One day in 1957, on the hillside on the northern outskirts of Zunyi, a group of people with shovels and hoes were nervously busy. Suddenly, a shout resounded through the sky: "Chief, dig up, come here!" ”
Excavation of remains
Shi Xin'an, deputy political commissar of the Guizhou Provincial Military Region, Li Subo, secretary of the Zunyi Prefectural Party Committee, and Kong Xianquan, director of the Zunyi Conference Memorial Hall, heard the shouts and hurriedly put down the tools in their hands to check on them.
I saw the staff carrying a skeleton from a grave, the clothes worn by the remains were decayed, but the red five-pointed star at the collar was still shining. Shi Xin'an gently peeled open the dirt on the skull of the remains, looked at a bullet hole in the skull, and suddenly cried.
After confirming the identity of the remains, Shi Xin'an urgently ordered: "Quick! Send a report to Mr. Peng, and the chief of staff has found it! ”
A few days later, Peng Dehuai, who was in Beijing, finished reading the telegram in his hand, his brow tightened, and tears ran through the corners of his eyes: 22 years later, the old friend who made him look for it was finally found.
22 years ago, he unveiled the covered sheet, wiped the blood from his face for the body, and instructed Zhang Aiping, who was next to him: Change into a new military uniform for the chief of staff, and if not, go and get a set...
Who was the owner of this body? Why does it appear on the slopes of the northern suburbs of Zunyi? What did he go through? What kind of friendship does he have with Peng Dehuai? It all starts at the beginning.
Portrait of Deng Ping
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" introduced Peng Dehuai to the party > and led the Pingjiang Uprising</h1>
The owner of the remains was named Deng Ping, formerly known as Deng Shaozhang, a native of Fushun County (now Zigong City) in Sichuan Province, born in 1908.
Due to the large number of siblings in the family, Deng Ping was adopted by her uncle shortly after birth. The uncle made a living as a salt worker, devoted himself to cultivating Deng Ping, and sent him to a private school to study frugally.
Deng Ping soon showed outstanding talent in the private school, with excellent academic performance and proficiency in memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics. But in the era of the rise of the revolutionary movement, Deng Ping was not willing to be buried, so in 1922, under the influence of the revolutionary forerunner Yun Daiying, he joined the student movement, joined the revolutionary wave, and vowed to dedicate himself to the national salvation movement.
In 1926, the news of the enrollment of the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy spread to Sichuan, and 18-year-old Deng Ping traveled thousands of miles to Wuhan on her back, was admitted to the Wuhan branch, and gloriously joined the Communist Party of China. However, by 1927, Wang Jingwei launched the "July 15" counter-revolutionary coup in Wuhan, hunting down Communists and progressive masses. Deng Ping was forced to leave Wuhan and went to the First Regiment of the Fifth Division in Hunan under the arrangement of the organization to engage in military movement work.
Pingjiang Uprising
The greatest purpose of Deng Ping's visit was to establish contacts with Peng Dehuai, the leader of the First Regiment, to influence him ideologically and politically, and to prompt him to lead an uprising and throw himself into the embrace of the Communist Party at an early date.
Peng Dehuai was born into a poor people, had a just personality, was jealous and hateful, participated in the Xiang Army, joined the National Revolutionary Army during the Northern Expedition, and became famous in the army. At the same time, however, he was very repulsive to corruption and the struggle for power within the National Revolutionary Army, and was in urgent need of guidance on a correct path. It was under this opportunity that Deng Ping and Peng Dehuai became acquainted. Later, when Peng Dehuai joined the party, it was Deng Ping who presided over the ceremony of joining the party and personally painted portraits of Marx, Engels and Lenin, allowing Peng Dehuai to solemnly swear to join the party in front of the portrait.
On July 22, 1928, the Pingjiang Uprising broke out, and Deng Ping led the officers and soldiers of the uprising to launch a fierce attack on the county seat. After the success of the uprising, the Fifth Army of the Red Army was established, with Peng Dehuai as the commander, Teng Daiyuan as the political commissar, and Deng Ping as the chief of staff, and began a vigorous revolutionary journey.
