During the years of the revolutionary war, countless ancestors fought bloody battles for national liberation and the happiness of the people, went forward to succeed each other, and wrote a magnificent chapter on the road of revolutionary cause. What's more, many families participated in the revolution as a whole, and many relatives sacrificed their precious lives in the course of China's revolutionary cause and made great sacrifices for the victory of the revolution. Today, I would like to introduce you to the heroic deeds of the sister and brother-in-law of a revolutionary in my hometown.
Not far from the hometown of Hubei Jiangxia Shu'an Zhumiao Village Xiangshui Bridge Xiangjia Bay, the whole village is hidden in the green bushes, a forty or fifty years of camphor erected next to the small square, leafy, particularly conspicuous, here several neat and clean, quiet and simple Tong residential houses in front of a granite monument, written "Xiang Ying's hometown" four gilded characters, this is the birthplace of the famous revolutionary Xiang Ying.
Xiang Ying, formerly known as Xiang Delong, was born in the village in May 1898, his grandfather moved from the countryside to Wuchang City Han Sangong because he could plant flowers and plant bonsai, and planted flowers as a business, and the locals once called his family "Xiang Family Garden". Xiang Ying's father, Xiang Tianwei, was a clerk in charge of the county's money and grain books, and Xiang Ying's mother, Xia Shi, had two boys and one woman and three children, and Xiang Ying ranked second in line.
Xiang Ying entered primary school at the age of seven, during which he read hard and was good at thinking, diligent in practicing small brush strokes, and sometimes helping his father to copy money and grain books, but in the year when he was ten years old, his father died of a serious illness, Xia Shi gave people laundry, textiles, poor income, family deterioration, Xiang Ying gave up studying and began to work, first with his sister Xiang Defen often collect firewood, pick up rags to subsidize the family. Later, he entered the Wuchang City Model Factory (Textile Factory) as an apprentice. After three years of completing the division, he became a regular worker in the factory. At this time, her sister Xiang Defen also became a spinning mill worker.
After Xiang Ying's apprenticeship expired, he became a skilled textile worker. Xiang Ying did not forget to study after returning home every day, gradually accepted new ideas, had a broad vision different from ordinary workers, and the hard work of workers made him aware of the injustice of society. Xiang Ying began to engage in the workers' movement spontaneously, and at that time, Xiang Ying often published articles in newspapers and periodicals under the pseudonym "Xia Ying". After joining the party, he combined his pseudonym with his real name as "Xiang Ying". His sister Xiang Defen, under the influence of Xiang Ying, also joined the party and joined the workers' movement, becoming a female revolutionary.
In the vigorous revolutionary struggle that followed, Xiang Ying grew up to be a pioneer of the workers' movement, always fighting in the front line, being recognized by everyone, and later the organization sent him to work in the workers' movement in Shanghai and Wuhan. Became a senior cadre of the Red Army. At this time, Xiang Ying's sister Xiang Defen also followed her brother to Shanghai to work, and then under the introduction of her brother, she was introduced to Chen Xuexi, a colleague who was also engaged in the workers' movement and later in the Central Secretariat, who also served as the director of the Traffic Bureau, and then Xiang Defen became his wife.
Martyr Chen Xuexi
Chen Xuexi, also known as Chen Xuexi, Chen Xuexi, Chen Xuexi, character Changxi, number Qiyin, pseudonym Yu Changsheng, Yu Changsheng, Zhejiang Linhai City Ancient City street people, he studied diligently when he was young, after graduating from middle school, he was admitted to Shanghai Fudan University with excellent results, and then transferred to Shanghai Nanyang Institute of Technology (the predecessor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University), during his school period began to contact advanced ideas and join the regiment, the "May Thirtieth" Movement broke out, he participated in the anti-imperialist parade with his classmates in Shanghai, gave speeches on the streets, distributed leaflets, and encouraged workers and citizens to rise up and overthrow the warlord rule. Down with imperialism.
Later, Chen Xuexi joined the party in Shanghai and was sent to Hangzhou by the organization to work. After the "April 12" coup d'état, he went to Wuhan to work in the Central Secretariat, during which he accompanied the leaders to lead the workers' and peasants' delegation and the student delegation to Moscow to participate in the commemoration of the October Revolution, and was responsible for the minutes and arrangement of the meetings of the congresses and committees held here.
