Chapter 20 Eliminate counter-revolutionary disasters

In July 1935, Zhu Lizhi arrived at the revolutionary base in northern Shaanxi in the name of the representative of the Central Committee.On the 15th of the same month, at a meeting held in Yongping Town, Yanchuan County, the Northwest Working Committee and the Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi Provincial Committees were abolished, and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Shanxi Provincial Committee was established with Zhu Lizhi and Guo Hongtao as the chief and deputy secretaries. The Northwest Military Commission is chaired by Nie Hongjun.Soon, a serious mistake occurred in the northwest base area to eliminate counter-revolutionaries.

Subsequently, they made public opinion that the leaders of the Shaanxi-Gansu Red Army and the base areas were "rightists", "counter-revolutionaries", and "everyone from Xi'an has problems", opening the way for their wrong line of eliminating counter-revolutionaries. On September 21, "The Shanxi-Gansu-Shanxi Provincial Party Committee issued instructions, decided to establish a political security system, issued a red martial law order, and implemented an anti-revolutionary order. They also sent people to the front and the Shaanxi-Gansu border to arrest cadres wantonly." "Almost none of the cadres above the Red Twenty-six Army Battalion and the main leading cadres above the county level were spared."

This erroneous eradication of counter-revolutionaries caused many comrades who were loyal to the party to suffer injustice, which in turn affected the great wavering and panic of the Red Army, weakening the strength of the Red Army.In this disaster, more than 200 people were unjustly killed... 6 people were buried alive, including Du Wan, head of the Southern District Party Committee, and Jin Like, secretary of the Chishui County Party Committee.Huang Ziwen, Xi Zhongxun, Cai Ziwei and others were detained in Wayaobao. His wife Li Shengyun and brother Huang Zixiang's daughter Huang Peilan were arrested in Zhengning County, and his wife and niece Li Jinfang were arrested in Luohechuan.Huang Peilan and Li Jinfang went north to participate in revolutionary work under the influence of Ziwen and his wife after graduating from Xi'an school. They were both only 17 years old when they were killed by the executors of the "leftist" opportunist line.

In mid-October, the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao led the Central Red Army to reach northern Shaanxi on the Long March. On the 24th, Chairman Mao issued an instruction to "keep people under the sword and stop arresting people" in response to the mistaken eradication of counterrevolutionaries.Immediately, the central cadre meeting was held, and it was decided to set up a five-member leading group with Dong Biwu as the secretary to deal with the investigation of the expansion of counter-revolutionaries, and assigned Wang Shoudao, Liu Xiangsan, and Jia Tuofu to Wayaobao to release the detained comrades. At the beginning of December, Chairman Mao criticized the anti-revolutionary incident as completely wrong and demanded that the wronged comrades be released and their jobs resumed.

After Huang Ziwen was released, he was arranged to work in the Wayaobao Red Army Arsenal. In March 1936, Yuan Guoping, director of the Political Department of the Red Army and political commissar of the Red Army School, transferred Huang Ziwen to the Red Army School as a political teacher. On September 1, the Red Army School moved from Wayaobao to Baoan with the Party Central Committee, and Huang Ziwen accompanied him.Soon, Huang Ziwen accompanied the school to Quzi Town, Huan County, Gansu Province.At this time, He Long's teaching group and the Red Army University of the Second Red Army also moved here.Here, the Red Army School, the Teaching Corps, and the Red Army University were jointly compiled as the Central Red Army Instructor. At the end of December, after the teaching instructor moved to Qingyang County, the two companies of the teaching regiment were reorganized into political companies, Zhang Wenhua was the political teacher of the first company, and Huang Ziwen was the political teacher of the second company.Among the students, there are many people from the south, especially the students in Shanghai, who have difficulty distinguishing between the words "Huang" and "Wang", and they speak quickly, and they hear "Huang Ziwen" as "Wang Wen".Some students from Shaanxi jokingly asked: "Is your name 'Huang Ziwen' or 'Wang Wen'?" Ziwen laughed and said: "The name is just a code to distinguish Zhang San and Li Si. 'Wang Wen' is simple and easy to call. 'Wang Wen'!" Since then, "Wang Wen" has become Huang Ziwen's pseudonym.

In July 1937, after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Longdong Special Committee was established, and Yuan Guoping was appointed Secretary of the Special Committee.He sent more than 20 people, including Huang Ziwen and Zhang Wenhua, to do local work as instructors, and Huang Ziwen was appointed as the director of Qingyang County Anti-Enemy Support Association. In Qingyang, Ziwen met his wife Li Shengyun.During the conversation, I learned that Li Shengyun was sent by the party organization to work in Xunyi after going north, and met two nieces there, and later Li Jinfang was sent to work in Luohechuan, and Huang Peilan was with her.During the anti-revolutionary campaign, they were all arrested and killed.After he was released, he was transferred to the Qingyang Anti-enemy Support Association in March to do women's work.

Ziwen listened silently, he did not expect that his wife would be imprisoned and imprisoned because of him, let alone that two passionate youths who were only 17 years old would be killed.He was silent for a long time, his heart ached, and tears welled up in his eyes. In the spring of 1930, he was tortured by the enemy, but he did not shed tears because of the pain; in 1934, he was wrongly expelled from the party, and he did not shed tears because of his injustice.Today he was in tears.He was horrified and shocked by the fact that his own people were punishing his own people in the revolutionary camp, and he was saddened by the evil consequences of this wrong eradication of counterrevolutionaries.He couldn't help thinking of Cao Zhi's famous "Seven Step Poem" during the Three Kingdoms period:

Ziwen thought that Chairman Mao rescued him and his wife from death, so he persuaded Li Shengyun to hone his will at work and understand the ups and downs of the revolutionary struggle.