Feng Mensi heroically acted heroically
— The story of the indomitable death of Feng Juying, a member of the Xueping Soviet Government
The party history figures who were active in Nanzhang County were brilliant, and the party history stories that occurred in Nanzhang were even more touching to the heart, and the fearless spirit and noble qualities of the revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed for the revolution are always worth remembering and inheriting. In 1928, nanzhang county shocked the "Jingshan peasant revolt" in northern Hubei, and the family of Feng Juying, a member of the Soviet government, produced 4 Communist Party members and 4 martyrs. At the age of 20, Feng Juying was killed in the Great Knife Society rebellion after being arrested for betrayal by traitors, Feng Juying's father Feng Yingzeng (head of the Ordnance Department of the Soviet Government) and uncle Feng Yinggui (one of the 32 pioneer death squad members in the "Jingshan Peasant Riot") were killed in the Great Knife Society rebellion, and his cousin Feng Juhai (the squadron leader in the "Jingshan Peasant Riot") was hunted down and killed by the Qingxiang team. The touching story of Feng Juying's family's "one door and four heroic martyrs" swept back to their intestines, and they composed a revolutionary song of righteousness with blood and life.
Jingshan Peasant Riot Martyrs Memorial Park
Red Park
Saddles used by the martyrs
Progressive youth at Fengshan Middle School
In 1908, Feng Juying was born in Linji Township (now Xueping Town), a scholar, his father Feng Yingzeng was a reader, and his second uncle Feng Yinggui was a teacher. Feng Juying has been reading poetry since childhood, is intelligent and studious, compassionate, and often helps poor children and helps them. At the age of 13, he was admitted to the Xijing Township Muyangdong Public Primary School with excellent results, and was friends with Zhang Daonan (who became the secretary of the Linji Township Party Branch in 1927), and the two were later admitted to the earliest public junior high school in Nanzhang--- Fengshan Middle School.
At the end of 1925, Yang Yi'ou, a member of the Cpc Central Committee of the Xiangyang Special Branch, sent Yang Yiou, a member of the Communist Party of China, to Fengshan Middle School to do revolutionary mobilization work, and Feng Juying got to know Yang Yi'ou, a member of the Communist Party, at the school, and was influenced by him, came into contact with some revolutionary propaganda materials, understood some revolutionary principles, and was relatively progressive in thinking.
In October 1926, Feng Juying and Zhang Daonan and other progressive young people joined the advanced mass organization "Public Welfare Promotion Association" at that time, and Fengshan Middle School gradually became the activity position of the underground party organization in Nanzhang because of the enlightened progress of teachers and students. The revolutionary activities of Fengshan Middle School aroused fear among local forces, and in May 1927, Fengshan Middle School, which had been open for only two years, was suspended, teachers were unemployed, and students were out of school.
At the end of 1927, in order to maintain the activity position of Fengshan Middle School and strive to educate young students, the Nanzhang County CPC Committee decided to carry out the struggle to restore the school, so it planned an action plan and designated Zhang Daonan, a former student of Fengshan Middle School and secretary of the party branch of Linji Township, to be in charge of this struggle.
Feng Juying joined the Communist Party of China through Zhang Daonan's introduction and participated in the struggle for the resumption of Fengshan Middle School. The struggle is carried out in three steps: first, individual students explain their desire to study to the Director of Education and ask for resumption; if they are rejected, they will organize three or five students to collectively reason with the Director of Education; if it is still ineffective, then gather all teachers and students to petition the Education Bureau to exert pressure on the Education Bureau. The first two steps were unsuccessful, and Feng Juying and dozens of other progressive students, led by Zhang Daonan, petitioned the county education bureau and put forward three demands: one was to restore the school; the other was to waive students' tuition and miscellaneous fees; and the third was that poor students borrowed public funds to study and fight for the right to education for students, especially poor students. However, this request was rejected by the Secretary of Education, Feng Longjiu. At this time, it was approaching the end of the lunar year, and the struggle was suspended.
In February 1928, the county party committee moved to Zhujiawan in the south of the city and directly led the struggle for the restoration of the school. Zhang Daonan, Feng Juying, and dozens of other progressive young people flocked to the Education Bureau and again asked for the resumption of classes; after being refused, they beat up Feng Longjiu, the director of the bureau, and twisted him to the county government to reason, exposing the education bureau's ugly act of stifling national education along the way and publicizing the reasonable demands of students. At the same time, Guo Minglian and others from the "Sky Socks" liaison station were also arranged to cooperate with the girls to post slogans on the streets to expose the crimes of the Director of Education, expand the impact of the struggle, and win social sympathy. Due to the small launching area, especially without the support of the educational circles and the appearance of well-known personalities, the purpose of the re-establishment struggle was not achieved, but it exposed the ugly features of the ruling authorities, attacked the rule of the Kuomintang, and tempered a group of young students.
