Wu Huanxian, with his outstanding revolutionary exploits, has been recorded in the annals of Chinese history. However, the sacrifices he made, as well as the miserable situation suffered by Wu Huanxian's family during the agrarian revolutionary war, are still little known... There is always unspeakable grief behind the hero.
Wu Huanxian
Why did the destruction of the family and the revolution bring about the disaster?
Wu Huanxian's family is relatively wealthy,
With more than 20 acres of paddy fields and a few cultivating cattle, the family lives in 7 large tile houses and runs two stores: a pharmacy and a grocery store.
So Wu Huan first called himself
"Landlord" home
。 His father Wu Weidi married two wives successively, his ex-wife Dai Shi was deceased, and then he married Chen Shi, Wu Huanxian was the son of Chen Shi, plus dai's brothers and sisters, Wu Huanxian ranked third.
At the age of 16, the anti-imperialist and feudal revolutionary movement began vigorously, which also stimulated the patriotic enthusiasm of this enthusiastic young man, so he also embarked on the road of revolution.
However, what he did not expect was that this would bring ruin to the originally stable and solid home.
In the autumn of 1926, Wu Huanxian, who joined the Communist Party of China, actively responded to the peasant revolutionary movement. He invited his tenants and debtors to his house, and burned all the debt constraints and lease deeds.
And promise them: whoever plants these lands is whoever owns them, and the cultivators have the fields! From now on, we will resolutely not collect rent and force debts!
This move of his caused quite a stir, and poor people praised him endlessly, but some people insulted Wu Huanxian's ancestors...
Sudden changes
In the winter of the same year, a black and evil force broke the tranquility of the four-cornered Caomen Village.
The landlords and gentry who had been harmed by their own interests had an extreme hatred of the peasant movement. So on this night, in collusion with more than two hundred bandits, they came to the four-cornered Caomen Village with a fierce murderous spirit, and they shouted:
"Blood wash wu huanxian's whole family!"
His father, Wu Weidi, saw that his family was in great trouble, and fled to the back mountain with his family in a panic, but unfortunately he was caught by the bandits. These gentry landlords hated the Wu family to the bone, and without saying a word, they shot and killed the eldest and second eldest of the Wu family, while the father Wu Weidi and the younger son Wu Jixian had a worse fate, they were stripped naked and hacked to death by the side of the pond.
At this time, Wu Huanxian's sister-in-law was already frightened by the scene in front of her, so in a panic, she held a baby that was less than half a year old and waited to be fed, jumped into the pond, and both drowned...
On March 18, 1927, a report was published in the Hankou Republic of China Daily with the following headline:
"All six members of Wu Huanxian's family were forcibly killed by bandits..."
Wu Huanxian was also fateful, on this day he happened to go out to run errands, when he rushed back, all he saw were the bodies of a few flesh-and-blood relatives, and there was a notice posted on the gate: Those who caught Wu Huanxian will be rewarded with three thousand silver!
It is better to die unyieldingly and revolutionize to the end
When attending to the funeral for his family, Wu Huanxian looked at his already shattered home and asked himself whether the revolution was worth it.
After paying the life of his entire family, he himself became a bandit who forcibly rewarded silver and arrested him. However, in the end, he still strengthened his belief! At the funeral, he publicly told the villagers who came to help: "I Wu Huan first broke the family business and revolutionized, and now the family is broken!" Then I will not do the revolution to the end, and I would rather die than yield! Sooner or later today's blood debt will be repaid in blood! ”
After Wu Huanxian buried the remains of his relatives in pain, he quickly perked up again and threw himself into the torrent of peasant revolutionary history.
A bag of rations, the red-faced wife fell to a corpse and two lives
In the spring of 1930, the revolutionary situation improved, and after being introduced, Wu Huanxian and Cao Ganxian met and formed a revolutionary family. On April 15, they held a new-style wedding ceremony at the Four Corners Cao Gate.
