Chapter 17 Disguise to save friends

In early December 1932, the Provincial Party Committee sent Du Heng to the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region to implement the "Resolution on the Establishment of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border New Soviet Area and the Red 26th Army" made by the Provincial Party Committee in August.Du Heng went to Sanyuan and asked Huang Ziwen to take the Weibei guerrillas with him to the northern border area, and formally reorganized the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas into the Red 26th Army (there was only the second regiment) in Zhuanjiao Town, Yijun County.Head of the regiment Wang Shitai, political commissar Du Heng (military and political commissar), chief of staff Zheng Yi (later Liu Zhidan).Later, Du Heng asked Huang Ziwen to return to Sanyuan to report the situation to the provincial party committee.Ziwen then escorted Xie Zichang and Yan Hongyan, who had been dismissed by Du Heng, to Wuzi District, and sent people to send Xie and Yan out of Tongguan to Shanghai.

On January 5, 1933, Ziwen wrote a letter to the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, reporting Du Heng's reorganization of the 26th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and asking for instructions on his own work.Soon, the Provincial Party Committee sent Ziwen to inspect Baishui and Pucheng.After receiving the instructions, Ziwen and Jin Tianhua brought the Weibei guerrillas back to Wuzi District in the middle and late month of the month, and then went to Baishui. In late March, Huang Ziwen returned to the Provincial Party Committee to report on his work in Baishui and Pucheng.At this time, Du Heng also returned to the provincial party committee. On April 10, Du Heng presided over the meeting of the Provincial Party Committee, and in the name of "rightist", gave Ziwen a three-month probation in the party.Then he was sent to work in the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Special Committee.

The Shaanxi-Gansu Border Special Committee was established in March, leading the guerrillas with Li Miaozhai as the commander-in-chief and Xi Zhongxun as the Secretary of the Military Commission and political commissar - the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Guerrillas. In mid-April, Huang Ziwen succeeded Li Miaozhai as the commander-in-chief of the Shaanxi-Gansu border guerrillas, and Xi Zhongxun as political commissar.Under the leadership of Xi Zhongxun, Huang Ziwen and others, the Shaanxi-Gansu border guerrilla team took on the important task of defending the Shaanxi-Gansu border special committee and the Shaanxi-Gansu border revolutionary committee, carried out guerrilla struggles, and consolidated and developed the new Soviet area on the Shaanxi-Gansu border.

In late May, Du Heng returned to Zhaojinsu District from the provincial party committee, and proposed that the Second Regiment of the 26th Red Army go south to Weihua to establish a new base. In mid-June, Du Heng ignored the advice and opposition of the Provincial Party Committee, the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Special Committee, and the Sanyuan Central County Committee of the Communist Party of China, and forcibly led the Second Red Regiment to the south.Huang Ziwen was also ordered to lead the way to Wuzi District with the army.After the provincial party committee learned of the operation, it sent Yuan Yuedong, secretary of the provincial party committee, to Sanyuan to stop it.When Yuan arrived in Sanyuan, he only met Du Heng who was about to return to the provincial party committee.The Second Red Regiment has been taken away by Wang Shiqin, Liu Zhidan, acting political commissar Wang Feng and others. On the evening of the 18th, Yuan Yuedong convened an emergency meeting in the Sanyuan Minority Education Hall, attended by Du Heng, Liu Yingsheng, Zhao Boping (the secretary of the Central County Party Committee), and Huang Ziwen. .When Ziwen chased to the north bank of the Weihe River, the troops had already crossed the river and disappeared.

In order to save the revolutionary armed forces, after Huang Ziwen reported the situation to Yuan Yuedong and Zhao Boping, he disguised himself as a carpenter and went deep into the Weihua Mountains to find comrades in arms.In Chengjia Township and Qiaonan Town in Weinan, in Gaotang, Dongyang Township, Baozidi, Guojiazhuang, Huanglukou, and Jianyukou in Huaxian County, Ziwen’s arduous journey left footprints; in the classroom of Damingsi Primary School, Underground party member Yao Minghui's Guanzi shop, and among the stone rocks in the mountains and forests of Lantian County, left the figure of Ziwen...During more than ten days of traveling, the answer Ziwen got was only: "I don't know what team, they went to Nanshan two days ago!" Nanshan is the Qinling Mountains.

