Chapter 9 Chapter Eight

One day in early August 1927, in Huarong County on the south bank of the Yangtze River, a young man walked by. He was about 20 years old and dressed as a clerk in a trading shop.He was walking on the embankment along the river, but he saw few people, the land was barren, and thick smoke rose from the fields from time to time.His heart was in his throat. His name is Fang Zhong, a native of Huarong, Hunan, a member of the Communist Party of China, who used to fight local tyrants in Caidian, Hanyang, Hubei, and is now ordered to work in the Special Committee of Western Hubei.He was going to take a look at his hometown, and then go to Shashi, where the special committee is located.

Fang Zhong returned to his hometown - a small village on the south bank of the Yangtze River.After entering the house, the parents were taken aback.His father said: "The police station in Zhuanqiao Town, the Taxation Bureau, and the Regiment Defense Bureau in Tashiyi have all made a comeback. The Home Returning Regiment and the Shoveling Regiment are killing and arsonating every day." His mother said worriedly, "When you came, someone see that?" Fang Zhong said, "No one." Mother said: "It's good that no one sees." Fang Zhong learned from his parents that the cadres and members of the peasant associations, women's federations, student federations and other revolutionary masses suffered the most. If you don't have money to buy, you will die.As a result, Fang Zhong lived at home, his parents were worried all day long, and his relatives and friends did not dare to visit.Seeing this, Fang Zhong decided to go to Shashi. On the night when he was about to leave, a short, fat and athletic young man with a black mark on his forehead walked into Fang Zhong's house.Fang Zhong took a look, and couldn't help saying pleasantly, "Comrade Ge Fei, it's you..."

It was Liu Gefei who came.A native of Huarong, also known as Liu Zhuoran.communist.Graduated from Changsha Yucai Middle School, served as the president of the school's student union, a representative of the Changsha Students' Federation, and participated in the student patriotic movement. At the beginning of 1926, he served as the special commissioner of the peasant movement in Zhuzi District, Huarong County, participated in the peasant movement, and was elected as the vice chairman of the Huarong County Peasant Association. At the beginning of 1927, he entered the Wuchang Central Peasant Movement Institute to study, and after graduation, he served as a special commissioner of the Jianli Peasant Movement.After the failure of the Great Revolution, he participated in organizing the Huarong Jianli Revolutionary Committee.

Liu Gefei went into the room and sat down.Under an oil lamp, Fang Zhong and Liu Gefei chatted cordially. Fang Zhong shared his thoughts on leaving for Shashi the next day, and Liu Gefei said, "Why did you go there? Wouldn't it be nice to have an autumn harvest riot in Dongshan?" Fang Zhong said, "Going to Shashi was decided by the organization." Liu Gefei said: "We are organizing the Autumn Harvest Riot. I think you should stay here. Are there revolutions everywhere?" Then, Liu Gefei introduced the situation in Huarong. Fang Zhong learned from Liu Gefei that some members of the Huarong County Committee of the Communist Party of China were arrested, some escaped, and some were killed.Now, apart from him, the county committee members also include Tu Guoqing and Han Buxiang.That night, the two talked about it in the middle of the night.

The next day, Liu Gefei called Tu Guoqing and Han Bubu, and together they persuaded Fang Zhong to stay and start a riot. Fang Zhong thought, "It's still tens of miles from Huarong to Shashi, so it's hard to say whether it's safe or not."So, he cut the upper of the shoe, took out the letter of introduction from the organization, and handed it to Liu Gefei.At present, four people held a meeting and decided to improve the leadership core. They elected Han Buxiang as the secretary of the county party committee, Liu Gefei as the head of the organization, Tu Guoqing as the head of propaganda, Fang Zhong as the military committee member, Hua Caizhou as the member of the Agricultural Association, and He Minyi as the woman. committee member.The office of the county party committee is located at Fang Wenchen's home in Yongchanglong, Yangjiayan.Fang Wenchen is Tu Guoqing's father-in-law.

At the beginning, because the county party committee went underground, the reactionaries spread rumors every day, saying that the Communist Party had a wife and a wife, and that the shoveling team was extremely vicious, and the masses could only sigh. In order to open up the situation, Liu Gefei discussed with several members of the county party committee to choose an opportunity to strike the enemy severely. The time had finally come. This afternoon, it was drizzling.Liu Gefei received a message: Xu Renfeng, chairman of the Huarong County Council, a former scholar, and full of crimes, went from Qingniwan to his second wife's house.His second wife was a farmer's wife who lived in a place called Wang Erhan.Liu Gefei discussed with Fang Zhong and decided to get rid of the bully.After the decision was made, messengers went out everywhere, secretly organized a team, and assembled at Xindi.In the middle of the night, the team gathered in an open space near the mountain. The weapons brought by the team members were spears, broadswords, dashes, shoulder poles, and spears.There were old men, young people, and children aged 12 or 13, a total of 25 people.Liu Gefei directed it himself, and Fang Zhong, Tu Guoqing, Han Buxiang, and Hua Caizhou all participated.Liu Gefei simply mobilized and explained the precautions, and the team set off.

