Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Removing the Old Years with the Sound of Firecrackers

When setting off, He Long disguised himself as the rich boss, but saw him: Zhou Yiqun pretended to be the accountant.Lu Dongsheng, Shi Shuyuan, Zhang Haitao and others all pretended to be followers.Everyone arrived at the pier in two Daoji cars.The driver is a foreigner.After getting out of the car, He Long put on a gentleman's demeanor, swaggered through the search of the military and police, and boarded the ship. He You and the others took the first class cabin.After sitting down, a tea doctor offered tea on board.Lu Dongsheng tipped Dr. Tea.Dr. Cha saw that this rich man was generous, so he expected him to have a lot of money, so he served him even more attentively.

Just as He Long and his party boarded the boat, several thieves also boarded the boat. When it was dark, the ship lifted anchor and went up the river. At this time, the captain came to greet him. He Long took a sip of tea and said, "How is it? Is this road safe?" The captain said: "Redheads are making a lot of noise these days, you old man, pay more attention." He Long said: "Those military and police officers are fucking dry, and they can't catch a few red heads." The captain said: "These days I've been clamoring for He Long to be caught, and the government is offering a reward of 100,000 yuan. Damn it, let me catch He Long. I'll get promoted and get rich by car, and I'll marry two wives."

He Long said: "If you think like this, be careful that He Long takes your skull." Lu Dongsheng said aside: "Then He Long is the star god in the sky, be careful to let the Liuding Liujia God sent by him hear it, or your life will be gone." Lu Dongsheng's words frightened the captain so much that he dared not speak any more. Jiang Lun gradually moved away from Shanghai. Looking back at the brightly lit city, He Long was filled with emotion, and a new battle was about to begin. In the middle of the night, the riverboat stopped at a small harbor, and by this time, He Long had already fallen asleep.This first-class cabin is a room for two people, and Lu Dongsheng lived with He Long in order to protect He Long.While the two were snoring and sleeping, suddenly there was a commotion on board, Lu Dongsheng drew out his gun and rushed to the cabin door.He Long listened to the movement outside, and said to Lu Dongsheng: "Dongsheng, put the gun away."

Just as Lu Dongsheng put away his gun, there was a sound of chaotic footsteps coming from a distance, and then someone slapped their cabin door "ping-pong", and He Long signaled Lu Dongsheng to open the door.Lu Dongsheng opened the hatch.As soon as the door opened, three people came in, one was the captain, the other two were a big man, standing there like a piece of cold iron, with a murderous look on his face, holding a bastard box gun in his hand, and the other was a pistol. He was as tall as a carrot, with his nostrils upturned.There are still a few people standing outside the cabin.When Lu Dongsheng saw that the two were carrying weapons, his expression suddenly became tense.His hand couldn't help touching the short gun in his waist.

At this moment, He Long had a sharp question mark in his mind: What do these people do?Has your whereabouts been discovered?Could there be a traitor in the center, someone betrayed himself, thinking, he said coldly: "In the middle of the night, what's the big deal, it's worth this?" The captain smiled and said to He Long and Lu Dongsheng: "Gentlemen, this is..." The captain had just finished speaking, when the big man interrupted the captain and said, "We are under the command of Commander Bai Chongxi, and we were ordered to come to the ship to arrest you." He Long."

When Lu Dongsheng heard this, his expression suddenly became tense. At this moment, the big man went on to say, "I heard that He Long is on this boat." . At this time, the captain said to the two men who came to arrest He Long: "Bosses, don't misunderstand." He pointed to He Long and Lu Dongsheng, "These two gentlemen are businessmen." The big man raised his eyebrows and said, "How do you know they are businessmen? I think you are like the Communist Party. You say they are not the Communist Party. Do you dare to be a guarantor?" The captain hesitated.

At this time, Zhou Yiqun came over, smiled and said to the big man and the little man, "Bosses, we are both businessmen together." He handed over his business card and said, "This is the business card of our boss Wang. " The little man took the business card and read it, then handed it to the big man, who looked at it and nodded his head a few times.The name card reads "Wang Yuan, General Manager of Shanghai Sanqingtang Jewelry and Jade Store".The big man looked at it, held his business card in his hand, and said to He Long: "General Manager Wang, my brother came here on business, so I had to wrong General Manager Wang to go ashore. Someone sued you for being the leader of the Communist Party."

Before He Long could speak, Lu Dongsheng got anxious and cursed: "Bastard, our general manager and Commander Bai Chongxi are brothers, exchanged posts with Chairman Yu Qiaqing and President Yu of the Chamber of Commerce, and called Commander-in-Chief Jiang brother and brother, don't you want your heads? !" The big man and the little man didn't seem to hear what Lu Dongsheng said. The big man snorted and said, "I don't care about the white commander and the black commander. The superiors want us to arrest General Manager Wang, so we have to follow the business."

He Long didn't open his mouth, but his heart was full of circles. If these two boys were military police, they would have to be polite after hearing the names of Bai Chongxi and Chiang Kai-shek, but these two didn't take Chiang Kai-shek and Bai Chongxi seriously at all. So, what are these two guys doing? Seeing that He Long remained calm, the two guys put the bullet into the chamber with two "clicks", pointed at He Long and said, "Come on, get off the boat with us." When Lu Dongsheng saw that the big man had loaded the bullet into the chamber and aimed the muzzle at He Long again, he was really anxious. He stepped forward and pushed the big man's arm upwards with his arm, and the big man's muzzle was aimed at He Long immediately. On the top of the cabin, this gun is also old and outdated. After such a sway, the bullet slipped out of the chamber with a "bang". When the gun fired, everyone inside and outside the cabin was shocked.The big man said to Lu Dongsheng: "Okay, how dare you resist arrest?" He shouted behind him, "If you come, arrest them all and throw them into the river!"

