Huang Cheng: An immortal hero who has struggled all his life

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Huang Cheng was one of the leaders of the "129" movement, and was the secretary general of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army, and was captured in the Anhui Incident and died heroically.

Leader of the student patriotic movement

Huang Cheng was born on May 16, 1914, a native of Hetou Village, Anci County, Hebei Province, and was born into a family of landlords. Huang Cheng lost his father at the age of 6, entered a private school at the age of 8, went to the neighboring county Yongqing Cunshi Middle School to attend junior high school at the age of 14, and went to Beiping with his sister Huang Pei in 1930, and entered the third grade of the fourth middle school junior high school as a transfer student.

After the "918" incident in 1931, Huang Cheng, witnessing the peril of the motherland and the disaster of the nation, could no longer suppress the boiling enthusiasm, and together with other patriotic students, took to the streets, posted slogans, distributed leaflets, gave speeches to the masses, exposed the ambitions of Japanese imperialism in its attempt to annex China, organized students to investigate and boycott Japanese goods, and connected various primary and secondary schools to prepare for the establishment of the Peking Primary and Secondary School Students' Federation. These activities attracted the attention of the school authorities, and the principal Qi Meige warned Huang Cheng not to go astray through guarantors, but he still insisted on patriotic activities. In the summer of 1932, the school expelled Huang Cheng and several other progressive students.

In the autumn of that year, Huang Cheng was admitted to the preparatory department of Tianjin Beiyang Institute of Technology. The student movement here is more active than that of the middle school, and Huang Cheng is further influenced by progressive ideas. At the beginning of 1933, he and a few progressive classmates organized the WildFire Society Reading Club, with undergraduate student Yang Pengsheng (i.e., Wei Dongming) as president and Huang Cheng as vice president. They often read progressive books and periodicals together, discussed the situation at home and abroad, and expressed their enthusiasm for resisting Japan and saving the country. Huang Cheng proposed: "Publicize the people as the most important task of saving the country today. In order to practice this idea, in February, he and Wu Chengming and several other students opened the Beiyang Institute of Technology Workers' Tuition School to teach cultural knowledge and patriotic ideas to the workers and their children in the school. But it lasted just over a semester before it was closed off by the school authorities. Huang Cheng continued to actively participate in organizing the student tide, fighting against the reactionary authorities, and often used pen names such as "Huanghuang" and "Chengcheng" to write articles for the school magazine Beiyang Weekly. When the school established the Joint Committee of Representatives (the predecessor of the Student Council), Huang Cheng was elected as the president of the class committee.

In the winter of 1933, the school authorities announced the abolition of the half-fee allowance for books and instruments for students for progressive students with poor family conditions, but at the same time paid generous allowances to some students who ran with the school. The joint meeting of representatives at all levels immediately decided to launch a strike against the school's decision, and elected Huang Cheng, Yang Pengsheng and other representatives to negotiate with the school. The reactionary authorities of the school took the opportunity to expel Huang Cheng and others on the charge of "inciting a student tide."

Huang Cheng did not give in, and while continuing to publicize the anti-Japanese struggle to save the dead, he insisted on self-study and study. In September 1934, he was admitted to the Department of Geosciences of Tsinghua University with honors. During their studies at Tsinghua University, Huang Cheng, Yang Shu and other students organized the progressive group Dongfang Jiebai Society, edited the magazine "Oriental Jiebai", introduced materialist dialectics and social science knowledge, publicized the anti-Japanese national salvation trend, and won the trust of the majority of students.

In June 1935, the Kuomintang government signed the "Ho Mei Agreement" with Japan, which humiliated the country, and then promulgated the so-called "Good Neighbor order", which strictly prohibited the people's anti-Japanese and rescue activities. In November, the traitor Yin Rugeng openly played the sign of "Jidong Defense Communist Autonomous Government" in Tong County, and then the news of the establishment of "North China Autonomy" and "Jicha Administrative Affairs Committee" spread throughout Beiping. Patriotism is guilty, traitors to the state are rewarded, and the survival of the nation has reached an extremely serious juncture. Under the leadership of the Beiping Underground Party and the Peking Students' Federation, the Schools in Beiping successively established the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Committee in December, and Huang Cheng was elected as the chairman of the National Salvation Committee of the Tsinghua University Student Self-Government Association. The Salvation Congress, which he led, published the influential "Letter to the People of the Whole Country" in the first issue of the publication "Roar" printed on December 6, shouting out the common voice of the students in North China at that time: "North China is so big that it is no longer possible to put a calm desk!" Together with the underground party organization of Tsinghua University and other leading members of the National Salvation Congress, he actively brewed and organized students to participate in the city's large-scale petition demonstrations.

