One day in 1958, an old man over half a hundred years old came to the door of Zhongnanhai, ready to go directly inside, when the guard stopped him and asked him about his purpose, the old man said that he was going to see Chairman Mao, and when the guard asked the old man if he had an appointment, certificate or order, the old man was speechless and could not answer, how could the guard let him in in this case? The guard explained to the old man, "To see Chairman Mao, you must first contact the General Office of the Central Committee." But when the old man heard this, he said directly to the guards: "When you see Chairman Mao, you still need to contact him, so when you call the chairman, you will say that the 'tulk' has come." For the sake of the safety of the party and the state, any outsider who does not have a letter of introduction cannot be put in any way, and the guards have no choice but to turn this "local guy" out of the door. When the old man saw the situation, he couldn't break in and had to leave Zhongnanhai first.
But the old man just turned around and left Zhongnanhai, suddenly saw a child of about fourteen or fifteen years old passing by, the old man's eyes lit up, found that this child he knew, when the old man saw this child when he was managing the family team in Yan'an, but he didn't remember what the name was, he knew that he was a child of the chief's family, and the chief's family lived in Zhongnanhai. The old man had a clever move, stopped the boy, quickly tore off a piece of paper, wrote a few words on it, asked him to help bring the note to Chairman Mao, the child also seemed to know the old man, called him "Uncle Li", and agreed to the old man's request.
Chairman Mao in laughter
At this time, Chairman Mao, who was sitting in his office, laughed when he saw the note and said, "It turned out that the local guys had come." After that, he asked the guard to pick up the old man. So, who is this old man named "Tulao"? What happened to him when he looked for Chairman Mao? Let's move on.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > Dadu River warriors, Li Decai injected blood into the Red Army</h1>
Born in 1904 in a rural family in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, in the old society, the peasants' lives were very difficult, and Li Decai's family was no exception. When he was 26 years old, Mr. Peng was leading the Red Army team through Li Decai's village, and the Red Army's military appearance and strict discipline made Li Decai very admirable, and Li Decai was also inspired to join such a team and participate in the revolution to save China. In this way, Li Decai left his hometown with the consent of his parents and became a soldier of the Red Army, following the team to participate in the Long March.
The Red Army climbing snowy mountains and crossing meadows
During the Long March, the organization found that Li Decai had a big waist and was very powerful, so it arranged for Li Decai to go to the machine gun squad, which also allowed Li Decai to practice a good skill. In the machine gun class, Li Decai started from the deputy shooter, first doing some hard work, helping the shooter to carry the machine gun, reload and disassemble the machine gun, these boring and heavy work tempered Li Decai's will, Li Decai also had no complaints about this, worked wholeheartedly, and arranged everything in an orderly manner. In his leisure time, Li Decai also humbly learned from the veterans in the army, although his education level is low, but he can make up for it the day after tomorrow, when he encounters something he will not do, he humbly asks others for advice, after a period of time, Li Decai mastered the use of machine guns, and gradually grew from a deputy shooter to a orthophete shooter, and also practiced superb marksmanship.
In 1933, Li Decai was recruited by the organization to become a party member, and soon after was promoted to the company commander of the machine gun company, and participated in the Red Army's five anti-encirclement and suppression wars. As everyone knows, the Long March of the Red Army was very arduous, and the Red Army had to deal with the Blockade and Encirclement and Suppression of the Kuomintang on the one hand, and the harsh natural climate on the other hand. Chairman Mao once wrote a famous poem "Seven Laws. The Long March describes the suffering of the Red Army's 25,000-mile Long March, of which the famous two sentences: "The jinsha water beats the clouds and cliffs are warm, and the Dadu Bridge crosses the iron cable cold" refers to the battle of the forced crossing of the Dadu River, and Li Decai is one of the great heroes of the Red Army's "strong crossing of the Dadu River".
