In 1952, at a suburban execution ground twenty kilometers from Changsha, Hunan Province, a prisoner who had been sentenced to death was about to be executed by firing squad, a prisoner who had been a major general in the Kuomintang.
No matter how brilliant he once was, as long as the gun was fired, some of the once was also over the clouds. However, at this moment, a young woman rushed in from outside the execution ground, and she shouted in her mouth, "Leave people under the gun, leave people under the gun."
If it weren't for the accompanying police, seeing that she was a woman, she had no offensive power, and she would have been beaten to death as a gangster who robbed the execution site. The police shouted at her, "You don't want to die, this is the execution ground, not the place where you fool around," and said that he was going to push her out.
However, the woman who came was not afraid and said loudly: "I am Tan Mulan, the daughter of Tan Yubao, vice governor of Hunan Province." This man is not capable of killing, he is meritorious to the revolution." Hearing that the woman reported to the door, they were not good enough to do it again, so they immediately ordered someone to call and ask Tan Yubao for verification.
Then Tan Yubao came to the scene, saw his daughter so foolish, but also very angry, so he ordered someone to pull her away. Tan Mulan was also anxious at this time, crying and shouting: "You can't kill, you have to ask Premier Zhou for instructions first." Hearing Premier Zhou's name, Tan Yubao hesitated, and after some thought, decided to escort the prisoners back first. Ask for instructions before making a judgment.
Seeing this, many people have to ask, does this prisoner have another identity? Why did the deputy governor's daughter cry and cry to save him? So let's look for why.
The story also begins with this prisoner, his name is Hong Zongyang, who was once a major general in the National Army. In 1902, Hong Zongyang was born into an ordinary peasant family in Youxian County, Hunan Province. At the age of 22, he graduated from Wuchang Lu'e Hunan Middle School and was later admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangzhou. In that era of internal and external troubles, a large number of enthusiastic young people emerged, and they were bent on saving the country, and Hong Zongyang was one of them.
When he was in school, he joined the Chinese Communist Party and became acquainted with a large number of people with lofty ideals, including Premier Zhou. After graduating from military school, he participated in the Northern Expedition. On the battlefield, Hong Zongyang killed and daredevil, led the soldiers to win many victories, and was soon promoted to battalion commander.
However, after the "Ma Ri Incident" in 1927, he was unfortunately arrested and imprisoned, and in prison, he was tortured and at the same time his heart changed. At that time, the Kuomintang was dominant, and the Communist Party was still in its infancy, and there was still a long way to go. If he wanted to show his ambitions earlier, he would have joined the more powerful Kuomintang at that time, so after his release from prison, he joined the Kuomintang camp.
In 1932, Hong Zongyang served as the deputy commander of the Youxian Shoveling Communist Volunteer Brigade, and was ordered to encircle and suppress the Red Army fighters in the Soviet area. One morning, Hong Zongyang led several of his men to the Kuomintang Fengling Township Office to inspect, and while resting, Zhu Guanqun, the director of the township office, found him with a little girl. He said, "Captain Hong, she was picked up by a woodcutter on the mountain a few days ago, take her away when you leave, check whose child it is, and then send her home."
At this time, a big fat man walked in from outside the door, and as soon as the little girl saw him, she rushed over, crying and shouting, Uncle Xu! This can scare the fat man who came in, whose child knows me? The big fat man Xu Chengsheng thought so in his heart. The girl had been in the mountains for a few days, her face was dirty and difficult to identify, and for a while Xu Chengsheng did not recognize who the little girl was.
After he looked at it carefully, he said in horror: Why are you here, your father? Seeing that Xu Chengsheng knew the little girl, Hong Zongyang asked curiously, whose child is he? Xu Chengsheng did not hide it, saying: She is Tan Mulan, the daughter of Tan Yubao. Hearing Tan Yubao's three words, everyone present was stunned, he was a senior general of the Communist Party, and one of the primary goals of this campaign to eliminate the Communist Party.
The Communist Party and his family were discovered and were summarily executed. If you are an innocent child, Hong Zongyang can't do anything about it. But he was the daughter of a Communist general, and if he let her go, he would be punished if he returned.
After thinking about it, he came up with a good idea, he and his wife have been married for many years, and they have never had children, so it is better to adopt her and say that she is his own daughter. So she told the few people present what she thought, hoping that they could keep secrets for him, and Both Director Zhu and Xu Chengsheng were afraid of causing trouble and agreed. For the sake of safety, Hong Zongyang still sent a lot of money to block the mouths of the two people.
Then Hong Zongyang secretly brought Tan Mulan home, his wife He Xiuwen saw Tan Mulan, she was impressed by the cuteness and cunning of the little girl, she was very fond of her, in order to hide her eyes, his husband and wife also changed the name of Tan Mulan, called Hong Mulan.
He Xiulan also really treated her as a daughter, bought her a lot of delicious food, and a lot of beautiful clothes, dressed her up like a princess, not only in life to be good to her, but also arranged for her to study in the best school, so that she had no worries about food and clothing, happy and happy growth, the two of them also did their best for Tan Mulan.
