One day in September 1943, in Dihua (Urumqi), Xinjiang, the dark night was like ink staining, as if to indicate that the night would not be calm.
A few sneaky people came lightly to a dilapidated room. Everyone had sticks in their hands, and in the moonlight they aimed at the sleeping man on the bed.
There were a few muffled pops, and the lying man struggled a few times and stopped moving. A few people didn't look much, threw down their sticks, took out the ropes and went forward again.
After a long time, the people under the confirmation rope were silent again, and the people breathed a sigh of relief.
Then they turned on the light, took out the camera, clicked, clicked, and exchanged their heads while clapping: "Take a few more pictures, take a clear picture, use it on it, I heard that it was for the people from Chongqing, it was very big, it seemed that the wife of the chairman of the committee, called Song Meiling..."
A gust of wind blew, the windows rustled, and the dark moonlight illuminated these distorted faces, and they were a little weak-hearted, and they continued with a hard scalp.
The victims have fallen into a deep sleep, no longer paying attention to the disturbances of this world. In his heart, he had already donated himself to the cause of human liberation.
He is Chen Tanqiu, the representative of the CPC Central Committee in Xinjiang and the head of the Xinjiang office of the Eighth Route Army. He also has a more prominent identity, that is, one of the founders of the party, the representative of the "Big One" of the Communist Party of China, and the initiator of the Hubei Communist Group.
Due to the isolation of information, two years later, in 1945, the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China was convened, and Chen Tanqiu was still elected as a member of the Central Committee.
Although this special member of the Central Committee did not have the opportunity to witness the grand occasion of the congress, he gave a vivid interpretation of what a Communist Party member is with his life.
In the secluded Wuchang Governor's Mansion DiXiao Street, there is a two-story brick and wood Chinese-style building from the Republic of China period, which was once known as the "command organ of the Hubei Revolutionary Movement" during the Great Revolution.
It was originally the site of the primary school attached to the National Wuchang Higher Normal School, and later became not only the site of the Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of China, but also the place where Chen Tanqiu engaged in revolutionary activities in the early days.
Most of the deputies who participated in the "First Congress" of the CPC were intellectuals who led and threw themselves into the "May Fourth Movement" and the New Culture Movement, and came from the academy one after another. They are either well-known scholars, celebrities, or students.
Among them, there were great military figures like Mao Zedong, and there were also professional revolutionaries like Dong Biwu...
But there was only one person who fought with a gun and was wounded in the line of fire with the courage of a warrior, that is, Chen Tanqiu from Wuhan.
Chen Tanqiu
Scars are the most glorious medal of a warrior
After 1935, no matter where Chen Tanqiu went to Shanghai, Moscow, or Xinjiang, people who saw him would find that he had a defect in his right ear.
In those war-torn times, scars were the most glorious medal for warriors. Some old comrades recalled that when they first met Chen Tanqiu, they were solemnly respected, and when they saw the disability of his head, they knew that this was a veteran soldier who rushed out of the rain of bullets and bullets.
Chen Tanqiu was wounded in battle during the breakout of western Fujian in February 1935.
In October 1934, the main force of the Central Red Army began the Long March, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to set up the Central Soviet Sub-Bureau, Xiang Ying served as the secretary of the sub-bureau, Chen Tanqiu participated in the work of the sub-bureau, they stayed in Ruijin, Jiangxi, led the remaining more than 40,000 Red Army and local troops, and continued to persist in the struggle.
In the face of the increasingly tight encirclement of the Kuomintang army, the situation in the Soviet zone is becoming more and more severe, and they need to disperse as soon as possible to carry out guerrilla warfare.
After the Zunyi Conference, the Secretariat of the Central Committee specifically studied the problems of the Central Soviet Region.
On February 5, 1935, the Central Committee issued the "Instructions of the Secretariat of the Central Committee to the Central Sub-Bureau on Persisting in Guerrilla Warfare in the Central Soviet Region and Its Nearby Soviet Regions", requiring the sub-bureau to establish the Central Soviet Division of the Revolutionary Military Commission to disperse and lead the masses to carry out guerrilla warfare.
The Central Soviet Sub-Bureau decided to divide the troops into five routes and break through to the border areas to carry out guerrilla warfare. As a special commissioner, Chen Tanqiu, together with Tan Zhenlin, was tasked with leading a reinforced battalion of the Red 24th Division to break through to southwest Fujian to join Zhang Dingcheng and carry out guerrilla warfare in southwest Fujian.
