In July 1938, a full year had passed since the outbreak of the Japanese army's all-out war of aggression against China, and on the basis of the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, the Chinese nation and Japanese imperialism were engaged in a fierce battle on the front line, but at this moment, a senior senator of the Eighth Route Army mysteriously disappeared.
The incident occurred on the afternoon of the 31st of this month, the wife of the senator made a meal at home early as usual and waited for him to return, but did not see her husband until the evening, and the wife was so anxious that she hurriedly reported the news of her husband's disappearance to the representative of the Eighth Route Army Office in Xi'an at that time.
When the deputies heard the news, they quickly sent a few colleagues who were more familiar with him to look for him, and the colleagues searched for the places he frequented, and the search lasted for three days, but they never found any trace of him.
Because he was an important cadre of the Eighth Route Army, he never gave up the search for him organizationally, but it was not until one day 13 years later that the organization found clues about him.
Who is this senior senator? What kind of legendary experience did he have? In the rear of the War of Resistance, he should have been very safe for what reason he suddenly disappeared mysteriously? How does the organization find clues about him?
Father Xuanxia
He was the father of Xuanxia, an excellent party member in the early days of our party, and the reason for his disappearance must be discussed from when he joined our party.
The most "cattle" student of the Whampoa Military Academy
On December 5, 1899, Xuanxia's father was born in an intellectual family in Changlan Village, Diankou Town, Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province, and was deeply influenced by his father Xuan Tieshan from an early age, loved traditional Chinese culture, had a deep calligraphy knowledge, and could also write old-style poems.
Zhuji was at the forefront of the revolution at that time, all kinds of advanced ideas were widely disseminated here, and many important figures in the early days of our party came out of here, such as Wang Shouhua, Yu Songlin, Zhang Qiuren, and so on.
Deeply influenced by progressive ideas, Xuanxia's father worked hard from an early age, hoping to save the country through industry, and in 1916, at the age of 17, he was successfully admitted to the Zhejiang Provincial Special Fisheries College to study aquatic fishing.
Four years later, Xuanxia's father studied in Japan and went to the Imperial University of Japan to study aquaculture, during his studies in Japan, Xuanxia's father saw from the movie that the factories of western powers squeezed and attacked the local enterprises in the motherland, and Xuanxia's father soberly realized that industry could not save China.
Former site of Imperial University of Japan
Therefore, Xuanxia's father resolutely returned to China after studying for two years, after which he actively participated in revolutionary activities, and soon joined the Socialist Youth League, and after a period of investigation, in 1923, the 24-year-old Xuanxia father successfully joined the Communist Party of China.
On June 16, 1924, in order to train officers and revolutionary soldiers with professional military qualities to cope with the upcoming Northern Expedition, Sun Yat-sen established the Kuomintang Army Officer School (later known as the Whampoa Military Academy) in Guangzhou.
Whampoa Military Academy
After xuanxia's father joined our party, he showed positive performance and was particularly strong in learning ability, so the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the CPC decided to send him to the Whampoa Military Academy to study, so Xuanxia's father became a cadet of the second brigade of the first phase of Huangpu.
At the opening ceremony, Principal Chiang Kai-shek made a brief speech to the new students, and after the meeting, Xuanxia's father and his classmates next to him chatted idly: "This person is like a new warlord. ”
At that time, many of the students in the Whampoa Military Academy were close associates arranged by Chiang Kai-shek, so xuanxia's father's words immediately reached Chiang Kai-shek's ears.
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek sent someone to summon Xuanxia's father to the principal's office and asked him, "I heard that you are a Zhuji person (Chiang Kai-shek is from Xikou, Xikou is not far from Zhuji, and the two are half fellow villagers)?" ”
Father Xuanxia stood and replied, "Yes, Headmaster."
Chiang Kai-shek asked, "I heard that you called me a new warlord in school, so do you know what a warlord is?" ”
"A warlord is a dictatorship, and a dictatorship is a warlord," Xuanxia's father said firmly.
