Li Hongchang presented Luo Dongjin, the son of Marshal Luo Ronghuan, with a letter written to him by Luo Shuai in 1953.
The descendants of the generals listened to the old man talk about the War of Resistance
Li Hongchang was a soldier in 1938, and he was only 14 years old when he joined the army. In the eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he personally experienced seven of them, and always fought in the only plains anti-war base area in China- the Jiluyu Base Area, which is also the southern gate of the North China Theater, located between the two major railway trunk lines of Jinpu and Pinghan, connecting a large area of land in the five provinces of Jilu, Yu, Suwan, and Anhui, and is the main road leading from Shandong and central China to Taihang and Yan'an, and has been a place of contention for soldiers since ancient times.
Li Hongchang served as a communications attendant in the fifth detachment of the Eighth Route Army's eastward anti-Japanese advance column, and everyone called him "Little Eighth Road." Li Hongchang told reporters that his parents had originally designed a blueprint for his life of "studying well and being a good gentleman" for him, but when the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out, the historical destiny of the Chinese nation was at a turning point, and his life was also changed because of the historical trend. "There were great changes in my family, my father was killed by the traitor team, and the country hated the family, so I embarked on the armed road led by the Communist Party, joined the army and joined the military, and from then on I began a new life."
During the arduous years of the War of Resistance, he had worn single clothes and pants for four winters, and he had also suffered from night blindness because he had no food, and he was wounded in his left arm during the enemy's sweep. With a wounded arm, he fought the War of Resistance Against Japan. Li Hongchang summed himself up with "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8": "Handed over a heavy machine gun with bare hands", "Two Japanese officers with a hand blade", "3 box guns were seized with one hand", "4 or more pseudo-officers were captured alive", "5 wounded and disabled on the battlefield", "6 times as a commando", "7 years of fighting with wounds", "8 years of the War of Resistance, won the title of model worker"...
Behind Li Hongchang's "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8" is the tremendous sacrifice made by the Chinese people in the eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the epitome of the era of the indomitable national spirit of the Chinese people, and the memory that all future generations should not forget.
Li Hongchang's stories are all included in his book "The Story of the Veterans of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression," and he told reporters: "My story is only a small part of the history of the War of Resistance in the Jilu-Yu Border Region. At the launch ceremony in Changchun, 10 descendants of the founding generals, including Marshal Zhu De's grandson Liu Wu, Marshal Luo Ronghuan's son Luo Dongjin, Marshal Chen Yi's daughter Chen Shanshan, Huang Nan, daughter of General Huang Kecheng, Yang Jianhua, son of General Yang Dezhi, Liu Yuhong, daughter of General Liu Yalou, and Lai Tongyan, granddaughter of General Lai Chuanzhu, all came to attend, and also asked Li Hongchang some stories of the fathers' war of resistance in the Jiluyu base area.
He fought with a wounded arm for seven years
Li Hongchang said: "The war was cruel and merciless, and on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, I lost one good brother and one good comrade-in-arms after another. He himself was wounded five times, and the ghost door closed. The most memorable thing for him was the great sweep in the winter of 1943, without which he really could not have survived without a strong will and without the inseparability of his comrades-in-arms.
In early October 1943, the Japanese began a brutal sweep of the anti-Japanese base areas in the Hebei-Luyu Border Region, which lasted more than a month. That year, Li Hongchang was 19 years old and served as a cultural officer in the first squadron of the basic cadre brigade in Puxian County, Shandong Province. In mid-October, Li Hongchang was shot in the left forearm and chest during the Battle of Xiaoluzhuang and fell into the clutches of the enemy. After being wounded and captured, Li Hongchang was tortured by the enemy in prison for more than a month, his forearm bleeding and pus, rotting and stinking, and infected with tetanus, and in the later stages, he was in a state of high fever coma. When the enemy saw that he was not long off, they threw him on the beach of the Yellow River Trail. Before that, the troops had already held a memorial service for Li Hongchang and the 3 other soldiers who died.
"If it wasn't for my friend Guo Youchen who found out and saved me, I wouldn't be the one I am now." Li Hongchang recalled that Guo Youchen helped him step by step down the Yellow River's old road, and later they happened to meet Zhang Jinde, an underground worker, who used a wheelbarrow to send the dying Li Hongchang to the military medical center. The institute collected 11 tetanus needles for him to use, which was really not easy at the time, because the injury required amputation, but Li Hongchang, who could not speak, shook his head and disagreed, and a young doctor said: "It is good to treat it, and it is not good for the young man to have a few arms." "No one thought that Li Hongchang was miraculously better, but his left arm lost its function and was fixed with a splint." Every three or four months, he would suppurate and run water, but during the hard years of war, he would disinfect it with alcohol and wipe it with cotton.
He used the remaining good hands to learn the ability to retract bullets, use the box gun to fight, and fight with one right hand to victory. Until April 1949, when the troops forcibly crossed the Yangtze River and fought continuously in the rainy season, the wound on his left arm recurred and worsened, and the suppuration and water smelled bad, and he only had to put his heavy left arm in his trouser pocket or belt.
The comrades-in-arms could not bear it and insisted that he go to the hospital for surgery, so in June 1949, after nearly 7 years of injury, Li Hongchang was pushed onto the operating table, and the doctor diagnosed osteomyelitis, which was cured after complex surgery.
