At the end of 1949, the whole country had basically been liberated, and in an obstetrics and gynecology hospital located in the northeast of Guangdong, in the southern foothills of the Dayu Mountains, adjacent to Jiangxi, Nanxiong County, it turned out that on this day, a female nurse named Zeng Biyi in the hospital received a notice from her superiors to go to Beijing, and it was the Central Organization Department that transferred her to work in the central government.
When the hospital colleagues who had spent many years together on weekdays inquired, they learned that this female nurse was unusual, she was a female Red Army senior cadre with legendary experience, and her husband was a Gubai martyr who had served as the secretary general of the former committee of the Red Fourth Army, the secretary general of the General Front Committee of the Red Army, and the long march of the Central Red Army.
Zeng Biyi, whose original name was Zeng Zhaoci, was born in 1907 in Laowei, Hukou Town, Nanxiong, Guangdong Province, and when she was a teenager, she was influenced by his elder brother Zeng Zhaoxiu, who was the pioneer of the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal student movement in Nanxiong, an outstanding representative of the new democratic revolution in Nanxiong, the leader of the early Central Organization in Nanxiong, and the famous revolutionary martyr who organized and led the Nanxiong peasant rebellion and opened the prelude to the vigorous agrarian revolution. To this end, when she was studying at the Guangzhou Jiazhong Industrial School, she joined the Women's Liberation Association and joined the regiment organization.
In Guangzhou, the cradle of the revolution, Zeng Biyi enthusiastically participated in revolutionary activities, and she went to the Whampoa Military Academy, the Peasants' Lecture Institute, and the Political Lecture Class to listen to lectures by famous leaders, and then, under the arrangement of the organization, she returned to her hometown of Nanxiong to carry out revolutionary work, serving as a women's minister and also the secretary of the county agricultural cooperative women's committee. She was also appointed as a commissioner of the Nanxiong Branch of the Guangdong Women's Liberation Association.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup, and Zeng Biyi and her brother Zeng Zhaoxiu (secretary of the county party committee) and others led the Nanxiong people's armed rebellion and dealt a blow to the enemy's sabotage activities. Later, when the troops of the Nanchang Uprising came to Nanxiong, Zeng Zhaoxiu, the secretary of the county party committee, personally led people down the mountain to greet them, and Zeng Biyi accompanied her brother to this historic meeting, at that time, the troops of the Nanchang Uprising also left nine rifles for the Nanxiong Red Guards.
With the later reactionaries taking turns to "suppress" the Red Guards, the Nanxiong Red Guards persisted in several months of arduous struggle, and finally had to move to Meiguan Mountain, during which Zeng Biyi followed his brother Zeng Zhaoxiu to Ganzhou to find an organization, and Zeng Zhaoxiu found his classmate and comrade-in-arms Gu Bai when he was engaged in the student movement at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, and joined his team.
Gu Bai, a native of Qinyuan Chun Village, Xunwu Chenguang Town, Jiangxi Province, participated in the progressive student movement during his studies. He joined the party in December 1925, and after the defeat of the Great Revolution, he returned to his hometown to organize peasant associations, established a branch to seek Wu, carried out revolutionary activities, and organized and participated in leading the peasant uprising in Xunwu, establishing guerrilla groups, and leading the creation of the Xunwu base area.
At that time, Gu Bai was in his hometown of Xunwu to make the revolutionary activities in full swing, learned about the situation of Zeng Biyi and his brother Zeng Zhaoxiu, because they had friendly relations in the work of studying in Guangzhou, and soon, Gu Bai personally came to Nanxiong to pick up her brothers and sisters, in order to prevent reactionary arrest, they also pretended to be husband and wife to Gowu, and appointed Zeng Biyi as the secretary of the women's committee of the county party committee and the successor as the minister of women of the county Soviet. After her brother Zeng Zhaoxiu died in Xunwu, she and Gu Bai became dependent on each other.
Soon, the Red Fourth Army, which came down from Jinggangshan, marched along the border mountains of Guangdong and Gansu to the southern fujian and western Fujian, and came to the guerrilla division led by Xunwu and Gu Bai, and the first part of the Red Fourth Army was merged with the local guerrillas to form the 21st Column, with Gu Bai as the political commissar and leading the troops to carry out guerrilla warfare. Later, due to his outstanding work, Gu Bai served as secretary and director of the Central Military Commission, secretary general of the former committee of the Red Fourth Army, secretary general of the general front committee of the First Front, and other positions.
