Li Xun
In the early autumn of northern Guangdong, the fields are paved with gold and the mountains are layered with greenery.
Our car sped along the cement-paved rural road towards Chongyang Town, Wujiang District, more than 20 kilometers away, the wheels rolled through the bustling and crowded urban area; the wheels rolled through the urban-rural junction of buildings and rice paddies, and came to the lush green field, I deeply inhaled the negative ions released by the "natural oxygen bar", and I was suddenly relaxed and happy... About a few tens of minutes by car, Liang Guanfu, an expert in party history and former deputy director of the Shaoguan City Party History Office, came to Ouwu Village in Chongyang Town, which was the former residence of Ou Rizhang, the leader of the peasant movement in northern Guangdong during the Great Revolution.
In recent years, in the "beautiful rural construction" of Ouwu Village, the appearance of the village has undergone fundamental changes: new buildings, cement paved village roads, and wide squares are hidden in green trees and red flowers. Lo and behold, the snow-white walls impressively bear the inscription "Promote the comprehensive revitalization of the old revolutionary areas with the fine tradition of arduous struggle and the indomitable Spirit of Xishui," which tells people that the old revolutionary areas are making a historic leap forward under the inspiration of the "Xishui Spirit." On the right side of the village entrance is the Ou Ri Zhang Exhibition Hall and the Ou Ri Zhang Former Residence, on the left there is a clear pond, surrounded by ochre red cement railings, and several old trees rustle in the autumn wind, as if a historical old man deeply tells the glory days...
When we walked into the Ou RiZhang Exhibition Hall, a series of yellowed historical photos appeared in front of us, and with Liang Guanfu's on-site explanation, I seemed to have walked into the long tunnel nearly a hundred years ago and witnessed a "Western Water Riot" formed by the burning fire of the revolution.
This is a historical beacon map intertwined with red and black, blood and fire!
Top gunfire
When it comes to the agricultural movement in Qujiang County, I have to mention one person.
His name was Ou Ri Zhang.
Ou Rizhang was born in a poor peasant family in Wenshui Village, Chongyang Township, Qujiang County, and only studied in private school for two years. When he was 9 years old, his parents died one after another, and he lived with his uncle and developed a character of integrity, stubbornness and courage to resist from an early age. In 1912, at the age of 20, Ou Rizhang left his hometown to make a living in Hong Kong and Singapore. During this period, he worked as a "turf worker", engaged in portering, and felt in his long-term contacts with workers and progressives that a major change must come from old China. So he tattooed the word "revolution" on his right arm to express his strong desire to seek the interests of the poor and to seek liberation.
Ling Yun's ambition, iron heart to transform the old world!
In September 1924, Sun Yat-sen swore an oath to teach the Northern Expedition in Shaoguan, and the Guangdong Peasants' Self-Defense Army went to Shaoguan to go to the countryside in batches to publicize to the peasants the principle of jointly running peasant associations and seeking liberation, and the peasants in Qujiang began to awaken. In the winter of the same year, Ou Rizhang first set up the "Ploughshares Association (later the Farmers' Association)" in the warm water village. He, together with Ou Dianzhang, Zhang Jingshan, Lei Guoguang, and others, traveled between the water villages of The Qujiang River to publicize the great principles of running peasant associations and explain the legality of the charter of peasant associations. After their in-depth propaganda and agitation, peasant associations were established one after another in Qujiang, and the members of the peasant association rose up and suddenly grew to more than 2,000 people.
In the spring of 1925, at the newly established Qujiang County 13th District Farmers' Association, Ou Rizhang was elected as an executive member of the Farmers' Association. In order to defend the peasant associations and safeguard the interests of the peasants, he selected 30 young and middle-aged people and established the squadron of the "Qujiang County 13th District Peasant Self-Defense Army" and served as the squadron leader. In December, Ou Rizhang joined the Communist Party of China and became one of the earliest members of Qujiang, forming the Qujiang Branch of the Communist Party of China with Liang Zhanru and Ye Fengzhang.
