On the morning of December 31, 2012, just over 10 hours before the New Year's bell rang, the founding lieutenant generalZeng SiyuCompleted his 102-year-old life journey.
Zeng SiyuZeng Siyu's life is quite legendary. He is a member of the *** confidant and favorite general, during the Long March, he once sent a top-secret letter for ***, and he served as the political commissar of the ** guard regiment during the Yan'an period, and he also left a lot of moving stories between him and ***.
* When the Red Army began the Long March, Zeng Siyu served as the communications director of the headquarters of the Red 2nd Division. On June 18, 1935, the Red First Army and the Red Fourth Front Army successfully joined forces, and then divided into two armies, the left and the right, went north.
September 8th,Zhang GuotaoPolitical Commissar of the Red Fourth Front ArmyChen ChanghaoLed the Right Route Army to the south to "thoroughly carry out the intra-party struggle", but this secret telegram was writtenAfter signing it, he reported it to *** and others In order to avoid conflict, he led the Red Army Corps and the Military Commission column to the north alone overnight, and only then did he get out of danger.
On the morning of September 10, the commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front ArmyGet a report: ** The Red Army has gone overnight. After receiving the news, the command immediately became busy, and someone asked him for instructions: "* The Red Army is gone, and it is still on guard against us, whether to fight or not?"”
**。said:"How can there be a reason for the Red Army to fight the Red Army?Tell them to listen to the command, no matter what, they can't fight!”Although he stabilized the troops, he still didn't understand why the Red Army withdrew overnight.
On the morning of September 11, the commander of the 2nd Red DivisionChen Guangsaid to Zeng Siyu seriously"Director Zeng, I have given you an extremely important task, and it is a hundred thousand urgent tasks. ”
Zeng Siyu asked, "What is the task?"”
Chen Guang took out a letter and said, ".This is a letter written by *** to the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Front Army, ordering you to send it to him as soon as possible. You led the 1st Battalion of the 6th Regiment and the backup radio of the division headquarters to the fork in the road that you passed yesterday as fast as possible. Commander-in-Chief Xu may pass there from east to west this afternoon, and he will pass through that fork in the road towards the Maoergai area. When encountering any situation on the road, you must deal with it flexibly, and you must hand over the letter to Commander Xu. ”
Chen GuangZheng Siyu realized that the stakes were high and immediately agreed. Chen Guang brought him to meet *** again and introduced: "Chairman, this is Zeng Siyu, the communications director of our division headquarters, and he will carry out the task of delivering letters. ”
**Ask Zeng Siyu: "How old are you this year?".”
Zeng Siyu replied: "Chairman of the report, I am 24 years old. ”
** Said happily: "Only 24 years old, young man!."In this correspondence, the director personally came out, a top two!”
Zeng Siyu replied loudly: "Please rest assured, chairman, resolutely complete the task!"”
After that, Zeng Siyu immediately led the troops to set off, and after a forced march, they arrived at the predetermined place. At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, ** passed by here, Zeng Siyu stepped forward and handed him the letter, **After reading the letter, the doubts in his heart suddenly disappeared, and he kept repeating in his mouth: "How can there be a reason for the Red Army to fight the Red Army!."”
At this time, Zeng Siyu stepped forward and asked, "Report to the commander-in-chief, do you have a reply?"
Zeng Siyu**After a moment's thought, then said, "There is no reply, I write a note indicating receipt of this letter, sign my name." ”
After Zeng Siyu took the receipt, he caught up with the large army the next morning and successfully completed the task.
* After the Red Army successfully ended the Long March, Zeng Siyu was transferred to the reconnaissance staff of the Red First Army Headquarters and participated in the Eastern Crusade with the troops. At the end of one battle, reconnaissance staff officersSu JingWide-eyed asked Zeng Siyu:"Why is there a bullet hole in the front of your padded coat?”
Zeng Siyu hurriedly untied his clothes, it turned out that the bullet was passed through the shirt against the belly, and the shirt left a scorch mark. Su Jing couldn't help but sigh and said"Lao Zeng, your life is really big, if this bullet passes through the stomach, you will die!”
Zeng Siyu said with a smile"God help me, Yan Laoxi wants to kill me, but his stinky bullets can only be grazed!”
