People have seven passions and six desires, and within our Party, there are many people who have made many indelible achievements for the continuous struggle of the revolution, which will be remembered forever. However, after the founding of the country, perhaps due to lust, he eventually took a detour, resulting in his insecurity in his old age and imprisonment.
One of them was a man who was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955 but went to jail in his later years. He once uttered a shocking sentence that revealed the secret of the Red Army crossing the meadows. What exactly is this sentence? What happened during the Long March that no one knows?
The Red Army marched to obtain intelligence
On the long journey, the most difficult thing is not the mileage, but the hardships along the road. Especially when crossing the meadow, the endless meadow, full of mud swamps, these are killing traps, if you are not careful, you may lose your life.
In addition to the potential threat caused by the terrain, more importantly, there were also armed forces of the Kuomintang reactionaries around to threaten the Red Army at any time, and if a conflict broke out, the Red Army would definitely suffer a fatal blow.
At this time, the enemy's marching intelligence is very important. It can be said that Li Zuopeng is the originator of China's intelligence and is also a military figure at the level of an elder of our party, and his life can be said to be very brilliant and legendary.
The life of Li Zuopeng
Li Zuopeng began his revolutionary career at the age of 16. At the age of 16, Li Zuopeng led more than 30 small partners to join the Red Army, which can be said to be a very early batch of "red devils". In addition, Li Zuopeng was very intelligent and studious, and had read books for several years, and he was also a cultured intellectual in the military, so he was arranged to work in the confidential room.
Li Zuopeng's main job at that time was the work of a section translator. Because of his own cultural foundation, coupled with his serious work and hard-working, Li Zuopeng's promotion path was very fast, and he became a staff officer and the chief of section 2 during the Long March.
In addition to deciphering the Kuomintang telegrams many times during the Long March of the Red Army, it reduced a large number of losses for our Party's Long March. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Zuopeng also made indelible contributions. On the battlefield, he heroically resisted the Japanese army, struck a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese Kou, and made great contributions to the final victory of our country.
Not only that, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was also attacked by the enemy's poison gas bombs. At that time, the Japanese army did whatever it took to win on the Battlefield of China, and even once used a dehumanizing gas bomb attack. For our army, it is originally a grassroots army, and it does not even have enough guns and ammunition, let alone gas masks.
We still use the most primitive method to resist the poisonous gas, but the consequence is to take care of the most important organ parts, and we have to sacrifice other parts. Li Zuopeng was the victim of the gas bomb, and after he was attacked by the gas bomb, his eyes were instantly blurred and dark, which eventually led to blindness in his right eye.
In the first half of his life, Li Zuopeng can be said to be incomparably brilliant and legendary. In recognition of his exploits, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general at the 1955 conferment ceremony, arguably the greatest recognition of the first half of his life. But in the second half of his life, he failed to stick to his bottom line and eventually went to jail.
Intercepted telegrams
As early as the period of the Red Army's Long March, Li Zuopeng made very outstanding contributions as a confidential translator. When the Red Army crossed the meadow, he cracked an important Telegram of the Kuomintang, and the secret in this telegram saved the Red Army who was crossing the meadow.
The information in this telegram is actually the marching line of the Kuomintang reactionaries, who issued operational instructions on how to encircle and annihilate to the troops involved in the operation. However, it is a pity that this flawless combat instruction was intercepted and deciphered by Li Zuopeng, an electronic translator of our army, and our army relied on the enemy's intelligence to finally break through the enemy's encirclement at the lowest cost, greatly preserving the combat effectiveness of the Red Army.
It was precisely because he retained the fire of the Red Army when crossing the meadows, which not only made the dream of the Kuomintang reactionaries to surround and annihilate the Red Army an illusion, but most importantly, in the future War of Resistance Against Japan, a unit with heroic combat and strong combat effectiveness was reserved for China. It can be said that during the period of the Red Army, Li Zuopeng's contributions were outstanding.
Therefore, Li Zuopeng once frankly said in his later years: "If it were not for me, the Red Army would be very sad about the grass." This sentence is not exaggerated, he successfully deciphered and stole the important marching line of the Kuomintang reactionaries, and finally made outstanding contributions to the safety of the Red Army across the meadow.
It is a pity that such an excellent general, during that period of political darkness, lost his footing and hated for thousands of years. On the one hand, there are unspeakable secrets, on the other hand, because of the power drive, it eventually made a fate of insecurity in his old age.
epilogue
In any case, we must not forget the merits of General Li Zuopeng, who made indelible contributions during the Long March of the Red Army, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the War of Liberation. And now, the old general settled in Shanxi and lived a life of worry-free old age, which is also a blessing in misfortune.