Comrade Lu Deming, the commander-in-chief of the Autumn Harvest Uprising, was unfortunately shot and died on the way to Jinggangshan. Under the circumstances of social unrest and complicated environment at that time, his troops lost all records about him after his death, leaving only one name - Lu Deming. Although all the deeds of the Autumn Harvest Uprising are displayed on the wall of the Jinggangshan Memorial Hall in Jiangxi Province, the world only knows that the commander of the Autumn Harvest Uprising is named Lu Deming, but there is no way to know all his deeds. It was not until 1977 that Jiangxi Province commemorated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Jinggangshan Base Area by Comrade *** and the "August 1st" army building activities, and Lu Deming's deeds gradually surfaced. As the commemoration began, Zhang Pinghua, then secretary of Hunan Province, was surprised to find that Lu Deming, the commander-in-chief of the Autumn Harvest Uprising, had only one name in his introduction when he visited the Jinggangshan Museum.
Upon inquiry, it was learned that all records of him had been lost. Mo Xun, director of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, immediately said: "The martyr Lu Deming has a very great significance and contribution to the Autumn Harvest Uprising, and we should know all his deeds. ”。According to the regulations, the task of finding the deeds of the martyrs was the responsibility of the area where the incident occurred, so the task of restoring the deeds of the martyrs of Lu Deming fell on the shoulders of Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province. Pingxiang City attaches great importance to this task and immediately gathers manpower to start an investigation. Investigators traveled to Guangzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Nanchang, Hangzhou and other places, and searched for more than 10 provincial and municipal archives, but still found nothing. Seeing that the investigators could not find any trace of Lu Deming's martyr, Pingxiang City increased its manpower and re-established an investigation team.
The investigation team has a total of 6 people, namely team leader Huang Jianzhong, and members Liu Chongdao, Zou Xianxin, Xiao Puchun, Duan Jiazuo, and Chen Mingxun. The top priority of this mission was to find Lu Deming's **, so they successively launched investigations in Wuhan, Nanjing, Beijing and other places. However, after more than two months of hard work, they found nothing, which caused a lot of damage to the group members. Team leader Huang Jianzhong comforted everyone and said: "Don't worry, we will definitely find it." ”。Subsequently, Huang Jianzhong convened the members for a long discussion, and finally decided to go their separate ways. Believing that Lu Deming had died in Luxi, he asked the members who remained in Luxi to continue the investigation, while the other comrades conducted investigations in different cities.
In November 1977, Duan Jiazuo and Chen Mingxun took a train to the Beijing Archives to look for clues about Lu Deming with a letter of introduction from the "Jiangxi Provincial Office for Commemorating the 'Two 50th Anniversaries'". However, the archives staff told them that the archives collected here belonged to the pre-Qing Dynasty materials, and the information about the martyr Lu Deming was definitely not here. Therefore, they were advised to go to the Second Historical Archives of China in Nanjing to continue their search. In Nanjing, they learned that Lu Deming was a cadet of the second phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, so they hoped to find Comrade Lu Deming's graduation photo. However, although they searched through the photo albums of Whampoa Phase II, they could not find Lu Deming's name. Even after checking the ** of the third batch of students, there is still no result.
Just when the two were confused, Chen Mingxun found Lu Deming's name in a "Whampoa Military Academy Classmates". After careful study**, he found a group photo of all the personnel of the Political Department of the third Whampoa Military Academy, with Lu Deming's name written on it. Chen Mingxun shouted excitedly, attracting Duan Jiazuo to come over and ask. The two happily observed in detail**, and the back of one of the group photos reads "Organization Member: Lu Deming......This surprise discovery gave them a glimmer of hope. However, when they wanted to make a copy of the **, they were rejected by the archives staff, who said that their letter of introduction was only for viewing and did not mention the reason for copying. So, Chen Mingxun and Duan Jiazuo hurriedly returned to Jiangxi and reissued a new letter of introduction.
In the end, they successfully copied this **, and they were very excited, and immediately reported the news to Huang Jianzhong. However, this is only the beginning of their long journey to find Lu Deming**. After returning to Jiangxi, they found that the text description behind ** was not arranged in the order of the characters in **. This made them wonder, which one is the martyr Lu Deming?Upon closer study, they found that the name of the *** general appeared in the middle, which made them excited, but then another question followed. According to the regulations, the investigation team needs at least 6 relevant people to confirm the identity of the person in the old **. Therefore, they consulted a large amount of information and found Lu Deming's comrades-in-arms He Changgong and Zhou Shidi, as well as Lu Deming's relatives, friends and others, hoping to confirm the identity of the characters in **.
First, they traveled to Beijing to find Zhou Shidi. At that time, Zhou Shidi served as the commander of the 73rd Regiment of the 25th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and Lu Deming was the chief of staff of the regiment, so Zhou Shidi should know something about Lu Deming. Zhou Shidi looked at the ** carefully, pointed to the first person from the left in the front row of the group photo and said: "This person may be Lu Deming, but I can't be very sure." The investigation team then found He Changgong, but unfortunately He Changgong's relationship with Lu Deming was not long, and it is impossible to recall exactly, it can only be said that the first person from the left in the front row is indeed a bit like Lu Deming. Looking at **, He Changgong felt that it was too precious, so he left a copy at home. However, neither of these comrades-in-arms has clearly confirmed the identity of the person in **, so investigators pinned their hopes on General ***.
After the general received it, his eyes were full of tears, and he seemed to recall the scene of taking this **, and he pointed to the first person from the right in the first row of ** with great certainty and said: "I'm sure this is him!."* also described: "I still remember that I was wearing a suit at the time, and Lu Deming was standing not far from me when the photo was taken. The positive answer of * increased the confidence of the investigation team. Then, the investigators explained to *** that the first person from the left in the first row identified by Zhou Shidi and He Changgong was Lu Deming, but ** said categorically: "No, that person's name is Yang Qigang, who was doing party work in the Political Department at the time, and the one wearing glasses next to Yang Qigang is Yuan Yanlie, I remember it very clearly."
After getting the confirmation of ***, the investigation team became more confident, and in order to thank General Nie for his help, they gave him this **. The investigators now only have one ** left in their hands, and they took this ** to Wuhan and found Han Jun. Han Jun took the ** and said: "The first person on the right in the front row is Lu Deming. This series of confirmations boosted the confidence of investigators, who immediately went to Lu's hometown to find Lu's relatives and friends to confirm. The investigation team came all the way to Lu Deming's hometown of Zigong City, and the local ** introduced a person dressed as a farmer and introduced: "He is Lu Deming's nephew Lu Definition." Lu Zhi burst into tears after seeing **, pointed to the first person from the right in the front row and said, "He is my uncle!."”