Chiang Kai-shek was slightly angry, but for the sake of his fellow countrymen, he still let Xuanxia's father ride a horse.
On July 6, 1924, the Whampoa Military Academy established a special party department, and Chiang Kai-shek was elected as one of the five executive members (Chiang Kai-shek, Yan Fengyi, Jin Fozhuang, Chen Fu, and Li Zhilong), but the other four members were all members of the Communist Party, which made him very dissatisfied with his desire for dictatorship.
Lee's Dragon
In order to further enhance his prestige, Chiang Kai-shek oversteped his bounds, set up party groups in various brigades, and privately confirmed the leaders of each group without collective election, of which Father Xuanxia was one of the leaders.
As a member of the Communist Party, Xuanxia's father came to the Whampoa Military Academy to study with democratic revolutionary convictions, and after he received the notice of appointment, he was furious and immediately wrote a letter and wrote a report to Chiang Kai-shek in protest.
When Chiang Kai-shek saw this report, he was very angry and immediately called for Xuanxia's father.
After Xuanxia's father came to the principal's office, he changed his last restraint and stood confidently and calmly opposite Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek first patiently said to him: "This appointment is the result of the discussion of the school party committee, not my own decision, and besides, you have also been appointed as one of the leaders of the group, why do you still make such a report?" ”
Father Xuanxia replied, "Principal, I have no opinion on the appointment of the school, but I cannot accept this act of directly appointing me without open democratic election, so please withdraw my appointment and re-elect me." ”
Xuanxia's father during the Whampoa Military Academy
Chiang Kai-shek said angrily: "Since you are so stubborn, then lock you up for three days until you admit your mistake, and if you refuse to repent within three days, you will be expelled directly!" ”
Xuanxia's father walked out without looking back, which made Chiang Kai-shek even more angry.
After three days of imprisonment, Xuanxia's father still adhered to his principles, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered his expulsion from the Whampoa Military Academy.
When Xuanxia's father was leaving, he chanted loudly in the direction of the principal's office: "Da Pu is not jade in the end, and steel is not a hook", and then he left the school without turning his head.
Due to the suddenness of the incident and the fact that Zhou Enlai, the director of the Political Department at the time, was temporarily absent from school, our party did not have time to protest Chiang Kai-shek's decision, and in this way, Xuanxia's father became the first and only student of the Whampoa Military Academy to be expelled.
Zhou Enlai
Revolutionary fighters wandering in the upper echelons of the Kuomintang
At the beginning of 1925, Xuanxia's father obeyed the organization's arrangement to go to Beijing to assist Li Dazhao in his work, and soon after joined Feng Yuxiang's troops as a leftist Kuomintang member under Li Dazhao's arrangement.
Feng Yuxiang
Here, on the one hand, Xuanxia's father actively propagated the ideas of the Three People's Principles, and on the other hand, he privately propagated Marxist ideas to The generals under Feng Yuxiang, which laid the ideological foundation for Ji Hongchang and others to participate in the revolution later.
In October 1925, after staying at Feng Yuxiang's headquarters for a month, Xuanxia's father took the initiative to accompany Feng Yuxiang's Liu Yufen to the west.
In the winter of 1925, after Xuanxia's father arrived in Lanzhou, he immediately contacted Qian Qingquan, who came with him, and Zhang Yiwu, a local Communist Party member, to discuss the development of our party organization in Gansu.
Half a year later, Father Xuanxia sent an envoy to Gannan as a representative of the Kuomintang army and participated in the local meeting of the Gansu-Qinghai-Tibetan People's Grand Alliance.
At this meeting, Xuanxia's father learned that the local warlord Ma Lin had been oppressing the nearby Tibetans, and the people were miserable.
