Li Qingyun (1903-1934) was a native of Jiazhuang Village, Cheng'an County, Hebei Province. He studied in a private school and was admitted to the prefectural high school in 1916. In 1920, he was admitted to the Wuhan Military Academy and stayed on to teach after graduation. The Northern Expeditionary Army conquered Wuhan and supported the Northern Expedition. In 1928, he served as a captain and staff officer of the 23rd Army of the Northwest Army of Feng Yuxiang, and became acquainted with Zhao Bosheng, chief of staff of the army. After the defeat of the Central Plains War, he served as a staff major at the 73rd Brigade Headquarters of the 26th Route Army. In February 1931, dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary policy of "settling the outside world before securing the interior", he joined the Communist Party of China through the introduction of Liu Zhenya, a captain and staff officer of the 73rd Brigade. Later, he served as the commander of the Cadet Company of the 73rd Brigade and the secretary of the Soldier Branch of the Special Branch of the Communist Party of China of the 26th Route Army, and successively developed 9 party members, becoming the backbone of our party in the army, and participating in a series of work in planning the Ningdu Uprising. After the success of the uprising, he served as the commander of the 129th Regiment of the 43rd Division of the 15th Army of the Fifth Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In late February 1932, he led his troops to participate in the battle of Ganzhou, and was later promoted to the commander of the Red 43rd Division for his military exploits. In July, he defeated the Chen Jitang division of the Cantonese army at Shuikou, and was rewarded by a congratulatory telegram from the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet, and was later promoted to the commander of the 15th Red Army for his outstanding military achievements. In the summer of 1934, he was ill and commanded the troops to fight, and died of illness near Tengtian, Yongfeng County, Jiangxi Province, at the age of 31.
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Seek to study the country
There are four Qingyun brothers and sisters, ranking the eldest. His father, Li Fengchang, was illiterate and engaged in farming. The mother, Wu, is a kind housewife.
Qingyun's maternal grandfather Wu Qixiang (a native of Yangzhuang, Cheng'an) was a talented man in the former Qing Dynasty, quite open-minded, and when Qingyun was young, he studied in a private school with him (later rebuilt into a junior primary school). Qingyun is talented and intelligent, but he doesn't know how to work hard when he first learns, and he often plays on the way to school and is late, so he is nicknamed "Pulling the Road God". In order to make him a useful talent, his grandfather told him many times that "if the young man does not work hard, the old man will be sad". Enlighten him with the example of the ancients who studied their own. And let him live with him, and he would rise at dawn, and when he had finished washing, he urged him to study. At that time, China was in the period of the Xinhai Revolution, the political situation was turbulent, and the future was unpredictable, and the patriotic Mr. Wu often told him the stories of historical national heroes such as Yue Fei and Wen Tianxiang. Encourage his grandson to contribute to the country when he grows up. Under the strict discipline and influence of Mr. Wu, Qingyun gradually developed the habit of being diligent and studious, and he was determined to learn his skills well and serve the country in the future.
In 1916, Qingyun graduated from elementary school, and his father wanted him to return home to work as a farmer to be his helper. Qingyun enlisted the support of his maternal grandfather and persuaded his father. He was admitted to the county national high school. The first time he left home, leaving relatives and friends, but he had the ambition of studying the country, he was strict with himself, studied hard, and cherished time like gold. Qingyun studied his knowledge without sleeping or eating, and often had to be urged by the principal and teacher many times before going to bed at night. Because of his hard work, he always ranks among the top five in the winter and summer exams every year. At the end of the year, you will get full marks for each appraisal of conduct. However, Qingyun does not "bury his head in the window", he cares about current affairs and political struggles inside and outside the school. In 1918, the reactionary gentry in the county town forced the former principal, who was more rigorous in his studies, to resign. With a big smoker surnamed Cheng as the principal, Qingyun and his classmates smashed his smoking utensils, held a class strike, and received a workout.
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Abandon literature and follow the military
Qingyun studied at the county high school for two years, and after graduating, he went to work as a teacher at Fancho Elementary School in 1920. At this time, it was the Beiyang warlords who were in power, succumbing to the pressure of imperialism externally, losing power and humiliating the country, oppressing the people internally, and trying their best to extract the blood and sweat of the working people. At that time, there was a great drought in the Cheng'an area, and many poor people were chased away from their hometowns and fled to ask for food. Facing the darkness of society, Qingyun was very depressed in his heart. He had no intention of teaching, hoping to find a way out to save the people from fire and water.
In the autumn of 1920, a relative in Wuhan returned to visit him. After talking, Qingyun learned that there was a military school in Wuhan. From the harsh reality of warlord rule, Qingyun gradually saw the power of the gun, and realized that to change the fate of China, it was impossible to do without a gun in his hand. Therefore, he resolutely followed this relative and ran away, and was admitted to the Wuhan Military Academy as he wished. He studied diligently, worked hard to master various military knowledge, and achieved excellent results, so he stayed on to teach after graduation.
In July 1926, the Guangdong Nationalist Government, under the impetus and organization of the Communist Party of China, began the vigorous Northern Expedition Revolutionary War. In January 1927, when the Northern Expeditionary Army conquered Wuhan, Qingyun was deeply excited, and he wholeheartedly supported Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Doctrine and the Northern Expedition, hoping that the revolutionary army would quickly advance north and eliminate all the reactionary warlords. However, on 12 April, Chiang Kai-shek, a lone thief hidden in the ranks of the revolution, staged a counter-revolutionary armed coup d'état in Shanghai that shocked China and the rest of the world. On 15 July, Wang Ching-wei, chairman of the Kuomintang government in Wuhan, tore off the camouflage of the "leftist" faction, betrayed the revolution, and wantonly arrested and massacred communists and progressives from all walks of life. Qingyun, as an activist who wholeheartedly supported the Northern Expedition, was also arrested. In the midst of the crisis, he changed into the clothes of ordinary people, ventured out of the city, and traveled a long way back home.
Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei and others ruined the revolution and threw the Chinese people back into misery. Qingyun was very sad and indignant about this. When I returned to Jiazhuang, I saw that the people in my hometown were even poorer than in the past due to drought, military disasters, and various harsh taxes imposed by the reactionary government. Even a relatively wealthy family like himself could not make ends meet at this time, and his father had to go to Handan, dozens of miles away, to traffic sorghum and earn a liter and a half of a bucket to solve the crisis. Qingyun was sullen and had nothing to do. When there is nothing to do at night, he often blows the flute at the head of the village alone.
