At about 5:00 a.m. on September 5, 1931, when the first rays of the new day had not yet sprinkled into the earth, a ragged young man had been packed in a bamboo basket by a group of vicious Kuomintang reactionary lackeys, and then carried to the Dongjiao Stadium, which was then located at the north gate of Haikou City, to prepare for execution.
The young man in the frame was named Li Shuoxun, an outstanding young leader in the early days of the Communist Party and the secretary of the Military Commission of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee at the time.
Although Li Shuoxun was only 28 years old at this time, he had participated in the revolution for nearly a decade since he came into contact with Marxism. In his nearly decade-long revolutionary career, he had grown into a staunch communist fighter who had long since put his life and death aside, and even from the moment he was arrested, he was ready to die at any time, and that day soon came.
Pictured li shuoxun
When the enemy rudely opened the gate of the prison where he was and crudely loaded him into a bamboo basket, he knew that the final moment had come.
It's over
In the face of death, Li Shuoxun was surprisingly calm, and except for the occasional pain in his legs broken by the enemy, his heart did not even have the slightest fluctuation.
"Do you need to leave something for the world you fought for"?
In prison, Li Shuoxun had thought about this question more than once, but it didn't take long for him to have his own answer.
"Forget it! It was enough to be violent before I was born, but my distant family members could not reassure me, so I have left them some words, is it a last word? Sort of! ”
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Yu Zaiqiong has confessed that he is about to be sentenced within a day, and Yu is about to say goodbye to you for a long time. In the front, in the rear, several people died in the day, and Yu also heard one of them. Don't grieve for me when you die. But if you wish to raise my children well, you should try to send them back home, and you should strive to be self-reliant. After death, the corpse will always be collected, never allowed to come, a thousand instructions.
Gentlemen
Just a few crosses are the last few words left by Li Shuoxun to his close lover, as well as his 3-year-old son and unborn daughter, but what is revealed between the lines is Li Shuoxun's determination!
Pictured li shuoxun and Zhao Juntao
No need to collect corpses! This is the last entrustment left by Li Shuoxun to his family before his death!
It's just a skin bag, the body is dead, but the spirit is long-lived!
Li Shuoxun left, with a few gunshots, his 28 years of life was completely ended, he had worked hard for the victory of the revolution and the birth of New China, although he finally failed to witness the arrival of that historical moment, but his story will never be forgotten by us...
On February 23, 1903, Li Shuoxun was born in Gaoxian County, Sichuan Province, a relatively wealthy family, and from an early age Li Shuoxun witnessed the devastated social reality under the trampling of imperialism and feudalism, so Li Shuoxun was aroused by strong national hatred and great patriotic enthusiasm when he was a teenager, especially the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, which made Li Shuoxun have unprecedented revolutionary enthusiasm.
At this time, although Li Shuoxun was young, he already had the ambition to worry about the country and the people!
The turning point in Li Shuoxun's fate began with the May Fourth Movement that broke out in 1919
After the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, the new ideological trends and new cultures of democracy and science spread rapidly throughout the country, and with the continuous expansion of the movement, the new ideological trends and the winds of new culture also began to blow into Sichuan, which was a very isolated place at that time, and At this time, Li Shuoxun, who was already a middle school student, was deeply attracted to the new ideological trends and new cultures for the first time, and compared with those old ideas that were old, stubborn, feudal, and ignorant, the new ideas nourished Li Shuoxun like a spring wind and rain, and also brought hope to his confused heart.
In this way, Li Shuoxun, who was already stubbornly dissatisfied with the school, resolutely left and then embarked on the road to sichuan provincial first middle school.
Why did you choose to study at Sichuan Provincial No. 1 Middle School? Many years later, Mr. Yang Hansheng, a former close comrade-in-arms of Li Shuoxun and a fellow student who went to the Provincial No. 1 Middle School with Li Shuoxun, recalled:
Li Shuoxun was very dissatisfied with the stubbornness and old-fashionedness of the original school, and he introduced me to the new atmosphere of Chengdu Sichuan Provincial No. 1 Middle School, he said that there were erudite and enlightened teachers there, several of them had experienced May Fourth, new from Peking University, they advocated listening to classes casually, they could freely ask questions in class, encouraged reading and writing style, and opposed casual scolding and punishment of students, which were very attractive at the time, so we decided to transfer to Provincial No. 1 Middle School together.
In this way, Li Shuoxun entered the Provincial No. 1 Middle School in the autumn of 1920 as he wished, and as Mr. Yang Hansheng said, at that time, the Provincial No. 1 Middle School and even the whole of Chengdu were indeed full of famous teachers, and new ideas were flourishing.
