The hero of the Red Army could not prove his identity for various reasons, and was considered a traitor to be treated unfairly, but he did not give up, and continued to work hard to finally prove his identity.
In the summer of 1971, an old farmer who was a servant of the wind and dust rushed thousands of miles from Jiangling to Jinan, and he came to the gate of the Jinan Military Region to ask to see Commander Yang Dezhi.
Some people around them couldn't help but laugh at the old man's behavior when they saw this, disgusted with this beggar-like old man to climb the relationship.
Since Commander Yang was promoted, there have been people who want to meet with Commander Yang under various names, but after some investigation, it was found that none of these people were really related to Commander Yang.
Therefore, after the guards at the door learned that the old farmer asked to see Commander Yang, he perfunctorily said that the commander was not there, and he would come back another day.
When the old farmer heard these words, he found a cool seat at the door, and this sitting was a day, and gradually the guards noticed that something was wrong and came to the old farmer to prepare to drive him away.
After all, this is a military region, a beggar-like old man staying here is what the situation is, the old farmer saw them to drive people away and said that Commander Yang was once his superior, this time there are important things.
The guards saw that he was emotional, tears flashing in his eyes, and it seemed that there was really something indescribable, so they took him to the lounge.
When Commander Yang returned, he hurried to report back, and it turned out that Commander Yang really knew this person, and after learning the name of the person who came, he personally came to the lounge.
The two immediately hugged each other tightly after meeting, and this scene shocked the soldiers at the scene, they had never seen Commander Yang so excited.
In his heart, he was even more curious about the identity of this old farmer, why did Commander Yang value him so much?
What had happened to him?
This old farmer' name is Hou Lixiang, born in 1912 in a small mountain village in Jiangling, Hubei Province, his parents are farmers for a living, the family is poor, fortunately hard work is just enough to fill the stomach of the family.
However, under such circumstances, Hou Lixiang was sent to a private school to study, but he did not complete his studies, and after four years of study, he dropped out of school due to the difficult situation at home.
However, the hardships of life are far more than this, when he was a teenager, his mother died of illness, and then his father died unexpectedly, and in the blink of an eye, there was only a child like Hou Lixiang left in the family.
When he was fifteen years old, he decided to leave his hometown to see the vast life outside and find a good way to make a living.
But that turbulent era doomed him to a difficult road ahead, and after two years of wandering, he did not live a good life, but witnessed and experienced the hard life of the vast number of people.
In two years, the teenager grew up rapidly, and he understood that it was a delusion to want a stable life, and if he wanted to live a stable life, he must first have a rich and strong country.
Since then, he was determined to save the country through revolution, and under the influence of this ideology, Hou Lixiang came to Jiangxi to participate in the revolution, and then joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army at the recommendation of his friends.
After joining the organization, Hou Lixiang felt that he was full of ambition, and he was active in various activities and got along very well with others.
At that time, people called him Li Xiang, which seemed close, but gradually people thought that his name was Li Xiang, and even when registering the roster, he also wrote Li Xiang.
Hou Lixiang originally explained that it was not his name, but he didn't bother to explain that there were more people who thought so, and this negligence brought him a lot of trouble later.
Three months after joining the Red Army, Hou Lixiang became a party member by virtue of his excellent performance, and although he joined the party in such a short period of time, no one raised any objections.
Because Hou Lixiang is worthy of this honor, since he became a Red Army, he has gotten up early every day to practice, and he is usually the first to help when others encounter difficulties.
Every time he encountered the task Hou Lixiang was also the most active one, so he was selected as an excellent soldier in the first month of entering the army, and this honor was not broken in him since then.
Even the leaders in the unit noticed him and cultivated him as a key object, but Hou Lixiang still silently improved his ability and did not show the slightest arrogance.
When fighting the enemy on the battlefield, he seems to be a different person, brave and courageous, and always charging at the forefront, because he regards every battle as the last, and it is his honor to die for the revolution.
The September 18 Incident of 1931 shocked China, and in less than half a year, all of Northeast China fell, and Japan's purpose of invading China began to appear.
However, the Kuomintang did not attach great importance to this incident, but on the contrary gathered its forces to suppress the Communist Party, and there were internal and external troubles, and the situation facing our Party was very grim, but it still successfully coped with the enemy's encirclement and suppression operation.
