preface
Photo | Gao Ruixin
At 2 or 3:00 p.m. on November 25, 1950, the volunteer army headquarters in Dae-eung-dong, North Korea, was bombed by American aircraft.
After nearly a hundred incendiary bombs were dropped, Shiji's office was suddenly in a sea of fire, and the guard on duty, Xu Muyuan, quickly fled away the moment the air defense siren sounded, and although Cheng Pu left a little slowly, because he was closer to the door, he was only burned, but it did not endanger his life.
Only Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin, who were in the innermost part of the office, failed to run out in time.
Afterwards, Cheng Pu recalled: "At that time, Mao Anying was close to the east wall near the stove to keep warm, and Gao Ruixin was staring at the situation of the enemy and us on the wall against the south wall, but he could not rush out because he was a little farther from the door. ”
Mao Anying's sacrifice made Peng Dehuai extremely painful, and in the afternoon he prepared a telegram on this matter to be reported to the Central Military Commission, and Peng Dehuai spent more than 1 hour in a 114-word telegram.
The Central Military Commission and Gao (Gang) and He (Jinnian):
We had entered the bomb shelter at seven o'clock today, and Mao Anying was in the house with three staff officers. At 11 o'clock, the four of them returned to the house, and suddenly four enemy planes came, dropped nearly a hundred incendiary bombs, hit the house, and two staff officers ran out. Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin were burned to death before they ran out in time. Nothing else is lost.
Shiji november 25, 16:00
For a long time in the past, the deeds of Mao Anying's sacrifice were well known to everyone, but Gao Ruixin, who died with Mao Anying, was somewhat unknown.
In fact, the relationship between Peng Dehuai and Gao Ruixin is somewhat like the feelings between father and son.
And Peng Dehuai is like a father and son
Before meeting Mao Anying, Gao Ruixin had been working with Peng Dehuai for many years.
Gao Ruixin was a child from a peasant family, his father also worked as a stonemason to make a living, although when he was born, the conditions in the family were very difficult, but his father still insisted on sending him to study, in June 1941 Gao Ruixin was admitted to the Anti-Affiliated Middle School under the Jizhong Military Region, which later merged with the Kang University Sophomore Branch.
After arriving in Yan'an, the Kang University Second Branch was organized as the Second Detachment of the Seventh Branch of kang university, and because of its outstanding knowledge and talent, Gao Ruixin joined the Communist Party of China in 1944 under the introduction of Song Yingqi, the secretary of the branch.
In February 1946, Gao Ruixin was transferred to the Central Military Commission of Yan'an with more than 100 classmates, and Gao Ruixin was assigned to a bureau with 24 classmates.
The First Bureau of the Central Military Commission is the core command organ belonging to our army, and Gao Ruixin's ability to be assigned to work here is enough to show his talent.
Pictured | General Wang Zhengzhu
When Wang Zhengzhu was deputy director of the First Bureau of the General Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, he was very appreciative of Gao Ruixin's ability to work, and he also intentionally or unintentionally tempered Gao Ruixin's ability; after the establishment of the Northwest Field Corps, Wang Zhengzhu was transferred to the deputy chief of staff of the Northwest Field Corps, and brought Gao Ruixin with him, and later served as the operational staff officer of the Northwest Field Army Headquarters.
Gao Ruixin worked by Peng Dehuai's side during this period, although there seemed to be some distance between a combat staff officer and a field army commander, but this did not prevent Peng Dehuai from being close to Gao Ruixin.
As an operational staff officer, Gao Ruixin's main job was to write operational orders on behalf of Peng Dehuai.
Peng Dehuai is older, his eyes are not very clear, especially in the process of marching day and night, it is difficult to write words, Gao Ruixin is responsible for drawing up combat orders based on Peng Dehuai's dictation, Gao Ruixin can quickly and accurately formulate the required combat orders every time, coupled with a gentle and generous personality, which is deeply appreciated by Peng Dehuai.
Wang Keren, deputy chief of the Operations Section, once talked about the relationship between Peng Dehuai and Gao Ruixin: it is somewhat like the feelings between father and son.
Like Peng Dehuai, Gao Ruixin also likes to play chess, sometimes on the way to the march, Gao Ruixin will also fight with Peng Dehuai in one or two games, the two play chess in their hands, and they also fight a verbal battle, although the two are superior and subordinate at work, but because the relationship between private is also very good, so Gao Ruixin has basically no restraints in front of Peng Dehuai.
