One day in 1949, Zeng Xisheng, secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, approached his subordinates and asked him to help him find his comrade Liang Mingde's 14-year-old son. But while chatting, Zeng Xisheng felt that Xiang Ying's identity was inextricably linked with Liang Mingde, and he couldn't help but communicate with him more deeply. After basically grasping Xiang Ying's experience over the years, Zeng Xisheng suddenly exclaimed.
"Are you the son of Red Agent Liang Mingde? Do you remember Uncle Bearded?"
What is going on? In this issue, I will tell you the legendary experience of Liang Mingde (Xiang Yunian), a red agent who has been incognito for our party for 14 years, and the growth experience of his son Xiang Ying after his father’s disappearance. The final recognition of their father and son is that It's touching.
Father’s sudden disappearance 14 years ago
Liang Mingde’s original name is Xiang Yunian. To understand why he suddenly disappeared 14 years ago, we must first understand Chiang Kai-shek’s "Iron Barrel Project".
In mid-to-late September 1934, Chiang Kai-shek gathered important military generals in the Lushan area and held a military meeting in secret. The main purpose of this meeting is to redeploy troops on the basis of the "fifth encirclement and suppression" and to concentrate our efforts to thoroughly "suppress" our party and our army in the Ruijin area. The main content of this secret military meeting is called the "Iron Barrel Project", which was mainly planned by Chiang Kai-shek's German military adviser Hans von Seckert.
The core idea of the "Iron Bucket Project" is to "divide and attack together" and then "encircle the iron wall", which means that the national army is centered on Ruijin, trying to defeat our army from all directions, and then rely on strong troops and firepower. Cut off the Red Army’s retreat, and "smash it all with one net" after encircling Ruijin like an "iron bucket."
In order to make the so-called "iron barrel plan" successful,The national army assembled 1.5 million troops, 270 aircraft and 200 artillery from all directions, forming a huge encirclement about 150 kilometers away from Ruijin. After all the troops arrived at the designated location, these national troops moved forward at a speed of 5 kilometers a day, building a large number of fortifications and barbed wire and other obstacles every time they arrived, and at the same time equipped with tight firepower nets and guard forces.
"In this way, 30 blockades and lines of fire were formed in Ruijin a month later, no one can escape!"
In order to prevent us from breaking through after discovering their plans, German military advisers Seckett also requested the deployment of 1,000 military trucks to intercept the Red Army that broke through with high mobility in a timely manner. At the same time, the national army also adopted the method of "sounding the east and hitting the west". They sent some troops to continuously harass the Red Army in Ruijin City, hoping to distract our attention.
"It is bound to remove the bandits in Ruijin within one month!"
The senior Kuomintang generals who were meeting in Lushan at that time were all gearing up. They vowed to use the "Iron Bucket Project" to completely wipe out the Red Army. In Ruijin area. After the meeting, each participant received a "top secret document" including the continuation of the battle, the deployment of troops, the offensive route, and the time limit for the battle. Chiang Kai-shek asked everyone to sign a confidentiality agreement and repeatedly told them that this matter was absolutely absolute. Can't leak.
However, this "top secret document" fell into the hands of the Communists on the night of the meeting.
It turned out that General Mo Xiong, a red agent planted by our party in the KMT, also participated in this meeting. It was he who saved the Red Army at a critical moment. General Mo Xiong, who graduated from the Military Lecture Hall of the Army, met Liu Yafo in 1930. After joining the Party, he contacted Zhou Enlai, Li Kenong and others. It was during this time that General Xiang Yunian and Mo Xiong met.
After learning of Chiang Kai-shek's "Iron Barrel Project", General Mo Xiong handed Xiang Yunian the task of liaising with the Ruijin Central Committee. As a result, the red agent Xiang Yunian later changed his name to Liang Mingde and disappeared from his wife and children for 14 years. It was not until the founding of New China in 1949 that they began to look for them.
