"When I left home and went back, my hometown voice has not changed, and my sideburns have declined.
When the children don't know each other, they smile and ask where the guests are from. ”
This is He Zhizhang's "Two Songs of Returning to the Hometown Doll Book (Part I)" in the Tang Dynasty, with only a few sentences, but it exhausts the sorrow of "leaving home as a young child".
In recent years, ** often reports the news of some rebellious teenagers running away from home, and the reasons are nothing more than "disgust with school", conflicts between father (mother) and son, etc.
In 1935, Wang Fuzhi, a boy from Yan'an who had just turned 12, also ran away from home, which was nearly 20 years.
In 1954, Wang Fuzhi had the opportunity to return to his hometown.
At that time, Wang Fuzhi was already the commander of the 115th Division of the 39th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
General Wang Fuzhi.
The story of Wang Fuzhi's "young and young away from home" is legendary.
In 1935, Wang Fuzhi met the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army led by Liu Zhidan in northern Shaanxi.
Wang Fuzhi found that the Red Army officers and soldiers spoke kindly, bought and sold fairly, and did not bully people, which was completely different from "**."
Wang Fuzhi had the idea of joining the team, but the army would definitely not accept a 12-year-old child into the army.
So, when Wang Fuzhi signed up for the army without telling his family, he lied for the first time in his life.
When the Red Army cadre in charge of conscription asked him his age, Wang Fuzhi replied without hesitation: "17 years old!" ”
The conscription procedures of those years would not have been as strict as they are now, and the smart Wang Fuzhi easily joined the ranks of the Red Army and was assigned to the "Young Communist Battalion".
Not long after joining the army, Wang Fuzhi made a military exploit.
In one battle, Wang Fuzhi used a pike dart to capture a Kuomintang soldier alive and also captured a ninety percent new rifle.
During the Anti-Japanese War, 16-year-old Wang Fuzhi became a subordinate of Huang Kecheng, the political commissar of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
During one battle, the 3rd Division captured a Nissan bicycle.
Wang Fuzhi immediately fell in love with this bicycle, and practiced riding whenever he had free time.
General Huang Kecheng.
Division Commander Huang Kecheng was highly short-sighted, and it was very inconvenient to march and fight, so that bicycle came in handy.
Whenever they marched and hurried, Wang Fuzhi and the guard platoon commander took turns to act as the "driver" of Huang Kecheng's division commander.
What made Wang Fuzhi unforgettable for the rest of his life was that on his "special car", Huang Kecheng not only told him countless revolutionary truths, but also taught him a lot of combat experience.
Decades later, Wang Fuzhi still remembered the events of that year, and he said to people more than once: "I will never forget the teachings of the old chief in my life."
During the Liberation War, Wang Fuzhi successively served as battalion commander, combat section chief, deputy regiment commander, and regiment commander.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Fuzhi successively served as deputy division commander and division commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers, chief of staff and deputy commander of the 39th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, deputy director and director of the Operations Department of the General Staff Department, commander of the Shanxi Provincial Military Region, and deputy commander of the Urumqi Military Region.
In 1955, Wang Fuzhi was awarded the rank of colonel.
In 1964, Wang Fuzhi was promoted to the rank of major general.
During the long years of war, Wang Fuzhi experienced a hundred battles and experienced many life and death tests, the most dangerous of which occurred on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
In August 1952, Wang Fuzhi was the commander of the 115th Division of the Volunteer Army, and on this day, Wang Fuzhi's headquarters in the cave was hit by a bomb by the US army.
After a rumbling **, several comrades died on the spot, and Wang Fuzhi and two other comrades were buried in the gravel pile, unable to move.
Finally crawling out of the rubble pile, Wang Fuzhi found that the entrance to the cave had been sealed by the blown stones.
The air in the cave is getting thinner and thinner, and Wang Fuzhi hangs by a thread.
After Mr. Peng learned of the situation, he immediately ordered: Save people at all costs, live to see people, and die to see corpses!
The soldiers of the engineer company immediately launched a rescue, but, more than 30 hours later, still no one was found.
Just when everyone was feeling hopeless, the commander of the engineer company saw two flies flying out of the pile of rubble.
Old** Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
Dig! Dig fast! There are people here! The engineer company commander shouted with joy.