In March 1926, when the Red Storm in Xishui reached its climax, Ou Rizhang presided over a meeting of nearly 2,000 people on Chongyang Street, where he excitedly raised the red flag and shouted to bring down the local tycoons and gentry. In the subsequent campaign to reduce rent and interest rates, he took the lead and developed a group of Communist Party members in the storm of the struggle.
In May of the same year, in view of the fact that the Qujiang County Farmers' Association was controlled by the reactionary Ye Guotang and others at that time, the Guangdong Provincial Farmers' Association sent Cai Ruping, Zhou Qijian, Peng Pan and others to Qujiang to reorganize the county farmers' association. Due to ou rizhang's remarkable achievements in leading the Xishui agricultural movement, his firm stance, his faithful protection of the interests of farmers, and the trust and support of the majority of members, Ou Rizhang, together with Liang Zhanru and Ye Fengzhang, was elected as the leadership of the county agricultural cooperative.
On the cusp of the storm, Ou Rizhang did not pretend to be a leader, but started from investigation and research and rectified the peasant associations at all levels. He said: "The local tyrants and inferior gentry and our toiling masses do not take the same road, and we must completely draw a line." Ou Rizhang said that it is necessary to resolutely eliminate the landlords and gentry and bandit militias who have mixed into the peasant associations, purify the ranks of the peasant associations, and make the leadership of the peasant associations at all levels closely in the hands of members who are loyal to the interests of the peasants. At the same time, he also merged the squadrons of the peasant self-defense army in various districts to form a county-level peasant army brigade, personally served as the brigade commander, stepped up military training, and refreshed the quality of the peasant army. In December, the Guangdong Provincial Farmers' Association held a short-term peasant training class in Guangzhou, and Ou Rizhang personally led more than 30 backbone peasant army cadres to participate in the study.
At the beginning of 1927, due to Ou Rizhang's outstanding performance, he was transferred to the director of the Beijiang Office of the Guangdong Farmers' Association. However, the weather was unpredictable, and the qujiang Longgui district landlord militia group raided the district peasant association and killed more than 20 peasant association cadres and members.
After hearing the news. Furious, he and other leaders of the county peasant association urgently mobilized more than 300 people from the county peasant army brigade to Go to Longgui and launch a fierce attack on the landlord militia. With the assistance of teachers and students of the Beijiang Peasant Army School and Chen Jiayou's troops of the leftist faction of the National Revolutionary Army, Ou Changzhang commanded all the people and horses of the peasant army to brave the enemy's guns and bullets to crush one attack after another of the reactionary militia groups, capture the enemy's fort, and execute the reactionary leader Liu Guanwu.
On April 12, Chiang Kai-shek staged a counter-revolutionary coup in Shanghai, and the Kuomintang reactionaries in Guangzhou also planned the April 15 counter-revolutionary massacre. The Cpc Guangdong District sent Zhou Qijian to Shaoguan to convey instructions from his superiors and ordered the Beijiang Prefectural Committee to immediately organize the Beijiang Peasant Army to go north to Wuhan to wage a resolute struggle against the Kuomintang reactionaries.
At this time, Ou Rizhang was ordered to assist the leaders of the Beijiang Prefectural Committee in doing a good job in the training and reorganization of the peasant army. In late April, 1,200 peasant armies from various counties in the Beijiang area gathered in Shaoguan and established the General Headquarters of the Guangdong Beijiang Workers' and Peasants' Self-Defense Army in the North, with Ou Rizhang as the staff officer of the General Headquarters.
The flag is unfurled and the road is on the road.
When the Beijiang Peasant Army arrived in Leiyang, it was reorganized into Chen Jiayou's Thirteenth Army Supplementary Regiment according to the instructions of its superiors. In order to clarify the situation in the north and solve the problem of grain and medicine, the headquarters of the peasant army sent Ou Rizhang to accompany Luo Qiyuan to Changsha to contact the Hunan Provincial Peasant Association.
