Chapter 42 Comrade Huang Ziwen will always live in our hearts

It has been 40 years since Comrade Huang Ziwen died. I will never forget the battle scenes we experienced together and his firm revolutionary will in the days when I was with him.His life was a life of revolution, a life of fighting.He participated in the revolution in 1926 and died in 1947. His life was only 39 years.He was arrested by the enemy, persecuted by the "left" line, and experienced hardships and setbacks in the revolutionary journey.However, his revolutionary belief has never been shaken, his revolutionary will has never declined, his weapon has never been put down, and his last breath of life was stopped on the battlefield of the struggle against the enemy.Lu Xun once said something like this: Some people are alive but dead, and some people are dead but still alive.Although Comrade Huang Ziwen died and left us for forty years, his revolutionary spirit will always live in people's hearts.

On the 15th day of the twelfth lunar month in 1928, I heard Liu Shumo (Tieshan) talk about Huang Ziwen while attending the enlarged meeting of the Provincial Party Committee in Meiyuan, Fuping.It was the spring of 1928. In order to raise funds for the party and establish a revolutionary armed force, Ziwen made a "bitter trick" with comrades from the Special Section of the Military Special Section of the Sanyuan County Committee of the Communist Party of China, asking them to pretend to be "bandits" and tie Ziwen to his home to torture him. Ziwen pretended to cry and begged his mother to take out the opium at home.In this way, Ziwen's mother didn't tell the truth, and in order to save her son's life, she took out six or seven hundred taels of cigarettes from the family.Afterwards, Ziwen handed over the money from the tobacco sale to the Sanyuan County Party Committee.At that time, I was deeply moved by Ziwen's revolutionary spirit. Although I didn't meet him, he has become a "legendary figure" in my heart.

In June 1929, I went to the Weinan County Party Committee office (the home of Liu Pingwa, a carpenter in Xiangtian Village, Xinshi City), and fortunately met Huang Ziwen, who also came here to attend a meeting held by the Provincial Party Committee.It was through Zhang Weisen's introduction that I got to know Ziwen.I saw him dressed in peasant clothes, of medium height, and looked very shrewd and capable.The content of this meeting was to convey the spirit of the central government's instructions on Shaanxi's work. The center was to request guerrilla warfare in the disaster area, and to determine that the Wuzi area in Weibei was the center.After the meeting, Huang Ziwen returned to Wuzi District, and brought more than ten rifle bullets with him.

On February 16th of the lunar calendar in 1930, Du Heng, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, went to Yulin to inspect his work, and I took him to the secret agency of the Youth League Special Committee.I was the Secretary of the Northern Shaanxi Special Committee and Director of the Military Commission at the time.Within a few days, Du Heng received a letter from Jiao Weichi, Secretary General of the Provincial Party Committee, saying that Ziwen had been released from prison.Du Heng described to me the circumstances of Ziwen's arrest. It turned out that Ziwen organized a relief meeting in 2009 to attack the landlords and gentry and distribute food to save the people.The landlord and gentry held a grudge, so they colluded with the local garrison to arrest Ziwen and his elder brother Huang Zixiang and imprison them in Sanyuan County Prison.On the second day after Ziwen was imprisoned, the enemy hung him from the beam of the roof to torture him, and baked him with red-hot charcoal.When he was interrogated, he was asked if he was a Communist Party member.He lied to the enemy and said: "I don't even know what the Communist Party does." The enemy interrogated and tortured him many times, but he never changed his confession.Afterwards, the enemy saw that there was nothing to ask. He released Zixiang first and asked him to go out to raise money and pay, and then let Ziwen go out.After Zixiang was released from prison, with the help of his family and the public, it took a lot of money to redeem Ziwen from prison.

Later, when I met Ziwen, I asked him if he was afraid of being roasted by the enemy. He said humorously: "The redder the charcoal is, the less you need to be afraid, because the nerves at the end of the burn will not feel pain."It shows the optimism and fearlessness of a revolutionary. After Ziwen was released from prison that time, he did not stop the revolutionary struggle because of this, but continued to lead the people in Wuzi District to carry out armed struggle with a firmer will.In June of the same year. , Together with Chen Yunqiao sent by the Provincial Party Committee, he organized the "Self-Rescue Army for Disaster Victims" in Wuzi District. He served as the political commissar and Chen Yunqiao served as the commander-in-chief. He actively carried out guerrilla warfare and had a great influence in Weibei.

