Chapter 22 Hesitant journey

In the spring of 1942, after the Yan'an rectification movement began, Gao Gang, then secretary of the Northwest Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China and chairman of the Senate Council of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, asked Huang Ziwen to talk to him and asked him to consider his "problems."Huang Ziwen realized that Gao Gang tried to put him to death several times before, but failed.This time, he had to attack again. With Gao Gang's prominent status and power, he would definitely suffer.He asked Jia Tuofu, who knew him well in the past and now works in an important department, about the situation. Jia Shunkou replied: "There are not many dead ghosts in any temple!" Gao Gang can't do it.

Ziwen left Yan'an and returned to Wuzi District without saying goodbye.At this time, the white terror in Sanyuan became more serious, and it was difficult to find the leading organ of the Sanyuan County Committee of the Communist Party of China.He went to Chang’aobao to meet Chen Yuxiu, a traffic officer of the county party committee, and said to her: “I can’t stay in Yan’an, and Gao Gang wants to kill me. As the saying goes, a bachelor doesn’t suffer from immediate losses, so I came back. But I was born as a member of the Communist Party.” People, death is the ghost of the Communist Party. No matter where we go, the ambition of being loyal to the cause of the party and the people will not change!"

Chen Yuxiu said with tears in his eyes: "Except for a few people who confuse black and white and deliberately punish you, your loyalty to the revolution, the party, and the people is well known in Weibei." Then he told him that Li Shengyun and The child was escorted to northern Shaanxi by the party organization. Huang Zixiang took a few party members to covertly go to Mei County to open up wasteland and farm land. When he left, he told the party members who had not revealed their identities not to act blindly, saying, "A man must be able to bend and stretch..." Huang Ziwen heard it and said: "What a 'big man can bend and stretch', then I'll 'bend' to him and try!"

That night, Ziwen took dry food and went to Mei County.After Huang Ziwen found Huang Zixiang and explained the situation, Huang Zixiang told him: "The 'Jiao Nong' in 1928, the 'Self Rescue Army for Disaster Victims' in 1930 and the establishment of the Weibei base area made you famous, and people who knew you spread all over Guanzhong. Everywhere, what identity can you use to cover yourself?" He advised Ziwen to go to other places to temporarily avoid the limelight. Huang Ziwen suddenly thought of Tan Sanshao, a classmate of the Communist Party who was studying in Shanghai.As early as 1928, he sent Xi Haosheng to contact him. At that time, Tan Sanshao also established a peasant revolutionary armed force in his hometown in Henan. The situation is unknown now.

In early April, Huang Ziwen went to Henan to look for Tan Sanshao but never met.On the way back, I bought a box of bullets at Laohekou at the junction of Shaanxi, Henan, and Hubei provinces. Under the pretext of selling bamboo brooms, I transported them back to Sanyuan and buried them in preparation for re-arming. . Afterwards, Ziwen started a cattle trading business with Chen Yuxiu and a man surnamed Jiang from Henan. They bought cattle from Henan and sold them in Meixian area. In more than half a year, Ziwen accumulated a sum of money, but came and went under the rule of the Kuomintang. Running around the area made him feel anxious.Sometimes, he had to refit every day and travel at night.

One day in the middle of winter, Huang Ziwen went to Mei County to look for his brother Zixiang.He said: "I ran into Tian Yuguo a few days ago. He said that Wei Zhiyi is currently the head of the Second Provincial Security Regiment of the Kuomintang. Find an errand to pull out hundreds of guns from Lingma Bocuo and organize them into a brigade under him. I think this is a way, first get a public activity status, and hold the armed forces in your hands. As for when to go It is up to me to pull it out, pull it to him personally, or pull it to the working people. When the party organization wakes up the party members and welcomes the revolutionary climax, I will take the armed forces out to fight the Kuomintang.”

Huang Zixiang said: "If you do that, you will be misunderstood by the party organization and the masses. Let Gao Gang and his like know, and Sheng Yun and the children will have problems." "There are many people who have been misunderstood in history. Zhang Fei misunderstood Guan Yunchang, but Guan Yunchang killed Cai Yang, and the misunderstanding disappeared. Guan and Zhang reconciled as before. Besides, when Liu Guangyuan was appointed as the head of the Sanyuan Central County Party Committee in 1940, he instructed party members, Do everything possible to break into the Kuomintang regime; make friends with the Kuomintang officials who can get close; the Kuomintang joins its organization as soon as it asks. In my current situation, I can only go this way. I can first clarify the purpose to some party members, so that They will testify for me in the future. Taking a step back, even if I have been misunderstood all my life, I have a clear heart as a revolutionary," Huang Ziwen explained.

Ziwen went on to say: "Our own people will not allow our own people, and the Kuomintang is arresting us everywhere. Instead of letting the enemy catch us passively, it is better to ask Wei Zhiyi to help us find a job that is white on the outside and red on the inside..." After hearing Huang Ziwen's words, Huang Zixiang felt pain in his heart and eyes when he thought of his younger brother's situation.After a while, he persuaded again: "Although you were wrongly expelled from the party, in the eyes of the masses and the majority of party members, you are still a party member, and the Kuomintang treats you as a party member, so they are eager to arrest you. If they If you are asked to write a statement of quitting the party and join the Kuomintang, how will you deal with it?" Ziwen fell into extreme pain, and waves of memories rolled up in his mind: the innocence in elementary and middle schools, the revolutionary ambitions when he was studying in Shanghai and Wuhan, and the founding of Wei. The arduous struggle in the northern revolutionary base area was like the waves raised by a river, which doubled his courage and inspired him. Even the ups and downs in the later journey did not make him discouraged or depressed. But today's situation makes him hesitate. , in a dilemma.

In March 1943, Huang Ziwen, who was hesitant, visited Zhang Wenhua's home in Weinan, and it happened that Zhang Wenhua was still at home.When the old friends met, they had nothing to say. Huang Ziwen mentioned Wei Zhiyi’s asking him to arm him again, and said to Zhang Wenhua: “If I have no choice but to take that move, please meet with the old friend from the north and explain that I have entered the game. The motives and purposes of the Kuomintang." "I can prove your attitude. However, if you do this, it is often 'painting a tiger is not an anti-dog', not to mention that you are a famous person, 'although you are not well-known at home, you have a high reputation in your hometown', you and Brother Zixiang How was it negotiated?"

Huang Ziwen explained what Zixiang meant, and Zhang Wenhua sighed again: "That's right! Otherwise, go to Huashan, and I can provide for you." Zhang Wenhua also knew that Gao Gang was in power, and Huang Ziwen could not go north, so he had to persuade him to go to Huashan. .Ziwen said: "It's not a matter of life. Once the KMT catches him, it will be even more troublesome." Zhang Wenhua had no choice but to express regret for Ziwen's situation.