In 1935, after the Central Red Army crossed the Chishui River four times, Lu Zhiying, an underground party member, was ordered to cover the wounded and sick of the Red Army and to plan the activities of the Red Second and Sixth Armies. During this period, Lu Zhiying led four comrades-in-arms to pick up a Red Army team to transfer them to the Yunnan-Guizhou border, and happened to meet his wife Zhang Yumin, who was more than 2 months old, from Nanchang to meet him.
Just when Lu Zhiying was rejoicing at the family reunion, a group of enemy troops and horses were tailing from the rear, and Lu Zhiying and his comrades rushed to hide. Who knew that at this time, the infant in the swaddling was shocked and crying by the galloping horse team, and could not stop. Seeing the cavalry turn the horse's head and go back, Lu Zhiying snatched his young son from his wife and quickly rushed towards another mountain beam.
On the mountain beam, the child was still crying, and Lu Zhiying was fierce, hanging the child on a sour date tree and running back. This was followed by several gunshots, and the child's crying stopped abruptly. As a mother, Zhang Yumin almost fainted when he saw her husband turning back with his bare hands, and the comrades also mourned in silence. Lu Zhiying endured the pain and persuaded everyone: "Comrades, don't be too sad, sacrificing a child to save everyone, it is worth it!" ”
Considering that once the enemy came to look for them, they would find the comrades hiding in the ditch, Lu Zhiying immediately commanded everyone to move in an orderly manner, and the people trekked all the way day and night, which found the Red Army troops stationed in the small town of Panxian and got rid of the pursuit.
The story of Lu Zhiying sacrificing his son to save his comrades soon spread among the troops. General Peng Dehuai, who has always been strong, could not help but shed tears when he heard this, and he sighed: "In our national liberation struggle, even babies are contributing!" ”
Looking at Lu Zhiying from the perspective of a father, the life and death choice in front of him is undoubtedly a dilemma and cruel, but if you look at the life of this hidden front hero, you will find that behind his lifelong revolutionary faith, it is in this cycle of dilemma and cruelty that he continues to fulfill great love and uphold righteousness.
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Lu Zhiying, whose original name was Lu Zhijiang, was born in 1906 to an ordinary peasant family in Weifang, Shandong. When he was a child, Lu Zhiying attended a private school, and then transferred to the county's B-seed sericulture senior primary school. Until the age of 16, due to the difficulty of his family to support his studies, Lu Zhiying went to the Kanto with his relatives and friends to make a living.
During this period, he traveled to Heilongjiang, Harbin and other places, full of world conditions and warmth. Under the polishing of suffering, Lu Zhiying made a great ambition to save the country from the army, and was admitted to the officer training center of the Suining Town Guard Office in the northeast the following year.
After graduation, Lu Zhiying joined the Third Mixed Brigade of the Northeast Army and became a director. However, when he accompanied the army to the south and the northern war with full enthusiasm for saving the country, all he could see was the cruelty and tyranny of the warlord war, and he resolutely broke away from the warlord troops and went south alone to seek the truth of the revolution.
In 1925, Lu Zhiying joined the Communist Party of China. Two years later, the "4.12" coup d'état broke out, Chiang Kai-shek openly betrayed the revolution, and Lu Zhiying took the lead in raising the banner of the uprising. In November of the same year, after extensive and in-depth ideological mobilization and careful military deployment, Lu Zhiying led more than 500 of his own soldiers to rise up.
Between Gansu and Ningxia, the rebel army was raided by the enemy. In the fierce battle, Lu Zhiying and his horse fell into the yellow river covered with ice and snow, and the war horse fell to his death and seriously injured his left leg. But he still endured severe pain, gathered scattered soldiers, and killed the siege in a desperate situation.
At the end of 1927, Lu Zhiying was once again in danger for the revolution. In this year, he used his connections to break into Pucheng County, Shaanxi Province, and secretly carried out military movement work in the local old army as the head of the security brigade, but he was arrested along with four other comrades. Thanks to Zhang Yumin, an underground party member who was teaching at a primary school in Pucheng County at the time, she took advantage of the special relationship of a student's parents cooking in the ministry, stole the key to the cell, and wisely broke into the enemy camp at night, saving Lu Zhiying and five other imprisoned Communist Party members.
