Early Communists who died on the execution ground or on the battlefield: He Shuheng

He Hanheng (1876-1935. In 1913, he entered the Hunan Provincial First Normal School and co-founded the Xinmin Society with Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen to spread Marxism. In the winter of 1920, He Shuheng and Mao Zedong initiated the establishment of the early organization of the Changsha Communist Party. In July 1921, he and Mao Zedong joined the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China and became one of the founders of the Communist Party of China.

After the defeat of the Great Revolution in 1927, He Shuheng went to Shanghai in disguise, personally went to the streets to carry out propaganda and agitation, and was arrested by secret agents. The interrogator thought he was a "local scholar" and thought he had caught the wrong person, so he tentatively asked, "Do you know what the Communist Party is and what the Kuomintang is?" He Shuheng deliberately shook his head and replied: "The Communist Party's Three People's Principles are also the same, and the Kuomintang's Five-Power Constitution is also!" He also talked about Confucius incessantly, and the interrogator shouted impatiently, "Hurry up!" He Shuheng walked away slowly and methodically. The interrogators later learned that it was a CCP elder who had been released.

In June 1928, He Shuheng went to Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow to study with Xu Teli, Wu Yuzhang, Dong Biwu and others in a special class. In July 1930 he returned to Shanghai to take charge of the National Freemasonry. In November 1931, he entered the Central Soviet Region and served as acting minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic and chairman of the Provisional Supreme Court.

After the Long March of the main Red Army, He Shuheng, who remained in Gannan, was nearly sixty years old. At the beginning of 1935, the Kuomintang troops approached from all sides, and Xiang Ying, secretary of the Central Bureau, sent plainclothes troops to escort He Shuheng and the sick Qu Qiubai to western Fujian. In the early morning of February 14, near the town of Shuikou in Shanghang County, the second battalion of the security regiment surrounded it. Dozens of plainclothes members fought and retreated, and in order not to drag everyone down, He Shuheng shouted to Deng Zihui, who led the team: "Shoot me!" Deng Zihui let the guards run with him, and when he reached the edge of the cliff, He Shuheng suddenly broke away from the guards and jumped off the cliff.

He Shuheng fell off a cliff and passed out. Two tuanding who searched the mountain found him. He Shuheng suddenly woke up and hugged a tuan Ding's leg to fight with it, and the other Tuan Ding cruelly fired two shots at him in a row. He died heroically at the age of 59 and fulfilled his vow to "shed the last drop of blood for the Soviets." He Shuheng's confidant and poet Xiao San praised him: "The iron bone zhengzheng died heroically, and the high wind and bright festival were evergreen."