Red Wubei: A fiery world Wuping "Wubei" includes the four towns of Yongping, Taoxi, Dahe and Xiangdian. Among them, Taoxi is the water and land transportation hub in Wubei region, and it is also the political, economic, and commercial center of Wubei region. During the Agrarian R

Red Wubei: The Fiery World

Wuping "Wubei" includes the four towns of Yongping, Taoxi, Dahe and Xiangdian. Among them, Taoxi is the water and land transportation hub in Wubei region, and it is also the political, economic, and commercial center of Wubei region. During the Agrarian Revolution, Wuping became a strong and solid southeastern barrier for the Central Soviet Area, and Taoxi became the seat of the party, government and military organs and the revolutionary command center of the Wuping Soviet Area. In 1976, Comrade Luo Ming recalled fondly: “In 1932, I (note: then Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China) went to Wuping and Wubei. All the work there was very good, various organizations were present, and it was very prosperous. It’s really a fiery world.” Red Wubei has a special status and important role in the old district of in western Fujian, leaving a rich and profound red heritage.

An important place for the dissemination of revolutionary thoughts in the Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi border areas

On the eve of the Agrarian Revolution, the feudal system in Wubei was deeply rooted, land annexation was very shocking, and the local forces of the Kuomintang, the militia, and the local tyrants and evil gentry worked together and acted tyrannically. The poor farmers live a life inferior to that of cattle and horses, and they long to stand out and become the masters of their own country.

Influenced by the New Culture Movement and the May 4th Movement, especially the founding of the Communist Party of China, new ideas and new culture began to spread in western Fujian. Among the early enlighteners in Wubei, Li Changming from Taoxi and Zhang Dixin and Liu Kemo from Xiangdian were the first to be recognized as the "Three Heroes" of Wubei. In the spring of 1926, Zhang Dixin went to Hailufeng, Guangdong to study at the Peasant Movement Institute sponsored by Peng Pai, and joined the Communist Party of China during the period; Liu Kemo, who studied at Waseda University in Japan, joined the Chinese Revolutionary Party , and joined the Communist Party of China in 1926 after returning to China; at the end of 1927 , Li Changming, who left the National Revolutionary Army, secretly joined the party organization. In 1926, they founded the "Yuying School" in Xiaolan Tianhou Palace in Taoxi, then the "Farmers Night School" at the school headquarters, the "Workers and Peasants Night School" in the Document Office, and the "Huayu School" in Tingtou to cultivate the backbone of the peasant movement. . At the same time, Liu Kemo opened the "Chongde School" in Yaoshan, Xiangdian, and hired progressive young teachers such as Liu Yalou to teach. In the lectures, the teachers used a large number of facts to expose the crimes of the feudal ruling class, inspire the class consciousness of the masses, stimulate the revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses, and lay the ideological and organizational foundation for the subsequent armed riots.

In October 1927, the Communist Party of China in Western Fujian specially sent Lan Weiren and Lan Weilong, the backbone of the Shanghang branch, to Wubei to carry out revolutionary activities. After they got in touch with Zhang Dixin, Li Changming, and Liu Kemo, they went deep into villages such as Haojia (now Xinhua) and Lanyuan (now Xinlan) to spread Marxism-Leninism and promote new revolutionary ideas. For a time, Wubei, with Taoxi as the center, became an important place for the dissemination of revolutionary ideas from Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi.

Three major riots established the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi border Soviet area

In the winter of 1926, the Northern Expeditionary Army entered western Fujian. Li Changming joined the National Revolutionary Army and served as the adjutant of the newly formed guerrilla unit of the Western Fujian Peasant Revolutionary Army. After the failure of the Great Revolution, Li Changming saw clearly the true face of the Kuomintang's right-wing opposition to the revolution, and angrily left the party and returned to his hometown. On October 5, 1927, Li Changming held the first secret meeting in Chazigu, Haojia. More than 40 activists from Xiaolan, Haojia, Lanyuan, Tingtou, Tianli, Jiangkeng and other places collectively joined the party. On January 20, 1928, Li Changming and others held a second secret meeting in Haojia. Zhang Dixin, a member of the Wuping Special Branch, attended the meeting on behalf of the special branch and decided to establish the " Iron Blood Group ". Most of these members of the "Iron Blood Regiment" later became party members and the backbone of the district and township Soviets.

