History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
Xiao Yuehua (1910-1983), female, from Baihou Town, Dapu County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. Born in a peasant family, 9 brothers and sisters, due to the poverty of the family, her parents could not afford to support many children, she was sold to hou Nanyang's family as a child bridesmaid.
Xiao Yuehua participated in the Long March of the Red Army and did propaganda work in the women's brigade. Later, he worked as a caretaker with the Central General Health Department. After entering Guizhou, he was assigned to the second class of the cadre recuperation company to take care of and rescue elderly or injured cadres at or above the division and regiment level. After crossing the meadow, he was assigned to the political department of the cadre regiment.
In December 1935, the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi and she was assigned to the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In March of the following year, after participating in the Red Army's Crusade and crossing the Yellow River, he led a working group in Shanxi to carry out propaganda and mobilization work for the establishment of anti-Japanese base areas. On the eve of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he entered yan'an to study for a year at the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. Later, she was sent to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Trilateral Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, serving as a women's minister and director of the local women's federation, and launched women's support for the War of Resistance Against Japan. At this time, she mobilized her lover to go to the front line to resist Japan, but was refused, and she filed for divorce. Soon after, he was transferred to the prefectural committees of the three eastern counties of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia, and served as a minister of women and the director of the local women's federation.
In 1943, Xiao Yuehua was transferred to the Yan'an Central Party School to study. Two years later, he accompanied the Central Working Group to the Jin-Cha-Ji base area. Soon, he marched into the northeast with the Eighth Route Army, was appointed secretary of the first district committee of the CPC in Chengde City, Rehe, and mobilized the masses to eliminate bandits and establish political power. In June of the 35th year of the Republic of China (1946), Chiang Kai-shek launched an all-out attack on the Liberated Areas, and she led the district party committee to evacuate Chengde and enter Xinglong County as the director of the organization of the county party committee. In January of the following year, he was transferred back to the army and served as the chief of the organization department of the political department of the Chahar Military Region.
In 1932, a fate-changing event occurred in the Red Army, when Bogu and Wang Ming invited a representative from Shanghai from the Comintern: Otto Braun, whose Chinese name was Li De.
This Li De was originally only a representative sent by the Comintern to China on a general mission, but Bogu and Wang Ming fabricated his identity and mission without authorization, and made him an important representative sent by the Comintern to China to carry out military command.
So, why did Wang Ming and Bogu do this? Because neither of them had military command skills and despised guerrilla tactics, they wanted to use an external "authority" to convince the public.
Li De was originally an officer of the German "Storm Commando", who had been baptized by modern warfare and had received further study in military academies in the Soviet Union, so modern military theory was very solid and very capable of "scaring people". At that time, there was still a deep admiration for the Communist International in the Party, so a "foreign monk" like Li De was quickly recognized by the majority of the people and became the de facto commander-in-chief of the Red Army.
Many Red Army cadres who had contact with Li De said that this man's superb military theory brought to the Red Army many very applicable tactical ideas, such as short surprise tactics in the modern sense, and under his organization, the Red Army set up a "cadre regiment" with the meaning of modern special forces, and trained a large number of cadres for the Red Army.
However, Like many arrogant and conceited Europeans and Americans, Li De blindly despised everything in China, did not consider at all whether his theoretical and strategic thinking was suitable for China's national conditions, and forcibly copied the strategic and tactical thinking of Europe and the United States with a highly industrialized foundation, which resulted in a serious disconnect with the Chinese revolution and caused great losses to the Red Army.
Moreover, Li De also has a vice that makes Chinese unbearable, that is, excessive freedom in the relationship between men and women. Therefore, in order to restrain him, the Red Army decided to find him a legal wife, that is, Xiao Yuehua.
At first, Xiao Yuehua disagreed, she did not have any good feelings for Li De, but for the sake of the overall situation, she finally had to accept this mission and become Li De's wife.
Later, Xiao Yuehua gave birth to a child, and the birth of this child gave Xiao Yuehua a little comfort, poured his love into this innocent little life, and performed his mother's duty without complaint or regret.
In this way, Xiao Yuehua dragged his weak body and took his young children with difficulty to complete the Long March.
After arriving in northern Shaanxi, Xiao Yuehua formally proposed to the organization to end this unfortunate marriage with Li De, which was approved. Li De, on the other hand, soon met Li Lilian, an actress from Shanghai, in Yan'an, and regained his new love.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xiao Yuehua initially worked in the Hunan Provincial Transportation Department, but was later transferred back to the army and was awarded the rank of colonel and a cadre at the level of a division.
On November 3, 1983, Xiao Yuehua died of illness at the age of 73. His ex-husband, Li De, died 9 years ago and lived for 74 years.