In June 1930 (lunar calendar), I participated in the fifth enlarged meeting held by the Provincial Party Committee at Gonggao Village Primary School in Lantian. At the meeting, Huang Ziwen was elected as an alternate member of the Provincial Party Committee and director of the Military Department.Soon, the self-rescue army led by Ziwen failed because of Zhang Chengyi's rebellion.In October of the lunar calendar, Ziwen came to Xi'an to look for the Provincial Party Committee, and Zhang Ziping introduced him to me.Ziwen was wearing a black padded jacket. He said that the Zhao Shoushan regiment sent people to ransack his home and he was unable to move around. He didn't know what to do?I discussed with Zhang Ziping and decided to let him go to the Tianjin Northern Bureau.Because the delegation of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee composed of Du Heng, Li Feinan, and Yang Shan went to the Tianjin Northern Bureau for a meeting, Ji Guozhen from Xi'an was left as acting secretary.Ji Guozhen and Zhang Ziping formed the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to preside over the work and have the power to decide this issue.So, after discussing with Comrade Jiao Weichi, Secretary General of the Provincial Party Committee, I informed Ziwen and his lover Li Shengyun to go to Tianjin North Bureau together.Ziwen sold the mule that Sheng Yun was riding for 120 yuan as travel expenses, and went to Tianjin.

After Ziwen arrived in Tianjin, he was assigned to work in the Military Commission of the Northern Bureau.In the spring of 1931, the Northern Bureau sent him to Shanxi to organize a mutiny, and Li Shengyun stayed in Tianjin.After Ziwen arrived in Shanxi, he first met Liu Tianzhang, secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee, and asked him to go to Gaoguizi's army to stage a mutiny.Ziwen was on his way to the Gaoguizi Department for the second time. He heard that a regiment in the Gao Department had mutinied and was changed to the Red 24th Army. He was attacked by the enemy and his whereabouts were unknown. He had to return to Shijiazhuang.Later, Liu Tianzhang decided to let him go to Fenyang to find Tuokekuan and start guerrilla warfare.In the summer of the same year, Ziwen and Tuo Kekuan organized the Shanxi guerrillas there. Ziwen was appointed as the political commissar of the guerrillas by the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee, and Tuo Kekuan was the captain.In September, the Shanxi guerrilla team was instructed by the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee to cross the Yellow River westward and return to northern Shaanxi.

In the spring of 1932, the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee instructed Ziwen to return to Wuzi District to work.Since then, he has served as political director of the Shaanxi-Gansu Guerrilla Army, member of the Standing Committee of the Weibei Special Committee, and chairman of the Weibei Revolutionary Committee. After the Ching Ming Festival in 1934, Huang Ziwen and I met secretly in Xi'an. We lived at No. 48, Sifu Street.At this time, I saw a piece of news from a newspaper: "Liu Zhidan's bandits captured Huangbao, with mortars, machine guns and even gangs" and other words.I excitedly handed it to Ziwen and said, "It's better to go north." Ziwen said, "Huangbao Town is about 20 to 30 miles north of Yaoxian County. Most of the surrounding landlords and local tyrants fled to this fort. There are about 60 militiamen. When I asked for leave to go back to Xi’an to recuperate last December, the army did not have machine guns and mortars.” I said decisively, “Huangbao Town is not easy to conquer, but it has been captured, which proves that our army’s combat effectiveness is very good.” So we Decided to go to Wuzi District.The next day, introduced by Bai Yaoqing, I met Ye Mou (forgot his name), the political instructor of the Chunhua guerrilla army. He went to Xi'an to see a doctor.On the evening of the third day, I crossed the river with Ziwen, Yaoqing and others. On the way, Yaoqing said that Instructor Ye had told him that Ziwen had been expelled from the Party by the 226th Army of the Red Army.After hearing this, I told Yaoqing not to tell Ziwen, but Ziwen already knew about it.After a while he said to me instead: "The 26th Red Army expelled me from the party. The revolution does not care about personal grievances. I organize guerrillas for the liberation of the workers and peasants." How precious is the noble quality of weight!On the evening of the fourth day, we arrived at Wuzi District.We stayed in Chai Yaopo, and Ziwen arranged for Wang Qide to receive us.On the second night of our arrival in Wuzi District, we gathered twelve or three people, took three Mausers, a small eight-ring gun, and a box gun that Wang Taiji had left for Wuzi District during the uprising, and went up to the gate of Saga Mountain. Ertaizi.In Ertaizi, we selected Ziwen as the captain and resumed the establishment of the "Weibei Guerrilla Team".More than ten days later, we came to Qijieshi and met Zhang Zhongliang, the political commissar of the Third Route Guerrilla, and Wang Anmin, the commander-in-chief. They distributed eleven rifles to the Weibei guerrillas, and each gun was equipped with two rows of bullets.The next afternoon, we decided to go back to Wuzi District.The summer solstice is approaching, the night is short and the sky is long, because I took the wrong road, I didn't arrive at the north of the mausoleum before dawn.On the third day, Ziwen went to Xi'an with Bai Yaoqing.After seven or eight days, Ziwen returned to Wuzi District together with Cai Ziwei, Xu Guolian, and Zhang Jingwen (female).In the evening, sixteen or seven of us camped in Ertaizi again. When we turned to Qijieshi, it was breakfast time. Suddenly there was gunfire, and we moved eastward.When I went near Dongping, I met the special service team led by Zhang Zhongliang, only to find out that they had encountered the enemy in Baijiashan, and the commander-in-chief Wang Anmin was killed in battle.Because of Wang Anmin's sacrifice, Ziwen was publicly promoted as the acting commander-in-chief of the third guerrilla.A few days later, we received an order from our superiors to ask the third guerrilla team to go north for a meeting.Xu Guolian and I went to Xi'an to buy guns, and met Sheng Yun's younger brother Li Shengdi in Xi'an.He told me: Ziwen was detained by Gao Gang, and Zhidan resigned.So, I transferred the guns and bullets I bought to the second brother's house of Zhang Li Shengyun, the same official in Sanyuan, and continued to inquire about Ziwen.