In June 1928, Zhang Dixin, Li Changming, Liu Kemo and others held a secret meeting in Zuileting, Zi'ao, Xiaolan Mountain, and decided to form Wubei's first peasant armed force, the Wubei Peasant Self-Defense Army, with more than 70 people, with Li Changming as the commander-in-chief. Subsequently, the Wubei Peasant Self-Defense Army used Laiyuanzhai as its base and established an arsenal in Xiaolan to secretly manufacture weapons. The team moved around Wutinghang to fight against local tyrants and evil gentry. They were trained in the battle and made military preparations for Xiaolan's armed uprising.

Taoxi Xiaolan Tianhou Palace, the origin of the Xiaolan riot

In July 1929, the "First Congress" of the Communist Party of China in western Fujian was held in Jiaoyang, Shanghang. The conference determined "to resolutely lead the masses and fight for the realization of the separatist regime of workers and peasants in western Fujian" "The general line. Li Changming attended the meeting and returned to Wubei after the meeting, conveyed the spirit of the meeting, and began intense preparations before the riot.

In early December 1929, the Fourth Red Army went to Liancheng Xinquan for a 10-day political and military training. In order to contain the Kuomintang garrison and landlord militia forces in Tinghang and Wubian, according to the instructions of the Western Fujian Special Committee, the Wuping County Party Committee decided to hold a peasant armed riot in Xiaolan on December 5. Zhang Dixin served as the commander-in-chief of the riot, Liu Kemo and Li Changming served as deputy commander-in-chief, and Liu Yalou was responsible for combat work. The riot began at about 9 o'clock on December 5, and it took just over three hours for the fighting to end. To this day, there is such a song "Xiaolan Riot Song" circulated in the local area: "The ground is red with the sound of riot, and the local tyrants and evil gentry are dead. If you don't pay the food, tax, and tax debts, the hearts of the four armies entering Fujian will become even more red." Influenced by the Xiaolan Riots , Jiuxiang and Tingnan townships near Xiaolan (then under the jurisdiction of Wubei) held riots one after another.

In 1929, the Fourth Red Army entered Fujian twice, and the western Fujian revolutionary base established was centered on Longyan, Yongding, and Shanghang. Undoubtedly, the Xiaolan riot in northern Wuhan, the Xiangdong riot in southeastern Wuhan, and the Shangkeng riot in southwestern Wuhan, as the three major riots in Wuping, became an integral part of the Fourth Red Army's creation of the revolutionary base in western Fujian.

An important part of the local Red Army in western Fujian

After the success of the Xiaolan uprising, the backbone of the riot armed forces merged with the original Wubei Peasant Self-Defense Army and were organized into the Wubei Fourth Detachment of the Red Guerrilla Force of the Western Fujian Red Army (referred to as the Wubei Fourth Detachment). Zhang Youlan served as The detachment leader, Zhang Dixin serves as political commissar, and Li Changming serves as military commander-in-chief. The detachment consisted of two brigades, a guard team, and later a propaganda team with more than 200 people.

As soon as the Xiaolan Township Soviet regime was established, it was harassed by the Wuping reactionary warlord Zhong Shaokui and the reactionary "township rescue group". The four Wubei detachments repelled the attacks of the bandits twice in Xiaolanwei, and then became active in Tinghangwu border, fighting fiercely for years, becoming more and more courageous: in May 1930, they cooperated with Red Army Wang Sheng's troops to attack Tingzhou City; In late June, we repelled an attack by more than 500 people from the Kuomintang's Shanghang garrison Zhong Guanxun's troops on Huilong and Guanzhuang in Shanghang; in September, we repelled an attack by the Taodi Reactionary Home Rescue Group on the Xiaolan Soviet Area, crushing the Kuomintang's Guangdong warlord Huang Renhuan The Wuping reactionary armed forces Zhong Shaokui's Department and the landlord's armed Wang Yueting's Department "cleared out" Xiaolan; in autumn and winter, they cooperated with the Red Army in western Fujian to attack Wang Lingcai's Department of Taoxi's "Hometown Salvation Regiment" three times; in February 1931, they cooperated with the Red Army in attacking Changchun The Kuomintang garrisoned in Tingzuotian; in June, it cooperated with a unit of the 12th Red Army to attack the Zhong Wencai militia group at the mouth of Xiangdian River; in October, it cooperated with the 12th Red Army to defeat the enemy who attacked Tianyuandang in Changtingzuo... The team also grew to the level of 3 or 4 Hundreds of people transported Liu Yalou, Liu Yuelan and many other backbones to the local Red Army in western Fujian. Due to the influence of the "Socialist Party" incident, the four Wubei detachments were forced to disband. Most of the team members joined the Taoxi and Xianghu guerrillas that were rebuilt in February 1932, as well as the newly-established Zhaoxin, Xiahu, Dahe and other district guerrillas. , were later incorporated into the local Red Army in western Fujian.