At this time, due to the common revolutionary cause, under the cordial care of the leaders, Gu Bai and Zeng Biyi, the revolutionary partner, were happily married, and their marriage was in an inn in Fangtang belly, and on that day, Fang Tang belly was so lively! The hall was filled with desk benches, and a simple and warm new-style civilized wedding was held. Representatives of the cadres and fighters of the 21st Column attended the wedding.
At the wedding, Zeng Biyi and Gu Bai read the "Marriage Declaration" in public: "We are partners on the road of revolution, we must fight for our careers all our lives, oppose arranged marriages, oppose the abduction and trafficking of women and polygamy, advocate equality between men and women, and marry freely." Just after reading it, the audience burst into applause. The young women who came to the wedding were suddenly enlivened.
Since then, Zeng Biyi and Gu Bai have lived a happy time, unfortunately, the happy days are always short, they have only been married for a few short years, due to the defeat of the Fifth Anti-"Encirclement and Suppression" of the Red Army, the superiors began to have a planned strategic shift, and when they were worried, her husband Gu Bai wrote from the front. He told her that the war was tight, that the troops were to be transferred, that the three children had been sent to his old cousin's house, and that the names and circumstances of his parents could not be told to the foster caretakers, so as not to cause problems with the enemy.
The situation was so serious that Zeng Biyi did not expect it. Is it true that the Red Army will not be able to return? Is it true that the Soviet area will be completely occupied by the enemy... Immediately afterward, the large red army began to move. Zeng Biyi was informed, and his husband Gu Bai was also left behind as the commander of the guerrilla forces in Fujian, Guangdong and Gansu, leading comrades to carry out guerrilla warfare.
Zeng Biyi stayed in the rear office of the Central Soviet District and informed her to go to the local guerrilla group in Ruijin a few days later. This guerrilla movement was carried out in the mountains leading to Tingzhou in Ruijin. After the Red Army left, the Kuomintang troops quickly occupied many counties and towns in the Central Soviet Region, the enemy went to the mountains to set fire to the mountains and massacred them on a large scale, the Ruijin guerrillas had to move many times a day, and they were not allowed to live in peace at night, and Zeng Biyi and other female comrades went down the mountain to make food and medicine for other leaders and seriously ill people.
In 1935, during the planting season, Zeng Biyi followed the remaining Red Army guerrillas in the mountains to persevere in the struggle, and late one night the enemy suddenly surrounded the guerrillas. Zeng Biyi's legs were puffy and her movements were very convenient, and when the guerrillas moved, she fell out of line, rolled down a cliff, and was arrested in her coma.
Subsequently, she was sent by the enemy to the "Jiujiang Correctional Institute", and in Jiujiang Prison, the enemy tortured Zeng Biyi many times and was tortured to the end, but she insisted that she was just an ordinary female Red Army, and the enemy saw that she could not ask for anything useful from her mouth, so she gave up. Until the Kuomintang cooperated again, due to the rheumatism and swelling of his legs, he was expelled and "discharged", and went to Ji'an to find a job, doing underground transportation work under the cover of a teacher. Later, under the arrangement of the organization, Zeng Biyi returned to his hometown maternity hospital as a nurse until the liberation of the whole country.
It was only at this time that Zeng Biyi learned that her husband, Gu Bai, who was the commander of the guerrilla column of the Red Army in Fujian, Guangdong and Gansu, had been sent to the Gansu-Guangdong side to carry out guerrilla warfare as early as February 1935, and on March 6, she was surrounded by the Kuomintang army at the Mandarin Duck Pit in Shangping, Longchuan, Guangdong, and died heroically in the battle to cover the breakthrough of the comrades.
Cooper's grandson is in front of the statue of grandpa
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zeng Biyi, who was transferred to the central government, successively served in the Red Cross Society of China, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the National Museum of Revolution and other departments. According to Zeng Biyi's recollection, Gu Bai and Zeng Biyi had five sons: the eldest son, Gu Xinmin, the second son, Gu Yimin, the third son, Gu Wanmin, the fourth son, Gu Yimin, and the fifth son, Gu Zhaomin. At that time, during the war years, some of them died tragically, and some of them were fostered in the homes of ordinary people shortly after they were born, and their whereabouts were unknown and their lives and deaths were uncertain. After the founding of New China, she only found her second son, Gu Yimin, and the fourth son, Gu Yimin, and finally only the fourth son survived. On March 29, 1997, Zeng Biyi's eldest sister died in Beijing at the age of 90.