A Hundred Years of Struggle Set Sail on a New Journey • Several Popular Figures 丨 Wei Baqun: A peasant leader who sacrificed everything for the revolution

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Xinhua News Agency, Nanning, 15 May Title: Wei Baqun: A peasant leader who sacrificed everything for the revolution

Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Haoming

In front of the former residence of Wei Baqun in Donglan County, Hechi City, Guangxi Province, stands a statue of "Brother Bao" with a straight waist and a firm gaze. The people who come to visit often stop here to pay their respects, present flowers, and pay tribute to the "Brother Of" to pay tribute.

In Guangxi, Wei Baqun's name is well known, and everyone affectionately calls him "Brother Ba", and the reverence is overflowing with words. In front of the door of Wei Baqun's former residence, there are more than 10 tombstones of Wei Baqun's relatives who died as a result of the revolution, telling the thrilling, heroic and tragic history.

In order to seek the correct path for the people to turn themselves around and liberate, Wei Baqun went to Guangzhou to find Marxism-Leninism, firmly established his belief in communism, named his three sons 'Revolution', 'Persistence' and 'To the End', and vowed to carry the revolution through to the end. In the face of the wanted pursuit of the Kuomintang reactionaries, who were secretly wanted and wanted, he was calm and self-assured, and regarded death as a homecoming. Qin Yingqing is a "post-90s" docent in Wei Baqun's former residence. After nearly a hundred years, whenever she talks about the deeds of "Brother Pulling", she is still full of emotion.

In his early years, "Brother Ba" studied at the Guangxi School of Law and Politics, joined the patriotic army against Yuan Shikai, served as a staff officer in the Qian army, and participated in the "Reform guangxi comrades association" in Guangzhou.

In September 1921, Wei Baqun returned to his hometown of Donglan County to engage in the peasant revolutionary movement. At the beginning of 1925, he entered the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute, and after graduating, he returned to Donglan to continue to engage in the peasant movement, hosting the agricultural training institute, cultivating backbones, developing peasant associations and peasant armed forces, and pushing the agricultural movement to the Youjiang area.

In August 1929, Wei Baqun was officially approved by the Guangxi Special Committee of the Communist Party of China to join the Communist Party of China, and persisted in armed struggle in the local area.

In December 1929, Wei Baqun participated in leading the Baise Uprising, serving as a member of the Youjiang Soviet Government and commander of the Third Column of the Seventh Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In early October 1930, the main force of the Seventh Red Army was ordered to go north and left the Youjiang Revolutionary Base Area. In the north, the Red Seventh Army was concentrated in the Hechi Liujia area for reorganization, and the Former Military Commission, in accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the Central Committee and the unified number of the Red Army throughout the country, announced that the Red Seventh and Eighth Armies would be reorganized into three divisions, the Nineteenth, the Twentieth, and the Twenty-first. The Nineteenth and Twentieth Divisions went north, while the Twenty-first Division remained behind to persist in the struggle in the Revolutionary Base Areas of youjiang. Wei Baqun served as the commander of the Twenty-first Division, and Chen Hongtao served as the political commissar of the division. Wei Baqun resolutely obeyed the decision of the Military Front Committee and immediately allocated more than 1,000 officers and men of the Third Column he had brought from Donglan and Fengshan, except for the seventy or eighty individual and sick fighters, to the main force to go north, without any complaint, fully embodying the lofty quality of communists who put the interests of the overall revolution first.

After the main force of the Red Seventh Army left the Right Jiangsu region, Wei Baqun led more than a hundred people to stay in the Right River area and persisted in guerrilla struggle under extremely difficult conditions.

For the sake of the revolutionary cause, more than 10 members of Wei Baqun's family were brutally killed by the enemy, but none of this shook his revolutionary will. In the early morning of October 19, 1932, Wei Baqun was killed by traitors in Donglan, Guangxi, at the age of 38.

At the Wei Baqun Memorial Hall in Donglan County, when the narrator mentioned that a total of 17 relatives of Wei Baqun's family died for the revolution, leaving no immediate descendants, some of the tourists who were visiting could not help but shed tears.

"Wei Baqun is a good son of the Zhuang people, and he has practiced the Zhengzheng oath of 'happy cause, like revolution' with full of enthusiasm and precious life." Lin Dongting, who came to visit, said.

Huang Gaoxian, director of the management office of the Zhuangxiang Hero Cultural Park, said that Wei Baqun was born in a wealthy feudal family, and he could completely follow his father's intentions, follow the rules and regulations to study and become an official, start a family, and go with the flow of time. But he did not covet comfort and pleasure, did not obsess over glory and wealth, and from an early age set a lofty ambition to save the country and the people, and did not hesitate to go to the soup with his own body. Wei Baqun's spirit is rich in connotation, which can be summed up as "worrying about the country and serving the people, pursuing the truth, daring to be the first, and selfless dedication."

Huang Xianchang, vice chairman of the Hechi Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and secretary of the Donglan County CPC Committee, said that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, and Donglan County regards the Baqun Cadre College as an important position for inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of Wei Baqun and the brilliant achievements of the revolutionary martyrs, giving full play to the role of the college as the main front for studying party history and enlightening ideology, and especially making full use of the red resources of the old revolutionary areas, developing core courses, and opening special classrooms such as situational teaching and on-site teaching. Through comprehensive and in-depth study, we will carry forward the spirit of pulling out the masses and benefit the people in the old areas.