Li Youlan: He and Xiang Ying were married for a few months, and then they separated forever, and they have been together with Zhang Aiping for a long time.

This poem was written by General Zhang Aiping to his wife Li Youlan in 1974. Every word in the poem praises his beloved wife. Li Youlan is known as "the orchid in the army". She is noble and elegant, beautiful and generous, and has been a soldier all her life. She has worked hand in hand with General Zhang Aiping for more than 60 years and is old.

When it comes to the process of two people meeting and falling in love, we have to go back to the end of 1942+ 1. At that time, the Central China Bureau held a meeting in Shanjiagang, Funing, northern Jiangsu, and all the cadres above the brigade level of the New Fourth Army participated. Li Youlan acted as a stenographer at the meeting. After the meeting began, Commander Chen Yi spoke.

Zhang Aiping, then deputy commander of the Third Division, also attended the meeting. During the dinner, a comrade suggested that Zhang Aiping, the former brigade commander of the Ninth Brigade, take the stage to talk about how the Ninth Brigade developed from guerrillas into the main force of the New Fourth Army in a tough environment behind enemy lines. Zhang Aiping was named on the stage. He didn't prepare the manuscript. He stepped onto the stage and saluted the comrades in the audience.

Zhang Aiping knew the history of the Ninth Brigade like the back of his hand, and told his own experiences to the comrades attending the meeting. His speech was clear and realistic, which not only talked about the difficulties encountered by the ninth brigade, but also talked about the achievements made by the ninth brigade. After Zhang Aiping's speech, thunderous applause rang out from the audience. The experience of the ninth brigade is of great significance to other brothers.

Early the next morning, a female soldier of the New Fourth Army sent Zhang Aiping a written record of his speech yesterday. At first glance, Zhang Aiping found this transcript with neat font and beautiful handwriting. He read it carefully and found that the contents recorded in the transcript were clear and consistent with his own meaning.

Such a serious record has attracted the attention of Zhang Aiping. He looked up at the female soldier who sent the transcript and saw that the female soldier was tall, handsome and had big eyes. The female soldier left a deep impression on Zhang Aiping. The next day, when he asked, he found that the girl's name was Li Youlan.

Li Youlan, a native of xiaogang town, Ningbo, was born into a patriotic businessman family. Li Youlan's father, Li Shanxiang, was a patriotic industrialist who saved the country with industry all his life. 19 12 years, in order to develop the country's industry, he chose to resign as the county magistrate of Zhenhai county and start a business in Jinzhou with his wife and children.

He founded Hengkang Farm in western Liaoning, introduced Siemens generators, and started businesses and oil mills. He first carried out joint-stock management in Northeast China, used agricultural machinery for farming for the first time, and planted rice on saline-alkali land for the first time and achieved success. He reclaimed land in the suburbs of Jinzhou, drilled dozens of wells, planted apples, and cultivated varieties such as Marshal Hong and Guoguang apples.

Li Shanxiang is a business wizard, but he didn't just care about his wealth, but chose to give back to the society. He founded Gengyu Academy, including primary schools, middle schools and universities, so that children with excellent grades from poor families can study and study for free. Such a patriotic businessman, he taught his children from an early age, but didn't teach his girls how to do business. How to earn more wealth? Is to teach children patriotism.

From an early age, Li Youlan listened to his father's heroic story about Cai E's resistance to Yuan Shikai and Huanghuagang's seventy-two martyrs, which also buried the ideal of saving the country and the people in Li Youlan's heart when he was young. This is actually what Li Shanxiang has been doing all his life. He passed on his patriotic thoughts to his children. After the "September 18th Incident", more than 0/200,000 square kilometers of land in Northeast China fell, and more than 30 million compatriots in Northeast China were bullied by the Japanese aggressors.

Li Shanxiang is famous in Jinzhou area. The Japanese invaders wooed Li Shanxiang and made him the "president of the peasant association" in Jinzhou. Li Shanxiang flatly refused. Li Shanxiang returned to his hometown Xiaogang with his family. He actively participated in the anti-Japanese cause and built hospitals for the wounded at the front.

Li Youlan is the apple of Li Shanxiang's eye. He has lived a rich life since childhood, but he is not a delicate rich girl. She cares about national affairs. With her father's encouragement, she and her sisters began to organize anti-Japanese propaganda teams and rescue teams. Later, Li Shanxiang even sent his children to the anti-Japanese front. Like Mulan, an ancient girl in China, she joined the army on behalf of her father. When the motherland was in danger, she went to the anti-Japanese front without hesitation.

