Lu Ming was not surprised and fell into deep thinking. What made him even more sad was that today, when he was over fifty, he found out that Bai Ling was his biological mother...
As soon as Bai Ling entered the Red Army's base in Nanliang, she felt like an abused daughter-in-law returning to her parents' home, feeling stretched and relaxed. As soon as she saw the soldiers practicing on the field, she couldn't help but smile.
What made her laugh was the variety of clothing worn by the Red Army soldiers. Some were black jackets and black trousers commonly worn by local sheepherders; some wore a national army officer's woolen uniform with shoulder pads on their upper body, but their lower body was a hand-sewn
They are made of cotton trousers with big crotch and folded waist; some have tattered jackets with blossoms and exposed lint, but their lower bodies are wearing dark patterned striped silk trousers that are only worn by rich people in rural areas. Hats and shoes are even less particular, and some wear small red-topped caps with melon skin.
, some wear black woolen hats, some wear dog fur hats, some wear national army soldier hats, and some are wrapped in a white cloth or blue cloth handkerchief. On their feet are cloth shoes, leather shoes, cotton hemp shoes and straw sandals. The clothes have been
The identity of the owner cannot be identified, and eating is the same. No matter the soldier, whether it is the captain, detachment leader or even the supreme commander, Commander Liao, they all scoop the same meal from the same pot. There are no chairs, stools, and no dining table. Everyone squats on the ground.
They gathered in a circle and ate and chatted. The few female team members were also used to squatting in a pile to eat like the male team members. When Bai Ling squatted down for the first time with a bowl of shredded potato, millet and dried rice, he endured the pain.
I couldn't stop laughing and almost fell down.
Bai Ling was assigned to be a cultural teacher. There were stones, tree roots, and wood placed gently in a cave. Soldiers and officers took turns attending classes, taking turns entering and exiting the cave, and taking turns sitting on stones and wood. Her blackboard was a blackboard with the bottom of a pot.
The door panels were dyed with ink, and the chalk was made of loess mud rolled into finger-thick strips. Later, an enthusiastic soldier discovered a soft gray-white material on the hillside. The writing was different from the standard chalk ingots.
There was not much, so instead of mud strips, the soldiers practiced writing on the ground with one branch each. Bai Ling wrote a stroke on the blackboard, and the soldiers used the branches to draw a stroke on the ground, teaching the soldiers that "the Communist Red Army fights Japan and saves China for the people."
These words and each person's name had to be taught separately. Facing those childish little soldiers, Bai Ling felt a kind of sacredness. These big children, who were dressed in various colors and couldn't even write their own names, were destined to be
The gravediggers of China's decadent regime are the founders of the ideal New China. They will never forget that they learned to read and write their own names from her in this earthen kiln. She was praised by everyone from Commander Liao to the squad leader.
She was commended and supported by the guerrillas, partly because of her outstanding work, and partly because of her lively and cheerful personality. She taught the guerrillas calligraphy and culture, and also helped them mend their torn and worn clothes, pants and shoes.
The reward is often to ask them to sing her a hometown folk song. Most of these children come from the ditches and chachas of the Loess Plateau. They sing one melodious and sad folk song after another with a strong nasal voice, which makes people feel enchanted.
The stiff and weird pronunciation made it difficult for her to understand the meaning of the lyrics, so she would often revise them word by word before translating them into the official language of Chang'an. Every time she got a song, she would copy it into a small book and actually collect it in a collection.
It was a thick book. She changed those sour lyrics about expressing love and eagerness, and replaced them with lyrics with revolutionary content. She only had to put them into the original tunes, and they quickly became popular among the cadres and team members.
One song actually became the military song of this Red Army guerrilla unit.
Bai Ling was transferred to the military department as a secretary half a year later. The military department was also a cave dwelling with five or six male and female staff members. She was familiar with them, including Commander Liao, but now she had more opportunities to meet him. This was the first time she met Commander Liao.
I was listening to him give a military lesson to the team members. Commander Liao's appearance seemed to be what a military commander should have: a square face, a short and straight nose bridge, a square chin, a prominent but not "running" forehead, and those inlaid eyes.
The eyes under the brow bone are easily reminiscent of the deep stream under the stone cliff. Bai Ling suddenly realized that there were many faces among the guerrillas that were very similar to Commander Liao. This is the standard face frame of handsome men in the northern part of the Loess Plateau.
