"Qualified, he is my pride."
This sentence is not only from the father's affirmation of his son, but also from the affirmation of the people's leader to the volunteer soldiers.
On the evening of October 7, 1950, Peng Dehuai came to Chairman Mao's residence to study with him the matter of the volunteer army entering the Korean War. When Peng Dehuai came out of Chairman Mao's office, it was already late at night.
Peng Dehuai walked all the way to the gate of Fortress Garden. Just then he saw someone pacing under the street lamp.
Chairman Mao
The figure saw Peng Dehuai come out and rushed to meet him.
"Uncle Peng!" Peng Dehuai stopped when he heard the sound, only to see a tall young man standing in front of him, "Uncle Peng! Do you remember me? ”
Peng Dehuai carefully looked at the young man and felt that he was a little kind, but he couldn't remember who it was for a while.
"You are..."
"Uncle Peng, I am Mao Anying, and I have seen you in Yan'an!"
Peng Dehuai pulled the young man under the street lamp, and this was seen.
"It's so late, why haven't you slept yet?"
"Uncle Peng, I'm waiting for you!" You take me with you, right? ”
"Where to take you?"
"Go to North Korea!"
"Not really!"
"Uncle Peng, I want to get a workout!" This operation is great, you take me with you! ”
Chairman Mao and Mao Anying
Russian and English speaking secretary
Mao Anying's life was bumpy.
In 1922, Mao Anying was born. At the age of 8, he and his mother Yang Kaihui were arrested by reactionaries at their residence in Bancang. Later, the mother and son were imprisoned in Changsha Xiecaoping Prison. Yang Kaihui suffered a lot in prison, but he was still unyielding and unyielding, and finally died heroically.
"I want to avenge my mother!" Mao Anying planted a seed in his heart.
He was later taken back from prison by his uncle and aunt. In order to avoid persecution again, Mao Anying, Mao Anqing and Mao Anlong were sent to Shanghai, where the central authorities were located. At first, the three were arranged by their uncle to enter Datong Kindergarten.
Chairman Mao and Mao Anying
Later, after the kindergarten was destroyed by the enemy, the three children were left on the streets. When Mao Anying talked about his childhood, he said that it was the day of "Sanmao Wandering".
"Except for not giving rich people sons and not stealing things, we are the same as Sanmao." That year, Mao Anying was 10 years old, his younger brother Mao Anqing was 8 years old, and there was a three-year-old younger brother.
Children slept on the road, and sometimes Mao Anying would mop the floor. In order to eat a bite of food, they will also find rags in the trash can.
In Shanghai's Waibaidu Bridge, sometimes when encountering rickshaws pulling cars, Mao Anying and his brother will help people push the carts. Once the car is pushed up, the two children are rewarded with a few small sums of money.
It wasn't until the summer of 1936 that the underground party found them in a ruined temple and a gang of homeless children. However, the Three Lands Mao'an Dragon was nowhere to be found.
Subsequently, the Mao Brothers were taken to Paris, France. Half a year later, the brothers traveled all the way to Moscow. The Mao brothers have been staying at the Monino Ii International Children's Hospital on the outskirts of Moscow.
When Mao Anying was 20 years old, he was just in time for the fierce fighting of the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union.
Chairman Mao and Mao Anying
Mao Anying wrote three times to ask for war. However, Stalin, taking into account his identity, did not agree.
Later, Mao Anying went to the Soviet military academy. After graduation, he successfully became an instructor in the tank company of the First Belorussian Front. Later, Mao Anying drove tanks to participate in the Soviet counteroffensive.
Mao Anying, who had just returned to China, was very "foreign". He speaks Russian, French and ballroom dancing. He was informal, and he wrote well.
