Founding General Yang Chengwu Nengwen Nengwu, Lao Qin last year in the "First Battle into the DPRK, three days to annihilate the enemy 17,000 people, Yang Chengwu gladly wrote poems, Chairman Mao praised: poetry as his people" article mentioned that Yang Chengwu bravely crowned the three armies, known as "Zhao Zilong in the army"; during the War of Resistance Against Japan, he commanded and killed the Japanese commander Abe Norihide in the Battle of Loess Ridge, and was also honored as the "White-robed General", comparable to the famous general Xue Rengui of the early Tang Dynasty. What is rare is that he likes to learn from Chairman Mao, and whenever he has something to enjoy, he writes poems, including "Flying to Seize the Luding Bridge", "Crossing the Jiajin Mountain", "Heavenly Danger Lazikou", "Remembering the Battle of Loess Ridge", and "Three Poems commemorating the anti-tank warfare of Wen Dengchuan" written after entering the Korean War, all of which are popular works.
In addition, in combination with his rich practical combat experience, he studied and studied various Chinese and foreign military works, put forward his own unique views on military theory, and published "Selected Military Writings of Yang Chengwu."
It can really be described as a generation of famous generals who "hit the wild beard on the horse and wrote the grass army book on the horse".
Among the founding generals, the single paper was collected, probably with General Xiao Ke as the most cattle.
General Xiao Ke wrote the novel "Bloody Luo Xiao", which won the special prize in the Mao Dun Literature Award.
However, the best-selling volume of "Blood Luo Xiao" is inferior to General Yang Chengwu's "Memoirs of Yang Chengwu".
In 1985, "Memoirs of Yang Chengwu" was published.
As soon as the book was released, it was sold out.
So much so that the book had to be reprinted and printed again and again.
It is said that Huang Zesheng, secretary of the Yiyang County CPC Committee in Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, is a native of Huangjia Village, Qigong Town, jiangxi province.
Lao Qin adds here that the lacquer town is the hometown of heroes and the holy land of revolution.
Here, I don't know how many heroes have come out.
Among them, Fang Zhimin, a revolutionary of the Communist Party of China, a politician, a military expert, an outstanding leader of the peasant movement, and the founder of the Fujian-Zhejiang (Anhui) Gansu Revolutionary Base Area and the Red Tenth Army during the Agrarian Revolutionary War, was a native of Hutang Village, Qigong Town.
In the same year, Fang Zhimin established a secret peasant association in Xu Village, a town of lacquer workers, and on this basis, in November 1927, he launched the Yiyang and Hengfeng 60,000 peasant Nianguan rebellions, shocking both at home and abroad.
Huang Zesheng's Huangjia Village also walked out of a heroic figure - Fang Zhimin's cousin Huang Kaixiang.
Huang Kaixiang's mother, Fang Shangxiang, was Fang Zhimin's cousin, and for this reason, Huang Kaixiang had a deep affection for Fang Zhimin, assisted Fang Zhimin in many important things, and joined the Communist Party of China in the autumn of 1926.
We read the classical novels "Water Margin" and "Say Yue", Song Jiang is often accompanied by Li Kui, and Yue Fei is accompanied by Niu Gao.
Once upon a time, Huang Kaixiang played roles such as Li Kui and Niu Gao around Fang Zhimin, and his majesty was majestic and did not leave his left and right.
Huang Kaixiang was a hoop cooper, and often had a sharp axe on his belt.
This sharp axe, in addition to cutting wood to make barrels, is also a weapon used by Huang Kaixiang to practice martial arts.
Huang Kaixiang learned martial arts since childhood, and when he grew up, he was 1.86 tall, and his strength was amazing, and he created a set of short-handled axe methods, known as "short axe yellow".
Huang Kaixiang first used a sharp axe to cut people in 1929.
In the early spring of that year, he accompanied Fang Zhimin to attend the first workers' and peasants' and soldiers' congress in Dexing County.
The two set out from Mopan Mountain in Yiyang, and when they arrived at Baima Ridge, they encountered a reactionary Jingwei regiment that was sentry.
The enemy recognized Fang Zhimin and exclaimed, "He is Fang Zhi..."
Before the word "Min" could be spoken, Huang Kaixiang swung out his axe, and the man's head immediately moved.
It was too late, and it was fast, and Huang Kaixiang's axe reached the throat of the enemy leader again, threatening him to order his enemy to lay down his weapons and take down the enemy post in one fell swoop.
The story of Huang Kaixiang's "an axe carrying an enemy outpost" has been a topic of discussion among local people for a long time.
