Peach blossom red rain hero blood, bihai danxia zhishi heart.
With the lofty ideal of saving the country and the people, countless revolutionary martyrs sprinkled their sincerity on the land of China and interpreted one touching story after another, in exchange for our peaceful and peaceful life today.
On the evening of April 16, 1930, in a small village in Rugao County, Jiangsu Province, torrential rain fell from the sky. At this time, a group of peasant-like people stepped on the muddy path, carried a corpse, buried it in a field, and then hurried away.
The buried deceased was He Kun, commander of the Red Fourteenth Army.
He Kun was born in 1898 to a farming family in Yongxing County, Hunan Province. The children of the poor had long been in charge, and because of the family's poverty, he had to drop out of school early and follow his father to Pingshi Town, Shaoguan, Guangdong Province, and do business with his father.
He Kun rushed to the town every day on the mountain path, carrying a load of goods to sell, although the life of doing business was very hard, but for He Kun, this broadened his horizons and met many progressive people.
He Kun (1898-1930)
In 1925, with the ideal of joining the army and serving the country, He Kun was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy and graduated with honors.
During his time at the Whampoa Military Academy, He Kun was appreciated by Zhou Enlai and other leaders, and at the same time, he also deeply understood communist ideas and joined the Chinese Young Soldiers' Federation led by the Communist Party.
In 1926, He Kun honorably joined the Communist Party of China. In the revolutionary activities since then, He Kun has always rushed to the front line against the Kuomintang reactionaries and organized many armed insurrections.
On December 11, 1927, the Guangzhou Uprising broke out, and He Kun led the soldiers to fight a bloody battle, defeated the reactionary forces, and quickly occupied most of the city of Guangzhou. Soon after, under the joint counterattack of the reactionary forces, the Guangzhou uprising failed, and He Kun was unfortunately arrested.
However, He Kun, who had been practicing martial arts since childhood, had practiced kung fu well, and with his wit and bravery, he led the warriors to escape from prison successfully.
After that, He Kun was organized to engage in underground work in Wuhan, Shanghai and other places.
In those days of white terror, although he was a wanted criminal by the Kuomintang, He Kun persisted in the struggle and was always fearless.
In the winter of 1929, He Kun was transferred to Jiangsu and the organization asked him to form a Red Army guerrilla group in Nantong, Haimen, Rugao, Taixing and other places.
Because of He Kun's outstanding performance, zhou Enlai soon appointed He Kun as the commander of the Fourteenth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which was also the only regular Red Army armed force in Jiangsu Province during the agrarian revolution to be included in the central government.
After He Kun arrived in Rugao, he immediately began to prepare for the fourteenth army. On April 3, 1930, amid the sound of gongs and drums in the sky, the 14th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was officially proclaimed in Benjia Lane, Xixiang, Rugao.
After the establishment of the Fourteenth Army, He Kun reorganized the army while fighting local tycoons and dividing up the fields, and won one victory after another.
As is known to all, during the period of the agrarian revolutionary war, most of the red army's base areas chose to be in the southern mountains, mainly because of its geographical location far from the political center of the Kuomintang, and the mountainous areas were very conducive to guerrilla warfare.
However, the area around Nantong, where the Fourteenth Army was located, was close to the central cities of Kuomintang rule, Nanjing and Shanghai, and both were plain areas, and they were easily attacked by reactionaries.
In Laohuzhuang, southwest of Motou Town, Rugao County, a large number of enemy armed forces were stationed, blocking the connection between the Rutai guerrilla area and the Tonghai guerrilla area. Therefore, the eradication of the reactionary armed forces in Lao hu zhuang became the first task before the Fourteenth Army.
On April 16, 1930, the battle against Lao Hu Zhuang began!
He Kun divided the Red Fourteenth Army into three routes, and he himself charged forward as a soldier and led the Red Army soldiers to kill the enemy bravely.
Because the enemy laid strong fortifications in Laohuzhuang, he tried in vain to keep the warriors out of the moat.
