In 1934, Chiang Kai-shek led the Kuomintang troops to encircle and suppress the Central Soviet Region many times, but all of them ended in failure. Annoyed, Chiang Kai-shek summoned a number of troop commanders in October and held a military conference at Lushan Ridge. At this meeting, they formulated the so-called "iron barrel encirclement" plan, in an attempt to use their superiority in troops to once again carry out a large-scale encirclement and suppression operation.
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However, before this plan could be announced, it was acquired by our party's underground intelligence officer Xiang Henian. Once this plan of "iron and encirclement" is transmitted to the Kuomintang army, the current situation will be very unfavorable to our Party. After Xiang Younian learned of this information, he immediately rushed to Ruijin, Jiangxi.
In order to escape the search of the Kuomintang officers and soldiers, Xiang Henian had to choose those remote paths, passing through the mountains and mountains along the way, day and night. However, the closer to Ruijin, the more strict the Kuomintang search became, and in order not to be exposed, Xiang Andian smashed off his 4 front teeth with stones.
Later, after some disguise, coupled with the days of running day and night, when Xiang and Nian reappeared at the road level, it was already an image of a depressed Hanako. In this way, he evaded the layers of searches by the Kuomintang and finally successfully handed over this information to Zhou Enlai.
Pictured: Mao Zedong
Finally, before the Kuomintang's "iron barrel encirclement and suppression" encirclement circle was closed, 86,000 central Red Army miraculously jumped out of the enemy's layers of blockade lines and began the world-famous 25,000-mile long march. When everyone thought that Xiang Andnian had made a great contribution, Xiang Andian shook his head and said, "Thank you or thank another person, he handed this information to me, he is the real hero." ”
What was even more surprising was that the great hero that Xiang Henian said was actually a major general within the Kuomintang. After the founding of New China, Chairman Mao even more specially advised: "This man is an old friend of our party, and we must find him!" ”
So, who is this Kuomintang major general? Why did he pass on information to the Red Army? Why did the Chairman go out of his way to find him?
Photo: Mo Xiong
In fact, the Kuomintang major general in Xiang Henian's mouth was none other than Mo Xiong. In 1907, the young hero chose to follow in the footsteps of Mr. Sun, threw himself into the wave of revolution, and joined the League in Guangzhou. Subsequently, Mo Xiong was ordered to lead his troops into the Guangdong New Army and was ready to respond to the armed uprising of the revolutionary party at any time.
In the course of the revolution, Mo Xiong showed his outstanding courage and excellent leadership ability. After the Wuchang Uprising, he served as a platoon commander and a company commander in the Guangdong Northern Expedition, until during the Northern Expedition, Mo Xiong had been promoted to the commander of the Fourth Independent Brigade.
It was also during the Northern Expedition that Mo Xiong met Chiang Kai-shek and saved his life. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was also in the Guangdong Army, mainly responsible for the remaining work in the base camp. He originally thought that it would be safe to stay in the base camp and not have to fight with Wu Peifu's army. As a result, he did not expect that the "bandits" near Guilin actually did not play their cards according to common sense, and brought tens of thousands of people to surround the base camp.
Chiang Kai-shek saw that he was trapped in the city and could not escape with his wings, so he hurriedly sent a telegram to the Fourth Independent Brigade for help. After receiving the telegram, Mo Xiong led two battalions of troops to rush to the scene, and after a fierce battle, finally rescued Chiang Kai-shek. In this way, Mo Xiong and Chiang Kai-shek formed an extraordinary friendship.
Photo: Chiang Kai-shek
In June 1922, Chen Jiongming supported the rebellion, and after learning of this, Mo Xiong was very indignant, he reacted quickly, successfully controlled 2 Cantonese legions, and at the same time united the troops of 9 brigades stationed in Guidong, such as Dian and Gui, and jointly formed the "West Road Thief Army", driving Chen Jiongming and other rebels out of Guangzhou in one fell swoop.
This counter-rebellion also made a great contribution to Sun Yat-sen's establishment of a revolutionary regime in Guangzhou. Coupled with the fact that Mo Xiong participated in the revolution early and made great contributions to many revolutionary neutralities such as the Huanghuagang Uprising, the Defense of the Country against Yuan Shikai, the Crusade against Chen Jiongming, the Northern Expedition, and many other revolutionary neutralities, Dr. Sun Yat-sen was very appreciative of him and successively promoted him to major general brigade commander.
That year, Mo Xiong was only 31 years old, and he had the rank of major general at a young age, and his future was bright. And Mo Xiong has always been full of enthusiasm, closely following in the footsteps of Mr. Sun and actively participating in the revolutionary wave.
However, the world is unpredictable, and Mo Xiong's revolutionary road gradually embarked on a fork in the road after the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1925. With the death of Mr. Sun, the Kuomintang gradually fell apart, and Chiang Kai-shek began to stir up trouble in order to seize power, trying to launch a counter-revolutionary coup.
