At the beginning of 1984, a joint investigation team was set up to unravel a mystery that had been sealed for 40 years and find the whereabouts of Mao Chuxiong and three other victims.
The investigation team braved the difficulties and interviewed thousands of witnesses, held hundreds of meetings, and consulted thousands of files just to get a full understanding of the truth of the case. After unremitting efforts, with the support of the Zhen'an County Party Committee and the county ** in Shaanxi, they found clues about 3 male corpses in a lime kiln.
However, the identity of these three corpses has once again become a mystery. At this critical moment, everyone remembered General ** and decided to ask him for help.
In 1946, Chiang Kai-shek led 300,000 troops to attack the liberated areas. Immediately afterwards, the Central Plains troops successfully broke through the encirclement, and the Kuomintang missed the opportunity to encircle and suppress. In order to continue to contain the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek intended to once again carry out a policy of false peace and to send an invitation to peace talks to ** who had successfully broken through the encirclement.
*Accepted Chiang Kai-shek's application for peace talks and informed him**. After receiving the reply from **, he immediately sent Zhang Wenjin, Wu Zuyi, and Mao Chuxiong to Xi'an to negotiate with the Kuomintang.
Mao Chuxiong was the most special person in the delegation, he was only 19 years old and worked as a security guard. Zhang Wenjin and Wu Zuyi were the brigade commanders and directors of the Political Department of the Central Plains Army's cadre brigade.
* Mao Chuxiong was initially placed in the peace talks delegation in order to send him back to Yan'an as a security guard. He knew Mao Chuxiong's special background, his father was a martyr, his mother was a warrior, and his grandmother was also a revolutionary.
Although Mao Chuxiong's family was honorable, the revolution was always fraught with danger. Therefore, ** wants to take this opportunity to send Mao Chuxiong to ***. If Mao Chuxiong had an accident on the battlefield, how would he explain it to ***?
That's why ** did everything in his power to get Mao Chuxiong to a safe place.
After the delegation of Zhang Wenjin, Wu Zuyi, and Mao Chuxiong set off, everything became quiet. When asked about the whereabouts of the three KMT, the other party insisted that he had never met the peace talks delegation and spread rumors that it might be an excuse for the Red Army to gain leverage at the negotiating table.
As a result, the delegation disappeared and became an unsolved case before liberation. However, it is known that the three members of the delegation may have been detained or killed by the KMT.
*had requested ** for rescue, while *** and *** also strongly condemned the KMT, demanding a response to the missing three.
However, the results did not appear. A year before *** died, although he was seriously ill, he was still worried about it. The Chairman regarded it as a lifelong regret and, regrettably, he passed away before he could wait for the results.
Until 1984, in order to fulfill ***'s last wish, and in order to give an answer to these three martyrs who may have sacrificed for the country, ** began to investigate the matter again.
At this time, after learning of the incident, the 76-year-old ** said to the staff sadly: "I did not find out the truth back then, and I feel deeply guilty for this, not only to live up to the trust of the chairman, but also to live up to the expectations of these three comrades." Now you must find out the truth and give an explanation to the chairman. ”
After an in-depth investigation, the investigation team found the confessions provided by Yin Keming and Chen Youjun in the Zhen'an County anti-rebellion files. The two of them were sent by Hu Zongnan to deal with the New Fourth Army and were responsible for searching for the breakout personnel of the New Fourth Army.
Specifically, on the night of August 9, 1946, Yin Keming led Zhan Xianxiao and others to conduct a raid inspection. They found five outsiders with southern accents in their homes of villagers Zhang Jigui and Du Mingyue.
One of the men and one of the women claimed that they were husband and wife and had come here to find their son, while the other three men, although they did not know each other, had only met by chance on the road and traveled together.
Yin Keming was skeptical, he was convinced that these people were the New Fourth Army, and he adhered to the belief that "it is better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let go of one". On the 10th, he sent men to stop them at the mouth of the small ditch in Zhujiagou.
Several people were outnumbered, and soon all five of them were forcibly **. Two of them were pushed to the side of the road and hacked to death, and the other three were buried alive in a lime cellar. At that time, Yin Keming did not know the identities of these people, so it was difficult for the personnel of the investigation team to determine whether they were Mao Chuxiong and others.
After that, the investigation team began a comprehensive search of the surrounding area of one or two hundred miles. Sure enough, I got a shocking news in Zhujiagou.
In an ash kiln, the bones of three men were excavated, whose identities and reasons for burial are yet to be ascertained. The investigation team believes that the bones of these three bodies may have belonged to three martyrs, Zhang Wenjin, Wu Zuyi and Mao Chuxiong.
As a result, the investigation team launched a more detailed investigation, and finally locked down Chen Yongshou, who had dealt with the killing of sporadic breakouts of the Central Plains Army. Chen Yongshou was a battalion commander of the 45th Regiment of the 15th Brigade, and Sun Guang, a local farmer who came to the door and the deputy commander of the military sub-district, was an old acquaintance.
As soon as Sun Guang saw him, he said excitedly: "Chief, in the small ditch of Zhujiagou, I saw that a few people in the Kuomintang stopped four men and one woman and robbed them. ”
Sun Guang asked him if he could see their appearances clearly.
The villager recounted a cruel incident with heartache: the two of them resolutely resisted, and as a result, the other three were pushed into the lime kiln and buried alive. Before being buried, I heard them shouting "Long live the Communist Party", obviously your people, so they came to you.
Chen Yongshou brought the men to justice that night and obtained some property from them, but he did not know their identities. After an in-depth investigation, the investigators found ** and confirmed the situation.
Under the confirmation of **, the investigation team found clues in a pile of white bones at the entrance of Dongjiang Town, Ningshan County.
They organized a meeting to which old men who had served in the Kuomintang were invited to begin a detailed investigation and evidence collection. At the meeting, Deng Yaojun's remarks attracted attention, revealing that he had contact with Tang Jinyu, who killed one of the three members of the peace talks delegation.
Tang Jinyu told him that he was ordered by Han Qingya to bury several ** peace talks representatives alive with Shi Xingyi, the local township mayor, on the river beach behind the Chenghuang Temple. In addition, Shi Youcheng also confirmed this account, saying that of the four people who came from the direction of Heping, three were wearing gray cloth military uniforms and claimed to be representatives of the Communist Party in peace talks, and one was wearing civilian clothes and was a guide invited by the Communist Party.
After checking, the information provided by Shi Youcheng is consistent with Deng Yaojun.
The truth of the case gradually surfaced, and a verdict found by the investigation team in the Southwest Military Justice Department revealed that the criminal Han Qingya had participated in the killing of Zhang Wenjin, Wu Zuyi, and Mao Chuxiong, the representatives sent to the Xi'an peace talks, in Ningshan County.
Here's what happened: The Kuomintang troops stationed at the entrance of Dongjiang Town found 3 representatives of the Eighth Route Army, and one of the company commanders left them for interrogation, and learned that they were sent by ** to negotiate, and immediately reported to their superiors, and finally reported to Hu Zongnan layer by layer.
Hu Zongnan, after learning that Chiang Kai-shek did not want the Red Army to appear at the peace talks, ordered the removal of these representatives.
After receiving the order, the ** regiment commander brutally executed several people. For various reasons, for 40 years, the truth of this ** has not been revealed, and the bones have not been found, and it has become an unsolved mystery.
However, now the truth has finally been revealed. When Mao Chuxiong's mother learned the news, she was grief-stricken, and then wrote "Xiong'er, Mom Misses You" deeply.
From this title, we can feel the pain in the heart of this mother. Fortunately, the truth has been revealed, and everyone has an explanation.