One day in October 1950, ** asked Zheng Dongguo at a banquet: What are your plans for the future?
Zheng Dongguo hesitated for a while, and said with some embarrassment: I have nothing else to do, and I plan to go home and farm.
** Suddenly startled, and then he was keenly aware of it, is it because of this heart?
** smiled cordially, and said sincerely to Zheng Dongguo: You are the general of the uprising, how can you let you farm, you are not yet fifty years old, and there is still a lot of time to contribute to the people, and now the country construction has just developed, and there are many things waiting for us to do.
**The determination to keep is extremely firm, these words come from the bottom of his heart, Zheng Dongguo suddenly woke up, and immediately said: I am willing to obey the teacher's arrangement.
As the saying goes, heroes come out of troubled times, and since the beginning of the last century, the ancestors have been constantly writing heroic deeds, and Zheng Dongguo is a great man of the Anti-Japanese War who has made immortal contributions for China. But what is his story? And what do you see in his mind?
Zheng Dongguo was born in an ordinary peasant family, barely able to read, in November 1924, Zheng Dongguo was well aware of the suffering of the Chinese people, he graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy ahead of schedule, and immediately participated in the battle against Chen Jiongming.
In the battle of Tamsui City, the enemy relied on the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack city and never refused to confront it head-on, and Zheng Dongguo, who had just entered the battlefield, volunteered to join the death squad. In the battlefield, the enemy's artillery fire continued to bombard, and more than half of the daredevils were killed and wounded, but Zheng Dongguo was stunned and crawled across the open ground step by step, and captured Tamsui City with the rest of the team.
This battle, so that Zheng Dongguo in the army famous, because of his brave combat and proper command, he was gradually tapped military potential, successively participated in the Northern Expedition, Jiang Gui War, only 24 years old was promoted to regiment commander.
In 1933, the Japanese invaders trampled on the three northeastern provinces wantonly, and invaded the mouths of the Great Wall on a large scale, and at the time of the national crisis, Zheng Dongguo was ordered to lead his troops to fight, and since then, he has been fighting against the Japanese invaders on the battlefield, and participated in almost all the major battles of the Kuomintang during the Anti-Japanese War.
In March 1938, Zheng Dongguo in order to protect Xuzhou, but also in order to prevent the main force of the Japanese invaders from breaking through the key positions, he led the main force of the second division to the south bank of the canal to Liguoyi and the Japanese invaders across the bank of the battle.
Seeing that our troops had suffered heavy losses and were preparing to cross the river to approach the frontline position, Zheng Dongguo was about to give the order to fight to the death with the enemy! But at this critical moment, the artillery battalion of the Second Division arrived in time from the rear, and Zheng Dongguo was overjoyed for a moment and hurriedly ordered: "Let the "devils" see the taste of shelling"!
Twelve cannons were ready to fire, and after a roar, dozens of shells fell on the side of the Japanese invaders like meteor showers, and the enemy was killed and wounded countless times. In this battle, the 2nd Division captured a lot of important materials, and also won valuable time for the redeployment of troops near Zaozhuang.
But that night, the main force of the Japanese invaders saw that there was no hope of forcibly crossing the river, so they launched an attack on Taierzhuang along Zaozhuang, fortunately Zheng Dongguo sensed the intentions of the Japanese invaders, and led the second division to garrison here, and the two sides continued to invest troops into the battlefield, and the battle of Taierzhuang gradually became a protracted tug-of-war.
On March 6, the 52nd Army and the 85th Army arranged a division of troops to attack the Japanese invaders in Zaozhuang from the east and north respectively.
He asked the 85th Army for help, but at the moment the 85th Army was unable to protect itself, but with the help of friendly forces, a brigade was sent to harass the periphery of the Japanese invaders for a period of time, and then rushed back to the original battlefield.
Zheng Dongguo had no choice but to personally lead his troops to resist to the end, and the second division had suffered serious damage after several battles at this time, but the enemy could not withstand the long-term attrition.
