In 1941, after the Anhui Incident, the New Fourth Army was divided into three columns to break through, and the Kuomintang invested more than 80,000 regular troops in order to encircle the New Fourth Army. Under such extremely difficult circumstances, the first column of the New Fourth Army still broke through smoothly, and although only more than 2,000 people successfully broke through, it reserved the flame for the revolution (it is also said that the first column broke through more than 1,000 people and more than 3,000 people).
Among the officers and men of the New Fourth Army who broke through these breakthroughs, there was a non-combatant of the New Fourth Army headquarters, one of the few senior officials of the New Fourth Army who successfully broke through, and this person was Xia Zhengnong, who served as the united front work director of the New Fourth Army at the time of the Anhui Incident. So, as a high-ranking officer of the New Fourth Army who successfully broke through, what was the fate of Xia Zhengnong later?
Xia Zhengnong was born in 1904, a native of Fengcheng, Jiangxi, to a famous and prestigious family, although born in a chaotic world, he received a systematic education and was one of the few high-ranking intellectuals of that era. During the Great Revolution, Xia Zhengnong studied at a university in Nanjing, during which time he came into contact with revolutionary ideas, joined our party in 1926, and began to engage in revolutionary propaganda activities.
In 1927, after the defeat of the Great Revolution, the first cooperation between the two parties broke down, Xia Zhengnong still maintained his revolutionary faith, on August 1, he participated in the Nanchang Uprising, after the Nanchang Uprising, Xia Zhengnong continued to lurk in Shanghai, secretly engaged in intelligence work and revolutionary theoretical propaganda.
In 1929, xia Zhengnong was arrested by the Kuomintang reactionaries for engaging in revolutionary propaganda activities, and he was unyielding in prison, and after organizing rescue, he was successfully released from prison. After his release from prison, Xia Zhengnong joined the famous Left-Wing Writers' Union and began to use the rafters in his hand to publicize the Chinese revolution and cheer for the Chinese revolution.
The time soon came to 1937, the year of the War of Resistance Against Japan, which broke out in full swing, and the national crisis became the main contradiction in society at that time. Xia Zhengnong continued to pick up his pen and called on the whole people to resist Japan in various magazines and publications, and at the same time called on the two parties to cooperate again to jointly build an anti-Japanese united front for the whole nation.
Soon after, on the basis of the second cooperation between the two parties, the guerrilla forces in the eight southern provinces were reorganized into the New Fourth Army, and the next year, that is, in 1938, Xia Zhengnong was ordered by the organization to go to the New Fourth Army Headquarters and served as the United Front Work Minister of the New Fourth Army and the Minister of the Democratic Movement, and was one of the senior officials of the New Fourth Army, and he also made outstanding contributions to the early united front work and conscription work of the New Fourth Army.
However, as the New Fourth Army grew, the Kuomintang began to fear the New Fourth Army, especially in October 1940, when Chairman Han Deqin of Jiangsu Province commanded his 89th Army to attack the Huangqiao area of the New Fourth Army. Also because of the fierce friction between the two sides, Ye Ting, then commander of the New Fourth Army, and Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater, consulted, and the New Fourth Army planned to move to the northern Jiangbei region.
As a non-combatant, Xia Zhengnong was on the list of early transfers, but he said that he was determined to act with the New Fourth Army, and said that he was the united front minister, and he should launch other old, weak, sick and disabled people to transfer in advance, and for this reason, Xia Zhengnong missed the opportunity to transfer in advance. In January 1941, the Kuomintang surrounded the New Fourth Army headquarters, and the Anhui Incident broke out, because there was no time to move in advance, and Xia Zhengnong was also surrounded. Fortunately, in the final breakthrough stage, Xia Zhengnong successfully broke through.
After the Anhui Incident, Xia Zhengnong continued to return to jiangsu and successively served as the education director of Suzhong Public School and the vice president of Huazhong Jianshe University. After the founding of New China, Xia Zhengnong was appointed deputy secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and became a deputy provincial cadre, during which he also made certain contributions to shandong's early economic development.
In the 1980s, Xia Zhengnong retreated to the second line, and he successively served as the chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles and a member of the Central Advisory Committee. In his later years, Xia Zhengnong cared about education, and once donated more than 600,000 yuan of his savings to the education fund, helping many out-of-school children. During his tenure as a member of the Central Advisory Committee, Xia Zhengnong offered suggestions and suggestions and used his rich experience to contribute to the construction of the motherland. In 2008, Xia Zhengnong died of illness in Shanghai at the age of 104, and he was also one of the few centenarians who came out of the New Fourth Army.
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