The Story of Red Revolution in Southern Shaanxi —— Martyr Chen Jinzhang (IV)

Using the cover of school teachers, Chen Jinzhang has been doing his best to take part in revolutionary activities. Printing, posting leaflets, establishing publicity publications, contacting related comrades, informing each other of information, conveying instructions from superiors, and planning action plans. He and his second brother, Chen Wenhua, cooperated with each other, taking the school classroom as the position and combining with the class, from calling for mobilization to organization, one in front of the stage and one behind the scenes, pushing the student movement in their school to a climax. Chen Wenhua is a more active young student than his brother. He was one of the League branch secretaries of the school and later one of the leaders of the Party branch. He is the organizer and initiator of various revolutionary activities among students. It was not until later that his identity was exposed that he came out of school and joined the local Red Army guerrillas (as the political commissar of the Third Guerrilla Brigade of Red 29 army) as the guerrilla captain. He repeatedly commanded troops to fight the enemy in the borders and mountainous areas of Hanzhong counties, and fought the enemy for more than 50 times, which dealt a heavy blow to the reactionaries, and the troops also grew from dozens to hundreds. Later, the guerrillas were surrounded by tens of thousands of enemy main forces and trapped in the mountains for many days. In order to destroy the enemy, the guerrillas were divided into several parts. Only then did Chen Wenhua get out of the encirclement of the enemy and return to his hometown of Daningqiang, Jin Kui. He also worked as a teacher for a period of time, until the Red Fourth Front Army came to his hometown in southern Shaanxi to carry out the campaign in southern Shaanxi. Under the guidance of eldest brother, his whole family joined the regular Red Army. This is another story.

? 1930, 165438+ 10, under the leadership of the Shaanxi provincial party Committee, the Shaanxi special Committee was re-established, and the Shaanxi provincial party Committee appointed Liang as the secretary of the special Committee. The * * * production party in southern Shaanxi held its first party representative meeting in Longgang Temple, Nanzheng. Chen Jinzhang and Chen Wenhua two brothers attended the meeting. The meeting elected a new leadership team of the Southern Shaanxi Special Committee composed of 12 people. Chen Jinzhang and Chen Wenhua both served as members of the Special Committee, and Chen Wenhua also served as Minister of Organization and Secretary of the Special Committee for several months. During this period, the revolutionary activities led by Hanzhong Production Party reached its climax. Party organizations have been established in various places (counties, districts, villages, towns, schools, etc.). ), and the party's activities have penetrated into the vast rural areas, schools and even the enemy's army and government. Several Red Army guerrillas have been organized one after another, and the heinous activities of local tyrants and evil gentry, such as resisting grain, taxes, donations and assassinations, have been widely carried out, and some places have even launched armed struggles with the enemy. Some revolutionary mass organizations have also been established. Red 29 army, directly led by the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and the Southern Shaanxi Special Committee, has also begun to establish a base area in Xixiang. Many districts and counties in Hanzhong have raised the torch of revolutionary struggle and are burning brightly. The junction of Nanzheng, Baocheng and Mianxian was once called "Small Soviet Area in Southern Shaanxi".

? During this period, some changes have taken place in Chen Jinzhang's family life, and his wife died of illness. Chen Wenhua, the second brother, is in love and married. His wife is his close comrade-in-arms, a student of women's normal school, a staunch revolutionary, and once served as secretary of the party branch of the school. Two like-minded young people came together for the same revolutionary goal and became revolutionary partners. Third brother Chen is already a student of Hanzhong Provincial Middle School and a member of China. Chen Jinzhang's younger sister, Chen Zhenren, also went to school and tended to be revolutionary when she grew up. Chen Jinzhang's daughter also grew up and took part in some revolutionary activities under the leadership of her father, second father, second mother and third father. In this way, the whole family grew up in the baptism of revolutionary struggle.

