Chapter 83 The first "popular" place

About three kilometers from the mouth of Xiufanggou, there is another winding gully intersecting with Tianyu River, which is Baishiyagou.The northwest of this ditch is connected with Xuejiazhai.Entering the deep area of ​​this ditch, there are two small mountain villages in front and back along the stretch of mountains separated from Langanchuan, which are Qianyuan and Houyuyuan villages.Although the mountain village is small, many touching stories happened in that fiery era. In the spring of 1932, Han Tiancheng, a Shanxi disaster victim who lived in Jiyuyuan Village, suddenly kissed a carpenter at his home. But these days people don’t have enough to eat and wear warm clothes, so they still have money to buy furniture.The carpenter saw that there was no work to do, so he had to help people with odd jobs to make ends meet.The carpenter spoke with a Shanxi accent, and everyone thought that his relatives were fellow Hans from Shanxi, so they didn't attract special attention from others.

It turned out that this city craftsman was a brigade political commissar of the Red Army guerrillas, and he was Li Miaozhai who had contacted Zheng Qiqin when he raided the Zhaojin militia.Zheng Qilai introduced him to the geographical characteristics of Yuyuan City.After fighting the militia, Xie Zichang and Liu Zhidan left him in Zhaojin and asked him to carry out local mass work in Yuyuan Village. Li Miaozhai helps the villagers with work during the day, and in his free time he always likes to play with the children on the wheat threshing ground in Shicunzi.He holds a deck of playing cards with animal patterns, and his curiosity drives the children to always surround him. While these bitter children living in the mountains satisfy their curiosity, they communicate and communicate with these simple-minded children.Shuang Miaozhai quickly found out the basic situation of the entire village.He found that Yuyuan Village lived in seclusion in a mountain depression. As long as he set up a post on the mountain behind the village, he could grasp all the surrounding conditions.In addition, the "Ten Thousand Cave" under the Black Rock Cliff in Baishiyagou, the Niu Cave and Foye Cave in Langanchuan are all stealthy bases.Easy to defend but difficult to attack.In this village, most of the villagers are victims of disasters who fled from other places, and they hate the reactionary rule and unreasonable oppression of the reactionary authorities.The mass base is good and it is easy to carry out work.After the solid and meticulous work of Comrade Shuangmiaozhai, the consciousness of the general public in Yuyuan Village has also improved rapidly.The taro garden became the first place to "be popular", and it often became a place for the Red Army's Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas to rest.

In the autumn of 1932, the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas of the Red Army decided to carry out local work in an all-round way in Yuyuan Village, which has relatively good geographical conditions and mass base. A lot of investigative work has been done among the masses.Before the troops left, he instructed Li Miaozhai to further mobilize the vast number of poor people under the cover of looking for fellow villagers, and establish CCP organizations and peasant guerrillas.Li Miaozhai, who lived in Han Tiancheng's family, went to work with the masses during the day to learn about various situations, and went to villages and households at night to secretly propagate revolutionary principles.On the basis of the extensive improvement of the consciousness of the masses, he organized and established the first rural secret party branch in Yuyuan Village, and developed Deng Yunqian, Deng Keqin, Han Tiancheng, Pan Shizhen and others to join the party.At the same time, Shuangmiaozhai organized the three brothers Han Tiancheng, Han Wei, and Han Heizi, Deng Keqin, He Ganfu, Huang Dengwen, Tian Defa and others to secretly manufacture sabers, spears and purchase guns and ammunition. In October, the Taro Garden Peasant Guerrilla was established , with Deng Keqin as the captain.After Deng Keqin died, he took Liu Shipu as the captain and Wang Jinhai as the deputy captain.The guerrillas were mainly active in the Tuqiaoyuan area in the north, and their main task was to raise food and funds for the main force of the Red Army.Once the Yuyuan Party organization and peasant guerrillas were established, they quickly spread the organized revolutionary struggle to other surrounding villages.Party members have taken the initiative to go deep into Fangshang, Heitianyu, Xiufanggou, Tuerliang and other villages to actively publicize revolutionary principles and cultivate revolutionary school elements, paving the way for the establishment and development of Zhaojin revolutionary base areas.The guerrillas took the "Ten Thousand Cave" under Heishi Cliff and Foyejian and Niu Cave Dwellings in Langanchuan as their activity sites, and on the one hand, they mobilized the masses in the surrounding areas.On the one hand, look for opportunities to attack the enemy and expand its influence.The guerrillas captured the enemy's Jiubao chief Ai Desheng in Langanchuan.They also attacked the enemy Xiangshanbao.The Liuhe militia was shocked when they got the news. Xiao Zhenshan, the leader of the militia, once sent two spies to investigate in Yuyuan Village under the pretext of selling goods. The guerrillas relied on the strict mass organization to capture the two spies and secretly executed them. The team has gradually grown in struggle practice.The leaders of the reactionary militia viciously slandered the Yuyuan guerrillas as "red bandits" and the Yuyuan village witches as "the roots of the red bandits".

