Wang Yazhen, the county magistrate of Siwu Lingfeng County, sprinkled the blood of the Series of Revolutionary Martyrs in Si County

Wang Yazhen, the county magistrate of Siwulingfeng County, who spilled blood on the battlefield

(1903——1946)

Portrait of martyr Wang Yazhen

Wang Yazhen, whose original name was Wang Naiming, was born in 1903 to a poor peasant family in Jiegou Ji (now part of Wuhe County), and the two brothers were adopted by Ya Zhen to his second uncle Wang Xiukun.

Ya Zhen attended a private school in the local area at an early age, and was later admitted to school. He was smart and studious, good at both learning and learning, and the teachers liked him. He then studied with Mr. Ye Laorui, who could not afford to pay the tuition because his family was poor, but Mr. Ye saw that he was very talented, eager to learn, and gave him free, and later he was admitted to the Anhui Provincial Fourth Agricultural School (Su County). In 1925, he joined the Communist Party of China.

In July 1926, the party Wang Yazhen returned to his hometown Jiegou and carried out underground revolutionary activities as a primary school principal. In the villages near Jiegou, more than a dozen party members who developed through him included Deng Fanming, Deng Yanxi, Deng Zeyu, Zhang Bukui, Zhang Zihe, Jiang Zhenguo, and Yuan Qingcai.

The bully Yuan Xirong and his son Yuan Jingyan (nicknamed Yuan Sanhu) controlled the political, financial, and literary power of Jiegou for generations. Bullying the townspeople, extortion, and no evil. Yazhen mobilized the masses to struggle, resist rents and taxes, and relieve the people's suffering.

In 1927, Jiegou established a party branch, and Ya Zhen served as the first party branch secretary. This is one of the earliest party branches established in my county. After the establishment of the branch, Yazhen convened a representative meeting of employee activists and mobilized the employees to demand wage increases and improvements in living conditions from landlords and rich peasants, and won victories. Later, Ya Zhen served as a member of the Provisional Committee of Si County and the secretary of the Jiegou District Committee of the CPC. In addition to leading the masses of the people in Jiegou to continue to wage struggle against the landlords and rich peasants, he also organized merchants' associations, trade unions, student federations, and reading clubs, and also trained the peasants' Red Guards to take the road of seizing power by force.

When Yazhen carried out revolutionary activities in Jiegou, his home was a liaison station, and underground workers came and went to eat and live in his home.

In July 1930, the Sixian County Party Committee decided to hold an armed peasant rebellion and form an action committee for the unity of the party and group in accordance with the instructions of the Xu Haiben Special Committee. Yazhen was one of the propaganda committee members of the committee and actively carried out propaganda work for the peasant riots. He organized dozens of people in Jiegou with seven guns to participate in the Shilianghe peasant rebellion.

On July 30, 1930, Ya Zhen led the peasant uprising team to Xiaoweizhuang and Daweizhuang, gathering more than 3,500 people and more than 100 guns to form an independent division of the Red Army. Then they attacked the Shangtang Ji Kuomintang Regiment Training Bureau, and Li Anwen, director of the Floating Regiment Training Bureau, and more than 30 other people were attacked, and more than 50 long guns, two pistols, one box gun, and ammunition such as bullets and grenades were captured. After the public trial and execution of Li Anwen, he copied the home of Xu Huating, the bully landlord of Jifang and Baimiao, and distributed the grain and property to the poor peasants. The Red Army troops moved from the banks of the Shiliang River to the south and north of Si. On August 3, marching into Ping Shan, just in time for the market, Ya Zhen continued to preach revolutionary principles on the street for several hours. When he continued to advance east to Tanggou, he was surrounded by the enemy and fought bitterly for a day and night, but finally failed because he was outnumbered and ran out of ammunition and food. Ya Zhen was shot in the leg during the battle, but fortunately Deng Zeyu carried him out of the battlefield and was able to escape from danger.