The first person Li Shuoxun met and the first guide on Li Shuoxun's life path was Wu Yuzhang.
Wu Yuzhang was a famous proletarian revolutionary in China, and even more so one of the famous "Five Elders of Yan'an"; at that time, Wu Yuzhang was the principal of the Chengdu Higher Normal School, and he had already begun to organize Marxist groups in Chengdu long before Li Shuoxun came to Chengdu, actively disseminating Marxism while disseminating new culture and new ideas.
Li Shuoxun and Wu Yuzhang became acquainted with a student movement, although Li Shuoxun had never been in contact with Marxism at that time, but with his heart of home and country, he frequently participated in various rallies and sports organized by the Chengdu Federation of Students with full of enthusiasm and patriotism, and soon Li Shuoxun became an influential student representative of the Chengdu Federation of Students.
Figure 丨 Wu Yuzhang
After getting acquainted with Wu Yuzhang, Li Shuoxun was quickly impressed by his extensive knowledge and insights, and Wu Yuzhang also thought that Li Shuoxun was a rare and open-minded young talent, so he deliberately introduced Marxism to him.
With the continuous understanding of Marxism, Li Shuoxun's inner world has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Li Shuoxun firmly believes that he has found a way out for the nation and a good recipe for saving the country, and it is Marxism!
Under the influence of Marxism, Li Shuoxun, Yang Hansheng and a group of advanced young students spontaneously organized the Sichuan Socialist Youth League, and they published the "Declaration of the Sichuan Socialist Youth League" in the Chengdu National Gazette in 1922, officially announcing to the society their persistent belief and pursuit of Marxism!
With the establishment of the Sichuan Socialist Youth League, the activities of the Chengdu Federation of Students have also been greatly promoted, and Li Shuoxun is one of the central figures of the entire activity.
Driven by the Socialist Youth League, the Chengdu Federation of Students has organized two wide-ranging struggles, one is to launch a campaign for the independence of education funds; the other is to set off a wave of provincial middle schools and refuse to appoint new principals appointed by the authorities.
Regarding the first movement, the purpose was to oppose the Sichuan warlords' withholding of education funds, when Li Shuoxun and others led students to strike classes, take to the streets to give speeches, and denounced the shameless behavior of the warlords.
However, it was precisely because of this that the Sichuan warlord authorities decided to send another principal to the provincial no. 1 middle school to preside over the work, the purpose of which was to strictly discipline the students.
Li Shuoxun and other teachers and students of the provincial first middle school were naturally very clear about this arrangement of the warlord authorities, so they launched a campaign to refuse the arrival of the new principal, and many schools outside Chengdu also gave support to the provincial first middle school in different ways.
At that time, Li Shuoxun, as one of the organizers of the movement, decided to strike hard at the new principal's prestige but could not give the authorities a pretext, so he instructed the other students involved in the movement in advance:
The gentleman didn't move his hands, and he couldn't hit people with his hands, so we smashed the palanquin that the new principal was riding in, and let him know how powerful we were!
In this way, when the new principal came to the school gate in a majestic way, before he could react, the sedan was smashed to pieces by a crowd of students, and the new principal saw this situation, naturally frightened and fled.
Seeing that the matter of appointing the principal was stirred up by the students who "made trouble", the warlord authorities were naturally furious, so on November 1, 1922, the authorities brazenly ordered that Li Shuoxun and 6 other students, including Li Shuoxun, who took the lead, be wanted.
After the arrest warrant, Li Shuoxun naturally knew that Chengdu could not stay any longer, and after consulting with Yang Hansheng and others, Li Shuoxun and several others decided to go north to Beijing, the birthplace of the May Fourth Movement.
Li Shuoxun went to Beijing with great hope, but the Beijing at this time was no longer the Beijing of the May Fourth Movement.
At this time, Beijing was still the old root of the Beiyang warlords, the habits of the old warlords could be seen everywhere, and the new ideas were sinking day by day, but compared with this, it was the upsurge of the revolution in the south, so Li Shuoxun decided to leave Beijing and go to the south to find the truth of the revolution.
In the spring of 1924, Li Shuoxun left Beijing for Shanghai and was admitted to the Department of Sociology of Shanghai University, where he began to systematically study Marxist-Leninist theory.
In May, Li Shuoxun officially joined the Communist Party of China! This was the second turning point in his life.
Since then, he has officially thrown himself into the great revolutionary wave for national freedom and national sovereign independence, although he died without regret!
For Li Shuoxun, entering Shanghai University to study also brought him another wonderful life.
