Hu Qicai, the founding lieutenant general, reported the tragic situation in Tashan. Lin Biao: My solution is to put some perfume on the spot.

Lieutenant General Hu Qicai, whose real name is Hu Qicai, 1939, reported to the organization that he wanted to marry his wife Wang Zhiyuan. Zhu Rui, then secretary of Shandong Branch, gave instructions in the report: "Agree that Comrade Hu Qicai should marry Comrade Wang Zhiyuan". Since then, Hu Qicai has become the new name of Hu Qicai.

Later, someone joked, "Commander Hu, now everyone is scrambling to get rich. Do you want to change your name back? " Hu Qicai replied: "Who loves to make a fortune, let others make a fortune!"

Founding Lieutenant General Hu Qicai, 19 14, was born in Huang 'an, Hubei. Huang An County has been renamed Hongan County, and Hongan County has a nickname "General County".

During the revolutionary years, there were 223 generals in Hong 'an County, including 8 founding generals and 0/2 founding lieutenant generals. And Hu Qicai was one of the founding generals of 12.

10, the famous jute uprising broke out in Huang An and Macheng. The Red Army and the base areas created by the Jute Uprising were the predecessors of the Red Fourth Front Army and the base areas in Hubei, Henan and Anhui.

But Hu Qicai didn't take part in the uprising at that time, because he was only 13 years old.

After the Jute Uprising, Zhang Chufeng, a member of * *, came to Hu Qicai's hometown to teach, which played an enlightening and leading role in Hu Qicai's revolutionary road. 1929, Hu Qicai saw the enemy take his teacher to the river and killed him, so Hu Qicai joined the Young Pioneers and joined the Red Army a year later.

Since then, Hu Qicai has participated in four counter-campaigns against "encirclement and suppression" in the Hubei, Henan and Anhui base areas. 1933, Hu Qicai, who was only 19 years old, became the political commissar of the 35th regiment of the Fourth Army1division. Since then, he has traveled thousands of miles with the Fourth Army to create the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area. During the period, he served as the political commissar of the Red 1 1 Division and 12 Division.

Hu Qicai can become a divisional cadre at a young age, which has a lot to do with his bravery and fear of sacrifice. In the first three years of joining the army, Hu Qicai was injured five times and almost died many times.

Hu Qicai recalled in his later years that during a war, he suddenly felt weak in his legs. In desperation, he rolled several times, got up and ran for several miles in one breath, only to find that his left leg was shot. On another occasion, Hu Qicai suddenly felt scalp pins and needles, rolled down a cliff and fainted. When he woke up, he saw blood all over the floor. At first glance, he was seriously injured in the head.

Hu Qicai said: "The human body has a protective mechanism. I didn't feel it at first when I was injured, but I was shocked when I saw blood. "

In the battle of Huang An at 193 1, a stray bullet flew in and hit a Grenade on Hu Qicai's back. The Grenade broke in two on the spot, but it didn't explode. It can be seen that weapons with poor quality can sometimes become good things.

As a veteran of the Red Fourth Army, Hu Qicai is full of affection for this army. He remembers that during the Long March of the Fourth Army, Marshal Xu was the busiest person in the whole army. He has to deal with countless military affairs every day, but he remains calm. The wind of generals left a deep impression on Hu Qicai.

Hu Qicai still remembers that Marshal Xu was thin and taciturn on weekdays, but he was brave as a soldier. Before the Long March of the Fourth Army, we could always see Xu rolling and spinning on the horizontal bar in patched clothes, and training very seriously until he was sweating all over.

Many old comrades-in-arms of the Red Fourth Front Army have a good relationship with him, such as General Xu, who was famous for being able to drink in the whole army at that time. He finished a bowl of wine after two or three sips. He calls himself a "monk who eats meat and drinks wine". When Xu was stationed in Qingjiangdu, Sichuan, he often invited friends and brothers' generals to drink.

I still remember his old superior, Yu Martyr, who served as the commander of the 30 th Army and the 365,438+0 Army. As for the cause of death, opinions vary so far. His brother Yu Tiansheng said that his brother died of grief because he was hit by Zhang.

Whenever he talks about Yu's death, he always regrets it. With his ability and qualifications, he is still young. If he lives to be a general after the founding of the People's Republic, he will at least be a general.

It is believed that the Red Fourth Army under the leadership of Zhang is not as good as the Central Red Army in some places. For example, in the early days of the Red Fourth Front Army, superiors often beat and scold subordinates, and even the promising young Hu Qicai had personal experience.

Hu Qicai recalled that he was so tired that he fell asleep on a vacation in March. In a daze, he felt someone kick him, and then two slaps flew over. I woke up from my dream and looked up. It turned out to be my superior, the teacher of 1 1, Ni Zhiliang (the founding lieutenant general).