? Chen Jinzhang's hometown Daan became the main place of revolutionary struggle. Many times he went home to do some important and dangerous work. For example, the publication of leaflets, the drafting of some important documents, and the important meetings of the Special Committee in southern Shaanxi were all held in his hometown, the Chen Family Courtyard. Sometimes, the leaders of the special commission also take his home as a cover to work and rest there, and their families give active support in terms of confidentiality and living arrangements. However, there is no airtight wall in the world. 1in the spring of 933, it had long been suspected that his Kuomintang reactionaries sent gendarmes and spies, and suddenly searched his home one morning. Fortunately, he had already made preparations, and hid the relevant documents, materials and mimeographed equipment in places where the enemy did everything possible to find them. The spy found no clues. However, he was arrested by the enemy and went to prison for the second time. Because he didn't find any clues about the Party, the enemy interrogated him many times before letting him out. His second brother, Chen Wenhua, also left school during this period to join the Red Army guerrillas and openly fight the reactionaries.

? Although Chen Jinzhang was released by the enemy, he never got rid of the suspicion that the Kuomintang was a * * * party. The authorities ordered Hanzhong counties not to employ him as a school teacher, so he lost his job. Fortunately, he is already a famous painter. In order to make a living, he had to travel around Hanzhong and Ningqiang to sell paintings for a living. At this time, his wife has been dead for three years, and through the introduction of enthusiastic people, a new family has been formed. This is the daughter of a big family who lives in Hanzhong, and she is also a knowledgeable new woman. She admired Chen Jinzhang's talent and moral character and supported his revolutionary work. There is also a revolutionary fellow traveler in the Chen family.

? /kloc-in the winter of 0/932, the Red Fourth Army, which moved from the base areas of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, crossed the Qinling Mountains to Hanzhong in the south, crossed the Han River in the cold night, and then crossed the Daba Mountain to the mountains in the Sichuan-Shaanxi border region. After two years of hard work, the second largest base area, Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area, was established. This gave great encouragement to the Party organizations in southern Shaanxi and the guerrillas of the Red Army, and the underground Party organizations in southern Shaanxi and the people also gave great support to the main Red Army. 1In February, 935, the Red Fourth Front Army launched a campaign in southern Shaanxi to cooperate with the Long March of the Central Red Army. The main force of the Red Army broke into southern Shaanxi from the two directions of Wangcang in northern Sichuan and Nanjiang, conquered Ningqiang county and liberated Ningqiang. Then, to the east, we captured Yangpingguan, Jinniu Post and other important towns, and then marched into Mianxian, Baocheng and Hanzhong. Another main force of the Red Army started from Nanjiang County in the north, went down to Nanzheng, and went straight to Hanzhong, forming a pincer-like offensive. Hanzhong is on the defensive, trembling, three times a day.

? At this time, Chen Jinzhang, who had broken through the enemy's numerous checkpoints and returned to his hometown from Hanzhong, and several of his relatives, regardless of the tiredness of the journey, immediately took action, taking his second brother Chen Wenhua and his underground comrades who had returned to China to prepare for the Red Army. On the one hand, they publicized the policies of the Red Army, exposed counter-revolutionary rumors, formed various organizations to support and comfort the Red Army, and raised various materials such as food and medicine to support and comfort the Red Army. On the one hand, collect information about the enemy, spy on the enemy and arrange guides. And actively call on and organize poor peasants and progressive young people to join the Red Army. As soon as the Red Army arrived in Ningqiang, he got in touch, provided all kinds of information and accepted the task of organizing the masses to join the army and expand the Red Army. Take the trouble to run around.

? After careful consideration, the owner of the Chen Family Courtyard specially chose a day and held a family meeting in his hometown. At this time, his second wife, his second brother and his wife, his third brother and his new wife, his younger sister Chen Zhenren, his eldest daughter Chen Yamin (later renamed) and his second daughter (born by his second wife) were only four years old, and his second brother's daughter was still in infancy, plus his father Chen Daxun and his mother Chen, counting the whole family. (To be continued)