At his funeral, the PLA soldier carried a coffin, Chairman Mao's daughter Li Ne and her husband attended, and the compatriots in his hometown tearfully hoped that he would return to his roots.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="147" above the > country will drive the crane to the west to solemnly mourn the return of the villagers</h1>
At 15:20 on May 8, 2011, the respected veteran general Li Desheng died of illness in Beijing at the age of 96.
After the bad news reached the Party Central Committee, the whole Party was filled with grief.
In order to pour out their condolences, the Party Central Committee and its family decided to hold a memorial service for the old General Li Desheng at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing on May 14.
In addition to their relatives and old comrades-in-arms, they also attended the meeting as all the important leading figures of our Party Central Committee, Chairman Mao's daughter Li Ne, and his son-in-law Wang Jingqing.
In fact, when they learned of the death of the old general Li Desheng, Li Ne and Wang Jingqing showed special attention.
This old man, who has been fighting with the Red Army since 1928, admires from the bottom of their hearts.
At 23:00 on May 13, when they learned that Li Desheng's memorial service would be held in Beijing's Babaoshan on the 14th, they immediately asked to attend the farewell ceremony.
On the 14th, the couple came to the memorial service of General Li Desheng early in the morning.
The arrangement of the memorial hall was solemn and solemn, and above the old general Li Desheng, a black banner neatly wrote "Deeply mourn Comrade Li Desheng" in nine big characters.
Time passed little by little, and more and more people came to mourn.
There were all the important leaders of the CPC Central Committee, the comrades-in-arms and students of the old General Li Desheng, and the compatriots in Xinxian County, Henan, who had rushed from Henan to Beijing to send the old General Li Desheng on his last journey.
Everyone blushed and mourned to say goodbye to the old General Li Desheng and comfort his family.
Li Nanzheng, Li Heping, Li Yuanzheng, and other children of the old general Li were full of tears and shook hands with the people who came to bid farewell one by one to thank them.
Finally, after remembering the bitter and glorious life of the old general Li Desheng, the PLA soldiers dressed in neat military uniforms who had been standing solemnly on the side slowly lifted the coffin of the old general and slowly advanced towards the outside of the auditorium under the attention of everyone.
The leaders of our Party Central Committee, Li Ne, Wang Jingqing, and his wife, as well as Li Desheng's old comrades-in-arms and fellow villagers, slowly followed the coffin and escorted the old general on his last journey with the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army
The sorrow and tears along the way, the memories and thoughts along the way, this is their remembrance and respect for the old general, their comrades-in-arms, their predecessors, and also the farewell to their old friends and old fathers and uncles.
Among the farewell teams, the most conspicuous were General Li Desheng's villagers who had come from Xinxian County, Henan Province.
Tears blurred their eyes, and they held each other, looking forward to the coffin that had gone farther and farther ahead.
Under the reporter's interview, they choked up and spoke the collective voice of the people of Xinxian County, Henan: "I hope that the old general can fall back to his roots, and more than 50,000 martyrs in our new county are waiting for him to return home." ”
The feelings of the villagers in Xinxian County, Henan Province, for the old general Li Desheng are absolutely sincere, which stems from the contribution of the old general Li Desheng to the motherland and hometown.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="145" > crows feed back to their hometowns to build hometown memories</h1>
In 1993, Li Desheng, who had been in a rare period of time, returned to his beloved hometown, Lijiawa Village, Chendian Township, Xinxian County, Henan Province.
Li Desheng did not feel strange at all, but appeared excited, he sat like a young man in the field and asked the villagers about the harvest, transportation, houses, food, etc. in recent years, eagerly wondering whether his father and fellow villagers were doing well.
After receiving some seven-seven-eight answers, General Li Desheng was silent, his deep eyes looking into the distance, and no one knew what he was thinking.
However, the answer soon surfaced, and General Li Desheng, who had traveled south and north, deeply understood that the only way to change his hometown was to read.
Soon after, the village of Lijiawa in Chendian Township, Xinxian County, Henan Province, began to saga and amazing news, and the old general Li Desheng was ready to set up a school for his family out of his own pocket.
In this way, in the excitement and disbelief of the villagers, Huzishicun Primary School and Chendian Township Middle School rose from the ground, and the hometown has since had the sound of reading and hope.
Not only that, in order to drive the local economy, the Beijing-Kowloon Railway also deliberately passed through the old revolutionary area of Dabie Mountain.
In 1998, Xinxian erected a seven-story trial complex with a construction area of 4,000 square meters, and the old general also wrote an inscription "Honest and honest, serving the people.".
It can be said that Li Desheng is the hope of the villagers, and they sincerely thank him for his dedication to his hometown.