After the establishment of the 1st Independent Regiment of Northeast Jiangxi, Huang Kaixiang first served as the political commissar of the Independent Regiment, and performed well in the attacks on Jingdezhen, Poyang, Hukou, Duchang, etc., killing countless enemies with a sharp axe, and later assuming the post of commander of the Red Guard Division in Northeast Jiangxi.
In the spring of 1933, the Northeastern Jiangsu District and the Central Soviet District were connected, and Huang Kaixiang led the Red Guard Division of the Northeast Jiangxi Province to the Central Soviet District to participate in the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggle.
Huang Kaixiang has not been heard from since then.
Huang Kaixiang had five brothers, all five of whom joined the Red Army.
Unfortunately, all four of his younger brothers gave their young lives in the brutal revolutionary struggle.
That is, after Huang Kaixiang left his hometown for the Central Soviet Region, only his old mother Fang Shangxiang, his wife and his underage daughter Huang Juhua were left in the family.
His wife later ran away from home in search of him and never returned.
After the Long March of the Red Army, the enemy launched a brutal revenge against the Central Soviet Area and the Old Yiyang District.
Huang Kaixiang's old mother, Fang Shangxiang, had to take her granddaughter Huang Juhua on the tragic path of begging for a living.
Think about it, in those days, except for a few rich and unmerciful landlords, who had any surplus grain to help others?
Therefore, begging does not sustain life at all.
There was no way, Fang Shangxiang could not bear to watch her granddaughter Huang Juhua starve to death alive, and cruelly sent her to a family to be a child bride, and she returned to the lacquer town alone.
Speaking of which, when Huang Juhua was a child bride, she was only 7 years old.
Every day before dawn, she had to get up to cook, wash clothes, and do farm work in the fields.
When will such a hard day be the beginning?
Fang Shangxiang returned to Huangjia Village, a lacquer town, and saw that his family's house had been burned to white by the enemy, so he had to help build a thatched shed with the help of the Central People, and watched over the news of his son Huang Kaixiang every day, year after year, until 1951, and died alone.
Yiyang County, Jiangxi Province, was liberated on May 3, 1949. In 1950, the Yiyang County Archives in Jiangxi Province had come to investigate the whereabouts of Huang Kaixiang, but the people were overwhelmed, the investigation was not in-depth enough, and a hasty conclusion was made: "This person could not bear hardships during the Long March, fled the revolutionary ranks, and his whereabouts are now unknown." ”
Therefore, the old man Fang Shangxiang died in grief and shame.
Having said that, after General Yang Chengwu's Memoirs of Yang Chengwu were published in 1985, Huang Zesheng, secretary of the Yiyang County CPC Committee in Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, read the book carefully, and when he saw Yang Chengwu repeatedly mention his good partner during the Long March and the leader of the Red Fourth Regiment, "Wang Kaixiang", he couldn't help but mutter.
Because, according to Yang Chengwu's mention of "Wang Kaixiang" in his book, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that this "Wang Kaixiang, commander of the Red Fourth Regiment of the Red Army" was his ancestor of the same sect - "Huang Kaixiang, commander of the Red Guard Division in northeast Jiangxi."
In the end, he couldn't help but report the situation to the county party committee.
The county party committee decided to send Li Songhe, then director of the county party history office, to lead an investigation team to Beijing to visit Yang Chengwu.
When Yang Chengwu heard that the visitor might be a good partner and the hometown of "Wang Kaixiang," the leader of the Red Fourth Regiment, he couldn't help but be overjoyed and solemnly received Li Songhe and his party.
Is "Wang Kaixiang, commander of the Red Fourth Regiment of the Red Army,"" "Huang Kaixiang, commander of the Red Guard Division in northeast Jiangxi"?
Speaking of which, this feature is too good to check.
As soon as Yang Chengwu opened his mouth, he said that "Wang Kaixiang, commander of the Red Fourth Regiment of the Red Army," was a well-known "axe general" in the ranks of the Red Army, 1.86 meters tall, and when he went to the battlefield to fight with the enemy, he did not use bayonets and specially used sharp axes, and moreover, his title of "axe general" was first called up by Zhou Enlai and Commander-in-Chief Zhu De. At that time, Zhou Enlai took off the watch in his hand and gave it to him, saying: "You Red Tenth Army in northeast Jiangxi have provided so much help to the central authorities, and the central authorities have nothing to send you." I give you this watch of mine, to give you this 'Axe General'. Commander-in-Chief Zhu De took pity on Cai Cai and heard that Huang Kaixiang liked to use an axe on the battlefield, so he untied the pistol he was wearing and gave it to him, saying: "This is a gun captured from Zhang Huizhan's hand, German goods, give it to you, don't use an axe for hand-to-hand combat in the future." ”
Why is "Huang Kaixiang" written as "Wang Kaixiang"?
