Mao Anying was killed in the bombing of U.S. aircraft on the Korean battlefield 71 years ago, and he was not the only volunteer command worker who died in this accident, but also with staff officer Gao Ruixin. Gao Ruixin is an unsung hero born in Gaojie Village, Shifo Town, Anguo City, Hebei Province, and few people know his name and deeds in the half century after his sacrifice.
Mao Anying received more attention because he was Chairman Mao's child and the sixth relative to die in Chairman Mao's family. In fact, Gao Ruixin and Mao Anying have many similarities. Gao Ruixin joined the Communist Party of China in 1944 and came to the Yan'an Military Commission in February 1946. Mao Anying also returned to China this year, back to Yan'an, and back to his father Chairman Mao.
Gao Ruixin and Mao Anying were about the same age, and they were both newly married and soon set foot on the battlefield, and the situation and circumstances of the two were not bad, so they formed an indissoluble relationship and soon became good friends at the headquarters of the Volunteer Army. Gao Ruixin was born in 1927 in rural Hebei. Gao Ruixin's father worked in the fields when he was busy farming, and when he was idle, he was a stonemason who helped people make stone tablets and other stone tools to earn a hard money. It is because of his father's diligence that Gao Ruixin has a different growth experience from most local children:
You can go to school and read without having to herd cattle, fetch water, or mow grass all day.
In 1935, gao Ruixin was 8 years old and attended the local primary school; in June 1941, he was admitted to the Anti-Japanese Middle School under the Jizhong Military Region with excellent results. The following year, in 1942, it was implemented by the Japanese army
"May Day Sweep"
During the military operation, the Eighth Route Army and the masses of the people suffered great losses, and Gao Ruixin's middle school was also affected. Therefore, 15-year-old Gao Ruixin threw his pen from Rong, followed a few classmates across the enemy's heavy blockade line, and found the garrison of the 17th Regiment of the Army to sign up for the Eighth Route Army.
Not long after joining the Eighth Route Army, the Kang Affiliated Middle School resumed classes in Luantou Village, Wanxian County, Jixi Province, and Gao Ruixin obeyed the organizational arrangements and returned to the school to start studying again. In January 1943, Gao Ruixin's school was merged with the Second Branch Of the Anti-Japanese University to form a single school, and soon after, due to changes in the situation, the Second Branch of the Anti-Japanese University was ordered to return to Yan'an. Gao Ruixin also followed, setting foot on The Holy Land of Revolution in China for the first time - Yan'an, and was incorporated into the Second Brigade of the Seventh Branch of the Kang University to continue his studies.
In February 1946, Gao Ruixin and hundreds of classmates were transferred to the Central Military Commission of Yan'an, and Gao Ruixin and 24 others were assigned to the First Bureau of the Central Military Commission. The Third Bureau of the Central Military Commission is the leading organ responsible for ensuring the communications between the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission and the whole army; the Second Bureau of the Central Military Commission was established at a very early age by Chairman Mao, Zhu De, and other revolutionaries of the older generation
Technical Reconnaissance Intelligence. The work functions of the First Bureau of the Central Military Commission should also be an important department responsible for the overall planning of a specific affair of the whole army.
In 1947, the Northwest Field Army was established, the predecessor of the First Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (hereinafter referred to as Ichino), with Peng Dehuai as commander and political commissar. After Peng Dehuai took office, he formed the Northwest Field Army Headquarters and transferred Gao Ruixin to the Operations Section of the Headquarters as a staff officer. Since then, Gao Ruixin has been at Peng Dehuai's side, responsible for drafting documents, sending telegrams, and sending reports.
Peng Dehuai is a chess enthusiast, as long as he has time, he likes to set up a car and horse cannon with others to kill a few games. And Gao Ruixin is a chess master and a fan here, so the two often "fight" on the chessboard. After understanding, Gao Ruixin naturally got Peng Dehuai's appreciation and like.