Marshal Nie Rongzhen
Originating from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and flowing through the Hengduan Mountains, the altitude difference makes the water flow of the Dadu River particularly turbulent, and passing boats will be swallowed up by the rolling water of the river if they are not careful. Shi Dakai, the leader of the Western Expeditionary Army who was invincible in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was trapped in the Dadu River because of the natural danger of the Dadu River before and the pursuit of the Qing Dynasty, more than 100,000 Taiping Heavenly Kingdom soldiers were trapped in the Dadu River, and finally they were surrounded and suppressed by the Qing army, resulting in the total annihilation of the army. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek also learned that the Red Army had reached the Dadu River, and successively sent hundreds of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress it, hoping to repeat the history of the collapse of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Red Army soldiers in combat
At this time, in order to march north as soon as possible, the Central Red Army joined the Red Fourth Front, got rid of the enemy's encirclement, and faced with the crisis situation, had to forcibly cross the Dadu River. In order to cross the river as soon as possible, the Red Regiment of the Red Army had a heavy responsibility on its shoulders, and it was necessary to send out elite troops before the arrival of the large Kuomintang troops, form a commando team, and rush to cross the Dadu River, and Li Decai had grown into an excellent machine gun shooter, who was deeply appreciated by the generals of the Red Army, and it was naturally indispensable for Li Decai to cross the Dadu River with machine gun cover. In order to ensure that the forced crossing of the Dadu River was foolproof, before the battle began, Liu Bocheng and Nie Rongzhen personally checked whether the arrangements were appropriate, and Yang Dezhi, the leader of the Red Regiment, told the two chiefs on the spot: The Red 1 Regiment had taken out all 6 machine guns, and the excellent machine gunners Li Decai and the sharpshooter Zhao Zhangcheng were also transferred to provide cover to the river crossing troops.
Dadu River Memorial Hall
After the battle began, bullets from both sides of the enemy and the enemy flew through the air with a roar, and Li Decai and several other machine gunners occupied a commanding height, holding the machine guns and suppressing the enemy's firepower to death. The advance team members who crossed the river took advantage of the exchange of fire between the two armies and seized the time to paddle through the rushing river in the confusion. However, just as the commando ship was about to reach the opposite shore, suddenly more than two hundred enemy troops pounced on the commando soldiers, and if they were not suppressed, not only would these dozen warriors be very dangerous, but the subsequent task of crossing the river with a large force would be difficult to complete. Li Decai saw the situation and hurriedly strafed to the opposite shore, and the sharpshooter Zhao Zhangcheng also fired shells at the enemy continuously, and the shells and machine guns cooperated with each other, and one was responsible for blowing up the enemy gathered together, and the enemy who was scattered with machine guns successfully suppressed the enemy's last counterattack strength.
An oil painting commemorating the heroic battle of the Red Army
Liu Bocheng and Nie Rongzhen on the shore saw the situation and applauded one after another. Under the suppression of our army's firepower, the warriors who crossed the river finally reached the opposite bank, and the soldiers of the red regiment behind them also quickly followed, eliminating the remnants of the enemy in the shortest possible time and occupying the ferry. Li Decai also made great contributions in this operation, and together with the seventeen warriors who forcibly crossed the Dadu River and the sharpshooter Zhao Zhangcheng, he was commended by the First Army and became a hero in the Long March of the Red Army, and Li Decai's good marksmanship was also unanimously praised by the central leaders.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > the well-known anecdote of "Tulao" Li Decai</h1>
Reading this, you may ask, Li Decai fought bravely and made many military achievements in the Red Army, but why was he called a "local guy"? There are a lot of interesting vignettes that happen. In July 1930, when there were great contradictions between the various factions of the Kuomintang, Li Zongren, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang and others opened a fight against Chiang Kai-shek, and the Central Plains War was about to break out. Taking advantage of the Kuomintang civil unrest and the emptiness of the rear troops, Peng Dehuai led the Red Army to attack Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province. Li Decai naturally followed the red army into Changsha City, and since Li Decai entered the city for the first time, he was dazzled to see that everything felt new. At night, the electric lights in the Red Army barracks were lit, and Li De suddenly discovered that this thing called "electric light" could actually make the room so bright! According to his previous common sense, a thing can be so bright, there must be a fire, ah, but also he picked up a cigarette, aimed at the light bulb, to light a cigarette, but no matter how he smoked, how close to the lamp, his own smoke could not be lit. Li Decai seriously stunned everyone, and then everyone laughed, and later after everyone explained, Li Decai realized that he was making a joke, and it turned out that electric lights could not be used to light cigarettes.