Of Li Shanxiang's four sons and daughters who went to the front, two had been in concentration camps and two had a narrow escape. After the founding of New China, Li Shanxiang donated all the industries in Northeast China to the country for free, and the Li family gave everything to the motherland. Li Youlan and Zhang Aiping met for the first time, not in 1942, but earlier in 1938. At that time, Li Youlan and other progressive youths came to Wuhan and wanted to go to Yan 'an, the revolutionary holy land, through the office of the Eighth Route Army in Wuhan.

At this time, Wuhan was full of Kuomintang spies, and Li Youlan and his party attracted the attention of the spies. As a fellow villager, the head of the intelligence department of the Kuomintang Wuhan Command wooed these progressive youths. Li Youlan and others pretended to leave Wuhan soon and got rid of the entanglement of Kuomintang spies.

They went to the office of the Eighth Route Army in Wuhan and said to the receptionist, "We are going to Yan 'an, and we want to see Vice Minister Zhou. "Vice minister zhou is premier zhou. At that time, he was the deputy director of the Eighth Route Army office in Wuhan. The delegation decided to meet with Vice Minister Zhou.

As the duty officer of the Eighth Route Army office in Wuhan, Zhang Aiping knew that Vice Minister Zhou had a heavy workload and didn't want his classmates to disturb him. Later, Zhang Aiping recalled: "At that time, these students were really helpless and insisted on seeing Premier Zhou." Li Youlan said with a smile: "I am one of those dozen people."

Zhang Aiping knows that he met his beloved wife in Wuhan on 1938. Later, Vice Minister Zhou heard the noise and came out to understand the situation. Regardless of fatigue, he let his classmates in and listened to the purpose of their visit. When Vice Minister Zhou heard that these students were going to Yan 'an to take part in the anti-Japanese struggle.

Vice Minister Zhou frowned and said, "fenglingdu has been occupied by Japanese invaders, so it is difficult to go to Yan 'an. I think you should be sent to Nanchang New Fourth Army Headquarters. " The students nodded, so under the care of Vice Minister Zhou, they went to the military office of the New Fourth Army in Nanchang with other students, and met Zhang Aiping and hurried for the first time.

Zhang Aiping was deeply impressed by the girl, and she had a good feeling in her heart. In the winter in northern Jiangsu, the wind is cold, dripping into ice, and people wearing big cotton-padded jackets are shivering. As a stenographer of the New Fourth Army, Li Youlan had to record the leaders' speeches at the meeting, so gloves were necessary.

One day, before Li Youlan started to work, he suddenly found that his gloves were missing. She looked all over the house and outside, but found no sign of gloves, thinking that she was going to freeze her job. Suddenly, there was a gentle knock at the door. When Li Youlan opened the door, she met Zhang Aiping and handed her her maroon gloves.

Li Youlan saw the chief pick up his gloves and thanked him. "Thank you, Chief." Zhang Aiping smiled and said to Li Youlan, "Don't call the steward, the steward. I have something to ask. I hope you don't refuse. " When Li Youlan heard the chief say this, he asked, "Is there anything else the chief wants from me? I can't afford it. "

Zhang Aiping cut to the chase and said, "I read your transcript and it's very well written. I want to learn shorthand from you. Will you accept me as an apprentice? Teacher Li. " Li Youlan just nodded. Later, during the meeting, Zhang Aiping often followed Li Youlan to learn shorthand, and he learned it in ten days.

At this time, Zhang Aiping has developed a favorable impression on Li Youlan. After more than ten days of getting along, he thinks that Li Youlan is "a virtuous woman who can be taken as a bosom friend and become a lifelong companion." Zhang Aiping often meets Li Youlan after class. It seems that we have known each other for a long time, and there are endless words.

Half a month later, the meeting ended. Zhang Aiping is going back to the Third Division, while Li Youlan is going back to the Central Party School to study. At the moment of parting, the two finally met, and the sad atmosphere spread. Two people walking side by side by the river, didn't speak, or Zhang Aiping broke the calm.

He took a captured stainless steel dagger and a small silver ring from his pocket and gave it to Li Youlan. He said to her, "Keep it as a souvenir." Li Youlan took the gift with both hands. The next day, Li Youlan gave Zhang Aiping a copy of strategy and tactics and a record folder with a black cover.