Due to the "Ma-Ri Incident" in Changsha on May 21, ou Rizhang and others arrived at the Hunan Provincial Peasants' Association on the night, they were surrounded by reactionary troops layer by layer, and he cleverly climbed onto the roof, broke away from the tiger's mouth, and returned to the headquarters of the peasant army to report on what happened in Changsha. After hearing the situation report, the Northbound Command immediately held a meeting, analyzed the situation, studied countermeasures, and continued to go north. After the Beijiang peasant army arrived in Wuhan after several twists and turns, Ou Rizhang carried out the order of the Party Central Committee to "quickly break away from the Thirteenth Army and go to Nanchang to concentrate, preparing to save the peasant army by means of an uprising." On the evening of July 31, part of the Qujiang Peasant Army followed the headquarters to the new barracks in Nanchang, and was incorporated into the teaching regiment of Ye Ting's 24th Division, with Ou Rizhang as the battalion commander, and participated in the Nanchang Uprising that shocked China and foreign countries.
Subsequently, Ou Rizhang participated in many battles in Guangchang, Huichang, Tangkeng and Quicksand with the rebel troops. Every time he fought, he always took the lead, heroically killed the enemy, and made many achievements in battle. After the Battle of Quicksand, the rebel army was scattered by the Kuomintang army, and according to the instructions of the Nanchang Uprising Revolutionary Committee on "dispersing activities and returning to the hometown to continue to organize the masses to accumulate strength", Ou Rizhang came to Hong Kong.
In mid-October 1927, Ou Changzhang participated in a joint meeting held by the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the CPC, and was elected as a member of the Guangdong Provincial Committee. Soon, he returned to Qujiang, northern Guangdong, with the party's instructions. During this period, he established and improved party organizations in his hometown on the one hand, and joined hands with cadres of various township peasant associations to reinvigorate their strength; on the other hand, he sent people to contact Zhu De's troops stationed in Qujiang Plough shop to prepare for a new round of armed insurrection.
A new tipping point, quietly ignited in the strategizing...
The storm clouds are dark
Let's look to the other side —
In December 1927, after Zhu De and Chen Yi led the Nanchang rebel army in the bloody battle of Sanheba in eastern Guangdong, Zhu De proposed, "Hide and go north, through the west, and go straight to Xiangnan", raise troops to the north, and after the troops reach gannan, during the rest period, carry out the famous "gannan three rectifications", and then arrive in Renhua, Guangdong. Not long after, he received instructions from the Beijiang Special Committee to order his troops to participate in the Guangzhou Uprising, and Zhu De sent his aide-de-camp to the Shaozhou Railway Station in Qujiang to handle the formalities for the transportation of troops by train south to Guangzhou.
At that time, the situation in northern Guangdong suddenly became tense, the Kuomintang Fan Shisheng troops were also in the process of moving to defense, and the Kuomintang Zhang Fakui troops were successively transferred from Guangzhou to Shaoguan to encircle and suppress Zhu De's troops. Therefore, the railway transportation at the Shaozhou Railway Station was extremely frequent and chaotic, so that although Deputy Zhu De had repeatedly negotiated with the railway station, the fur of the southbound military transport could not be implemented. Later, after Zhu De personally negotiated with Fan Shisheng, Fan Shisheng finally agreed to allocate a few wagons to Zhu De's troops in his military train to use south.
Unfortunately, just as Zhu De was ordered to lead his troops to Qujiang, he learned that the Guangzhou uprising had failed, and under this situation, Zhu De's troops continued to lurk under the banner of Fan Shisheng, a classmate of the Yunnan DaowuTang.
Qujiang is the center of revolutionary activities in northern Guangdong, and the organs of the Beijiang Special Committee of the Communist Party of China are located here. After Zhu De led his troops to garrison Qujiang, the CPC organizations at all levels tried every means to get in touch with Zhu De, hoping to use Zhu De's troops to cooperate with the local peasant rebellion while they were in northern Guangdong.
