In a set of revolutionary warrior veterans published in 2011, one is particularly eye-catching.
* A beautiful and touching female warrior wears a simple military coat, which is also a plaid cotton suit hand-woven by a farmer. However, the simple clothes did not detract from her appearance, but added a touch of the gentleness of the neighbor.
The wind ruffled her thick black hair, and the trees swayed in the background. But her gaze was straight into the distance, as unwavering as her will.
This beautiful female warrior's name is Li Youlan, her husband is the founding general, but her ex-husband's identity is even more respectable.
In 1919, Li Youlan was born in Xiaogang Town, Zhejiang. Xiaogang is an important business family town in Zhejiang, and the Li family in Xiaogang is a local tyrant, and has a pivotal position in the Ningbo merchant gang and the Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium.
The prosperity of the Li family in Xiaogang began in Li Yeting. It was still a matter of the Daoguang period, after the decline of the Jin merchants and the Hui merchants, the merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang began to rise with the accumulation since the Ming Dynasty.
Unlike the Jin and Hui merchants, who started by selling salt and borrowing money, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions have long developed large-scale handicraft production, with the rudiments of capitalist factory production.
This made the merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang more solid, and when the Western steam engine and advanced production concepts were introduced, their take-off was even more unstoppable.
Li Yeting took advantage of this shareholder trend and began his legendary life. Originally, he didn't have much money, so he went to Shanghai at the age of 14 to study business, and later went to work as a porter at the dock.
It was all manual work, but it was through which he came into contact with the sand boat industry. After that, it was decades of ups and downs in the commercial sea, in which the bitterness was not enough for outsiders, but in the end he became the largest sand ship owner in Shanghai, monopolized the Shanghai sand ship industry, and there were wharves on the Huangpu River, and even the Qing ** transportation of military salaries needed to pass through his fleet.
After Li Yeting gained a foothold in Shanghai, the family backed the small port and lived a luxurious life in Shanghai. His nephews, Li Meitang and Li Tingtao, discovered Shanghai's urbanization early on and ran real estate in Shanghai.
In the third generation, the Xiaogang Li family once again captured the pulse of the times, and they and the alliance were deep. When Sun Yat-sen formed the League in Japan, Xiaogang Li's family provided a lot of financial help, and three of them personally participated in the launch of the Xinhai Revolution.
However, Li Shanxiang, the youngest brother of the third generation, defected to the New Fourth Army after the start of the Anti-Japanese War. And he is the father of the beautiful warrior Li Youlan.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Youlan, who was studying in Shanghai, returned to his hometown, and it happened that his father Li Shanxiang decided to defect to the New Fourth Army. The young and enthusiastic Li Youlan was infected by her father and began to get close to our party. After receiving combat training in the Zhejiang Training Corps, she joined the party organization in 1938 and went to the New Fourth Army.
At that time, not to mention the New Fourth Army, even Yan'an ** did not have many girl soldiers. As soon as Li Youlan arrived in the New Fourth Army, she immediately attracted the attention of all the soldiers.
The big guy fights guerrilla in the mountains all day long, fighting devils with his head on his trouser belt, ** I've seen such a beautiful woman.
The leaders were also reluctant to send Li Youlan to the front line, the key is that she had gone to school and had knowledge, so she stayed in the shorthand class of the military department as a squad leader, and was specifically responsible for recording the leader's speech.
When Li Youlan first arrived in the New Fourth Army, the threshold of the small courtyard was about to be broken, and the enthusiastic soldiers either came to deliver a piece of corn, or brought her hot water and documents, anyway, the soldiers found an excuse to come and see her.
Xiang Ying, the commander of the New Fourth Army, soon found that the situation was wrong, and if he continued like this, he would be disheartened and unable to lead the team! forSo that the warriors could settle down and stop thinking nonsense, he thought of a way.
In 1941, 28-year-old Li Youlan married Xiang Ying.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, in January of that year, the New Fourth Army was ordered to move to the north, but when it marched to the Maolin area, it was attacked by Gu Zhutong.
Our army, which was completely defenseless, was attacked head-on by Gu Zhutong's army in an unprepared state. Ye Ting and Xiang Ying urgently convened a meeting of leaders to discuss the current plan to break the situation.
