Carry forward the precious spiritual heritage of proletarian revolutionaries
——Recalling the two or three incidents of father Xu Xiangqian and Li Desheng
Text/Xu Xiaoyan (Son of Marshal Xu Xiangqian, former deputy director of the Science and Technology Committee of the General Armament Department, Lieutenant General)
Lieutenant General Xu Xiaoyan
Admiral Li Desheng is an outstanding leader of our party and our army, and a revolutionary predecessor whom I admire very much. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the great Communist Party of China, which also coincides with the 105th anniversary of the birth of General Li Desheng. At this time, "Motherland" magazine and Beijing Yuruomu Charity Foundation jointly organized a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the party and the death of Li Desheng The tenth anniversary event aims to inherit the red gene, carry forward the revolutionary tradition, and carry forward the precious spiritual wealth left by the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries, which is very valuable and meaningful.
My father, Marshal Xu Xiangqian and General Li Desheng, are both generals of the Republic who came out of the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army. They fought side by side in the Hubei, Henan, and Anhui Soviet areas, and together they defeated all kinds of difficulties and obstacles on the way of the Long March. Crossing the snowy mountains and grasslands, we have gone through wind and rain together, and then went through eight years of arduous anti-Japanese war, defeated the mighty Japanese invaders, three years of liberation war, and overthrew the Kuomintang reactionaries and the Jiang family's reactionary in mainland China. Domination, finally ushered in the establishment of the great People's Republic of China . The two revolutionary old men both contributed their lives to the liberation of the Chinese people and the construction of a new China.
Father and Li Lao can be described as old comrades in arms. As early as the Land Revolution period, his father was Li Lao's old superior: one was the commander of the Fourth Red Army and the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Red Army, and the other was just a member of the Red Army. Soldiers, although the ranks of the two people in the revolutionary ranks are very different, but the father, who was a senior general of the Red Army at that time, was deeply impressed by Comrade Li Desheng who had just enlisted in the army, and had many encounters. General Li Desheng once recalled: The reason why he was able to grow into a senior general of our party and our army was that he was deeply influenced by Marshal Xu Xiangqian in terms of party spirit training, leading troops to fight and commanding operations.
When he first became a soldier of the Red Army, Li Desheng was very distressed, because he had no weapons in his hands at that time. One day, he dared to ask the veteran for a gun, and the veteran told him: "How can a Red Army soldier want a gun, he will grab it from the enemy's hands. Don't worry, just wait for the war, and you will have guns after the war." Finally, after winning a battle, several guns were seized in a row. Li Desheng got the guns, plus 10 rounds of ammunition, but he was small, so he divided He was given the shortest, half-broken gun, but fortunately it still worked.
In 1932, Li Desheng, who had joined the army for less than two years, was selected to be a messenger in the traffic platoon of the regiment headquarters because of his experience in running errands and delivering letters in the children's regiment in his early years. The traffic platoon was well equipped. , the platoon leader, , saw that he only had the half-armed gun, and immediately gave him a Soviet-style carbine. The
pistol was also damaged in battle . Once, Commander Xu went forward to their squad, found a gun that was not right, and asked, "Whose is this?"
"Report Commander, it's mine," Li Desheng replied.
"How do you aim without a crosshair?"
"Align the notch of the ruler with the center of the barrel to form a three-point line. Just pay attention to the point."Li Desheng later recalled: "During the period of the Red Army, Comrade Xu Xiangqian had a great influence on my growth and progress." Communist Party of China. And in the battle, he always went to the most intense and dangerous place. Many times, after the company platoon leader was injured, he would replace the injured company platoon leader to command the work. So his general is played on the battlefield.
As a Red Army soldier, Li Desheng's performance can be said to be very good, and he is often praised by his superiors. In addition to the head of the regiment and division where Li was in that year, his father Xu Xiangqian, who is already the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Red Army, has also praised him. Said that it is rare for the commander-in-chief to personally praise a Red Army soldier.
In November 1932, the main force of the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, led by commander-in-chief Xu Xiangqian and political commissar Chen Changhao, was transferred from the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Soviet areas to the Guanzhong Plain of Shaanxi Province. Encountered with the white army that the Kuomintang came to intercept. The 33rd Regiment of the vanguard of the Red 11th Division and a part of the Red 10th Division immediately turned back and cooperated with the main force of the Red 11th Division to defeat them. On the 27th, the Red Fourth Front Army continued to advance in two echelons, the front and the rear. When the Red 10th and Red 12th Divisions entered the area of Ludan Village, they were cut off by the White Army. Approaching one after another, forming a three-sided encirclement, and the south is the Qinling Mountains, which is not easy to climb. At this critical moment, Li Desheng, who was then a messenger under the commander of the 33rd regiment Sun Yuqing, quickly reported the important intelligence set up by the White Army to the commander-in-chief Xu Xiangqian. The encirclement of not only allowed the Red Army to jump out of the encirclement, but also won a big victory by counter-encircling the White Army.In this battle, 51 garrison brigades of the Shaanxi Army were wiped out, thousands of people below the brigade commander were captured (all released after education), and hundreds of officers and soldiers below the 1st division commander were killed and injured. Later, when Commander-in-Chief Xu Xiangqian arrived at the 33rd Regiment, he praised Li Desheng who delivered important battlefield information for turning the tide of the battle.
