What are you doing at 22?
This should be an age that represents infinite vitality and youth, however, during the War of Resistance, many people fixed their lives forever at the age of 22.
This includes Lu Deming.
He was the commander-in-chief of the Autumn Harvest Uprising and what Mao Zedong called "a military partner who did not change three divisions."
In 2009, Lu Deming, together with Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Chen Yannian and other martyrs, was listed as one of the 100 heroic models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China.
The times have not forgotten him, and history has not forgotten his bloody struggles. Lu Deming once again proved to people that the breadth of life is far more important than the length.
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In 1905, Lu Deming was born in Zigong, Sichuan Province.
In that era of dynastic changes, there was suffering and uncertainty everywhere. Fortunately, the Lu family is still relatively wealthy, so that Lu Deming has lived a comfortable life since childhood.
However, when Lu Deming was 8 years old, his mother and brother-in-law were robbed by bandits, which shocked the entire Lu family and also shocked Lu Deming's young heart.
In the end, the family spent a lot of money to redeem the people.
Although there is no danger, it makes Lu Deming have a new understanding of the social environment in which he lives.
In 1916, there was a heavy snowfall in Zigong, the Lu family and the Yan family exchanged red stickers, and Lu Deming and Yan Ruiqin of the green plum bamboo horse officially made a marriage contract.
If nothing else, in a few years they will have a family. But in the turbulent years, the times are uncertain, and the circumstances of life are also changing rapidly.
A few years later, the May Fourth Movement broke out, and Lu Deming was deeply affected by it, and he was desperate to do something about the decaying old system and the chaotic state.
One day, he saw in the newspaper that the Guangzhou Whampoa Military Academy was enrolling students, which made Lu Deming's heart very excited, and he thought in his heart that the time had finally come.
Therefore, he decided to abandon his pen and go to the military academy.
Before leaving, he wrote a pair of Spring Leagues to his family to remember:
"Ask the guest where he came from, I think it was the fairy wind blowing." If you can't stay, you must return when the moon shines. ”
Lu Deming embarked on the journey with great ambition, but the worried family and the tearful Yan Ruiqin kept watching him until he could no longer see the figure.
No one thought that this parting would be a farewell forever.
The road from Sichuan to Guangzhou is long, and when Lu Deming arrived in Guangzhou, he had already missed the enrollment time.
After several twists and turns, under the recommendation of his fellow villagers, Lu Deming had the opportunity to meet Sun Yat-sen, and he prayed that Mr. Sun would write a letter of recommendation for himself.
Sun Yat-sen looked at the dusty youth in front of him, decided to give him a chance, and immediately wrote down the title of the test question, "The First Task of the National Revolution Today."
After receiving the examination questions, Lu Deming took a deep breath, sorted out his thoughts on the world over the years, and wrote:
"If China wants to be strong and prosperous, it is necessary to overthrow the great powers and eliminate the warlords, resist the enemy by force externally, and unify the armed forces at home.
After reading Lu Deming's answer sheet, Sun Yat-sen immediately wrote a letter of recommendation with a pen, and when he handed the letter to Lu Deming's hand, he said in a serious tone: "I hope that you can be consistent with your words and deeds and serve the revolution." ”
After receiving the letter, Lu Deming solemnly bowed to Dr. Sun Yat-sen and firmly replied with two words: "Definitely." ”
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In 1924, with Sun Yat-sen's letter of recommendation, Lu Deming became a student of the second phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.
After he had just settled in, he couldn't wait to send Yan Ruiqin a photo of his half-body armor, and his joy overflowed.
During his studies at the Whampoa Military Academy, Lu Deming became more and more convinced of his ideals and stood out from the talented students.
He Yingqin praised him for being both literate and martial, and he would become a general, and Sun Yat-sen praised him as a model for revolutionary youth.
In February 1925, the Nationalist government declared war on Chen Jiongming, and Lu Deming became the chief detective in the student army, leading 60 students to infiltrate the enemy's hinterland to collect intelligence, and performed well.
In November, Lu Deming became the commander of the 4th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Ye Ting Independent Regiment, and in May of the following year, the Northern Expedition Began, and the military career of sword and gun shadow officially began.
Immediately after arriving in Anren, the Independent Regiment ushered in its first battle encounter. The enemy's 6 regiments of troops attacked in two ways, and the independent regiments counterattacked in separate ways to break through the siege.
