On March 9, 1942, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Ren Bishi, Yang Shangkun, Xu Teli and other central leaders personally carried a coffin to Taohualing, opposite Yangjialing, the seat of the CPC Central Committee, for burial. The deceased in the coffin was named Lin Yuying, who was the head of the Yan'an Labor Movement at the time, was Lin Biao's cousin, and was the eighth oldest in the family, and Lin Biao honored him as "Brother Eight". This was the only time in Chairman Mao's life that he carried a coffin for his comrades-in-arms.
Why can Lin Yuying enjoy the glory of mourning after his death? This began in 1935.
In October 1935, the Red Army ended the Long March and arrived in northern Shaanxi. In mid-November, northern Shaanxi welcomed a distant visitor. This distant visitor was none other than Lin Yuying, who assumed the pseudonym Li Fuzhi.
It turned out that since the Red Army began the Long March in 1934, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China had lost contact with the Communist International.
In 1935, the Comintern was deeply aware of the ills of the interruption of ties, so he sent "Li Fuzhi", who had come to Moscow as early as 1933 as a member of the chinese communist delegation to the Comintern and the representative of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions to the Red Workers' International, to return to China with a contact code to re-establish contact. Lin Yuying entered Mongolia, dressed as a small trader, ate and slept in the wind, crossed the desert, inquired around, and finally arrived in the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region in November 1935 and found the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Wayao Fort. When Chairman Mao saw Lin Yuying, he was very happy: "When you come back, we have one more general in our ranks!"
After Lin Yuying saw the CPC Central Committee, he immediately conveyed a series of new decisions of the Comintern. At the heart of these decisions is the establishment of an anti-fascist united front. At the same time, Lin Yuying also conveyed the "August 1st Declaration" drafted by the CPC delegation to the Comintern. The "August 1st Declaration" is an important document within the Party and has made considerable contributions to the successful establishment of the Anti-Japanese National United Front.
However, these achievements are not the fundamental reason why Lin Yuying enjoys a high position in the party. Speaking of Lin Yuying's promotion of his political status within the party, Zhang Guotao can be described as "the greatest merit".
In June 1935, the Red Army and the Red Fourth Front met. However, seeing the disparity in strength between the two sides (at that time, there were more than 80,000 people in the Red Fourth Front, and less than 10,000 people left in the Red Fourth Front), Zhang Guotao, the leader of the Red Fourth Front, had the idea of splitting and seizing power, and later openly raised another building and set up another central committee, claiming that the central government established by Mao, Zhou, and other leaders was a "false central", and the situation was very critical for a while, and Lin Yuying, who arrived in northern Shaanxi, was ordered to "recruit" Zhang Guotao.
Lin Yuying took advantage of Zhang Guotao's relative belief in the instructions of the Comintern and went to persuade Zhang Guotao as a representative of the Comintern. He sent a telegram to Zhang Guotao in the name of the representative of the Comintern, saying that he had been sent by the Comintern to return to China to resolve the differences between the First and Fourth Fronts of the Red Army, and had brought from Moscow the opinions and codes of the Seventh Congress of the Comintern on the Chinese question, and that he could communicate with the Comintern.
However, this telegram sank into the sea. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held detailed discussions on this issue and finally made a decision: Zhang Guotao was allowed to establish the Southwest Bureau, but not to accept the establishment of a separate Central Committee. Therefore, Lin Yuying once again sent a telegram to Zhang Guotao in the name of the instructions of the Comintern to convey the central decision. At this time, Zhang Guotao's plan to go south to Chihua Sichuan was frequently blocked, and some subordinates who had trusted him gradually became suspicious of his decisions, while the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in northern Shaanxi was supported by the Communist International, and the new united front policy was also very loud. Under the repeated persuasion of Lin Yuying, Zhang Guotao finally returned to northern Shaanxi in September 1936, and the Red Second and Fourth Fronts achieved the division. Lin Yuying has played a role that cannot be ignored in defusing this unprecedented internal separatist crisis, and it is not surprising that he enjoys a lofty position in the party. After all, even Chairman Mao admitted that his struggle against Zhang Guotao on the Long March was the darkest part of his life.
After making a miraculous contribution, Lin Yuying did not take credit for himself, but continued to devote himself to the hard-working revolutionary work. In August 1937, Lin Yuying was appointed political commissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army. Although Lin Yuying had no experience in leading soldiers to fight and had little prestige in the army, during his tenure, Lin Yuying showed high leadership skills. In the face of the complicated internal situation and a large number of new problems of the 129th Division, he did a lot of arduous and meticulous ideological work, which gradually adapted the troops to new historical tasks and won the love of the cadres and soldiers of the units.
At the end of 1937, Lin Yuying's old illness worsened, and he had to leave the army and return to Yan'an, where he was treated while working. In 1940, Lin Yuying suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage and survived after rescue, but could no longer stand up. In 1942, during a bombing campaign, a bomb exploded near Lin Yuying's residence. Lin Yuying was injured by the detonation wave and his condition deteriorated rapidly. Before dying. Lin Yuying asked that he be buried in Taohualing in order to gaze long at the seat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
In view of Lin Yuying's great contributions to the party and the revolutionary cause, Chairman Mao proposed that the central leaders personally carry the coffin for Comrade Lin Yuying for burial, which was unanimously approved by the central leaders. Thus, there is a scene at the beginning of the article.