In the "129" patriotic student movement, Huang Cheng was the general leader of the parade at Tsinghua University. On the morning of December 9, the Municipal Public Security Bureau dispatched a large number of armed policemen to detain all school buses in an attempt to prevent students from marching. Huang Cheng and others led the team to hold up flags and slogans, broke through the police's heavy obstacles, and walked into the city. At about 9 o'clock, when the procession reached Xizhimen, the city gate was closed, and the military and police officers with live ammunition stood on the head of the city, and the students were in the snow and wind, although the cold wind broke their hands and faces, but the hot blood melted the whole body. Huang Cheng stepped forward and led his classmates to shout slogans such as "Down with Japanese imperialism," "Down with traitors," "Stop the civil war and unite with the outside world," "Oppose the autonomy of North China," and "Long live the liberation of the Chinese nation." He also preached with fierce feelings and earnest words to the military and police standing at the head of the city about the critical situation of the country and the pain of being a slave to the state, which made some military and policemen who had a slightly patriotic heart and did not want to be slaves of the country burst into tears. But fearful of fate, they did not dare to open the door. Huang Cheng waited to see that Xizhimen could not enter, so he left some of his classmates there to continue propaganda, and then led the brigade to advance to Fuchengmen, Xibianmen, and Guang'anmen. Along the way, the people were publicized, and the slogans rose and fell, shaking the earth. During the December 16 demonstration, Huang Cheng led his classmates to smash open the Xiben Gate with their flesh and blood and rushed to the overpass to participate in a public assembly of more than 30,000 people. Demonstrations continued after the meeting. At that time, Tsinghua became a strong fortress of the Peking student movement, and Huang Cheng was one of the backbones. Baptized by this revolutionary storm, he joined the Communist Youth League of China in January 1936.

The "129" patriotic student movement has written a page of singing and weeping in the history of the Chinese revolution. Beginning with the "129" movement, a new upsurge of the anti-Japanese democracy movement was set off throughout the country. On February 29, 1936, the Kuomintang authorities carried out a large-scale search for patriotic students. At dawn, more than 440 reactionary military police officers with blacklists broke into Tsinghua Garden and surrounded student dormitories. The first person on the blacklist is Huang Cheng, who also specially draws a red circle. The Tsinghua Salvation Congress immediately put forward the slogans of self-defense of "protecting the school" and "expelling the reactionary military and police." Under the cover of the students, Huang Cheng and other leaders of the National Salvation Congress were not searched, but Yao Yilin and Jiang Nanxiang and other 3 comrades were arrested. When the reactionary military and police were about to drag them into a car and escort them away, the Salvation Congress mobilized the vast number of students to launch a sudden counterattack against the military and police, smashed the military police's cars, snatched them back, and snatched them to the blacklist. That night, the enemy sent two additional regiments totaling 5,000 military and police to surround Qinghuayuan. The people on the blacklist had long been scattered and avoided, and Huang Cheng and Yao Yilin hid in Professor Feng Youlan's home and spent a tense and dangerous night.

In April of the same year, Huang Cheng became a member of the Communist Party of China.

