Comrade Huang Ziwen was the leader of the revolutionary masses in Weibei and one of the main founders of Weibei Revolutionary Base, the first revolutionary base in Shaanxi. He died in 1947 while fighting the enemy.His life was a life of revolution, a life of fighting, and he was a loyal soldier of the party. Huang Ziwen and I are both from Guanzhong, Shaanxi. His family is in Lingqian Township, Sanyuan, and my family is in Fupingdan Village, just across the river.We have worked and fought together for quite some time, starting in the thirties.Therefore, I know him better. Huang Ziwen went to Shanghai from Sanyuan to study in 1925, joined the Communist Party in Shanghai in 1926, and later studied at the Whampoa Military Academy.After Chiang Kai-shek betrayed the revolution in 1927, under the situation of white terror, he followed the party's instructions and returned to his hometown, Sanyuan Wuzi District, to carry out revolutionary activities.In the spring of 1928, he organized a peasant guerrilla group in Wuzi District. This revolutionary armed force was considered the earliest in the Weibei area.Around May, Huang Ziwen organized and led tens of thousands of peasants to carry out the struggle of "communication with farmers" and armed siege of county towns. This struggle was a powerful blow to the Kuomintang regime and had a great influence in the Weibei area.At that time, I heard the gunshots of armed struggle in Sanyuan County Prison. It can be said that it was the first shot fired in the Weibei area to use revolutionary armed forces to resist the reactionary Kuomintang rule.Since then, the peasant armed force led by Huang Ziwen has continued to grow and develop like a single spark, and has become the main force for the formation of the Red Twenty-six Army in the future, and has contributed to the establishment of Weibei and the later Zhaojin Revolutionary Base.Although they were constantly besieged and suppressed by the Kuomintang army in the struggle against the enemy, there were setbacks and repetitions, but the flame of armed struggle never went out in Weibei until the whole country was liberated.

Huang Ziwen and I worked together after I arrived in Wuzi District.In the spring of 1932, I returned to Fuping after the rebellion of the two soldiers. Later, Zhou Dongzhi and I went to Yangliuping, Yaoxian County to meet Xie Zichang.At that time, Xie Zichang was the commander-in-chief of the guerrillas of the Shaanxi-Gansu Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and Li Jiefu was the political commissar.At this time, Huang Ziwen was working in the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas, and had served as political commissar of five detachments. When the general headquarters of the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas was restored, Huang Ziwen served as the political director.In August, I met Liu Zhidan at the Vajra Temple.In September, the army decided to go south for a guerrilla attack. Xie Zichang asked me to stay and operate in the Zhaojin area.Liu Zhidan left the spy team behind, and I led the guerrilla movement.Around the season of picking cotton, Yu Deshui led the way, and I led the troops from Zhaojin Laoniupo to Sanyuan Wuzi District.After arriving in Wuzi District, our unit was organized into the second guerrilla team in Wuzi District, that is, the guerrilla team in the rear area. The captain Chen Guoxi and I served as the instructor.Soon, the former Fuyao Revolutionary Committee was established, followed by the establishment of the Weibei Special Committee, with Li Jiefu and Huang Ziwen as the propaganda committee members of the special committee.After the reorganization of the former Fuyao Revolutionary Committee, Huang Ziwen appointed the chairman of the committee.I started to serve as the secretary of the district party committee in Sanyuan, and in the spring of 1933, I served as secretary of the Sanyuan Central County Committee of the regiment.During the period when Huang Ziwen and I got along, it was the period of great development of the Weibei Revolutionary Base Area, and the Xin and Wu areas were united to form a red area.Comrade Huang Ziwen was only in his twenties at that time, he had rich experience in struggle, he had great insights on some issues, and he had great prestige among the masses.Together with other comrades, he worked hard in black and white to consolidate and strengthen the work of the revolutionary committee and develop the base area, and he did a lot of work, showing outstanding leadership and organizational skills.Huang Ziwen was able to proceed from reality in his work, and he was very dissatisfied with the "left" set at that time.At that time, Li Jiefu, Jia Tuofu, Chen Jianwen and others came?Weibei, engaged in "leftist" tactics, they did not proceed from the reality and the needs of the struggle at the time, they strongly advocated the distribution of land and the establishment of an open government, but Huang Ziwen did not agree with the distribution of land, and there was a lot of controversy. They accused Huang Ziwen of being "right" leaning.It now appears that Huang Ziwen's opinion at the time was correct.On November 7th, the October Revolution Day of the Soviet Union, a commemorative meeting was held in Wuzi District, which was also called the "Autumn Branch Riot" at that time.They all left, and the peasants whose land was distributed suffered. The homes of Huang Ziwen and other comrades were ransacked, burned, and robbed. Dozens of party members and cadres and the masses were killed.In the spring of 1933, not long after I took the post of Secretary of the Sanyuan County Party Committee of the regiment, I was transferred to the border area.After the establishment of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Special Committee, Jin Like served as the secretary, and I served as the secretary of the Special Committee's Military Commission.At this time, the general headquarters of the guerrillas on the Shaanxi-Gansu border (also called the headquarters of the guerrillas in Zhaojinsu District) was established, with Li Miaozhai as the commander-in-chief and me as the political commissar.Later, Li Miaozhai was removed from his position and Huang Ziwen was appointed as the commander-in-chief. I was still the political commissar, and we worked in the Xuejiazhai area of ​​Yaoxian County.Around April or May, the Provincial Party Committee decided that I would go to work in the 26th Red Army, and I went to Wuzi District to live in the traffic station.At this time, Liu Zhidan arrived with the 26th Red Army.In Wuzi District, I was appointed as the instructor of the Young Pioneers of the Red 26th Army, and I acted with the Red 26th Army.In the spring of 1934, I was transferred to the chairmanship of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Revolutionary Committee.In the winter of this year, the Revolutionary Committee of the Southern Shaanxi-Gansu Border District was established in Zhongbu County. The secretary was Zhang Bangying, and the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee was Huang Ziwen, who was one of the party and government leaders in the Zhaojin base area.During this period, Huang Ziwen and other comrades actively mobilized the masses, carried out guerrilla warfare, established a revolutionary regime, and did a lot of work for the establishment of the Zhaojin Revolutionary Base Area, which was a contribution.

