On September 17, 1949, Yang Meisheng, deputy commander of the 46th Army, was ordered to come to Hunan to inspect the transfer of materials. The pier was bustling with people. Seeing the PLA soldiers in military uniforms, everyone gathered into a pile after a while.
Only to see a person playing allegro singing and talking; fight devils, the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army is the Red Army, today we talk about the People's Liberation Army!
The chiefs of the troops clapped their hands and applauded, and the soldiers were also very happy, they were all proud to wear the uniforms of the People's Liberation Army! Yang Meisheng is a native of Xiangtan, Xiangtan is a place of celebrities, the Republic Army itself has many generals who are southerners, in contrast to the founding ten marshals, only Xu Xiangqian is a northerner!
After returning to his hometown, Yang Meisheng was full of emotions, and he had left this land for 22 years. The old lady in the family still did not know how, and the political commissar next to her quipped: Old Yang, how did this get to your territory, and you are still so unhappy?
Yang Mei replied weakly: Hey, it's been 22 years since I left home, and the old lady in the family still doesn't know what to do! I can't be happy.
The political commissar replied: Old Yang, don't worry, our mother is definitely waiting for you at home to go back to eat dumplings! Rest assured! When Chiang Kai-shek is defeated, you will go home and live in peace and security, and when the time comes, you will be filial to the old lady.
Yang Meisheng nodded, ready to leave in the car, because their work was mainly inspection, after a few hours of inspection, there was nothing unusual, and now they were able to return to the army on mission.
Red army
At this moment, a boat drove to the dock, after arriving at the dock, Yang Meisheng was ready to take a look, this look does not matter, he saw a person who looks very similar to his mother, because he has not met for more than 20 years, now he is not so dare to recognize it.
"Mother, is that you?" mother! ”
Yang Meisheng shouted forcefully, but the political commissar looked puzzled, and he said to the guards: You keep up with the deputy commander, don't make any mistakes.
The old woman was also stunned, he seemed to hear his son's voice, but in her heart, he had already thought that Yang Meisheng had died. She thought to herself that when her son was making a revolution, he was killed by a reactionary warlord, how could it be a family?
It turned out that in that year, in order to eliminate our party, they deliberately fabricated the sacrifice information of our party's senior generals and commanders, and Yang Meisheng and his wife also happened to see it, but what they did not expect was that Yang Meisheng actually did not die, and also became a deputy commander, and a few years later he also participated in the ceremony of awarding the title of HuaiRentang, and the officer was a lieutenant general.
All this has to start from the time when Yang Meisheng left home:
Yang Meisheng was born in 1905, and in 1927, he was completely unemployed, and as an apprentice in a pharmacy, the drug store soon closed due to the chaos of the soldiers. Yang Meisheng has set a big goal for himself since he was a child, and he does not want to go home because he feels humiliated.
Yang Meisheng's first unit to join was the Second Front of the Wuhan National Revolutionary Army under the leadership of the Communist Party, and he did not want to be a Kuomintang. Because he knew that the Kuomintang only knew how to bully the common people, they had always been humble and peaceful in the face of foreign invaders. Although he did not know that other parties existed, Yang Meisheng's goal was to join the Kuomintang.
After joining the Communist Party, he found that his ranks were extremely similar to his lifelong dreams. That is to save the toiling masses and prevent the poor from being oppressed!
Yang's mother was very happy to learn that her son had joined the army, but soon after he was arrested by the Kuomintang, on the grounds that Yang Meisheng was a communist and that as a member of the communist family, he would be eliminated.
After Mother Yang knew that her son had a great deal, she was very happy, and he told the reactionaries: You can say anything, anyway, my son is a big hero, I have lived such a big age, it is nothing to be killed by you!
The reactionaries suddenly said: Old lady, you don't know it yet! Yang Xunmei (Yang Meisheng's original name) has been killed by us!
After learning about this incident, Yang Mu was bent on dying, and after being beaten half to death by the reactionaries, she was thrown on top of the mass grave. The reactionaries thought she was dead, so they hastily returned to the camp.
Unexpectedly, a few hours later, Yang Mu woke up, and it turned out that she was just beaten by the reactionaries and fainted. Mother Yang wanted to die, but she thought about it, what if her son lived? So she embarked on the road to find her son, and she almost saw a Red Army soldier and asked: Do you think Yang Chest Mei?
The old lady said this no less than ten thousand times, but everyone's answer was the same: I'm sorry old man, I haven't heard of it. Yes, after Yang Meisheng went to the army, he changed his name, just to be afraid of affecting his family! Unexpectedly, this has become the biggest obstacle to the meeting between mother and son!
While in the army, the news of his mother's arrest also reached his ears, and he sneaked back to the mass grave with several people to find his mother's body, but he did not find it.