Peng Dehuai
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > fought in Xianggan and made great achievements</h1>
After the Pingjiang Uprising, the Fifth Red Army broke through the siege and marched toward Jinggangshan, where it met with the successful division led by Chairman Mao and Zhu De to jointly establish the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area.
In the winter of 1928, in order to break the blockade of Jinggangshan by the Kuomintang reactionaries, Chairman Mao led the Red Fourth Army to march to Gannan and prepare to establish a new base area in Gannan.
The situation of the Red Fifth Army, which remained at Jinggangshan, was even more critical, with only 700 or 800 people in the whole army, but it had to face the "encirclement and suppression" of the Kuomintang's 20,000 troops. In order to change the situation, Peng Dehuai convened an emergency meeting above the battalion level. Peng Dehuai said at the meeting: "This is the first hard battle facing our army, and life and death are at stake, is it necessary to continue to stay in Jinggangshan?" "Ask for your opinion.
Deng Ping took Peng Dehuai's words and said: "For the sake of the present, it is necessary to lead the troops to break through, I will lead one to attract enemy firepower, and Commander Peng will lead the command to escort the relatives and wounded of the Red Army to evacuate quickly." ”
The Red Army fought against encirclement and suppression
Deng Ping wanted to deal with dozens of times the enemy, and Peng Dehuai could not rest assured him, and repeatedly waved his hands: "No, no, or let me fight the forward, And Staff Officer Deng will lead the wounded to retreat." ”
Deng Ping rejected Peng Dehuai's proposal and said, "Don't discuss it anymore, you are the commander of the First Army, and in the future, our Fifth Red Army will still rely on you!" ”
After the meeting, Deng Ping immediately made combat arrangements and engaged the enemy in the lofty mountains. Deng Ping fought continuously, was seriously wounded, had a high fever and was forced to stay in Jinggangshan to recuperate. Three months later, Peng Dehuai led the Red Fifth Army back to Jinggangshan, and when he saw Deng Ping, his eyes burst into tears and he excitedly said: "My broken wings are back!" ”
In 1930, the Red Third Army was established, with Peng Dehuai as the commander of the regiment, and Deng Ping as the chief of staff of the regiment and the commander of the Fifth Red Army. A month later, Deng Ping led his troops to counterattack Pingjiang and take Changsha, which greatly deterred the Kuomintang reactionaries. During the period of the Red Army's five anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns, as the third figure of the Red Third Army, Deng Ping led his troops to make repeated combat achievements, dealing a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Kuomintang reactionaries.
However, such a regimental general was killed in the battle of Zunyi in the Red Army.
The Red Army crossed the Red River four times
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > reoccupied Zunyi and sacrificed heroically</h1>
In October 1934, the Central Red Army lost the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign and was forced to embark on a arduous long march. As the right guard unit of the whole army, the Red Third Army fought bloody battles on the Xiang River, occupied Zunyi, and conquered Loushan Pass.
After the Zunyi Conference, Chairman Mao regained military leadership and led the Central Red Army across the Chishui River, marching westward, preparing to meet the Red Fourth Front in Sichuan. Chiang Kai-shek, who had mastered the forward route of the Red Army, immediately dispatched the main force of the Central Army to pursue the Red Army, and ordered the Sichuan Army to set up a blockade line on the border of Sichuan and Qian to encircle the Red Army. Faced with the enemy's heavy encirclement, Chairman Mao made a wise decision to cross the Chishui River twice, and asked the Red Third Army to wave its division east, take Loushan Pass, and then occupy Zunyi.
