Around May 1931, when the situation in all aspects of the revolution was quite severe, in order to effectively deal with this situation, the party organization decided to appoint a person to the Guangdong and Jiangxi border areas to serve as the political commissar of the Seventh Red Army. In addition, the party organization also specifically explained that in order to ensure the safety of this operation, this person cannot go directly to the Guangdong and Jiangxi border areas, but must detour from Hong Kong.
When this person first arrived in Hong Kong, the revolutionary situation deteriorated further, and then, in order to strengthen the armed struggle in northern Guangdong, Hainan Island and other regions, the party organization temporarily revised the order to let this person stay in Hong Kong as the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Military Commission of the CPC.
Around July, the man's wife, Zhao Juntao, also arrived in Hong Kong to serve as secretary of the Central Military Commission. In this way, in the war-torn years at that time, the couple who gathered less and more were finally reunited in Hong Kong.
However, the joy of couple reunion did not last long enough. Soon after, at the behest of the party organization, this man joined the large contingent to open up the guerrilla war in Hainan, and in early July, he officially boarded a ship bound for Haikou. Standing on the shore waving goodbye to her husband, Zhao Juntao's eyes were red, and at that moment, she was seriously looking forward to each other's next reunion.
Picture | Zhao Juntao
However, who would have guessed what would happen afterwards? How could Zhao Juntao, who was not yet 30 years old at the time, know that this time the difference had become a life and death separation between the two.
Having said all this, who is this person who was appointed secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, who has never returned after leaving Hong Kong by boat? Also, after arriving in Haikou, what happened to him?
Pictured| Jude
He was called "the strong fighter of the people" by Zhu De, and in 1931, he spilled blood on Qiongzhou's outstanding proletarian revolutionary - Li Shuoxun.
After Li Shuoxun left Hong Kong by boat, Zhao Juntao never got any news about her husband again, and in her anxiety, she often ran to Ke Lin, an underground worker in our party, to inquire about the situation.
Soon after, Ke Lin and several other comrades first received Li Shuoxun's suicide note, and after some research and discussion, Ke Lin informed Zhang Hanfu, then secretary of the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee, of this news, and then Ke Lin strongly demanded that the party organization appoint someone to Hainan to prepare to rescue Li Shuoxun.
Since special personnel have been sent to Hainan to rescue, why is there no result in the end? What bad situation did Li Shuoxun encounter at that time that was difficult to get out of? Friends, don't worry, please read on.
Pictured| Li Shuoxun
On February 23, 1903, Li Shuoxun was born in GaoXian County, Sichuan. Li Shuoxun was very smart at a young age, he clarified his life ambitions very early, compared to being a nerd who can only read, Li Shuoxun wants to do a big career. At that time, he always put a sentence on his lips, and Li Shuoxun often said: "I don't want to be a scholar, I am willing to succeed as a businessman." ”
When he was 15 years old, Li Shuoxun was admitted to the county middle school, and soon after, out of his inner yearning for a new culture and a new world, Li Shuoxun and his friend Yang Hansheng joined the Chengdu Provincial First Middle School.
The Provincial No. 1 Middle School was indeed more influenced by the new trend of thought, and the reading atmosphere here was very good, and it was in such a big environment that Li Shuoxun began to read a series of books on Marxism extensively. In the process of reading, Li Shuoxun's inner thoughts are also gradually changing, and a seed of "yearning for communism" slowly takes root and sprouts in his heart.
In the autumn of that year, in accordance with the "Constitution of the Socialist Youth League" published in the "New Youth", Li Shuoxun, Liu Nongchao, Yang Hansheng and others united as one, and finally formally established the Chengdu Socialist Youth League in Wangjianglou, Chengdu.
Subsequently, Li Shuoxun and others organized a struggle to expel the warlord Lackey Yan Gongyin, who was then the principal of the Provincial No. 1 Middle School. This struggle has another purpose, which is to fight for the independence of education funding. The momentum of the struggle was spectacular, and eventually attracted the attention of the Sichuan warlords, who subsequently issued an order to be wanted. In this way, the arrest of Li Shuoxun and Yang Hansheng and others officially began. After that, the two took a small boat to evade the heavy checkpoints and finally left Chengdu.
