After the "January Storm" in Shanghai in 1967, the situation became more and more turbulent, and the rebels stepped up their efforts to seize power. And it was also this year that Mr. Peng, who had just returned to work, was frequently impacted.
In September of this year, at the criticism meeting of the Beijing Garrison, a founding major general slapped Mr. Peng twice in public.
So, who is this founding major general, and why did he dare to hit a founding marshal? What happened to this man?
This person's name was "Li Zhongqi", and he was the deputy commander of the Beijing Garrison at that time. Speaking of which, this Li Zhongqi is still a general with great achievements.
He was born in December 1913 in Jianping County, Liaoning Province. At the beginning of 1931, Li Zhongqi, who was less than 18 years old, was admitted to the 11th Cavalry Section of the Northeast Army Lecture Hall, during which he also participated in the Northeast Anti-Imperialist League.
After the "918" incident, Li Zhongqi was deeply angry at Zhang Xueliang's "non-resistance policy", and even smashed open the school's armory with his comrades-in-arms, picked up the first and started a battle with the Japanese army.
Many people say that during the "918" incident, the Japanese Kwantung Army successfully invaded and occupied the three northeastern provinces without a single resistance. But in fact, this statement is incorrect, it should be said that there was no large-scale resistance, but small-scale resistance occurred frequently.
Although it is the duty of soldiers to obey orders, when the invaders really come in, some enthusiastic young people and people of insight will not sit idly by at all, and they will certainly ignore such "absurd orders" and fight back. The anti-Japanese "squad" formed by Li Zhongqi and his comrades-in-arms is one of the typical examples.
However, because they did not have "official" support, Li Zhongqi and his comrades-in-arms could only fight and retreat, looking for another fighter.
In October of the same year, Li Zhongqi, who had already served as the leader of the anti-Japanese volunteer guerrilla detachment, was surrounded by a Japanese army in a small town in Tongliao.
In the face of an enemy several times his size, Li Zhongqi was not afraid at all, he suddenly shouted: "Break through", and suddenly shocked the Japanese invaders, but before they could react, Li Zhongqi led his troops to rush out of the encirclement.
In the fierce breakout battle, Lee Jong-ki was unfortunately hit in the abdomen by the enemy's bullet, he quickly untied his leggings and tightly wrapped them to stop the bleeding, and then continued to command the troops to retreat into the mountains.
However, although the troops escaped the enemy's pursuit after entering the mountain, Lee Jong-ki's injuries became more and more serious.
Since there were no doctors or medicines in the troops, and they were deep in the mountains, they could not even be found, and if the wounds were not treated and became infected, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Just when everyone was hesitating, I saw Li Zhongqi shouting: "Squeeze."
In this way, the soldier squeezed out the bullet with his hand, and the pain in it was probably known only to Lee Jong-ki himself.
In his decades-long revolutionary career, Lee Jong-ki has brushed shoulders with death many times, but he seems to be a "lucky general" who can save the day every time.
For example, in a bridge bombing operation, Lee Jong-ki was unfortunately injured by an enemy's grenade, and his toe bones were exposed, bleeding non-stop, and the pain was unbearable.
Unable to walk, Lee Jong-ki immediately decided to stay behind the large army and block the Japanese invaders who came to pursue. Although he loudly scolded his comrades to evacuate quickly, his comrades-in-arms were reluctant to leave him, so they forcibly carried him out of the battlefield.
After a period of **, Li Zhongqi's injuries gradually improved, but before the injuries healed, he returned to the army to command the operation.
In the winter of 1932, Li Zhongqi led his troops to attack a Japanese military camp and captured a large number of ***, but unfortunately, in this battle, Li Zhongqi was unfortunately hit by a bullet in the thigh and almost hit the middle artery.
In September 1933, Li Zhongqi was ordered to serve as the commander of the cavalry company of the Fifth Brigade of the Northeast Army.
During this period, he secretly engaged in the underground work of our party, not only covering the wounded for the Red Army, but also purchasing communication equipment, medical equipment and medicines for the Red Army many times.