According to Peng Dehuai's secretary Wang Yazhi, he recalled:
"When I was in the Northwest Field Army, I had a very close classmate named Gao Ruixin, who was a staff officer around Peng Dehuai and was also very good at playing chess. Peng Dehuai often asked him to play chess. Once he played chess with Gao Ruixin, Gao Ruixin was a good winner who didn't want to win much, and this time he won. Mr. Peng said that the little tall, the little high, your chess is still tall, but your tall man is not tall. ”
Gao Ruixin also said unceremoniously, you are high in chess, but you are not much taller than me, and you are not tall. It can be seen that on this occasion, there is no superior-subordinate relationship, and the two are equal. Later, when Gao Ruixin went to North Korea, Peng Dehuai saw Gao Ruixin coming and said:
"Xiao Gao is coming, welcome welcome, busy now, wait for free we will kill a few plates."
It can be seen that Peng Dehuai is quite fond of Gao Ruixin, a young man in his early 20s, and feels that he has a very good appetite for himself. During the Liberation War, Gao Ruixin accompanied Peng Dehuai in the southern conquest of the Northern War,
He has fought in the Great Northwest and participated in major battles such as defending Yan'an, liberating Lanzhou, fighting a decisive battle in Xinjiang, and marching into Ningxia
。 On the eve of the liberation of the whole country, in February 1949, the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held, and Peng Dehuai came to Xibaipo, Jianping County, Jin-Cha-Ji Liberated Area.
Peng Dehuai summoned Gao Ruixin to the front and said to him a seemingly concerned, but actually commanding words:
"Yes, it may take a few days to drive, this is back on the door of your hometown, I will give you a week's leave, go back to see your parents, don't rush back." 」
Hearing this, Gao Ruixin's first reaction was that joy surged into his heart, and when he reacted and thought about it, he thought:
The Great War in the Northwest was in full swing, and Peng Dehuai, as the supreme commander of the Northwest Battlefield, was in Xibaipo, but his heart was always worried about the big and small affairs of the battlefield, and the war report was sent at any time.
At this time, no one around Peng Dehuai dared to relax, for fear of affecting the northwest war situation, and Gao Ruixin, as Peng Dehuai's confidential secretary, could not leave him, only caring about the small family and ignoring everyone. Gao Ruixin thought about it at this point, hesitated, and did not know how to open his mouth to refuse.
Peng Dehuai saw Gao Ruixin's thoughts, and he, who had never smiled, smiled and patted his shoulder: "
Go ahead, the parenting grace of your parents can not be forgotten, otherwise your parents will know that you will not go to see them when you go to the door, it is time to complain that I Peng Dehuai is not close to people, I don't want to be a little tall you this little boy, bad my old Peng I innocent mile. Rest assured, I will arrange for someone to replace you for your work. But you have to remember that the holiday is seven days, and when the time comes, you can come back on time and can't delay for a moment. ”
Peng Dehuai did not wait for Gao Ruixin to react, so he turned around and walked towards the venue. Gao Ruixin silently performed a standard military salute to Peng Dehuai's back and watched him leave. Back at the station, Gao Ruixin explained his work to the staff officers in the same office and embarked on the road home with excitement. Gao Ruixin was 22 years old and had been away from home for 8 years. He returned to his hometown to meet his father and brother, who thought about it day and night, and was also photographed by the village matchmaker, who introduced li Cuiying, a girl from the same village, to him. The two were directly engaged.
Seven days flew by, and Gao Ruixin put aside his children and returned to Xibaipo to continue the liberation work. In November 1949, the First Field District merged with the Northwest Military Region to form the new Northwest Military Region, peng Dehuai naturally served as the first commander of the Northwest Military Region, and Gao Ruixin was transferred to the Combat Staff Officer of the Military Region Headquarters. After that, the Northwest Military and Political Committee was established, and Peng Dehuai concurrently served as the director. With the liberation of the entire northwest, the strategy of the northwest region shifted to suppressing the Remnants of the Kuomintang and restoring economic construction.
Peng Dehuai was in charge of the economic construction affairs of the Northwest Military and Political Committee and remained in Xi'an, while Gao Ruixin was stationed in Lanzhou with the headquarters of the Northwest Military Region. This was the first time since Gao Ruixin was separated from Peng Dehuai since 1947. In February 1950, Gao Ruixin took a leave of absence to return to his hometown to marry his fiancée Li Cuiying. The whole village followed him
General Peng Da fought and contributed to the liberation of the people of the whole country
With blessings and reverence, the wedding was very grand and lively, and Gao Ruixin was very happy.
