Chapter 56 An unfinished nursery rhyme, Li Mingrui said to the shooter: Brother, hit me in the face, don't shake your hands

One day at noon in early October, Li Mingrui, who was teaching the troops the tactics of attacking fortified areas, was suddenly summoned by the Anti-Rebellion Committee of the Front Army. The cadres and soldiers who were doing tactical training were suddenly stunned: What's going on? Upon hearing the news, Zhang Yunyi immediately chased after him, and sternly asked one of the escort officers: "Why did you take Commander Li away? Whose order is this?" The cadre said, "This is an order from the Central Bureau and the Cheka." Zhang Yunyi asked: "What is the reason?"

The cadre said: "We don't know, we only know how to carry out orders!" Zhang Yunyi said: "Arbitrarily arresting people without proof, then don't blame my subordinates for being ruthless!" He raised his hand and swung it down, like a command flag passed down.In an instant, the officers and soldiers who were conducting tactical training quickly surrounded them. The cadre was not frightened, and took out an arrest warrant from his pocket with the stamp of the Red Front Army Elimination Committee stamped on it. Zhang Yunyi couldn't help being dumbfounded: This is an arrest warrant issued by Li Shaojiu, chairman of the Anti-Revolutionary Committee of the Front Army and secretary-general of the General Political Department.When he saw the words "suspected criminal of the AB regiment", his vision went dark, and there was a thunder in his mind: ah!is this real?

The cadre showed the arrest warrant in front of Zhang Yunyi for a few seconds, and immediately took it back. Li Mingrui turned around, nodded deeply to Zhang Yunyi, smiled and said: "Brother Sheng, don't worry, I don't think anything will happen, I will be back soon." But he was wrong.When he left, he lost his freedom.In fact, as early as the spring of 1930, according to the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to eliminate landlords, rich peasants, and members of the "AB regiment" who had mixed into the revolutionary ranks, the struggle to eliminate counter-revolutionaries had begun in various revolutionary bases.Although some hidden reactionaries were eliminated, the movement expanded more and more seriously, making everyone feel insecure and panicked, and mistakenly killed a large number of party, government and military cadres who were mistaken for members of the "AB regiment".

The so-called "AB regiment" was a pro-KMT right-wing organization established in Nanchang after the Northern Expedition Army captured Nanchang in the winter of 1926. Chiang Kai-shek instructed Chen Guofu to instruct Duan Xipeng, Cheng Tianfang and others to establish in Nanchang. The word "AB" stands for "anti-Bolshevik" abbreviation.At that time, during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the "AB Group" was an insignificant small organization. Under the attack of the Communist Party, it soon disappeared.However, the Kuomintang spread rumors that it was an "underground organization that had infiltrated the ranks of the Communist Party," and that some Red Army generals and cadres in the Soviet government "were its secret members."However, a series of subjective inferences and groundless suspicions within the Communist Party believe that the "AB regiment" is a spy organization for the Kuomintang to break into the Communist Party, and must be dealt with severely.

On December 7, 1930, the General Front Committee of the Red Front Army, based on false confessions made by some people, sent Li Shaojiu, Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Committee of the Front Army and Secretary-General of the General Political Department, to bring a company to Tomita, the headquarters of the Red 20th Army. The work of purging the "AB regiment" arrested Duan Liangbi, the Jiangxi Provincial Administrative Committee of the Communist Party of China, Li Baifang, Secretary-General, Xie Hanchang, Director of the Political Department of the 20th Red Army, Jin Wanbang, Minister of Military Affairs of the Soviet Government of Jiangxi Province, Zhou Mian, Minister of Finance, and Ma Ming, Secretary-General. Wait, and torture.