In March, a new journey began, they set out from the southwest of Ruijin, marched to Changting Sidu, the seat of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, and waded all the way through the mountains and rivers, over the Wuyi Mountains.
On the way forward, dangers abounded, and they repeatedly encountered encirclement and interception by the enemy's regular army and militia groups, and came to yanxia mountain in Shanghang County with painstaking efforts, and the troops finally fell into a dilemma and were surrounded by regiments.
The battle was very fierce, the battalion commander of the reinforcement battalion was unfortunately killed, and Chen Tanqiu took up his gun and directly commanded the battle. In the process of breaking through, Chen Tanqiu was in danger, first hit the right ear by a bullet, and then fell off the cliff and injured his head.
After dozens of days of fighting and walking, Chen Tanqiu, who had endured hardships and dangers, finally arrived in western Fujian and joined Zhang Dingcheng in Chizhai Township, Shangxi South District, Yongding County.
Here, Chen Tanqiu presided over the first meeting of party, government, and army deputies from southwest Fujian, conveyed the spirit of the instructions of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Sub-Bureau, and made a resolution in light of the situation in southwest Fujian.
Finally, according to Chen Tanqiu's proposal, the Military and Political Committee of Southwest Fujian was established to unify the leadership of the party, government, and army in southwest Fujian.
For some time after that, Chen Tanqiu was wounded and organized a guerrilla war with Tan Zhenlin and Deng Zihui.
However, Chen Tanqiu's physical condition was getting worse and worse, and the previous gunshot wounds and fall injuries could not be cured for a long time, so he had to be sent to Shanghai for treatment.
Later, Chen Tanqiu was sent to Moscow to participate in the "Seventh Congress" of the Communist International, bidding farewell to his military career.
The sea and inland civilization collide with the flame of revolution
Chen Tanqiu, who walked into the gun forest and bullets, was born into a family of teachers and farmers in Chenzhailou Village, Huanggang, Hubei Province. Eight brothers, he ranked seventh. The fifth brother, Chen Shusan, was a member of the League, participated in the Xinhai Revolution, and was radical in his thinking, and Chen Tanqiu was greatly influenced and taught by it.
Huanggang, Hubei, adjacent to Wuhan, is the place where the old and new cultures intersect, and many prominent figures have emerged in the history of modern revolution. Along with Chen Tanqiu, who went out of his hometown and joined the party ranks and was quite famous, there were Lin Yuying (i.e., Zhang Hao), Lin Yunan in the "Three Forests of Huanggang", and Lin Yurong (i.e., Lin Biao) who later entered the Whampoa Military Academy.
Wuhan, where Chen Tanqiu grew up, can be called the "Tongqu of Nine Provinces", located in the center of mainland China but has never been designated as the capital of the country, and has always been a commercial and transportation hub.
The Lu Lane built on the Shunjiang Embankment in the three towns does not have the square pattern of a traditional Chinese city, so "the streets are not divided into north and south, and the elder and the young are not distinguished from respect and inferiority." The gunboat merchant ships of the Western powers went deep along the Yangtze River, and the Beijing-Hankou and Guangdong-Han railways met in Wuhan, making Wuhan inland a collision point for the fusion of marine civilization and inland customs.
It is precisely in this humanistic environment, starting from the Wuchang Uprising, that the revolutionary situation in modern China has been stirring in Chutian, and a large number of heroic martyrs have emerged in the struggle. And Chen Tanqiu is one of the best.
During his studies at the National Wuchang Higher Normal School (the predecessor of Wuhan University), Chen Tanqiu loved literature and was proficient in English, and was also known as a footballer and long-distance runner in the school.
More importantly, here, Chen Tanqiu opened the enlightenment of Marxism, and he often went in and out of the library to read books and periodicals that disseminated new ideas, such as "New Youth". After the outbreak of the October Revolution, the enthusiasm of the young Chen Tanqiu to join the revolution became more and more high.
Soon, the "May Fourth" anti-imperialist patriotic movement broke out in Beijing, chen Tanqiu was elected as a representative of the student league, organized the Wuhan Student Federation, and participated in the Wuhan student parade together to show solidarity with Beijing.
Great forerunners often have a strong sense of historical self-consciousness and do not miss their own key moments.
