In the process of the founding of New China, many heroic martyrs sacrificed their young and precious lives for the future of the country and their own faith, and even some heroic martyrs not only sacrificed themselves, but also led the whole family to bow down for the revolutionary cause and die later, such as the martyr Zhang Liangdong.
Zhang Liangdong's family almost all died in the course of the revolution, Zhang Liangdong and his wife Li Yuefen, who was born in the same year, were persecuted by the enemy in 1928, and finally died in the same month of the same year, when Li Yuefen was pregnant, in order to escape the law of the Republic of China", the enemy actually chose to forcibly kill the child with a flat bamboo bar, the means were extremely cruel, but Li Yuefen still did not waver in his revolutionary beliefs.
Li Yuefen and Zhang Liangdong revolutionized together
Zhang Liangdong and Li Yuefen were born in 1902, the two fell in love freely and married together during the revolutionary period, the relationship between husband and wife was quite harmonious, and what Li Yuefen did to Zhang Liangdong has always been unconditionally supported, especially Zhang Liangdong's decision to serve the motherland, Li Yuefen not only fully supported, but later personally participated in it and fought side by side with her husband.
In 1924, Zhang Liangdong began to devote himself to the student movement, relying on his leadership and command skills, he created and led the organization of the Lehui County Middle School Student Self-Government Association, from this time on, Zhang Liangdong's revolutionary feelings and leadership ability have been fully reflected.
In 1925, under the outstanding performance of Zhang Liangdong, he won the favor of our party, he became a member of the Communist Party of China as he wished, continued to dedicate his full enthusiasm to the revolutionary cause, after joining the Communist Party, Zhang Liangdong served as the chairman of the Lehui County Student Federation during the great revolution in China, the representative of the Second Peasant Representative Association of Guangdong Province, the chairman of the Lehui County Peasants' Association, the political instructor of the Lehui County Peasants' Military and Political Training Institute, the propaganda director of the LEhui County Committee of the Communist Party of China, the secretary of the Lehui County Committee of the Communist Youth League, It can be said that he played a very important role in the revolutionary cause at that time.
In 1926, Zhang Liangdong was specially appointed by the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China to serve as a member of the Standing Committee of the Executive Committee of the Party Department of Lehui County of the Kuomintang of China, and in this capacity, he covered and laid the groundwork for the peasant uprisings that occurred in the Anding, Qiongshan, Lehui, and Wanning areas that occurred later, and paved the way for the later creation of the Qiongya Special Committee of the Communist Party of China.
In the autumn of 1927, Zhang Liangdong organized and participated in the peasant uprisings in these areas, and became one of the main leaders in the establishment of the Qiongya Special Committee of the Communist Party of China and the formation of the Qiongya Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.
That is, during his tenure as director of the Political Department of the Southern Route Army, for the sake of the future of the country and the continuation of the revolution, Zhang Liangdong did not fear sacrifice to participate in the fierce battle with Li Jishen's department, this battle took place in the Baoting area, known in history as the "Baoting Camp Massacre", when Zhang Liangdong and Chen Keyuan, deputy commander-in-chief of the Southern Route Army, were unfortunately killed in the process of breaking through, after the two sacrificed, the Kuomintang generals in order to invite merit and receive rewards, they also cut off their heads and hung them in the street to show the public, so as to obtain a bonus of 300 pieces of ocean, and their hearts were reprehensible.
Li Yuefen's sacrifice
Li Yuefen was influenced by Zhang Liangdong, joined the Communist Party of China in 1927, began to fight side by side with her husband, she once served as the director of the Women's Association of the Three Districts of Yaxian County, during her work, Li Yuefen actively and earnestly publicized revolutionary ideas to the local masses, and also encouraged women to read and write more, not to be bound by feudal superstitious ideas, and to dare to struggle against feudal society and evil forces.
Under the active propaganda of Li Yuefen, many local women have actively participated in the revolutionary cause, it can be said that Li Yuefen's credit is also very great, such a young and fearless woman, on April 19, 1928, she and her husband participated in the Baoting Breakout Battle.
During the war, Li Yuefen, who was already pregnant, was unfortunately wounded and captured, and in the face of the enemy who killed her husband, Li Yuefen was indomitable and heroic, and the enemy tried to persuade Li Yuefen to betray the revolution, telling her that as long as she and her husband Zhang Liangdong completely drew a line, they could spare her life.
Hearing the enemy say this, Li Yuefen did not waver in the slightest, but also said that where her husband died, she would accompany him to die, and the angry enemy was angry at Li Yuefen's behavior and words, and tried to kill him, but at that time, the Republic of China had laws that did not allow the killing of pregnant women, and the cruel enemies had restrictions, according to the law at that time, even if they wanted to kill Li Yuefen, they also needed to wait until she gave birth to the child.
There is no doubt that the enemy could not wait so long, and it was even more impossible to be so kind to Li Yuefen, so the cruel enemy used inhuman torture to torture Li Yuefen, they ripped off his clothes, pressed a flat shoulder and a bamboo bar on Li Yuefen's stomach, and gradually killed the child in his stomach with force.
Such torture, if ordinary people could not bear to submit to the enemy long ago, but Li Yuefen did not fear in the slightest, no matter how cruel the enemy used to treat her, she never wavered the faith in her heart, this revolutionary spirit made me and other future generations moved.
After the child in the stomach is killed, Li Yuefen is no longer pregnant, so that the enemy can kill it. On April 24, 1928, five days after the death of her husband Zhang Liangdong, Li Yuefen was tied by the enemy with a rope, and his clothes were ripped off, and he paraded in the streets to show the public, hoping to humiliate Li Yuefen, but unfortunately the enemy's atrocities never defeated Li Yuefen's faith, and after various tortures, the enemy finally killed Li Yuefen in anger.
Li Yuefen was thus sacrificed at the hands of the enemy, the time she sacrificed was only 5 days away from her husband, and both were only 26 years old when they died, so they were such young lives, but they hid unyielding faith, which is the essential reason why our revolution was finally able to win.
In fact, Zhang Liangdong's family can be called full of loyal martyrs, not only did they and his wife Li Yuefen sacrifice for the revolutionary cause, Zhang Liangdong's brother Zhang Changmo, sister-in-law Lin Jian, and younger brother Zhang Changlie all sacrificed their young lives for the revolution, and it was they who used their lives to win our happy life today, and their names should always be remembered.
epilogue
On November 12, 1957, Mao Zedong personally signed and the Central People's Government awarded Zhang Liangdong and Li Yuefen the title of "Revolutionary Martyrs" respectively, and the heroic deeds of the two martyrs were also sorted out by the Party History Research Office of the CPC Guangdong Qionghai County Committee in Qionghai City, Hainan Province, and displayed in the "Qionghai Revolutionary History Exhibition Hall" in Qionghai City, Hainan Province.
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