Chapter 10 Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo who occupied the mountain as king

Mao Zedong led the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants to go to Jinggang Mountains, and he wanted to make friends with Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo, who "fallen grass" there.So, who are Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo? Yuan Wencai, ranked Xianquan, also known as Xuansan. Born in 1898 in a Hakka peasant family in Mayuankeng Village, Maoping, Ninggang County, Jiangxi Province.The so-called "hakji" refers to foreigners who colonized Jiangxi from Guangdong, Fujian and other places hundreds of years ago. There are quite a few such people in Jiangxi. Yuan Wencai went to a private school when he was young, so he can be regarded as a literate person in the countryside.However, his family background was not good, and he was often bullied by local tyrants and evil gentry. Even the wife he married when he was an adult was taken over by a local local tyrant shortly after his wedding.Therefore, in the bottom of Yuan Wencai's heart, there is deep-rooted hatred for local tyrants and evil gentry.

With a mentality of revenge, Yuan Wencai was admitted to Hechuan Middle School in Yongxin County at the age of 23 after he got married and started a family.He didn't want to study for only one year, but had to drop out of school because of his father's death, and his dream of getting ahead in school was shattered. Therefore, Yuan Wencai went to become a hero in the green forest. At that time, Ninggang, located in a remote mountainous area, had many green forest heroes.Most of them were peasants who were driven to nowhere by the landlords and tyrants. They rose up and made a living by "robbing the rich and helping the poor".In the Jinggangshan area not far from Yuan Wencai's hometown, there is a group of such green forest heroes. They call themselves the "Saber Squad", and they only fight against the local tyrants and evil gentry.This was very much to Yuan Wencai's liking. Regardless of the danger of beheading and killing the nine clans, he joined the "Saber Squad".

After all, Yuan Wencai was a man of culture. After he joined the "Saber Team", he was first entrusted with the post of secretary, and soon won the trust and reuse of the leader of the "Saber Team", Hu Yachun, and served as the "Saber Team" leader. The chief of staff, who became brothers with Hu Yachun, became Hu Yachun's right-hand man. Yuan Wencai had some military commanding skills. He often led troops to attack the county government and landlords and gentry in various places, and he succeeded repeatedly.In the summer of 1924, he once led a team to capture Ninggang County, occupied the county government office, and scared away the county magistrate.And when the government sent troops to carry out encirclement and suppression campaigns, he avoided the facts, dragged the troops up to Jinggangshan, and dealt with the enemy in the high mountains and dense forests, often causing the officers and troops to return without success.

With the assistance of Yuan Wencai, the reputation of the "Saber Squad" became more and more famous, and the officers and soldiers and local tyrants and evil gentry became more and more afraid.The government of Ninggang County saw that armed suppression could not work, so they wanted to resort to appeasement.It was already the spring of 1925. At that time, just as the Great Revolution was rising across the country, Long Chaoqing, a member of the Communist Party of Ninggang, and others, according to the instructions of the higher-level party organization, after in-depth understanding and careful analysis, believed that Yuan Wencai's armed forces could be used as the target of work.In this context, Long Chaoqing recommended to Shen Qingyuan, the county magistrate of the warlord government, to "appease" the "Saber Squad" in Jinggangshan.

Long Chaoqing gained the trust of the county magistrate Shen Qingyuan by virtue of his status as the chairman of the provincial council "Young Master", and was appointed as the negotiator of the county government.Of course, Shen Qingyuan didn't know that Long Chaoqing was a member of the Communist Party, and he didn't even know Long Chaoqing's real purpose for volunteering to be a negotiator. Taking the opportunity of negotiating with Yuan Wencai, Long Chaoqing got acquainted with Yuan Wencai, and after talking with Yuan Wencai many times, he got to know Yuan Wencai further.The two of them felt very speculative, so they became friends of life and death.

After several negotiations, the "Saber Team" accepted the "recruitment" and changed its name to the County General Security Corps, with Yuan Wencai as its head.Although he went down the mountain and entered the city, Yuan Wencai firmly controlled the military power, so that the government and the local tyrants and evil gentry still had nothing to do with him. In May 1926, after the start of the Northern Expedition, Long Chaoqing, then Secretary of the Ninggang County Branch of the Communist Party of China, in order to prepare for the march of the Northern Expedition, strengthened the work of Yuan Wencai and the County General Security Corps, inspiring and inducing Yuan Wencai to participate in the revolution .