To this end, after some planning, Xuanxia's father came to Ma Lin's military camp and persuaded him to withdraw from Gannan face to face, and under the joint offensive of Xuanxia's father's military threat and political propaganda, in April 1927, Ma Lin finally withdrew from Gannan, and the local Tibetan people were very grateful to him.
Shortly after the end of this incident, in September 1926, in order to meet the needs of the revolutionary development situation in Lanzhou, Xuanxia's father helped the Kuomintang establish a National Party branch in Lanzhou, and he personally served as the director of academic affairs, established a training class, and trained a group of capable political talents for the training of the Kuomintang army.
However, the good times did not last long, and on April 12, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup in Nanjing, arresting and massacring Communists on a large scale, and the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation broke down, at this time, Xuanxia's father was serving as the director of the political department of the former enemy headquarters in Feng Yuxiang's department.
The Kuomintang reactionaries imprisoned revolutionaries
When Feng Yuxiang learned that Chiang Kai-shek had launched a coup d'état, he did not dare to get too close to the Communists, so he arranged for a special car to "send" Xuanxia's father and other Communists away from the army.
On the night of July 17, 1927, Xuanxia's father took a train from Xi'an to Wuhan, and then from Wuhan took a boat along the Yangtze River back to his hometown of Zhuji.
After Xuanxia's father returned to his hometown, he actively organized the local masses to participate in revolutionary work, accumulated revolutionary forces, and developed active people to become party members of our party, and in June 1928, he led the masses to carry out the activities of "rent reduction and rent resistance, capital increase and interest resistance", and strived to seek welfare for the people.
As Xuanxia's father became too active, he was targeted by Kuomintang agents shortly after returning to his hometown, and for his safety, the organization arranged for him to leave Zhuji overnight.
In March 1929, after several turns, Xuanxia's father came to the Kuomintang army Liang Guanying in Jining, Shandong, Liang Guanying was Feng Yuxiang's subordinate, and he had a deep friendship with Xuanxia's father during the Western Expedition.
Liang Guanying
After Xuanxia's father came to Liang Guanying's department, he actively organized underground parties near Jining to carry out revolutionary work and achieved good results.
However, feng Yuxiang soon discovered his whereabouts, and Feng Yuxiang was afraid that Chiang Kai-shek would know about him, and did not dare to condone him to continue to work in his own troops, so he was immediately escorted to Feng Yuxiang's military headquarters and later transferred to Tongguan Prison.
Feng Yuxiang was busy fighting Chiang Kai-shek at this time and did not have time to take care of Xuanxia's father, so, under the rescue of the Tongguan underground party, Xuanxia's father quickly escaped and went to Wuhan to settle down.
At this time, Xuanxia's father witnessed the whole process of our party from the beginning of its establishment to its participation in the Great Revolution, to the trough of revolutionary defeat, and then to the Nanchang Uprising to regain control of the revolutionary armed forces, which made him look forward to the bright future of our Party more and more.
On September 18, 1931, the Japanese army attacked the North Camp in Shenyang, the September 18 Incident broke out, Xuanxia's father was shocked to hear of the Japanese invasion, so he repeatedly took the initiative to request the organization to go to the anti-Japanese front.
The following year, Xuanxia's father went to Feng Yuxiang's department in North China to participate in anti-Japanese activities under the arrangement of the organization, and in May 1933, he, together with Feng Yuxiang, Ji Hongchang and others, established the Chahar Anti-Japanese Allied Army in Zhangjiakou.
Xuanxia's father served as the commander of the Fifth Division of the Second Army, and it was here that he finally realized his dream of leading troops.
Xuanxia's father had a high talent for military command, and in the campaign to retake Duolun, he personally commanded the soldiers of the Second Division to adopt the tactics of mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare, and took the city at a very small cost.
The Chahar Anti-Japanese Allied Forces retake Doron
In this battle, Xuanxia's father led his own team to charge forward, fought bravely with the Japanese army, and won the unanimous praise of the soldiers.
