Not long ago, I came to Fuhu Mountain on the shore of Hsinchu Lintang Lake in Huangshiyang to visit the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery in southeast Hubei, Xiang'e-Gansu Border District, where beautiful scenery, towering trees, thick shade, birds and flowers, and evergreen in all seasons. The life deeds of 1260 well-known martyrs are displayed, the revolutionary history of 21 counties and cities in the Xiang'e-Gansu Border Region is displayed, and the life deeds of 220 well-known martyrs at or above the regimental commander who are closely related to southeast Hubei are introduced.
On the imposing monument, towering clouds, the name of the monument "Monument to the Revolutionary Martyrs of Southeast Hubei in the Xiang'e-Gansu Border Region" is engraved, and the inscription "The Blood of the Martyrs Has Been Watered into the Flower of the Revolution" is carved in the Han white jade on the south side, which is hidden in the evergreen pines and cypresses in all seasons, symbolizing the eternal life of the revolutionary martyrs. When we saw the martyr's spiritual seat of Hou Zhongying, commander of the First Division of the Red Third Army during the Soviet period, the heroic deeds of this martyr were recorded, and after reading it, we were very shocked and burst into tears.
To this end, with great reverence, he came to the hometown of the Red Army and the Red Army of the Red Army, Hou Liangcai Bay in Houfa Village, Huangshi Daye Dajipu, to explore the bits and pieces of the martyrs' revolutionary deeds.
HouLiangcai Bay is located in the southeast of Daye, originally under the jurisdiction of Yangxin County, surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing the lake on the one hand, showing a low terrain in the north and a flat in the south, high in the east and west, the peak is the peak of Longjiao Mountain, and the long vein of Lu'er Mountain is clustered. Standing in the village today, I look out at the peaks, ancient trees, birds singing insects, and clear springs.
The hometown of the martyrs, this village is built by the mountains and streams, staggered, the village mountain stream meanders, the gray wall stands tall, the dewa scales, the northwest of the village is a long harbor babbling water that flows endlessly, and the scenery in the village shines, the environment is elegant, it can be described as a treasure of heaven, the feng shui treasure of the people, the villagers here live idyllic and peaceful.
When I came to a place in the village where the elderly people gathered, I inquired about the heroic deeds of the martyr Hou Zhongying, and the elderly people in the village rushed to introduce them endlessly.
Hou Zhongying, formerly known as Hou Guodong, was born on September 16, 1900 in a very poor peasant family in this village, when he was very young, his parents died, his uncle remembered the blood and kinship, and went through hardships to raise him to adulthood, just when he was 11 years old, hou Jun, a fellow village master, saw that he was intelligent and enlightened, was a material that could be built, and made an exception to accept him as a student, Hou Zhongying had a few years of valuable learning career, and also laid a solid foundation for him to accept new ideas and devote himself to the revolutionary cause in the future.
Hou Zhongying, who had studied for several years, later became a miner in a coal mine, and then joined the Northern Expeditionary Army, joined the Officer Education Corps of the Third Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and participated in the Nanchang Uprising that shocked China and foreign countries with the education group.
Subsequently, Hou Zhongying returned to his hometown to develop revolutionary forces, achieved a series of battle results, and was unanimously praised by the superior leaders, when the Red Army team came to his hometown, he organized local teams to actively cooperate with the regular Red Army to fight, because the combat effectiveness of the team he led was very strong, plus his own combat bravery, wisdom and courage, his team was officially incorporated into the Red Third Army, Hou Zhongying was appointed as the commander of the Eighth Regiment of the Third Division.
In July 1930, Hou Zhongying led his troops to attack Changsha, winning four battles and conquering the city of Hunan Province, which shocked China and foreign countries. After that, he led his troops to move to the Linjiang area of Jiangxi Province, cooperated with the Red First Army to attack Ji'an, crossed the Ganjiang River in the east, and participated in the first anti-encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet Region, and in the battles of Futian, Nakamura, Guangchang and Jianning, the First Division fought very bravely and won consecutive battles.
In particular, during the third anti-encirclement and suppression campaign of the Red Army in the Central Soviet Region, Hou Zhongying's troops braved the scorching heat from Jianning, Fujian, and commanded the whole division to detour thousands of miles back to Xingguo in Jiangxi. Then, in the Liantang area of Xingguo, he fought fiercely with the enemy and won the battle of Liantang. Because Hou Zhongying had excellent command skills and was familiar with the troops, the Red Third Army appointed him as the commander of the First Division.