On December 11, Li Shaojiu and Liu Tiechao, commander of the 20th Red Army, recalled Liu Di, the political commissar of the 174th Regiment of the army, from the front and told Liu Di that he was accused of being a member of the "AB Regiment".Liu Di denied it and expressed his willingness to follow Li Shaojiu.Li Shaojiu sent Liu Di as the backbone back to the 20th Red Army to eliminate the "AB regiment" elements.Liu Di was very suspicious and dissatisfied with this approach and returned to the army. On the night of December 12, Liu Di led a battalion to Futian, surrounded the headquarters of the 20th Red Army, the Jiangxi Administrative Committee, and the provincial Soviet government. The firearms of the Guard Company of the Provincial Soviet Government were confiscated.While in custody, Li Shaojiu spent a lot of money to bribe the guards and took the opportunity to escape.

That night, Liu Di, Xie Hanchang, Duan Liangbi, Li Baifang and others held an emergency meeting and put forward the wrong slogan of "Down with Mao Zedong, support Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, and Huang Gonglue", and pulled the 20th Red Army to the Yongyang area west of the Ganjiang River. The leader of the General Front Committee of the Red Front Army. On December 15, Duan Liangbi, Li Baifang and others held a meeting in Yongyang, declared themselves the "legitimate" Jiangxi Provincial Administrative Committee, and described Mao Zedong's resistance to the "Lisan Line" and criticism of them as It is "consistently opposing the Central Committee" and "removing the rightist line of revolutionary struggle", and forging Mao Zedong's letter to Peng Dehuai, destroying the unity among the leaders of the General Front Committee of the Red Army, and attempting to split the Red Army.

——This is known as the "Tomita Incident" in history. In January 1931, after the establishment of the Central Bureau of the Soviet Area of ​​the Communist Party of China with Xiang Ying as acting secretary, on the one hand, it pointed out that launching the Tomita Incident was a serious mistake; Go to the east of the Ganjiang River to participate in the upcoming second battle against "encirclement and suppression".But just in April, after the delegation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China arrived in the Central Soviet Area, according to the "Resolution on the "Futian Incident" of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on March 28 of the same year, it wrongly believed that: "The Tomita Incident was a counter-revolutionary incident led by the 'AB Group' Riot." So a trial committee was set up to conduct a public trial and execute Liu Di, Xie Hanchang, Li Baifang and other incident leaders, and arrested and killed most of the cadres above the platoon of the 20th Red Army.Immediately afterwards, the anti-revolutionary movement was launched again in the Soviet area, killing many people who were mistaken for the "AB regiment" and "Social Democratic Party" (according to "Military History of the Red Front Army": this organization has never been established in China. In early 1931 At the meeting commemorating Liebknecht, Luxembourg, and Lenin in the Soviet Area in western Fujian, some soldiers heard the word "Social Democratic Party" from the speech of the chief, and mistakenly shouted slogans such as "Long Live the Social Democratic Party", thinking that in the Soviet Area There was a "Social Democratic Party" within the Red Army, and some people who shouted slogans were arrested immediately, killing many Red Army commanders and fighters who were mistaken for members of the "Social Democratic Party", resulting in extremely absurd and serious consequences), comrades, and even many innocent people.

— This is a disaster of its own accord!A so-called mutual killing of "enemies hidden in the party"! Li Mingrui, commander of the Seventh Red Army, naturally could not escape this catastrophe!The crimes charged against him are: "the deepest hidden leader of the reorganization faction", "the old warlord who broke into the Red Army", "the most dangerous 'AB regiment' criminal", etc., and the most deadly one is to accuse him of any crime. When he was in command of the Hexi General Headquarters, he colluded with elements of the "Tomita Counter-Revolutionary Riot".

The case is serious!Li Shaojiu, chairman of the Cheka Committee who escaped from the Tomita Incident, personally participated in the torture.This is an ancient temple on the edge of the capital.Sentinels with armed guns and live ammunition were deployed all around, and lookout posts were also set up condescendingly on several ancient cypress trees in the temple courtyard.People were escorted in from outside the temple gate by the escorts, and people were escorted out from the temple gate by the escorts; those who came in were tortured one by one, and those who were escorted out would have no chance of survival. In a Buddhist hall in the backyard of the ancient temple.The Bodhisattva sitting in the central altar in the hall has long been swept out. The pillars on both sides are hung with iron chains and rivets, and the pools of blood sprinkled on the ground have solidified. After Li Mingrui was escorted in, the escorts took off the mask. A black cloth over his face.His first impression here: hell on earth!