However, at this time, Chiang Kai-shek was busy encircling and suppressing the Red Army in Jiangxi, and ordered the Kuomintang troops in North China and Northeast China to implement a policy of non-resistance to the Japanese army, and in desperation, Feng Yuxiang was forced to go to the field, Ji Hongchang and Xuanxia's father were unable to support themselves, and the allied forces were finally disbanded.
In the summer of 1934, Xuanxia's father returned to Shanghai after unsuccessfully seeking resistance to Japan in North China, and served as the head of the Shanghai CCP Special Branch, continuing to participate in underground work.
In October 1934, due to the failure of the fifth "anti-encirclement and suppression" campaign, the Red Army was forced to carry out the Long March, and Chiang Kai-shek, in order to create public opinion, announced to the whole society with the help of newspapers that the Red Army had been "wiped out" in a certain province and place, in an attempt to strike at our Party figures throughout the country.
After Xuanxia's father saw the relevant reports in Shanghai, in order to dispel Chiang Kai-shek's alarmist remarks, he actively collected intelligence on the Red Army's Long March at that time and wrote a report of more than 20,000 words overnight.
Mao Zedong on the Long March
Father Xuanxia pointed out in his report: "Not only has the Red Army not been eliminated, but under the command of the Party Central Committee, it has repeatedly defeated the troops of the Kuomintang reactionaries, and the victory of the revolution will surely belong to the Communist Party serving the people." ”
The report was soon appreciated by the Provisional Central Committee, and when our Party members throughout the country saw it, they were greatly encouraged and increased their confidence in the revolution, but Father Xuanxia also exposed his tracks and was forced to move to Hong Kong to participate in underground work.
In May 1935, the Japanese army's power in North China was further expanded, and the sovereignty of Hebei and Chahar provinces was seriously damaged, and at this time of national crisis, Xuanxia's father, who worked in Hong Kong, did not want to live in a remote corner, and had always been eager to return to the interior to participate in the revolutionary struggle.
At that time, Li Jishen was forming a national revolutionary alliance in Hong Kong, and Xuanxia's father immediately found him.
Li Jishen
Father Xuanxia said to him: "Mr. Li, you are my teacher at the Whampoa Military Academy, and I will not hide from you, I have always been a Communist Party member, and now the country is in danger, I want to follow you to make some contributions to the country, if our party arranges other work for me in the future, I will leave you without hesitation!" ”
Li Ji saw that he was so sincere, and now that it was time to employ people, he left Xuanxia's father by his side as a secretary.
He was brutally murdered by Kuomintang agents
On December 12, 1936, the Xi'an Incident broke out, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began to cooperate for the second time, and the anti-Japanese united front of the whole nation was formed.
The following year, Xuanxia's father was invited by Zhou Enlai to go to northern Shaanxi to assist him in united front work, so Xuanxia's father took the initiative to leave Li Jishen for Yan'an, but because Zhou Enlai was busy with his tasks at that time, he often had to run all over the country, and Xuanxia's father did not have the opportunity to act with him.
Therefore, Zhou Enlai introduced him to Xi'an to assist Lin Boqu in consultation and communication with the Nationalist government, and at this time, Xuanxia's father served as a senior senator of the Eighth Route Army General Headquarters.
Limber Canal
After Xuanxia's father came to Xi'an, with his three-inch tongue, he won a great advantage in the negotiations of our party, which made Jiang Dingwen, director of the Kuomintang's northwest camp, very distressed.
Not only that, Xuanxia's father and Hu Zongnan, who was also a classmate of the same period and a fellow villager, had a close relationship, and the two talked about everything, and Hu Zongnan was Chiang Kai-shek's confidant and favorite general.
Chiang Kai-shek was worried that Hu Zongnan would be plotted against by Xuanxia's father, resulting in his army being taken away by the Communist army, and coupled with the fact that he had received many complaints from Jiang Dingwen from Xi'an, he decided to kill Xuanxia's father.