In 1928, Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army passed through Jiazhuang. There was an officer inside who was an acquaintance of Qingyun. Qingyun had already learned that when the Guangdong National Revolutionary Army went out of the Northern Expedition, Feng Yuxiang also led his troops to swear in response to the Northern Expedition, and was a famous patriotic general, so Qingyun held on to hope, left his hometown with this army, and soon opened Shaanxi.
Photo: Martyr Li Qingyun's death address - Fujita, Yongfeng County, Jiangxi Province (Bai Yugao)
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Benefit "Acquaintance"
Qingyun joined the Northwest Army and served as a captain and staff officer in the military headquarters of the 23rd Army. Here, Qingyun got acquainted with Zhao Bosheng, the chief of staff of the army. Zhao Bosheng, who graduated from the Baoding Army Military Academy in 1917, had the ambition of saving the country and the people, and never had the heart of being promoted to become rich. Zhao and Li have similar personalities, and both are known for their composure and retination. They have roughly the same views on the current situation and life, so they are familiar at first sight, and they hate to know each other late. Bosheng regards Qingyun as a confidant, and Qingyun regards him as a confidant.
Qingyun's articles and fonts are well written, so he is responsible for all the engraving and mimeographing matters of the military department. This kind of thing is tiring and dirty, but Qingyun is immersed in work and never complains. Because of his courage and ability to endure hardships, he was soon promoted from a captain to a major staff officer.
In 193O, Zhao Bosheng was transferred to the 14th Army as chief of staff and commander of the special forces brigade. In fact, the brigade was in the preparatory stage, and it belonged to a teaching regiment of more than 500 people, so Zhao took this opportunity to try to transfer Qingyun to serve as the deputy commander of the special forces brigade headquarters to assist him in the training of the training regiment. Qingyun knew Zhao Bosheng's intentions very well, and together with Bosheng, he actively instilled the idea of saving the country and the people in the teaching group. In order to express his revolutionary ambitions and ideals, Zhao Bosheng personally compiled a "Song of the Revolutionary Spirit": "Pioneer, vanguard! The martyrs sacrificed for equality and served as the savior of human liberation. Listen to the universe full of hunger and cold, and wake up the vanguard! I die for the country, and I die for glory. Although the body is dead, the spirit is immortal. Benevolence, success; Achieve great harmony. Qingyun liked this war song full of revolutionary passion very much, helped Zhao Bosheng to consider the words, led the students to actively learn to sing, and inspired everyone to fight for equality and fight for the relief of the hungry and cold people.
On the training ground, Qingyun made strict demands on difficulties, personally demonstrated, set an example in everything, and proceeded from actual combat. Once, he led the trainees to fight in the wilderness, wading barefoot through a river, opposite a hill, the mountain was overgrown with thorns, and the slope was full of thistles, and the top of the hill was the position of the hypothetical enemy. Shouted: "Rush!" Seeing this scene, the morale of the cadets was immediately boosted, and they rushed to occupy the "enemy fortifications" in one fell swoop, planting the banner of victory on the peak. Zhao Bosheng witnessed this scene, talked about it with Comrade Sun Yi, and praised Qingyun as "not simple".
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Namsan raised
In 193O, Feng Yuxiang united with Yan Xishan in Shanxi and the warlords of the Gui clan to launch an anti-Chiang war. From April until September, when the Feng warlords in the northeast sent a telegram in support of Chiang, entered the customs in a big way, and suddenly copied the back road of the anti-Chiang coalition army, and Yan Xishan retreated back to Shanxi. The Gui army, which had invaded Hunan, retreated to Guangxi. Chiang Kai-shek bribed Feng Yuxiang's senior generals with a lot of money, causing Feng's 260,000 soldiers to collapse, and Feng Yuxiang was forced to go into the wilderness. In October, Chiang's troops came to the city of Xi'an, and Chen Yuyao, the commander of the 14th Army of Feng's Department who stayed in Xi'an, was the commander of the army to protect his life, disarmed and surrendered, and accepted the reorganization of Chiang Kai-shek. Faced with this situation, Qingyun's heart fluctuated and he couldn't sleep all night. How could he forget that in 1927, it was Chiang Kai-shek who launched the "12 April" coup d'état and ruined the Northern Expedition revolution; how could he forget how many innocent people were ravaged by this Chiang Kai-shek in a great melee in the Central Plains. The old hatred was not avenged, and a new hatred was added, and his mood was difficult to calm down, so he found Zhao Bosheng, contrary to the usual habit of being steady and silent, and expressed his opinions impassionedly, saying that he would rather die than be Chiang Kai-shek's "pawn". Hearing Qingyun's words, Bo Sheng's face suddenly turned happy, it turned out that this was also his idea!
After meticulous analysis and discussion, Zhao Bosheng, Li Qingyun, Sun Yi, Guo Ruyue, and other trusted confidant friends, unanimously agreed: As a result of the education in peacetime, most of the trainees of the teaching corps have a preliminary revolutionary consciousness and patriotic enthusiasm; then, can this unit be pulled out, shaken off the control of the warlords, gradually develop and grow, and build an army that can truly serve the country and the people independently......
At this time, Chen Yuyao, who was appointed as the "commander of Weibei Zhaofu", learned of this situation and took the opportunity to send Zhan Shize, an instructor of the former teaching regiment, to Dongjiangkou to persuade Zhao Bosheng to return to Xi'an to accept the reorganization. In desperation, in order to avoid the danger of annihilation, the National Salvation Army had no choice but to return to Xi'an, and more than 500 people were dispersed. Qingyun and Guo Ruyue were assigned to the headquarters of the 173rd Brigade of the 58th Division as staff officers.
Because there was no leader of the advanced political party and did not know how to do mass work, the uprising failed, the cause was not successful, and there was no way to serve the country. Qingyun and Bosheng were in a depressed mood, and they were unwilling to stop there, but what should they do in the future? Qingyun felt hesitant. But there is one thing he knows deeply: "To make a revolution, you must have strength." Zhao Bosheng deeply agreed with this, and he analyzed that Sun Lianzhong, the commander-in-chief of the 26th Route Army stationed in Jining and Jiaxiang in Shandong, was originally a close subordinate of Feng Yuxiang. After Feng's defeat, Sun accepted Chiang Kai-shek's adaptation. But if Feng Yuxiang makes a comeback, Sun Lianzhong is still Feng's person, based on this understanding, Zhao Bosheng suggested that Qingyun and Guo Ruyue temporarily go to Sun Bu in Shandong, go to Dong Zhentang of the 73rd Brigade, wait for the opportunity, and find another way. He himself was going to go around somewhere else, take a look, and make a decision. And so it was settled.
