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On October 10, 1911, in Wuchang City, after the anti-Qing righteous soldier Yang Hongsheng was captured by the Qing soldiers, he left a rare shot, in front of the camera, the 36-year-old anti-Qing warrior was covered in blood, was tied with his hands behind his back, and wore heavy iron ropes on his feet.
Yang Hongsheng is a modern democratic revolutionary, and he and Peng Chufan and Liu Fuji, two revolutionaries who died heroically in Wuchang, are called the "Three Martyrs of the First Righteousness" in Wuchang.
Yang Hongsheng was born into a poor farming family in Gejiayingzi, Gucheng, Hubei Province, and his father, Yang Dapeng, hated the decadent and incompetent late Qing government, so he joined the revolutionary organization and actively participated in anti-Qing activities.
However, what is sad is that in 1883, Yang Hongsheng's father, Yang Dapeng, was captured by Qing soldiers and brutally killed in Xushan when he participated in an anti-Qing activity.
After Yang Dapeng was killed by the Qing soldiers, Yang Hongsheng and his grandfather, mother, and sister depended on each other for their lives, and lived in the Gejia camp in Gucheng with difficulty. The sudden death of his mother forced Yang Hongsheng, who was only 9 years old at the time, to learn to take care of himself, his sister and grandfather.
At the same time, Yang Hongsheng's grandfather wanted his son to take revenge, so he joined the anti-Qing organization and built weapons for the anti-Qing organization, but sadly, Yang Hongsheng's grandfather was also captured by the Qing soldiers and killed in prison soon after.
His father and grandfather were killed by Qing soldiers one after another, which made Yang Hongsheng more and more hateful to the late Qing government, and made an oath to avenge his father and grandfather.
A few years later, Yang Hongsheng, who grew up, joined the anti-Qing organization, the Zhenwu Society, and became the core personnel of the anti-Qing organization, and under the organization's arrangement, he entered the new army of the Qing court and became an officer of the new army.
In October 1911, on the eve of the Wuhan Uprising, the revolutionaries set up a temporary general headquarters and made Yang Hongsheng, who had already joined the New Army, serve as a traffic officer to secretly transport bombs, guns and other arms and weapons to the soldiers and revolutionaries of the New Army.
On October 9, 1911, Yang Hongsheng according to the prior plan, a batch of bombs were successfully transported to the engineering battalion of the New Army, ready to be distributed to the soldiers of the New Army and revolutionaries of the uprising, but at the critical juncture, he was discovered by the Qing soldiers guarding and was ready to interrogate him.
In the Huguang Governor's Mansion, Tie Zhong, the superintendent of the Supervision and Training Office, and Shuangshou, the prefect of Wuchang, interrogated Yang Hongsheng and asked him if he still had party members, and as long as he confessed, he would be treated leniently. Kill, kill. Except for you, the Manchu slaves, they are all revolutionaries. ”
Yang Hongsheng's words made Tie Zhong, the superintendent of the Supervision and Training Office, look at it and be angry, even if he called the Qing soldiers to torture Yang Hongsheng, intending to make Yang Hongsheng beg for mercy and give in.
However, what Tie Zhong, the supervisor of the Supervision and Training Department, never expected was that even though Yang Hongsheng was beaten and his body was scarred, he still did not give in and compromise, and did not confess to Tie Zhong, the supervisor of the Supervision and Training Department.
Tie Zhong, the superintendent of the Supervision and Training Department, was furious about this, and even if he ordered Yang Hongsheng to be beheaded for public display, and in the face of the imminent death, Yang Hongsheng did not have the slightest fear and fear, but chose to be generous and determined to die calmly.
Subsequently, Yang Hongsheng was beheaded in front of the Huguang Governor's Palace, after the anti-Qing righteous Yang Hongsheng bravely took office, the anger in the hearts of countless revolutionaries could no longer be suppressed, on the same day, the revolutionaries launched the Wuchang Uprising, which gradually brought the Qing Dynasty to its demise and sounded the clarion call of China's democratic revolution.
After the victory of the Wuchang Uprising, the revolutionaries found the body of Yang Hongsheng, an anti-Qing righteous soldier, and put his body in a coffin, and then held a public memorial ceremony for him and two other heroic revolutionaries, Peng Chufan and Liu Fuji.
Subsequently, the coffin of the anti-Qing righteous man Yang Hongsheng took the waterway and was escorted back to his hometown of Gucheng County, Hubei Province under the escort of four gunboats.
After the coffin of the anti-Qing righteous man Yang Hongsheng was transported to Yang Hongsheng's hometown of Gucheng County under the escort of four gunboats, the local public sacrifice was carried out for the anti-Qing righteous man, and after the public memorial ceremony, his coffin was buried on the Gaoning Mountain on the west bank of the Han River about 3.5 kilometers southeast of Gucheng County, so that the anti-Qing righteous soldier Yang Hongsheng returned to his roots and his soul returned to his hometown.
On the day of the burial, Sun Yat-sen, Li Yuanhong and others sent couplets one after another to bid farewell to this generous and ambitious anti-Qing fighter who calmly went to death.
Subsequently, in order to commemorate this fighter who sacrificed his precious life for the cause of the Chinese revolution, the local government not only renamed the road in Yang Hongsheng's hometown as "Hongsheng Road", but also renamed his village primary school as Hongsheng Primary School, so that future generations will always remember this man of China's modern democratic revolution.
Looking back on the long journey of the Xinhai Revolution, many revolutionary aspirants like Yang Hongsheng emerged, who were not afraid of sacrifice for the sake of China's revolutionary cause and for the overthrow of the decadent rule of the late Qing government, and these enthusiastic and upright Chinese sons and daughters, regardless of their personal life and death, threw themselves into the flames of revolutionary struggle without hesitation.