Author: Liu Chuanya
My father, Liu Lutong, was born in February 1926 to a family of revolutionary martyrs in Wujiazhuang, Wuji County, Hebei Province.
(My grandfather: Liu Yizhi, revolutionary martyr, early member of the Communist Party of China.)
When my grandfather was studying at the Baoding Second Normal School in 1925, he was influenced by Li Dazhao and other party founders to participate in revolutionary activities and joined the Communist Party of China in 1927.
In 1929, he was appointed as a propaganda committee member of the first party branch of Wuji County, Hebei Province.
In April 1931, he was appointed as the first secretary of the county party committee of Wuji County, Hebei Province.
During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, my grandfather Liu Yizhi was arrested and imprisoned three times in Beiping for participating in revolutionary activities, and he was always strong and unyielding in the face of the enemy's severe torture.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, my grandfather was rescued from prison by the Party. He served as the chief of the Propaganda Section of the Fifth Regiment of the Jizhong People's Self-Defense Army of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, the director of the Political Office of the 26th Detachment of the Third Column of the Eighth Route Army (Jizhong Military Region), the political instructor of the Third Regiment of the Second Branch of the Kang Da University, and the propaganda director of the Cpc Hebei Gu'an, Yongqing, and Baxian County Cpc Committees.
In 1944, he was killed in a battle with Japanese devils. He was only 38 years old. After liberation, he was rated as a revolutionary martyr by the state. ）
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, my father received a red education from an early age. In March 1938, when my father was only 12 years old, he joined the Eighth Route Army for the first time under the guidance of my grandfather Liu Yizhi. He was a member of the Young Pioneers of the Self-Defense Army of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army.
In March 1939, he followed his father Liu Yizhi to enlist in the army for the second time. He served as a correspondent in the staff office of the guerrilla column of the Seventh Division of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army (Commander General Lu Zhengcao).
In 1940, the army sent him to the Eighth Route Army to study in the third regiment of the second branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University of the Eighth Route Army. During this period, he was rated as a model student.
In July 1941, he entered the Attached Middle School of the Second Branch of kang university (the principal was Lieutenant General Sun Yi, and the director of the political department and the principal of the attached middle school was General Li Zhimin), becoming a reserve cadre cultivated by the Communist Party of China for the founding of New China. During this period, because Japanese imperialism launched a "great sweep" of the Jizhong Plain, all the students of the school transferred from the guerrilla area of the Jizhong Plain in the tense situation to Lingshou County in the jixi mountainous area in accordance with the instructions of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region. After five large and small battles and paying a bloody price, the troops rushed through the blockade line of the Japanese devils and withstood a severe test of life and death. The first time the troops crossed the blockade line in the night, they were discovered by the Japanese devils, and the way forward was blocked deadly, and the large troops had to quickly retreat. On the way, a shell fell not far from him, and he was stunned into the quagmire of the blockade ditch, and his comrades, who were completely unaware of the retreat, trampled on him, plunging him into the quagmire. Teacher Liu Zhuoqun in the attached middle school, when he saw the situation, he tried desperately to pull him many times, but he did not respond. Comrades thought he had died. After some time, he woke up, stubbornly crawled out of the quagmire, wearing a cotton coat covered with muddy water with pain, chased alone in the direction of the retreat of the troops, returned to the troops safely, and was commended by the school. After being transferred to Lingshou, Principal Sun Yi came to greet them, and Commander Nie Rongzhen of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region personally received him and all the teachers and students, encouraging everyone to study hard for the establishment of a new China.
On March 12, 1942, due to his long-term efforts, positive study, and greater consciousness at the second branch of kang da da, he joined the Communist Party of China at the age of 16 (a preparatory party member, and the introducer of joining the party was Liu Wenbin). On March 15, 1943, he became a full-fledged party member.
From February to May 1943, on the orders of the Party Central Committee, all the teachers and students of the Second Branch of the Kang University began to move to Yan'an, the seat of the Party Central Committee.
On February 15, all the trainees set off from Lingshou County, Hebei Province, and walked through guerrilla areas and enemy-occupied areas. Pass through Pingxing Pass and Yanmen Pass, and travel west along the Great Wall. Through the Tongpu Railway, when crossing the yellow grass beams of guanzhuo mountain, which has been covered with snow for 2800 meters, it was full of snow, the slopes of the mountains were steep, and the march was difficult. He and his classmates gritted their teeth and persevered with a strong will, and finally survived the difficulties (the comrades and leaders of the Red Army who participated in the 25,000-mile long march said that the difficulty of turning over these snowy mountains was no less than that of the snowy mountains on the long march).