After Ziwen served as the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Southern Shaanxi-Gansu Border Area and Zhang Bangying as the secretary, he sent Dong Laoer and Zhang Laowu to Xi'an and Sanyuan to look for me.On the evening of the 14th day of the ninth lunar month, Zhang Laowu Puer and I went north to Qijieshi, the secret base of the guerrillas of the Third Route.On September 27th of the lunar calendar, Huang Ziwen came back from the Nanliang-Shaanxi-Gansu Border Soviet Congress. He described to me the situation of the Congress and Gao Gang's detention of him, and asked me to be the Secretary-General of the Soviet Office in the Southern Region of the Border Region.On November 20, I was officially transferred to the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Soviet as the Political Secretary-General.

Around February 20th of the lunar calendar in 1935, after our army suffered setbacks in the battle with Ma Hongbin's troops, Xi Zhongxun presided over a meeting to deploy and attack the enemy, and asked me to go to the southern district to send a red regiment to Taibai to stop the enemy in the name of a special commissioner.I went to Xiaoshiya, and a group just lost the battle and retreated.I had to go north to the Heishuisi area near Taibai, and the guerrillas in Tiaofu County cooperated with the Ganquan guerrillas.I met Zhang Zhongliang there, and he said that Hong Yituan might have retreated to the Wukong Cave in Chunhua.So I went south with Zhongliang to find a group.A few days later, a regiment and the Chunyao guerrillas were found in Chunhua.Zhong Liang and I decided to reorganize the two main companies one by one, with Huang Ziwen as the head of the regiment, Jia Weiyi and company commander Ma who came from the uprising in the south of Hu Zong as the deputy of the regiment, me as the political commissar, and Zhong Liang as the adviser.At the same time, it was decided that Ziwen and Zhongliang would lead the army to attack Liquan and Binxian areas.Chigan wiped out an enemy militia in Liquan, which boosted the morale of the soldiers.