Because of the temper, whenever Peng Dehuai wanted to get angry, Wang Zhengzhu brought Gao Ruixin to him, and the two of them played a game of chess, and Peng Dehuai forgot about the anger, this method was almost a tried and tested.
In February 1949, Gao Ruixin followed Peng Dehuai to Xibaipo, Pingshan, Hebei province to attend the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, during which Peng Dehuai gave Gao Ruixin a seven-day vacation, because Gao Ruixin was a native of Anguo County, Hebei Province, and gao Ruixin had not returned to his hometown to visit his relatives for a long time since joining the army.
That is, this time back to his hometown, Gao Ruixin, under the introduction of his hometown, was engaged to a woman from the same village, Li Cuiying.
A year later, Gao Ruixin returned to his hometown again and married Li Cuiying.
The first left is Gao Ruixin
At this time, Gao Ruixin had been transferred to the operations staff of the Northwest Military Region Headquarters, and when he returned to Lanzhou with his wife Li Cuiying, Peng Dehuai and his wife warmly received them in Xi'an.
However, even Peng Dehuai did not expect that he would later become the commander and political commissar of the Volunteer Army.
On October 4, 1950, Peng Dehuai took a special plane to Beijing to attend the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee presided over by Chairman Mao.
Not long after Peng Dehuai entered the DPRK, he wrote to the First Field Army and asked for a military secretary to be sent.
Since Zhang Yangwu, the secretary who was with Peng Dehuai at that time, did not understand military affairs, Peng Dehuai particularly stressed the request to send a military secretary over, and Yan Yan, chief of staff of Yiye, wanted to consult with Wang Zhengzhu, deputy chief of staff, and simply sent Gao Ruixin to the DPRK.
"Agree to Gao Ruixin's entry into the DPRK."
We all know that Mao Anying was only newly married for a year when he entered the DPRK, in fact, Gao Ruixin was not like this, and what is more crucial is that when Gao Ruixin entered the DPRK, his wife Li Cuiying was pregnant with Liujia and was about to be born.
"Mr. Peng has Secretary Yang Feng'an by his side, and you can wait until your child is born before going to North Korea."
However, Gao Ruixin thought about it again and again and decided to leave immediately, and he said to Yan Yu: "Secretary Yang Feng'an is also the director of the Zhisi Office, and there is no full-time secretary around Mr. Peng, so I must come to my post immediately." ”
In this way, Gao Ruixin rushed to the Korean battlefield and became a combat staff officer of the Volunteer Army Command.
Pictured| Peng Dehuai and Chairman Mao
On November 17, 1950, the day after Gao Ruixin arrived in Korea, he reported to Peng Dehuai, who was very happy and immediately took his hand and said:
"Welcome! Little High is here again! Now nervous and busy, when you have free time, take a few games of chess to see how much your chess skills have grown. ”
Brotherhood with Mao Anying
Gao Ruixin, who had just entered the Korean battlefield, was actually very nervous in his heart, because it was a newcomer, and Gao Ruixin was very unfamiliar with the work at hand, so he had to work overtime to get busy, especially to memorize the names of our army and the enemy troops.
At that time, two people working next to Mr. Peng were Gao Ruixin, and the other was Mao Anying, and Gao Ruixin also became acquainted with Mao Anying, a Russian translator and confidential secretary working at the Volunteer Army Headquarters.
Mao Anying's personality itself was very cheerful, although many people did not know his identity in the early days of his entry into the DPRK, but those who worked around him, such as comrades in the confidential section, knew that he was actually Chairman Mao's son, and among all the people who worked in the confidential section, these households were already considered open secrets.
Out of respect for Chairman Mao, at the beginning everyone also had the same feelings for Mao Anying, every time Mao Anying asked, they subconsciously had to stand up, and when the staff of the confidential office chatted, when Mao Anying walked in, everyone was suddenly silent, and over time, even Mao Anying noticed that something was wrong.
Once at noon dinner, Mao Anying came to the confidential place again, everyone was immediately silent, even the meal did not know how to eat, the heart was looking forward to him to leave quickly, or Mao Anying took the initiative to break this deadlock, he asked everyone:
"Comrades, how do you see me looking?"