To their delight, the headquarters of the Third Division is not far from the Central China Party School, only 15 km away. Therefore, between each command battle, Zhang Aiping always rode a bordeaux horse and came to Wangzhuji to meet Li Youlan. Zhang Aiping took a camera captured from the battlefield and took pictures of Li Youlan "click, click", which left a beautiful image of Li Youlan.

Later, the fighting on the anti-Japanese front became more and more fierce, and Zhang Aiping had no time to get away, so he had to agree to write a letter to Li Youlan, and they contacted each other by letter. But for two months in a row, Li Youlan didn't receive a letter, and later learned that he was detained by the section chief. Li Youlan found the section chief and asked for a dozen letters from Zhang Aiping. He read letter by letter carefully and saw the last letter. Among them, Zhang Aiping wrote this sentence: "I haven't received your reply. Are you sick? I'll see you again in a few days. "

From these dozens of letters, Li Youlan also understood Zhang Aiping's mind. She was unhappy that the section chief withheld her letter. While Li Youlan was reading the letter, someone knocked at the door. It was Zhang Aiping who opened the door. Zhang Aiping smiled and said, "You really know where to doze off here. You and I are not equal. I wrote you ten letters. Why didn't you answer me a word? "

Li Youlan said indignantly: "This has just been received." Li Youlan explained the reason to Zhang Aiping, and the section chief stopped the school cadres from falling in love and withheld the letter. Zhang Aiping looked angry and smiled and said, "You Lan, I want to thank you, the boss. I want to thank him in person. "

Li Youlan said unhappily, "Thank him? He is an old feudal. "Zhang Aiping learned from Li Youlan's anxious expression that Li Youlan was concerned about himself. He said to Li Youlan, "You boss, let me know that you are still anxiously waiting for my letter, and I will be satisfied."

Li Youlan pretended to be angry and said to Zhang Aiping, "Where is it? I'm worried about your safety at the front. " Zhang Aiping was happier and said with a smile, "Good! Don't hit yourself. " At this moment, Li Youlan blushed, speechless and surprised by Zhang Aiping's alertness and optimism.

It is another summer. It is rainy in summer in northern Jiangsu. One day, it suddenly rained heavily, and the house where Li Youlan lived collapsed. Li Youlan was soaked to the skin, hiding under the eaves of his neighbor's house, and saw a bordeaux horse coming at a distance. In the rain, a familiar face rode to Li Youlan. He is Zhang Aiping.

Zhang Aiping was worried about Li Youlan's safety when she heard that her residence had collapsed. He braved the heavy rain and rushed to Li Youlan immediately. His military uniform was soaked to the skin, but he still had a smile on his face. He asked nervously, "Lan, the house collapsed. Are you all right? " Li Youlan shook his head and said he was fine. Zhang Aiping took out a thick coat from a package on horseback and put it on Li Youlan.

Li Youlan wearing this dress, suddenly feel a lot warmer, two people standing side by side under the eaves. Zhang Aiping suddenly said, "Youlan, will you marry me?" In fact, a few days ago, Zhang Aiping asked Li Youlan for advice, but Li Youlan had a short marriage before, so she thought more.

194 1 year, Li Youlan and Xiang Ying, deputy commander of the New Fourth Army, became revolutionary partners, and the Southern Anhui Incident broke out shortly after their marriage. Li Youlan was arrested by the Kuomintang reactionaries, put into a concentration camp and later rescued by his father Li Shanxiang. Xiang Ying led the troops to break through to Liankeng Village and continue fighting.

194 1 14 In the early morning of March, Xiang Ying's adjutant Liu Houzong killed Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun with a pistol and wounded the guard Huang Cheng. When the guards arrived nearby, they found that Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun were dead, and immediately sent someone to arrest the traitor Liu Houzong. At this time, Li Youlan had been married to Xiang Ying for several months, and it was heartbreaking to separate heaven and man forever.

Therefore, after Zhang Aiping proposed marriage, Li Youlan said to Zhang Aiping: "Our marriage must be approved by Commander Chen Yi, otherwise I can't stand the criticism and discussion behind it." Two days later, Zhang Aiping rode again, smiling and holding a special document.

Zhang Aiping handed Li Youlan the special approval document of Chen Yi's army commander's marriage, only to find that at the bottom of the marriage application report, there were two big characters written by Chen Yi's army commander, "Agree". Zhang Aiping also took out a Parker pen from his pocket, which was a wedding gift from Commander Chen Yi to the young couple.

