Every time I visit the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery, I will be deeply shocked by a wordless stone stele with a piece of white jade in the hall, because this wordless stone stele represents thousands of nameless martyrs, who fell on the battlefield of guns and bullets for the victory of the revolutionary cause, sacrificed on the execution ground of severe torture and handcuffs, and their bodies and blood were silently buried in this red hot land far from their hometown, becoming unsung heroes.
Just as Mr. Lu Xun said, since ancient times, we have had people who have buried their heads in hard work, people who have worked hard, people who have asked for the people's lives, and people who have sacrificed their lives to seek the law... This is the backbone of China. As a song sings: Why the battle flag is picturesque, the hero's blood stains her red; why the earth is always spring, and the hero's life blossoms! This is the true portrayal of the nameless martyrs being able to erect an eternal monument in the minds of future generations.
Today, we introduce you to a revolutionary martyr who heroically sacrificed his life for the cause of the revolution, until the end of the eighties, more than 50 years after his sacrifice, when his family knew that he was a revolutionary martyr.
His name was Sun Deqing, his original name was Sun Yiqing, the character Le'an, a native of Jiulong Village, Dongjin Township, Shou County, Anhui Province, who studied private school at an early age, and later entered the primary school of the Ancestral Ancestral Clan, dropped out of school and returned to his hometown to work as a farmer and went to the Shanghai Textile Factory as a porter, witnessed the scene of local tycoons and inferior gentry doing wrongdoing, fish and meat townspeople, and the vast number of peasants suffering unspeakably, felt strongly dissatisfied with the reality, hoped to change this irrational phenomenon, looked for a way to save themselves and save the country and save the people, entered the Guangdong-Anhui Army as a soldier under the introduction of a friend, and then applied for the Huangpu Military Academy to become the third team of students in the first phase.
He joined the party during his studies in Huangpu, and after graduation, he was assigned to teach a regiment of cadets at the Whampoa Military Academy as a platoon leader, and in the battle of the Eastern Crusade, he was not afraid of sacrifice, fought heroically, made meritorious contributions many times, and was promoted to deputy company commander of the 8th company of the 3 battalions of the 1st Regiment of Teaching. During the Northern Expedition, Sun Deqing served as the commander and regimental commander of the first battalion of the 75th Regiment of the 15th Division, and led his troops to participate in the Nanchang Uprising.
After the victory of the Nanchang Uprising, according to the predetermined plan of the central authorities, the troops immediately went south, occupied Guangdong, and obtained Haikou in order to obtain international assistance, rebuild the Revolutionary Base Area in Guangdong, and hold the Third Northern Expedition. Sun Deqing led his troops to evacuate Nanchang, taking the road to Linchuan, Yihuang, Guangchang, Ningdu, Ruijin and other places to the south, Sun Deqing fought fiercely for 3 days in the Battle of Huichang, Sun Deqing was seriously wounded, still insisted on commanding the battle until the 5th, before being ordered to lead the wounded and sick to transfer and disperse to heal.
Before he could recover from his injuries, Sun Deqing rushed to Shanghai to find a party organization, and then took up posts such as a staff officer of the Central Military Commission; subsequently, he was sent by the organization to the Honghu area to participate in the work of forming the Red Army. With the approval of the central authorities, the Sixth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was established, and Sun Deqing served as its commander.
After the establishment of the Red Sixth Army, it achieved a series of military victories, successively liberating Haoxue, Laoxinkou, Xingou, Qiuyang, Qianjiang, Shayang, Yuekou, Xiantao, and Zhimakou. The agrarian revolution was carried out in the Liberated Areas, and revolutionary political power at the county level such as Qiuyang, Qianjiang, Shishou, and Jiangling was established, and the Red Guards were established in various counties. Soon, the Red Sixth Army crossed the river south, liberated Huarong, Nanxian, Jinshi, Shimen and other towns, opened up a large revolutionary base area in Jiangnan, and the main force of the Red Sixth Army grew to 4,000 or 5,000 people.
Soon after, the Red Second Army and the Red Sixth Army in western Hunan formed the Second Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in Hubei Province, with He Long as the commander-in-chief, Zhou Yiqun as the political commissar, Sun Deqing as the chief of staff of the corps, and concurrently serving as the principal of the Honghu Red Army Military and Political School (the Second School of the Red Army) and the commander of the Red Second Army. He led his troops to fight in the north and south of the great river, liberated the towns of Tianmen, Yingcheng, Jingshan, and Anlu on the north bank of the Han River, and opened up the revolutionary base area in northern Xiangbei, which was connected with the base area in western Xiang'e.
Just when the revolutionary situation was booming, Xia Xi came here, held the leadership of the Central Sub-Bureau and the Military Sub-Commission in Western Xiang'e, and promoted the "Left" mistake, which was resisted by the majority of cadres of the Party and the Red Army in the western Xiang'e base area. In the spring of 1932, Sun Deqing was criticized for opposing Xia Xi's erroneous policies, but he still put the overall situation of the revolution first, led his troops to fight heroically, participated in the command of the attack on Huanglingji, and in early March led his troops to reinforce the Red Ninth Division, winning the Battle of Wenjiadun in Tianmen, Hubei.
At this time, under the banner of "anti-right opportunism," Xia Xi carried out the policy of sectarian cadres of the "Left" central committee, linked the controversy of different opinions within the party with the "reorganization faction," put on the hat of "reorganization faction" and carried out "brutal struggle" and "ruthless blows," framed Sun Deqing as a "reorganization faction," and killed him in Zhou Laozui, Jianli County, Hubei Province. Sun Deqing was only 28 years old when he was killed.
Sun Deqing, an outstanding general of the Red Army, was deeply supported by the vast number of soldiers, and was one of the main founders of the Red Sixth Army in the Honghu region and the revolutionary base area in northwest Hubei, and was later posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr at the Seventh National Congress held in 1945.
However, due to the fact that his hometown belonged to the Kuomintang-ruled area at that time, transportation and communication were inconvenient, and Sun Deqing had changed his name, the people in the family still did not know his details, let alone that he had sacrificed to become a revolutionary martyr, his two brothers died of depression, his wife was beaten to death by the local gentry, and only one nephew and grandson of the whole family were left.
It was not until June 1980, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, that the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Shouxian Revolutionary Committee, at the request of Sun Deqing's relatives, received the application form for the "Honorable Commemorative Certificate for the Families of Those Who Died in the Line of Duty due to War", filled in the "Shouxian Revolutionary Martyr Registration Form" (Sun Deqing), submitted the biography of Sun Deqing martyr, and then passed the investigation and approval by the organizations and civil affairs departments of Hubei Province and Anhui Province, and officially rehabilitated Sun Deqing's unjust case on May 20, 1988.
Today, in Qujiawan, the seat of the Xiang'e-West Provincial Government, a monument was erected at the place where Sun Deqing was imprisoned and martyred, in order to commemorate Sun Deqing's revolutionary achievements, educate future generations, and invite old comrades who worked in the Xiang'e-West Soviet District to write inscriptions and commemorate them forever. Let his heroic deeds shine for thousands of years and pass on to all generations.