The General was a well-regarded good man and a widely respected good man, and he had a very high spirit of righteousness, which is one of the most striking flashes of his character.
He was well known in the army, and many people had received his help and favor.
In 1945, General ** led the soldiers to borrow 1,000 loads of life-saving food from the landlord's house to relieve their hunger.
This letter to General ** revealed a past that had been separated for 40 years, which aroused the memories of General **. This is not only a personal memory, but also a memory of those arduous years, full of changes in the family and country, changes in the world, the righteousness of the people and the great virtue of human nature.
Although forty years have passed since this past, it is still deeply engraved in the hearts of the generals and soldiers.
Today we are going to talk about the heroic deeds of the founding generals. He was the hero of "Little Hankow".
Huantan Town: The hometown of the Meiqiu Inspection Division of the Qing Dynasty, the paradise of the squire and landlord Huantan Town, which was once the location of the Meiqiu Inspection Division of the Qing Dynasty in history, no longer has traces of the Qing Dynasty.
However, it was still a paradise and a gathering place for the squires and landlords. In this town, there is a big surname group that is the largest landlord in Huantan Town, their surname is Liao, and the patriarch Liao is also known as the richest man in Huantan.
Despite the chaos in the world during the ** period, and the warlords from all walks of life were fighting endlessly, this family was able to close the door, recuperate, and grow rapidly. Huantan Town, a place full of history and stories, is worth visiting and knowing.
With generations of hard work and kindness to tenants, the Liao family has accumulated hundreds of acres of paddy fields and hundreds of tenants, and has become a well-known local family. However, Liao's brilliance did not stop there.
With the rise of the second-generation heir Liao Linxuan, the Liao family has entered a more prosperous period. As the heir of the great family, Liao Linxuan is not pretentious, but has a bodhisattva heart, is kind and compassionate, and is full of care and love for both family members and tenants.
When Young Master Liao was young, he met a foreign missionary. Although the missionary spoke a foreign language that Young Master Liao did not understand, he held a heavy Bible in his hand and a silver cross on his chest, indicating that Young Master Liao had a good heart and was suitable to join the Catholic Church.
So, Young Master Liao followed the missionaries to the provincial capital and officially became a believer in Catholicism. However, it was not until later that Young Master Liao learned that the missionary he admired was a Westerner who had preached in China, and that their religion was called Catholicism.
Young Master Liao, who was originally in the middle of the road, returned to his hometown to take over the family business after wandering in the provincial capital for many years. At the suggestion of his wife, Mao, he bought a small gypsum salt mine for 12,000 yuan, and since then he has embarked on the road to making a fortune.
This kind of gypsum salt ore mainly produces crude gypsum, which is an important raw material for making ash (cement). Therefore, crude gypsum became the first pot of gold for the Liao family. In addition, gypsum salt mines can also produce well salt, that is, after the gypsum is mined, the well water also contains salt-containing minerals, which can be refined from coarse salt after drying.
The troika of the Liao family in Huantan to make a fortune is coarse gypsum, coarse salt and thousands of acres of paddy fields. Although the Japanese army later invaded China, the Liao family was not affected. Because the Liao family has shrewd and capable leaders who understand righteousness in the past dynasties, in the War of Resistance Against Japan, they not only provided a temporary division headquarters command post for the **127th Division, but also provided material support for the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army.
In addition, at the critical moment when the Japanese army blockaded all units of the New Fourth Army, the Liao family also gave material support. Even the troops of the founding general ** have also received material help from the Liao family.
At the end of 1944, as the commander of the 359th Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, he received the latest instructions from the Military Commission, asking him to put down the production task of Nanniwan and lead the 359th Brigade to the Guiyue area again to open up a new base area.
Due to the impact of the crushing defeat of the Japanese army in the Pacific War, it was powerless in the Chinese mainland, and it was only a matter of time before they were defeated and surrendered. Therefore, both our Party and the Kuomintang are preparing for this and intend to take over the enemy-occupied areas.
* Leading the 359 Brigade south is one of the plans, they need to start from Yan'an, join the Dongjiang Column of the New Fourth Army, and jointly take root in the Hunan, Jiangxi and Guangdong border areas, while consolidating the new base area, while attracting the attention of the Kuomintang army, and taking the Central Plains as the flank vanguard for the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan field armies.
In 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the final stage. The Central Plains Military Region, where the general is located, was established with the approval of the Military Commission, and the 359 Brigade became the main force of the Central Plains Military Region.
In the winter of 1945, General ** led his troops to the Luoyangdian area to rest and prepare for the winter. However, a sudden blizzard brought difficulties to their marching plans.
It turned out that when the troops were passing through the area around Yingcheng, heavy snow fell suddenly, and the roads became muddy and slippery, making it difficult to pass. The heavy ** could not pass, and even the infantry carrying the light ** had a hard time.
They faced not only the besieging enemy army, but also a shortage of food. Although ** is capable of resisting the enemy's encirclement, his troops face great logistical supply problems.
After all, although he was able to be self-sufficient during the Nanniwan period, it was because of the support of the people in the rear. However, this winter, the troops were on the march, which, combined with the blockade of the enemy, made it extremely difficult to raise food from the rear.
* The 359th Brigade of the Communist Party became a powerful communist force that terrified the enemy with its brave and resolute style in the revolutionary years. However, now they are facing a shortage of food, and even a fierce general is stumped by a penny.
