Chapter 17 Love of Ten Marshals-4

Liu Shuai, the longest-lived of the ten marshals, is known as the god of war.Because he lost his eye in the war, some people in the military circle called him "Liu Blind" in the early years, but most of the "half immortals" who can pinch and count in China are blind.Liu Bocheng (1892-1986) was slightly inferior to Lin Biao, Peng Dehuai and Su Yu in terms of military achievements. Later, he persuaded Lao Deng not to be a marshal, but to be the general secretary is more important. This statement means that Deng Xiaoping alone is equal to two marshals.Mao regarded Deng as a "successor from another generation", which is equivalent to the old Deng viewing Hu Jintao.However, Liu Bocheng's military accomplishments are recognized as top-notch in the 20th century.In terms of dealing with people, he is a dragon that can bend and stretch.

Liu Junshen was born in Kai County, Sichuan Province (now part of Chongqing) in 1892. He started studying and practicing martial arts at the age of five or six. In addition to boxing and stick techniques, he is also good at flying stones.If the top ten marshals fight alone—assuming that the time is the Red Army period, everyone is in good health, and the Party Central Committee organizes a "Jinggangshan Discussion of Swords"—I guess Liu Shuai is the first in unarmed combat, and Boss He is the first with a knife. Boss Zhu is number one in marksmanship, Xu Shuai is number one in lightness kung fu, Boss Peng is number one in lion roaring kung fu, and Boss Chen is number one in composing poems while fighting. First, who is that person?

When Liu Shuai was 13 years old, his family ordered him a doll marriage. The woman's name was Cheng Yizhi, who was two years younger than him.But Liu Bocheng was not happy, and deliberately dragged his nose to hurt his image during the blind date (he knew how to be a soldier since he was a child), but the woman still saw his extraordinary temperament, and the marriage was settled.Liu Bocheng went out to study and had the intention of running away from marriage, but Cheng Yizhi cleverly set up a warm trick to influence Brother Bocheng. In 1910, 18-year-old Liu Bocheng married 16-year-old Cheng Yizhi, and in 1912 they gave birth to their son Liu Juntai.That year, Liu Bocheng entered the Chongqing General School, and since then he has joined the army, but his news has gradually disappeared.

In 1914, Liu Bocheng wrote a heroic "Out of Yizhou": "Walking out of Yizhou in micro-clothes, I got sick this spring and forced myself to climb the building. He is still a young man. Holding the Qingfeng in his hand to defend the Republic, he will fight against hunger and cold alone." In 1916, he commanded the Battle of Fengdu, where he was shot twice in the head, underwent eye surgery without anesthesia, and was honored as the "Military God". In 1920, Liu Bocheng, the commander of the Sichuan Army, became famous because of "moving thousands of miles to fight, fierce and unprecedented".After ten years of fighting on the battlefield, he was wounded many times and his body was covered with bullets, but he realized the truth of saving the country. In 1924, Liu Bocheng, a famous general of the Sichuan Army, gave up his career as a warlord and embarked on the road of revolution.Cheng Yizhi raised his son alone until his death in 1957.

There was an episode in the middle, Liu Bocheng lived in Shanghai after the Nanchang Uprising in 1927.Due to lack of upbringing, his son Liu Juntai took a prodigal woman to ask him for money. After being reprimanded by Liu Bocheng, he went to the police station to report.Fortunately, Liu Bocheng was alert and survived.Liu Bocheng scolded "this son of a bitch", and soon the party sent him to the Soviet Union, and no longer cared about this rebellious son.Liu Juntai died in his hometown in 1969. In 1930, Liu Bocheng returned to the Central Army to be appointed chief of staff and engaged in underground work in Shanghai.He used the pseudonym "Lin Zhimu" and married a wife named Wu Jingchun as a professor.Wu Jingchun didn't even know that her husband was a communist at the time, which shows that Liu Shuai's military strategy is really "mastery".Later, Wu Jingchun recalled: "Comrade Bo Cheng worked very hard in Shanghai, and there was no time for ease. During the day, he went outside to do liaison work, and gave military lectures in Zhabei and other places. At night, he covered the lights with a black cloth. Translating Russian one sentence at a time, often until dawn." Many people think that Liu Shuai is just a "general" and doesn't understand his "literary talent".In fact, Liu Shuai was the earliest editor-in-chief of the CCP, and he can be called an excellent military translator. Many Soviet military theories and military regulations were introduced and implemented through Liu Bocheng.It was he who first translated "cooker" as "cooker", "stableman" as "breeder", "hybrid brigade" as "mixed brigade", and "chimpanzee warfare" as "guerrilla warfare".He left 3.9 million words of military works and 1.9 million words of translations in his life, and he contributed a lot to the regularization of the Chinese army.But this is also the reason why he was later criticized as dogmatism and some generals were not convinced by him.