The vanguard of the Jingshan peasant revolt
After October 1927, the revolutionary situation in the whole country turned to a low ebb, and the revolutionaries went deep into the rural mountains to do arduous and meticulous mobilization work, accumulate strength, wait for the time of revolution to ripen, and launch an armed uprising. In January 1928, the adjusted Northern Hubei Special Committee held an enlarged meeting of the Special Committee in Xiangyang City to specifically deploy the Nianguan riot work. After the enlargement of the meeting, various parts of northern Hubei stepped up the pace of armed insurrection. In the same month, the Nanzhang County CPC Committee held an enlarged meeting in Qingniwan with the participation of party branch secretaries, and the meeting decided to first hold a riot in Linji Township.
Zhang Daonan, Feng Juying, and others actively mobilized the masses to carry out the work of the agricultural movement. Feng Juying and Xie Yaoxi taught and sang revolutionary songs in Guoheping and other places to boost everyone's morale, and the slogans put forward at that time were "Down with corrupt officials and corrupt officials," "Abolish harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes," and "confiscate the land of the gentry and distribute it to the landless and landless peasants," conforming to the peasants' demands for land.
At a mass meeting held at the Qinglong Temple, Feng Juying enumerated the various crimes of the reactionary government and the landlord gentry, and guided the peasants to calculate the exploitation account: "Why do the local tycoons and inferior gentry eat the taste of the mountains and the sea, wear silk and silk, and live in the courtyard of the deep house?" Why do farmers face the loess with their backs to the sky, a basket of bitter vegetables and a day's grain, naked to resist frost? Their wealth is the blood and sweat of our peasants. "Generous statements, the indignation of the crowd, inspired the fighting spirit of the masses. By settling the account of exploitation, those long-working tenants understood the root of the tragic fate, gritted their teeth at the local tycoons and inferior gentry, and demanded that they rise up and overthrow the local tycoons and inferior gentry.
In accordance with the decision of the Linji Township Party Branch of the CPC on the preparation of weapons for the insurrection, Feng Juying, Xie Yaoxie, and Xie Jianzhao organized iron workers to make large knives and spears on the one hand, and on the other hand mobilized peasant armed forces to concentrate on the seizure of guns and ammunition for the landlord regiment's defense armed forces.
Before the Xuejiaping peasant rebellion, Feng Juying assisted Zhang Daonan in mobilizing the long-term workers of the Chen clan to go to HeiheKa to seize the guns of Chen Tianshu, the deputy regimental commander. There were 18 people who arrived at heihe card, including Zhang Daonan, Liu Huiting, Feng Juying, Xie Jianzhao, etc., but the regimental defense card had long been on the defensive, and the gun was not found, but 4 team members were arrested. The failure to capture the gun prematurely exposed the attempts of the peasant revolt, and the peasant movement that had just been launched was in danger of being brutally suppressed. The situation was urgent, and Zhang Daonan quickly reported the situation to the county party committee and decided to riot in advance.
On the night of March 12, 1928, Feng Juying and 32 other pioneers, led by Zhang Daonan, rushed to the river and killed Chen Nanting, the commander of the regiment, and handed over two guns. On the evening of the 13th, the peasant armed forces attacked the regimental defense checkpoints overnight, and surrounded 7 large local tycoons and inferior gentry, including Chen Xiangbin, the regimental commander of Xuejiaping, Chen Xiangle, the regimental commander of Zhang Huapping, Chen Xiangguo, the regimental commander of Gouyan, Chen Xiangshi, Chen Xiangming, and Chen Xiangqin, the regimental commander of Luoyuhe, and Yin Wu of Yin Jiaya. Most of these local gentry and their families were killed, their property confiscated, and their houses burned down. The other local tycoons and inferior gentry were terrified when they heard the news, and they fled for their lives. The peasant revolt in the Xueping area was very large in scale and momentum, and the number of people in various places reached thousands. Farmers from Nanzhang County (around present-day Huying in Chengguan Town), Changping and Nanbao (南漳, Baokang), and the borders of Nanyuan (南漳, 遠安) also participated in the rebellion.
On March 14, the county party committee held a mass meeting in Xuejiaping and established the Xuejiaping Soviet Government and the Peasants' Self-Defense Army, and Feng Juying was elected as a member of the Soviet Government, serving as an instructor of the Second Regiment of the Peasants' Self-Defense Army, assisting Liu Huiting in commanding the operation in four counter-encirclement and suppression campaigns, including Lei Jia po, GuanmiaoYa, Sanjingzhuang, and Bailuohe, repelling the enemy's rampant attack on the Soviet area, and being a heroic young leader in the Jingshan peasant rebellion.
