Among the many generals of the Kuomintang, Du Yuming and Zheng Dongguo have better reputations.
Not to mention anything else, just looking at their death, they received common memorials from the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, it is very telling.
In fact, after the death of the Kuomintang general, they were the only ones who received commemoration from the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Lao Qin wrote an article " founding major general recalled the situation of capturing Du Yuming: He was like a magician, constantly drawing things out ". It is mentioned that Du Yuming fled after the failure of Huaihai Battle and brought a lot of food and use in the inner layer of the cotton coat he was wearing, so when he was captured, he staged a "ghost drama", which left a laughing stock in history, which was a little regretful.
In comparison, Zheng Dongguo acted openly throughout his life and had almost never left any indecent words and deeds.
By the way, the great historian Huang Renyu , who is famous for his book "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli", served as the commander of Zheng Dongguo, who was then the commander of the New First Army, in February 1943, and followed Zheng Dongguo to participate in the arduous counterattack campaign in northern Myanmar during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
returns successfully, that is, in September 1945, Huang Renyu handed over the 12 battlefield communications previously published in " Takong " to Shanghai Dadong Bookstore for the title of "The Battle of Northern Myanmar".
In the book "The Battle of Northern Myanmar", the image of Zheng Dongguo's "iron-blooded general" is vividly displayed on paper.
Huang Renyu also wrote a long memoir "The Yellow River and Green Mountains" in his later years. The book also used a lot of brush and ink to describe the Zheng Dongguo in his eyes.
Huang Renyu described his former immediate boss in this way: "(He) looks introverted, conservative, gentle, but few people know that when he was young, he led his soldiers to charge and conquer cities and plunder the land."
Zheng Dongguo is a graduate of the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. He has participated in the two Eastern Expeditions and the once Northern Expeditions. What made him famous was his performance in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
He participated in the Anti-Japanese War very early.
In the 1933 Great Wall Gubeikou Anti-Japanese War, he was the brigade commander of the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Division of the 17th Army. He led his troops to defend the front line of the Nantianmen and with the Japanese army for eight days and nights. On the ninth day, there were heavy casualties and serious ammunition, so I was ordered to withdraw the rear and rest. However, on the way back, he suddenly heard that the 83rd Division, who was taking the defense, collapsed, and immediately led his troops to return to the rescue without any hesitation. To show his determination to fight to the death, he took off his military uniform, wore only a white shirt splashed with blood, and personally held the light machine gun and took the lead in charge, and finally magically regained the position. After the outbreak of the full-scale anti-Japanese war, he participated in the Baoding Battle , Taierzhuang Battle , Wuhan Battle , Kunlun Pass Battle , Western Hubei Battle , Second Changsha Battle , and later expedition to northern Myanmar.
In the Battle of Baoding, he was killed and reborn. He defended the city for several days, suddenly exerted his strength, broke through the enemy's six blockade lines in one fell swoop and broke out.
In the Taierzhuang victory, he was responsible for attacking the important town of Yi County, located on the Taizao branch line. Because he attacked too hard, he was shot in the chest. Fortunately, a silver dollar in his chest pocket blocked the bullet for him - silver dollar was hit by a shrapnel and failed to penetrate his body, so he saved his life.
In the Kunlun Pass victory, he was the deputy commander of the 5th Army and the honorary commander of the 1st Division. He was persevering and fought to the end.
Huang Renyu sincerely praised: "He is the hero of the Kunlun Pass."
Huang Renyu is a freshman in the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, School of Science, Nankai University. Because of the war, he joined the army and changed to the Chengdu Central Military Academy. After graduation, he went to Zheng Dongguo to work and received the attention of Zheng Dongguo.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Huang Renyu went to the United States to study. However, Zheng Dongguo was sent by Chiang Kai-shek to the Northeast to act on military affairs for Du Yuming, who was staying in medical treatment due to illness, and became the deputy commander-in-chief of Northeast Security.
Zheng Dongguo was very dissatisfied with the civil war initiated by Chiang Kai-shek, and was deeply disappointed with the current situation. He wanted to leave the civil war with illness many times, but eventually became a victim of the war because he could not get rid of Chiang Kai-shek's control.
Zheng Dongguo is a soldier, but he is born with a compassionate heart.
During the days when he was surrounded by Changchun, he witnessed countless hungry people who were starved to death.
This made him unable to bear the heart-suffering pain after the war, and he would never want to return to Changchun. He looked at Changchun again.
When Zeng Zesheng led the 60th Army to hold an uprising, Chiang Kai-shek prepared to send planes to launch a bombing on the 60th Army. Zheng Dongguo called Chiang Kai-shek and asked him to cancel the action.
There is a bacterial weapon that the Japanese army surrendered after surrendering in Changchun City. Lao Jiang ordered Zheng Dongguo to use bacterial weapons to break through.
Zheng Dongguo handed the suitcase to me, Chief of Staff of the First Regiment of the 9th Independent Division of the Northeast People's Liberation Army, and did not execute the crazy order of Chiang Kai-shek .
Before the Liaoshen Battle , Zhu De proposed at the Politburo Standing Committee of Xibaipo : "Zheng Dongguo is not bad, we should do our best to win him."
Chairman Mao strongly agreed with Zhu De's proposal and asked Zhou Enlai to write a letter to Zheng Dongguo in the name of his teacher.
Zhou Enlai wrote a sincere letter to Zheng Dongguo on November 18, 1948.
Unfortunately, this letter was not handed over to Zheng Dongguo as scheduled.
After Zheng Dongguo surrendered, he felt ashamed and had only one wish in his heart: to return to his hometown to be a farmer.