Li Qingyun personally wrote about the Ningdu uprising
Inscription by State Councilor of the People's Republic of China Ji Pengfei
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It is advisable for Huang to join the party
Qingyun traveled from Shaanxi to Shandong, passing through his hometown, where he stayed for a few days. At that time, it was the end of the old calendar, and seeing that the Spring Festival was approaching, the elderly parents, the wife who had been absent for a long time, and the young son who had become dumb and dumb, how much they hoped that Qingyun could spend a reunion at home! Why didn't Qingyun want to stay? However, he weighed left and right, and thought that military and political affairs should still be given priority, and that it was necessary to find Brigade Commander Dong Zhentang in Shandong as soon as possible. So he patiently persuaded his parents, said goodbye to his wife, and embarked on the journey to the east.
Qingyun arrived in Jiaxiang County, where the 73rd Brigade was stationed, and Dong Zhentang happily received him. Dong Zhentang, who graduated from the Baoding Army Military Academy in 1923, had a classmate and friendship with Zhao Bosheng, and was also an upright patriotic soldier. He arranged Qingyun at the brigade headquarters and still served as a major staff officer. Guo Ruyue, who arrived early, is still serving as a captain's staff officer. Soon, Zhao Bosheng was also invited by Sun Lianzhong to come to the 26th Route Army as chief of general staff.
The 26th Strategic Army was a unit reorganized by Chiang Kai-shek after Feng Yuxiang's defeat, and most of the officers and soldiers were northerners. Chiang Kai-shek was very uneasy about this force, fearing that it would be difficult for them to manage it if they remained in the north, so in February 1931, he ordered the 26th Route Army to march to Jiangxi to "suppress the Communists" in an attempt to achieve the goal of eliminating dissidents and eliminating the Red Army. This incident is undoubtedly another bolt from the blue sky for Qingyun. At that time, he was not very clear about the purpose of the Communist Party and the nature of the Communist Party, but he knew that the Communist Party was the backbone of the Northern Expedition and a resolutely revolutionary party. He thought that when he came to the 26th Route Army, he was looking for an opportunity to serve the country, but now he was going to fight the Communist Party. No, but what should he do? He pondered for a long time whether he could find the Communist Party and make a revolution with them? Yes, he went to the front line in Jiangxi and went to find the Communist Party! It was with such complicated feelings. Qingyun set off with the team.
They arrived in Nanchang by train, and from Nanchang to walking. On the way, Qingyun met Wang Jitan (now known as Wang Youping), a student of the 73rd Brigade Cadet Company. Wang was burned by the kitchen and fell behind the team. During the conversation, it was learned that Wang was a native of Jinan, Shandong, who was expelled from school for participating in the student uprising, and wandered to Tianjin to become a student soldier. This attracted Qingyun's attention, and he asked: "Is there a Communist Party in your school?" Wang replied: "Several of my classmates are Communist Party members. Qingyun was secretly happy in his heart, and hurriedly asked tentatively: "Can those classmates still be found?" Wang shook his head and said, "Since the dispersion, the sky has been separated, and it can no longer be found." From here, it can be seen how urgent Qingyun's mood to find the party is.
In late March 1931, Qingyun's 25th Division went to Yihuang, Jiangxi, which was already close to the frontier of the Central Soviet Region. I saw slogans and slogans written by the Red Army guerrillas on the walls everywhere, especially on the high hillsides, and a line of large characters was prominently and conspicuously engraved: Brothers of the White Army, what have you gained in fighting hard in Shandong and Henan for half a year? Why did you come to work as a farmer again? Qingyun was shocked when he saw this, and he hoped even more that he could find the Communist Party. But things were not so easy, and although the 26th Route Army was harassed and attacked by the guerrillas and was exhausted, it did not even see the shadow of the Red Army. How can people and the earth get in touch with the Communist Party? Qingyun secretly talked to Zhao Bosheng about his thoughts, and the two coincided again. Bosheng could not help but recall the work of Liu Bojian, a member of the Communist Party, and others in the Northwest Army during the Great Revolution, when the political atmosphere of the whole army was strong, the patriotic enthusiasm of officers and men was high, military discipline was strict, and morale was greatly boosted. Zhao Bosheng said that if he could find Minister Liu (referring to Liu Bojian), he would be able to get in touch with the Communist Party, and the Communist Party's CCP organ was in Shanghai. Qingyun fully agreed, so he took personal leave and came to the bustling Shanghai. However, at that time, the party was in top secret, and although it was running in many directions, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, where to find it? Qingyun returned in vain, and only bought back two political books (Plekhanov's "On the Materialist View of History" and Bukharin's "Political Economy and Historical Materialism") and circulated them secretly with his close friends.
At the same time, the underground party members of the 26th Route Army were also actively looking for the party's higher organization. Liu Zhenya, a captain and staff officer of the 73rd Brigade, was one of the few Communist Party members who had lurked after the defeat of the Great Revolution. After he got in touch with party member Yuan Hancheng (now known as Yuan Xueshu), he and Yuan went to Kaifeng to find the Henan Provincial Organization, and through the Henan Provincial Party Organization, Yuan went to Shanghai to get in touch with the Central Committee. He participated in the military movement training class presided over by Comrade Zhu Rui, responsible person of the Military Transport Section of the Central Military Commission. In late May, Yuan Hancheng returned to Yihuang with Commissioner Wang Chao and others and conveyed to Liu Zhenya the instructions of the Central Committee on actively carrying out military transportation work in the 26th Route Army and winning the army to come to the revolutionary front. At this time, it coincided with the defeat of the 26th Route Army's Gao Shuxun Division in Nakamura, and the annoying rainy season in the south, and the morale of the officers and men was low. In view of this situation, they decided to immediately launch activities, grasp the contradictions, make use of the connections, carry out political disintegration, and try their best to win over the anti-Chiang and tendentious revolutions to the Communist Party, and mature and develop one by one.
