From 1921 to 2021, the Communist Party of China has gone through a century of ups and downs, from scratch, from weak to strong, and then to leading the Chinese people to overthrow the three mountains and establish a new China, and the Communist Party of China has practiced its purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly with practical actions.
In this century-long journey, there are countless communists who have struggled all their lives for their mission, especially in the war years, and they have even sacrificed their lives.
Nowadays, people live in the sunshine of peace, the sound of gunfire on the battlefield is gradually gone, and the soldiers who have fought on the battlefield with real guns and bullets are gradually passing away, but history will never forget them.
In addition to the meritorious Founding Fathers, there were also ordinary soldiers who made their due contributions to the cause of the revolution, but they did not consider themselves special.
In 1994, an old lady in Liaoning revealed her true identity in her last words before her death:
"I am an arms thief who was hunted down and killed by the Kuomintang."
As soon as this remark came out, it shocked all the people around him.
Don't love the Red Army, love the armed
The old man's name is Gao Chongde, born in 1904 in Heishan County, Liaoning Province, at this time the northeast land is in a dark moment of turmoil, the parents are scrupulous farmers, even if they get up early and work in the dark, the family's life is still very difficult.
In the year when Gao Chongde was 8 years old, his father died suddenly, leaving only Gao Chongde and his mother to rely on each other, and the life of orphans and widows was even more difficult.
At a young age, Gao Chongde understood that things are difficult, and whenever someone bullied them, she always bravely stood up to protect her mother, even if she was still a child, but she already had the responsibility of an adult.
Growing up in such an environment, Gao Chongde's personality was much stronger and braver than that of ordinary girls, which also laid the groundwork for her to embark on the revolutionary road in the future.
Gao Chongde grew up to be a boy's personality, she liked to shoot, and the situation in the northeast at that time had been unstable, she wanted to join the army and realize her ideals on the battlefield.
Later, she joined the army as she wished, and met her partner Lu Zhengcao in the northeast military camp, and after marriage, the two spent a sweet time in the military camp, and she never forgot to practice her killing skills.
In 1931, the 918 Incident broke out, less than a year after the northeast all fell, Gao Chongde and her husband came to Guannei, Gao Chongde has suffered from childhood, well aware of the difficulties of the people at the bottom, thinking of the Japanese colonial notice of the northeast, she immediately threw herself into the anti-Japanese salvation movement.
Gao Chongde often stood on the street to distribute leaflets and speeches to publicize the idea of resisting Japan and saving the country, and she hoped that more people would devote themselves to the anti-Japanese salvation movement.
At that time, the Communist Party was also discovering and uniting all progressive forces in large quantities, and Gao Chongde's patriotic behavior attracted the attention of the Communist Party, believing that she was a person who met the criteria for party membership.
Desperate to steal arms
Later, Lin Boqu, an outstanding Communist Party member, got in touch with Gao Chongde, who was very happy to learn of a series of patriotic acts of the Communist Party, and actively moved closer to the party organization, hoping to join the party organization at an early date.
After succeeding as a glorious Communist, Gao Chongde thought that she had finally waited for the opportunity to kill the enemy, but the organization gave her a special task.
At that time, the Communist Party was in a period of difficult development, and there was a shortage of weapons, ammunition and other equipment, which seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the army. In view of the fact that Gao Chongde's husband, Lü Zhengcao, held a position in the Kuomintang army, the organization decided to put Gao Chongde in charge of logistics, and the main task was to collect weapons and ammunition for the Communist army.
Weapons and ammunition were one of the key factors in determining the victory or defeat of the war, but at that time, the Communist Party's own ability to produce weapons and ammunition was seriously insufficient, there was almost no international support, and the main source of weapons was basically captured from the war, but this single way seriously restricted the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the team.
Gao Chongde naturally did
The idea of mobilizing The Kuomintang arms was activated
Coupled with the fact that she had a convenient identity as a cover, she seriously began to plan to steal Kuomintang arms.
Stealing a large amount of arms at once is obviously unrealistic, and it is a feasible long-term solution to steal arms in small quantities and many times without knowing it.
Gao Chongde's plan was also approved by her superior, Lin Boqu, who first spent a lot of money to bribe the guards guarding the powder magazine, and also used her position to forge many approvals for receiving gunpowder, and then organized several people to secretly start transporting arms.
At that time, the Communists did not have cars, the trains were controlled by the Kuomintang, and the transport of weapons and ammunition could only be carried by the most primitive manual transport, and Gao Chongde often carried ammunition with his comrades-in-arms and then delivered the ammunition to the Communist troops after a long journey.
He spent the rest of his life in anonymity
In this way, Gao Chongde transported a lot of ammunition to the Communist Party, and the obvious increase in the consumption of the Kuomintang ammunition depot also aroused the suspicion of some people, but they did not think that there was an "internal ghost" within the army.
Gao Chongde also knew that this plan to steal arms would be discovered sooner or later, so before retreating, she accepted a more challenging task, stealing the Kuomintang mortar.
Before it was all stealing ammunition, the difficulty was relatively small, this time it was a direct stealing mortar, the target was really too big, but Gao Chongde did not retreat from the difficulty, and finally successfully completed the task.
When the Kuomintang army discovered that the weapons and ammunition used by the Communists were exactly the same as their own, and that they were brand new weapons, they sensed the seriousness of the situation.
Later, after a thorough investigation, the Kuomintang discovered that the amount of lost arms was huge, which directly alarmed Chiang Kai-shek, who was very angry and ordered that this arms thief must be hunted down and killed.
Because Gao Chongde stole too many arms, he was finally found out by the Kuomintang. However, the Communist Party had long thought of this place, so it moved Gao Chongde to a safe place early.
After changing his name and surname, the Kuomintang could not find the arms thief under any circumstances.
Later, with the gradual growth of the Communist Party, weapons and ammunition became more and more abundant, and there was no longer a need for fighters like Gao Chongde to take the risk of stealing arms, and Gao Chongde lived an ordinary life after hiding his name.
At first, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Kuomintang, Gao Chongde did not mention his legendary experience to anyone, and later when New China was founded, she always thought that she had only done one thing that should be done, and it was not worth showing off.
If it were not for the fact that before his death, the elderly Gao Chongde said that he was an arms thief who was hunted down and killed by the Kuomintang, this secret that had been hidden for 54 years would not have been known to anyone.
After knowing the truth, everyone was in awe of the white-haired old man in front of them, who had risked her life to contribute to the founding of New China.
brief summary:
Heroes are respectable, but on the heroic spectrum of the Chinese nation, there are many unsung heroes who have sacrificed their precious lives for the great cause of the motherland and the people. There are also some heroes who lived in obscurity after the founding of New China, and when they first risked their lives to engage in revolutionary activities, they were for ideals and beliefs, so they did not care about fame and fortune, preferring to live a life of plainness.