Photo: Dr. Sun Yat-sen
In order to seize military power, Chiang Kai-shek killed many Cantonese generals and put Xu Chongzhi under house arrest. In the face of Mo Xiong, who had saved his life in the Northern Expedition, Chiang Kai-shek did not relent. Ostensibly, Chiang Kai-shek told Mo Xiong that he hoped he would lead troops to seize the armed forces of Yang Jinlong and Liang Shifeng of the Cantonese army.
After Mo Xiong completed his mission, Chiang Kai-shek crossed the river and demolished the bridge, slandered the 11th Division led by Mo Xiong as a "counter-revolutionary force", and commanded the Whampoa Army to surround them. In this situation, Chiang Kai-shek "dignifiedly" deprived Mo Xiong of his military power.
In the face of the Whampoa Army's encirclement and slander, Mo Xiong finally saw through Chiang Kai-shek's villainous face and could only be forced to leave the army. While idle at home in Shanghai, Mo Xiong met his old subordinate Liu Dumb Buddha. As early as the 11th Division of the Guangdong Army, Mo Xiong served as the commander of the division, and the director of the political department next to him was Liu Dumb Buddha. Now that he has been separated for many years, the times have long passed, he is no longer a division commander with heavy troops, his career and political career have been frustrated one after another, and when he sees the old department again, Mo Xiong has a lot of feelings in his heart.
At this time, Liu Dumb Buddha was already a member of the Communist Party of China. He was well aware of the sorrow and indignation in Mo Xiong's heart at this moment, and in order to enlighten him, Liu Dumb Buddha introduced him to the revolutionary road and political program of the Communist Party of China, hoping that Mo Xiong could regain his strength.
Under the introduction of Liu Dumb Buddha, Mo Xiong became acquainted with a large number of outstanding Communist Party members, such as Xiang Younian, Yan Xichun and others. Recalling that time, Mo xiong said: "They introduced me to the October Revolution in Russia, to the fact that under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin and others, soviet power finally defeated the aggression of the Fourteen-Power Coalition. ”
These learning experiences rekindled Mo Xiong's confidence in the revolution in his heart. His thinking also changed dramatically, and he offered to join the Chinese Communist Party. In the domestic situation at that time, someone like Mo Xiong, who was helpful, had a strong sense of justice, and happened to have many connections in the Kuomintang military and political circles, was exactly the talent that our party needed.
Photo: Li Kenong
However, Li Kenong, the leader of the underground party in Shanghai at the time, did not immediately nod his head in agreement after learning of Mo Xiong's application to join the party, but cautiously replied to him:
"We welcome Mr. Mo's request to join the Communist Party. However, you are an old predecessor of the revolution, you are senior and have a wide range of connections in the Kuomintang, and after organizational research, it is believed that in order to facilitate your future work, it is advisable for Mr. Mo not to join the Communist Party for the time being. In the future, if there is something beneficial to the party, we hope to be able to help it, and if we can do so, we will be very satisfied. ”
Hearing Li Kenong's reply, Mo Xiong also understood the good intentions of the Party Central Committee, nodded his head and agreed to the organizational arrangements, and finally stayed in the Kuomintang in a special capacity. Within his purview, he has been secretly helping the Communist Party and the revolutionary cause.
At the beginning of 1934, Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly encircled and suppressed the Soviet areas, but all of them ended in failure, and his heart was very depressed. His close associate Yang Yongtai remembered Mo Xiong, a former member of the Alliance, who was very good at leading troops to fight. However, the culprit who made Mo Xiong leave the army at that time was Chiang Kai-shek, and now that he needs someone, what should he do?
Photo: Yang Yongtai
Just then, Yang Yongtai came to Nanchang and met Mo Xiong, who was idle at home. Yang Yongtai was very happy, warmly welcomed him, and actively lobbied, hoping that Mo Xiong would return to the Jiangxi headquarters. A few days later, Yang Yongtai brought two letters of appointment, namely the appointment of Mo Xiong as the administrative inspector of the fourth district of De'an Ganbei in Jiangxi Province, and the commander of the Security Command.
At the same time, in order to show his sincerity and trust, Yang Yongtai said: "Mo Xiong, we very much hope that you can serve as the commander of the headquarters, and other personnel who will form the headquarters in the future can be recruited and appointed by yourself." ”
After receiving the letter of appointment, Mo Xiong immediately came to Shanghai and found Xiang Younian, Liu Dumb Buddha and others. He threw the letter of appointment on the table and said bluntly: "Chiang Kai-shek asked me to serve as the commander of the Communist Security Command, and I wanted to hit him in the corner of his mouth with his fist!" I hope that the organization can send some comrades who are Communists, and I will be the commander, and I will arrange you to the headquarters, and we will work together! ”
Seeing Mo Xiong's remarks and behavior, the organization also trusted Mo Xiong very much, and immediately sent Xiang Younian, Lu Zhiying, Liu Dumb Buddha and other underground party backbones to Mo Xiong's side, and with the help of the underground party of the Shanghai Communist Party, the security headquarters and the fourth district bureau in the Northern Ganbei region were gradually established.
