In December 2015, the northwest land was windy and frozen for thousands of miles.
An off-road vehicle with a license plate in Xingtai, Hebei Province, drove out of the Xining toll station of the Beijing-Tibet Expressway and went straight to The Zhongshan Hospital in Xining City, but the car did not drive into the hospital, but stopped under a large poplar tree outside the west wall of the hospital.
Four foreign men stepped down from the car, dusty servants.
After about ten minutes, another local car came, and two people came down from the car, and everyone walked together to a few meters north of the poplar tree.
One of the locals pointed with a cane at a dirt slope covered with dead weeds and said to the white-bearded old man:
"Your father's head is buried in this place."
Hearing this, the old man from outside the field fell to his knees, and the old man burst into tears:
"Father, I'm 91 years old this year, but I can find you."
Who is this white-bearded old man, and who is his father?
The deceased's hometown of Xingtai is more than 1400 kilometers away from Xining, how did the deceased come to Xining, how did he die, why was only his head left, how was his head buried in the ground?
The deceased's name was Dong Zhentang, a general of the Northwest Army.
Let's go back to the days of the flames, follow the trajectory of the dead's lives, and find the answers.
On December 14, 1931, Sun Lianzhong, commander of the 26th Route Army of the Northwest Army recuperating in Nanjing, received a telegram from Jiangxi: The 74th And 73rd Brigade of the 26th Route Army "defected", and 17,000 people defected to the enemy, led by Zhao Bosheng, Dong Zhentang, and Ji Zhentong.
Sun Lianzhong read the telegram and immediately slumped down in his chair.
At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek also saw this telegram and scolded "Niang Xipi" and twisted his nose.
The 26th Route Army originally belonged to Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, and Sun Lianzhong was also a general of the Northwest Army.
After the defeat of Chiang Feng-Yan in the Battle of Zhongyuan in 1930, the 26th Route Army was reorganized by Chiang Kai-shek.
After that, Chiang Kai-shek spared no expense to update the equipment of the 26th Route Army and exchange shotguns for guns.
The reason for this is that Chiang Kai-shek has his own little plan, that is, to use them to go to Jiangxi to "suppress bandits" and eliminate the Red Army.
In the first three encirclements and suppressions, the Nationalist army suffered a fierce defeat and suffered losses.
Chiang Kai-shek planned to rest his troops, recuperate, and launch a fourth encirclement and suppression campaign by the Red Army in the coming year.
Who knows, at this juncture, the 26th Route Army uprising, Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Lianzhong can not be angry and corrupt?
Why did the 26th Route Army have such a large-scale uprising, because Feng Yuxiang, the general of the Northwest Army, has always been very sympathetic to the Communists and has a deep friendship with the Communists. In the early years, he supported Sun Yat-sen's policy of uniting with Russia, the United Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers, and there were many Soviet advisers and CCP members in the Northwest Army.
Although Feng Yuxiang stepped down in 1930, many Communists lurked here, and many generals of the Northwest Army were Communists.
Zhao Bosheng, chief of staff of the 26th Route Army, was a member of the Communist Party, Liu Zhenya, a captain and staff officer of the 73rd Brigade of the 25th Division, and Wang Chao, a senior general, Yuan Hezun, and Li Su, were all communists.
Dong Zhentang, commander of the 73rd Brigade, Ji Zhentong, commander of the 74th Brigade, and Huang Zhongyue, commander of the first regiment of the 74th Brigade, were also successively won over by our party.
At this time, Sun Lianzhong, the boss of the 26th Route Army, and Gao Shuxun, the commander of the 27th Division, both left the unit and went to Nanjing for recuperation.
In addition, the 26th Route Army belonged to the Northwest Army, came to Jiangxi to fight in the water and soil, malaria epidemic, death occurred from time to time, and the military's morale was floating.
Such a god-given opportunity, how long will it be before the uprising?
On December 14, 1931, Zhao Bosheng, Dong Zhentang and others launched the Ningdu Uprising and led their troops to defect to the Red Army.
Mao Zedong and Zhu De were overjoyed to hear the news and personally went to meet the rebel troops.
Why is it said that there is great joy, because at that time, the total strength of the Red Army in the Jiangxi base area was only 30,000 people, and the troops brought by Zhao Bosheng and others had 17,000 people.