Pictured| Yang Hansheng
At the end of 1922, Li Shuoxun entered the Hongda College in Beijing, and a year later, he entered Shanghai University, a joint venture between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, to continue his studies. It was here that Li Shuoxun finally officially threw himself into the embrace of Marxism.
During this time, Li Shuoxun successively entered the classrooms of many famous communists, including Qu Qiubai and Zhang Tailei. In May 1924, Li Shuoxun gloriously joined the Communist Party of China and officially began his career as a professional revolutionary. After this, Li Shuoxun grew up very quickly, and he soon became the leader of the early youth movement of our party.
In the spring of 1925, with the help of his brother Zhao Shiyan and sister Zhao Shilan, Zhao Juntao left Beijing Women's Normal University and entered the sociology department of Shanghai University, where Li Shuoxun was located, where the two of them met.
During his studies, Zhao Juntao had extensive contact with comrades such as Deng Zhongxia and Yun (yùn) Dai Ying, the early revolutionaries of our party. Under the profound influence of these people, Zhao Juntao gradually established in his heart a firm ideal and belief in fighting for the cause of communism all his life. Around 1926, Zhao Juntao gloriously joined the Communist Party of China and became a full member of the Communist Party of China.
Pictured| Deng Zhongxia
During the period when Li Shuoxun and Zhao Juntao were studying together in the Sociology Department of Shanghai University, along with the vigorous revolutionary movements one after another, the two of them gradually gained a deeper understanding of each other, and over time, a feeling that surpassed that of ordinary classmates and revolutionary comrades developed between them.
Li Shuoxun's excellent organizational and propaganda skills were revealed in one movement after another, and during the time when he was in charge of editing the weekly magazine "Chinese Student", he published a number of articles exposing the evil deeds of imperialism and feudal warlords in "Chinese Students", and every time the articles were sent, they immediately aroused a warm response.
Taking the "Chinese Students" weekly magazine as the front, Li Shuoxun put some of the progressive ideas he had learned and the various advanced ideological trends that were widely popular in society at that time, and finally all of them blew into the ears of the broad masses of the people like a spring breeze, and all of them flowed into the hearts of the masses of the people like a stream.
With Li Shuoxun's rigorous and serious guidance and help, Zhao Juntao also resolutely threw himself into the vigorous revolutionary movement. By going to various places to participate in social surveys, organizing women's movements, organizing and setting up night schools and a series of activities, Zhao Juntao's inner thoughts and external ability to carry out work have made great progress.
In the end, Li Shuoxun and Zhao Juntao's common ideals and beliefs, as well as their common revolutionary pursuits, prompted them to support each other and grow together in the process of carrying out their work, and the two became closer and closer.
Figure | Li Shuoxun (right) and Zhao Juntao (left)
Finally, in August 1926, after withstanding the baptism and experience of the revolutionary torrent, Li Shuoxun and Zhao Juntao came together and formed a revolutionary partner.
Since then, no matter what kind of setbacks and difficulties they have encountered, the two have always been inseparable and supportive of each other, and they have always regarded the cause of the party and the people as the highest goal, and Li Shuoxun and Zhao Juntao, the revolutionary partners, can be called models and models for many people of the same era.
During the outbreak of the May Thirtieth (sà) Movement, Li Shuoxun enthusiastically participated in the anti-imperialist patriotic movement on the streets of Shanghai, and after a series of work, Li Shuoxun's outstanding organizational and propaganda talents were gradually discovered by those around him. Subsequently, through the unanimous election of the people around him, Li Shuoxun served as the representative of the Shanghai Student Federation and the president of the All-China Student Federation. Soon after, Li Shuoxun was elected chairman of the Shanghai Anti-Imperialist Grand Alliance.
In October 1926, according to the arrangements of the party organization, Li Shuoxun went to the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China to serve as the secretary of the Wuchang County CPC Committee and the director of the Organization Department of the Wuchang Prefectural Committee. Subsequently, Li Shuoxun served as the secretary of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League.
Soon after, the party organization assigned Li Shuoxun to the 25th Division of the 4th Army of the National Revolutionary Army as the director of the Political Department, and the deputy commander of this team at that time was Ye Ting.