But before he could take another look, the executioner skillfully tied him to the pillar with iron chains. "Li Mingrui, are you convicted?" Li Shao, who was only 25 years old, opened his mouth and asked sharply. "What's wrong with me? Please explain it!" Li Mingrui also snapped. "The mouth is still hard, so slap the mouth first!" The instrument of torture for slapping the mouth is an iron spoon wrapped in wet cowhide. When the mouth is slapped, it makes a sound like a lion roaring and a tiger roaring, which sounds quite intimidating. !After only five or six slaps, the victim's ears were ringing, his cheeks were bruised, his gums were loose, and his nostrils were bleeding... "Are you recruiting or not?" "Bah! I didn't expect there to be a group of devils like you in the Communist Party and the Red Army! Devils!!" "Quickly write down his words, write them down, this is enough to prove that he is an out-and-out 'AB group' member!" The second criminal law begins: the knee is riveted.They tore open Li Mingrui's trousers, and pried his legs into a big splayed figure—until they pried to the point where they couldn't pry any more, and heard the creaking sound of tendons, bones and muscle fibers about to break!Then the rivets of different lengths and thicknesses were pulled out from the hall pillars, and nailed to his two kneecaps.Seeing the actions of the two executioners wielding a small hammer to nail their knees, they looked like two shoemakers—that's right, they were exactly the shoemakers Li Shaojiu specially recruited from among the soldiers. Li Mingrui felt as if his knees were being bitten wildly by several green bamboo snakes, rattlesnakes, seven step snakes, and cobras, pouring out their venom, and the compound snake venom immediately entered his chest from his thighs and spread throughout his body!His body twisted, shrank, and deformed in violent convulsive tremors, and rumbled in his head the sound of mountain collapses, magma eruptions, and hurricane tsunamis. . Li Mingrui gradually woke up from the coma.He gritted his teeth and struggled to stand up—his innocent character, his bravery, and his uprightness awakened him to stand up, and he didn't have the habit of kneeling or pretending to be dead!As soon as he pressed his knee, the severe pain caused him to fall down like a wooden stake. "I think you should recruit, so as not to suffer even more." Li Shaojiu used a tooth pick to pick between his teeth, as if he had just finished a feast.The voice seemed to come out from between the teeth. "I, Li Mingrui, a dignified man, never engage in despicable and nasty things! Not for the sky, not for the earth, but for the mountains and rivers to testify: I am innocent and have nothing to confess! Hahahaha" From anger to resentment, he was huge His anger had made him numb, forgetting the pain.His bloodshot eyes stared straight at the cold, empty, and dark shrine, as if he saw a reclining Buddha smiling at him while stroking his round belly, and he laughed out loud. "What are you laughing at?" Li Shaojiu was taken aback. "I laugh at the past and at the present, at the east and west, at the south and north, laughing here and there, laughing at my ignorance; I observe things, the sky and the earth, the sun and the moon, the up and down, There are always highs and lows when looking at others. Hahahaha" Li Mingrui lay down on the floor thick with blood, quite in the shape and charm of Maitreya Laughing Buddha. "Listen, how insane he is! How can he still see the Communist Party and the Red Army in his eyes! Write it down, this is another crime!" Execution begins again... Li Mingrui was beaten to death again and again, and woke up again and again.He finally said, "Bring a pen and paper." It looked like he was going to confess.Li Shaojiu asked someone to bring the pen and paper rather proudly.Li Mingrui grabbed the brush, dipped it in thick ink, prostrated himself on the ground, and wrote down his "confession" -- this recording of Xin Jiaxuan's "Yong Yu Le" with the character "Xin" as the confession of the prison: scorching sun and autumn frost, loyalty to the liver Righteous courage, a thousand years of genealogy.What year was the surname, carefully refer to the word Xin, listen to it with a smile.Hard work, bitter taste, always bitter and hard.What's more, it can be vomited to people with spicy, pepper and cinnamon.There should be