One of the most important reasons why our army can be invincible on the battlefield is its strict discipline. Shortly after its establishment in the 1920s, the Party’s absolute leadership and command over the army was established through meetings such as Baqi and Gutian. On this basis, binding regulations such as “’s three major disciplines and eight points to pay attention to ” were derived. Many people think that the relevant disciplines of our army are relatively strict, and our army never denies this. After all, the prosperity and health of this team are related to the future of this country and the destiny of the nation.
Our army's strict discipline can also be seen in its attitude towards the enemy. Although we must give the enemy a "severe winter cold" in the battlefield of confrontation between the two armies, in addition to this, we do not allow acts in violent ways without permission, especially because of our own personal grudges to do things that violate the organization's orders. However, this "abnormal" thing happened in the history of our army: in 1947, after our Central Plains Field Army went through thousands of difficulties and almost crossed the Dabie Mountains, Du Yide, the political commissar of the Sixth Column of the Ministry, came to meet Comrade Xiaoping, the political commissar of the Field Army, and proposed to return to his hometown to execute the landlord, and this landlord was Du Yide's enemy who killed his father. In terms of nature, Du Yide's move is an absolute "public revenge" and is definitely not subject to discipline. However, unexpectedly, Comrade Xiaoping not only agreed to his request, but also specially approved him a machine gun to help him kill his enemy smoothly. What is the inside story about all this?
All this starts with Du Yide's life experience. In 1912, Du Yide was born in a rural area called Hujiawan in the Dabie Mountains, bordering Hubei and Henan. The ancestors of Hujia were all tenant farmers. They made a living by renting the land of local wealthy landlords. Although there were relatively considerable harvests in the land every year due to the hard work of the Du family, according to their contract with the landlords, most of these harvests belong to the landlords, and only a small part of them belonged to the tenant farmers. Therefore, many times, hungry and cold tenant farmers could only rely on digging wild vegetables in the wild and on the mountains to get dried fruits. It can be said that Du Yide grew up with hunger since he was born.
The year when Du Yide was born was the year when the Qing Dynasty fell and the Republic of China was established. People originally thought that the end of China's last feudal dynasty would allow the people to live a prosperous and stable life, but what went against their wishes was that because a regime that could respond was not formed, the Republic of China quickly fell into a state of separatist forces shortly after its establishment. The biggest victim of this state is the poor people. Under the unstable political situation, a situation where "the army is like a comb" has been formed. Many teams known as regular army have participated in the plunder of the people. Under this background, Du Yide's family was naturally not spared. After being plundered several times, the family had no spared to maintain their subsequent life.
What's worse is that at this time the landlords served by the Du family came to urge the food they had for that year. The landlords of course understood that the farmers were disturbed by the soldiers and bandits and were in peace. However, they were so obsessed with profit that they would not consider these things at all. They only valued these tenants to remove their bones and suck their marrow and exploit them to the best of their ability. Due to the land rent issue, Du Yide's father came to the landlord's house many times to beg for grace, but all he got was ridicule and beating. It was also from this time that Du Yide was determined to change this situation of cannibalism and allow these bully landlords to receive the punishment they deserve.
Due to his miserable experience as a tenant farmer, Du Yide's father was determined to ask his son to ask for the same fate as him. So when Du Yide was 14 years old, his father sent him to Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province to be an apprentice in a carpenter shop. In the father's opinion, as a tenant farmer, he could not guarantee fullness all year round, and he had to always look at the landlord's face. If his son learned a skill, even if he could not become rich, he would at least not have to be as cowardly as himself. He hoped that his son could gain a foothold in the wharf of Wuhan, and he could also spend his old age with him in the provincial capital when he was old.
However, later facts proved that the stability of the lower-class people cannot be tolerated in troubled times, and this is just a beautiful vision of Du Yide's father. Du Yide, who came to Wuhan, found a carpenter shop and started as an apprentice. According to the rules of traditional craftsmen, apprentices could not receive normal wages during their studies in the first three years. What is even more harsh is that Du Yide not only did not receive even a copper money in this apprentice, but was also called by the boss casually and drank without saying anything. Once Du Yide fell asleep due to long-term fatigue. After discovering it, the boss picked up a wooden stick and beat him up. After a while, Du Yide not only did not learn the craftsmanship but was covered in scars. What's even more annoying is that when he and his boss asked Du Yide to leave, the latter even asked Du Yide to pay the total of silver dollars for the apprenticeship. Du Yide was furious at this time and wanted to fight his boss. Fortunately, his coworkers temporarily paid him this silver dollar and Du Yide was able to return to his hometown safely.
Du Yide, who returned to his hometown, cried to his father about this experience. While Du Yide's father felt sorry for his son, he also stopped the idea of letting his son go to the city to apply for an apprenticeship. He simply asked his son to continue to be a tenant farmer like himself, at least he could take care of each other in the village. But at this time, there was another flame in Du Yide's heart. If this flame could burn in reality, not only would his family get rid of exploitation, but even the poor people in the world could live a good life. It turned out that when he was in Wuhan, Du Yide met Comrade Li Xiannian, who was doing underground work in a secret occasion, and had heard Li Xiannian's speeches several times. These words brought great impact to the young Du Yide. In Li Xiannian's description, the future days are a society without oppression and equality, and the only way that China can truly realize this idealized blueprint is to Marxism-Leninism guidance and the leadership of our party. Although Du Yide didn't understand what "Marxism-Leninism" was, he hoped from the bottom of his heart that these people could come to his hometown one day to rescue the poor people.
