Statue of Sun Yuqing
May 17, 1937.
In the east hall of the Second Hall of the Qinghai Provincial Government, the lights were bright, and Ma Bufang, dressed in a brand-new military uniform, sat arrogantly in the middle, and his military and political leaders Ma Shaowu, Ma De, Chen Xianrong, Ma Ji, and other stars were sitting on either side like the moon. They wanted to interrogate Sun Yuqing, a captured commander of the 9th Army of the Red West Road Army.
Chen Bingyuan, director of Qinghai Daily, sat by as a reporter.
"Guest to—"
With a shout from outside, I saw only a burly young man with a shaved head and a little wrinkle in the corners of his thick eyes and big eyes,-Sun Yuqing, the commander of the Red West Road Army, walked in through two rows of armed soldiers at the gate. He was followed by Ma Zhongyi, commander of the 2nd Regiment of Ma Bufang's Cavalry Brigade.
The people in the hall immediately all stood up, their eyes brushing in unison to stare at this special guest. Ma Bufang looked up at Sun Yuqing with a victorious look and looked straight up.
Sun Yuqing looked at Ma Bufang indifferently, glanced at Ma Bufang indifferently.
Ma Bufang originally wanted to take advantage of today's position to give the opponent a dismount, but he did not expect that the opponent was so calm and stunned for a while. After half a ring, he turned around and pointed to the sofa in the lower left, letting Sun Yuqing sit down.
Sun Yuqing was also not polite and sat down.
"You are Commander Sun?" Ma Bufang asked.
"Lao Tzu is Sun Yuqing, commander of the 9th Army of the Red Army!" Sun Yuqing replied loudly.
"How old are you?"
"28 years old."
"28 years old? So young! The people around Ma Bufang muttered darkly.
"Why did you join the Red Army and when did you become a commander?" Ma Bufang asked with wide eyes.
"Lao Tzu's family is very poor. After knowing that the Red Army was the ranks of our poor, he joined the Red Army in Hunan at the age of 19. Sun Yuqing said proudly, "After joining the Red Army, he fought in Hubei and Henan, and gradually rose to become a military commander." ”
"Have you fought in northern Sichuan and southern Qinghai?"
"I don't remember exactly, Lao Tzu fought countless battles and fought many battles, and most of them were guerrilla warfare in that area."
"You always remember the events of Hexi clearly, don't you?"
Sun Yuqing was silent.
"How did you get captured by us?" Ma Bufang continued to ask.
"Exhausted by bullets, in a desperate situation." Sun Yuqing said helplessly.
"There are bullets, do you still have to do it?"
"Of course you have to do it! A Red Army cannot go to the battlefield without guns, and it is the military discipline of the Red Army! Sun Yuqing replied emphatically.
"You said you couldn't live without the gun, did you leave today?"
Sun Yuqing let out a long sigh.
At this time, Ma Zhongyi, who was sitting on the side, stood up and interjected: "In this battle in Hexi, we have suffered heavy losses. We had many deaths in the Ni family camp, and the casualties in the battles of Sanliugou and Liyuan Fort were very large. Even when we captured him alive, we also suffered two more platoon casualties. ”
Ma Bufang inhaled a cold breath, pointed at Sun Yuqing and said, "We have suffered a lot of losses, and we have finally solved the fifth, ninth, and thirty armies of the communist bandits, and have caught you!" ”
Sun Yuqing said sadly: "Our army forcibly crossed the Yellow River and carried out a western expedition, but unfortunately embarked on a dead end. There was a shortage of food and ammunition, supplies were interrupted, there was no rear, and the geography was unfamiliar. In this defeat, we made the mistake of going deep alone, which is feared by soldiers, and at the same time suffered the losses of your cavalry. Victory or defeat is a common thing, but your victory is also a fluke. ”
"How is our army fighting?"
"We can only fight hard with a huge number of troops, we cannot win more with less, nor can we win with equal troops!" Commander Sun shook his head dismissively.
"You are the commander, and I am the commander of the army. Today you are captured, what else can you say? Ma Bufang then asked.
"Lao Tzu is doing a just revolutionary cause, having been captured, having endless words, and having his own successors. It was a great misfortune to be captured, and it was a shame to be ashamed of the comrades who had died. ”
In the face of Sun Yuqing's generous statement, Ma Bufang was poor and speechless. The faces of the people also changed dramatically, and this Sun Jun commander was as bold as the sky!
The air in the hall immediately tensed.