Out of gratitude and admiration for Zhang Yumin, Lu Zhiying sent a letter of thanks and 50 oceans to the brave female comrade after escaping from danger, asking her to go to Beiping for further study.
In February 1928, Lu Zhiying and Zhang Yumin arrived in Beiping and secretly accepted the task of leading the student movement. At that time, the whole of Beiping was shrouded in white terror created by Duan Qirui's government. In order to hide their identities, Lu Zhiying and Zhang Yumin pretended to be a couple.
During this period, in addition to being responsible for underground intelligence work, the two also raised tens of thousands of yuan for the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, while they themselves cut down on food and clothing, and when it was difficult, the two only ate one and a half meals a day and used baked sweet potatoes to fill their hunger.
In the cold winter of the northern country, Lu Zhiying insisted on giving his cotton clothes and cotton pants to his comrades who were released from prison to wear, and he only wore single clothes and single pants. Sometimes he couldn't stand the cold, so he ran to the railway station and other public places to take shelter for a while, and then went to work after slowing down. A comrade could not see that he had worked so hard that he sent him a living allowance, and Lu Zhiying took this money to the party's activities in the blink of an eye.
Of course, under limited conditions, the attentive Lu Zhiying also took care of Zhang Yumin as much as possible. Gradually, under the test of blood and fire, this fake couple and true comrades-in-arms have developed from mutual trust to mutual attraction and dependence.
In the early autumn of 1929, these two aspiring young people finally became dependents and married as life partners. On the wedding day, Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao sent the young couple a pair of pink Mandarin duck pillowcases, and the lower left corner of the pillowcase was embroidered with the words "Wu and Deng", which made the couple particularly grateful. Soon after, they also ushered in an even more severe revolutionary test.
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In the summer of 1934, Lu Zhiying and his wife were ordered to jiangxi to do underground military intelligence work. Zhang Yumin opened a "Zhang Yumin Clinic" in Nanchang as a secret traffic liaison station for the party from Nanchang to Ruijin. Lu Zhiying, alias Lu Yusheng, infiltrated the headquarters of Mo Xiong, the security commander of the Kuomintang's Jiangxi Ganbei District at that time.
During this period, Lu Zhiying continued to influence Mo Xiong with his personality charm, and the two soon became friends with each other. Soon, Mo Xiong appointed Lu Zhiying as chief of staff and made Zhang Yumin the director of the "Attached Military Medical Center". At the same time, Lu Zhiying also took advantage of his "personal friendship" with Kang Ze, the head of the secret service, and Chen Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the Suppression of the Communist Party, to successively install some underground CPC members into the Secret Service Organs of the Kuomintang.
In just three months, Lu Zhiying spread out a vast military intelligence network, which also quickly played a life-and-death role for our party.
In late September 1934, Chiang Kai-shek held a secret military conference in Lushan. Among them, Under the "director" of Lu Zhiying and other underground party members, Mo Xiong, the commander-in-chief of "suppressing common merits," also made an exception to invite him to attend the meeting. At this secret military conference, Chiang Kai-shek announced the "Iron Barrel Encirclement Plan" deployed by German military experts.
This plan was precisely the Kuomintang's fifth encirclement and suppression plan for the revolutionary base areas of the CPC Central Committee, and it was planned that more than 1 million Kuomintang troops would fortify and encircle the Soviet areas of the CPC Central Committee with Ruijin, Yudu, Huichang, and Xingguo as the center and a radius of 150 kilometers, with the intention of making it difficult for the Red Army to fly.