At that time, some villagers said to him: Your mother is not dead, she is still alive, I have seen her with my own eyes!
This also became Yang Meisheng's last hope, the holiday was fleeting, and Yang Meisheng had to return to the army because he had more things to do. On this issue, he undoubtedly chose everyone and gave up the small family. This is also the reason why the Communists were able to win in the end, countless Communists have given up their families, just so that the people of the whole world can live a good life!
In September 1927, Yang Meisheng was already an honorable squad leader, Yang Meisheng was in charge of the security work at that time, the security work was very important, once there were any suspicious personnel, they had to be reported and examined!
When the former enemy political commissar was holding a meeting for everyone, a man dressed in a robe wanted to enter the meeting, and he did not know that this person was Chairman Mao, whom everyone admired, and he shouted: The comrade in the robe, don't move, name!
Chairman Mao smiled, and seeing that this little comrade was working so seriously, he replied: Comrade, my name is Mao Zedong!
Yang Meisheng heard the name, like thunder. He put down the gun in his hand and said: I'm sorry, I'm sorry I didn't know it was you!
Chairman Mao replied: You don't have to do this, I feel that you are very right, I am like everyone else, I am a comrade! It's not good to give me special treatment, well I still have things, go ahead!
Chairman Mao
This was the first dialogue between Yang Meisheng and Chairman Mao, and after the first dialogue, Yang Meisheng only had two words left for Chairman Mao: Admiration!
Yang Meisheng is a tiger general, and after entering Jinggangshan, he has become the focus of the party organization! His ideological consciousness also improved rapidly, because he had studied private school for several years and liked to read books, and his understanding of tactics and strategy was very strong.
Joining the party in 1928, this is also the glorious deeds of Yang Meisheng, when fighting, he never let his brother retreat first, and many times he was behind his own palace. With such a personality, he is also destined to achieve a great cause. It is precisely for this reason that Yang Meisheng will be injured many times, and the number of times he goes to the hospital for treatment is not in the minority.
After the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Central Red Army was forced to move, but at this time, Yang Meisheng happened to be ill, and his body could not help but swing. Yang Meisheng was a man who knew how to take into account the overall situation, and he said to the Party Central Committee at that time: Please ask the Party Central Committee to leave me, I will affect the speed of the march too much, and after I am well, I will definitely go to the large troops.
The Party Central Committee was not willing to give up on him, and they gave the stretcher captain a unit price and gave them some money to take charge of Yang Meisheng's safety. Yang Meisheng had to agree to walk with the troops, on the way of the march, there were interceptions in the front, and there were chasers in the back, Yang Meisheng choked up many times; Brothers let me down, I will give you a break!
But the soldier of the Red Army said: Brother, you have already given us many breaks, this time let us give you a break! Saying that Yang Meisheng was carried away by other stretcher team members and cried on the stretcher, it was not Yang Meisheng's wishes, and the reason he cried at that time was that if he did not have himself, his brothers would not need to be behind the palace, and they could go out very early.
Every time Yang Meisheng encountered difficulties, he firmly asked the stretcher captain to let go of himself, but the stretcher captain was entrusted by the Party Central Committee, and Yang Meisheng had to follow the large troops! The disappearance of his mother is always the saddest thing in Yang Meisheng's heart, there is no problem in suffering and suffering, but his mother has no news, which is the most important thing.
During the war, Yang Meisheng also searched for his mother's traces more than once, from the Black Water white mountain to Shonan, and he never gave up looking for his mother. Where is the mother? This became the biggest distress in Yang Meisheng's heart.
When everyone was discussing the founding ceremony, Yang Mu also heard the news on the street, and she used some of the last money on her body to buy a ticket back to Xiangtan, this time the luck was very good, and the mother and son were finally able to meet.
When Yang Meisheng called The Mother, Yang Mother had some touches, as if calling herself, what she did not expect was that the person who called was really herself, when Yang Meisheng fell to her knees in front of Yang Mother, Yang Meisheng saw the birthmark the size of a soybean in front of Yang Meisheng's chest, and this time the mother and son recognized each other, and even needed to rely on a birthmark.
To put it bluntly, I have not seen each other for more than 20 years, and it is easy to recognize them at once.
The mother cried bitterly and said, "Son, are you Xun Mei?" My daughter, are you still alive?
"Mother, your son is blessed with a great life, how can it be?"
"Son, go home!" My mother made dumplings for you to eat, and I remember that when you were a child, you liked to eat dumplings the most! ”
The mother's son, crying with joy in the street, made all the people present stop what they were doing and quietly watch the mother and son recognize each other. What a pity if the mother fails to recognize her son, if the son does not see the mother!
Believe me, there were countless such families in that period, who fought for the motherland, for the people, for victory! Let's pay tribute to them!