In 1935, the suppression of anti-revolutionary campaigns in northern Shaanxi expanded, and Huang Ziwen and I were both imprisoned. They were released only after the arrival of the Central Red Army led by Chairman Mao.Afterwards, Gao Gang wanted to kill Huang Ziwen several times, but I saved them all.Gao Gang and Huang Ziwen had worked in the 26th Red Army. Huang Ziwen exposed him because of his style of work, so he held a grudge and always wanted revenge.During the rectification movement in Yan'an, Gao Gang served as Secretary of the Party Committee and Commander of Security in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of Huang Ziwen.Gao Gang talked to Huang Ziwen and asked him to explain the problem, so Huang Ziwen ran away from the border area. This was a last resort, and he was forced to do nothing.After he went out, he really did not do anything bad in the enemy's secret service. At that time, the party had a spirit called: "Secret and capable, long-term ambush, conserve strength, and wait for the opportunity."If conditions permit, open and legal means can be used to fight against the enemy.He has not been in the secret service for a long time. I told him to go back to his hometown in Wuzi District through Huang Zixiang, but he said he would go back to the border area. I told Zixiang at the time that he could not go back to the border area now.In this way, he returned to Wuzi District and mastered the local armed forces of the Kuomintang.In 1947, I wrote to him, asking him to take the enemy's armed forces back to the border area.Comrade Zhao Boping is aware of this problem.After that, Huang Ziwen led all the armed forces in Wuzi District to stage an uprising, and brought the personnel and armed forces back to the border area.In the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 1947, Huang Ziwen was unfortunately killed in battle with the enemy at the small crossing in front of the Sanyuan Mausoleum.In November 1948, the Guanzhong Prefectural Committee held a memorial meeting for Huang Ziwen and other martyrs in Malan, and made a fair conclusion about Huang Ziwen's life.

One of the biggest characteristics of Huang Ziwen's life is that he is not afraid of difficulties and sacrifices for the revolution, and has a determination to fight to the end.In order to establish the Weibei Revolutionary Base, he was arrested many times by the enemy and would rather die than surrender; his home was ransacked and burned by the enemy many times, but he never compromised and fought the enemy to the end with a strong revolutionary will.The most valuable thing is his selfless spirit. In order to establish the revolutionary armed forces, he almost selflessly dedicated all his family property to the revolution.Huang Ziwen's home can be said to be a revolutionary home, and several people in the family gave their lives for the revolution.The reason why Huang Ziwen is very popular with the masses in the Weibei area is inseparable from his excellent style of being able to connect with the masses and caring about their sufferings.The work he has been engaged in all his life is aimed at liberating the toiling masses, so he has a high prestige among the masses and a strong appeal.Huang Ziwen is a loyal soldier of the party. He joined the party earlier and is loyal to the cause of the party.After leaving Yan'an in 1943, he found comrades from the underground party in Sanyuan and said: "I was born as a member of the Communist Party and died as a ghost of the Communist Party. I will never change my mind towards the Party." From participating in the revolution to engage in guns, to sacrificing on the battlefield of the struggle against the enemy, and fighting for the cause of the party all his life.To look at a person's history is to look at his whole history comprehensively.

Huang Ziwen's revolutionary deeds are immortal.Huang Ziwen's noble qualities are worth learning forever. (This article is compiled based on two interviews with Comrade Xi Zhongxun in April and December 1984, and reviewed by me in the spring of 1995.)