Wu Huanxian carried out revolutionary struggles outside for many years, and the burden of the family fell on his wife Cao Ganxian. At that time, the mother Chen Shi escaped by chance, and now the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are dependent on each other for their lives, and in difficult times, the two go out with their companions to beg for food and make a living.
Once, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law met the Red Army commanders and fighters while begging for food, and they knew that this was the mother and wife of the revolutionary hero Wu Huanxian, and they all wiped their tears with sadness.
Shen Zemin, who was then the secretary of the Eyu-Anhui Provincial CPC Committee, proposed that Wu Huanxian's mother and wife be taken to live in the Red Army garrison, and said to Wu Huanxian: "You are now a military commander, and if the military commander's mother and wife are caught by the enemy, the political influence alone will be very bad!"
Shen Zemin
The fact that the family of a military commander made a living begging for food was enough to show that Wu Huanxian had indeed devoted everything he had to the revolution! In the face of Shen Zemin's proposal, Wu Huanxian also refused on the grounds that the troops were also in difficult times and resolutely could not increase the burden on the troops.
In desperation, Shen Zemin had to let people carry some rice and give it to Chen in the name of comforting the revolutionary family.
Who knew that Wu Huanxian's mother, Chen Shi, also understood the great righteousness, and she resolutely refused to accept it: The Red Army is fighting for the common people, and the Red Army's grain is even more difficult, and I can't take it. She was busy and asked her daughter-in-law Cao Ganxian to send the rice back to the Red Army troops!
Wu Huanxian's mother and wife were not only not under the special care of the Red Army, but the next actions of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were even more touching and awe-inspiring.
In May 1933, the revolutionary situation became even more severe, and it was just in time for the lack of food supply, and the food supply of the troops became a problem.
At this time, the Red Twenty-fifth Army was engaged in the siege of Qiliping, and in order to support the Red Army's operations, her wife Cao Ganxian and her mother-in-law wanted to send a bag of "hundred family grain" from home to the Red Army combat position. This is the grain that she and her mother-in-law Chen Shi have been begging door to door day and night to save their lives...
At this time, she was pregnant, and on the way to the Red Army garrison with grain on her back, Cao Ganxian fainted in a deserted suburb.
The pregnant woman, already tormented by illness and hunger, was out of shape, and the exhaustion on the way exhausted her last bit of strength!
In this way, Cao Ganxian, who had not yet felt the joy of being a mother, hastily ended his youth life.
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Qiniang was very beautiful, simple and capable, but in order to aid the revolution, she was willing to starve to death in the wilderness
Wu Huan was the seventh oldest in the family, and later his niece recalled calling Cao Ganxian.
The "Captain's Mother" who is trapped alive and dead
After Wu Huanxian's wife starved to death in the deserted countryside, his mother Chen's life was even more difficult to sustain. Coupled with Wu Huanxian's special status, his mother Chen Shi also had to escape the persecution of counter-revolutionaries and bandits.
There is an old Chinese saying that "the homeland is the most difficult to leave, and the poor are even more difficult to give up."
The mother, Chen Shi, fled alone to her own grocery store and hid in the wall of the store to avoid the enemy's search for the "commander's mother". This narrow and long sandwich wall supported her to survive a winter, but because of the long time of not seeing the light of day, coupled with hunger and cold,
Wu Huanxian's mother, Chen Shi, was eventually trapped alive
。
The grief of losing his mother and the pain of losing his wife struck Wu Huanxian, but this revolutionary did not bow his head, he still gritted his teeth and fought against the counter-revolutionary forces!
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In July 935, the Red Twenty-fifth Army led by Wu Huanxian repeatedly broke through the enemy's blockade. However, this military strategic operation of the western expedition to the north attracted a large number of enemies! Someone advised him to retreat strategically, but Wu Huanxian refused, thinking that this was the perfect opportunity to contain enemy fire! Facts have proved to be true, and this action of his effectively coordinated with the Long March of the Central Red Army to the north!
But something unfortunate happened. On August 21, 1935, Wu Huanxian entered the front line and died heroically in a battle in Jingchuan County, Gansu Province, at the age of 28!
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