Chapter 24 Chapter 23 The Death of He Mangu

After He Long led the Fourth Red Army eastward to Shimen for rescue, Sang Zhi only left some local workers to fight against the guerrillas. Frantically hunted down the family members of the Communists and the Red Army.Liu Ziwei originally supported He Long, but because his sister Liu Yugu was killed by He Ying, he rebelled and joined the ranks of the revolution. When He Long broke up with He Ying, he asked her to take the troops to Wangjiahe, Hefeng, to avoid accidents. After He Long led the Fourth Red Army to leave, He Ying withdrew from Yulin Village and moved to Wangjiahe, Hefeng. Naturally, Chen Cexun didn't let him go, and sent troops to pursue him.He Ying and the enemy guerrilla in Luoyu area.

As mentioned above, the Luoyu area has high mountains and dense forests, and the terrain is dangerous. The enemy dare not enter easily, and the mass base here is good, so He Ying led his team to station here.While training soldiers, do kung fu together.It's just that there is no news in this mountain, and it is difficult to get in touch with the outside world, so He Ying sent some people to go outside in disguise to understand the situation.The news that these people came back with brought tears to my eyes.It is said that He Long's men were frustrated at Shimen and were defeated by Luo Xiaozhi's regiment defense.Others said that He Long's red head was chopped off.

He Ying's heart was in her throat all day long.In particular, Huang Ao and He Jinzhai were killed in battle. Changsha, Changde and other newspapers said that He Long's two arms were cut off. . He Lianyuan, a distant cousin of Shi Helong, was a regimental commander in the Fourth Red Army. His wife, Tang Xiaomei, lived at home with an 8-year-old child. Running up the mountain, the enemy chased after him when he found it. After running for several miles, he still couldn’t shake off the enemy. Just when the enemy was about to catch her mother and child, Tang Xiaomei jumped off the cliff together with the child in her arms. The mother and child were thrown to pieces .Wang Bingnan's father and his son were captured by the enemy. Both the grandparent and grandson were beaten badly and bruised. They escaped death and were put in prison.

After the news reached He Ying and the team members, everyone was so sad that they couldn't eat or sleep. One day, He Ying and the team members were eating, and Wang Hua, the fourth cousin of He Ying's grandma's family, was at the sentry post. He heard the rustling of banana leaves in Yakedi. He Ying heard the gunshots and immediately commanded Xu Huanran, Xiang Liansheng, Tang Youqing, Gong Xianglian, He Mangu, Zhang Yueyuan and others to resist the enemy while covering their families and children to evacuate.After the family members and children withdrew, the enemy had rushed into the village.Unfortunately, Gong Xianglian was shot and died, and He Mangu rushed out with a few people.He Ying, Xu Huanran, Tang Zhimo, Wang Huazheng and others ran to a mountain. Xu Huanran's 4-year-old son, who was not brought out when breaking out, was also captured by the enemy.

When He Ying and a few others were discussing how to take in the lost comrades, Liu Ziwei commanded his men to rush over. The enemy shouted as they charged, "Widow He has only two empty guns left, catch up and catch the alive ones!" Going up, He Ying and others retreated while resisting. The bullet penetrated her right arm. She tore off a piece of her skirt, wrapped it around, and fought the enemy again. Finally, she and several team members finally broke out of the enemy's encirclement.When I reached Fengchi Mountain near Yanya, I stopped. There is a Qingfeng Temple on Fengchi Mountain. This is a nun temple. The old nun in the temple met He Ying. He hurriedly took out his own clothes and changed them for He Ying.

In order to accommodate the lost team members, He Ying persisted in this area for more than 20 days, inquiring about the whereabouts of the lost team members, and some scattered team members came here one after another.Everyone was very sad about Gong Xianglian's sacrifice, especially He Ying. Gong Xianglian is one of He Ying's favorite female soldiers, and she sleeps next to her every night. He Ying treats her like a daughter. After He Ying recruited team members in Fengchi Mountain, he led the team into Hefeng County, passed through Meiping, Zoumaping, Taiping Town and other places, and entered Wangjiahe, He Ying's grandmother's home.

The Wangjiahe area has high mountains and dense forests, and a good mass base.The common people respect He Ying very much.He Ying led the team to stand still in this area.There are not many mountain people in this area, but they are very poor and eat corn all the year round.He Ying led the team to take long-distance raids to catch local tyrants in villages and towns dozens of miles away, or to intercept official ships in the Lushui River.He Ying kept part of the floating money for her own use, and part of it helped the poor mountain people nearby.Therefore, the relationship between the mountain people and He Ying's team is very good.

