Chapter 41 Huang Ziwen led me on the revolutionary road

Comrade Huang Ziwen and I got married in the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 1929.At that time, his family consisted of mother, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephew, and a total of eight people. They had more than 300 mu of arable land and a complete range of farm implements. They were considered a wealthy family in Wuzi District, Sanyuan County. Ziwen's father, Huang Ming (Huang Jing'an), participated in the Tongmenghui in his early years. In order to maintain local security, he organized the "Farmers' Self-improvement Society" before the Revolution of 1911.After the establishment of the Yasukuni Army, he served in Cao Shiying's Ministry.He is friendly and often helps farmers. He is known as "Huang Shanren".When Ziwen and I got married, the old man had been dead for many years.

Mother Wang is a reasonable housewife.Although she didn't understand her children's revolutionary movements at the time, she never obstructed them. She believed that her son would not do bad things.Therefore, she always warmly welcomes everyone brought by Ziwen, and always treats her son well.A few months before our wedding, Ziwen wanted to donate seven shi of grain to the victims of the disaster, but she pretended to leave without saying a word. The eldest brother, Huang Zixiang, graduated from the Shaoguan military officer school, and later served as the deputy of the Zhao Shoushan regiment stationed in Sanyuan, and often had contact with the underground party.He returned home in 1929 to join the revolutionary struggle and joined the party in 1931.He used to be the head of the Fourth Regiment of the 26th Army of the Red Army, the commander of the Guanzhong Army Division, etc. After liberation, he served as the vice chairman of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference.

The second sister, Huang Xiaxian, joined the party in 1928 and successively engaged in women's movements in Jingyang, Sanyuan, and Tongguan, and developed party organizations.He was arrested and sacrificed while doing underground work in Shijiazhuang during the Anti-Japanese War. Ziwen, the second of three brothers, was born in 1909. He went to Xiyuemiao Primary School when he was young, and went to Sanyuan County Middle School in 1923.When he was a student, he loved to play football and was fond of fighting against injustices.In 1926, he went to Shanghai to study at the Zhonghua Vocational School, where he joined the Communist Party.Later, he studied at Wuhan Huangpu Branch.Ziwen told me that when he returned to Shaanxi in 1927, because he had no travel expenses, Mr. Yu Youren, a good friend of his father, was able to help him.After returning to Shaanxi, Ziwen worked actively for the party until he died.

Recalling Ziwen and I’s revolutionary struggle life after we got married, I deeply feel that he has experienced bumps and bumps in his life. Although he suffered repeated setbacks, he did not lose his revolutionary belief and determination. In 1928, in order to cooperate with the Weihua riots, he was the commander-in-chief of the armed siege struggle. Although he failed due to insufficient preparation, he did not shrink back in the face of setbacks and continued to carry out the revolutionary struggle.In 1929, he organized a relief committee in Wuzi District to carry out activities to combat local tyrants and evil gentry and raise food for the people.In September, the Sanyuan Special Branch of the Communist Party of China was established, and Ziwen served as the secretary of the special branch.

Ziwen's activities attracted the attention of the enemy.On the fourth day of the first lunar month in 1930, Wei Fenglou, an army garrison in Sanyuan, suddenly led people into my house. On the pretext that Ziwen organized disaster victims to disturb social order, they robbed clothes, silver dollars, and took Ziwen and his elder brother Zixiang away.Later, my mother sold more than 150 acres of land, and asked relatives and friends for loans. She collected 800 yuan in cash and 400 to 500 sets of military uniforms, and entrusted talents to protect the Ziwen brothers.Zi Wenyi: Immediately after he was released from prison, he sent people around to solicit connections, buy guns, and arm the revolutionary forces.Ziwen's revolutionary activities in Weibei attracted the attention of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.In May of this year, the Provincial Party Committee sent Chen Yunqiao, inspector of Xifu, to Wuzi District to cooperate with Ziwen to mobilize the victims and carry out guerrilla warfare.Soon, they organized the "Self-rescue Army for Disaster Victims", with Chen Yunqiao as the commander-in-chief and Ziwen as the political commissar.This revolutionary armed force vigorously carried out activities in Wuzi District to attack local tyrants, distribute food, and smash district offices.In July, the Lantian meeting of the Provincial Party Committee selected Ziwen as an alternate member and served as the director of the Military Section of the Provincial Party Committee.In August, as a guerrilla; on the way to the east, the revolutionary armed forces formed by Ziwen and other comrades suffered great losses due to the mutiny of Zhang Chengyi (Swordsman Sui'er), who was born as a bandit.Afterwards, Chen Yunqiao returned: Xi'an reported the situation in Weibei to the Provincial Party Committee and asked for instructions.Ziwen stayed in Wuzi District to gather the scattered guerrillas in order to reorganize the revolutionary armed forces.