Yang Chengwu said very embarrassedly: "In your Jiangxi Yiyang accent, 'Wang' and 'Huang' are not distinguished, he said that his name is 'Huang Kaixiang', but we all heard it as 'Wang Kaixiang'. ”
Speaking of this, Yang Chengwu was even more uneasy, and he was silent for a long time, saying: "Huang Kaixiang was killed on a German-made six-wheeled pistol given by Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, and the cause of death was determined to be suicide." Suicide was a disgraceful affair, so that after his death there was no memorial service, no martyrdom, no wreath in front of the grave, and no tombstone. But I always thought that he was a strong-willed comrade who could not commit suicide. Moreover, the Long March has been victorious, the most difficult period has passed, and he is even less likely to commit suicide. After his death, he was buried on the banks of the Luohe River in Ganquan County, Shaanxi Province, and I led the guards to make a tombstone out of wooden planks and wrote 'Tomb of Wang Kaixiang, commander of the Red Army Regiment', and erected it in front of his grave. ”
So, how did Huang Kaixiang die?
Yang Chengwu recalled: "In November 1935, when the Central Red Army and the Northern Shaanxi Red Army met with the Division, Huang Kaixiang and I rushed to xiangbiwan village in Ganquan County, the central garrison, to attend the meeting of cadres at and above the regimental level, walked more than 50 miles, sweated a lot, but was drenched in rain and fell ill. Huang Kaixiang had a fever of up to 40 degrees, kept talking nonsense, and at night, in a coma, withheld a six-wheeled pistol pressed under the pillow, and was shot in the head..."
Yang Chengwu once again stressed: Huang Kaixiang has a firm will, participated in the revolution for 10 years, and has never wavered in the face of difficulties.
Yang Chengwu said with emotion: On the Long March Road, on the banks of the Dadu River, Huang Kaixiang, as the leader of the Red Fourth Regiment, led the entire regiment to run 240 miles day and night and triumphantly seized the Luding Bridge. In the Battle of Lazikou, the Central Military Commission ordered the Red Fourth Regiment to "seize Lazikou within three days and clear the enemy who was blocking the advance", Huang Kaixiang organized 5 consecutive attacks, fought fiercely with the enemy for more than 10 hours, saw the war in a state of stalemate, he personally led two companies, each of them pinned more than ten grenades, took advantage of the night, climbed up the cliff, carried out a roundabout raid, sacrificed his life and death, and finally defeated the enemy. Afterwards, Chairman Mao said happily: "If the axe general opens the way, we will not have a mountain of flames that we cannot cross." ”
Who would have thought? It was such a mighty tiger general who died on his sickbed.
Yang Chengwu said word by word: "Huang Kaixiang is the hero of the Long March, and we must never forget him!" ”
Knowing that Huang Kaixiang also had a daughter, but had been treated unfairly, Yang Chengwu was extremely distressed and sent people to Yiyang twice to look for him.
Huang Kaixiang's daughter Huang Juhua, the only descendant of the five Red Army martyrs of the Huang family, lived a very hard life.
After her husband, who was a child bride, died of illness, she was resold by the family to Shao Yuke in Shaoban Village.
Shao Yuke was a "red child", he joined the children's regiment of the Red Army at the age of 14, he sent letters to the Red Army, stood guard, passed on intelligence, and was the township chief of Shaoban Township in Yiyang County during the land reform.
But the false information that "Huang Kaixiang is a deserter of the Long March team" made Huang Juhua and Shao Yuke husband and wife unable to look up in front of others.
Yang Chengwu sent people to find Huang Juhua twice, and the truth came out.
Huang Juhua's father was not only not a "deserter", but also the leader of the Red Army Hero Regiment and a great hero of the revolution, and the villagers encouraged her to go to Yang Chengwu or find the government to solve the practical difficulties of the family.
The people sent by Yang Chengwu also left Huang Juhua with Yang Chengwu's contact address and telephone number, and told her: As the only descendant of the hero Huang Kaixiang, you have any difficulties and requirements.
Huang Juhua refused to make this call, nor did she go to the government to complain about her difficulties.
She said: Compared with the heroic acts of the revolutionary martyrs who threw their heads and spilled their blood, what is this difficulty in my family? If I ask the government, I will discredit my father.
After Huang Juhua's death, her 6 children also followed her last wishes, without the government's request, and all worked as farmers in the countryside, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, living an ordinary life.