The sharp edge of the struggle is darkly gathered in the clouds.
After Zhu De settled the residence of the troops, he immediately began to search for and contact the local party organization. Because Zhu De had contact with the Beijiang Agricultural Violence Committee when he was in Renhua, he learned that there were still local CCP organizations in QujiangDongheba carrying out secret activities. Therefore, Zhu De decided to first go to Qujiangdongheba to find the local party organization.
Qujiang is the old name of the present-day Shaoguan Urban Area, on the other side of the Qujiang East River, commonly known as the East River Dam. The area around Donghe Dam is the source of the peasant movement in Qujiang County. In September 1924, when Sun Yat-sen set up a base camp in Qujiang to carry out the Northern Expedition, Tan Pingshan, Ruan Xiaoxian, and other leaders of the Guangdong peasant movement and members of the Communist Party of China came to Qujiang on the orders of Sun Yat-sen to carry out propaganda for the Northern Expedition, and launched the formation of two village peasant associations near the Donghe Dam. Since then, the peasant movement in Qujiang County has been vigorously carried out. After the defeat of the Great Revolution, many peasant armies around Dongheba participated in the August 1st Nanchang Uprising, and after the failure of the uprising, they returned to the local area to restore the peasant associations and reorganize the peasant army and continue to carry out the peasant movement.
On January 17 and February 28, 1928, the Beijiang Special Committee of the COMMUNIST Party of China issued two letters entitled "Requesting Zhu De to Lead His Troops to Return to Beijiang to Cooperate with the Peasants' Revolt," asking Zhu De's troops to try to return to Beijiang, not only to become the main force of the Beijiang agricultural riots, but also to become the organizers of the Beijiang agricultural riots, hoping that Zhu Bu would go to Lechang, Renhua, Qujiang, Nanxiong, Yingde, and other places to launch and organize a new round of peasant uprisings.
The CPC Beijiang Special Committee has repeatedly reported to the CPC Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee on the situation of Zhu De's troops. The Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee has also repeatedly instructed the Beijiang Special Committee to request that the special committee contact Zhu Debu and report the situation to the provincial party committee. At the same time, he also hoped that Zhu De's troops would be able to return to Beijiang, first of all, to maintain contact with the peasant associations in the areas around Renhua and Lechang; instructed the counties under the jurisdiction of the Beijiang Special Committee to use Zhu De's political influence and military facts to promote the development of various tasks and create a new situation in the agricultural riots in Beijiang; the central inspectors also wrote to Zhu De, hoping that he would lead his troops back to Beijiang to assist in the peasant revolt.
After Zhu De led his troops to leave Qujiang to participate in the Pingshi Victory, due to changes in the revolutionary situation, he did not return to the Beijiang area to carry out agricultural violence activities, but he still showed great concern and support for the agricultural violence in Beijiang. According to historical records, after the Yizhang rebellion, Zhu De also planned to return to Beijiang, and planned to carry out agricultural violence from Xiachengkou in Chenzhou to Renhua, Qujiang, and Yingde.
As for the reason why Zhu De's troops did not return to Beijiang, according to the "Report of the Beijiang Special Committee of the CPC to the Provincial Party Committee" dated January 21, 1928: "There are quite a few comrades in Hunan who are in the army and in the Meihua area, and they actively advocate going to Hunan, and the Xiang army is doing its best to deal with the Guizhou clan, Hunan is empty, and can be active in places where the peasants' foundation is better in Chenzhou and Leiyang, and there are still many difficulties in returning to Beijiang. On the other hand, it will take us at least a week to find them, and if we have left Yizhang, we do not know when to pass through Rucheng and drive back to Beijiang, it will take more than twenty days to reach Yingde, and if there is any obstacle, it is even more difficult to calculate. Therefore, Zhu De's troops rushed directly to Jinggangshan after the Shonan rebellion and returned to the division with the autumn harvest uprising troops led by Mao Zedong. According to insiders' recollections, Zhu De also designated personnel or through other means to give specific guidance to the peasant riots in Lechang, Renhua, Qujiang, and other counties in Beijiang, hoping that the local troops would not be disbanded and discouraged under any circumstances, and would make the greatest efforts to promote the smooth development of the agricultural riots in Beijiang. In fact, during the period of ploughing, Zhu De not only carried out propaganda activities, but also led the ministry to cooperate with the qujiangxi flood action and contributed.