Not only that, but they also brought 20,000 weapons.
The Ningdu uprising greatly increased the strength of the Red Army, which was a great good thing for the base areas, could Mao Zedong and Zhu De not be happy?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > the main initiators of the Ningdu Uprising, what was their fate? </h1>
Zhao Bosheng, a native of Huanghua County, Hebei Province, served as chief of staff of the Fifth Red Army and commander of the Fourteenth Army after the uprising. In order to ensure that the main force of the Red Army annihilated the enemy at Huangshidu, in January 1933, Zhao Bosheng was ordered to lead four regiments to attract and contain the Jiang army, which was three times larger than the number of Jiang's troops, at the Changsheng Temple.
Ji Zhentong, a native of Cangxian County, Hebei Province, after the uprising, the troops were reorganized into the Fifth Army of the Red Army, and Ji Zhentong served as the commander-in-chief of the Red Fifth Army.
In August 1932, ji Zhentong was mistakenly identified as a "counter-revolutionary" because of the influence of the erroneous line of the "Left" at that time.
On the eve of the Red Army's Long March in October 1934, Ji Zhentong was mistakenly killed in Yeping Village, Ruijin County, Jiangxi Province, at the age of 33.
Huang Zhongyue, also known as Huang Benchu, a native of Luoshan County, Henan Province, was appointed commander of the 15th Army of the Fifth Red Army after the uprising.
In early March 1932, he led his troops to participate in the Battle of Ganzhou, and the command post headquarters covered the siege forces. Mistakenly designated as a counter-revolutionary in August of the same year, he was mistakenly killed in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, before the Long March of the Central Red Army in 1934, at the age of 30.
What we want to talk about here is General Dong Zhentang, another leader of the Ningdu uprising.
In 1932, he began to serve as the commander of the 5th Army of the Red Army, and was called by Mao Zedong as a "resolute revolutionary comrade".
General Dong Zhentang (東振堂), courtesy name Shaozhong, was born on December 21, 1895 in Lijiazhuang, Jizhou (present-day Xinhe County, Hebei Province).
Dong Zhentang was born into a martial arts family, and his grandfather once studied martial arts with famous teachers and participated in the Boxer Rebellion.
In 1900, when the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China, Dong Zhentang's grandfather led the Boxers to attack the invading army in Langfang, spilling blood on the battlefield.
His father was also a boxer and had defeated the Russian Hercules in Baoding.
Tiger father has no dog son, dong Zhentang brother two learned martial arts from an early age, martial arts are strong.
Both brothers joined Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, and the eldest Dong Shengtang was one of the two regimental commanders of Zhao Dengyu's large knife brigade, commander of the 109th Brigade of the Twenty-ninth Army.
In 1933, during the Great Wall War, he killed the Japanese army with a large knife.
In 1950, Dong Shengtang joined the People's Liberation Army in Beijing, and later served as a researcher in the Senior Research Office of the Military Training Department of the General Staff of the Central Military Commission and a member of the CPPCC Committee in Dongcheng District, Beijing.
Dong Zhentang graduated from the Baoding Military Academy in his early years, and most of the soldiers in the Republic of China period were illiterate, and talents like him were very scarce, so they were immediately reused by Feng Yuxiang after joining the army.
When Feng Yuxiang launched the Beijing coup, Dong Zhentang was already the head of the regiment, and he was not yet 30 years old.
Dong Zhentang had attended a military academy and had military talent, and Feng Yuxiang often consulted him when formulating battle plans.
In 1926, at the age of 31, Dong Zhentang became the commander of the 12th Brigade of the 14th Division of the Nationalist Army.
After the Battle of the Central Plains, Feng Yuxiang went to the field, and the remnants were incorporated by Chiang Kai-shek as the 26th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army.
Dong Zhentang served as the brigade commander of the 73rd Brigade of the 25th Division of the reorganized 26th Route Army.
Chiang Kai-shek once watched Dong Zhentang's exercises under the leadership of Sun Lianzhong, and only saw that his officers and men had strict orders, neat military appearance, and high morale, so he greatly praised him.
