In 1951, Ye Jianying was sorting out the work information in his office, when suddenly, the phone next to him rang, this phone was a special phone, mainly to communicate directly with some big people.
Picking up the phone, I heard the voice of a rough man on the other end: Ye Shuai, in the Guangdong land reform, there was a Kuomintang major general who was arrested, interrogated by the local government, and now he is about to be executed.
Ye Shuai was very surprised to hear about this incident, and quickly hung up the phone in his hand, and then sent a telegram to the relevant departments in Guangdong: Leave someone under the knife, this person is a hero, and quickly release him.
Fortunately, Ye Shuai's telegram was sent in time, and the local government in Guangdong immediately stopped the trial of this person after receiving the telegram, and then began to investigate.
Why would a Kuomintang man make the Founding Marshal pay so much attention? And why is it called a hero? This has to be confused by the government.
As the investigation progressed, the staff of the Guangdong government finally discovered the problem, and the matter was later made public, and when the people learned that the person who was about to be executed had finally become a hero and was released, they all looked in disbelief.
So, who is this Kuomintang major general? What exactly did the Guangdong government staff investigate? All of this must start from that year.
The kuomintang major general named Mo Xiong, who was about to be sentenced, was born in 1891, and because his family was poor, his grandfather had to leave his hometown and move to Huanhu to find a way to make a living under the old society.
With the passage of time, Mo Xiong grew up a little, and when he was 9 years old, he entered a private school, but after three years of study, he finally chose to go outside to work as an apprentice for others because of family reasons.
At that time, the propagandists of the revolution and the anti-Qing Dynasty were carrying out propaganda everywhere, and Mo Xiong would sometimes use his spare time to listen to these revolutionary declarations, and over time, he gradually began to yearn for the revolution.
Since he had an idea, he must have decided, and after saying goodbye to his family, he left his hometown, which had supported him for more than ten years, and embarked on the road of finding revolution.
Later, when he was 16 years old, he joined the Chinese League, and as soon as he entered the association, he received an important task, to lurk in the new army and wait for the opportunity to plot a rebellion.
Therefore, mo xiong joined the Guangdong New Army at the age of 18 and became a soldier, and in the army, he actively carried out counter-insurgency work, preparing for the uprising of the revolutionary party at any time and anywhere.
After the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, Guangdong established a military government and became the Northern Expeditionary Army, Mo Xiong also joined the army, he experienced large and small battles, and fought heroically, so he was very concerned by the superior leaders, after the end of the war, he served as a company commander.
Later, after following Sun Yat-sen, he became a battalion commander for his outstanding performance, and he had been in the Kuomintang for a long time, so the soldiers in the army called him "Big Brother Mo".
After Chen Jiongming rebelled, Sun Yat-sen was forced to come to Shanghai, and Mo Xiong naturally received news of this matter, knowing Sun Yat-sen's current difficulties, he expressed his loyalty and joined others in the crusade against Chen Jiongming.
This incident made Sun Yat-sen lose trust in the warlords, and after thinking about it, he decided that it was necessary to unite with the Communist Party to carry out the revolution, and as a major general in the hands of Sun Yat-sen, Mo Xiong naturally strongly supported it, and for this reason, he became friends with many party members of our party, because in his eyes, as long as it was for China, everyone was his own, and it was Sun Yat-sen's decision that the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation began.
I thought that the two parties would get better and better in the future, but what I did not expect was that under such a good situation, Sun Yat-sen died of illness, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party slowly moved towards a split, old Chiang Kai-shek and others betrayed Sun Yat-sen's ruins, slaughtered our party personnel everywhere, and Mo Xiong, a general of the Nationalist army, was also suppressed, and his status was even worse than before.
In the face of the current situation, Mo Xiong was very depressed in his heart, for Chiang Kai-shek, he was naturally unwilling to follow, and he also violated Sun Yat-sen's last wishes, but now he was already a member of the Kuomintang, even if he wanted to revolt, he did not have too many troops in his hands, just as he was walking on the streets doing nothing, an underground party organization of our party lurking in Shanghai found him.