Whenever the soldiers rushed over, the machine guns in the enemy bunkers spewed out tongues of fire, but the Red Army soldiers were not afraid, and still fought with the enemy one by one, and the battle was very fierce.
Seeing that the soldiers had fallen one by one, and the enemy's reinforcements were about to arrive, the situation was very critical, He Kun said to his subordinate Zhang Aiping: "Let me deal with the enemies in those pillboxes!" ”
As soon as the words stopped, He Kun lifted a machine gun, jumped onto a wheatgrass stack, and then swept toward the enemy's bunker to cover the soldiers crossing the river.
He Kun shouted as he shot: "Comrades, don't be afraid, rush forward!" ”
At this moment, raindrop-like bullets flew towards He Kun, and He Kun unfortunately hit several bullets in a row and fell from the grass stack.
Zhang Aiping, who was next to him, saw the situation and rushed over to help He Kun, who was covered in blood, and then shouted: "The military commander was shot, call the doctor!" ”
He Kun, who was already dying, waved his hand and said, "Leave me alone, you...... Must take it down..."
Before he could finish speaking, He Kun fell into Zhang Aiping's arms and closed his eyes forever.
Holding back tears, Zhang Aiping raised his gun in his hand and said to the soldiers, "Comrades, why take revenge on the commander!" ”
Although the soldiers of the Red Army were extremely brave, due to the enemy's outnumberedness, they finally had to fight and retreat in the direction of Zhou Jiadai.
On the way to the retreat, it rained heavily in the sky, as if weeping at Ho Kun and the sacrificial Red Army. Finally, in pursuit of the enemy, the warriors carried He Kun's body to Xiyanzhuang and asked several local farmers to bury it hastily, leaving no marks on the burial place in order not to be discovered by the enemy.
In July of the same year, Zhang Aiping wrote a poem in Shanghai, using affectionate pen and ink to remember the heroic sacrifice of Commander He Kun:
I miss Captain He Kun
Tongru Jingtaiyi unveiled the pole, and the workers and peasants took power by force.
The old household Zhuangtou fought fiercely, and the machine gun was the first to be raised.
The ruthless projectile jade mountain poured down, and a cavity of blue blood and tears rained down.
Celebratory wine is also bitter, and the sound of the triumphant sound is getting darker.
He Period Long Knows The Heart, Dan Heart Yong Zhao Su Beiyuan.
Zhang Aiping was a trusted general of He Kun, and He Kun's spirit of being a pioneer and having the courage to sacrifice also made him admire this chief from his heart.
After He Kun's sacrifice, Zhang Aiping returned to Xiyanzhuang twice and tried to find he Kun's burial place, but never found it.
After liberation, Zhang Aiping sent people to Rugao many times to search for He Kun's remains, but he never received a clear answer.
Zhang Aiping and his wife Li Youlan
In this way, He Kun could not go into the ground for safety, and became a piece of Zhang Aiping's heart disease.
In September 1964, 34 years after He Kun's death, Zhang Aiping invited Zhou Fang, the political commissar of the Red Fourteenth Army, and decided to start another search for He Kun's remains.
Kung Fu does not live up to the hard work. After more than a month of meticulous investigation, people finally found he Kun's burial place in a vegetable field and dug up a body.
After forensic identification, it was confirmed that this was the remains of He Kun, the commander of the famous Fourteenth Army!
Zhang Aiping, who was far away from home, cried with joy after hearing this news, he looked at the distant sky from afar, choked with tears, and said: "More than 30 years, I finally look forward to the whole news!" ”
On the Qingming Festival in 1966, He Kun's remains were cremated and placed in the martyrs' cemetery.
Monument to the Red Fourteenth Army
In 1990, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Red Fourteenth Army, General Zhang Aiping personally wrote an inscription for the monument of the Red Fourteenth Army to commemorate He Kun and his comrades who died that year.
The smoke of war on the battlefield in the past has long since dissipated, but those heroic souls who sacrificed their lives for the cause of the country and the people will always live in people's hearts.
Greetings to Commander He Kun and General Zhang Aiping! Salute to the soldiers who died in the Red Fourteenth Army!