Pictured by Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping
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"After I die, I will only make one request, please convey it to Comrade Xiaoping, otherwise I will never enter The Eight Treasure Mountain and let my son throw me into the wilderness." Liu Bocheng lay on the hospital bed and solemnly asked Hua Guofeng, who had come to visit.
After October 1976, a Japanese scholar first wrote an article revealing that Liu Bocheng left Hua Guofeng a "special will" before his death and asked him to convey it to Deng Xiaoping, which was subsequently widely circulated in Chinese politics.
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"We worked together for 13 years, and although I was more than ten years younger and had different personalities and hobbies, we worked well together and found it difficult to separate from each other." Whenever he thought of Liu Bocheng, an old comrade-in-arms, Deng Xiaoping always felt a thousand emotions.
Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping personally went to the front
Although Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping met as early as 1931, they really began to work together after the War of Resistance. At the first meeting, Deng Xiaoping's impression of Liu Bocheng was very good:
"He was loyal, sincere, and very kind."
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Bo assumed the position of commander of the 129th Division and Deng Xiaoping as the political commissar, and the two of them made the prestige of "Liu Deng's army" resound throughout the army in 13 years. After the Hundred Regiments War broke out in 1940, Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping held the front line day and night, closely cooperating with and commanding the troops to win the battle.
In the third phase of the campaign, the Japanese concentrated their forces to carry out a frenzied sweep of the base areas, and the 129th Division fell into a very difficult situation. Due to the grim situation, Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping issued weapons to everyone in the front-line command post, and when the battle between Chen Geng and his troops and the Japanese Thirty-sixth Division fell into a stalemate, Peng Dehuai sent a telegram demanding that the enemy be eliminated at all costs.
Picture 丨 Hundred Regiments Battle scene photos
The fierce fighting lasted from four o'clock in the morning to noon, and Chen Geng called the headquarters to report that the casualties of the troops were too great, and some companies were already unable to withstand it. Liu Bocheng shouted anxiously into the phone:
"Comrade! Don't I feel sorry for my team? ”
After saying that, he dropped the microphone, and Deng Xiaoping picked up the microphone in time and solemnly instructed Chen Geng that he must proceed from the overall situation and take down the enemy at all costs; it is impossible to fight a war without casualties, and the most important thing is to organize firepower and work hard so that the casualties can be minimized to the greatest extent.
Deng Xiaoping's instructions were heavier than Taishan's, and Chen Geng immediately expressed resolute obedience. After hanging up the phone, the news of the victory frequently returned to the headquarters, liu Bocheng instructed Chen Geng by telephone, threw the grenade through the chimney, and choked the enemy with lime, Deng Xiaoping took the microphone and continued:
"Burn the hole with firewood and smoke him to death!"
Picture 丨 Chen Geng old photo
Under the command of Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, the Eighth Route Army beat the enemy to the point of crying, and from then on the 129th Division began to circulate a saying: Chen Geng was not afraid of anyone, he was afraid of Deng Xiaoping.
After the "sweeping" of the Japanese army in the spring of 1942, Deng Xiaoping led his troops to the Taiyue District to inspect the work, and because they had to pass through the enemy's blockaded defensive line, Liu Bocheng personally made strict arrangements in order to ensure Deng Xiaoping's safety, and ordered Li Da, chief of staff, to ensure the safety of Deng's political commissar, and to inform Deng Xiaoping of several places to pass through, so that they would feedback the pick-up situation to the division headquarters on the same day.
Despite this, Liu Bocheng was still uneasy, and on the night that Deng Xiaoping crossed the enemy's defense line, Liu Bocheng stayed up all night and personally sat in the duty room, and the staff officer on duty repeatedly urged him to rest, but he refused. When it was almost dawn, Chen Geng called and said that Deng Xiaoping had arrived safely, and Liu Bocheng went back to rest with peace of mind.
