As we know, there was a very important meeting in the history of the founding of the Red Army, called the Gutian Conference, which not only summed up the experience of army building since the Nanchang Uprising, but also established the basic principles of army building, stipulated the nature, purpose, and tasks of the Red Army, and emphasized that the Red Army should undertake the tasks of propagating the masses, organizing the masses, and arming the masses, which can be said to be of epoch-making significance.
At the Gutian Conference, 11 members of the former committee were elected, and those who assumed this heavy responsibility must meet three major conditions: first, the political concept is correct, the second is active work, and third, there is a history of struggle. We will not talk about those high-level leaders, but today we will talk about the heroic deeds of Huang Yishan, who was elected as a former member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee and secretary general of the Central Military Commission.
Huang Yishan, also known as Yishan, nicknamed Shouchu, was born in June 1899 in a poor peasant family in Chawo Village, Yuanjia Town, Jiahe, Hunan Province, and was raised by his aunt when he was 3 years old. In the autumn of 1919, Huang Yishan was admitted to the Hunan Provincial Third Normal School, joined the progressive student group "Xinshe" and joined the party, and soon after, he was expelled from the school authorities for participating in the famous "Driving Liu" student tide of the Third Division, organized and arranged to return to his hometown Jiahe to engage in the work of the peasant and workers' revolutionary movement, opened the Jiahe Sales Department of the Cultural Book Club in the county town, and then began to organize activities in the poor factories in Chengguan.
During this period, Huang Yishan organized and sent him to the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute to study, and was appointed as a special commissioner of the provincial peasant movement, returned to Jiahe to carry out the peasant-worker movement, was elected chairman of the county peasant cooperative, and was also the commander-in-chief of the peasant army, and carried out a series of useful work , straight to Nanchang, Jiangxi.
After Huang Yishan arrived in Nanchang, he was arranged to work as a secretary in the general headquarters, and after the uprising, he went south to Guangdong with his troops, but unexpectedly lost contact with the headquarters in a fierce battle, and the team was scattered, so he had to return to his hometown chawo, and he met Xiao Ke again, who had returned to his hometown at this time, and the two of them jointly agreed to contact comrades, secretly set up the Jiahe South District Branch, and served as the leader, he managed to raise a batch of guns, and then sent Xiao Ke to contact the Niutoufen branch of Linwu to prepare to hold an armed uprising together, and after responding to the Shonan uprising, he went up Jinggangshan with the troops.
During the Gutian Conference, he was elected as a standing committee member of the General Front Committee and secretary general of the Military Commission of the Fourth Red Army because he "had a correct viewpoint, could do mass work, and had a strong sense of struggle." Soon after, the military headquarters moved to Donggu, and at that time, there was a left movement within the Red Army, and Xiao Ke's 12th Division, which was arrested by the Security Bureau at that time, faced the dangerous situation of being executed in two hours.
At this time, Xiao Ke, who was the commander of the Red 12th Division, was impatient, and at this critical juncture, in desperation, he remembered his compatriots, comrades-in-arms, and huang Yishan, who was good in the military headquarters, so he hurriedly rode to him and asked him to find a way to rescue him.
Huang Yishan was indignant when he heard this news, because he clearly knew that most of these people were tough men who had participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising and the Shonan Uprising, and rushed out of the sea of blood to kill each other, and all of them were good comrades. Originally, he had a great resistance to this erroneous tendency, coupled with the fact that many comrades-in-arms had long been killed, not to mention that he was a factual and bloody revolutionary, and in the face of this critical juncture, he felt that the first priority was to save people!
Therefore, Huang Yishan immediately wrote an urgent letter in person, and solemnly stamped the bright red headquarters seal and handed it over to Xiao Ke to take. When Xiao Ke rushed to the execution site with an urgent message, he shouted to stop the execution. In the end, more than 40 people were rescued before they could be executed. When the survivors saw Commander Xiao Ke, they all cried bitterly.
His private autobiography was severely criticized by some people, and this matter was accused of "right-leaning deviant behavior" and almost lost his life, and he was later demoted and transferred to the local Fujian Military Region as deputy director of the Political Department. Although the working environment of the Fujian Military Region at that time was very arduous and sinister, he did not complain or take into account any of this, and often walked to various military regions in the region to understand the situation of the struggle and do a good job in the political and ideological work of commanders and fighters, which won unanimous praise from the comrades of the military region.
In October 1934, the main Red Army in the Central Soviet Region lost the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign and was forced to carry out a long and arduous Long March, huang Yishan, because of the case of "making mistakes", organized and ordered him to stay in the Soviet area to fight guerrillas, and his position was the director of the political department of the provincial military region and the secretary general of the provincial party committee, and was ordered to reorganize the local armed forces into three guerrilla brigades, which were divided into the provincial party committee, the provincial Soviet government, and the provincial military district to stay on the border of Fujian and Gansu, contain the enemy's troops, and cover the Long March of the Red Army.
Changting Longyue Mountain
In April 1935, Huang Yishan led the Remaining Red Army guerrillas and braved the rain to come to the Dashan Mountain. Jialong Mountain is a famous mountain in Changting, Fujian Province, located at the junction of Fujian and Gansu provinces between Sidu Town Shanghu, Xiaojin and Hongliao, 1036 meters above sea level, the mountain is majestic and tall, with smoke and greenery, standing in the continuous mountains, steep and abrupt, towering over the sky. Every stone and every stream of The Dragon Mountain bears witness to the history of the Red Army's bloody struggle.
Martyrs sacrificed the ground Changting Longyue Mountain wind moving stone
In the early morning of this day, the Red Army guerrillas again engaged in a fierce battle with the Kuomintang troops who were "pursuing and suppressing", and Huang Yishan, who was commanding at the front, unfortunately suffered serious wounds in the leg, and the enemy swarmed with the dense rain of bullets. At this time, in order to cover the transfer of the remaining fighters, he said to the guards around him: "I am considered to be a revolution to the end, you rush out!" There is still hope for the revolution! Then he said, "First of all, you must rush out alive, and secondly, you must not be traitors!" The guard cried and refused to leave.
Tomb of the Red Army Martyrs at the foot of Changting Longjia Mountain
He intensified his voice and said in a commanding tone: "Don't be wordy, there will be no time to delay any longer, and to keep the Red Army is victory!" He pushed the warriors away vigorously and threw the last few grenades at the enemy. After watching the soldiers get out of danger, he raised his gun and committed suicide at the age of 36.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, General Xiao Ke talked about Huang Yishan on many occasions, and every time he was in tears, praising him and praising him: High wind and bright festival, eternal immortality! In 1981, Xiao Ke returned to his hometown of Jiahe, Hunan Province, where he had been away for many years, and general Xiao Ke had always cherished nostalgia for the revolutionary comrades who had fought in blood, and although it had been 55 years, he still found the family and descendants of the martyr Huang Yishan and was very concerned about their work and life.
General Xiao Ke also specially instructed the local leading cadres: These revolutionary martyrs who have heroically sacrificed their lives for the revolutionary cause, no matter whether they are in the presence or not, I must go to see them, and how far the road is and how bad it is to go! When people are gone, look at their relatives and children; if they have no relatives and children, look at their houses!
When General Xiao Ke came to Chawo Village in Yuanjia Town for the last time, he told the villagers that the martyr Huang Yishan had dedicated his life to the liberation cause of the Chinese people, and we should never forget them!