In the history of our country, there have been countless heroes and martyrs, known or unknown, who have stood up in times of danger and defended their ideals with their blood and lives, and their stories have gradually disappeared into oblivion, only in the dilapidated and yellowed newspapers and record books, or in the words passed down by word of mouth. Director of the Political Department of the New Fourth ArmyYuan Guopingis such a person, after the incident in southern Anhui, he took the lead in charging and breaking through, was seriously injured in an attack and fell into a coma, unable to fight again. However, in order not to drag down his comrades-in-arms to break through, he resolutely committed suicide after sobering up and died heroically at the age of 35.
Born in 1906 in Shaodong, Hunan Province, Yuan Guoping came from a poor family, but received a basic education in a difficult environment, and was admitted with honors at the age of 16Hunan Provincial No. 1 Normal School, is considered a *** junior. As a young intellectual, Yuan Guoping was full of boundless patriotic enthusiasm and joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League in 1924.
Because China was weak and decaying at that time, like many young people, Yuan Guoping also had the idea of joining the army to serve the country, and in 1925, he applied for the examWhampoa Military AcademyFourth, and quickly grew from here to a qualified military general. Everyone knows that the Whampoa Military Academy of that year was shining brightly, and although the fourth phase was not running for a long time, there were still many talents, except for the old Jiang YanZhang Lingfu Xie JinyuanIn addition, there are afterLin ShuaiwithLiu Zhidanand other well-known figures.
Peng Sheng Mazhong, not to help but straight, born intelligent and hard work Yuan Guoping is even more so, before the study period is over, he and his classmates went to the battlefield, after the Northern Expedition, Nanchang Uprising, he gradually grew up, joined the Red Army, became an excellent revolutionary worker. In June 1930, Yuan Guoping served as the director of the Political Department of the Third Army of the Red Army and became the leader of the Red Army at the corps level.
After five brutal anti-encirclement and suppression, Yuan Guoping began with the transfer of large forces of the Red ArmyLong March。In the early winter of 1934, the Red Army succeeded in the front, and then the large army advanced to the southern Hunan region. At that time, the Kuomintang garrison in the Yizhang area was relatively weak, and when they heard that the Red Army was coming, they quickly fled, and our army occupied this area without much hindrance.
Yuan Guoping did not forget the political propaganda work and recruiting new recruits during the tense war, and not only quickly stabilized the social order and public order here, but also quickly organized a propaganda offensive to publicize the policies of our army to the local people, which not only successfully avoided the panic and distrust of the people, but also won the general support of the locals, and many people took the initiative to ask to join the army, and finally the Red Army recruited more than 400 people in this area. This played an important role in boosting the morale of our army when it was forced to move at that time.
However, this is not a comfortable haven for the Red Army, passing byBattle of the Xiangjiang RiverLater, the Red Army suffered heavy losses, and if it could not force its way across the Wujiang River in time, it would have been trapped and died here. However, at that time, the enemy was strong and we were weak, and the objective conditions were very different, and if the weak Red Army wanted to survive, it had to fight to the death. Yuan Guoping was very aware of the precarious situation at that time, and before crossing the river, he once again started the propaganda work that he was good at, and held a mobilization meeting to tell the story of the objective situation and the predicament he was currently facing; on the one hand, he encouraged the morale of the officers and men to fight, and on the other hand, he also succeeded in strengthening everyone's determination to fight to the end.
After a successful crossing of the river, the Red Army came to Zunyi and held the famousZunyi Conference。However, at this time, Yuan Guoping was infected with typhoid fever because of his long-term hard work, which was a serious illness enough to kill at that time. The Red Army was short of food and clothing, and there was a shortage of medicine, but Yuan Guoping relied on his strong will to survive this catastrophe. However, it was difficult to pass the pass, and soon arrived at the snow-capped mountain meadow, Yuan Guoping recovered from a serious illness, so he had a war horse for him to ride, but he resolutely gave the horse to Tang Liang, who was wounded by a gunshot.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tang Liang was awarded the rank of general, and he once said with emotion that if Director Yuan Guoping hadn't let me ride the horse, I would have even the snow mountain.
couldn't climb over, Yuan Guoping had just recovered from a serious illness, but he had hiked the snowy mountain, and gave up his mount to the injured Tang Liang. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, General Tang Liang was full of emotion and remembered Yuan Guoping."If it weren't for Director Yuan Guoping's horse, I was afraid that I would have been buried in the snow mountain a long time ago, and I would still be able to wear this general uniform? It's a pity that he died young and didn't have the opportunity to see what New China looked like with his own eyes.
In 1935, Yuan Guoping followed the Red Army to northern Shaanxi, withLiu ZhidanThe department met smoothly. At that time, in addition to continuing to serve as director of the Political Department, he also set up the Red Army University in the base area of northern Shaanxi, where he gave full play to his expertise in propaganda and education and trained a large number of talented people for the party and the army.
1937 yearThe Seventy-Seven IncidentLater, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, the land of China was full of mourning, and the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species were imminentCooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist PartyVigorously unfolded. The Communist Party actively resisted Japan and reorganized the workers' and peasants' Red Army and guerrilla units, which were still fighting guerrilla warfare in the southern provinces and autonomous regions after the first five anti-encirclement campaigns, and incorporated them into the newly organized Fourth Army of the Anti-Japanese National Revolutionary Army, also known as the New Fourth Army.