In this battle, Lu Deming fully demonstrated his military ability and bravery.
Under the command of Lu Deming, the soldiers of the 4th Company repelled the enemy step by step, and when the enemy army fled into the wilderness, Lu Deming led the troops to pursue to Youxian County, and the deputy company commander hurriedly dissuaded them not to continue to pursue, without the instructions of their superiors, for fear of violating military orders.
Lu Deming said firmly: "The soldiers are fast, the battlefield is changing rapidly, if everything waits for the orders of the superiors, the fighter plane will be missed, and they will chase me, and I will bear something." ”
After saying this, Lu Deming continued to lead his troops to pursue the enemy for 20 miles, and the independent regiment took advantage of the victory to occupy Youxian County.
The first battle was a complete victory, but Lu Deming was not carried away by the victory, and after the war, he organized the company to analyze and summarize the combat experience and put forward a specific plan for the next battle.
As the army marched, Lu Deming always led the company to rush to the front, and the brave soldiers, the former servants followed, and they were invincible.
Until the capture of Wuchang City and the defeat of Wu Peifu, Lu Deming was brave and good at fighting all the way, and his military achievements were outstanding, from company commander to battalion commander, and later he was entrusted with the post of regimental chief of staff.
This year, Lu Deming was 21 years old.
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During the Northern Expedition, Lu Deming knew that his life and death were uncertain, and after passing through the Ghost Gate several times, he was particularly missing his family members in Sichuan, and especially for him to let go of his fiancée Yan Ruiqin.
In his family letters, he constantly writes about his homesickness and reveals his apologies to his fiancée.
After writing the letter, Lu Deming would wake up whispering his wife's name in the dream, and perhaps in the dream, he returned to the home that gave him infinite warmth, but the sound of war in his ears quickly pulled him back to reality.
In 1927, the April 12 Incident broke out, and Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei betrayed the revolution and began to massacre Communists in large numbers.
In June of the same year, Lu Deming became the head of the Wuchang Guard Regiment, and under the cover of white terror, everyone was in danger, and Lu Deming also felt a heavy responsibility.
Therefore, he began to take advantage of his position to arrange the leading cadres of the Communist Party to serve as cadres in the guard regiment, so as to protect comrades and accumulate strength for the revolutionary ranks.
On the other hand, in the face of increasing pressure on counter-revolutionary actions, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and others decided to launch the Nanchang Uprising.
On 1 August, the first shots of the uprising had just been fired. On the night of August 2, Lu Deming received two telegrams at the same time, one was a comrade of the Nanchang uprising, inviting him to join the uprising.
The other was sent by Zhang Fakui (Zhang was Lu's superior), who had already defected to Wang Jingwei, and in the telegram, he ordered Lu Deming to lead the guard regiment to Jiujiang at once to prepare to encircle and suppress the Nanchang uprising.
Standing at the crossroads of the revolution, where should Lu Deming go?
After consulting with two of his generals overnight, he resolutely decided to respond to the Nanchang Uprising. On the pretext of Zhang Fakui's order, they justifiably led the guard regiment to board the ship and set off, but abandoned the ship and left for Nanchang in the middle of the road.
After Zhang Fakui received the news, he immediately organized two regiments of troops to surround and intercept Lu Deming, while nanchang on the other side had been occupied by the Kuomintang, and in the face of the rapid change of the situation, Lu Deming decided to retreat to the Xiushui area first and wait for the opportunity.
At this time, he also sent out the last family letter:
"Now due to the change of the situation, in order not to affect the family, I will not send family letters for the time being in the future, and you should not write letters, and you will contact them after the war."
Just a few sentences, full of determination and determination.
While repairing the water, Lu Deming, while recruiting the local peasant army, looked for opportunities to contact the organization, and he returned to Wuhan despite the danger, and contacted the police.
After conveying the spirit of the "Eighty-Seven" meeting to Lu Deming, he asked him to go back to assist Mao Zedong in launching the Autumn Harvest Uprising, so Lu Deming immediately led his troops to meet Mao Zedong.
In Anyuan, Mao Zedong became the secretary of the Committee of Former Enemies, and Lu Deming became the commander-in-chief, and they complemented each other and jointly organized the Autumn Harvest Uprising.
That year, Lu Deming was 22 years old.
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On September 9, 1927, the Autumn Harvest Uprising broke out.
