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In the early morning of 1981, an old man in military uniform, accompanied by everyone, walked slowly on the streets of a small town in Linwu, he was General Xiao Ke.
Shaw
Turning an intersection, a two-story building suddenly appeared in front of me, and a plaque hung in front of the door: Helongtai Tea House.
Xiao Ke paused, and the familiar place in front of him brought back a memory of more than 60 years ago, and this battle-hardened veteran couldn't help but burst into tears.
That year, he lost contact with the organization during the battle, and in desperation, he had to return to his hometown in Shonan, and it was in this teahouse that he reconnected with the organization and established a secret communication channel.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but ask the people around him about the current situation of his comrades-in-arms who fought with him back then, especially the key person who helped him reconnect with the organization-Fa Xiaoliang.
However, the accompanying staff told him that Xiao Liang had already betrayed the revolution, refused to surrender in 1950, and was arrested and executed.
After hearing this, General Xiao Ke was speechless for a long time, and finally just sighed: "How can this be?"
Why did the hot-blooded young man betray the revolution halfway? Sixty years later, why did the founding general, who showed no mercy to the enemy, feel sorry for this?
After the defeat of the revolution, he returned to his hometown
Late one night in November 1927, Xiao Xiaofeng, who was sleeping soundly, heard a rapid knock on the door.
She walked out of the house and stopped her father, who was about to open the door, and took a stick in her hand and walked towards the courtyard door.
"Who?" she asked first.
But the man never said a word, but kept knocking on the door, she opened the door, raised the stick in her hand and was about to strike, when she heard the man whisper: "Little sister, it's me!"
When Xiao Xiaofeng heard the familiar voice, she immediately recognized that it was her brother Xiao Ke, who had left home to join the revolution! She hurriedly let Xiao Ke enter the door.
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Xiao's father and mother were also very excited when they saw their son, but looking at Xiao Ke's beggar dress, they couldn't help but wonder in their hearts.
The family sat together, and Xiao Xiaofeng asked Xiao Ke: "Brother, didn't you go to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy? Why did you come back dressed like this?"
Xiao Ke let out a long sigh, and then told his family about his experience.
In 1926, when he had just graduated from middle school, he was influenced by his second and sixth brothers, and he also had the idea of joining the army to serve the country.
At this time, the National Revolution was unfolding vigorously, and the National Revolutionary Army was like a bamboo, breaking through the three major warlords of Wu Peifu, Sun Chuanfang and Zhang Zuolin.
This made Xiao Ke yearn for it very much, so he decided to go to Guangzhou alone and apply for the Whampoa Military Academy, which was famous at that time.
However, when he rushed to Guangzhou, he had already missed the recruitment time of the Whampoa Military Academy.
Whampoa Military Academy
So, he had to settle for the second best thing and applied for the Military Commission's Military Police Training Institute, a school dedicated to training non-commissioned officers for the Northern Expeditionary Army.
Because the Northern Expeditionary Army was in full swing at that time, and the army was in urgent need of talents, it took only three months for him to graduate from school and be assigned to the Fifth Supplementary Regiment, which was stationed in Changsha.
The supplementary regiment, as the name suggests, is a reserve, which is mainly responsible for transporting guns, ammunition and food supplies for the front-line troops, and cannot go into battle to kill the enemy, which makes Xiao Ke, who is dedicated to the army, feel very depressed.
At this moment, a letter alleviated his urgent need, the letter was written by his cousin, who was working in the Political Department of the Fourth Army of the Northern Expedition at that time, and asked him to go to Wuhan for a while.
Xiao Ke gladly agreed to go, but when he came to Wuhan, his cousin told him not to return to Changsha, because Lao Chiang had already deviated from the revolutionary line of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
Xiao Ke saw the situation very clearly, so he decided to stay for the time being, depending on the situation. At this time, under the introduction of his cousin, he entered the Eleventh Army under Ye Ting, and soon after marched to Henan with the troops, leaving Wuhan, a place of right and wrong.
In the Henan operation, Xiao Ke participated in the actual battle for the first time, but as the instructor of the company, his performance in the war was very good, and he was deeply appreciated by the company commander Zheng Mingying.