After Li Shuoxun entered Shanghai University, a girl of the same age as him was also admitted to the sociology department of the university the following year, and the girl named Zhao Juntao naturally became Li Shuoxun's sister.
Zhao Juntao is also from Sichuan, and the reason why she came to Shanghai University to study was influenced by her brother, one of the early founders of the Communist Party, the great proletarian revolutionary.
Zhao Shiyan
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Because of the influence of his brother, Zhao Juntao came into contact with Marxism very early, and entered Shanghai University to systematically study Marxism.
Figure 丨 Zhao Shiyan
Therefore, Li Shuoxun and Zhao Juntao have the same purpose and pursuit, and it is precisely because they have the same ideals that the two soon became acquainted, and in the short years of study at Shanghai University, the two went from acquaintance to acquaintance to love, which was a wonderful love journey, and it was also a confirmation that the two held each other hostage and encouraged each other for the common faith!
With his in-depth understanding of Marxism and his joining the Communist Party, Li Shuoxun participated in leading the student movement in Shanghai and even the whole country, and soon his talent was revealed and his reputation rose.
In 1925, when the May Thirtieth Movement broke out, Li Shuoxun, as a student leader, participated in the Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce, leading the city's strike, strike, and class strike, and he was later elected chairman of the Shanghai Anti-Imperialist Grand Alliance.
While participating in the movement, Li Shuoxun also actively wrote articles and published them in many newspapers and magazines, profoundly exposing and crusading against the crimes of imperialism and feudal warlords, and vigorously propagating anti-imperialist and anti-feudal ideas, which caused a wide impact in society.
In view of Li Shuoxun's outstanding performance in the May Thirtieth Movement, he was successively appointed by the organization to participate in the preparation and presidency of the Seventh and Eighth National Student Congresses, and was later elected president of the All-China Federation of Students and secretary of the Party Group.
With the constant change of identity, Li Shuoxun is well aware of the great responsibility he bears, and he once said:
Only the thorough and resolute overthrow of imperialism by revolutionary means is the only way out for us to survive in the dead, and I will make a lifelong struggle for this great mission!
Li Shuoxun deeply burned this sentence in his heart, and he was sure in his heart that he would practice it for the rest of his life, and the facts proved that he did.
In the process of fighting for the revolution, Li Shuoxun has gradually grown into a mature and excellent communist fighter, and fortunately, in the years of struggle that followed, Zhao Juntao was deeply infected by Li Shuoxun and stood firmly behind him, supporting his short life.
In 1926, Li Shuoxun and Zhao Juntao were happily married, there was no special bustle, and there was no blessing from too many people, and the two young people who had undergone the baptism of the revolutionary torrent thus became a pair of revolutionary partners, and from then on, whether in the huge waves of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of the Great Revolution, or in the difficult years full of turbulent waves during the period of the agrarian revolution; whether it was the underground battlefield fighting side by side, or the independent struggle on different fronts, they always had the same heart, life and death, not only for each other, but also for the party and the country. Wrote a magnificent chapter of life.
In October 1926, the newly married Li Shuoxun accepted the party's assignment to Wuhan to serve as the director of the organization department of the Wuchang Prefectural Committee and the secretary of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League.
This is the first position that Li Shuoxun has held after he left the campus, and it is also an opportunity to verify that he studied Marxism and summed up the work of the student movement for several years.
At that time, the two parties were still in the honeymoon period of cooperation, and Li Shuoxun's work was mainly to replenish the northern expedition and consolidate the achievements of the northern expedition.
In the winter of the same year, due to the needs of the Northern Expedition, Li Shuoxun was transferred to the director of the Political Department of the 25th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and since then he has worked day and night for the ideological organization construction of the Youth League, the political work in the ranks of the National Revolutionary Army, and the victory of the Northern Expedition.
At this time, Li Shuoxun was only 23 years old, and today, 23 years old is just the age of a person who has just graduated from college, but Li Shuoxun has long ended his student days and stepped into the torrent of revolution.
From that moment on, he is no longer a student, nor is he merely engaged in the student movement, but he will officially move to the forefront of the revolutionary armed struggle, facing the bullets fired by the enemy.
That bullet can shoot through a person, easily end a person's life, many people will be afraid of it, but Li Shuoxun did not have any hesitation, he took off his school uniform and changed into a military uniform, from a student to a soldier, he only took a day...
The 25th Division of the National Revolutionary Army was subordinate to Zhang Fakui's 4th Army, and its commander at the time was Li Hanling, a staunch anti-worker, but at that time, he could only obey the joint communist policy of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
Although Li Hanling was an anti-worker, the 25th Division was also a unit capable of fighting a hard battle, especially Li Shuoxun and a number of other Communists went deep into the unit, inspiring officers and men to fight heroically with advanced Marxism, and greatly improving the combat effectiveness of the unit.
