On July 5, 2003, General Zhang Aiping passed away. After Li Xuge and his wife learned the news, they rushed to the Zhang family's mourning hall as soon as possible and bowed and saluted.
Seven days later, Li Xuge and his wife went to Babaoshan to say goodbye.
After going back, Li Xuge wrote a memorial poem:
"It's sad to send you on a long journey, and from then on, people are against each other. I still remember the teachings of Hanhai, and I will never forget the thunderous ...... of the Gobi”
Many people who know the inside story can't help but praise Li Xuge:"It is worthy of being Zhang Lao's love general!”
Li Xuge joined the Eighth Route Army at an early age.
At the age of 24, he had already served as the chief of staff of the regiment. At that time, bandits were rampant in the Helan Mountain area, and Li Xuge personally led a battalion to "suppress bandits".
After the task was successfully completed, Li Xuge was in a happy mood and immediately wrote:
“……In addition to violence, Anliang is not afraid of hardship, and the mountains and sands are just waiting for leisure. The purging of the remnants of the bandits is happy, and the British name will always remember Helan Mountain. ”
Soon after, Li Xuge was promoted to chief of the military training section of the military headquarters.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, Li Xuge led a team to fight in Korea. On the battlefield, Li Xuge was wise and decisive, and led the team to complete one important task after another assigned by his superiors.
Afterwards, he wrote a poem to commemorate it
“……The enemy's equipment is modernized, and the weak defeat is strong. The Chinese and North Korean coalition forces worked together to encircle and annihilate the United States. ”
After many tests of life and death, Li Xuge, a regiment-level commander, has become more and more mature.
In 1954, the General Staff Headquarters transferred a group of young cadres with combat experience and writing ability from all over the army to work in the organs of the General Headquarters.
As a result, Li Xuge was selected into the War Department.
One day in May 1964, Li Xuge originally promised to take his wife Geng Sumo and his three daughters to the suburbs, but who knew that he received a ** from Wang Shangrong, the minister of war.
Wang Shangrong said
"Comrade Xuge, tomorrow morning I will take a special plane to Xiyuan Airport to test the launch of the "Hongqi No. 1" surface-to-air missile. ”After hanging up the **, Li Xuge went to hand over the task.
The three daughters pouted unhappily. They always looked forward to going out with their father, but every time something came to them.
However, they are also used to it.
Geng Sumo had no choice but to comfort them, your father is too busy, and he will go later.
But what she didn't know was that a few years later, Li Xuge actually said to her:"Sumo, get ready to be a widow. ”
After arriving at the launch site, Li Xuge met Zhang Aiping, deputy chief of the General Staff.
Zhang Aiping said very heartily"Okay, as soon as I got off the plane, I asked if someone from the War Department was here. You're here just in time, when it's time for him, do you bring other tasks?”
Li Xuge said truthfully that he came this time only to launch a ground-to-air missile.
Zhang Aiping nodded, and then said, after watching the launch, I asked Li Xuge to follow him on a business trip.
Li Xuge asked Zhang Aiping,Do you want to report to the War Department?Zhang Aiping said that he would personally speak to Minister Wang Shangrong.
From this, Li Xuge speculated that the task of this business trip must be extraordinary.
A few days later, before Zhang Aiping's special plane took off, he called Li Xuge to his room and explained the next task.
Zhang Aiping called it"Economic and national affairs. ”
At that time, the leaders who knew about this matter were only the 7 members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo, Peng Zhen of the **, and the 3 CEOs of the Military Commission.
When Li Xuge learned that China was going to conduct its first nuclear test, he was both excited and nervous.
Zhang Aiping told him that he was never allowed to tell anyone else. Li Xuge also immediately said that he would not say anything about the death.
Zhang Aiping looked at him and couldn't help but smile.
One day in June, Zhang Aiping and Li Xuge took a car to the manufacturing base of the atomic bomb. Together, they visited the nuclear plant and expressed their condolences to the families of the plant officials.
This is the first time Li Xuge, the core of China, came here, and was immediately shocked by what he saw inside.
Walking in the evening, Li Xuge asked Zhang Aiping a lot of questions. For example, why was the atomic bomb project designated?
Zhang Aiping explained that Sino-Soviet relations were gradually breaking down, and the Soviet Union withdrew its experts, and at the same time threw the half-pulled project of aiding the construction of missiles and atomic bombs into the western desert.
That day happened to be June 1959.
After Li Xuge heard it,I have strengthened my determination to do this thing well.
Two months later, Zhang Aiping told Li Xuge that his appointment had come down.
Li Xuge served as the"Director of the Office of the First Nuclear Test".。There are seven more departments of the same rank.
Due to the high level of confidentiality, even Wang Shangrong did not know that Li Xuge held such an important position. Zhang Aiping told Li Xuge that he should be prepared to be an unsung hero.
A month before the nuclear test, Li Xuge went home. He didn't say much, just patted his wife on the shoulder.
Geng Sumo is a veteran. Although she guessed that her husband was going to do something very important and perhaps dangerous, she did not stop it, nor did she ask the bottom line.
After a lot of hardship, the first nuclear test** was successful. On the night of the celebration, Zhang Aiping proposed"What is the situation of the bombing of the tower that held the atomic bomb and the surrounding conditions?"problems.
At this time, Li Xuge took the initiative to ask Ying to take a plane to the scene to take a look.
After collecting the real information, Li Xuge went back and filled in a poem:
“……For the sake of scientific experiments, what a pity to break the bones, the body turns to ashes when the thunder roars, and the eyebrows are raised for the country. ”
In 1986, after Deng Jiaxian's death, his wife Xu Luxi followed the physical condition of the personnel who visited the nuclear test center that year.
Many people have died of tumors. For a while, she was also glad to think that Li Xuge was an exception. However, in April 2001, Li Xuge was diagnosed with lung cancer.
I have to say,Heroes like Li Xuge have done too much to stand up for the backbone of our Chinese nation.
After the success of the second nuclear test, the Second Artillery Corps of the Missile Forces was formed. At this time, Zhang Aiping transferred Li Xuge from the War Department and asked him to serve as his accompanying staff officer.
At that time, Li Xuge followed Zhang Aiping to wade through mountains and rivers, crossing ditches and jumping streams.
Once, Li Xuge suddenly had a high fever of 38 on the mountainAt 5 degrees, Zhang Aiping was very anxious, and personally contacted the doctor for her **, and comforted him to recuperate. Although the task was very heavy, Zhang Aiping still waited until Li Xuge had recovered his body before going down the mountain together.
In 1982, Zhang Aiping specially recommended to the Central Military Commission that Li Xuge be appointed deputy commander of the Second Artillery Corps, laying the foundation for him to take over as commander.
Li Xuge lived up to Zhang Aiping's trust, did his work, was maverick, dared to act, and had the style of General Zhang Aiping.
For Zhang Lao, Li Xuge is extremely respectful, he once said:
"I followed Zhang Aiping's left and right, and his maverick, daring personality, personality and even temperament deeply influenced me and changed the fate of my life. ”And Zhang Aiping also admires him very much
"When the ** special committee was in a meeting, I didn't even bring a secretary, but I brought you!”Such sincere revolutionary feelings are commendable!