In August 1949, Hunan was peacefully liberated, and Liu Jinxuan, then the commander of the 19th Army of the People's Liberation Army, couldn't help but make a request to **He is a native of Qiyang, Hunan, and has been away from home for many years, please help find out if there are any relatives alive at home.
* agreed to his request, and soon after, the people of Qiyang County** sent a reply letter to Liu Jinxuan, which stated that Liu Jinxuan's 70-year-old father is still alive.
Liu Jinxuan jumped up happily, and his wife said angrily"You're as happy as a baby. ”
Liu Jinxuan said to his wife"You don't understand, I feel guilty about my father.
What happened? Why did Liu Jinxuan say that he was very guilty about his father?
Liu Jinxuan was born in 1908 in a poor peasant family in Qiyang County, Hunan, and his father named him Liu Fahong. When he was 1 year old, his mother died early, his father had to go out to work, and no one took care of Xiao Liu Jinxuan, so he lived by himself.
When Liu Jinxuan was a child, in order to make a living, he went to fish and shrimp every day, digging bird eggs and so on. When he was older, he went to the landlord's house to do small work, and although he was beaten and scolded passively, he finally did not starve to death.
Until he was more than ten years old, an old man in the clan saw that Liu Jinxuan was clever and proposed to let him go to school. Liu Jinxuan's father gritted his teeth and let Liu Jinxuan go to private school for more than a year.
Although he went to school, the Liu family couldn't afford to buy stationery, so Liu Jinxuan softened the land with water and practiced calligraphy with his fingers. Because he studied hard and his grades were also very good, but due to his poor family, Liu Jinxuan dropped out of school more than a year later.
In June 1926, the National Revolutionary Army entered Hunan and recruited soldiers in Qiyang County.
But Liu Jinxuan didn't say a word to his father when he left, and when his father came home after finishing and couldn't find him, he learned from a neighbor that his son had joined the army.
Liu Jinxuan's father was so angry that he scolded:"Just leave, this unfilial son! ”
At this time, Liu Jinxuan didn't expect to be separated from his father for so long, he planned to cut first and then play, and then meet his father after a while, who knew that this trip would be more than 20 years.
In the ranks of the National Revolutionary Army, Liu Jinxuan learned a lot of military techniques, and the commander saw that he was tall, so he asked him to be a machine gunner.
Soon after, Liu Jinxuan was promoted to the second company of the 50th Division as a deputy company commander because of his outstanding ability and participated in the Northern Expedition.
There were quite a few Communists in the National Revolutionary Army, and the party representatives in the company had a good relationship with Liu Jinxuan, and often propagated communist ideas to him, telling him that only the Communist Party could save the toiling masses.
In July 1927, the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation broke down completely, and the Great Revolution failed. The following month, ** launched an armed uprising in Nanchang against the Kuomintang reactionaries. Seeing the Kuomintang wantonly brutalizing the revolutionary masses, Liu Jinxuan became suspicious of the Kuomintang.
By the summer of 1930, the Red Army had grown to more than 100,000 men, and Chiang Kai-shek was deeply disturbed and vowed to "eradicate" the Red Army. In October of the same year, Liu Jinxuan accompanied the 18th Division to "suppress the Communists".
But Liu Jinxuan had long since ceased to trust the Kuomintang, and he knew that only the Communist Party represented the interests of the workers and peasants. After learning the news that he was going to "suppress the Communists", he began to plan how to join the Red Army.
On December 27, the Red Third Army led by ** entered the Kuomintang position. Liu Jinxuan saw the Red Army coming, and hurriedly took advantage of the night to take a platoon of people under him, and joined the ranks of the Red Army with **.
After joining the Red Army, Liu Jinxuan felt "like coming home" and was very happy. Since then, he has embarked on the right path and begun the journey of fighting for the cause of the people's liberation.
After joining the Red Army, Liu Jinxuan fought bravely, took the lead on the battlefield every time, and was quickly appreciated. 1931 year. He was promoted to platoon commander and later to company commander.