Figure | Leaf Ting
In the spring of 1927, the Nationalist government in Wuhan issued an order to continue the Northern Expedition, with the 25th Division acting as an advance force. During this time, Li Shuoxun and Ye Ting cooperated very smoothly, and they led their troops to various parts of Henan, where they fought fierce battles with the warlord forces many times and achieved major victories.
Subsequently, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup in Shanghai. In order to cope with this sudden situation, the Nationalist government in Wuhan ordered the 25th Division to return to Wuhan as soon as possible, march east to discuss Jiang, and participate in quelling Xia Douyin's rebellion.
Zhou Enlai arrived in Nanchang on the eve of the Nanchang uprising, after which he told Nie Rongzhen (zhēn), the former secretary of the enemy party committee at the time, to send people to the Mahuiling area between Jiujiang and Nanchang as soon as possible, to pull the 25th Division of the 4th Army to Nanchang, and then participate in the uprising together.
At that time, after the 25th Division entered Jiujiang, the division headquarters and the division's political department were stationed together in Huanglaomen Village near Huanglaomen Station, and at that time, the core leader of the 25th Division was the division commander Li Hanling, and Li Shuoxun still served as the director of the political department.
Subsequently, nie Rongzhen followed Zhou Enlai's instructions and went to the 25th Division to conduct secret talks with Comrades Li Shuoxun and Zhou Shidi, and intensively carried out a series of preparatory work before the uprising.
Pictured| Zhou Enlai
On 1 August, in accordance with the instructions of our Party, Li Shuoxun took advantage of the nap time to successfully shake off the small number of arms controlled by the division commander Li Hanling in the name of field exercises by the troops, and led all the 73rd Regiment of the 25th Division, 3 battalions of the 75th Regiment, and the heavy machine gun company of the 74th Regiment to set off for Nanchang to participate in the uprising. On the way to Nanchang with Li Shuoxun's troops, there was also a battle, but such a small difficulty could not stop Li Shuoxun and his party from participating in the uprising.
At about 1 p.m. that afternoon, Li Shuoxun was leading the rebel troops to March to De'an, and the 1st Battalion of the 73rd Regiment was acting as a rearguard. When the rebel troops marched to the north of De'an Station, a train drove by not far away, and Zhang Fakui, Li Hanling and others stood on the train with their own guards.
While these people were not ready for battle, the soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 73rd Regiment immediately began to shoot, hitting Zhang Fakui, Li Hanling and others by surprise, and eventually, those people had to flee in a stream of urine.
In addition, nearly 600 men of the Guard battalion on the train at that time all surrendered their guns, and some of them and junior officers abandoned the dark and surrendered, and finally joined the vast rebel army.
At dawn on August 2, Li Shuoxun finally led the rebel troops to Nanchang. Next, the rebel force was reorganized, with Zhou Shidi as the division commander and Li Shuoxun as the party representative.
Figure | Zhou Shidi
After the reorganization of the troops was completed, in order to strengthen the political work of this unit, Li Shuoxun immediately organized a meeting of the party committee of the 25th Division of the CPC. At this meeting, he and Comrades Zhou Shidi, You Buying (Yíng), and other comrades seriously studied three aspects of the problem, namely, political education, discipline education, and the party's ideological and organizational construction.
After this meeting, a number of grass-roots party organizations were established in the army.
After the victory of the Nanchang Uprising, in accordance with the decision of the Front Committee, the rebel troops withdrew from Nanchang one after another and began to march south. In the process of the insurgent troops moving south, the 25th Division served as a rear guard, so they were the last of the rebels to leave Nanchang, and then they marched all the way to Guangdong.
At the end of September, the rebel army encountered the enemy's "encirclement and suppression" in the Chaoshan area, and a large part of the rebel army was scattered. In the face of fierce battles one after another, and in the face of the difficult marching road that followed, Li Shuoxun, who had rich experience in revolutionary struggle, has always been very concerned about the ideological problems of the soldiers.
If the spirit and inner conviction of a contingent are crushed, it will have extremely serious consequences, and if even the soldiers themselves do not believe that they can win in battle, how can our army really win?