, must be a descendant of the Huns and Mongols, or a descendant of mixed marriages with the Han people. Combining bravery, strength, wisdom and humility, he has characteristics that are completely different from those of the people in the Guanzhong Plain. He is the most educated among the entire guerrillas.
He is also the person with the richest military knowledge. He graduated from the Huangpu Military Academy and participated in the Northern Expedition. He was then forced to retreat to Guanzhong and mobilized a communist army to stage a riot. The riot failed, and he returned to the northern plateau to form an army again, until the
The 36th Red Army was buried in the Qinling Mountains of Zishui County. The current Red Army still uses the designation of the 36th Army. It has become smarter and more experienced, and no longer attacks rashly. Commander Liao has just stepped onto the podium.
Suddenly, he pointed at Bai Ling and pretended to be dumbfounded and asked: "When did this comrade sneak in? Why can't I recognize him?" Bai Ling stood up cheerfully: "Report to Commander Liao, soldier Bai Ling reports to you. I
It’s been half a month since I escaped from Xi’an.” Commander Liao looked even more confused and asked, “You are from Guanzhong, and there are gay men as beautiful as you in Guanzhong.” The cave suddenly burst into laughter, and Bai Ling also
He couldn't help but blush. Commander Liao suddenly realized and said to himself: "I thought all the beautiful gay guys and girls were from northern Shaanxi..." Then he raised his head and laughed loudly...
Bai Ling went to Commander Liao's cave to deliver a secret document. Commander Liao suddenly asked: "Aren't you used to a kid from a big place coming to the ditch?" Commander Liao always jokingly calls her a kid from a big place or a gay brother, but he never does.
Call her gay girl or call her by her first name. She said: "Very good." Commander Liao frowned, shook his head and said: "No, no, no, what do you think is so good? People here can't do anything except herding sheep. They are uneducated.
, there is no wheat, no cotton, and even water is very scarce - you are not telling the truth." Bai Ling said with a smile: "There are good songs here." Commander Liao nodded in agreement and said: "That's right, the song
I can't say it's any better. I've been to many places, including your big place Guanzhong, but I've never heard such a good song. What else can you say is better?" Bai Ling said with a smile: "Every single one of the boys is like this.
"Beautiful and handsome." Commander Liao suddenly said: "How about I find you a son-in-law?" At that moment, Bai Ling took out a piece of paper from the secret pocket under her body and handed it to Commander Liao. That was what Zhaopeng asked her to give to Commander Liao before leaving.
When she entered the base area, she did not hand it over to Commander Liao, but now she felt it was necessary to hand it over. Commander Liao read the note, stood up slowly, looked at her for a long time, and then solemnly extended his right hand. The hands of Bai Ling and Commander Liao
Holding each other together. Commander Liao said: "Comrade Bai Ling" Bai Ling said excitedly: "Comrade Lu Zhaopeng asked me to pay tribute to you on his behalf." Commander Liao said: "But... why did you wait until now..." Bai Ling said
Ling said: "I'm afraid you take too much care of me..." Commander Liao said: "Okay, as long as I live, I will keep you safe. In the name of Comrade Lu Zhaopeng..."
Later, an incident occurred in the army that exposed the Kuomintang's latent spy, which led to a civil strife. This newly formed Red Army guerrilla force suddenly fell into disaster. When the spy sneaked into the base area in the name of defecting to the revolution,
, also took the route of the Xi'an underground party; he came to Nanliang half a year after Bai Ling, and was assigned to a guerrilla brigade captain as his personal secretary. He suddenly fled a few days ago, and the guerrilla intelligence team obtained
The evidence finally identified this person's terrifying identity. Immediately afterwards, a top-level secret meeting between Commander Liao and Political Commissar Bi was held, the content of which is unknown. A meeting of cadres above the detachment leader was held intensively that night, but the content is still unknown. Bai
Ling began to have a premonition that she had fallen into a dangerous situation. This was not because she was too sensitive, but because of her common sense. She could usually sit in on various important meetings, including the top decisions of Liao and Bi. All these meetings
All decisions or decisions were recorded, written down, and made into resolutions by two or three of their confidential personnel. There was no confidentiality issue with her regarding major decisions and military and political affairs in the entire base area. She was not notified to attend the Supreme Meeting of Liao and Bi.