In September 1935, during the suppression of counter-revolutionaries in northern Shaanxi, Ziwen returned to Luohechuan, Ganquan County, where he was wrongly arrested and detained.In October, Chairman Mao arrived in Wuqi Town, and a large number of revolutionary cadres including Ziwen were rescued.Ziwen was arranged by the Central Security Bureau to work in the Wayaobao Central Arsenal. In February of the lunar calendar in 1936, Comrade Yuan Guoping, director of the Political Department of the Red Army and political commissar of the Red Army School, Tiao Ziwen went to the Red Army School as a political teacher (located in Wayaobao).In September, the Party Central Committee moved to Baoan, and the Red Army School moved to Baoan.Soon, the Red Army School moved to Quming Town, Huanxian County, Gansu Province.At this time, He Long's teaching group and the Red Army University of the Fourth and Sixth Red Army also came here, and the three parties were jointly organized as the Central Red Army instructor in Mubo Town.At the end of December, after the teacher moved to Qingyang City, the two companies of the first regiment were organized into a political company. I was the political teacher of the first company, and Huang Ziwen was the political teacher of the second company. In July 1937, after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Longdong Special Committee was established, with Yuan Guoping as its secretary, and more than 20 people including me and Ziwen were allowed to stay and work in the local area.Ziwen changed his name to Wang Wen when he was the director of Qingyang Anti-enemy Support Association. In 1938, Gao Gang, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, notified me, Huang Ziwen, Liu Qing and others to return to Yan'an.Afraid of being retaliated by Gao Gang again, Ziwen asked for leave from Li Tielun, head of the organization of the Longdong Special Committee, and returned to Wuzi District of Sanyuan in May.In August, Ziwen went to Anwu Youth Training Class to study.In the summer of 1940, Ziwen returned to the border area, and the provincial party committee transferred him to study at the Northern Shaanxi Public College.Later, I went to the countryside to conduct social surveys, and went to the Politics Department of the Research Institute hosted by Fan Wenlan to study topics such as various parties in China for half a year. During the rectification movement in Yan'an in 1942, the Northwest Bureau came to a historical conclusion on Ziwen's work and decided to restore Ziwen's party membership.But just when the decision was about to be released, Ziwen left Yan'an after Gao Gang talked to him.This was what Xi Zhongxun told me at the Northwest Bureau when Xi'an was liberated in 1949, and Zhang Bangying also told me about it. After Ziwen returned to Sanyuan from Yan'an, on the sixth night of the second month of the lunar calendar in 1943, he went to my home in Weinan to look for me with a student from the Academy of Marxism-Leninism.I was doing intelligence work in the Northwest Intelligence Division of the Central Political Security Bureau (Wu Defeng was the director). Ziwen didn't know my real identity, and we kept talking about Tianming.He said: "Wei Zhiyi is currently the head of the Second Provincial Security Regiment. He wants to become a garrison commander. Tian Yuguo asked me to come to me several times in order to ask me to pull out the Wuzi District Baojia Armed Forces and form a brigade. So I temporarily asked I have to disclose my identity for the activity, and I plan to go to Xi’an to meet some old friends. In short, hold the barrel of the gun first, and the KMT and the Communist Party will definitely fight in the future. At that time, we will turn our guns and attack the Kuomintang Chiang. Please meet your friends in the north , explaining my motivation and purpose of joining the Kuomintang."I said: "I can prove your attitude. However, if you do this, it is often 'painting a tiger is not an anti-dog', let alone you are a famous person, 'although you are not well-known at home, you have a high reputation in your hometown', you and Zi How did Brother Xiang discuss it?" Ziwen replied: "Brother Zixiang also said that people who have been beaten upside down in history can never do great things." I sighed and said, "Yes! Otherwise you will live Go to Huashan, I can provide for my life." But he said firmly: "It's not a matter of life, once the Kuomintang catches it, it will be even more troublesome." At this time, the sky will be clear, and I said: "Weinan County Recently, I was being arrested, and before dawn, we went 20 miles north to a friend’s house to stay for two days.” After this separation, we rarely saw each other. One day in July 1946, Ziwen personally came to Weinan to deliver a letter to my home, saying that he had received news from Qu Zhengping (a member of the Weinan Military Control Station who rebelled during liberation) that the enemy wanted to kill me and Wang Zhangfeng, and told me to hide quickly. hide.I didn't think the situation was that serious at the time. He saw it anxiously and said to me: "You didn't say anything, you go!" So I said to him: "There is an acquaintance of mine near the west side. Let's go there first. You can go there tomorrow." Let’s go.” He said, “I have to go back quickly, otherwise it will cause suspicion.” In this way, I went out and hid for more than seven months, avoiding the enemy’s killing of me. In the second half of 1947, when I heard the news of Ziwen's heroic sacrifice on the battlefield, tears welled up in my eyes, and I was deeply saddened to lose a revolutionary comrade and confidant like Ziwen. After liberation, whenever I talked about Ziwen with some old classmates who worked with him, everyone praised him for his lofty spirit of ruining his fortune for the revolution, his strong will not to be discouraged after repeated setbacks, and his revolutionary quality of not complaining about hardships. Sigh and admire. Comrade Huang Ziwen will always live in our hearts!