Time returned to December 14, 1945, on the banks of the cold Songhua River, there was a scene that made the Chinese indignant and sad, a famous commander of our army, a famous general who could be ranked among the generals, did not fall under the butcher's knife of the Kuomintang, did not sacrifice on the anti-Japanese battlefield, but tragically died under the black guns behind the scum of several Soviet Red Army. He was He Long's beloved general, Lu Dongsheng, deputy commander of the Songhuajiang Military Region, who was one of the only remaining "three and a half party members" in the Western Hunan and Hubei base areas.
Lu Dongsheng (1908~1945)
Lu Dongsheng was born on April 16, 1908 in Qidu Yijia, Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, to a sharecropper family. At the age of 7, Lu Dongsheng was sent to a large nearby family to herd cattle. But Heaven took great care of this little shepherd boy who was only seven years old, and let him have a good childhood memory in that turbulent era.
There was a young master in this big family, who was similar to Lu Dongsheng's age, that is, Chen Geng, the founding general who was later famous. Although the two people are master-servant relationship, Chen Geng is particularly fond of this Lu Dongsheng, who is five years younger than him, and they have become the best playmates of childhood when they are treated like brothers.
Chen Geng (1904~1961)
In the first month of the lunar calendar in 1925, Lu Dongsheng, who was only 17 years old, quietly ran to Hengyang and joined Tang Shengzhi's Fourth Division of the Xiang Army as a soldier. In the spring of the following year, Tang Shengzhi's Fourth Division was reorganized into the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and Lu Dongsheng came to Wuhan with the army. At this time, he accidentally met chen geng, a good elder brother he was looking for, and Chen Geng was sent to the tang shengzhi army special agent battalion as a battalion commander. Chen Geng was extremely happy to see Lu Dongsheng, so he simply transferred him to the battalion headquarters as a guard and let him stay by his side, and since then the two of them, who had been masters and servants, had become comrades in arms in the same trench.
In late July 1927, Lu Dongsheng followed Zhou Enlai and Chen Geng to Nanchang and participated in the August 1st Uprising. After the uprising, Lu Dongsheng followed Chen Geng to the first battalion of the sixth regiment of the 3rd Division of the 20th Army led by He Long, with Chen as the battalion commander and Lu Dongsheng as an aide-de-camp. The commander of the Third Division was Zhou Yiqun, a member of the Communist Party. This unit has a large number of students and high revolutionary enthusiasm.
On August 5, the rebel forces abandoned Nanchang as planned and marched south to Huichang. At 8:00 a.m. on August 20, the Third Division, which was serving as the vanguard of the troops outside Huichang City, and the enemy Qian Dajun's troops had an unexpected encounter. Chen Geng led a battalion to cover the retreat of the Third Division, and in the fierce battle, unfortunately he was shot in the leg and could not move. Lu Dongsheng didn't say a word, carried Chen Geng on his back and rolled down the ravine, overcame many difficulties, and finally escaped. After that, Lu Dong cleverly evaded countless interrogations and searches by the enemy, and took Chen Geng, a gunshot wounded patient who could be discovered by the enemy at any time but could not move, and endured countless hardships, and finally returned to Shanghai without any danger.
On December 7, 1927, through the introduction of Chen Geng and Wang Genying, Lu Dongsheng gloriously joined the Communist Party of China and stayed in the Central Special Branch to work. On the 22nd, assigned by the CPC Central Committee, Lu Dongsheng escorted He Long and Zhou Yiqun to the western Xiang'e region to organize revolutionary armed forces and establish base areas. From then on, Lu Dongsheng left Chen Geng and became a member of He Long's account.
