"In my life, I have to play Japan, manage railways, and play tennis." Admiral Lu Zhengcao, a centenarian, summarized his life with these simple words.
sounds simple, but in fact every piece is exciting.
hits Japan.
1937 Lugou Bridge Incident , after Lu Zhengcao led the 691st Regiment of the Kuomintang to leave Shijiazhuang, the orders received were "retreat! Retreat! Retreat!"
Lu Zhengcao and the officers and soldiers of the regiment watched the beautiful mountains of the motherland fall from their feet into the hands of the Japanese invaders, and they were extremely indignant.
Would you just give up our China's great mountains and rivers to those invaders? As the leader of the regiment, Lu Zhengcao decided to fight guerrillas.
On October 12, 1937, Lu Zhengcao convened a meeting of military representatives. He said:
blindly retreating will not only not be able to defeat the enemy, but also may ruin the team. As a patriotic soldier, it is an unshirkable responsibility to defend the country and recover lost land. There is only one way ahead: return to the army and go north, and go to the enemy's backbone like the Red Army !
The participants were in a state of enthusiasm. They expressed their opinions passionately. The momentum of returning to the north formed a torrent that was unstoppable. Under the leadership of Lu Zhengcao, this team broke away from the Northeast Army of , and officially became the revolutionary team of the anti-Japanese war.
At the end of October, Lu Zhengcao led the team to the south gate of Gaoyang City. Yin Songshan's tribe who guarded the city was a local reactionary force. Lu Zhengcao's team launched an attack at 9 pm, blew open the south gate with a flat-fire cannon, and set up an escalator to climb the city. When the charge sounded, gunfire sounded everywhere.
open Gaoyang, shocking the entire Hebei . The wave of anti-Japanese and national salvation was in full swing in Hebei Plain. People rushed to join the army, and various local armed forces came to demand reorganization. The troops quickly grew to more than 5,000 people.
In 1937, the team led by Lu Zhengcao was officially reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and the Hebei-Central base area developed vigorously.
Among them, the most famous ones are mine warfare and tunnel warfare .
At that time, the Japanese army established more than 1,700 strongholds in more than 8,000 villages in central Hebei.
In 1940, Lu Zhengcao was inspired by the Anguo County militia buried grenade on the avenue to kill the puppet army, and advocated that the military and civilians in the base area carry out extensive tunnel warfare. Next to the avenue, outside the village, inside the village, in front of the door, behind the house, on the firewood and chicken coops, and on the kang, there are landmines that can kill the enemy at any time. In the first year of landmine warfare, more than 400 Japanese and puppet troops were killed. This mine explosion, which was called "the eighth Route Army" by the Japanese army, made the enemy frightened.
The struggle is becoming increasingly sharp and cruel, and the military and civilians in Hebei have created a new form of struggle "Tune War". Authentic, generally four feet high and three feet wide, about five feet away from the ground, does not hinder farming and transportation.
The power and wisdom of the people are endless!
Recalling back then, Lu Zhengcao could not suppress his inner excitement: "The tunnels are everywhere, and he can fight villages and attack in the wild, forming an underground Great Wall to deal with the enemy."
is connected with the railway.
In 1945, Lu Zhengcao was ordered to arrive in Shenyang and served as the first deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Bureau of the Communist Party of China and the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army General Command. In late November, the Northeast Bureau established four branches and military regions, east, west, south and north, to strive to control small and medium-sized cities and secondary railways. After working in Ximan for half a year, Lu Zhengcao became the director and political commissar of the Northeast Railway Bureau. Since then, he has become a connection with the railway and devoted his second half of his life to China Railway.
At that time, the railway was destroyed and riddled with holes. Lu Zhengcao proposed the slogan "Where the People's Liberation Army fights, the railway will be built, and the train will be driven." Railway workers fought day and night. Before Liaoshen Battle, the Northeast People's Liberation Army received and repaired more than 10,000 kilometers of railways.
On September 12, 1948, the Liaoshen Campaign kicked off.
The large-scale railway military transportation hosted by Lu Zhengcao started from the evening of September 10th to the liberation of Jinzhou on October 15th, a total of 5,631 military trains were launched, and 19,561 vehicular vehicles were used, sending hundreds of thousands of troops to the front line in a timely and safe manner, setting a precedent for railway transportation of our army's large corps.
On November 2, the Liaoshen Campaign ended, and the entire northeastern territory was liberated. Northeast Railway employees were working tirelessly and engaged in new railway transportation. In early November, they drove the train and pulled the equipment, and followed the Northeast Field Army into the pass in a mighty way -
through the cave and the iron bridge, regardless of night or day. The longer you lay, the longer you lay, the farther you lay, and the thousands of mountains and rivers will not stop you.
guns, people, food and quilts, and sea water is sent to the front line. The front and rear are connected together, and the green light is always safe.
Hi, Hi, Hi! The distance is shortened in front of us, and we never miss time. No matter the night, no matter the morning and evening, the locomotive roared - rushing forward all the time, all the time, all the time!
Railway employees hummed the song "Railway Song" operated by Lu Zheng, crossed the plains, drove across the mountains and rivers, and walked all over the land of the motherland.
tennis complex.
When it comes to playing tennis, it is the happiest and most glorious thing for the centenarian Mr. Lu.
Look at the gift painting signed by the International Olympic Committee Chairman Samaranchi in the living room and the highest honor medal of the International Internet Explorer awarded by the Chairman of the International Internet Explorer in September 1990, as well as the China Internet Explorer Association's pioneering award and lifelong achievement award, and then you will know his status in the Chinese tennis world. There are also photos of the general playing tennis with pride in his spring breeze. It was a wonderful moment when he participated in the National Senior Citizen Competition in the 1980s.
General played tennis in the 1920s. At that time, he was the adjutant and secretary of the young coach Zhang Xueliang . When the young coach played tennis, he practiced with him, and later he fell in love with tennis.
From 2005, Beijing International Tennis Center also left an office for Mr. Lu, because he said more than once: "I, the chairman, cannot just be a name and ignore the matter, and I, the chairman, must keep going!"
88 when he was 88 years old, he insisted on playing four or five tennis games a week, one or two hours a week, and his exercise volume was quite amazing.
Mr. Lu once said: "People do not depend on how long they live, but on how many things they do." Since his youth, Lu Zhengcao has established the ambition to serve the country with loyalty, and it is the support of these beliefs that have forged his legendary and glorious life.
On October 13, 2009, General Lu Zhengcao passed away at the age of 106.
Reference materials: "Ten Hundred-Year-Old Generals"
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