On another occasion, Hu Qicai came as a pioneer to explore for the army. As a result, he mistook "Yanmenguan" for "Yanmenguan" and made a mistake in the direction of marching. At that time, Wang Shusheng, deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Army, was furious and slapped Hu Qicai twice.

After the national liberation, Wang Shusheng always felt guilty when he recalled this incident. He apologized to Hu Qicai and said, "I was really a little savage."

The "Three Discipline and Eight Notices" was put forward by Mao Zedong during the Jinggangshan period, and one of them was "Don't hit people, don't swear", but before the Fourth Army and the Central Red Army joined forces, they didn't receive this correct education.

After Hu Qicai arrived in northern Shaanxi, he entered the third phase of Kangda, and after graduation, he went to the battlefield in Shandong, where he served as deputy division chief of the eighth detachment of Shandong Column, and later as political commissar of the fourth detachment and commander of the first detachment.

During his stay in Luzhong Anti-Japanese Base Area, Hu Qicai won many battles and left a great reputation. /kloc-in the summer of 0/986, Chi Haotian, then political commissar of jinan military area command, went to work in Yimeng Mountain. On the way, he met an old man who was fishing. Chi Haotian told him that he fought in Yimeng Mountain. The old man asked him if he knew there was a general Hu in Yimeng Mountain, and Chi Haotian asked if it was a general.

The old man answered yes with a smile, then danced and sang a local folk song: Zheng Yonggang Hu Qicai, who commanded the Eighth Route Army to fight Yeyuan, killed 33 devils and captured an interpreter alive.

Chi Haotian was surprised that the old man had such a deep memory of what happened decades ago. After returning to Beijing, he wrote an old man's lyric poem specially for Hu Qicai.

After the war of liberation began, Hu Qicai participated in and directed the famous Xinkailing Campaign and Tashan Campaign, especially Tashan Campaign, which was enough to make Hu Qicai go down in history.

Later, military historians commented that if Jinzhou is the gate of the Northeast, then Tashan is the bolt of this gate. The success of Tashan campaign is of decisive significance to the whole northeast war situation.

Lin Biao's two sentences are short, but powerful.

In his later years, Hu Qicai recalled that on June 1948+00, 1 1 day, Lin Biao and Dongye headquarters sent emergency telegrams to 4th vertical, asking them to take charge of the command of Tashan front line, and specially sent Su Jing, director of Dongye Warfare Department, to bid for 4th vertical. At that time, Hu Qicai was the deputy commander of the Fourth Company.

Hu Qicai said that he recently went shopping with Li Fuze, chief of staff, and just bought a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. They also discussed the story of Masu's street pavilion for a long time. He didn't think of it at that time. Before long, he provoked the burden of guarding the "street pavilion".

In the following six days and six nights, Hu Qicai and the commanders and fighters of the frontline 12 division lived and died together, and enemy planes, artillery and rounds of fierce charges bombarded the top of the tower.

This fierce battle is one of the best battles in the whole war of liberation. There are corpses everywhere on the ground, and rivers of blood are flowing. The Yinma River, which is more than 20 meters wide, is littered with corpses. Loud explosions, shouts and groans of soldiers filled the air. At that time, the temperature in the northeast was already very low, but the air was filled with an inexorable smell of rotting corpses, which made people dizzy and disgusting.

Lin Biao asked Hu Qicai to report to him the latest situation on the front line every day: the number of enemy fighters, casualties and ammunition supply. When Hu Qicai reported the stinking situation on the battlefield, Lin Biao said, "I have an idea. You can sprinkle some perfume on the battlefield. " Hu Qicai asked inexplicably, "What is perfume?" Lin Biao replied, "It's a perfume for women."

It is rare for a battle to be so fierce and tragic.

In this battle, Hu Qicai didn't do Ma Su, and the soldiers of the Fourth Longitudinal Army were not Shu soldiers. They held the Tashan Mountain and ensured the successful completion of the task of attacking gold. Their achievements will never go down in history.

10 year 10 month 16 day, Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he didn't eat a bite. He flew over Tashan by special plane. He wants to see how his three armed forces, with the cooperation of the navy and the air force, can't beat this small Tashan.

Since then, the war situation in the northeast and even the whole country has turned sharply. According to records, Chiang Kai-shek vomited blood twice in Beijing and Nanjing.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Hu Qicai returned to Tashan four times. Every time, he stood on the front battlefield of that year and meditated silently. In his later years, he said to his wife, "I am a survivor of the Tashan War. I often dream about this place in my dreams. " I must go back to Tashan after I die. Only in this way can my soul be stable. "

In General Hu Qicai's home, there has been a picture of Tashan sniper with a scale of 25,000 1 for many years. This map is one meter wide and one meter and a half long. It was specially made by the Soviet Film Studio when filming the film Victory of the People of China. Hu Qicai often stares at this map in his spare time, recalling the hard years in the past and his comrades who died heroically.

