During the period of the Great Revolution and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, for the liberation of the people of Wenxian County, a large number of Communist Party members and revolutionary masses fought for it until they sacrificed their precious lives, and 1,028 revolutionary martyrs emerged successively, including 18 cadres at the district level alone. In 1947, with the approval of the Fourth Special Bureau of Taihang, there were four villages and towns named after revolutionary martyrs in Wen County. They are Xiangyun Town, Liting Town, Junshan Village, and Wanfu Village. In order to commemorate the martyr Li Ting, the mayor of the third district, the village of Nanzhangqiang was changed to Li Ting Town; in order to commemorate the martyr Zhang Junshan, the mayor of the fourth district, Shuangliu Village was changed to Junshan Village; in order to commemorate the martyr Cheng Wanfu of the fifth district, Xiwang Village was changed to Wanfu Village; in order to commemorate the martyr Zhang Xiangyun, director of the Armed Forces Committee of the Second District, the southwest Wang Village was changed to Xiangyun Town.
Fan Jintang Martyr
Fan Jintang (1904-1928), zi yufu, pen name Chibo, Liushangren of Wenxian County, Henan. When he was young, he was intelligent and studious, and studied at the provincial capital Kaifeng St. Andrew's Middle School and anhui provincial sixth middle school. After casting pen from Rong, he joined the Communist Party of China in Feng Yuxiang's Nationalist Army. After the defeat of the Great Revolution, Fan Jintang returned to his hometown, contacted Communist Party member Wang Jimin and others, established the "Blood Hua Society", compiled and printed the "Blood Hua Weekly", circulated the "Communist Manifesto" and other books and periodicals, and spread Marxism-Leninism. In November 1927, when The Communist Party member Du Yixun was arrested in Dawu Village, Fan Jintang left Wen for Shanghai and founded the magazine "Liuying" under the leadership of Liu Xiwu, a member of the Communist Party, to spread revolutionary ideas. Before leaving Wen County, he was ready to die for the revolution at any time, wrote a letter of resignation, placed his wife in her mother's house, and said to her: "I will probably not come back when I go." You are still young, you should remarry, don't delay you. In the spring of 1928, Fan Jintang and several revolutionary comrades organized a revolutionary uprising in Jiangyin County, and unfortunately they were arrested and killed at the age of 24.
Martyr of Yang Jieren
Yang Jieren (1898-1936), formerly known as Yang Jiechen, Lianquan, Futai, pseudonym Wang Ren, Chongyi, Qinyang County, Henan. In 1919, he went to France for work-study and joined the Communist Party in 1922. In 1923, he transferred to the Eastern University of the Soviet Union. After returning to China at the end of the year, he was sent to northern Henan to carry out party building work, and was the founder of the Anyang Party organization. In October 1930, he went to Live in the family of his father-in-law in Houyanglei Village, Wen County, and carried out revolutionary activities under the cover of teaching. In October 1932, the young people Zhang Baoshan and Wang Rubin joined the Communist Party, established the Yang Lei Party Group, and founded the Peasants' Night School. In October 1933, he left Wen to hide in the field. In December 1936, while imprisoned in the Kuomintang Baoding Prison, he was killed at the age of 38 due to the failure of his leader to escape from prison.
Martyr Yan Lingxiao
Yan Lingxiao is a native of Wuqiao Village, Mengxian County, Henan Province, and participated in organizing the student tide during his teaching at Mengxian Normal School. In the spring of 1936, after teaching in The Primary School in Sizhao, Wen County, he secretly organized a book club among progressive teachers and students to introduce books and periodicals on communist theory. In the spring of 1937, he was hired by the first elementary school in Wen County and continued to organize reading clubs among teachers and students. After the "July 7" incident, the revolutionary situation developed rapidly, and the reading club was openly called the "Anti-Japanese Reading Club". He led teachers and students to urban and rural areas to carry out anti-Japanese and rescue propaganda activities. In February 1938, he joined the revolution in the anti-Japanese base area in Shanxi. In the spring of 1939, he joined the Communist Party, and in October he worked in the Southern Jinjin Detachment and served as the head of the Democratic Movement Unit. He disappeared in 1942 in rural Cangzhou. After the founding of New China, he was posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr.
