What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Since the British cannons opened the gates of the late Qing Dynasty, the Chinese people have been deeply oppressed by feudalism, imperialism and other mountains, and live in the depths of the water. In order to save this country, countless people with lofty ideals have stepped forward and become heroes who are always remembered by our sons and daughters of China.
In order to commemorate these revolutionary pioneers, New China built the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery to commemorate these heroes who threw their heads and spilled their blood for the revolution. But what was originally a resting place for the revolutionary martyrs, but there was a warlord who was buried here after his death? What is the origin of this warlord?
His name is Long Yun, and he is an ethnic minority from Zhaotong, Yunnan. When Yunlong was a child, his family did not have much money, and his father died when he was four years old, and he was pulled hard by his mother to grow up, and after reading for a few years, he learned boxing and martial arts. After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, Long Yun, Lu Han, and Zou Ruoheng formed the three brothers, known as the three swordsmen of Zhaotong, and joined the Dian Army to participate in the revolution. Because of their outstanding performance in the military, they were sent to the Yunnan Daowu Hall for in-depth military knowledge training the following year.
In the movie "Huo Yuanjia", we will find that at that time, there were often foreign Hercules in China who would come to show off their martial prowess and shout with their mouths full of gibberish, which was really not made up, and Long Yun happened to have such a Boxer from France to pick trouble when he was lecturing on wutang.
This Frenchman set up the ring in the Lecture Hall, and indeed had some strength, and everyone who dared to go on stage to compete with him was easily overturned by this Frenchman, but Long Yun was different. Long Yun had already practiced a very cattle martial art in his early years, although his strength was not as good as that of the French, but he was full of routines and was best at winning with ingenuity.
Various fighting skills showed the French, Long Yun finally succeeded in defeating the strong enemy, and his wonderful performance in the ring also successfully attracted the attention of Tang Jiyao, the governor and governor of Yunnan at the time, after Long Yun graduated from the Lecture Hall, Tang Jiyao repeatedly promoted Long Yun and arranged for him to hold an important position in the army.
Long Yun was a man with dreams and political opinions, and he was not satisfied with some of Tang Jiyao's feudal warlord behavior, so in 1927, Long Yun, who had accumulated enough strength, launched a mutiny, ousted Tang Jiyao, and the actual rule of Yunnan was taken by Long Yun.
After Long Yun took over Yunnan, he found that it had been messed up by Tang Jiyao, the mountains were full of bandits, the people had no land to plant, and the economy was in a mess. Faced with this situation, Long Yun carried out a series of political, military, economic and educational reforms in Yunnan, striving to enable the people of Yunnan to recuperate, so that the originally dilapidated Yunnan was fully developed, and provided massive materials and economic support for the subsequent War of Resistance.
Since Long Yun's attitude toward the Central Committee was to listen to the tune and not listen to the announcement, the Kuomintang Central Committee would not give Long Yun any material support. However, in the War of Resistance Against Japan, Long Yun organized an army to fight the War of Resistance against Yunnan with his own family, and the casualties were extremely heavy. During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he and the Dian army he led made a great contribution to the repulsion of the Japanese.
If it was just an ordinary governance party that was peaceful, Long Yun certainly could not have received the honor of being buried in Babaoshan after his death, but he also did two other great things, two very great things, one was that after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he did not take a corner like some warlords, but went all out to carry out anti-Japanese activities; second, he mobilized his soldiers and people, mobilized all his resources, and opened the Yunnan Burma Highway in 9 months.
At that time, China's sea outlet had been completely blocked by Japan, and the only way to get in touch with the international community was through the Southeast Asian battlefield. Yunnan and Myanmar are all located in the mountains, and it is very difficult to build roads, but Longyun mobilized hundreds of thousands of military and civilian people to work together under the condition that technology and funds were very tight, and finally it took only nine months to build this Yunnan Burma Highway, so that the Allies could continue to deliver materials to the Chinese military and civilians.
At the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, almost all of Long Yun's elite soldiers were wiped out, and they were taken advantage of to directly take over Yunnan, and even put under house arrest. But Long Yun did not admit defeat, he found an opportunity to flee Nanjing, traveled to Hong Kong and other places, and finally returned to the embrace of the motherland, and after the founding of New China, he also served as a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In 1962, Yunlong died of a heart attack, because of his contribution to the country and the people during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was buried in the glory of Babaoshan after his death.