In June, Huang Cheng, along with three other students, was expelled from the reactionary authorities at Tsinghua University after participating in the "June 13" demonstration of Peking students. In the August 10 issue of Jue Bao, Huang Cheng published an article titled "Let's Be the Last Expelled Student." The article reads: "I was expelled, which was something I expected... This is not the same thing in today's life safety of a person engaged in rescue work." "The government's claim is to resist Japan and save the country, but in fact, the country is falling day by day!" In the same way, the school claims to love and care for young people, but in fact, the repeated expulsion and remembrance of classmates !—— 'conscience' cannot be seen or touched, we only look at actions, only look at facts, and anyone who hinders the work of saving the dead is a traitor, this is an iron rule that no one can deny, right? "I was expelled, I don't linger, I don't regret it, it's all about saving lives!" I'm going to fight for salvation!" He also wrote articles such as "Before and After My Expulsion" and "Expelling Students from Schools to Colonial Education," denouncing the reactionary authorities' criminal acts of treasonous surrender and persecution of patriotic youth, and expressing his strong determination to swear to fight to the end for the cause of national liberation of the motherland.

In September of that year, with the help of the party organization and the assistance of Wu Chengshi, a professor of progress, Huang Cheng transferred to the Department of Chinese Literature of the University of China and continued to engage in the salvation movement. He won the trust and support of the majority of students, and in the public election of students in the city in early October, he was elected as the chairman of the Beiping Student Federation, and was responsible for the leadership of the student federation together with Yu Wenbin, Sun Shishi and others. Huang Cheng also served as the secretary of the Communist Party of China's Beiping Students' Federation until the outbreak of the "July 7" Incident.

During this period, in addition to being responsible for the overall work of the Beiping Students' Federation, Huang Cheng also actively participated in organizing and leading the rescue activities of Chinese universities, one of which was to organize and lead the "Exorcism of the King" and "Exorcise Qi" movements (at that time, the president of the Chinese university was concurrently served by wang Zhengting, the foreign minister of the Kuomintang, and the actual power was Wang Zhengting's minions and general affairs minister Qi Dapeng). Wu Chengshi, Huang Songling, Qi Yanming and other progressive professors supported patriotic students and also directly participated in the exorcism of the king and the qi movement. After several months of fierce struggle, Wang Zhengting and his minions were finally driven away, basically gaining the freedom to carry out patriotic activities, and fighting for a position for the Beiping Student Federation and the city's patriotic students' public activities. At this time, Chinese universities subsequently became the center of the patriotic student movement in Peiping.

On January 20, 1937, Huang Cheng, several other responsible persons of the Peking Students' Federation, and Shi Lide, president of the Student Union of Chinese Universities, were arrested by the Kuomintang reactionaries, and were first imprisoned in the detention center of the Military Justice Department of the Pseudo-Ji cha Appeasement Chief's Office, and then transferred to the "Military Reflection Institute" prison. At first, the enemy wanted to send them to Nanjing for imprisonment, but Huang Cheng and others managed to get in touch with the party organization outside the prison, and won the support and cooperation of the broad masses of students outside the prison, forcing the reactionary authorities to abandon their attempt to send them to Nanjing.

Huang Cheng's health was already relatively poor, and he was even more emaciated and weak after being tortured by prison life. One morning, Huang Cheng suddenly fainted on the ground, unconscious, and the victims took off their cotton clothes and covered him with artificial respiration before they woke him up. Everyone asked the guards to remove his heavy shackles, and Huang Cheng struggled to stand up and said to the guards: "Your prison authorities' abuse of patients in this way is inhumane, and all the shackles of all the victims should be removed immediately, and if you do not agree, I will complain to the society... I will also be with my friends until I die." After a few days, until he was dying of illness, the prison authorities hired a doctor to see him and shackled him. After being rescued by party organizations and various parties in society, on March 16, 1937, the enemy had to release Huang Cheng and others.

After his release from prison, Huang Cheng devoted himself even more desperately to the work of resisting Japan and saving the dead. Under the guidance of the party's anti-Japanese national united front policy, Huang Cheng led the Beiping Students' Federation to put forward slogans such as "save the country without forgetting to read" and "teachers and students cooperate to jointly defend foreign insults" in a timely manner, extensively uniting patriotic teachers and students, and making the anti-Japanese rescue activities of major and middle schools in Beiping flourish. Huang Cheng also often represented the Beiping Students' Federation among the workers, peasants, merchants, soldiers, and other people from all walks of life, and organized his classmates to go to the Twenty-ninth Army to labor and comfort the army, publicizing the principle of resisting Japan and saving the country, which had a major impact on the officers and men of the Twenty-ninth Army.

