Chapter 78 77. He Ying——Heroine of Chengfu's Behavior

He Ying (1886-1933), formerly known as He Minying, nicknamed Xianggu, was born in Sangzhi County, Hunan Province, and the elder sister of He Long.China's first female guerrilla leader. He Ying was born in Hongjiaguan, Sangzhi County, Hunan Province on April 14, 1886.There are seven sisters, and she is the eldest daughter.Because of his poor family, he worked with his parents and shared housework since he was a child. In 1906, after marrying his cousin Gu Jiting, he assisted Gu in forming an indigenous armed force and stationed in Yunjingzhai to fight against local evil forces.She has an open-minded personality, hates evil like a vengeful, and is braver than a man, so she is deeply supported by her subordinates. In 1916, she supported her eldest brother He Long to kill Zhu Haishan, a big evil gentry in Sangzhi County, drive away Chen Mugong, the county magistrate, and elected Zhuo Xiaochu, the leader of the Charity Society, as the county magistrate of Sangzhi County. In 1922, her husband, Gu Jiting, was lured and killed by the aboriginal warlord Chen Quzhen.She picked up the gun left by her husband and led the brothers in Yunjingzhai to fight against the government, kill the gentry, prevent bandits, and protect the poor, and started a more tenacious struggle. In the summer of 1926, when He Long led the First Division of the Ninth Army of the National Revolutionary Army to the Northern Expedition from Tongren, He Ying contacted Wen Nanfu, Li Yunqing, Liu Yujie and other units of the Sangzhi County People's Army to occupy Sangzhi County, and drove away the county magistrate Ma Ce. After expelling the commander of the garrison, Xiao Shantang, the people in the city and people from all walks of life opened the gates of the city and gave away the "Wanmin Umbrella" to welcome He Ying into the city.He Ying's troops had strict discipline. After entering the city, the city was in order and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. At the beginning of 1927, He Ying picked up He Longxin and went to live in Wuhan with his younger sister He Mangu.Affected by the Great Revolution, He Ying decided to get a batch of weapons and go back to Xiangxi to persist in the struggle. On the eve of leaving Han, he said to He Long: "The Kuomintang people only care about getting promoted and getting rich, don't expect them to do anything good." If you can’t, go back to Xiangxi, and the folks will support you.” After returning to his hometown, He Ying actively formed an armed force, and within half a month, he expanded his troops by hundreds, and his momentum grew stronger.

He Ying's martial arts is very strong. He once went deep into a bandit's lair alone, captured the bandit leader alive, and recruited hundreds of bandits. In the spring of 1928, He Long, Zhou Yiqun, Lu Dongsheng and others were assigned by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to carry out armed struggle in western Hunan and Hubei.Immediately after He Ying got the letter, he led more than 1,000 subordinates to participate in the "Hongjiaguan Juyi". In October 1928, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was defeated in Shimen, and He Long led his troops to retreat to Sanghe to rest and reorganize, and they were in a difficult situation.At this time, He Ying exhausted his savings and raised funds in various ways. He personally led the guerrillas to Yanya, sent cotton, cotton cloth, silver dollars and bullets to the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army, and suggested to He Long: "If you have a team, you can't do it if you don't have one."He Long accepted her suggestion and carried out the famous Yanya reorganization.

In April 1931, the Red Army moved to the Honghu area.In order to ensure that the children of the Red Army can study, she opened the first guerrilla primary school in Hunan and Hubei. In the late period of the fourth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" in 1932, the struggle on the Hunan-Hubei border was extremely dangerous. The Heying guerrillas fought alone in the mountains near Sanghe, and persisted in the Melaleuca (mountain name) area until January 1933 when the Red Army fought back. Crane Peak. In the middle of the night on May 5, 1933, the enemy stole Dashan and suddenly surrounded Dongchangyu, where He Ying's guerrillas were stationed, in the early morning of May 6.Shot the guarding sentry.He Ying was sleeping, when he heard the gunshot, he grabbed the gun from the bed and started a fierce battle with the enemy before he even had time to put on his clothes.He Ying calmly drew out his two guns and fired two strings of bullets at the attacking enemy from the window, knocking the enemy back into the bamboo forest.She ordered a group of strong and strong team members to guard the gate, and asked her second younger sister He Wumei to lead the wounded and sick and their families to cover them and quickly retreat through the back gate.He Ying held two guns tightly in both hands at the front door, and led the guerrillas to start a fierce battle with the enemy. Suddenly, a bullet hit her thigh, and she fell to the ground with a "gudong".Xu Huanran bandaged her, and she was about to leave when a bullet grazed He Ying's ribs and hit Xu Huan on the shoulder.While letting Xu Huanran go first, He Ying continued to fight back, and said eagerly: "How can I leave the combat position at this moment, I will cover, you guys break out quickly!" The wound was in severe pain, and blood was continuously flowing out from the wound , She gritted her teeth and encouraged her comrades: "Persistence is victory, and our people will come at dawn." She stubbornly worked with the guerrillas to block the enemy heroically so that the enemy could not advance.Gradually, the east was turning white, and she knew that the nearby guerrillas and red guards would come to the rescue when they heard the gunshots.

At this moment, two bullets hit He Ying's abdomen.One shot hit the left side of the navel, and the other shot into the tummy.He Ying understood that his time was running out.She calmly supported herself to bleed out her intestines, and stuffed them back into her stomach.Then, while asking someone to wrap his wounded stomach tightly with a one-foot-wide white cloth, he called his eight-year-old nephew Xiang Xuan who had been with him since the death of He Mangu, and held back the severe pain of the wound and put two Passed the gun to Xiang Xuan and said: "Fourth grandma, don't cry, go to the Red Army, go to uncle, and avenge..." Then he ordered Xu Huanran and others to retreat.

Seeing everyone retreating, He Ying raised her gun to fight the enemy again.As time passed, the snow-white bandage wrapped around her abdomen was completely soaked in blood, and her consciousness gradually became blurred.Suddenly, a bullet from the enemy pierced her heart.She fell forever, and she gave everything to the people here. The enemy finally led people into the arena, only to see He Yingfeng with her eyes wide open, sitting in a pool of blood with her back against the wall, still holding two guns in her hands.Frightened by He Ying's reputation, no one dared to step forward to check.The enemy fired another row of guns at He Ying's body. Seeing that He Ying did not respond at all, it was confirmed that He Ying was indeed dead.

With the help of the local people, the remains of the martyr He Ying were collected, sewn up and buried in a coffin.After liberation, her remains were buried in the Martyrs Cemetery.