At this time, Chen Tanqiu was still a young student leader, and although he raised his arms and responded in groups, the impact was mainly limited to the student group.
In June 1919, Chen Tanqiu accompanied the Wuhan student delegation to Shanghai to visit and study, where he met another important person, Dong Biwu, who was also the representative of the later "Great".
Comrade Dong Biwu, when he was a teenager, witnessed the decadent autocracy of the Qing Dynasty government and the oppression and plundering of the Chinese by the Western powers, and was very sad and determined to save the country and save the people.
He transformed from a late Qing Dynasty into a staunch anti-imperialist and anti-feudal democrat, and from then on embarked on the path of a professional revolutionary who fought tirelessly for the cause of liberation.
Dong Biwu successively joined the League and the Chinese Revolutionary Party, participated in the Xinhai Revolution and the struggle against the Beiyang warlord Yuan Shikai. However, the darkness of Chinese society after the Xinhai Revolution made him bitter and sad, "touching the curtain, that is, the city is depressed, the people's morale is depressed, the depression is bleak, and people are happy to be spared."
Dong Biwu once again embarked on the road of exploring the truth of saving the country and saving the people.
In February 1919, Dong Biwu came to Shanghai, this time to complain to Sun Yat-sen and relevant parties about the murder of the commander-in-chief of the "Jingguo Army in Western Hubei".
He did not expect that the real significance of coming to Shanghai this time was that he would touch the long-sought revolutionary fire. Because in Shanghai, he not only met Chen Tanqiu, but also another future representative of the CPC, Li Hanjun.
Li Hanjun, Dong Biwu, Chen Tanqiu
After arriving in Shanghai, Dong Biwu was entrusted by the Hubei Aftermath Association organized by his fellow villagers in Shanghai and Hubei to preside over the affairs of the meeting, and lived in the organ of the South Hubei Aftermath Association on Yuyangli Road, Xiafei Road.
At that time, Li Hanjun had just returned to Shanghai from the Imperial University of Japan, and he was also from Hubei, so he often went to the Aftermath Guild. Naturally, Dong Biwu and Li Hanjun became acquainted.
During his studies at the Imperial University of Japan, Li Hanjun was deeply influenced by the Japanese Marxist economist Kawakami, studied many classic works of Marxism, and began to lean toward Marxism.
Li Hanjun conveyed to Dong Biwu many news of the October Revolution in Russia, and introduced some Marxist reading materials and progressive newspapers and periodicals that could be found at that time.
Then, Dong Biwu introduced these books and periodicals to Chen Tanqiu for reading.
They began to realize that the Russian Revolution was a "class revolution", a "mass movement" and a "people's armed force", using Marxism as an ideological weapon.
In contrast to the Xinhai Revolution at home, it simply used warlords and lacked the foundation of the broad masses.
Considering the domestic political situation after the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, the spark of thought began to bloom.
They unanimously agreed that "China still wants revolution, it wants to overthrow the great powers, it wants to get rid of warlords, it wants to establish a democratic system,...... We must awaken the masses", and we must do Marxist enlightenment work among workers, peasants and students.
Although Chen Tanqiu and Dong Biwu, two revolutionary volunteers, met for the first time, they hated each other late, and finally "decided to return to Hubei to spread Marxism and carry out revolutionary activities by running newspapers and running schools."
Two revolutionary pioneers came together and co-founded the early communist organization in Wuhan.
Many years later, Dong Biwu said this about chen Tanqiu's eldest son, Chen Hu, about his deceased friend: "From before and after the founding of the party until the defeat of the Great Revolution, I had a very close working relationship with your father, we worked together for a long time, and he actually did more party work than me. I mainly engaged in social activities in an open capacity and did a lot of united front work. ”
Pioneer of the revolution
During the "February Seventh" strike, the deeds of martyr Lin Xiangqian were spread all over the world, and it was Chen Tanqiu who guided him on the revolutionary road.
After 1922, Chen Tanqiu often went deep into factories and the Beijing-Hankou Railway as a journalist to investigate the suffering and help workers open literacy classes.
At that time, Xiang Delong (later renamed Xiang Ying), a worker who had just been introduced to the party by Bao Huisheng, reported to him that there was a young worker in the Jiang'an Machine Factory, Lin Xiangqian, who was a good fighter among his companions and had a high prestige.
