In December 1948, forces from all sides in the city of Peiping were surging.
Is it war or peace? Even Fu Zuoyi himself was hesitating.
Of course, the most "good" thing in his life is to change the court, and through the so-called right choices again and again, he has changed from a low-level officer to a powerful man in control of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
What choice will he make this time?
He found his daughter Fu Dongju and asked her softly:
"Do you know anyone over there? ”The door to peace was thus opened.
Fu Zuoyi's life can be described as wonderful.
He was born in a poor and backward family in old China, and his father, Fu Qingtai, crossed the Yellow River on his back, and his income was very meager.
Fortunately, Fu Zuoyi has been very competitive since he was a child, and his achievements are among the best.
At the age of 15, he was admitted to the Taiyuan Army Primary School, and in the subsequent Xinhai Revolution, he fought against the Qing soldiers as a platoon leader before the age of 16.
After the victory of the Xinhai Revolution, he was admitted to the then title"One of the four major military schools in China".The Baoding Military Academy is among the best in shooting, command, drill and other majors.
After graduation, he entered Yan Xishan's Jin Army, and became a battalion commander at the age of 28.
In the dark old China, Fu Zuoyi actually used his salary to subsidize his subordinate soldiers, you must know that the vast majority of the old officers of the same era either beat or scolded the soldiers.
The superb professional level and compassion for his subordinates made the troops led by Fu Zuoyi extremely well organized, united in their hearts, and extremely effective in combat.
It was during this time that Fu Zuoyi won a daughter-Fu Dongju.
In October 1927, the Jin warlord Yan Xishan went to war with the Feng faction, and the Jin faction was known as the Ten Route Army, but was beaten to the point that he lost his armor.
Only the Fourth Division of the Jin Army led by Fu Zuoyi was flexible and maneuverable, like a precise dagger, and went straight into Zhuozhou, the weak point of the Feng army.
Zhuozhou is located in the middle of the Great Plains, and there is no danger to defend everywhere, but fortunately, the high walls of the city provide some protection for Fu Zuoyi's department.
However, due to the retreat of all friendly forces, Fu Zuoyi and the Fourth Division led by him became the turtle in the urn of the Feng army.
Zhang Zuolin sent Wang Yizhe, a famous general of the Feng army, to attack the city, Wang Yizhe's troops were well-equipped and equipped with artillery, so he ordered the artillery to concentrate on attacking a little, and then sent a death squad to the city.
Unexpectedly, although the artillery fire suppressed the Fu army, the city could not be taken, and Wang Yizhebu was surprised to find that the enemy was well-trained and had high morale.
At that time, the vast majority of ordinary troops did not dare to fight bayonets at all, but they were completely different, and Wang Yizhe's first round of general attack failed.
In the following months of fighting, Wang Yizhe and other generals of the Feng army exhausted all means, and what ladders, tunnels, and water sources poisoned ......
By the time of the seventh general offensive, it even brought in a few tanks in the country at that time, six at once, but even so, it still failed to defeat Fu Zuoyi's department.
Wan Fulin, the general of the Feng army, was furious and even made the following suggestions to Zhang Xueliang:
"No, we'll hit him with a chlorine cannon! ”Although there were still people in the city, Zhang Zuolin still agreed to Wan Fulin's suggestion.
The ninth general offensive of the Feng army prepared more than 500 rounds of incendiary bombs and poison gas bombs, who expected that these poison gas bombs were all leftover from the European war, and had little effect, and the troops of the Feng army in the city were repulsed again.
After many major battles, the Feng army also suffered heavy losses and used almost all the tactics that could be used.
Even Zhang Zuolin can only admit:
"When they couldn't fight it, they hollowed out the city and starved them to death. ”Zhang Xueliang suggested adopting a heart-attacking tactic.
As food in the city became scarce, the city offered military food to persuade the defenders of the city to surrender.
Zhang Zuolin also found a general who had a teacher-student relationship with Fu Zuoyi back then, and wrote to him to persuade him to surrender.
Fu Zuoyi replied:
"The school did not teach surrender that day, and the students did not dare to obey their orders."Few of the soldiers under his rule surrendered, and the Feng army was really helpless.
When the time came to the beginning of December, the city of Zhuozhou was already sleepy and lacking in horses, there was little food and grass, and the soldiers of the Fourth Division were still wearing single clothes, which was difficult to keep out the cold.
The two sides negotiated many times, but because Yan Xishan had not allowed Fu Zuoyi to surrender, Fu Zuoyi had to insist.
By the end of December, people had begun to starve to death in the city, and the soldiers were now yellow and thin.
In view of this, Fu Zuoyi led the two of them to go out of the city to meet Zhang Xueliang on January 5, 1928.