Zheng Mingying admires this teenage young man very much, he has a flexible brain, is bold, and is a good seedling.
So in addition to fighting, he also likes to talk with Xiao Ke, and introduced him to many books, such as "Communist ABC" and "Guide".
Xiao Ke liked the books he recommended very much, and the new ideas expressed in these books made him see the way out of China's future, and also made him interested in communism and germinated the idea of joining the party.
In 1927, under the introduction of company commander Zheng Mingying, Xiao Ke officially joined the Communist Party of China and participated in the August 1 Nanchang Uprising, firing the first shot of armed resistance to the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang.
Nanchang Uprising
At that time, Xiao Ke, who had just joined the Communist Party, was ambitious, but what he didn't expect was that the accident came so quickly.
Returned to his hometown to organize a riot
After Wang Jingwei learned of the Nanchang uprising, he immediately sent Zhang Fakui and Zhu Peide, who were descendants of his lineage, to besiege Nanchang.
Under the strength of the enemy and the enemy, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to withdraw the rebel troops from Nanchang in batches and march south to Guangdong.
Xiao Ke followed Ye Ting's 24th Division to Fuzhou, and in the back, Wang Jingwei's troops pursued relentlessly, and in front, Chiang Kai-shek in Guangzhou also ordered Li Ji to intercept it deeply.
In the process, many soldiers died, some of them could not resist the temptation and rebelled, and some of them, not determined, withdrew from the ranks.
But Xiao Ke never flinched, and finally at the end of 1927, he moved with his troops to the vicinity of Shantou, but here they encountered an ambush by the Kuomintang army and the team was scattered.
Kuomintang troops
Xiao Ke lost contact with the organization, and after careful consideration, he searched all the way from Shantou to Guangzhou.
However, when he came to Guangzhou after going through a lot of hardships, he found that Guangzhou had been turned into a miasma by Chiang Kai-shek, and he wantonly arrested Communists, and the party organization was seriously damaged.
Shaw was in no hurry to leave, he lurked, making a living by writing letters for others, while quietly inquiring about the organization.
However, it is a pity that the city of Guangzhou fell into the White Terror, and everyone talked about the Communist Party.
Therefore, Xiao Ke has not been in contact with the organization, but he has received news that a wave of revolution is brewing in his hometown.
After thinking about it, he decided to return to his hometown, and in this way, he set off from Guangzhou, relying on begging along the way, and finally returned to Jiahe, Hunan.
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When his sister Xiao Xiaofeng learned of his experience, she slammed the table and said excitedly:
"Brother, I thought of someone, he will definitely be able to help you!"
Xiao Ke hurriedly asked who it was, and Xiao Xiaofeng said, "Your hair is small, Xiao Liang!"
It turned out that Xiao Liang was a playmate who grew up with Xiao Ke since childhood, but Xiao Liang's family was a wealthy family in the village, so when he was in middle school, Xiao Ke could only go to the county A normal school, and Xiao Liang was sent by his family to study in a school in the provincial capital, and the two never met again.
Xiao Liang joined the Communist Party in school, and after the defeat of the Revolution, he returned to his hometown and went into hiding, but he kept in touch with the organization.
Xiao Liang and Xiao Ke's family belong to the same clan, so Xiao Xiaofeng has more contact with him, and under his drive, Xiao Xiaofeng also moved the idea of joining the party.
Shaw
When Xiao Ke heard this, he was so excited that he burst into tears, so he asked his sister to send a letter to Xiao Liang, and soon, Xiao Liang came to Xiao Ke's house.
The two haven't seen each other for many years, and when they met again, they were already comrades, Xiao Liang patted him on the shoulder after listening to Xiao Ke's experience, and said, "Leave this matter to me." ”
A few days later, Xiao Ke received a message from Xiao Liang and asked him to go to the Helongtai Teahouse in the town.
When Xiao Ke came to the teahouse, there was already someone waiting, and that person was Peng Guangchao of the underground party branch of Linwu County! The two hands were tightly clasped together, and Xiao Ke resumed his status as a member of the Communist Party.
