1April, 974, in Zeqin Brigade of Zeqin Commune, Ruijin County. One day, the masses were working in full swing. Suddenly, someone exclaimed, and everyone was attracted to see what had happened. It turned out that when villager Zhang Fu was working, he suddenly found a silver medal in the grass. There is a five-pointed star on the front of the medal, with the words "red star" on it and "chapter" on the bottom. There is a harvest valley on each side of the five-pointed star. On the back of the seal, the words "1 August 9331day No.26 Second Red Star Medal of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission" are written. Although this medal is very old, its patterns and patterns are very clear and the years are silent. It was quietly placed there, bringing people's thoughts to the battlefield filled with smoke and the era of burning passion. Who owns this medal? Why was it abandoned here? What are the unknown secrets behind the medals? At this time, the villagers did not know that there was a heartbreaking past behind this medal! On July 1933, 1 1 day, the government of the Central Soviet Area decided to commend people who made special contributions to the revolution in order to affirm their achievements. On August 1 day, the government of the Central Soviet Area held a grand ceremony to award honours, and all those who made great contributions to the revolutionary cause of our Party were awarded the Red Star Medal. Among these medals, there is a second-class red star medal numbered 26, which was awarded to a general of the Red Army at that time. This general is none other than Mao Zetan, the younger brother of our great leader Chairman Mao. As an outstanding general in the early Red Army, Mao Zetan made great contributions to the revolutionary cause in China. 1In August, 934, the main force of the Red Army was forced to make a strategic shift. In February of the same year, Mao Zetan was ordered to lead a team to the southern Fujian border and continue the arduous struggle with the Kuomintang reactionaries. 1935, Mao Zetan moved to the forest at the border of Fujian and Jiangxi under extremely difficult and difficult circumstances. The environment here is very bad and the situation is very critical. In the end, there were only a dozen independent divisions in Mao Zetan. He continued to fight, and eventually he was outnumbered and sacrificed heroically. He is only 30 years old. In this article, I will follow in Mao Zetan's footsteps with all of you. In his short life, I will see his outstanding contribution to China's revolutionary cause, remember history and cherish the memory of the martyrs! Mao Zetan, also known as Mao Runju, has Mao Zedong as his eldest brother and Mao Zemin as his second brother. Mao Zetan, 1905 was born in Shaoshanchong, Hunan Province on September 25th. As the youngest child in the family, Mao Zetan was loved by his mother Wen and his two brothers since childhood. 19 13, Mao Zetan, who was eight years old, entered a private school when she was old enough to go to school. 19 18, in order to let Mao Zetan receive a better education and get out of Shaoshanchong completely, Mao Zedong took his 13-year-old brother to study in the primary school attached to Changsha No.1 Normal University. At that time, Mao Zedong was 25 years old, and Mao Zedong was responsible for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of his younger brother Mao Zetan. Mao Zetan's mind is very clever. Under the guidance of Mao Zedong, his academic performance is among the best. 105, Mao Zetan's mother Wen died of illness at the age of 53. Therefore, Mao Zedong, who participated in the revolution outside, returned to Shaoshan on June 8th 10. In memory of his mother, he wrote a letter to her. The year after his mother died, Mao Zetan's father also died. From then on, Mao Zetan had to live alone with his two brothers. After his parents died, Mao Zetan's family affairs were taken care of by his second brother, Mao Zemin. His eldest brother, Mao Zedong, took part in the revolution outside and continued his studies in Changsha. After finishing primary school, Mao Zetan entered a middle school in Changsha. /kloc-in the winter of 0/920, Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui held a simple wedding. At this time, Mao Zetan would often borrow some revolutionary books from his brother Mao Zedong to learn revolutionary ideas. 