This summer, Chiang Kai-shek ordered all second-year university students across the country to participate in military training in an attempt to rectify the thinking of patriotic students. Huang Cheng believed that this was a good opportunity to not only learn military knowledge, but also to widely and deeply publicize the idea of resisting Japan and saving the country to the officers and men of the Kuomintang army, so he quickly made arrangements for the schools through the student federation and also went to a division of the Twenty-ninth Army to participate in military training. The Twenty-ninth Army was originally a local warlord unit, which had colluded with the Japanese and the Koso, and then gradually contacted our Party under the general trend of opposing Chiang Kai-shek and resisting Japan throughout the country, and turned to the War of Resistance. There was a company commander in this unit surnamed Cao, who received a letter from home one day and asked Huang Cheng to read it on his behalf. The letter said that his father had starved to death due to the famine and had borrowed 250 yuan from a usury during the burial, and that the family planned to sell his 13-year-old sister to someone as a child bride to pay off the debt, and if he could not send money home, his sister would be taken away. The commander of Cao Company could not cry and immediately found the battalion headquarters, but only borrowed 40 yuan. Just when he was cornered, Huang Cheng mobilized his classmates to collect 250 yuan, which made Cao Company Commander very moved, and he believed in and supported our party's anti-Japanese and national salvation propositions even more. Under the influence of Huang Cheng, other students also conscientiously studied military knowledge and took the initiative to make friends with junior officers of the Twenty-ninth Army to publicize the principle of resisting Japan and saving the country. This also played a certain role in the participation of the Twenty-ninth Army in the War of Resistance.

After the "July 7" Lugou Bridge Incident occurred and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began, the Beiping Municipal CPC Committee decided that Jiang Nanxiang (secretary of the Beiping Municipal CPC Committee), Huang Cheng (secretary of the Beiping Municipal Federation of Students' League), and Yang Xuecheng (secretary of the party branch of Tsinghua University) would be responsible for leading the party's work among the exiled students in Beiping, organizing and leading some Pingjin students to go south and penetrate deep into the broad masses of workers, peasants, and soldiers. On August 8, Huang Cheng left Beiping on the first train after the resumption of traffic in Pingjinjian and thus ended his student life, throwing himself into the pen and following the correct direction of the youth movement guided by the party and embarking on the road of integrating with workers and peasants.

Commander Ye Ting praised him as "the communicator of our New Fourth Army."

Huang Cheng and others led some Beiping students to the south, arrived in Nanjing on September 18, and then went up the Yangtze River, arrived in Wuhan in early October, contacted the Yangtze River Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (zhou Enlai was in the Yangtze River Bureau at that time), and was sent to the Seventh Theater to do the united front work of the Sichuan Army.

The Seventh Theater of Operations was in the Zhengzhou area, and the commander was Liu Xiang, commander of the Sichuan Army. At that time, Liu Xiang was still in Chengdu and had not returned, and the Eighth Route Army Office in Wuhan arranged for four comrades, Huang Cheng, Xie Yunhui, Liu Liewen, and Zhu Guang, to go to Chengdu to meet with Liu Xiang in the name of representatives of the National Salvation Congress and discuss the issue of students from Beiping and Nanxia going to work in the Seventh Theater. Liu Xiangyuan was a veteran of anti-communism, but after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, his attitude toward the Communist Party changed at the moment when the national enemy was a great enemy, and he immediately expressed to Huang Cheng and four other deputies that he welcomed the students to work in his troops. Huang Cheng and the others returned to Wuhan first, and soon Liu Xiang also came to Wuhan. Huang Cheng's public identity is that of an inspector of the Seventh Theater, responsible for anti-Japanese propaganda work. Taking advantage of the contradiction between Liu Xiang and Chiang Kai-shek, he drafted slogans for the Seventh Theater, such as "Whoever can resist the war to the end is our leader" and "Compromise in the middle of the way is a traitor." Someone in the theater asked, "Isn't the leader Chiang Kai-shek?" Huang Cheng replied, "Not necessarily, it depends on whether he is a real war of resistance or a fake war of resistance, and Chiang Kai-shek will not be the chairman of the committee if he does not resist the war!"

