Chapter 57 On the day of disaster, Wei Baqun was assassinated by a traitor

After the third "encirclement and suppression campaign" launched by Chiang Kai-shek was smashed by the Red Army, the central organs of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai successively entered Ruijin, the Soviet area. Ruijin has thus become a well-known "Red Capital" throughout the country. On November 7, 1931, the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic was established in Ruijin.At the first National Congress of the Chinese Soviet Workers, Peasants and Soldiers held soon, among the sixty-three executive members of the provisional central government elected, two were from the Seventh Red Army—one was Zhang Yunyi and the other was Wei Ba. group.

At this time, Wei Baqun was still in Guangxi. After the main force of the Seventh Red Army left Youjiang, Wei Baqun and Chen Hongtao were ordered to lead an army of only one or two hundred people to stay and fight persistently. ——This is exactly the same as when the Central Red Army was forced to leave the Central Soviet Area for the Long March after the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, and Xiang Ying, Chen Yi and others were ordered to lead a small number of troops to stay and fight persistently. At that time, it was called "stay to see the house".Because most of them are locals, I believe they can call back.Wei Baqun led a team with only one company back to Donglan. According to the spirit of the Hechi Conference, in Donglan, Fengshan, Enlong, Fengyi, Guode and other counties with the peasant Red Guard as the basic force, in December 1930 The 61st, 62nd, and 63rd regiments of the 21st Division of the Seventh Red Army were formally formed, with a total of more than 2,000 people and more than 300 guns.Wei Baqun served as division commander and head of the 61st regiment.Chen Hongtao is also the political commissar of the division (he is mainly in charge of the Youjiang Special Committee).In terms of numbers, the entire division is only as strong as a regiment; in terms of firearms, it is not enough to equip a battalion, and most of them are long rifles, without fast guns and heavy weapons.

Wei Baqun was not worried about the inferiority and lack of weapons and equipment. He mobilized everyone to make their own guns and gunpowder as before.In the battle against the Guangxi army and the landlord militia, the "red willow cannon" and "rolling ball bomb" they made also showed excellent power.But what worried him most was the lack of soldiers for the expansion team: most of the local young and middle-aged people joined the Red Army and left with the main force, and the remaining Red Guards were almost all elderly and weak farmers. The cruelty of the struggle, the danger of the environment, the hardships of life... Wei Baqun realized all these on the way back to Youjiang after bidding farewell to the large army.And I have a premonition that the day when the people of Youjiang will suffer an unprecedented disaster will inevitably come soon!

The news of "The Chief of the Red Bandit, Wei Baqun, Leads the Bandits to Flee Back to Donglan" has been published as a special issue in newspapers and periodicals in Nanning.On the one hand, Li Zongren wrote a letter to Wei Baqun, urging him to "return to obedience" and let go of the past, and promised him the titles of major general and deputy commander of the garrison; , "Congress suppression" momentum, threatened Wei Baqun with force.Wei Baqun's reply to Li Zongren could not but make Li Zongren very angry. He condemned Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and others: "in order to fight for hegemony, repeatedly provoked wars, and put thousands of people in fire and water", "debts of blood are too heavy to be written in kiln bamboo"; He also warned Li and Bai, "Wei Mou doesn't bother to be with you" and "only fight for peace for the fathers and fellow villagers of Bagui".Li Zongren then ordered Bai Chongxi to "clear up and suppress" the Youjiang area.

From January 1931 to August 1932, Bai Chongxi also imitated Chiang Kai-shek, adopting tactics such as "step by step", "combing hair and combing hair", and "shrinking the net to collect fish", and launched three consecutive "encirclement and suppression" campaigns against the Youjiang Revolutionary Base. In February 1931, after the main force of the Seventh Red Army moved to the border of Hunan and Guangdong, they decided to rush to southern Jiangxi and defected to Zhu and Mao's Red Army. Bai Chongxi, who personally supervised the division and chased the Seventh Red Army, breathed a sigh of relief and transferred the troops " Encircle and suppress "Wei Baqun's divisions in Guangxi.They attacked from the north and the east, and quickly occupied the towns and major traffic arteries of Youjiang with column forces, and divided Youjiang into many small pieces. Forced Donglan to encircle Wei Baqun's division in a narrow area, shrinking step by step, to achieve "catch the turtle in the urn" and completely wipe out the Soviet area. ——Bai Chongxi, known as "Little Zhuge", sent a telegram on the battle situation to Chiang Kai-shek, saying: Annihilating the "residual bandits in the local area" is a matter of waving hands. From then on, "the red disaster will never recur"!