In May of the same year, the enemy began a large-scale "sweep" of Ji and threatened to start from the Taiyue district first, and Liu Bocheng again instructed Li Da that the enemy's target was first of all the Taiyue district, telling the troops along the way that they must ensure the safety of Commissar Deng. In the anti-"sweeping" campaign, Liu Bocheng's own situation was once very dangerous, but after the breakthrough, he first inquired about Deng Xiaoping's situation and instructed the troops to pay attention to liaison at any time.
The leader of the 129th Division took a photo in Zuoquan County
Yang Guoyu, who had served as the military and political director of the 129th Division, later recalled the friendship between Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping as follows:
"They were serious about their work, and at the same time the two of them were closely united, so the 'instructions', 'orders' or 'orders' issued in the name of the two of them were resolutely carried out by the troops." How can this not be respected! The enemy was afraid of Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, and once printed a photograph of Deng Xiaoping to the troops. ”
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1942 was the most arduous year of struggle in the base areas behind enemy lines, and at the same time, Liu Bocheng was about to usher in his fiftieth birthday. In order to boost everyone's anti-Japanese fighting spirit and commend the great victory of the 129th Division led by Liu Bocheng in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Deng Xiaoping specially asked the central authorities for instructions to organize a birthday celebration for Liu Bocheng in the Taihang Mountain base area to raise the mood of the troops and call on everyone to learn from Liu Bocheng.
Liu Bocheng was deeply pleased with the organizational concern and Deng Xiaoping's friendship with him, but he resolutely did not agree to hold birthday celebrations for himself, nor did he want to publicize himself, so he hid his birthday and no one told him. The clerks really had no choice but to ask Deng Xiaoping for help.
Nie Rongzhen exchanged experiences with Liu Deng (third and fourth from the left).
Deng Xiaoping knew the most about the personality of Liu Bocheng, the eldest brother, and after listening to the clerks' stories, Deng Xiaoping said that he had a way to make the division commander speak. He walked to Liu Bocheng's room, entered the door and said:
"Commander, I see that you still talk about it for a while, this is approved by the organization, there is no day how to wish for a happy birthday!" People are coming, you briefly talk about it, talk about it later in detail, do you say it's okay? ”
Liu Bocheng was silent for a while and said that since it was decided by the organization, he had to obey, but his birthday had passed more than ten days. When Deng Xiaoping saw Liu Bocheng's relief, he said with a clever move:
"It's better to choose the day than to hit the sun, in my opinion, it's set for December 16."
Picture 丨 Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping old photos
Liu Bocheng was completely speechless at this time. On December 16, 1942, a lively scene on the Taihang Mountains, the military and the people sang together to celebrate Liu Bocheng's 50th birthday. Peng Dehuai, Luo Ruiqing, and other unit leaders came to the division headquarters one after another to wish for his birthday, and newspapers in the base areas also published news that the central authorities were celebrating Liu Bocheng's birthday.
As an old comrade-in-arms who was intimate with Liu Bocheng and also the initiator of Liu Bocheng's birthday celebrations, Deng Xiaoping specially wrote a long article praising Liu Bocheng's noble character and great contributions, in which he specifically pointed out the "shortcomings" of Liu Bocheng:
What if someone asked Comrade Bo Cheng whether he had any shortcomings? I think there is only one, and that is his whole life, except for work and reading, there is no entertainment activity. He has no bad habits such as tobacco and alcohol, he can't play chess and ball, and he only has to take a walk and talk about the day in his spare time. He often criticizes himself for being too "snobbish" about time. Is this really his flaw? It can only be said that the comrades are concerned about his health.
Figure 丨 Liu Bocheng and son Liu Taixing
In April 1944, Zhuo Lin gave birth to a son, Deng Xiaoping suggested that the son be named "Taihang" to commemorate the victory of the Taihang Mountain struggle, Zhuo Lin immediately disagreed, because Liu Bocheng's son had already taken this name a few years earlier, so the child did not have a formal name until the age of two, and was still called "Fat Fat".