According to history, the plough head is named after a sandbar shaped like a plough nearby, which is close to the Wujiang River, and the northwest radius of the opposite bank is called Qujiang West Water, including Chongyang, Guitou, Yiliu and other places. Xishui is the place where the agricultural movement in Qujiang County was carried out earlier. In the autumn of 1927, Xishui suffered a severe drought and the grain harvest was lost, but the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the local government increased unabated, and the peasants complained bitterly and suffered unspeakably. Not only that, but the landlords and gentry also colluded with the reactionary vigilante groups to carry out counter-offensive counts against the peasant associations, forcing the peasants to double the land rent that the peasants had previously demanded to subtract, extorting money from the peasants, and wantonly killing more than a dozen peasant army family members. Subsequently, the Xishui Peasant Army, which participated in the Nanchang Uprising and returned to its hometown one after another, secretly rebuilt the peasant army organization and restored party relations. The peasants in Xishui, Chongyang and other villages demanded that the peasant army suppress the landlord gentry and reactionary vigilante groups and crack down on their arrogance.
To this end, the local peasant associations secretly formulated various struggle plans in accordance with the strong demands of the peasants.
As a result, a peasant revolt in Xishui, centered on Chongyang, was on the verge of erupting. At this time, the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee was launching peasant riots in various parts of the province, and the Beijiang Special Committee of the CPC made organizing the Beijiang peasant riots its most important task. At that time, Zhu De's troops also received instructions from the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the CPC to participate in the Peasants' Rebellion in Beijiang and to expand and deepen the Beijiang Agrarian Revolution. Although Xishui was one of the larger areas within the Qu river, the peasant armed forces were dealt a heavy blow by the reactionaries after the defeat of the Great Revolution, and there was a huge disparity in strength compared with the reactionary forces.
In December 1927, in order to obtain the support and cooperation of Zhu De's troops in the Xishui peasant rebellion, Ou Rizhang led his men to the plough shop more than 10 kilometers away from Chongyang to contact Zhu De the day before the peasant riot.
At that time, Zhu De was organizing troops to conduct military training at PloughPutou. After Ou Rizhang found Zhu De, he hurriedly explained his intentions and asked Zhu De to send troops to support the Xishui Rebellion.
Zhu De believes that supporting local peasant revolts is not only the duty of the revolutionary army, but also the requirement of the current party organization for the troops. Therefore, he immediately expressed his support and sent an officer to chongyang with Ou Rizhang to discuss the plan for the next day's uprising.
Red flag rolls
Tit-for-tat.
The arrow is on the string.
In the early morning of December 22, 1927, Zhu De sent a company to Chongyang Wei and soon made contact with the peasant army sent by Ou Rizhang. The local militia did not know that the troops sent by Zhu De were Communist troops, and thought that the Nationalist troops sent by Shangfeng were stationed in Chongyang.
At about 9:00 a.m., Ouyang Zhang led more than 100 peasant troops and hundreds of peasants from Chongyang Ouwu, Shuixin, Lefu, Qingshuitang, and other villages, armed with rifles, shotguns, large knives, and hoes, to meet the officers and men of a company of Zhu De's troops, and quickly set out to surround the village of Dashazhou, and launched a surprise attack on the reactionary local armed forces and vigilante groups in the village, thus opening the prelude to the Xishui rebellion.