From then on, they used Peng Guangchao's study as an underground liaison base, and Xiao Xiaofeng and Xiao Liang took on the duties of underground traffic officers to transmit information to them.
At the beginning of 1928, Zhu De and Chen Yi led the remnants of the Nanchang Uprising to outwit Yizhangcheng, setting off a vigorous southern Hunan uprising.
Shonan Uprising
After Xiao Ke learned the news, he immediately approached Peng Guangchao and discussed organizing a riot in Linwu, Jiahe and Lanshan counties.
The two hit it off, and Xiao Ke immediately asked Xiao Liang to secretly go to Yizhang for tandem.
However, while they were secretly preparing for the uprising, traitors appeared inside, and after the information was leaked, the uprising was suspended.
Xiao Ke was also wanted by the local government, and had no choice but to lead an independent regiment to Jinggangshan.
Before leaving, he asked Xiao Liang if he would like to go with him, but Xiao Liang refused on the grounds that he was married.
Although Xiao Ke regretted it, he still expressed his understanding, and the two said goodbye, thinking that they would meet again if the revolution was successful, but they didn't expect that this farewell would be indefinite.
Different paths, different destinies
After Xiao Ke led the team to Jinggang Mountain, it was integrated with the remnants of the Autumn Harvest Uprising led by Mao Zedong and Zhu De and reorganized into the Red Fourth Army.
Autumn Harvest Uprising
He fought all his life, fought in the south and the north, participated in all the anti-"encirclement and suppression", experienced the 25,000-mile Long March, from company commander, regiment commander, to army commander, he was an outstanding general in the early days of the Red Army.
It is precisely because of his outstanding command ability that he made great contributions in both the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, as the head of the Military Training Department, he was mainly responsible for the daily training of the army.
In his later years, after retiring from the leadership position, he began to sort out his manuscripts, and his "Bloody Luoxiao" written by him can be said to be a true portrayal of his military life.
This novel won the Mao Dun Literature Award, which is the highest award in the Chinese literary world, and he is also the only general to win this honor, which will go down in history.
However, Xiao Liang embarked on a path of fate that was completely different from his.
Xiao Liang's father was in the timber business, and his family was very wealthy, and his parents did not know about his joining the Communist Party.
When the riots in Jiahe, Linwu, and Lanshan counties were betrayed by traitors, Xiao Liang was very uneasy, and he was worried that he would be arrested after the incident.
After Xiao Ke left, the local militia quickly searched for the communists in Linwu and Jiahe.
Xiao Liang's heart became more and more frightened, and he had to confess to his parents, and when his father heard about it, he beat him up and then told him to go and turn himself in.
In this way, Xiao Liang took the initiative to go to the local militia to surrender the next day, but his father spent money and he was released without experiencing any torture.
Since then, he has renounced his communist beliefs and is notorious for his collusion with local militias to oppress the people.
After the founding of New China, Xiao Liang was still unrepentant and gathered a group of ruffians and hooligans to resist stubbornly.
After a fierce battle, Xiao Liang was captured and executed after the trial for what he had done.
More than 30 years later, when the successful Xiao Ke returned to his hometown, he remembered this Fa Xiao who had given him great help, and when he learned the truth, he only left a sigh.
Xiao Liang's ending is related to his own family, and it is inseparable from his unfirm revolutionary will.
He not only betrayed the revolution, but also oppressed the peasants, did all kinds of evil, and became a landlord bully spurned by the locals.
In his later years, Xiao Ke once said that if a person and a nation want to prosper, they must have spirit, and this is his experience in fighting the revolution and training the army all his life, and it is also the criterion for him to be a man and do things.
Shaw in his later years
The spirit of General Xiao Ke is the belief of the Communist Party.
No matter what time you are, you must not forget your original intention, only in this way can you always walk on the right path.
To this day, the spirit of General Xiao Ke is still admirable and worthy of our Xi.
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General Xiao Ke's secret contact point was inaugurated
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Linwu Red Memory|A secret contact point of General Xiao Ke in Linwu
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