There is a pottery kiln near Wangjiahe. All the poor kiln workers know He Ying. One day, He Ying, Xu Huanran, Xiang Liansheng, Zhang Yueyuan and others are talking with the kiln workers. Sad, he said: "Sister Xiang, it's not good, Mangu was caught by Zhang Hengru of the Taozixi Regiment and locked up in Sangzhi County." He Mangu was 12 years younger than He Ying, and married Xiang Shenghui, a Tujia farmer in the county.At that time, she was already the mother of five children.After she was defeated by Liu Ziwei in Luoyu, she took several people and searched in the mountains for several days, but she never found He Ying. She thought that He Ying had transferred to other places, so she took people back to Yangya, her hometown in the outer half of the county, and planned to While doing activities in his hometown, he waited for He Ying and He Long to come back.

After Man Gu went out with He Ying to drag the gun, her five children were taken care of by her husband Xiang Shenghui.Xiang Shenghui is a poor and hardworking farmer.After Man Gu returned to Yang Ya, seeing the rampant reactionary forces, she didn't dare to stay at home, so she changed places every few days and stayed with relatives and friends.She was thinking about her children, so she took the three youngest ones with her. It was because these three children came to her that the enemy found her trail. One day, He Mangu moved to live in a small village called Duanjiatai near Zhoujiayu. The news was detected by Zhang Hengru, the head of Taozixi's regiment defense. Zhang Hengru led his troops to surround the village and captured He Mangu and the three children. .

After Zhang Hengru captured He Mangu, he thought he had made a great contribution, so he escorted He Mangu and three children to Sangzhi County overnight.The three children are the third son, Xiang Chucai, who is only 5 years old, the fourth son, Xiang Chuhan, who is only 3 years old, and the fifth daughter, who is only 8 months old and has not yet been named.Everyone in the family called her "door girl". After He Mangu was escorted to the county seat by Zhang Hengru Xingye, she was handed over to the provincial army commander Yu who was stationed in the county seat.Head Yu was overjoyed when he heard that He Long's sister had been captured, and immediately sent a telegram to the provincial capital, saying that he "captured He Mangu, the women's general leader of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army in western Hunan and the sister of the bandit leader He Long".

