General Zheng Dongguo is a very representative and excellent general, he has fought thousands of battles in his life but rarely lost, and the only fiasco was brought to him by the Northeast Field Army.
In that earth-shattering Liaoshen Campaign, he was captured by our party, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, because he was deeply trusted by our party, he held many important positions in the republic.
However, since he was captured, Zheng Dongguo has always had a heart disease in his heart, which made him unable to sleep and eat day and night, and it was not until 1954 that his heart disease was completely eliminated after he set up a family banquet for him.
So what is the crux of Zheng Dongguo's "heart disease"?What happened to the chairman and him at the family dinner?
Zheng Dongguo was born in 1903 in a rich peasant family in Shimen County, Changde City, Hunan Province, with 30 acres of fertile land, so Zheng Dongguo's living conditions as a child were superior to most of his peers, but this did not make him pampered, his father's strict requirements and his own diligence and studiousness, he soon read through the Four Books and Five Classics, and even memorized the Analects by heart.
In his youth, he actively participated in the May Fourth Movement, in which he followed the mighty procession to denounce imperialism and boycott Japanese goods, and in the process he gradually awakened the consciousness of saving the country and the peopleHe understood the truth that a weak country has no diplomacy, so he set up his ambition to join the army, and vowed to use the barrel of a gun to restore the dignity of the Chinese nation.
However, at this time, there were some changes in Zhengdong country, the economic conditions were not as good as in the past, and Zheng Dongguo's tuition fees could only be reluctantly provided by his eldest brother Zheng Tongguo.
Under such difficult conditions, he had no warm clothes in winter and often ate one meal a day, however, he cherished his time on campus, studied hard, and finally learned a great skill after graduation.
During his time in school, he did not only learn his own professional field, in order to save the country and save the people, he read a lot of books in different fields, hoping to train himself into an all-round talent who has been involved in all aspects, and what he saw the most outside of class was the art of war that was not usually taught in school.
Thanks to this, he was admitted to the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy in a very short period of time, and achieved excellent results far beyond others.
However, because of the urgency of the revolutionary situation, the first phase of Huangpu graduated quickly in less than a year of school, and Zheng Dongguo officially joined the National Revolutionary Army and participated in the Northern Expedition as a battalion commander.
As soon as Zheng Dongguo officially entered the battlefield, it was like a dragon swimming into the sea, and he soon showed his military talent, because the students of the same period in Huangpu had a short study time, most of them only had theory but no practical ability, but Zheng Dongguo showed an extremely flexible combat method at the beginning.
His fighting style is changeable, sometimes dividing troops, sometimes concentrating, and creating a good achievement of capturing a regiment of Sun Chuanfang with almost zero strength of one battalionThis made the 23-year-old he have a good reputation very early, and slowly he became one of Chiang Kai-shek's most important young generals, and he had outstanding performances in the later Chiang Kai-shek War and the Central Plains War, which provided a great boost for Chiang Kai-shek's final victory in the Central Plains.
In 1931, after the outbreak of the 918 Incident, Zheng Dongguo was sent by Chiang Kai-shek to encircle and suppress the Red Army.
The reason for this is that General Zheng Dongguo has a high degree of patriotic enthusiasm, and his soldiers have been influenced by it all the year round, and his troops cannot understand that the Japanese invaders have already entered the northeast, but they are fighting their own people in the southwest, so they have a negative will to fight.
In 1933, Chiang Kai-shek, who was under pressure, gradually increased his troops to the north, symbolically resisting the Japanese army, and he combined the 2nd, 25th, and 83rd divisions of the ** Army into the 17th Army and went thereGubeikouCombat.
Gubeikou is the most heavily defended pass of the ancient Great Wall, and the Mongols once went south to kill and wound more than 10,000 cavalry did not take this pass.
However, under modern artillery aircraft, the defense capability of Gubeikou has been greatly reduced. The Japanese invaders have always looked down on the squadron and the ancient Great Wall built by our bricks and stones, and they brazenly chose to attack the 17th National Army from Gubeikou.
In the face of the Japanese invaders whose equipment was far stronger than their own, the 2nd Division and 4th Brigade led by Zheng Dongguo were enthusiastic, and they finally did not have to fight the civil war, and repelled many attacks by the Japanese invaders with a tough attitude at the beginning of the campaign.
After half a month of bloody battles, the ** of Zheng Dongguo's troops gradually increased, and the follow-up reinforcements were difficult to sustainJust when he was leading the army and struggling to support it, there was bad news - the position of the 83rd Division was broken, and the entire front collapsed, and the commander of the 17th Army, Xu Tingyao, ordered the whole army to retreat.
Zheng Dongguo, who received the order, looked at the Great Wall of Gubeikou, which was full of craters and had been damaged under artillery fire, with tears in his eyes and unwillingness.
The ancient Great Wall is still holding on to its broken body at the moment, how can they, the sons and daughters of China, retreatZheng Dongguo was unwilling to obey the order, he roared angrily, took off his military uniform, wore only a white shirt, and carried a pistol to continue the charge, vowing to recapture the position.
Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers were also greatly encouraged, and they stepped forward together, and actually repelled the attack of the Japanese invaders and recaptured their positions.
But the battle was a whole process, and the small victory in Gubeikou could not bring about a big victory in the entire Great Wall War of Resistance, and the people who were unable to resist finally signed a humiliating contract with the Japanese invadersTanggu AgreementIn fact, it recognized the legitimacy of the Japanese army's occupation of the three eastern provinces and the Rehe region.
This humiliating treaty deeply stimulated General Zheng Dongguo, who vowed to make sure that the Japanese invaders would return all the things they had takenTherefore, after the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, General Zheng Dongguo's troops always spared no effort, and in almost all of the more famous battles of the Kuomintang, General Zheng Dongguo participated.