After the fall of Shanghai, the Nationalist government in Nanjing was in disarray. The Sichuan Army was not a concubine of Chiang Kai-shek, and the contradictions between Chiang kai-shek and Liu were very deep. Chiang Kai-shek plotted to eliminate the Sichuan army by the hand of the Japanese army, so he ordered Liu Xiang's troops to guard Nanjing, and Liu Xiang had to drive his troops to the front. Huang Cheng asked the Yangtze River Bureau, which instructed him to go with the Sichuan Army, and the Eighth Route Army Office in Wuhan assigned a propaganda team of about 20 people to Huang Cheng to take with him. In order to strengthen the leadership of the party, a special branch of the CPC was established in the Sichuan Army, with Huang Cheng as the secretary of the branch, xie Yunhui and Wei Jinfei as members of the branch, and directly under the leadership of the Yangtze River Bureau. Huang Cheng, they came to a Sichuan army's military station in Yansi, Shexian County, Anhui Province, to do the United Front work of the Sichuan Army on the one hand, and to carry out local work on the other, and held two youth training classes at the Yansi Primary School. Huang Cheng gave lectures in the youth training class, analyzed the situation at home and abroad, publicized the party's united front policy, and cultivated a number of backbone forces for the War of Resistance.

In October 1937, after negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communists, the Nationalist government issued an order to reorganize the Red Army guerrillas in the southern provinces into the New Fourth Army. At the end of the year, Chen Yi took the lead in sending a team to the Rock Temple, and in January of the following year, he received members of the "special branch" of the party in the Sichuan Army. In the spring of 1938, Liu Xiang died of illness in Wuhan, and the Seven Theaters were abolished and merged into the Three Theaters, and Gu Zhutong, commander of the Three Theaters, ordered the arrest of Huang Cheng and others. Huang Cheng, the comrades of the "special branch," and all the comrades of the propaganda team brought from Wuhan joined the New Fourth Army through Chen Yi. Huang Chengxian worked in a detachment commanded by Chen Yi, got along with Chen Yi day and night, and established a deep revolutionary friendship. Soon, Huang Cheng was transferred to the New Fourth Army Headquarters and served as the secretary general of the Military Political Department.

In the big school of the New Fourth Army led by the party, Huang Cheng breathed in the free and fresh air and felt that he was younger than when he was a student, and he was more full of youthful vitality. In several letters to his brother-in-law Zhang Xitang, he said happily: "This place is like a school, but also like a family, friends and friends get along, completely sincere", "There are good teachers, especially when there are superiors and colleagues to supervise, although the brother is foolish, he also feels that he has made great progress here." Through in-depth contact with the masses of workers, peasants, and soldiers, Huang Cheng's thinking and feelings have undergone a great change. After he went from the countryside to the city to study, he was infected with some urban atmosphere, and his material life was more exquisite than that in the countryside, compared with the life of the workers and peasants, and he often said that his life was too "cloth". This "cloth" is an abbreviation of the English transliteration of "bourgeoisie" "bourgeoisie". After arriving in southern Anhui, he said in a letter to his sister: "Now I am learning from 'Bu', and this 'Bu' character is very different from the previous 'Bu' character. The "cloth" here is the "cloth" of the "Bolsheviks", from the "cloth" of "Bourgeois" to the "cloth" of the "Bolsheviks", which is a qualitative leap in Huang Cheng's thoughts and feelings.

