Retracing the Thousand Miles of Red Army Road in Pursuit of the Souls of Unknown Heroes｜Zikeng: Xuan Suit Tang Border Region Red Capital

*** Zikeng Village in Wuyi, the seat of the Xuan Suit Tang Work Committee, was known as a "bandit village" before the liberation of China, just like Qianwan Village and Jinlong Village. There were only 20 households in the village, but there were 9 old members of the Party, 8 old Red Army soldiers, and many others who sacrificed their lives for the establishment of the new China, and almost every household was related to the "red" color.

The founding general Su Yu rate of the Chinese workers and peasants Red Army advancing division in southern Zhejiang adhere to three years of guerrilla warfare, had opened up a number of guerrilla revolutionary base, Xuan (Ping) Suichang (Chang) Tang (Creek) guerrilla base is one of the best. After the founding of New China, Su Yu, in his memories of the three-year guerrilla war in southern Zhejiang, described the construction of Xuan (Ping) Sui (Chang) Tang (Xi) guerrilla bases in this way:

The small guerrilla bases that we have established can be cited as an example of the Xuan (Ping) Sui (Chang) Tang (Xi) border area.

As early as May to September 1935, when we were guerrilla in the area south of the middle part of the Zhejiang-Gan line, we entered the Xuan-Sui-Tang area and circled around Men-Jin and Yin-Keng. The terrain in this area was very good, centered on Menjeng, sitting south to north. With its back against Daling and facing the Jin (Hua) Tang (Xi) Plain, the peaks keep watch and the bamboo trees are lush and green, making it an important location. It is not only at the junction of three counties, but also can choke three transportation lines: its east has Xuanping to Jinhua highway, its west has Lishui through Suichang to Longyou highway, north has Jinhua to Quzhou railroad and highway, and there is a small creek from the south to the north to Jinhua, is the way of the bamboo and wood to put rafts must pass. Here we fought the landlords, mobilized the masses, carried out our work, and developed more than 20 Party members in more than 10 villages, including Zhitoukeng, Long Onion, Zhouwu, Huangtangjing, Xiaoyangkeng, Zikeng, and Xikou, and set up the Party's branch and the Suitang District Committee. Luo Zhuoying "siege", the main force of our army to the south of Zhejiang transfer, due to the region in the enemy outside the encirclement, work and hidden, not seriously damaged, the masses, also covered us for a few months a wounded man recuperated. In the fall and winter of 1936, we already had the idea of establishing a small guerrilla base and sent people to resume work in the new spirit. At the end of 1936 and the beginning of 1937, two units entered the area. Around the Spring Festival, the Party's Xuan Suit Tang Work Committee was set up in Zikeng to unify and lead the construction of this small guerrilla base. As a result of the implementation of the new policy, there was some economic development. The center of the area was called "Little Shanghai" by the public, and commerce flourished. Merchants from the plains brought in large quantities of cloth, medicine, and other goods, and exchanged specialties from the mountainous areas, making Jinhua our "munitions supply base" in effect. Many of the Bao and A chiefs in that area worked for us, and the district chiefs and township chiefs tended to remain neutral. They clearly know some of our situation, but weighing the pros and cons, do not report the case to the *** authorities, because if they do, they will be blamed by their superiors and blackmailed by the army, and will also be punished by us, which is not pleasing to both sides. From the side of the enemy, previously into the mountains to harass the troops by us after several strikes also learned "good behavior", small groups do not dare to come back, for fear of being eliminated by us, and large groups can not come up, because the road is difficult, difficult to feed, and can not be utilized. In this way, we have a small but really stable rear. This rear, in Liu Jianxu's "encirclement" period, played a tenacious fighting force, and became one of the important bases for us to persist in the struggle in the south of the Zhejiang-Ganjiang line and southwestern Zhejiang.

The article mentions: "In Zikeng set up the party's Xuan Suit Tang Work Committee, unified leadership of the construction of this small guerrilla base". It can be seen, Zikeng is when the founding general Su Yu rate of the Chinese workers and peasants Red Army advancing division in southern Zhejiang adhere to three years of guerrilla warfare, opened up Xuan (Ping) Suichang (Chang) Tang (Creek) guerrilla revolutionary base of the leadership of the center, which can be described as Xuan Sui-Tang Border Region Red Capital.

Zikeng, located in the mountains of southern Wuyi County, is now Taoxi Town, Zikeng natural village. 11 December, Wuyi County Media Center "retracing thousands of miles of the Red Army Road in pursuit of the soul of the unknown martyrs" interview team of nine people drove to Zikeng natural village interview.

Zou Jianxin, the secretary of the village party branch who greeted us, told us that according to his testimony, Zikeng was originally called Ziyuan. The ancestors of Zikeng villagers, Zou and Lai, came from Fujian Province in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and after living in Zikeng, they planted indigo as their business and multiplied into a family. The villagers of Zikeng made a living by producing indigo dyes, and over a long period of time, they dyed the creek pits in the village purple, so they were named Ziyuan, and later named Zikeng. The name Ziyuan was later changed to Zikeng. After liberation, it was also written as Zikeng.

*** Xuan Suit Tang Memorial Museum displays a variety of information, pulling our thoughts back to the years of war.

In the spring of 1937, the Xuan Suitang border area, the masses have been fully publicized and mobilized, in Suichang Menjian and Xuanping Dongkeng, Shizhuyuan and other places to develop 40 to 50 *** party members. In the summer of that year, Su Yu and Xie Wenqing decided to set up a *** Xuan Suitang Work Committee in Xuan Ping Zikeng Village to unify and lead the construction of this small guerrilla base area. Su Yu sent guard Lai Debiao as secretary of the committee, Zhu Jinbao, Luo Zhongyi as members of the committee, under the 12 party branches. The main task of the committee was to consolidate and develop the party and mass organizations in this area, so that it could become a base and anti-Japanese base in the future. When it was established, it was under the leadership of the Fujian-Zhejiang Border Provisional Provincial Committee, and was later transferred to the *** Southwest Zhejiang Special Committee.

