In July 1926, the Northern Expeditionary Army triumphantly entered Hunan.
He Shuheng, Network Diagram
In October, He Shuheng was entrusted by the Hunan Provincial CPC Committee to convey the "Resolution on the Peasant Movement" of the provincial party committee to Shuikoushan, instructing the Shuikoushan Special Branch to use Shuikoushan as the center to carry out a great alliance of workers and peasants, build up workers' and peasants' armed forces, and carry out armed struggle.
A teenager participated in a workers' teacher training class organized by the Shuikoushan Party organization and went deep into the surrounding rural areas to propagate the revolutionary truth and spread the seeds of revolution. After the completion of the training course, the teenager was assigned to the same working group as the party member Huang Zuo and was sent to Liling to carry out the work of the agricultural movement.
He Shuheng, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, Network Diagram
There were a total of 8 of them, and their task was to go to Liling Nanxiang in accordance with the unified deployment of the provincial party committee to establish peasant associations and rural grass-roots political power.
Before leaving, the Shuikoushan Special Branch of the CPC once again held a secret meeting to arrange all kinds of work in the struggle of workers and peasants. At this meeting, Song Qiaosheng put forward the call that "workers should master weapons and build up their own armaments." Weapons are urgently needed in order to build up workers' armed forces. The meeting decided that the young man's group would first go to Dongyangdu Town to secretly transport some guns and ammunition before going to Liling.
DongyangDu is a water and drought pier. The warlord government built an arsenal there that specialized in the manufacture and repair of gun and ammunition. The surrounding people called it the Gun Bureau, and there was a battalion of troops guarding it.
The Gun bureau was formerly known as the Silver Sand Bureau, which was originally the same system as the Shuikoushan Silver Mining Bureau, but was later changed to the Gun Bureau due to the military needs of the Republic of China government. The Shuikoushan Party organization sent people to contact the underground party there and decided to secretly transport some of the guns and ammunition inside for the armed use of the Workers of Shuikoushan.
The secret joint of the underground party in the TV series, network diagram
The secret joint was done quickly. But for some reason the news leaked, and the reactionaries knew about the plan, and they prepared to "wait for the rabbit", along with the gunmen and the underground organization of the arsenal to crack it. The Party organization at Mizuguchi-san learned of the reactionaries' conspiracy from secret sources, and all this was not known to the underground organization of the Arsenal. The pick-up plan must be changed as soon as possible, the joints must be reassigned, and the contact time, place and code of contact must be changed.
Song Qiaosheng and Huang Zuo studied and decided to send the teenager to the joint. Because he was small and not very noticeable, and the members of the regiment at that time were secret, no one knew that he was the backbone. At the same time, they also took into account that the teenager had been standing guard for the party organization for a long time and had a certain amount of experience, plus he had practiced martial arts, his movements were more agile, and the safety factor was greater.
The teenager accepted the task.
In order to ensure that he was 100% sure, the teenager asked his father to assist in the operation. Because when his father was in the Green Camp in Nanchang, he learned some methods of using troops to deploy the front, and he was very scheming.
However, the teenager still had to keep the party's secrets and could not tell his father everything. He only vaguely told him that there was one thing that Song Qiaosheng's uncle had assigned and that he had to do it unconsciously. The boy's father also knew their rules and didn't ask much. After thinking about it for a while, he decided: Move now.
"Soldiers are not tired of deception". When he came up with this plan, he was even a little proud: "Let the family know that you are no longer in Shuikou Mountain, and then it will be easy to do."
At that time, spies were rampant, and no one knew which person was "red" or "white", and this plan was very conducive to avoiding the eyes and ears.
The young man's whole family immediately packed up their bags and went door to door to bid farewell to the workers, saying that the "mine tickets" issued by the mine were worthless, and the whole family really could not sustain it. This was not an isolated phenomenon at the time, and many workers had already left Shuikou Mountain with their families. This trick can be said to be a logical reason.
Later, the teenager put on the clothes of a country boy, left the boat ashore, followed the flat official road, and drove south for a hundred miles day and night, returning to Dongyang Ferry near Shuikou Mountain.
The arsenal was built on the edge of the Xiang River, except for the side of the river, the rest of the south, west and north sides were built with high walls, the main building of the gun workshop was built in the factory, there were several rows of workers' dormitories in the north, and the south was an empty test field. The factory produced and repaired the "old sleeve", that is, the Hanyang-made at that time. A branch railway line entered the factory, and special wagons were constantly coming in and out, transporting the guns and cannons sent for repair on the battlefield back to the factory and transporting new ones to the battlefield. The reactionaries used these weapons to stir up the land of China into smoke and smoke, and the people did not have a good life.
Song Qiaosheng and Huang Zuo only told the teenager the name and contact code of the connector, and everything else, such as how to find the connector (the teenager did not know him), how to act, etc., the organization let him act on the opportunity and decide for himself.
Although the teenager was only 17 years old at the time, a great sense of mission prompted him to think about the action plan repeatedly. The reactionary army of the Gun Bureau is obviously well prepared, and if you blindly inquire about the connector, it is bound to arouse suspicion, and the only way is to identify it yourself. At the same time, he had to arrange the time and place to pick up the gun.