Xiang Yunian is a native of Liancheng County, Fujian. He joined the Party gloriously at the age of 31 (1925) and began to work underground. This place in Fujian has always had the tradition of "Going to Southeast Asia". Although Xiang Yunian is a Hakka in Liancheng County, West Fujian, he is surrounded by many friends from the coastal , Southern Fujian and the part of Eastern Fujian, so he is right. Nanyang is very familiar. It was this opportunity that made our party entrust Xiang Yunian with the task of contacting Comrade Nanyang in 1926.
At that time, Xiang Yunian's son Xiang Nan (formerly known as Xiang Chongde) was 8 years old, and his father told him to go out for business when he was about to leave. One year later, Xiang Yunian, who failed to engage in underground activities in Nanyang, returned to his hometown. He appeared to be particularly disappointed among the partners who went to Nanyang to do business. Regarding his predicament, Xiang Yunian just told his family indifferently that he had lost money in business.
Soon after, Xiang Yunian received an organizational assignment and went to Shanghai to engage in underground work. Xiang Yunian brought his family to Shanghai and lived near the Baxian Bridge. Xiang Ying was studying in a nearby elementary school. At that time, the leaders of Xiang Yunian were Premier Zhou and General Chen Geng. Xiang Yunian participated in the task of getting rid of the traitor Bai Xin . His underground work in Shanghai was very effective. It was the experience of "Sailing to Nanyang" that made Xiang Yunian successfully disguised as a businessman, even his wife and son believed it.
In October 1933, Xiang Yunian came to De'an, Jiangxi, and started intelligence work with General Mo Xiong who broke into the enemy. Saying goodbye to Xiang Yunian of his beloved wife and beloved son, I didn't see them again until the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The two parties only exchanged letters for more than a year. After Chiang Kai-shek's "Iron Bucket Project" came out, Xiang Yunian, who was responsible for the transmission of information, disappeared from his family's sight until after 1935, he was completely separated from his family.
This is why Xiang Ying has never been able to find her father. Because he always thought that his father Xiang Yunian was a businessman, even his mother thought so.The mother and son never talked about the Red Agent. Although when he was studying, some students saw Xiang Ying’s mother and son living in such poverty, but Xiang Yunian, who went out early and returned late, was also known as doing business and asked Xiang Ying jokingly whether his father was an underground party.
Xiang Ying categorically denied this idea. It was not until the moment the father and son met that Xiang Ying understood his father's identity and forgave him. But Xiang Ying, who had blamed his father when he was young, didn't know that Xiang Yunian almost sacrificed his life before sending this important information that affects the future of our party and our army to the hands of leaders in the Ruijin area.
The teacher who knocked out 4 front teeth
After attending the meeting, General Mo Xiong risked the killing of his family and told Xiang Yunian of the "Iron Bucket Plan" and asked him to send the documents to Ruijin as soon as possible. . At that time, Liu Yafo and others considered that Xiang Yunian was a Hakka, could speak the Hakka dialect and understood the local culture, so they delegated this important task to him.
General Mo Xiong and Xiang Yunian and others wrote important information with secret medicine on the student dictionary overnight. For safety, they used four dictionaries to record the "force deployment", The four aspects of "firepower allocation," "offensive plan," and "command organization", and at the same time the combat map was traced on the enemy's combat map on transparent paper with characters drawn by students. This kind of secret potion does not display the handwriting in normal times, and the handwriting on it will be displayed only after it is processed in a special way.
After bringing these four student dictionaries, Xiang Yunian dressed up as a teacher, preparing to travel from Nanchang to Ji’an and pass through Taihe County, and then from the mountainous Xingguo, Yudu Go around to Ruijin. However, Xiang Yunian did not expect that the difficulties encountered along the way were beyond imagination, and he almost died on the way.
