In May 1973, Du Yuming and Song Xilian visited the former residence together with great reverence. Under the leadership of the staff, they carefully visited every piece of furnishings, especially when they visited the anti-Japanese war exhibition room, their excitement was beyond words.
After the visit, the mood of the two could not be calm for a long time, and Du Yuming also said a meaningful word to the staff: "Please help me leave a message for future generations." So, what is this statement?Why did Du Yuming express such feelings?
Du Yuming's life is very legendary, in the first half of his life, he was the proud of the old Jiang Huangpu lineage, with his outstanding military command ability, he became famous in the victory at Kunlun Pass, and became a well-known hero of the Anti-Japanese War. But after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Du Yuming was appointed by Lao Jiang as the deputy commander of the "Suppression Commander-in-Chief", and actively acted as the vanguard of the civil war. In 1959, after ending his career as a prisoner of war, Du Yuming's thinking completely changed, and he was successively elected as a member of the Fourth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a deputy to the Fifth National People's Congress.
Du Yuming was born in 1904 but was not willing to sink, his ancestors were well-known local landowners. Du Yuming's father, Du Liangkui, can be called his revolutionary enlightenment teacher, although Du Liangkui was a man in the late Qing Dynasty, but his thinking was very open-minded, when he was teaching in Chang'an University, he came into contact with revolutionary ideas and joined the League.
Under the influence of his father, Du Yuming planted a revolutionary seed in his heart. In 1924, 20-year-old Du Yuming was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy, thus starting his revolutionary career. During this period, he participated in famous wars such as the crusade against Chen Jiongming and the Northern Expedition, and he was also continuously promoted because of his military achievements.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Du Yuming was promoted from the commander of the army armored corps to the commander of the 200th division of the ** ace division. Later, the division was expanded into the 11th Army, with Du Yuming as the deputy commander. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Du Yuming made great contributions to the opening up of the South China battlefield, especially in the victory at Kunlun Pass, and even showed a very outstanding military command ability.
In 1941, Wei Lihuang and Du Yuming, under the orders of Lao Chiang, formed an expeditionary force with the strength of three armies, but this was a complete military tragedy. After Du Yuming led the remnants of the army back to China, he became the deputy commander of the "Suppression Chief" personally selected by Lao Jiang, but he was eventually reduced to a prisoner.
After Du Yuming was captured by our army, after 10 years of reform, he was freed in 1959 as the first batch of amnesty war criminals. Since then, under the care of ***, Du Yuming has been arranged to work in the Cultural and Historical Materials Research Committee, and he has put his real experience into writing.
In 1964, Du Yuming was elected as a member of the Fourth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. However, due to the rush of time at that time, Du Yuming did not feast his eyes, so he looked for opportunities many times, hoping to visit the old residence again.
In 1973, after Du Yuming's repeated applications, he finally revisited his hometown in May of the same year. This time, he and Song Xilian visited the *** old residence together, and they sighed while visiting, especially when Song Xilian walked to the door, he actually hesitated. Later, after Du Yuming's inquiry, he learned that he felt guilty because he was worried that he was a general of the defeated army.
Later, under the leadership of the staff, the two carefully visited every display in the old residence from beginning to end. Everywhere they went, they were full of emotion, and they also deeply realized the real reason why our army was able to defeat the best with fewer victories under the premise that the conditions were very backward in all aspects.
In the process of visiting, the soul was baptized again and again, Song Xilian once said with emotion: "We are convinced of defeat, defeat is also a good thing, if we win, we will become the people's sinners." Compared with Song Xilian, Du Yuming's perception is deeper.
At the end of this visit, Du Yuming sighed from the bottom of his heart: "* is really an admirable god of war!Later, Du Yuming also told the staff around him: "Please be sure to write down my words, and then tell them to future generations, so that more people can understand the glorious deeds of the great man." ”
In addition to the two of them, Huang Wei, a former difficult household to renovate, also visited the old residence after being amnestied. Afterwards, he said with emotion: "Our failure is inevitable, because there is no doubt about employing people, and Chiang Kai-shek only reuses his lineage, and from this point of view alone, he has already lost." ”