Chen Xuexi's hometown was also the place where he began his revolutionary struggle
After returning to China through study in the Soviet Union, he engaged in underground party work with Xiang Ying, led the workers' movement, and at the same time, served as Xiang Zhongfa's secretary and director of the Central Transportation Bureau, unfortunately once entered the secret contact station of a soy sauce shop on Jing'an Temple Road in Shanghai, and was arrested when he was preparing to contact comrades, and was stalked by the secret agents arranged by the Kuomintang, and was immediately arrested, and then released after being rescued after several rescues.
At that time, due to the danger in Shanghai, Chen Xuexi, Xiang Defen and his wife, together with other leaders, set out from Shanghai and traveled through Shantou and western Fujian into the Central Soviet Region. During his time in the Central Soviet Region, Chen Xuexi was later appointed as the head of the secretariat section of the Politburo of the Central Committee, and Xiang Defen was also engaged in translation and telecommunications work at the headquarters of the Red Army. During their work in the Soviet zone, Chen Xuexi and Xiang Defen and his wife launched activities of thriftiness and thrift, anti-corruption and anti-waste activities with many cadres of the central organs in order to strengthen the economic construction of the Soviet zone and cooperate with the Central Soviet Government's inspection and rectification of the phenomenon of corruption and waste. He also participated in the red expansion movement in the Central Soviet Region, went deep into various villages and villages, mobilized the masses to join the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and did a lot of work, which was well received by his superiors.
Soon after, Chiang Kai-shek's "encirclement and suppression" of the Central Soviet Zone in the western Fujian region of southern Gannan became more and more severe, and the blockade of the Soviet zone was further intensified, and in order to break the enemy's "encirclement and suppression," because Chen Xuexi had been working in Shanghai before and was studying and attending important meetings in the Soviet Union, the superior decided to send him to the Soviet Consulate in Shanghai with funds to contact the procurement and assistance of military materials for the Red Army troops.
Chen Xuexi did not hesitate to accept this sacred and arduous task, and resolutely went to prepare for the transfer of the Central Soviet Region through Shantou, Guangdong Province. Unfortunately, on the way to Shanghai, in Tingzhou, Fujian Province, while passing through the blockade line surrounded by the enemy, he was attacked by heavy enemy troops, and Chen Xuexi and his entourage all died heroically. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Central People's Government issued martyr certificates to his relatives. In 1953, the Taizhou Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China posthumously recognized Chen Xuexi as a revolutionary martyr.
Chen Xuexi's wife Xiang Defen, after the Long March of the Central Main Red Army, also stayed behind in the Soviet area to fight guerrilla warfare, was Xiang Ying's official soldier, that is, a nanny, also stayed in the Soviet area to fight guerrilla warfare, ruijinze Qin Township Zeqin village old Red Army, old Sugan Zhang Guiqing recalled: When Xiang Defen was more than 20 years old, often came to her brother Xiang Ying's home after work, during the Long March of the main Red Army, she also took Xiang Ying's child "puppy" who was less than three years old to the local old cousin's house, and when the child was taken away, she called "mother" tearing her heart and lungs. Unforgettable. Subsequently, Zhang Guiqing, Xiang Defen, and other female guerrillas such as Huang Changjiao, Li Lianxiu, and Zhu Zhaodi followed the Tingrui guerrillas to fight guerrillas.
In the spring of 1935, the area around Datang Village in Anzhi Township, where the guerrillas were active, was shrouded in a white terror, zhang Guiqing began to pass through the blockade line with Xiang Defen and others, the team was discovered by the enemy army, several female guerrillas ran desperately in the direction instructed by the captain, ran out of four or five miles in one breath, suddenly a toe, she rolled several times in a row and planted in the pit, climbed up was already a face of blood, a long cut on the forehead, frightened her companions to scream and scream, rushed to find herbs.
In his later years, Zhang Guiqing guarded the tomb of the Red Army martyrs
After Zhang Guiqing was injured, he still wandered with the guerrillas on the mountains that stretched for hundreds of miles in this area, firmly surrounded by the enemy, and even the could not fly over. But their Tingrui guerrillas were still fighting in the deep mountains and dense forests. The enemy fired wildly during the day, found nothing, and set fire to the mountain at night. After a day and a night of fire, she and her comrades finally escaped from the fire, moved to another mountain, and climbed a high mountain. She looked down and saw only a forest sea, revealing two huts between the forest seas. She decided to go down the hill to find out the news and get some food by the way. She tried her best to climb forward, and finally she couldn't climb. She had to close her eyes, her heart crossed, and rolled down the mountain... By the time she reached the bottom of the mountain, she had passed out. Zhang Guiqing came back to life, but this guerrilla group was scattered, and from then on, Xiang Defen did not know whether he was dead or alive, and in the end he could only be said to be scattered and did not know the end.