Therefore, in order to solve this problem well, Li Shuoxun highly carried forward the feelings of revolutionary optimism, he told the soldiers the experience he had gained when he participated in the battle, helped everyone to boost morale, and faced the rebel troops, he often said: "We must not be afraid of hardship, we must not be afraid of difficulties, we must be able to withstand the test, and we must carry the revolution through to the end!" ”
Pictured | statue of Li Shuoxun
Around October 1927, rebel troops arrived at Tianxin Village in the southern part of Jiangxi Province. It was here that the party organization of the rebel army units, Zhu De, and other comrades unanimously decided to send Li Shuoxun, who was the most familiar with all aspects of the situation in Shanghai, to Shanghai to report to the Party Central Committee on the situation encountered by the rebel troops at present, and to ask for the course of action of the rebel troops after that.
After making simple preparations, Li Shuoxun said goodbye to Zhu De and Zhou Shidi in Tianxin, and then Li Shuoxun set off for Shanghai. Li Shuoxun's trip was not smooth, and it can even be said that it was difficult. In order to smoothly bypass the many checkpoints set up by the Kuomintang reactionaries, Li Shuoxun first arrived in Jiujiang by boat from the Ganjiang River, and then traveled to many places before finally arriving in Shanghai.
In Shanghai, after Li Shuoxun and Qu Qiubai got in touch, he gave a detailed report on the arduous fighting of the Nanchang rebel army troops in the Guangdong and Gansu regions. After that, according to the orders of the party organization, Li Shuoxun stayed in Shanghai, and for the next period of time, he worked in the White District.
In 1929, due to the needs of the revolutionary cause and taking into account Li Shuoxun's own outstanding military leadership ability, the party organization finally entrusted the heavy responsibility of the secretary of the Military Commission of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee to Li Shuoxun. After assuming this post, Li Shuoxun directly carried out his work under the personal leadership of Zhou Enlai, secretary of the Central Military Commission.
Subsequently, Li Shuoxun unified the peasant guerrillas in Nantong, Northern Jiangsu, and Tonghai, and later collectively called the 14th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. After the reorganization of these peasant guerrillas, coupled with strict training, the combat effectiveness of these peasant guerrillas was very obvious, and they won many victories in guerrilla wars of all sizes.
The red army guerrillas in the | old photo
In 1931, the Organ of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China established in Hong Kong was repeatedly subjected to malicious sabotage by reactionaries, and many revolutionary comrades of our Party were arrested and subsequently brutally killed by the enemy.
Faced with this sudden deterioration of the situation, Li Shuoxun was appointed as the secretary of the Military Commission of the Cpc Guangdong Provincial Committee, and then the organization sent Zhao Juntao to Hong Kong to assist Li Shuoxun in his next work. So there was the scene at the beginning of this article, where the couple reunited in Hong Kong.
At that time, after receiving Li Shuoxun's suicide note, since the Party Central Committee had instructed the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee to dispatch all its forces to rescue Li Shuoxun, and had even sent special personnel to Hainan, why did Li Shuoxun not survive in the end?
In fact, long before Li Shuoxun took the boat to Hainan this time, the danger was already approaching him little by little, and even others around him were aware of this. However, the arrangement of fate is inviolable, and Li Shuoxun, who has always maintained a bold loyalty to the party and the people, may be doomed to dedicate his life in the revolutionary journey.
Before and after Li Shuoxun set off from Hong Kong by boat, he had already bought a ferry ticket, and when he said goodbye to Ke Lin, an underground worker of our party, at the South China Pharmacy, Ke Lin expressed his worries in a few words, and he said to Li Shuoxun at that time: "You don't speak Cantonese, let alone know Hainanese, and now you have to go to a strange place like Qiongya to engage in secret work, which is very dangerous!" ”
Picture | Ke Lin
Li Shuoxun, who had been engaged in revolutionary struggle for many years, certainly understood what Ke Lin had said, but in order to open up guerrilla warfare in Hainan as soon as possible and for the sake of our party's revolutionary cause, Li Shuoxun at that time had already put his life safety in second place. However, at that time, how could Li Shuoxun think that only four or five days after he arrived in Hainan, he was immediately arrested.