Li Youlan looked at the marriage application and said with a smile, "I want to marry you. Not today, is it? " Zhang Aiping said, "Why not today? Come back with me. " Li Youlan jumped on the horse, and Zhang Aiping stepped onto it with vigorous steps. Li Youlan held Zhang Aiping's waist tightly, and the couple rode away.

1On August 8th, 942, Zhang Aiping and Li Youlan officially became revolutionary couples, and the thatched cottage became a wedding room. That night, Li Youlan carved a "Ping" on the Parker pen sent by Commander Chen Yi, and hung it carefully in Zhang Aiping's pocket.

1943, the Japanese Puppet Army dispatched 20,000 people to launch a "sweeping" operation in Yanfu, where the headquarters of the New Fourth Army is located. The Third Division Command and the Military Command were evacuated, and Zhang Aiping was ordered to lead the all-round struggle against "mopping up". The superior ordered the transfer of all non-combatants, and pregnant Li Youlan was also on the transfer list. Li Youlan first hid in a patriotic cotton merchant on the edge of the base area.

Here, near the sea, there are a batch of materials for the New Fourth Army, which can be transferred from the sea at any time. But one day, a dozen enemy planes bombed our ship at sea, which harmed the patriotic businessman. In the bombing, the merchant's warehouses and factories were all destroyed and everything was lost in an instant.

Li Youlan was buried in the rubble when the bomb exploded, but fortunately he was not injured. She escaped from the ruins and was helpless, so she had to join the army. She was pregnant with a child and walked in the enemy's "mopping up area" for three days before finally finding the new Fourth Army troops. But at this time, the troops still have tasks, and the organization decided to send her back to her hometown. To return to Xiaogang, she must pass through Shanghai.

At this time, Shanghai has been occupied by Japanese invaders, and it is an occupied area. There are sentries everywhere, and it is difficult to move without a "good citizen card". The guide who showed her the way suddenly disappeared, and she wandered the streets of Shanghai alone. Fortunately, there is a great friend of his father Li Shanxiang in Shanghai. Li Youlan found a friend of his father's in Shanghai, bought a so-called "good citizen card", and then returned to Xiaogang by boat.

By her mother's side, Li Youlan gave birth to her eldest son, Zhang Xiang. When Zhang Xiang was more than eight months old, Li Youlan missed her husband and decided to return to the army. Along the way, tigers and wolves swarmed, and Li Youlan left his children with his parents and returned to the anti-Japanese front alone. Lequn is a traffic policeman of the 35th detachment of the New Fourth Army in eastern Zhejiang, who is responsible for escorting Li Youlan to the headquarters of the 35th detachment.

The Japanese aggressors suddenly attacked, the headquarters of the 35th detachment has been evacuated, and the original station of the detachment has been occupied by the Japanese aggressors. When the boatman saw the Japanese invaders on the shore, he was frightened and wanted to turn the boat around. Lequn made a decisive decision and said to the boatman, "Boss, keep rowing forward, or the enemy will shoot and we will all die."

The boat rowed in front of the enemy, and the enemy thought it was an ordinary boat, so let it go. After climbing a mountain, Li Youlan and Lequn met several plainclothes members of the New Fourth Army, one of whom was Li Youlan's younger brother. Under the arrangement of the 35th detachment, Li Youlan and three comrades-in-arms sat on a wooden sailboat and set out from eastern Zhejiang to northern Jiangsu.

The journey was short, but it took six months, because the wooden sailboat encountered a hurricane during the voyage. The hurricane broke the mainmast, so the wooden sailboat was overturned by the wind. Without the main mast, it can only travel hard by manpower. At this time, it is the hot summer season, the burning sun shines in the sky, and people's sweat flows out, and their mouths are full of salt left by sweat evaporation and full of bitterness.

The shore was occupied by the Japanese invaders, and Japanese air rowboats passed by from time to time, so the ship dared not dock. There is less and less food and fresh water on the boat, and finally only some raw sweet potatoes are left, and these raw sweet potatoes must ensure that the boatman has enough to eat, otherwise he will have no strength to row. Passengers can only eat a few sweet potatoes every day. Li Youlan later recalled this experience and only said three words: "I'm hungry".