As the eldest son in the family, Chairman Mao was very strict with Mao Anying. Later, Mao Anying went to Yan'an and attended the "China Labor University". Before leaving, Chairman Mao reminded Mao Anying: "Yan'an is a holy land of revolution, and there are 'real people' everywhere, and if you want to study well, you must put yourself in a correct position." ”
After Mao Anying arrived in Yan'an, he ate and slept with the peasants. He often went out to visit old comrades and old revolutionaries, and when he encountered problems that he did not understand, he would always humbly ask them for advice.
Mao Anying and Liu Siqi
After the liberation of the whole country, Mao Anying went to the Beijing Machinery General Factory. At first, Mao Anying made up his mind to concentrate on industry for ten years. However, he heard about the Korean War and wanted to go with him.
To this end, he has been waiting for Peng Dehuai outside his father's office. When Peng Dehua learned of his idea, he was taken aback.
"Did you tell your father?"
"Spoke up! My father said he raised his hands in favor! ”
Peng Dehuai hesitated, and he carefully examined the young man in front of him.
"I heard you fought in the Soviet-German war?"
"Yes, I was a Soviet lieutenant and I hit Poland in tanks."
Peng Dehuai
"I heard that Stalin rewarded you with a small pistol?"
"Yes." At the mention of this matter, Mao Anying was a little embarrassed.
"This time out, what situation is not easy to say." But I can tell you with certainty that it will be more brutal than the Soviet-German war! ”
Mao Anying was very astute, and he immediately heard the meaning of Peng Dehuai's words.
"Uncle Peng, please believe that I am fully prepared!"
"Go get ready and wait for me to know."
"Uncle Peng, when are you going to wait?"
"Don't worry, you're already the first volunteer to sign up!"
"Uncle Peng, I really don't dare to be, you are the first volunteer..."
In this way, Mao Anying finally realized his wish to go to the front. The next day, he bid farewell to his new wife, Liu Siqi, and set off with the large army.
Because Mao Anying knew Russian and English, he was politically tested. In this way, he stayed with Peng Dehuai and worked as a Russian translator in Peng's general war room.
Peng Dehuai and Kim Il Sung
He was unfortunately killed by enemy aircraft bombing
Mao Anying is very easy-going. Commander-in-Chief Peng repeatedly offered to ask Mao Anying to eat with him, but Mao Anying refused. "Uncle Peng, it's all the same meal, but I'll eat it more casually with my comrades."
In addition to the Russian translation work, Mao Anying was not assigned to other tasks. But he has been idle, and he always takes the initiative to help colleagues in other offices to do their work.
In November 1950, the first campaign had just ended. At that time, North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il Sung and Soviet Ambassador to North Korea Razovaev came to the headquarters of the Volunteer Army. Mao Anying participated in the translation work, and he introduced the situation of the first campaign and the plans for the upcoming second campaign in fluent Russian.
Mao Anying
It is reported that Dayu-dong, where the volunteer army headquarters is located, is a famous gold mine in North Korea. Although it has been abandoned, it is still quite remarkable.
You know, there are 4 radio stations near the Volunteer Command, and there are many telegrams every day. Through aerial reconnaissance and radio flanking, the U.S. military has discovered that the Great Elm Cave is an important command site for the Volunteer Army. It is precisely because of this that the area of the Great Elm Cave is often reconnaissance by enemy aircraft, and it is often dive and strafed.
In order to ensure the safety of the command headquarters, the central authorities have repeatedly called to pay attention to various air defense matters. On November 24, Chairman Mao also specially sent a telegram to Peng Dehuai, and Chairman Mao specifically stressed that we must not be careless, and the enemy may use gasoline bombs at any time.
Mao Anying
The Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Volunteer Army attaches great importance to the instructions of the Central Committee. On the 24th alone, several American planes blew up a substation in Dayudong.
The Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Volunteer Army unanimously agreed that the enemy must have discovered some suspicious target. In this way, the enemy is likely to organize bombing again.
According to the special instructions of the Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Volunteer Army held a meeting and demanded that all people enter the air raid shelter to take shelter.
