Abandoned by the leaders of the Northeast Army.

Lv Zhengcao was born in a rural area of Liaoning. As a teenager, he witnessed Japanese invaders killing people in his hometown. He hates Japanese soldiers. At school, the teacher gave him the scientific name "Yan Zheng" and he changed it to "Alvin". It means to practice hard and join the army against the Japanese aggressors. /kloc-joined the Northeast Army at the age of 0/7, and was assigned to the Guard Brigade 1 3rd Battalion, 9th Company. Later, he was transferred to the brigade as a clerical aide. Appreciated by Zhang Xueliang, he was recommended to enter Wujiangtang of Northeast Army and became the fifth student. 1925 After graduation, he became the main adjutant of Zhang Xueliang and participated in the second direct service war. Since then, he has served as secretary, chief of staff and head of Zhang Xueliang.

1936 10, Lv Zhengcao went to Zhang Xueliang's Xi 'an Mansion as a back office aide. After the "Xi Incident", Zhou Enlai led the China delegation to mediate in Xi and lived upstairs in Lv Zhengcao. After the peaceful settlement of the incident, Zhang Xueliang accompanied Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing and was detained. The Northeast Army was leaderless and chaotic.

1in March 937, Chiang Kai-shek forced the Northeast Army to reorganize, and Lv Zhengcao was appointed as the head of the 69 1 regiment of the 53rd Army of the National Revolutionary Army. In May, Lv Zhengcao secretly joined the party. On June+10, 5438, Lv Zhengcao led his troops to meet the Japanese army in Banbidian, Shulu County, and killed the Japanese second lieutenant 10. Lv Zhengcao and his men followed the instructions to cover the left wing of the 53rd Army in Said Village and Meihua Town in Gaocheng, Hebei Province. The Japanese attacked Meihua Town and surrounded a battalion in Lv Zhengcao. At a critical juncture, Wan Fulin, commander of the 53rd Army, issued an order to Lv Zhengcao to abandon the besieged troops and retreat.

This fear of death, regardless of his brother's life, made Lv Zhengcao indignant. He tore up the telegram and led a team to the enemy lines. After a fierce battle, 7800 people were killed or injured, and a company commander and more than 20 soldiers of the 69 1 regiment were killed. This is the biggest victory of the 53rd Army since the Anti-Japanese War. The troops besieged by the Japanese army were rescued by Lv Zhengcao.

69 1 regiment broke through, but Wan Fulin, the commander, ran away with his troops and left them to the enemy. Lv Zhengcao said: "This is an opportunity to get rid of them." Lv Zhengcao said to his men, "As patriotic soldiers, each of us has the responsibility to defend the motherland and recover lost territory. There is only one way before us: like the Red Army, go to the enemy's rear to fight guerrilla warfare! " The soldiers were so excited that they expressed their determination to stay in Jizhong and persist in the war of resistance behind enemy lines.

Jizhong showed great power in resisting Japan.

Lv Zhengcao cut off all telecommunication links with the 53rd Army. 10, 14 In June, he called the officers and men of the whole regiment to hold an anti-Japanese swearing-in meeting, stood under the banner of the * * * production party, announced that the 69 1 regiment was renamed as the "People's Anti-Japanese Self-Guard" and appointed Lv Zhengcao as the commander. With the strong support of the local party organizations in Central China, the number of troops has rapidly increased from 1000 to more than 4,000, and the banner of the * * * production party's first anti-Japanese armed forces has been erected on the central Hebei plain, which has played a very important role in the development and growth of anti-Japanese armed forces in Central Hebei.

After learning the news, Zhang Xueliang said: "It must be on the right path."

Soon, the People's Police Guard was incorporated into the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and Lv Zhengcao was appointed as the commander of the Jizhong Military Region and the commander of the third column. In the cruel and fierce combat environment, Lv Zhengcao was calm and decisive, showing extraordinary military talents and becoming a legend in the eyes of people in central Hebei. He led his team to fight five battles a day at most, which greatly encouraged the people in central Hebei to resist Japan.

