Chapter 28 9. Mrs. Zhu De, Kang Keqing

Mao Zedong once mentioned in his brilliant book "The Struggle in Jinggangshan": "Eighty revolutionary peasants followed to Jinggangshan in Wan'an".Kang Keqing was one of the eighty revolutionary peasants who went to Jinggangshan after the Wanan riot. Kang Keqing was born in Laotangwan, Wan'an, Jiangxi in 1912. In 1926, at the age of 15, she joined the Communist Youth League and became the captain of the Young Pioneers. In January 1928, Zeng Tianyu, Zhang Shixi and others led the famous Wan'an riot, and Kang Keqing participated in the riot.Later, the Kuomintang mobilized a large number of troops to suppress it, and the peasant army was forced to abandon the county seat and move into the mountainous area to persist in the struggle.Eighty peasant troops including Kang Keqing went to Jinggangshan with Chen Yi's troops.

After going up the mountain, they were warmly welcomed by Mao Zedong and Zhu De.The 80 revolutionary peasants who went up the mountain were incorporated into the Wantai Guerrilla Brigade. From then on, Kang Keqing changed from a poor rural girl to a guerrilla member of the "Workers and Peasants Armed Separatist Regime" in Jinggangshan at the age of 17. In January 1929, Mao Zedong and Zhu De led the Fourth Red Army to march to southern Jiangxi and western Fujian. The Wantai Guerrilla Brigade followed the Fourth Red Army down the mountain to fight guerrillas, and was later reorganized into a local regular army of the Red Army.At this time, Zhu De's ex-wife Wu Ruolan had died in the battle.During the war years, Zhu De and Kang Keqing fell in love, and they married in March 1929 in Changting, western Fujian.Since then, Kang Keqing followed Zhu De to fight in various places in the Central Soviet Area.

At the end of 1930, the Red Army came to Huangpi and Bu areas to rest.Kang Keqing was the third consecutive instructor of the Special Task Force of the Front Army Headquarters. At this time, the Central Soviet Area blew up a vicious trend against the AB regiment, saying that "the party, regiment and Soviet governments at all levels in Southwest Jiangxi are full of rich peasant counter-revolutionaries" and "the AB regiment must be severely suppressed and all activities of the AB regiment must be executed." molecular".Li Shaojiu, secretary-general of the General Political Department, is responsible for the work of fighting the AB regiment.He adopts extreme "left"

The policy of using deception and torture to get people to confess has produced batch after batch of so-called "key members of the AB regiment". These people were executed as "die-hard counter-revolutionaries." At that time, the third company was conducting military and political training.Someone from the Security Bureau said that one of the soldiers in the third company was the AB regiment. Kang Keqing wanted to ask what happened, but the answer was: "You have no right to ask about the affairs of the AB regiment." In this way, he was taken away.Two days later, they came to arrest people again. The two young soldiers who were arrested cried out and said to Kang Keqing: "We don't even know what the AB regiment is. How could it be the AB regiment? Instructor, please help us talk!"

Kang Keqing knew these young fighters well and didn't believe that they would be the AB regiment, so he stepped forward to explain their situation and asked not to take them away.The visitor stared at him and said, "Don't meddle in your own business!" He took him away arbitrarily. Everyone hated what Li Shaojiu had done, but no one dared to speak out.Whoever says that will be labeled as a counter-revolutionary sympathizing with the AB regiment.Kang Keqing told Boss Zhu what happened, and the boss said with a heavy heart that he couldn't think about such a thing for the time being.

Finally, the AB group caught Boss Zhu.One day, several people from the Security Bureau came and said that Li Shaoqing, the servant of Commander-in-Chief Zhu, was from the AB regiment and wanted to take him away.Li Shaoqing was only fifteen or sixteen years old, he came from the countryside, hardworking and simple, Kang Keqing thought that he was definitely not an AB group, so he stood up to vouch for him desperately. "If you find something wrong with him in the future, you can come to me." Those few people didn't listen at all, and said, "We only follow the orders of Secretary General Li and the Security Bureau. If you have something to say, go talk to them."

