Chapter 32 31. Looking for Huaizhou - Going north to resist the Japanese unswervingly

Xun Huaizhou (1912~1934) was a senior commander of the Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants.Born in Liuyang, Hunan. At the age of 15, he joined the army and participated in the famous Autumn Harvest Uprising. After that, he fought hard with Mao Zedong. Just after the Spring Festival in 1929, the Red Army troops rested in Suichuan.On this day, head Zhang Ziqing called Xun Huaizhou, who had already served as the platoon leader, to him and personally gave him a special task. At that time, the Red Army was in short supply of weapons and equipment, but there was information that about 15 kilometers away from Suichuan City, there lived a local tyrant surnamed Lu, who had 10 guns in his family, but his family had many members, and there were regular Kuomintang troops stationed nearby.After asking Committee Member Mao for instructions, the head of the delegation decided to send Xun Huaizhou to bring 20 people to get the 10 guns from Lu Tuhao's family.Head Zhang also specifically told Xunhuaizhou that he wanted to get a lot of them.After accepting the task, Xun Huaizhou was very excited.But after thinking about it for a while, he said to the head of the delegation: "Please don't worry, chief, I promise to complete the task!" Then, he changed the subject: "That local tyrant's house is dozens of miles away from us, and it is inconvenient to go to 20 people. It is concealed, and there are many families there, as well as the regular army of the Kuomintang, so we can only outsmart, not fight hard. Therefore, I suggest that only I be sent alone! At that time, it will be difficult for me to dress up as a cowherd boy. If it arouses the suspicion of the enemy, I promise to get back the guns one by one!"

Hearing what Xun Huaizhou said was reasonable, head Zhang agreed to his suggestion.Before leaving, he gave him thousands of instructions and explained them in detail.In the afternoon, Xun Huaizhou put on the ragged clothes of a cowherd boy borrowed from a fellow villager, and brought a hemp rope, an iron hook for killing pigs, two shell guns and two hand grenades. The wind, against the heavy snow, set off for Lu Tuhao's house. At that time, everyone was sweating for Xun Huaizhou, and felt that it was too difficult for him to enter the tiger's den alone!But to their surprise, the next morning, just as everyone woke up, Xun Huaizhou returned to the camp sweating profusely with 10 guns on his shoulders.

Head Zhang was very happy to learn that Xun Huaizhou had returned from his mission. He sent someone to report to Committee Member Mao while visiting Xun Huaizhou.After meeting, he shook Xun Huaizhou's hand and said: "Young Staff Officer is doing well! You are worthy of being a 'Scud'. Well done, well done. On behalf of the commanders and fighters of the whole regiment, I would like to congratulate you! I have to come to congratulate you in person!" Hearing the praise from the leader, Xun Huaizhou blushed, looking a little embarrassed. At this time, Committee Member Mao came.Xun Huaizhou first reported to Committee Member Mao how he seized the gun.It turned out that it was already late at night when he entered Lu Tuhao's house. At that time, all the family members living in the wing room had fallen asleep, and only Lu Tuhao and his wife were eating supper in the main room.After consideration, he decided to enter the main room first and control Lu Tuhao.When he entered the house, grabbed Lu Tuhao by the collar, and held his head with a pistol, Lu Tuhao and his little wife were already scared out of their wits!

However, after Lu Tuhao found out the intention of looking for Huaizhou, he first said that he didn't have a gun, and then said he would go get it himself. Xun Huaizhou shot Lu Tuhao's head with a gun, telling him to be honest, and at the same time told him that he had brought three platoons of people, and as soon as there was a gunshot, they would rush in and kill his whole family. Lu Tuhao had no choice but to ask his little wife to wake up the servant and obediently send the gun to Xun Huaizhou.Two of the servants tried to resist, but seeing that their master had been held to the head with a gun, they did not dare to act rashly.

Carrying the 10 captured guns, Xun Huaizhou ordered Lu Tuhao to send himself out of the village. Before leaving, he deliberately said as if giving an order: "First, second, third row, follow me!" In this way, Xun Huai Zhou got the 10 guns back without firing a single shot, and successfully completed the task. After listening to Xun Huaizhou's narration, Committee Member Mao happily patted him on the shoulder and said, "I think you should change your title to 'little staff officer' and call you 'little hero'! Well done! Well done!" In February 1933, during the fourth Huangpi battle against "encirclement and suppression", Xun Huaizhou led the 21st Army to penetrate behind the enemy, cutting off the retreat route of the 52nd Division of the Kuomintang Army, and creating conditions for the complete annihilation of the division. In June, he served as the commander of the fifth division of the Red Army Corps. He led his troops to participate in the Eastern Army and entered Fujian to fight. He commanded the troops to win consecutive battles and won a special commendation order from the Central Military Commission.In October of the same year, he was appointed as the head of the Red Seventh Army Corps. At this time, he was only 21 years old.In the central revolutionary base area, Xun Huaizhou led his troops to fight from north to south, made many military exploits, won the second-class Red Star Medal, and was elected as the Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic.

In July 1934, he and political commissar Le Shaohua were ordered to lead the Red Army's anti-Japanese advance team composed of the Red Seventh Army. They set out from Ruijin and moved to the borders of Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi. They fought dozens of times and successively captured Luoyuan, Qingyuan, etc. town. In November, the troops entered the Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Jiangxi Soviet areas, and joined forces with the Red Tenth Army led by Fang Zhimin to form the Red Tenth Army. He served as the commander of the 19th Division and continued to lead the troops northward.In December of the same year, in the battle of Tanjiaqiao in Taiping (now Huangshan), Anhui, he commanded the troops to fight fiercely with an enemy several times his own. On the 14th, when the battle reached a critical moment, Xun Huaizhou personally led a platoon to compete for the commanding heights of Wuniguan. Unfortunately, he died heroically at the age of 22.