Then, he commanded the whole division to participate in the fierce battle of Gaoxing, severely damaged the enemy army, and led his troops to pursue and annihilate the enemy, and together with his brother troops, he won the great victory of Fangshiling, making great achievements for the victory of the third anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, and became a famous fierce general of the Red Army.
With a series of victories won by the Red Army, the Then Provisional Soviet Central Committee was overwhelmed by the victory, overestimated the strength of the Red Army, and ordered the Red Army to attack Ganzhou, the central city of Gannan Province. To this end, the Red Army mobilized its elite and rushed out, and the large army marched southward in a mighty way, and the whole army was determined to win: How could a city of Ganzhou be able to block the thunderous blow of tens of thousands of our divisions, and it would certainly be broken on the day.
The two great rivers of Gongshui and Zhangshui flow from the east and southwest, where they converge to form the Ganjiang River and gush north. Ganzhou is located at the confluence of the three rivers, except for the southern part of the land, the other three sides are surrounded by river water, becoming a natural barrier. Ganzhou has a city wall of up to 2 meters high, strong and difficult to urge. The kind of miracle of digging a pit here, and the house, wall or whatever on that side will automatically collapse will never appear, so it is also known as Tieganzhou.
The defenders in Ganzhou City were mainly a brigade of the Third Army of the Kuomintang Army, and the whole brigade, together with the armed forces of landlords fleeing to Ganzhou from various counties in Gannan Province, the police force, and the Merchants' Self-Defense Regiment, had a total of more than 10,000 troops and nearly 10,000 guns.
The Red Third Army was ordered to serve as the main combat unit of the siege, and arrived on the outskirts of Ganzhou on February 6, 1932, the Red First Division led by Hou Zhongying was ordered to attack the west gate of Ganzhou, besieging the Red Army without heavy artillery, by digging tunnels and putting earth explosives packages to blast the city wall, Hou Zhongying commanded the Red First Division to attack together with the brother troops, and the enemy relied on the fortified city and strong firepower to block the Red Army. The fierce battle between the two sides lasted all day, and the Red Army suffered a lot of casualties, but still failed to enter the city, and suffered heavy casualties.
After many failed sieges, the enemy still mistakenly placed troops under the fortified city, at this time the enemy took advantage of the weakness of the Red Army's lack of defensive facilities, the lack of changing defenses of the siege troops, the relatively large casualties of the troops, and the excessive fatigue of the long-term battle, dug a tunnel between the east and south gates and between the west and south gates, sent troops out of the city, and used the night as a cover to attack the Red Army, and the enemy reinforcements outside the city simultaneously launched an attack from behind the siege Red Army, so that the besieging Red Army was attacked from the belly and back of the enemy.
Because the enemy's tunnels in the city were dug near the headquarters of the Red First Division, when the enemy attacked from the tunnels, the officers and men of the Red First Division withdrew in the dark of night, and the command fell into chaos for a while. Hou Zhongying led some of the officers and men of the division to fight and retreat, and finally withdrew relatively safely outside the chengguan in the south of the city. At this time, Hou Zhongying, because he himself commanded the withdrawal of troops in the dark, could not see the whole picture, and was worried that there were still troops that had not yet withdrawn. So he went back to check if there were any troops that had not yet been withdrawn.
Unfortunately, on the way, he was surrounded by the enemy, and finally because he was outnumbered, when he finally broke through in disguise, Hou Zhongying was betrayed and arrested by traitors, and the enemy forced him to shout to the officers and men of the Red First Division with bayonets, in a vain attempt to persuade his troops to lay down their weapons and surrender. After his arrest, Hou Zhongying was determined, never surrendered, never revealed half a revolutionary information to the enemy, and was finally taken to Nanjing Prison, where he launched a riot among his cellmates to seize weapons, and the enemy became angry and brutally killed him at the age of 32.
The people of the village said with great sorrow that this commander of the Red Army division who had been in a great position died tragically under the butcher's knife that the enemy kept cutting, shed the last drop of blood for the cause of the Chinese revolution, and although his body was destroyed by the Kuomintang reactionaries and no bones were left behind, his lofty spirit of heroic dedication to the cause of the people's liberation and the writing of an eternal monument will never be extinguished and will remain in the human world for a long time.