At the end of that year, the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army was established in Hankou, Hubei, because the south was far away from the sphere of influence of the base areas in northern Shaanxi, so propaganda and political work were very important, and the post of director of the political department remained vacant. After hearing about it, he personally recommended Yuan Guoping to Xiang Ying, deputy commander of the New Fourth Army, and said that he was ".He has a lot of experience in political development and can work independently. So Yuan Guoping went to the Jiangnan region from northern Shaanxi and began to preside over the overall situation, becoming one of the four giants of the New Fourth Army at that time.
Yuan Guoping has been very supportive during his tenureYe TingwithXiang Yingwork carried out. At that time, it was the most difficult time of the entire Anti-Japanese War, and it had just entered a stalemate stage. Because the Japanese army was advancing in a hurrying forward in the early stage, the strategic materials and personnel in many areas had not had time to evacuate at all, and they had already fallen, so the rear materials were in short supply, and it was very difficult to support the war situation. As a result, many people are pessimistic about the prospects of the war, believing that the battle will be difficult to win.
However, Yuan Guoping did not think so; after he took office, he spent more than two months taking great risks to inspect the occupied areas around Jiangsu and Anhui, believing that the Chinese were tolerant of humiliation, the people's hearts had not been lost, and the people in the occupied areas still hoped to drive out the Japanese. Even if Japan can achieve results in the short term, as long as the Chinese insist on not surrendering, it will definitely usher in the best day. Therefore, he firmly believed that China's War of Resistance had a future and that China would definitely win.
With this belief, Yuan Guoping always held mobilization meetings when inspecting work in various places, and he encouraged everyone to continue to persevere with full enthusiasm and impassioned words, and victory belongs to every Chinese. After listening to his speech, many people regained faith in the war and the future. For Yuan Guoping's ability to agitate, many revolutionaries of the older generation at that time were particularly admiredMr. Chen once praised him as an excellent propaganda agitator.
Yuan Guoping is like this, he is very much like those famous columnists in the Warring States Period, he can fight against the lord of the country, almost invincible, worthy of millions of heroes. However, unlike Su Qin and Zhang Yi and others, the Zongheng family took the benefit of their tongues for their own fame and fortune, while Yuan Guoping was for the sake of faith and the happy future of millions of people, and he took the lead in perfecting his words and deeds.
At the end of 1940, Yuan Guoping once said in the combat mobilization of the troops, ".If we have a hundred bullets, the first ninety-nine hit the enemy, and the last one is reserved for ourselves, it is absolutely not appropriate to take prisoners. Unexpectedly, soon after, the hero's loyalty and enthusiasm were all fulfilled one by one.
At the beginning of 1941, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly ordered the New Fourth Army to move north. On January 4, the army marched to the Maolin area and was suddenly besieged by the Kuomintang troops, and the bloody battle lasted for 7 days and 7 nights, which was heavy. On the evening of the 13th, Yuan Guoping led the team to break through, and then was hit in the chest by a stray bullet, and suffered excessive blood loss and was seriously injured and fell into a coma. More than an hour later, GuardLi FuYuan Guoping was found here, so he picked him up and continued to transfer.
However, at night shift they arrivedZhangjiadu, I wanted to cross the river by night, but I didn't expect to be discovered by the enemy who was ambushed here, and people kept being shot and fell. Yuan Guoping woke up after and found that he had sacrificed many brothers to save himself, and he immediately blamed himself in his heart, and persuaded them several times to give up on themselves and save their strength to break through as soon as possible, but seeing Yuan Guoping seriously injured and bleeding, no one left.
After crossing the river, they temporarily escaped their pursuers and found a ruined temple with no one to rest and rectify. Yuan Guoping took out 7 silver dollars from his arms and handed them to Li Fu, choked up and told him that this was his party fee, and he was seriously injured now, so he asked him to hand it over to the organization on his behalf. Li Fu advised Yuan Guoping to rest quickly so that he could recover his strength. However, no one expected that Yuan Guoping was afraid that he would be seriously injured and drag down his comrades, so he suddenly committed suicide with a gun while they were exhausted and sleeping. After everyone was awakened by the gunshots, they saw Director Yuan, who had passed away, and had to leave with tears in their eyes.
Together with other comrades-in-arms, Li Fu asked the local villagers to help bury Yuan Guoping's body, and this kind man risked being found to bury Yuan Guoping in his family's ancestral grave, and kept this secret for more than ten years, knowing that it was reported after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Eventually, Yuan Guoping's body was transferredYuhuatai Martyrs Cemetery in NanjingIn the past few thousand years, it has been commemorated by the Chinese people.
Yuan Guoping sacrificed for the country, he did not have many children, he and his wife Qiu Yihan married in 1929, gave birth to two daughters, a boy and three children, but the two daughters were long gone, the eldest daughter was fostered in her grandmother's house, when her grandfather and uncle died due to the revolution, her final whereabouts are unknown. The youngest daughter died young, and only the son was foundYuan ZhenweiGrowing up**, following in his father's footsteps into the military, the final rank was Rear Admiral of the People's Liberation Army, but he held positions such as naval command and doctoral supervisor, he was the one who really continued to live in place of his father, and he also continued to protect the peace and sovereignty of the country's sea areas in his own way.
I believe that Yuan Guoping, like those martyrs who did not see the new China, still gazed at this country affectionately through another way, blessed and protected us.