Originally, as early as the establishment of the Three Verticals, the first commander, who was the original commander of the Third Division, asked for Li Ziyuan by name. However, the new commander of the military region explained the political commissar and named Li Ziyuan to stay, but he was ultimately helpless. No one dared to change the political commissar's words, and Li Ziyuan could only stay.

If it turns out that the troops of the 129th Division were a big family, and that the division commander of some mothers-in-law was a loving mother, then the political commissar who had always been extremely strict was a strict father. On the matter of cadre transfer, the division commander has always given full respect to the political commissar. Otherwise, how could the later Jin, Hebei, Luyu and Henan Field Army be called Liu Deng's army?

When the first column was formed by the Taihang Military Region, Li Ziyuan was forcibly detained by the new commander of the Military Region. As a result, when the Sixth Column was newly formed, Li Ziyuan, who had already been appointed as the brigade commander, was still left behind for this reason to serve as the brigade commander of the independent brigade of the Taihang Military Region.

When the Taihang Military Region formed the Ninth Column in 47 years, Li Ziyuan, who had also been designated as the brigade commander, was mainly responsible for external and mobile operations with the Fourth Column. Except for Jinnan, he basically no longer fought on the battlefield in Shanxi.

The first deputy commander of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, who took over the command of the Shanxi battlefield and the former commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army, used the same reason to name the general and forced him to stay. Li Ziyuan, in the capacity of a local armed force, successively participated in all the operations in which the Taihang Military Region participated.

From southern Jin to northern Henan, from Longhai Road, Yuncheng to Linfen battlefield, they all participated as local armed forces, and they have always undertaken the most important tasks. It's just that despite being on the battlefield in Shanxi, Li Ziyuan can't help but say that he is not entrusted with a heavy task. But for Li Ziyuan, the world of the Shanxi battlefield is still a little too small, so he always feels that he has nowhere to use his strength.

Li Ziyuan, who always felt that he couldn't make it hard, saw that he had already hit the outside line at this time, successively attacked the Longhai line, southwest Lu, and leaped thousands of miles into Dabie Mountain, Liu Deng's army could only stare dryly in all its previous actions, and he could only reluctantly shrink on the battlefield in Shanxi and command some independent regiments to fight.

Fortunately, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Front Army, who took over the Shanxi battlefield, has extremely high military quality and ability. Although the old troops and the main forces are almost cultivated into a batch of upgrades and pulled away a batch. Either they were transferred to the northwest to fight or incorporated into the main force of the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan Field Army, or they basically formed an outer line corps, and remained in the newly formed troops or local armed forces.

These places are poorly armed and equipped, with only more than 30 mountain artillery pieces and a small number of mortars, and the number of artillery shells is also seriously insufficient. Some regiments did not even have heavy machine guns, and the number of light machine guns was only a few. Light and heavy machine gun ammunition is generally less than a base, and rifle ammunition averages only 30 rounds each.

However, on the Shanxi battlefield, relying on poor equipment and strong elite soldiers, a group of local armed forces that were transferred away one after another, became more and more exciting in the Shanxi battlefield. Relying on tunneling and blasting tactics, Yuncheng and Linfen, two well-fortified cities, were conquered successively. In the first battle of Jinzhong, with 60,000 troops, he annihilated the main force of the Jin Sui army of 100,000 people in one fell swoop.

However, the command post was incorporated into the Taihang Military Region and finally reorganized into a column, which was also the 13th Column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, which had not yet been merged into the North China Military Region. In the Battle of Jinzhong, Li Ziyuan fought continuously with the strength of a brigade and defeated nine regiments of the Jin Sui Army.

Immediately, he concentrated his forces and annihilated the 10th Corps composed of the Jin Sui Army and the Japanese army that was retained. In the entire Jinzhong Campaign, Li Ziyuan gave full play to the spirit of continuous combat and fought the whole battle as a mobile force in the entire Jinzhong Campaign. The greatest result of all the troops participating in the battle was achieved, and more than 30 mountain artillery pieces were captured.

During the Shanxi battlefield, Li Ziyuan not only fought quite well on the battlefield, but also gave full play to the characteristics of being good at training. Batches of local armed forces will be built into elite soldiers and strong generals, and they will be continuously delivered to the main force. The Lao Ludong Independent Second Regiment that he brought out single-handedly, as well as the First Regiment and the New Second Regiment that presided over the whole training.

During the entire Liberation War, it was the first-class main force of Liu Deng's army. An independent brigade that later served as a brigade commander also became two sharp knives in Chen Xie's army. And a group of main forces handed over to him have been upgraded and transferred away, and after being transferred, he has become the fist force in the remaining troops.

It became the brigade with the strongest combat effectiveness among the last column established in the Taihang Military Region, and also the brigade with the strongest combat effectiveness in the entire Shanxi battlefield. In the first battle in which the column was formed and participated, it was particularly eye-catching. Every time he fought, he was used as a steel knife unit.

Originally, when this column was formed, Li Ziyuan was appointed deputy commander. But he didn't want to stay on it, he still wanted to lead the troops to fight on the front line. In the end, under the leadership of the commander-in-chief, who served as the first deputy commander of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region and had full command of the Shanxi battlefield, he served as the deputy commander of the column and the commander of the main brigade.

It's just that despite his excellent performance on the battlefield in Shanxi, Li Ziyuan did not live well during the entire Liberation War. He could only watch his comrades-in-arms gallop across the land of the Central Plains, fighting bigger battles than the other, and they were all fighting the elite of the Central Army, such as the Fifth Army, the Eighth Army, and the 11th Division.