Photo: Lu Zhiying
In order to better cover the operation, the Red Army troops also engaged in several "fierce battles" with Mo Xiong's troops, creating the illusion of hasty defeat. When Chiang Kai-shek heard that Mo Xiong's fourth district had been "frequently reported on success," he was very happy in his heart and paid more and more attention to Mo Xiong.
In the eyes of outsiders, after Mo Xiong took office, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army regime here was "destroyed". In fact, taking advantage of these battles, Moxiong's security forces delivered large quantities of weapons, ammunition and armaments to the Red Army troops, and also covered the orderly transfer of the local revolutionary regime to the underground.
In early October 1934, our Party again suffered a major defeat in the fourth encirclement and suppression operation under chiang kai-shek's personal command. Successive failed actions made Chiang Kai-shek angry. He personally presided over a secret meeting at Lushan Ridge. Most of the people attending the meeting were provincial chairmen and troop commanders from Jiangxi, Henan, Hunan, Hubei, and other places.
Obviously, the level of this meeting is very high, and it is not within Mo Xiong's reach. However, due to the frequent circulation of "good news" in the previous few times, Chiang Kai-shek attached great importance to Mo Xiong and invited him to attend this meeting.
It was also at this meeting that the Kuomintang planned to gather 1.5 million troops to encircle the Central Soviet Area centered on Ruijin and Huichang, in an attempt to set up a bunker line every 5 kilometers by means of heavy encirclement and step-by-step fortification, and to lay a heavy barbed wire fence for every 1 mile forward, gradually shrinking the encirclement circle and "wiping out the Red Army."
Whether this military plan is thorough or armament, it is not an order of magnitude from the previous encirclement and suppression. The documents distributed to each attendee weighed one or two kilograms, and most of them were marked with the blue word "Confidential" in color. Near the end of the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek patted the table with great pleasure and said: "Now that the victory is in hand, I hope that the responsible persons of all parties can actively implement the decisions of the meeting. ”
Mo Xiong, who attended the meeting, was already in a cold sweat, and if he really advanced according to this plan, the situation of the Central Red Army would inevitably be very difficult. After the meeting, he hurried back to the residence and called Liu Dumb Buddha, Lu Zhiying, and Xiang Younian all into the house.
Mo Xiong gave them all of Chiang Kai-shek's words at the meeting, and then he did not hesitate to hand over all the documents distributed at the meeting to them, and said in a trembling voice: "This is all the documents of Chiang Kai-shek's 'Iron Barrel Plan', he attaches great importance to this operation, and this is the only thing I can help you. ”
The three communists looked at the confidential documents in their hands and were very moved, and Lu Zhiying tightly held Mo Xiong's hand and said, "Elder Brother Mo, this information of yours is very important, and we thank you on behalf of the party!" In the end, after countless hardships, this information related to the life and death of the Central Red Army was sent to Zhou Enlai's hands in a timely manner by Xiang And Nian.
On October 21, less than a week after Chiang Kai-shek's Lushan Muling Conference, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, 86,000 Central Red Army successfully withdrew from the Jiangxi base area before the enemy's "iron barrel encirclement and suppression" and embarked on a long journey of 25,000 miles.
Without this timely intelligence, the Red Army might have suffered even greater losses in the face of the millions of Nationalist troops. But fortunately, we have Mo Xiong, Xiang and Nian, and thousands of CCP members who have paid silently on the hidden front. On the way to the Red Army's breakthrough of the enemy's blockade, Chairman Mao said with great emotion: "Our comrades who are engaged in intelligence have made meritorious contributions. ”
After the founding of New China, Guangzhou and other places were also liberated, and Ye Jianying was ordered to go south. And our party has never forgotten these old friends who have suffered together in times of hardship. Chairman Mao specially found Ye Jianying and personally instructed: "Mo Xiong is our old friend, you must find him, you must arrange a job for him!" ”
On the National Day of 1956, at the invitation of the party and the state, Mo Xiong also rushed to Beijing to participate in the National Day ceremony, and Chairman Mao gave him a cordial greeting. Subsequently, Li Kenong also specially set up a banquet for him in the Shuai Mansion Garden of Wangfujing, and Ye Jianying also praised Mo Xiong's merits many times.
Photo: Mo Xiong in his later years
Under the care of the party organization, Mr. Mo Xiong successively served as the deputy director of the Counselor Office of the Guangdong Provincial Government and the vice chairman of the provincial government. In 1980, Mr. Mo Xiong died of illness at the age of 89.