The north and south drove to report the situation, and the river lace grass laughed and lived; three hundred and sixty days a year, most of them were crossed and immediately traveled.
In 1981, an old woman traveled thousands of miles from Hunan to Beijing to see a doctor, and she was somewhat discouraged from coming from a rural area in the face of the high medical expenses of the hospital.
The old woman's son looked at his seriously ill mother, and his heart was very anxious, if his mother did not rush to hospitalization, maybe her life would be in danger! In desperation, the son took his mother around the hospital to ask for help, but it was useless.
Accidentally, the son heard someone say that General Wu Xinquan was also hospitalized in this hospital, and he thought that maybe this general could help them, and he couldn't take care of his mother's obstruction, so the son gritted his teeth and brought his mother to visit General Wu Xinquan.
Wu Xinquan was also very puzzled, how could an old woman from Hunan come to find her? He received the old woman with a hint of curiosity. The old woman introduced herself to General Wu Xinquan: "My name is Peng Xiulan, and I came to Beijing from Hunan to see a doctor. ”
Wu Xinquan couldn't feel his head for a while, but the next name the old woman said made him stunned, and this name was Peng Ao.
Subsequently, Peng Xiulan was soon arranged to be admitted to the People's Liberation Army 301 Hospital, which, after learning of Peng Xiulan's identity, decided to treat her free of charge. Even during her hospitalization, one founding general after another came to visit her in the hospital.
What exactly is Peng Xiulan, and why can he alarm several founding generals to visit him? This has to start with the man Peng Xiulan said, Peng Ao.
Get to know the revolution for the first time
Peng Ao was born in 1903 in a peasant family in Wuguan Village, Buxian Township, Baling, Hunan Province, where his family had been farming for generations, relying on renting a few acres of thin land from landlords to maintain a basic life. The father did not want his son to live such a poor life in the future, so in the year of Peng Ao's 5th year, he sent him to the academy with frugality and thrift, so that he could learn knowledge.
Fortunately, Peng Ao is very smart and studious, and he cherishes his hard-won reading opportunities, so he becomes more and more diligent and diligent. In 1916, Peng Ao lived up to expectations and was admitted to Yueyang Guilin Higher Primary School, began to study professional knowledge, and read many progressive books, and the level of ideological understanding was greatly improved.
At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, China's diplomacy failed, and the May Fourth Movement broke out vigorously. Some students in Beijing went on strike, and then students everywhere began to strike and marched in the streets. Peng Ao was also greatly encouraged, and immediately joined the school publicity team and threw himself into the torrent of the student movement.
As a young man with lofty ideals, Peng Ao took the lead in everything, actively leading his classmates to carry out anti-imperialist and patriotic propaganda, publicizing, giving speeches and posting leaflets in the market towns near the school. Because this kind of communication efficiency was too low, Peng Ao began to lead everyone to give speeches and post leaflets in market towns such as Xinqiang, Gongtian and Huangsha Street.
Peng Ao's speech was very vivid, and many people were infected by this to join the ranks of anti-imperialist patriotism, which had a great influence on the local area. In this way, Peng Ao studied while propagating anti-imperialist patriotism.
In the second half of 1919, Peng Ao was admitted to Yueyang County Middle School, further expanding the space and time of activities. Taking advantage of his leisure time, he continued to organize class strikes and demonstrations among his classmates to denounce the crimes of reactionary warlords in bringing calamity to the country and the people.
Every time he marched and demonstrated, he would walk in the front and shout: "Fight for sovereignty from the outside and punish the national thief at home", "China's land can be conquered but not destroyed", "The Chinese people can kill without bowing their heads".
The students all admired Peng Ao's bravery and were willing to obey his command and work with him to propagate anti-imperialist patriotism. But there is no doubt that Peng Ao's behavior also attracted the attention of the reactionaries, who pressured the Yueyang County High School to expel Peng Ao. The school did not dare to disobey their orders, so it expelled Peng Ao from the school on the charge of "endangering public order and harming state affairs."
This made Peng Ao hate the reactionaries even more in his heart, so he resolutely embarked on the road of revolution and continued to propagate the ideas of anti-imperialist patriotism.
He saw that the reactionary officials were not afraid in the face of the student movement, and they still oppressed the people and dispersed and scolded the students who marched. He also saw that many landlords and gentry oppressed the peasants and workers and withheld their wages. Workers are enslaved and oppressed in society and have no political status.
When Peng Ao saw all this, he was both sympathetic, heartbroken, but also full of powerlessness. He was acutely aware that propaganda and demonstrations alone were useless, that ordinary people were still being bullied and that corrupt officials were still rampant.
After thinking about it for a long time, Peng Ao decided to abandon Wen Congwu and join the army.