The soldiers of the second division continued to charge day and night, after two days and two nights of hard fighting, finally annihilated the Japanese invaders in Zaozhuang, recaptured most of the lost urban areas of Zaozhuang, and later the Japanese army reinforced 1,000 enemy troops from Lincheng, and the battle of Zaozhuang has been stalemate, so that the Taierzhuang battlefield in the rear can not be opened.
Zheng Dongguo received an order to lead the team to reinforce Taierzhuang in the south after the position was handed over in Zaozhuang, that is to say, the position of the second division will be an important breakthrough point for the Japanese invaders, and Zheng Dongguo as the commander is the key to the victory of both sides.
Zheng Dongguo was well aware of the heavy responsibility he was shouldering, and soon after, in the Great North Kiln, the Japanese invaders transferred their firepower to the engagement of the Second Division, while troops from other directions were able to break the siege.
At this time, the second division was being ambushed on all sides, and before the battle, Zheng Dongguo mobilized all the soldiers, and he roared to the soldiers: Defending the defense line is bound to live and die with the position! For a while, the morale of the soldiers increased greatly, and they responded to Zheng Dongguo with a firm roar.
Subsequently, the second division and the Japanese invaders fought to the death, constantly charging and retreating, guns and artillery bloomed everywhere, taking the lives of one Japanese invader after another, after two days of fierce fighting, the Japanese invaders were beaten by our side near the jujube branch line, Zheng Dongguo recognized the opportunity, took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the main force of the Japanese invaders fled in the desert.
Until the late night of April 6, Zheng Dongguo gave an order, and all the troops rushed to the front line to pursue, and finally won the final victory. The great victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang greatly boosted the morale of the whole army, which was the biggest victory achieved since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and let the Japanese invaders know that as long as the Chinese people are united and sincerely united, then the squadron will be invincible!
In this battle, it was precisely because Zheng Dongguo led the Second Division to turn the tide of the war with his own strength and won the gratitude of the soldiers on all fronts, and after the war, he was promoted to the commander of the 98th Army and became a veritable famous general of the Anti-Japanese War.
Subsequently, in December 1939, Zheng Dongguo commanded the honorary first division to participate in the Battle of Kunlun Pass, served as a frontal assist mission, and the Japanese 5th Division, known as the "Steel Army", fought a bloody battle for more than 20 days, and finally, Zheng Dongguo worked closely with friendly forces, not only recaptured the Kunlun Pass position, defeated the 12th Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese invaders, and killed more than 5,000 enemies.
To say that the great general of the anti-Japanese battlefield, there must be a seat of Zheng Dongguo, as early as the Great Wall Gubeikou Anti-Japanese War has his figure, until the complete victory of the national anti-Japanese war, he and the Japanese invaders for 12 years, made an indelible contribution to China.
The unity of the revolutionary forces of the whole country finally won the final victory, after the Japanese invaders announced their surrender, Zheng Dongguo always hoped for a peaceful establishment between the two parties, he was very reluctant to civil war, because this was the suffering of the people of the whole country, but Chiang Kai-shek did not think so, for his ** rule, he resolutely stabbed his compatriots with a knife.
In 1946, Zheng Dongguo was sent to the northeast as the deputy commander of the northeast "suppression", he followed Chiang Kai-shek's established deployment, commanded hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops to advance along the Benin railway, and soon occupied the city of Siping, and among these cities, Changchun is the most "desolate", the streets and alleys are filled with gunpowder smoke and artillery fire, and it has become a lonely city.
Seeing that the two parties were fighting, but it was the people who were injured, Zheng Dongguo proposed to Wei Lihuang many times: save the vitality and fight back to the Central Plains. However, Wei Lihuang thought that the interests of the party and the state should be the priority, let him defend Changchun, and boasted to him that as long as he defended carefully, he could persevere, and if you encounter difficulties, I will do my best to help.
As a result, on October 14, 1948, the People's Liberation Army gathered its forces and finally liberated Jinzhou after 30 hours of fierce fighting.