Sun Yuqingning died unyieldingly
Ma Bufang slumped down on the couch in frustration for a while before asking, "How do you treat soldiers?" ”
"Officers and men of the Red Army are equal and united for the revolution!" Sun Yuqing smiled proudly.
Ma Bufang saw that it was difficult to end the question and asked again, so he asked Sun Yuqing to drink at the same table as he changed the topic.
Sun Yuqing refused.
After the trick of persuasion was punctured, Ma Bufang decided to move with "affection". It turned out that Sun Yuqing's wife, Yue Lanfang, was a platoon leader in the Women's Independent Regiment of the Fourth Front Army, who was unfortunately captured in the Battle of Liyuankou in March 1937 and was forced to perform hard labor at the Kuomintang Army Hospital in Xining. Ma Bufang escorted Sun Yuqing to the Army Hospital to visit Yue Lanfang. Seeing Yue Lanfang, who was busy, Ma Bufang smiled and pointed at Yue Lanfang without smiling and asked Sun Yuqing: "Is this your wife?" Sun Yuqing said, "Yes! Then suddenly approached his wife and said forcefully, "Don't be afraid! "Originally, seeing his wife who seemed prematurely old, feelings of love, sadness, and resentment surged into my heart, and I had a lot to say in my heart, but in the den of the tiger's den and in front of the enemy, how could I reveal all this to the enemy and let the enemy see the joke. Ma Bufang's treacherous plan did not succeed.
Later, Ma Bufang attempted to use Sun Yuqing's prestige to persuade the captured Red Army to surrender and say something in their favor. Once, Ma Bufang accompanied Sun Yuqing to a place outside the south gate of Xining where the Red Army was forced to perform hard labor. Sun Yuqing looked at these ragged comrades-in-arms with yellow faces and thin muscles, and his heart was tearing like a heart-rending feeling. He recalled the scene of the bitter battle in Hexi, worried about the safety of his comrades who were imprisoned, and comforted the comrades who surrounded him with concern.
Ma Bufang asked triumphantly, "Are these your men?" ”
"Yes, don't look at their young age, they can be heroic in fighting." Sun Yuqing replied crisply and neatly. Then he spoke passionately and loudly to his comrades-in-arms: "Comrades, although the Western Route Army has failed, the Red Army still exists. The Red Army in northern Shaanxi has grown stronger, the Party Central Committee has established a base area in northern Shaanxi, the situation is getting better and better, and the Red Army cannot be killed! The captured Red Army soldiers were moved to tears.
The Red West Road Army fought fiercely with the Ma Family Army
Ma Bufang saw that no matter what measures were taken, it would not be possible to shake the firm conviction of Sun Yuqing, a young Red Army general, and that he could not find anything useful in Sun Yuqing. Chiang Kai-shek became angry and ordered Sun Yuqing to be sentenced to "capital punishment" for the so-called "crime of endangering the Republic of China."
Late one night in late May, it was as dark as the bottom of a pot, and Xining City was still a little chilly.
In the dim light, Sun Yuqing, who was still practicing assassination in the courtyard of captivity during the day, was flipping through a worn-out copy of "Water Margin", and he sometimes looked at the book with relish, sometimes applauded, sometimes raised his head, and his eyes penetrated the darkness and stared into the distance. The Party Central Committee has issued a call for an all-out war of resistance, and the climax of the all-out war of resistance throughout the country is approaching, so we must redouble our efforts to study tactics, cultivate our skills, strive to get out of prison at an early date, gallop on the battlefield, kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, save the country and the people, eliminate imperialism and all reactionaries, and greet the complete liberation of all Of China.
This was when the door to the room suddenly opened, and a cold breath came rushing in, and then three murderous horse bandits came in. Taking the lead was Ma Zhongyi's chief of staff, Geng Wenkui.
Geng Wenkui turned around and said viciously to the two subordinates, "Tie him up for me." ”
Sun Yuqing knew that the enemy's donkey skills were poor and he was going to poison his hands. He looked at Geng Wenkui contemptuously, stood up, and said, "Wait a minute." After saying that, calmly get dressed. Wear a hat.
The executioners pulled Sun Yuqing into the backyard stables, tied them tightly to a wooden pillar next to the manger, and raised their butcher knives.
In the face of the bandits' butcher's knife, Sun Yuqing regarded death as a homecoming, and with the firm belief that the revolution would be victorious, shouted "Long live the Communist Party!" "The sacrifice was in a pool of blood, when he was only 28 years old.
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