Li Zhongquan's family is a real red family. A family of nine people has only a little land, only enough to maintain a quarter of the food of the family. They spent their childhood in hunger. In this way, the general's youngest sister died of hunger and disease.
1928, Li Zhongquan entered Daxian No.5 Middle School as he wished. Li Zhongquan knew that his parents had borne an unspeakable burden for this, and he studied very hard. Two years later, he was admitted to Daxian Middle School with the first place in the county.
At school, Li Zhongquan not only learned culture, but also got in touch with the latest ideas. When he was a high school student, General Zhang Aiping was his teacher. Li Zhongquan read Lenin's On Two Strategies and Historical Materialism, and made the earliest ideological enlightenment.
193 1 year, Li Zhongquan was transferred to the political commissar of the first regiment of Ren Hongjun guerrillas in Pujiachang, and began his career in the Red Army. Nine people in the whole family followed the Red Army, and four people died on the Long March.
1933, Li Zhongquan led his troops home.
When the team of more than 300 people arrived at their hometown, they could still see the notice of offering a reward. In the process of fighting local tyrants, distributing fields and establishing Soviet regime, their family members participated enthusiastically. Li Zhongpan, the eldest brother, was elected as the chairman of the township Soviet, and Li, the fifth sister, was elected as the female chairman. When the Red Army retreated, the eldest brother led the Red Guards to cooperate with the Red Army, the second brother Li Zhongchi and the fourth brother Li raised food for the Red Army, and the fifth sister led the women team to rescue the wounded for the Red Army. Parents also abandoned everything at home and took their young siblings to the Red Army. In this way, my family linked fate with revolution. Later, Li Zhongquan led the team to meet their long-lost mother during the trip. Soon, Li Zhongquan heard the news that his eldest brother, Li Zhongpan, who has now become the political commissar of the Red Guards regiment, had died innocently in the "purges".
Because Zhang founded the division on the way to the Long March, the fourth army, which had passed the grassland, turned back and went south again. Along the way, the remains of the martyrs who died in the grass for the first time are still faintly visible. However, the officers and men of the Fourth Army who climbed the snowy mountain grassland three times paid great sacrifices for this decision.
1March, 936, just before the Red Fourth Front Army was ready to enter the grassland again, Li Zhongquan saw his mother again. The troops will move the next day, and the difficulties they face when crossing the grass for the third time are naturally more serious. What problems can I solve for my mother under such circumstances? What can be used to comfort the elderly? What saddens him even more is that his second brother Li Zhongchi died in the battle, his fifth sister Li starved to death while crossing the grass, and her husband Shi Yingchang also died.
That night, mother and son talked late. My mother repeatedly told me to do my best to do my job well and not to be distracted by her. However, my mother is over 50 years old. During the Long March, she suffered from severe cold leg disease. Hunger, disease and bad environment may take her life at any time. "Mother is obviously aware of this. She said,' My only wish is to bring up my brothers and sisters and hand them over to the Red Army.' Knowing this, Li Zhongquan said to his mother, "The Red Army will continue its Long March, with snowy mountains and grasslands in front and Kuomintang troops behind. When the Kuomintang troops arrive, don't leave a family member of the Red Army behind. The only way is to move on with the Red Army. " Li Zhongquan said, "Later, I met my mother. Her old man is very ill and is struggling with the help of her two younger brothers. I immediately dismounted to hold my mother. There is neither medicine nor place to put mother. Looking at his mother who was tortured by the disease, Li Zhongquan was very embarrassed. Looking at Li Zhongquan's embarrassment, the clever correspondent hesitated for a moment and said, "Otherwise, I'll stay and take care of my aunt!"! "
1September, 936, Li Zhongquan walked out of the grass and came to Gannan. One day, suddenly, a Red Army soldier came running to me with a pony gun and shouted "Third Brother". It turned out to be fourth brother, Zhong Bai. He told me about his mother's death while crying. "With amazing perseverance and the help of horses, my mother and siblings climbed over the snow-capped mountains. But when I got to Xikang grassland, my mother couldn't walk any further. She has a big pustule, which hurts all day. My brother pricked the pustule with the hairpin of my mother's hair, and a lot of pus flowed. But she finally failed ... Before she died, she asked again and again, "Where did the Red Army go?" I don't want to die for long. She didn't close her eyes until her brothers and sisters repeatedly said that they must find the third brother and join the Red Army. "
1937 In the spring, four Li Zhongquan brothers and sisters met in Yan 'an.
Zhang split the Red Army and went south under the slogan "Take Chengdu to eat rice". 1935, 1 1 In June, Baoxing, tianquan county and Lushan were liberated one after another, and the enemy came to the famous mountains and Qionglai, threatening Chengdu. Sichuan warlords urgently dispatched more than 80 main regiments to engage in a fierce battle with the Red Army with only 15 regiments in Baizhangguan. This is the fiercest battle since the Fourth Army went south. The fighting lasted for seven days and nights. Although the enemy was killed 15000 people, the red army also suffered tens of thousands of casualties. The Red Army, which failed to win a decisive victory, had to withdraw from Baizhangguan area and move to Lianhua Mountain near the northwest of the famous mountain.
