Liu Hongxiong (1907~1940), Han nationality, formerly known as Liu Jun, was born in the 33rd year of Guangxu (1907) in a peasant family in Tengjiaying Village, Hohhot City.
In the 8th year of the Republic of China (1919), Liu Hongxiong was admitted to study at the No. 1 Higher Primary School (Bei Gao) in Sui City, at this time, when the "May Fourth" movement broke out. The news reached Guisui, and the fire of anti-imperialist and anti-feudal movement was also ignited in Guisui City. Liu Hongxiong actively participated in the patriotic struggle of the academic circles. He also led some students to advance the patriotic movement to the countryside.
After graduating from high school in the 13th year of the Republic of China (1924), he enrolled in the Shanxi Taiyuan National Normal School, which was entitled to official fee subsidies. Here, he was fortunate enough to meet Wang Ying, a Communist Party member and school teacher who was engaged in the student movement. Under the guidance of Wang Ying, Liu Hongxiong read revolutionary books and periodicals such as The Communist Manifesto and Guide, began to come into contact with Marxism-Leninism, and discussed the October Revolution in Russia and the Chinese Revolution with progressive classmates.
In the 13th year of the Republic of China (1924) ~ the 15th year of the Republic of China (1926), during the two years of studying at the Taiyuan National Normal School, he received help and training from the underground organization of the Communist Party of China and actively participated in various social and political struggles. Not only did he hate the dark and decadent social reality even more, but his belief in fighting for the complete liberation of the Chinese nation became clearer and firmer. Introduced by Wang Ying, he joined the Communist Party of China.
In the spring of the 21st year of the Republic of China (1932), Liu Hongxiong went to a division of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army as the commander of the communications brigade, and later as the head of the detachment. In the spring of 1933, during a battle, he was wounded in the leg in order to cover his comrades, and the organization decided to let him return to his hometown for treatment.
In the summer of the 22nd year of the Republic of China (1933), Liu Hongxiong recovered from his leg injury, so he went to Zhangjiakou to join the Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Alliance under the leadership of Feng Yuxiang in accordance with the organizational arrangement, and served as the regiment commander. He followed General Ji Hongchang, the former commander-in-chief of the Northern Road of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and transferred to the Chahar steppe with the belief of "fighting for the survival of the nation and fighting according to the demands of the people", and successively participated in the battles to recover Kangbao, Baochang, Guyuan, and Duolun. In the fierce battle of five days and nights to conquer Duolun, he was a pioneer, wounded and could not get out of the line of fire, and led the whole regiment of soldiers to fight bravely, and was commended by General Ji Hongchang.
In the winter of the 22nd year of the Republic of China (1933), he was transferred back to his hometown, the suburbs of Suicheng, to carry out revolutionary activities.
Not long after returning to his hometown, Liu Hongxiong was hired by Mr. Li Zhifang, the principal of Mingyan Primary School, to serve as a teacher at the school, and together with Yang Zhilin, Wang Jiangong, Wang Yingjie, and other CPC members who taught at the school, he actively carried out anti-Japanese propaganda and sowed the seeds of revolution among the teachers and students. Under their inspiration and education, many young people embarked on the road of revolution.
In the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), after the outbreak of the "July 7" incident, Japanese imperialism began a war of aggression against China on a large scale. In October, Guisui and Baotou fell one after another. Liu Hongxiong, Yang Zhilin, and other Communist Party members could not bear the loss of the country and the peril of the nation, and rose up to carry out armed resistance against Japan. Based on Mingyan Primary School (now Baohe Shao Primary School in Xincheng District), they established the Suimeng People's Anti-Japanese Pioneer Team to carry out armed anti-Japanese resistance.
In order to continue the armed anti-Japanese struggle, they looked forward to the leadership and support of the Party Central Committee. Therefore, he sent Liu Hongxiong to disguise himself as a peasant and personally go to the 1st and 2nd O Division of the Eighth Route Army in northwestern Jin to find Division Commander He Long and Guan Xiangying's political commissar to report and ask for instructions on the situation of the anti-Japanese armed forces in the Suimeng region. In the autumn of the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the "Daqingshan Detachment" composed of Liu Hongxiong as a guide and the 715th Regiment of the 12th O Division advanced towards Daqingshan. Along the way, he broke through many blockades and met with the "Suimeng People's Anti-Japanese Road Pioneer" at the village of Mian Pu Yao at the eastern end of Daqing Mountain.