At the Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, Huang Cheng paid great attention to learning from the rich experience and fine work style of his veteran comrades. He admired and respected Ye Ting, a famous general of the Northern Expedition and the commander of the New Fourth Army, and Ye Ting also valued him very much. He was good at words, good at communication, generous and generous, not humble, so he was involved in many internal and external relations of the military department, and he was able to do a good job. Commander Ye praised him as "the communicator of our New Fourth Army." The secretary-general directly leads the military directly subordinate units, clerical classes, management sections, transportation squads, guard platoons and other units, and the confidential materials of the military department are all kept by Huang Cheng, and many important documents are also drafted by Huang Cheng. Yuan Guoping, director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army, once went to Chongqing to report to Zhou Enlai, but the materials could not be carried with him, and Huang Cheng used the method of secret writing to briefly write down the situation of the anti-Japanese armed forces in the provinces of Jiangnan on the back of a Chinese atlas, and then revealed it in Chongqing. Yuan Guoping praised Huang Cheng as his "good helper." Huang Cheng also often gave political lessons to the vast number of cadres in the military department. When he gave the lesson "The Difference Between the Old and New Three People's Principles and Communism," he talked about the difference between the old and new Three People's Principles, as well as the difference between communism and the New Three People's Principles, and pointed out that communism will certainly be realized in China. The content of his lectures is rich, the analysis is profound, vivid and lively, easy to understand, and it is well received by everyone.

Huang Cheng also paid great attention to the unity and education of progressive youth around the station. In the spring of 1939, when Zhou Enlai inspected the work in southern Anhui, he visited Liu Yin's home, which was more than 20 miles away from the military headquarters. At that time, Liu Yin was the principal of Beixiang Primary School in Taiping County, and he reported to Zhou Enlai that Huang Cheng showed him the Xinhua Daily to publicize the party's united front policy and guide him on the road of resisting Japan and saving the country. This incident was enthusiastically praised by Zhou Enlai. Later, Liu Yin was introduced by Huang Cheng and joined the New Fourth Army.

In early 1941, the Kuomintang reactionaries planned the second anti-communist upsurge and launched the Anhui Incident that shocked China and foreign countries, encircling and attacking 9,000 people of the New Fourth Army on the way north with more than 80,000 troops in 7 divisions. Our army fought bloodily for 7 days and nights, and finally because the disparity between the number of people and widows was too large, and the ammunition was exhausted, except for more than 2,000 people who broke through the siege, most of them died heroically, and some of them were unfortunately captured. Military commander Ye Ting went down the mountain to negotiate and was detained. Huang Cheng was hindered in the battle, hidden in the mountains, and was found and arrested by the enemy when the enemy's large army searched the mountain.

Chen Yi fushi felt sorry for Huang Cheng, praising him for his "good wind and bones in the face of difficulties"

At the beginning of Huang Cheng's capture, he was detained with nearly 100 New Fourth Army personnel in a large civilian house near the headquarters of the 108th Division. The enemy inquired who was a member of the Communist Party and pulled Chen Yansheng, a doctor of the New Fourth Army, out for questioning. In order to prevent the enemy from hurting more comrades, Huang Cheng stepped forward to admit that he was a communist, and denounced the Diehard Kuomintang faction for shouting against Japan, actually opposing communism, plotting incidents, plotting against the evil deeds of our army, and warning them not to think of any ideas on the Communists, that their heads could be broken, that their blood could be shed, and that their revolutionary integrity would never be lost. This impassioned remark not only suppressed the arrogance of the enemy, but also boosted the fighting spirit of comrades.

Huang Cheng waited for 3 days in the 108th Division and was transferred to the 52nd Division. On the way to the transfer, Huang Cheng secretly handed Ji Baiwei, who also worked in the military political department, a note that read: "If you can go out, please tell the party that I will never betray the party!" In the 52nd Division, Huang Cheng was locked up with Li Zifang, director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army, and Lin Zhifu, director of the Enemy Industry Department. In the evening, Liu Bingzhe, commander of the enemy's 52nd Division, separately called Huang Cheng, Li Zifang, and Lin Zhifu to talk. Liu Bingzhe has known Huang Cheng for a long time, and the two have dealt with each other many times. Shortly before the Anhui Incident, Liu Bingzhe was instructed by Gu Zhutong to pretend to invite the basketball team of the New Fourth Army to play a friendly match in order to create a friendly appearance. After studying, the leaders of the New Fourth Army decided that Huang Cheng would lead the basketball team of the military department to participate, and was received by Liu Bingzhe with unusual enthusiasm. In the Southern Anhui Incident, the 52nd Division, as Chiang Kai-shek's concubine, was the most vigorous. This night, Liu Bingzhe pretended to politely let him sit down for tea, and then deliberately distorted the truth of the incident, slandering the New Fourth Army as "disobeying orders" and being a "rebel army." Huang Cheng refuted one by one according to reason, and Liu Bingzhe had no words to say, but only "persuaded" Huang Cheng to "understand current affairs and not to be obsessed with it," "hoped" that he "broke away from the Communist Party," and "welcomed" him to "work together on the Kuomintang side." Huang Cheng scoffed at this.