Mao Anying and other comrades hid in the air raid shelter according to the regulations. Until 10 p.m. on the 25th, the enemy planes did not attack again.
Mao Anying saw that there was no longer any hostility, so he returned to the office with Comrade Gao Ruixin. It turned out that on the evening of the 25th, the volunteers were going to carry out the second battle, and they had to go back to the office to discuss the battle situation on the map.
Peng Dehuai
At 11 o'clock on the 25th, the prevention and control post sounded an alarm. It turned out that four more American planes were flying in the direction of The Great Elm Cave.
Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin ran out of the office and watched the plane fly toward the north of the Big Yu Cave, they thought that the enemy was just passing by, and returned to the office again.
No one expected that this time the enemy would be so cunning. Just turning around was just a blindfold, and in a few moments four enemy planes flew back again.
This time, a large number of napalm bombs were dropped from the plane.
Chairman Mao and Peng Dehuai
You should know that at that time, the headquarters office was all tin wooden rooms, and when the gasoline bomb landed, the office was immediately set on fire.
Suddenly, the flames soared into the sky, and smoke billowed everywhere. Some people ran out of the fire, but Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin did not have time to run out and died gloriously.
Peng Dehuai's military secretary Yang Feng'an immediately rushed into the air raid shelter where Peng Dehuai was located, "General Peng, except for Comrades Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin, who did not run out, the other comrades were out of safety. Comrades Kishi Ei and Ruixin may have sacrificed. ”
When Peng Dehuai heard the bad news, his face turned pale and he did not say a word for a long time. After a long silence, he finally murmured, "Comrades Kishi Ei and Ruixin died?" ”
Peng Dehuai
Peng Dehuai said as he paced toward the outside of the bomb shelter. Peng Dehuai came to the scene of the accident and saw two charred corpses.
Peng Dehuai's heart was extremely heavy, and the two bodies could not be identified. Later, people found a charred case on a corpse and finally recognized Comrade Mao Anying. It turned out that Mao Anying was wearing a watch in his hand, which was a souvenir given to him by his mother-in-law before leaving.
Looking at the watch that had been damaged, Peng Dehuai's face was still pale. He staggered to the newly set up war room, where a telegram from Chairman Mao was on the table.
"Please pay full attention to the safety of the organs and do not be careless."
Peng Dehuai's heart was full of self-blame, and he did not know how to explain it to the chairman.
Chairman Mao
Because of his sadness, Peng De did not eat the food in his arms. He sat quietly in the war room alone, his brow furrowed. He really did not know how to report the bad news to Chairman Mao, but he knew that Mao Anying had been taken away from the chairman by him, and now that only a month had passed, Shore Ying was separated from Chairman Mao.
Eventually, Peng Dehuai drafted a telegram to the Central Military Commission in the name of the Volunteer Army Command. A brief cable, Peng Dehuai wrote for more than an hour.
Qingshan buried loyal bones everywhere why ma ge shrouded the body
Unbeknownst to Peng Dehuai, Chairman Mao had a cold at that time. When Premier Zhou received the telegram, he burst into tears. He was well aware of how much this incident would be a blow to Chairman Mao, and after consulting with Liu Shaoqi, he decided not to inform the chairman of Comrade Mao Anying's sacrifice for the time being.
Chairman Mao and Peng Dehuai
It was not until January 1951, after our volunteer army won the second battle victory, that Premier Zhou showed the above telegram to Chairman Mao. In order to comfort Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou specially attached a letter.
"Comrade Kishi's sacrifice is glorious..."
As usual, Ye Zilong, director of the Central Confidential Office, walked into Chairman Mao's office with a telegram. At that time, Chairman Mao was reading a newspaper on the couch. Ye Zilong entered the office in response and handed the telegram to Chairman Mao.
The telegram was brief, but Chairman Mao watched it for three or four minutes.