Martyr Wu Mengwei
Wu Mengwei (1910-1944), formerly known as Wu Chunxiu, was a pseudonym of Chen Fei. A native of Beijia Village, Wen County, Henan. In 1932, he joined the "Left League", joined the Communist Youth League in June of the same year, and successively served as the secretary of the West District Committee of Kaifeng City and the secretary of the Kaifeng Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Youth League. He was arrested in August 1933 for informing traitors and released in early 1936. In the autumn of 1938, he left the Qinfeng Daily and returned from Xi'an. At the end of the year, together with Wang Zhong, a communist party member in the Kuomintang county government, he organized the "Wenxian Anti-Japanese Political Education Work Group," a progressive anti-Japanese group, and led more than 60 enthusiastic young people of the regiment to carry out propaganda activities on anti-Japanese salvation in urban and rural areas. He was killed by the enemy in Xihua County in 1944 at the age of 34.
Martyr Guo Xiangchen
Guo Xiangchen was the first district-level cadre of the Communist Party to die in the struggle to open up the anti-Japanese guerrilla base area in Wenxian County. In March 1945, Guo Xiangchen came to Wen County from Shanxi and served as the mayor of the second district, stationed in Beibaofeng Village, and died heroically within a month of his appointment. During his tenure as the second district chief, he led the district cadres to publicize the party's anti-Japanese policy in various villages, held a meeting of the chief of protection, and publicized the party's anti-Japanese united front policy. The activities of the local armed forces in WenXian county in Qinnan greatly alarmed the Japanese puppet army. On the night of March 25, Li Duanzhangbu, a puppet army in Qinyang, raided Northern Baofeng, and Guo Xiangchen led more than a dozen fighters to stubbornly resist, and finally died because they were outnumbered. In early August, the Wenzhi County Party Committee and the county government held a memorial meeting at the Tangwang Temple in Wude Town, and erected a monument to the martyr Guo Xiangchen, with the inscription "To save the people of wenzhi county in the second district of Wenzhi County under the ravages of Japanese Kou, Traitors, and Secret Agents." At present, the Monument to the Martyrs of Guo Xiangchen stands in the Wenxian Martyrs' Cemetery.
Martyrs of Li Ting
Li Ting (1906-1945), a native of Zanhuang County, Hebei Province. In September 1945, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Li Ting went to Wen County to serve as the district chief. After taking office, together with Liu Hongjiang, deputy district governor, he organized cadres and went deep among the masses to publicize the party's policies of reducing rents and interest rates and rational burdens; cultivating activists and forming various village political powers; dismantling enemy and puppet organizations, and confiscating scattered guns in society. The work of the whole district is progressing smoothly and has been praised by the county party committee and county government. However, the enemy is not willing to lose. On the night of October 18, 1945, Wang Youdao and Zhou Tianzu, the leaders of the Bandits of the Southern Zhangqiang Bandits, took the three district cadres to participate in the battle to liberate The King of Qinyang, and the vacancy of the district office gathered more than 30 bandits. The cook of the district office was a bandit, who secretly opened the door of the district office and let in his accomplices. District Governor Li Ting, Deputy District Governor Liu Hongjiang and four others were outnumbered and heroically sacrificed.