Red flags rolled and trumpets sounded.
The local local gentry and vigilante groups, in collusion with the Kuomintang 13th Army and the 16th Army, frantically counterattacked the rebellious peasants and launched a large-scale siege against the rioting peasants for three consecutive times. In the face of the attack of the strong enemy, Ou Rizhang was not afraid, and calmly commanded the peasant army to resist with earthen guns and earthen cannons.
Within half an hour of the fighting, the village was surrounded by rioting military and civilian regiments, killing 1 landlord and taking 5 prisoners. At that time, as soon as the four reactionaries who were arrested were pulled out of the village, they were surrounded by people who came and kept shouting: "Shoot them!" Shoot them! At the strong demand of the people, the reactionaries were shot on the spot by the angry peasant army. During this riot, the peasant army also burned down the landlord's house, confiscated the landlord's 36 head of cattle and more than 7,000 catties of grain and rice, as well as a batch of property, and also seized more than 10 armed spears of the landlord.
The success of the initial battle not only boosted the morale of the local peasant army, but also dealt a heavy blow to the landlord gentry and reactionary vigilante groups in the Chongyang area, causing them to feel extremely panicked. However, the reactionary forces in Chongyang were not willing to accept defeat, and soon colluded with the reactionary forces around Chongyang to prepare to jointly deal with the peasant army that had won the initial battle.
On the morning of December 28, Feng Peizan, the head of the Kuomintang Chongyang Township, and Lei Fenglin, the leader of the militia group, gathered more than 1,000 people from the landlord militia group in Liecun, Qincun, and Huangshaling to besiege the three villages of Shuixin, Warm Water, and Qingshuitang in an attempt to suppress the peasant army and revolutionary masses participating in the uprising.
Shuixin is a small village with only more than ten families, and the peasant army here has only more than ten guns. During the siege by the reactionary armed forces, although the peasant army stubbornly insisted, it was eventually outnumbered, and 5 peasant troops died heroically and more than 20 people were injured. Subsequently, some peasant troops led the villagers out of the village. When the peasant army and peasants withdrew to Miaozige Village on Guanyin Mountain, Shuixin Village was also looted by reactionary vigilante groups and houses were burned to the ground.
Nuanshui Village and Qingshuitang Village have always been the villages where the Chongyang peasant movement was most active, and naturally became the focus of this siege by the landlord militia. There were only a hundred peasant troops in these two villages, and in the face of the siege of many reactionary armed forces, they still struggled to resist and repelled the landlord militia. However, the reactionary vigilante groups were not willing to accept defeat and ambushed around the villages, trying to eliminate the peasant army in one fell swoop.
In the Battle of Qingshuitang, Ou Rizhang led more than 40 peasant troops to hold the artillery tower, fought bloody battles with more than a thousand enemy troops, held out for 7 days and 7 nights, and repelled more than a dozen enemy charges. On the one hand, Ou Rizhang commanded the peasant army to confront the local militia; on the other hand, he sent the peasant army Ou Chungou and others to break through, went to the plough shop to ask Zhu De to solve some of the ammunition, and sent troops to reinforce.
After the dispatched peasant army members arrived at the plough shop, they reported to Zhu De the situation of the peasant army in warm water and Qingshuitang against the reactionary armed forces, and said that the reactionary militia was about to invite the Kuomintang army to come and suppress the peasant army.
After Zhu De heard this, he immediately asked the peasant army who came to him: "How many weapons does the militia still have?" How did they suppress the peasants? How many people were killed? How many people were detained? How did they ask the Kuomintang troops for assistance? ”
When Zhu De inquired about the situation, he immediately agreed to send a company of troops to support.