However, when the meeting of commanders above the detachment leader also avoided her participation, she felt abnormal. An anxiety of being suspected and not trusted began to bother her; especially after the meeting of commanders above the detachment leader, the entire base area suddenly
There was a grim atmosphere of silence and tension, and Bai Ling's stiff and suspicious expressions on the familiar faces of the commanders confirmed a certain premonition. She had trouble sleeping at night. This was the first trouble she had experienced in more than a year after entering the base area.
At noon the next day, she was notified to attend the all-military meeting. At the meeting, Political Commissar Bi gave a mobilization report on counter-revolutionaries and announced the formation of a counter-revolutionary team. Immediately afterwards, eleven guerrillas were arrested on the spot. Bai Ling suddenly panicked in panic.
I couldn't help but shudder when I discovered that the eleven guerrillas declared to be latent agents were all male and female students who defected to the Red Army from Xi'an.
Bai Ling was transferred out of the military headquarters and incorporated into the guerrilla detachment. The guerrillas no longer learned to write names from her, no longer asked her to mend her clothes, and did not sing her beautiful Xintianyou songs. They all used a kind of suspicion and a kind of vigilance.
He looked at her with wary eyes. Bai Ling was in pain but couldn't get rid of it. A powerful storm of hatred quickly arose in the entire base area, even stronger than the hatred against the Kuomintang authorities. This was against the traitor. She could understand it, but she couldn't bear it.
She was oppressed and wronged by hatred and suspicion. She finally decided to go to Commander Liao to explain herself. Suddenly, she was dragged back to the cave by two female team members, who warned her not to run around and search. Only then did she realize that she was already being monitored by someone.
Seven or eight days later, a second arrest was made, and the seven arrested were still students from Xi'an. Bai Ling made some calculations in his mind, and found that all 21 students had come to the base area from Xi'an, and only the remaining
There were two women and one man, including her. At this time, she felt that the same fate was inevitable and not far away.
The night before the second arrest, five of the eleven people arrested in the first batch were buried alive. The next day, a notice was posted at the door of the cave where all the brigade gatherings were held. Bai Ling was there when she
What I saw at the door of the cave house where the cultural teacher often came in and out was that all five people were judged to be spies. Just half a month after the first arrest, the remaining six of the eleven who were arrested in the first batch and the seven who were arrested the second time
Two of them were executed again, and the same punishment was to dig a hole and bury them alive. This method of execution was not regarded as cruel by the team members because the bullets were too precious. The guns in the hands of the guerrillas and every bullet in the gun chamber were
Every bullet was taken from the enemy, and many guerrillas sacrificed their lives for this. At this time, a more serious incident occurred in the base area. The captain of the First Brigade was ordered to be arrested by the anti-revolutionary team.
The captain of the brigade slapped his chest and shouted to Political Commissar Bi at a high-level meeting: "I dare to use my head to guarantee that all those students in Xi'an will definitely not be spies. If you bury them alive one by one, you will eliminate yourself. Who will dare to defect to us in the future?"
Under the banner of the Pole Army..." On the night when the meeting ended, the order to arrest the captain became a letter and a fact. The differences suddenly spread from the top to the middle of the guerrillas, and the cracks were rapidly widening and lengthening. Commander Liao
When he was shocked to learn that his lover, the First Brigade Captain, was tied up and taken into a prison cell, he finally lost his last patience and went directly to the cave where Political Commissar Bi lived to force him to release him. Political Commissar Bi was uncompromising: "The detention captain is
In order to prevent the spread of right-leaning thoughts, they are different from hidden spies. Failure to detain the captain will affect the further deepening of the counter-revolutionary campaign." The counter-revolutionary team was given absolute power and could examine everyone. Commander Liao actually only had to fight against the enemy.
Military command power. Political Commissar Bi said: "You also prevent the emergence of right-leaning thoughts."
Then a group of commanders jointly signed a petition in blood to demand an end to the killings and an end to the purge of counterrevolutionaries. Political Commissar Bi arrested all seven or eight political dissidents without mercy. The purge of counterrevolutionaries further developed into a struggle to expose right-leaning opportunists.
Groups of commanders and guerrillas were arrested and detained one after another. They may have only said one word that was not firm about the suppression of counterrevolutionaries. The suppression of counterrevolutionaries has long exceeded the original scope of targets, and it does not matter whether you are from Xi'an or not.