192 1 Just after the Spring Festival in, Mao Zetan followed his eldest brother Mao Zedong back to Shaoshanchong and stayed with his second brother Mao Zemin for a few days. Mao Zedong persuaded Mao Zemin to leave Shaoshanchong to take part in the revolution. Mao Zemin listened to his eldest brother's advice and prepared to handle the affairs at home, so he followed his eldest brother to participate in the revolution. Mao Zetan stayed with his second brother for four days, and then returned to Changsha with Mao Zedong and Mao Zetan. In the same year, he joined the Communist Youth League of China. /kloc-in the late autumn of 0/922, Mao Zetan and his second brother Mao Zemin entered a cram school held in Mao Zedong under the arrangement of their eldest brother Mao Zedong, where they learned a lot of cultural knowledge and advanced revolutionary ideas with their second brother Mao Zemin. During the period of 1922, workers' movements broke out one after another, showing a vigorous situation. Mao Zetan was appointed by Mao Zedong to lead the Shuikoushan Workers' Movement in Changning County. At that time, in order to organize workers and facilitate their study, workers set up workers' clubs. Mao Zetan, who was educated, was a member of the education committee of the workers' club and a teacher of the workers' school. He led the workers on strike while organizing them to study revolutionary theory. Organized by Mao Zetan and others, the workers' movement won a great victory. 1923 In February, the workers of Jinghan Railway held a massive strike in order to fight for their rights and resist the oppression and exploitation of imperialism and warlords. So, with the support and encouragement of imperialism,1February 7, 923, Beiyang warlord Wu sent troops to suppress the workers. This is the "227 massacre". With the occurrence of the 227 tragedy, in order to preserve their strength, the workers had to endure great grief and return to work. After that, the national workers' movement fell into a low tide. In this case, while taking part in labor, Mao Zetan went deep into the workers, shared weal and woe with them, and became a family. Because of his outstanding performance in leading the workers' movement, he has stood the test of practice. From 1923 to 10, Mao Zetan has gloriously become a * * *. 1924, Mao Zetan was ordered to go to Changsha to be the secretary of the Secretariat of Changsha Youth League Committee. He also promoted Sun Yat-sen's "New Three People's Principles" of uniting Russia, uniting the Communist Party and helping the peasants and workers together with Tian Bo Yang and others. 1925 February, Mao Zetan followed Mao Zedong and Mao Zemin back to Shaoshan and started the peasant movement. Because the peasant movement led by Mao Zedong made Zhao Hengti, the governor of Hunan Province, very uneasy, he decided to arrest Mao Zedong, the leader of the peasant movement. Zhao Hengti gnashed her teeth and said, "If there is a Mao Zedong in Hunan, there will be no Zhao Hengti!" So,1On August 28th, 925, Zhao Hengti signed a wanted order to arrest Mao Zedong and Mao Zemin, and the situation was very critical. This wanted order was sent to Xiangtan county magistrate's office. It happened that Guo Lubin, a native of Xiangtan County, saw this wanted order. He immediately sent a messenger to Mao Zedong's house. Mao Zetan was the only one at home. Mao Zetan got the news and knew that the situation was extremely urgent. He quickly stopped and rushed to Tan's peasant association to find Mao Zemin. As soon as they met, Mao Zetan told the brothers the wanted news. The three brothers discussed urgently and decided to leave Shaoshan overnight to avoid accidents. So the three brothers left Shaoshan in the summer of 1925 and came to Guangzhou. After Mao Zetan arrived in Guangzhou, he continued to engage in revolutionary work. 1927 On April 2, the Kuomintang launched a counter-revolutionary coup in Shanghai on April 12. At that time, the Kuomintang's work of grasping the Party everywhere was forced to go underground. In this difficult situation, Mao Zetan was ordered to evacuate from Guangzhou and wanted to go to Wuhan via Shanghai. On the boat on the way, Mao Zetan happened to meet his second brother Mao Zemin, and Mao Zemin was in charge of the publishing and distribution department in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He traveled back and forth between Shanghai and Wuhan many times and founded a new book distribution and printing institution. At the moment, Mao Zemin, appointed by the CPC Central Committee, went to Wuhan to continue to lead the publication of * * *. Unexpectedly, he happened to meet his third brother Mao Zetan here, so the two brothers went to Wuhan to visit their eldest brother Mao Zedong. When they arrived at Du Fu Di, No.41Wuchang, Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui warmly let the two brothers in. Mao Zedong was very happy and repeatedly said, "It's good to have you back, it's good to have you back!" At the beginning of 1927, Mao Zedong visited the vast rural