In April 1937, Zeng Siyu was transferred to the political commissar of the ** Guard Regiment, and since then he has had more opportunities to meet with ***. One afternoon, ** happened to meet Zeng Siyu while walking, so he asked him: "Political Commissar Zeng, today you went to the company to inspect the work?"”
**。Zeng Siyu replied: "Yes, chairman, I went to the guard company to attend their party branch meeting. ”
Then Zeng Siyu introduced some of the situation of the meeting to ***, and asked him: "What is the ideological trend of the company now?".”
Zeng Siyu replied: "Now the company is talking about going to the front to fight the Japanese devils, especially the comrades who came from the Long March have a strong demand. ”
** said: "It's good to want to go to the front to fight, but to educate the soldiers that the front and the rear are revolutionary work, and now the rear is not peaceful, the guard work of your regiment is very important, and the task is glorious!."”
Zeng Siyu immediately said after hearing this: "We must implement the chairman's instructions and let *** and *** rest assured!."”
Zeng SiyuDuring the Liberation War, Zeng Siyu served as the commander of the 4th Column of the North China Field Army. In 1947, he received an order to attack Shijiazhuang. At that time, the Kuomintang army threatened: "There is a stone gate under the stone gate." **No planes, no tanks, **with fortifications you can sit and fight for 3 years!”
The 4th column attacked for more than 10 days, but still did not defeat Shijiazhuang. Zeng Siyu was under great pressure, and on the night of November 10, he couldn't sleep, and at this time he suddenly thought that the column command post had been fixed in one place for a long time, which was very dangerous, so he got up and called the political commissarWang Zhao
It happened that Wang Zhao was not asleep, so Zeng Siyu said to him:"The column command post has been set up here for some days, and I think it should be moved, you bring a group of people, and I will take a group of people, and transfer them in two batches. ”
Wang Zhao also agreed with Zeng Siyu's opinion, and they organized the transfer of the command post that night. As soon as dawn the next day, two Kuomintang planes flew to the position of the original command post and bombed indiscriminately.
Chief of Staff at this timeTang Zi'anI couldn't help but say to Zeng Siyu:"Commander, your judgment and decision are so correct that we have escaped a difficult situation!”
In the new command post, Zeng Siyu commanded the troops to attack for another day, and finally liberated Shijiazhuang.
Our army liberated Shijiazhuang.
In January 1949, the whole army was unified and the 4th Column was renamed the 64th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and Zeng Siyu served as the first commander.
In February 1951, Zeng Siyu led the 64th Army into North Korea to participate in the war. He encountered many dangers on the Korean battlefield, the most thrilling one was on August 28, 1952, Zeng Siyu received the deputy commander of the Volunteer ArmyHan Xianchu, went to the West Sea for a meeting, but because of the haircut and shaving, he was delayed for some time, and perfectly staggered the enemy planes to attack him on the way they had to go. Afterwards, when Han Xianchu saw Zeng Siyu, he excitedly shook his hand and said"Lao Zeng, your life is really big, this time there are hundreds of enemy planes, I'm worried about death!”
Zeng Siyu joked:"If I'm killed, you'll have to send me a wreath and bow to me three times!”
Zeng Siyu commanded on the front line of the Korean battlefield.
Han Xianchu couldn't help laughing:"Whether I send a wreath or not, bow or not, can you still know if you go to see Marx?”
In March 1955, Zeng Siyu returned from the Korean battlefield, and in September of that year, he was awarded the rank of founding lieutenant general.
In July 1967, Zeng Siyu, then deputy commander of the Shenyang Military Region, was transferred to Wuhan to serve as the commander of the Wuhan Military Region and the head of the party and government of Hubei Province.
Zeng SiyuIn May 1968, ** came to Wuhan to rest, and he asked Zeng Siyu: "In the past few days, I have sent people to Wuhan to observe, and the social order and social order are relatively stable. You've been in Wuhan for a year, haven't you?Do you still rely on that command post?”
Zeng Siyu replied: "Yes, we are still more than 20 people, living in a building in Chagang of the Military Region. ”
** Said happily: "Yes, not too many people." I've always been like this, the organization has to be lean, and I have to do things myself. ”
** asked about the combat readiness of Hubei again, and when Zeng Siyu reported to him that the oil and gas reservoir had been drilled in the Nanyang area of Henan, ** was even happier, he said:"If oil is drilled in the Jianghan Plain, the oil wells are closed, and they are not used in peacetime, and they are ready to refine oil in wartime, then the effect will be great!”
