As the founder of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, General Ye Ting was a famous general of the Northern Expedition in the 20th century, and once served as the commander of the Independent Regiment of the Fourth Army. Chairman Mao once commented on him: You are the first commander-in-chief of the Chinese Red Army, and the military history of the people's army should begin with you; Zhou Enlai praised him for "making great contributions to the struggle to liberate the people."
However, such a distinguished general suffered a shocking "48 air disaster" on April 8, 1946 when he returned to Yan'an by plane, and Ye Ting was annihilated over Heicha Mountain in Shanxi along with the lives of his wife and two children.
- Ye Tingzhicai
In his early years, Ye Ting, who was born poor, knew how to study harder than the people around him, and in 1916, he was admitted to the Baoding Army Officer Academy in Hebei Province with his excellent academic performance. After graduation, Ye Ting was valued by his superiors for his outstanding military talents, and at the age of only 25, he served as a battalion commander, and successfully escorted Sun Yat-sen's wife Soong Qingling from danger during Chen Jiongming's rebellion. Not only that, the young Ye Ting also successfully married Li Xiuwen, a girl who was in love with him, which can be described as a double harvest of career and love.
In 1924, Ye Ting was valued by the organization and sent to Moscow for further study, during which time Ye Ting met Nie Rongzhen, Wang Ruofei and a group of Communist Party members, and under their influence, joined the Communist Party of China.
After returning from studying abroad, Ye Ting gave full play to his excellent military talents, led the New Fourth Army team to be invincible in various battles, won the honor of "Iron Army" for the troops, and also made the name Ye Ting famous in all directions.
A few years later, when the Kuomintang contingent defected to the revolution, Ye Ting strengthened his faith and principles, and under the leadership of the Party Organization Committee, he fired the first shot against the Kuomintang reactionaries with Zhu De, Liu Bocheng and other uprisings, which is known in history as the Nanchang Uprising.
Later, Ye Ting, together with Ye Jianying and others, organized and launched the Guangzhou Uprising in December 1927, but the result ended in failure. After that, Ye Ting was unfairly treated by the Communist Party because of a misunderstanding from the outside world, and Ye Ting, who had a strong personality and refused to submit, was angry and fled overseas, beginning a 10-year period of exile and confusion.
After 918, Ye Ting could not rest assured of the motherland and chose to return to China. At present, when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated, Ye Ting immediately joined the anti-Japanese war after returning to China, and the Central Party Organization Department attached great importance to Ye Ting's return, and in order to welcome him, a welcome party was held for Ye Ting in Yan'an. At the welcoming meeting, Ye Ting said: He once climbed halfway up the mountain on the revolutionary road and turned back, but in the future, he must persist in following the comrades upward and firmly follow Chairman Mao to fight the war to the end.
Ye Ting said this and did so. Therefore, he threw himself into work physically and mentally, used his original contacts to get close to the upper echelons of the Kuomintang, mediated back and forth, and did his utmost to develop and strengthen the ranks of the New Fourth Army. It was precisely under Ye Ting's efforts that the New Fourth Army developed into an important anti-Japanese armed force. Chairman Mao once praised the New Fourth Army under the leadership of Ye Ting: well-known at home and abroad and with outstanding achievements.
- Ye Ting's death
In 1941, after the South Anhui Incident created by the Kuomintang troops, the New Fourth Army led by Ye Ting suffered heavy losses, and less than 2,000 of the more than 9,000 people successfully broke through, and even Ye Ting himself was "dismissed" and detained during negotiations with the enemy. Not only that, Chiang Kai-shek also canceled the New Fourth Army under his leadership on the grounds that Ye Ting had betrayed the revolution.
Since then, General Ye Ting has been imprisoned by the Kuomintang in Jiangxi, Guilin, Hubei, and Chongqing, and began a life of imprisonment that made him extremely painful. Because the Kuomintang department was very optimistic about General Ye Ting's talent, it tried all kinds of means to coerce and lure, trying to urge Ye Ting to use it for his own use, but Ye Ting was not moved at all, and he not only hung a banner in his living room that read: "Mighty cannot be bent, poverty cannot be moved, and wealth cannot be adulterous."
Later, when Ye Ting faced the persuasion of Chiang Kai-shek, Dai Li and others to surrender, he was sad and indignant and composed a poem called "Prison Song":
"The door for people to enter and exit is locked, the hole for dogs to crawl away is open, and a voice shouts: Crawl out, give freedom! I longed for freedom, but I also knew deeply that the human body could crawl out of a dog's hole. I can only look forward to the day when the underground fire rushes and burns this living coffin with me, and I deserve eternal life in fire and blood. ”
This kind of unyielding will and determination is still moving to this day, but Ye Ting did not expect at that time that the ambitious words he wrote became a proverb one day a few years later: he really died in fire and blood, and got "eternal life" in the hearts of Chinese people.