The road was numbered. The differences between Commander Liao and Political Commissar Bi finally became superficial and public. Commander Liao said: "You are..." He was furious but did not know what kind of ideological label to label Political Commissar Bi. In his urgency, he thought of the mutiny.
Political Commissar Jiang, who surrendered to the enemy, said: "You and that traitor are in the same boat." Political Commissar Bi did not continue to argue, but issued an order to arrest Commander Liao. Political Commissar Bi convened a meeting of all soldiers and declared a complete victory in the suppression of counterrevolutionaries. Not only did he dig out the lurkers
The important thing for a small group of spies who came to the base area was to dig out a right-leaning opportunist line hidden in the Red Army, and the key elements among them formed an anti-party group...
Bai Ling was arrested at this conference. She was the last one to be arrested among the twenty-one people from Xi'an. It was the result of Commander Liao's death order for protection; Commander Liao himself had been imprisoned. Bai Ling
The protective umbrella is naturally gone.
Bai Ling was caught the latest, but was executed the fastest. This may be mainly because she was regarded as a best friend due to her close relationship with Commander Liao, or it may also be the result of her wild nature. She was imprisoned in a prison cell day and night.
The calls kept coming. First he called Political Commissar Bi: "I want to talk to you." Then he called Political Commissar Bi by his surname, and then he insulted and provocatively called Political Commissar Bi by his nickname: Bi - Eyes - Mirror - Bi.
The blind guerrilla guarding the prison cell reported it to the anti-revolutionary team and decided to interrogate her in advance. Bai Ling's voice can be said to be a natural one with an iron voice and a golden voice. She howled like a she-wolf in the prison cell for three days and three nights, and her voice was still loud and clear.
, excited and with eyes as bright as fire. She glanced at the members of the anti-revolutionary team who were interrogating her and said: "Call Political Commissar Bi, I have something important to say."
When Political Commissar Bi came in, he adjusted his glasses complacently. Bai Ling could no longer control his passion, so he threw out words like bricks: "I heard that you are also a 'guanzhong native'". She quoted Commander Liao's words when joking with her,
"I feel ashamed because we are both from Guanzhong." Political Commissar Bi immediately changed his expression: "You are the most cunning and the one who hides the deepest. You have penetrated our hearts." Bai Ling no longer cares what Political Commissar Bi said about her.
, it doesn’t matter who she is or not, the most important thing is time, the time she can’t fight for to talk to him directly. She roared fiercely and quietly like a desperate lioness: "You
There is no need to argue about what you have done. I now suspect that you are a high-level spy sent by the enemy. Only spies with advanced training can do such harm to the revolution without revealing anything, and do so in such a high-sounding way. If not, then you are
A careerist and conspirator, you can now replace Commander Liao and become the king. If neither of the above two points are true, then you are a pure fool, a vicious scoundrel, and a nonsense bastard. You have great talents to destroy the revolution.
, but don’t even have the ability to build a revolution. What I hated most in the past were those weak-minded traitors. Now the one I despise the most is an indescribable person like you..." Political Commissar Bi was so excited that he couldn't sit still.
He slammed the table: "Commander Liao is protecting you. You have confused him and I have seen through you. You scold me and I don't care. This is the dying madness of the counter-revolution..." Bai Ling sneered and said, "I no longer think about my fate.
My fate has already been laid out there. My death today is no different than my death half a month ago. The only advantage is that I waited until you had the opportunity to scold you and you executed me. At the same time, you also remember: you are smaller than me.
hundred times"
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It was snowing that night when Bai Ling was buried alive. The rest of the details and plot about burying her alive could not be verified. The two guerrillas who buried her alive later died on the anti-Japanese battlefield in Shanxi. Commander Liao was released from the prison cell on the order of Zhou Enlai
He also became a regular division commander of the Red Army and died in the anti-Japanese front line command trench east of the Yellow River. He was hit by a bomb dropped by a Japanese aircraft. Political Commissar Bi later went to Yan'an. After reviewing his mistakes with Zhou Enlai, he changed his name. There was no way out.
Find…
The writer Lu Ming was not determined to find Bi to ask anything. He felt that what was important was no longer the details and specific process of the death of the martyrs, which were only useful for future creation; what was important was the introspection of the root causes of this historical tragedy.