Until 1933, due to the erroneous left-leaning ideology of our Party, the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign ended in failure, and the failure of this operation brought extremely serious losses to our Party.
After that, the Kuomintang took advantage of the victory and occupied most of the Soviet area, trying to eliminate all the communists here.
At present, the probability of success in the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign is basically zero, and our party has quickly adjusted its strategy, prepared to carry out the transfer, and begun the arduous long march journey.
In the process, Hou Lixiang was assigned to the First Regiment of the First Division of the Red Army as the commander of the first battalion, and there is no doubt that his unit carried out the most arduous and dangerous task.
Hou Lixiang was not afraid in his heart, but he was afraid that he would not live up to the expectations of the organization, and fortunately, yang Dezhi, the leader of the regiment at the time, comforted him in time, as long as he did his best, it was enough to deal with the current situation.
Hou Lixiang felt much more relaxed after talking with Commander Yang, and then he went to carry out his task in the best state.
At that time, in the face of the enemy's large-scale encirclement and suppression, Hou Lixiang avoided the reconnaissance planes of the enemy troops during the day and chose to lead the team members to explore the dangers on the forward route at night.
Regiment commander Yang Dezhi also praised his excellent performance, the two in the process of fighting together continue to understand each other, aside from the position they are a good pair of brothers.
However, the difficult Long March road has just begun, and after the strong crossing of the Dadu River and the capture of the Luding Bridge, no matter what kind of difficult and dangerous battle there is Hou Lixiang's figure.
But he was just an ordinary person, he was wounded several times in the battle, many times his life was hanging in the balance, but he insisted on it with his willpower.
In the most serious case, the bullets all went through his neck, but fortunately he was blessed with a great life, did not hurt the point, and was lucky to survive.
In the two years of the difficult Long March, Hou Lixiang fought with his life several times and made countless battle achievements, and the regimental commander Yang Dezhi also saw his outstanding ability, and then reflected his deeds to his superiors, and Hou Lixiang was appointed as the commander of the third regiment of the Red First Army.
However, after the end of the Long March, he was not allowed to go to the battlefield, because Hou Lixiang had too many dark wounds on his body, and his superiors did not allow him to fight on the front line for his body.
Several applications to go to the battlefield were rejected, and Hou Lixiang began to study at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, where he realized the limitations and inadequacies of his thinking.
After a period of study, Hou Lixiang has made great progress in looking at the situation in our country, and he has made many friends here.
After graduating from school, he was assigned to the Central Guard Corps as deputy head of the regiment, where he met many senior leaders of the country.
His duty was to ensure the safety of his leaders, a task that made him feel very honored, but the task was not so simple.
On this day, they were suddenly attacked by the enemy in the process of moving, and Hou Lixiang fought with the enemy desperately in order to cover the smooth retreat of the leaders.
In the end, he completed the defense task, but his wounds were more serious in this battle, and the party organization deliberated and arranged for him to work in his hometown of Gangneung.
However, this seemingly easy job made Hou Lixiang suffer a lot, and after he returned to his hometown, the local area did not arrange a job for him, so he had no income, so he had to borrow a shop to do some small business to support his family.
But this did not last long, and in 1940 he received an order from the organization to penetrate deep into the enemy to spy on intelligence and facilitate the subsequent operations of our army.
Hou Lixiang immediately took action after receiving the order, and for the sake of safety, he locked everything that could prove his identity in a box, including all his medals and commendation certificates.
Just when he had little access to enemy secrets, he suddenly found that the box was missing, and things became extremely tricky.
If the box falls into the hands of the enemy, then Hou Lixiang's identity will be immediately exposed, and then his life will be in danger, and the mission arranged by the organization will also fail.
Hou Lixiang confirmed that he was still safe in a short time, and he quickly contacted the organization to inquire about the next plan.
The superior organization immediately arranged for him to transfer after learning about this matter, after all, his life safety was the most important.
Later, there were traitors in the organization, and Hou Lixiang changed his name and surname to disguise himself as a peasant in order to protect himself, but he did not think that this disguise would be difficult to prove his identity
After the founding of New China, the agrarian revolutionary movement was launched, and Hou Lixiang was no longer in danger at this time, so he returned to his hometown to prepare for the activities.