The big guy who asked the question was confused, only to hear Mao Anying smile: "I'm not a blue-faced, red-haired and vicious-looking monster, why do everyone always avoid me?" ”
Pictured| Mao Anying
Mao Anying's words suddenly narrowed the distance between him and everyone, and Mao Anying smiled and said: "So good, you don't treat me as an outsider, in the future, we will have more contact and become familiar with each other so that we will not forget the comrades in the same trench many years later." ”
Gao Ruixin is also a cheerful young man, plus in the same year as Mao Anying, is also a newlywed Yan'er, the two work together again, and soon became familiar.
Even Hong Xuezhi quipped to the two:
"You two are so close in the future, Presumably you were 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. ”
Unexpectedly, just a few days later, Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin died together on the battlefield.
In addition to the sacrifice of Mao Anying, Mr. Peng also deeply regretted Gao Ruixin.
In fact, on the day of the US plane bombing, Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin originally had no mission on duty, but Gao Ruixin considered that he had just arrived on the battlefield and was not familiar with the situation, so he had to work overtime to familiarize himself with the enemy's situation.
On the day of the bombing, Xu Muyuan, who heard the air defense siren, was not in the house, ChengPu people stood at the door, and the moment they heard the air defense siren, they wanted to inform the house that it was too late, when Mao Anying was roasting a brazier in the innermost part of the house, Gao Ruixin stood in front of the map, because he was far from the door, he failed to run out of the sacrifice in time.
The picture | the telegram personally drafted by Peng Dehuai after the sacrifice of Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin
Because Mao Anying was wearing a watch when he died, it is easy to identify Gao Ruixin's body through this situation.
The sappers made two coffins and buried them on the north hillside, and Peng Dehuai looked at the tombs of the two martyrs and was very sad in his heart:
"Secretary Gao and I have been in the Northwest Battlefield for many years, and we have only been transferred to the Korean battlefield for a few days, and we have also died, and his lover is pregnant with a child!"
When Premier Zhou forwarded Peng Dehuai's telegram to Chairman Mao, he also attached a letter to the telegram, which also mentioned Gao Ruixin:
"Gao Ruixin was also a very good confidential staff officer, and after the victory, he commemorated the tombstone of the martyrs of the Chinese Volunteer Army in Dayu Cave and other battlefields."
Gao Ruixin's wife, Li Cuiying, remarried after giving birth to a child
After Gao Ruixin's sacrifice, Peng Dehuai immediately telegraphed the Northwest Military Region in the name of the Volunteer Army Headquarters, informing gao Ruixin, a leading cadre of the Northwest Military Region, of his sacrifice and instructing the Northwest Military Region: "Comrade Gao Ruixin has made contributions in the war to liberate the Great Northwest, and I hope that the Military Region will extend condolences to his relatives." ”
After receiving the telegram, deputy commander Zhang Zongxun consulted with Yan Yuyao and Wang Zhengzhu, and considering that Gao Ruixin's wife Li Cuiying was pregnant with Liujia and was about to come to the basin, he decided to keep the news a secret for the time being and wait until Li Cuiying gave birth to a child before telling her the news.
Seventeen days after Gao Ruixin's death, Li Cuiying gave birth to a daughter named Gao Yankun.
Li Cuiying did not know at first that her husband had died on the battlefield, and it was not until a few months later that she learned the news, and immediately fainted from crying.
Two years later, on November 25, 1952, Gao Ruixin's younger brother Gao Zigang, who was far away in his hometown in Hebei, received the "Certificate of Sacrifice of Revolutionary Soldiers" jointly signed by the Volunteer Army Headquarters and the Political Department, no. 001.
Although Gao Ruixin was with his wife Li Cuiying when she left home, since Gao Ruixin's death, the gao family's contact with Li Cuiying has also been broken.
It wasn't until 1997 that things took a turn for the better.
At that time, CCTV once broadcast a popular TV series "Mao Zedong and His Sons", which showed a scene when Gao Ruixin and Mao Anying first met.
In the play, Gao Ruixin once introduced himself like this: "I am from Raoyang, Hebei, where are you from?" ”
A sentence made the Gao family feel very unpleasant, because Gao Ruixin is obviously a native of Anguo, Hebei, how inexplicably became a Raoyang person, Gao Zigang later gave feedback on this matter several times, which came out of nowhere, it turned out that raoyang was closer to anguo, because the data was incomplete, the screenwriter used the wrong information when referring to these materials, and the director of the play, Zhang Jinbiao, also made a clarification on this matter.
