In the winter of 1933, the founding general Ye Fei disguised himself and agreed to connect with a comrade at the Lion's Head Hotel in Fu'an, Mindong.
After Ye Fei came to the Lion's Head Hotel, the comrades of the joint had not yet arrived, so the store took him upstairs to eat.
Just when Ye Fei was eating, the stairs were knocking, and he thought it was the comrade who was coming, but when he turned around, he saw that there were 3 people who didn't know him at all. When these three people saw Ye Fei, they immediately rushed over, and Ye Fei didn't have time to pull out his gun, so he was pressed on the table.
Two of the three held Ye Fei down, and one of them shot Ye Fei in the head with a gun, and Ye Fei immediately slid off the table and fell heavily on the floor.
The three of them fumbled around with Ye Fei for a long time, took away his pistol and notebook, and then hurriedly ran downstairs.
Ye Fei heard the sound of them going downstairs in a daze, so he raised his head and took a look, who knew that this group of people was very cautious, and specially left one person at the top of the stairs to check whether Ye Fei was dead.
Seeing Ye Fei raise his head, the man shouted repeatedly: "Not dead yet, not dead yet!" ”
After speaking, he walked over again and fired three shots at Ye Fei, one shot hit the head again, and the other two shots hit the arm and chest.
According to Ye Fei's recollection, after receiving these three shots, he still maintained consciousness, but he learned his lesson and did not move again until he heard that the person who shot was called away by his companion, and there was no sound around him, so he looked up and looked around.
At this time, Ye Fei was already immersed in a pool of his own blood, and due to excessive blood loss, he no longer had the strength to stand up, but he crawled little by little with his last breath, and actually climbed down from the second floor, dragging a long bloody path on the ground of the hotel.
Ye Fei recalled in his later years: At that time, the strength in his body was very small, and if he fell from the upper floor, he had to lose his breath on the spot.
When he climbed downstairs, the owner, buddies and customers of the Lion's Head Hotel had already run away in fright, Ye Fei continued to crawl forward, crawled out of the store, and climbed until he crawled to the small ditch of a mill outside the store. At this time, he had no strength left, and finally passed out.
When Ye Fei woke up, he found himself lying on a bed, with comrades around him taking care of him. Ye Fei later learned that after he passed out outside the Lion's Head Hotel at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the comrades of the party branch of Lion's Head Village quickly knew about the situation, but there were people on that road, and they didn't dare to rescue them as soon as possible. It wasn't until 4 o'clock in the afternoon that they took advantage of the fact that there were fewer pedestrians, carried Ye Fei into the village, and asked the doctor in the town to give him **.
At that time, Ye Fei had been in a coma for more than 2 hours, and the clothes on his body were stuck with coagulated blood, and he couldn't take them off at all. However, due to the poor medical conditions, the doctor did not dare to touch the wounds on his head and chest, so he could only temporarily apply a little medicine and simply bandage it.
The person who took care of Ye Fei told him that he had been in a coma for 10 hours, and that he could wake up after such a serious injury.
The three people who assassinated Ye Fei were the Kuomintang special forces in nearby Fu'an County, and at that time, our party's strength in the lion's head area was relatively strong, and they couldn't do anything head-on, so they assassinated our comrades everywhere.
After the Lion's Head Hotel was successful, the three spies returned to Fu'an County and handed over the pistols and notebooks they had collected to their superiors. The boss saw that the person who was stabbed this time turned out to be the famous "Mindong Xiaoye"! He immediately sent these three people back to the hotel and asked them to cut off Ye Fei's head and bring it back.
Fortunately, Ye Fei was rescued by the comrades of the party branch at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and these three spies came and went, and returned to the hotel at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, when Ye Fei was long gone.
The next day, the Kuomintang sent troops to block the intersections of several nearby villages and searched houses for a week. The comrades of Lion's Head Village did an excellent job of keeping secrets, and they were stunned that they did not let them find out the slightest information. In this way, the enemy finally reluctantly withdrew.
In order to safely send Ye Fei back to the guerrillas in the mountains, the comrades of Lion's Head Village took great pains. They dressed Ye Fei as a woman who went back to her parents' house to visit relatives, and dressed him in women's clothes and three-inch golden lotus shoes, and put them in a sedan chair. In accordance with the custom of local women returning to their parents' homes, a small child was arranged outside the sedan chair to go on the road together.
In this way, as if making a movie, Ye Fei returned to the guerrillas safely. The comrades of the guerrillas shed tears of sadness when they saw that Ye Fei was so seriously injured. The comrades of the county party committee invited Ye Fei to a doctor again, and the bullet left in his head was taken out.