Chen Tanqiu had the heart to get to know such a young Haojie, so he met up to meet.
Lin Xiangqian, who came from a poor background, had always been looked down upon in society at that time, never thought that a reporter from a college graduation would come to visit him, and also offered to make friends, and his heart was very moved.
Chen Tanqiu often talked with Lin Xiangqian on his knees, starting from why workers were oppressed and always talking about the only way to final liberation through communism.
Lin Xiangqian was very shocked, and the simple chivalrous pride was armed with advanced ideas, and soon formed a powerful revolutionary action.
Lin Xiangqian soon joined the party organization, and together with Xiang Delong and others, he organized the establishment of a workers' club, and served as the chairman of the Jiang'an Branch Trade Union.
In February 1923, the Beijing-Hankou railway workers went on strike, the warlord Wu Peifu sent troops to suppress it, and Lin Xiangqian was killed after his arrest and refused to give orders to resume work.
When the army surrounded the Jiang'an Workers' Club and the gunfire outside was loud, Chen Tanqiu asked the other comrades to move, and he led several workers to persist until late at night before withdrawing.
Although the "27" strike failed, it brought great and far-reaching historical significance to the history of the Chinese workers' movement and the Chinese people's revolution.
It is a combination of political struggle and economic struggle, guaranteeing and expanding the achievements of economic struggle with political struggle, marking the development of the Chinese workers' movement to a new stage and also marking the chinese working class's entry into the world political stage.
After the "February 7" strike, Chen Tanqiu was wanted as an organizer, and he came to Anyuan to engage in the Anyuan workers' movement and party building work together with Li Lisan, Liu Shaoqi, and others.
In June 1923, Chen Tanqiu went to Guangzhou to attend the Third National Congress of the Communist Party of China. At the meeting, a report on the "February Seventh" massacre on the Beijing-Hankou Railway was made, summing up the lessons of this strike struggle.
After experiencing the lessons of the "February Seventh" massacre, Chen Tanqiu attached great importance to the education of workers and workers' children, vigorously established workers' night schools and schools for workers' children, and cultivated a number of backbone cadres for the Anyuan workers' movement.
Many people in the older generation of the party love to write old-style poems, but Chen Tanqiu is good at vernacular writing. Here, he left behind a new style poem that was sung for a while, "May Day Commemorative Song":
May Day, really magnificent, the great unity of the world's workers!
Launched Chicago, responded to the world.
Western Europe, East Asia and the Americas, splashed with labor blood every year!
Do not succeed in vowing,
I hope that everyone will work hard and never live up to May Day!
This year, when Anyuan workers and students marched on May Day, they sang this majestic "May Day Commemorative Song" and marched forward in a big stride!
Born as a scholar but not pedantic, from a well-off family but without a clumsy style, able to win the standard green field, willing to make friends with poor workers, and daring to hold a gun in the line of fire, these constitute the complete image of Chen Tanqiu.
Today's people remember this groundbreaker who has multiple identities as a journalist, party cadre, and fighter, and cannot but express his sincere admiration.
A heart of blood sprinkled on the Tianshan Mountains
Chen Tanqiu has successively served as a member of the Anyuan Prefectural Committee of the CPC, secretary of the Wuchang Prefectural Cpc Committee, director of the Organization Department of the Hubei District CPC Committee, secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial CPC Committee, director of the Organization Department of the Jiangsu Provincial CPC Committee, secretary of the Manchurian Provincial CPC Committee, secretary of the Fujian Provincial CPC Committee, representative of the CPC Central Committee in Xinjiang and head of the Eighth Route Army Office in Xinjiang.
His revolutionary career began in Wuhan, but his last journey was in Xinjiang, a northwestern frontier thousands of miles away. Chen Tanqiu's four years in Xinjiang were the most wonderful 4 years of his life, and they were also the four years that deserve to be remembered and praised.
In these four years, as the representative of the CPC Central Committee in Xinjiang, he did not fail in his mission, and in a special and complex environment, he flexibly and skillfully launched a struggle against the Xinjiang warlord Sheng Shicai.
Under extremely difficult circumstances, Chen Tanqiu did a good job in united front work to the greatest extent, ensured the smoothness of Xinjiang as the main channel of China's War of Resistance, and composed a heroic song of the Communists.
However, he did not expect that this time the magnificent song was composed by him with a life carrying the blood of Li Li. However, for Chen Tanqiu, this did not matter, because he had already given his life to the revolutionary cause and was ready to sacrifice at any time.
Asahi said, death can be done! This journalist who was once in good shape on the green field and the founder of the party with a steely will finally died here and was buried at the foot of the Tianshan Mountain.
In 1939, with the continuous deepening of China's War of Resistance under the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Xinjiang, which is located on the border of China and connects the Eurasian continent, has increasingly become an important base for the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Xinjiang is vast, rich in mineral deposits and numerous ethnic groups, and has been an important channel for China's foreign exchanges since ancient times. After Japan launched the "918" incident, it gradually advanced into the hinterland of China, and most of the provinces in the country fell one after another, and only 7 provinces were not occupied by the Japanese, and Xinjiang was one of them.
Although far from the raging flames of war, the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang still have their hearts set on the front line.
They resolutely advocated the war against Japan and organized 14 ethnic groups in Xinjiang to send more than 100,000 letters of condolence in various ethnic scripts to the frontline bloody soldiers, which greatly encouraged the enthusiasm of the frontline soldiers and compatriots throughout the country for the War of Resistance.
Materially, the people of Xinjiang have actively donated money, donated materials, and even donated 10 aircraft. It strongly supported the national War of Resistance and became the rear area of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
It is precisely because Xinjiang has such an important economic and political significance to China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that the CPC attaches special importance to Xinjiang's united front work, and has successively sent senior cadres Chen Yun and Deng Fa to Xinjiang to serve as CPC representatives in Xinjiang.
In May 1939, Chen Tanqiu, who had gone to Moscow to attend the Seventh Congress of the Communist International, returned from the Soviet Union and planned to return to Yan'an via Xinjiang.
When he arrived in Dihua (present-day Urumqi) in Xinjiang, he received a telegram from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China asking him to stay in Dihua for a while. Two months later, the central authorities telegraphed him to remain in Xinjiang and prepare to succeed Deng Fa.
In this way, Chen Tanqiu became the third and last representative of the CPC Central Committee in Xinjiang and the head of the Xinjiang office of the Eighth Route Army after Deng Fa.
Chen Tanqiu, who came to Xinjiang, shouldered a heavy responsibility, and he assumed the pseudonym Xu Jie and threw himself into a new special struggle.
As the supreme leader of the Communist Party in Xinjiang, Chen Tanqiu knew that the first task was to do a good job in the work of the anti-Japanese united front.
The core of Xinjiang's united front work is to unite the "King of Xinjiang" Sheng Shicai and promote him to maintain a good cooperative relationship with the Communist Party of China.
Sheng Shicai, the word Jinyong. Formerly known as Zhenjia, also known as Desan, Liaoning Kaiyuan people. In 1919, he entered the Shaoguan Branch of the Yunnan Army, and in 1923, he went to the Japanese Army University to study.
In 1927, he returned to China and successively served as a staff officer of the Kuomintang He Yaozu Department and the chief of the Staff Headquarters of the Northern Expedition Headquarters of the Nationalist Government.
In 1930, Sheng Shicai entered Xinjiang with Lu Xiaozu, and in 1933, he was elected as the provisional governor of Xinjiang, and began a 12-year dictatorship over Xinjiang.
In order to maintain his ruling position, he implemented the "six major policies" of opposing imperialism and pro-Sovietism, and established an anti-Japanese united front with the Communist Party, making Xinjiang after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan a key communication channel for the Soviet Union to aid China and the Communist International to connect with the Communist Party of China.
However, because Sheng Shicai's cooperation with the CCP was not out of national righteousness, but only for his own selfish interests, he was still an "ambitious warlord" in his bones.
Cooperation has sown the seeds of uneasiness from the beginning. As soon as the wind blows, the prosperous world will waver, and friction with the CCP will occur from time to time.
In the face of the grim situation, Chen Tanqiu did not flinch, resolutely implemented the CPC Central Committee's policy of "persisting in resisting the war and opposing surrender; upholding unity and opposing separatism; persisting in progress and opposing retrogression," waged a reasoned and restrained struggle against Sheng Shicai, and improved relations with Sheng Shicai to the greatest extent.
In 1939, the international and domestic situation took a sharp turn for the worse.
The international German-Soviet War broke out, the Soviet Union was unfavorable in the initial war, a large area of land fell into the hands of Nazi Germany, and the Japanese Kwantung Army was also eager to move, repeatedly provoking the Soviet army on the Sino-Soviet border in northeast China and Inner Mongolia.
Domestically, Chiang Kai-shek launched the first anti-communist upsurge, and the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was in danger of breaking down.
In the face of this situation, the fledgling Sheng Shicai gradually shed his disguise, constantly created incidents, and deteriorated relations with the CCP and the Soviet Union.
Chen Tanqiu was not afraid, and there were no conditions for armed confrontation, so he made full use of the offensive of public opinion to carry out the struggle.
Xinjiang Daily is the main public opinion position of the CPC in Xinjiang to publicize the CPC's policy of the anti-Japanese national united front, and has a great influence and readership.
Taking advantage of this position, Chen Tanqiu vigorously propagated the party's principles and policies for the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and used public opinion to kidnap Sheng Shicai and force Sheng Shengcai to resist Japan; on the other hand, he compiled and distributed some articles that borrowed ancient metaphors from the present to expose Sheng Shicai's ghost tricks of sabotaging the united front.
In January 1941, the Kuomintang deliberately created the "Anhui Southern Incident", and Chen Tanqiu was highly vigilant. On the one hand, he did his work in front of Sheng Shicai and asked him to publish a telegram in support of the CCP in the Xinjiang Daily; on the other hand, he educated comrades to be wary of Sheng Shicai's two-faced conspiracy.
But at this time, Sheng Shicai could not hold back his restless warlord ambitions.
On May 18, 1941, Sheng Shicai concocted the so-called "Du Chongyuan Conspiracy Riot Case", arresting Du Chongyuan (who was secretly killed in 1943), a pioneer of the revolutionary left, a patriotic pro-communist democrat, and then the president of the Xinjiang Academy, implicated thousands of people.
On June 22 of the same year, Hitler launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union. Sheng Shicai no longer concealed his authoritarian features as warlords, constantly arbitrarily transferred eighth route army personnel working in the Xinjiang government, and also spread rumors and slanders and deliberately provoked.
In order to save the reversal of the situation at that time, Chen Tanqiu instructed Lin Jilu and others to write two articles, "Commenting on Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Rebellion and Separation of The People," which were published in the Xinjiang Daily, alluding to the fact that Sheng Shicai had already come to the road of rebellion and separation, and if he did not get lost and returned as soon as possible, he would certainly be reviled for generations like Wang Jingwei.
Sheng Shicai was furious when he saw these articles and ordered to track down the author, but Chen Tanqiu cleverly prevaricated it.
Although Sheng Shicai knew it in his heart, he couldn't help it, and he had to reassure the author against his heart, saying, "You are not wrong, I did not criticize you."
Although he barely suppressed his ambitions, Sheng Shicai had begun to quietly lay out and prepare to tear his face.
On March 19, 1942, the dehumanizing Sheng Shicai secretly sent people to assassinate sheng shiqi, the fourth brother who adhered to the pro-Soviet and pro-communist stance, and blamed the murder of Sheng Shiqi on the CPSU and the CCP, slandering it as a "conspiracy of the Communist Party of China.
From these signs, Chen Tanqiu had a premonition that Sheng Shicai would completely betray him.
The mountain rain was about to fill the building, and we had to hurry up and act.
On the one hand, Chen Tanqiu sent a telegram to the Party Central Committee, suggesting that the Central Committee "must make the necessary preparations to cope with new and possible events" and proposed that the cadres of Xinjiang work be transferred back to Yan'an to preserve the revolutionary forces; on the other hand, the revolutionary integrity education of Communist Party members should be strengthened in the process of rectifying the work style.
In a speech, he said: We may be arrested and killed at any time, and every comrade must be fully prepared ideologically.
In early July 1942, Song Meiling and Zhu Shaoliang came to Xinjiang, and Sheng Jiang colluded with each other to become public.
From the end of June to the beginning of July, the central government sent several telegrams to Chen Tanqiu, agreeing that all party members in Xinjiang would withdraw to Yan'an.
However, at that time, the traffic from Xinjiang to Yan'an had been blocked by the Kuomintang, and only the Soviet Union had to be withdrawn first. In accordance with the instructions of the central authorities, Chen Tanqiu contacted the Soviet consulate in Xinjiang while drawing up a retreat plan.