However, the bad news of Li Desheng's death still came, and the villagers heard the grief and rushed to Beijing thousands of miles to mourn for the old general.
At the funeral, the villagers thought in their hearts that he would fall to his roots, because although xinxian was a small town with a population of less than 100,000.
But in this town, there were more than 20,000 Red Army soldiers, all of whom followed Li Desheng
From 1928 to the founding of New China, a total of 55,000 soldiers were buried on the battlefield in Xinxian County.
It is no exaggeration to say that almost every household in the new county has a Red Army and martyrs in villages and villages.
As the saying goes: "The tree is high and the leaves fall back to the roots", the old general Li Desheng is a towering tree in the eyes of the people of xinxian County, and now that the old general is gone, the villagers as villagers naturally hope that he can return to his hometown after falling leaves.
Because there are not only his roots there, but also his soldiers and the 55,000 martyrs and heroes of his comrades-in-arms, all waiting for his soul to return home to reminisce about the glory years.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="150" > led the charge and was shot in the left chest on the Eight Temples</h1>
In 1932, the Red Fourth Front flew over the Daba Mountains, occupied northern Sichuan and established a revolutionary base area in Sichuan and Shaanxi, moving Chiang Kai-shek's foundation in Sichuan and Shaanxi.
Chiang Kai-shek was furious and appointed Tian Songyao, commander of the Kuomintang Twenty-ninth Army, as "Governor of the Suppression of Bandits in Sichuan and Shaanxi", with the intention of encircling and suppressing our Red Four-Square Army.
On January 28, 1933, Tian Songyao was ordered to lead his troops to attack the Eight Temples Pass, the revolutionary base area of our army in Sichuan and Shaanxi, which was a fortress leading to the Nanjiang River.
In order to fight our army's surprise, Tian Songyao mobilized a total of 38 regiments with a total of 60,000 people, and the soldiers were divided into 3 roads to fight against our army.
On the night of the 28th, he took the lead in letting the 1st Division of his left column cross the river in the dark at night and ambush at the mountainside, and when the main force of the Kuomintang attacked our army head-on at dawn, he cooperated with the main force to attack our army back and forth.
However, the soldiers of our army were not afraid of death, and they did not lose their balance in the face of surprise attacks. Under the leadership of the command, there was stubborn resistance to the Kuomintang troops.
Tian Songyao
Li Desheng, then secretary of the party branch of the traffic brigade, was wounded in this battle, leaving his left hand permanently disabled.
It was the first battle after dawn, and the surprise attack of the enemy gave our army a little trance.
But soon our army entered a state of combat, and Li Desheng, as usual, led the soldiers to fight in the forefront.
Just as the two sides were fighting until the battle was white-hot, a bullet was mercilessly shot through Li Desheng's left shoulder blade, through the shoulder blade and through the left lung lobe.
The soldiers looked at Li Desheng, who was lying in a pool of blood, and quickly tried to find a way to carry him down to the field hospital for treatment.
However, Li Desheng was too badly injured to meet Li Desheng's medical needs, so he had to be quickly transferred to the nearest Maoyu Town General Hospital for treatment after simply stopping the bleeding and bandaging him.
In the General Hospital of Maoyu Town, Li Desheng was in a coma with fever for several days, and when all the people were not hoping, he miraculously woke up.
The doctor examined his body and told him to recuperate, but at that time, there was a shortage of medical supplies, and even the general hospital could not come up with painkillers or anesthetics, and Li Desheng had to endure severe pain all the time after waking up from a serious injury.
Torture did not wear away his strong will, during the hospital recuperation, he deeply felt the waste of time, remembered that he had never read a book since he was a child because of his family's poverty, and decided to take the opportunity of recuperation to make up for cultural knowledge and learn the party's red thought.
In this way, Li Desheng began to study while enduring severe pain, and after a few months, the doctor finally allowed Li Desheng to be discharged.
However, the doctor regretted that because the injury was too serious and the bullet had hurt the nerves, his left hand was left with a lifelong disability and would no longer be able to stretch freely.
Looking at the doctor's sad look, Li Desheng was not very sad, these months were the most precious months of his life, compared to being able to systematically learn military knowledge, what did one hand count?
He always shook his normal right hand and said to everyone happily, "Look, the right hand can still be used!" ”
His optimistic and tenacious nature made his military career, pushing him into one battle after another.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="153" > Japanese invaded and occupied military strongholds</h1>
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Mafang, located in the northwest of Heshun County, Shanxi, was occupied by the Japanese army because of the military strongholds at the junction of the three borders of Shun, Shouyang and Xiyang.
In order to achieve impenetrability, in the autumn of 1941, the Japanese army captured a large number of migrant workers in the local area and built a 2,000-square-meter oval bunker that could accommodate more than 300 people on the earthen mound on the east side of Mafang.