Old Jiang once said to Gao Shuxun, "I want to poach your ai general surnamed Dong under Chief Sun, for fear that he will not agree." ”
Unfortunately, Dong Zhentang, a general from a poor background, finally chose the Communist Party to fight for the poor, and Chiang Kai-shek could only sigh when he found out.
After the uprising, Mao Zedong had heard about Dong Zhentang's ability to lead troops and be good at using troops, so after the Red Army formed the Fifth Army, it handed over the command to Ji Zhentong and Dong Zhentang.
Ji Zhentong served as the commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and Dong Zhentang served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the commander of the 13th Army.
At that time, the Red Army only had 30,000 people, and the number of insurrectionary troops was more than half that of the Red Army, and ordinary people certainly did not dare to let go of the appointment of rebel generals.
However, Mao Zedong still entrusted them with heavy responsibilities, which shows that he has an extraordinary temperament and a broad mind.
At the same time, it also shows that Dong Zhentang is indeed a talent, and Mao Zedong can see pearls with discernment.
In 1932, after the commander-in-chief of the corps, Ji Zhentong, was mistakenly killed as a counter-revolutionary, Dong Zhentang was immediately promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army.
From July 1932 to September 1934, Dong Zhentang's military talents were fully utilized.
His Fifth Army took part in the Battle of Ganzhou, the Battle of Zhangzhou, and almost all the battles of the Fourth and Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Campaigns.
During the Battle of Ganzhou, Dong Zhentang and his apprentice, both graduates of the Baoding Military Academy, met Luo Zhuoying, who was known as the world's first Confucian general during the War of Resistance.
Luo Zhuoying was Chen Cheng's beloved general, and his 11th Division was a powerful force in the 18th Army of the Nationalist ace army.
However, Dong Zhentang was not afraid of the stage, and after the battle began, he took the lead in taking off his shirt, leading the commanders and fighters of the Red Fifth Army armed with large knives, killing into the enemy position and slashing at the enemy, and the enemy was intimidated by their momentum and held his head and scurried around.
In the end, the Fifth Red Army successfully completed its mission and covered the withdrawal of the siege Red Army from the battle.
The Red Fifth Army was tasked with taking cover in this battle, and in this battle they showed fierceness and became famous in the first battle, which was well received by Mao Zedong.
Since then, Dong Zhentang's troops have formed an indissoluble relationship with the cover.
After the defeat of the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression of the Red Army, the Long March began, and the Fifth Red Army has been behind the palace, serving as a cover task, and has gained the reputation of "Iron Stream Rear Guard".
In combat, the troops who act as forwards and defenders are the most risky. In particular, serving as a cover mission is to give up the opportunity to live to large troops, and what awaits them is often one vicious battle after another, without domineering and desperate spirit, it is really difficult to be competent.
In October 1936, the three main forces of the Red Army met the division, marking the end of the victory of the Long March.
When the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, Dong Zhentang's task behind the Hall of the Fifth Army was completed, but the task they faced was still arduous.
On November 10, 1936, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sent a telegram ordering the Red Army crossing the Yellow River to form the "Western Route Army".
The main mission of the Western Route Army was to occupy Ningxia and Ganxi and open up communication with the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union is the main ally of the Ccp, and has always unswervingly supported the Chinese revolution, and if the base areas are connected to the Soviet Union, the CCP will occupy the western half of the country, the Kuomintang's rule will be in jeopardy, and the success of the revolution will be greatly accelerated.
The main enemy of the Western Route Army to the west was the Northwest Sanma, and the Ma family army was not of the Chiang clan, and its equipment could not be compared with that of the consort army.
But why do we say that their task is still arduous?
First of all, the Western Route Army has a small number of troops, and on the surface, the Western Route Army has 3 corps, but they are not organized.
Dong Zhentang's Red 5th Army (formerly the Red Fifth Army was renamed), with 2 divisions and 4 regiments under its jurisdiction, with a total strength of only 4,000 people.
Sun Yuqing's 9th Army, under the jurisdiction of 2 divisions and 6 regiments, a total strength of more than 6500 people.
Cheng Shicai's 30th Army, under the jurisdiction of 2 divisions and 6 regiments, a total strength of more than 7,000 people.