Li Ziyuan, who was bent on competing with the five main forces over there, especially the U.S. armament force. But it can only be nested in a corner of the Shanxi battlefield, competing with the Jin Sui army, which is a little worse in combat effectiveness, or the miscellaneous army over there. The Huaihai Campaign, which shocked China and foreign countries, didn't even see it, let alone participate in it.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he learned from an old comrade-in-arms who had been working beside the head of the field army for a long time that the political commissar who left him in the Shanxi battlefield also regretted it. The division commander often said that when the war was not going well, he often said that if Li Ziyuan was here, these bones would have been gnawed down a long time ago. It's just that things have changed, and once you miss something, you can never get it back.

Compared with the unsatisfactory on the battlefield, what made him more painful. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the wife of the Minister of Democracy Movement of a certain local party committee, when Liu Deng's army attacked the Longhai Line, when he led the southward support team to transport supplies, he encountered an air attack by enemy planes in a certain place in Jincheng.

Chang Juan, who was escorting supplies with the militia and a local armed force, in order to protect the materials and the people in front of the support, ignored the bombing and strafing of several enemy planes in turn, and was killed on the spot when he was directing the masses in front of the support to transfer materials.

After receiving this bad news, Li Ziyuan, who had just commanded the troops to complete the southward strategy to respond to the main force of the field army and attack the Longhai line, almost fainted on the spot. When he took his daughter, who was already babbling, to greet his wife, he only brought back a coffin.

If it weren't for the old squad leader, who had been transferred to the deputy director of the supply department of the Ludong Army Division, and Ma Yongcheng, who was the political commissar of the division at the time, who had been accompanying him all the time, he really didn't know how to get through the exhaustion. Holding his daughter, who still doesn't know his biological mother and is already separated forever, Li Ziyuan's heart is broken.

Li Ziyuan, who was only in his twenties, looked at his wife's coffin, and his originally black hair turned half white overnight. He didn't even dare to close his eyes, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he remembered what his wife said in her arms on the night the child was taken away: "If one day I die, I don't ask you to guard for me, I just ask you not to wronged our daughter." And when the whole country is liberated, I will go to Taiyuan City to see my parents. ”

"Take our daughter to kowtow to them for me, and say that my daughter is sorry for them and can't support them in their old age. Tell my younger siblings to take care of their parents. It's just a pity that I, who was an older sister, came out in clothes when I participated in the revolution, and I couldn't leave anything for them. ”

remembered that he was still complaining about his wife's cranky thoughts, but he didn't expect that the words he used as a joke at the beginning have really become a reality now. The husband and wife who haven't seen each other for more than half a year have been separated forever when they meet again. Holding Chang Juan's only relative to himself, Li Ziyuan burst into tears.

After Chang Juan's sacrifice, many people introduced Li Ziyuan to the object. Even Ma Yongcheng asked him to come out early, and asked his wife Yang Jing to find a pretty beautiful college student for Li Ziyuan in the Ministry of Health. But Li Ziyuan, who was already disheartened, never agreed. Even despite the opposition of the old squad leader, he took his daughter over and took care of it himself.

His subordinates often saw the chief, who had once feared the enemy on the battlefield, holding his daughter and feeding him mouthful. The big hands that commanded him on the battlefield were busy bathing, washing her hair, and washing her clothes whenever she had spare time. Even the water for his daughter's bath, he had to boil it himself, and he never refused to fake others.

The seized American canned food or milk powder and other trophies, I was reluctant to eat a bite, so I carefully collected them and brought them back to my daughter. The children are always kept clean, and as long as they don't fight, the dirty clothes on their bodies never stay overnight. Li Ziyuan also took some time to make a lot of literacy cards, and held the child to read or count when he had time.

If your child is sick, hold your child overnight. In winter, I was afraid that the child would freeze, so I looked for someone to sew thick cotton clothes for the child everywhere. In summer, I am afraid that the child will be hot, so I will fan the child with a fan for a night. If you don't want your child to have parasites, you must bathe and wash your child's hair as long as conditions permit. As long as there is no fighting, they cook for the children with their own hands.

Although the child lost his mother, he received complete fatherly love. All the people who saw this scene couldn't help but sigh for a long time, feeling that God is too good at playing tricks on people. Such a loving couple, who have only been married for a few years, are already separated forever. If the child's mother is here, his own chief will still have such a hard time.

It's just Li Ziyuan's stubbornness that makes everyone helpless. Even if I feel sorry for the father and daughter, there is no way. Everyone can only follow and be anxious, and no one can convince Li Ziyuan. Even the old squad leader could only stare at Li Ziyuan's current situation and was helpless.

I was afraid that Li Ziyuan would not take care of the old squad leader who did not take care of the children, but after persuading Li Ziyuan to no avail, he could also follow Li Ziyuan's wishes. and his wife took as much time as possible to help their grandfather wash and wash up. If Li Ziyuan has a combat mission, he will go to the army to help take care of the children.

The old squad leader really feels sorry for the child. The child was taken over at the full moon, and the old squad leader, who did not have his own children, regarded the child as his own granddaughter. After Chang Juan's sacrifice, the old squad leader resolutely opposed Li Ziyuan taking the child away. It's just that Li Ziyuan's insistence made the old squad leader lose in the end, so he could only try other ways to help