After Ya Zhen recovered from his injuries, he went to Zhang Baling in Jiashan County with Cao Huadong to earn a living by beating stones while looking for an organization.

In the second half of 1931, Wang Yazhen broke into the newly organized 20th Division of the Kuomintang Department Gao Ziju, served as a sergeant clerk in the first company of the special service battalion (they called Shiye), changed his name to Wang Yaohua, and he constantly encouraged and educated the soldiers in the form of making friends and enlightened their class consciousness. In the minds of many soldiers, Master Wang's prestige was high, and they were willing to approach him and talk to him. In May, the division was ordered to go to Guangshan County, Henan Province, to fight the Red Army. One night, the special agent company suddenly received an order to withdraw from Kwangsan Castle, and Yazhen planned to instigate his troops to defect to the Red Army in the confusion of the retreat. Unexpectedly, the situation changed, the troops did not withdraw, the plan could not be realized, and then because the troops checked the Communists, Yazhen was forced to leave.

After Ya Zhen left the Kuomintang troops, he continued to search for the CCP organization. In July 1932, he went to the "YiPinxiang" Hotel in Linhuaiguan (my underground liaison station). Unexpectedly, he was rounded up by the Kuomintang troops, and Wang Yazhen was arrested at the same time as the hotel's housekeeper Yuan Ruisheng, cook Yuan Lansheng, Yuan Shuosheng, and Gu Jianxin, escorted to Bengbu, and sent to Nanjing overnight to be detained in the Central Military Prison. Soon, Yuan Ruisheng was killed in Yuhuatai, YaZhen was sentenced to life imprisonment, Gu Jianxin was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and Yuan Lansheng and Yuan Shuosheng were each sentenced to 5 years in prison.

After Ya Zhen was imprisoned, he wore heavy shackles for a long time, lived in a single room, and was tortured, but he did not give in. In prison, he insisted on learning culture, delving into teaching and English, and putting his life aside. In order to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance and improve life in prison, he fought many hunger strikes with fellow prison victims, up to five days, and finally forced the enemy to give in. Ya Zhen passed on his stepfather to save him from the danger of his life, and once gave him a note in a steamed bun and advised him to "admit it"!

After the "July 7" incident, the Communist Party of China put forward the political proposition of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China and unanimously resisting Japan, and released political prisoners. In the autumn of 1937, Ya Zhen was released from prison.

At the beginning of 1938, Ya Zhen joined the local anti-Japanese guerrillas in our county and served as a captain and political trainer in the Political Training Office. Because Bai Yisun, director of the Political Training Office, never came to the army, the Political Training Office was all under the responsibility of Ya Zhen. Among them, most of them were released from Nanjing Prison, their enthusiasm for resisting Japan was high, their propaganda and organization of the masses were well done, and their activities were carried out in Shangtang, Shuanggou, Pancun, Xuyi, and the ancient city, forcing the Japanese puppet army not to dare to go to the countryside to sweep up.

In December 1938, the Eighth Working Group of the Anhui Provincial Mobilization Committee came to Sixian County, and Yazhen left the guerrillas and returned to Jiegou. Zhao Min, Zhang Guoquan, and Li Yi of the Eighth Working Group held a youth forum in Jiegou to organize a youth rescue association, set up a branch front team, performed dramas, posted slogans, and launched the anti-Japanese salvation movement. On the basis of the surge in anti-Japanese momentum, the anti-Japanese democratic regime in the first district of Sixian County was established, with Lü Zhenqiu as the district chief and Ya Zhen as the district member.