Talking about this experience now, Li Hongchang seems to be telling other people's things as lightly. At the launch ceremony in Changchun, a local reporter asked Li Hongchang: "What color do you think the war is?" Li Hongchang said: "Of course, it is red, and without the guidance of the red party flag and military flag, how can we gather the good sons and daughters of China, and how can there be no bloody sacrifice and bloody struggle, and where is the red new China?" ”
Commander Zeng owes me 6 pigs
In addition to bloody sacrifices, there is also a strong sense of comradeship.
Founding Lieutenant General Zeng Siyu also led their Red Army division. During the counter-offensive phase of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army began to siege the city, and whenever it wanted to fight a hard battle, it was necessary to have a commando team. Li Hongchang has been a commando captain for 6 times.
"Every time I mobilized the commando team, Commander Zeng said, 'Take it down and reward you with a big fat pig.' But the head of the city was taken down, but the big fat pig was gone. Later, Commander Zeng owed me 6 big fat pigs. Li Hongchang smiled and recalled the past, and clearly remembered this matter.
Later, General Zeng Siyu left Hugh to live in Dalian, and Li Hongchang also retired from his position as director of the political department of the brigade's large garrison area, and the two comrades-in-arms of that year gathered from time to time, and they also counted the accounts of 6 big fat pigs.
Chen Shanshan, daughter of Li Hongchang and Marshal Chen Yi.
Write a number of war histories and military histories for the troops
In the 1950s, Li Hongchang served as a political commissar in a red army regiment of the Sixteenth Army. At that time, Li Hongchang began to collect materials and draw charts, intending to compile the history and combat history of the Red Army to which he belonged, and educate future generations.
During the war years, the organizational structure of personnel changed frequently. Li Hongchang found that some history is difficult to sort out. So one of his regiment-level cadres "dared" to write a letter to Luo Ronghuan, who was then the director of the General Political Department, asking for help, "Unexpectedly, one day in late March 1959, I actually received a reply written by Marshal Luo Ronghuan himself. Li Hongchang said that Marshal Luo Ronghuan's reply provided a comprehensive, informative, and reliable basis for him to compile the history of the regiment.
Since then, Li Hongchang has worked tirelessly and successively compiled and published such documentary literary works as "Me and the Little Eighth Road," "The History of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the Jiluyu Border Region," "The Great War of Suppressing Bandits in Guizhou," "The Mighty Style of the Iron Army," and "Life on the Battlefield." He participated in the compilation of the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the Hebei-Luyu Military Region and the revolutionary history of the Jiluyu Border Region; he wrote many parts of the war history and military history for the troops, and wrote memoirs and biographies for veteran comrades.
Li Hongchang said that he was a survivor under the rain of bullets and bullets, and he was a little eight road who would never forget his youth; he wrote "The Year of the Veterans of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" at the age of 90 and published it on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Luo Ronghuan's reply
【Related links】Li Hongchang, formerly known as Li Rongchang, male, Han ethnicity, born on November 26, 1924, a native of Li Sheng'an Village, Linqi Street, Lingcheng District. Reading at an early age. In November 1938, he joined the Eighth Route Army. He joined the Communist Party of China in September 1939. He served as a correspondent, propagandist, and leader of the propaganda detachment of the 5th Detachment of the Eighth Route Army's Eastward Anti-Japanese Advance Column, the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division, and the 3rd Brigade of the Jiaojiao Brigade, as a cultural officer of the 1st Squadron of the Puxian Brigade of the 2nd and 8th Military Sub-districts of the Jiluyu Military Region, and as an instructor of the Special Agent Company of the Military Sub-district. During the Liberation War, he successively served as a battalion instructor, the chief of the regimental organization unit, the officer of the political department of the 1st brigade, and the chief of the organization section of the political department of the 46th division of the 16th army in the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region. At the end of 1952, he participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and successively served as the political commissar of the Artillery Regiment of the 46th Division of the 16th Army of the Volunteer Army and the 136th Regiment (that is, the model Red Fifth Regiment that participated in the Battle of Dazongjia). After 1960, he successively served as the director of the political department of a division of the 16th Army, the political commissar of the division, and the deputy director of the political department of the armored corps of the Shenyang Military Region. In 1978, he was appointed deputy political commissar and director of the political department of the 16th Army. In 1981, he was appointed director of the Political Department of the Brigade Garrison District. In 1987, he left his post to recuperate. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was awarded the title of Model Worker; he was awarded the third class merit once during the Battle of Dabie Mountain and the Battle of Huaihai. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel, and in 1963, he was promoted to the rank of colonel. He was awarded the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Third Degree, the Medal of Merit for Independence, the Order of Liberation of the Third Class, and the Order of the National Flag of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Third Class. After retiring, he was enthusiastic about the study of party history and military history, and edited and published documentary literary works such as "I and Xiao Balu", "The History of the War of Resistance in the Jilu-Yu Border Region", "The Heroic Style of the Iron Army", "Life on the Battlefield", "The Story of the Veterans of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression", "The History of the Veterans of the War of Resistance", and other documentary literary works; He participated in the compilation of the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the revolutionary history of the Hebei-Luyu Border Region; actively assisted the troops in compiling the history of the war and the military; and enthusiastically helped some veteran comrades to compile memoirs and personal biographies.