In September 1990, ** received a letter from Guangdong, and the sender was Gong Chu. This letter seems to be just a greeting to the deceased, but *** is obviously aware of Gong Chu's purpose - he wants to return to his hometown and return to his roots. **Recalling the past with Gong Chu, they were old comrades-in-arms and formed the Red Seventh Army after the Baise Uprising, with Gong Chu as chief of staff. However, Gong Chu later chose to defect to the enemy and became the "first rebel general of the Red Army". Now, this "No. 1 rebel general of the Red Army" suddenly wrote a letter expressing his feelings for his hometown and hometown, how will he deal with it?
Gong Chu was born in Lechang County, Guangdong Province in 1901, and after participating in the revolution in 1924, he was mainly engaged in agricultural activities. When the Nanchang Uprising broke out, Gong Chu organized a "Beijiang Workers and Peasants Rebel Army" of more than 1,100 people to support the Nanchang Uprising, and followed Mr. Zhu to Jinggang Mountain. After the establishment of the Red Fourth Army, Gong Chu and Mr. Zhu were listed as the "three-member group of the former committee of the Red Fourth Army", and even the letter to the former committee of the Red Fourth Army listed the three of them as "Zhu Mao Gong". During the Baise Uprising, Gong Chu successfully rebelled against Yu Zuobai and Li Mingrui, the first chairman of Guangxi Province, which made the Baise Uprising victorious and established the Red Seventh Army, the commander was Zhang Yunyi, and the political commissar was Gong Chu. In April 1934, the Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army was hospitalized due to illness, and Gong Chu was appointed Chief of the General Staff. In October of the same year, after the main force of the **Red Army began the Long March, Gong Chu stayed behind to assist Xiang Ying, ** and others in persisting in the struggle, and was appointed chief of staff of the ** Military Region. However, in those years, many people were wrongly criticized due to the left-leaning erroneous ideas of Wang Ming, Bogu and others, and Gong Chu was also branded as a "rightist" because of his dissenting opinions. This left him disappointed and lost.
After the failure of the fifth "anti-encirclement and suppression", the main force of the Red Army was forced to march on a long march. In May 1935, when he lost contact with ** due to heavy losses during the battle in southern Hunan, Gong Chu chose to defect and became the "commander of the Communist Guerrillas" and "the commander of the Guangdong-Hunan border area to suppress bandits" to assist the Kuomintang in dealing with the Red Army. Because Gong Chu was very familiar with the Red Army, the Kuomintang army launched a very effective encirclement and suppression of the Red Army guerrillas, and many Red Army officers and soldiers were unfortunately killed, and even leaders such as Xiang Ying and ** were almost captured. It can be seen that Gong Chu committed a lot of crimes against the Red Army!
In 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, Gong Chu fled to Hong Kong, where he lived for more than 40 years. In the late '80s, for the sake of the bigger picture, a proclamation was issued stating that the crimes committed by the Kuomintang in the past would no longer be held accountable, and that they would be welcome back and not guilty of the past. After seeing this announcement, Gong Chu felt homesick but didn't dare to go back. On September 13, 1990, Gong Chu returned to Lechang County, Guangdong Province and was welcomed by the local people.
However, Gong Chu still felt uneasy in his heart, and was afraid of being "settled after the autumn", so he asked someone to help hand over three letters, which were sent to *** Yang Shangkun and ** euphemistically expressed his idea of wanting to spend his old age in his hometown. **After seeing Gong Chu's letter, I was also full of emotion. The former comrade-in-arms is now 89 years old, his health has deteriorated seriously, and he is almost blind, but his longing is still the same. ** Knowing that he can't hold Gong Chu accountable, for the revolution, how to promote the early reunification of the country.
First, the key is to accomplish the great goal of national rejuvenation. Therefore, ** did not pursue Gong Chu's fault, and personally called him ** to greet his physical condition.
At that time, Gong Chu was 94 years old and died on July 24, 1995. The life experience of this "first rebel general of the Red Army" is full of twists and turns. During the revolutionary period, he fought ceaselessly, bravely and skillfully; However, in the later stage of the Anti-Japanese War and the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, he defected to the enemy and betrayed the revolution; He then fled overseas for more than 40 years; Eventually, he returned to his hometown to spend his old age. Although his life experience is full of many mistakes and mistakes, Gong Chu has always maintained his longing for the revolution, which also makes people think deeply: In the great process of national rejuvenation, how should we treat those who have betrayed the revolution and made mistakes? On this issue, ** once said: "Some things cannot be seen only in the present, but in the long run." We cannot put all the issues on a single piece of paper to judge, but we must do dialectical analysis. ”