It is inexhaustible to stay on the sickbed, and the tears are heartbroken.
In this life, it is difficult to give up family affection, and in the next life, I wish to continue the previous edge.
In 2006, in a ward of Beijing 301 Hospital, Liu Sha, who was 88 years old, opened his eyes with difficulty.
At this moment, her husband, 103-year-old Lu Zhengcao, was sitting in a wheelchair, looking at her affectionately, and her four children were also gathered around the hospital bed, their eyes moist.
Liu Sha knew that her life was coming to an end, and at this time, her family could be by her side, and she was very satisfied and gratified.
Liu Sha is not afraid of death, she just can't rest assured that her husband Lu Zhengcao, he is 103 years old and his physical condition is not good, can he survive the pain of losing his wife?
Seeing Liu Sha's worries, his son Lu Tongyu stepped forward and whispered to his mother, "Don't worry, we will take care of Dad!"
For her four children, Liu Sha is trustworthy, she smiled and nodded, closed her eyes, and her thoughts flew back to that war-torn era.
Liu Sha is a native of Beifeng Village, Anxin County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, belonging to the Baiyangdian area, their family is a big family in the village, the family has been out of Jinshi, out of the people, glory for a while.
Her cousin, the founder of the famous Baoding Second Division, was the principal of the school for 12 years.
His father was a talented man in the late Qing Dynasty, who had studied in Japan, and after the Xinhai Revolution, he served as a county magistrate, but he was cynical and couldn't get used to the darkness of officialdom, so he resigned and went into seclusion in the countryside.
Under the protection of the family, Liu Sha spent a carefree childhood when he was young.
Unlike other girls, when she was young, she didn't like to chase her parents to buy her new clothes, but liked to follow her brothers to set off firecrackers and chase me crazy.
In 1932, 14-year-old Liu Sha finished primary school, and like her brothers, she walked out of the mountain village and went to Anqing Girls' School to study junior high school.
In 1935, she was admitted to the High School Attached to Beiping Women's Normal University with excellent results, and came to Peking to study.
In the spring of 1936, Liu Sha joined the Chinese National Liberation Vanguard, a peripheral organization led by the Communist Party, responsible for distributing progressive literature, documents, notices, meetings, etc. among students.
After dropping out, she changed to a high school, continued her studies, and continued the revolution, and they attacked the director of discipline who tried to suppress the anti-Japanese salvation movement, which made this person unhappy and directly disbanded their class.
After finishing high school in Beiping, Liu Sha returned to Baiyangdian and devoted himself to the revolutionary movement in his hometown.
In September 1937, Lu Zhengcao, then the commander of the 691st Regiment of the 63rd Army of the Kuomintang, fought three fierce battles with the Japanese army in Yongding River, Banbidian and Meihua Town in North China.
In the battle of Meihua Town, Lü Zhengcao killed and wounded more than 700 Japanese soldiers at a very small cost, which was the first time that the invading Japanese army suffered heavy losses in Hebei, and Lü Zhengcao's fame was shocked.
Lu Zhengcao is a native of Haicheng, Liaoning Province, from a poor background, he has witnessed the Japanese burning, killing and looting in his hometown since he was a child, and he hates him to the core.
In 1922, Lu Zhengcao joined Zhang Xueliang's guards, and since then he has followed Zhang Xueliang, and by 1929, at the age of 25, he was already the chief of staff of the 116th Brigade of the 16th Division of the Northeast Army.
In 1932, when he was the commander of the 647th Regiment of the 116th Division, he went to Rehe to fight against the Japanese invaders, during which he had contact with the underground party members in the Northeast Army, and under their influence, he began to accept the Communist Party's anti-Japanese ideas.
In the spring of 1934, Lü Zhengcao came to Beiping and was responsible for the defense of Beiping City, and in June 1935, he commanded the troops to smash the conspiracy of the Japanese and traitors to capture Beiping City, and annihilated the rebels.
In the same year, when the 129 Incident broke out, Lu Zhengcao, who was in Beiping City, instructed the troops to cooperate with the students' march, and the students had a good impression of him.
At the end of 1936, he participated in the Xi'an Incident initiated by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, and this time, he was fortunate to listen to Zhou Enlai's teachings, and he believed that the Communist Party's ideas were correct.
After the Xi'an Incident, Zhang Xueliang was placed under house arrest, the Northeast Army collapsed, Lu Zhengcao secretly accepted underground party members, and carried out military movement work in the 647 Regiment, which caused the vigilance of the reactionary officers within the Northeast Army, and listened to the proposition of the Northern Bureau, he did not act rashly, the troops were dismantled and mixed with other troops, and he served as the commander of the 691 Regiment.
Immediately afterwards, during the war of aggression against China, Lu Zhengcao went to the anti-Japanese battlefield in North China and clashed with the Japanese three times.