In September, Long Chaoqing and Yuan Wencai launched an armed uprising, overthrew the reactionary county government, and expelled Shen Qingyuan, the county magistrate.Afterwards, an administrative committee chaired by Long Chaoqing was established.Yuan Wencai is a member of this committee and is responsible for military affairs.At the same time, the County General Security Corps was also reorganized into the Peasant Self-Defense Army. Because Yuan Wencai devoted himself to the revolution, at the end of 1926, Long Chaoqing introduced him to join the Communist Party of China. After the "Ma Day Incident" in 1927, the local tyrants and evil gentry made a comeback.With the environment deteriorating day by day, Yuan Wencai led his troops to withdraw to Maoping in Jinggang Mountains, relying on the high mountains and dense forests, continued to deal with the enemy, and firmly occupied the lower Maoping area of ​​Jinggang Mountains.

Yuan Wencai's department occupying the lower Maoping area of ​​Jinggang Mountain is the corner of each other, echoing from a distance is Wang Zuo's department, which is active on Jinggang Mountain with Ciping as the center. Wang Zuo, also known as Yunhui, nicknamed Nandou, was born in Xiaqi Village, Suichuan County, Jiangxi Province.He was the same age as Yuan Wencai and was also born in 1898.But unlike Yuan Wencai who studied in a private school, because his biological father and adoptive father passed away earlier, Wang Zuo worked with others since he was a child, and switched to tailoring at the age of 13.

After three years as an apprentice, Wang Zuo not only learned tailoring skills, but also practiced martial arts in his traveling life.Some people say that he could shoot a pheasant with a gun on his horse; others said that once he was suddenly surrounded, he jumped up to the ridge of the roof with a bamboo pole, and disappeared after a somersault. Because of Wang Zuoyi's boldness, when he sewed clothes for a Jinggang green forest leader called Zhu Deafzi, he was actually spotted by Zhu Deafzi and hired him as a "water guest" and a purchaser. "Shui Ke" is the name on the road, and it is actually a detective.The green forest team often kidnaps local tyrants as hostages to ask for ransom, which they call "hanging sheep".And to "hook a sheep", someone needs to provide clues to the "sheep", and "Shui Ke" does this job.

After being a "water guest" for a period of time, Wang Zuo saw that "hanging sheep" made the life of the green forest hero comfortable; in addition, he had a hatred for the local tyrants and evil gentry since he was a child.He simply quit being a tailor, officially fell into the grass, and joined Zhu Deafzi's green forest team. Zhu Deaf's name is Zhu Kongyang. He was originally a company commander of the Hunan warlord army. Because he was dissatisfied with his superior's deduction of military pay, he led more than 20 brothers to Jinggangshan to become a green forest in a rage.Because of his bad ears, he was nicknamed "Zhu Deaf".

Zhu Deaf is addicted to money. He not only robs the rich, but sometimes bullies the poor. Wang Zuo became increasingly dissatisfied with this.Finally in 1924, Wang Zuo broke away from Zhu Deafzi, bought a Mauser himself, pulled a dozen peasant brothers to set up his own family, and became the leader himself. Wang Zuo's team played the slogan "strike the rich but not the poor", and gradually expanded to more than 50 people, and its influence became greater and greater. The official army also attacked Wang Zuo's team first, and sent a large army to "suppress" it, but it didn't work. Therefore, the officers and soldiers resorted to "soft" tactics again, and appointed Wang Zuo as the deputy head of the "Xin Sui Frontier Defense Regiment" to appease him to go down the mountain. But Wang Zuo, who was violent by nature, did not want to be restrained at all, and soon returned to his old profession.The team gradually grew to 60 guns and became the "King of the Mountain" entrenched on Jinggang Mountain. Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo, one is at the foot of Jinggang Mountain and the other is on Jinggang Mountain.Although they each guard a piece of land, but they are the same Geng, and they share the same interests, so they married Jinlan and worshiped as "Lao Geng" (that is, brothers of the same year), and they lived together in the mountains and forests in the middle of the Luoxiao Mountains. .