Li Longgui, the former political commissar of the Red Seventy-fourth Division, mysteriously disappeared one day in 1937, and has since disappeared without a trace, disappearing into the dust of history. Li Longgui's mysterious disappearance has always been a mystery, what kind of person is Li Longgui, and why did he disappear?
The first one on the right in the back row is Li Longgui
Born in 1908 in Jinzhai, Anhui Province, Li Longgui participated in the Jute Uprising, and in 1931 he entered the Red 25th Army and became a squad leader of the Red Army. Li Longgui was a very capable person, and he was highly relied upon by the chiefs, and within a few years, he became a middle-level cadre of the Red Twenty-fifth Army. Li Longgui participated in the Long March, and after the Red Twenty-fifth Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, it established a base area in southern Shaanxi, when two generals of the Red Twenty-fifth Army were appointed secretaries of the special committee and were responsible for leading the establishment of the base area in southern Shaanxi. One of them was the famous Zheng Weisan, who was then the secretary of the CPC Yushan Special Committee, and Li Longgui was the secretary of the CPC's Hubei and Shaanxi Special Committee.
In April 1935, Li Longgui was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Cpc Eyu-Shaanxi Provincial Committee, and there were only six members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee at that time, and he ranked third after Xu Baoshan, secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and Wu Huanxian, deputy secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. It is worth mentioning that at that time, Cheng Zihua, Xu Haidong, Chen Xianrui and others were only members of the provincial party committee, and Cheng Zihua was not awarded a title after the founding of the Country, but he was recognized as a senior general, Xu Haidong needless to say, he was also a founding general, and Chen Xianrui was a founding lieutenant general. It can be seen that at that time, Li Longgui's starting point was far higher than that of Cheng Zihua, Xu Haidong, Chen Xianrui and others.
In September 1935, the Eyu-Shaanxi Special Committee of the Communist Party of China was established, and Zheng Weisan was elected secretary, and he ordered the formation of the Red Seventy-fourth Division, with Chen Xianrui as the division commander and Li Longgui as the political commissar of the division. In the Battle of Bronze Pass, the Red Seventy-fourth Division annihilated a hundred enemy troops, and li Longgui led his troops to carry out guerrilla warfare in southern Shaanxi, repeatedly smashing the enemy's "encirclement and suppression" of the base areas. In 1937, the Red Seventy-fourth Division and the Red Twenty-fifth Army joined the division, after which the Red Twenty-fifth Army transferred some cadres to the Red Seventy-fourth Division, which greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the Red Seventy-fourth Division.
In 1937, Li Longgui went to Yan'an, then entered the Kang Da to study, and four months later, he returned to the Red Seventy-fourth Division stationed at Dayukou. However, not long after this, a strange thing happened. At that time, the central government ordered Li Longgui to lead the Red Seventy-fourth Division to move to Yan'an, and when Li Longgui received the order, he asked the soldiers to pack up their weights, and after preparing for a day, he personally escorted the weights and walked in front of the line. In the afternoon of the same day, Li Longgui ordered his troops to rest in a camp a few kilometers away, and after the order was issued, he led the heavy troops to rush forward first.
However, what was surprising was that when the rear troops rushed to the scheduled camp, they did not find the figure of political commissar Li Longgui and the heavy troops. The troops sent a platoon out to look for it, but they did not find Li Longgui. Later, the rear troops waited in the camp until the afternoon of the next day, and still did not see Li Longgui and the heavy troops, so in this way, the political commissar of the division, Li Longgui, and the heavy troops mysteriously disappeared. At that time, I had not heard of bandits looting, nor had I heard of the presence of nationalist troops, and I had to say that Li Longgui's disappearance was unreasonable.
For the mysterious disappearance of Li Longgui, it was rumored that he returned to Dayukou with money, married a local lady from a large family, and lived a reclusive life ever since. Some people say that he returned to his hometown with money, opened a small shop, and lived until after the founding of the People's Republic of China. However, these are just the speculations of the common people, there is no basis, the mystery of Li Longgui's disappearance, to this day, has always been an unsolved mystery.