After the battle of Meihua Town, Lu Zhengcao announced his separation from the Kuomintang, reorganized the army into the People's Self-Defense Army, and threw himself into the arms of the Communist Party, which was the predecessor of the Jizhong Military Region, and Liu Sha also came to work here.
It's just that Lu Zhengcao at that time was a famous general, and Liu Sha was just a small comrade in the women's movement.
Lu Zhengcao's team was the main force of the anti-Japanese resistance in central Hebei at that time, and in the face of the suppression, encirclement and suppression of the Japanese puppet army, they became more and more courageous and stronger the more they fought!
At the end of 1937, Lü Zhengcao led his troops to capture Gaoyang County and killed the traitor leader Yin Songshan.
In May 1938, the Jizhong Military Region was established, and Lu Zhengcao served as the commander of the Jizhong Military Region and the commander of the third column of the Eighth Route Army, the predecessor of the third column, which was the 691st Regiment.
Under the leadership of Lu Zhengcao, Huang Jing, Sun Zhiyuan, and other comrades, the Jizhong Military Region was thriving, and by the end of 1938, the base area had grown to dozens of counties, and the number of troops had expanded to nearly 100,000!
At the beginning of 1939, He Long came to the Jizhong Military Region, which added fire to the fire, and in the autumn of 1940, Lu Zhengcao led the troops in Jizhong to participate in the famous Battle of the Hundred Regiments, and the results were brilliant, and he was also commended by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
In the blink of an eye, in 1941, Lu Zhengcao's position in the Jizhong Military Region was even more important, however, he was 37 years old, but he was a bachelor with no children and no daughters, which broke the hearts of the comrades in the Military Region.
In fact, Lu Zhengcao once had a marriage, that is, around 1928, Lu Zhengcao led his troops to be stationed in Heishan County, Liaoning Province, and a girl named Gao Chongde signed up to join the army.
In those days, fighting a war was still a man's business, and even if a woman joined the army, she did some logistical work.
However, Gao Chongde is an exception, this woman is strong, she has admired women heroes since she was a child, and she pestered Lu Zhengcao several times and asked to participate in the drill, but Lu Zhengcao did not take it seriously, and agreed to her in order to let her know the difficulty and retreat.
Unexpectedly, Gao Chongde, a woman, overcame all kinds of difficulties and stood out among the male soldiers and became a famous sharpshooter in the army.
In contact with Gao Chongde, Lu Zhengcao also gradually fell in love with this heroine, and in 1928, the two tied the knot.
After getting married, Gao Chongde did not have the same fine clothes and food as other officials' wives, and still practiced with the troops every day, in order to one day drive the Japanese out of the Northeast.
The 918 Incident and the performance of the Northeast Army disappointed Gao Chongde so much that she did not retreat with Lu Zhengcao, but came to Henan alone with her family members in the army.
In Henan, Gao Chongde actively participated in various patriotic movements, and also founded a small anti-Japanese group to shelter some stragglers from the northeast, and in the process, Gao Chongde came into contact with underground party members.
Because of the call to fight back to the Northeast to resist Japan, Gao Chongde was also arrested by the Kuomintang reactionaries, but fortunately, thanks to the rescue of the top brass of the Northeast Army, she regained her freedom.
Later, Gao Chongde went to Weinan, Shaanxi, and one day in 1937, under the recommendation of an underground party comrade, Gao Chongde met Lin Boqu, chairman of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border District Government, and under Lin Boqu's persuasion, she became a secret agent and began to serve the Communist Party.
Under Gao Chongde's operation, a large number of weapons, ammunition, grain and grass materials in the Northeast Army were transported to Yan'an, and even the radio station, Gao Chongde could get it!
Because of "too big a hand", the Northeast Army also found that a large number of arms were stolen, but Gao Chongde was not found.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Gao Chongde won the "title" of an independent guerrilla anti-Japanese detachment for Lu Zhengcao from Cheng Qian, the commander of the First Theater of Operations, and she personally served as the head of the left-behind division.
With this identity as a cover, it was easier for her to ship arms, and the Kuomintang high-level at that time was very surprised, with the clay workshop of the Eighth Route Army, where could so many guns and ammunition be produced, but they did not know that there was Gao Chongde, the "arms thief".
In the autumn of 1940, Gao Chongde's identity was exposed, and she was arrested and imprisoned.
Mr. Zhu learned that she was sick and personally ordered that she must be cured, and after arriving in Yan'an, Gao Chongde lived an incognito life.
As for why Gao Chongde and Lu Zhengcao parted ways, this reason is unknown.
In 1941, Liu Sha relied on her own efforts to become the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Jizhong Military Region, and at the age of 23, she entered Lu Zhengcao's sight, and Lu Zhengcao gradually fell in love with this bright and moving woman.
So, he asked Huang Jing, who was then the secretary of the Party Committee of Jizhong District, to say goodbye to himself, and of course Huang Jing did not refuse.