After arriving in Taihe County, Xiang Yunian found that his road into the "Soviet Area" was completely blocked, and every road was heavily guarded. Obviously, the national army has strengthened its security after formulating the "Iron Barrel Plan", and they are also afraid that the news will be leaked out. In desperation, Xiang Yunian could only give up his plan to go directly from Taihe County to Xingguo.Go around to the densely forested mountains and continue on. Soon, the dry food he brought out was eaten. Fortunately, in late autumn, the wild fruits in the mountains and forests matured, and Xiang Yunian was able to satisfy his hunger.
On the road from Taihe County to Xingguo County , Xiang Yunian was hungry and cold, but it was relatively smooth, and it was not investigated by the Kuomintang. The non-stop driving and malnutrition made Xiang Yunian very haggard. His beard became very long without shaved for many days, and his hair was messy and messy, and his whole body was thin and skinny. Obviously, he can no longer pretend to be a decent teacher. Xiang Yunian is very anxious about this.
In Xingguo County, which is closer to Ruijin, the enemy is full of sentries, and even the exits of the forests have related cards. Xiang Yunian saw these Kuomintang soldiers from a distance. He knew that such an image of himself could not pass the test, and the four dictionaries in his bag would surely arouse the enemy's suspicion. After thinking about it, Xiang Yunian decided to pretend to be a crazy beggar to get through.
However, although his sloppy image is eye-catching, it doesn't look like a beggar. Xiang Yunian confided, knocked out his four front teeth, and decided to take the risk again the next day. The decent "teacher" who was poor when he set out, became a crazy beggar who knocked out his four front teeth in just a few days.
Early the next morning, Xiang Yunian, who was tortured all night by pain, set off, and his appearance at this time became hideous and terrifying. After abruptly knocking out 4 front teeth, Xiang Yunian's cheeks were severely swollen, and he couldn't even speak clearly. Without sleeping for a night and Shuimi didn't beat his teeth, Xiang Yunian's eyes were red and weak, with disheveled hair, shaggy beard and foul-smelling body, he had become a veritable madman.
But Xiang Yunian decided that it was not enough for him to do this. He covered the four dictionaries with some of the bad food before coming, and then made the cloth bag he carried with him very dirty, and he could smell it from a distance. Smelly. In this way, Xiang Yunian walked down the mountain barefoot. When the sentry interrogated him, he used Hakka vaguely to say some swear words, sometimes suddenly laughing to himself, sometimes shouting loudly. Scream.
Along the way, the Kuomintang sentry saw such a beggar as if they had encountered a plague god, and drove him away with their noses. From Xingguo to Yudu, and then from Yudu to Ruijin, Xiang Yunian arrived at his destination by begging for food along the way.
The enemy's checkpoints have been broken by him in this way. Now it is really amazing to read. Xiang Yunian's sacrifice for the revolutionary cause is really too great. However, it was all worthwhile. He arrived at the temporary central location of Ruijin Shazhouba on October 7.
When Xiang Yunian came to the Shazhouba , the Red Army soldiers had to chase him because his appearance was too horrible and weird. But Xiang Yunian stayed at the door, naming him to see Li Kenong, and told a lot about the party's affairs. The soldiers had to report the incident to Li Kenong, and took Xiang Yunian to the reception room to wait. Li Kenong and Xiang Yunian were old acquaintances, but he didn't recognize him at first. It was not until Xiang Yunian spoke and took out the four dictionaries that Li Kenong confirmed that he was Xiang Yunian.
"You are really amazing!"
After listening to Xiang Yunian's report, Li Kenong shed moving tears. He embraced Xiang Yunian. Xiang Yunian was crying too, because his efforts were not in vain and he successfully completed the tasks assigned by the organization. In this way, the Kuomintang’s "iron barrel plan" was thoroughly known to our party. Li De, 博古, and Zhou Enlai took decisive measures and quickly took advantage of the enemy’s "iron barrel" to find a breakthrough. Jump out of the encirclement.