Hu Zongnan
Soon after, Jiang Dingwen, who was far away in Xi'an, received Chiang Kai-shek's orders, so Xuanxia's father immediately arranged for his agents to secretly follow Xuanxia's father to find opportunities, and ambushed people near his residence and the eighth route army office.
Jiang Dingwen was very anxious, and after some thought, he personally directed a big drama, that is, on July 31, 1938, Jiang Dingwen took the initiative to invite Xuanxia's father to an interview on the pretext of discussing the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
When Xuanxia's father arrived, Jiang Dingwen said some insignificant things as usual, and then pulled Xuanxia's father to watch a basketball game, and then set up a banquet for him, Xuanxia's father drank a few drinks, and gradually relaxed his vigilance in the chat with Jiang Dingwen.
Jiang Dingwen saw everything in his eyes, and he felt that he could act, so he went to the toilet on the pretext of going to the toilet, and then secretly arranged for someone outside to inform the agents who were ambushed on the road to prepare in advance.
In the afternoon, Xuanxia's father saw that things were really not close, and he was ready to go home, the weather was unusually hot, and at this time, Xuanxia's father, who was already slightly drunk, was riding a bicycle on the way home.
But at the same time as Xuanxia's father passed by a hu, the three men in black who had been waiting here for a long time got out of the car in an instant, rushed up to beat him unconscious without saying a word, and then put him into a sack, threw it on the car, and drove away, the whole process lasted only 3 minutes.
The agents took Xuanxia's father to an abandoned factory, where Jiang Dingwen was waiting for him, although he hated the trouble that Xuanxia's father brought to himself, but he was still unwilling to kill him, after all, he was Xuanxia's father's teacher at the Whampoa Military Academy, but chairman Jiang could not help but listen to the words of Chairman Jiang.
Jiang Dingwen
Therefore, Jiang Dingwen still issued an order to the agents to execute the shooting, and the agents pulled Xuanxia's father to the wall and fired, and one of the agents even fired seven shots at Xuanxia's father, who eventually fell in a pool of blood and died heroically, only 39 years old.
After comrade Xuanxia's father disappeared, Lin Boqu was very anxious, and he concluded that this matter was related to Kuomintang agents, so he personally went to the door to find Jiang Dingwen and asked him where he hid Xuanxia's father.
Lin Boqu had no choice but to report this matter to Zhou Enlai, and Zhou Enlai was even more anxious after hearing that Xuanxia's father was missing, because he had arranged him to work in Xi'an in the first place, and after some thought, Zhou Enlai felt that Hu Zongnan and Xuanxia's father had a good relationship and should know his whereabouts.
Therefore, Zhou Enlai immediately sent a telegram to Hu Zongnan asking about the whereabouts of Xuanxia's father, but Hu Zongnan was indeed not involved in this matter, and Chiang Kai-shek must have hidden from him, and after learning that Xuanxia's father was missing, Hu Zongnan even sent someone to find the whereabouts of Xuanxia's father.
In this way, the disappearance of Xuanxia's father became a mystery at that time, and after that, the organization has been sending people to find his whereabouts, but it has never been found.
Until one day in March 1951, the Liaoning public security arrested a secret agent named Wang Ziming at the Wang Ji grocery store in Huanggutun, Shenyang, and the police actually thought that his whereabouts were suspicious, sent people to target him, and only arrested him when the evidence was conclusive.
In the early days of the state, the police interrogated prisoners
Originally, he thought that he was an ordinary spy, and the public security organs routinely questioned him, but in his confession, he mentioned that he had been a secret agent in Xi'an in 1938, and that Shangfeng was Jiang Dingwen, which attracted the attention of the public security organs.
To this end, the Liaoning public security organs set up a special case team to interrogate this agent in detail, and under careful investigation, it was found that he was not called Wang Ziming, but Tong Ronggong, and what was even more shocking was that he was one of the three murderers who participated in the murder of Comrade Xuanxia's father at that time.