This is a day when the breath of the earth is suffocated by blood—two divisions of the Guangxi troops raided Donglan.Wei Baqun led his troops to resist with all their strength, but finally retreated to the deep mountains to hide because they were outnumbered.The landlord's "Returning Homeland Mission" took the opportunity to return to their hometown. Under the slogans "Thatch must be overfire, stone must be over a knife", "People must be replaced by people, and grain must be exchanged for grain seeds", and counterattacked with ten times the madness and a hundred times the hatred. !The enemy army and the Home Returning Regiment gathered the wounded of the Red Army and the Red Guards who had not had time to transfer, and used machine guns to shoot them; one by one, the cadres and party members of the local Soviet government were tortured to death with various inhumane instruments of torture; The women of the cadres were stripped naked and gang-raped in broad daylight; Wei Baqun's daughter-in-law, son and younger brother were humiliated and cruelly tortured during the massacre, and died one by one.Wei Baqun's elderly mother was taken as a hostage by the Home Returning Group to search for Wei Baqun in the mountains. The old man was tortured and starved to death.The enemy offered a reward of 20,000 oceans to capture Wei Baqun.

In an instant, Dong Lan, known as the "Guo of Peace" that Wei Baqun had been managing for many years, became a world of terror, anger, hatred, blood and fire. Those who survived the unprecedented horror and catastrophe, in a pair of sharply constricted and congested pupils, madness and despair condensed into ice at the same time: Destiny reincarnation, man and beast are the same, the end of the world is coming! The slogan "The new upsurge of the workers' and peasants' revolution, the strength of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" seems to have become a distant dream.The revolutionary enthusiasm of the past was submerged in a pool of blood, turning into a weak undercurrent, flowing quietly underground.

Up to this time, Wei Baqun and his team of less than a thousand people had already withstood two "encirclement and suppression" campaigns by the warlords of the Guangxi clique.Wei Baqun also realized angrily that the enemy's frantic revenge was not over yet, and a more cruel and difficult struggle was yet to come! In August 1931, Wei Baqun finally received an instruction letter from the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, which was also the final instruction: According to the deployment of the Central Southern Bureau, the 21st Division of the Seventh Red Army was now changed to the Youjiang Independent Division.Eliminate the enemy with guerrilla tactics, actively mobilize the masses, carry out armed struggle, break the "encirclement and suppression" of the Guangxi warlords, and stick to the final victory.

Wei Baqun fulfilled his mission and led his Youjiang Independent Division to deal with the enemy in the cruel and treacherous environment. He once wrote such words to express his determination to fight to the end with the Youjiang Independent Division and his heroic spirit of seeing death as home: In the Red Army, Ren Hongjun is fighting to save the people; Sacrifice for the revolution! On October 18, 1932, Wei Baqun led the Youjiang Independent Division to break out of the third "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Guangxi warlords. An entourage was assassinated by traitors.The traitors transported his body to Nanning to receive a reward, and then his head was displayed in various places in Guangxi.Wei Baqun was only 38 years old when he was killed.

Soon, Chen Hongtao led the rest of the Youjiang Independent Division to fight against the enemy, and also died for the traitor's betrayal. He was 27 years old at the time. At the end of 1932, Huang Zhifeng, the former deputy commander of the 20th Division of the Seventh Red Army and later the deputy chief of the Seventh Red Army, was ordered to sneak back to Youjiang from the Central Soviet Area to persist in the struggle.A year later, he was arrested in Donglan and died generously.