The total strength of the whole army is only 20,000 people, but not all of them are combatants.
Organs, hospitals, the wounded and sick, and miscellaneous personnel alone account for about 40 percent of the number, the number of non-combatants is nearly 9,000, and only about 12,000 can fight.
Secondly, there are few weapons and ammunition.
Of the 12,000 combatants, not yet able to shoot a single gun, there are only 6,700 guns.
And the ammunition they carry is very limited, with an average of only 15 rounds of ammunition per gun.
Among them, Dong Zhentang's 5th Army had the least number of guns and ammunition, more than 3,000 people, only more than 1,000 guns, and an average of only 5 rounds of ammunition per gun.
Such equipment, let alone war, even exercises cannot complete the task.
The enemy Ma Jia Army they faced, mainly cavalry, was very mobile, and was like a fish in the northwest plateau, and could run as long as they wanted.
Some of the local people also support ma jiajun.
That is to say, the Ma family army occupies all the time, place, and basically.
The decisive battle with the extremely ferocious Ma Jiajun, the result can be imagined.
In the Battle of Gulang, although the 9th Army annihilated more than 5,000 enemy troops, it suffered more than 2,000 casualties, chief of staff Chen Bozhi, a division commander, a division political commissar and most of the cadres above the platoon level were killed, and the military commander Sun Yuqing was dismissed.
The Red 30th Army was completely destroyed, and Li Xiannian led a small number of personnel to break through to Xinjiang, where he was disarmed by the Xinjiang warlord Sheng Shicai.
The Red 5th Army led by Dong Zhentang also fought very hard.
The offensive and defensive battle of Gaotai in early 1937 was the most thrilling, tragic and tragic scene.
On January 1, 1937, most of the commanders and fighters of the Fifth Red Army, under the leadership of commander Dong Zhentang, captured gaotai county.
On January 12, they were surrounded by an enemy six times larger than themselves, and after nine days and eight nights of deadly fighting with the enemy, they were exhausted, and more than 2,000 Red Army commanders and fighters of the Fifth Red Army died heroically.
At the beginning, the Red 5th Army led by Dong Zhentang was the rear guard of the Western Route Army.
In December, after the Western Route Army occupied Yongchang and Shandan, west of Lanzhou, the Red 5th Army became a forward.
Dong Zhentang understood that the Ma family army was mainly cavalry, so he took precautions to buy war horses on the spot and temporarily formed a cavalry regiment.
However, the cavalry must undergo long-term training, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry regiment formed temporarily cannot be compared with the cavalry of the Ma Bufang Department.
Nevertheless, with this cavalry regiment, mobility was greatly improved.
Therefore, after the troops were changed to forwards, Dong Zhentang did not give in and led the cavalry regiment to the front of the line.
Ma Bufang was an important figure in the Ma Family Army of the Linxia people of Gansu Province, a Hui ethnic group, and a warlord in the northwest region, who had joined the Northwest Army in his early years.
In the Battle of the Central Plains, Chiang Kai-shek gave Ma Bufang strong support in order to pinch Feng Yuxiang, and his army grew rapidly and grew rapidly.
Chiang Kai-shek knew that this man was extremely ambitious, more threatening than Feng Yuxiang, and would endanger China's reunification at some point.
Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek was determined to weaken Ma Bufang and eliminate the serious problems in his heart.
In 1932, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Ma Bufang as the commander of the southern Qinghai Border Region Garrison, and on the other hand, he sent Hu Zongnan's First Division to Tianshui with the intention of retaking Qinghai.
Ma Bufang, the old fox, realized the danger, so he provoked the "Qinghai-Tibet War," forcing Chiang Kai-shek to order Ma Bufang to send troops to repulse the Tibetan army and retake Qinghai.
Then, in 1933, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Sun Dianying as the inspector of Qinghai QaidamTun reclamation, and when Sun led his troops westward through Baotou, he was blocked by Ma Bufang, Ma Hongkui, and Ma Hongbin, forcing Chiang Kai-shek to withdraw his life.
Sun Dianying later fought a bloody battle with Ma Bufang, Ma Hongkui, and Ma Hongbin in Ningxia, and was not their opponent.