In October 1930, due to the setback of the revolutionary armed forces, the enemy frequently encircled and suppressed the Wuzi District.Ziwen was introduced to the Tianjin Northern Bureau by the Provincial Party Committee Zhang Wenhua and other comrades.Ziwen asked me to foster my daughter, Jianzhen, who was under one year old, with my natal family, and sold a mule in the family for travel expenses. I went with him to Tianjin. At that time, the liaison office of the Northern Bureau was set up in the Tianjin French Concession, and I cooked for seven or eight people in the liaison station, guarded the door, and guarded the sentry.Ziwen works in the Military Commission of the Northern Bureau.In the winter of this year, Ziwen was sent to Shanxi for military operations, and I was left in Tianjin.Here, I was introduced into the regiment by a Sichuan comrade.In February of the lunar calendar in 1931, the institution was destroyed, and seven others and I were arrested.In August, I was transferred to Beiping Prison, and my eldest son, Peiping, was born in September.In October, because the enemy could not produce concrete evidence, I was released on bail and lived in the Guanzhong Guild Hall.The underground party organization in the north allowed me to meet my second sister Huang Xiaxian who was studying at the Peking Academy of Fine Arts in the Growth Hall.Unexpectedly, this meeting would be the last time our sisters will meet.

In November of this year, Ziwen came to Peiping to take our mother and son back to Shaanxi.Only then did I know that after Ziwen arrived in Shanxi, he organized a Shanxi guerrilla team.In August and September, they crossed the Yellow River west to northern Shaanxi.This time he came to Beiping to pick me up, and it was Zhao Boping, secretary of the Northern Shaanxi Special Committee, who asked him to come.In Beiping, Ziwen met Comrade Qiao Guozhen. They persuaded me to go back to Sanyuan Wuzi District to do revolutionary work. Because I wanted to work in other places and didn’t want to go back to my hometown, Ziwen had to go back to Shaanxi first. Then Comrade Qiao Guozhen came to me many times. Talk, let me go back to Shaanxi.Although I didn't know his identity and position at the time, I felt that he was talking to me on behalf of the party organization. I couldn't stick to my personal opinion anymore and decided to return to Shaanxi.

In the first month of 1932, I returned to my hometown, Wuzi District.Ziwen was working in the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas at this time. In the autumn of 1932, the Weibei Revolutionary Committee was established, with Ziwen as its chairman.Later, Wuzi District was besieged by militia groups from six counties, so Ziwen left Wuzi District and Zhang Wenhua went to Fuping to find me, and discussed going north together.It was already the spring of 1933, and I couldn't go with them because I had a child, so they sent my mother and son to Zhang Wenhua's home in Weinan to live there. One day in August, Ziwen suddenly returned to Weinan. During the conversation, I learned that he worked in the Red Twenty-six Army after he went north.In May, after Du Heng forced the Second Regiment of the 26th Red Army to go south, the Provincial Party Committee decided to let Ziwen chase the troops to prevent the Second Regiment from going south.Half a month later, he came to Zhang Wenhua's home with Comrade Liu Zhidan on his back, accompanied by Wang Shitai and other comrades.They discussed at home about crossing the river to return to Zhaojin, and asked me to stand guard outside the door. Only then did I know that the Second Regiment's southward journey had failed.

In order to destroy the Red Army, the enemy sent troops to blockade the crossing of the Weihe River in Chishui and guarded it tightly.How to cross the Wei River, they have studied many times, but couldn't make up their minds for a while.Seeing them making trouble for crossing the river, I asked to cover them crossing the river. Comrade Zhidan felt that the matter was so important that he couldn't bear to let me take the risk.Ziwen smiled and said: "My wife has been in prison and repaired guns. She is very courageous! Let her go, I don't worry, you have nothing to worry about." Ziwen and I have been married for several years, although we live together for a long time. Little, but he knows me very well.Later, he told everyone how to cross the river.Everyone agreed with him.On the day of crossing the river, Wang Shitai and I pretended to be a fake couple, and in the name of crossing the river to pay homage, I carried a wicker cage and hid four box guns in the cage, on which I put some funeral supplies such as food offerings and fire paper.Wang Shitai hugged Peiping, who was over two years old, and teased the child while walking.Seeing our natural expression, the bridgehead sentry let us go without asking any further questions.It was a long way across the river.My heart was still beating "suddenly, suddenly, suddenly".On the day we crossed the Wei River, Zhidan, Ziwen and others also crossed the river through other ferries.In a few days, they returned to Zhaojin, and I remained in Weinan.

One day in the spring of 1935, I accidentally ran into two of my nieces in Xunyi, one was Huang Peilan, the daughter of my eldest brother Zixiang, and the other was Li Jinfang, the daughter of my third brother from my natal family.The two of them went north from the school to join the revolution.They were the same age at the time, both seventeen.Soon, Jin Fang went north, and Pei Lan and I arrived in Zhengning.In July, the erroneous suppression of counterrevolutionaries began, and Pei Lan and I were held in a prison.Soon, Pei Lan was killed.In October, after the Central Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, I was released, and only then did I know that Jin Fang was also killed in Luohechuan.Later, I learned that Comrade Xi Zhongxun, Ziwen, and Zhidan were also detained by the executors of the wrong line a few days before my arrest, and were released only after the arrival of the Central Red Army led by Chairman Mao.Since I went to Wayaobao after my release, I still haven't met Ziwen.This year I joined the Communist Party.

