Edison said: "Genius is 1% inspiration plus 99% sweat, but that 1% inspiration is the most important, even more important than that 99% sweat!" The inspiration mentioned here is actually a kind of luck, which is very important. Although many people like to attribute their success to "sweat" after success, luck is still very important.
Frank H. Netter, considered as one of the most influential economists in the 20th century, didn't even say a word about this "importance". He said that the three conditions that determine a person's wealth are birth, luck and hard work. Of the three, the effort is the least. Although extreme, it is understandable if it is used as a discourse that emphasizes luck.
Hu Lian (1907—1977), Han nationality, was born in Huaxian County (now Huazhou District, Shaanxi Province). A first-class army general in the Republic of China, graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy in the fourth phase, and was affiliated to the Civil Engineering Department of Chen Cheng. He was a famous general in the later period of the Kuomintang government's rule of the mainland. Also known as "Erhu" with Hu Zongnan. The former is called "King of Guinness" and the latter is called "King of Northwest", but it is popular among Jiang Jun that "ten northwest kings are not worth one King of Guinness". Why is there such a statement? Here, we put aside "sweat" and only talk about Hu Lian's luck.
Nanma, the resident town of Yiyuan County, Zibo City, is located in the hinterland of central Shandong, surrounded by mountains, and it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. 1947 The Battle of South Malaysia, which took place here, was a famous mountain battle, and the battle was extremely heroic and cruel.
The background of the campaign is: After Meng Lianggu's victory in May, after more than 40 days' rest, the Kuomintang troops regrouped 1 1 reorganization division with more than 240,000 men in 32 brigades, adopted intensive and gradual tactics, and launched the third attack on Yimeng Mountain area from June 25th in an attempt to annihilate the main force of the East China Field Army in central Shandong. As a result, more than 65,438+10,000 soldiers fought bloody battles for four consecutive days and nights, killing more than 9,000 people. Although it failed to destroy the enemy due to many factors, it effectively coordinated the great feat of Liu Deng's army advancing into the Central Plains and opened a new page in the people's liberation war from strategic defense to strategic attack.
The 11th Division of Nanma, adapted from enemy troops on the defensive, is one of the "five main forces" of the Kuomintang army, all equipped with American machinery. As a teacher, Hu Lian spent more than 20 days in South Malaysia to build a series of ingenious fortifications, including a large number of forts, which were tenaciously defended. After three days and three nights of continuous onslaught, four columns in Hua Ye launched a general assault on the afternoon of July 15, and 1 1 Division reorganized, resulting in heavy casualties. At that time, the Kuomintang reinforcements were blocked by me and could not be approached. Seeing that Hu Lian was powerless, he was almost desperate under the increasingly fierce attack of our army.
However, it is in this case that Hu Lian's luck came. In desperation, he led all the staff in the headquarters to burn incense and bow down and pray for God's blessing. As a result, God's blessing was really bowed down by him-on the day of bowing down, it rained heavily, and it was seven days and seven nights, and my attacking troops were delayed by the rain. He telegraphed Chen Cheng for help in the rain, and Chen Cheng was worried that his family fortune would be destroyed. He sent troops and ordered that Hu Lian should be rescued at all costs. As a result, the 25th Division and the 64th Division rushed to reinforce one after another. After a fierce battle with the superior enemy, I was forced to retreat, and Hu Lian dodged a bullet because of the rain. This kind of luck is ubiquitous in Hu Lian's life, even throughout Hu Lian's life.
Hu Lian was born in a poor family. When he was a child, his family was poor. Although he has several acres of barren land, he can't support his family. He has a brother and a sister, and three brothers and sisters. In case of disaster, they can only live a life of hunger, cold and clothing. Therefore, in addition to farming to support his family, his father Hu Jingyan also made a living as a short-term worker. Fortunately, Hu Lian was very smart since he was a child, and let his family see the hope of turning over. He scrimped and saved, sent him to a private school and sent him to a high school in Huaxian County. I hope he can be a teacher in the future and be a decent person in the village.
Because of this little dream, after Hu Lian graduated, his parents took a fancy to Wu Xiuwa, a woman from a poor family in his hometown. Hu Lian didn't object, but he was very reluctant. After marrying Wu Xiuwa, he worked as a clerk in Feng's Second National Army Brigade. I heard that Huangpu Military Academy was enrolling students, so he went to enroll with his family. As a result, 1925, he was admitted to Guangzhou Huangpu Military Academy and entered the Army Corps. 1March, 926, I entered the fourth step, the first group and the seventh company.
This process is very sad and lucky for Hu Lian. Sadly, his family is too poor to pay the tuition. Fortunately, his wife Wu Xiuwa is very supportive. She not only sold her dowry, but also went back to her parents' house to mobilize her family to sell the land, which made up for Hu Lian's tuition. In this way, Hu Lian began his military school life in Guangzhou. It should be said that he is grateful to Wu Xiuwa at this moment, but he is silent about marrying Wu Xiuwa in his hometown and rarely writes home at ordinary times. Wu Xiuwa waited hard, but what followed was that he was luckier than meeting Wu Xiuwa, that is, around 1933. He became the head of the 66th Division of1/kloc-0, and was deeply appreciated by Chen Cheng, and returned home with his new wife.