Previously, he confessed his "last words" to the fathers and elders and officers and soldiers in the city, and wrote "Farewell Words for Thanking the Fathers and Sons of Zhuozhou".
He knew very well that he would most likely not survive again.
Seeing Zhang Xueliang, Fu Zuoyi only made one request, to send three days of food to Zhuozhou City.
Zhang Xueliang cherished Fu Zuoyi's talent, and immediately agreed to his request and fulfilled his promise.
But he was placed under house arrest by Zhang Xueliang, and some people persuaded Zhang Xueliang to kill him, but in the end Zhang Xueliang still left Fu Zuoyi's life.
After the First World War in Zhuozhou, Fu Zuoyi became famous, and some people even compared his peace talks out of the city to "the three things of the Tuntu Shanguan Convention".
Later, Fu Zuoyi escaped from Baoding with the help of his friends and was co-opted by Chiang Kai-shek to become the commander of the Tianjin garrison.
Soon after, the Great War of the Central Plains broke out.
Jiang, Yan, Gui, and Feng fought in a mixed group, and after the war, Fu Zuoyi was ordered to take charge of the military and political affairs of Suiyuan Province, and he was only 36 years old this year.
In 1931, the "918 Incident", Zhang Xueliang pursued a policy of non-resistance, and the three northeastern provinces, with great rivers and mountains, were handed over.
After the outbreak of the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, Fu Zuoyi immediately telegraphed Chiang Kai-shek, Yan Xishan and others to ask Ying to resist the enemy, and then personally led the 35th Army, the ace unit trained by himself, to the north to resist the enemy.
In mid-to-late May, the Japanese Eighth Division and the 35th Army engaged in a fierce battle.
The two sides fought fiercely for a day and a night, and there were injuries to each other.
Who knew that Fu Zuoyi suddenly received He Yingqin's order to immediately cease fire, and Nanjing ** had made peace talks with the Japanese invaders.
Fu Zuoyi was furious on the spot, and after hanging up **, he reprimanded loudly in the tent:
"Is it also a crime to resist Japan? ”
In 1936, on the eve of the Japanese army launching a full-scale war of aggression against China, the Japanese side concocted the "Mongolian puppet army" with the help of the Mongolian king and further encroached on the territory of North China.
In this regard, Fu Zuoyi met with Chiang Kai-shek many times to ask for war, but Chiang Kai-shek only perfunctory.
Fu Zuoyi had no choice but to make arrangements in advance, step up intelligence investigation, and reconnoiter that the enemy had recently made great moves, and it was very likely that he would start a war after November.
Sure enough, in mid-November, the Japanese launched a fierce attack on our country's Honggertu.
Fu Zuoyi, who had been prepared for a long time, went to the front line in Jining to command, and the troops were divided into two routes, and the troops who had been ambushed worked day and night, forming a two-sided attack on the Japanese invaders.
In this battle, our squadron won a big victory, and then Fu Zuoyi recovered a series of territories, and the Suiyuan War of Resistance ended with a great victory for our country.
After the start of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Fu Zuoyi must be the first in every battle.
In the early stage of the Battle of Taiyuan, more than half of the troops were **, and there were only two brigades left in the main force under his command.
At this time, in order to preserve his strength, Yan Xishan transferred the main force of the Jin army to other places.
When faced with Yan Xishan's question of "who will preside over the Battle of Taiyuan", almost all the Jin generals were silent.
Only Fu Zuoyi resolutely stepped forward for the sake of the country's national righteousness and joined the army to command the Battle of Taiyuan.
In the battle of Taiyuan, although Taiyuan was still lost, the Japanese invaders also suffered heavy losses and were unable to go south.
During the entire Anti-Japanese War, Fu Zuoyi showed a high level of command, and then during the period of his reign in Suiyuan, he was politically clear and the people were peaceful, which was a rare paradise under the rule of the Kuomintang.
Maybe it has something to do with his experience.
It is rumored that when Fu Zuoyi was a young man, he spent money lavishly and did not know moderation, so his father made him strip naked, jumped into the Yellow River, pointed to his nose and said:
"That's how your dad made his money. ”Since then, Fu Zuoyi has been known for his frugality.
But the middle-aged Fu Zuoyi is still a warlord in the final analysis, and he has not had the ability and determination to change the times and change the two halves of Chinese society like the Communists.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Fu Zuoyi quickly went to the opposite side of the people.
In 1924, Fu Dongju was born.
His father has been fighting abroad all the year round, his mother is always worried, and Fu Zuoyi's family education is extremely strict, compared to friends in the same circle, Fu Dongju's life since childhood is considered "poor".