His gaze finally slowly moved from telegram to the cigarette case on the coffee table. Chairman Mao tried several times to smoke from the cigarette box, but he did not succeed.
Chairman Mao
Chairman Mao's eyes were moist, but he did not cry. "Well, there will always be sacrifices in war. There are thousands of sacrifices, and there is no way to take care of only one person. It's over, needless to say! ”
On February 20, 1951, Peng Dehuai made a special trip to a grave located on the hillside behind the Great Yu Cave. At this time, the tomb was covered with snow, and Peng Dehuai said goodbye to Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin before embarking on the plane back to Beijing.
After arriving in Beijing, Peng Dehuai did not return home, and he immediately stepped on the white snow to Zhongnanhai. Chairman Mao was absent, and Peng Dehuai immediately rushed to Chairman Mao's residence in Yuquan Mountain, a western suburb, to report back. He wanted to report to Chairman Mao in person on the situation in Korea and the specific matters of Comrade Mao Anying's sacrifice.
Mao Anying
When Peng Dehuai met Chairman Mao, he found that there was a great change from a few months ago.
Peng Dehuai's heart seemed to be blocked by a stone, and he tried to say something several times, but he couldn't say a word.
When Chairman Mao saw his strange appearance, he asked, "Old Peng, why are you still spitting up this cannon barrel?" ”
Peng Dehuai immediately reported to Chairman Mao on the situation of the Korean War. "From the analysis of the current situation, it is not a quick victory."
Chairman Mao groaned for a while and then said, "The Central Committee is very concerned about the plight of the volunteer army on the Korean front. If the Korean War can be won quickly, it will be won quickly, and if it cannot be won quickly, it will be won slowly. In short, don't rush it. ”
"Chairman, Kishi Ei has done very well after he arrived at the front. It was I who did not pay attention to the instructions urged by the Central Committee on several occasions, which led to the unfortunate death of Kishi Ying and Senior Staff Officer. I should be held responsible..."
Chairman Mao was silent for a while, then looked up and said slowly, "Fighting a war always means dying, don't take it as a big deal just because Kishi Ying is my son." ”
In December 1954, the general cadres of the People's Liberation Army drew up a telegram asking Chairman Mao for approval. Some people have asked whether to transport Mao Anying's body back to China for burial. Chairman Mao said, "If the bones of loyalty are buried everywhere in Qingshan, why should Ma Ge wrap the body back..." In this way, Mao Anying, together with other comrades who sacrificed their lives, remained forever on the Korean land where they had fought.
Mao Anying and Liu Siqi
Decrypted telegram
Documents related to the Korean War are required to be kept confidential. Among them was a telegram sent by Peng Dehuai to the Central Military Commission.
Many people do not know the details of Comrade Mao Anying's sacrifice, which has led to many speculations.
There are rumors that Mao Anying encountered "sneaky American agents", and there are rumors that the United States sent several commandos to kidnap Mao Anying. Either way, it's nonsense.
On November 9, 2020, CCTV broadcast a documentary about the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea: "ResistING US Aggression and Aiding Korea and Defending the Homeland".
In this documentary, many people finally have a chance to understand the bits and pieces of what happened that year. Mao Anying once wrote in his diary, "Am I qualified to be Mao Zedong's son? Later, when Liu Siqi was sorting out her husband's belongings, she found the contents of the diary.
Liu Siqi found Chairman Mao and asked him on behalf of Mao Anying, "Father, do you think Shore Ying is qualified to be your son?" ”
Chairman Mao replied without hesitation, "Qualified, he is my pride." This is an affirmation from his father, and even more from the affirmation of the people's leaders to the volunteer soldiers.
Mao Anying is the epitome of the millions of Chinese volunteer soldiers who entered the Korean War, and is one of the 190,000 heroes who gave their precious lives for the Korean War. He is the proud son of his father, and he is a good comrade who makes the motherland proud.