Chiang Kai-shek was full of confidence in the encirclement and suppression strategy, claiming that he would "devote all his efforts to one battle," and Mo Xiong later recalled: "This is the most sinister, vicious, huge-scale, and well-planned military plan I have ever seen!" Naturally, it is not the same as the previous encirclement and suppression. If this plan is carried out, the situation of the Red Army is unimaginable! ”
As soon as the meeting ended, Mo Xiong rushed back to the Special Security Headquarters with the meeting documents in the night. All the documents weighed about three or four pounds, containing dozens of encirclement tables, plans, instructions and orders, as well as Quotations from Chiang Kai-shek, compilations of instructions, and other pamphlets.
Lu Zhiying and other underground intelligence officers had not yet finished reading this secret plan, and their foreheads were sweating in shock. Several people used secret writing potions overnight to secretly write down the key points of the enemy's troop deployment, firepower allocation, offensive plan, command structure setup, and so on on in the four student dictionaries one by one, and it was not until dawn that the entire plan was written in secret.
Through the efforts of Lu Zhiying and other underground intelligence officers, this secret report was finally secretly sent to Zhou Enlai on October 7, 1934. Three days later, the central authorities issued an operational order for a strategic shift, and the main force of the 86,000 Red Army began the famous 25,000-mile long march, skillfully escaping the encirclement and blockade of 300,000 enemy troops.
In the winter of 1934, Lu Zhiying was stationed in Bijie with Mo Xiong's troops, which was also a necessary place for the Red Army to move. Lu Zhiying took advantage of his position as chief of staff to transfer the Nationalist Sixty-third Division and provide false information to confuse Chiang Kai-shek, allowing the Red Army to easily pass through Bijie. After the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, Mao Zedong said more than once: "The Red Army has been able to survive, and the comrades engaged in intelligence have made indispensable contributions!" ”
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In 1937, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Lu Zhiying and his wife were transferred to Shanghai to carry out intelligence work against the Japanese army. The couple opened the "Hufeng Bread Factory" and the "Great China Cafe" opposite Tilanqiao Prison as a cover to secretly collect intelligence from the Japanese army and purchase and deliver military supplies such as medicines, medical equipment, guns and ammunition for the New Fourth Army.
In order to gain the trust of BaoDao, the commander of the Japanese navy in Wusong at that time, Lu Zhiying threw in his favor and opened the "Sino-Japanese String Performing Arts Concert" in his café for diners to show their musical talents on stage. Once, Hojima, who loved strings, finally got very tired and played a guzheng on stage.
Lu Zhiying listened to it, and invited Bao Dao and him to play a song "Spring River Flower Moon Night" on the spot, with one guzheng and one person erhu. After this "chance encounter", Lu Zhiying often took an erhu into and out of the official residence of Baodao and practiced piano skills with him. In this way, Lu Zhiying became a rare "confidant" and "best friend" of Baodao.
Once, Lu Zhiying received an urgent task to purchase drugs and firearms, but could not find a suitable purchase channel. After a few thoughts, he ventured to find BaoDao. In front of Bao Dao, Lu Zhiying claimed that he had a large local relative who had recently been constantly harassed by various bandits and planned to establish a rural armed force and needed to purchase a batch of firearms and medicines.
BaoDao's people are very deep, and at the moment he questioned the need for a large number of medicines for the rural armed forces, but he never believed that this "friend" would be the Communist Party, and with the heavy money given by Lu Zhiying, Baodao finally agreed to help, and the additional condition was to let Lu Zhiying leave Shanghai temporarily, in case he got into trouble for himself.
In this way, Lu Zhiying obtained a large number of emergency supplies from the Japanese. After completing this procurement mission, he evacuated Shanghai to Qutang Town, Hai'an County, Suzhong Province, and pulled up an anti-Japanese armed force of more than 200 people. In October 1940, Lu Zhiying was appointed deputy commander and chief of staff of the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Coalition Army in northern Jiangsu, under the direct leadership of Chen Yi.
During this period, Lu Zhiying creatively used a variety of tactics, and successively commanded the ambush battle of Yangcheng Lake, the defense of Ganlu Town, the siege of Taizhou and other battles, and repeatedly defeated the Japanese army. Chen Yi particularly admired Lu Zhiying's talents, calling him a "rare military expert."