During the spring of 1932, when Mao Zedong led the East Route Army to conquer Longyan and Zhangzhou, the Twelfth Red Army, led by Army Commander Luo Binghui and Political Commissar Tan Zhenlin, successively recovered Wuping and Shanghang counties. Among them, division commander Zhang Zongxun and political commissar Deng Hua led the Thirty-sixth Division into the Wubei area, uprooting the reactionary strongholds in Taoxi and Yongping areas, and the Wubei Soviet Area further developed and expanded.

The Tenth Independent Regiment directly under the Third Division of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Military Region is stationed at Demaogong Temple in Yongping

In the autumn of 1932, the Tenth Independent Regiment of the Western Fujian Red Army moved from Changting Hetian to Wuping Taoxi Xiaolan for training. The guerrillas from all districts in Wubei were organized into the Tenth Independent Regiment. . Since then, the 10th Independent Regiment has been active in Wubei area for a long time, guarding and Changting .

After the start of the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" war, on December 16, 1932, the original Hangwu Independent Regiment and Wuping Second Independent Regiment were reorganized into the Independent 10th Division of the Western Fujian Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in Xiaolan, Taoxi.Division Commander Zhang Rongfa, Political Commissar Zhang Pingkai, Director of the Political Department Lai Yuhong, Chief of Staff Wang Sheng. The 10th Independent Division has two regiments. The first regiment is dominated by the original Hangwu Independent Regiment, headed by Zhang Yannan, and political commissar Hu Jian; the second regiment is dominated by the Wuping Second Independent Regiment, headed by Nie Yunhu, and political commissar He Xingnan. The division initially had more than 1,000 people, and later grew to more than 3,700 people. After the establishment of the 10th Independent Division, it was active on the border of Tinghang and Wuhan, as far away as and southern Jiangxi. It cooperated with the main Red Army and the Red Army in other places to crush the attacks of the Kuomintang army many times and achieved brilliant results. On January 24, 1933, the Wuping County Supporting Red Army Committee issued a "Message to the Working People of the County to Celebrate the Great Victory of the Central Red Army and the Tenth Independent Division", highly praising them as "the most active and brave warriors in the struggle for the Agrarian Revolution." In June 1933, the 10th Independent Division was incorporated into the 19th Red Army.

After the Wuping Second Independent Regiment was incorporated into the Tenth Independent Division, Wuping County Su mobilized guerrillas from various districts and established the Wuping Independent Thirteenth Regiment in Taoxi, which continued to operate throughout the Wuping Soviet District to fight against the enemies of "encirclement and suppression".

Wuping is the hometown of the Red Army. In October 1933, all the Wuping guerrillas (including 30 Young Pioneers) joined the Red Army; on December 25, Wuping County representatives took the initiative to propose to the Fujian Provincial Soviet Union to expand the Red Army by 1,000 members (excluding women) within two months. The number of bonuses proposed by the representative alone) was praised by his superiors. According to incomplete statistics, during the Agrarian Revolution, tens of thousands of Wuping's sons and daughters joined the Red Army. Among them, the most important local armed forces in Wuping - the Wubei Fourth Detachment, the 10th Independent Division, and the 13th Independent Regiment were established in Taoxi. The 10th Independent Regiment was expanded in Taoxi, initially creating the southeastern barrier of the Central Soviet Area and becoming the foundation of the local Red Army in western Fujian. An important part of.

Wubei is an important part of the Wuping Branch of the Central Red Transportation Line

In 1929, the Western Fujian Special Committee decided to establish the Western Fujian Workers and Peasants News Agency, and branches were established in each county, which was called the Confidential Transportation Network. Since 1930, in order to communicate with the Central Soviet Area and the Party Central Committee in Shanghai, the Central Transportation Bureau, based on the confidential transportation network of the Western Minxi Workers and Peasants News Agency, officially established a line from Shanghai via Hong Kong, and then entered Fujian via Shantou, Guangdong, Dabu Yongding, and then via Shanghang and Changting to the transportation line to Ruijin, Jiangxi, which is the famous central red transportation line.