Once Zhuo Lin smiled and told Liu Bocheng that his son had taken his son's name, and he had to rename "Fat Fat", Liu Bocheng said that this was a matter for the political commissar and had nothing to do with the commander. Deng Xiaoping hastily "corrected" him, saying:
"Everyone knows that Liu Deng doesn't separate his family!" Just give it a name! ”
Liu Bocheng immediately agreed, he called "fat" in front of him, asked his wife Wang Ronghua to bring the four words "simple and square" on the table, and said to Deng Xiaoping and Zhuo Lin:
"Just now I wrote four words, I see that 'Fat' was born simple and square, just call Park Fang okay?"
Photo丨 Deng Xiaoping (left) and Liu Bocheng (right)
After hearing this, Deng Xiaoping and his wife applauded in unison, and from then on, the name of Deng Pufang, Deng Xiaoping's eldest son, was called open. Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping's mutually supportive and intimate relationship also deeply affected those around them, which is a very good example for some disunity. At that time, there was a regimental commander and political commissar in Liu Deng's troops, both of whom were brave generals who could recruit good warriors, but both of them had a problem, like to be high and low when the whole you were high and low when the battle was over, the two were not convinced of each other, and the contradictions became bigger and bigger over time.
Once, when the two could not distinguish between high and low, they asked to find Chief Liu Deng to evaluate and evaluate, so as to distinguish between you and me. Just as the two men entered the war room, the scene in front of them stunned the two people, when Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping were discussing the battle plan in front of the map, Liu Bo admitted that he really listened to Deng Xiaoping's insights, and Deng Xiaoping constantly nodded his head in approval of Liu Bocheng's insights.
When Deng Xiaoping couldn't bear the heat in the war room and wiped his sweat with a towel, Liu Bocheng personally poured Deng Xiaoping a cup of cold boiling water and handed it to Deng Xiaoping. The intimacy of the two made the two regimental commanders and political commissars ashamed and embarrassed, and the regimental commander turned his head to look at the political commissar and quietly touched each other with his arm, and the two invariably looked at each other and smiled.
Deng Xiaoping (first from left) and Liu Bocheng (fourth from left) pose with comrades-in-arms
After walking out of the war room, the regimental commander took the political commissar's hand and said that when he saw Chief Liu Deng, he was really ashamed of himself, and we should go back and learn from the chiefs. Just then, an informed comrade came up to the two people jokingly and said to take them to the chief for evaluation, and the two people laughed awkwardly and hurriedly said:
"No, no, the chiefs have already solved the problem with practical actions."
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After the founding of New China, Liu Bocheng resigned as the second secretary of the Southwest Bureau and the Southwest Military and Political Committee, left Chongqing for Beijing, and began to work for the preparation of the Army University, and Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping's 13-year career together ended. Deng Xiaoping was then ordered to work in Beijing as vice premier, one in Nanjing to preside over the military academy and the other in Beijing to work in administration and economic work.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, and others studied the southwest issue
The unfortunate death of Chen Yi in 1972 brought a huge blow to Liu Bocheng, who was already 80 years old at the time, immersed in the grief of losing his old comrade-in-arms. Because his left eye was completely blind at that time, with the help of his secretary, Liu Bocheng came to the hospital, and before he entered the ward door, the crying sounded, and he was very distressed that he was blind in his eyes and could no longer see his old comrade-in-arms.
He trembled and walked to the edge of the bed, leaned down and caressed Chen Yi's body with his hands little by little, and kept calling out in his mouth: "Mr. Chen, I Liu blind man can't do without your crutch!" The people present were all moved to tears by Liu Bocheng's friendship with Chen Yi. The departure of his old comrade-in-arms made Liu Bocheng miss his old partner Deng Xiaoping even more.
