In October, the autumn breeze was cool, and the Central Red Army expedition was busy. This depicts that in the autumn of 1934, the Central Red Army in the revolutionary base areas of Gannan and western Fujian was forced to leave the Central Soviet Region due to the defeat of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, carry out a strategic shift, and embark on a tragic and long journey, embarking on an arduous twenty-five thousand-mile long march.
In order to cover the strategic shift of the main Red Army, contain and destroy the enemy, and to respond to the Long March of the main Red Army, it was organized and decided to stay behind to fight guerrilla warfare in the Soviet areas, and this remaining unit was no better than the situation of the Red Army on the Long March.
Among them, Huang Changjiao, who successively served as the executive committee of the Central Committee, the procurator of the Central Committee for Workers and Peasants, the provincial women's minister, and the leader of the Red Army guerrilla group, stayed behind in the Soviet area to fight guerrillas; in the harsh environment, in the face of homelessness, he went through guns and forests, fought bloody battles, and went forward to succeed him, leaving behind countless heroic deeds that can be sung and wept.
Huang Changjiao, born in a poor peasant family in Tiancun Town, northwest of Ganxian County, Jiangxi Province, in order to support her family, young Huang Changjiao went out with the manhood in the village as a porter, and suffered from a young age. Huang Changjiao was the first to come out of the village to join the revolutionary work, when she had just turned 18 years old, and then she gloriously joined the party.
Huang Changjiao, who had suffered so much since childhood, realized that participating in revolutionary work was to help the poor turn themselves around and be liberated. Therefore, she was full of vigor in her revolutionary work, and every day she went from village to village to house and mobilized the masses. When they learned a little revolutionary principle, they were propagated by everyone and were deeply loved by the cadres of the government of the commune Soviets and the women's deputies. There were often mass meetings in the townships and villages, and Huang Changjiao, as a representative of the township women, often took the stage to speak, publicizing anti-feudalism and opposing arranged marriages, and soon she became an outstanding grassroots women cadre.
According to her work performance, she was organizationally transferred from the Soviet District of Ganxian County to the provincial party committee organs; at the same time, in response to the call put forward by the central authorities for preferential treatment of the families of the Red Army, Huang Changjiao went to Ganxian and Xingguo counties to grasp the points and launched a vigorous campaign to give preferential treatment to the families of the Red Army. She mobilized the broad masses of women to help the Red Dependents to cultivate the fields, do farm work, clean up, wash clothes and do housework; led the rural cadres to personally deliver the salt and grain provided by the government to the families of the Red Army; she and the cadres and staff of the provincial party committee organs participated in the "Preferential Treatment of the Red Army Family Saturday" activity, boiling salt, beating straw shoes, and planting vegetable gardens. She came out early and returned home every morning, ate and drank dew, wore stars and wore the moon, worked hard and complained, and her simple work style was praised by the vast number of cadres and the masses. The provincial party secretary praised her as a "model of women's work". This year, Huang Changjiao was united with Deng Zhenqian, then minister of labor of the Central Committee.
Deng Zhenqian, also known as Zhongquan and Zhongmin, was born in 1904, a native of Datang Village, Changgang Township, Xingguo, who participated in the peasant movement that year, and once served as chairman of the Xingguo Tangshi Township Trade Union and chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions, went deep among the workers to carry out revolutionary propaganda, actively formed various grass-roots trade union organizations, and formed a deep revolutionary friendship with his colleague and comrade-in-arms Huang Changjiao, and developed feelings in common revolutionary work, and with the approval of the organization, they were united as a revolutionary couple.
In this year, the Second National Congress of the Chinese Soviet was solemnly held in Ruijin, and Huang Changjiao and Deng Zhenqian and his wife both attended the congress with honor. At this congress, the two were elected as members of the Central Executive Committee at the same time, and Deng Zhenyuan was also elected as a member of the presidium (the highest authority) and a working people's commissar (minister), becoming one of the party leaders. Huang Changjiao was elected as a member and inspector of the Workers' and Peasants' Procuratorate Committee, and both husband and wife became senior leaders.