In 1937, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated to resist Japan. In order to establish a front for the united War of Resistance, Tan Yubao was ordered to go to Youxian County to negotiate with the local Kuomintang. Hong Zongyang also happened to be one of the representatives of the Kuomintang side. After knowing that the person coming was Tan Yubao, he thought of his daughter at home.
So he privately found an opportunity to tell Tan Yubao the news of Tan Mulan in his home, and when he heard the news of his daughter, Tan Yubao was very excited. In order to cover the transfer of the main force of the Red Army, he led a small number of troops to fight guerrillas in the Soviet area, because his wife was killed in the bombing of the Kuomintang, and he always took his young daughter with him.
However, what he did not expect was that his team was actually a traitor, and he and his comrades were surrounded by the Kuomintang on Qipan Mountain. If you want to lead the comrades to break out, you can only take advantage of the night to disperse the breakthrough. However, during the breakout, his daughter's legs were scratched by thorns and she could not walk, but could only walk on his back. In this way, the speed of their breakthrough slowed down, and they saw that they were about to be chased by the enemy, and in order not to involve their comrades-in-arms, in a hurry, he could only hide his daughter in a thatched nest, and then come back to find her after the breakthrough.
What he did not expect was that when he came back, his daughter was gone, which became a pain in his heart, regretting that he should not have left his daughter in the first place. Now when he heard the news that his daughter was still alive, he was overjoyed.
After being separated from her father, Tan Mulan, who hid alone for a few days, was so hungry that she fainted, but fortunately, a woodcutter passed by and rescued her. Although she was only 9 years old at the time, she had learned some skills after following her father for so many years. When she woke up, she did not blindly tell others her identity, falsely claimed that she had been snatched into the mountains by bandits, and took advantage of the bandits' lack of attention and escaped and hid.
Later, the kind woodcutter sent Tan Mulan to the Fengling Township Public Office and was adopted as a righteous daughter by Hong Zongyang, but Hong Zongyang did not expect that his good deeds that day would save his life one day in the future.
After learning from Hong Zongyang that his daughter was taken very well, he thanked Hong Zongyang one after another and couldn't wait to see his daughter again. With Tan Mulan's relationship, their subsequent negotiations became extremely smooth. Hong Zongyang strongly supported Tan Yubao's views, so that many of the negotiations reached an agreement.
After the negotiations, in order to show support for cooperation, Hong Zongyang immediately released the communists imprisoned in prison, and secretly provided Tan Yubao with 12 rifles, more than 200 grenades and a mountain cannon.
Knowing that his daughter is now living well, as a biological father, he still wants to take his daughter to his side to take care of, so he expressed his meaning to Hong Zongyang. Hong Zongyang and his wife knew that this day was going to come sooner or later, and although they had thousands of reluctance in their hearts, they still agreed to Tan Yubao.
However, what they did not expect was that his daughter did not agree, and after so many years of careful care, she had cultivated a deep relationship with Hong Zongyang and his wife. Seeing that his daughter did not want to leave, he did not force too much, since her daughter is living very well now, and she is also wandering around with herself, let her stay. Since then, the two families have been exchanging letters and maintaining a close relationship.
In 1945, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek launched a civil war again for his own selfish desires. At this time, Hong Zongyang was greatly disappointed in the Kuomintang, and although he was already a major general in the Nationalist Army at this time, he resigned his post and returned home to be an ordinary person. Before he left, Tan Mulan was sent to Tan Yubao's side, when Tan Yubao was serving in Hunan.
In 1949, after the founding of New China, in order to eliminate the hidden reactionary forces of the Kuomintang, a nationwide suppression of the counter-revolutionary movement was carried out. Hong Zongyang was also found in this movement, and a gun was found in his home, so he was arrested on the charge of hiding a gun and killing a revolutionary comrade.
In the subsequent trial, he was sentenced to death, and even at this time, Hong Zongyang did not think of asking Tan Yubao for help, he knew that looking for him at this time was undoubtedly to find trouble for him, and it might even affect him.
Only Tan Yubao and Tan Mulan knew that the gun that Hong Zongyang had secretly hidden was actually given to him by Tan Yubao for self-defense, and those revolutionary comrades were not killed, they were all released by him. He had wanted to go quietly like this. Unexpectedly, before the execution, Tan Mulan learned the news, so there was a scene where she broke into the execution site.
After Tan Yubao returned, Premier Zhou made a special telephone call and explained the reason to the premier. At that time, the prime minister did not make a conclusion, but asked him to lock up Hong Zongyang first and not execute him. A few days later, Tan Yubao received a reply from the premier: After investigation, Hong Zongyang had contributed to the anti-Japanese resistance and had also helped our party, and he could not kill him. In this way, Hong Zongyang was exempted from the death penalty and commuted to life imprisonment.
I thought that I could not repay Hong Zongyang's nurturing grace in the future, Tan Mulan often visited him in prison, but I did not expect that in 1975, Hong Zongyang was pardoned and released from prison, which made Tan Mulan happy, although at this time Hong Zongyang was already an old man, but she did not give up at all, and took Hong Zongyang to his home for the first time, and took care of him until his death.
Although Tan Mulan is a woman, her love for repaying the grace of nurturing, not avoiding suspicion, and desperately saving her righteous father is commendable.