After more than two months of trekking, overcoming many difficulties (he himself recalls, due to excessive fatigue from continuous marching, he often fell asleep while walking), he finally reached Yan'an, the holy land of revolution, on May 2, 1943. He was cordially received by Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, He Long, commander of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Jinsui United Defense Force, Xu Xiangqian, president of the Kang Da Military Academy, and Peng Shaohui, president of the Seventh Branch of the Kang Da, and listened to the reports of the chiefs. Later, according to the orders of the Party Central Committee, all the teachers and students were stationed in Leopard Zichuan in Huachi County, Longdong Province, and reorganized into the Second Brigade of the Seventh Branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University (president Shi Ling was one-armed general Peng Shaohui), and he served as the head of the cadet class. Start to get involved in all kinds of learning.
At that time, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had entered a stage of strategic stalemate, and the Japanese imperialists and Kuomintang reactionaries imposed a strict economic blockade on the border areas, and the living conditions were very difficult. Some students developed a feeling of fear and regretted coming to northern Shaanxi. But he remained determined. In order to overcome the difficulties, Chairman Mao of the CPC Central Committee launched a campaign of "large-scale production", demanding that the military and civilians "rely on themselves and have enough food and clothing." He and his classmates responded positively, getting up early and greedily going up the mountain to cultivate land. He often secretly went up the mountain to work before dawn, and opened up several acres of land every day. The school requires each person to open up 10 acres of land, and their class has 30 acres of land per capita, ranking second among the nearly 100 classes in the whole brigade, and even the people call them "angry cows".
In 1944, due to his correct understanding, his not afraid of hardship and tiredness in labor, his exemplary role was good, and his work achievements were remarkable, he was awarded the honorary title of "Hero of Labor" (Hero of the First Class) by the Seventh Branch of the Kang University. At the same time, his class was rated as an advanced class by the brigade, and he was also personally rated as a model class leader.
(After graduating from the Seventh Branch of the Kang Da, my father came to the automobile brigade directly under the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army (Central Military Commission) in Yan'an to directly serve the head of the headquarters of the Central Military Commission.) Photo provided by Liu Xiangling)
2. The period of the War of Liberation
After graduating from the Seventh Branch of kang da in the second half of 1945, he was assigned to the quartermaster section of the automobile brigade directly under the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army as an accountant.
In March 1947, suibu participated in the battle to cover the withdrawal of the Party Central Committee from Yan'an, and participated in the battles of Qinghua, Yangmahe, and Panlong. (It crushed the key attack launched by the Kuomintang Hu Zong in the south on Yan'an, and reversed the unfavorable situation of the northwest battlefield against our party.)
In August 1947, he participated in the Battle of Yulin (which turned the situation of the entire Northwest Battlefield and turned the Northwest Field Army from an internal defense to an external offensive). In September, he participated in the Battle of Yanqing. Later, he successively participated in the Battle of Yichuan and the Battle of huanglong Mountain foothills, and recovered the revolutionary holy land of Yan'an.
In November 1947, suibu participated in the Northwest Field Army's original new-style army reorganization movement with the content of "complaining about grievances and three investigations", which further enhanced political consciousness (this movement was evaluated by Comrade Mao Zedong and promoted to the whole army, laying a firm ideological foundation for the liberation of the whole country).
In August 1948, he was transferred to the Logistics Department of the Northwest Field Army (commander and political commissar Peng Dehuai) directly under the repair team of the automobile brigade. He participated in the Battle of Shaanxi, the Battle of Xi'an, and the Spring Campaign of Northwest China in 1949.
In May 1949, he was appointed secretary of the party branch of the "Eleventh" Repair Factory of the Third Automobile Regiment of the Northwest Military Region of the People's Liberation Army, and participated in the Battle of Fumei with his unit.
(Father 1 from the front row, and 2 from the right in the back row of the mother.)