Soon after, when the Red Army's Long March began, the list drawn up by Deng Zhenqian and Huang Changjiao and his wife all accompanied the main Red Army on the Long March, when Huang Changjiao was ordered to go to Ganzhou to buy salt and cloth, and after arriving in Ganzhou, Deng Zhenqian sent her a letter asking her not to buy anything and immediately return to Ruijin with money. After Huang Changjiao hurried back to Ruijin, she was informed to follow the health troops in the "Red Star Column". At this time, Deng Zhenqian had been assigned to the Local Work Department of the Political Department of the Fifth Red Army as a minister, and had been operating with the army for more than 10 days, and the two of them did not even say a word of farewell. She did not expect that the couple would be separated forever.
Just when Huang Changjiao was preparing to accompany the Red Army's Long March, she was unexpectedly found to be pregnant, she was told to stay behind to fight guerrillas, and Huang Changjiao, who remained in the Soviet area, became a guerrilla leader, leading the remaining Red Army fighters and reactionaries to carry out a hard struggle, and the following year, Huang Changjiao and Deng Zhenqian's child was born, after which she took the child to fight guerrilla. In the difficult years, she sacrificed her children to protect the safety of her teammates.
It was a cold winter morning, the enemy once again searched the mountain to "encircle and suppress", in order to get rid of the enemy's pursuit, Huang Changjiao said to the child: "Let's hide and seek." She then let the children walk up one mountain path and ordered the guerrillas to take another. After a while, the child did not see his mother coming, so he blew the only toy made of bullet casings, and kept shouting: "Mom, Mom, I am here..." The son's cry echoed in the valley with great excitement... Until night, when the escaped guerrillas fell asleep, Huang Changjiao stumbled back to the same road by the moonlight, and on the bank of a small stream on the side of the road, she found her son's body. In the bright moonlight, the lovely son froze with a look of consternation, still clutching the shell in his hand...
Later, Huang Changjiao's guerrilla group was incorporated into the New Fourth Army, and Huang Changjiao and other unsuitable entourage once again stayed in the local area to insist on underground work. However, shortly after the guerrillas opened, she was arrested and imprisoned and tortured. During this period, her husband, Deng Zhenqian, had served as the director of the Democratic Movement Department of the Central China Bureau, the secretary of the Suwan District Party Committee, and the deputy director of the Southern Jiangsu Administrative Office, but unfortunately, when he was transferring with the troops of the New Fourth Army, he was attacked by the enemy army and died at the Gaoqiao Ferry Port of the Qinhuai River at the age of 39.
Huang Changjiao was tortured and did not betray the secrets of the party and the party and the team in the reactionary prison, but the reactionaries did not kill her, and then, Huang Changjiao, under the pseudonym Huang Shuixiang, in order to survive, married Chen Yixun, a poor peasant in Shidong Village, Wuyang Township, who was more than twenty years older than her and had saved his life, and remained hidden until the liberation of Ruijin in August 1949.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the local government has been looking for Huang Changjiao, because she changed her name, looking for more than a year, only to find her in the mountains to find her pseudonym, she saved and confiscated guns, certificates, documents handed over to the organization, with practical actions to express their loyalty to the revolutionary cause, Huang Changjiao served as deputy county governor and other positions.
In November 1991, several veteran generals from Ruijin returned to their hometown to participate in the celebrations, during which the veteran generals made a special trip to Yanye Lane to visit Huang Changjiao, who was unable to walk in a wheelchair due to the after-effects of the stroke. The old generals all respected this old revolutionary man in the Soviet region very much, and held her hand in both hands and said, "Sister Deng let us say hello to you on her behalf!" She was so excited that she couldn't speak, and tears welled up from the corners of her eyes. Two years later, Huang Changjiao died of illness in her old house on the banks of the Mianjiang River in Hebei Street, Xianghu Town, Ruijin County, at the age of 83.