Talk about the sadness of air crash

On April 8th, 1946, Zhou Enlai saw Wang Ruofei, Bo Gu, Ye Ting and others off in Chongqing, and his eyes suddenly lost. The staff around later recalled Zhou Enlai's expression at that time and described it as "the faint uneasiness brought by the sixth sense".

Zhou Enlai, who was a little uneasy, also said to the radio comrades, "Pay attention to contact Yan 'an and let me know as soon as the plane arrives. "

At that time, there were many planes in distress. Zhou Enlai still liked flying because the planes were fast enough, but he was always in fear whenever his comrades flew. This time is no exception. Zhou Enlai has always been a workaholic, and he has no intention of dealing with his own work. After reading a few pages casually, he suddenly looked up and couldn't help asking his secretary Chen Hao, "Is there a call from Yan 'an? "

More than half a minute before the plane arrived at its destination, Chen Hao shook his head and replied, "No! The plane is not so fast, it hasn't arrived yet. "

Half an hour passed in an instant, but there was no news that the plane arrived in Yan 'an. Everyone else showed their anxiety. In order to calm his emotions, Zhou Enlai, who was originally anxious, calmed down.

When the staff around Zhou Enlai saw it, they whispered to comfort everyone: "Maybe the weather is bad. Where did you land?"

However, with the passage of time, this possibility is almost equal to zero. According to the calculation, the plane has long run out of gas, so it can't be still in the sky. If it is forced to land in the field, you can't always lose contact. Everyone realized that something might happen, just holding out a glimmer of hope.

However, the news of the plane crash came-because of the weather, the plane hit a boulder on the side of Heicha Mountain in Shanxi, exploded and caught fire, and fell off the cliff.

After reading the telegram, Zhou Enlai's face turned white, tears finally rolled down, and everyone present cried.

This air crash was called "April 8 air crash", and all the people on the plane were killed. When the militiamen rushed to the scene of the accident to look for the wreckage of the plane and the remains of the victims, they found that most of the remains showed surprised expressions, some with prominent eyes and some with incomplete limbs, and all of them were highly burned, which made people sad.

At this time, Ye Ting had just finished more than five years of painful prison life and regained his freedom for just over a month.

Ye Ting was tortured in prison. Every day, many people are persuaded to surrender by various inducements, but he is always upright and indomitable. He also wrote the famous "Prison Song", expressing his ambition in poetry:

Ye Ting probably never dreamed that what he expressed in his poem would be a prophecy, and he really died in the sea of fire.

In fact, before Ye Ting's plane crash, Zhou Enlai advised him to rest for a few more days, and then took his daughter, Xiao Yangmei, on another plane. But Ye Ting was afraid that his ideal of serving the country and the people would change, and insisted on returning to Yan 'an revolutionary base quickly, so he died.

Ye Ting's sacrifice made Zhou Enlai deeply grieved, and at the same time, he fell into deep guilt, especially Ye Ting's daughter, Xiao Yangmei 12 years old, whom Zhou Enlai had long recognized as her daughter.

Zhou Enlai couldn't help but burst into tears when he remembered the scene of little Yangmei scampering in his room not long ago and the party with his comrades. He took all the responsibility on himself and kept blaming himself: "It's all my fault, even if I flew twice or twice ... why didn't I think of it?" Sorry, comrade ... "

The Central Committee held a grand memorial service for all the martyrs who died. Comrades of the Central Committee and more than 30,000 people from all walks of life gathered in the public sacrifice square to mourn the "April 8th" martyrs who gave their lives for the benefit of the people.