Liu Zhenya and Li Qingyun served as staff officers of the 73 rd Brigade Headquarters, and in just a few months of contact, he greatly admired Qingyun's ability and personality, and he learned in detail about Qingyun's history and ideological situation, and knew that Qingyun urgently demanded progress. He told Qingyun about the nature, tasks, and goals of struggle of the Communist Party, and the difference between communism and the Three People's Principles. He already had a certain premonition from Liu Zhenya's several conversations with him, that his long-awaited wish was about to come true, that the groping of the vast dark night was coming to an end, and that the bright future of helping to save the people under the correct leadership of the party was just around the corner. "To be a member of the Communist Party is to risk killing one's head!" Liu Zhenya said solemnly. "Staff Officer Liu", Qingyun held Liu Zhenya's hands and said passionately: "In order to save the country and save the people, I, Li Qingyun, have long put life and death aside, and in order to find the party, I have run to many places and searched for a long time. Now I finally found it, I didn't say anything, and after that, Qingyun's more than 100 catties will be handed over to the party. ”
Qingyun finally became a glorious member of the Communist Party of China and fulfilled his long-cherished wish. He was determined to devote everything he had, down to his precious life, to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people. Considering the complicated and difficult circumstances at that time, any situation, including bloodshed, and sacrifice could happen at any time, so in the summer of that year he sent a letter to his uncle (who relayed it), mailing the 150 yuan he had saved up in his usual life. The letter revealed that this may be the last letter, and that he asked his uncle to take care of the money, and if his father runs out of land because he smokes a lot, the money will be used as his mother's pension; if he still has land, this money will be used as his son's child support, and he earnestly hopes that his father will get rid of the bad habit of smoking big cigarettes in recent years and live a good life on the land, and he also expressed infinite affection for his mother, wife, and son......
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Rather than the backbone of the violence
After Qingyun joined the party, he actively worked for the party, and under the instructions of Liu Zhenya, he also began to develop party members. That time Qingyun and Wang Jitan met, although they did not get the party's clues, but they got to know each other and became good friends who often came and went, and then Qingyun contacted Wang Jitan many times, talking about the darkness of society and the suffering of the people, and often consciously turned to the topic of the Communist Party, so that Wang Jitan unconsciously had a deep understanding of the Communist Party, at this time, he felt very sorry that he could not find those party members and classmates. Qingyun seized the heat and said, "I am a member of the Communist Party, are you willing to join?" Wang Jitan naturally couldn't ask for it.
Wang Jitan joined the party, which was the first soldier party member developed after the resumption of the activities of the underground party of the 26th Route Army, which laid a good foundation for the development of the party's organization among the soldiers. Qingyun contacted Wang Jidan many times, planned the direction of the party's work in the future, and instructed Wang Jitan to carry out the secret party building work in the cadet company as soon as possible, and actively recruit party members, but in the initial stage, it was necessary to carry out individual activities and lead a single line...... He stressed the importance of the work of the cadet company, and he also said that he also intends to take up a position that can be close to the cadet company.
In July 1931, Chiang Kai-shek began to launch the third "encirclement and suppression" against the central Soviet region, ordering the 26th Route Army to be stationed in Ningdu, where Qingyun introduced his old comrade-in-arms Guo Ruyue to the party.
At that time, Ningdu was a Soviet area of the Red Army one or twenty miles away from the county seat, and the 26th Route Army relied on only one regiment to maintain a narrow line of communication through Guangchang and Yihuang, and was often harassed and intercepted by the communist guerrillas, which was very uneasy. The officers and men of the 26th Route were originally unaccustomed to the environment in the south. Now they are alone, the soldiers are not paid, the water and soil are not adapted, the disease is epidemic, and there are deaths every day. In less than three months after entering Ningning, two or three thousand new graves were added around the city. As a result, officers and men are war-weary, homesick, and their hearts are fluctuating. In mid-September, the third "encirclement and suppression" was completely smashed by the Red Army. Although the 26th Route Army was not hit, Chiang Kai-shek ordered all the other Route Armies to retreat, but the 26th Route Army continued to stay in Ningdu. Chiang Kai-shek reprimanded him greatly, and ordered his descendant Zhu Shaoliang's troops to block the rear road of the 26th Route Army in the Guangchang area north of Ningdu. This further aroused the dissatisfaction and indignation of the officers and men of the 26 th Route Army. After studying and analyzing this situation, the party organizations decided to seize the opportunity to carry out organized and planned political agitation, to guide officers and men in the correct direction according to the situation, and to promote the early emergence of revolutionary conditions. As a result, party members split up and took advantage of various opportunities to carry out propaganda and disintegration work. Some of them used casual talk to enlighten the consciousness of the soldiers, while others took advantage of the opening remarks of the company when they gathered for roll call to give play to publicize the War of Resistance. Qingyun and Liu Zhenya, while giving lessons to the Cadet Company of the 73rd Brigade, gave a detailed account of the "Wanbaoshan Massacre" committed by the Japanese invaders in Northeast China, criticized Chiang Kai-shek's traitorous crime of giving the great rivers and mountains of Northeast China to the enemy, and aroused the patriotic enthusiasm of the soldiers.
The Cadet Company of the 73rd Brigade was originally a cadet recruited by the warlord Sun Dianying in Tianjin, but was detained by Dong Zhentang, commander of the 13th Division of Sun Lianzhong's Division, in Xiuwu County, Henan, to form the division's officer training team, which was later changed to the Cadet Company. Most of its cadets are young students and small intellectuals who have dropped out of school or are unemployed, and they are easy to accept revolutionary ideas. In order to seize this force, the underground party fully agreed with Qingyun's plan to "carry out a position that can be close to that of the cadet company." The first step was to suggest to Brigade Commander Dong Zhentang that the teaching of the cadet company be resumed, and Qingyun, Liu Zhenya, and others served as instructors, and then further moved Qingyun to serve in the cadet company. The company commander of the former cadet company was named Sun Xi, who often beat and scolded the cadets and deducted military salaries, and was a guy who was extremely angry with the people, but in the past, when the cadets dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, the underground party secretly encouraged the cadets to carry out a struggle, and reported what Sun had done to the instructors sent by the brigade headquarters, threatening to desert if this continued. Dong Zhentang has always regarded the cadet company as a "descendant," and after listening to everyone's feedback, he naturally attached great importance to it. He dismissed Sun from his position as company commander. Since Qingyun arrived at the 73rd Brigade, Dong Zhentang has been quite appreciative. Thinking that he was talented and trustworthy, after careful consideration, he appointed Qingyun as the commander of the cadet company.