However, the deceased live forever, and the living suffer eternally.
When the bad news of Ye Ting's sacrifice reached Yan'an, everyone was shocked.
Two months ago, Chairman Mao also received Ye Ting's notice to join the party, in which he wrote: I have been released from prison yesterday evening, and I am determined to continue to contribute everything to the Chinese people under the leadership of the great Communist Party of China. Ye Ting's release was the result of the efforts of the CPC Central Committee and people from all walks of life, so Chairman Mao attached great importance to Ye Ting's application to join the party, and he not only immediately agreed, but also revised it three times, and personally changed the title to "dear Comrade Ye Ting."
But now, after all, the chairman cannot see "dear Comrade Ye Ting" gathering with himself in Yan'an.
Prior to this, Chairman Mao learned that Ye Ting was interviewed by reporters after he was released from prison, saying: "The five-year imprisonment has made me think clearly that the only person who really fights for the country and the nation is the Communist Party of China; So my goal now is nothing but the people.
Thinking of this, Chairman Mao, who was grieving, put forward a pen and wrote a book: Die for the people, although death is glorious.
Premier Zhou Enlai was even more heartbroken, because he had just brought Ye Ting's child to Yan'an a few days ago, thinking that since Ye Ting, the family would be reunited, but he did not expect that this was the result that was waiting.
- Ye Ting's child
Ye Ting and his wife Li Xiuying have a very good love life, and the two have a total of 9 children. In addition to a son and a daughter killed in the air crash, Ye Ting left behind 6 children. Among them, the oldest is 19 years old and the youngest is only 4 years old.
However, fate turned these children into orphans in an instant.
Ye Ting's best person in the party organization before his death should be Premier Zhou Enlai, who had no children and recognized one of Ye Ting's daughters, Ye Yangmei, as his daughter, but unfortunately Ye Yangmei also died in the air crash with his father.
After that, Premier Zhou and Chairman Mao called Ye Ting's children to them and said, "Your parents have died, and this will be your home from now on."
Ye Ting's second son, Ye Zhengming, was 15 years old and was studying in middle school in Yan'an. After seeing reports of his parents' deaths, he and his brother wept bitterly, and when they returned to school, Ye Zhengming wrote a eulogy to his parents, which mentioned his father's wishes and China's unfinished cause of people's liberation.
People say that experiencing death will make people grow rapidly, and Ye Zhengming is just like that! During his imprisonment, he was most influenced by his father's thoughts. Now that he has experienced the death of his parents, Ye Zhengming suddenly has a sense of maturity that does not match his age: he is eager to support his father's dream.
- Children inherit their father's wishes
Later, Premier Zhou has been responsible for taking care of Ye Ting's children, especially when he first met Ye Zhengming, Premier Zhou was keenly aware that this child would definitely inherit Ye Ting's legacy in all aspects. Therefore, Ye Zhengming was often encouraged to "study hard and be a good son of a revolutionary general." Ye Zhengming also did not disappoint Premier Zhou's high expectations, and always regarded his father's unfinished business as his life's work.
After the founding of New China, when China sent students to study in the Soviet Union, Ye Zhengming was also among them. And after returning to China after completing his studies, he became his father's successor - an excellent general of the People's Liberation Army Chinese; Not only that, Ye Zhengming also served as a scientific and technological adviser to the General Armament of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and all his life he took the teachings of his father and Zhou Enlai to "serve the people" in his heart, truly living up to his father, Premier Zhou, and the expectations of the people.
At the same time, except for the three sons who unfortunately died, Ye Ting's other children all became talents under the care and guidance of the central government and the generals.
The eldest son, Ye Zhengda, became the first batch of aviation technology experts in China and made important contributions to the development of China's aviation science and technology;
The fourth son, Ye Huaming, joined the Communist Party of China at the suggestion of General Nie Rongzhen, returned from his studies in the Soviet Union, became a well-known expert in the development of surface-to-air missiles in China, and personally participated in the research and development of J1-J8, with outstanding achievements;
Although Ye Zhengguang and Ye Qiguang did not show their skills in the field of science and technology, they also showed their ambitions in the business field they were good at, and their business was doing well;
Daughter Ye Jianmei has been smart and clever since she was a child, and she is both literate and scientific; Because she loved literature very much, she later grew up as a writer and served as the editor-in-chief of a newspaper in Shenzhen.
Just so-called: life is a masterpiece, death is also a ghost.
Revolutionary heroes deserve to be remembered, and the descendants of revolutionary heroes are also worthy of our tribute!
I would like to commemorate General Ye Ting with this article!