Ye Ting said:"At the moment, our army can only make a detour to the south and break through from the direction of Xuancheng! ”
Xiang Ying thought it was inappropriate:"** There has already been an order for our army to march to Maolin, and it cannot be easily disobeyed. Now that the enemy's initial attack has certainly not yet been encircled, it is the right time. ”
Ye Ting insisted on attacking back, but unfortunately he couldn't persuade Xiang Ying to change his decision。Xiang Yinglai was a deputy to Ye Ting because he had a political task, and the purpose was to carry out the ** order at an emergency moment.
As a result, the New Fourth Army began to advance north to the southern Jiangsu region, and this time it fell into the encirclement of the enemy army and suffered heavy losses. ** An urgent telegram was sent, demanding that the New Fourth Army quickly withdraw from Maolin and break through to the Xuancheng area. But at this time, the opportunity to attack back has been lost.
On January 9, Xiang Ying, Zhou Zikun and other leaders left the army and returned to the army due to a failed attempt to break through. In the end, under the command of Ye Ting, the New Fourth Army successfully broke through, and Xiang Ying was also able to go north. However, at this time, the New Fourth Army had already sacrificed more than 20,000 soldiers.
After breaking through, Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun took the army's ** to hide everywhere, and were finally killed by the adjutant on March 14.
After Xiang Ying's death, Li Youlan grieved for a long time. It was her first marriage, but less than a month after the marriage, she was caught in the middle of war.
Finally, when the war ended, the marriage, which lasted less than two months, ended due to the sacrifice of her husband. This is a huge blow to a woman who yearns for revolution and reveres love.
Fortunately, she and Xiang Ying did not have children, which saved her the hard work of taking care of the children.
In the year that followed, Li Youlan devoted all her energy to her work, and she desperately wanted to use this method to divert her attention and stop indulging in the pain of losing her husband.
At work, she met General Zhang Aiping.
General Zhang Aiping is a native of Sichuan, born in 1910, and Li Youlan are relatively close in age, and the two have many topics in common.
Originally, he served as the commander of the fifth column of the Eighth Route Army and was ordered to march into northern Jiangsu. After the incident in southern Anhui, due to the relative proximity, he was appointed as the brigade commander of the Ninth Brigade of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army.
At work, the two sparked a spark of love, and soon a revolutionary wedding was held in 1942.
After marriage, the life of the two is very happy, Li Youlan feels that she has once again found the support of life, and the job transfer is also carried out with Zhang Aiping's changes.
In 1945, Zhang Aiping was transferred to the deputy commander of the Central China Military Region, and Li Youlan also went to the Central China Bureau as a secretary.
General Zhang Aiping also received higher education back then, and he was also a well-known military poet. In order to express his love for his wife, he once wrote a poem"Song of the Four Seasons"., borrowed the blue character in his wife's name, and praised her well.
In the early years, Li Youlan's nickname in the New Fourth Army was "A Flower in the New Fourth Army", and after Zhang Aiping's poem spread, she had a new nickname, "Youlan in the Army".
This nickname is wonderful, "Youlan" is homophonic to "Youlan", and people know that it is Li Youlan when they hear it. At the same time, she praised her great courage and perseverance in joining the army.
Li Youlan and Zhang Aiping had two sons and a daughter, and finally died in Beijing in 2012, spending 93 years of happy life.
Later, the reporter went to interview Li Youlan and asked her what she thought of her life.
Li Youlan smiled dignifiedly, and slowly recited the verses in "Mulan Ci", it turned out that she compared herself to Mulan.
Yes, in ancient times, Hua Mulan joined the army for her father, and now Li Youlan joined the revolution and raised her eyebrows for all Chinese women. Who said that women are inferior to men, ** said that women can also hold up half the sky!
Li Youlan's existence proves that the revolutionary ranks are not entirely uneducated, but also many enthusiastic young people with culture and knowledge.
There were many beautiful schoolgirls like her, who added fresh blood to the revolutionary ranks. As for her two marriages, they are even more revolutionary husband and wife, fighting in the south and north, fighting horses all their lives, making outstanding contributions, serving the country all their lives, and immortal.