As expected, after a brief wait, the "Juma riot" that broke out in the Dabie Mountains in 1927 allowed Du Yide to see the dawn of hope. Under the leadership of our party, the farmers' associations and the red guards were established in the areas of Huang'an and Macheng . They not only defeated the landlords and gentry who were usually domineering, but also distributed the confiscated property, land and farm tools to the oppressed poor peasants. Under such guidance, Du Yide also joined the Red Guards, hoping to realize his always-off dream with this great team.
After joining the Red Guards, Du Yide quickly became an activist in the team. Whether it is suppressing evil forces or helping poor people, he is willing to become the "vanguard". However, such days did not last long. Soon the news of the Zhuma riot spread to the provincial capital. After learning about this situation, the reactionary warlords in power felt angry and anxious. They hurriedly ordered the troops to go to the riot villages and towns to suppress. Although the peasant association and the Red Guards were supported by the peasants, in terms of strength, our level of armed forces was not enough to be compared with the regular army of the reactionaries. The riot was quickly calmed down under the strangulation of the enemy, and the coworkers who had the best relationship with Du Yide also died in the battle. What's more terrifying is that the enemy then began to carry out a "counterattack" in the village.
The cruel " Returning to the Country " reoccupied the village, and attacked those who had joined the peasant association or provided help to the Red Guards. At the very least, they were imprisoned, and at the worst, they were executed by the enemy. After seeing this situation, in order not to implicate his family, Du Yide simply followed the footsteps of the Red Army and became a formal soldier. Relying on his clever mind and flexible skills, Du Yide made considerable contributions to the team. In 1929, at the age of 17, he was appointed as the propaganda captain of the Fourth Battalion of the 31st Division of the 11th Army of the Red Fourth Front Army.Because Du Yide was born in a poor person, he had a personal experience of the lives of ordinary people at that time, and he had a more thorough understanding of our party's policies, so he was always able to successfully complete the propaganda work when facing the masses, which played a very positive role in the military's work of dividing fields and other work.
After joining the Red Army, Du Yide has been dealing with the enemy with the large army in his hometown of Dabie Mountains for a long time. Because he is brave in combat and good at ideological propaganda work, Du Yide's name quickly spread among the masses, which also aroused the enemy's fear. In order to get rid of this "confidential trouble", the enemy came up with a vicious plan, which was to force Du Yide's family to leave the Red Army. Soon after, the landlords captured Du Yide's father and detained him. Although he had experienced beatings and torture, Du Yide's father was still unwilling to cooperate with the reactionaries to sell his son, and was eventually brutally killed by the enemy. Du Yide was greatly stimulated by his father's murder. If he had the ambition to benefit the world before joining the Red Army, then after that, he had an additional "revenge of killing his father" towards the reactionary landlords.
Du Yide was not overwhelmed by hatred. He put this hatred in his heart and transformed it into a driving force for work and killing enemies. After that, he made many military achievements and his position in the army continued to improve. Du Yide became the battalion commander of the 30th Battalion of the 30th Regiment of the 100th Division of the Red Fourth Army, and then became a political cadre. He was appointed as the political commissar of the 11th Division of the Red 31st Army. At that time, the favorite thing for all the officers and soldiers of the division was to sit together and listen to Political Commissar Du's publicity and teaching them.
Although I have been engaged in ideological and political work for a long time, Du Yide is also a brave and powerful general in combat. When he was carrying out the Long March 2 with the large army, facing the enemy's iron barrel formation siege, Du Yide led the way with his gun and rushed out of the encirclement of the enemy bravely. Although his troops were finally able to escape from danger, a bullet hit Du Yide's chest when breaking through. Although Du Yide was able to escape from danger under the emergency treatment of the military doctor, according to the surgeon's description, the bullet was only a slight difference from his heart. Du Yide could be said to have walked in the gate of hell, and his courage also spread throughout the entire Four Front Army.
After the war of resistance began, Du Yide was assigned to work in the New Fourth Brigade of the 129th Division. Although the unit was not a front-line combat force, the task of building a base area it shouldered was also crucial, and Du Yide was able to properly complete the work assigned by his superiors with his own experience and ability. After the outbreak of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the 129th Division was adapted into the Central Plains Field Army. Soon after, they received the task of leaping into the Dabie Mountains for Qianli. According to Chairman Mao, when the enemy's two fists were punched out, their chests were exposed, and Qianli's leaping into the Dabie Mountains was stabbing into the enemy's chest with a sharp knife. At this time, Du Yide's identity had become the political commissar of the Sixth Column of the Central Plains Field Army. Under the leadership of him and the column commander Wang Jinshan, the Sixth Column became the ace force. The leap into the Dabie Mountains thousands of miles has a more special significance for Du Yide himself. First, because this is his hometown, and secondly, the reactionary forces here have an irreconcilable hatred for killing his father.
Du Yide did not intend to conceal this. One day in 1947, he found Comrade Xiaoping, who was then the political commissar of Nakano, and told him his idea of destroying the former landlord return group. In principle, as a senior commander of the People's Army, it was obviously a violation of discipline to avenge his own personal revenge during the war, but after thinking about it, Comrade Xiaoping agreed to Du Yide's request. In his opinion, Du Yide's move was not only to avenge his father's death, but also to seek justice for the people who died tragically at their hands. In addition, eliminating the armed forces of landlords who had been evil can be conducive to the progress of land reform. Comrade Xiaoping not only allowed him to lead the troops back to his hometown to take revenge, but also specially approved him a machine gun. When Du Yide's troops surrounded these landlords, they were usually arrogant and fled like a stray dog. After a burst of fire, their sinful life was also declared to be over.
The old society was like Du Yide and was oppressed by feudal reactionary forces, and those executioners who were accomplices of the tiger also paid the price for their actions. From another perspective, we should cherish the hard-won peaceful life today.
