Zhang Tailei, formerly known as Zhang Zengrang, a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, studied at Beiyang University (the predecessor of Tianjin University) and was the first person in our party to send an envoy to the Communist International. He was the commander-in-chief of the Guangzhou Uprising, and was killed in December 1927, becoming a member of the Central Committee who rarely sacrificed himself on the battlefield at the age of 29.
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Zhang Xilei and her son Feng Hailong in 2009.
In Zhang Tailei's various memorial facilities, a family letter is always displayed in the most conspicuous position, in which people look for the awakening and expectation of the pioneers: "Wealth is a harmful thing. "We are leaving now for the time being, to seek eternal happiness in the future..."
In the eyes of Zhang Tailei's grandson Feng Hailong, behind this family letter is the revolutionary history written by grandfather, uncle and mother in blood and fire. Since childhood, he joined the army as a young man, stationed himself at the border guard for the motherland, and continued to write the history of revolutionaries who "three generations of soldiers".
"When My grandfather Zhang Tailei died, my mother Zhang Xilei was only 5 years old, but she chose the path that my grandfather took." Feng Hailong said.
Zhang Xilei.
In the spring of 1938, 15-year-old Zhang Xilei took her family letter as a souvenir and embarked on a journey to Shanghai alone to find the party organization. To be on the safe side, she cut out the beginning and end of the letter. From Changzhou to Shanghai, he was detained while passing through a Japanese checkpoint in a Japanese van. Faced with the enemy's interrogation, she was anxious and afraid, simply cried, and was locked up for more than 3 hours before she was released. After that, Zhang Xilei traveled from Shanghai to Wenzhou, from Wenzhou to southern Anhui, and finally arrived at the New Fourth Army Headquarters in Jing County, Anhui Province, in the autumn. Until her later years, Zhang Xilei still sighed: "This is an unforgettable day in my life, from this day on, I am a revolutionary soldier." ”
More than a year after leaving home, Zhang Xilei met her brother Zhang Yiyang in the barracks. Originally, the organization sent a traffic officer to find Zhang Tailei's family and prepare to transfer them to Yan'an, but Zhang Tailei's widow Lu Jinghua declined to care. Early the next morning, Lu Jinghua found his son Zhang Yiyang hiding in the cabin of the traffic officer: he was also going to the army.
During the Anhui Incident, Zhang Yiyang was unfortunately captured and imprisoned in the Shangrao concentration camp. Zhang Yiyang suffered from "return fever", the high fever did not recede, and the water rice did not enter. The enemy carried him to the infirmary, where he was not given food, water, or treatment, but he held a surrender book in one hand and a special medicine in the other. Seeing that the persecution was fruitless, and learning that he was Zhang Tailei's son, the enemy used the high-ranking official Houlu to tempt him, and Zhang Yiyang, who was seriously ill, never bowed his head. At the time of his death, Zhang Yiyang was not yet 18 years old.
A group photo of martyr Zhang Yiyang and his two sisters, Zhang Xiping and Zhang Xilei, when they were young.
After liberation, Zhang Xilei and her husband Feng Bohua became leaders of chemical companies. After the reform and opening up, Feng Bohua served as vice minister of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, and Zhang Xilei served as deputy director of the Science and Technology Bureau of the Ministry of Chemical Industry and vice president of the General Research Institute of Chemical Science and Technology.
In Feng Hailong's memory, his parents have been busy with work before retirement, rarely telling their children about the history of the family, but there will be various requirements: when they were young, they were not allowed to pick and choose between eating and wearing, and they were not allowed to "mix meals" and "go through the back door" of the units affiliated to the Ministry of Chemical Industry after work.
The eldest daughter, Feng Haiyang, once wrote to her parents to "complain", but Feng Bohua taught in the reply: "If you only spend your life on pursuing this for the sake of your own peace and comfort and your family, I think it is not what you should have, you should have a more ambitious ideal." ”
After several twists and turns in his youth, Feng Hailong put on his military uniform as he wished, became a naval soldier in the North Sea Fleet, and at the age of 40, according to the needs of the organization, went to Hainan to form the Hainan Border Defense Bureau. He said: "I have been in the army all my life and stationed border guards for the motherland, but compared with my predecessors, it is actually not worth mentioning." ”
(Yangtze River Daily reporter Wan Xuming)
【Editor: He Equation】