In 1942, Lu Zhiying received a secret order from the Central Special Branch and returned to Shanghai again to do the establishment of military intelligence. During the Liberation War, Lu Zhiying was active in the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou area, established a number of underground military intelligence groups, and single-handedly infiltrated the Kuomintang military unification and central unification secret service organs, secretly sending the Kuomintang's troop deployment, weapons and equipment, and other intelligence to the liberated areas.
Unfortunately, on March 2, 1947, Lu Zhiying was secretly arrested by secret agents at the gate of the Baxianqiao Youth Association because of the betrayal of the traitor Zhang Lianfang, and was imprisoned in the Zhongtong Demon Cave at No. 2 Yalpe Road. The next day, his wife Zhang Yumin and son Lu Darong were also arrested and imprisoned.
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When Chiang Kai-shek learned of this, on the one hand rewarded the Shanghai office of the Central Bureau of Propaganda with 400 taels of gold, on the other hand, he instructed the director and deputy director of the Central Bureau of Statistics to go out on horseback, lured by a high-ranking official Houlu, and promised him to become the director of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau. The agents in prison turned to force a confession of his words and deeds, and tried to soften it with flesh and blood affection, but Lu Zhiying remained unmoved.
At that time, Lu Zhiying knew that the whole country was about to be liberated, and he was already ready for sacrifice. In prison, he wore handcuffs and insisted on teaching his son to learn culture, and the last teaching he left to his son was: "You must study hard, the future world is yours, and you can't do it without learning good skills!" A dozen days before his inauguration, he also commissioned a coat for his wife, who had been released from prison early, with several crumpled pages of crumpled paper sewn in the collar of the dress, which were full of poems about the revolution. On the reverse side of the paper are written "Victory is in sight, death without complaint" eight big characters.
On the evening of December 27, 1948, the "last moment" came. As soon as an agent entered the interrogation room, he gave Lu Zhiying a blow in the head and knocked him unconscious. Immediately after, another agent stuffed an anesthetic-soaked cotton into his mouth, put it into a wooden box that had been prepared and buried it in the dense forest in front of the Nanjing Yuhua Terrace. The 42-year-old red spy hero was brutally killed and fell into the night before dawn.
In April 1949, Nanjing and Shanghai were liberated, but Zhang Yumin and his son Lu Darong still could not find out the whereabouts of Lu Zhiying. It was not until early 1951 that the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau captured Ren Zongbing, a former agent of the Nanjing Gendarmerie Command, who confessed to the killing of Lu Zhiying and others in prison. After his identification, the location where Lu Zhiying was buried alive was found.
On June 11, 1951, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau sent someone to accompany Zhang Yumin and Lu Darong to Yuhuatai. On the afternoon of the same day, the coffin containing Lu Zhiying and two other comrades was excavated. After opening the lid of the coffin, the remains of the three men were already decaying. However, from the scattered skeleton remains, it can be seen that these three martyrs all woke up in the coffin that year, only to die of suffocation because they could not struggle out.
Zhang Yumin finally recognized the remains of his husband through his teeth, and Lu Zhiying's skeleton was immediately escorted to the Chinese funeral home on Zhongshan South Road in Nanjing, wrapped in a white cloth, and put on a military uniform and re-buried. Mr. Lu pinned an international peace medal to his father's chest.
The East China Military and Political Committee finally recognized Lu Zhiying as a revolutionary martyr, and the Central People's Government issued him the No. 60 Martyr Certificate. The Shanghai Public Security Bureau also shot the traitor Zhang Lianfang and the murderer Ren Zongbing after finding out the truth about Lu Zhiying's sacrifice.
Lu Zhiying's coffin was later moved to the foot of cannon mountain in the Yuhuatai Martyrs' Cemetery. Because Lu Zhiying loved iron-stemmed begonia flowers before his death, Zhang Yumin and his son personally planted two iron-stemmed begonias in front of Lu Zhiying's tomb. Mother and son often come here to water the begonia flowers and accompany Lu Zhiying to talk. And the begonia blossoms every year, the fragrance is incomparable, often accompanied by the martyr's loyal soul.