After the Shiwo meeting, Li Xiannian led more than 1,000 people from the left detachment to secretly set off under the cover of night. Soon after, Chiang Kai-shek received the news, immediately sent a secret telegram to Ma Bufang, informed Li Xiannian of the whereabouts of the left detachment, and ordered Ma Bufang to immediately send troops in pursuit to ensure total annihilation.
Ma Bufang did not dare to be idle after receiving the secret telegram, and formulated a pursuit plan at the first time: one route was pursued by Ma Buluan's brigade through the direction of Dulan County, and the other route was ma Biao, the commander-in-chief of cavalry, who led the main cavalry to surround and suppress the nearest star at night. After the pursuit plan was formulated, Ma Bufang immediately drew up the battle order into a telegram and handed it over to The Radio Director Xiong Weibang for issuance.
Xiong Weibang did not realize the importance of the problem, and without looking at it, he handed over the telegram code draft to the newspaper operator Zeng Qingliang for handling.
Zeng Qingliang
Zeng Qingliang broke out in a cold sweat after reading the telegram, if this pursuit plan was followed, the left detachment led by Li Xiannian would be in danger of being completely annihilated. He took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, send or not send, how to deal with these two telegrams?
Zeng Qingliang hesitated for a while and decided to leave the telegram unsent. He placed the telegram intact on Xiong Weibang's desk and quietly left the office. Looking at the vast night sky, Zeng Qingliang could only pray that the left detachment of the Western Route Army was safe.
I have to say that the left detachment of the Western Route Army is lucky. Xiong Weibang did not go to the office for four days, and the two telegrams lay quietly on his desk for four days. Ma Bufang did not wait for Ma Biao and Ma Buluan to call back, so he called and questioned the Electrical Affairs Office. Zhang Zhijun, the director of the radio station, immediately personally inquired about the matter. When Xiong Weibang came to the office, he found that the two telegrams were still on his desk.
Xiong Weibang immediately understood what was going on. He called Zeng Qingliang to hear his explanation. Zeng Qingliang had long anticipated the arrival of this moment, so he made an excuse that the transmitter signal was not good, too noisy, too much interference, and he could not send it out several times...
Xiong Weibang knew that this was just an excuse. Because Zeng Qingliang and several of his operators were all personnel of the former Western Route Army Radio Station.
This matter has to start from the beginning.
Liu Jingyan, a radio engineer at the Headquarters of the Western Route Army, was originally an engineer in Feng Yuxiang's army, and Ma Bufang was also a subordinate of Feng Yuxiang, and the two had long been familiar with each other. The Western Route Army was defeated and Liu Jingyan was captured. However, professional and technical personnel have food to eat everywhere, and Ma Buqing, if he has obtained the most precious treasure, will give Liu Jingyan double preferential treatment and stay in his own radio station. Liu Jingyan and Zhang Zhijun, director of Ma Bufang's radio station, were old colleagues of the former Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army and had a very good relationship.
Zeng Qingliang was a student brought out by Liu Jingyan, and when Liu Jingyan heard that Zeng Qingliang and others had been captured, he sent a telegram to Zhang Zhijun and asked him to save people in the name of needing professional radio technicians. This excuse made Ma Bufang unable to refuse, because he knew how high the gold content of radio technicians at that time was. In this way, Zeng Qingliang, Liu Junying, Liu Yuting, Huang Zikun, Feng Guoshou, and Chen Zu served as 6 radio personnel of the Western Route Army, and all of them entered the work of Ma Bufang Radio.
After Zhang Zhijun clarified the situation, he could not say that Zeng Qingliang and others had suggested that they stay, and now that there was a problem, he was also responsible. Xiong Weibang is the same, the telegram is his responsibility to send, and he cannot escape the problem.
The common responsibility tied Zhang Zhijun, Xiong Weibang and others together, and they could only report to Ma Bufang according to Zeng Qingliang's statement, saying that the weather was bad in the past few days, the interference was large, and the telegram could not go out.
After returning to Yan'an, the radio personnel took a group photo
Surprisingly, Ma Bufang, who has always been shrewd and calculating, did not pursue this matter again. Because, before this, Liu Chengde's troops of the Ma family army had intercepted the left detachment of the Western Route Army at Qingshantou near Yumen. On the basis of this, Ma Bufang could make a difference to Chiang Kai-shek, and it would be better to do more than less, and things would not be resolved.
In this way, Zeng Qingliang, with the determination to sacrifice himself, intercepted the pursuit telegram and saved more than 1,000 people from the left detachment of the West Road Bureau from being destroyed.
Later, when Zeng Qingliang and six other people were escorted to Nanjing, passing through Tongxian Town, 40 miles east of Pingliang, they successfully escaped with the help of local compatriots and returned to Yan'an after several twists and turns.