When the big man yelled, two of his companions outside the cabin squeezed over.At this moment, from the words "throw into the river" said by the big man, He Long immediately understood in his heart, and seeing that his fellow party members looked like gangsters, he knew that these people were bandits.Just as he was about to speak, the captain nodded and said to the big man with a smile, "Sir, I think this boss is a businessman, and he is definitely not a redhead. The ship will be parked for a long time, so don't let them go ashore." , let's sail." Pointing to He Long again, he said, "Look at Boss Wang, he is also a righteous person, and he will never forget the benefits of everyone."

The big man glanced at the gemstone ring on He Long's hand and said, "No, we are serving the business from above." The captain said: "It's convenient for others, and it's convenient for yourself. Let me tell you that there are no red heads on board." The little man said: "It's not as easy as you said? We said above that if you catch a red head, you will be rewarded with 1,000 for Dayang, and for two, you will be rewarded with 100,000. If you catch He Long, you will be rewarded with 100,000. If you let them go, you will give us our reward." " After the little man finished speaking, the captain blinked and said, "Let's do this, isn't it just a few thousand dollars?" He turned around and said to He Long with a smile, "What's more, Boss Wang will reward them with a thousand or eight hundred dollars." , spend money to keep safe." When the captain's words came to this point, He Long fully understood that this was a group of bandits colluding with each other inside and outside to blackmail the passengers. He Long was right in his judgment. This group of people were bandits. They colluded with the captain and sailors on the riverboat and took advantage of Chiang Kai-shek's order to seize the Communist Party and extort money from passengers.When He Long waited to board the ship at the Shanghai pier, he was watched by these people. After the ship stopped at the small pier, the captain and the bandits performed this double play of catching the "red head".How can the names of Chiang Kai-shek and Bai Chongxi restrain such people?On the contrary, they were even happier after seeing the words "General Manager of Sanqingtang Jewelry and Jade Store" on the business card. After He Long judged correctly, he had an idea in his mind.At that moment, He Long said to the captain: "Eight hundred dollars is not a big deal? It's just that we don't take a lot of money with us when we go out, and the local bank pays for it wherever we go. Let's do this, I'll write a note, and they will send someone to Shanghai or Go to the bank in Wuhan to pick it up." Hearing this, the big man shook his head like a rattle and said, "We don't burn incense if we don't see the real Buddha." He paused and said, "Let's do this, Boss Wang, leave your gold watch and ring, Mortgage it." The gold watch and ring worn by He Long were given to him by Zhou Enlai when he was about to board the ship. He Long didn’t want it. Zhou Enlai said, “As a rich boss, how can you not wear a gold watch and gemstone ring? It will also be useful for commanding battles in the future. This watch and ring were given by Soong Ching Ling.” Give it to me, before the Nanchang riots, I went from Hankou to Jiujiang, disguised as a rich boss, Mrs. Sun gave it to me, and I arrived in Jiujiang safely. Now it’s up to you.” In this way, He Long took the gold watch and ring come over. He Long knew that these bandits would not be able to pass this level without bleeding, so he smiled and said: "Brothers, if you want gold watches and rings, I will give them to you now. If you want a sum of money, I can write a note. Come to Shanghai or Go to Wuhan Bank to pick it up, and to tell you the truth, the bank will pay immediately when it sees my piece.” After He Long finished speaking, the gangsters fell silent, why?It turned out that these guys were all masters of family and money. After hearing He Long's words, they wanted gold watches and rings, as well as foreign money.At that moment, the captain and others went out to discuss it. After a while, several people entered the cabin again. The captain said: "Gentlemen, I made a price calculation with some brothers, and they said that all I need is a watch and a ring." He Long smiled and said: "That's good." At that moment, he handed over the watch and ring to the captain, and the general took it over, put it on the palm of his hand to look at it, and then walked out of the cabin, and closed the door casually. It didn't take long , the riverboat lifted anchor and sailed westward. Lu Dongsheng wiped the sweat off his brow and said, "I really didn't expect to meet this group of guys." He Long said: "These bandits are hob meat." Shi Shuyuan lamented him and said: "Revolution is really not easy." Zhou Yiqun said: "Tang Monk has ninety-nine to eighty-one difficulties in learning scriptures, and we also have ninety-nine to eighty-one difficulties in making revolution." Lu Dongsheng said: "This distress in the middle of the river is the most difficult thing for us to go to Xiangxi." He Long said: "It doesn't matter how much it is, as long as you have the determination, it's not difficult." If there are words, it will be long, and if there are no words, it will be short.On this day, the river ship arrived in Wuhan, and He Long and his party went ashore. After Jiang Lun arrived in Wuhan, He Long and his party