Martyr Zhang Junshan
Zhang Junshan, whose ancestral home was Hebei, fled to Liao County in Shanxi (now Zuoquan County) at the age of 13, and was forced to work as a monk in the temple during hunger and cold. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, in 1939, he jumped out of Buddhism and joined the Eighth Route Army, joining the Party in the same year. In May 1945, he was appointed as the mayor of the first district of Wenmeng County, and was stationed in Shuangliu Village. In September 1945, the first district of Wenmeng County was changed to the fourth district of Wenxian County, and Zhang Junshan still served as the district chief. In October 1946, after our armaments went up the mountain, the fourth district was expanded, and Zhang Junshan served as the district chief and the captain of the armed engineering team, and together with Wang Wulie, secretary of the district party committee, led the armed engineering team back to the fourth district for combat on many occasions. On March 11, 1947, the armed workers of the fourth district captured Shuangliu Village, and Zhou Zefu, the leader of the village's enemy self-defense team, fled in a hurry, and on the way, they joined the self-defense squadron led by Li Yuhe, the head of the Kuomintang Fengling Township, and Li Yuhe gathered more than 300 enemy troops in Zhaoxian Township, Buxian Township, and Mengxian County, and rushed to Shuangliu Village. In the case of the enemy's outnumbered, Zhang Junshan led several soldiers, relying on the well platform, commanding the armed engineering team and retreating. When he saw that Wang Wulie, the secretary of the district party committee, and several soldiers had not yet retreated, he stood up and loudly beckoned them to retreat. Unfortunately, he was shot in the abdomen and his intestines flowed out. The comrades-in-arms helped him stuff his intestines back, and after a simple bandage, he carried it to Qinyang Jia Village, and that night, Zhang Junshan was unfortunately killed because of his serious injuries and excessive bleeding. In 1987, Wang Wulie, the former secretary of the fourth district party committee, left his post as director of the Metallurgical Department of Yunnan Province and revisited his hometown in Wen County to pay homage to the martyr Zhang Junshan. He lay on the grave of the martyr and cried loudly. Deep feelings, very touching. He said: "Comrade Junshan and I are both left-handed. When I studied at the Tk Kwon Road Donggan School, he was our life instructor. After arriving in Wen County, I was in the fifth district, he was in the fourth district, and then the two districts merged to form a martial arts team, and we fought side by side. He was a few years older than me, and he was my big brother and good brother. I will always remember his sacrifice. ”
After Zhang Junshan's sacrifice, that night, the soldiers found a cypress coffin in Gaozhao Village and buried the martyr in Qinyang Jia Village. In the 1950s, the county was preparing to move Zhang Junshan's coffin to the martyrs' cemetery, and after the people of Junshan Village knew about it, they spontaneously moved out and intercepted the coffin. They said: Mayor Zhang sacrificed for us and can never be separated from us. With the consent of the county party committee, the masses of the two villages of Qianjunshan and Houjunshan raised their own funds to bury the martyrs in the middle of the two villages, and built a memorial tower as a permanent memorial.
Cheng Wanfu martyr
Cheng Wanfu (1915-1947), a native of Xiyang County, Shanxi, joined the Communist Party in 1941. In May 1945, he was appointed as the mayor of the third district of Wenzhi County, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was changed to the mayor of the fifth district of Wenxian County, and was stationed in Xiwang Village. The anti-rape and anti-hegemony campaign in the five districts, rent and interest rate reduction, and the movement of cultivators to have their own land have been reported many times by the Taihang edition of Xinhua Daily. In October 1946, after our armaments went up the mountain, he returned to the third district as the district chief and the captain of the armed forces, and led the soldiers to attack the enemy in the county many times. They ate and slept in the wind, went out day and night, fought flexibly and actively against the enemy, and fought seven battles and seven victories in 10 days, and were commended by their superiors. On March 28, 1947, the Wen County armed forces fought fiercely with the enemy in the area of Datun Village, and moved to the Fan Village garrison in Qinyang County at night, and at dawn on the 29th, they were intercepted by the enemy in the south of Qinyang Jia Village, and Cheng Wanfu and others were unfortunately captured. In Qinyang Prison, in order to protect the Wenxian militia from being killed, he was determined to die, resolutely assumed the "responsibility" of leading the militia to fight against the enemy and was tortured. On the execution ground, he chanted "Long live the Communist Party!" "Heroism is righteousness. It shows the communists' firm belief in the revolution and the heroism of treating death as a homecoming.
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