At the beginning of 1927, the 25th Division left Henan, shangcai I Battle, Li Shuoxun and the officers and men of the 25th Division with inferior weapons to withstand the attack pressure of the Feng army, and finally successfully broke through the Feng army position, defeating the Feng army Fu Shuangying.
Through this Northern Expedition, Li Shuoxun showed extremely high military talent, and a military star was already rising, but unfortunately, a long-planned conspiracy completely shattered all hopes.
Shortly after the end of the Battle of Shangcai, Chiang Kai-shek completely tore off the face of peace and hypocrisy, fully exposed the face of betrayal of the revolution, and the "April 12 Incident" announced the beginning of the rupture of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
Faced with Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal and the frenzied counterattack of the rightist forces within the Kuomintang, the Communist Party of China decided to treat others in the same way as a human being, and held an armed uprising in Nanchang on August 1, thus firing the first shot of armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries.
At that time, the 25th Division went to Nanchang in advance according to the instructions of the party to assemble and participate in the uprising, although the division commander Li Hanling was an anti-worker, but at this time, the 25th Division had already become an armed force belonging to the party and the people under the influence of li shuoxun and other communists, so li Han soul was powerless to stop the 25th division going to Nanchang to participate in the uprising, and in desperation, he could only take the opportunity to leave the army, and the commander of the 25th division was also officially served by Zhou Shidi, and Li Shuoxun served as the party representative.
After the Nanchang Uprising, in order to preserve its strength, the rebel troops decided to go south, and the 25th Division withdrew from Nanchang on August 6 as a rearguard, along the way, the 25th Division was repeatedly counterattacked and besieged by the enemy, and the troops suffered heavy losses, and then had to switch to the Guangdong-Ganshan Mountains because of the loss of contact with the central government.
In the Guangdong-Ganshan District, the Party Branch of the 25th Division decided, after discussion, that Li Shuoxun should go to Shanghai to find the Central Committee.
In this way, Li Shuoxun came to Shanghai,
His work in the 25th Division was replaced by Chen Yi.
After coming to Shanghai, Li Shuoxun found the Party Central Committee, which was in the midst of a frenzied search by the Reactionaries of the Shanghai Kuomintang, and the situation was also very dangerous.
So in the more than three years since then, Li Shuoxun has successively participated in the party's underground work in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hong Kong and other places, and has been in danger many times without fear.
In 1928, Li Shuoxun successively served as secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, standing committee member, secretary of the Military Commission, acting secretary of the provincial party committee, and director of the organization department. In 1929, he became a member of the Military Commission of the Central Military Department. In 1930, the Central Committee established the Military Commission, and Li Shuoxun was elected as a member.
The change in this series of posts is the accumulation of experience in Li Shuoxun's revolutionary career and is also a great affirmation of his work by the central authorities, and no matter what position he holds, he puts the interests of the party and the people first, selflessly forgets himself, and has no complaints or regrets.
In May 1931, the central government decided to send Li Shuoxun to the Red Seventh Army as a political commissar, and in the early morning of the 24th, Li Shuoxun came to Hong Kong and immediately contacted the local party organization.
At that time, the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee was also in urgent need of cadres, especially veteran cadres like Li Shuoxun, who had experience in revolutionary struggle; therefore, after seeing Li Shuoxun's arrival, the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee immediately asked the Central Committee for instructions, hoping that Li Shuoxun would be able to stay in the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee to work.
In this way, after receiving a positive reply from the central authorities, Li Shuoxun stayed in the Guangdong Provincial Cpc Committee as the secretary of the Central Military Commission, and in order to facilitate his work, the central authorities also transferred his wife Zhao Juntao to work in Hong Kong, along with their 3-year-old son, Li Peng.
Pictured zhao juntao and teenager Li Peng
After Li Shuoxun became the secretary of the Military Commission of the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee, he immediately paid great attention to the armed struggle in the revolutionary base areas in Guangdong, believing that the armed struggle in the revolutionary base areas of Dongjiang, northern Guangdong, and Qiongya, Hainan, was very arduous, and in particular, the situation of the Qiongya guerrillas made Li Shuoxun even more concerned.
Therefore, Li Shuoxun decided to personally go to Hainan to guide the Qiongya guerrillas, which was originally resolutely opposed by the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, after all, the environment there is very dangerous, and as a foreigner who cannot speak the local dialect, Li Shuoxun must be full of dangers.