After the two people learned about the potential of both sides, Mo Xiong was very impressed with these revolutionaries who insisted on fighting in the dark, and the two people talked from morning to afternoon, until finally, he had an idea in his mind: everyone is to save the country, no matter what party.
So he immediately found Liu Dumb Buddha, a party member, and proposed that he wanted to quit the Kuomintang, join our party organization, and participate in the anti-Chiang Kai-shek action together.
Naturally, our Party fully accepted this matter, but after some discussion, the leaders felt that a senior general of the Nationalist army like Mo Xiong might be able to play a key role if he was willing to lurk inside the enemy.
This instruction was readily agreed to by Mo Xiong, and he also said that as long as the revolution was successful, even if he repaid the country with his death, it would not be too much, and from then on, Mo Xiong became an underground worker of our party.
Later, old Chiang Kai-shek besieged and suppressed our army repeatedly, and he urgently needed a senior general to lead the troops, so he remembered General Mo Xiong.
After knowing this news, Mo Xiong was naturally happy in his heart, because it was right in his heart, and if Chiang Kai-shek sent him to encircle and suppress our army, it would be more convenient for him to pass on intelligence.
He took advantage of this opportunity to maneuver between the two parties, ostensibly beating the fighters of our Party to the ground, but in fact, he only hit a hand of "smoke bombs", in fact he was only helping the fighters of our Party to evacuate together.
Later, when Chiang Kai-shek saw that he was so scheming, he rewarded him with many good things, and these good things eventually went into the hands of our party, and Chiang Kai-shek did not know this matter, he only saw Mo Xiong win successive victories, and even happily promoted him on the spot.
But after all, the previous several encirclement and suppression have ended in failure, although Mo Xiong was able to carry out a small range of "victories" in some areas, but these will not let Chiang Kai-shek stop, so in 1934, Chiang Kai-shek held a meeting to prepare to gather 1.5 million troops, 200 cannons, 270 aircraft, to carry out the "iron barrel plan" against our army.
When Mo Xiong heard about Chiang Kai-shek's plan, he was shocked in his heart; if this plan was successfully implemented, then our party would certainly be completely destroyed.
At the end of the meeting, Mo Xiong immediately called Out to Xiang Younian and informed him of the information in his hand, and the two men sorted out this information, hid it in a dictionary, and escaped from the city by the morning light and went straight to the base area of our army.
Xiang and Nian disguised themselves out of the city, while Mo Xiong continued to monitor the enemy's movements in the enemy camp, fortunately, there was no problem in this operation, and Xiang and Nian sent the information to Premier Zhou before Chiang Kai-shek's action.
After receiving the information, our army immediately opened a meeting, formulated a transfer plan, and the twenty-five thousand mile long march began. Without this information, history would have been rewritten, so his exploits would naturally be indelible.
When Chiang Kai-shek knew that our army had fled, his mood was naturally very bad, but he did not suspect Mo Xiong's body, mainly because Mo Xiong was better disguised, and later Mo Xiong continued to "pursue" our army in accordance with Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, but in fact it was to save our army and be able to smoothly march.
For such a long time, Mo Xiong's identity was naturally suspected, and the Kuomintang agents even wanted to plan his assassination, but he quickly received this news, fearing that his identity would be exposed, so he absconded to Hong Kong, waiting for the opportunity to return to the mainland.
Although since then he has disappeared from the mainland like a human evaporation, the comrades who have worked with him have not forgotten his existence.
After the founding of New China, the chairman also specially sought out Marshal Ye Jianying, hoping that he could take Mo Xiong back and arrange some new work; after Ye Shuai received the order, he sent people around to look for him and tried to arrange for him to work in the Guangzhou government, but for the sake of his life and safety, he hid his true identity and only called him an "uprising general" on the surface.
However, what no one expected was that this directly misunderstanding was all big, and in 1951, when Mo Xiong's hometown was carrying out land reform, the local residents did not know his true identity, so they reported that he had been a Kuomintang, and then the land reform organization reported the matter to the provincial party committee, asking Mo Xiong to be sent back for criticism.
Just under this life line, Ye Shuai's phone called, and it was precisely because of this that Mo Xiong's life was preserved, and in 1980, Mo Xiong died of illness at the age of 89.