Mr. Li once said more than once that the reason why he was able to make contributions to the party and the people and grow into a senior leader of the party and the people's army, Marshal Xu Xiangqian has greatly helped him. Due to the poverty of Comrade Li Desheng when he was a teenager, he could not afford to go to school. After joining the Red Army, he had more opportunities to learn. In a sense, the senior generals of the Fourth Front Army, including Xu Shuai, became his mentoring teacher.
Mr. Li once recalled that because he personally participated in many battles and battles under the command of commander-in-chief Xu Xiangqian, he often won battles, which greatly encouraged the morale of the troops. Comrade Li Desheng, who was a messenger in the army traffic platoon at that time, not only conveyed battle orders, but also sent news of victory, which inspired him. This life experience was still fresh in Mr. Li's memory when he became a senior leader of the party and the army. The successive victories made Li Desheng, who was a Red Army soldier at the time, realize that the victory on the battlefield has a decisive relationship with successful military command, and he also personally felt what the real art of military command is. Personal experience on the battlefield, hard thinking on the battlefield, and as a messenger, you must be able to have a correct understanding of the commander's order deployment and military command, and be able to accurately convey it to the various units. At the same time, It is also necessary to transmit the actual combat situation and important information on the battlefield back to the commander's headquarters. Therefore, Comrade Li Desheng, who is good at learning, studied war in war , and took no time to learn from the senior generals of the Red Army, laying an important foundation for his military literacy and professional knowledge for himself to become a senior general in the future.
During this period, Xu Xiangqian, the then commander-in-chief of the Fourth Red Army and commander of the Fourth Red Army, often made important military deployments to troops at all levels. Therefore, General Li Desheng often preached that he could become a military leader. Senior generals, especially thanks to the influence of Marshal Xu Xiangqian during the Red Army period, I don't think this is a lie. Later, after the founding of New China, Mr. Li often came to visit his father, and from time to time he recalled the revolutionary past of "the soldier humbly asked for advice from the commander-in-chief". At that time, Li Desheng, who had just participated in the revolution and was very young, was also appreciated and praised by my father for his spirit of learning war in the war and his continuous progress.
According to Mr. Li's words, his father saved his life, which shows that the revolutionary comradeship between the two of them is very deep. Admiral Li Desheng recalled: "Wang Ming and Zhang Guotao pursued the 'Left' line, which caused huge losses to the revolution. This wrong line, even an ordinary soldier like me, suffered a lot, causing me to suffer 5 years of participating in the revolution. The biggest setback. At that time, when the troops were stationed at Zhenjiang Pass, Songpan County, I, as the secretary of the Party branch , summoned the leaders of the branch to report on their ideological situation. During this time, I said, 'The battles are more frequent now and life is quite hard. Ideological work and strengthening the life of the party. In recent months, our party's organizational life has been relatively loose, and reports have not been frequent. I hope everyone will hurry up.' Who would have thought that the secretary of the political commissar of the 10th Division, who was at the scene at the time, Xiang Ye When the political commissar reported, he distorted my original intention and said that what I said was that the army is not as good as the past. Political commissar Ye was transferred from another unit to the 10th division when Zhang Guotao replaced the cadres of the Red 4th Army in large numbers. The warlordism was very serious, and later During the Anti-Japanese War, I was afraid of hardship and deserted. At that time, Political Commissar Ye became angry after hearing this and ordered me to be tied up.I defended with them, and they beat me..."
Many comrades of the Fourth Front Army were killed by mistake under such circumstances. At that time, Comrade Li Desheng was also in danger. At this moment, Commander Xu Xiangqian came to 10 When the teacher saw this scene, he immediately inquired about the situation. After the commander-in-chief learned about the situation, he knew that Li Desheng had been wronged, and immediately ordered Li Desheng to be released. Political commissar Ye saw what the commander-in-chief had said, so he had to do as he did, but he still removed Li Desheng from his position as monitor and He was expelled from the party by mistake. When I heard this, I couldn't help feeling: if my father was one step late, our party and our republic would probably have one less general who could fight well and make outstanding achievements. Fair treatment, but Comrade Li Desheng did not lose confidence in the party, he still followed the party, overcame many difficulties and obstacles, and completed the long march through the snowy mountains and grasslands three times. In December 1936, after the Red Fourth Front Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, he rejoined the party. In 1946, the Party Committee of the 3rd Column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region decided to revoke Zhang Guotao's punishment during the period of his wrong line and restore his party membership. How loyal to the party and the revolutionary cause of the Chinese people, how indestructible the revolutionary ideal and will.
There are many more stories about the relationship between my father and Mr. Li. Due to time and space constraints, I cannot list them all here. I have told you all about it.
We can learn a lot from the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries. The good Chinese stories they wrote in their entire lives will always be so wonderful and touching, so dazzling, and forever. Inspiration motivates us to move forward and move forward.As latecomers, we should consciously learn from their loyalty to the party, always put the interests of the party and the people in mind, be fearless, work hard, establish a lofty spiritual demeanor of unswerving communist ideals, and revolutionize them The precious spiritual heritage left behind by the selfless dedication of the party and the people will be carried forward and transformed into a powerful spiritual driving force in the new era to promote the "two centenary" goals and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.China The early realization of the dream of .