In early August 1931, after dressing up as a trader, Li Shuoxun successfully arrived in Haikou City, and he stayed at the Zhongmin Hotel. At the same time, Li Shuoxun anxiously waited to get in touch with the CPC Qiongya Special Committee.
Yan Hongjiao, the former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee, had long been a traitor at that time, and his new identity was now the captain of the Kuomintang Fuhai Detective Team, so Yan Hongjiao often led a group of his subordinates to patrol the streets and alleys, and as soon as he encountered suspicious people, he immediately rushed up to search.
Four or five days after Li Shuoxun arrived in Hainan, because of the problem of his accent, he was speaking a foreign language at the time, and was soon discovered by the traitor Yan Hongjiao, who was immediately arrested and his residence was thoroughly searched.
After the successful arrest of Li Shuoxun, the enemy very much wanted to get from his mouth the secrets of our party and some information about the guerrilla war in Hainan, so the enemy repeatedly threatened and seduced Li Shuoxun, but unfortunately Li Shuoxun never said a word and strictly guarded all the secrets of our party and our army.
Pictured| Kuomintang prison
Li Shuoxun's silence made the enemy very annoyed, since he did not eat soft, the enemy began to use all kinds of torture equipment, during that time, the enemy would change a new trick almost every day, and they finally used all kinds of cruel punishments on Li Shuoxun. Despite this, Li Shuoxun still did not say a word, and those intelligence and secrets were chewed up in Li Shuoxun's stomach, and the enemy could not even get the slightest bit.
In the end, Chen Mingdong, the governor of Qiongshan County of the Kuomintang, and others personally came to interrogate Li Shuoxun, and Li Shuoxun once again insisted on the enemy's punishment, and then Chen Mingdong and others commanded the soldiers to beat Li Shuoxun's legs and feet with several large wooden sticks. Despite this, Li Shuoxun still kept all the secrets, but his two feet were completely broken.
At that time, Li Shuoxun was vaguely aware of his fate, he knew that he would not live long, and the enemy would soon take action, so he wrote a suicide note in advance.
At that time, since he had already sent someone to rescue Li Shuoxun, Ke Lin did not directly tell Zhao Juntao the news that Li Shuoxun was facing danger. But Zhao Juntao missed her husband very much, and she asked Ke Lin about her husband's news again and again, and over time, Ke Lin couldn't bear to hide it any longer, so she told Zhao Juntao the real situation.
After seeing her husband's suicide note, Zhao Juntao was sad, she knew her husband's personality and habits of doing things very well, this time she must have encountered a very troublesome situation, otherwise her husband would not have written a suicide note. In the following period of time, Zhao Juntao opened this suicide note again and again, and every time he read a few sentences of "After death, the corpse will always be collected, never allowed to come, a thousand instructions", Zhao Juntao's tears will gush out like a spring.
Just after Guangdong Province sent someone to Hainan to rescue Li Shuoxun, it was not long before Zhao Juntao already knew the news of her husband's sacrifice, and the news was published in the Guangzhou Republic of China Daily, in black and white, and written very clearly.
In September 1931, on the day of the execution, on both sides of the road leading to the haikou East School Execution Ground, the enemy arranged a dense array of soldiers and was extremely heavily guarded. Li Shuoxun's feet were broken, he could not walk, and he was carried by the enemy with a bamboo basket to the execution ground.
Before the formal execution, although he was completely unable to stand, Li Shuoxun's momentum was no different from when he once led his subordinates to charge into battle, he was not afraid of danger, staring at the enemy in front of him as if he were dying, and then shouted a few slogans, which were extremely loud, almost breathless, as if the ground under his feet were trembling with these slogans.
Pictured| Lee So-hoon Memorial Hall
At that time, Li Shuoxun shouted: "Down with the Kuomintang reactionaries, down with Chiang Kai-shek, long live the Communist Party of China!" After a few slogans, a row of evil gunshots sounded, and Li Shuoxun died heroically.
In this way, the martyr Li Shuoxun sacrificed his life for the party and martyred for the people, leaving us forever.