Army
Not long after, Peng Ao heard that the Xiang army Tang Shengzhibu was recruiting troops in Hengyang, and he immediately packed his bags and went to Hengyang to join the army. The process of joining the army was very smooth, and Peng Ao served as a company clerk in the army.
Tang Shengzhi was a powerful man with a very obvious romantic and idealistic tendency, who had participated in the Xinhai Revolution to fight yuan and protect the law, and ruled the army quite strictly.
But even so, the phenomenon of scolding soldiers and withholding salaries often occurs in the troops, and the troops complain and complain, but no one dares to resist.
Peng Ao was very unaccustomed to this phenomenon, so he organized soldiers to oppose the deduction of grain and wages by the commander.
Peng Ao and the soldiers gathered together, found the commander together, tied him up, and fiercely opposed his corrupt behavior, but Peng Ao and they were soon suppressed. This incident caused a great storm in the regiment, and the regimental headquarters soon launched an investigation into the matter, with Peng Ao as the initiator, and the regimental headquarters decided to execute him.
Tang Shengzhi
Fortunately, Peng Ao was a righteous man in the army on weekdays, treated people kindly, and formed a deep friendship with the company commander. The company commander couldn't bear to watch Peng Ao being shot, so he wanted to release Peng Ao.
Late that night, the company commander quietly came to the outside of the room where Peng Ao was being held, knocked the two soldiers guarding him unconscious, picked up the key to help Peng Ao open the door, and let him go: "You go quickly, don't be discovered by them!" ”
Peng Ao was very grateful to the company commander for saving his life, and after thanking him many times, he fled the garrison in the middle of the night, which saved himself safely.
After escaping from Hengyang, Peng Ao sneaked to Changsha alone, chose to continue his studies, and successfully entered a Changsha public welfare vocational school with half work and half tuition.
During his studies in Changsha, Peng Ao still cared about the country, and he also met many progressive young people in Changsha and participated in the "Provincial Students' Federation". In his spare time, he often went to the Cultural Book Club to read progressive books and periodicals such as "Guide" and "New Youth", and in the evening he would go to Hunan Self-Study University founded by Mao Zedong to listen to lectures.
During this period, peng ao, under the influence of Mao Zedong and others, went to the outskirts of Changsha to establish a civilian school in response to the Chinese Communist Party's call for young students to "go to the people".
Soon after, in view of Peng's excellent performance, he was approved to join the Chinese Socialist Youth League.
Go deep into the revolution
In 1926, introduced by Comrade Liu Shiqi, Peng Ao became a glorious member of the Communist Party of China and officially threw himself into the rolling torrent of revolution.
After joining the party, Peng Ao returned to his hometown according to the party's instructions to serve as the secretary and chairman of the peasant association in the southern fourth district of Yueyang County. During his tenure, he coincided with the spring famine of 1927.
Because of the spring famine, the grain in the land was already pitifully small, and the people who had nothing to continue in their hands were even more full and hungry, living a life of exploitation. Yes, life is like this, and the wicked rich man hoards grain and sells it to the common people at high prices.
After Peng Ao knew about it, he was very angry. In order not to let the people be exploited again, he began to lead the peasants in the whole region to carry out the struggle to reduce rent and interest.
Peng Ao rushed into the homes of the rich people with the weapons they could find at home, telling the rich people that if they continued to oppress the people, they would tie him up and demonstrate. Peng Ao was so numerous that the rich men were so frightened that they could only open warehouses and release grain.
It was precisely this kind of heroic act that made the people full of trust in Peng Ao, and under his ideological propaganda, everyone actively cooperated with his work.
Not long after, the Northern Expeditionary Army marched into Yueyang. Peng Ao led the peasants of the four districts to enthusiastically support the front, organized reconnaissance teams, stormtroopers, and transport teams, and cooperated with the Northern Expeditionary Army.
With the support of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Peng Ao formed a peasant self-defense army of more than eighty people in the fourth district of the south. The Self-Defense Forces are there, but what if everyone doesn't have weapons in their hands? How does this fight the enemy? Although the Northern Expeditionary Army funded them with forty guns, these forty guns were simply not enough for each person.
Peng Ao was troubled for a long time, where did he go to get dozens of guns. Thinking about it, he suddenly thought that Yang Zhiquan, the director of the National Defense Bureau, was a person who loved power as much as his life, and perhaps he could "fund" dozens of guns of his own.
Subsequently, Peng Ao wrote an invitation and asked yang Zhiquan to invite him to "negotiate permissions". Yang Zhiquan was really moved, and he came to the banquet with people.
Peng Ao greeted Yang Zhiquan with a smile on his face, and asked the brothers to prepare good wine and good dishes (all of which were grown by the villagers themselves), Yang Zhiquan thought that he really had so much ability, and walked in like a great uncle. As soon as Yang Zhiquan sat down, Peng Ao gave a signal to the brothers who were ambushed in the shadows, and as soon as the brothers surged out, Yang Zhiquan's men were instantly controlled.