The fact that Gao Ruixin was born also made Gao Zigang have the idea of looking for Li Cuiying, and Gao Zigang's cousin Gao Rongqiu spared no effort to run for his brother's place of origin on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also tried to inquire about Li Cuiying's contact information.
Because Gao Ruixin and Li Cuiying belonged to the same village, Gao Rongqiu soon heard Li Cuiying's phone.
Coincidentally, when Takako had just dialed the phone, the person who answered the phone was his niece Gao Yankun.
It turned out that just after Gao Ruixin's sacrifice, Li Cuiying was very sad in his heart, and Yang Shouxin, a staff officer of the Military Region Headquarters, helped Li Cuiying solve many problems in life, and under the day and night, the two developed feelings, in order to raise their daughter to grow up, Li Cuiying chose to marry Yang Shouxin.
Pictured| Gao Ruixin's daughter Yang Yankun and her mother Li Cuiying in the 1960s
In order not to burden her daughter, Li Cuiying changed her daughter's surname to Yang, and since then she has lived in Lanzhou and has never returned to her hometown in Hebei.
Mr. Peng was also very concerned about Li Cuiying's situation, but later learned that Li Cuiying and Yang Shouxin had re-established a family, and Peng Dehuai was very relieved: "It should be so!" That's fine, and we're relieved. ”
Yang Yankun did not know any situation about his father for many years in the future, and Li Cuiying never took the initiative to mention it to her daughter, until Yang Yankun's cousin later took the initiative to contact her and mention her origins, and Yang Yankun could no longer bear it and went home to ask her mother.
Perhaps unwilling to face the pain of that year, no matter how Yang Yankun asked, Li Cuiying was always unwilling to reveal more information to her daughter, so Yang Yankun decided to pursue his father's past.
"Man cannot come to the world in vain."
Yang Yankun wrote to the writing team of "A Real Man - Peng Dehuai" and got a very useful information: Wang Yazhi, who had served as the military secretary of Zhou Enlai and Peng Dehuai, and had worked with Gao Ruixin for six years. Yang Yankun found Wang Yazhi again, and through his mediation, Yang Yankun was in contact with his father's old comrades-in-arms, such as Cheng Pu, Xu Muyuan and others.
Although these old comrades-in-arms did not know the name of Gao Ruixin's child, they knew that Gao Ruixin's wife was named Li Cuiying, and from the information given by his father's old comrades-in-arms, Yang Yankun finally determined that Gao Ruixin was his father.
In his later years|, Gao Zigang, the younger brother of Gao Ruixin, pointed to the name of Gao Zigang on the martyr's monument
In April 1997, Yang Yankun returned to his hometown in Hebei and met his uncle Gao Zigang, who handed over the martyr's certificate of his brother, which had been preserved for many years, to Yang Yankun for preservation.
Yang Yankun or Gao Yankun wrote an article in 1998 to remember his father, which was later published in the fourth issue of Military History, and Wang Yazhi also wrote an article in memory of his comrades-in-arms many years later, "Gao Ruixin: A Volunteer Martyr Buried with Mao Anying", which also mentioned the situation of Li Cuiying and Gao Yankun's mother and son.
Despite the untimely death of her husband, Li Cuiying and Yang Shouxin's life after marriage was very happy, and after the two retired, they spent their old age in the Gansu Provincial Military Region's dry rest house, Gao Yankun was assigned to work in Lanzhou Petrochemical Company in the 60s, married Wang Wenjiang, a cadre in the company's office, his son Wang Lei worked in a science and technology enterprise after graduating from Tianjin University in the 1990s, and his daughter-in-law Wang Zhihua worked in a commercial company in Tianjin.
The only regret is that Gao Yankun does not know where his father is buried?
Picture | Gao Yankun sorted out the letters from his father's comrades-in-arms
After mao anyying and Gao Ruixin died, according to Peng Dehuai's report to the central authorities, Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin were buried together, but after the completion of the Hinokikura Volunteer Army Martyrs' Cemetery in 1955, Mao Anying was immediately relocated here, but gao Ruixin could not be found in the martyrs' cemetery, perhaps the two were buried together, or perhaps buried elsewhere, which later became an insoluble problem.