something in the world, fragrant and sweet, not coming to my door.Compared with Ercao, there are many, but there are Jinyinguangchui group.Fu Jun's matter, from now on, don't recall the wind and rain on the bed.But to win, the boot pattern crepe noodles, remember the jokes. After Li Mingrui finished writing such a "confession", he threw the brush heavily into the ink cartridge, struggled to sit up, and cast his gaze outside the house, with a lingering feeling in his gaze, which seemed to show a kind of carefree calm.He smiled faintly, turned his head and said to Li Shaojiu: "Hurry up and send me—go—" Li Shaojiu grabbed the "confession" and read it. After reading it, she was extremely disappointed, and seemed to understand something: "hardship", "sorrow", "bitterness", "hard work", and "spicy" are five words in a row. The character "Xin" in opera has turned everything into the word "Xin".what!How sad, how sad, how vicious, how crazy! He shook his head, picked up a pen and drew a circle on the "confession", then waved his hand slightly to the executioner and said, "Send him away." To the east of Xiaomi Village outside Yudu City is a barren rocky beach, and the Yudu River winds around the beach and flows to the southeast. Li Mingrui stood on the rocky beach, looking into the distance along the river.It was already dawn, the morning light was faint, and a few bright rays of dawn appeared in the clouds accumulated in the east.But the sky was gloomy and foggy, and the scenery in front of him seemed hazy and confused, and he couldn't see anything clearly.But he seems to have seen that piece of red land, where clumps of green bamboos and lychee gardens are luxuriantly growing. Oh, this season is the season for cutting bamboo and picking lychees—that’s his Hometown Beiliu Town.The soldiers and horses are hustling, fighting south and north, thinking about it, it has been several years since I have not returned to my hometown to take a look. He thought sadly of his miserable childhood.My father passed away due to illness, and my mother worked hard to support him to read and write. However, the family was poor and it was difficult to make ends meet. Thanks to my cousin Yu Zuobai's support, he was sent to the Shaozhou Military Academy of the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall. professional soldier. His chapped lips suddenly moved convulsively, making a hoarse murmur intermittently. Ah, how kind, how innocent, and how nostalgic and yearning-it is a nursery rhyme from childhood: Round the circle, litchi garden, my mother told me to watch the dragon boat; Dan to sell; sell for how much money?Sell ​​it for two hundred dollars; buy meat at fifty, and clothes at fifty; one hundred niangs will keep it until the new year, and one hundred niang will keep it until the new year. "Ba--" A gunshot shattered the silence of dawn.A group of tits suddenly flew away.The humming of nursery rhymes suddenly stopped.Li Mingrui tilted his body, dizzy, shook a few times and then stood up, turned around and said to the shooter: "Brother, hit me in the face, don't shake your hands!" "Ba ba ba --" a platoon of guns yelled violently! The gunmen were stunned: this hero stood resolutely, with majestic tiger eyes, and red streams flowing on his chest.About three or four seconds later, the bruised body quickly tilted and fell down like all the stone walls that snapped. In this way, this illustrious general during the Northern Expedition, this "Guan Yunchang" who refused Chiang Kai-shek's promise of a high-ranking official and generous salary, This courageous, resourceful and well-directed commander-in-chief who made indelible feats for the Seventh and Eighth Red Army was thus falsely accused of being framed and fell under the gunpoint of the Red Army's purge of counter-revolutionaries. At the age of thirty five years old. In 1945, at the Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee publicly rehabilitated Li Mingrui, restored his reputation, and ratified him as a revolutionary martyr. After Li Mingrui was killed, the matter did not end. The Anti-Rebellion Committee continued to arrest Li Mingrui's "fellow party" in the Seventh Red Army: Xu Jin, Director of the Political Department of the Seventh Red Army, Yu Hui, Wei Bogang, the former secretary-general of the Political Department of the Seventh Red Army, and other responsible comrades, as