The bunker is divided into three layers: underground, ground and above ground, surrounded by yellow sand strips of stone piled up into a wall of eight meters high and one meter thick, with three layers of gun holes on the wall, and then surrounded by a trench of several meters wide and deep, which can attack and defend very strongly.
The Japanese agent Qing Shuiliyi was in this bunker, centered on Mafang, and commanded the Japanese agents from the surrounding counties.
It not only seriously threatened the work of our army's Taihang anti-Japanese base area, but also connived at the japanese soldiers and the puppet army composed of local hooligans, traitors, and bandits to wantonly harass and bully the local military and people, posing a serious threat to the lives and property of the local people.
For the sake of the safety of the people of Mafang and the normal work, the removal of the bunkers of the Japanese army in Mafang has become an urgent task of our army.
However, the solid defense of the Mafang stronghold was really difficult to break through, and our army attacked twice without success.
It was not until 1945 that the local residents of Mafang, in response to the instructions of the Party Central Committee in response to the instructions of the Party Central Committee to "expand the Liberated Areas", once again launched an attack on the Japanese strongholds in Mafang.
Li Desheng, then the commander of the 30th Regiment, assured the organization that no matter how difficult it was, it would attack the Japanese stronghold in Mafang.
In order to break through the Mafang stronghold in one fell swoop, Li Desheng not only carefully studied the reasons for the failure of our army in attacking Mafang in the first two times, but also disguised himself as a local peasant to infiltrate and reconnoiter.
After fully understanding the number of enemy troops, the layout of fire points and the firepower equipment, he decided to use sneak attack tactics to annihilate the Japanese Mafang stronghold in one fell swoop.
To this end, he deliberately led the troops to conduct many tactical exercises, until he ensured that nothing was wrong, and then decided to attack Mafang.
Since it is a surprise attack, it needs to be combined with the time and place, and visibility is also one of the factors to be considered.
On March 4, 1945, the sky began to snow heavily, and Li Desheng immediately decided to take advantage of the weather to launch a sneak attack.
He led more than 80 selected warriors to the Mafang stronghold carefully, taking advantage of the enemy's lack of preparation to quickly ambush in the abandoned kilns southeast and southwest of the bunker.
On March 5, the sky gradually cleared, and at the sound of Li Desheng's order, a soldier of the sharp knife squad crawled out of the abandoned kiln and marched forward.
When he was only a few meters away from the bunker, he suddenly jumped forward and took down two Sentries of the Japanese army.
Li Desheng immediately waved his hand, and the cat led the remaining soldiers straight to the guardhouse, quickly occupying the bunker in the southeast corner of the Japanese army.
The Japanese who heard the gunshots looked around for the origin of the gunshots and shot indiscriminately.
Li Desheng decided not to hide anymore, ordered the soldiers to return fire with grenades, and the bunker suddenly became a sea of fire, and most of the Japanese troops who died and fled had no intention of fighting.
At the same time, the soldiers of our army who were ambushed in the southwest corner of the bunker echoed with the southeast corner and joined the battle.
The Japanese quickly captured the bunker in the southwest corner and rushed into the dormitory of the Japanese soldiers to engage in hand-to-hand combat with them.
At this time, the Japanese army had returned to its senses, and all gathered in the bunkers in the northwest corner began to put up deadly resistance to our army.
Because of the fortification of the bunker, the soldiers of our army could not move forward for a while, and Li Desheng ordered the soldiers of our army to stop attacking.
At this time, the chief of staff of our army rushed to support with the rest of the soldiers, and Li Desheng suddenly had a brilliant plan.
He asked the chief of staff to pick out the bomb throwers among the soldiers, so that they could hang grenades on their bodies and crawl forward from outside the 8-meter-high wall.
At that point, grenades are also projected into the bullet holes at the lowest level of the wall, and it is necessary to ensure that they are accurate.
In this way, under the bombardier's repeated bombardments, the enemy's lowest firing port was destroyed.
Seeing that the time had come, Li Desheng quickly led the team to rush in, captured 8 people alive, captured the remaining bunkers, and took the Japanese Mafang stronghold.
Li Desheng and others have also received praise and commendations from the Party Central Committee, which has also made the Party trust him more.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="164" > fought bloody battles in Ganling to personally report the success</h1>
In June 1950, when the Korean War broke out, the Korean government called Beijing to ask Chairman Mao for support.
Chairman Mao agreed to the DPRK's request after careful consideration, and the Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was launched.
In this battle, the longest battle between the enemy and us was the "Battle of Shangganling".
However, many people do not know that the final victory of the "Battle of Shangganling" was that General Li Desheng, who served as the commander, played a decisive and key role.
