In October 1926, with the victory of the Northern Expedition, Wuhan was restored. Whampoa Education Minister Fang Dingyingdian asked the principal Chiang Kai-shek to agree, and appointed Deng Yanda as the chairman of the committee to prepare for the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy. On February 12, 1927, the opening ceremony was held. As a result, patriotic young people from all over the country gathered in Wuhan, the revolutionary center of the Northern Expedition.
It was during this period that he was admitted to the Wuhan Branch of Huangpu, his name was Zhang Youqing, and he was previously a student in the preparatory class of Peking China University. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Youqing served as the secretary general of the Forward Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and was captured in 1942 when he fought against the Japanese army's sweep in the Taihang Anti-Japanese Base Area... Next, I will tell you about his life and deeds.
Zhang Youqing is a native of Shenmu, Shaanxi, born in 1904. The Zhang family was a big merchant in Shenmu, and his father let the eldest son focus on business and make a fortune; the second son, Zhang Youqing, focused on studying and took the meritorious name in order to mix with an official and a half-job to protect the family. Therefore, 16-year-old Zhang Youqing was sent to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, which is known as the "cradle of revolution" to study at the Provincial No. 1 Middle School. Here he began to be influenced by revolutionary ideas, and he resolutely embarked on the revolutionary road. At the age of 21, he joined the communist party in the same year that he was admitted to Peking University of China and officially became a revolutionary.
At that time, it was the period of the vigorous Great Revolution, and young people with ideals and aspirations joined the revolutionary ranks one after another. Zhang Youqing came to Wuhan and was admitted to the Huangpu Wuhan Branch to learn revolutionary theory and military knowledge. However, this year was an important turning point in the revolution, and with Chiang Kai-shek's "April 12 counter-revolutionary coup" and Wang Jingwei's betrayal of the revolution "Ninghan Confluence", the Chinese revolution suffered major setbacks.
After that, Zhang Youqing was sent by the party organization to serve as a staff officer in the Gao Guizi Department of the provisional 19th Army, a staff officer of the 10th Army of Yang Hucheng's Department as a major in the Military Department, and the leader of the Democracy Movement Task Force of the Military Political Department. Later, he served as a member of the BoXian Special Committee and secretary of the Luyi County CPC Committee and was sent to northern Anhui to organize a riot, but due to the failure of the operation, he was transferred to Beiping to engage in underground work, and served as the secretary of the Beiping Municipal Party Committee and the secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee. During this period, he was twice imprisoned in the Kuomintang's Caolanzi Prison.
In prison, his fearless spirit of being unyielding, treating death as a homecoming, having a noble integrity, and sacrificing himself for the cause of the revolution has been admired by future generations.
At the end of August 1931, when Zhang Youqing walked into Caolanzi Prison for the second time, a guard who knew him asked in surprise: "Why did you come again?" He replied humorously, "How can I not come when you invite me here?" Between the words, it reveals the firmness and calmness of his heart that is ready to dedicate himself to the pursuit of truth.
In prison, Zhang Youqing and his comrades continued to struggle, the enemy sentenced him and 12 other comrades to death, after the signing of the He Mei Agreement, the situation in North China changed, the kuomintang central gendarmerie three regiments withdrew from Beiping, the death penalty could not be carried out, zhang Youqing and others were spared.
It was not until September 1936 that Zhang Youqing and others were rescued by the party organization and finally released from prison.
After his release from prison, Zhang Youqing was sent to Shanxi to serve as the secretary of the provincial working committee, vigorously rectified, restored, and developed the party organization in Shanxi, and sent party members to the League for The Sacrifice of the National Salvation League, carried out fruitful work for the Shanxi Anti-Japanese United Front, and laid a good foundation for the Eighth Route Army to go to Shanxi to fight against Japan and create an anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Youqing successively served as secretary of the Shanxi Provincial CPC Committee, director of the Propaganda Department of the Southwest Jin Dynasty, director of the United Front Work Department of the Northern Bureau, and secretary general of the Northern Bureau and the Forward Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
In late May 1942, the Japanese army carried out an unprecedented large-scale "sweep" of the Taihang anti-Japanese base area. When the Forward Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the Northern Bureau and other organs were transferred to Cross Ridge in Liao County (now Zuoquan County), Shanxi, they were surrounded by the Japanese army, and it was in this breakthrough that General Zuo Quan was killed. During the breakout, because Zhang Youqing's legs, which had been tortured and broken in prison for many years, were in excruciating pain, it was already very difficult to move. At such a critical moment, he also gave up his mount to a female comrade to break through, and he and the guards calmly and calmly burned all the documents he carried with him, and never let the secrets of our party and our army fall into the hands of the devils. Then they hid in place in a ravine. However, when the enemy searched the mountain, Zhang Youqing and others were unfortunately captured.
Zhang Youqing is a leading cadre in the highest position of our party among the captured personnel and holds a large number of core secrets. Therefore, he assumed the pseudonym Wu Nairen and fought with the enemy as an "accountant". Although he was brutally beaten and tortured by the enemy, he never revealed his real name and identity, did not expose any secrets, and maintained the lofty integrity of the Communists.
Although at this time, Mr. Peng had already ordered that Zhang Youqing be rescued at all costs. However, on July 7, 1942, Zhang Youqing was finally killed in the Japanese concentration camp in Taiyuan at the age of 38 due to dysentery after being tortured and tortured by the enemy.
On September 1, 2014, the martyr Zhang Youqing was listed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs as the first batch of 300 famous anti-Japanese heroes and heroes, and the people's martyrs are immortal!