But Li Shuoxun insisted on going in person and eventually persuaded the Guangdong provincial party committee.
On August 11, Li Shuoxun arrived in Haikou by boat and stayed in a local hotel, and on the 13th, when he was preparing to go to a secret address to contact the local party organization, he was blocked by five agents.
In fact, secret agent interrogations were very common at that time, not That Li Shuoxun's identity was exposed, but the bad thing was that Li Shuoxun could neither speak Hainan nor Cantonese, and the secret agent who was headed at that time was called Yan Tengjiao, who was originally the secretary of the Haikou Municipal CPC Committee, and after being arrested, he defected and became the captain of the Kuomintang Qiongya Detective Team.
Therefore, although Yan Tengjiao did not know Li Shuoxun, in the face of an outsider who did not understand the local dialect, Yan Tengjiao's crazy counterattack on the communists' perverted psychology prompted him to detain Li Shuoxun involuntarily.
After Li Shuoxun was arrested, he was taken to the Haikou City Police Station, and at first Li Shuoxun insisted that his name was Li Tao, a foreigner who had come to Haikou to do business, and never participated in any partisan disputes, and the enemy could not find any flaws in him for a while, so he could only send him to prison under the stalemate.
At that time, dozens of underground party workers were held in prison, and they secretly formed party branches during their long-term detention, and it was not long before the party branch in the prison learned that Li Shuoxun was the new secretary of the military committee of the provincial party committee, and everyone was very worried about his safety and tried to take care of his weak body in a limited environment.
However, no matter how careful everyone was, Li Shuoxun's identity was eventually known to the enemy, who would escort Li Shuoxun to the police station every day for interrogation, first with good words and persuasion, and later with torture, but Li Shuoxun insisted from beginning to end that his name was Li Tao, just an ordinary Communist Party member, and the rest did not mention anything.
The reactionary lackeys were completely driven mad by Li Shuoxun's attitude, and they frantically tortured Li Shuoxun, and after a few days, Li Shuoxun was already dying.
The comrades of the prison party branch were both distressed and anxious, they wanted to help Li Shuoxun escape but were suffering from the inability to get in touch with the outside world, and when everyone was anxiously concerned about Li Shuoxun, Li Shuoxun instead comforted everyone with a seemingly relaxed smile, and he said to everyone:
I ask you to tell the party organization in the future, I can stand it
In addition to this, he comforted the comrades around him in the few lives he had:
If you want revolution, don't be afraid of hardships, don't be afraid of death, you must work hard, the darkness will pass, freedom will come!
Because the news of Li Shuoxun's arrest was strictly blocked by the enemy, when the Qiongya Special Committee and the Qiongshan County Party Committee received a secret letter from the prison party branch, it was too late to rescue them.
At the beginning of September, after seeing that Li Shuoxun had no possibility of surrendering, the enemy brazenly issued a secret order for a shot on the spot, and just the night before the execution, the enemy, out of anger, cruelly broke Li Shuoxun's legs!
On September 16, at the execution ground, Li Shuoxun calmly and fearlessly faced the impending bullets of the enemy, and he shouted:
Down with Chiang Kai-shek! Down with the Kuomintang reactionaries! Long live the Communist Party!
Then, Li Shuoxun was shot several times in his body, and he was heroic and righteous.
More than ten years later, when Li Shuoxun and countless other martyrs looked forward to the founding of New China, the people who witnessed that historical moment did not forget them.
Comrade Zhu De once wrote with a stroke of his pen:
Comrade Li Shuoxun was unyielding in the face of danger, calmly and righteously, a strong soldier of the people and an excellent party member of the party, and his exploits to the revolution will never be immortalized.
Mr. Wu Yuzhang, the guide of Li Shuoxun, also wrote a poem in memory of him:
Jincheng first met Andyinghua, and the aspiring boy loved the country. The Northern Expedition moved from the army to Wuhan, and the southern expedition turned to the Beiliusha. A few lines of ink are clear, and thousands of flowers are gushing with blood. Where to find the remains of Qiongzhou, I like to see the red sun shining on the end of the world.
Figure 丨 Zhao Juntao in his later years
Li Shuoxun sacrificed, but his unfinished ambition will surely be completed by more people, but for him, there are still many regrets, and he has not been able to see the arrival of new China, let alone the arrival of his daughter.
But it is gratifying that soon after, his daughter was born smoothly, a pair of sons and daughters have grown up after experiencing the baptism of war, and decades later, his son is also in a high position, bowing for the country, so it can be regarded as making up for his regrets in life!