Summary:Read ** Twenty-four years of "Macheng County Chronicles Continued Volume 15". There is an entry in the magazine "Nineteen years of Gengwu bandits harassing Xiyang Town**Ninety-three people", time flies, **Nineteen years to the present more than ninety years have passed, Xiyang Town as the largest population settlement of Macheng Yang that year, what happened at that time? This is a mystery I've always wanted to understand.
Temporal and spatial background:Macheng bears the Xiongguan and faces the Jianghan Dynasty, and has always been a battleground for soldiers. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu and Chu fought in Baiju; Wei and Jin dynasties, Xiyang and Changfeng repeatedly ambushed fighters; The battles of Sui and Chen Qiting, the battle of the five passes of Song and Jin, and the battle of Hutou Pass of Yuan and Song were all decisive battles to the death for the change of dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zou Pusheng, a native of Macheng, raised troops, Honglou first "rebelled" in the Ming Dynasty, and the peasants in Dongshan revolted in the early Qing Dynasty, gathering tens of thousands of people at every turn. As for the "thieves" and "rogues" who come and go, they are innumerable. In the late Qing Dynasty, Taiping Tian** turned to Macheng, which lasted for 15 years. **In the middle and late periods, the Revolutionary War and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression lasted for more than 20 years. There were many wars in Macheng, and there were many local armed forces and garrisons. The people of Macheng paid a high price for the war. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the war ended, entered the period of peaceful construction, especially after the reform and opening up, people's mental state, all aspects of the material conditions have been greatly improved, ** 19 years of Xiyang Town incident is just a drop in the sea of history, we have reason to remember the tragic history, cherish the present, open up a better life for the future.
By consulting the information, we have some understanding of the Xiyang Town incident, and the relevant information is presented as follows:
One is:The chapter "Return of Extermination" in "Red Rain: A History of Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County" published by the Chinese University Press in 2013 and translated by William Luo, an American, and translated by Li Lifeng and others, contains two written records of Xiyang Town, one is on sides 305-306: "The Working Committee of the Central Song Border Region was renamed 'Central Song Border District Soviet'. A statue of Lenin, proudly erected at the Soviet headquarters in the town of Xiyang. ”
The other is page 313 of the book: "According to folk rumors, during a surprise attack on Xiyang Town late one night, Chen sent two special representatives to make a mark on the houses of residents who were not suspected of being reorganized, but the two fell asleep before they could complete their tasks, and 114 innocent people were inadlessly killed by Chen's **." ”
The first information is that Xiyang Town was the headquarters of the Soviet Union during the Agrarian Revolution, which should be related to Yang Yeguang's work as the head of the Central Song Border District Committee, and Yang Yeguang was a descendant of the Yang clan in Xiyang Town, which was convenient for work. Note: In May 1986, the editor-in-chief of the Editorial Office of Zhongguanyi District Chronicles of Macheng County wrote the book "Twenty-two Years of Changes (1927-1949) - Historical Review of Zhongguanyi District"."The establishment of the leading body of the Central Song Border Region"The chapter reads: "* In March of the eighteenth year (1929), the Chengma District Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Shunhe Ji District Committee were established successively. In April and May, the Macheng County CPC Committee organized the Song Border District Committee, which was successively led by Yang Yeguang, Yu Songding, and other comrades. They carried out their work in the areas of Yandian and Chenda in Woniushi District (Kui), which were originally under the jurisdiction of Zhongyi, and in the areas of Wanggang, Longjing, and Lihua, which were originally under the jurisdiction of Songbu. First of all, comrades Qiu Yuanrui, Nie Guozhen, Lai Xianmiao, and Zhao Ciwu came to work in the Central Song Border Region, followed by Li Zhiya, Li Tianhe, Wu Xingzhong, Zhao Caiwen, Qiu Jiangfu, and other comrades. Under the leadership of the working committee of the Central Song Border Region, the peasant movement in the Central Song Border Region rose rapidly. The broad masses of peasants launched a fierce assault on the feudal landlords and all reactionary forces with the momentum of a storm. The second information confirms the truth of the "Macheng County Chronicle" in the twenty-fourth year, but the county chronicle contains 93 people, while the "Red Rain" contains 114 people.
The second is:According to the editor-in-chief of the Editorial Office of Zhongguanyi District Chronicle of Macheng County in May 1986, "The Twenty-second Year of Changing Storms (1927-1949) - Historical Review of Zhongguanyi District" recorded "The Beginning and End of the Xiyang Town Incident".