According to the instructions of the Western Fujian Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, the First Congress of the Communist Party of China in Wuping County was held in October 1929, and the "Political Resolution" passed stipulated that "the Xiangdong District Committee should pay attention to contacting Songkou work. In Xiangdong and Songkou "Developing party organizations along the way is one of the biggest tasks in Wuping." In August 1931, the Wuping County Party Committee selected Chen Zhongping, the propaganda director of the Xiangdong District Party Committee, to go to Songyuan Middle School in Meixian, Guangdong as a student. , Carry out the party's underground work, thereby opening up a secret transportation line from Songkou, Songyuan to the Central Soviet Area. Wuping's secret transportation lines mainly include the west line and the east line. The western route passes through the Hanjiang River Basin, enters Wupingxiaba from Pingyuan and Jiaoling in Guangdong, passes through Wusuo and Dongliu, enters Xunwu and Huichang in Jiangxi, and then arrives at Ruijin. The east line runs from Songkou, Guangdong, through Songyuan, to Xiangdong, Wuping, along the banks of the Ting River , between Wuping and Shanghang, up to Wubei, and then enters Changting from Xiangdianxia in Wuping and arrives in Ruijin, Jiangxi. The specific route is: Shantou, Guangdong → Songyuan, Dabu, Guangdong → Yangbei Village, Guangcai Village, Lianfang Village in Wuping → Yangjiantou Village in Shanghang Lake → Wufang Village in Wuping Wudong → Fangyang Village in Wuping Zhongbao → Shanghang Coral → Shanghang Guanzhuang → Wuping Taoxi Xinhua Village, Xiaolan Village ("Ruiqi Lihui" residential house) → Wuping Xiangdian Dianxia (Wenchang Inn) → Changting Sidu → Jiangxi Ruijin.

Taoxi River is the most important tributary of Tingjiang River in Wubei, with a huge amount of water. Based on the advantages of waterway transportation, Xinhua Village and Xiaolan Village in Taoxi have become an important part of the red transportation line. The eastern route runs from Songkou to Xiangdong via Songyuan, along the Tingjiang River to Taoxi and Xiangdian in Wubei, to Changting, the economic center of the Central Soviet Area, and Ruijin, the political center. It crosses the three provinces of Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi, and remains open to the Red Army's Long March.In February 1934, Li Ban (namely Li Bishan ), an important leader of the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi border party and a Vietnamese international communist fighter, was escorted by Chen Zhongping on this transportation line in Taoxi Pavilion and Xiaoxiao. After a short stay, Lan went to Changting and Ruijin, and was later assigned to work in the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.

An important component of the southeastern barrier of the Central Soviet Area

In the early stage of the Agrarian Revolution, thanks to the three incursions of the Fourth Red Army from 1929 to 1930, Wuping’s county committee and county Soviet were located in Wuping County. In the middle and late stages of the Agrarian Revolution, under pressure from the Kuomintang's South Route Army Chen Jitang , after the Twelfth Red Army conquered Wuping, the headquarters of the Thirty-sixth Division of the Twelfth Red Army was stationed in Taoxitingtou for nearly three months. Later, the county party committee and county Su Congwu Moved east to Taoxi Pavilion. For a time, Taoxi became the political center of the Wuping Agrarian Revolution. After the establishment of the Third Division of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Military Region, Wubei became an important part of Wuping, the southeastern barrier of the Central Soviet Area. It held firm until the summer of 1935, and was actually the last area to fall in the Western Fujian Soviet Area.

　 (1) Wuping County Party Committee Residence

Taoxi is the earliest establishment place of the party organization in Wubei area. In the winter of 1928, the Wuping Provisional County Committee was established in Xiangdong. On December 9, 1929, the Wubei Xiaolan branch was established, with Liu Fuming serving as branch secretary. Then, Tingtou, Xiangdong, Dayao (Dayangquan, Yaoshan), Qili, Dianxia, ​​Wuhe (Wutan, Hekou), Jiangtian (Jiangkeng, Tianli), Xiangkeng, Lanyuan, Sanxiu, Party branches were successively established in Haojia, Gongshi and other places. By the spring of 1932, Wubei had successively established Taolan, Xianghu, Dahe, Shanghu, Zhaoxin, and Yongping district committees, and most villages had established Party and Youth League branches.

The former site of the Wuping County Party Committee, the Independent Regiment, and the guerrillas was Taoxi Tingtou Baoshanju.

In May 1932, the Wuping County Committee moved to Taoxi Tingtou, where Baoshanju was located. The development of Wuping party organization has entered its heyday, and 20 district committees have been established in the county. In December 1931, after the Wubei District Committee of the Communist Party of China separated from the Hangwu County Committee, it was divided into seven district committees: Taolan, Xianghu, Yongping, Zhaoxin, Shanghu, Dahe, and Gongshi.