Shortly after their new marriage, Gao Ruixin returned to Lanzhou with his wife Li Cuiying; when passing through Xi'an, they went to visit Peng Dehuai, an old chief who worked in the Northwest Military and Political Committee. Peng Dehuai warmly received them and left them to eat. After returning to Lanzhou, Gao Ruixin continued to work in the Operations Section of the Northwest Military Region Headquarters, while Li Cuiying went to the local Workers' and Peasants' Accelerated Middle School; Gao Ruixin was busy with the work of suppressing bandits and counter-terrorism in the northwest region and restoring normal social order; Li Cuiying was busy studying cultural knowledge, and everything looked so beautiful.
However, there are also the troubles of happiness, because there are fewer and more, and sometimes we can't even see each other for ten days and half a month. In October 1950, the Chinese Volunteer Army went to Fight in Korea, kicking off the Prelude to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Peng Dehuai was appointed commander of the Chinese Volunteer Army, commanding the volunteer army to fight in Korea. In early November of the same year, Gao Ruixin received Peng Dehuai's order to enter the DPRK, and had to abandon his pregnant wife, who was about to give birth, and go abroad to fight.
On November 17, Gao Ruixin, who was moving quickly, rushed to the headquarters of the Korean Volunteer Army to report to Peng Dehuai, and his position was still the headquarters combat staff. After the defeat of the first battle, the U.S. Army, under the command of Commander-in-Chief MacArthur, made a high-profile announcement on November 24, 1950
"Un Army" is about to launch "General Offensive to End the Korean War at Christmas"
。 In response to the deployment of the enemy army and the upcoming military operations, Peng Dehuai ordered that on the evening of the 25th, the volunteer army on the western front launched a second counterattack campaign against the enemy.
When he first arrived in North Korea, Gao Ruixin, who had not yet had time to fully adapt to his work, climate, and environment, did not take a break before he threw himself into the work of "combat staff officer" -- familiar with and grasped the situation between the enemy and ourselves. Cheng Pu, director of the office of the Volunteer Army Headquarters and deputy director of the Operations Department, was the deputy section chief of the First Bureau of the Central Military Commission during the Yan'an period, and Gao Ruixin was his old subordinate. The office has 6 staff,
Cheng Pu, Gong Jie, Xu Muyuan, Yang Feng'an, Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin
。 Two people are on duty day and night every day.
Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin became good friends within a few days due to similarities in various places. Hong Xuezhi, deputy commander of the Volunteer Command, once joked humorously and humorously:
"You two are so close in the future, you must have been brothers in your previous life, right?" I also really hope that the two of you will continue to live and die together in this life. ”
Gao Ruixin and Mao Anying scratched their heads and looked at each other and smiled.
Gao Ruixin's feelings for Mao Anying are not mixed
The interest impurities of "climbing high branches"
Because of the news that Mao Anying was the eldest son of the great leader Mao Zedong, only a small number of people knew, and this small number of people did not include Gao Ruixin.
I didn't think that Hong Xuezhi's joke words became a slur, and two days after he finished speaking, the two sacrificed, and indeed became life and death together. In late October, the volunteer army headquarters entered Dayu-dong in Changcheng County, North Pyongan Province. It is home to an important gold mine on the Korean Peninsula, just over 20 kilometers from the two water holes that annihilated a battalion of American troops at the beginning of the first battle of the Volunteer Army.
After the war began, the Great Yudong Mine was halted, and the surrounding settlements were scattered in the ravines to the northeast and southwest. The Volunteer Command and the Political Organ of the Volunteer Army occupied a large house that had originally been the office staff of the mine, transformed it into three parts.
The east one is Peng Dehuai's office, the middle one is the conference room, and the west one is subdivided into two small rooms, one as Peng Dehuai's sleeping bedroom, and the other as a guard communication duty room, and there are people on duty day and night.
The Volunteer Command, as the supreme command organ of the Chinese Volunteer Army in Korea, sends almost all combat orders, campaign command orders and other information from here. Here, the telephone rings and the sound of the transmitter is round the clock, like a small sun that constantly emits electronic signals, so the U.S. military quickly noticed the place. However, the U.S. military could not determine which level of volunteer organization was stationed here.