Zheng Dongguo, who received the news, was in a heavy mood, and Chiang Kai-shek gave a death order, but all the passages in the pass were blocked and could not break through, and Wei Lihuang could not protect himself, let alone support, which undoubtedly forced Zheng Dongguo into a desperate situation.
On October 17, Zeng Zesheng, the commander of the 60th Army stationed in Changchun, rebelled angrily. His subordinates advised him: "Use bombers to bomb the 60th Army, otherwise there will be endless trouble!" ”
But Zheng Dongguo categorically rejected this proposal and replied sternly: "The officers and soldiers of the 60th Army are still their own people, and there are many remaining civilians in the city now, and the bombing plan is meaningless!" ”
On October 21, Zheng Dongguo chose to surrender in a desperate situation, and the news was learned by Xiao Jinguang, the commander of the Northeast Field Army, and immediately invited Zheng Dongguo and Xiao Hua to a banquet.
During the banquet, Xiao Jinguang asked Zheng Dongguo suspiciously: How will you settle yourself then?
And Zheng Dongguo sighed and replied simply: "I just want to go home and be a common man."
It can be seen that Zheng Dongguo at this time has completely died, and the defeat of the Kuomintang is inevitable, he does not understand, why do the people believe in the power of communism more and more?
After the state banquet, Zheng Dongguo listened to Xiao Hua's suggestion and came to Harbin, after which he actively cooperated with the management of the organization and learned a lot of Marxist-Leninist progressive ideas.
After a period of study, Zheng Dongguo understood everything, it turned out that communism was: "democratic", "independent", and served the people, and he constantly put forward his own views to the ** side, and his thinking was gradually approaching communism, and Junran became a new Chinese!
One day in October 1950, ** organized a dinner party for old friends in Beijing, and invited many teachers and students from Huangpu, as well as important leaders in **, such as Zheng Dongguo's classmates and Zheng Dongguo's teacher.
When old friends met, they were very affectionate, and everyone talked and laughed, chatting with each other about the past revolution or future development.
During the banquet, ** asked Zheng Dongguo: "What are your plans in the future"?
Zheng Dongguo was speechless, after all, he was a "civil war element", and he was afraid that the future development of New China would also be criticized, and after thinking about it carefully, he replied: "I have nothing else to do, and I am old, so I plan to go home and farm."
** Raising his eyebrows, the answer was a little unexpected, but he quickly saw the reason, smiled kindly, and then said: "You are a general of the rebel army, how can you let you go back to farming!" You are not yet 50 years old, you still have a lot of time to contribute to the people, and now that the construction of the country has just developed, there are many things waiting for us to do! ”
**'s words are very in-depth, not only stating his position but also explaining Zheng Dongguo's ability, which is a good step down for Zheng Dongguo. In fact, Zheng Dongguo's heart is to stay in New China to continue to develop, **'s words made Zheng Dongguo very moved, he replied sincerely: "Go back to Shanghai for treatment first, and after the illness recovers, everything will be arranged by the teacher."
In the next two years, Zheng Dongguo moved his family to Beijing and worked in the water conservancy department, during which his performance was remarkable, without any adverse effects, and even made outstanding contributions to the country's water conservancy work, which also impressed him and re-recognized this "old revolutionary".
In September 1954, at the first meeting of the first National People's Congress, Zheng Dongguo was appointed as a member of the National Defense Commission, with a nine-level cadre, which was not only recognized by the state, but also recognized by the state.
The recognition of the country gave Zheng Dongguo great courage, he began to truly integrate himself into the people, and actively devoted himself to the construction of the country.
In 1991, Zheng Dongguo died at the age of 88, and before his death, this patriotic general who had been martial all his life said to his family: He is a soldier and has long looked down on life and death. Saying that, the veteran smiled faintly and continued to comfort him: The biggest thing in my life is that I didn't see the reunification of the motherland.
Zheng Dongguo's patriotic feelings have always been firm and consistent, worthy of everyone's respect, after the veteran's unfortunate death, both sides of the Taiwan Strait have held a grand memorial service for him.