After Sheng Zijin fled northeast Anhui at the end of February 1940, the anti-Japanese work in northeast Anhui was completely led by the CCP. In the spring of 1941, Ya Zhen was appointed director of the Ling, Su, Xiao, and Bronze offices. The area is bordered by Longhai Road in the north, Jinpu Road in the west, and two standing brigades of the enemy in the south of Xuzhou: one is the puppet army jointly organized by zhuo, Wang, and Xia, which is actually the power of the Kuomintang, with more than 500 people; First, a puppet army organized by the local variegated people, more than 500 people; Cao Yangji also had enemy strongholds. In addition, there are small groups of bandits, the larger one is Wang Crooked Head, more than 100 people, the situation is extremely complicated. After Yazhen arrived in office, he only had 60 guns in his hands, and there were many difficulties in carrying out his work. But he used his father's friends who had made in business there in the past to propagate the party's policies and anti-Japanese ideas to them, visit the poor and ask questions, and mobilize the masses. Soon, the support of the masses was gained. The masses sent letters and intelligence to them, laying the foundation for the establishment of base areas. Ya Zhen tilted his head against the bandit king, and with the interests of the country and the nation, mobilized them to unite and resist Japan together. As a result, Wang led his troops to surrender, so the armament grew to two companies and more than 200 people. Yazhen also sent inland lines to educate the puppet army organized by the Variegated People, and they woke up and often provided me with some information.

YaZhen was strict with himself, so the troops had good discipline. In one battle, the guard Zhang Bao'an went to the front line with the troops without permission, and after winning the battle, he got back a gun and a horse, Zhang thought he wanted to be praised, but who knew, he was severely criticized by YaZhen, pointing out that this was a manifestation of disorganization and undisciplined. Here YaZhen resolutely implemented the party's policy of unity and resistance against Japan, divided and disintegrated some enemy troops, and dealt a fierce blow to the stubborn forces; at the same time, the masses were mobilized, and the local armed forces were strengthened, so party and government organizations at all levels were established, and immortal merits were made in opening up the Lingsu Xiaotong area.

In 1942, Yazhen was transferred back to Siwulingfeng County (later changed to Wuhe County). He successively served as the secretary of the county government, the chairman of the county senate, and the county chief. He led the entire county in the army and people to fight against the Japanese, fortified the field, and smashed the enemy's Three Lights Policy and the Thirty-three Days Sweep of 1942. In 1944, he organized the county brigade to cooperate with the fourth division of the New Fourth Army to eliminate the bandit Li Chengwu in Lingnan, so that the bandit plague in the county was eliminated, the people were able to live and work in peace and contentment, and production also developed.

Yazhen is extremely serious about his work and highly responsible for the people, he is good at investigation and research, and often goes deep into the grassroots to understand the situation and help solve problems. Si Wulingfeng flooded every year, the people's lives are difficult, he mobilized the masses to produce to save themselves, took the lead in spinning thread, opening up the wasteland, and jointly defeated the famine year.

In July 1946, the Kuomintang army attacked Huaibei, and the Wuhe County government withdrew from the county seat to the countryside to continue to work. Abhidharma was weak and myopic, and was organizationally equipped with a small donkey, but he did not ride, leaving it to the wounded and sick to ride. During a major retreat, he rescued a boy who had been separated in the retreat, and when he reached the destination, the father of the child was moved to tears when he saw the child riding the county magistrate's donkey.

In October 1946, when the situation deteriorated and the organization decided to withdraw from Huaibei Dongdu Canal, Ya Zhen led three companies of the county headquarters to persist in the struggle on the spot, fighting with the people of Huaibei in the same weal and woe. He said to the comrades who had retreated north: "You must preserve your living strength, and I am determined not to leave, so I will stay in Huaibei and persist, bow down to the best of my ability, and after I die, I will live for you and just tell you to future generations."

On the fourth day of the first month of the 11th lunar month in 1946, the Kuomintang concentrated its forces to launch a large-scale attack on the Chengzi Lake Belt by the canal, and the cadres and armed forces who insisted on the spot were heavily surrounded, and after fierce fighting, in the case of running out of ammunition and food and no reinforcements, Ya Zhen died heroically at the age of 43.

(Si County CPPCC Cultural and Historical Office)