What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Speaking of him, not many people should know this name, but he was once the life-and-death comrade-in-arms of Marshal Xu Xiangqian and Li Xiannian, or one of the members of the Political Committee of the Western Route Army of the Red Army composed of 11 people, including Chen Changhao and Xu Xiangqian, and it was such a senior leader of our army who, after the failure of the Western Route Army's western expedition and after escaping the control of Ma Jiajun, hid his identity for 20 years and became an authentic peasant. Finally, in 1986, 26 years after his death, local historians found his name in the archives while compiling local history, and finally discovered his whereabouts.
Xiong Guobing' original name was Xiong Tingnan, he was originally born in a poor peasant family in Sichuan, and his parents were forced to adopt him as their son from an early age, and since then he has been renamed Xiong Guobing.
Before joining the revolution, he hunted in the mountains and fought tigers, and was a famous local hunter. He officially joined the revolution in 1932 after the Red Fourth Front army moved into the Sichuan Army, when he was already in his 30s, but even so his enthusiasm for the revolution was still very high, he worked hard in his work, and his personal ability was still very strong.
After the Red Fourth Front entered Sichuan in December 1932, Xiong Guobing was elected by the masses as the commander of the Red Guards army in Zhuyu Township and the chairman of the township Soviet government. In January 1933, Xiong Guobing was active and diligent in the creation of the Soviet regime in chibei, chijiang, hongkou, nanjiang, and bazhong counties (districts), which was praised by Zhang Guotao, Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao. On the recommendation of Kwong Jixun and Yuan, he served as a member of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee of Sichuan-Shaanxi Province and participated in the preparatory work of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Provincial Soviet Government. In early February, he joined the Communist Party of China through yuan's introduction. At the first party congress of the CPC Sichuan and Shaanxi Province, Xiong Guobing was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the CPC.
He has made outstanding achievements in grasping the building of political power, carrying out the agrarian revolution, organizing local armed forces, and developing industrial and agricultural production. He served three consecutive terms as Chairman of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Provincial Soviet Government.
In December 1934, at the Third Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' Congress in Sichuan and Shaanxi Province, Xiong Guobing was again elected chairman of the Provincial Soviet Government. In the spring of the following year, Xiong Guobing led the staff of the Soviet government of Sichuan and Shaanxi Provinces to leave the base area and move west. After the Red Army withdrew from the sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base areas, the warlords and landlords returned to their hometowns carried out cruel class revenge, and the entire Soviet area fell into a bloody white terror. The warlords and the landlords' homecoming regiment declared Xiong Guobing to be the leader of the "red bandits" who had committed the most heinous crimes, and killed his wife Zhao Xiulan and his two sons on the spot; his biological father Xiong Chaoxing and his birth mother, Deng Shi, were tied up and hanged several times and their limbs were mutilated; his younger brother Xiong Tingwen, after being devastated by all kinds, fled to the mountains and lived in a house; and the three sisters who had married were all brutally persecuted by the homecoming group and exiled to their hometowns.
In November of that year, the Central Military Commission decided to form the Western Route Army and cross the Yellow River in the west. The central authorities approved the establishment of the Military and Political Committee of the Western Route Army, composed of 11 people, including Chen Changhao and Xu Xiangqian, and Xiong Guobing was one of the 11 members.
The Western Route Army was facing the "MaJia Army," a unit led by ma Bufang, Ma Hongkui, and Ma Hongbin, the "three horses of the northwest," with 70,000 to 80,000 people. The combat effectiveness of the Majia Army is very strong, especially in the vast western region, the Majia Army has obvious cavalry superiority, and the Lone Army's deep Western Route Army, due to strategic command mistakes and light enemies, coupled with many unfavorable factors such as the supply of expeditionary operations, was finally defeated miserably, and most of the 21,800 people of the Western Route Army were killed on the battlefield or captured, and Xiong Guobing's wife Zhang Tingfu was also killed in a breakthrough.
Due to the urgency of the battle, Xiong Guobing organized all the more than 200 staff of the Logistics Department into a combat company and marched with the right detachment of the Western Route Army. The right detachment was scattered by the enemy, most of the commanders and fighters died heroically, and Xiong Guobing's guards were shot and buried on the battlefield. Xiong Guobing single-handedly rushed out of the enemy group, just ran up the snowy mountain, the back of his head was grazed by a bullet, the war horse was killed again, throwing him into a snow pit, his feet were frozen, still crawling with strong perseverance. In the middle of the night, they happened to meet two scattered comrades-in-arms, who lit a fire under the cliff and roasted the ice on Xiong Guobing's legs.
At this time, Fang Zhen, a staff officer of Bi Zhanyun's detachment, led a group of people to look for troops and met Xiong Guobing. Fang Zhen left 5 fighters to help Xiong Guobing chase after the troops. At the foot of a snowy mountain, dozens of Majia army cavalry were encountered, and Xiong Guobing was captured. Xiong Guobing only admitted to being a man, and when the enemy saw that he was dressed in rags and his feet were frozen, it was estimated that he was not a high official, so he locked him up in the tent of the Yugur leader, and was quietly released by the leader.
Later, after being introduced, he married Bai Yusheng, changed his name to Zhang Bingnan, got up early and greedily picked up goods, set up paper and cigarette stalls, sold salt, and sold flatbread to make a living. In 1945, the family moved to the Yumen Oil Mine to work, but due to their meager income, they still had no food and clothing. Later, the family returned to Jiuquan and made a business by selling fire oil and setting up dried fruit stalls.
In September 1951, he filled in the record of participating in the revolution in the name of an ordinary Red Army soldier "Zhang Bingnan" on the registration form of the local government, and later the local people learned of his life experience when compiling historical archives, and later villagers also asked him, why not go to the organization? Xiong Guobing said: "So many people who went out of the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area are dead, but I am still alive, and I have no face to go to the organization." "Why is such a provincial Soviet chairman, who once led a population of 6 million people, and who is so capable, willing to be a peasant? For years, people have been puzzled.