first went to the Dongfang Hotel, which was a secret contact point of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, but failed to pick up the leader. It turned out that this contact point had been destroyed by the enemy a few days ago.He Long and others arrived at the second meeting place.This is a hotel near the river. Although the hotel is not very grand, it is clean and elegant. There is a gold plaque with a black background hanging on the front door, with the words "Wangjiang Tower" written on it.A few people stepped in, and the waiter saw a guest coming, so he hurriedly greeted him with a smile, and asked, "Are you a private seat or a light meal?" Lu Dongsheng didn't answer directly, but asked instead: "Is Boss Yu here?" The waiter listened, looked He Long up and down, saw that several people were dressed in unusual clothes, and their naked eyes were crowded together, and said with a smile: " Boss Yu, he..." He Long said, "What's wrong with him?" The waiter whispered, "Master Ke, just eat." He Long understood in his heart that this contact point was broken again, so he didn't ask any more questions. Several people sat down, ordered some food, ate some briefly, and then walked out. It turned out that the manager of the restaurant was Yu Deshui, an outstanding member of the Chinese Communist Party.After the failure of the Great Revolution, the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China opened a Wangjianglou restaurant near the river to receive comrades.The provincial party committee appointed Yu Deshui to be the boss here, managing the restaurant openly and doing reception work secretly.Half a month ago, this contact point was destroyed by the enemy, and Yu Deshui was arrested and imprisoned. He was killed a few days later, and the hotel changed hands accordingly.After leaving Wangjiang Tower, He Longen thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we go to No. 17 Xie Nong Beili to find Guo Liang." Zhou Yiqun asked in surprise, "How do you know Guo Liang's address?" He Long said: "I heard it when Zhou Enlai explained to you." Zhou Yiqun sighed: "Wen Chang really has a good memory, people have a photographic memory, and you, a visual memory." At that moment, several people took three tricycles and went straight to Xie Nong Beili.While the tricycle was driving, He Long saw the streets of Wuhan, which were desolate and desolate. Many shops were closed, beggars could be seen everywhere, and the streets and alleys were full of soldiers and police.Everyone watched with emotion in their hearts. Wuhan is already a place of white terror. The reactionary government in Wuhan mobilized the military and police to arrest and kill Communist Party members day and night. Only bamboo sticks were chopped off on Jisheng Sanma Road in Hankou, one of the killing fields, and they were pulled out in carts.Those upper-level bureaucrats use their power and weapons to do business.Selfishness and fraud, corruption and perverting the law, doing all kinds of evil.Swallowing clouds and mist every day, lying on a couch.Middle and lower rank military officers also prostitute and gamble indiscriminately.Whenever the sun goes down, the brothels in the Hankou French Concession are full of military officers who gamble wildly and ask for flowers.These people drink and make troubles, are used to it, and treat the people like nothing.The common people hated these warlord armies so much that they dared not speak out.Unknowingly, the tricycle arrived near Xie Nong Beili, and He Long and others got out of the car one after another. After checking that no one was following them, they came to No. 17. Since they did not connect with the two contact points and did not know the code word for contact, He Long arranged Zhang Haitao and others stayed in a hotel, and then went straight in with Zhou Yiqun and Lu Dongsheng. Guo Liang's wife was stunned when she saw He Long and the others, because the three of them were all dressed up. Guo Liang's wife couldn't see it and thought they were spies. She hesitated and said to him: "You..." Seeing Guo Liang's wife panicked, He Long took off his sunglasses. Before he could speak, someone in the room said loudly, "Commander, is it you?" He then said to Guo Liang's wife, "This is Commander He Longhe." Only then did Guo Liang's wife turn her surprise into joy, and He Long also saw clearly that the person who spoke was Liu Mingxian. Liu Mingxian, born in Hunan, joined the Communist Party during the Great Revolution, and served as Ye Ting's deputy during the Northern Expedition.He Long knew him very well. He Long and Liu Ming shook hands first and said, "Why are you here, brother?" Liu Ming smiled and said: "Commander, if you take off your glasses a little later, my gun will go off, why don't you follow the code?" Zhou Yiqun said: "The two joint locations were destroyed, and we had no choice but to break in." He Long introduced Zhou Yiqun and Lu Dongsheng to Liu Mingxian and Guo Liang's wife.Guo Liang's wife was busy making tea for everyone.He Long took a few sips of tea and said, "Where's Guo Liang?" Liu Mingxian said: "Guo Liang held a secret meeting with several comrades from the Provincial Party Committee in a hotel. You came at a good time. I will take you there to meet." At the moment, Liu Ming took He Long, Zhou Yiqun, and Lu Dongsheng to see Guo Liang first. In the hotel, He Long and others met Guo Liang. Guo Liang was very happy when he saw He Long and others. He Long took out a piece of paper from his bosom, handed it to Guo Liang and said, "Guo Liang, this is a letter from Enlai to you." Guo Liang took the letter and read it, and saw that it read: Wu Hao is Zhou Enlai's code name.After Guo Liang finished reading Zhou Enlai's letter, he introduced the situation of the three towns of Central Hubei, Western Hubei and Wuhan to He Long and others. Central Hubei is located in the Honghu area.There are dozens of large and small lakes in the Honghu Lake area, and the main branches are around Honghu Lake, Datong Lake, and Dasha Lake. During the rainy season, these lakes become a vast expanse of water.In the season of dry water, it becomes reed pond and lotus pond again.The rivers, ports and lakes in Honghu Lake are intertwined, connecting east and west and connecting with each other.Inside its belly are Beixiang River (also known as Hanshui River), Zhongfu River, Yangtze River and Dongjing River (also known as Nanxiang River). The section of Yangtze River from Chenglingji to Yichang is also called Jingjiang River.Therefore, the Honghu Lake area is known as the water town. Although Honghu Lake is a place of water, its strategic position is very important. It is close to Wuhan in the east, Changsha in the south, and Sichuan and Shaanxi in the west.During Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty, Chen Youliang, a fisherman from Mianyang, led the uprising of the people in Mianyang and Honghu in this water town of Zeguo.So far, there is still Chen Youliang's tomb at the foot of Huangpeng Mountain in the Honghu area.There are even more relics of the Three Kingdoms. Wulingji is opposite to the Red Cliff across the river. Lumengkou, Guanzhentai, and Dagutai are all relics left by the military strategists of the past dynasties when they fought. With an area of ​​438 square kilometers, Honghu Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Hubei. Honghu Lake is the end of the Jianghan Plain. Standing on the embankment of the Yangtze River, the blue waves are rippling and stretch as far as the eye can see.The Honghu area includes Jianli, Mianyang, Jiayu, Puqi, Hanyang and Hunan Linxiang counties.In addition to larger rivers such as the Yangtze River and Dongjing River, there are also large rivers tens of kilometers long such as the Zilin River, Shayang River, Nanzhu River, and Taima River. As for small rivers and canals, they are everywhere.Looking down from a height, it can be seen that the rivers are criss-crossing like spider webs.On the vast lakeside, reeds grow in clusters, lake embankments, and piers are dotted all over. Honghu Lake is a land of fish and rice. There are abundant aquatic products in Honghu Lake, and the land on the plain is fertile.However, since the end of the Qing Dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters have caused the poor people to suffer unspeakably.Especially lake tyrants, landlords, local tyrants, and evil gentry, they expropriated and extorted money, and cruelly exploited and oppressed farmers and fishermen.In Xindi City, there are bullies "Eight Gods of Wealth", in Fengkou, there are "Seven King Kongs", and in Shakou, Caoshi, Fuchang and other places, there are more landlords and bullies.Among the evil gentry in Honghu, Zhang Kechen, Zhang Taichu, Zhang Zehou, and Tu Laowu are the concentrated representatives. Zhang Kechen is the big bully of Shishan Port. He occupies more than 55,000 mu of Shahu Lake. Seventy percent of the labor force in Shishan Port is under his control, and 80 percent of the fishermen are under his control. , to pay 60% tax. Dadi advocated that in the early days, there were spittles in Caoshi Township. Caoshi Township had a total of 22,000 mu of land, and his family owned 10,000 mu. Zhang Zehou is a big gentry in Shakou. Zhangjiayuan Lake has more than 1,000 mu, and he has occupied more than 400 mu. He has also occupied more than 30,000 mu. Dare to invade, the big bandit leader Li Boyan is his godson. Tu Laowu is a big local tyrant in Daijiachang on the north bank of Honghu Lake, and he was a military scholar in the former Qing Dynasty.Tu Laowu's second brother, Tu Ziqing, is a councilor of Mianyang County and a senator of Hubei Province.Tu relied on his second elder brother as the backing, colluded with foreigners and warlords, fought violently, and seized tens of thousands of acres of farmland successively. He occupied more than 1,000 acres of farmland in Shijiagang, and he occupied more than half of the more than ten private embankments in Daijiachang. .More than 80 shops have been opened from Fuchang to Fengkou; from Liuguan to Jianli, there are workshops such as pressing rooms, wineries and silk shops.It hoards, inflates market prices, and manipulates the market.In addition, Tu Laowu also privately set up a "group" to serve as the "group director" of Dai's 26 guarantees.The masses call it "painted tiger" and "bend one step". There are two ways for bullies and landlords to plunder land. One is called "haad field".The other is to seize land by taking up lawsuits and repairing embankments.Xiao Xianke, a poor farmer in Guandang Township, because he couldn't pay the embankment repair fee levied by the government, 20 mu of land was taken by the evil gentry Xia Xiping under the pretext of using it. At that time, farmers had to pay two kinds of rent every year when they planted land. One was death rent, which was paid regardless of natural or man-made disasters.The landlord of the White Temple also stipulated that the rent must be paid first before the land is rented. Fishermen are exploited in the same way as farmers.When West Lake fisherman Wu Xiaoguang collects fish, 64 taels counts as one catty.When Zhang Zehou collects fish, 10 catties counts as 1 catty. In addition to being exploited by Huba and landlords for huge profits, farmers and fishermen also had to perform labor such as carrying sedan chairs and driving boats for Huba and landlords without compensation. The exploitation of usury is also extremely cruel. Whenever there is a shortage of money or farmers and fishermen are struggling, the fisherman and landlord will issue usury.Generally, it is increased by one or two, that is, if you borrow 10 yuan, you must repay 11 or 12 yuan.What's more serious is Li Shanggali's "Donkey Rolling".Li Yin, a local tycoon in Xindi, lent two shi and five dou millet to a farmer surnamed Chen. Chen was unable to return it due to poverty, so Li used an excuse to turn the money into money, rapeseed from the money, and then peas and sorghum. Seventeen stones and seven buckets of sorghum owed three stones and three buckets of soybeans and could not be repaid. Chen had to sell his son to pay off the debt, and his family was ruined. Farmers and fishermen were oppressed and had nowhere to go, so they rebelled angrily. In 1924, Pei Chongguan in the Jianwan area led the fishermen to tie the big bullies of Guandang Lake and Jinjiatai on ladders for a parade. In 1925, the fishermen of Datong Lake hanged him up and beat him hard in order to resist the "forbidden lake" of the lake tyrant Xiong Sheng. In the summer of 1926, during the wheat harvest season, due to the heavy rain, the river surged. Tu Laowu of Daijiachang forced the people in Tugou to build embankments because his wheat would not be flooded. If they didn't go, Tu Laowu ordered the Tuan Ding to grab the grain ship. The fellow villagers couldn't bear it anymore, they raised their poles and shovels to fight the Tuan Ding, and beat the Tuan Ding away. In 1925, Dong Biwu and Chen Tanqiu, the heads of the Hubei Provincial Party Organization of the Communist Party of China, sent Deng Chizhong, Lou Minxiu, Xu Xu, Liu Xiaomei, Ye Chiwu and others to Honghu area to carry out revolutionary work. At the end of 1925, the Mianyang County Committee of the Communist Party of China was established, which was the first party organization in the Honghu area. In 1926, when the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived at Dinglianghu, the Farmers Association in the 10th District of Mianyang County held a meeting.After the meeting, the big local tyrants Deng Songshan, Xu Qiyuan and the big gangster Zhang Fang were suppressed. In February 1927, the Mianyang Farmers Association Congress was held, and Deng Chizhong served as the secretary general of the congress.At that time, the number of members of the Agricultural Association reached more than 193,000. In September 1926, the first Mianyang Congress of the Communist Party of China was secretly held in Mianyang City, and the Mianyang County Committee of the Communist Party of China headed by Li Lianggui and Lou Minxiu was formed. In the spring of 1927, Li Lianggui, the party introducer of Liu Shaonan, a special commissioner of the Hubei Provincial Farmers Association, came to Mianyang under the order of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. The organization of the party made the White Temple the center of the CCP's activities in the Honghu area.The bases for activities around this center include Zhangjiagou, Daijiachang, Nanlinkou, Chahekou, Chakou, Poduanchang and other places.In this way, the revolutionary situation in Mianyang developed rapidly. At that time, Deng Chizhong and Deng Yao were active in the Baimiao area; Liu Shaonan, Chen Moxiang, Liu Dacheng, and Wang Kangpu were active in the Daijiachang area; Xia Deying and Xiong Dengchu were active in the Fuchang area; , Man Hua Wu. After that, the Mianyang Peasant Self-Defense Army was established, led by Lou Minxiu.Members of the self-defense army use spears and earthen guns as weapons. This is the earliest armed force led by the CCP in the Honghu area. On May 12, Sichuan Army Yang Sen and Xia Douyin rebelled.Yang Sen's men went eastward along the Yangtze River to occupy Mianyang, released the local tyrants and evil gentry imprisoned by the Mianyang Farmers' Association, and dissolved the Mianyang, Xindi, Heli and other farmers' associations.The bandit leaders Li Boyan and Qian Dingsan robbed the guns of the Pouyang Pengchang Self-Defense Group in the name of the "Qing Party Cadre Group".The great evil gentry Yang Xiru killed Yang Haidong, the head of the Peasant Association.The poor Tu Laowu of Daijiachang also took the opportunity to make a comeback.Yang Caifa of the Tailor Union of Xindi was killed. Wu Longchun and Pan Rizao, members of the Standing Committee of the Chahekou Farmers' Association, were severely tortured by the enemy. After the "division" of the Wang Group, parts of the Kuomintang's Liu Zuolong's Fifteenth Army, Lu Diping's Second Army, Li Pinxian's Eighth Army, and Li Shen's Forty-third Army successively occupied various places in Honghu.Those reactionary forces took the opportunity to organize the "KMT Reorganization Committee Subcommittee", "Rural Cleaning Committee", "Defense Corps", "Chang Lian Team" and so on.The Communist Party organizations and mass organizations in Mianyang and even the Honghu area were all destroyed and disbanded. The weapons of the self-defense armed forces of workers and peasants were confiscated. Many Communists and revolutionary masses were brutally killed. The landlords and evil gentry Sun Yaoqing, Zhang Jingan, and Wang Youzhai who fled to other places came back to organize a "defense group". group" head. Under the white terror, some of the unsteady elements wavered, while the revolutionaries became more determined in the face of the enemy's fierce flames. At that time, in order to implement the spirit of the "August 7th" meeting and persist in the revolutionary struggle in the Honghu area, the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting of responsible comrades in the Honghu area in Jigongshan. Shi Deng Chizhong, Huang Guoqing, Xia Demei, Wu Chifeng and others attended.The meeting was chaired by Luo Yinong.Luo said with a heavy heart: "Comrades, Chen Duxiu's line has sent the party to a point of despair. The enemy's counter-revolutionary arrogance has become more and more arrogant, and many comrades have died heroically." He pushed his hands and said, "We will use The armed forces of the revolution against the armed forces of the counter-revolution!" In order to strengthen the revolutionary struggle in the Honghu area, the Hubei Provincial Party Committee sent Tang Fangjiu to preside over the work in central Hubei in early August.After Tang arrived in central Hubei, he was supposed to establish a special committee in Mianyang, where the masses had a good foundation, and then rely on this to restore the party organizations in the counties and organize the autumn harvest riots. However, he did not do this, neither established a special committee , did not get in touch with the leaders of local party organizations such as Liu Shaonan, Deng Chizhong, and Xiong Chuanzao, but brought some backbones to instigate rebellion against the enemy.He also sent Yuan Chuanjian to the bandits in Qianjiang, and Xu Jie and Tang to the Tianmen Red Spear Club and the bandits.Want to rely on the power of the party to carry out riots.The Provincial Party Committee criticized Tang Fangjiu's approach. At the same time, in view of Tang Fangjiu's work situation and attitude, he decided to send Xiao Renhu and Wang Pingzhang to form the Central Hubei Special Committee.For the convenience of leadership, the central Hubei region was divided into two parts, the north and the south.The north governs the 4 counties of Tianmen, Jingshan, Hanchuan, and Yingcheng, and Wang Pingzhang is in charge of the command; the south governs the 3 counties of Mianyang, Qianjiang, Jianli and Xindi City, and Xiao Renhu is in charge.The Provincial Party Committee also appointed Wang Daquan as the inspector of the Central and Northern Hubei Division. When Xiao Renhu and Wang Pingzhang set off, Guo Liang, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, talked to them and gave the following instructions: 1. The main reason why the Central Hubei District has changed from a riot area to a riot area is that the poison of opportunism is too deep, and it is urgent to completely eradicate it in the future. 2. The significance of the agrarian revolution is that in order to change the land system that has existed for thousands of years, the landlords must take the land back to the peasants. Therefore, killing more local tyrants, evil gentry and landlords means doing more work for the agrarian revolution. 3. The policy for the future work of Central Hubei should be to convene comrades and farmers to hold meetings as much as possible, and the party will announce the implementation of the agrarian revolution to the masses, kill the local tyrants and evil gentry, confiscate the land of the big landlords and all public lands and all the property of the counter-revolutionaries, and resist Food, rent resistance, tax resistance, donation resistance.Use riots to destroy the Wuhan government. 4. Organize assassination teams and guerrillas.The method of organizing the assassination team is to organize three to four to ten or twenty brave comrades or brave peasants, and they can act with one or two guns or a few old-style weapons. 5. As for the army, if we are weak, we should avoid conflict with them; if we have the strength to deal with our army, we should do it without hesitation, but we must pay attention to technical preparations. Guo Liang demanded that the riots should be launched as soon as possible in order to combat the flames of the enemy and inspire the ambitions of the poor and poor.So Xiao Renhu and Wang Pingzhang arrived at Honghu Lake in disguise on a riverboat. Guo Liang talked about the situation in the Honghu area, and then introduced the situation in western Hubei to He Long and others. Western Hubei is the western part of Hubei. It is located in the vast area between the Yangtze River and the Han River and its vicinity. It reaches Dongting Lake and Wuling Mountains in the south, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and Shennongjia in the west, the southern foot of Tongbai Mountain in the north, and the western edge of Wuhan in the east.In this area, there are not only the Jianghan Plain with staggered rivers and lakes, but also the mountainous area with high mountains and continuous hills. The strategic situation is extremely important.In western Hubei there are Tianmen, Jingmen, Yidu, Dangyang, Yuanan, Yichang, Songzi, Zhijiang City, Zhicheng, Nanzhang, Fangxian, Xingshan, Badong, Zigui, Changyang, Hefeng, Wufeng, Enshi , Lichuan, Xianfeng, Laifeng, Jianshi and other counties; in northern Hubei there are Xiangyang, Zaoyang and other counties. In May 1927, according to incomplete statistics, in Tianmen, Jingmen, Yidu, Dangyang, Yuan'an, Yichang, Songzi, Zhijiang and other places in western Hubei, county agricultural associations or agricultural association preparatory offices were established. Township agricultural associations have been established one after another, and a number of peasant armed forces have been established. After the "Ma Ri Incident", the peasant associations in Central Hubei, Western Hubei, and Northern Hubei were severely damaged by counter-revolutionary forces. The armed peasant organizations in Jingshan County have three to four thousand members in the peasant associations, but most of the agricultural associations in each district are controlled by local tyrants and evil gentry.For example, Song He Second District, when Yang Sen's 20th Army and Xia Douyin's troops went eastward together, a lot of bad soil was mixed in. Therefore, this peasant armed county peasant association could not command.At the peak of the peasant armed forces in Jingshan County, there were more than 10,000 local guns and 7 fast guns.At that time, the most urgent demands of the peasants were to attack the reactionary Red Gun Association, because the Red Gun Association attacked the peasants from time to time, and the attitude of the county magistrate was very bad.Jingshan's garrison is Xiang Juemin's guard regiment, and Xiangbu has a good attitude towards the Agricultural Association.However, after the Wuhan Nationalist Government was openly reactionary, Xiangbu immediately colluded with the local evildoers and launched an attack on the peasant association. Declare its separation from the Communist Party.The armed forces of the Agricultural Association also disintegrated.The site of the Agricultural Association in Hanchuan was occupied by a battalion of the 15th Army.The agricultural associations were completely disintegrated, and all armed firearms were confiscated by the garrison.The local tyrants and evil gentry used the army as a talisman to arrest people and seal houses everywhere. The head of the CCP party group in Hanchuan has disappeared.The CCP organization in western Hubei is not perfect. The peasant movement and labor movement were naive at first, and Yang Sen's ravages made it worse.Before the reaction of the Nationalist Government in Wuhan, the Second Army Garrison in that area had not oppressed the people very much, so the people's organizations could still exist. Except for Shishou, none of the CCP organizations disintegrated, but mixed in many local tyrants and evil gentry Consistent interests.In his report to the Hubei Provincial Party Committee on August 19, 1927, Liu Zhiwu, secretary of the Jiangling County Party Committee, reported the conditions of the agricultural associations and CCP organizations in the counties of Jiangling, Shishou, and Public Security. The report stated: In the past, 95% of the agricultural associations in Wangling County were under the leadership of old and new local tyrants and evil gentry. When Yang Sen went east, the local tyrants and evil gentry were openly reactionary. collapse.Now only two district peasant associations under our leadership continue to fight bandits and kill local tyrants and evil gentry.The county has the most bandits, no less than four to five thousand people, most of whom are under the leadership of the local tyrants and evil gentry, and were recruited by the 21st Army and the county government to oppose the peasant association.The rest of the scattered bandits are mostly Yang Sen's remnants.Our weapons, including long spears, are developed very quickly, and their purpose is to fight bandits. We have fought fiercely with bandits, and although we have suffered heavy sacrifices, we are not discouraged.Most of these organizations are under our influence, because beating the bandits means disarming the local tyrants and evil gentry, and when the bandits go away, the local tyrants will also disappear. There are about 300,000 peasants in the county, and 70 percent of them are self-employed farmers.The county government collected a lot of floating tax on grain. For each foreign currency, 4 strings of copper dollars were collected, which was about 4 yuan in treasury bonds at that time, and 2 yuan in central bank notes. , about 30,000 to 40,000 people, temporarily formed a small part of the 15th Army, about 400 to 500 people. The attitude of the Second Army towards the mass organizations is: if it is not "Left" leaning, it will not ask questions; if it is "Left" leaning, if someone accuses, it will investigate sanctions.The 21st Army is a bandit, operating during the day. The peasants in Gongan and Shishou were very brave. Under the leadership of the leftist comrades of the civilian school (because our strength in the two counties was very small), Yang Sen went to the east. The peasants fought against them several times. Although the peasants in the two counties suffered sacrifices, Yang Jun Also dare not enter.There are a total of about 600 guns in the two counties, under the guidance of the county civilian school, in the name of the People's Self-Defense Corps.The Hunan Qingxiang Team once crossed the border to arrest the chairman of the Agricultural Association of the two counties. Several armed conflicts occurred, and the peasants and the People's Self-Defense Forces won.At that time, the county's work plan was to take weapons first, and use various methods to purchase or incorporate them.The second