Soon, Liu Sha received a note from Huang Jingtuo, and when he saw the words that read: "Lao Lu wants to chase you, I hope you will talk to him!"
She blurted out, "How is this possible?".
Why did Liu Sha think it was impossible? First, Lu Zhengcao was 13 years older than her; second, Lu Zhengcao was the "No. 1" of the Jizhong Military Region; and third, there was a "generation gap" between the two, and they could not talk about it together.
Of course, the more critical reason is that the anti-Japanese resistance has not yet been won, and Liu Sha does not want to think about marriage, and because of this, since participating in the revolution, she has pursued her and introduced her to countless people, but Liu Sha refused.
This time was no exception, Liu Sha simply refused, but Huang Jing did not give up, he found Liu Sha and said to her: "It's impossible to talk about it, don't you even give this face?"
Huang Jing said this, what else could Liu Sha say? With the idea of "impossible," Liu Sha met with Huang Jing.
What Liu Sha didn't expect was that she and Lu Zhengcao chatted very speculatively, and gradually, Liu Sha fell in love with Lu Zhengcao.
During the relationship, Liu Sha was more concerned than Lu Zhengcao, and she also went to Huang Jing in person to inquire about Lu Zhengcao's marriage history, life style issues, and so on.
After getting all the answers, Liu Sha took the initiative to get married, and on New Year's Day in 1942, the organization approved it, and the two tied the knot.
The two really came together because of love, so the relationship between the two after marriage was very good, but unfortunately, when the two were combined, it was the most difficult stage of the anti-Japanese war.
At that time, the Japanese puppet army launched a brutal and inhumane sweep against the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, among which the most difficult was the Jizhong Military Region.
Because it is located in a plain where there is no danger to rely on, it provides convenience for the extremely mobile Japanese army, while the military and civilians in the Jizhong base area have extremely limited places to hide.
He led the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians to carry out new tactics such as mine warfare, tunnel warfare, mushroom warfare, and bull fighting, and the Japanese puppet army was miserable.
Their eldest son, Lu Tongyu, was born in Jizhong.
In November 1943, Lu Zhengcao was transferred to the commander of the Jinsui Military Region and led the soldiers and civilians of the Jinsui Military Region to carry out an anti-sweeping war.
In 1945, Lu Zhengcao came to Yan'an with his wife and children to participate in the Seventh National Congress, where he was warmly welcomed, and Liu Sha was also a rare period of relative stability.
In Yan'an, she met many new friends and felt like home.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, the Liberation War began, and at this time, their second child, Lu Tongxin, also came to the world.
Seeing his wife taking care of his two children, and he was busy with the war and had no time to take care of it, Lu Zhengcao was distressed, and they agreed that during the war years, they would never have children again!
Lu Zhengcao also performed well in the War of Liberation, and he served as the Minister of Railways in Northeast China, and he effectively led and commanded the railway support work.
In particular, during the Liaoshen Campaign, when the railway was seriously damaged, he organized the army and the people to rush to repair it, and transported nearly 100,000 troops and a large amount of war materials to the front line within nine days.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Railways and the deputy commander of the Railway Corps, and transported a large number of materials for the Korean battlefield.
Since then, his eyes have been on the railway for a long time, and he participated in the construction of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, and completed a series of trunk and branch railway construction tasks such as Chengdu-Chongqing, Tianlan, Xianggui, Lanxin, Baocheng, Fengsha, and Yingxia.
In 1955, because of his outstanding military achievements, Lu Zhengcao was awarded the rank of general, and after the award, he was still very busy, busy with the construction of the Sichuan-Guizhou line, the Guikun line, the Chengdu-Kunming line and so on.
In 1967, he suddenly became "idle", and this "idleness" was 7 years, which was a difficult test for the couple.
Fortunately, both husband and wife were unswerving and survived, and in 1975, Lu Zhengcao came out to work again, and after experiencing a storm, the relationship between the couple became more loyal.
Lu Zhengcao, who came back to work, is still "in charge of the railway". For his meritorious service, in 1988 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Red Star, 1st class.
In his later years, Lu Zhengcao lived a very happy life, he liked to read, play cards, play tennis, listen to Peking Opera, and smile every day.
Infected by her husband, Liu Sha also laughs every day, but unfortunately, the years are not forgiving, in 2006, Liu Sha, who was 13 years younger than Lu Zhengcao, lay on the hospital bed first.
This is the scene at the beginning of the article.
Receiving the promise of her children, Liu Sha was relieved, she closed her eyes with peace of mind and went to another world.
After Liu Sha's death, Lu Zhengcao was still cheerful and optimistic, but after losing his wife who had been with him for 65 years, how could he not be sad?
On October 13, 2009, three years after Liu Sha died of illness, Lu Zhengcao also passed away at the age of 106......