At this time, a peasant army interjected: "Our peasant army has run out of ammunition, can you allocate some to us?" ”
Judd immediately agreed, and called the guards to get it. The guards saw that the place where the ammunition was stored was far away, so they found a bag of bullets at the regimental headquarters and placed it in front of the peasant army. The peasant army opened the bag and looked at it again, and seeing that there were not many bullets, he said to Zhu De: "Our peasant army has more than 100 people, each of whom has less than 10 rounds. ”
Zhu De said: "Although there are not many bullets, there are not many. Fighting a war should be embodied not only in weapons and equipment, but also in the will to fight. When the bullet is finished, there is a gun head; there is no gun head, there is a hoe; there is no hoe, and there is a fist, how can it not be hit? Zhu De's words deeply encouraged the peasant army present, and then several peasant troops rushed back to Qingshuitang with bullets.
The reactionary armed leader Feng Peizan organized the landlords to launch the fourth siege of the villages of Warm Water and Qingshuitang, but they did not succeed, and they were mad with anger and shouted: "If you attack Qingshuitang, the broom will also pass three knives!" ”
Therefore, Feng Peizan sent the landlord Zhu Naichang to Shaoguan to ask the regular Kuomintang troops to come to support.
When Zhu Naichang came to Ploughputou, he inquired that there was a 140th Regiment of the Kuomintang Sixteenth Army stationed here. He found the regimental headquarters and asked Zhu De to send troops to suppress the Qingshuitang peasant army.
At that time, the peasant army that asked Zhu De to send troops to support the battle of Qingshuitang had just left. After Zhu Naichang came to the regimental headquarters, he angrily said to Zhu De: "Not good! The Chongyang peasant army is committing a rebellion and is attacking the vigilante groups, so you should quickly send reinforcements! ”
At this time, Zhu De, who spread his legs and put his hands behind his back, decided to make a plan, and in a fit of relief, he answered Zhu Naichang's request and immediately sent his chief of staff, Wang Erzhuo, with a company of troops, to set off with Zhu Naichang and run to Qingshuitang.
Zhu Naichang led Wang Erzhuo's troops across wushui by boat, triumphantly humming the Hakka minor tune of "Marrying the Bride", and loudly urging the boatman to row quickly, hoping to return to Chongyang quickly and ask his master for merit and reward.
At about 4 p.m., the troops led by Wang Erzhu stopped when they came to Henglingjiao Village opposite Qingshuitang Village. At this time, it was drizzling, and Wang Erzhuo took out a pen and paper and asked Zhu Naichang to draw a sketch of the terrain of the village and the deployment of the militia troops, and Zhu Naichang immediately agreed.
When he drew the map and handed it to Wang Erzhuo, he thought that he could send the peasant army back to his hometown by inviting reinforcements, but he suddenly was tied up by several soldiers and tied to a big tree.
Then, Wang Erzhuo ordered the trumpeters to blow the charge trumpet, and the troops launched a fierce attack on the militia groups surrounding Warm Water and Qingshui Pond in two ways.
The peasant army that was holding out in the village saw that reinforcements had arrived, and their morale doubled, and they directly attacked the enemy position. Under the attack of the peasant army and Zhu De's troops inside and out, the vigilante group was beaten to the point of crying wolf and running away.
The vigilante groups fleeing in the direction of Qincun were pursued by Zhu De's troops, some of them were killed, and some of them raised their hands and surrendered. The battle lasted only two hours, and more than a dozen people of the reactionary militia were killed, more than a hundred were wounded, and a batch of weapons became the "spoils" of Zhu De's troops.
The battle was over, the rain was clear, and the breeze was gentle. When the soldiers of Zhu De's army returned to Qingshuitang, the villagers saw that their uniforms were soaked, and they took out firewood and grass to make a fire, warmed them and baked their clothes.
After a while, when the troops were about to leave, suddenly several peasant troops blocked the way and surrounded Wang Erzhuo and said in a loud voice: Your troops have helped the peasants defeat the armed forces of the reactionary landlords, and have gained the strength and won the light for the peasants, and the troops must stay for the time being and leave after dinner.
