Chapter 46 Yang Qi

Yang Qi (1895-1936), courtesy name Jianting, was born in Yanchuan, Shaanxi.He lost his father when he was young, and he grazed cattle for the landlord since he was a child. In 1925, he went to Zhili (now Hebei) to serve as a soldier in the Second Army of the Kuomintang.Soon he was stationed in Henan with the army.Promoted to platoon leader.He once contacted 12 soldiers to escort more than 100 rifles back to northern Shaanxi.When he traveled to Yanchuan, he was disarmed by the warlord Jing Yuexiu. In 1926, he returned to northern Shaanxi again and used the relationship of running a militia group to send Shanxi smokers.Establish a security force of more than 20 people.In order to win over this armed force with serious habit of greenery and lax discipline, in the winter of 1929, the Northern Shaanxi Special Committee of the Communist Party of China sent Yang Tongzhen, Yang’s nephew, a member of the Communist Party, to the army to propagate revolutionary principles and raise their class consciousness.The Baoyun Armed Forces were under the influence and education of the Communist Party of China.Eliminate militia groups on both sides of the Yellow River, continue to grow themselves, persist for two years, attracted the attention of Yan Xishan and Jing Yuexiu on both sides of the Yellow River, and attempted to jointly wipe them out.At this time, the Shanxi guerrillas of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army led by Yan Hongyan and Wu Daifeng entered northern Shaanxi, and Yang joined forces with the Shanxi guerrillas.

In the first ten days of October 1931, the merchants armed with Chu Jie, the Taiwanese division, were organized into a guerrilla detachment in northern Shaanxi, with Yan Hongyan as the head of the branch.The northern Shaanxi guerrilla detachment wiped out the enemy successively in Wangjiawan and Yingpanshan in Anding County, Shunningchuan and Yejicha in Baoan County, and surrendered more than a hundred guns. In October, he arrived in the Nanliang area of ​​Taishui, Gansu Province, and joined the civilian armed forces contacted by Liu Zhidan. In January 1932, according to the instructions of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, to eliminate resistance, and Xie Zichang, Yan Hongyan.The Shanxi guerrillas led by Yang Chongyuan and Wu Daifeng were reorganized into the Shaanxi-Gansu Guerrilla Corps of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (first the Northwest Anti-Imperialist Allied Army).In May of the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China and successively served as the captain of the brigade and the deputy captain of the cavalry.In December of the same year, the Shaanxi-Gansu Guerrilla Corps was reorganized into the Second Regiment of the 26th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. made a contribution.

In June 1933, after the failure of the Red Twenty-sixth Army going south, they returned to Xuejiazhai in Zhaojin by doing part-time jobs and begging for food. In January 1934, he served as the commander-in-chief of the Second Route Guerrilla Force on the Shaanxi-Gansu border, and made great efforts to establish the Second Route guerrilla zone centered on Nanliang, including Taishui, Qingyang, Baoan, Ansai, Ganquan and other counties In the autumn of 1934, the second guerrilla group was incorporated into the 42nd Division of the Red 26th Army and served as the chief of staff of the 3rd regiment. He took the lead in the battle and rushed to the front.Jing Wu collapsed and fought.Leading the soldiers to occupy favorable terrain, slamming the enemy with grenades, unfortunately wounded.After recovering from injury, he served as the inspector of the General Headquarters of the Northern Shaanxi Guerrilla Army and the inspector of the Second Regiment of the Independent Division of the Red Army in Northern Shaanxi.

In January 1935, he served as the commander of the 84th Division of the 27th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Under his command, he successively won the battles of Nangoucha, Gaojie Village, and Hejiawan, and crushed the "encirclement and suppression" of the Kuomintang. played an important role.In September of the same year, Yang was dismissed from the position of division commander by the executors of "Left" dogmatism, and transferred to the rear to raise winter clothes for the troops.Soon, in the wrong "suppression of counter-revolutionaries", he was charged with "bandits" and "counter-revolutionary" and thrown into prison, where he was severely tortured.In the face of setbacks and grievances, be loyal and firm in your beliefs.After the Central Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, he was rescued and was appointed as the head of the third regiment of the Red 28th Army.

In February 1936, under the order of the Northwest Revolutionary Military Committee of the Chinese Soviet, he marched into Suide, prepared to cross the Yellow River eastward, and went to the Anti-Japanese Front, but was intercepted by Jing Yuexiu, a warlord in northern Shaanxi. On March 9, 1936, he died in the battle of Daigan Temple. Shot, a heroic sacrifice.