In January 1976, a famous general who was far away overseas and had betrayed our party muttered to himself with tears in his eyes when he learned the news of Premier Zhou Enlai's death: "Teacher, why did you pass away?" It's that I'm sorry for you, how good it would have been if I had followed the party firmly back then, I really didn't have the face to return to China to see you! ”
In an instant, his mind flashed the bits and pieces of his time at the Whampoa Military Academy, the heroic appearance of his "brother" Chen Geng, and everything about Premier Zhou Enlai and his past......
1. The first Whampoa student to join our party
He is Li Mo'an, the man of the year in the first phase of Huangpu, and when it comes to the Huangpu Military Academy, I am afraid that many people will immediately think of Jiang Xianyun, Chen Geng, He Zhenhan and other "Huangpu Three Heroes".
In Huangpu that year, Hu Zongnan, He Jinhan, and Li Mo'an were the "Three Heroes of Whampoa" in the eyes of many Kuomintang, and Li Mo'an was even known as "both literary and martial".
In the Huangpu period, if you want to say who Li Mo'an has the closest relationship with, then it must be Chen Geng and Zhou Enlai, in Li Mo'an's eyes, Chen Geng is his "brother", and Zhou Enlai is his most respected teacher.
In the twenties of the last century, Li Mo'an took the examination for the "Army Martial Arts School" established by the company with excellent results, and there were two influential figures in this school: Chen Geng and Song Xilian.
It was during this period that Li Mo'an and Chen Geng became good brothers.
In November 1924, with the merger of Cheng Qian's "Army Martial Arts School" into Huangpu, Li Mo'an naturally became a student of the first phase of Huangpu.
At the Whampoa Military Academy, Li Mo'an admires Chen Geng the most.
In February 1925, after graduation, Li Mo'an was transferred to work in the Political Department, and Zhou Enlai became Li Mo'an's teacher and boss.
In fact, Zhou Enlai noticed Li Mo'an's talent very early, and after Li Mo'an was transferred to the Political Department, Li Mo'an's outstanding ability made Zhou Enlai determined to mobilize Li Mo'an to join our party.
One day, Zhou Enlai specially found Chen Geng and talked to him about Li Mo'an, Zhou Enlai pointed out that Li Mo'an is a great talent who is both civil and military, and it is necessary to pull him into our party.
After learning that Chen Geng and Zhou Enlai, whom he respected the most, were both communists, Li Mo'an chose to join our party without hesitation, and he was also the first student in the Whampoa Military Academy to join our party.
2. Famous generals who betrayed our party
However, after Chiang Kai-shek issued the "Statement on Clearing the Party", Li Mo'an was the first to announce his withdrawal from our party, and Chen Geng once said bitterly: "Li Mo'an, you have to think clearly, if you take this step, you will not be able to turn back." ”
However, Li Mo'an finally carried his bag and walked towards the Kuomintang sequence.
Zhou Enlai was even more heartbroken when he learned that Li Mo'an had betrayed the party.
Regarding Li Mo'an's withdrawal from our party, there are two theories in history.
One theory is that after Li Mo'an joined our party, he quickly fell in love, because of love, Li Mo'an even missed several party group meetings, in this regard, Xu Jishen, a party group cadre and a future famous general of the Red Army, was very dissatisfied with Li Mo'an, and criticized him many times at the party group meetings, Xu Jishen pointed out that Li Mo'an This is a serious bourgeois tendency.
After a long time, Li Mo'an became more and more dissatisfied with Xu Jishen, and later, Li Mo'an directly did not attend the meeting, and Xu Jishen directly did not notify Li Mo'an to participate in the meeting.
Another theory is that Chiang Kai-shek also attached great importance to Li Mo'an, and Chiang Kai-shek instructed Chen Cheng, Hu Zongnan and others to win over Li Mo'an at all costs.
Under Chiang Kai-shek's high-ranking officials, Li Mo'an finally chose the Kuomintang and chose to betray our party.
At the end of 1936, after the Xi'an Incident, He Yingqin personally ordered Li Mo'an's troops to go to Tongguan and be ready to rescue Chiang Kai-shek by force at any time.
