In the great journey of national independence and the people's liberation war in the last century, countless revolutionary ancestors threw their heads and spilled their blood, and used their lives and blood to compose a magnificent poem that swallowed mountains and rivers, and finally created a brand-new world. During the Daqingshan Breakthrough during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our army sacrificed a pair of high-ranking leaders, Chen Ming and Xin Rui, who were one of the revolutionary couples.
Chen Ming, whose original name was Chen Ruoxing, was born in a zhuang family in Longju Village, Dongxiao District, Longyan County (now Longyan City), Fujian Province; during his school studies, he initiated the organization of the "Qishan Book Club" in his hometown together with Deng Zihui and other progressive youths, with more than 200 participants, and later founded "Yansheng" with the mission of "transforming the old society and publicizing new culture" and openly declaring war on the old world.
Subsequently, Chen Ming participated in the Northern Expedition War, served as the propaganda director of the Northern Expedition East Road Army, and was sent by the organization to establish the Fujian Provincial Provisional Committee, with Chen Ming as the secretary. In January 1928, the Provisional Provincial Party Committee of Fujian held an emergency meeting in Xiamen to convey the spirit of the Eighty-Seven Conference, at which Chen Ming took the initiative to let Xian be replaced by the director of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee. Soon, he served as acting secretary of the provincial party committee, and then went to the third phase of the Chinese class of the Eastern University in Moscow, the Soviet Union, to study for further study, graduated and returned to China, entered the Central Soviet Region, served as the chief of the propaganda section of the General Political Department of the Red Army, and then participated in the 25,000-mile Long March with the Central Red Army.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chen Ming served as the political commissar of the Eighth Route Army's Camp School (also known as the "Kang Da" Sixth Brigade, chen Ming was the political commissar of the Sixth Brigade), the propaganda director of the Political Department of the 115th Division, the vice president of the Party School of the Shandong Branch Bureau, the member of the Standing Committee of the Shandong Anti-Japanese Promotion Association, the director of the Government Work Department of the Shandong Branch Bureau, the deputy director and secretary general of the Shandong Provincial War Work Committee (that is, the predecessor of the Shandong Provincial People's Government), and the deputy director of the Government Work Committee of the Shandong Branch Bureau.
Xin Rui, formerly known as Shuhe, a native of Xinzhai, Zhangqiu City, was born in 1918 in Jinan, Shandong Province, and his father Xin Yezhou was a banker. After the "July 7" incident, Xin Yezhou participated in anti-Japanese activities, and his family became the underground contact point of the Eighth Route Army. Xin Rui is the eldest daughter of Xin Yezhou, and when she was in middle school, she had a good foundation in painting and calligraphy. When she was 16 years old, she created paintings and woodcuts, and also held art exhibitions in Jinan. Under the influence and education of her father, she participated in the anti-Japanese work and publicized the anti-Japanese salvation. In 1938, together with his sister, he went to the anti-Japanese base area in the Yimeng Mountains to join the Eighth Route Army, engaged in revolutionary literary and artistic propaganda work in the army, and joined the party.
The versatile Xin Rui was successful in the revolutionary melting pot of the Eighth Route Army. She created a propaganda painting entitled "I Sent My Brother to Become a Soldier", which depicted a rural girl wearing a big red flower for her brother who signed up to join the army, and the image was vivid and vivid, which was praised by the military and the people, and effectively cooperated with the joining movement. She is a combination of choreographers, directors and acting, and her work is very busy. In order to more effectively publicize the anti-Japanese struggle to save the country, the troupe often choreographed small operas, songs and dances, and also rehearsed large-scale plays such as "Blood Road" and "Thunderstorm". The Shandong sub-bureau established a "sister troupe", and Xin Rui served as the head of the troupe, the secretary of the sub-bureau, the secretary of the provincial women's federation and other important positions.
At this time, Chen Ming was a famous pen holder and revolutionary theoretician, and his impassioned speeches not only stimulated Xin Rui's enthusiasm for revolutionary work, but also made her admire Chen Ming. On March 8, 1941, with a common commitment to the revolutionary cause, the two married a revolutionary couple. However, the busy work of the couple during the war years made the two gather less and leave more, and the short encounter was extremely precious. When Xin Rui was pregnant, after work, Chen Ming took her all over the mountain to find sour dates to eat, telling her: "When the revolution is victorious, let's go back to our hometown Longyan, where there are oranges, loquats, and sauerkraut pickled by the farmhouse, and the taste is so good." ”
However, just as the revolutionary couple was imagining a better future for themselves and their families, in November 1941, more than half a year after their marriage, the Japanese and puppets gathered 50,000 troops and carried out a "large sweep" of "iron wall encirclement" in the Yimeng Mountains, in a vain attempt to eliminate the leading organs of our Shandong party, government, and army and the main forces stationed in the Yimeng Mountains.