The Long March of the Red Army
However, this is not the most interesting, and once directly let Li Decai get the nickname: "Tulao". Once, the Red Army fighters seized a large number of Kuomintang military supplies, most of which were daily necessities and foreign goods, and everyone divided these "high-grade goods" and the company commander also gave Li Decai a pair of pants. However, Li Decai looked at this pair of pants and made a mistake, this pants are not ordinary pants, it is a foreign style trousers, with an opening in front, which was relatively rare at that time. Li Decai saw this kind of pants for the first time, who knew how to wear this foreign thing, thought about it for a while, and then put the side with the front opening behind. The warriors were puzzled when they saw it, and asked him if his pants were worn backwards. Who knew that Li Decai replied intelligently: The opening is in the back, this is for the convenience of. Li Decai's frank words made everyone lean forward and backward again, laughing incessantly, laughing at him as a "local guy".
Old photo of Chairman Mao
As a result, the name of the "tulao" slowly spread among the ranks of the Red Army, and slowly became the topic of everyone's usual small talk, and later this name was also heard by Chairman Mao and other central leaders, and Chairman Mao laughed and laughed when he heard it, laughing and saying: "This tulang will talk nonsense." Li Decai was not angry about the nickname of this "local guy", it was normal for comrades-in-arms to joke between comrades-in-arms, and it was rare for everyone to be happy during the war years. Li Decai's grinning personality also allowed him to gain good popularity in the Red Army, and Nie Rongzhen, Liu Bocheng and other leaders were familiar with him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > why Li Decai, the "tulk", wanted to see Chairman Mao</h1>
Later, Li Decai successively participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and after the founding of New China, Li Decai enthusiastically participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In 1952, Li Decai served as the commander of the Baoding Military Subdistrict. In 1955, when the grand rank was awarded, Li Decai was awarded the rank of colonel for his military merits. In 1958, Li Decai, who was the commander, saw that the soldiers in the military region were monotonous and wanted to build basketball courts for the soldiers in the camps where the military sub-districts were stationed as a place for their usual exercise. And in the military region to build a basketball court need a lot of cement, at this time the cement is a rarity, the country at that time is still under construction, the share of cement is limited, it is difficult to get, at this time there is no cement indicator in Hebei Province. So Li Decai stubbornly came up and went directly to Beijing to manage Chairman Mao's request for cement, which led to the incident of Li Decai "breaking into" Zhongnanhai and being blocked.
When Chairman Mao saw Li Decai's note, he sent someone to pick him up. Li Decai first saluted Chairman Mao and said, "Hello, Chairman! Chairman Mao quipped to Li Decai: "Aren't you wearing pants today?" Chairman Mao told the staff around him about the interesting things that happened to Li Decai in that year, and everyone couldn't help but laugh when they heard it. Immediately afterward, Chairman Mao cordially chatted with Li Decai about the recent situation, and Chairman Mao also listened carefully to a series of work reports by Li Decai and agreed to Li Decai's plan to build a basketball court for physical exercise, saying that this was a good thing, which could not only entertain the soldiers, but also increase the amount of exercise of the soldiers. Li Decai, who had calmed down, also understood that now, unlike when he was in the army before, he should abide by the rules and regulations, and even if he could make the decision to "break into" Zhongnanhai, he was also a little embarrassed, and Chairman Mao comforted him. This time, Li Decai gained a lot from entering Beijing, and many years later he visited the beloved chairman again, and the cement was also approved; after Li Decai bid farewell to Chairman Mao, he returned to the military region to continue his work with satisfaction.
However, it is a pity that Li Decai did not have a good life for a few days, but due to overwork and a heart attack, he died in 1960 at the age of 56. It can be said that Li Decai has contributed his life's energy to the country and the nation and made outstanding contributions to the liberation of the Chinese people and socialist construction.