Before Yang Zhiquan could react, Peng Ao took out a pistol and pointed it at his head. Yang Zhiquan was very afraid of death, and immediately raised his hand to beg for forgiveness.
Peng Ao pointed a gun at him and said, "If you want to live, it's very simple, send me all your guns, and I'll let you go." ”
Yang Zhi couldn't care what Peng Ao said, and he nodded his head. Subsequently, Peng Ao asked the brothers to take away all the guns under Yang Zhiquan's command, and also specially released a Yang Zhiquan's subordinates to let him go back to get the guns.
After a while, Yang Zhiquan's men let people bring dozens of guns, and they only had so many guns. As soon as Peng Ao saw that it was just enough for everyone to use, he let Yang Zhiquan and his men go, and Yang Zhiquan, who was as timid as a mouse, quickly fled in ashes, and did not dare to come back to retaliate against Peng Ao.
At this point, a peasant self-defense force of more than eighty people was proclaimed.
The rapid development of the workers' and peasants' movement in Hunan has aroused fear and hatred among local tycoons and gentry, illegal landlords, capitalists, Rightists of the Kuomintang, and some reactionary officers.
Therefore, on the night of May 21, 1927, Xu Kexiang, a reactionary officer of the Kuomintang, led an army to attack the provincial federation of trade unions and other revolutionary organs and organizations, disbanded the workers' pickets into the peasants' self-defense forces, and brutally killed more than a hundred communists, kuomintang leftists, workers and peasants.
The incident became known as the "Ma-Ri Incident". After the incident, the situation was very critical, and Peng Ao arranged for the members of the party and the backbone of the peasant cooperatives to be transferred to the Pingjiang Mountains, while he himself stayed in the nansi district and risked the danger of doing the counter-rebellion work of the Kuomintang garrison.
Later, Peng Ao's identity was exposed, and Yan Zhongru, the commander of the three counties of Yueyang who was "anti-communist," and Wan Fangzhi, the regimental commander, wanted to bring Peng Ao to justice on the spot, so they sent troops to arrest him.
Peng Ao knew that it was easier to expose the target when he escaped during the day, so when the night was gray in the evening, he disguised himself and calmly left. After arriving in Wuhan, the party organization assigned him to the teaching regiment of the 24th Division of the Eleventh Army of the National Revolutionary Army led by Ye Ting.
The Ma-Ri Incident
Leave the revolution
In February 1928, the Kuomintang began to encircle and suppress Jinggangshan.
In June, during the counterattack against the Kuomintang army's first "meeting suppression", in order to seize the commanding heights of Qixi Cen, Peng Ao was ordered to lead the troops to block the reinforcements of the Kuomintang Yang Chisheng Division.
However, the enemy's firepower was very fierce, and the equipment and weapons were relatively sophisticated, and Peng Ao did not attack them three times, and could only change their battle plans.
Peng First selected 100 veterans with rich combat experience to form a small stormtrooper, with other fighters in the unit as cover. Peng Ao personally led the charge and fought with the enemy.
Enemy bullets and shells flew quickly around them, and Peng Ao was not afraid, and it was a strafing at the enemy. The enemy also targeted Peng Ao and fired a cannonball at them.
Peng Ao watched the shells coming at them quickly and shouted, "Get down!" ”
The soldiers all quickly fell to the ground, and after the shells exploded, Peng Ao felt that the earth was trembling with it, and his ears were occupied by the roar. He lifted his head, shook his stunned head, stood up violently, picked up his submachine gun and began to shoot violently.
Soon, the enemy was defeated under their attack, and Peng Ao also chose to take advantage of the victory to pursue, taking the enemy stronghold of the Hundred Steps In one fell swoop, in an instant, the firepower was also hit at the Hundred Steps Pier that was easy to defend and difficult to attack. In the end, the morale of the enemy army was completely annihilated.
In the first encirclement and suppression, Peng Ao annihilated one enemy regiment and destroyed two regiments, so he was praised by the military department.
In 1932, after the failure of the enemy's second and third "encirclement and suppression", the Red Third Army was ordered to attack the city of Ganzhou, which was surrounded by water on three sides and was easy to defend and difficult to attack. At that time, the Red Third Army was under the city of Ganzhou, and after a long period of undefeated attack, the Kuomintang sent two more divisions to reinforce Ganzhou, and the situation was urgent.
At this time, Peng Ao was ordered to lead the Red Third Division to Ganzhou to support the Red Third Army and block the reinforcements of the enemy. However, the number of the Red Third Division was less than five thousand, and the equipment was also at a disadvantage for the enemy, and it was only by relying on favorable terrain to block the enemy's advance.