** And emphasized:"Combat readiness must not be relaxed, it is necessary to prepare for war. You build a temporary command post for me in Jiangnan, and if there is a war, I will command in Jiangnan!”
** and Zeng Siyu.
Zeng Siyu attached great importance to the instructions of ***, and immediately went to the Xianning area to inspect the address, and immediately transferred a regiment to carry out construction, and built a famous one"Xianning Command Post".
One day in May 1969, Zeng Siyu accompanied *** for a walk by the East Lake in Wuhan, and two hares came out of the grass in the distance, which aroused ***'s interest, and he asked Zeng Siyu: "Oh, there are hares here?"”
Zeng Siyu replied: "There are many and fat hares in the barren mountains and wilderness here, and the rabbit meat is fine, which is very delicious!"”
** said: "Yes, but it's not easy to catch hares here!".”
Zeng Siyu replied: "There is a way, send someone to the barren mountain at night to shine a flashlight on the rabbit's eyes, and use a fishing net to catch it alive!"”
So *** asked someone to follow Zeng Siyu's method that night, and sure enough, he caught a few live hares.
One day in November 1969, Zeng Siyu and several leaders of the province came to the residence of the East Lake Hotel. Ask them, "What do you have important things to talk about?"”
Zeng Siyu replied:"The chairman of the report is about the construction of a large hydropower station on the Yangtze River. We have drawn up a plan, planning to spend 10 years and invest 3 billion yuan to build a high-rise dam hub hydropower station in the Sandouping area of the Three Gorges, so as to realize the grand ideal of the chairman of 'high gorge out of Pinghu'. ”
**After listening to the specific report of Zeng Siyu and others, he finally said:"Dare to think and dare to do, the spirit is commendable. But aren't you afraid of the atomic bomb?The dam was built, the war started, and if it was bombed, so much water would flow down, not only would Yichang be flooded, but it would also go downstream, and even Wuhan, Jiujiang, Anqing, and Nanjing would suffer!”
After Zeng Siyu heard this, he had to admire ***'s foresight, and he hurriedly said: "Chairman ** is far-sighted, and we are not properly considering." ”
** And asked, "Do you have any other good plans?".”
Zeng Siyu replied"We also have a second plan, which is to build a low-head dam at the Gezhouba at the exit of Xiling Gorge. ”
**After listening to the specific design of the second plan, I finally said with satisfaction:"It makes sense that if the low dam is blown up, it will not have much impact downstream. Okay, in favor of building this dam!”
After that, under the specific command of Zeng Siyu, the preparatory work for the Gezhouba project was quickly completed. On December 30, 1970, the groundbreaking ceremony of the Gezhouba project was officially held.
Gezhouba Project.
In December 1973, under the auspices of ***, the commanders of the eight military regions of the People's Liberation Army were transferred, Zeng Siyu and the commander of the Jinan Military RegionYang DezhiTune in, **Say to them:"Yang Dezhi, you have been in Jinan for 17 years, Zeng Siyu, you have been in Wuhan for 7 years, and the two of you are reversed. People stay in one place for a long time, they are oily, and it is not easy to accept new things. It's good to swap it off, it's a dry revolution everywhere. In the transfer work, it is necessary to do a good job, greet well, welcome the transfer, and not be lonely. ”
After that, Zeng Siyu served as the commander of the Jinan Military Region, and he never saw *** againIn 1976, when he heard the sad news of ***'s death, he rushed to Beijing the next day and bid farewell to ***'s body in the east hall of the Great Hall of the People, and the whole farewell hall was ...... with crying
In January 1980, Zeng Siyu was transferred to the Nanjing Military Region as a consultant. In August 1982, he officially left his post to recuperate. In August 1988, the ** Military Commission awarded Zeng Siyu the First Class Red Star Meritorious Service Medal.
Zeng Siyu in his later years.
Zeng Siyu once said in 1998:"In my life, I have never had two hearts for the party and the people, and in retrospect, I have a clear conscience. ”This sentence can be said to be the best portrayal of his life!