After Hu Qicai died, his family buried him in Tashan according to his wishes. General Hu Qicai's soul returned to his hometown, and he thought that his soul in heaven would have no regrets.

Like him, there are seven generals who can't let Tashan go. They are also survivors of the Tashan blockade. They are, yes, deputy political commissar, Li Fuze, chief of staff of the Fourth Longitudinal Division, Jiang Xie Yuan, commander of the Fourth Longitudinal Division 12, Major General Jiao Yushan, the 34th regiment commander of the Fourth Longitudinal Division 12, and Major General Jiang Fengming, political commissar of the 34th regiment of the Fourth Longitudinal Division 12.

They all made it clear in their wills that they would be buried in Tashan after death.

Today, these eight generals and the remains of 734 soldiers are buried together in the revolutionary martyrs cemetery in Tashan, Huludao.

According to Hu Qicai's records, 2,367 people were injured and 787 people died as a result of the Tashan blockade. Hu Qicai said: "At that time, we were prepared to defend the Tashan position with 10,000 casualties. The officers and men all wrote bloody books. Lin Biao has also transferred the general reserve team, ready to take over the battle at any time when the casualties are too great. "

General Hu Qicai wrote a memoir "Rough Road" in his later years. He wrote on the title page of the book:

"It is not easy to win the world. The sacrifices of countless martyrs have brought us victory and a peaceful day today. In the Northeast Liberation War, 52,288 people were sacrificed ... Their deeds will last forever and their wisdom will last forever. "

After entering the four fields, Hu Qicai had a relapse and had to go to Shenyang for treatment. In September 1949, he was transferred to Beijing. When Zhou Enlai heard that Hu Qicai had arrived in Beijing, he specially received him. He also inquired about the combat situation in detail and arranged for him to meet with President Mao Zedong and Commander-in-Chief Zhu De.

Since then, Hu Qicai has served as commander of Liaodong and Liaoxi Military Regions and deputy commander of shenyang military area command Air Force. After graduating from Nanjing Military Academy, he was appointed as the deputy commander and chief of staff of the China People's Liberation Army Corps of Engineers (the commander was General Chen Shiju).

During his tenure in the Corps of Engineers, he participated in the construction and maintenance of Tiananmen Square, the Great Hall of the People, Diaoyutai and other important facilities, and also participated in the secret construction of the "two bombs" experimental base. During this period, he fainted to the ground many times because of work fatigue.

1955 was awarded the title of founding lieutenant general, and won the first-class August 1st Medal, the first-class Independence and Freedom Medal and the first-class Liberation Medal.

Hu Qicai works hard and lives a simple life. According to his secretary Han Baojie, Hu Qicai's sofa has been used for decades and faded, but he refused to replace it.

Engineers usually work in mountainous areas. When Hu Qicai visited, he often received some local products and fruits. Hu Qicai told his secretary to pay in full when he received the goods. Many subordinates don't understand that these fruits and local products are produced by soldiers themselves. How can they accept the money from the director? Hu Qicai replied, "Money must be collected. This is the tradition of the people's army. You don't charge me, I don't want anything. "

Every time he left the army, Hu Qicai told his secretary that when he left, he would pay the living expenses in full to the army. Comrades in many units resolutely refuse to accept it. Han Baojie, the secretary, often prepares the living expenses in advance and throws the money to the comrades who come to see me off from the cabin door after boarding the plane. So they don't have to accept it.

1997 in may, the whole country is about to usher in a major event of hong kong's return. Hu Qicai wrote a painting "Welcome Hong Kong's return and comfort Xiaoping Ling Ying" and gave it to Qingchuan Calligraphy and Painting Association to express his joy.

On July 1, General Hu Qicai and his family sat in front of the TV, witnessed the handover ceremony of Hong Kong's return, and took pains to participate in the celebrations held in Beijing in the afternoon.

Maybe the feelings are too strong. At night 1 1 when he got home, Hu Qicai fell ill, and his family rushed him to the 30 1 hospital for treatment. Two days later, on July 3rd, Hu Qicai died of bleeding from gastric varices caused by liver cirrhosis.

Huang is an old subordinate. He said: "It is not so much a coincidence that Commander Hu closed his eyes after witnessing the smooth return of Hong Kong to the motherland. I believe that this is an old soldier's sense of historical responsibility and patriotic mission, which drove him to fight against the disease until the glorious moment when the people of China washed away the national humiliation."

After Hu Qicai's death, someone used a poem to summarize his turbulent situation and distinguished life:

The heroic spirit of the total annihilation is there, and the battlefield is full of surprises.

Hubei, Henan and Anhui followed the party, Qilu resisted Japan and came sharply.

Thousands of miles away to open a new ridge, the tiger and the wolf defeated Tashan.

Struggle for the people for life and make outstanding contributions to building the country.