He decided to evacuate in three batches: the responsible cadres and air units in various localities would be withdrawn first, the old, sick, sick and disabled and the cadres' families and children would be withdrawn in the second batch, and he himself and a small number of staff members of the office would be withdrawn last.
The other comrades asked Chen Tanqiu to leave first, but Chen Tanqiu insisted on staying, saying: "I am the leader here, and if everyone does not leave, I will go first. I must not go! ”
Some people were also worried that he would not be able to withdraw in the end, Chen Tanqiu said: "Sheng Shicai came to arrest people, and I will go to jail!" ”
On September 17, Sheng Shicai completely turned his face to the CCP, dispatched a large number of armed military police, surrounded the eighth route army office, arrested Comrades Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu, and other comrades under the pretext of "Sheng Zhi's office please talk", and imprisoned them in Dihua Second Prison.
Subsequently, more than 100 COMMUNIST Party members, revolutionary cadres, and their families in Xinjiang were imprisoned, creating a "Xinjiang incident" that shocked China and foreign countries.
In prison, Chen Tanqiu fought bravely and tenaciously against the enemy. Sheng Shicai tried in vain to force Chen Tanqiu to submit, but he did not succeed.
When Sheng Shicai coerced Chen Tanqiu to confess the inside story of the so-called "Communist Party's April 12 Conspiracy Riot," Chen Tanqiu replied categorically: "The Communists are bright and upright, and there is absolutely no such thing!" ”
Sheng Shi learned of Chen Tanqiu's status and weight in the CCP and wanted to divide him and trick him into signing the "Statement on Renunciation."
Chen Tanqiu angrily refused, and denounced Sheng Shicai loudly, saying with a straight face: "The Communist Party of China has sent us comrades to help us in our new work, and we have not done anything harmful to the government or violated the policy of the Communist Party of China on the anti-Japanese national united front. "We are doing everything in Xinjiang in a fair and upright manner."
The enemy tortured Chen Tanqiu by "taking a plane," "pressing a large bar," and "filling with pepper water." Chen Tanqiu was unyielding and unyielding, and his iron bones were strong. Then, the enemy adopted "wheel tactics" and interrogated Chen Tanqiu day and night for dozens of days in a row, making him extremely tired. But as soon as he closed his eyes, the enemy woke him up with the fierce Amnia.
The fierce enemy did all the tricks, and did not get anything useful to them from Chen Tanqiu's mouth.
This spirit of not being afraid of danger, Chen Tanqiu maintained until the last moment of his life.
Chen Tanqiu's awe-inspiring arrogance failed to stop Sheng Shicai's butcher's knife, but it infected the jailers, and they all admired it and sighed: "You Communists Yaxi!" (Yaxi means Uyghur for "good, excellent")
Annoyed and angry, Sheng Shicai finally gave up his dead hand. On September 27, 1943, in the dead of night, Sheng Shicai sent people to beat Chen Tanqiu, Mao Zemin, Lin Jilu and three others with sticks and strangled them to death.
In order to flatter Chiang Kai-shek, Sheng Shicai also arranged for someone to take a photo and give it to Song Meiling, who came to contact him, to bring it back to Chongqing.
That year, Chen Tanqiu was 47 years old.
After the liberation of the whole country, Chen Tanqiu's remains were buried in the martyrs' cemetery on the southern outskirts of Urumqi, and they were always homaged. In front of his tomb stands a tall white marble tombstone. The tombstone is engraved with Dong Biwu's autograph inscription: Tomb of Chen Tanqiu Martyr.
Zhou Enlai once spoke highly: "Comrade Tanqiu is a real Bolshevik. ”
His close comrade-in-arms Dong Biwu also inscribed a poem praising: "Comrades-in-arms are eternally disobedient, and the achievements of Dousheng are brilliant." If you hear the spirit of the testimony, you will recite the testament and know what you have returned. ”
Tan Ying leisurely, look at the splendid Huangzhou, the picture of the former residence, a cavity of blood Tianshan sprinkled;
Autumn wind, reminiscence of youth, Chinese frost wind, heroes of the ages.
This painting is not only a portrayal of Chen Tanqiu's life, but also a deep memory of him.
In September 2009, Chen Tanqiu and Mao Zemin were named "100 Heroic And Exemplary Figures who Made Outstanding Contributions to the Founding of New China".