Early the next morning, Liu Bingzhe again pretended to "invite" Li Zifang, Huang Cheng, Lin Zhifu, and others to breakfast, saying that they would be sent to Shangrao for "several months of training," and that Commander Ye Ting and others had already been sent to the commander's headquarters first. After the meal, Liu sent an aide-de-camp and a squad of armed escorts, and also called it "escort". On the same day, it was sent to the TangShizun Headquarters in Taiping County. Sleeping until midnight, the enemy tied up Huang Cheng and the others, saying that they were "afraid that the New Fourth Army, which was scattered, would come to rob people." Early the next morning, Huang Cheng and others were handcuffed, pushed onto a truck, and escorted by a gendarme battalion commander and a squad of gendarmes, and arrived in Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, on the evening of the 23rd, where they were detained at Licun Prison near the headquarters of the commander of the Three Theaters. Huang Cheng and Li Zifang were locked up in a row of cells on the south side of the prison near the west end, and Ye Ting was also imprisoned here, alone in the north and east rooms. The two cells, separated by an aisle, a gendarmerie house and a courtyard, were inaccessible to each other.

Soon, Zhou Enlai in Chongqing learned that Ye Tingguan was in Shangrao and sent a sum of money, at that time the Kuomintang and the Communist Party still maintained cooperative relations, Zhou Enlai was also serving as deputy director of the Political Department of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, and Gu Zhutong, commander of the Three Theaters, did not dare to detain it, so he had to ask the adjutant to transfer the money to Ye Ting. Ye Ting used this money to buy some cloth to make a single dress and gave Huang Cheng and others a set for each. Huang Cheng was deeply touched by the party's concern for the imprisoned comrades and the military commander's concern for his subordinates.

In July 1941, Huang Cheng, along with Li Zifang, was transferred to Shidi Prison. Located near Zhoutian Village, the base camp of the Shangrao concentration camp, the stone bottom was converted from an isolated house, and the reactionaries drove away the peasant households, and a high wall was built around it, guarded by a squad of gendarmes. In two cells, 10 cadres of the New Fourth Army, including Huang Cheng and Li Zifang, were held. They were all members of the Communist Party, and with a high degree of party spirit and organizational concepts, they secretly brewed and established a secret branch of the party, with Li Zifang as the branch secretary and Huang Cheng and Xu Jinshu as the branch members. The 10 people were divided into two party groups, and Li Zifang and Huang Cheng served as the leaders of the two groups. Secret party branches often analyze the situation for everyone, study the tactics of struggle, and organize everyone to seize the time to study. Huang Cheng taught his comrades to study history, politics, mathematics, and English, and even the guards' gendarmes were fascinated when they lectured. Some gendarmes could not help but secretly praise: "There are really talents in the Communist Party and the New Fourth Army!" A gendarme learned English from Huang Cheng, who patiently taught him and propagated the idea of resisting Japan and saving the country to him, changing his erroneous understanding of the Communist Party and the New Fourth Army. The gendarme admired Huang Cheng's personality and talent and wanted to save Huang Cheng from prison. Unexpectedly, this matter was discovered by his superiors and punished by criminal law. Later, the gendarme took the opportunity to flee the Kuomintang reactionary forces.