The beginning and end of the Xiyang Town incident
The border area of the Central Song Dynasty was located at the junction of red and white, and the Kuomintang troops and local armed forces of the district regiments often invaded and harassed them, and established military strongholds in Sifangyan, Gaomiao, Yingzuiyuan, and other places in an attempt to control this area by force, especially Xiyang Town.
* After the establishment of the Working Committee of the Central Song Border Region in 1929, comrades Chen Mingfu, Feng Guowen, Zheng Ruhuang and other comrades lived in Xiyang Town to carry out revolutionary activities. Yang Zhimei's wife and sister in Xiyang Town were inclined to revolution and had close contacts with them. Yang Zhimei has a ghost in her heart and is an extremely dangerous element. His elder brother and brother-in-law both served in the Kuomintang county party department and had frequent contacts, and he himself was a Kuomintang intelligence officer in order to get his way.
On March 13, 1930, Yang Zhimei pretended to go out to chop wood, but secretly rushed to the material shed to inform. When Du, the commander of the Kuomintang army, learned of the activities of Communist Party members in Xiyang Town, he set off with the whole company, led by Yang Zhimei, and went straight to the destination. At that time, Chen Mingfu and others were at Yang Shiming's house, and no one expected what would happen. In the breakout, two comrades, Chen Mingfu and Feng Guowen, rushed out of the gate, were outnumbered, and were shot and died on the spot. Only Comrade Zheng Ruhuang escaped from the back door, but he was still searched and arrested by the Kuomintang army and killed in the shed.
After the incident, the county security bureau erroneously believed that there were "reorganization factions" close to the Kuomintang in the Xiyang town party organization and the peasant congress under its leadership. Director Chen Wenfu participated in the formulation of the purge plan, and sent Yang Shunjin and Yang Dezhen, members of the special team of the Security Bureau, back to Xiyang Town to post markers so that they could take action. According to the decision at that time, those who had a mark with the words "Qinghu" on the door did not belong to the "reorganization faction" and were not killed. On the evening of 19 March, after the two of them had written the markers, they each rested and prepared to stick them in the middle of the night. However, Chen Wengao of the county security bureau arrived first with the security company and the special team, so not a single marker was pasted. In less than an hour, 114 people were killed and three seriously wounded, and none of them were "reformists." This wrongful killing incident has caused quite a stir in the local area.
A few months later, one night, our guerrilla leader Qiu Jiangfu led dozens of guerrillas and more than 1,000 people in the central district to besiege the shed. Due to the strong defense of the Kuomintang Du Department and the excessive firepower, although the fierce battle lasted for several hours, it was difficult to win, so it had to retreat.
After dawn, Du immediately gathered Chen Mingqing, the head of the joint defense regiment of the aggregate shed, and Zhao Yuebo, the head of the joint defense regiment of Sifangyan, to conduct a house-to-house inventory in the area of Woniushi. Although the masses did not confide in the slightest information, and they found nothing, more than 20 innocent people were still killed this time.
The third is:The cause of the incident in Xiyang Town.
In 1993, there is a paragraph in the "Judiciary of the Communist Party of China" recorded on page 329 of the "Macheng County Chronicle": "At the beginning of the nineteenth year, the county Soviet ** set up a judicial section and a revolutionary court, and formulated a legal and discipline system, strictly prohibiting gambling, boiling sugar, and boiling wine, and those who violated the prohibition were punished. When the masses go to court, they first go through the township soviets; If it cannot be handled, it will be handed over to the county Soviet court for trial and judgment; If the court cannot solve the problem, a public trial will be held and the offender will be given criticism and education according to the severity of the crime, and the offender will be given a board until the death penalty is imposed. In the spring of the twentieth year, the county Soviet set up a security bureau in the Shunhe area, and the first director was Chen Wenfu. The bureau has an interrogation section, with one section chief and one officer, and one male and female judge, who are responsible for interrogation. There are more than 100 people in the security company, who are responsible for guarding the execution. In the name of purging the "reorganization faction," Director Chen Wenfu killed many revolutionary cadres and the masses. In September 21, the Northeast Hubei Provincial Committee arrested Chen Wenfu and sentenced him to death. It was the winter of that year, and the Security Bureau was abolished. ”