(All the cadres and soldiers of the fourth company, the fourth from the left in the front row is the father who is the instructor.) Photo provided by Liu Xiangling)
Longdong Pursuit Campaign, Liberation of Lanzhou Campaign, Liberation of Ningxia Campaign, Liberation of Xining Campaign. (At this point, the four provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and Qinghai in the northwest were all liberated.) During this period, he was sent by the headquarters to Xibaipo and Shijiazhuang, to carry out special tasks such as sending Lin Boqu and other leaders of the Northwest Bureau to the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and waiting for the liberation of Peiping to accept cars and other materials. Later, due to Fu Zuoyi's indecisive moves, the surrender time was postponed, and after waiting for a period of time, he was ordered to return to the old troops. (In March 1949, he returned to his hometown in Wuji County, Hebei Province, to marry my mother, Yan Congmin.)
His mother, Yan Congmin, is also a retired veteran cadre. He was a fellow villager who joined the revolution in 1942, joined the Communist Party of China in 1946 at the age of 16, served as the full-time director of the Women's Federation of the Seventh District of Wuji County in 1948, and enlisted in the 18th Automobile Regiment of the 18th Corps of the Second Field Army in 1949. ）
In July 1949, he was appointed deputy instructor (acting instructor) of the Fourth Company of the Automobile Regiment of the Northwest Military Region. At the end of the year, according to the order of the Central Military Commission, in order to cooperate with the Second Field Army in liberating the great southwest, the automobile regiment accompanied the 18th Corps of Yiye led by Commander He Long crossed the Qinling Mountains into Sichuan and participated in the Southwest Campaign (which was the largest number of enemies in the history of the Liberation War, with a total of 930,000 enemy annihilations), and liberated Chengdu.
(Father and mother in the 18th Army of the Southwest Military Region)
3. After the founding of the State and in times of peace
In January 1950, he was appointed as a political instructor and secretary of the party branch of the sixth company of the third automobile regiment of the Southwest Military Region. During this period, in order to accept the reform of the former Kuomintang Southwest Office Independent Automobile Second Battalion, according to the instructions of his superiors, he only carried a document and entered the battalion. At that time, under the tense situation of frequent prisoners shooting and killing of communist army representatives, he carried forward the fearless revolutionary spirit and vigorously carried out powerful ideological and political work. The officers and men of the whole battalion who actively launched the uprising made the soldiers who were bitter and bitter and bitter through in-depth and meticulous political education and individual talks, and made a comparison between the old and the new of the two armies. He also focused on doing a good job in the ideological work of the company and platoon cadres, so that the officers and men of the whole battalion quickly raised their consciousness and quickly became members of the People's Liberation Army Army. Through a great deal of arduous and meticulous work, it took just over a month to complete the work of reorganization and transformation, aroused the enthusiasm of the cadres and fighters of the whole battalion, and enabled the whole company to quickly devote itself to the material transportation work of marching into Tibet and liberating Tibet.
In February 1951, he was promoted to Lieutenant General Zhang Guohua of the 18th Army of the Southwest Military Region of the People's Liberation Army. After the 18th Army, it was changed to the Tibet Military Region) as the chief of the youth unit of the political department of the 18th regiment of the automobile (at the battalion level). He also serves as the director of the league club and the deputy director of the cultural and educational office.
In February 1953, he was transferred to the Political Department of the Logistics Department of the Rear Force of the Tibet Military Region (Sichuan Office) as a youth assistant.
In July 1953, he was selected for the Southwest Air Force. From then on, he joined the ranks of the Air Force until his retirement. He first served as an assistant to the Cadre Department of the Political Department of the Southwest Air Force.
On August 18, 1953, the 13th Air Force Aviation Division (the only transport aircraft unit first established by the Air Force) was transferred to the 38th Regiment to fly a large group of political commissars.
From December 1954 to mid-1956, he was ordered to attend the political commissar class of the Flying Brigade of the Nanjing Air Force Political School.
On August 1, 1955, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant in the Air Force by the Ministry of National Defense.
In 1956, after graduating from the Nanjing Air Force Political School, he was assigned to the 39th Regiment of the 13th Division of the Air Force as a political commissar, partnering with the captain Wang Jiecheng. In 1958, the rank was promoted from lieutenant to major.
(Father participates in pilot technical research flight preparation)
In 1961, he was appointed political commissar of the Logistics Department of the Zhengzhou Base of the Air Force and promoted to lieutenant colonel.
In 1966, he was appointed as the first political commissar of the Danyang Base of the Air Force.
Deputy Director of the Political Department of the 13th Air Force Aviation Division is retired.
His father joined the army at the age of 13 and endured a long period of gunfire and bullets and harsh environments in the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation.