Chapter 8 Chapter Seven "A Roar at the Head of Dangyang Bridge"

After Liu Shaonan and Xiong Chuanzao talked about the situation in Shishou, they also talked about the establishment of the Dangyang West Hubei Advance Brigade and the riot at the Mituo Temple in Jiangling. According to the riot deployment of the Western Hubei Special Committee, the Dangyang County Party Committee established a peasant riot headquarters on September 7, with the county party secretary Li Chaoran as the commander-in-chief and Wang Xiaoyu as the deputy commander-in-chief. At Dangyang, Zhang Fei let out an angry roar and drank the Dangyang bridge, causing the water to flow backwards.Wacang in its county is located at the junction of Dangyang Yuan'an, which is relatively remote and the enemy's ruling power is weak.At that time, there were more than 2,000 peasant self-defense troops who were able to participate in the riot.There are more than 800 peasants in the nearby Guanyin District. On September 11, the Special Committee of Western Hubei held a joint meeting of the Special Committee and the Dangyang and Yuan'an County Committees in Hongshiping, Dangyang City, to check the preparations for the uprising and study the cooperation of various regions with the Wacang operation.Think that the conditions for the riot are met, and act according to the original plan.Li Chaoran then concentrated the riot team for military training and raised weapons and ammunition.

On the night of September 14th, the riots began. Li Chaoran and Wang Xiaoyu led the peasant army and went straight to the regiment defense station in the yard in front of the temple.The peasants in the Guanyin District also acted at the same time. Dozens of big evil gentry were arrested and executed overnight, and the riot was victorious.The next day, the Waicang District Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Government was established in front of the temple, with Chairman Fu Dianyun.Subsequently, Jiuzishan in the urban area, Nanxiang in Yuan'an County and other places also rioted one after another. The riots caused a separatist situation in Baili.

After the victory of the riot, Wang Xiaoyu reorganized the riot team and prepared to launch an attack on Dangyang City. After capturing Dangyang, he planned to develop in the direction of Jiangling and Public Security.When he contacted the revolutionary forces in Yichang, the regiment defense of Dangyang County gathered the regiment defense forces in Nanzhang, Jingmen, Yuan'an and other places to attack Wacang.After all, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was untrained and armed with inferior weapons. When the two sides fought, the Revolutionary Army was defeated and its leader Wang Xiaoyu died.

The next day, Huang Guanbai collected the scattered peasant army, transferred them to other counties, and established the Western Hubei Advance Brigade, with Wang Wenhua and Huang Guanbai as the chief and deputy captains.At the time of the Dangyang and Wacang riots, the West Hubei Special Committee planned the Amitabha Temple riot.Amitabha Temple is an important town in Jiangling County, adjacent to Gongan County.Bian Buzai, Tan Hongqing, and Deng Licheng, local tyrants in the town, are collectively called the "three masters" of Amitabha Temple.Among these three families, Bian Buzai is the head, with 12,000 mu of land, 42 houses only in the Amitabha Temple, and 6 large shops including flower and grain stores, oil presses, and pawn shops.Liquidity amounted to as much as one million yuan.Dispose of real estate in Shashi, Wuhan, Shanghai, etc., and operate businesses.Bian Boyzai's second son, Bian Yongfeng, is the head of the district regiment.Bian Yongfeng opened a business, opened a pawn shop, issued "Yongfenghe City Tickets" privately, bought short and sold short, extorted money, and exploited the people with huge profits. The land rent of Bian's family was two buckets more per mu than ordinary landlords.The poor who couldn't pay their debts were locked in the yellow barrel prison set up privately at home.Tan Hongqing has 5,000 mu of land and 80,000 silver dollars in capital.Deng Licheng had 7,000 mu of land and 200,000 silver dollars in capital. The "Three Great Masters" made friends with the government, traveled around the yamen, and dominated one side.Bian Buzai also kept guns of more than a hundred members of the regiment, called "Bao Shang Tuan".Bian and other big local tyrants lived a corrupt life, extorted the poor, and the common people hated them to the bone.The Western Hubei Special Committee decided to eradicate this bully, which ignited the riots in Jiangling, Public Security and neighboring counties.

On September 19th, Fan Xueci and Zou Zisheng were ordered to lead more than 300 peasant self-defense troops to meet at Zhenggongdu and stationed in Chengnanping Town of Gongan County. Both Fan Xueci and Zou Zisheng were well-recognized peasant leaders by the local people.At that time, Fan Xueci and Zou Zisheng collected dozens of civilian ships and prepared for the riot.The West Hubei Special Committee decided that the riot team attacking Amitabha Temple was divided into three groups, one was commanded by Fan Xueci, the other was commanded by Zou Zisheng, and the other was commanded by Yang Rongxiang, the head of the People's Self-Defense Corps of Gong'an County and a member of the Communist Party.

On September 22, three groups of rioters marched on land and water from the east and west banks of the Hudu River to Amitabha Temple.While walking, the three-way people made propaganda to beat local tyrants and avenge farmers.In this way, on the way the troops passed by, many poor people joined the three groups of people.At night, three groups of people surrounded the Amitabha Temple.The enemies of Amitabha Temple had learned of the news that the People’s Self-Defense Group of Gong’an County was going to attack Amitabha Temple half a month ago, so they dug deep the moat, built blockhouses, set up checkpoints around the town for five days, and equipped them with 2 rifles. Guards with two sabers strictly check the pedestrians entering and leaving.

In the early morning of the 23rd, heavy fog fell from the sky, and there were no people on the opposite side, and the sky and the earth were gray.Yang Rongxiang, Fan Xueci, and Zou Zisheng led three groups of troops to launch a general attack on Amitabha Temple under the cover of dense fog.All of a sudden, there were gunshots and shouts for killing. The Baoshang Group in the town didn't want to work for the "three local tyrants". Unload guns, ammunition and horses, and flee to Taipingkou, the water inlet of Hudu River.Yang Rongxiang took the lead and rushed into the town.Immediately, rioters rushed in and occupied the Amitabha Temple.Bian Buzai and other local tyrants had fled to Shashi in advance, but they were not caught. Fan Xueci, Yang Rongyang, Zou Zisheng and others ordered before attacking Amitabha Temple: non-local tyrants and evil gentry are not allowed to be captured, and enemies who are not resisting on the spot are not allowed to be shot. Therefore, the peasant army entered After the Amitabha Temple, Yang Rongxiang immediately commanded the peasant army. Except for confiscating the property of three big local tyrants including Bian Buzai, he did not commit any crimes against small and medium-sized businesses.The confiscated gold, silver and jewels were shipped back to serve as military supplies, and food, oil, cloth, salt, etc. were evenly distributed to the poor.The poor peasants who were imprisoned by Bian Buzai in the "Yellow Barrel Prison" were also released.When Bian Buzai’s younger brother, Bian Jiaxun, was caught by farmers, the local citizens proved that he had always been engaged in business and had never been involved in any evil, and Fan Xueci immediately released him.More than 50 years later, when the descendants of Bian Jiaxun talked about the Amitabha Temple riot, they praised Fan Xueci with gratitude for the correct implementation of the policy.

That afternoon, the riot team withdrew from the Amitabha Temple.At that time, Bian Buzai heard that the Amitabha Temple was captured by the riots in Shashi, so he hurriedly reported to the local garrison and asked for peace.Lu Diping's Second Army stationed in Yichang ordered Zheng Huatang's 37th Regiment stationed in Shashi to suppress it.After Zheng Huatang led his troops to approach the Amitabha Temple, seeing the mighty riot team from a distance, he did not dare to go ashore, but turned around and turned around after firing a few shots. The victory of the Amitabha Temple riot inspired the revolutionary struggles of farmers in western Hubei, and promoted the riots in Jiangling, Shishou, Songzi and other counties.At that time, the rioters set up a stage to sing an opera, singing "Zhang Fei drinks off Dangyang Bridge".When the play came to Zhang Fei's loud roar, scaring off millions of Cao soldiers, the team members and common people watching the play applauded.

After the Amitabha Temple riot was victorious, the special committee and the riot headquarters saw that the Dangyang uprising army did not come to support, and the workers' armed forces in Shashi also failed to cooperate as scheduled. expand. The Hubei Provincial Party Committee learned of this situation, and immediately sent Ren Xu there to arrange for another riot on October 15, creating a separate riot area and developing westward.When Ren Xu arrived in Shashi, he met Zhang Jichu, secretary of the special committee, and said to Zhang Jichu: "The provincial party committee proposes to appoint Yang Rongxiang as the commander-in-chief of the peasant revolutionary army in western Hubei."

Zhang Jichu said: "Yang Rongxiang does have prestige among the masses, enough to be able to lead the armed forces of the police." At the moment, Zhang Jichu and Yang Rongxiang talked about the intention of the provincial party committee.Yang Rongxiang said: "I am very grateful to the party organization for using me so much, but I am over fifty years old and my physical strength is not as good as before. Although I am already a party member, I just joined the party and I still don't know much about the party. It’s better to be the deputy commander, and the commander will stay with someone more suitable.”

On September 29, the West Hubei Special Committee held a military meeting in Zhenggongdu. The special committee respected Yang Rongxiang's opinion, and then changed the commander-in-chief to Liu Baicheng. With Yang Rongxiang as the deputy commander, there were two commanders-in-chief. The second route is Yu Kaimian.At this time, the teaching regiment of Lu Diping's Second Army had arrived in Shashi from Yichang, and together with Zheng Huatang's thirty-seventh regiment, stationed in Shahuba and Amitabha Temple, encircling the public security forces, and stationed in Jinshi, Lizhou, Hunan. Division Men Bingyue also "encircled and suppressed" Zou Zisheng's troops.At that time, the West Hubei Special Committee had more than 500 guns under the command of the public security, and decided to hold another riot. However, due to the strong enemy's pressure, the riot could not be held. After that, Yang Rongxiang and Zou Zisheng led the peasant army to fight against taxation and kill local bad people under the slogan of "Bang Lao Er". After Men Bingyue oppressed the police, he decided to take the strategy of "appeasing" Yang Rongxiang, and sent Tao Yaojie, a member of the KMT's Gongan County Party Committee, to Chenciqiao to persuade him to surrender.After Yang Rongxiang learned of his intention, he ordered the earth gun to blast him away, and expressed his determination by this.The enemy sent Li Shiyuan, a landlord who had a close relationship with Yang Rongxiang, to speak, but was reprimanded by Yang Rongxiang.Enraged, the enemy ordered Wu Kezhang, head of the Seventh Division of the Public Security Bureau, to lead more than 60 people to attack Chenciqiao with guns. As a result, Yang Rongyang's strategy of luring the enemy was reversed, and Wu fled in defeat, almost losing his life. At this time, Xie Bomin, the leader of Ma Haokou's regiment defense, showed signs of betrayal.Yang Rongxiang decided to go deep into Xiebu to instigate rebellion.Chen Jiaqiao stayed with Li Jinsheng and led the peasant army to persist. In January 1928, when Yang Rongxiang went to Mahaokou, the Public Security County Government of the Kuomintang sent hundreds of regiments to encircle Chenci Bridge from three directions: Bailingang, Longxiang, and Zhakou. Li Jinsheng took the initiative to lead the team to withdraw , Then, the enemy was caught off guard, and the enemy was beaten into a panic and fled in defeat. When Yang Rongxiang instigated Xie Bomin's armed forces, Xie's reactionary nature remained unchanged, and he even connived behind Yang Rongxiang's back to the second team leader under him to rob the house and rob the people.After Yang Rongxiang found out about this, he executed the team leader.Xie Bomin then plotted to kill Yang Rongyang. After Yang found out, he escaped in time and returned to Chenciqiao. Together with Zou Zisheng, they caused the red separatism of Chenciqiao and Nanwuzhou. Because of Fan Xueci's serious hometown concept and personal heroism, and disagreement with the deployment of the West Hubei Special Committee, after the Hubei Provincial Committee learned about this situation, he asked Ren Xu to tell the special committee secretary Zhang Jichu that he would do Fan's work well.At this time, when Fan Xueci led the troops to transfer to Taotaoyuan, they encountered the 37th Regiment of the enemy. Before Fan's troops got rid of the entanglement of the 37th Regiment, a regiment of Men Bingyue's division and the Tianjin City Guard Regiment surrounded them again. come over.The Fan tribe was defeated, and in the chaos, Fan Xueci fled hurriedly with two guards, and hid in the home of his friend Zheng Jiupeng in Li'an, Li County. A few months later, he was betrayed by a traitor known as "Old Geng" and was killed outside the west gate of Gong'an County.During the execution, he was stripped of his shirt and tied up.The enemy cut off his head, opened his chest, dug out his heart and liver, and did not allow his family members to collect the body.The hero dies horribly.I was 28 years old. When Yang Rongxiang and Zou Zisheng were dealing with the enemy in the Chenciqiao area, Qin Jichuan led some armed forces from Li County and the Public Security Bureau, and was ordered by the Special Committee and the Provincial Party Committee to join forces with Li County's armed forces and move to the border of Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan.Shi Qin Jichuan was appointed commander-in-chief of the guerrillas on the Hunan-Echuan border.When Tan Jichuan led a team from Shizitan to the border of Hunan and Hubei via Songzi, Xie Bomin of Mahaokou heard the news and wrote to Xiong Bofan, director of the Li County Household Regiment, ordering him to kill Qin. In the Public Security County People's Self-Defense Corps led by Qin Jichuan, there was a captain named Jiang Haifeng, and Xiong Bofan had a close relationship with him.Xiong Bofan and Jiang Haifeng plotted to kill Qin Jichuan in Yanhe, Li County, and decided to kill Qin Jichuan when he was unprepared in Qijiayu at the junction of Public Security and Li County. On October 22, Qin Jichuan led more than a hundred people from his department to Shizitan, a small town at the junction of Gongan, Songzi, and Li counties, and sent someone to contact Xiong Bofan.The bear then appears with a red face.Xiong lured Qin Jichuan's team to Qijiayu, which is very remote and has two landlord manors.Xiong Bofan and Jiang Haifeng arranged Qin Jichuan at a manor, and hypocritically asked Qin Jichuan and other leaders to discuss military matters.That night, Qin Jichuan was killed together with Hu Zhuming, secretary of the Public Security County Party Committee, and Liu Xuan, member of the Standing Committee. Qin Jichuan was 27 years old at the time.