well as a large number of regiments, battalions, and companies The cadres, platoon cadres, and soldiers were all labeled as "reorganization factions" and "AB regiments" and died unjustly.Lei Jingtian, the former Secretary of the Guangxi Special Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of the Right Jiangsu Weiye Government, was not killed under the protection of Mao Zedong, but was expelled from the party for the second time.Thousands of people were arrested throughout the Soviet area, and many were brutally killed. At the beginning of January 1932, Zhou Enlai, who arrived in the Central Soviet Area as Secretary of the Central Bureau, presided over a meeting, summed up the experience and lessons of the anti-revolutionary work in the Soviet area, and made the "Resolution on the Elimination of Counter-revolutionaries in the Soviet Area". After affirming the necessity of the anti-revolutionary work, He pointed out: "Because of the incorrect understanding of the 'AB regiment' and all counter-revolutionaries in the past, the 'AB regiment' was enlarged, thinking that all the remnants of landlords and rich peasants could be treated as the 'AB regiment', and that all elements from different classes The department may be the 'AB group', linking the executors of the party's wrong line and the party members who made mistakes with the issue of the 'AB group', and even developed to the point where even the workers and peasants cannot be trusted"; "Only based on the confessions of prisoners, Relying on corporal punishment has led to the elimination of counter-revolutionary idealism, and even hard work has become a trick." The resolution severely criticizes and stops the Red Front Army’s serious mistakes of expanding and simplifying the anti-revolutionary work.At the same time, it pointed out that the "Tomita Incident" was not led by the "AB regiment", nor was it a counter-revolutionary riot.The leaders of the incident had no connection with the counter-revolutionary organization.The so-called "AB regiment" did not exist at that time.The struggle to eradicate the "AB Group" is the product of the expansion of the eradication of counter-revolutionaries and forced confessions, resulting in many unjust, false, and wrong cases.However, the leaders of the "Futian Incident" led troops to surround the Jiangxi Provincial Administrative Committee and the provincial Soviet government organs, publicly put forward the wrong slogan of splitting the leadership of the General Front Committee of the Red Army, and at the critical moment when the enemy concentrated its forces on the Soviet Regardless of the overall situation, they pulled the 20th Red Army from the fortified area to the area west of the Ganjiang River, announced the establishment of an illegal Jiangxi Provincial Administrative Committee, etc., creating chaos and damaging the revolution. This is absolutely not allowed by the discipline of the Red Army. What needs to be mentioned is Li Shaojiu.He was dismissed from his position as chairman of the Anti-Correction Committee and was placed on probation within the Party.Mao Zedong severely reprimanded Li Shaojiu and others at that time: If you tell you to catch more thoughts, you will remove their heads!The Anti-Rebellion Committee has become the Temple of Hell, unjustly killing one's own comrades, which can only make the relatives and enemies happy! Li Shaojiu, who was punished, expressed remorse.Later, he served as the director of the Jiangxi Provincial Political Security Bureau, the secretary-general of the General Political Department of the Red Army, and the (long) Tingrui (gold) garrison commander. He stayed in the Central Soviet Area during the Long March of the Central Red Army in October 1934. In 1935, he was wrongly killed in western Fujian.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was chased as a revolutionary martyr. During the later rectification movement in Yan'an, Mao Zedong talked about the issue of the Red Army's elimination of counterrevolutionaries and said: The elimination of counterrevolutionaries has taken a very painful path, and counter-revolutionaries should be opposed. When the party was immature, it took a detour on this issue and made mistakes.This is a profound historical lesson. Therefore, Mao Zedong proposed to the rectification movement: one should not be killed, and most should not be arrested.