Chapter 44 The man who spread the fire of revolution

Comrade Huang Ziwen is an outstanding member of our party, one of the founders of the Weibei Revolutionary Base, and a leader in my revolutionary cause.In memory of the martyrs, thoughts flow.Comrade Ziwen's life is a life of revolution and a life of fighting.He was unswerving in the party's cause and sacrificed his life for it; he was sincere to the people and respected his parents;With the passage of time, many precious memories have been washed away by the wind and rain of time, but Comrade Huang Ziwen's revolutionary achievements and noble qualities are still engraved in my mind.

In the winter of 1927, Comrade Huang Ziwen traveled from Shanghai and Wuhan to Xi'an and returned to Wuzi District with the spirit of the "August 7th" meeting of the Party Central Committee and the "September 26th" meeting of the Provincial Party Committee. He and the revolutionary backbone publicized the spirit of the "August 7th" meeting and the "September 26th" meeting, and publicized the excellent situation of revolutions across the country. He said: "As long as the broad masses of the people unite and take up arms to fight against imperialism and the Kuomintang reactionaries, victory will be guaranteed." belong to the people".Inspired by his propaganda, our hearts are warmed up again.In 2006 and 2007, the revolutionary spirit of engaging in the peasant movement, fighting local tyrants, and fighting evil gentry was revived.Under his arrangement, we were actively active and at noon on the 18th day of the first lunar month in 1928, we formally established the "Anti-Enemy Committee" in Baosi Temple.Tang Yuhuai, Ma Xianmin, Sun Zhigang, Li Tianshe, and Zhang Shuhong formed a committee and formed a secret "Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Guerrillas".At the same time, five branches were established, and I was the liaison officer. The purpose of the "Anti-Enemy Committee" is to strengthen the revolutionary ranks, implement revolutionary insurrection, overthrow imperialism and local tyrants and evil gentry, and establish people's power.

On the evening of February 22, 1928 (the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar), Ma Delu, Tang Yuhuai, and I had a meeting in the Baosi Temple theater under the guise of gambling. At this time, Huang Ziwen came from Xi’an. When he came back, he brought a man named Yang Zhizhong with him. Both of them had a pistol in their waists. He was dressed in black and gray and dressed like a farmer. He asked Tang Yuhuai, "How about the things I asked you to do when I left? "Tang Yuhuai told him our plan, and Ziwen said happily: "Everyone really has a way!" When we talked about building a revolutionary armed force and hadn't considered who would be the leader for a while, Ziwen said wittily: "No one takes my position, and no one is an official." He continued: "Workers in Nanjing, Beijing, Shanghai and all over the country have risen, and the imperialists and the Kuomintang reactionaries are almost finished."At this time, everyone laughed, and some said, "You are so big, how can we do great things?" Seeing that everyone was not confident, Ziwen encouraged him and said, "Don't be afraid that we have few people. There are workers in every city." , there are students, there are peasants everywhere, and the strength of one mind is great, and when the time comes, the enemy will be defeated with a single response, and we will not only capture Sanyuan City, but also occupy Xi'an!" After he said this, everyone's hearts were full of enthusiasm.Seeing everyone gearing up and eager to try, he urged everyone again and again: "We must mobilize the masses as soon as possible during the slack season in February and March, otherwise, it will be difficult to handle the busy season." What do you tell people?" Ziwen handed a notebook to Ma Xianmin and said, "Policies are all in the notebook." Ma Xianmin copied several copies of the contents of the notebook.Distributed to five clubs.At this meeting, everyone elected Huang Ziwen as the commander-in-chief of the Anti-Enemy Committee, and Tang Huizhi and Sun Pingzhang as the chief and deputy captains of the "Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Guerrillas".Since then, a revolutionary armed force has been established under the leadership of Huang Ziwen.This armed force, like a single spark, has continued to grow and develop, and has never been extinguished in the Weibei area.

In the spring of 1928, due to the drought and spring famine, coupled with the reactionary authorities pressing for food and money, extorting and extorting, the people were burdened heavily and complained a lot.The majority of farmers urgently demanded that the puppet government reduce or exempt grain payments. According to the instructions of the Sanyuan County Committee of the Communist Party of China (Huang Ziwen is a member of the Sanyuan County Committee of the Communist Party of China), at the end of February in the lunar calendar, the anti-enemy committee convened a meeting of the heads of each branch. Ma Xianmin mobilized everyone according to Huang Ziwen’s arrangement. : "People are short of food and clothing throughout the year, but the government forces them to pay for food. If they don't pay, they will whip the rope and tie. We are so pitiful! What should we do? I think 'officials bully others, step on the yamen, and Lao Tzu bullies children to escape Going out', we stopped growing crops, and went to the government to 'hand over agriculture', which is called 'officials forcing people to rebel'! It has existed since ancient times." Everyone agreed with this approach.Finally, Huang Ziwen asked everyone to hurry up and prepare for the publicity work. After that, Huang Ziwen also held a meeting of the directors of each film to check the mobilization preparations.