La seven la eight, frozen called flowers. A homeless man named Hanako squatted under the wall at the entrance of the Gun Bureau for a whole day. From time to time, he stared at a chalkboard opposite the gatehouse of the Gun Bureau—it was a cultured man named Hanako.
There were many names written on the chalkboard, including the person he was looking for. He also found that whenever workers from the arsenal walked out of the workshop after work, they lined up in front of the powderboard, and several soldiers searched them to prevent workers from hiding gun parts or bullets. After checking, they draw a mark under their names, and every 5 clicks is a "positive word" to record the number of times they go to work.
Old China in 1926, Network Diagram
The teenager repeatedly confirmed it twice, and then identified the comrade who was going to connect. The comrade lived in the workers' dormitory in the factory, and after work in the evening, he and a few co-workers came to the tavern outside to eat, but in fact they called a secret meeting under the cover of eating wine. The teenager, still like a beggar child, slipped over to join him.
After the code was put on, he told the teenager that the weapons and ammunition had been prepared and placed in the workers' dormitories for several days, and the enemy was searching, the security was so tight that they could not be transported from the factory gate, and the only way was to hand them out on the wall behind the workers' dormitories. However, when handing out the gun, it is necessary to divert a sentry and a wandering sentry in the factory area in the northeast corner.
After agreeing on the time, code and handover point for receiving the gun, the teenager sneaked out of the suburbs and went to a hill north of the factory to wait for Huang Zuo. When the teenager reported the contact situation, Huang Zuo was satisfied and decided that it was still up to the teenager to try to lure the enemy away when he received the gun.
The northeast corner is a commanding height with little undulating heights. There is a small land temple, which is said to have been donated by the mother of the director of the Bai Artillery Bureau, to atone for the sins of the son who made guns and bullets to kill the living (the sentries used this small temple as a foothold to monitor the wall north of the workers' dormitory to the west and the unwalled Embankment of the Xiang River to the south. The soldiers were cantonese, and in the winter, they took off their shoes as soon as they took up their posts and stomped a big foot on the roof of a small temple.
The next day, the teenager circled the arsenal several times, and finally had a way. He found a broken basket and mixed it into the factory from the railway turnout in the southwest corner and lurked on the edge of the test gun field.
Arsenal of the Old Society, Network Diagram
At the end of the test site, there is a bullet surface piled up with sand, and every day the workers put a new gun on the opposite shooting platform and test the gun with a crack. Due to the large number of bullets tested, it was a danger zone, so there was no one around. When they had finished their test shots and left work, the teenager climbed over and picked up the bullets that had been shot.
At nightfall, on the hill across from the gunnery, Huang Zuo and they began to move, and three matches were drawn one after another, which was a secret sign for the teenager.
On the south side of the wall, the teenager loaded the picked lead bullet into a basket, covered it with some grass and branches, and moved north along the embankment of the Xiang River. There were many tea seed trees on the levee, and the teenager deliberately made a noise when he approached the Land Temple using the bushes.
The sentry threw away his cigarette butt, pulled the bolt of his gun loudly, and shouted, "Which?"
Geng Biao, Network Diagram
The teenager immediately fell silent. It was a little misty that night, and the sentries really couldn't see him. When he held the gun for a while and put it away with a scolding grin, the teenager jumped out of the bushes and flew directly towards the river.
"Stop!" The sentry spotted the shadow and, shouting, caught up with it and fired a "bang" shot.
At this time, there were about three or five patrol posts that were guarding the vicinity, and they also ran to this side, mixed with the sound of whistles.
The teenager immediately threw off his back basket, which rolled down the embankment toward the river, causing branches, weeds, and lead-breaking bullets to rattling. The sound and the shouts of the patrol sentries alarmed more sentries, who fired torches and concentrated from their posts toward the river, and the squad leader with the sentry gave the order to search deep into the Xiang River embankment. And the boy himself folded back into the bushes, and the cat waist reached the wall to the south, rolled over, and ran to a hostel rented during the day.
The factory police caught up with and "seized" the back basket, probably thinking that it was just a child who was picking up rags and selling money, and when he was angry, he kicked the back basket away, cursed and crawled back to the top of the embankment and returned to their respective sentry positions.
The night wind gently blows the gunnery, and the north wall is full of shadows.
"Evoking—"
"Workers and peasants."
The code is on top, "Comrade!" Call affectionately. The starlight reflects the bright roast blue, and the sealing oil wafts out of the darkness.
A minute later, the north wall was calm again, and the torches on the river embankment had just shone on the mysterious back basket. Sixteen brand-new "old sleeves", along with a load of bullets, thus reached the hands of the Workers' Red Guards.
Later, the Workers' Red Guards, under the command of Song Qiaosheng, used these weapons to fight against the reactionary mining police and army, and seized more guns. In early 1928, Song Qiaosheng led the Shuikoushan Workers' Red Guards to join the Shonan Uprising led by Zhu De.
What a hero out of a teenager! The young man's name was Geng Biao, a native of Liling, Hunan. He joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1925 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1928.
Later, he served as a member of the Standing Committee and Secretary-General of the Central Military Commission, a state councilor and minister of national defense, a vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress, a member of the Political Bureau of the Eleventh Central Committee, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Advisory Committee at the 12th and 13th National Congresses.