One night, Ziwen was lying on a rock under a big tree in Donggou, Jianyu, thinking about how to find the whereabouts of the troops as soon as possible.Suddenly, he thought of Zhao Yingkui who was the secretary of the county party committee in Weihua.The two of them are from the township party, and they worked together. Wouldn't it be more convenient and faster to get in touch with him and ask the Weihua local party organization to help find the troops? The next day, he ran all day and finally found Zhao Yingkui.After the two discussed, Zhao recruited a few party members and searched for them separately.Ziwen asked them to dress up as those who went to the mountains to cut firewood, those who picked goods to travel to the countryside, or those who visited relatives and friends, and rushed to search in all directions.

In the days when he was looking for comrades-in-arms, Ziwen often slept in the open.In the deep mountains and old forests, there is not a single house that can be met for miles and miles. When he is hungry during the day, he burns yams to eat; when it is cold at night, he gathers some firewood.In this way, Wen Lei, a member of the Songhua underground party, traveled around for more than ten days suffering from hunger and hunger, and finally found Liu Zhidan, who was suffering from illness and hunger, and Wang Shitai and others in Xigugu.With the assistance of Wang Jie, Li Lingyun, Chen Juyi, Song Jinchang, etc., the party members of Weihua University, he moved to Huaxian several times. In late July, he went to the underground party members of Weinan, Zhang Wenhua, Zhang Wogong, and Bai Sitang, to hide in the house, waiting for the opportunity to cross the Weihe River and return to Zhaojin.

In July and August, it is the season when the Weihe River surges.The bridge was blocked by the enemy, and the ferry was also controlled by the enemy.Huang Ziwen, Liu Zhidan, Wang Shitai and others gathered at Zhang Wenhua's house, worrying about the North Crossing, especially the head of the group, Wang Shitai, who didn't know how to swim and had no choice but to cross the bridge.Everyone's guns can't be carried on their own.Ziwen came up with an idea and said: "Let my wife take the gun and cross the bridge with Shitai, and the rest of the people swim across the river separately." Liu Zhidan was afraid that Li Shengyun was young and had children, so he didn't want to let him take risks. Said: "Our wife has been in prison, made grenades, and can shoot guns. She is very courageous. Don't worry!" Ziwen looked at Wang Shitai, then at Li Shengyun who was holding the child, and added: "As for the two of them How to cross the bridge with a gun, I have my own tricks, don't worry everyone!"

One day in early August, a young couple walked towards the Weihe Bridge. The man was holding a two-year-old child, and the woman was carrying a basket containing fragrant paper money and offerings.They had just arrived at the pier when the enemy sentry took a step forward: "What are you doing!" "I went to Hebei to celebrate my mother's anniversary!" the woman replied. "Who is he?" asked the sentinel. "I'm a man," said the woman. The sentinel glanced at the basket, but didn't move, and shook his head: "Let's go!" The two of them crossed the river and couldn't help quickening their pace.The man let out a long breath: "My hanging heart is finally let go!" The woman smiled, did not speak, and appeared calm and composed.This is what Ziwen asked Wang Shitai and Li Shengyun to dress up.

When Wang Shitai and Li Shengyun arrived at the originally agreed gathering point—the home of underground party member Li Yuzhang, Huang Ziwen, Liu Zhidan, Huang Luobin, etc. were escorted by Weinan underground party members separately. Li Shengyun took out a pistol from the basket, handed it to everyone, and hugged the child. With Liu Zhidan's entrustment, he went to Xi'an to report the situation to the Provincial Party Committee. The Benzi (a woodworking tool) that Huang Ziwen used to rescue his comrades in disguise is still preserved in the Weihua Uprising Memorial Hall as a revolutionary cultural relic.