The enemy interrogated He Mangu overnight and asked, "Where is He Ying now?" He Mangu said, "How do I know where she is?" The enemy said: "You take us to catch He Ying, otherwise, you and your three children will not be able to live." Naturally, the enemy could not get a satisfactory answer.So he used corporal punishment on him.Burn her back with a branding iron, prick her breasts with pig bristles.Seeing that He Mangu didn't say anything, he beat her child severely in front of her. Seeing that the enemy was so despicable, He Mangu scolded angrily: "Don't be mad, my sister Ying and Brother Long will definitely come back to avenge me." Mangu's sister-in-law is called Chen Guigu. Seeing that Mangu and the children were arrested, she went to the city and asked someone to spend money to redeem the three children. He Ying learned from the scouts that Mangu was captured by the enemy, and was very anxious.They also sent people to the county town for activities and asked them to be released on bail, but the enemy said that they would never let He Mangu go. The enemy constantly tortured and insulted He Mangu.He Mangu herself didn't want to plan to survive, so she wanted to take poison and kill herself.At that time, there was a poor woman named Zheng Donggu in Sangzhi County. She was an old woman who often delivered food to the prison.One day, when the woman was delivering food to the prison again, Man Gu whispered to her, "Sister-in-law Zheng, I can't survive, so try to get me some opium smoke in here." Mrs. Zheng immediately understood what Man Gu meant.After returning, he made more than a dozen glutinous rice balls with opium inside.They were sent back to the prison, and He Mangu swallowed all the glutinous rice balls.Soon, the toxicity set in.He Mangu's face turned blue and her mouth was full of foam.The enemy originally wanted to execute her on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month to show off their prestige, but now seeing that He Mangu had taken poison, they decided to execute her immediately and escorted her to the school yard at the north gate of the city.When He Mangu was dying, the executioners still took her to the execution place, took off her clothes, tied her to a wooden stake, and executed her with bayonets one by one. Five years later, Zhang Hengru, the captain of the Taozixi regiment who killed He Mangu, was captured by the Red Army. Commander He Long sent Liao Hansheng, Xiao Qingqu, and Mangu's son Xiang Xuan to escort him back to the military headquarters.As a result, these three people killed Zhang Hengru on the way, and this is for a later story, so I won't mention it any more. After Mangu was murdered, the Qingxiang Supervision Office of Hunan Province issued a circular stating: The Sangzhi communist bandit He Shunlong sneaked back to Sangzhi in the spring of this year, plotting riots and inciting two or three thousand members of the party. Xiaoju County belongs to the Luorong area. Chen Quzhen sent troops from Nancha, Liangshuikou, Hongjiaguan, Baiguoxu, etc. On July 1st, Qingxiang commanded Chen Cexun's supervising team to enter the fierce battle from Sangqiao City for two days, killed the false regiment leader Li Yunqing, and captured 23 long and short guns. The county lurks in Changrui townships. In the name of the fake peasant self-defense army, they call on the bandits and bandits. They gather more than a thousand people and gather them in the area of ​​Qiaoziwan. Commander Chen joins the two regiments of the United States and Yu to follow and pursue them. They go against the Bamao River. Out of Liangshuikou, He Minying from the Xuanni Department came to Qiaoziwan to collect money, and Liu Ziwei, the Changrui Township team, led a team to follow the bandits. , On August 20th, they fled from the upper reaches of Letang and Tangjiashan to Sanhe Street in Hefeng, Hubei Province, and returned to Sangzhi. The troops of Sangzhi were severely suppressed in Cangguanyu and other places, and the puppet regiment leader He Wenyan and six or seven bandits were killed. , seized more than 40 guns, one officer and soldier was killed in battle, and more than ten officers and soldiers were wounded. Against the trend, more than 300 people from the remnant troops rushed to Mogang Pass in Shimen County, and were attacked head-on by Li Yunjie's Zhou Dynasty martial arts master. , Desperately exhausted, Ni only used his body to avoid fleeing into the territory of Hubei. On October 13th, he went to Zoumaping, Hefeng, and Shi came to Fenggang Qianba, Maoping, Gongwangling, etc., and the Western Hubei Defense Force forty Invited by the three armies to attack him, he fled back to Sangzhi Simenyan. His younger sister He Mangu claimed to be the captain of the Xiangxi Peasant Women's Headquarters and the branch leader. After being encircled and suppressed by the supervisory team stationed in Sangyu, dozens of bandits were killed, more than 30 guns were seized, Mangu and Wang Nanting were arrested and beheaded. He Jinzhai's wife is Dai Guixiang, a native of Yangliuchi, Sangzhi, and married He Jinzhai when he was 17 years old.Not long after getting married, He Jinzhai followed He Long Renchuan to beg for thieves, and they separated for 10 years. After He Jinzhai returned to his hometown in the spring of 1918, Dai Guixiang became a family member of the Red Army. After the Fourth Red Army went to Shimen for activities, Chen Cexun and other reactionary regiments immediately hunted down Communist Party members and revolutionary family members, and white terror was everywhere.Dai Guixiang, He Jinzhai's younger brother He Jinzhang and other family could no longer live at home, so they had to hide in relatives' homes.Later, I couldn't hide in my relative's house anymore, so I had to escape and hide in the mountains, living a life like a savage.Later, led by a relative, he fled to a valley in Mojiata, Guluo Mountain. The mountains are high and densely forested, and it is very desolate. Under a rock ridge, there is a cave, and the family went in hand in hand.The cave was so dark that you couldn't see your fingers, and the cold wind was blowing.The family burned incense paper to the cave god and lived in the cave.Relying on a little grain donated by relatives and digging wild vegetables to satisfy our hunger.I only hope that the Red Army will fight back soon. One day in mid-September, Dai Guixiang was standing guard at the entrance of the cave, and saw a man coming down from the mountain. From a distance, he seemed familiar. When the man walked to the entrance of the cave, he saw clearly that it was Li Guiqing from the guard camp. His family saw him , all gathered around happily.Thinking that the Red Army had returned to Sangzhi, they scrambled to ask Li Guiqing about his faults.Unexpectedly, Li Guiqing's face was gloomy, his eyes were dull, and tears were falling. It took him a long time to say in pain, "Mr. Jinzhai has died." Li Guiqing's words were like a bolt from the blue, the whole family was shocked, and then burst into tears. Li Guiqing set off immediately after accepting He Jinzhai's task of delivering letters from his family. When he reached Zoumaping, he heard the news of He Jinzhai's sacrifice.When I arrived at Hongjiaguan, I found this cave after inquiring about it several times. After the family cried bitterly, Li Guiqing took out He Jinzhai's letter and read it over. The family felt even more sad when they saw the letter. Li Guiqing said: "Mr. Jinzhai said in the letter 'I will dedicate myself to my party'. We must turn grief into strength and follow Commander He Long to make revolution!" From then on, the family of martyr He Jinzhai threw themselves into the revolution.