* Asked Li Shi, a party member comrade in northern Hubei Province, for help, but Comrade Li Shi had no choice. They are in enemy-occupied territory, not in the rear of Yan'an, which is rich in supplies, how can they raise enough food to meet the consumption of a brigade?
Not only did the 359 Brigade face such a dilemma, but when the Zhongye ace group "Liu Deng" entered and exited the Dabie Mountains, it was also difficult for the troops to mobilize the masses from the enemy-occupied areas, and this dilemma was common among the troops on the outside line.
When the troops were about to fall into the dilemma of freezing and starving, Li Shi put forward a suggestion to ask for help from the Liao family, a large family in Huantan. Under Li Shi's introduction, ** listened to the situation of the Liao family, but he was skeptical.
In times of crisis, true feelings are especially precious. Although the Liao family is no longer the noble family it used to be, it still has a large amount of land and grain reserves. However, the brigade's winter food was nothing to them.
* What hesitated and entangled was not the food problem, but the relationship between the patriarch Liao Fuchu and the Kuomintang army. Liao Fuchu not only had a relationship with the Kuomintang garrison, but also formed a private army "Mine Police Team" and served as a county official in the Kuomintang regime.
Therefore, he had a fairly close relationship with the Kuomintang army.
In the face of adversity, we must have the courage to try. **Although he was unsure if he could get help, he decided to go to Liao's house for help for the future of the army.
He asked Li Shi to visit the Liao family, but Li Shi did not see the head of the Liao family. Just as Li Shi was about to give up, a gray-haired old lady came out of the hall and called him.
Network diagram: "Are you the PLA?" The old lady asked Li Shi with a smile. Li Shi shook his head: "I am a communist, but not in the army. This old lady is the wife of Liao Linxuan, the head of the Liao family in the last generation, Mao, and it is the woman who suggested that Liao Linxuan use 12,000 yuan to plate the plaster salt mine.
At the beginning, Liao Linxuan spent 12,000 yuan to hang a large amount of money in the mine, and he was ridiculed by the clan elders, thinking that he was impractical and wanted to smash the money in the water.
Mao's vision was unique and bold, and she facilitated Liao Linxuan's decision to buy minerals, which put the Liao family on the road to prosperity. Although the times are different now, Liao Linxuan has passed away, but Mao is still alive and is over 90 years old.
She told Li Shi: "It doesn't matter whether you are a People's Liberation Army or a Communist Party, the important thing is that your Communist Party is doing things for the poor people in the world, and I believe that sooner or later you will get the support of the people of the world." ”
Mao's foresight accurately predicted the direction of China's politics in the coming decades. He proved his family's patriotism and wisdom with practical actions, expressed his willingness to support the army, and asked the housekeeper and Li Shi to go to the grain and rice warehouse to help the army solve the grain problem.
Li Shi excitedly returned to the 359 Brigade with 1,000 loads of life-saving food and reported the situation to **.
In the face of piles of life-saving food, **'s first reaction was to ask Li Shi if he had made an IOU. Li Shi replied that he had beaten it, but the old lady tore up the IOU, saying that it was the Liao family supporting the revolution.
Despite this, Li Shi successfully borrowed 1,000 loads of grain to solve the winter grain problem of the 359 Brigade. What is commendable is that Mao later sent some vegetables and dozens of big fat pigs to the 359 Brigade, which further alleviated their baggage problems and enabled them to successfully survive this difficult winter.
In 1991, the 83-year-old ** general received a letter from veteran Ma Xing. Ma Xing is a literary soldier in the 395 Brigade, who likes to write war literature and diaries, and is the type he admires, and they have had many exchanges.
This letter made ** feel very happy, after all, he and Ma Xing have been separated for nearly 40 years.
* Received a letter mentioning that the Liao family, who had assisted his troops back then, had been reported by the patriarch Liao Fuchu for his involvement with the Kuomintang and had been imprisoned for several years.
* Heartache, because the Liao family was kind to his troops, but they were treated like this because they had crossed paths with the Kuomintang.
After Liao Fuchu wrote the materials, although he expressed the meaning that his family had supported the 359 Brigade food, due to the lack of physical evidence such as IOUs, and the fact that the party Li Shi had passed away, his materials have not been taken seriously, and the grievances have not been revealed.
In this desperate situation, he found Ma Xing's front door. He saw in the newspaper that Ma Xing's article mentioned the old matter of giving food, so he had the idea of giving it a try and asked Ma Xing's help.
Ma Xing came after hearing that it was a benefactor and entertained him very warmly. After learning that Liao Fuchu's family was in difficulty, Ma Xing immediately paid out of his own pocket to help them, and wrote to his old boss ** very seriously, hoping that he could intervene in the matter.
After receiving the letter, he immediately expressed concern about Liao Fuchu's matter, and submitted a request for "rehabilitation" to the civil affairs department of his place **, in order to clear his name.
Not only that, but he also asked the civil affairs department to give priority to compensating Liao Fuchu. Reaching out in difficult times and demonstrating righteousness, these 1,000 loads of life-saving food not only saved the 359 Brigade, but also saved the Hubei-Henan-Anhui border area, and the Liao family became a revolutionary hero and a model for support.