*** Xuan Suit Tang Work Committee has 12 branches. Among them, there are six in Xuanping County (now Wuyi County): *** Daxikou Branch, secretary Zou Shuiqi; *** Zhangwuli Branch, secretary Qian Yuchuan; *** ShuiDuiKeng Branch, secretary Xie WanJin; *** JinShan Branch, secretary Yang LianFang; *** Lukeng Branch, secretary Jim HuoLin; *** Zikeng Branch, secretary Lai QuanJin. Suichang County two: *** door array branch, secretary Zhang Jinxiang; *** Zhang village branch, secretary Ye Guanmao. Tangxi County (now belongs to wucheng District) four: *** Zhitou pit branch, secretary Zhong Jinrong; *** Yinkeng branch, secretary Chen Yongfeng; *** Zhouwu branch, secretary Dai Zulu; *** Baifengtou branch, secretary Liu Zhaokun.

After the establishment of the Xuan Suit Tang Work Committee, the secretary of the Committee, Lai De Biao, under the cover of tailoring, carried out organizational activities in the area of Zikeng in Xuanping, Jinji Shanbui, Daxikou, Lengkeng, Tianping, Shangtian, Shuangshang Shuiui Dui Keng, and Zhangwuli. In the territory of Xuanping, 83 members of the Party were developed, 6 Party branches were established, and 5 sympathetic groups (whose members were all Party members) were set up. The construction of the base was continuously strengthened, and it became a relatively stable rear of the advancing division. In the later period of the siege by the *** Liu Jianxu Department, the base played a fighting role, and became one of the important bases for the advancing division to persist in the struggle in the south of the Zhejiang-Ganjiang line and in the southwestern part of Zhejiang Province.

After Cornu led his troops to the north to fight against the Japanese, *** Xuan Suit Tang Work Committee persisted in the struggle for 10 years, and many people sacrificed their lives in the revolutionary struggle. Among them, Lai Quanjin, the first party secretary of Zikeng Village, sacrificed five of his family's six members, and Lai Linbao, the second party secretary, sacrificed all of his family's five members.

In the evening of February 10, 1941 (the Lantern Festival of the first lunar month), Chen Jinchang, the detachment leader of Xuanping County *** Self-Defense Force, Feng Nuchao, the deputy detachment leader, and a soldier in the army disguised as common people went to Zikeng Village to arrest Lai Quanjin. At that time, Lai Debiao, Wu Zengde and others were having a meeting in Lai's room, and Lai Quanjin was in the middle hall offering ancestor as a cover. Suddenly saw three people rushed in to tie him, Lai Quanjin deliberately shouted: "What, first let me finish lighting incense before!" On hearing this, Lai De Biao and Wu Zeng De immediately drew their rifles and fired three shots, killing the sub-unit deputy Bong Nu Chao who was about to rush into the room on the spot, and wounding the other two. Chen Jinchang escaped with his wounds, and the Lieutenant picked up a life by feigning death with his wounds. Lai Quanjin and other seized the barge gun, from the back of the house Maozhushan breakout.

On the same day, Lai Quanjin family fled from the mountain behind the road, one-year-old daughter fell into a pond on the way to die prematurely, seven-year-old daughter soon also died of illness. Lai Quanjin took his wife and daughter to hide with relatives in Donglangyuan Village, and sent his eldest daughter to Xiaotong and Baibai Village to be a child bride. His nine-year-old son, Lai Xianglin, escaped and ran to Upper ShuiDuiKeng Village, where he was protected by the village people and escaped the search of the Self-Defense Forces. Lai Debiao then moved Lai Quanjin's family to Suichang and Longquan. Lai Quanjin's wife Liu Fenglian first moved to Suichang Qingshuiyuan mountain tent, and then moved to Longquan as a liaison officer of the *** Special Committee of Southwest Zhejiang, was arrested and sacrificed on November 18th of the same year in Longquan Dongying Mountain. His son was arrested at the same time, died in prison.

February 12, the Self-Defense Force large numbers of people to the village of Zikeng retaliatory "siege". First, they seized the house of Lai Quanjin's family, and later burned the house down with a fire; they captured four people from Zikeng village, Lai Jinqiu (Lai Quanjin's sister). They also searched the mountains and arrested Yue Li Tai, Yue Pin You, Qiu Mi Tai, Qian Yu Chuan, Zou Shui Bao, Liu Shun Yuan, Lai Lin Bao, Liu Bao Shun, Liu Jinde and other Party members. Party branches in Zikeng village were severely damaged. The people arrested in the "Zikeng Incident", whether they were *** Party members or ordinary people, in the face of torture by the *** authorities to force confessions, were steadfast and unyielding, until they were put on the tiger bench and their backs were burned by red shovels, and no one has ever confessed to the party's secrets. Liu Changfu, the head of the village committee, told us that his grandfather, Liu Jinde, broke a leg when he was on the tiger bench, and left six scars on his back from the shovel burns.

Lai Linbao, the second party branch secretary of Zikeng Village, had joined the Red Army in Xuanping Xiying. He was arrested several times after serving as the secretary of the village party branch. he was arrested again on August 8, 1946, and was tortured in prison, but he did not reveal the secrets of the party until his hands and feet were nailed to the big iron ding. On September 6 of the same year, Lai Linbao was shot dead at the north gate of Liucheng, the county seat of Xuanping.

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