is to restore the organization, kill the local villains and the bandits they lead, and the third is to fight against rent and tax. After the revolution of the Nationalist Government in Wuhan, white terror spread across urban and rural areas in central, western, and northern Hubei. There are few people and the land is barren.Those who suffered the most were the cadres and members of the peasant associations, women's federations, student federations and other revolutionary masses. Guo Liang finally said: "According to what we know so far, although the white terror is serious in central and western Hubei, the masses are extremely fighting. Committee members in various counties also organized small groups after the riots." Then, Guo Liang introduced the situation of the three towns in Wuhan.The three towns of Wuhan were originally the center of the revolution when the Northern Dynasties army was victorious. Since Wang Jingwei's rebellion against the revolution and the confluence of Ning and Han, the three towns of Wuhan have become a white terror.However, the massacre did not deter the Communists. They wiped off the blood on their bodies, buried the bodies of their comrades in arms, and continued to fight.When He Long and others arrived here, the Hubei Provincial Party Committee was planning to hold a riot at the end of the new year. The meeting held by Guo Liang and others in this hotel was the meeting to hold the riot. After Guo Liang introduced the situation of the three towns in Wuhan, he happily shook He Long's hand and said, "Wen Chang, you came just in time. The three towns in Wuhan are going to have a New Year's Day riot, and the day of the riot is set on the 23rd lunar month. At this time, when the firecrackers are fired and the riots start, you will be the commander-in-chief." He Long naturally agreed. At the moment, He Long and Zhou Yiqun attended the meeting, and Lu Dongsheng, Shi Shuyuan, Zhang Haitao, etc. also participated in the preparations for the riot. 当时，暴动所用的经费和枪支都极缺乏，而省委一时也搞不来，恰好程潜的两个侄子是共产党员，都在汉阳兵工厂工作，一个管军械， 一个管军需，这俩人为暴动准备了部分枪械、弹药和经费。关于这段情由，贺龙后来回忆： 广东暴动后，我从香港到上海，党决定我和刘伯承、林老一起去苏联。决定1927年11月17日走，坐货仓走。但16日机关破坏，敌人说我到了上海，结果他们先走了。十几天后，我走不成，就想搞红军吧，我与周逸群把想法谈了，要他向总理谈，我说在上海，党负责，上了船，我负责，一到汉口我就能活动了。谈了四五次后，中央批准了，我们就准备走。走前，准备搞两打驳壳枪也没有搞成，到汉口的接头关系，恩来同志交待给周逸群，我在一旁听见，记住了，是'谢弄北里十七号'。我们带了张海涛、史庶元等由上海坐船去汉口。在轮船上还遇见了一件事，一个国民党特务叫王国祯的，带一个婊子与史庶元搞熟了，即请我们吃饭、打牌。我只带了30元，给3人分头带上，就打起牌来。那特务想赢我们的钱，打下来，我却赢了他七八十元，他又要互相交换地址，我就随便讲了个地址给他。 到汉口后，到东方旅馆，我们接头关系两个都被破坏了，我就记起'谢弄北里十七号'，也没有介绍信，就硬闯去了。会到郭亮的老婆，他们以为我是侦探，由刘鸣先来与我接头。其他人就住下跑走了，接好头，我又去旅馆找来张海涛。当时，组织上叫我搞根据地、苏维埃、游击战争，但是，怎么搞？没有指示。怎么搞红军，发动群众，发动起来又怎么组织？都不清楚，只知道搞农民协会；搞军队的方法是北伐军式的。到了汉口，与郭亮接了头，准备走，第二天程潜的一个侄子及一个姓钟的外甥来了，他们都是党员，侄子管军械，从汉阳兵工厂搞来了枪、子弹和重机关枪，外甥管军需，把5万法币带到党里来。同时，武汉三镇又要组织暴动，我的一个团长醴陵人蔡申熙在招兵，组织三个军，武昌、汉口、汉阳各一个军，要我当总指挥，我就准备参加暴动。 在省委研究年关暴动的会上，贺龙说：“要接受南昌暴动千里远征的教训，武汉暴动成功当然很好，若失败了，快快离开，把暴动武装拉到沔阳会师，长江南岸的就拉到湘东，和湘东的农村暴动武装结合起来，我到湘西。” 会上，又讨论了如何发展游击队、发展党，恢复已被敌人破坏的各地党组织的问题。 这时候，贺锦斋派了贺龙的两个侄子，一个叫贺学定，一个叫贺桂先，给省委送金子来了。当时，贺锦斋在洪湖藕池发展了百余人枪，近日抄了一家银号，搞到1000多两金子，派专人来汉口送交省委。他怎么到了洪湖，后文交待，暂且不提。省委正发愁暴动缺钱。这黄金真是雪中送炭。 年关暴动的一切准备都很顺利，谁想到，就在腊月二十三，为暴动印刷标语的一家印刷所被敌人破坏，致使省委的全部暴动计划都落入了敌人手中，这下子，满城大乱。敌人倾巢出动，逮捕共产党及暴动分子。并派保甲长们沿街敲锣高喊：“共产党要暴动了！”“每家每户准备美孚油灯，水缸装满水！” 郭亮租住的房子，是这个地下印刷所出的铺保，郭亮料定敌人肯定会来查抄和捕人，当下，省委迅速作出了决定，所有参加暴动的人员，立即转移，贺龙对郭亮说：“我和逸群等去湘西吧，今天就走，只是逸群怎么通知他？” 郭亮说：“我己安排人通知他了，今晚你们就乘江轮动身。”说着，郭亮握着贺龙的手说，“我本当前往，可这里尚有事没有做充，侍安排后再去找你。特立、直荀另有任务也不能去了。” 当下，二人洒泪而别。 1928年3月26日，郭亮奉中央之命前往岳阳成立中共湘赣特委，郭亮任书记、主持召开特委会议，发动平江、浏阳、铜鼓、修水、蒲沂、通城等十余县农民武装起义，组织工农革命军，建立革命根据地。不想为叛徒苏先骏出卖了，于岳阳被捕，翌日被押至长沙，29日即被何键杀害，年仅27岁。 当时，徐特立也被派往岳阳工作，本拟与郭亮同行，因拉肚子而没能前往，才没遇难。 贺龙同郭亮分手后，立即做了番打扮，但见：头戴水獭皮帽，身穿狐皮长袍，水晶眼镜遮目，文明拐杖点地，脚下皮鞋闪光，一抹黑胡齐整，远看是个阔大爷，近看是个阔老板。卢冬生扮做随从。看看到了掌灯时分，贺龙与卢冬生乘汽车到了临江码头，这时码头上灯火辉煌，岗哨林立，军警盘查十分严密。把那些上下船的旅客都翻了个底朝上。那些军警真的是严查共产党吗？不是，他们是趁火烧鱼，趁机发财。贺龙下了汽车，卢冬生提着高级皮箱，随在身后，卢冬生虽是随从打扮，且也很阔绰，使人见了望而生畏。贺龙抬眼一瞅，见军警对每个旅客都搜身盘查，十分严格，他眉头一皱，计上心头，大摇大摆地走到军警面前，敞开狐皮大衣，冲军警说：“检查检查，看我像不像暴动分子，红脑壳？！” 站在贺龙面前的这个军警姓冯，外号“冯一刀”，宰人特狠，靠着在这临江码头盘查敲诈勒索发了财。他正在检查之际，听到贺龙言语，抬眼一看，心里也立时一哆嗦，心说：我的爷，这个主儿可了不得，真阔呀，家里不定开着多大字号呢，我可不能轻饶过他。想着，正要开口，可眼珠儿又往贺龙身上一扫，不由得激灵一下打了个冷战，怎么着，他看见了贺龙那两道黑眉，一双利眼，心里不由一动，暗忖道：这个主儿怎么跟城门口儿画影图形，悬赏10万大洋的南昌暴动分子贺龙差不多？要真是贺龙，发财的日子可就来啦。想着，他把胸脯一拍，刚要张口，那话又咽了回去。他想：这人果真是贺龙，他身边左右准有人暗中跟随，自己要动手，准得吃亏，此人要不是贺龙，冲这派头，也是个了不起的人物，但是要抓错了，丢了饭碗不说，弄不好脑袋也得搬家，我呀……他正想着，只听眼前这位阔老板喝道：“愣什么？” 冯一刀正不知如何回答是好，卢冬生暗暗地把一把票子往他手中一塞。冯一刀立即心领神会，满脸是笑地后退了两步，又扭头对其他兵丁喝道：“愣什么，快闪开，让这位大爷上船！” 贺龙大摇大摆地上了船。到了江轮上一瞅，周逸群、史庶元、张海涛等早已到了船上。在周逸群的身边还坐着一个年轻人，年纪二十五六，人很精神，贺龙看看不认识，周逸群介绍说：“这是李良耀，省委派他同我们一起去湘西。” 贺龙同李良耀握了手。柳直荀因另有任务没能同往。 贺龙上了江轮，坐定之后，账房先生左顾右盼，打量了贺龙一阵，试探地问：“先生贵姓？” 贺龙说：“我姓王。” 那人道：“我看先生不姓王。” 贺龙警觉道：“姓甚？” 那人道：“你是贺龙。” 贺龙严正地说：“看来你的眼力不错。” 那人道：“请军长放心，小的原在军长手下当兵，后来，因身体不适应，退了伍，经人介绍，来到这船上当了账房。”那人又说，“前些时，听说军长遇难了，小的难受了好多天，后来见官府悬赏军长，悬着的心才放下许多。” 贺龙见那人一脸忠厚善相，知道是穷人出身，遂道：“这船上人都怎么样？” 那人道：“请军长放心，这船上使船的人都是受苦人。” 原来，在这条江轮上，从船长到水手，有近半数是共产党员和同情革命的人，这是郭亮派人安排的。 管账先生走后不一刻，又带来三四个人，贺龙教给了他们一套准备应付敌人可能突然检查的办法。 天黑之际，江轮起锚，由于怕出意外，没有鸣笛即离开了码头，船刚驶到鹦鹉洲时，敌人的一艘巡江划子开了过来，靠近江轮后，一群荷枪实弹的人把枪对准了江轮，一个大胡子厉声喝道：“娘的，开船为什么不鸣笛？八成船上有共产分子？”说着就上了船，随后又跟着上来两个持枪的。 账房先生和船长都笑脸迎了过去，账房先生说：“先生，是挂笛的绳子断了，正在修，不信您过去看看。” 账房先生说着把大胡子引到驾驶室，大胡子一瞅，见船工们果然在修。他又横眉撇嘴地四下看了看，拉着长声说：“你们这船上有没有红脑壳呀？” 船长点头哈腰地说：“先生，我们一向奉公守法，红脑壳我们怎敢让他们上船？那不是砸饭碗吗？” 这时候，账房先生拿过两条烟，递给大胡子说：“先生们辛苦，拿去抽吧，不成敬意。” 大胡子没接，账房赶紧把烟给了他身后的兵。大胡子说：“你们这船什么时候从回呀？” 账房说：“一个星期。” 大胡子说：“回来的时候，给我捎点土产来。” 船长赶紧说：“一定一定。” 大胡子说：“知道我住哪儿吗？” 账房说：“你老住在……住在……” 大胡子把一张名片掏出，账房双手接过，连连说：“船回来一定到府上拜望。” 大胡子等这才下了江轮。江轮逆水而上。 关于这段经历，贺龙后来回忆道： 当时码头上的敌人检查很严，我穿着皮大衣，围围巾，戴墨眼镜，走到敌人面前打开大衣让敌人搜，敌人看我像资本家，就放我上了船。船上的袍哥组织，管船的账房也认出了我，我即教给他一套话，准备应付敌人。开船的时候没有拉笛，船到鹦鹉洲，敌人的汽划子来检查了，船夫装作修理，我藏在后舱里，账房送了点礼给敌人，就混过去了。24日走的，越是大摇大摆越没有问题。那个时候，敌人认衣裳更认钱，如今这个坏毛病还没有根绝呢。