Mao Xinyu: My third grandfather, Mao Zeqin, was the "messenger" of the ZhumaoHui Division, and later became the commander of the Red Army. Because of his outstanding military achievements, he once received a second-class Red Star Meritorious Service. Fifth anti"

Mao Xinyu: My third grandfather, Mao Zeqin, was the "messenger" of the ZhumaoHui Division, and later became the commander of the Red Army. Because of his outstanding military achievements, he once received a second-class Red Star Meritorious Service. After the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, the Red Army was forced to march, and Mao Zeqin stayed behind to insist on guerrilla warfare. On April 26, 1935, Mao Zeqin was surrounded by Kuomintang troops in Huangtiankeng Village, Ruijin Honglin Mountain, Jiangxi Province, and in order to cover the guerrillas' escape from danger, he bravely and righteously, at the age of twenty-nine.