Since Chen Yi's death, Liu Bocheng's health has deteriorated, and within a few years he has lost the ability to take care of himself, although Liu Bocheng has spent many years in a hospital bed, but he has always been worried about Deng Xiaoping's situation outside. After October 1976, Liu Bocheng felt that his health was not as good as before, and when Hua Guofeng came to visit him, he specially explained to him:
"After I die, I only make one request, that is, to ask Deng Xiaoping to preside over the memorial service, otherwise I will never enter The Babao Mountain and let my son throw my body into the wilderness."
In 52, Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping and other leaders took photos at the Summer Palace
Hua Guofeng clasped Liu Bocheng's hand and nodded his head assuring him that he would definitely convey his meaning to Comrade Deng Xiaoping. After 1982, Liu Bocheng resigned from all his posts in order to recuperate from his illness, and Deng Xiaoping had begun to lead the Chinese people on a new path of "reform and opening up". Liu Bocheng often said to his family:
"I can't continue to serve the country, everyone says that Liu Deng doesn't divide his family, and Comrade Xiaoping will share the worries for the country on my behalf."
At that time, Deng Xiaoping was also very worried about Liu Bocheng's physical condition, and the report on Liu Bocheng's body was sent to Deng Xiaoping's desk every once in a while. Deng Xiaoping said to the people around Liu Bocheng:
"Everyone in the world will be old, and what we can do is to do our best to take good care of Comrade Liu Bocheng."
At the end of September 1986, Liu Bocheng was critically ill, and when he was sober, Liu Bocheng once again told his wife Wang Ronghua that he must let Comrade Deng Xiaoping preside over his memorial service and scatter his ashes to the place where he had fought. Wang Ronghuaqiang suppressed tears and nodded his head in agreement with Liu Bocheng's request.
Pictured by Liu Bocheng and his wife Wang Ronghua
A few days later, Liu Bocheng finally completed the 94-year journey of life, and Hua Guofeng and Wang Ronghua told Deng Xiaoping about what Liu Bocheng had confessed before his death. After listening to this, Deng Xiaoping did not speak for a long time, sat in the office for a long time, sighed heavily, and said:
"I see."
Seven days later, the central government held a farewell ceremony for Liu Bocheng's body. On the same day, Deng Xiaoping first brought the whole family to the Lingtang, Zhuo Lin and Wang Ronghua hugged their headaches and cried, and Deng Pufang came to Liu Bocheng with a wheelchair and bid farewell to the old senior. Deng Xiaoping bowed three times to Liu Bocheng's body, standing in front of the body for a long time, tears flowing silently down his face.
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On the afternoon of October 16, Liu Bocheng's memorial service was held in the Great Hall of the People, with a huge portrait of Liu Bocheng hanging in the center of the venue, urns placed underneath, flowers and pines on both sides of the hall, and PLA soldiers standing neatly in the hall, guarding the safety of the hall.
Picture 丨 Liu Deng and the two families took a group photo
Just as Liu Bocheng expected, the memorial service was presided over by Deng Xiaoping, who, with a deep heart, announced to all the people attending the memorial service that the memorial service had begun and held a moment of silence to pay tribute to Comrade Liu Bocheng. After the end of the silence, Hu Yaobang delivered a eulogy, and everyone present was touched by the affectionate words in the eulogy. At the end of the ceremony, Deng Xiaoping announced to all the personnel:
"Bow to Comrade Liu Bocheng!" Two bows! Three bows! ”
After the memorial service, Fu Xuezheng went to Liu Bocheng's home to study the preparations for scattering ashes with Liu Shuai's family. After research, everyone unanimously decided to choose the place where Liu Shuai's contribution to the greatest and most meaningful career was made: Luzhou, Taihang Mountain, Dabie Mountain, Huaihai Battlefield, the former site of the Nanjing Military Academy, and finally returned to Liu Shuai's hometown - Kaixian County, Sichuan.