Therefore, the U.S. military sent aircraft to harass the airstrikes every three or five minutes, testing the size of the response, so as to determine how large the combat operation was. Chairman Mao, Zhou Enlai, and other Central Military Commissions in Beijing knew about this matter and warned Peng Dehuai and other high-ranking volunteers, but Peng Dehuai did not take it too seriously, and although he dug up the air raid shelter and set up some office facilities in the cave, he did not come to this long-term hiding office.
On November 24, two U.S. aircraft hovered over The Great Elm Cave for a long time and refused to leave. Deputy Commander Deng Hua and Deputy Commander Hong Xuezhi smelled a hint of danger and realized that the situation was somewhat serious. In order to ensure the safety of Commander Peng Dehuai and comrades of the Volunteer Army Headquarters, air defense facilities were deployed that night. It is stipulated that from 7 o'clock on the 25th, except for the personnel on duty, all those on duty should take shelter in the air raid mine, and the duty personnel should immediately leave the office and enter the air raid shelter when the air defense alarm sounds.
At 7 o'clock on November 25, comrades of the other volunteer command, in addition to the necessary duty personnel, had entered the anti-aircraft mine to take shelter. After breakfast, Peng Dehuai, as usual, went to the office outside. Soon after, the air defense siren sounded, and Hong Xuezhi dragged Peng Dehuai into the air raid shelter 50 meters from the office with a hard drag. Two or three hours later, before the air raids of the enemy planes had arrived, Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin left the air raid shelter and returned to their offices to talk with Cheng Pu and Xu Muyuan, who were on duty, about the attack that our army would launch that night.
At 11 o'clock, 4 enemy planes flew over the Big Yu Cave, and after the air defense siren was issued, Cheng Pu and 4 other people immediately left the office and hid in the air raid shelter. The enemy planes did not bomb or stop, and flew straight north. Everyone at the Volunteer Army Headquarters thought that this was a bombing trip to the Yalu River Bridge, so they let down their vigilance, and Cheng Pu and 4 other young people returned to the office.
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"Here comes the wolf"
story. The four enemy planes flew some distance north, then turned around and sped back, and by the time they found the enemy planes, they were already over the office. The piercing air defense sirens sounded in unison, and Xu Muyuan and Cheng Pu couldn't care less and rushed out of the office directly. When you get outside, look up at the sky and see many white balls — napalm freefall from the gas bombs to the office.
Cheng Pu and Xu Muyuan secretly said that it was not good and shouted loudly
Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin hurried out
。 But at that time, Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin were far away from the door, one was roasting the fire, the other was looking at the map. When they came back to trying to flee, it was too late.
Nearly a hundred petrol bombs, a high flame of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius, engulfed everything around the office. Outside, Cheng Pu was on fire, rolling on the ground and taking off his cotton clothes to survive, but his face was still burned. Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin failed to escape and sacrificed. In fact, on this day, Gao Ruixin did not have a duty task, and returned to the office because he had just arrived at the volunteer army headquarters and was anxious to understand the position, number, and operation of the enemy and us.
After the alarm was lifted, the guards cleared the burned-out office and found the remains of Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin in the ashes. Peng Dehuai arranged for the sappers to make two coffins on the spot, and buried the remains of the two men on the north hillside, and buried bricks with Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin Chinese characters in front of the tomb as markers. When Peng Dehuai learned of the two men's sacrifice, he felt extremely guilty and did not eat lunch; in the afternoon, he spent nearly two hours drawing up a 114-word CmC telegram explaining the process of Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin's sacrifice.
In the afternoon of the same day, Peng Dehuai, in the name of the Volunteer Army Headquarters, called the Northwest Military Region to inform Gao Ruixin of his sacrifice and made instructions and arrangements:
"Comrade Gao Ruixin made contributions in the war to liberate the Great Northwest, and I hope that the Military Region will extend condolences to his relatives."
Zhang Zongxun, deputy commander of the Northwest Military Region, Yan Yuyao, chief of staff, and Gan Siqi, deputy political commissar, immediately discussed and, in view of the fact that Gao Ruixin's wife, Li Cuiying, was approaching the production period, it was decided to keep the news of Gao Ruixin's death a secret for the time being.
