Mao Zedong and Li Zhi: The indissoluble bond between guns and scalpels
In Zhongnanhai in 1950, the curtain of a legendary story was quietly opened. When the guards reported the visit of a chief with a gun pinned, Mao Zedong was not only not on guard, but laughed and greeted, and this chief was Li Zhi. In that era when Chiang Kai-shek's spies were rampant and Zhongnanhai was heavily guarded, the gun on Li Zhi's waist was not trivial, but behind this was the tacit trust and deep revolutionary friendship between the two.
Trust and a smile at gunpoint
How did a Kuomintang military doctor win Mao Zedong's trust?
All of this has to start from 1929, in the Nanchang clinic, a young man with excellent medical skills was pushed to the forefront of history by the hand of fate. Li Zhi, the doctor who was supposed to be in a private clinic to help the world, was unexpectedly swept into the whirlpool of the times and became a military doctor of the Kuomintang Zhang Huizan's department.
However, the turning point of fate came at the end of 1930, when he was captured by the Red Army as a prisoner of war, Mao Zedong had the insight to discover the light of his medical skills.
Guardian on the brink of life and death
In the ranks of the Red Army, Li Zhi became a veritable guardian of life. In the first anti-encirclement campaign, he almost single-handedly snatched back thousands of lives from the hands of death, which was not only a victory for medical skills, but also a proof of faith.
Subsequently, whether it was Zhou Enlai's acute liver suppuration, or the emergency moment when He Zizhen was in labor, or even the careful treatment after she was injured by the explosion, Li Zhi was always the one who stood on the edge of life and death and wrote miracles with a scalpel.
The suspicion of "Yellow Water Disease" reappeared, and Li Zhi turned into a "medical detective" again, shuttling between illness and life and death, clearing the fog of disease. He used the most simple medical knowledge to uncover the truth of the so-called "plague" and save the people from panic.
The benevolence of the healer, the light will last forever
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in the face of the predicament of the People's Liberation Army Medical College, Li Zhi once again stepped forward and used the sentence "Don't say you bring a gun, even if you bring a knife, let Comrade Li Zhi come in", which explained Mao Zedong's incomparable trust in him. The generous donation of 300 million old dollars not only paved the way for the medical school to purchase much-needed equipment, but also paved the way for the training of the next generation of medical talents.
Until his later years, Li Zhi was still proud of "never misdiagnosed", which was his most simple pursuit of medical skills and the deepest respect for life. In 1989, a medical star fell, but Li Zhi's name, along with his medical skills, courage and loyalty, was forever engraved on the monument of Chinese history. In those turbulent times, he cut through the darkness with a scalpel and proved with his actions that healers not only heal the body, but also illuminate the way forward with wisdom and courage.
In the symphony of guns and scalpels, Li Zhi has performed a heroic legend that transcends the times and crosses camps with his life's practice. This is not only a celebration of personal qualities, but also a collective tribute to the countless unsung heroes who have silently dedicated themselves to protecting their lives with professionalism and responsibility in the torrent of history.