Wang Taiji, leader of the Yaoxian uprising: The stakes of life and death do not matter

This is a statue of Wang Taiji (profile photo). Xinhua News Agency

Xi'an, 5 Sep (Xinhua) -- "Grandpa Tai's heroic deeds have always influenced me, and he is our pride, and at the same time, we also have the responsibility to inherit and carry forward his revolutionary spirit." Wang Zhenghong, the great-grandson of revolutionary martyr Wang Taiji, said.

Wang Taiji, born in 1906, is a native of Jianjiao Village, Beitian Town, Lintong County, Shaanxi Province (now Beitian Subdistrict, Lintong District, Xi'an City). In May 1924, he was admitted to the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangzhou, and before leaving Xi'an, he once chanted a poem Huaizhi: "Seven-foot boy Han, standing in the heavens and the earth; full of uneven things, what year will he wait for?!" Wang Taiji joined the Chinese Communist Party shortly after arriving at the school. In the winter of the same year, Wang Taiji was sent to the Nationalist 2nd Army Cadet Battalion in Kaifeng, Henan Province, as a platoon leader, and he organized the "Young Soldiers' Federation" on the outskirts of the party in his company to carry out revolutionary activities, with more than 40 members participating.

In 1926, Wang Taiji was transferred to the Zhen Shoushan Teaching Regiment of the Shaanxi Army as a battalion commander, engaged in military movement work, and introduced his brother Wang Taicheng, who was the squad leader in the battalion, to secretly join the Communist Party of China.

In the spring of 1928, Wang Taiji led the whole battalion to revolt in Linyou County, Shaanxi Province, and the troops who participated in the uprising, including the officer team, non-commissioned officer team, student team and battalion headquarters of the student battalion, totaled about 300 people and more than 160 guns. Later, he failed on the way to Shaanxi and Gansu, but Wang Taiji was not discouraged, and when he quietly passed through Xi'an, he did not return home, but only wrote a letter to his parents to express his revolutionary aspirations: "Men taste the world's affairs, danger is then safe, do not try to be safe; chaos is to think of governance, do not try to rule small." Men contribute to society by example, and the stakes of life and death are not counted. ”

In May of that year, Wang Taiji participated in leading the Weihua Uprising and served as chief of staff of the Northwest Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Together with Tang Shu, Liu Zhidan, and others, he led this revolutionary armed force of more than a thousand people, combined with the local peasant movement, beat up local tyrants, distributed grain, and assisted local party organizations in establishing a red regime in an area of more than 100 square kilometers from ShaohuaShan in the east, lintong county in the west, Weibei in the north, and Qinling in the south.

After the uprising failed again, Wang Taiji went to Nanzhao County, Henan Province, alone, to engage in secret revolutionary activities. He was soon arrested and taken to Nanjing. Although he lost contact with the party organization, he did not shake his revolutionary convictions, and the reactionary authorities tortured him, and he did not yield, and wrote a poem in prison: "Nanjing was detained for many years, and the fleas besieged He Zupi." Turn over and eliminate the ugly, the revolutionary spirit is refined and strengthened" "No sleep is allowed on the three-foot bed, the five-step room is left behind, the wild groan will be BoJun not impatient, and the iron window will be good to the sound." ”

In 1930, Wang Taiji was released from prison on bail by Yang Hucheng and served as deputy brigade commander and chief of staff of the Supplementary Brigade of the 17th Division. After 1931, he served as the chief of the recruit training department and the head of the cavalry regiment of the Xi'an "Appeasement" Office.

In 1933, after Wang Taiji's cavalry regiment was stationed in Yao County, Shaanxi Province, he found his old classmate He Yuji to help him find the party organization and report to the party organization the idea of leading the whole regiment uprising. In July, under the leadership of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Wang Taiji led more than 2,000 cavalry regiments to revolt in Yao County, established the Northwest People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, served as the commander-in-chief, and restored party organization relations. After losing the battle north of Mihara, he led the rest of his troops to retreat to Zhaojin and joined the guerrillas led by Xi Zhongxun and Li Miaozhai. In August, he was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Provisional General Headquarters of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Guerrillas of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, led his troops to take Zhang Hongzhen, attacked HeshuiCheng at night, and won more victories with less in the Battle of Maojiagou Gate, turning the troops around the danger and crushing the enemy's "encirclement and suppression".

In November of the same year, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu Border Special Committee and the Party Committee of the Provisional General Headquarters decided to reorganize its subordinate units into the 42nd Division of the 26th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, with Wang Taiji as the commander of the division, and led his troops to open up the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu Border Base Area centered on Southern Liang.

In January 1934, in order to expand the revolutionary armed forces, Wang Taiji took the initiative to ask to go to the border of Henan and Shaanxi to do military movement work, and was arrested while passing through tongrun town in Chunhua, Shaanxi. During his imprisonment, at the mercy of the enemy's soft and hard tactics, threats and inducements, Wang Taiji did not lose the integrity of a Communist Party member, and also left a heroic and dry verse on the wall of the detention room: "After several upheavals, shame and wisdom, lead the neck to die in a sincere and happy way, and celebrate the red flag flying with his eyes open." After wang Taiji knew that he would soon die, he earnestly told the old friends of Yang Hucheng's troops that he hoped that the Seventeenth Route Army could contribute to the cause of unity and resistance against Japan throughout the country. On March 3, Wang Taiji was secretly murdered at the age of 28 in the compound of the Military Justice Department of the "Appeasement" Office of Xihuamen in Xi'an.

In 1951, the Party and the people's government built a memorial pavilion and a memorial tower for the martyr Wang Taiji in Xi'an Revolution Park for future generations to visit and commemorate. In 2012, in Jianjiao Village, Beitian Subdistrict, Wang Taiji's hometown, the tomb of Wang Taiji martyr was named xi'an party history education base. In 2013, in order to commemorate the hero, the village committee of Jianjiao Village built the Wang Taiji Martyrs Square. In 2015, it was named the patriotic education base of Lintong District, and many teenagers come here every year to learn about revolutionary traditions.

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