On May Fourth Youth Day in 1946, Xu Xiangqian, who was deputy commander and chief of staff of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Jinsui Joint Defense, got married, his third marriage, while his second wife had been killed 14 years earlier.
The wedding was simple, with only four or five people attending. The wedding car is a truck that his subordinate colleagues have forced him to find. But the bride is not ordinary, her name is Huang Jie, is a typical hero.
Huang Jie
Huang Jie, born in 1910 in Hubei Province, a scholar, ran away from home because of her opposition to arranged marriages, and at the age of 16, she was admitted to the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy and became the first batch of female cadets of the Whampoa Military Academy. At that time, Xu Xiangqian was an instructor at the Whampoa Military Academy. In 1928, she joined the party organization and later served as a temporary central transportation officer in the Central Military Commission. In 1940, he came to yan'an, which he dreamed of, and served as the director of the First Nursery School and the director of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Women's Organization.
Huang Jie had a previous marriage, her husband was named Zheng De, and he was also a Communist Party member. The Zheng Family is a well-known family in Shanghai's industrial and commercial circles. The family's economic strength is strong, but Zheng De is uneasy with pleasure, still throws himself into the revolution, and becomes the first pilot of the party organization. In 1943, he was killed by the reactionary warlord Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang, along with Mao Zemin and Chen Tanqiu.
As early as the time of the Whampoa Military Academy, Huang Jie knew Xu Xiangqian, but Xu Xiangqian did not know her at that time. It's not easy for them to come together today, and in the experience of marriage, they have one thing in common, which is that their former partners were all killed. Huang Jie once loved her husband deeply, and Xu Xiangqian was also sad about losing his second wife, and even felt guilty all his life.
Xu Qianqian's second wife was called Cheng Xunxuan, and she loved Xu Xiangqian deeply, but when his wife was severely tortured by Zhang Guotao and eventually killed, Xu Xiangqian chose silence, knowing that his wife was tortured for her but did not stop and rescue her.
Cheng Xunxuan
In June 1929, Xu Xiangqian was sent to the base area of northeast Hubei as the deputy commander of the Red 31st Division, and in a battle, he broke his leg, and the organization considered that he was alone and needed to be taken care of, so it found a partner for him, and cheng Xunxuan, who was loyal and virtuous, became the best choice.
Cheng Xunxuan was ten years younger than Xu Xiangqian and was born in 1911 in Hong'an County, Hubei Province. His parents were loyal, his mother had a cheerful personality, and Cheng Xunxuan was greatly influenced by his mother. The eldest brother and the second brother were all party members, the third brother served as the chairman of the Soviet and was killed by the enemy, and the younger brother was a service soldier in the headquarters at that time, and was later unjustly killed during the "purge".
In 1928, Cheng Xunxuan joined the party and was responsible for women's work, she was industrious and loyal, and naturally admired heroes like Xu Xiangqian, so when she heard that the object was Xu Xiangqian, she said: "Obey the organizational arrangement." Soon, they were married, when she was 18 years old and Xu Xiangqian was 28 years old.
After marriage, she was determined to be Xu Xiangqian's xiannei helper, to be a good wife, and to take meticulous care of Xu Xiangqian, and soon Xu Xiangqian's leg injury recovered, and soon after the new marriage, she returned to the team, and they rarely saw each other. But a catastrophe struck.
Xu Xiangqian
In 1932, during the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, Xu Xiangqian, who had been promoted to commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front, was busy fighting, but he missed his young wife very much and could not go back to visit, so he entrusted the guards to bring home the torn clothes and let his wife mend him. Unexpectedly, the guard ran back "out of breath" and reported: "Xun Xuan has been arrested, and the person who arrested her is a reshuffle!".
Hearing this unfortunate news, he stood like five thunderbolts, facing the wall, silently weeping, and did not move for a long time. At that time, it was Zhang Guotao's "purging" in Baique Garden, and he knew that his wife had been wronged, but he did not dare to return to the division to save her. At that time, many Red Army generals were killed by Zhang Guotao, and even senior generals such as Xu Jishen and Zhou Weijiong were persecuted, which formed a huge psychological shock to many senior generals. Xu Xiangqian is very conflicted in his psychology, if he goes to save his wife, he may burn himself, not only has no future, but may also have a fear of life, so he gave up the rescue and could only watch his young wife suffer from disaster.
At that time, Zhang Guotao killed more than 2,500 cadres at or above the company level, and they did not sacrifice themselves on the battlefield of killing the enemy, but they were killed by their own people, which they could not have predicted.
Not only was Xu Xiangqian unable to rescue his wife, but even his wife's death or death could not be known until 5 years later. When he arrived in Yan'an in 1937, he learned that after his wife had been arrested, the Security Bureau tortured her with all kinds of torture, forced her to admit that she was a counter-revolutionary, and exposed her as an "accomplice." Cheng Xunxuan did not give in and was eventually brutally killed. Xu Xiangqian asked Zhou Chunquan, then director of the Eyu-Anhui Security Bureau: "Why did you arrest my wife and kill her, what crime did she commit?" At this time, Zhou Chunquan had no choice but to tell the truth: "She was not guilty, and she was arrested at that time just to get your materials." Xu Xiangqian was unable to speak in sorrow, and he was heartbroken for his beloved wife who had been killed for protecting him. As a man who couldn't protect his wife, he was so guilty that he was reluctant to remarry for more than a decade.
Zhou Chunquan
Zhou Chunquan was arrested and killed by Zhang Guotao
He rarely mentioned this marriage with Cheng Xunxuan, but he always took care of Cheng Xunxuan's mother and could not bear to tell the old man about it. Guilt was hidden in his heart.
Xu Xiangqian's first wife was zhu Xiangchan, and she was an arranged marriage by her parents in rural areas. Although it is an arranged marriage, the girl is gentle and considerate, has a long-term relationship, the husband and wife have a good relationship, and have a daughter after marriage. In 1924, Xu Xiangqian lost his job in his hometown, so he was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy, and since then he has entered the military and rarely returned home. His wife, Zhu Xiangchan, died of depression because she missed her husband.