Who's the new wife? Zeng Boxi's sister Zeng Guangyu. Zeng Boxi has this resume: 1905 1939, from Baoshi Village, Yufang Township, Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province. Graduated from the fifth party and government class of the Central Training Corps. Participated in the second Eastern Expedition and Northern Expedition. He has served as the platoon, company, battalion and head of the National Revolutionary Army, and the chief of staff of Major General of the 11th Division. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he served as major general commander of Xunrao Division in Jiangxi Province. Senior staff officer of the ninth theater commander's headquarters. /kloc-0 died in Ganzhou in the winter of 939. Hu Lian is a battalion commander of 1932, stationed in Ganzhou, Jiangxi. Zeng Boxi, then the chief of staff of 1 1 Division Major General, introduced him to his sister. Later, under the care and introduction of Zeng Boxi, he was promoted to the Department of Civil Engineering in Chen Cheng. Zeng Guangyu was born in a noble family, graduated from a senior girls' middle school in Nanchang, and came together with Hu Lian under the introduction of her brother.
When the new wife is brought back, Wu Xiuwa cries and makes trouble, but what can a peasant woman change? Since then, there has been no news about her life in Hu Lian. Besides bringing Hu Lian closer to the center of power and climbing up, Zeng Guangyu also brought another unpredictable "love" to Hu Lian from Hu Lian. Although Hu Lian had some unpleasant voices when she married Zeng Guangyu, such as Hu Lian marrying her as an official, she knew in her heart that Hu Lian loved herself. She devoted herself to Hu Lian, not only taking care of Hu Lian in life, bearing children for Hu Lian, but even making her cousin Zeng Guangxian a "concubine" of Hu Lian.
Things have to start with the battle of stone tablets in the bonfire of the Anti-Japanese War. Shipai is a small village on the right bank of Xiling Gorge in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River (now Yiling District of Yichang City). It is named after a huge stone similar to a token in Xiangbishan in the south of the gorge. Since ancient times, it has been a battleground for military strategists and its strategic position is very important. 1937 Songhu Sino-Japanese War failed, 12 Nanjing fell. 1938, 10 In June, the Japanese army invaded Wuhan and the government of the Republic of China was forced to move its capital to Chongqing. The steep Three Gorges of the Yangtze River has become the natural barrier of the capital. Shipai is about 20 kilometers away from Yichang. Since the Japanese army occupied Yichang, it has become the first gateway to defend Chongqing as the capital.
At that time, the Japanese tried to intimidate Chongqing by sailing against the current. Shipai Yangjiaxi had a steep geographical position, so it became a national defense fortress to defend Chongqing as its capital. 1943, the Chinese and Japanese armies fought fiercely here, and the Japanese army won a brilliant victory. This is a famous battle in which the Japanese army defeated the strong with the weak and finally won a great victory at a small cost. The small stone tablet became famous for a while and was called "Stalingrad, China".
Hu Lian became famous in this battle. Before the war, he was ready to die and wrote five letters to say goodbye to his family overnight. Two of them are as follows:
His letter to his wife is like this:
His letter to his father is like this:
How many people can really understand what these two short letters used to mean in America? But after the war, Hu Lian began to want to marry another wife, probably because of the military occupation. It stands to reason that Zeng Guangyu should oppose this matter, but what people didn't expect was that Zeng Guangyu actively mediated from it, which made Hu Lian's feelings and marriage go smoothly. She thought of her own cousin Zeng Guangxian, and reached an agreement with Zeng Guangxian to be his wife and concubine, living a life of two women serving one husband.
Unexpectedly, Zeng Guangyu and Zeng Guangxian not only lived in peace after marriage, but also used their own efforts to make Hu Lian more "happy" in family life-Zeng Guangxian took care of the front line, Zeng Guangyu took care of the children at home, and finally gave birth to eight children-his sister Zeng Guangyu had three sons: Hu, Hu Zhiyao; Sister Zeng Guangxian has five daughters: Hu, Hu Zhiyu, Hu, Hu Zhiqing.
This is another "good luck" of Hu Lian, but his "good luck" is not limited to these: in the second stage of the Huaihai Campaign, he was in Nanjing, and in order to help Huang Wei set up his defense, he came to Shuangduiji by small plane. Finally, the tide disappeared, and Huang Wei and he broke through in two tanks. Even, he gave the new tank to Huang Wei, but the tank that Huang Wei was riding soon got stuck in the mud and became a prisoner. The old tank he was riding was mistaken by our army for his own tank. Some soldiers made way for him in a friendly way and finally let him escape the fate of being captured like Huang Wei. At that time, because he was afraid of being a prisoner, he asked the medical staff for a lot of sleeping pills before he broke through, and prepared to take the medicine to commit suicide when he couldn't leave, but those sleeping pills were useless.
After following Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan Province Province, Hu Lian was also very lucky. At that time, the life of some national generals and their families who followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan Province Province was not very good, but Hu Lian became an accident. Not only did he have his own mansion in Taiwan Province, but Jiang Jingguo also arranged more residences for his descendants. There are two reasons: first, his loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek remains unchanged; Second, when his wife, Zeng Guangyu, was in the Mainland, she was called "Mrs. Foreign Affairs". She was very sociable and had close ties with the wives of Song Meiling and Jiang Jingguo. At the same time, his luck on the battlefield is still very good.
1957, Hu Lian became the defense commander of kinmen. 1On August 23, 958, the People's Liberation Army on the Fujian front shelled Kinmen. In this artillery battle, the People's Liberation Army killed three deputy commanders of the Kuomintang army, namely Zhao Jiaxiang, Jason and Ji Xingwen, but as the commander, Hu Lian quickly ran to the underground bunker and was very lucky to get back his life ... It was in this "good luck" that Hu Lian worked until he was 60 years old. It is said that the central highway in Kinmen is named after his word "Apollo". In addition, he established a brewery in Kinmen to produce sorghum liquor, which is still the main source of local income.
These experiences of Hu Lian tell people that good luck must be real, and its source should include the sacrifice and fulfillment of others. However, it should be very disgraceful for Hu Lian who abandoned his first wife.