward desperately after fighting. Soon, Li Wenqing began to show his prominence, and in less than a year, he became a squad leader from a soldier and a platoon commander very quickly.
After Li Wenqing joined the Red Army, he turned his anger of revenge into a driving force to improve his skills, he practiced hard, fought bravely, and became a squad leader and platoon leader in less than a year. In the following years, Li Wenqing became a company commander, battalion commander and regiment commander one after another.
At the beginning of 1931, Li Wenqing, as a platoon commander, led the team on a mission and happened to come to the vicinity of his hometown. At this time, Li Wenqing remembered the landlord of the Li family who arbitrarily occupied his wife, and instantly became angry, regardless of discipline, privately rushed to the Li family with a few soldiers to take revenge, the father and son of the Li family had already heard the news that Taozhi was dead, and Li Wenqing, who was blinded by revenge, burned the Li family's house as soon as he took it.
After returning to the team, Li Wenqing was also very dry, directly admitted his mistake, and was locked up.
Li Wenqing said to the instructor: I know that I have violated discipline by taking people home to take revenge privately, and the leader is right to criticize me. But the reason why I joined the Red Army was to seek revenge on Li Evil, otherwise I would not be able to swallow this evil breath.
The instructor smiled and said patiently: I know that you have little enmity with Li Evil, but if you think about it, which person in our team has no enmity with the landlord's family? Personal enmity is a minor enmity, class enmity is a big enmity! Why did Li Evil Young dare to bully your wife and beat you severely, because they have the right to handle the son in their hands! Only when we completely overthrow the landlord class can we avenge the class and your personal vengeance. Otherwise, even if you kill one Li Evil Shao, there are still countless Li Evil Shao.
The instructor's words, like an initiation, completely made Li Wen sober up. Not long after, Li Wenqing joined the party and became a real fighter!
Li Wenqing
By the way, after He Long's troops were transferred, the father and son of the Li family held a grudge against Li Wenqing, set fire to Li Wenqing's house, forced Li Wenqing's parents to leave their hometown, and have not been heard from since. Sister Zhou, who was occupied by Li Xuewu, was also sold to others as a wife, and it was not until after the founding of the People's Republic of China that Li Wenqing saw Sister Zhou again, but at this time, both parties had formed families again.
In April 1931, He Long led his troops to attack the county seat of Zhanggui, and Li Wenqing also participated in this battle. In the fierce battle, Li Wenqiang's right leg was injured, shrapnel embedded in the thigh tibia (this piece of shrapnel accompanied Li Wen's life, and he did not take it out until his death), his stomach was pierced by a bullet, and his intestines flowed out of the body, he had to use a bowl to buckle, dying he lay on the side of the road, waiting for the rescue of his comrades, but he waited for most of the day and did not see anyone.
Li Wenqing originally thought that he would definitely be finished, and he could only wait for death, but he did not expect that when he was desperate, He Long passed by and found Li Wenqing lying on the side of the road. He Long looked at Li Wenqing, who was lying motionless, thinking that he had died, so he ordered his guards to bury him, but found that Li Wenqing was still alive. He Long called a stretcher and ordered Li Wenqing to be sent to a peasant family in Padang Wanxian Cave to recuperate. Two months later, Li Wenqing returned to the team after recovering from injury.
In order to repay Mr. He's life-saving grace, Li Wenqing fought more bravely. In 1932, Li Wenqing's right eye was abrased by shrapnel during a battle, which was originally a minor injury, but because of the frequent fighting at that time and the medical conditions were not good, Li Wenqing did not go to treatment in time, resulting in a serious decline in the strength of his right eye. After the end of the Long March, Mr. He originally wanted to arrange for Li Wenqing to go to the Soviet Union for treatment, but before he could leave, the war broke out again, and Li Wenqing took the initiative to give up the opportunity to go to the Soviet Union for treatment and participated in the battle with his troops, which also caused Li Wenqing to be completely blind in his right eye and accompanied by a serious headache. In the end, Mr. He had to "order" Li Wenqing to be admitted to Yan'an Peace Hospital and undergo surgery to remove his right eyeball. He Long joked with him: "Now the braincase doesn't hurt, but he has become 'Li blind'!"
Mr. He
Li Wenqing, as a fierce general under Mr. He, was deeply liked by Mr. He, but on two occasions, Mr. He was furious and bluntly said that he wanted to shoot Li Wenqing.
Once on the Long March. After Li Wenqing led the 15th Regiment of the 5th Division of the 2nd Red Army to break, because of the difficult conditions, the team of more than 1,000 people walked to the edge of the meadow, and only about 400 people remained, and all of them were hungry, had no physical strength, and failed to reinforce the cavalry platoon not far away in time, resulting in the total destruction of the cavalry platoon. Because at this time, Mr. He was furious and ordered Li Wenqing to be shot. Fortunately, this matter was stopped in time, and Mr. He only removed Li Wenqing from his post.
The second time was during the Anti-Japanese War, Li Wenqing captured an exquisite pistol, so he wanted to keep it for himself, but he did not expect the political commissar to agree and insisted on handing over the pistol. This was nothing, but Li Wenqing later heard that the political commissar had privately given the pistol to a female student in Yan'an. At this moment, Li Wenqing was furious, and he asked the political commissar to fight with his gun. The two chief officials were fighting, which was a big taboo, and when Mr. He heard this, he was furious, and immediately ordered Li Wenqing to be put on the spot. Fortunately, it was stopped.
Although Li Wenqing has a hot temper, he is originally fighting a first-class war. He led the 715th Regiment to fight a bloody battle with fraternal troops, completely annihilating more than 800 members of the Yoshida Brigade of the Japanese Army at Qihui, setting an example of the annihilation of a large number of Japanese troops in the plain area; During the Liberation War, he led his troops to conquer Qingjian County, annihilated more than 4,100 enemy troops, and captured Liao Ang, a fierce general of the Chiang Kai-shek army, creating conditions for the Northwest Field Army to turn to external operations; After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it participated in the organization of the Sino-Indian border self-defense counterattack war and the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, making important contributions to safeguarding the dignity and territorial integrity of the country.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Wenqing was awarded the rank of major general and served as deputy commander of the Chengdu Military Region for a long time.
During the special period of ten years, He Long always suffered unfair treatment. Someone went around collecting Mr. He's "black materials", thinking that Mr. He had twice wanted to shoot Li Wenqing, so he found Li Wenqing, wanted Li Wenqing to "expose" Mr. He, and told Li Wenqing that as long as he "exposed" Mr. He, he would be "meritorious"!
Mr. He
When Li Wenqing heard this, he did not refuse, and wrote with a stroke of a pen. However, what some people did not expect was that Li Wenqing's writing about how Mr. He guided himself on the road of revolution and how to become a real soldier, and the words between the lines were full of respect for Mr. He!
Some people were helpless, and could only beat Li Wenqing fiercely!
The gentleman is frank, Mr. He and General Li Wenqing are both open-minded people, and some people can understand.