Lv Zhengcao led his troops to gallop across the Central Hebei Plain, where he created an anti-Japanese war legend. The army and civilians in central Hebei creatively invented the methods of mine warfare, tunnel warfare and assault warfare, launched the anti-Japanese struggle behind enemy lines, and finally broke Okamura Ningji's "encirclement and suppression with iron walls".

Lv Zhengcao, this is a name that scares the Japanese invaders and scares the enemy. The general recalled that he was transferred to the Jinsui Military Region as the commander, and he also saw Japanese reports that Lv Zhengcao in Jizhong Military Region was captured. This has also become the most proud of Lv Zhengcao's life: "I am most proud of hitting the Japanese."

During the Anti-Japanese War in Jizhong, Lv Zhengcao led the army and civilians to actively carry out the war behind enemy lines. On the occasion of the third anniversary of the founding of the Third Column, Mao Zedong wrote an inscription for them: "Adhere to the guerrilla warfare mode in the plain and the armed struggle mode of the people." Literary and artistic works such as Mine War, Tunnel War and Plain War were all created against the background of the realistic struggle in this period.

1October 1938 1 1 April 1939, the Japanese army adopted a "whale-swallowing" siege and carried out five large-scale "mopping-ups" on the base areas in central Hebei in a row in an attempt to wipe out our main forces in central Hebei. The army and civilians in central Hebei fought fiercely with the enemy for 383 times, annihilating 94 14 Japanese puppet troops and crushing the enemy's encirclement and suppression. After this campaign, the anti-Japanese armed forces in central Hebei grew to 63,000, and a consolidated anti-Japanese regime and guerrilla regime were established in an area with a population of 65,438+million. Mao Zedong's strategic goal of "driving the enemy out" has been achieved.

The Japanese army was frightened by the development of the anti-Japanese base area in central Hebei, so it carried out many sweeps. The Jizhong Military Region conducts mine warfare and tunnel warfare, constantly consuming and killing the enemy. Lixian, Wuji, Dingxian, Xinle and other counties killed or injured more than 400 enemy troops within one year. The Japanese army called it "Tuba Road Mine Explosion", which caused great fear.

The Japanese army intensified its sweeping efforts, and the troops in Jizhong suffered serious losses, and many cadres and soldiers died. Lv Zhengcao wrote in his memoirs: "The people in Jizhong protected us with their blood and lives, and cultivated and strengthened the people's soldiers. Without the heroic struggle and bloody sacrifice of the people in central Hebei, it is hard to say whether they can stay. Whenever I recall this, there is always a warm current coming to my heart. "

The general later recalled: "Foreman said that the importance of these primitive weapons lies not in their excellent effects, but in their clear reflection of the fighting spirit of the people."

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he switched to repairing railways.

/kloc-in the winter of 0/944, Lv Zhengcao, then commander of the Jinsui Military Region, went to Yan 'an to meet Mao Zedong, whom he admired very much. As soon as they met, he didn't know what to say Mao Zedong first said, "I read your letter. What is difficult for me is your signature. It took me a long time to recognize the word Lv Zhengcao. Why do you want to connect three words into one word? " Lv Zhengcao smiled in reply. Mao Zedong kept him for dinner.

In March, Lv Zhengcao drafted the Report on Railway Work in the Northeast Liberated Area for the Central Committee, which attracted the attention of Mao Zedong. His article "On Crew Responsibility System" was published in Northeast Daily. 1March, 949, Mao Zedong and Lv Zhengcao had a cordial conversation in Xibaipo, praising: "The article" On the Crew Responsibility System "you wrote is good! We just need to learn to build. "

Lv Zhengcao said that many of the words he said were layman's words. Chairman Mao smiled and said, "A layman can become an expert!" After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Lv Zhengcao was appointed as the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Railways. He has served as deputy minister and minister of the Ministry of Railways for a long time, and political commissar of the Railway Corps. He was in the main leadership position of the Ministry of Railways 17 years, and made great contributions to China's railway transportation.

