In a small mountain village in the Songshan Group of Xianqiao Village, Taihema Town, Jiangxi, there is an antique house, which is rebuilt from the ancestral hall of the Wang surname and 3 private houses in the village, from the appearance of the house, it is still a dilapidated ancestral hall and a connected house, there are no special facilities around the house, however, in the 1940s, the stormy years of the last century have gone through vicissitudes, here is known as Jiangxi's "slag cave" - Majiazhou concentration camp.
In this hell on earth that looks like a small mountain village, more than 500 Communist Party members and patriots were imprisoned before and after, and the agents carried out appalling and cruel persecution of the prisoners.
Among them, the most famous and high-ranking revolutionary martyrs imprisoned here are Zhang Wenbin, who served as the political commissar and secretary of the fifth red army, the deputy secretary of the Southern Working Committee of the CPC, and the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee.
In early June 1942, due to the betrayal of the traitor Guo Qian, Zhang Wenbin was arrested by agents of the Central Command of Jiangxi Province in Gaopi Town, Tai Po, Guangdong Province. When the traitor Guo Qian led the agents to arrest him, he struggled to resist arrest and shouted to the crowd on the street: "Compatriots! There are traitors who sabotage the anti-Japanese resistance! Subsequently, after he was imprisoned in the Majiazhou concentration camp, although he suffered from severe tuberculosis, he still stubbornly persevered in the struggle. He refused to write a "letter of repentance" and accused the Kuomintang authorities of sabotaging the anti-Japanese resistance and betraying the country and defecting to the enemy; Feng Qi and Zhuang Zufang, the leaders of the central unification secret service, talked to him many times, and he always had a calm face and sometimes anger. When the agents said, "You should openly turn to the Kuomintang side and jointly resist Japan," he rebuked him, saying: "To engage in separatism is to obstruct the resistance to Japan and is an act of traitor." To resist Japan, we must unite all positive forces. ”
Zhang Wenbin was always unyielding, so the enemy deliberately tortured him and wanted to slowly drag him to death. If his illness worsened, he was not hospitalized; if he could not eat, he was forbidden to make a sick meal; his own savings were not allowed to be used, and even when it was cold, he wanted to return the coat he had taken to keep it cold, and the enemy refused to give it, and sometimes beat him severely.
Zhang Wenbin was imprisoned here, with a bamboo fence surrounded by moso bamboo in front of him on the left to form a whole courtyard, and in the small jungle behind, a guard was set up, and plainclothes were dispatched as guards to secretly monitor the villagers' exit. Although this sparsely populated village is not far from the road, it is not easy to be noticed, and if you do not enter the village to watch, no one can imagine that this is a strong revolutionary who is imprisoned.
His cell was surrounded by a bamboo wall of moso bamboo, then a wooden fence made of yuan wood, and then divided into a pigeon cage-like trumpet. Each number is less than 3 meters square, with bunk beds, no windows around, only from the small patio into some sunlight, can not see the sun all year round; especially in the yellow mold season and hot summer, the indoor smell is smelly, smell vomiting. A strong person who is sent to prison for less than three or four months will become a yellow-faced and swollen patient.
The isolation room is specially used to hold so-called "obsessive" elements who have just entered the concentration camp. It was remodeled with two small houses, with no bunks inside, no tables and chairs, and only a line of white light from the small window on the wall. The cell door is closed all day long, completely isolated from the outside world. Victims are either betrayed, imprisoned for long periods of time, or sick and assassinated.
A strict confinement room is a black cell, which can also be called a death row. Those who are sent there for detention are considered "hopeless people" and are the targets of the so-called "killing one hundred people". There are 2 such black jails, which are converted from huts where the people pile pig manure fertilizer, the size is less than 2 square meters, the ground is damp, the smell is overwhelming, there is a bamboo board inside, there is nothing else, the darkness is like late at night, and the day is not seen all year round.
In prison, Zhang Wenbin suffered all kinds of torture, his body completely collapsed, and even so, the enemy viciously created rumors saying: "The outside world thinks that you Zhang Wenbin has given in." He was very angry when he heard this, so he protested with a hunger strike. All this from the enemy could not shake his iron will to uphold the revolution and his firm conviction in the victory of communism.
On August 26, 1944, at the age of 34, Zhang Wenbin finally died in prison due to the long-term torture and cruel persecution of his enemies. He was skinny at the time of his death, and he wore a heavy iron shackle on his feet. When the guards Yao Baoshan collected and inspected his relics, he found a suicide note left by him before his death, "I swear to die and cannot be transformed.". The suicide note reads: "It is better to be crushed by jade than for the whole of the tiles." I am thirty-four years old, I have committed a serious lung disease, the period of birth is not much, and the hardships are coming to an end, so I am even more sworn to die, willing to do righteousness, and I am willing to leave some righteousness for the people of Jiangxi, especially for the revolutionary sons and daughters of the entire Chinese nation! ”
Zhang Wenbin is a legendary Communist Party member in the history of the Communist Party of China, who was once praised by the famous American journalist Nim Wells as "the lonely hero defending Jinggangshan" and "the first-class young statesman of the CCP."
Zhang Wenbin's original name was Zhang Chunqing, also known as Zhang Nanjie and Liu Zongyi. Born in 1910 in Gaoji Village, Zijiang Township, Pingjiang County, Hunan Province, he joined the Youth League at the age of 15, joined the Party at the age of 17, served as a party representative of the Fifth Red Army during the Jinggangshan Struggle, participated in the anti-encirclement and suppression struggles in the Central Soviet Region, the political commissar of the Seventh Red Army, after participating in the Long March, he served as the political commissar of the 15th Army of the Anti-Japanese Vanguard Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the confidential secretary of the chairman, the director of the Office of the Red Army in Lanzhou, and the rescue of commanders and fighters of the Western Route Army who were imprisoned in the Lanzhou concentration camp. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was transferred to the Cpc Southern Working Committee, the Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee, and the Deputy Secretary of the CPC Southern Working Committee, and was good at united front work and armed struggle behind enemy lines.
Although Zhang Wenbin sacrificed, his heroic struggle for the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people will always be engraved in our hearts, and his spirit of dedication to communism will always inspire us to move forward, and he has thus become one of the first famous anti-Japanese heroes announced by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.