Peng Ao hid above the top of the mountain and launched a fierce attack on the approaching enemy, and they stopped the menacing 30,000 enemy troops for three days and three nights!
Subsequently, Peng Ao received orders that the Red Third Army attack Huichang, and the Red Third Division took the task of attacking. Peng Ao withdrew with the Red Third Division and headed for Huichang City. Although Huichang City is not large, it is heavily defended, almost like it was made of copper, and it is very difficult to attack.
After arriving at Changcheng, Peng Ao observed the geographical location of Huichangcheng for a while, and after careful observation and analysis, formulated a practical and feasible battle plan.
After the superior issued the general attack order, Peng Ao ordered the attack. The enemy's attack struck like a rainstorm, and Peng Ao charged in the rain of bullets and bullets. To boost morale, he raised the red flag and rushed to the front and shouted, "Rush! ”
However, the copper-like Changcheng is not easy to attack, especially if the enemy is on the city wall, and can better cover himself.
Peng Ao asked the soldiers to take explosives packs to blow up the city gate and take the ladder to climb over the city wall. Letting the cannons cover them behind him, he picked up the explosives package, ignored the enemy's bullets and artillery fire, and ran under the city wall.
The warriors with the ladder behind them caught up with Peng Ao's footsteps, and soon they attacked under the city wall. The enemy soon spotted Peng Ao, who was climbing up, and with a gun, he began to strafe At Peng Ao.
Peng Ao also took a machine gun and fired at the enemy on the city wall, but he was still wounded. Without paying attention, the enemy's bullets hit Peng Ao's chest, and blood immediately gushed out, Peng Ao could not care about the pain, and could only hold the ladder tightly with both hands to reduce the pain in his body.
Seeing that he was not far from the top of the city wall, Peng Ao endured the pain and continued to climb up, and finally climbed up the city wall smoothly, took down the red flag, and fiercely planted it on the city wall.
The soldiers of the Third Red Division saw the red flag flying on the city wall, and their morale soared, and they quickly attacked the city of Huichang.
What is admirable is that the shot that Peng Ao took when he landed in the city hit him in the lungs, because he could not deal with it in time, and he could hardly be saved. But he was still full of revolutionary optimism and happily said to others: "It's worth it, it's worth it!" ”
After recovering from his injuries, Peng Ao continued to devote himself to the revolution.
The Kuomintang failed in its three encirclements and suppressions, and it was thought that there would be no more encirclement and suppression during the anti-Japanese period, but at the end of January 1933, Chiang Kai-shek, despite the national disasters brought about by "918" and "128", once again wanted to launch a fourth encirclement and suppression campaign against the Red Army.
In the early morning of the 13th, heavy rain began to fall in the sky, and Peng Ao was ordered to lead the whole division to attack the West Gate of Nanfeng. Ximen City Tower, like Huichang City, is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the terrain is dangerous, and the Red Army is difficult to conquer for a time.
In order to better attack the city, Peng Ao led his soldiers to scout less than 100 meters away from the enemy. Taking advantage of the heavy rain and night, they went around to the side of the main force and quietly moved their bodies to the edge of the city wall. Although the movement was not loud, when they were about a hundred meters away from the enemy, they were discovered by the enemy.
The enemy's machine gun instantly turned to Peng Ao and a few of them, before Peng Ao could react, the enemy's bullets had already flowed to his side, Peng Ao was not so lucky this time, the enemy's bullet hit him in the head, the blood flowed non-stop, and he fell to the ground in an instant.
Wen Niansheng, He Dequan, and Wang Pingren saw that Peng Ao had been knocked down, so they gave up continuing to investigate and quickly carried Peng Ao back. After Mr. Peng knew about it, he immediately arrived and immediately sent someone to send Peng Ao to the rear hospital, but unfortunately, in the end, he died of serious injuries at the age of 30.
After Peng Ao's sacrifice, many people shed tears for him, and such a "tiger general" fell.
Peng Ao's wife, knowing of his sacrifice, wept bitterly for a long time, and then raised the only daughter of the two alone, Peng Xiulan. Later, Peng Ao was posthumously named a martyr, and his wife and daughter could also be rescued by the state, but no matter how poor their lives were, they never showed the government that they were the family members of the martyrs, let alone asked the government for any help.
Peng Xiulan
If it were not for the fact that Peng Xiulan was seriously ill and in urgent need of treatment, and his son would not have sought help from General Wu Xinquan, then the descendants of this martyr might be in danger of becoming ill, and this was the only time they asked the government for help.
There are not a few heroes like Peng Ao who sacrificed their lives for the country, and many of their families, like Peng Xiulan, have not sought help from the government, but as the families of martyrs, they should also receive preferential treatment from the state.