Chapter 67 memorial service for the living

Starting from Ruijin, passing through Changting and Shanghang to Chaoshan, the rebel army marched in three batches. The first batch was to concentrate the largest force, taking advantage of the emptiness of the Chaozhou-Shantou area, and advancing rapidly, so as to quickly occupy it; the second was the various organs of the Revolutionary Committee, which continued to advance; the third was Li Lisan, the director of the Political Security Department, who was responsible for transporting the sick and wounded, and Zhou Shi Di led a battalion as a rear guard to cover the brigade.In this way, the entire army formed a very long marching line. The vanguard had already arrived in Chaoshan, while the rear guard was still in the Shanghang area of ​​Changting.The news of Li Lisan's death suddenly came, and the members of the Revolutionary Committee were all deeply saddened.

Depressed, Zhou Enlai informed everyone that they had arrived at the campsite ahead, and no matter how bad the conditions were, a memorial service would be held for Comrade Li Lisan. This is the second memorial service for Li Lisan. In addition to being responsible for the wounded, Li Lisan also beat local tyrants from time to time in order to relieve the money and food shortage of the rebel army.In Tingzhou, he sent the 24th Division to teach Li Yimin, the party representative of the third team of the brigade, to fight the local tyrants.That local tyrant has a lot of money, and he is also an "official businessman", holding the title of a member of the Beiyang government.

Li Yimin hesitated: "Can this kind of person be beaten?" "We can fight, but if we don't fight, we will run out of food. Didn't you hear that there are soldiers who use grenades as money? You can't be kind to local tyrants and evil gentry." Li Yimin was ordered to set off in the middle of the night. In a small town more than ten miles away from Tingzhou, he looked in from the street corner and saw a red-painted gate with high steps. After inquiring, it turned out to be the home of a rich local tycoon.He knocked on the door first, but no one answered.Li Yimin asked the platoon leader to lead a squad around to the back door and fired several shots.This move was very effective. As soon as the gunshot rang out, ghosts and wolves howled in the courtyard, like dead parents.The gate was also opened, and a platoon of people entered the courtyard except for the guards at the gate.

The yard is really big, surrounded by houses.The insurgents searched door by door.After a while, many valuable things were piled on the stone table in the center of the courtyard.There are about 1,000 yuan of Guangyang, and a small box of gold and silver jewelry.The big local tyrant has long been paralyzed on the rattan chair, his legs are sifting through the chaff, and he can't speak a whole sentence.The platoon leader wanted to kidnap him, but Li Yimin said that he didn't need to bring this burden, just scare him.So the platoon leader stepped forward and threatened him with a gun: "You have to be honest, if you bully the people again, be careful with your head!"

Li Yimin handed over all the stolen money he collected to Li Lisan, and Li Lisan passed it on to Lin Boqu.Lin Boqu looked at the two boxes of gold and silver in front of him, and was speechless for a while. One of Li Lisan's characteristics is that he can't be idle, and the other is that he is full of energy.As long as he is not involved in important matters, he often goes out to think of ideas to raise funds himself.Because they had to take care of the sick and wounded, he and Zhou Shidi's first battalion always fell behind. Once the large troops in front had passed, when the enemy troops along the way heard the news and arrived, they would often intercept the follow-up troops, and Li Lisan would fight head-on.

On that day, when Li Lisan and the others went to a village 30 miles away from Ruijin and were collecting funds, gunshots rang out outside the village.Three enemy regiments surrounded them heavily.Zhou Enlai in the front heard the news and immediately sent a large force to rescue.After 3 hours of fierce fighting, the enemy was repulsed, and our side also suffered heavy casualties.What worried Zhou Enlai most was the disappearance of Li Lisan.He immediately sent people to search separately, but Li Lisan was still nowhere to be seen after 3 days.Those who came back said that a soldier saw Li Lisan being shot and fell to the ground, so he probably died.

At the memorial service, everyone's face was clouded.Lin Boqu wiped away his tears and sighed: "Comrade Li San is outspoken, sometimes reckless, but selfless in heart, he is a good person, a very good person." Zhou Enlai also said: "The money comes from him, and the heaviest task of the wounded and sick is handed over to him. It would be great if he could stay with us all the way to Chaoshan, and now we will never see him again!" . The memorial ceremony was going on step by step. When it was Yun Daiying's turn to speak, he suddenly lifted his thousand-degree myopia glasses and looked left and right. What puzzled him was that a tall and thin man also stood in the queue : This man wears glasses, why does he look so much like Li Lisan?He is a thorough materialist and absolutely does not believe in ghosts.But how did the dead come back to life?It was indeed Li Lisan.

Li Lisan's slender figure appeared at the door. He was patting Zhou Enlai's back and asked softly, "Which comrade is this memorial service for?" Zhou Enlai grabbed his hand, blinked his eyelids, surprised and delighted: "Li San, Li San, I thought you died, and we are holding a memorial service for you! Where have you been?" With his characteristic loud voice, Li Lisan looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "Haha, I think I am short-tempered, and Marx also said that I went too early, so he refused to accept me. I had to come back again." It turned out that Li Lisan immediately went to nearby villages and towns to collect money and food from big households after cooperating with large troops to wipe out the enemy.

Everyone gathered around and made fun of: "Comrade Li San, you have held two memorial services in your lifetime. It seems that you must be a long-lived person." In the early 1920s, Li Lisan was persecuted by the French authorities during his work-study program in France and was sent back to China. Ten months later, when he was leading the workers' strike movement in Anyuan, news spread to France that Li Lisan had failed to lead the labor movement and that Li Lisan plotted to assassinate the Hunan warlord Zhao Hengti in anger. He was arrested and cut in half.Since this news was in line with Li Lisan's character of taking risks, everyone believed it as soon as they heard it.So the students from the European branch gathered in the Overseas Chinese Association in Paris, presided over by Zhou Enlai, Zhao Shiyan, Wang Ruofei, etc., held the first memorial service for Li Lisan.

After the "death" test, Li Lisan, who went on the journey again, was even more brave. He was convinced that he was "immortal", at least in spirit.In the sparsely populated Baili valley, the soldiers carried guns and nearly 300 rounds of bullets on their backs, and they had to walk 60 miles a day, or more than a hundred miles. Sometimes, it is rare to drink a bowl of porridge a day.Because of hunger, thirst and heatstroke, some people fell to the ground from time to time, and many soldiers were seriously ill.Li Lisan led some soldiers up the mountain to pick wild fruits to satisfy everyone's hunger.Sometimes, due to helplessness, they had to kill the horses and share the food.

After arriving in Changting, Fu Lianyun handed over hundreds of Guangyang to Li Lisan, donated to the rebel army to buy military uniforms, and mobilized citizens and organizations from all walks of life to donate.Li Lisan used these donations to buy a large amount of cloth, and mobilized all the sewing masters in Tingzhou to sew military uniforms intensively, so that all the officers and soldiers of the rebel army in tattered clothes were replaced with a new set of military uniforms.