When Qingyun came to the cadet company, he immediately abolished the beating and scolding system, advocated equality between officers and soldiers, and encouraged soldiers to dare to speak and express their opinions. He also organized an "academic study meeting" attended by the deputy squad leader and the activists among the soldiers (most of the company's squad leaders were veterans from the army, while the deputy squad leaders were all young intellectuals); on the one hand, they studied surveying, mapping, drawing, and other professional knowledge, and on the other hand, they studied the current situation and political theories, so as to propagate the revolution and train backbones. Studying soldiers is like seeing the sun through the clouds, and it rains after a long drought. From then on, a new atmosphere began to emerge in the cadet company.
At the same time, according to Qingyun's instructions, Wang Jitan actively and prudently recruited party members in the cadet company. From July to November, a total of seven party members were recruited: Zhao Hongzhi, Yang Yilin, Tan Shiqing (now known as Tan Zhigang), Liu Jingsheng, Huo Wanzhong, and a comrade surnamed Chen and a comrade surnamed Li. With the addition of Qingyun and Wang Jitan, the Cadet Company has nine party members, which is the unit with the largest and highest concentration of underground party members in the 26th Route Army, and has become the backbone of the party in the Route Army.
According to the organizational development, the 26 th Route Army secretly set up a special branch of the CPC, with Liu Zhenya as secretary, Yuan Hancheng as organization member, and Wang Ming as fifth propaganda member.
The underground work of the Party was progressing actively and steadily, and when the conditions for the uprising were ripe, an unexpected emergency suddenly occurred in early December: Wang Chaofeng was transferred back to Shanghai, and while passing through Nanchang, he mistakenly handed over the documents of the underground party of the 26th Route Army to the enemy. Chiang Kai-shek's Nanchang camp sent an urgent telegram of 100,000 yuan: "Order the headquarters of the 26th Route Army to strictly arrest Liu Zhenya, Yuan Hancheng, and Wang Ming, and send off the camp in the starry night for punishment." ”
The special branch quickly studied this unexpected situation, decided to use "unite the Red Army against the Japanese invaders" as a political agitation slogan, and immediately set about preparing for an uprising. According to the division of labor, Liu Zhenya, Wang Mingwu, and Li Qingyun were responsible for the organization of party members among lower-level officers and soldiers; Zhao Bosheng, chief of the general staff, who had become a member of the Communist Party, was responsible for coping with the pressure of the Nanchang camp and winning over the upper echelons, while Yuan Hancheng went to the Soviet area to get in touch with the General Headquarters of the Red Army and report the situation.
Dong Zhentang, the commander of the 73rd Brigade, was completely on the side of the uprising under the efforts of Zhao Bosheng, Liu Zhenya, and Qingyun. After Qingyun won the consent of the underground party, Dong called Guo Ruyue to the brigade headquarters, explained the task to him, and asked him to draft a letter to the General Headquarters of the Red Army. Because Dong Zhentang was not a party member at that time, and it was inconvenient to explain some things, Qingyun waited for Guo Ruyue to walk out of the brigade headquarters before telling him in a low voice: "The contact code to the Soviet area is 'Zhu Rui called'", and even said several times to tell him to remember, and told him that Yuan Hancheng was also going to the Soviet area to contact this time, and instructed him to personally hand over the letter to Commander-in-Chief Zhu.
After Guo Ruyue left, Qingyun took Wang Jitan to the southern suburbs of Ningdu in the name of going out to survey, Wang reported on the activities of party members below, and Qingyun decided to start preparations from the next morning to camouflage field exercises, ready to pull the team away as a last resort. He was holding a pre-drawn road map. Pointing to the 26th general cordon on the map, he said: "During the field exercise, cross the cordon and insert it to the east, passing through Laifang Bengu Village, the first assembly point is Laifang, and the second assembly point is Gucun. ”
Yuan Hancheng and Guo Ruyue, who had made contact with the Soviet area, arrived at Yeping in Duanjin and reported to Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Ye Jianying, and other leading comrades on the preparations for a riot by the 26th Route Army. Specific instructions were given to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission on striving for a total insurrection with the greatest efforts, and in the unlikely event that it could not be carried out, a partial uprising should be carried out, with the date set for December 13. After they returned to Ningdu, the underground party resolutely carried out the instructions of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission and immediately made concrete arrangements for the uprising.
Qingyun led the whole company to the Changlingnao and Laoxikan areas, and every day in the name of conducting field exercises, he was familiar with the roads and mountains and rivers in the Soviet area, and after returning to the camp, he actively prepared for war, and the soldiers did not leave the camp, the guns did not leave their hands, and they were on standby, and the air was very tense. The soldiers didn't know what was going to happen, but they all sensed that a storm was coming.
That night, Zhao Bosheng came to the company headquarters of the cadet company. Qingyun was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked Wang Jitan to go outside to sentry, the former comrades-in-arms are now comrades, and every time the two meet, how many things do they have to say in their hearts! But at this time, they have no time to talk about anything else, and focus on the important matter of preparing for an uprising. Zhao Bosheng said: "Now the situation is complex and unpredictable, let's prepare for the worst. If the uprising of the large army fails, and the student company will eventually be pulled away, is it sure?" Qingyun looked at Bosheng's expectant and trusting gaze, deeply felt how heavy the responsibility was on his shoulders, and nodded solemnly. Later, Wang Jitan was called into the house and introduced to Bosheng.