In May 1933, Liu Jinxuan joined the Communist Party and officially became a glorious Red Army soldier. In October 1934, the Red Army failed in its fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign and had to embark on the road of the Long March.
In November, the Red Army soldiers and the enemy began the "most tragic, tragic and glorious" Xiangjiang Campaign, in which the Red Army broke through the fourth blockade line of the Kuomintang, but also paid a heavy price.
After the bloody battle between the Fourth Division and the enemy, Liu Jinxuan embarked on the road of the Long March. During the Long March, he was wounded several times, but he still rushed to the front line, and finally succeeded in reaching northern Shaanxi in October 1936.
After the end of the Long March, Liu Jinxuan was assigned to the newly formed Red 28th Army as a regiment commander. But in a charge, Liu Jinxuan's right leg was unfortunately shot, and he immediately fainted due to severe pain.
When he woke up, Liu Jinxuan was already lying on the hospital bed, and the doctor said to him"Your right leg is so badly injured that it has to be amputated or you risk not being able to save your life. ”
Liu Jinxuan immediately loudly rejected the doctor's advice:"How can I lead troops to fight without legs? Even if I die on the battlefield, I can't let you see my leg sawed off! ”
The doctor had no choice but to ask *** to persuade Liu Jinxuan. Who knew that after seeing him, he also felt that what he said made sense, so he said to the doctor:"If he has no legs, our Red Army will have one less general. The hospital must save Captain Liu's leg, no matter what method is used! Half a month later, I want to see the lively head Liu. ”
The doctor had to operate on Liu Jinxuan, but there was no anesthesia during the war, in order to prevent him from moving because of the pain, the doctor asked several big men to hold down his limbs and stuffed a piece of wood into his mouth.
Before the operation was completed, Liu Jinxuan fainted on the operating table, and when he woke up, it was already noon the next day. Fortunately, his leg was finally saved.
When someone asked Liu Jinxuan why he worked so hard in his later years, he replied:"To be a soldier is to sacrifice life and death for the happiness and liberation of the people, how can I carry a gun after amputation. ”
After the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, Liu Jinxuan served as the chief of staff of the 769th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army. In September 1941, he was transferred to the deputy commander of the Sixth Army of the Taihang Military Region, and led the troops to counterattack the Japanese army's "sweeps" many times.
On August 20, 1940, the Eighth Route Army launched the "Battle of the Hundred Regiments", and Liu Jinxuan served as the commander of the 28th Regiment and launched an attack on the Japanese army on Zhengtai Road.
On the morning of the 21st. Liu Jinxuan found the Japanese army who wanted to sneak attack, and immediately led his troops to fight, and the battle lasted from day to night, killing more than 80 Japanese soldiers and 1 Japanese squadron leader.
Then, Liu Jinxuan received the task of sabotaging the Zhengtai Railway, because the Zhengtai Railway was a passage for the Japanese to transport coal from Shanxi to Japan, and it was also very close to the revolutionary base area, so it had to be destroyed.
Liu Jinxuan personally led people to carry out the task, and soon the railway was destroyed for 33 kilometers, and the facilities for digging coal on the kang were also destroyed, and the Japanese plan to transport coal was declared bankrupt.
In the summer of 1944, Liu Jinxuan was transferred to the Third Army Division as a commander, and fought with the puppet army until the day of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
After the Liberation War began, the 12th Brigade of the Central Plains Field Army led by Liu Jinxuan advanced into western Henan. In May 1947, it took control of the Xijing Highway and other places, which exposed the Kuomintang generals to the enemy and opened the Hubei-Shaanxi passage for the PLA.