But to the mother's delight, she wisely left her children to her parents, and she was the only one who suffered. 1944 10, the wooden sailboat arrived safely in northern Jiangsu, and they drifted at sea for more than six months. Li Youlan recalled his first meal in northern Jiangsu and said, "What a good meal! I don't feel full after eating a big pot. "

Soon after, Li Youlan met her husband Zhang Aiping. Zhang Aiping looked at his suffering lover, and a tough guy shed tears. At this time, Li Youlan was haggard, pale and ruddy. The two couples hugged each other tightly. Later, when Li Youlan was washing clothes for her husband, she found a small notebook in his close-fitting pocket. On the title page of the notebook, she wrote:

Zhang Aiping is ready to die for his country. This is his last trust. If he dies, let his family know that he has done his best for the country. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Chiang Kai-shek brazenly tore up the peace agreement and launched a civil war. On the eve of the battle to break the stubborn enemy of Jin-Pu Railway, Zhang Aiping was seriously injured in the head.

The organization decided to let Li Youlan escort her husband to the rear hospital for rest. At that time, the rear hospital was located in Dalian, and it was a long way from northern Jiangsu to Dalian. Li Youlan took her second son, John Zhang, to take care of her injured husband and embarked on a difficult journey again. This road is full of towns occupied by Kuomintang reactionaries, and bandits from all walks of life regard mountains as king, which is very dangerous.

Li Youlan walked through Qian Shan with her child in her arms, guarding her husband's stretcher day and night. If she is really sleepy, borrow a bench from her hometown, rest on it and take care of the children. In order to prevent her son from running around, she tied a bandage on his leg and a bench on the other.

In this way, from northern Jiangsu to Jiaodong, and from Jiaodong to Dalian, Zhang Aiping was finally sent to the hospital in Dalian. During hospitalization, Li Youlan stayed with her husband day and night, and the power of love made Zhang Aiping's injury gradually heal. After the founding of New China, Zhang Aiping was ordered to be the commander of the Zhejiang Military Region, and later served as the chief of staff of the Third Field Army and the commander of the East Zhejiang Frontline Command, commanding battles such as Yijiangshan Island and recovering several islands along the southeast coast.

Li Youlan has served as the secretary of the Naval Command of the East China Military Region and the Deputy Chief of the Rank Section of the Cadre Management Department of the Zhejiang Military Region. From 65438 to 0954, Zhang Aiping was appointed as Deputy Chief of Staff, and later began to lead China's national defense construction. Li Youlan, on the other hand, took the initiative to change careers, successively serving as the director of the preparatory department of Beijing Art Teachers College, the chief of the Party Affairs Section of the Political Department Organization Department of CAAC, and the chief of the Supervision Section.

1in March, 975, Zhang Aiping came back as the director of the national defense science and technology commission, and actively led the development of China's national defense cutting-edge weapons. The superior arranged for Li Youlan to work with the general. Once again, she followed her husband to "return to Yangguan Road for ten years and fly over Qilian to Malan" and went to the vast desert in northwest China to support her husband's career.

1975, Li Youlan successively served as the headquarters office and deputy director of the office of the commission of science, technology and industry for national defense, and participated in the launch test of China's first intercontinental missile, the first underwater solid submarine-launched missile and the first geosynchronous satellite. Zhang Aiping can command amphibious operations on the battlefield and lead the cause of two bombs and one satellite in peacetime, and his literary talent is equally outstanding.

Zhang Aiping was called "a poet on horseback" by his comrades. He left many poems, photos and calligraphy works in his life, all of which are excellent. Sometimes Zhang Aiping's interest in writing poetry comes and he throws it away. Someone wrote some poems, and he threw them into the wastebasket. Li Youlan is very careful. She copied down her husband's poem and put it aside.

Later, Zhang Aiping published Chronicle and Song of Excalibur, most of which were compiled from the precious materials preserved in Li Youlan. From 1942, the two embraced on horseback in Bordeaux, and the revolutionary partners never let go of each other's hands again. They walked through ups and downs together, holding hands and always smiling at each other.

1992 On the golden wedding anniversary in Zhang Aiping and Li Youlan, children held a simple family gathering for their parents. General Zhang Aiping, 82, also invited his wife to dance, which made the guests laugh. At the celebration, a pair of couplets "ups and downs, life and death together, 50 years of spring and autumn * * * China, a hundred years of marriage" is a portrayal of their loyal love. They walked hand in hand for more than 60 years, lived alone, walked through a spring and autumn period, and wrote the true meaning of love with their lives.