I had no choice but to move Boss Zhu.After hearing this, the boss came out and said angrily to those people: "He has been with me for so many years, he is still a child, and his legs are a little disabled, how could he be the AB group? If you want to arrest him from me, you must take out Evidence, without evidence, you can’t arrest people casually.” They couldn't produce any evidence, saying that XX said he was the AB group. "No! What I want is factual evidence, not such an irresponsible confession. Without evidence, no one is allowed to take him away!" Li Shaoqing was protected in this way.

In the spring of 1932, the Red Army continued to win victories, and the Soviet area was expanding day by day. Many young women came to ask to join the Red Army. Most of them were rural girls, and some of them were family members of the Red Army.Some of them came out to do support work when the Red Army attacked Ganzhou. After the failure of the attack on Ganzhou, they all asked to stay in the army.After consultation between the Central Revolutionary Military Commission and the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, a women's volunteer team was established, and they were gathered to train women cadres who knew the military and were able to do local work.The organization appointed Kang Keqing as the captain and Wu Zhonglian as the instructor.Under the leadership of Kang Keqing and Wu Zhonglian, this 180-member team, in accordance with Commander-in-Chief Zhu's instruction that "the army must be strictly governed", studied hard and practiced hard, strictly and difficultly, whether it was queue training, live ammunition shooting, or internal hygiene. , daily work and rest, night sentry checks, etc., were meticulous, and soon trained into an outstanding team with a certain combat effectiveness, which was well received by the leaders of the Red Army School.

In the spring of 1934, the situation in the Central Soviet Area began to become tense. The base area was shrinking day by day, and the original rear gradually became the front.Just after the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhou Enlai, vice chairman of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, gave Kang Keqing a task: to inspect the fortifications in the northern part of Gan County.It is said that the bullet hole in the fortification bunker there is not facing the enemy, but toward herself. She is required to check and correct it as soon as possible and investigate the cause. After accepting the task, Kang Keqing took a few people to Yangyin County quickly. After checking the fortifications and bunkers, he came to Suocui Township by the Ganjiang River.Here she found the streets desolate and desolate, and the crowd showing panic and anxiety.In Suozi township government, Kang Keqing met the chairman of the township Soviet and You Lianyu, the leader of the Huangwu guerrilla in Wusuo District.From what they said, the enemy came across the river to rob and burn down the houses of two Red Army families a few days ago. Before leaving, they declared that they would come again tomorrow.

"You see the white bandits burning, killing and looting, harming the common people, why don't you fight them?" Kang Keqing couldn't help asking sternly. "The white bandits have two teams with more than one hundred people. We only have fifty or so guns. We have never fought a war and don't know how to fight." You Lianyu made Kang Keqing's questioning a little awkward, hesitated for a moment, and immediately said: "Comrade Kang, you are sent by the headquarters. You have seen the world and fought a big battle. Can you command us to fight a battle?"

Kang Keqing felt a little sudden at this moment.Although he has experienced many battles and led people to capture scattered white bandit troops, he has never commanded a battle with more than a few dozen people!But then I thought again, the Red Army had the responsibility to help the local guerrillas, and the battle in front of me had to be fought, so I had to do my part. "Okay! The battle is under my command, and we all fight this battle together. First find out the strength of the enemy and us, and then look at the terrain and study how to fight." While it was still dark, Kang Keqing led everyone to see the terrain, studied it while watching, and formulated a careful combat plan. Before dawn the next day, the white bandit army smuggled in from Liangjing and carried out robbery along the shore.Kang Keqing immediately ordered the troops to divide into three groups and attack the enemy of Liangjing at the same time.The enemy is a group of Jingwei regiment and watch team with more than 100 people who are used to looting houses. They have never suffered a loss in normal times and are arrogant.This time when they were attacked suddenly, they panicked and shouted: "The Red Army is coming, run!" Leaving five corpses behind, they fled to the river in a hurry, boarded a boat and fled.Five guns were handed over in this battle, and more than 20 enemies were killed or injured. Our army won a complete victory.This battle fully demonstrated Kang Keqing's excellent organizational and command skills. Afterwards, the enemy knew that Zhu De's wife, Kang Keqing, was in command. They stuck out their tongues one by one and said, "It turns out that Zhu De's wife is here. No wonder she is so powerful. When you meet her in the future, you must be careful." After a long time, the enemy dared not behave Cross the river in the border area.