areas in Hunan. He stayed in Xiangtan, Xiangxiang and many other places for more than a month and saw many new things. Mao Zedong told his brothers about the experience of this investigation. His hometown Shaoshan is very different from 1925, and the peasant movement is in full swing. Mao Zetan listened to his eldest brother Mao Zedong with relish. Mao Zedong went on to say: Mao Zetan heard the foresight of his brother Mao Zedong, and in a few words he saw the future of the China revolution from the development of the peasant movement. His confidence has doubled, and his determination to take part in the revolution has also increased. Before long, the situation in Wuhan took a turn for the worse. Mao Zedong and his two younger brothers must discuss the way forward. Then, Mao Zedong said to his two younger brothers: Then, Mao Zedong explained the whereabouts of the three brothers. Mao Zedong himself prepared to lead the autumn harvest uprising, Mao Zemin returned to Hunan to prepare for the autumn harvest uprising, and Mao Zetan went to work in the Wuhan National Revolutionary Army. 1in the early morning of August, 927, Mao Zetan followed the "Iron Army" to participate in the Nanchang Uprising. Mao Zetan took the lead, bravely killed the enemy, and withstood the baptism and test of war. He also became the first person of Mao's three brothers to embark on the road of armed revolution. Mao Zedong later said with great pride: "We have a general in the Mao family." Later, the insurgents suffered setbacks and defeated Shantou (head). Then, Zhu De and Chen Yi continued to fight, and suddenly they heard the news that Mao Zedong had established a revolutionary base area in Jinggangshan. It turned out that after Mao Zedong broke up with his two younger brothers, he immediately led the autumn harvest uprising. He worked tirelessly and finally organized a team as the troops of the autumn harvest uprising. According to the prior deployment, on September 9, the autumn harvest uprising broke out, and the rebels attacked the city and broke the village, which matched Changsha. However, because the enemy forces in Changsha were too strong, the rebels were hard to resist and suffered great setbacks. Seeing this situation, Mao Zedong immediately decided to give up attacking Changsha and move to Luoxiao Mountain Range. In the process of transferring troops, Mao Zedong carried out the famous "Three Bay Reorganization" and held the "Ancient City Conference". At this point, the new people's army in China was initially formed, which ensured the party's absolute leadership over the army and established the decision to establish a base area on the Hunan-Jiangxi border. On October 27th, 65438/kloc-0, Mao Zedong led his troops to Ciping, and Jinggangshan became the foothold of Mao Zedong. Although the revolutionary team has the revolutionary base of Jinggangshan, it is inaccessible within hundreds of miles of Fiona Fang, Fiona Fang, and the surrounding area of Jinggangshan is tightly blocked. The life of Mao Zedong team and local people is very hard. In order to alleviate this situation, Mao Zedong led troops to capture Chaling County, where the enemy's defense was weak. Just after Mao Zedong led the troops to capture Chaling County, one day, a young man came to Chaling County. Everybody look up. The young man was tall and powerful, dressed as an officer of the Kuomintang regular army. At first glance, he is not an ordinary person. The sentry on guard took him to the government of workers, peasants and soldiers in Chaling County. Upon inquiry, he learned that the young man who claimed to be Qin Ze was Mao Zedong's brother Mao Zetan. Originally, since Zhu De and Chen Yi learned that Mao Zedong had established a base area in Jinggangshan, everyone was very happy and decided to send Mao Zetan to Jinggangshan to get in touch with his brother Mao Zedong. When Mao Zetan heard that the eldest brother Mao Zedong had captured Chaling, he hurried to see the eldest brother Mao Zedong. After the government of Chaling workers, peasants and soldiers knew Mao Zetan's identity, it soon took him to Mao Zedong in Jinggangshan. In Ciping, Mao Zetan met his eldest brother Mao Zedong, who missed him day and night, and introduced the situation of Zhu De and Chen Yi teams after the Nanchang Uprising to Mao Zedong, expressing his desire to go to Jinggangshan. Upon hearing this, Mao Zedong asked Mao Zetan to stay in Jinggangshan, and sent someone to get in touch with Zhu De and Chen Yi to unite the two revolutionary teams and further strengthen the revolutionary forces in Jinggangshan. 