Seeing Zhao Bosheng away, Qingyun asked Wang Jitan: "Are we sure that we will pull the cadet company to the Red Army?" Immediately, they conscientiously formulated a plan: They instructed every Communist Party member to unite and lead at least three cadet soldiers, to agitate in the company, saying that the soldiers of the 26th Route Army would feed the dogs in Jiangxi sooner or later, scolding the Kuomintang bureaucrats for corruption, scolding Chiang Kai-shek for being a traitor, the Red Army not beating or scolding people, officers and soldiers on an equal footing, and being brave in battle, and so on. According to the agreed plan, Wang Jitan hurriedly asked his comrades to "bite his ears". Everyone thought that as long as they could unite 30 people, they would be sure to lead a company, so they immediately launched activities. One day, Zhao Hongzhi tried to try to probe and had an attack in the kitchen, and finally complained: "Lao Tzu will go to the Red Army!" More than a dozen soldiers were drinking water around the marching pot, and after hearing it, they all responded: "You go ahead, I follow." ”
The arrow is on the verge of a touch. At this time, a news came: the cotton uniforms and salaries transported from Nanchang to the 26th Route Army had arrived in Guangchang and would be transported to Ningdu in a few days. If the uprising continues at the scheduled time, the supplies will not be available. Therefore, the special tribe sent Yuan Hancheng and the 74th Brigade sent Lu Shouchun to report to the Soviet area again for instructions. The Central Revolutionary Military Commission studied the situation, agreed to postpone the uprising by one day, and decided that after the success of the uprising, the troops would be organized into the Fifth Army Corps of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, with the 13th, 14th, and 15th armies under its jurisdiction.
The special branch immediately held an operational meeting in the small building of the brigade headquarters of the 73 rd Brigade, which included Li Qingyun, Zhao Bosheng, and Dong Zhentang, and conducted a serious study and careful arrangements for the uprising. Qingyun and Dong Zhentang, out of concern for the success or failure of the uprising, expressed doubts about the 74th Brigade. After Zhao Bosheng and Yuan Hancheng introduced the situation, everyone unanimously agreed to do their best to strive for the realization of the plan for the entire uprising.
According to the arrangement, on the morning of 13 July, Li Qingyun ordered the officers and men of the whole company to immediately be fully armed and ready to assemble urgently at any time. During the day on the 14th, he was on standby, and there was no movement. The party members couldn't hold their breath anymore, and they all came to Wang Jitan, and Wang came to find Qingyun Company Commander. Qingyun was overworked for two days, looking very haggard, either sitting alone at the entrance of the company department, or pacing around the courtyard, seeing that Wang Jitan was in a hurry, he either just said "calm down", or just shook his head and didn't answer. It is conceivable that at this moment when the storm is coming, Qingyun's heart is also up and down, and he is very uneasy.
From the 13th to the 14th, the time of this day and night was so difficult! Finally, it came to the evening of December 14, 1931, which was the moment of the Ningdu riot. When Qingyun returned from a meeting at the brigade headquarters, he immediately found Wang Jitan and said excitedly: "The problem is big!" means that the 26th Route Army will participate in the riot. Immediately afterwards, Qingyun convened the activists of all classes to talk and excitedly announced: We are about to be liberated! Immediately, the whole house was boiling, and everyone could not suppress the joy in their hearts, and one by one they burst into tears, and gently shouted: "Liberate" and "Go to the Red Army!" Qingyun then said: "Tonight, we must especially strengthen vigilance, from the intersection to the east gate and the north street, we must send double posts to reinforce the simple fortifications, pay attention to the passers-by, and those who cannot answer the password, no matter who they are, will be detained and locked up in the empty houses of the company headquarters." ”
That night, the cadet company undertook a very important task, one was to hold the main streets in the city, and the other was to occupy the radio station of the general headquarters.
According to the urgent order of the company commander of Qingyun, some soldiers ran to various guard points and vigilantly guarded various sentry posts. Wang Jitan and Jiang Yuede set up a mobile sentry at the crossroads, holding bright bayonets and rifles, in front of or behind, monitoring the grass and trees around them. The reactionary officers, officials, and gentry and landlords who passed by here could not answer the order, so they were arrested and locked up in a room. These fellows are usually accustomed to being imposing, but at this time they are extremely angry and shouting: "It's your own people, why do you want to lock us up? Get your officials!" The soldiers replied: "Who is your own man with you? You are vampires and enemies who oppress the people!"
At the same time, Qingyun ordered the fourth and seventh squads to be commanded by Guo Ruyue to capture the radio station of the general headquarters, and occupied the first and second radio stations of the headquarters respectively without firing a single shot. On a dark night, it was drizzling in the sky, but under the calm night there was an unquiet scene.
In the general headquarters of the 26th Route Army, where the missionaries of the former Catholic Church lived in the east of the city, the small building was brightly lit and full of fragrance, and Zhao Bosheng was "banqueting" officers above the regiment level as chief of staff as planned, and at about 10 o'clock in the evening, Zhao Bosheng immediately announced the beginning of the riot, and those who were in favor raised their hands to express their attitude, and a few who wanted to escape were arrested on the spot.
The crisp sound of gunfire rang out from the general headquarters throughout the night sky of Ningdu. Hearing this inspiring signal of the uprising, Jiang Yuede hurriedly ran to the company headquarters to report, and Qingyun said happily: "Okay, good! You must step up your vigilance. ”
The insurrectionary forces acted together according to the predetermined objectives, and at 6 o'clock in the morning of the 15th, the fighting was over. Large groups of rebel troops came to gather under the high tower in the southeast corner of the city one after another, and then the whole team walked to the Soviet area, and the road out of the city was the route that Qingyun led the cadet company to exercise. In the past, when they came out, how could they have seen a shadow of the common people? But now, as soon as they walked to Changlingnao, they saw men and women standing on both sides of the road, some of them holding small colored flags, some holding hot rice porridge, all of them smiling, this kind of scene was very unfamiliar to the soldiers of the White Army. When Qingyun saw this scene, he told everyone with great emotion: "This is the common people of the Soviet area welcoming us!" When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but shed tears of excitement.
Photo: Sun Yi, adviser to the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, wrote an inscription
07
A model for loving soldiers
The great Ningdu uprising marked the end of the life of the old army and embarked on a new path as a member of the glorious Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In addition to being excited, Qingyun also considered the direction of future efforts.
At this moment, an incident happened in the third class: Jiang Yuede, a cadet soldier, was in poor health due to overwork from performing tasks at night, and marched fifty or sixty miles with two guns on his back during the day. He just wanted to sit down and rest before leaving, but the squad leader Gu Zhanbiao came up and gave him a kick. Jiang Yuede was very angry and said, "You still beat people after the riot?" Gu Zhanbiao saw that Jiang dared to confront him in front of him, and actually said: "I'll beat you!" Saying that, he punched and kicked again, Jiang Yuede endured his anger and walked for more than 20 miles, and after arriving at the camp, he went to Qingyun Company Commander to report, Qingyun heard this, and his face turned white with anger. This Gu Zhanbiao used to beat and scold soldiers from time to time, and Qingyun criticized education many times, but he has not changed it so far. Qingyun has always hated this kind of warlord habit, especially on this big day, how can he allow this kind of thing to happen again. So he immediately called Gu Zhanbiao and reprimanded him sharply: "What day is today, why are you still beating people? We have joined the Red Army, and the Red Army is not allowed to beat and scold soldiers, don't you know? You are really lawless if you refuse to change your ways. In order to make these people with the old habits of warlords wake up, Qingyun took a drastic measure and punished Gu Zhanbiao for admitting his mistake at the gate of the third class. At this time, the soldiers raised their eyebrows, and their hearts were so unhappy.