Xiao Jinguang and Xiao Hua were not forced to do anything to him, but just suggested that he go to Harbin to take a look.
Harbin was accepted by our party after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and developed vividly under the governance of our party.
Xiao Jinguang and Xiao Hua suggested that he go there and take a look, maybe he would be touched.
Zheng Dongguo arrived in Harbin and was indeed moved by the new atmosphere of Harbin.
Why did the Kuomintang lose so quickly?
Why did the Communist Party win?
With these questions in mind, Zheng Dongguo read a lot of works by Chairman Mao and Marxism-Leninism. After reading the books
, my mind suddenly became clear.
He realized his reactionary position in the past and had new plans for his future.
In August 1950, he was preparing to go to Shanghai for medical treatment, and passed through Beijing, and received Zhou Enlai's kind hospitality.
Zhou Enlai sincerely said to him: "You are a general of the uprising. You are less than 50 years old now. You still have a lot of time to contribute more to the people. Why can't you participate in the construction with us?"
Zheng Dongguo told the truth: "I am willing to contribute to the construction of the New China."
After Zheng Dongguo recovered from illness, he served as a consultant to the Ministry of Water Resources and a specialist in cultural and historical affairs of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 1952.
Before the opening of the first National People's Congress in 1954, Chairman Mao proposed that Zheng Dongguo serve as a member of the National Defense Committee.
Zheng Dongguo was elected as a member of the National Defense Commission of the People's Republic of China in the meeting.
Chairman Mao happily held a banquet at Zhongnanhai to congratulate him.
Zheng Dongguo was flattered.
On that day, He Long, Ye Jianying, Lu Zhonglin and others accompanied him at the banquet.
Zheng Dongguo was the last to arrive.
As soon as he arrived, Chairman Mao stepped forward, shook hands with him enthusiastically, and said, "I heard that you called Chiang Kai-shek back and did not let Chiang Kai-shek's plane bomb Zeng Zesheng's 60th Army, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable... You have made contributions, and you are a famous anti-Japanese general. You are only 51 years old this year, and you are still very young. Do your work for the people!"
Chairman Mao was talking while arranging Zheng Dongguo to sit beside him, and said with a smile: "Now, we are the ones sitting on the same stool!"
Chairman Mao amused everyone present with one sentence.
After Zheng Dongguo sat down, Chairman Mao handed Zheng Dongguo a cigarette and asked him: "Do you smoke?"
"smooth." Zheng Dongguo took the cigarette and replied without thinking.
"Okay!" Chairman Mao said with a smile, wiping a match very skillfully and lighting a cigarette for him.
Zheng Dongguo was moved all of a sudden.
When he was lighting a cigarette, he thought that he had been through life and death for Chiang Kai-shek in the Kuomintang camp, but he was often called back and forth by Chiang Kai-shek and never received such courtesy. Thinking of this, my eyes became a little wet.
Lao Tan wrote at the end of last year, "In 1980, a foreign female reporter asked: How long will the statue of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen be hung? Deng Xiaoping's article answered: Forever," tells the story of Deng Xiaoping's interview with Italian female journalist Olin Ena Farage on August 23, 1980. He talked about Chairman Mao's great achievements in leading the Chinese revolution, saying that "Chairman Mao is a person who perfectly combines the truth of Marxism-Leninism with the specific practice of the Chinese revolution."
Zheng Dongguo has experienced this most deeply through reading the works of Chairman Mao and Marxism-Leninism in recent years.
He was full of admiration and admiration for Chairman Mao from the bottom of his heart. He was excited and asked indifferently: "How did you learn Marxism-Leninism? Why did you learn so well?" As soon as he said the
, he regretted it and felt that it was too presumptuous to ask.
Needless to say, Zheng Dongguo asked too presumptuously.
He didn't know that Chairman Mao's early political propositions were once ridiculed as "Marxism-Leninism in the valley" by young leaders who returned from studying in the Soviet Union.
However, after Chen Duxiu's failure, Qu Qiubai, Li Lisan, Bogu , Zhang Guotao, and Wang Ming , one by one, regarded themselves as "real Marxist-Leninist experts" and came to power one after another, but failed one after another.
Although Chairman Mao had never studied abroad and ate "foreign ink", he was down-to-earth. He really started the journey of sinicization of Marxism-Leninism in the valley. He solved the problem of sinicization of Marxism-Leninism in theory and found the path and method of the Chinese revolution in practice.
Zheng Dongguo's sudden question made He Long, Ye Jianying and Chairman Mao himself feel a little surprised. They are all stunned and look at Zheng Dongguo together.
Zheng Dongguo felt embarrassed and lowered his head embarrassedly.
Chairman Mao then smiled heartily. He replied very seriously: "I just accepted Marxism-Leninism and was young and energetic. I thought I had mastered the true meaning of Marxism-Leninism and always felt that I was a revolutionary. But I didn't know that I went to Anyuan to lead the workers' struggle, but the workers didn't buy my account. During that period, I was also in depressed for a while and thought all day long, and I thought about it. After thinking for a long time, I had some clues. It turned out that it was my own ideological position. It has not really changed, and it is out of touch with the actual work, it will not work at all! "
Speaking of this, Chairman Mao said earnestly: "I am not a saint who was born to know. I am also learning from the society, the masses, and step by step on the revolutionary path. Human plasticity is very strong. As long as you change your position, consciously put down your airs, and take the people as your teacher, you will definitely learn Marxism-Leninism well."
Chairman Mao's words made Zheng Dongguo enlightened.
Zheng Dongguo's thoughts were deeply inspired, and since then he truly changed his position and became a waiter who serves the people.
