Sikes (Yin Shutao)

Hicks' real name was Yin Shutao, when he was 27 years old. He has always been radical. We can get a glimpse from his imitation of Marx under a pseudonym. On the night Sikes arrived in Chenzhou, he asked Xia Mingzhen, secretary of the county party committee, to hold a meeting of cadres. Chenzhou is the central city in southern Hunan, and the Special Committee decided to burn Chenzhou first, so the first stop of the delegates was Chenxian County. The meeting was held in Yi Shu Girls' School in the east of the city, attended by members of the county party committee and presidents of Soviet governments in some areas. Hicks conveyed the instructions of the provincial party Committee to resolutely implement the "scorched earth strategy" and spoke passionately: "We will take decisive measures to burn down houses and hide all the food, and the masses will move away. When the reactionary army came, there was no place to live and nothing to eat. We could defeat them without much effort. We will spare no effort to carry out the instructions of the special Committee, burn down all houses on both sides of the avenue and kill all reactionaries! "

Hicks's remarks, like thunder exploding on the participants' heads, surprised many people. Xia Mingzhen, secretary of the county party committee, spoke first. He said, "What a big joke." Then, in a rage, he refuted the "scorched earth strategy" and said, "How can there be such a cheap thing under the sun? Burning houses and filling wells can defeat the enemy? Even if the enemy has no place to live within 5 miles 10, he can't burn all the houses outside 10, can he? The enemy has no place to live. Where do we live? Where do so many people live?