General Ye Fei recalled in his later years that the bullet was fired from the side of his left ear, then passed through his face, and remained under the skin of the right side of his face, so it was relatively easy to take out. "If this bullet goes up and goes through my brain, it's going to stiffen and burst, and I won't survive. ”
As for the bullet in the chest, because it was difficult to take out, it was accompanied until General Ye Fei died and was cremated.
The most amazing thing is that Ye Fei said that he had only been recuperating on the mountain for more than a month, and his injuries were almost healed, so he threw himself into a new battle. This year, Ye Fei was only 19 years old.
How did 19-year-old Ye Fei become the famous "Mindong Xiaoye"? The story is even more legendary.
Ye Fei was born in 1914 in Luzon, Philippines, his father was a poor farmer in Nan'an, Fujian Province, because the countryside went bankrupt and had no livelihood, so he went to Nanyang with the countryside to do hard labor early and married a wife there. By the time Ye Fei was born, after several years of struggle, the Ye family was already a well-off family.
Ye Fei's father told him since he was a child: "Don't forget your hometown, don't forget your motherland." Overseas Chinese are bullied overseas because the country is too weak, so you have to fight for yourself. ”
When he was 5 years old, Ye Fei returned to China with his father and brother to study, and when he grew up, he was successfully admitted to Xiamen Zhongshan Middle School. This was a leftist school, where Ye Fei came into contact with the ideas of the New Culture Movement and Marxism-Leninism, and became a revolutionary youth. In 1928, at the age of 14, Ye Fei joined the Xiamen Communist Youth League at the low ebb of the revolution and served as the secretary of the Youth League branch, responsible for developing students in schools and uniting progressive youth.
On the occasion of graduation, the secretary of the Communist Youth League Municipal Committee in Xiamen told him that in view of his performance at work and personal qualities, the organization intended to focus on training him. However, this requires Ye Fei to leave his family, school, give up his studies, and go completely underground. The enthusiastic Ye Fei decisively gave up the graduation exam, and wrote to his family that he was going to study in Japan and raised his own tuition, using this as an excuse, Ye Fei cut off the relationship with his family and became a "complete revolutionary" from then on.
In his later years, Ye Fei believed that his behavior of cutting off all social relations was naïve, and it was the "three separations" (separation from school, family, and society), and the result was often detachment from the masses and not enough for future generations to follow.
In any case, 14-year-old Xiao Ye Fei has since become a professional revolutionary, he was arranged to enter the training class training, after the training he was appointed secretary of the Xiamen District Party Committee, 1 year later the Xiamen Municipal Party Committee was reorganized into the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, 15-year-old Ye Fei was elected as the Propaganda Minister of the Provincial Youth League Committee, it can really be described as a young hero, and the future is terrifying.
In 1930, our party organized a prison robbery incident to rescue comrades in Xiamen, and after the incident, the Kuomintang became angry and intensified the investigation, and Ye Fei was unfortunate. However, due to the fact that several people in ** had already made confessions and only admitted that they had come to Xiamen to study, the Kuomintang had no choice but to sentence Ye Fei and others to one year in prison.
Soon after he was released from prison, due to the attack on the party organization in Fujian, Ye Fei was sent to Mindong to lead the work, and thus began his guerrilla years in Mindong, and it was during this time that Ye Fei's name in Mindong was launched.
Under the leadership of Ye Fei and others, the Mindong Party organization successively created 7 revolutionary armed forces, created the Mindong Base Area and the Mindong Soviet power, established the Mindong Special Committee, and formed the Mindong Independent Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. During this period, Ye Fei served as the secretary of the Mindong Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, the chairman of the Mindong Military and Political Committee, and the political commissar of the Mindong Independent Division of the Red Army.
On the eve of the Long March in 1934, Xun Huaizhou, Su Yu, Liu Ying and others led the Red 7th Army Corps to leave the ** Soviet area in order to mobilize the enemy, create a new base area, and create opportunities for the Red Army's main force to take the Long March. After the Red 7th Army came to Mindong, Ye Fei warmly entertained them, recruiting more than 1,000 soldiers for them, as well as 30,000 oceans. It can be seen how successful Ye Fei's business in Mindong is. At this time, Ye Fei had just turned 20 years old.
Ye Fei once suggested that the Red 7th Army should stay in eastern Fujian for development, where there is plenty of salt and grain, abundant soldiers, and good development, but unfortunately this suggestion was not adopted. The Red 7th Regiment hurriedly went north, and even the more than 1,000 newly recruited soldiers did not have time to take it with them. Later, the Red 7th Army Corps and Fang Zhimin's troops joined forces to form the Red 10th Army Corps, and in the winter of 1934, the Red 10th Army suffered a painful defeat in southern Anhui, and Fang Zhimin was captured and died.