165438+ 10, Zhang Ziqing and others led the 3rd battalion, the first regiment of the revolutionary army of workers and peasants, to Jinggangshan, and came to Shangbao, Chongyi, Jiangxi, to join the teams of Zhu De and Chen Yi. In February 65438, He Changgong went down to Jinggangshan as a representative of the 2nd Regiment and met Zhu De. Zhu De was very happy when he learned about Jinggangshan. He yearns for and appreciates Jinggangshan very much. He said, "We ran around just to find a place to live." Although Zhu De and Chen Yi's team have admired Mao Zedong for a long time, they want to go to Jinggangshan. However, Zhu De and Chen Yi did not go up the mountain immediately, but led their troops into southern Hunan at 65438+ 1.928 to launch an uprising in southern Hunan. The team once reached more than 8,000 people, which can be described as a good revolutionary situation. However, in the face of the threat of the revolutionary ranks, in March of the same year, the warlords liberated from the melee faced the growth of the revolutionary ranks, temporarily compromised with each other and made concerted efforts with the outside world. They held an army to "suppress" Zhu De and Chen Yi's troops, while Zhu De and Chen Yi retreated from southern Hunan and moved to Jinggangshan to save their strength. Mao Zedong knew that Zhu De and Chen Yi were going to move to the Hunan-Jiangxi border, and immediately sent two teams to Jinggangshan to meet them. At the same time, Mao Zedong sent Mao Zetan to lead a Tewulian to meet Zhu De and Chen Yi in Chenzhou, and discussed the planning and deployment of Jinggangshan in detail. On March 29th, Mao Zetan came to meet Zhu De's team, and Chen Yi also set out from Chenzhou to meet the second regiment of the revolutionary army of workers and peasants led by He Changgong and Yuan. In late April, Zhu De and Chen Yi joined forces in Miandu, and Mao Zedong joined forces in Ninggang forever. Joining forces in Jinggangshan strengthened our revolutionary ranks in Jinggangshan, dealt a blow to the arrogance of the enemy, and increased the confidence of * * * and the people in the victory of the revolution, which was of far-reaching significance to the China revolution, and Mao Zetan played an important liaison role in this victory. Mao Zetan not only played an important role in joining forces in Jinggangshan, but also made outstanding contributions to the construction of Jinggangshan base area. During his work in Jinggangshan, Mao Zedong's younger brother Mao Zetan was deeply loved by Mao Zedong. However, once, because of the job assignment, the two brothers quarreled and finally apologized to Mao Zedong. It was the day of 1928. In order to do a good job in mass work in Qiao Lin Township, Dalong District, Ninggang County, Mao Zedong decided to send Mao Zetan to work in Qiao Lin Township. There are more than 30 villages in Qiao Lin Township with a total population of more than 300. Doing a good job here is also very beneficial to the construction of base areas in Jinggangshan area. However, Mao Zetan was bent on fighting in the front line and was not interested in this rural party building work. Mao Zedong decided to convince his brother himself. He sent someone to call Mao Zetan. Before Mao Zetan came in, he asked his eldest brother Mao Zedong what he was doing here. When Mao Zedong saw his younger brother Mao Zetan coming, he didn't mention it to him. He told him bluntly that he wanted him to work in Qiao Lin Township of Jinggangshan and build a rural party branch. When Mao Zetan heard that the job had nothing to do with the war, he refused. Hearing this, Mao Zedong's face became serious. He told Mao Zetan that this was a deliberate decision of the front committee and an organizational decision, and he had to go. Mao Zetan understood that there were only three people left in the front committee at that time, and two people were not there. Mao Zedong is the only one left in the front committee. This is obviously Mao Zedong's decision. Thought of here, Mao Zetan still said he didn't want to go. Mao Zedong was angry when he saw his brother disobeying orders. Then he argued with his brother, and Mao Zetan retorted. Mao Zedong was very angry and wanted to teach his brother a lesson. Han Wei, the guard platoon leader next to him, quickly told Mao Zedong, Chairman Mao told us not to engage in warlord remnants. How can we do it ourselves? Mao Zedong was speechless after hearing this. Finally, he came to Mao Zetan and sincerely apologized to his brother. Mao Zetan's anger subsided when he saw his eldest brother Mao Zedong say this. Mao Zedong explained to Mao Zetan: Mao Zetan listened to his eldest brother's persuasion and went to Qiao Lin Township happily. There, he mingled with the poor peasants, conducted investigations, held party classes, reasoned and formulated policies. Through Mao Zetan's efforts, farmers in Qiao Lin Township organized themselves and actively carried out the peasant movement. In the process of the peasant movement, Mao Zetan also carried out talent selection and party building. 