At this time, after several months of bloody fighting, the Red Third Army suffered heavy casualties and had abolished the divisional level. In order to complete the task, Deng Ping personally commanded the Red Third Army to attack Loushan Pass, and under the encouragement of his personally led the charge, the soldiers became more and more courageous and successfully took the Loushan Pass Heavenly Graben. Deng Ping was full of vigor and shouted to the soldiers: "Comrades rush! Break into Zunyi City! Capture Wang Jialie alive! ”
The soldiers of the Red Third Army quickly occupied the outskirts of Zunyi and climbed the walls of Zunyi New City. However, the difficulties of the Red Third Army are still behind, compared with the new city, the old city of Zunyi is more difficult to attack, which may cause heavy casualties to the troops.
The Red Army attacked Zunyi
On February 27, 1935, Deng Ping led his subordinate Zhang Aiping (later awarded the title of founding general) to brave the enemy's gunfire and bullets to observe the enemy's situation on the river bank tens of meters outside the Xincheng Gate in order to find a suitable offensive route for the troops. This practice obviously violated the operational regulations, but the stakes in this war were so great that Deng Ping couldn't take care of it so much.
After careful study, Deng Ping basically determined a route and prepared to give orders. However, at this moment, he found through the telescope that a group of soldiers of our army had begun to attack the city, but they had not received orders to attack the city. So Deng Ping called a correspondent and asked him to send an order to the troops in the front to stop the siege. After receiving Deng Ping's instructions, the correspondent performed a military salute and rushed away.
However, it was this military salute that was discovered by the enemy through telescopes. The enemy judged that standing on the river bank was the commander of the siege and fired a shuttle of bullets. General Zhang Aiping will never forget the scene: Deng Ping was talking to himself, and a bullet from a nine-shot gun hit Deng Ping's head. Deng Ping's blood was pouring, and his body fell obliquely on his right arm, and the hot blood splashed all over his body.
In this way, Deng Ping died on the Zunyi front, only 27 years old, the highest-ranking general sacrificed during the Long March of the Red Army, and a general star fell!
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Peng Dehuai was furious: take Zunyi City and avenge the chief of staff</h1>
When Deng Ping died, Peng Dehuai was planning a battle plan at the corps headquarters. When the bad news came, Peng Dehuai was like a wooden chicken, and his grief and indignation overflowed into words, and he couldn't help but scold Zhang Aiping on the other end of the phone: "You pigs and dogs have all given me death!" ”
The war situation was changing rapidly, and Peng Dehuai had no choice but to pack up his grief and order all the officers and men of the Red Third Army: "I order you to launch a general attack on Zunyi and avenge the chief of staff!" ”
At nightfall, the soldiers shouted the slogan of "avenging the chief of staff", fought bravely, and after a bloody battle, finally took the old city of Zunyi.
Zhang Aiping embraces the statue of the sacrificial Deng Ping
Between battles, Peng Dehuai rushed to the front line to bid farewell to Deng Ping's body. He was embarrassed and burst into tears, constantly shouting Deng Ping's name. As the fighting continued, they had no choice but to bury Deng Pingcao and place him on the slopes of the northern suburbs without any markings. Peng Dehuai put away his grief and said to Zhang Aiping and the fighters around him: "The road to revolution is still very long, don't make senseless sacrifices!" ”
After Deng Ping's sacrifice, Peng Dehuai did not forget this old friend and old comrade-in-arms. In 1957, Peng Dehuai, then defense minister, instructed the Guizhou Military Region and the Zunyi Prefectural Committee to find out the whereabouts of Deng Ping's remains. After days of uninterrupted work, Deng Ping's remains were finally found on the hillside on the northern outskirts of Zunyi.
On The Qingming Festival in 1959, Deng Ping's remains were moved to the Zunyi Martyrs' Cemetery. In 1966, when Peng Dehuai was passing through Fushun County, Sichuan Province, he deliberately asked the driver to stop the car and look at it from a distance. He said to the staff around him: "One of my close comrades-in-arms is a Fushun person, but unfortunately he died prematurely..."
Revolutionary heroes are like stars that will never fall, illuminating the road to China's great rejuvenation. Tribute to General Deng Ping! Tribute to those revolutionary martyrs with names and those who have no names!