On April 17, 1928, due to the leak of secrets by the traitor Guo Xuepu, Zhan Zhiqian, the former master of the Great Dao Altar, and Lü Yungui, the chuan mage, launched a rebellion, taking advantage of the fact that the main force regiment was far away from the Xuejiaping Su District, and using the correspondent Guo Xuepu as an internal response, instigated more than 200 people from the second and fourth regiments under their control to launch a surprise attack on the Soviet government. At that time, some leaders of the county party committee and the government were holding a meeting in the Political Department, caught off guard and outnumbered. Li Xieyi, secretary of the county party committee, Zhang Daonan, secretary of the party branch of Linji Township, Feng Juying's father Feng Yingzeng and uncle Feng Yinggui, and 12 other martyrs died heroically.
An indomitable Communist Party member
The Jingshan peasant uprising was defeated by the internal rebellion, when the master of the Great Dao Society and the Master of the Chuan Sect instigated the second and fourth regiments to kill the main leaders of the uprising, Li Xieyi and Zhang Daonan.
On April 17, during the rebellion of the Great Dao Society, Feng Juying, a member of the Soviet government, accompanied Yang Yi'ou, commissioner of the Northern Hubei Special Committee, to carry out work at the Chaijiashan branch of the Peasants' Association. When they learned of the news that the Great Knife Society had rebelled and killed the revolutionary leader, they were very sad and hid in the Dongya sinkhole with the help of the masses. However, due to the betrayal of the traitor Guo Xuepu, Zhan Zhiqian, the master of the Great Sword Society, sent Zhan Zhigang, Wan Zongzhi and others to capture Feng Juying and Yang Yiou and escort them to Xue Jiaping for interrogation.
Feng Juying and Yang Yiou encouraged each other in their temporary cells: "To learn that pine trees are not bent, cypress trees are evergreen in all seasons, that is, sacrificing individuals and never betraying the revolution!" During the interrogation, the thugs hung them up and beat them to the skin, flesh and blood, and after passing out, they woke up with cold water and beat them again, but Feng Yang and the two did not spit out a word, and they were full of righteousness. Zhan Zhiqian became angry and drunk orders to be beheaded. The fierce executioners Guo Xuepu and Dong Guozheng cut off their heads with large knives.
Feng Juying, who was only 20 years old, shouted in front of the enemy's butcher's knife: "Kill my father (Feng Yingzeng) doctrine is not dead!" Kill my uncle (Feng Yingzhi) doctrine does not die! Kill me without dying! In another twenty years, it will be the world of the Communist Party! Yang Yi'ou shouted, "Long live the proletariat!" Long live the Communist Party! This voice echoed in the valley, showing the revolutionary spirit of the Communists who would rather die than yield and their firm belief in the victory of the revolutionary cause.
Feng Juying sacrificed his 20-year-old life for the revolution, and the people of Nanzhang will always miss him!
In the Jingshan peasant uprising, Feng Juying's family produced 4 Communist Party members and 4 martyrs. His father, Feng Yingzeng, was a scholar, he was influenced by his second brother Feng Yinggui and son Feng Juying to join the revolution and join the party, in March 1928 he participated in the Xuejiaping Peasants' Rebellion, served as the head of the Ordnance Department of the Soviet Government, and was also in charge of the confiscated floating wealth, and was killed in the Dadaohui Rebellion on April 17; the second uncle Feng Yinggui, a teacher by birth, was later admitted to Nanzhang Fengshan Middle School, participated in the revolutionary organization Public Welfare Promotion Association, and later joined the Communist Party of China, and was one of the 32 pioneer (dared to die) members in the Xuejiaping Peasants' Rebellion in 1928. Killed on 17 April in the Dadaohui rebellion, his cousin Feng Juhai, a squadron leader in the Xuejiaping peasant revolt, continued his activities after the defeat of the Soviet government and was later hunted down and killed by the Qingxiang team. The remains of Feng Yimen's four heroic martyrs were later buried by the villagers in the "Pine Bag" in the center of Xuejiaping, now the Jingshan Peasant Revolt Martyrs Cemetery.
History freezes, heroes sleep forever. In that era of smoke and war, thousands of "Feng Juying" exchanged their blood and lives for our happy and peaceful life today. Only by not forgetting our original intentions, keeping our mission in mind, working hard, and inheriting the legacy of the martyrs can we comfort the martyrs who are buried under the Qingsong!