At the end of October 1952, Li Desheng, then deputy commander of the 12th Army, temporarily received a task from the party headquarters: immediately went to Shangganling to direct the battle, and Li Desheng, who received the order, immediately drove to Shangganling overnight.
After arriving at Shangganling, Li Desheng first learned about the specific combat situation of the 15th Army in the past ten days, the specific details and lessons learned from the specific combat situation of the 15th Army in the past ten days, the casualties of soldiers, and other specific details and lessons learned.
After learning about the enemy's basic strategic deployment and firepower equipment, Li Desheng could not rest, so he drove directly to the command post on the front line of the Five Holy Mountains.
From Li Desheng's previous command ideas and style in war, it is not difficult for us to understand that his habit of leading troops to fight is to do it himself at all times, and he has implemented the purpose of "no right to speak without investigation" in every battle.
Therefore, he naturally had to go to the front-line command post personally, and for Li Desheng, more clues were needed to formulate a combat plan.
If he hadn't seen and listened to this in person, he wouldn't have been able to work out a battle plan that would have reassured him.
And the life of a warrior is so precious to him, in a battle, he will not allow the warriors to take risks without a complete grasp.
Privately, Li Desheng's words often hang on his lips are: "Whose children are not the heart of their parents."
However, the fighter was not waiting for anyone, and in order to come up with the best combat plan as soon as possible, he had to give up his rest time and go to the front line as quickly as possible to figure out all the things he wanted to know and understand.
The car sped along the rugged mountain road, and as soon as it reached the front-line command post, he ordered the cadres of the division and regiment to assemble for a meeting.
He desperately needed to know more accurate information about the battle from their mouths and the current situation of the enemy forces.
At first, the divisional and regimental cadres of the 15th Army did not understand this new deputy commander, and when they spoke, they also took into account the superiors and subordinates.
But Li Desheng's serious and humble words made them dispel this concern, and the deputy commander in front of them did not have any shelf at all, which made their nervous mood very well alleviated.
Everyone put down their baggage, you reported the situation to Li Desheng word by word, Li Desheng took his notebook, while listening and taking notes, sometimes interrupting, sometimes thinking, sometimes discussing, sometimes inspiring and guiding.
Under his leadership, the cadres of the divisions and regiments attending the meeting expressed their views on the issue of building fortifications, the issue of ammunition supply, the issue of eating, drinking, and dressing, and the issue of soldiers' momentum.
During the meeting, everyone actively participated in and learned from each other's strong points, and the previously difficult problems were finally solved, and the best combat plan was initially completed.
After the adjournment of the meeting, Li Desheng left the division and cadres to continue to discuss in depth, improve the content of the plan of the previous meeting, and see that the thorny problems have already had feasible solutions, and Li Desheng finally felt at ease.
He knows very well that in a war, morale is very important, and the general's confidence cannot be hidden from the veterans.
In this way, Li Desheng spent a few more days perfecting the battle plan, during which he was constantly called by the commanders of the divisions to report to the Lord until October 30, when Li Desheng informed the soldiers of the 12th and 15th Armies to prepare for the attack.
For so many days, he solved all the problems he could solve, and also gave the soldiers a cycle of adjustment, and now the spirit and morale of the whole army are renewed, and everything is heralding the victory of this battle.
On the evening of the 30th, Li Desheng commanded the soldiers of our army's 12th Army and 15th Army to launch simultaneous attacks on the positions of the US 7th Division, the ROK 2nd Division, and the 9th Division.
However, there was still no power to return to heaven, and the position was quickly retaken by our army, and the US and ROK troops had to withdraw from the battle quickly to the west.
On the 31st, the Roksan 32nd Regiment readjusted its strength to launch a counterattack, and Lee Deok-sang organized an army to fight back.
The battle lasted for 9 hours, and the soldiers of the 12th and 15th Armies threw more than 30,000 grenades and grenades, 260 explosive canisters, and fired more than 21,000 rounds of ammunition, finally repelling the Rok 32nd Regiment and the American troops who pounced on them.
Subsequently, the successful reports of the Battle of Shangganling under the command of Li Desheng were frequently transmitted to the Party Central Committee, and on December 15, the 12th Army of our army was ordered to hand over the positions of 597.9 and 537.7 to the 15th Army.
The Battle of Shangganling was successfully concluded, and Li Desheng led his troops to victory.
The Battle of Shangganling made Li Desheng's ability once again affirmed by the Party Central Committee, and in 1988, at the age of 72, Li Desheng was awarded the rank of general.
After his retirement, General Li Desheng focused his energy on his hometown in the countryside, and at the memorial service, the fathers and fellow villagers in his hometown hoped that he would return to his roots, and those of us who learned about The deeds of General Li Desheng will always miss him.