An outstanding woman in the history of the Red Army was Deng Liujin. The Kuomintang had carried out five "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army in the ** base area, and the Red Army won the first four times. However, in the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression", Wang Ming's "leftist" line prevailed, leading to the defeat of the Red Army and the beginning of the famous Long March. Deng Liujin was only a weak woman, but she was determined, resolutely joined the Red First Army, and successfully completed the Long March, and finally arrived in northern Shaanxi.
It is worth mentioning that Deng Liujin is not only a revolutionary herself, but so is her husband, and among their descendants there is also a Zhengguo-level and three major generals. So, what is the story of Deng Liujin?Deng Liujin, born in 1911, is a native of Xinfang Village, Jiuxian Township, Shanghang County, Fujian Province. In 1927, after the defeat of the Great Revolution, the agrarian revolution arose, and our party successively launched military actions against the rule of the Kuomintang, such as the Nanchang Uprising and the Autumn Harvest Uprising.
Especially after the Autumn Harvest Uprising, he led the workers' and peasants' revolutionary contingent to Jinggangshan, established the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area, and formed the Red Fourth Army. After the Red Fourth Army left Jinggangshan, it moved to southern Jiangxi and western Fujian. During that period, Deng Liujin began to participate in revolutionary activities. In 1929, she joined the local Young Pioneers, participated in the peasant movement in her hometown, and soon joined the Communist Youth League, engaged in women's and revolutionary propaganda work according to the party's instructions, secretly recruited party members, and prepared revolutionary forces.
In 1934, Deng Liujin was sent to the ** base area and received training at the ** Party School in Ruijin. During this period, the Red Army units in the ** base area were engaged in the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" battle. Unfortunately, this operation ended in failure, and Deng Liujin also left the base area with the ** Red Army and embarked on a 25,000-mile Long March. At that time, only 27 female Red Army soldiers participated in the Long March, and Deng Liujin was one of them. Despite being a woman, Deng Liujin was determined to join forces with the main force of the Red Army.
In 1937, the July 7 Incident broke out, and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was in full swing. Under the organizational arrangement, Deng Liujin traveled around southern Anhui, northern Jiangsu, Shandong and other places, mainly engaged in women's work under the leadership of the Southeast Bureau. During the war, many women and children were left homeless by the war, a phenomenon that deeply disturbed Deng Liujin. As a woman, she is more aware of the pain of homelessness. Therefore, she devoted herself to the protection of women and children, founding a nursery school that provided shelter for homeless children and orphans of martyrs.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Deng Liujin successively served as the deputy director of the Personnel Department of the Administration of Organ Affairs and the deputy director of the Office of the Administration of Organ Affairs until 1982. After retiring, Deng Liujin lived a quiet and indifferent life in the old Red Army. She died in Beijing in 2003 at the age of 92. It is worth mentioning that Deng Liujin's husband Zeng Shan participated in revolutionary work in his early years, participated in major revolutionary activities such as the Long March, and became a ministerial-level cadre in New China.
Their descendants are also very good, the eldest son *** official to the Zhengguo level, and the second son Zeng Qinghuai is a famous national literary and artistic activist who has made outstanding achievements in the field of culture;The third son, Zeng Qingyang, once served as the director of the Scientific Research Guidance Department of the Academy of Military Sciences of the People's Liberation Army and held the rank of major generalThe fourth son, Zeng Qingyuan, once served as the political commissar of the Logistics Department of the PLA Air Force, also with the rank of major general;Daughter Zeng Haisheng once served as the political commissar of the Management and Security Department of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army, and also has the rank of major general.