In 1932, Liu Bocheng entered the Soviet area and served as the principal of the Red Army School, and later served as the chief of staff of the Red Army, so he lost contact with his wife.Because of ignorance of the situation, he supported the extreme leftist position of the central government at the Ningdu Conference and deprived Mao Zedong of his military power (Mao Zedong has been criticized many times in the history of the party as a right-leaning line and a rich peasant line).It was not until the Long March that he truly realized that Mao Zedong's military genius was far superior to his own. In the struggle with Zhang Guotao, he stood firmly on Mao Zedong's side.And Mao Zedong also regarded him very highly, and used Liu Bocheng as a "handsome talent".During the War of Liberation, Mao Zedong said: "I have Liu Bocheng, and Chiang Kai-shek cannot fail." Only Lin Biao and Liu Bocheng received such high praise from Mao Zedong in the military.

In 1936, when the three main forces of the Red Army joined forces, the 44-year-old Chief of Staff of the Red Army "Liu Bandit Bocheng" suddenly became very poetic and wrote a love letter to a 19-year-old female Red Army member named Wang Ronghua who joined the army from Lu'an, Anhui. And it's petty lowercase written with a brush.The two got married in a flash on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which belongs to what Jin Yong said is an ideal marriage that is both "love at first sight" and "growth forever". (Picture): Wang Ronghua, Female Red Army Wang Ronghua joined the Red Army at the age of 14, crossed the grassland three times, and escaped death. After marrying Liu Shuai, because of the cruel war, he also gathered less and separated more.But they enjoy themselves and live a frank and natural life.Except for the eldest daughter who was assassinated by the enemy, their other 6 sons and daughters all graduated from college, have expertise in learning, are low-key and simple, and have inherited Liu Shuai's style.Liu Bocheng passed away in 1986, which happened to be the year of their golden wedding.Liu Bocheng's health was not good in his later years, but he followed the saying "If you are sick, you can live for a hundred years".Although Liu Bocheng has a high status, he never took power. He neither called "Boss Liu" or "Boss Liu", and he didn't even like being called "Shuai Liu". The reason why he served as the commander of the 120th Division.Mao Zedong said that Liu Bocheng was a dragon that could not be stopped by the river. In addition to Liu Bocheng being a dragon, it also meant that after Liu Bocheng came out of Sichuan, he jumped all the way, became more active and stretched.

Some references in this article: "Liu Bocheng Biography" (Contemporary China Publishing House, November 1992), "Marshal Liu Bocheng of China", Zhang Hongsheng "Wang Ronghua Biography" (China Literature and History Publishing House, January 2006), Liu Taihang "Forever the Son of Taihang Mountain" (" Xiang Chao "2006, Issue 8"), Li Pu "A Generation of Military Wizards: The Biography of Marshal Liu Bocheng" (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, July 1997), Luo Huixiang "Marshal Liu Bocheng and His Wife Wang Ronghua", Ji Xiaoping "Liu Bocheng Teaching Children The Story of Establishing a Revolutionary Family Tradition" ("Procuratorial Daily" Issue 3324), Meng Hong "Liu Bocheng and Wang Ronghua: The Long March Husband and Wife Unite Together" ("Literature and History Spring and Autumn" 2007 Issue 5), "Memoirs of Liu Bocheng" (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 1981 )