This incident made Qingyun profoundly realize that although there was an uprising, the old ideas and habits were not quickly eliminated, and it was necessary to make great efforts to transform the troops into a real Red Army.
It was for this purpose that the Central Revolutionary Military Committee ordered the rebel troops to concentrate in the areas of Jiubao, Longgang, and Qiuxi to reorganize their troops.
The 73rd Brigade was organized into the 13th Army and was stationed in Longgang. One night, presided over by Qingyun, a meeting of the former 26th Route Army Soldiers' Branch of the Communist Party of China was held. This was the first and last branch meeting of the soldiers' branch. Liu Zhenya, Zhao Bosheng, Dong Zhentang, and Kuang Zhuquan, political commissar of the 13 th Army, who had just arrived at the meeting, attended the meeting. Comrade Qingyun first reported to the meeting on the course of the Ningdu uprising. The work of the soldiers' branch was summed up, and hopes and requirements were put forward for the party members who were about to go to their new posts. The meeting then discussed and unanimously approved Comrade Dong Zhentang's application for joining the party, and submitted it to the higher-level party organization for approval. The party members of the cadet company stayed behind and assigned work, and the rest all went to Ruijin to study at the Red Army School.
Qingyun was assigned to the 129th Regiment of the 43rd Division of the 15th Army as the regiment commander. The 15 th Army was formed on the basis of the 74 Brigade of the 25th Division of the former 26th Route Army. Compared with other brigades, this brigade has the best weapons, strong strength, and more arrogance among its officers and men, and in addition the party's strength before the uprising was relatively weak, so the reform work after the uprising is relatively heavy. How to lead the regiment well and make it a strong team is a problem that Qingyun always thinks about.
Living simply, not putting on a show, caring for others, and loving nurses and soldiers, this is Qingyun's consistent style, or when he was in the teaching regiment of the Special Forces Brigade of the 14th Army of the Northwest Army, an engineer assistant Guo Ruyue was sick, Qingyun not only gave him decoction and food every day, but also ate millet wotou with Zhao Bosheng, saved fine grain for Guo Ruyue to eat, and cared for his relatives like a brother. At that time, Qingyun thought that this was the quality that an upright soldier should have. After joining the party, he further looked at the issue from the perspective of class feelings. In the cadet company, he wore the same clothes as the soldiers, with a small belt and cloth shoes. When the clothes are dirty, they are never washed by others, and they are all done by themselves. He speaks kindly, smiles, does not smoke, does not drink heavily, hums a few words of Beijing accent when he is happy, gets up early to run, walks in the evening, sometimes climbs mountains, and always reads and studies in his spare time.
As the commander of the Red Army, Qingyun set strict demands on himself, set an example everywhere, exemplarily observed the "three major disciplines and eight points of attention," took the lead in studying politics and military affairs with hunger and thirst, and also actively assisted the political work cadres sent by his superiors to do a good job in the reorganization and ideological and political work of the whole regiment; he often went deep into the company to inspect the work style and discipline of the cadres and soldiers, and encouraged them to learn from the fraternal units of the Red Army, so that they could quickly change themselves into real Red Army soldiers in terms of ideology and work style as soon as possible.
Qingyun cherishes the soldiers of the Red Army, cares about their suffering, and tries his best to help solve the difficulties of the soldiers, as long as he knows, when he was the division commander, he once heard someone moaning in pain, and walked over to ask, it turned out that the soldier Wang Jintang was digging trenches when his legs were infected by bacteria, his muscles were black, and the pain was unbearable. The doctor wanted to see his leg to save his life, but he did not agree. Qingyun understood his feelings, how could a soldier march without a leg, how could he fight, and how could he destroy the enemy? Qingyun took this incident to heart, and asked the doctor with concern about the treatment method, and learned that the divisional medical team had a special medicine for treating infections -- the German "606" injection, and at that time due to the enemy's blockade, there was a great shortage of medicine in the Soviet area. This injection was originally reserved for the division commander in case of emergency. Qingyun persuaded the doctor to give Wang Jintang the injection, so that his injured leg could be preserved and healed quickly. The warrior was obsessed with this for the rest of his life.
08
Brave and good at fighting
In late February 1932, the Red Fifth Army Corps accepted its first combat mission: to go to the periphery of Ganzhou to assist the Red Third Army Corps besieging the city and attack Ganzhou (this was a blind action guided by the erroneous policy of the "left" opportunists advocating "mainly occupying a few central cities and achieving the first victory of the revolution in one or several provinces"). The city is surrounded by water on three sides, the terrain is dangerous, the city is strong, and the enemy in the city is strong. The Red Third Army Corps failed to bomb the city several times, but on the contrary, there was an incident in which the division commander Guo Bingsheng led the people to defect to the enemy, resulting in the Third Army being flanked by the defenders inside the city and the enemy outside the city. At the critical moment, after two months of reorganization and political education, the Red Fifth Army Corps, which had a new look and high morale, entered the position, and they fought hard with the enemy with their big silver blades, killing the enemy's corpses all over the field, withstanding the enemy's ace 11 Division that came to the rescue, and covering the safe withdrawal of the Red Third Army Corps.
Subsequently, the Red Fifth Army and the Red First Army formed the Eastern Route Army, led by Comrade Mao Zedong, to conquer Fujian. On April 10, it occupied Longyan and annihilated most of the teaching regiment and all the independent regiments of the Fujian warlord Zhang Zhenbu. On the 19th, he pursued the victory and fought with the 49th Division of the enemy Zhang Zhen and the enemy Chen Guohui's troops in the areas of Tianbao, Rongzifeng of the Twelve Ridges and Baolin. Most of the enemy's Zhang Zhen division was wiped out, the small part was scattered, and a deputy brigade commander, thousands of soldiers, and countless military supplies were captured. On the 20th, Ganzhou was occupied, and two planes and one arsenal were captured.