Seventeen days after Gao Ruixin's death, his daughter Gao Yankun was born. After a few more months, it was not until Li Cuiying's body was almost recovered that the Northwest Military Region informed her that Gao Ruixin had become a martyr. Li Cuiying fainted on the spot and fell to the ground. Two years after Gao Ruixin's death, on November 25, 1952, the Chinese Volunteer Army Command and the Political Department jointly issued The 001
"Certificate of Sacrifice of Revolutionary Soldiers"
, sent to Gao Zigang, the brother of Gao Ruixin in Hebei Province. The Gao family looked at the certificate and fell into deep sorrow and remembrance.
As for why the certificate was not sent to Li Cuiying, the spouse of the martyr Gao Ruixin, it was too long to verify the reason. But one thing is certain, for half a century, Gao Ruixin's
It has been preserved by Gao Zigang, and Li Cuiying is not aware of it. For various reasons, after Li Cuiying reorganized her family, she did not contact her old family, and almost never mentioned the name Gao Ruixin and Gao Ruixin's story to anyone, including her daughter Gao Kunyan.
Gao Kunyan only knows that his biological father is a combat hero,
I don't know who my name is, where my family lives, what I sacrificed, and so on
Li Cuiying never said. In 1997, CCTV aired the TV series Mao Zedong and His Son. This is the first time that Gao Ruixin's story has appeared on the big screen, but this has caused anger and dissatisfaction among Gao Ruixin's old family, and Gao Ruixin's brother Gao Zi has just been sleepless all night:
Because the TV series completely misunderstood Gao Ruixin's birthplace.
Shouldering the heavy trust of his hometown, Gao Zigang traveled to and from Beijing several times in 1997 to reflect to the relevant parties, hoping to clarify the truth and restore history. Although he had found nothing, the tallest son, who was over seventy years old, was still unwilling to give up. Gao Yankun watched the TV series of the fire and still did not know the truth that Gao Ruixin was his father. It was not until before the Spring Festival in 1997 that Gao Yankun suddenly received a call from a "strange uncle" thousands of miles away and learned of his origins.
Gao Yankun then asked his mother for confirmation, and Li Cuiying knew that he could not hide it, and there was no point in hiding it, so he told the truth. However, Li Cuiying still felt that Gao Zigang and others were a bit troublesome, allowing herself and her daughter to add trivial matters and troubles. In April 1997, Gao Yankun returned to his hometown where he had never been before, to visit his uncle Gao Zigang and his family, whom he had never met. When she received her father Gao Ruixin's "Certificate of Sacrifice of Revolutionary Soldiers" from her uncle, she couldn't help but cry bitterly.
This certificate is considered to be the return of things to their original owners. Gao Yankun's loss of voice cried bitterly, and no one did not understand. When she was a child, she saw that other children had fathers, but she didn't have them, so she asked her mother Li Cuiying:
"What about my dad?" Where is my dad? What's his name? How come I haven't seen him? Doesn't he like me? Why don't you come to me? ”
Li Cuiying tried his best to cover up and used various reasons to prevaricate, so until Gao Yankun grew up, got married and had children, and became a mother, he only knew that his father was a combat hero and sacrificed on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
Seeing that other children have fathers to love, Gao Yankun is envious, but also has a strong pain in his heart. As he grew older, in order to avoid the embarrassment of his stepfather and mother, Gao Yankun chose not to mention this matter again. And Li Cuiying, who has not had much time, has not wanted to tell her daughter about her father Gao Ruixin. If it weren't for Gao Zigang's wrong place of origin in the TV series, he wouldn't have called Gao Yankun.
When Gao Zigang first called his brother Gao Ruixin's widowed daughter, when he first heard the voice of his own niece Gao Yankun, he was over seventy years old and overflowed with excitement, and his face was full of tears. Regarding Li Cuiying's behavior and practices of not telling, I really don't know how to understand.
Maybe so many years have passed,
Li Cuiying did not want to make trouble for herself, her second husband, her daughter Gao Yankun, and her own family
。 As spectators and bystanders, we do not know how to evaluate Li Cuiying's approach.
47 years of ignorance finally ended in 1997. The end of the father-daughter recognition can make Gao Ruixin, who is buried in the green mountains and rivers of North Korea, dazzle. It is precisely because of the dedication and sacrifice of martyrs such as Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin that China is now strong and prosperous. To forget their stories means to forget history, to betray them. Gao Yankun should be proud of having a father like Gao Ruixin, and the regrets of the past can be made up.
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