One day, Zhang Chao, the head of the secret service of the Shangrao concentration camp and major general of the Intelligence Commissioner Office of the Political Department of the Three Theaters, came to Shidi, pointed at Li Zifang, Huang Cheng, and others, and made a big fuss: "You are all relatively responsible cadres, and you must bear certain responsibilities for this rebellion of the New Fourth Army" and "think quietly and reflect." He also tricked him into saying that as long as he "repented and rehabilitated" and "announced his secession from the Communist Party," he could "not blame the past" and would be "reused." Huang Cheng first angrily retorted, "I have heard enough of your set. What is 'rebellion' and disobedience to military orders is a complete distortion of the facts. Exactly who mutinied is clear to the people of the whole country and the people of the whole world. You have repeatedly created friction, incited anti-communism and undermined the War of Resistance. In order to take into account the overall situation of resisting Japan and saving the country, we crossed the river to the north according to your opinions, but you brazenly launched the Anhui Incident, assassinating our army, making the Japanese aggressors happy and the people of the whole country sad and indignant. Please, isn't this kind of behavior of yours a betrayal of the people of the motherland? Huang Chengyi sternly refuted it, angry that Zhang Chao's face was red and his ears were red, and he was stunned. Huang Cheng continued to say with a straight face: "Our New Fourth Army is an anti-Japanese contingent, and in the past few years, it has turned to the north and south of the great river, and its achievements are brilliant, which is obvious to all. Is there any sin in us not to surrender to Japan, not to plunder the people, and to fight and save the country with all our hearts, and to shed blood and sacrifice ourselves?!" Li Zifang and other comrades also refuted them one after another, and Zhang Chao was speechless and had to shout fiercely: "It is really stubborn and ignorant of current affairs!"

Comrades Huang Cheng, Li Zifang, and others had discussed the collective prison escape riot, but because the enemy was strictly supervised, some comrades were too weak to run out, so the secret party branch approved the escape of Xu Jinshu, Liao Zhengwen, and Hu Chongde, who were in good health and understood military affairs, to escape from prison individually. On a stormy dusk, Xu Jinshu and 3 other people ran out of the hole in the wall dug in the kitchen. When Gu Zhutong got the news, he was greatly shocked and immediately sent a large number of troops to pursue him on all sides. Xu Jinshu fought bravely with the pursuing enemy and died heroically. Liao Zhengwen and Hu Chongde were captured by the enemy. The enemy carried Xu Jinshu's body to prison, and Zhang Chao pointed to the body and said to Huang Cheng and Li Zifang: "This is all the result of your instructions!" Say, what do you really want to do? ”

Everyone stood indignantly. Huang Cheng first rebuked Zhang Chao, saying, "You are xu Jinshu's murderer! Ask us what we want to do? Tell you, we want to leave this dark prison early and go to the anti-Japanese front!" Li Zifang then said: "If we weren't in poor health, we would have escaped from prison." If so, who will direct us? ”

The enemy put heavy shackles on Huang Cheng and Li Zifang. Fearing that they would influence other "prisoners," the other 5 comrades who were also imprisoned were transferred to Zhoutian Village. From the day of his arrest, Huang Cheng was ready to sacrifice. He once managed to ask someone to bring out a note from prison to Yang Shu, which was written on a piece of paper torn from a practice book: "The army was defeated and detained, and the life and death were mob." For several years, he has been engaged in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and is not ashamed. I will never change my mind because of the axe in front. If you die like this, then ask for mercy and forgiveness, and your husband will not complain. It can be seen that he has long put life and death aside.

In April 1942, according to the will of Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin, Gu Zhutong issued an order to secretly execute Huang Cheng, Li Zifang and others. On the morning of April 23, Zhang Chao sent two agents to Shidi Prison to put poison in the meal. After eating, 4 comrades Huang Cheng, Li Zifang, Liao Zhengwen and Hu Chongde suddenly felt abdominal pain like strangulation and passed out. Due to insufficient dosage, there was no gas outage. At dusk, Zhang Chao sent two more agents to strangle them with ropes. Huang Cheng and others sacrificed their precious lives for the cause of national liberation of the motherland and for the great ideal of communism.

In September 1944, Chen Yi, the acting commander of the New Fourth Army, expressed his admiration for Huang Cheng, praising him for his "good wind and bones in the face of difficulties" and "being captured and unyielding, and admirable in his ambitions".