The clarion call of resistance was sounded, and everyone was united in their will, but in the face of the situation in which the enemy was strong and we were weak, the troops of our army suffered serious heavy losses one after another.
Mao Zedong had a premonition that the situation was not optimistic, and held an emergency meeting in Wenjia City, Liuyang.
At the meeting, Mao Zedong put forward a bold idea, abandoning the attack on Changsha, retreating to the countryside, establishing a rural revolutionary base area, and adopting the strategy of encircling the city with the countryside.
As soon as the words fell silent, the scene was dead silent, and everyone was thinking in their minds whether this opinion, which was completely different from the original idea, was feasible.
Just then, Lu Deming suddenly got up, breaking the silence, and he said firmly: "I agree with Member Mao's opinion." ”
It was precisely under the resolute support of Lu Deming that the meeting adopted Mao Zedong's strategic opinions and laid the foundation for the future development direction of China's revolutionary road.
Immediately afterward, at the meeting, a plan was drawn up to retreat to Jinggangshan, with Mao Zedong leading the leading troops, Lu Deming leading the division headquarters in the center, and finally another cadre leading the 3rd Regiment to pad the rear.
However, in the process of retreating, the vanguard and the middle troops had all escaped danger, while the 3rd Regiment was surrounded by the enemy, and seeing that the situation was not good, Lu Deming immediately led a company to return.
In the fire attack, Lu Deming led the company to seize the high ground to block the enemy, while commanding the personnel of the 3rd Regiment, which had been scattered, to gather to cover their approach to the forward troops.
Just as the army was facing each other, Lu Deming was hit in the chest by a bullet and fell into a pool of blood.
Waiting for the smoke to fade, the villagers found Lu Deming's body by a ditch, and the once fresh life had long lost its vitality.
He is only 22 years old.
After Mao Zedong heard the news of Lu Deming's sacrifice, he was overwhelmed with grief and cried out in pain: "Return me Lu Deming!" ”
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In 1949, Zigong was liberated.
When the troops entered the city, the people cheered enthusiastically in the middle of the road, and in the crowded streets, a middle-aged woman stopped everyone and asked, "Do you know Lu Deming?" Do you know Lu Deming? ”
But she did not receive a single positive reply.
This middle-aged woman is Lu Deming's fiancée Yan Ruiqin.
At this time, 22 years have passed since receiving Lu Deming's last family letter, and Yan Ruiqin has long since changed from a young girl to a widow.
That year, after receiving Lu Deming's letter, Yan Ruiqin made up her mind to wait for him to return, but wait, Wait, Lu Deming was like a kite with a broken line.
She waited until she was more than 30 years old, and at the strong request of her family, Yan Ruiqin married someone with tears. After marriage, she secretly hid the letters and photos sent to her by Lu Deming in the attic.
A few years later, her husband died, and this time she had no scruples and continued to wait for Lu Deming without distraction, but there was still no news.
It was not until the spring of 1978 that Yan Ruiqin waited for the news.
On the graduation photos of the Whampoa Military Academy, she recognized Lu Deming at a glance, but was told that this person had died as early as 1927.
Yan Ruiqin was full of grief, 50 years of bitter waiting, and finally turned into a wailing catharsis in this instant, and the once unforgettable feelings supported her to survive the wind and frost for half a century, and all expectations finally disappeared in this instant.
Yan Ruiqin had a serious illness, the wrinkles in the corners of her eyes became deeper, the white hair on her sideburns became much more, and the heart that had long been missing became more hollow and mutilated.
If there had been no war, perhaps they would have been full of children and grandchildren, enjoying the heavens and the earth, but now there are only yin and yang separated.
In that era of "the country is broken", how many families suffered such a life and death? How many young fighters have given their lives for ideals, for revolution, for the country?
There is such a group of enthusiastic young people who are willing to dye the revolution with their own blood; they are worthy of the people and the country, but they have left too many regrets and sorrows for their families.
But this is their choice, it is also their ideal, and they are willing to be the vanguard of the revolution, although they have not regretted their deaths.
Stills of "The Great Cause of Building an Army" Zhang Yixing as Lu Deming
As Chen Duxiu's second son, Chen Qiaonian, said before he was killed: "Let our children and grandchildren enjoy the happiness of their predecessors!" ”
This is their enlightenment, and it is the history and kindness that the Chinese children of our generation should remember.
Don't forget the role models of my generation.
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