The residence of Xu Renfeng's young wife is a detached courtyard, surrounded by mountains on three sides and the edge of a submerged lake on the other.It was very quiet all around, without a sound. At 3 o'clock in the middle of the night, Liu Gefei led this untrained peasant team to break open the gate and rush in.Xu Renfeng was unprepared, his little wife hid under the bed in fright.Liu Gefei took Xu Renfeng to the courtyard.At this time, the farmers lit torches, and the torches shone on Xu Renfeng's fat body. Xu was so frightened that he cried and knelt down to beg for mercy.Liu Gefei ended his life with a knife.

Xu Renfeng was executed by the riot team, which made the poor people proud again, but those local tyrants, evil gentry, Baojia chief, regiment training team, shoveling communist team, and regiment defense bureau were even more cruel to the revolutionary masses, arresting and killing people everywhere.As a result, the poor people hated the local tyrants and evil gentry even more.They tipped off the riot squad.Because the riot team is weak and has no guns, it cannot openly compete with the enemy.Liu Gefei then led his team to go out day and night to attack the scattered local tyrants.The enemy also bullied the strength of the riot team, and from time to time used the method of rushing to hunt and kill the scattered members of the riot team.

In a blink of an eye, in January 1928, Yang Hanzhang of the Huarong County Party Committee and Shen Liugu's wife were arrested by the Tashi Post Corps Defense Bureau, claiming that Huarong would be decapitated within two or three days.The family members of Yang Hanzhang and Shen Liugu begged Liu Gefei and others to rescue their relatives from the riot team.Seeing that the riot team was weak, the masses also complained.Liu Gefei called a meeting immediately. He said: "The fellow villagers are watching us. If we don't fight this battle, we will be separated from the masses. If we want to fight it, we don't have guns."

Fang Zhong said: "Go to Shishou Youjun to borrow a squad and a gun." Liu Gefei and others agreed, so they sent people to the Shishou guerrillas to borrow people and guns, and sent Shen Liugu to Tashiyi to investigate the strength of the regiment's defense bureau. The next day, the people sent to Shishou came back and said that the guerrillas agreed to borrow a group of people and guns and would come soon.Shen Liugu also came back and said that the Tashi Regiment Defense Bureau had only a dozen or so guns.Liu Gefei decided to fight.Immediately, the deployment was carried out: the soldiers were divided into two groups, and suspicious soldiers were set up on Paitou Mountain along the way, preparing to put paper cannons in the kerosene barrels, pretending to be machine guns, and cheering with gongs and shotguns.The other route is based on a squad of the Shishou guerrilla team, with some spears, and attacks the regiment defense bureau from the front of Shangjitou Street.Open the prison door to save people; in addition to these two routes, arrange another route to insert from the back of the street into the left side of the regimental defense bureau's barracks, cut off the enemy's escape route, and use this route as a signal to fire a shot, and then attack in an all-round way.

After the battle plan was finalized, Liu Gefei had to spend Caizhou to send people around to notify the rioters to gather at Laodangdi at 12 o'clock the next night.When the rioters heard about the war, they were very energetic. The next night, before 12 o'clock, a large crowd of three or four hundred people gathered in an open space in Laodangdi.Liu Gefei made a casual call, divided into three routes, and headed for Tashi Station.Along the way, people continued to join the team.After all, they are armed by untrained peasants. When marching, some people talk, smoke, and defecate indiscriminately.Even so, this team of hundreds of people is still a powerful force.At around 2 o'clock in the night, the team entered Tashi Station, and first touched off the two sentries of the Regiment Defense Bureau, and the road behind the street went smoothly.The signal gun rang, and in an instant, firecrackers were lit, and the sound of killing, coupled with the sound of gongs and shotguns, resounded throughout the town.The soldiers of the Regiment Defense Bureau were in a dream, not knowing how many people there were in the riot team, and they suddenly became a mess.Some escaped by climbing the wall, some were killed, and some were captured by rioters.At dawn, the riot team completely controlled Tashiyi, opened the prison door, and released more than ten people including Yang Hanzhang. In this battle, the riot team seized more than ten guns and also killed or injured two comrades.Only then did I know that Shen Liugu's reconnaissance was wrong, and the regiment defense of Tashiyi was not more than ten guns, but more than seventy guns.Liu Gefei led the riot team to take over the regiment defense station in Tashiyi, shaking the whole Huarong County. The riot team had guns, and Liu Gefei reorganized the team into one detachment and three sub-units.Liu Gefei was the captain.Guns are in reliable hands.