At that time, tianquan county, with a population of more than 600,000, was rich in products and was the supply base for the front combat troops.
After leaving tianquan county, Li Zhongquan went north with the troops and was appointed as the political commissar of the Second Independent Division of Dajinchuan when he was in Danba. Influenced by the Red Army, Ma Jun, a Tibetan leader, set up an armed force in the spring of 1936 and was awarded the title of the Second Independent Division of the Red Army in Dajinchuan. There are more than 2,000 people in the whole division, most of whom are Tibetan compatriots, and cavalry accounts for half. In order to consolidate this unit, the Red Army has transferred more than 100 cadres to serve in various organs in the division. I first met my teacher Ma Jun in a place called Wang Ba Town. Ma Jun's father is a local Tibetan leader and a local official. He enjoyed high prestige in the local area and made great efforts to raise food for the Red Army.
After the welcome banquet, Ma Jun called several Tibetan riders to perform horse riding. "Tibetans are strong and fierce, can ride well and shoot well, and fight very bravely." Li Zhongquan said, "In the performance, some riders bring two horses and can jump from one horse to another without saddle, and the gun is also very accurate." Ma Jun personally taught Li Zhongquan to wear Tibetan robes and learn Tibetan etiquette. "He told me that if a Tibetan girl rides in front, she can't compete with the girl, otherwise it is courtship." Speaking of the funny story with Ma Jun, the general smiled. The general recalled that at that time, all kinds of local armed forces were mixed and fighting would happen at any time. At 5 o'clock one morning, the division was suddenly surrounded by the enemy. Among them, there are more than 5000 Kuomintang troops in Liu, armed by bandits and forced to come. There are only 300 people in the headquarters and the guard company. Call the second company for help, and gunshots came from the other end of the phone. Fortunately, the stone walls on both sides of the stockade are very high. Li Zhongquan ordered the guard company to shoot with machine guns and stick to the main road. At the same time, propaganda was carried out in Tibetan to persuade the masses to leave.
Play from 5 am to 6 pm. Li Zhongquan is worried that the enemy will dispatch the guns of the regular army at night and prepare to break through after dark. As a result, the enemy began to retreat before dark. Li Zhongquan immediately rushed out and rushed to the headquarters of the second regiment, sounding the signal behind the enemy who surrounded the second regiment, and the enemy fled in panic. In mid-April, the Second Division was ordered to suppress bandits on the right side of the Dadu River. Ma Jun fought side by side with Li Zhongquan and played several beautiful battles. However, because he is always in the front line, Li Zhongquan was hit by bandits in the dark on his left thigh during a mountain search. The bullet grazed the bone and he couldn't walk. He was sent to the rear hospital for treatment. In the hospital, Ma Jun also paid a special visit to the general, but their profound friendship was cut off by a deadly trick of Zhang. After the fourth army joined forces with the second army, they decided to continue northward. However, Zhang was worried that Ma Jun of the independent division might be unwilling to follow him, and the secret telegram asked them to "try to secretly execute him".
Li Zhongquan reflected Ma Jun's situation to the army leaders, saying that he had no bad performance. But since this is Zhang's decision, asking for instructions will not help. Li Zhongquan reluctantly returned to the independent division, and invited Ma Jun to attend the meeting with him at the headquarters of Danba Red 9 1 Division. Ma Jun was killed in this way. But his father still believes that his son has gone to the meeting and is still faithfully raising food for the Red Army.
In the following decades, the general has been deeply troubled by this matter. 1986, the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Long March, he wrote to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, saying that he would rehabilitate Ma Jun.. At the same time, I wrote to Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and Danba County Committee to explain the historical truth and ask them to rehabilitate Ma Jun and implement the policy. He also wrote "Songs of Sorrow and Anger on the Journey" to recall this little-known history. Ma Jun finally regained his reputation as a martyr. Therefore, Ma Jun's son Rao Bucili and his daughter Ren Qing Ma Zhi specially found the general and presented Hada to him.