Wang Erxuan said: "We are the revolutionary contingent led by Zhu De, it is our duty and duty to eliminate the reactionaries, and our troops have discipline, so we will not eat food." ”
After Zhu De's troops left Qujiang and Renhua, the revolutionary beacon here was not extinguished. Under the white terror, Li Zaiji, Ou Rizhang, and other revolutionaries still waged an extremely arduous struggle; and a number of revolutionaries such as Liang Zhanru and Ye Fengzhang, who were in Qujiang, were also trapped in the tiger's den, struggling in the depths of the water...
"Xishui Spirit"
Ou Rizhang's former residence is a rectangular green brick tile house, due to disrepair, dilapidated, and surrounded by wild grass and vegetable gardens, the comrades of the village committee said that Wujiang District and Chongyang Town are beginning to strengthen and repair Ou Rizhang's former residence, and will soon be presented to the audience with a new look.
Ou Rizhang was born in Si and grew up in Si.
His blood was also spilled on the red land of Xishui.
In the early spring of 1929, Ou Rizhang, in accordance with the instructions of the party, led more than 30 peasant troops from the Renhua Pengxi Mountain guerrilla base area back to Longgui Rake Tooth Mountain and continued to fight guerrillas in the Xishui area. The enemy hated this peasant armed force led by Ou Rizhang to the bone, and repeatedly organized encirclement and suppression in an attempt to eliminate it in one fell swoop.
On March 22 of the same year, the Kuomintang authorities in Qujiang County mobilized more than 300 armed groups and joined forces with local militia groups to besiege Raking Tooth Mountain. Ou Rizhang led the peasant army to fight fiercely with the enemy for more than two hours, because the enemy was ten times larger than the peasant army, the encirclement circle shrank smaller and smaller, Ou Rizhang and the warriors Ou Niankui and Xia Debiao were forced to retreat in a cave, and a large number of enemies forced to advance step by step, and blocked the entrance to the cave.
At this time, Ou Rizhang and the other three only had two bullets left, and they were about to fall into the clutches of the devil. In this desperate situation, they are calm and self-assured, seeing death as a homecoming, encouraging each other, preferring to be broken and not destroyed.
In the end, Ou Rizhang resolutely raised his gun to point at his temple, snapped the plate machine, and sacrificed heroically; the other comrades rushed out of the cave and jumped off the cliff... After Ou Rizhang's sacrifice, the Kuomintang reactionaries cruelly cut off his head and left hand, and carried him around the village to show the public, which was unbearable to see.
Looking back in pain, the storm clouds of Chongyang homeland rolled over, and the cuckoo cried blood;
Looking at this dynasty, the red land has been turned upside down and replaced with a new look.
Since the reform and opening up, under the leadership of the party committee and government of Chongyang Town, under the pattern of adhering to the traditional agricultural economy, Ouwu Village has explored new ways of scientific farming; raised funds to renovate revolutionary sites; and implemented the hardening of rural roads and the construction of "four small gardens".
Sweat flying flowers, spring and autumn fruit. After years of hard work, this small mountain village that used to be "mud houses and broken houses is difficult to walk" has become a beautiful countryside with flowers and leaves, and the fragrance of rice...
What is the "West Water Spirit"? Judging from the historical significance, the "Xishui Spirit" is the revolutionary spirit and dedication spirit of perseverance and sacrifice of life for righteousness; from the perspective of practical significance, the "Xishui Spirit" is the spirit of reform and revitalization needed in the new era. This spirit is both a legacy and a forge ahead.
In fact, the people of Chongyang are using the spirit of dedication and innovation radiated from the old revolutionary areas, under the background of the theme education of "not forgetting the original heart and keeping the mission in mind", marching on the new journey of "long march and starting again", and painting a new and poetic and picturesque brilliant picture on the beacon map of the revolutionary martyrs intertwined with their lives and blood -- saying goodbye to poverty and running towards a well-off life!