In the winter of 1932, Li Miaozhai led the Yuyuan guerrillas.Under the guidance of Zhu Jixiang, a farmer in Heishiyazi, Yuyuan, he conducted a field survey of the topography of Xuejiazhai, and mobilized the masses to build the narrow path of the "Ten Thousand Cave" where the guerrillas in Shangzhai were originally stationed. Wang Jinhai, Liu Shipu and Tian Defa He often led the Yuyuan guerrillas through the crisis period when the guerrillas were chased and intercepted by powerful enemies in the natural danger of Xuejiazhai.The early revolutionary activities of Yuyuan guerrillas in Xuejiazhai laid a solid foundation for Xuejiazhai to become the political, military, and economic center of the Zhaojin Revolutionary Base and the rear of the Red Twenty-six Army.

On the night of January 17, 1933, Du Heng ignored the dissuasion opinions of Liu Zhidan and others, and ignored the actual strength of the Red Second Regiment of the 26th Army.Bewitched by some small victories; dizzy, ordered the troops to attack those who have a united front relationship with our army; bought several batches of ammunition and supplies for our army; and have been operating in Miaowan for many years. As a result, the militia suffered a serious defeat in the war.Our army lost several comrades and many horses.Fighting until noon on the second day, our army was forced to withdraw from the battle and had to retreat to the front and back Yuyuan and Laoyeling areas where the masses had a good foundation to rest. A large number of wounded were also placed in the relatively hidden Foye Cave Rehabilitation in Wagyu Cave.

On February 4th, the Kuomintang focused on three entire regiments and aggressively carried out a large-scale "encirclement and suppression" of our Zhaojin revolutionary base. Surrounded Shangyuyuan and Xiayuyuan, where our Red Second Regiment lived, in three ways. Du Heng once again insisted on the "Left" opportunist line, advocated fighting "positional warfare" and "defensive warfare", and denied Liu Zhidan and other comrades' "avoiding the enemy" The idea of ​​"strengthening, jumping out of gold, and looking for opportunities to fight" has accumulated and missed good opportunities, resulting in the Red Second Regiment being passively beaten.The Second Red Regiment was surrounded by Kuomintang troops several times larger than our army in the Yuyuan area, and the battle was very critical.Fortunately, the Weibei guerrillas arrived in time to respond, and the Red Second Regiment jumped out of the siege and switched to outside operations.When the Second Red Regiment was dealing with the enemy, the Shuangmiaozhai and Yuyuan peasant guerrillas, in close cooperation with the local people, helped cover the timely transfer of the wounded. Under extremely difficult circumstances, they protected and treated the wounded Red Army, and strongly supported the Red Army .

After Xuejiazhai became the center of the Zhaojin Revolutionary Base, the "Ten Thousand Cave" in Yuyuan Village and the Foye Cave and Niu Cave in Langanchuan were reinforced by the guerrillas with walls, especially the "Ten Thousand Cave", which was wide and deep inside. The flowing water has become an important base for the Red Army and the border region government to store food and strategic materials.The local people affectionately call the "Ten Thousand Cave", Foye Cave and Niu Cave "Red Army Cave". Whether it is the budding period of the construction of the Zhaojin Revolutionary Base Area.It was still the period of consolidation and development of the Zhaojin Revolutionary Base, and Yuyuan, the earliest "popular" place, has made due major contributions to the establishment and growth of the Zhaojin Revolutionary Base.