Fu Dongju inherited Fu Zuoyi's revolutionary thoughts, and during the Anti-Japanese War, he studied and worked in Kunming, Chongqing and other big cities, so he was very yearning for revolution.
After coming into contact with our party comrades, she took Marxism as her lifelong belief and became an underground party member.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, she worked in Tianjin for a long time.
In fact, with Fu Zuoyi's means, Fu Dongju was developed into a Communist Party member, and he knew it for a long time.
But he both respects his daughter's choice, and hopes to add a new one through her"Possibility".
During the Anti-Japanese War, Fu Zuoyi had a good relationship with our party and our army, and even the 35th Army under his command was called by Yan Xishan"Seven and a half roads".
Later, Chiang Kai-shek created friction and forced the Kuomintang troops to purge the party, and Fu Zuoyi only politely sent our party members out of his rule.
In view of the fact that Fu Zuoyi himself was more patriotic, and had a good relationship with our party and our army throughout the Anti-Japanese War, when the Liberation War was carried out in 1948, our party began to fight for Fu Zuoyi.
The first is through his daughter, Fu Dongju.
At that time, Liu Ren, an underground intelligence officer in Tianjin, found Fu Dongju to talk, hoping that she could return to work in Beiping and persuade Fu Zuoyi to stand aside with the people.
Fu Dongju is actually a little entangled, on the one hand, he has revolutionary beliefs, and on the other hand, he is his biological father.
But for the sake of the motherland and the people, she still decided to obey the organizational arrangement, gave up her work at Ta Kung Pao, and returned to her father.
When Fu Zuoyi saw his daughter return to his side, he had a certain expectation in his heart, but he didn't expect that Fu Dongju would report his psychological performance and confidential information to his superiors.
When the Liaoshen Battle was over, Fu Zuoyi, who had seen through the situation for seven or eight points, was anxious every day, and then Fu Dongju asked him at the right time
"Dad, can't thousand-year-old cities like Peking and Tianjin be liberated peacefully? ”Fu Zuoyi thought about it again and again, but still asked that sentence:
"Dong Ju, do you know anyone over there? ”Fu Dongju responded to him:
"Dad, didn't you have a few good friends over there when you were fighting against Japan? ”The father and daughter were speechless for a while.
Soon, the Battle of Pingjin was put on the agenda.
At that time, Nanjing tried its best to persuade Fu Zuoyi to lead an army of 600,000 to the south, but Fu Dongju talked to his father many times, hoping that he would stay in Beiping.
Fu Zuoyi knew very well the dangers of going south, so he tried his best to persuade Nanjing to leave 600,000 troops in North China.
At the end of November 1948, Fu Zuoyi, who was in North China, finally saw the worst outcome, and the strong Northeast Field Army entered the customs.
After the Xin'an Campaign, the 35th Army brought out by Fu Zuoyi was wiped out, and the lifeline he relied on for survival was cut off, and Beiping and Tianjin, where Fu Zuoyi's troops were located, were surrounded into iron buckets.
He changed his court many times in the first half of his life, but this time he hesitated.
On the one hand, he made overtures to our army through his daughter Fu Dongju and my friend Deng Baoshan, a friend in the party, and at the same time, he instructed to strengthen the layout of Tianjin's city defense, and he was bound to "live and die" with Beiping.
In the face of Fu Zuoyi's behavior, the **Military Commission and *** decided to fight and promote peace.
At the same time that Fu Zuoyi was negotiating with our army, Liu Yalou commanded Dongye to take Tianjin overnight.
This time, Fu Zuoyi was completely convinced, and when he went to Xibaipo, he drove specifically for *** to show that year"To lead the horse and carry the whip".apologies.
Since 1954, Fu Zuoyi has served as Minister of Water Resources, and has dedicated his life to the country's water conservancy cause.
And Fu Dongju has been silently dedicating himself to ordinary posts.
After the end of the battle to cross the river in 1949, the People's Liberation Army marched into the southwest and then established a volunteer service team.
Fu Dongju responded to the party's call and became one of them.
In more than two years of dedication, Fu Dongju still contributed his talents and founded "Yunnan **".
When she returned to Beijing, she continued to work in the field of literature and art, which she was good at.
She is conscientious and conscientious in her position as a journalist, and she has participated in many systems in the field of press and publishing, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is the veteran of "People's **".
After the reform and opening up, Fu Dongju also became an old man, at this time she was in a high position, but her life has always been diligent and thrifty.
Instead of resting on her laurels, she donated the money she saved to build several Hope Elementary Schools and named them after her father.
Whether it is Fu Zuoyi's abandonment of darkness and surrender to the light, or Fu Dongju's persuasion of his father for righteousness, it should be said that these two people have made meritorious contributions to the peaceful liberation of Beiping, and they are examples worth learning from.