In March 1936, when I was doing women's work in Qingyang's anti-enemy support association, I met Ziwen. We hadn't seen each other for more than two years.He came to Qingyang to serve as the director of the support club.I heard from Ziwen that when he was the political director of the 42nd Division in 1933, he punished Gao Gang because of his style of work. Gao held a grudge and found an excuse to arrest Ziwen in Baozichuan. , to be released.In November 1934, Ziwen served as the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Southern Shaanxi-Gansu Border Area.In July 1935, Zhu Lizhi passed by the Southern District. Because he and Ziwen had different understandings on some issues, Zhu framed Ziwen as a rightist and imprisoned him in the suppression of counter-revolutionaries.After he was released, he was sent to Qingyang City Anti-enemy Support Association. In the spring of 1937, the party organization sent me to study at Lu Xun Normal School in Zhitian Township, Xunyi.In July and August, Ziwen said that the party organization in the border area asked him to return to Wuzi District to work.In the summer of 1938, I graduated from school and was transferred back to Mausoleum.At that time, after the "Double Twelve Incident", the revolutionary situation of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party developed rapidly.When Ziwen came back, he discussed with Tan Guofan (Party member) and Wang Ruiqi (Party member), the heads of the Lingqian township militia, and set up an underground arsenal in the kiln south of my house to repair guns and make grenades for the guerrillas in the base area.At this time, it happened that Ziwen asked Guo Lisan, Liu Dezhi (Li Qiyang) and other comrades to set up a "textile factory" in Changaobao in front of the mausoleum, and asked me to work there.He told us: It is called "textile factory" to the outside world, and "compulsory school for women" to the inside. Spinning and weaving are just a pretense, and the purpose is to learn culture, publicize the anti-Japanese war, and cultivate talents.The more than forty students and workers in the factory were young women selected by the party organizations of Bisanyuan Beiyuan and Fuping Nishiyuan.Every day, two or three people are sent to the village with cloth on their backs, called selling cloth, in fact to promote anti-Japanese, distribute leaflets, mobilize women to rise up for revolution, and listen to news about the enemy. In the winter of 1940, the Provincial Party Committee sent Ziwen to study at Yan'an Marxist-Leninist College.Before that, he also studied in the Anwu Youth Training Class organized by the Yunyang Party Organization.Ziwen parted with me this time, unexpectedly it became an unforgettable farewell.At the end of 1940, the Second White Terror spread across the country. The puppet government of Mihara discovered the secrets of the textile factory, forced the workers to disband, and closed the school.In the winter of 1941, I went to Yan'an, but I couldn't find Ziwen's place to live.After the rectification movement started in 1942, I participated in the rectification study.After the movement, I was assigned to teach in a primary school outside the south gate of Yan'an City.In 1943, I was sent to teach at Malan Elementary School. It was not until March 1947, when Malan was attacked and lost by Hu Zongnan’s bandit army, that I returned to Fuping’s natal home with the martial arts team. When I came back, I only heard about Ziwen. When the rectification movement began in 1942, he returned to the mausoleum because he was afraid that Gao Gang, who was in the leadership position at the time, would frame him again. Whenever I recall this experience, I feel very sad.For the revolution, Ziwen not only has to fight with the enemy here and there, but also often has to guard against the open and dark arrows of individual people in the revolutionary ranks.The setbacks and blows he suffered on the road to revolution are far more than the facts I know. In August and September of 1947, Comrade Xue Minghu visited me in Fuping and said that Mu Tianxiang asked him to come.He stroked my little boy Xiping's head with his hand, and looked at me again, but he didn't say a word.I found his hands were shaking, tears welled up in his eyes, and he burst into tears suddenly.I felt that things were not good, so he told me with grief that Ziwen had already sacrificed for the revolution. At that time, my heart was about to break.Ziwen's family sacrificed their lives for the revolution. They were burned once and their homes were ransacked several times. Seeing that the revolution was about to win and the dawn was in sight, he died heroically!At that time, he was thirty-nine years old. In 1949, Sanyuan was liberated, and with the determination to fulfill Ziwen's last wish, I actively devoted myself to new revolutionary work.I have successively served as the director of the junior club, the vice president of the commune, and a member of the county CPPCC.Under the care of the secondary party organization, Ziwen's children also participated in the work.The Northwest Bureau helped me find my eldest son Beiping who had been separated for 15 years from Xinjiang.Now I live in the old house in front of the mausoleum with my second son and daughter-in-law.Many years ago, the original five-hole cave dwelling was repaired, and the government also provided care money to build three shelters and a kitchen.Last year, three new houses with one brick to the roof were built.Governments at all levels are very concerned about me, and they send people to visit me every year and festival, and invite me to attend relevant meetings.My old age is happy.