Since then, Ma Bufang has expanded his army in a big way, consolidated his position, firmly controlled Qinghai in his hands, and regarded this place as his independent kingdom, not allowing others to touch it.
In this case, through his turf, there will certainly be a bloody battle.
But the revolution is like this, and when it encounters hard bones, it must be gnawed, and there is no hesitation.
Dong Zhentang's troops were not well equipped, but their combat effectiveness was explosive, and on December 30, they successfully conquered Linze County, annihilating more than 3,000 enemy troops.
Then the Red 5th Army drummed up, and then the next city, and the next day captured Gaotai.
Dong Zhentang took advantage of the heat to strike iron, arrested the landlords tianyou and Lu Huaizhi, and Wang Zhaode, secretary of the Kuomintang county party department, held a mass struggle meeting, and publicly shot and executed the three people.
These people are bullies, and the local people have been oppressed by them for a long time and dare not speak out.
Dong Zhentang's actions won the hearts of the people, the masses clapped their hands and applauded, rushed to tell each other, local youth asked to join the army, Dong Zhentang organized them to set up the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army.
The Morale of the Fifth Red Army was high and they were ready to meet the attack of the Horse Bandit Army.
When Ma Bufang saw that someone had moved his cheese, he was naturally unwilling and vowed to fight the Red Army to the death.
He dispatched troops and organized 5 cavalry brigades, 2 infantry brigades, 1 artillery regiment and militia regiment, as many as 20,000 people, 7 times the strength of the Red 5 Army.
In the early morning of January 12, 1937, the imposing Ma Jiajun launched a crazy attack on Gaotai.
Faced with the enemy's encirclement, Dong Zhentang initially planned to break through, and formulated a breakthrough plan.
After the breakthrough, people and land are born twice, and they are pursued by the enemy, and the scene may be very passive, but at least it will not be completely destroyed.
At this moment, Huang Chao, the political commissar of the Western Route Army (formerly Zhang Guotao's secretary), sent an urgent letter asking the Fifth Red Army to cooperate with the actions of the headquarters of the Western Route Army and hold on to the high platform with all its might in order to coordinate the combat operations of the brother troops.
The military order was like a mountain, and Dong Zhentang did not hesitate, immediately convened a meeting of leaders at and above the division commander level, and decisively made the decision to stick to the high platform.
The next step is how to defend the city under the siege of heavy troops.
The meeting finally decided to block the east, west and south gates of the city and repair the fortifications; after the north gate was closed, dig a few holes under the city wall to prepare for a breakthrough in an emergency.
At this time, the Ma family army was already armed with Chiang Kai-shek and was very well equipped, with more than 10 mortars per infantry brigade.
Therefore, Ma Jiajun first poured into the city with intensive artillery fire, and the city immediately became a sea of fire.
The fortifications were all temporarily built, and there was no cement and steel, and many of the fortifications were vulnerable and were destroyed immediately, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.
But the matter has come to this point, and we can only stick to it to win the turnaround,
When the enemy's attack stopped, Dong Zhentang personally went to the front to organize repairs and reinforcement of the fortifications.
In this way, Commander Dong led everyone to organize a counter-charge while repairing fortifications, and persisted for 3 days.
Under the stubborn resistance of our army, the enemy left a large body.
However, after several days of fierce fighting, our army also paid a lot of casualties, and some companies only had a few dozen people left, and the ammunition was exhausted.
When Dong Zhentang inspected the front, everyone said in unison, "There are no bullets." ”
He told everyone, "We can't sit still without bullets, there are bricks, stones and sticks in the city, in short, the enemy cannot be allowed to succeed." ”
When the enemy saw that our army's gunfire was sparse and judged that the Red Army was free of bullets, he was assured and bold to start the siege. As a result, when he landed in the city, he encountered a rain of bricks and stones, and he was beaten to a ghost and howled wolf, and there were deaths and injuries everywhere.
But when they woke up, they were even more unscrupulous, how could stones and bricks resist guns?
On the 18th, seeing that the Red Army ran out of ammunition and food, the militia groups that had been forced to surrender saw hope at this time, and they turned against each other again, secretly opening the wall of Xiguan that had been blocked, and the Ma family army rushed in like a tide.