Unaware that all his identity documents had been lost, he could not say who he was, and the local government acted according to the regulations and arranged him as an ordinary farmer in the production team.
However, Hou Lixiang had been wandering around since he was a teenager, moving goods, working as a coolie, and then joining the army to fight, and the matter of farming was a bit strange to him.
When the village cadres saw him like this, they did not let him go to the fields and arranged a job for him to herd cattle, and Hou Lixiang really could not do this kind of work after going into battle to kill the enemy for so many years.
But before he could report to his superiors, someone took the initiative to find him, but this was not a good thing.
The village cadres felt a little strange when they saw that he could not do farm work, and after reacting to the above, they launched an investigation into Hou Lixiang, and this time they did not investigate the identity of the Communist Party, but the experience in the Kuomintang was investigated.
At this time, Hou Lixiang's situation was even worse, not only did he not prove his identity, but he was also arrested and educated as an old Kuomintang department.
Hou Lixiang naturally felt uncomfortable with this treatment, and he later came to the government to tell about his situation.
However, at that time, New China had just been founded, and many of the country's rules and regulations had not yet been perfected, and some people took the opportunity to pretend to be identities to defraud the state welfare.
Hou Lixiang has no way to prove his identity, and the government will not determine his identity because of his one-sided words, but can only investigate and collect evidence.
However, when Hou Lixiang first went undercover with the enemy, not many people knew his identity, and the name that was originally recorded was Li Xiang, and it was now more difficult to prove his identity.
Every time Hou Lixiang talked about his military experience, he was ridiculed by the villagers, some people felt that he was talking big, and some people minded that he was doing things for the Kuomintang, so Hou Lixiang has been isolated by the villagers.
And Hou Lixiang himself is indeed a hero of the Red Army, so he will not deliberately please others, and this maverick attitude naturally causes dissatisfaction among others.
In 1959, Hou Lixiang was treated as the target of dictatorship, when the government sent someone to report him to monitor him, and Hou Lixiang knew that it would be worse to continue.
It just so happened that he saw Yang Dezhi's message from the newspaper, and immediately he wrote a letter to tell his experience, and Yang Dezhi immediately replied after receiving the letter.
However, the traffic at that time was inconvenient, the letter did not know where it was lost in the middle of the road, and finally Hou Lixiang failed to receive a reply.
In this way, Hou Lixiang has always been charged with counter-revolution, not only to accept labor reform, but also to be looked down upon by the villagers.
More than ten years have passed, Hou Lixiang's identity has still not been confirmed, and one day he saw the news of Yang Dezhi in Jinan from the newspaper.
Hou Lixiang's heart was once again lit up with hope, and when he was nearly sixty years old, he walked a hundred miles, then crossed the river by boat, transferred to a train, and rushed to Jinan with all his might.
At night, he had no money to live in a hotel and sleep on the street, and when he came to the military region in Jinan, he was no different from a beggar, and the guards at the door could not believe that he knew Commander Yang when he saw him like this.
However, seeing that his feelings were sincere, and the things he told Commander Yang had indeed experienced, he asked him to stay here and wait for Commander Yang.
The two saw each other again after thirty years, without the spirit they once had, time dyed their sideburns white, and the eyes of the two old men could not help but shed tears.
Hou Lixiang informed Yang Dezhi of his experience over the years, and Yang Dezhi immediately wrote down materials and submitted them to the Central Committee after he knew it, and he must restore the identity of this old brother.
However, due to the long interval, things were somewhat difficult to handle, Hou Lixiang's former comrades-in-arms all wrote letters to prove his identity, and finally after two years of investigation and evidence collection, Hou Lixiang restored the treatment of the Red Army, and he finally got rid of such a false accusation.
The only regret is that he needs to rejoin the party, and his former party age is invalidated, because there is no record of him in the party for more than twenty years, which counts as a free departure from the party.
Hou Lixiang's treatment of these injustices is undoubtedly heart-wrenching, and he never gave up restoring his identity and finally got the treatment he deserved.
Nowadays, China's system is becoming more and more perfect, and the state also attaches great importance to these veterans of the War of Resistance, hoping that these ancestors can receive preferential treatment.
It is precisely because they are not afraid of life and death and fight on the battlefield that we can live a happy life now, and we should always remember and be grateful to these revolutionary ancestors.