At that time, the 5 cities of Xingguo, Ningdu , Shicheng , Changting, and Huichang were still in the hands of the Red Army. Other than that, they were all occupied by the enemy or were in emergency. At this critical moment, the main force of our army carried out a strategic shift. On October 8th, it assembled towards Xingguo, Yudu, and Ruijin areas. On the 16th to 18th, it crossed from 4 ferry crossings in Yuduhe. ,The main force of the Red Army 86,000 launched a breakout campaign on October 21.
The enemy forces who broke into Ruijin’s main city found that the Red Army had already withdrawn, and hurriedly reported to Chiang Kai-shek that their "iron barrel plan" fell through.
To be smaller, Xiang Yunian is a spy hero who has completed the tasks assigned by the organization at the expense of his life. When he grows larger, he and General Mo Xiong are the great benefactors of our party and our army who saved 86,000 Red Army in Ruijin area. This is also true. Our party has always attached great importance to the cultivation of underground organizations. Red agents like Xiang Yunian have played a very important role in the rear.
However, such a very special identity as "Red Agent" has also caused significant pain in Xiang Yunian's family. Many of our party agents who have been incognito for their entire lives have not been able to find their families even after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Xiang Yunian, who was separated from his family for 14 years, is undoubtedly the lucky and happy one.
Father and son reunite after 18 years
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1935, Xiang Yunian once returned to his home in Shanghai. This was the last Spring Festival he spent with his family. For Xiang Nan, who was only 16 years old at the time (17 years after the Chinese New Year), this period was undoubtedly the longest time his father had accompanied him, but his happiness was passing too fast.
Xiang Yunian, who received an urgent task, hurriedly said that he was okay after the Spring Festival, and left Xiang Nan and his wife again. After that, Xiang Yunian was renamed Liang Mingde, and he was separated from his own flesh and blood for 14 years. It was not until the founding of the People's Republic that the father and son recognized each other again. Of course, Xiang Nan also took the same path as his father. His original name was Xiang Chongde, which was changed after he was engaged in revolutionary work.
Xiang Nan stayed in Shanghai until 1943, when he was in his 20s, and he and many people of insight went to northern Jiangsu to participate in the revolution. When Xiang Nan joined the party, members of the organization asked about his parents' occupations. Xiang Nan only told the organization that his father was a businessman—he had always thought this way since he was a child.
But when asked what his father's business was, Xiang Nan couldn't answer. He and his mother didn't know what business his father was in. Although such an answer aroused organizational suspicion,However, considering Xiang Nan's good performance at the time, he didn't pursue it too much. Xiang Nan was as capable as his father Xiang Xiangnian. In 1949, he became the secretary of the Youth League Committee of Anhui Province. At that time, Zeng Xisheng was the secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee.
Maybe God couldn't bear to dismantle Xiang and Nian's family, and arranged this encounter in secret. Xiang Yunian and Zeng Xisheng have been comrades-in-arms for many years. After liberation, Xiang Yunian asked Zeng Xisheng to help him find his 14-year-old son, and Zeng Xisheng agreed to his request.
But Zeng Xisheng’s daily work is so busy that he can’t spare any special time to deal with this matter. It’s not easy to find the person who was lost 14 years ago in the vast crowd. From 1935 to 1949, my country experienced the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation . Many archives were destroyed by the war, which made it more difficult to find people.
So, Zeng Xisheng handed this task to Xiang Nan. He told Xiang Nan that his old comrade-in-arms Liang Mingde (after Xiang Yunian used this pseudonym in 1935) asked to find his son, but they have been separated for 14 years, and there are not many clues that can be referred to.
"He is a native of Fujian, Fujian. He used to live in Baxianqiao, Shanghai. His son went to a nearby elementary school after he was 8 years old."