When the Red 7th Army Corps left, it left more than 100 wounded in Mindong, including many regimental, battalion, company, and platoon cadres, which was undoubtedly a huge wealth for Mindong, which lacked cadres for a long time, and provided great help for the development of the Mindong Independent Division later.
Later, the extremely prosperous Mindong base area was encircled and suppressed by the first, and the Mindong Independent Division suffered heavy losses, but it still fought tenaciously. At the same time, after the defeat of the Red Tenth Army, Su Yu and Liu Ying led the remnants to form the "Red Army Advance Division", entered the southwest of Zhejiang, and established the southwest Zhejiang base area with the eastern Fujian base area as a horn.
It's a pity that because of Liu Ying's wrong policy, the plan of the two sides to form the provisional provincial party committee of Fujian and Zhejiang ended up unsuccessful, but there was infighting, and Ye Fei almost died because of this, which is the so-called "Nanyang Incident".
After the Nanyang incident, the comrades in the Mindong base area heard that Xiaoye was arrested, and angrily offered to take the troops to settle accounts with the comrades in southern Zhejiang.
After that, the troops in eastern Fujian and southern Zhejiang fought separately and did not communicate with each other for a long time. It was not until after the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that the Nanjing Office of the Eighth Route Army sent Zhang Yunyi (the founding general) to Fuzhou, found the Mindong troops, and let them participate in the reorganization of the guerrillas in the eight southern provinces.
After Ye Fei led the department to accept the adaptation, he met Chen Yi, the Fujian chairman of the Kuomintang, in Fuzhou, Chen Yi has been troubled by Ye Fei for many years, and this meeting, seeing that Ye Fei is just a doll in his early 20s, he asked in disbelief: "You are Ye Fei?" You're a scholar! ”
Just by looking at Ye Fei's legendary experiences in the Red Army, we can know why he was later ranked as the founding general.
At the end of May 1949, the Battle of Shanghai ended successfully, Ye Fei was already the commander of the 10th Corps of Sanye at this time, he was ordered to lead the 10th Corps into Fujian, after more than 20 years, Ye Fei returned to Fujian, which was really full of emotion.
There are some articles that say: After Ye Fei entered Fujian, before the Battle of Kinmen, he did not concentrate on the battle on the front line, and was busy taking his mother to his side in the rear, which is not true. According to Ye Fei's recollection, he took his mother to his side in September 49, when the 10th Corps was engaged in the battles of Xiamen and Ganzhou, and the battles did not end until October 17, while the Battle of Kinmen began on October 24. In other words, picking up his mother did not affect Ye Fei's command of the battle.
The reason why Ye Fei took his mother to him was very simple, first, because the Chinese have always worshiped filial piety, and second, because Ye Fei cut off ties with his family at the age of 14 in order to participate in the revolution, and he often felt indebted in his heart.
In fact, the mother that Ye Fei picked up was not his biological mother, but his father's original partner in his hometown. After Ye Fei returned to China at the age of 5, he was raised by this adoptive mother, who regarded him as her own and favored him very much.
According to Ye Fei's recollection: "In 1949, I led a large army south to liberate Fujian, my mother was a housewife, I didn't pay attention, Ye didn't know that Ye Fei, the head of the People's Liberation Army, was his son. In September 1949, when our army marched to Quanzhou, I brought my mother. After meeting, I told her that the old man was Qiheng and Ye Fei was me, and she was pleasantly surprised. Later, she went to Fuzhou to live with me. My mother's old age finally enjoyed a few years of happiness. ”
I haven't seen each other for decades, and it's completely understandable to bring my mother to live with me.
After Ye Fei separated from his biological mother at the age of 5, he never met again. His father died of illness at the beginning of the war, and his mother had been running a small shop to make a living. In the early 50s, one of Ye Fei's younger sisters wrote to her that her family had a lot of debts and had no way out, and hoped that Ye Fei could lend him a sum of money.
At that time, Ye Fei was already the secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, the governor, and the commander of the Fujian Military Region, but he really couldn't come up with money to fund her. He wrote back to his sister and told him that he had no money, but that he could take her, his mother, and his younger siblings back to China, and that he would take care of them, but he never heard back after replying. They live overseas, and they probably can't understand why Ye Fei has become such a big official, but he can't come up with the money to help them.
In 1965, Ye Fei's biological mother died of illness in the Philippines, she was an upright person and was very respected in the local area, and more than 100 people buried her, but she finally failed to meet her son.
It wasn't until the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Philippines in 1975 that Ye Fei met his younger brothers, who were already elderly at that time.