Chapter 26 Li Miaozhai

Li Miaozhai (1903-1933), formerly known as Wang Yuxi, aliased as Li Miaozhai, Wang Zhixian, Wang Qiaoshan, Li Huafeng, etc.A native of Fenxi, Shanxi.He grew up in a poor family and finished high school with the support of his uncle.Later, he taught at Tianping Primary School in Fenxi County for more than a year, but was excluded by rich people.Then he returned to his hometown to work in agriculture.In order to resist the unequal dark rule, he left his hometown angrily. In November 1927, he went to northern Shaanxi and served as the chief of company affairs in the Gao Shuangcheng Department of the garrison.

In 1928, introduced by Ma Jiren, he joined the Communist Party of China and began to engage in military operations. He served as the battalion commander of the first battalion of the Li Yajun regiment and the battalion commander of the guard battalion of the Deng Baoshan Department. In the spring of 1932, he went to Lanzhou with Deng and served as the captain of the cadre tutoring team of Deng's department. In October, on the way to Pingliang to pick up the cabin and return to Lanzhou, Communist Party members such as Sing Gen organized the Haodian Mutiny, pulled out 26 people, and established the Seventh Detachment of the Red Army's Shaanxi-Gansu Guerrilla Army as the captain.After the failure of the mutiny, he went to the Shaanxi-Gansu border disguised as a porter and joined the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas led by Liu Zhidan and Xie Zichang.

In November 1932, Li Miaozhai moved to Qingshuiyuan in Juyi, Wuzi District in Sanyuan and Zhaojin Yuyuan in Yaoxian County with the guerrillas to carry out armed struggle.In Yuyuan, Li Miaozhai organized brothers Han Tiancheng and others to establish a Yuyuan guerrilla with more than 40 people and served as political commissar.More than 20 days later, he led the team to the first battle in Chuankou, then captured Sunjiashan, Zhangjiashan, Longjiazhai, occupied Tuerliang, and participated in leading various tasks in the establishment of the Zhaojin Revolutionary Base.Purchase guns and ammunition for the strong, and cover the wounded of the Red Army.At the same time, it also educated and incorporated a part of the green forest armed forces who were willing to accept the leadership of the Communist Party and were willing to make revolution.However, due to Du Heng's implementation of the "Left" opportunist policy, which destroyed the united front relationship between China and China, the second regiment of the Red Twenty-six Army retreated northward to fight on the outer line when the Kuomintang was advancing and suppressing.During the Red Army's outside operations, Li Miaozhai was ordered to stay in Zhaojin, cover the wounded, and persist in the struggle.As a special commissioner of the Red Twenty-Sixth Army, he established five guerrilla groups including the first and second detachments of Yaozhou and the Sanshui detachment, developed the Fuping and Yijun guerrilla groups, and organized six branches of farmers' associations. Zhaojin's revolutionary situation turned from a low tide to a high tide.

In March 1933, the General Headquarters of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Guerrilla was established.Li Miaozhai is the commander-in-chief and Xi Zhongxun is the political commissar.In accordance with the instructions of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Special Committee on the land revolution, the masses were mobilized, and 24 village farmers' associations, village women's federations, children's groups, and red guards were established with Xuejiazhai as the center, and the Baojia system and land rent were abolished. , debts, and hit the Kuomintang's spy activities. The revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses was unprecedentedly high, and the number of guerrillas quickly grew to eighteen, with more than 900 people.The Zhaojin base quickly expanded to a vast area starting from Xiangshan in the east, Tujiao, Shimenguan in the west, Xuecha in the north, and Guanzhuang in the south.In order to consolidate the base area, Li Miaozhai set up a repair shop and a clothing factory in Xuejiazhai, and set up a material storage warehouse. He also called on comrades to use the gaps between battles to open up wasteland and farm, raise pigs, and raise sheep to maximize the supplies of the troops.He also asked Feng Yansheng, who was in charge of gold, to set up a market in Tingzigou, Xiufanggou, to buy and sell for the public to raise food, socks, funds and other necessities for the Red Army.With the efforts of him and his comrades, despite the complicated period after the Second Red Regiment went south, various tasks in the Zhaojin base area were carried out smoothly.

At dawn on September 21, 1933, more than a thousand militia armed forces took advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the Red Army to go northward to fight on the outer line, and attacked Xuejiazhai from all sides. retreat.When Li Miaozhai organized the guerrillas to pursue the fleeing enemy, he was unfortunately shot by a group of militiamen who were ambushing and hiding in the Shaolin and died heroically.After Li Miaozhai died, he was buried on a birch hill not far from No. 1 village cave in Xuejiazhai.Every Qingming Festival, the local people and people from all walks of life will spontaneously come here to pay their respects, pay homage to the remains of the martyrs, and commemorate the great achievements of the martyrs.