Zeng Xisheng originally thought it was necessary to rely on such simple information To find someone is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But in his conversation with Xiang Nan, he learned a few very important pieces of information. Xiang Nan told Zeng Xisheng that he was also a native of Fujian, and that he also lived in Baxianqiao, Shanghai when he was a child. He went to a nearby elementary school after he was 8 years old, and did not go to northern Jiangsu to participate in the revolution until he was in his 20s.
Xiang Nan originally thought it was just a coincidence, but Zeng Xisheng was surprised after hearing what he said. Zeng Xisheng looked at Xiang Nan carefully, and suddenly felt that this young man was somewhat similar to his old comrade Liang Mingde. I still don't think it on weekdays, but at this time Zeng Xisheng looks more and more alike, a bold idea emerged in his heart-is Xiang Nan the son of Liang Mingde?
So,He further asked Xiang Nan, where did you live in Baxianqiao when you were a child?
"No. 24, Villemont Road, Runli, French Concession."
After hearing Xiang Nan’s answer, Zeng Xisheng almost confirmed that he was Liang Mingde’s son because the address that Xiang Nan said was actually at that time Our party's underground transportation station in Shanghai. After Zeng Xisheng expressed his thoughts, he was rebutted by Xiang Nan: "No, right? My father is a businessman doing business. He is not an underground agent. You must have admitted wrong!"
When Liang Mingde worked together, he had visited his home in Shanghai several times and communicated with his young son. However, in order to escape the pursuit of the Kuomintang, Zeng Xisheng had a very thick beard, which was completely different from his current appearance. With an attitude of giving it a try, Zeng Xisheng asked Xiang Nan.
"Then do you remember that Uncle Bearded was here at home?"
Hearing this sentence, Xiang Nan was stunned. Zeng Xisheng's big beard back then left a very deep impression on the young Xiang Nan. After so many years, many of the guests Xiang Nan who had been to the house had forgotten, but he still remembered the bearded uncle. He couldn't help but looked at Zeng Xisheng and asked in disbelief: "Are you?"
"I am the bearded uncle, I even hugged you back then!"
After saying this, Zeng Xisheng I couldn't help laughing. The 14-year-old son of an old comrade-in-arms was found. Things in this world are really "nowhere to find a place to get through iron shoes, no effort at all." While Zeng Xisheng explained his father's situation to Xiang Nan, he lamented the impermanence of creation and the complexity of the world. However, God still has mercy on the father and son who made a major contribution to the revolution, allowing them to meet again in their lifetime.
However, due to work, the father and son did not recognize each other immediately, but kept in correspondence for four years. In these correspondences, Xiang Nan and his father Xiang Yunian confided in their hearts, and all the incomprehension and misunderstanding that year disappeared. Xiang Nan understood his father’s difficulties over the years.He regretted the resentment he had in his youth.
In 1953, Xiang Nan was sent to Beijing to participate in the Second National Youth League Congress, and saw him again after 18 years of separation from his father. The father and son agreed to meet at Summer Palace . After seeing his long-lost son, Xiang Yunian, with white hair, hugged him tightly. This kind of family relationship between father and son cannot be simply described in words, just like the famous eulogy written by Su Dongpo .
"We are speechless, but there are thousands of tears."
Although Su Shi was written for the dead wife, this sentiment is common to all human beings. After meeting his son Xiang Nan, Xiang Yunian asked him about his situation over the years and at the same time explained his identity. He knew that he owed too much to his family for the revolution. But at this time, Xiang Nan, who was able to be alone, could already understand his father deeply, and he was proud of having such a great father.
However, the father and son separated again after a brief reunion, and they both stick to their posts to serve the country and the people. In 1978, 84-year-old Xiang Yunian passed away at , Longyan City, Fujian Province. Xiang Nan, who was on a study tour in Italy, failed to attend his father's memorial service. This was the biggest regret in his life.
19 years later, Comrade Xiang Nan passed away in Beijing at the age of 79. This great father and son were reunited forever.
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