In the spring of 1937, the Red Army marched west, and the soldiers in the Ni family camp were defeated, so they divided their troops at Shiwo and broke through. Tao Yong, the instructor of the Red 9 Army, followed Wang Shusheng to the right side of the breakthrough and served as an advance team, responsible for opening the way.
As a result, the enemy was outnumbered, and they burst left and right, and in the end, only a dozen people were left, and Wang Shusheng and others broke off contact. One day, more than a dozen people encountered a strong enemy, a fight, Tao Yong saw too many enemy soldiers, slashed and killed an enemy soldier and then fled wildly.
When there was no movement behind him, he stopped, and as a result, he became the commander of the light rod.
Then, he begged all the way back to northern Shaanxi.
After walking for two days and two nights, he was safe all the way, but he was very hungry.
Then, I fell asleep in a sand pile. At dawn on the third day, he was awakened. Tao Yong wanted to move his body, but he couldn't move, and when he opened his eyes, he looked at a man on horseback and asked, "What are you doing?"
Tao Yong said, "Begging for food." ”
The man right away said, "You're not like begging for food." ”
The people on the horse immediately shouted at the two soldiers with guns, removed Tao Yong's torn felt hat, pointed at his hair, and said, "What are you not the Red Army?" ”
The two soldiers searched Tao Yong's body, snatched the last piece of silver dollar, and then drank, "Follow us." ”
Tao Yong said: "The feet are soaked and can't move." ”
The man on the horse said, "Pull the horse's tail and go." ”
In this way, Tao Yong followed them to a small town and locked up in a courtyard.
Tao Yong was very strange, turned around in the courtyard, saw no one around, and decided to run away, afraid that the alley would not work, so he simply took the street and kept walking towards the east of the city. Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the mouth of the town, he was stopped by two Ma Jiajun who were standing guard, still saying that he was a "Red Army" and sent him to the brigade headquarters.
The enemy brigade commander asked, "What part of you are?" ”
Tao Yong saw that he couldn't run away, so he simply came to stand and didn't change his name and didn't change his surname, saying: "It's the 9th Army." ”
The enemy brigade commander smiled and said, "Well, you deserve 9 knives." If the 30th Army is better, then I can slash you 30 times!" But today I don't cut you, I see that your head is quite big, will you settle the account? ”
"I didn't go to school."
Ma Jiajun was a red army captive. The brigade commander then asked Tao Yong and several other captured Red Army soldiers to run on the playground to judge whether their bodies were good or bad. One of the red camp commanders was already fat, and the other was injured in the leg and could not run. Tao Yong was hungry for a few days, he was already covered in skin and bone, and he had a pair of big eyes left, and he couldn't run. The enemy brigade commander singled out the three of them and said viciously, "The three of you, all of whom are officers of all sizes, can't be my soldiers, go to the squat cell." "After saying that, kicked each of them.
The three were immediately tied up by ropes and escorted to Liangzhou No. 2 Prison. It was in Liangzhou Prison that Tao Yong met more comrades-in-arms, and was later sent to the Xi'an Xingying Detention Center and rescued from prison by the party organization.
More than ten years later, Lieutenant General Tao Yong talked about this matter and said with a smile:
"This Brigade Commander of the Ma Family Army said that I can't be his soldier, and I really have self-knowledge!" Thanks to him, otherwise I would have followed him to become a soldier, and it would not have been the Year of the Monkey to escape and continue the revolution! ”