Chapter 5 Wuhan Congrong

At the end of 1926, Huang Ziwen received a letter from his brother Huang Zixiang.I learned that my brother and Yang Hucheng's National Revolutionary Army fought a desperate battle with Zhensong Army Liu Zhenhua in order to defend Shaanxi.The siege of Xi'an and Sanyuan has been lifted, and the people in their hometown who are on the death front have been saved.He was sincerely happy that his brother was able to take up a gun to defend his hometown and the people.He is determined to learn his skills well, form an armed force in the future, and do something useful for the complete liberation of the working people in his hometown and even the whole country.

On April 12, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup in Shanghai, massacring communists and revolutionary masses.In this troubled time, Huang Ziwen felt that "fisting" is better than reasoning to solve problems, and guns are better than writing articles to solve problems.Therefore, he discussed with Zhang Ziping and planned to go to the Whampoa Military Academy to learn military knowledge.Prior to this, the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy had sent people to Hunan, Hubei, Shanghai and other places to recruit students. The party and league organizations in various places had given strong support and selected a large number of Communist Party members, members of the Communist Youth League and progressive youth to apply for the military academy.Yun Daiying, Zhang Ziping's teacher at Shanghai University, has already taught at the Wuhan branch of the Kuomintang Central Military Political School according to the arrangement of the party organization, and is the chief political instructor of the branch.After discussing with Zhang Ziping, Ziwen applied for the Wuhan Branch of Whampoa Military Academy with the consent of the party organization.

In the military academy, Huang Ziwen continued to read progressive books while learning military knowledge.The "Revolutionary Life" published by the Propaganda Section of the Political Department of the Military Academy aroused Ziwen's interest, and he read it first every time it was published.In the special issue, the teachers and students of the military academy heatedly discussed the relationship between Marxism and the Chinese revolution, and the relationship between communism and the Three People's Principles. Marxism-Leninism thought deeply inspired and educated Huang Ziwen. In 1927, "Revolutionary Life" praised the vigorous peasant movement in the vast rural areas of Hunan and Hubei in the first half of the year. Ziwen paid close attention to and admired the power of the peasant movement and the fearless revolutionary spirit of the peasants.

In July of the same year, Wang Jingwei launched a counter-revolutionary coup in Wuhan, announcing a break with the Communist Party, closing down trade unions, peasant associations and other revolutionary organizations, and massacring Communist Party members, workers and peasants.The Wuhan Military Academy was closed. After Ziwen left the military academy, he and some classmates went to Huang'an and Macheng in Hubei Province to investigate the situation of the peasant movement and learn the experience of the peasant movement according to the arrangement of the party organization.The reality of the peasant revolution made Ziwen see with his own eyes the infinite power of the peasant masses, the ally of the Chinese working class.He deeply felt that once the workers and peasants join hands, the victory of China's revolutionary cause is in sight.

On August 7, 1927, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held an emergency meeting in Hankou - the "August 7th Meeting" in view of the confluence of Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei, massacring Communists and suppressing the revolutionary masses of workers and peasants.The meeting determined the general policy of implementing the agrarian revolution and armed resistance to the Kuomintang's massacre policy, and decided to hold the Autumn Harvest Uprising in the vast rural areas of the four provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, and Jiangxi.Ziwen listened carefully to the party's conveyance of the spirit of the "August 7th Conference".At this time, Huang Ziwen was in full bloom. Due to the training of the party organization and his personal social investigation and practice of the labor movement and the peasant movement, he had matured ideologically and politically. He decided to return to his hometown and follow the spirit of the "August 7th Conference". Practice the peasant movement ideas of Mao Zedong, Peng Pai and other comrades, imitate the feats of farmers in Huanggang and Macheng, organize the toiling people in their hometowns, carry out armed struggles, and rescue the masses of toiling masses.