Chen Ming was the supreme leader in the breakthrough team, and should have retreated under the cover of the students of the Anti-Japanese First Branch School, but in order to let his comrades successfully break through, Chen Ming put down his pen, picked up the barrel of his gun, and led the combat force to rush to the front line, unfortunately injuring his legs. At that time, a guard wanted to carry Chen Ming out of the battlefield to a safe place, Chen Ming knew that he was seriously injured and did not want to drag the guards, so he said: "You hurry up, let's live one more." After saying that, Chen Ming fired two shots at the ghosts who came up around him, killing two ghosts, and he left the last bullet in the chamber of the gun to himself, and he spilled his blood on Mount Yimeng. He was 39 years old.
On the day of Chen Ming's sacrifice, his pregnant wife Xin Rui was seriously injured in the breakout battle, her legs and knees were broken, and The troupe's young actor Xu Xingpei came to nurse her, Xiao Xu saw that she was so badly injured, tears came out of his eyes, he grabbed Xin Rui's cold hand tightly, cried and said: "Regiment leader, you are injured!" Xin Rui slowly opened his eyes and said softly, "Xiao Xu, don't be sad, the revolution will inevitably shed blood and sacrifice." ”
Xu Xingpei and the comrades of the Second Institute sent Xin Rui to Huohongyu Village, just north of Daqing Mountain, to recuperate and hide in a dark cave, and she did not know the news of her husband Chen Ming's sacrifice. In order to help Xin Rui heal her injuries as soon as possible, the villagers took out the quilt they hated for marriage and the grain that the family was reluctant to eat, and washed Xin Rui's wounds with Chinese herbs collected from the mountains.
On this day, a group of Japanese troops suddenly came to search the mountains in the area of Huohongyu, and the comrades of the Second Institute were ready to carry Xin Rui to prepare for the breakthrough. The mountain road is rugged, the walking is difficult, they just ran out of 150 meters, the enemy caught up, the machine gun hit the stone near the stretcher directly sparked, Xin Rui saw the situation is critical, worried that the comrades of the second institute will suffer greater losses when carrying her, shouted: "Put me down, you go fast!" "The comrades carrying the stretcher resolutely refused. Xin Rui was anxious and ordered sharply: "I will use grenades to cover your breakthrough, and I will carry out the order!" She threw the first grenade at the enemy. The comrades of the Second Institute put her down in pain and took advantage of the smoke to burst out in a southeasterly direction. The devil spotted her: "Female Eight Road! Female Eight Road! Catch alive. ”
Xin Rui clenched her teeth, in the face of the Japanese army that rushed up to capture her, she pulled the last grenade and died with the enemy, she shed the last drop of blood for the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, 23-year-old Xin Rui, bid farewell to the world she loved. At the place where she was sacrificed, villagers erected graves and erected monuments as a memorial. Three years later, a chestnut tree grew on Xin Rui's tomb, with lush foliage and blossoming fruit. People say that this chestnut tree is the embodiment of Chen Ming, who has always been caring for his wife and making up for the regret of not being able to stay together before he died.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to commemorate the heroic sacrifice of the eighth route army cadres in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the local people moved the bones of the young couple into the martyrs' cemetery, and on the east side of the central axis of the pine and cypress road and the solemn atmosphere, the joint burial tomb of Chen Ming and Xin Rui stood quietly here. The six-sided pavilion-shaped mausoleum is hidden among the dense and flowing green of holly. The roof is covered with tiles, the eaves are upturned, and the top is decorated with a pattern composed of five red flags, and the whole mausoleum is exquisite and solemn. "The joint burial of the two martyrs, the flow of the fang for all generations" "Learn from the revolutionary spirit of Comrade Chen Ming's heroic dedication to the cause of liberation against the Japanese invaders and the Chinese people"... A short and powerful sentence tells the heroic feats of the couple, and countless admirers are touched by their deeds of not being afraid of sacrifice and single-mindedly serving the country.