On the afternoon of the fourth day of the third month of the lunar calendar, Huang Ziwen asked each film to notify the masses to gather at the Linghou Temple with agricultural tools and tools in the early morning of the next day, and go down to the county to "deliver farming". On the morning of the fifth day of March, the "Jiao Nong" masses held branches and brooms to gather in the temple behind the mausoleum. Before the meeting, Ziwen tore a piece of paper from his notebook, wrote a few words and handed it to me, so that I could speak in his voice When he was older, hand him the note.After finishing speaking, he walked up to the stage and began to speak. After a while, I handed him the note, and he asked loudly, "Where did it come from?" I said it was from Sanyuan, and then he said loudly, "Sanyuan City has been destroyed by the original The servants are surrounded, and only our Wuzi District is left, let’s go down to the county right away.” The army of “Jiao Nong” immediately marched towards the county town, leaving me and Sun Pingzhang behind to continue to urge people.At noon, I arrived in Sanyuan County.At that time, the county seat was surrounded by the masses.The two of us came back at night and continued to urge people.At noon the next day, I went to the county again and saw someone hanging buns for the masses on the north city wall.Because the "Jiao Nong" people only brought one day's dry food when they came, and they besieged the city for three days, and bought out all the steamed buns in Xiyang, Loudi, and Luqiao.On this day, Ziwen saw me and said, you go back and continue to urge people.When I arrived at the county at noon on the third day, the false county magistrate had just finished speaking, and everyone present said that the county magistrate had spoken.It is said that in the 17th year of the Republic of China, all food and grass were exempted. Later, people from Yuanxia lived in Nancheng, and people from Wuzi District lived in Beicheng. It took four days to go home in the morning.

The "Jiao Nong" has won, and the masses are happy. Under the leadership of the party, the revolutionary fire that Huang Ziwen sowed in Wuzi district ignited. The victory of "Jiao Nong" greatly encouraged the masses in Wuzi District.As long as we unite and fight, we will surely win.At the same time, it also reflects Huang Ziwen's agitation, organizational skills, and revolutionary courage. In Wuzi District there was a gentry named Wang Houan, who was originally the head of the militia. At the end of 1926, when the Wuzi District established a farmers' association, he was dismissed from his post.In late July 1927, Wang Houan colluded with the Sanyuan garrison to destroy the Wuzi District Agricultural Association and arrested Communist Party member Qiao Guozhen.Wang Hou'an did all kinds of evil in Wuzi District, and the people were very angry.In 1928, when the wheat was about to be harvested, Huang Ziwen decided to set up the "Anti-Enemy Committee" in Xiyue Temple, and decided to launch a struggle against local tyrants and evil gentry, starting with Wang Hou'an.So Tang Yuhuai was asked to pass on Wang Hou'an, but Wang Hou'an didn't come, so he asked Xie Ruliang to pass on the second time. Wang Hou'an said, "What are you young people thinking? What are you thinking about! I won't go." Xie Ruliang came back and said, Huang Ziwen got angry, he wanted to go in person, but everyone blocked him.When it was time to harvest wheat, Wang Houan went to pull wheat in the field, and four people including Huang Ziwen and Yang Zhizhong decided to arrest him.Yang Zhizhong came forward and hugged Wang Houan?Because of Yang's stature and strength, he couldn't break free.At this time Huang Ziwen came to the front and dragged Wang Zhuo to Xiyue Temple. At that time, more than 30 of us came. He was crazy, so he decided to clean him up, and immediately dragged him to the gate of Xiyue Temple, and killed him under a big locust tree.Afterwards, under the leadership of Huang Ziwen, a few villains were dealt with. For a while, no one came to Wuzi District to ask for debts and food.

"A revolutionist must first not fear death, second not fear hardship, third not seek promotion, fourth not seek to get rich, and fifth, give convenience to others."This is Huang Ziwen's colloquial words, and it is also what he asks of us, and he does it even more. In 1929, Ziwen organized a fund-raising meeting and took the lead in donating seven stones of grain, which became a good story among the masses.At that time, there were four members of my family who were outsiders, without any land, and lived by doing their jobs.Ziwen personally sent someone to deliver the raised food to my home, which moved me very much.In the spring of 1930, Ziwen was arrested by the enemy for organizing a fundraising meeting. After being rescued by his family and the masses, he was released. After returning to Wuzi District, he said: "As long as I don't die, the revolution will go to the end." In August, he organized the "Self-rescue Army for Disaster Victims".In June, he led more than a dozen armed men in Wuzi District to destroy the enemy's Wuzi District Office and executed a wealthy gentry.Soon, Pan Entong, magistrate of Yijun County, was arrested and executed, and the Ma'e Township Office of Wuzi District was also destroyed.

Huang Ziwen not only has a strong revolutionary will, but also can lead by example.Always caring about others. In June 1932, Huang Ziwen returned from the Shaanxi-Gansu Guerrillas to Wuzi District to expand his popularity. I also joined the Shaanxi-Gansu Guerrillas at this time.During a meeting after a battle, he saw that the shoes of a soldier from Sanshui sitting next to him were too tattered to wear, so he gave his pair of half-new cloth shoes to the soldier, while he himself was wearing rotten shoes with bare toes. , His spirit of caring for others more than himself deeply moved the soldiers.

On June 25, 1947, Comrade Huang Ziwen died gloriously in the struggle against the enemy at Xiaodaokou. The party lost an excellent instructor, and I was extremely sad that I lost a close revolutionary leader.Although he died, his revolutionary spirit lives on. The unfinished business of the martyrs is continuing.