In June, in order to meet the strategic needs, Liu Jinxuan demanded that the PLA soldiers pay close attention to their military technical qualities and make preparations for fighting a tough battle. According to Liu Jinxuan's old subordinates"The brigade commander is approachable and often trains with everyone or corrects the movements of the fighters. ”
In 1947, Chen Geng led the 4th Longitudinal Yellow River to advance, and the 12th Brigade was also among them. On August 20, Chen Geng asked the 12th Brigade to be the reserve of the column, and he said to Liu Jinxuan:
"Don't get emotional about being a reserve, you still have a hard battle to fight after crossing the river. You need to advance to northern Hubei and southern Shaanxi to firmly contain Hu Zongnan's combat power. ”
On the night of the 24th, the 12th Brigade forcibly crossed the Yellow River, and in order to prevent it, the enemy sent many planes to bomb the river. There were many fighters who were overturned in the water by shells, but as long as they were alive, they desperately swam to the opposite shore. Three hours later, the whole brigade crossed the Yellow River.
After crossing the river, the whole brigade set off towards the county seat of Luoning. In the early morning of August 31, Liu Jinxuan led his soldiers to take advantage of the night to sneak attack the enemy's station, and liberated the entire county town one hour later.
Unable to allow Liu Jinxuan to react, Chen Geng ordered the 12th Brigade to rush to Lushi County to fight. The 12 Brigade was divided into two teams, one group attacked the county head-on and the other surrounded the outskirts of the county town, and the enemy was annihilated in just two hours.
The second victory of the 12th Brigade in World War II forced Hu Zongnan's strength to shift to Guanzhong, relieving the pressure on the PLA troops fighting in northern Shaanxi.
In May 1949, the 19th Army of the People's Liberation Army was established and Liu Jinxuan was appointed as the commander.
Liu Jinxuan led only 30,000 troops, broke through the resistance of Hu Zongnan's 100,000 troops, cut off Hu Zongnan's path to escape south, and liberated the vast area of Shaanxi, known as the "lion of the Central Plains".
After the liberation of Hunan, Liu Jinxuan took his father to his home. Only then did I know that not long after he went to join the army, his father was a reactionary because he was a family member of the Red Army, and his father did not dare to show his face again, so he had to go to other places to make a living by begging.
Liu Jinxuan burst into tears after hearing this, and apologized to his father affectionately, but his father waved his hand and said it was okay, and the father and son hugged each other affectionately. After that, Liu Jinxuan took care of his old father carefully until his death.
In 1955, the first award of titles in New China, Liu Jinxuan was awarded the rank of founding lieutenant general. In 1959, he served as the deputy commander of the railway corps and made great contributions to the training of China's railway corps.
After 1975, Liu Jinxuan served as a consultant to the railway soldiers. He retired in December 1982.
On April 16, 1984, Liu Jinxuan died at the age of 76 due to illness.
After Liu Jinxuan's death, his daughter remembered what her father had said:"My comrades-in-arms have all fallen in the Xiangjiang River, and when I die, I must scatter my ashes in the Xiangjiang River with my comrades-in-arms. ”
At his request, his children sprinkled their ashes on the Xiangjiang River, not only to reunite with their comrades-in-arms, but also to return to their hometown in Hunan.
General Liu Jinxuan's life was a life of revolution and fighting. He made immortal contributions to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people and the cause of socialist construction, and made outstanding contributions to the prosperity and strength of the country and the rejuvenation of the nation.
He practiced the original mission of a Communist Party member with the practical actions of his life, and defended the interests of the party and the people with his life. His spiritual qualities are worth learning and inheriting.
Looking back on the 100 years of struggle of the Communist Party of China, countless brave and fearless communists shed their heads and blood during the revolutionary war years, writing a magnificent chapter for the independence of the Chinese nation and the happiness of the people.
Today, we look back on this period of history, not only to remember those heroic martyrs, but also to draw their spiritual strength and continue to move forward.
As the people of the new era, we must keep in mind this precious spiritual culture, establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values, strengthen our ideals and beliefs, bravely shoulder the responsibilities and missions of the times, never forget our original aspirations, and forge ahead!