At this time, Zhou Enlai personally came to the headquarters of the 10th Division where Li Mo'an was located.
It was under the persuasion of Zhou Enlai's righteousness that Li Mo'an never moved the army in vain.
3. Zhou Enlai has been looking for Li Mo'an
In September 1937, Li Mo'an led the 14th Army to the Shanxi front. At this time, Li Mo'an had been promoted to the commander of the 14th Army.
Hearing that Zhou Enlai was in Shanxi, Li Mo'an took the initiative to visit Zhou Enlai at the office of the Eighth Route Army.
Seeing that Li Mo'an's prospects for the war were a little pessimistic, Zhou Enlai clearly pointed out that the current situation of the War of Resistance against Japan is indeed very difficult, but it is absolutely impossible for Japan to destroy China, and from a military perspective, the Japanese army simply does not have enough troops to control a huge China.
At the same time, Zhou Enlai told Li Mo'an that we must realize that in order to achieve victory in the War of Resistance, it is far from enough to rely on the regular army, we must mobilize the masses, only the whole people resist the war, as long as the Japanese army is caught in the sea of the people, then China will definitely be able to defeat Japan.
Zhou Enlai's words made Li Mo'an have a more optimistic and clearer judgment on the prospects of the war against Japan, and Li Mo'an asked Zhou Enlai to formulate a plan for mobilizing the masses for his 14th Army.
It is worth affirming that in the Anti-Japanese War, Li Mo'an made a lot of contributions, and in the Battle of Xinkou, Li Mo'an even beat the Japanese invaders.
Perhaps because of the influence of Zhou Enlai, or perhaps once a member of the Communist Party, Li Mo'an cooperated extensively with our party during the Anti-Japanese War.
In September 1937, in the Battle of Xinkou, Li Mo'an cooperated deeply with Peng Dehuai, Liu Bocheng and others of our party, cooperated closely, and dealt a severe blow to the Japanese army.
In the battle of Yangmingbao, when Chen Xilian led his troops to attack the Japanese airfield, Li Mo'an led his troops to block the Japanese army for several hours.
In December 1937, Li Mo'an followed Wei Lihuang to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to study.
In April 1939, Li Mo'an and our party cooperated to establish the "Nanyue Guerrilla Training Class", with Li Mo'an as the chief of education and Ye Jianying as the deputy chief of education. This training course has trained two to three thousand cadres who are good at guerrilla warfare.
In 1949, in the Hunan Uprising, Li Mo'an played a great role, in the ranking of rebel generals, he was only below Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren, although when Hunan was liberated, Li Mo'an was in Hong Kong, but our party still listed Li Mo'an as an uprising general.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, perhaps because of his past experience of betraying the party, Li Mo'an did not choose to return to China, but chose to settle in the United States.
In December 1975, Premier Zhou's condition was so severe that he often fell into a coma.
Under the torture of illness, Premier Zhou remembered a lot of past events.
Once, he talked to Deng Yingchao about Li Mo'an, and Premier Zhou talked with emotion about how good it would be if Li Mo'an came back.
In fact, Premier Zhou has been looking for Li Mo'an since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and even entrusted the mainland's embassies in various countries to look for Li Mo'an, but unfortunately, because of communication problems, Premier Zhou has never contacted Li Mo'an.
In 1981, New China finally contacted Li Mo'an and invited him to return to China to attend the 70th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution.
When Li Mo'an returned to Beijing, Deng Yingchao, who was already 77 years old, personally greeted him at the airport.
Deng Yingchao clenched Li Mo'an's hand and said with a somewhat excited expression: "Mr. Li Mo'an, in fact, Enlai has been inquiring about your news before his death, why have you never returned to China?" ”
Li Mo'an showed deep guilt on his face and said, "It's me who is sorry for the teacher." ”
After learning about Premier Zhou's life from Deng Yingchao, Li Mo'an burst into tears, and it was a regret of Li Mo'an's life that he failed to attend Premier Zhou's funeral. In 1990, Li Mo'an finally returned to China and settled. In the following ten years, Li Mo'an has been using his influence to campaign for cross-strait reunification.