For example, in the victory of Taierzhuang, it was Zheng Dongguo who marched rapidly and reached the south bank of the canal, blocking the route of the Japanese invaders from the north bank of the canal to attack Xuzhou, which forced the Japanese invaders to turn around and attack the more difficult Taierzhuang.
In the Battle of Kunlun Pass, it was also he who analyzed the key points of the offensive layout at a critical moment, and commanded the troops to conquer important commanding heights such as Xia Luotang and 441 Heights, and finally further conquered the dangerous Kunlun Pass.
Later, he went deep into the Burma battlefield to further compete with the Japanese invaders in the Southeast Asian battlefield, and created the victory of the ** battle in northern BurmaEven General Stilwell, an ally of the United States, praised General Chung Dong-kuo as a mild-mannered and outstanding patriotic general.
In the War of Liberation, due to Du Yuming's poor health, Zheng Dongguo twice held the post of commander of the Northeast "Suppression Commander", and later served as the post of deputy commander-in-chief, which caused a lot of trouble to our army.
In the battle to liberate Changchun, Zheng Dongguo was besieged in the city of Changchun, almost running out of ammunition and food, and Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly issued unrealistic breakout orders to him.
Just when Zheng Dongguo decided to break through, Zeng Zesheng led the 60th Army to revolt, his breakthrough plan was completely disrupted, and in desperation, he wanted to commit suicide to repay the "party-state", but was stopped by his generals and finally surrendered to our army.
After being captured, because Zheng Dongguo took the initiative to surrender, and he had a reply to Chiang Kai-shek not to bomb Zeng Zesheng's 60th Army, he did not enter the Gongdelin, and he also received special treatment different from other ** generals.
As soon as New China was founded in 1950, he was immediately assigned the post of counselor of the Ministry of Water Resources and commissioner of culture and history of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Later, at the first meeting of the First National People's Congress in 1954, ** personally proposed that Zheng Dongguo be a member of the National Defense Commission. After the meeting, **, **, and others were invited to participate in the Zhongnanhai family banquet, including Zheng Dongguo.
After receiving the chairman's invitation, Zheng Dongguo was very excited, which led to insomnia the night before, and Zheng Dongguo was a few minutes late for the family banquet.
Zheng Dongguo felt that his identity was different from everyone here, he was a general, but he was late for such an occasion, so he felt embarrassed in his heart, and behaved restrained for a while.
Seeing this, he took the initiative to open the topic and asked him if he smoked kindly, Zheng Dongguo responded with a "smoke", then took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and continued to pull out matches from his pocket.
Unexpectedly, at this time, *** took out a match from his pocket, stood up and lit a cigarette for Zheng Dongguo.
Zheng Dongguo was very moved, and under the chairman's approachable behavior, he also relaxed his nervousness.
Then ask him if he has any difficulties at workAt this time, Zheng Dongguo, who opened his heart, also reflected a heart disease that he had hidden for many years, hoping to get an answer from the chairman.
From the capture of the Liaoshen Battle to the final witness of Chiang Kai-shek's defeat, during this period, he saw with his own eyes what is called the people's army in the People's Liberation Army.
As a result, he has always been entangled in his heart with an unbreakable knot - he has been opposed to a party that truly serves the people for half his life, and he now regrets it very much, and feels that his mistake is irreparable.
Hearing him say this, he smiled and said to him:"You can't say that, you also have a credit to the people, you made a great effort to resist Japan, and during the War of Liberation, you called back to Chiang Kai-shek and said that the bombing was meaningless, so that Zeng Zesheng's 60th Army was not bombed. ”
He took a puff of his cigarette and continued"Although we used to have different positions, we are all for the people, then your path is not wrong, you are only 51 years old this year, you are still very young compared to me, and the days of working for the people are still very long." ”
After Zheng Dongguo listened, he was very encouraged in his heart, and at the same time he was very surprised, the chairman was usually so busy, and he still remembered his age.
Then he completely opened up the topic with the chairman, saying that he had also read and studied Marxism in his early years, but he did not understand the essentials at all, and asked how he had studied Marxism-Leninism so well.
** Hearing this, he laughed heartily twice and said:"Marxism-Leninism is not a dead thing, I am not a saint, and it is only among the masses and society that I understand what Marxism-Leninism is. ”
In the days to come, when he was sick, he also worked hard and never forgot to serve the people, and he always cared about the cause of the reunification of the motherland, and received friends and visitors from Taiwan to the mainland many times, and objectively and fairly evaluated why the Communist Party was good.
Zheng Dongguo lamented that the Communist Party is really a bright political party, so he also wrote a poem for the party: "The past is like smoke and no longer remains, and the wind and spring rain moisten my heart." I am willing to dedicate the rest of my life to the people and follow the party on the bright road. ”
On January 27, 1991, Zheng Dongguo died of illness in Beijing at the age of 88.
In fact, the belief flowing in the bones of General Zheng Dongguo is the same as the concept of our party.
Before he died, he said to his family:"I have no regrets about state affairs and family affairs in my life, but it is a pity that the motherland has not yet been reunified, and if the motherland is reunified, then the national revolution will be considered a complete success. ”
At the end of his life, he did not mention the reactionary ** of Chiang Kai-shek, where he had worked for more than 20 years, but mentioned the National Revolutionary Army and returned to his original intention.
The slogan of the National Revolutionary Army that year was:"Down with the great powers, get rid of the warlords. ”That is, to eliminate reactionary forces internally and imperialism externally, and in general, the aim is to enable all Chinese people to live a good life.
This is Zheng Dongguo's goal in his life, as *** said, his heart is actually always for the people.
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