In order to ensure the military supply of the Daqingshan Detachment and other anti-Japanese armed forces, in order to grasp the situation inside the Japanese and pseudo-camps in a timely manner, and in order to closely link the anti-Japanese armed guerrilla zone in Daqingshan with the underground work of the Communist Party of China in Tumochuan and Guisuicheng, in the spring of the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), under the instructions of the Suiyuan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Liu Hongxiong, Ning Deqing, Hao Denghong, Peng Guanghua and others secretly entered Guisuicheng and established an underground anti-Japanese organization "Suimeng Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress from All Walks of Life" (abbreviated) with Jia Gong and Zhang Zhimin Resistance and Salvation Society"), using the pseudo-Mongolian Frontier Dao Church that was then owned by the Suicai Temple as a base for the secret activities of the National Salvation Congress. In order to facilitate the work, Wang Xinzhen, an old Dao member of the Tao Church, served as the president of the Tao Church, and Liu Hongxiong served as the director of the Tao Church. The Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress from all walks of life in Suimeng actively carried out various work under the cover of the Taoist Church.
At the beginning of the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), the CPC Guisui Underground Work Committee was established, with Ning Deqing as the secretary of the work committee and Liu Hongxiong as the organization minister. After the establishment of the Working Committee, they attached great importance to cultivating and developing Communist Party members among the members of the Anti-Rescue Association, and successively recruited Zhou Fuli and He Shusheng to join the Communist Party of China.
In the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939) ~ the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), a group of revolutionary youths such as Liu Bi, Zhang Chungong, Zhou Fuli, He Shusheng, Ren Xishun, Bu Bin, Wang Xianmin, Dong Meimei and Zhang Dekui were sent to Yan'an to study or work.
The development and growth of the ranks of the Anti-Salvation Association, their activities and struggles, made the Japanese puppet ruling forces tremble and panic. The Japanese garrison and its secret services sensed that "there was a huge Communist organization carrying out underground activities" in Suicheng, seriously threatening their fascist rule. Therefore, they sent a large number of police gendarmes and special agents and traitors to search and arrest people everywhere. In five or six days, more than 30 teachers and students were arrested. At the same time, they also poisoned the parents of the students who rushed to Yan'an.
In the face of the enemy's mass arrest and massacre, Liu Hongxiong immediately studied countermeasures with Ning Deqing, Zhang Kemin, Jia Gong, Peng Guanghua, Zhang Xu and others, and decided that Zhang Xu and others quickly withdrew from the contact point of Sanguanmiao Street, returned to the suburbs and rural areas, and notified other underground party members and members of the Anti-Rescue Association to hide (this part of the revolutionary forces was not destroyed later); Ning Deqing immediately went out of the city to report to the base of Daqing Mountain, and Zhang Kemin and others informed patriots in the business community to be vigilant in case of accidents; Jia Gong and others were responsible for informing Yue Pu, Liang Furun, and others to quickly transfer. The enemy hunted people inside the city, and Liu Hongxiong sent people outside the city, and he was busy for 3 days and 3 nights. On the evening of July 17, Liu Hongxiong personally sent Ning Deqing and Zhang Xu out of the city. At this extremely dangerous moment, he still considered the safety of others, took off his clothes to change into Ning Deqing, and repeatedly told Zhang Xu and others to preserve the party organization in Nanpingchuan. After sending off the last group of comrades-in-arms, he immediately thought that party secrets could not fall into the hands of the enemy. But how did he know that due to Liu Wei's betrayal, the materials hidden in the Taoist Church had long been searched by the enemy, and the enemy had already arranged a large number of spies around the Taoist Church to monitor him, and the devil's claws were reaching out to him. On the morning of July 20, Liu Hongxiong was arrested by the enemy.
After Liu Hongxiong was arrested, he was imprisoned in the Japanese gendarmerie on Dongshuncheng Street. The enemy took turns interrogating him and exhausted all kinds of torture, but he could not reveal the slightest information. In less than half a month, his head was broken, his waist was discounted, his legs were broken, and his fingers were burned by electrocution. The enemy's countless temptations, coercion, and torture have never been able to extract the slightest bit of truth from the mouth of this communist. On August 1, the enemy dragged Liu Hongxiong from his prison to the interrogation room, strangled his neck with hemp rope, and several spies and thugs held wooden sticks in a fierce blow, and Liu Hongxiong fell in a pool of blood. He was 33 years old.
Information extracted from: "Hohhot New Town Chronicle", March 2006