Wang Ronghua repeatedly told Fu Xuezheng not to disturb the local government wherever he went, not to set up a spiritual hall along the way, and not to engage in news reports. According to Wang Ronghua's instructions, the Air Force sent an aircraft to accompany it, and each location was implemented according to the meteorological conditions at that time. The ashes were moved back to Liu Shuai's home after the memorial service, divided into six portions in advance, wrapped in red silk cloth, and mixed with some flower petals when they were scattered.
Deng Xiaoping presided over Liu Bocheng's memorial service
Due to the strong winds in North China on the day of the scattering of the ashes, it was impossible to change to a small plane to the Taihang Mountains in Shijiazhuang, and after asking for instructions, the departure time remained unchanged, and the first flight to Nanjing was made. At the solemn farewell ceremony, the various departments of the Central Military Commission and various leaders in Beijing came to the western suburbs airport to bid farewell.
According to the request of Liu Bocheng's family, there was no greeting ceremony at Nanjing Airport, and the Military Region Headquarters sent a car to greet him. In the afternoon of the same day, Fu Xuezheng communicated with Commander Xiang Shouzhi as a representative, and solicited their opinions on the location of the scattering of the ashes, and proposed to Shouzhi that they be scattered in the garden next to Liu Bocheng's office building, plant two pine trees in the scattering place, and erect a stone monument.
Two days later, the ceremony of scattering the ashes was officially held, and in the mournful music, Liu Bocheng's children scattered the ashes into the tree pit that had been dug, and after the people present bowed in silence, everyone filled in the soil with a shovel and buried Liu Bocheng's ashes. After bidding farewell to Nanjing, Fu Xuezheng and his party flew to Xuzhou and changed to a small plane to fly to Suxian County.
Picture 丨 Liu Bocheng family portrait
Since the plane could only take five or six people, in the end everyone decided that Fu Xuezheng would lead the team, and Liu Shuai's son Taihang would be responsible for scattering the ashes. Refusing to be retained by the military chief, Fu Xuezheng and his party rushed from Xuzhou to Chongqing on the same day, and when they flew to Dabie Mountain, the plane specially lowered its altitude and circled for a week.
The next morning everyone came to Chongqing Chaotianmen Wharf, the river has already been moored a passenger ship full of white flowers, after three flutes, the ship sailed against the water to Luzhou, Taihang brothers and sisters to the Yangtze River to scatter urn flowers. After the end, all the crew on the ship bowed in silence, and Fu Xuezheng and Taihang thanked the captain, who said excitedly:
"It is our honor to serve the ashes of Sa Liu Shuai, who is not only the old marshal of the army, but also our old marshal!"
Immediately after that, everyone came to Liu Bocheng's hometown of Kaixian County, Sichuan, and because of the requirements of the people in his hometown, the local government held a brief memorial service in the county auditorium, and the local people were emotional and wanted to see Liu Shuai's descendants with their own eyes. Surrounded by everyone, the Taihang brothers and sisters stood at the height of the auditorium, greeted the people of their hometown through the loudspeaker, and thanked everyone for their love.
Picture 丨Beibei Handan Marshal Liu Bocheng Memorial Pavilion
After the memorial service, Fu Xuezheng returned to Liu Bocheng's former residence with his Taihang brothers and sisters, scattered the ashes where he was born and raised, planted two white fruit trees at the door, and gave the urn and the party flag on it to his hometown father and elder. At the last stop, they landed at the Matou Naval Airfield in Handan, where hundreds of naval officers and men lined up to greet the arrival of Liu Bocheng's ashes.
In the evening, they arrived at the old revolutionary area of Xiangxian County, where the 129th Division had been stationed during the War of Resistance. When the convoy entered the county seat, the road was already lined with greeting crowds, the whole street was crowded with people, the cries were earth-shaking, and the Taihang brothers and sisters were like the masses, crying and unable to speak. On behalf of them, Fu Xuezheng said to the greeting crowd:
"Liu Shuai is back!" We have not forgotten the people of the old district! Liu Shuai will always be with the people of the old district! ”