On June 12, 1935, the Red Army and the Red Fourth Front Army met in Maogong. The Red Army was in a state of joy, but at that moment one came from the far southBad news
The Fujian-Jiangxi border region has fallen into the hands of the enemy, and two high-ranking cadres of our party and our armyZhong Xunren, secretary of the provincial party committee of Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, and Yang Daoming, chairman of the ** Soviet of Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, are missing.
The whereabouts of these two men are now unsolved. After the liberation of New China, ** also organized people to look around, but there was never a clear news.
And the truth of all this was not told by an old monk in Fujian 53 years later in 1988.
This old monk's name is Xinyang, and he is also one of the protagonists of this unsolved case:Yang Daoming
Why did a high-ranking cadre of the Red Army become a monk?Zhong Xunren is in ** again?
Let's turn the clock back to 1934.
In this year, due to Wang Ming's erroneous military line of "left-leaning" adventurism, the Red Army's fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign failed, and the Red Army had to implement a strategic shift at the critical moment of life and death, thus opening the prelude to the 25,000-mile Long March.
* At the same time as the Red Army's Long March, some Red Army soldiers were left behind in the south to continue guerrilla warfare.
Among them, Yang Daoming served as the chairman of Fujian and Jiangxi Province, and Zhong Xunren served as the secretary of the Fujian and Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee
Both of them were in the prime of life, with rich experience in local revolutionary work, loyalty to the party, and a strong revolutionary will, and were regarded as excellent candidates for this position. Among them, when Zhong Xunren served as the secretary of the Xingguo County Party Committee, he also made Xingguo a "model county" in the Soviet District and received a commendation.
After the departure of the main Red Army, a large number of troops of the Kuomintang reactionaries and local reactionary militias launched a frenzied attack on the Soviet area. Faced with a militarily unfavorable situation, the Red Army left behind was in a very dangerous situation.
Seeing that the enemy's attack was becoming more and more ferocious, a wave of pessimism inevitably emerged.
What is more severe than pessimism is that Zhong Xunren and Yang Daoming found thatThe party could no longer command the troops.
That's where the problem wasSong Qingquan, commander of the Fujian-Jiangxi Provincial Military Region, Xu Jianghan, chief of staff, and Peng Hu, director of the Political DepartmentOn the three of them, the three of them controlled the military and politics, took the troops into their own hands, and constantly squeezed out Zhong Yang and the others, as if turning the troops into their own private army.
Moreover, Song Qingquan showed pessimism from time to time, which made the troops unstable, and the pessimism and vacillation increased day by day. Zhong Xunren and Yang Daoming once discussed with Zhong Guochu, the political commissar of the 18th Independent Regiment, to find an opportunity to control Song Qingquan and bring the troops back under the party's banner.
However, the plan could not catch up with the changes, and the guerrillas where Zhong Yang and others were located were surrounded by the enemy. After fighting with the enemy until May 1935, he finally broke out of the siege and was besieged by the enemy on the mountain.
The Red Army, trapped in the mountains, lacked medical care and medicine, and food supplies became scarce. Under such circumstances, Song Qingquan and others publicly declared"Now there is nothing, it is better for us to surrender first".
After Yang Daoming heard this, he immediately held a meeting to criticize and educate the three people, although Song Qingquan and others admitted their mistakes on the surface, they still did not stop surrendering.
Although Zhong Yang and the others were aware of it, Song Qingquan and the three of them moved faster and led the team down the mountain to join the enemy in advance. At that time, Song Qingquan originally wanted to arrest Zhong Yang and give them to the Kuomintang as a meeting gift, but he gave up because the other two did not agree.
Although Song Qingquan did not capture Yang Daoming and the others, they provided Yang Daoming and Zhong Xunren's position to the enemy after they surrendered to the enemy. The enemy's heavy forces soon surrounded Zhong Yang and the others.
In the face of the enemy's attack, Zhong Xunren and Yang Daoming led the soldiers around them to fight and retreat, and finally fought hard to break out of the encirclement.
After the breakout, Zhong Xunren and Yang Daoming were separated from the others, and the two were cautious all the way, trying to find the party organization to connect with each other. However, at that time, the entire Soviet area was heavily armed by the enemy, and the remaining party organizations had gone underground. In the process of breaking out, the radio station was destroyed, and the two of them could not contact other guerrillas.
The two wandered all the way under pseudonyms and stumbled to the territory of Yongtai, Fujian. The two men were hungry and tired, and they came when they could not walkDark Pavilion Temple(There is information that it is said to be Yanting Temple).
Originally, the monks in the Dark Pavilion Temple didn't want to take them in because they were unknown and injured, but under the begging of the two, they finally took them in.
Originally, the two wanted to stay here for the time being, waiting for the opportunity to return to the revolutionary ranks. Perhaps it was the tranquility in the ancient temple in the deep mountains that brought a moment of tranquility away from the world, which gradually wore out the fighting spirit of the two.
A few months later, the two became monks here and escaped into the empty door. Yang Daoming's law name is Xinyang, and Zhong Xunren's law number is Miaoyuan
Since the two used pseudonyms when they became monks, the other monks did not know their common family names.
In this way, the two senior cadres of the Red Army chose to be accompanied by the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha in a desperate situation, reciting the Buddha day and reciting the scriptures night and night. Day after day, year after year in this mountain.
53 years have passed in a blink of an eye.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the two also had the idea of confessing to the organization, but they gave up this idea when they thought of leaving the revolution halfway. Later, Zhong Xunren died in 1981, and Yang Daoming was asked to continue to keep this secret.
In 1988, Yang Daoming felt that his time was running out, so he took the initiative to find the Yongtai County Party History Office and told the secret that had been sealed for 53 years.
Yang Daoming said"I'm 80 years old, and if I don't explain to the organization, no one will know Zhong Xunren's whereabouts. The day before Zhong Xunren died, he also asked me not to communicate with his family or report it to his superiors. Today I hand over his ** and family letters, the original books and poems he wrote to the organization".
At this point, the unsolved case of the disappearance of senior Red Army cadres who had been in the dust for 53 years was finally revealed.
Later, after learning of Yang Daoming's whereabouts, the founding major general Zhong Guochu drove to Fujian and met his former chief. When the two old men met, all kinds of past came to mind, and they were embarrassed.
Yang Daoming choked up and said, midnight dreams recall the revolutionary years in the past, think of the sacrificed comrades-in-arms, and always feel sad from it.
On May 14, 1999, Yang Daoming passed away at the age of 90.
And this day was precisely the day when he and Zhong Xunren were taken in by the Dark Pavilion Temple.