1929, 65438+ 10, Chiang Kai-shek assembled 18 regiment to destroy the revolutionary forces in Jinggangshan, surrounded Jinggangshan and prepared to attack. In this grim situation, it was decided that the army led by Peng and Yuan and the 32nd Regiment led by Yuan and Zhu Deze would continue to stick to Jinggangshan, and themselves and Zhu Deze led the Gongsi Army to Gannan, hoping to put the besieged Jinggangshan. 654381October 22nd, Gongsijun occupied Dayu County. However, the 28th Regiment of Lin Biao did not occupy the commanding heights, which caused the enemy to surround Dayu County. In order to stabilize the situation, Mao Zedong personally arrived at the 28th regiment. However, the 28th regiment has been defeated and Mao Zedong is in danger. Fortunately, Chen Yi led the 3 1 regiment and the independent battalion to stop the enemy, but the Red Army paid a heavy price. The battalion commander of the Independent Battalion died, and Mao Zetan, the representative of the Independent Battalion of 3 1 regiment, was also injured in the leg. After Mao Zetan was injured, he left the army and went to Donggu to recuperate, while continuing to work. Mao Zetan recuperated in Donggu and rushed back to the army. Since then, Mao Zetan has participated in five counter-campaigns against "encirclement and suppression" in the Central Soviet Area with his eldest brother Mao Zedong. However, due to the mistake of "Left" adventurism, Mao Zedong was deprived of the leadership of the Red Army, and the Red Army failed in its fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression". Mao Zemin, president of China National Bank (China Soviet National Bank), broke through with the main force of the Red Army, and Mao Zetan was decided to stay in the Central Soviet Area to continue guerrilla warfare. 1934 to 12, Mao Zetan led the guerrillas to the Hunan-Jiangxi border. At that time, the conditions of struggle in enemy-occupied areas were very difficult. 1On the afternoon of April 25th, 935, Mao Zetan was met by the enemy. In the fierce battle, Mao Zetan's team was scattered, leaving only a dozen people and a dozen guns around Mao Zetan. In desperation, Mao Zetan led a dozen people over mountains and finally came to the mountains of Ruijin County. When they came to the place of "Red Forest", there was a village called "Huangtiankeng" in the mountains. Mao Zetan and his team spent the night in the village, but the next morning, the village was surrounded by the enemy. Mao Zetan hurriedly let his men retreat to the mountains behind, and stopped the enemy himself in front. But being outnumbered, a bullet hit Mao Zetan's right leg. Mao Zetan endured severe pain and continued filming. Another bullet flew in and hit his left leg. Mao Zetan knelt on the ground and another bullet flew in and hit him in the chest. In this way, the outstanding Red Army general Mao Zetan died heroically at the age of 30. The enemy came up to clean up the battlefield, found Mao Zetan's party member certificate and other documents, and knew his identity. He always carried the second-class Red Star medal with him, but it was considered useless by the enemy and left on the grass beside him until the quarrying crowd found it. 1935 10, the Central Red Army has just arrived in northern Shaanxi. Mao Zemin heard the news of Mao Zetan's sacrifice from the enemy's radio, and he hurried to the home of his eldest brother Mao Zedong. When Mao Zedong heard this, he didn't speak for a long time. After a while, he stood up and asked Mao Zemin, "When did you hear it?" "I only heard about it this morning." Mao Zedong was very sad. He said: The two brothers are immersed in infinite grief. 1On June 29th, 959, Mao Zedong returned to Shaoshanchong's former residence after leaving Shaoshan for 32 years. He looked at the portrait of the martyr in Mao Zetan's bedroom and said with deep affection: Mao Zetan was an early soldier of the Red Army. He is clever, brave and determined. He is not only an excellent party member in China, but also an excellent commander of the Red Army. Mao Zedong once commented on him: "My brother is a staunch communist fighter." In 2009, Mao Zetan was named as one of the 100 heroes who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China. Mao Zetan's life is short, but his achievements will be remembered by the people forever, and his revolutionary spirit will last forever! Take this article to pay tribute to our great leader Chairman Mao and Mao Zetan who died heroically for the revolution!