On September 18, 1936, Li Zhongqi was invited to attend the meeting of the Red First Army to commemorate the fifth anniversary of "918", and he also delivered an impassioned speech on the Anti-Japanese War at the meeting. Unexpectedly, his generous statement was slandered by Kuomintang agents, saying that he was suspected of being a "gangster" and that he was ready to be arrested.
But he was still preempted by Li Zhongqi! After learning that the Kuomintang was going to arrest him, Li Zhongqi went straight to the garrison of the 1st Red Army with a communications reconnaissance squad, but was surrounded and intercepted by the Kuomintang army.
After a fierce battle, Li Zhongqi finally succeeded in reaching the station of the Red First Army, but of the 12 soldiers he brought out, only 3 were left in the end.
Subsequently, the then political commissar of the Red First Army appointed Li Zhongqi as the chief of staff of the cavalry regiment, and officially joined the Communist Party of China on October 1 of this year.
What Li Zhongqi never expected was that New China would be established 13 years later, and his time to join the party would become a special and glorious moment.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Zhongqi served as the acting commander of the cavalry battalion of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and then participated in the Battle of Pingxingguan with the troops and won the victory.
After that, Li Zhongqi led his troops to participate in the battle against Mancheng.
At that time, there were more than 800 Japanese puppet troops stationed in the city, and they were well-equipped and defended by city walls, which were extremely difficult to break.
Just when everyone was thinking about how to attack the city and kill the enemy, Li Zhongqi was thinking about how to win over these puppet troops and enhance the strength of our army.
As a result, when he learned that some of these puppet soldiers were from the Northeast, he immediately decided to adopt a "heart-to-heart war", that is, to tell them about the crimes of the Japanese in the Northeast with his own experience, and let the soldiers shout under the city. Sure enough, it worked.
Just three days later, the puppet army in the city was shaken, they killed the Japanese soldiers who were guarding them, and left the city to join the Eighth Route Army.
After 1940, Li Zhongqi was promoted to the commander of the cavalry regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
During the War of Liberation, Li Zhongqi successively served as the vice president of the Jin-Cha-Ji Cadre School and the head of the school affairs department of the North China Military and Political University.
General Li Zhongqi made outstanding contributions to the establishment of New China throughout his life.
In September 1955, Lee Jong-ki was awarded the rank of Major General and was awarded the ** August 1st Medal, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Second Class, and the Liberation Medal of the First Class.
In 1957, after graduating from the Military Academy, Lee Jong-ki served as the deputy director of the Organization and Planning Department of the Training Directorate.
The following year, Mr. Lin suggested to the chairman that the struggle against "dogmatism" should be launched at an enlarged meeting of the Military Commission, and that it be presided over by ***.
After the meeting, Xiao Ke and others, who advocated opposing empiricism and conservatism, were shocked. And Li Zhongqi, who stood on the side of Xiao Ke, was also transferred to work in the field and was demoted to the deputy staff officer of the army.
In such a historical background, it is not difficult to see why Lee Jong-ki did this later.
Of course, Lee Jong-ki's move carries strong personal emotions and is absolutely undesirable. Therefore, after the incident, General Fu Chongbi, then commander of the Beijing Garrison, also severely criticized him.
In 1970, after General Wu Zhong became the commander of the Beijing Garrison, Li Zhongqi still held the post of deputy commander.
Wu Zhong called Li Zhongqi to the office, made serious criticism of his beating of Mr. Peng, and asked him to write a 3,000-word review.
In December 1978, at the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Mr. Peng finally rehabilitated Zhaoxue and restored his reputation. General Li Zhongqi regretted the incident very much, but at this time, Mr. Peng was no longer alive, and he never had the opportunity to apologize in person.
In 1982, Lee Jong-ki retired as a corps-level cadre, and in 1988, he was awarded the Medal of Honor of the Red Star.
On January 11, 2003, General Lee Jong-ki died in Beijing at the age of 90.