He Long (1896~1969)
In March 1928, Lu Dongsheng accompanied He Long and Zhou Yiqun to participate in the Sangzhi Uprising, and soon served as a traffic officer, responsible for liaison with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Because Lu Dongsheng rescued He Long and his troops in times of danger many times, He Long loved and trusted him very much. On March 1, 1929, He Long specifically mentioned in his report to the Party Central Committee that he wanted to keep Lu Dongsheng. The Central Committee replied to the letter and agreed that Lu Dongsheng would no longer serve as a traffic officer and would remain working in the Red Army. Subsequently, Lu Dongsheng followed He Long to the banks of the Han River and the shores of Dongting Lake, fully displaying his military command skills in the war. In July 1932, Lu Dongsheng was appointed as the political commissar of the Xiang'e West Independent Division, and led his troops to participate in the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" battle in the Honghu Revolutionary Base Area. In the breakout battle, after leading two battalions, he lost contact with the main force led by the regimental commander Wang Bingnan in the bitter battle and moved to Jing, Dang, and Yuan. Under the difficult circumstances of leaving the main force, losing leadership, serious enemy situation, and insufficient supplies, Lu Dongsheng led the troops to persist in the struggle, mobilize the masses, expand the Red Army, and grow to more than 1,000 people.
In January 1933, Lu Dongsheng led the main force of the Red Army and the Red Third Army in the Crane Summit Division, and was soon promoted to the commander of the Red Seventh Division. In July, the Seventh Division and the Ninth Division of the Red Third Army moved separately, and Xia Xi, secretary of the Central Bureau, accompanied the Seventh Division led by Lu Dongsheng. During a battle, Lu Dongsheng blocked the attack in the rear and asked Xia Xi to lead the troops to go first, but Lu Dongsheng caught up with the troops in the middle of the night and found that Xia Xi was actually unable to take the troops across the river. Angry, Lu Dongsheng pointed at Xia Xi's nose and immediately scolded, "Why didn't you cross the river?" Where has your skills gone? You killed all these comrades who created the Soviet zone, saying that they created the Soviet zone in order to destroy the Soviet zone, that they could not cross the river today, that the troops suffered losses, and that you were a party member..." Xia Xi also knew that lu Dongsheng could not lead the troops, but only politely responded to Lu Dongsheng: "My good comrade, yesterday I did not sleep all night, and I was anxious..."
Xia Xi
In October 1934, Lu Dongsheng became the commander of the 4th Division of the Red Second Army and participated in a series of struggles to create and defend the Xiang'echuanqian base area.
In November 1935, Lu Dongsheng led the ministry to participate in the Long March. In April of the following year, he commanded his troops to cross the Jinsha River in The Zamu Platoon in Shigu Town, ensuring the smooth crossing of the Red 26th Army.
In July 1937, the Red Second Front was reorganized into the 12nd O Division of the Eighth Route Army, and Lu Dongsheng served as the brigade commander of the 358th Brigade of the division. As a result, the 120th Division had a three-king anti-He incident (Wang Zhen, Wang Shoudao, Wang Enmao), and Lu Dongsheng, as He's confidant, was labeled a warlord style, and lu Dongsheng, who was angry, was determined to go to the Soviet Union to study. In September, Lu Dongsheng entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University to study. In the winter of the same year, due to his health condition, he was arranged by the CPC Central Committee to go to the Soviet Union for convalescence.
In 1939, Lu Dongsheng entered the Frunze Military Academy in the Soviet Union and graduated in September 1941. Due to the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, the lines of communication were cut off, and he and Liu Yalou were assigned to the Far East to participate in the anti-German and Italian fascist war. On August 5, 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and sent troops to the northeast, and soon returned to Harbin with the Soviet Red Army as a major in the Soviet Army.
In November 1945, Lu Dongsheng was appointed deputy commander of the Songjiang Military Region. On the evening of the 18th, Chen Yun held a meeting in Dazhi Street, Harbin City. At about 11 o'clock in the middle of the night, the meeting ended, Lu Dongsheng took a guard to take the luggage for Chen Yun, and when he was walking on the way back, he encountered several Soviet soldiers who behaved badly and robbed the road. Lu Dongsheng was very angry, criticized them in Russian, and showed his Soviet Red Army officer card. These people knew that they had run into a catastrophe, and in order to escape punishment, they had evil intentions. They escorted Lu Dongsheng and the guards to the remote railway, where Lu Dongsheng was unguarded and shot and killed at the age of 37.
If Lu Dongsheng had not died prematurely because of this accident, he would have been awarded the rank of general at least at the 1955 ceremony after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and even replaced Xu Guangda as the representative of the Red Second Army to award the rank of general. Unfortunately, history has no if, pay tribute to the martyrs who sacrificed!