After the founding of New China, Lv Zhengcao was awarded the rank of general and was one of the 57 "founding generals".

He was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution.

At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong said to Zhou Enlai: Protect Lv Zhengcao. Zhou Enlai made a special trip to Dalian to find Lin Biao and conveyed Mao Zedong's instructions to him. Lin Biao agreed on the surface, but the persecution of Lv Zhengcao escalated in secret. It is said that 42 people, including Lv Zhengcao and Zhang Xuesi, sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek on 1946, asking Zhang Xueliang to return to the northeast. He said that he "also plotted to defect when the Kuomintang troops invaded the Northeast, get rid of the Lin Biao Combat Command and assassinate Lin Biao."

As a result, Lv Zhengcao has become an evil and treacherous enemy. Since 1967, he has been detained in Tongxian, a suburb of Beijing. "It is common to be beaten inside. I also fight back. But they are many and young. " Lv Zhengcao is indomitable and indomitable. He said, "Isn't it all to make me give in? I will not give in. " Lv Zhengcao incredibly dare to fight back, the result was knocked out a dozen teeth.

1In the early autumn of 973, his wife William Liu was "liberated". She wrote a letter to Mao Zedong, complaining for her husband. 1In July, 974, Mao Zedong proposed in Wuhan to release Lv Zhengcao, Yang Chengwu and Yu Lijin to attend a grand reception to celebrate the "August 1st Army Day". The list was published in the newspaper.

On the afternoon of July 3 1, Zhou Enlai attended a meeting between the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and several military cadres, including Lv Zhengcao, who was freed. Premier Zhou held Lv Zhengcao's hand and said, "The past is over, don't care!" Lv Zhengcao said: "Thanks to Chairman Mao and the CPC Central Committee, I finally figured out my problem."

Lv Zhengcao later said, "Those years were terrible! China's catastrophe! The Cultural Revolution was actually a Cultural Revolution! "

1975, Lv Zhengcao made a comeback under Mao Zedong's personal speech, and served as the first political commissar and first secretary of the Party Committee of the Railway Corps.

Reunited with Zhang Xueliang after 55 years.

Lv Zhengcao served as secretary and adjutant of Zhang Xueliang for many years, and Zhang Xueliang was a fellow villager in Haicheng. They have special feelings. Appoint him as the contact between Zhong * * * and Zhang Xueliang. Lv Zhengcao tried many times to invite Zhang Xueliang back to the mainland and let him go back to his hometown in Northeast China, but Zhang Xueliang never made it.

1in March, 983, Deng was elected as the chairman and vice-chairman of China People's Political Consultative Conference.

199 1 year, Zhang Xueliang was allowed to visit relatives in the United States. Appointed by Deng, he went to the United States in May. After 55 years of separation, the two finally met in a foreign embassy. Zhang Xueliang took Lv Zhengcao's hand and said, "Yes, I am superstitious now and believe in God." He replied that he was superstitious. What does Zhang Xueliang ask him about superstition? Lu A: "I am superstitious about ordinary people." Zhang Xueliang smiled and said, "I know, your name is field mouse." Lv Zhengcao wrote in his memoirs: "They say that the embassy is a symbol of a country. Being a guest at the embassy means returning home. In this sense, this is the first time that General Zhang has returned to the mainland since he moved to Taiwan. "

In 2005, General Lv Zhengcao said on his centenary birthday: "I often think of those villagers who died tragically under the bayonet of the Japanese invaders to protect us, and those comrades who died in battle. People don't live long and do more. "

"I have been playing Japan all my life, managing railways and playing tennis." Looking back on the legendary life of a century, the general only used such an understatement.

Lv Zhengcao has been the president of China Tennis Association for a long time. He once said humorously that the Cultural Revolution said that he would be removed from all his posts, and as a result, he forgot to be removed from the post of President of the China Tennis Association.

On June 5438+1October 65438+March 2009, General Lv Zhengcao died of old age at the age of 106.

Heroes travel far, and legends come to an abrupt end.