On April 2, 1935, Mao Zeqin, the chairman's youngest brother, was surrounded by enemies in the Red Forest Mountains of Ruijin, Jiangxi. After a fierce battle, in order to cover the breakthrough of other comrades, he was martyred heroically, at the age of 30. When he died, his son Mao Chuxiong was only 8 years old, what happened to him?
In 1924, the 19-year-old Mao Zeqin met Zhou Wennan, a 14-year-old from Guilin, Guangxi, a substitute teacher and a female student, and the two had seeds of love in getting along. In 1926, Zhou Wennan graduated from high school, and it was not long before the two were happily married. After marriage, she learned that the Mao family had all joined the revolution, and she was full of admiration for them, and she also began to actively participate in the revolution. In September 1927, Zhou Wennan gave birth to a big fat boy in Changsha, and the couple named their son Mao Chuxiong. At the beginning of the following year, because of the traitor's whistle-blowing, the mother and son were arrested by the enemy and imprisoned.
The enemy was fierce and cruelly tortured mother and son, and the young Mao Chuxiong and his mother suffered a lot of inhuman torture and became seriously ill. Zhou Wennan's mother begged her father to tell her grandmother, and only when she looked around for a relationship did she get her dying grandson out and take her to the doctor, and he only recovered a life. However, his mother was still in prison, and it was not until the summer of 1930 that Mr. Peng led an army to capture Changsha and Zhou Wennan was rescued. The revolution had not yet succeeded, and in order not to let her son risk her, she did not take Mao Chuxiong with her troops when she went to the Xianggan Su District, and asked her mother to help take care of the children. Therefore, Mao Chuxiong grew up living in his grandmother's house, and his impression of his parents was very vague.
My grandmother was also a progressive, working for the party. She has been instilling patriotic ideas in Mao Chuxiong, hoping that he will grow up to be a useful person for the country. Under the guidance of his grandmother, he studied hard and loved his motherland. After the death of his father, he resolved to inherit his father's legacy, avenge his father, and join the revolution. After the "July 7 Incident", Changsha was often bombarded by the Japanese army, and in order to protect the orphans of the martyrs, the Hunan underground organization sent people to send Mao Chuxiong and his family back to their hometown of Shaoshanchong. His grandmother often told him stories of his father, great uncle, second uncle and other relatives who spilled their blood for the revolution, which had a great influence on him. In November 1944, our army advanced into the Xiang'e-Gansu Border Region to open up a new base area. In August of the following year, Wang Zhen was ordered to lead his troops back to northern Shaanxi, and when passing through Xiangtan, Mao Chuxiong found him, explained his identity, and asked for permission to join the army. He and Mao Zeqin brothers have known each other for many years, and he has not heard that his friend has a son in Shaoshan, for safety, he promised Mao Chuxiong to take him to see his uncle, while calling Yan'an to confirm Mao's identity, and then confirming that Mao is indeed a friend's son, he took him to Yan'an.
After arriving in Yan'an, Mao Chuxiong, who was weak and weak, was not afraid of suffering or tiredness, and together with other warriors, he carried water and did everything. Not long after, he was transferred to the propaganda team, where he learned how to collect telegrams with Mr. Peng's nephew and others, and participated in the "Central Plains Breakthrough" with his troops. Although he joined the army, he never had the opportunity to fight in the combat company, and Wang Zhen only ordered him to fight with his army. Mao Chuxiong repeatedly offered to go to the battlefield, but Wang Zhen refused. Perhaps it was to keep his friend's only bloodline, Wang Zhen would do this. After that, the enemy offered to negotiate. Wang Zhen thought that going to Xi'an to negotiate was safer than being on the front line, so he decided to let him follow several other people to Xi'an as a guard, and specifically instructed the others to send him back to Yan'an as soon as they arrived in Xi'an.
Who knew that When Mao Chuxiong and his party arrived at Dongjiangkou Town in Shaanxi County, they were detained by Hu Zongnan, and when they learned that they were negotiators, Hu did not dare to be sloppy. Hu Zongnan reported the matter to his master, and the leader of the Republic of China government betrayed his faith and secretly ordered him to execute several people secretly. On the evening of August 10, Mao Chuxiong, who was only 19 years old, was buried alive with three other people by Hu Zongnan's subordinate Li Qingrun and died heroically. At that time, Zhou Wennan did not know how his son was killed. It was not until 39 years later that the truth about the murder of Mao Chuxiong and others was completely clarified. The killers involved in their killing were shot in 1953 and duly punished.