Wei Baqun, a family of more than twenty people, seventeen people were brutally killed by the enemy, but none of this shook his revolutionary will, and he firmly said: "Revolutionaries must not be afraid of difficulties, not afraid of death, and resolutely sacrifice everything for the interests of the people." "He is Wei Baqun, the excellent son of the Zhuang people."
Wei Baqun (file photo)
On February 6, 1894, Wei Baqun was born into a Zhuang family in Mian'e Village, Zhonghe Township, Wuzhu District, Donglan County, Guangxi (now Donglitun, Nalie Village, Wuhuan Township, Donglan County). His initial name was Bingji, and his later name was Bingqian. At the beginning of 1916, Wei Baqun joined the nationalist army against Yuan Shikai in Guizhou, and later entered the Guizhou Daowu Hall to study, changing his name to Wei Cui. In 1920, Wei Baqun left the Qian army for Guangzhou, joined the "Guangxi Comrades Association" supported by Sun Yat-sen, and returned to Donglan the following year to engage in the peasant movement, successively organizing the "Transformation donglan comrades association" (later known as the peasants' autonomous association) and the "National Self-Defense Army" (later known as the peasant self-defense army), and commanding the peasant army to fight three dozen donglan county.
In order to find the truth of the revolution, in January 1925, Wei Baqun entered the Third Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute to study, and learned the theory, strategy and methods of the Communist Party of China on the peasant movement. After completing his studies, he returned to Donglan and followed the example of the Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute, and from September 1925 to August 1927, he opened three donglan peasant movement training centers in Beidiyan and Wuzhu Yucai Primary School in Donglan, training more than 600 backbone peasant movements. In 1926, he led the establishment of the Donglan County Revolutionary Committee, served as its director, and joined the Communist Party of China in the winter of the same year. Wei Baqun successively established peasant associations in various townships and districts of Donglan County, organized peasant armies, and promoted the vigorous rise of the peasant movement in the Youjiang area. On December 5, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in its report to the Comintern, spoke highly of Wei Baqun and the Donglan peasant movement, praising "Comrade Wei in Donglan for becoming a Peng Pan of sea and land and has won the faith of the peasants."
In December 1929, Wei Baqun participated in leading the Baise Uprising in southern Xinjiang and participated in the opening up of the Right Jiangsu District, successively serving as a member of the former committee of the Red Seventh Army, the leader of the third column of the Red Seventh Army, and a member of the Right River Soviet Government. In November 1930, the main force of the reorganized Red Seventh Army went north according to the orders of the central authorities, and Wei Baqun served as the commander of the Twenty-first Division, and was ordered to lead the 70 or 80 old, weak and disabled soldiers left during the reorganization back to Donglan, developing the Twenty-first Division into a revolutionary armed force of more than 3,000 people who made the Gui warlords tremble and persist in the revolutionary struggle in the base areas.
From the spring of 1931 to June 1932, the Gui warlords carried out two large-scale "encirclement and suppression" campaigns against the Jiangsu region of the Right Jiangsu Region. Wei Baqun commanded the army and the people to persist in guerrilla struggle under extremely difficult conditions and smashed the enemy's "encirclement and suppression."
In August 1932, the Gui warlords launched an unprecedented third "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the revolutionary base areas of Donglan and Fengshan. At this time, the only people wei baqun could directly command were the guard company in Xishan and the Yao independent battalion. Under these circumstances, he was still not afraid of danger, and organized his troops to take advantage of the favorable conditions such as high mountains and dense forests to lay mines, set traps, and build false bridges, and shuttled around in a roundabout way, waiting for an opportunity to annihilate the enemy. The enemy who invaded the base area pounced on the air everywhere, beaten everywhere, and was overwhelmed. Seeing that the military "encirclement and suppression" had not worked, the Warlords of the Gui clan increased their strength on the one hand, and on the other hand, they bribed the weak-willed people within the revolutionary camp, used the bribed traitors as guides, stepped up their search, and tried to assassinate Wei Baqun.
On October 17, 1932, Wei Baqun led the guards down the mountain secretly on a dark night and went to the residence of his nephew Wei Ang, Dongli Tun Xiang Brush Cave. The next day, he and Chen Hongtao, political commissar of the Twenty-first Division, studied the transfer of troops. That night, he stayed with the guards in the cave, but he did not know that his nephew Wei Ang had defected under the temptation of the enemy. In the early morning of the 19th, the mutinous Wei Ang actually took advantage of Wei Baqun's sleep, pulled out the barge gun under Wei Baqun's pillow, and fired a criminal bullet at Wei Baqun's head. Wei Baqun sacrificed his precious life for the cause of Chinese people's liberation and communism at the age of 38.
After Wei Baqun's sacrifice, the people of Donglitun, risking their lives, secretly transported his body back and buried it on the Teya Mountain behind the village, and also built a small temple on the cemetery, called the "Red Temple", to express their deep remembrance of Wei Baqun.
In December 1962, Deng Xiaoping commemorated the 30th anniversary of Wei Baqun's sacrifice and wrote the following inscription:
Comrade Wei Baqun dedicated his life to the cause of liberation of the party and the people, and finally gave his life. In the struggle against the enemy, he has always been heroic, tenacious, and indomitable, and he is worthy of being a hero of the proletariat and the working people. He is the best at connecting with the masses, showing concern for their well-being, and having a lofty feeling of infinite loyalty to the cause of the people's liberation. He is worthy of the name of the leader of the masses of the people. He has always scrupulously abided by the posts assigned to him by the Party, accurately implemented the Party's principles and policies, and strictly observed the Party's discipline. He was a model Communist. Comrade Wei Baqun will always live in our hearts, he will always be an example for us and our children and grandchildren to learn from, and we will always commemorate him!
On December 10, 1981, Deng Xiaoping wrote in his handwritten inscription commemorating the 52nd anniversary of the Baise Uprising: "In memory of comrades Li Mingrui, Wei Baqun and other comrades, the revolutionary martyrs of the Baise Uprising, will never die!" In 2009, Wei Baqun was named one of the 100 heroic and exemplary figures who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China.
Source: Learning to power the country
Edit: Wei Lan