Everyone worked hard to remove obstacles, and finally rescued Wang Fuzhi and the other three who were dying.
After a few days of treatment, Wang Fuzhi and the other two comrades were out of danger.
It is said that after the "tunnel incident", Wang Fuzhi no longer drove flies, let alone swatted flies, and after returning to China, he never put fly swatters ...... his home
Many people don't know what to do: as a soldier, Wang Fuzhi has killed countless enemies without mercy, how can he not do anything to flies.
Only those who know about the "tunnel incident" will be able to understand the causes.
Wang Fu later joked: Thanks to the two life-saving flies.
On May 7, 1953, Wang Fuzhi returned to his motherland from North Korea and entered the Nanjing Military Academy to study.
Wang Fuzhi finally walked out of the battlefield filled with gunpowder.
At this time, Wang Fuzhi couldn't help but think of his hometown and his relatives in his hometown.
On this day, Wang Fuzhi took a guard with him, happily got on the train to his hometown, and set foot on the way home.
Compared with the "running away from home" back then, Wang Fuzhi's return home this time can be regarded as "returning home".
Wang Fuzhi was already a division commander of the People's Liberation Army at that time, and from ancient times to the present, no one in his hometown village had ever been such a big "official".
However, Wang Fuzhi, the division commander of the People's Liberation Army, had a clean breeze on his sleeves, and he bought food with all the allowances he had accumulated, which he was going to give to his relatives and fellow villagers in his hometown.
When he returned to his hometown this time, Wang Fuzhi didn't want to alarm the leaders of the county, so no one came to pick up the station.
After getting off the train, there is still a long way to get to his hometown, and Wang Fuzhi has to find a way to solve it by himself.
In normal times, Wang Fuzhi would definitely walk home with the guards, but this time, he brought a few big bags of grain, what can he do?
Wang Fuzhi and the others had just left the train station, and they happened to see an old man driving a donkey cart passing by.
Wang Fuzhi asked for a ride, but the old man didn't say a word, so he let Wang Fuzhi and the guards get into the donkey cart.
The donkey cart carried three people and several large bags of grain, and walked slowly on the road.
Along the way, Wang Fuzhi chatted with the old man in his hometown.
Old** Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The old man is not a talkative person, along the way, Wang Fuzhi asked a lot about his hometown, and the old man's reply was basically four words - "yes" and "no".
However, the old man was extremely sensitive to Wang Fuzhi's words.
Wang Fuzhi said: "I haven't been home for nearly 20 years, and I don't know how my family is doing now. ”
The old man stopped the donkey, turned his head, and said sadly: "My son has been away from home for almost 20 years, I don't know if he is dead or alive now?" ”
Wang Fuzhi was shocked, and hurriedly asked the old man: "How old was your son when he left home?" What's his name? ”
The old man said: "My son was only 12 years old when he left home......”
The old man casually said his son's name, which startled Wang Fuzhi - that was his nickname!
Wang Fuzhi burst into tears and shouted: "Dad! ”
The old man was stunned for an instant, and immediately came to his senses, and the old man burst into tears, unable to speak for a while.
When he left home at a young age, Wang Fuzhi was only 12 years old, and for many years, although Wang Fuzhi often thought of his old father, nearly 20 years have passed, and his father's appearance has become blurred.
Similarly, the father only had the impression of his son when he was a child, and the PLA officer in front of him was actually his son, which made the old man surprised and ecstatic.
The father and son reunited under such circumstances, and Wang Fuzhi was also full of emotion.
The father and son looked at each other with tears in their eyes, without too many words, and they didn't know what to say for a while, just laughing with tears in their eyes, excited.
Wang Fuzhi hurriedly got out of the car, helped the old father to sit in the donkey cart, and the understanding guard took the reins, drove the donkey cart, and galloped slowly to the way home.
General Wang Fuzhi (left).
This is not a story deduced by **, let alone an anecdote made up by the author, but a real past event.
At that time, there were many such real and touching stories.
Many enthusiastic young people "left home at a young age", threw themselves into the revolution, and even died on the battlefield.
Here, let us pay tribute to the revolutionary predecessors who threw their heads and shed their blood, and also express our high respect to those who nurtured them and silently dedicated themselves to the revolutionary cause.