The Red Army soldiers were not afraid, and they engaged in fierce street battles with the Ma family army.
But the soldiers of our army have been fighting for many days in a row, and they are exhausted, and their flesh and blood are difficult to resist the bullets and butcher knives of the Ma family army.
By the 20th, the fighting in the city had basically stopped, and most of the Red Army had died heroically.
At this time, Dong Zhentang was still leading everyone in stubborn resistance, he looked around, there were only more than 30 fighters left.
The tragic situation in front of him made his heart like a knife, and the defeat was decided and he was powerless to return to heaven.
At this time, the shouts of the bandits came: "The Red Army will soon surrender, and those who surrender will not die!" ”
Dong Zhentang smiled contemptuously and said to everyone: "We must shed the last drop of blood for the party, and we would rather die standing than kneeling to live!"
Dong Zhentang shouted and led the warriors to rush to the east gate, and when he climbed the city wall and was about to jump, several evil bullets hit him at the same time.
Dong Zhentang fell under the city wall, closed his eyes, and his gray military uniform was stained red with blood.
In the Battle of Gaotai, Dong Zhentang, Yang Keming, Ye Chongjie, commander of the 13th Division, Liu Peiji, chief of staff, Wu Daichao, commander of the 20th Division, Dong Junyan, commander of the cavalry division who came to the rescue of the Fifth Army, and Qin Daoxian, political commissar, and more than 3,000 soldiers, except for a few comrades who survived, were all honorably killed in battle.
After the fall of Gaotai, ma Bufang, who had lost his humanity, smiled and ordered the heads of Dong Zhentang, Yang Keming, Ye Chongjie, Liu Peiji, and several other martyrs to be cut off and hung on the upper floor of Gaotai City for public display.
When Dong Zhentang died, his wife Jia Mingyu knew nothing.
After Dong Zhentang's heroic sacrifice, there has been no news of them. It was not until after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War that the organization learned the whereabouts of their family from Dong Zhentang's cousin.
It turned out that Jia Mingyu took the children, first wandering all the way to Hebei and other places, and then settled in Henan, and the strong Jia Mingyu supported the children by hand.
The two had a total of three children, two sons and a daughter. The eldest son's name was Dong Guangyao, and he was born in 1920.
When his father joined the Red Army, Dong Guangyao was 11 years old, and he was influenced by his father, and he also joined the guerrilla army and died for the country during the War of Resistance.
The second son's name was Dong Yongwei (formerly known as "Guangzhen"), 4 years younger than his brother, and he did not choose Congwen like his brother.
Dong Yongwei studied in a number of universities, graduated from North China University, and later became a teacher at Renmin University.
In order to return his father's soul to his hometown, and in order to give his mother a comfort, he has been looking for his father's head.
At first, he heard that after Ma Bufang cut off his father's head, he once took it to Nanjing to receive the reward.
Therefore, he traveled all over the streets and alleys of Nanjing, and also looked for a national reward.
He also visited senior Kuomintang generals and former government officials, and traveled throughout the archives in various places, hoping to find clues from them.
Until 2015, with the help of friends, he found Zhang Qi, who was the president of Hexi Hospital at the time, and finally got important clues.
According to Zhang Qi's recollection, dong Zhentang and other martyrs' heads were not sent to Nanjing after three days of public display at Gaotai, but to Hexi Hospital, where they were soaked in a glass container with alcohol.
Three months later, Ma Bufang sent someone to take General Dong's head.
Maybe it was because it was not well preserved, resulting in the corruption of the skull, or maybe Ma Bufang felt that there was no point in continuing to preserve it.
In short, Ma Bufang asked his subordinates to bury it in the open space outside the western wall of Zhongshan Hospital one night.
The soldier in charge of burying his head happened to be a distant relative of Zhang Qi, so Zhang Qi knew more details than anyone.
Upon hearing the news, the general's 91-year-old second son, Dong Yongwei, stayed up all night and drove to Xining with his son Dong Naihuang and sister Dong Guangtai in the winter of 2015 to look for his father's head.
At this time, his mother had been an ancient man for many years.
When she was dying, she tearfully told him that she must find his father's head and bury us together, and not let his father be alone in another country.
Now, that wish has finally come true.