In these battles, Qingyun often took the initiative and took on the most difficult tasks. At the critical moment, he took the lead, dropped his shirt, bare his shirt, brandished a big knife, and personally led the soldiers to charge, winning by surprise and making many achievements. Therefore, after the Battle of Zhangzhou, he was promoted to commander of the 43rd Division.
Chiang Kai-shek panicked when the Red Army marched eastward, so he transferred the 19th Route Army to Fujian to deal with the Red Army, and at the same time ordered the Guangdong warlord Chen Jitang to attack the southern part of the Central Soviet Region.
Chen Jitang relied on his strength, gathered 20 regiments of troops, and under the command of Yu Hanmou, he was fierce and rushed straight towards our base area. On the first day of June, the Red Fifth Army was ordered to move westward. In mid-to-late mid-to-late periods, it joined the Red Third Army. Under the attack of our army, the Cantonese army fled one after another. Attempt to retreat to Guangdong. On 1 July, the Red Army fought fiercely with the two divisions of the enemy Li Zhenqiu and Ye Zhao in the vicinity of Xincheng and Chijiang. On the second day, he took advantage of the victory to pursue the defeated army and occupy the big and small Meiguan passes. Disarm all the enemy regiments defending Nanxiong. The Cantonese army dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and his eyes were red, so the enemy Zhang Meixin's four regiments, Li Hanxun's three regiments, Chen Zhang's two regiments, Zhang Da's one regiment, Xiang Hanping's and Yu Hanmou's teaching regiments, independent regiments, a total of thirteen regiments, gathered on the south bank of Nanxiong's Shuikou Wei, trying to resist stubbornly by risk.
Shuikouwei is a small village in Nanxiong County, Guangdong, sitting on the slope of a mountain, the mountain follows the water, and the water surrounds the mountain. The Cantonese army relied on the soldiers' fine food and sufficient terrain to occupy the hill as a stronghold with a small number of troops, and built fortifications to wait for work. So he reported to the general command: "I have attacked!" Avoiding the enemy's frontal position with strong firepower, looking for its weak point, he came up with a drill-into tactic, and unexpectedly kept attacking the enemy's rearguard. The sword flashed, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the enemy's horns were suddenly chaotic.
In the Battle of Shuikou, our heroic Red 1st, 3rd, and 5th Army Corps fought fiercely with the enemy for three days and three nights, and although they did not completely destroy the enemy, they defeated the troops of more than a dozen regiments of the supposedly stubborn Guangdong enemy and defended the southern frontier of the Soviet area. Qingyun was also praised by the corps command and was promoted to the commander of the Red 15th Army.
In late July, Qingyun led the Red 15th Army to the north, fighting side by side with the Red 13th and 14th Armies and the 1st and 5th Army Corps, and in August, they connected the counties of Kele'an, Yihuang, and Nanfeng.
In mid-December, on the anniversary of the establishment of the Red Fifth Army Corps in Ningdu, Qingyun, as one of the leaders of Ningdu, was commended and rewarded by the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet, along with Bosheng and Dong Zhentang.
At the beginning of 1933, Chiang Kai-shek launched the fourth "encirclement and suppression". During this period, Qingyun led his troops to pinpoint the enemy's troops all the way at Changyuanmiao in early January, and effectively cooperated with the main force of the Red Army to defeat the enemy's 90th, 27th, and 14th divisions at Huangshidu; from February to March, together with the rest of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Red Army Corps at Huangpo and Dongpo, they used the tactics of concentrating superior forces and ambushing large soldiers to completely annihilate the enemy's 52nd, 59th, and 11th divisions, and won the fourth great victory against "encirclement and suppression." In this battle, the big blade of the 15th Red Army once again exerted its invincible might.
The Red Fifth Army was famous for splitting broadswords, but the leaders of the "leftist" line thought it "irregular" and ordered these big blades to return to the furnace after the Battle of Shuikou. As a result, the bayonets were so soft that they could not be used, Qingyun was very angry at this stupid approach, so he tried to make the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments of the 15th Army leave 60 broadswords in each company, and in the battle on the eastern slope, when the enemy's 11th Division was dying and struggling at the straw shoe gang, and the battle could not end quickly, Qingyun organized a broadsword team of four or five hundred people, and killed the enemy in a majestic manner, and immediately split the enemy's soul to pieces, the ghost cried wolf, and obediently raised his hand to surrender, and the division commander Xiao Qian was also killed.
In October 1933, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized another 1 million troops, 200 aircraft, and 500,000 heavy troops to start the fifth "encirclement and suppression" of our central Soviet region. As a result, the more the battle was fought, the more passive it became, and the smaller the base area became. In this campaign, Qingyun led the 15th Army to undertake the arduous task of resisting the enemy's attack on the northern front of the Soviet area. At that time, the environment was very difficult, one bad battle after another, Qingyun's body was dragged down, and in the summer of 1934, he suffered from malaria and often had attacks. However, he concentrated on thinking about how to destroy the enemy and defend the Soviet area, and did not care about himself, but as a result, his illness became more and more serious, and he had a high fever and a coma, and the soldiers hurriedly carried him on a stretcher to the rear hospital, but when he walked near Tengtian in Yongfeng County, this young Red Army general, with his unpaid ambition, died suddenly and lay in the green mountains at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.
Photo: Certificate of Sacrifice of Revolutionary Soldiers
Comrade Qingyun's short life was a life of pursuing light and exploring the truth. He was a loyal fighter of the party and an excellent commander of the Red Army. His comrade-in-arms, Comrade Zhu Liangcai, former political commissar of the 15 th Army, recalled: "Comrade Li Qingyun has advanced thinking, democratic work style, and is brave, calm, and alert when commanding battles. "His hard and simple style of life has a deep appeal to others. One of his subordinates and comrades-in-arms, due to the influence of Qingyun, is now a minister-level position in the Central Committee, but he still maintains the habit of washing clothes by himself. Qingyun dedicated his youth, his life, unreservedly to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people. His deeds have inspired millions of later generations to fight for the most magnificent cause of mankind - communism.
Blue Yu Comrade Yong Yong Immortal!
Source: Handan Municipal Archives, Cheng'an County Archives, Cheng'an County Party History Office
Source: Handan Veterans Service Center