(2) Wuping County Soviet Government Residence

After the Xiaolan uprising, more than 1,000 poor people and self-defense team members from Jiuxiang in Wubei and Tingnan held a victory celebration meeting in Hepinggang, Xiaolan, and established the first red regime in Xiaolan, Wubei. Township Revolutionary Committee, Zhang Jue serves as chairman. Subsequently, revolutionary committees or Soviet governments were also established in Jiuxiang and Tingnan townships near Xiaolan after the peasant uprising. In the spring of 1930, the Xiaolan Township Soviet government was established. In April, the first Wubei Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Congress was held, the Wubei District Soviet Government was established, and the Wubei Revolutionary Base was formally formed. By the autumn and winter of 1930, the Wubei, Tingnan, and Hangxi borders had developed into red areas.

In June 1932, the Wuping County Soviet government moved to Taoxitingtou, and the Wuping Soviet Area entered its heyday. In order to meet the needs of the construction of Soviet area and , the county has a maximum of 22 district Soviets. After February 1932, Wubei District was divided into seven districts, including Taolan, Xianghu, Yongping, Zhaoxin, Shanghu, Dahe, and Gongshi Districts. In September 1933, due to the situation, Su from Wuping County and Taoxi District were stationed in Tingtou for one year and three months, and then moved to Xiaolan, Zhoujiadi, Hekou and other places.

Taoxi Mountain is rich in forest resources, and the pavilion is known as "10,000 acres of bamboo forest and hundreds of paper dormitories." Based on the advantages of waterway transportation, Tingtouwei has become a trade center for neighboring villages. The Wuping County Party Committee and County Soviets stationed in Taoxi led the people of Wuping to carry out economic and cultural construction, establishing Wubei with Taoxi as the center as the economic, political, cultural and military center of Wuping and even the southeastern barrier of the Central Soviet Area.

The County Party Committee and County Su attach great importance to agricultural production, actively develop various handicraft industries, and vigorously develop commerce and trade. In February 1933, Wuping County representatives Chen Yumei and Lai Qinglang attended the meeting to sign a revolutionary work competition treaty in Yongding, Xinquan , and Wuping counties. On June 6, 1933, at the enlarged meeting of the Fujian Provincial Soviet Union Presidium, Wuping and Xinquan launched a labor competition to eliminate wasteland and promised to reclaim more than 1,000 tons of wasteland.

The County Party Committee and County Su focus on cultural construction. Cultural committees have been established at the county, district and township levels, various forms of labor schools have been established, and literacy campaigns have been carried out.Actively develop sports, health and literature and art. In 1932, a grand sports review of the county's Young Pioneers was held to select winning groups and individuals. More than 30 outstanding representatives were selected for training and participated in the general review of the province's Young Pioneers on May 31. General Assembly. The Wuping team won the fifth place in the overall score and the sixth place in the military in this review, and was commended by the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Provincial Soviet Union.

In the autumn of 1932, Luo Ming, Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, came to Wubei to inspect the work. He saw that all the work was very good and various organizations were present. He spoke highly of the "fiery world" here.

Before the Red Army’s Long March and during the three-year guerrilla war, Wuping organized various material transport teams, stretcher teams, rescue teams, women’s laundry teams, and trench construction teams, with more than 4,000 people. There were teams transporting materials to Ruijin and other places in Jiangxi. Thousands of people. From August to October 1933, Wuping supported the Red Army with 40,000 yuan in military expenses and 10,000 dans of grain. On August 15, 1933, at the Economic Construction Conference of seventeen counties in the southern part of the Central Soviet Area, representative Wu Ping subscribed for 20,000 yuan in "Economic Construction Public Bonds" at one time. In November 1933, Wuping County completed the task of presenting more than 300 loads of condolences and 2,000 pairs of cloth shoes to the Red Army, including countless straw sandals. Based on task requirements and actual conditions, during the Agrarian Revolution, the Wuping Soviet Area supported at least 100,000 yuan in military expenditures, 15,000 pairs of cloth shoes, and 40,000 pairs of straw sandals.

Wuping is indeed an important support base for the Fujian Red Army.

　(3) Military Fulcrum on the Southeast Front of the Central Soviet Area

During the fourth and fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" wars in the Central Soviet Area, as the situation in the Hangyongyan Soviet Area in eastern Fujian worsened, the Kuomintang's South Route Army Yan Yingyu Brigade occupied Wuping and Wubei for a long time. China's military strategic position has become increasingly prominent. The Central Revolutionary Military Commission successively established the Guangdong-Jiangxi Military Region and Guangdong-Jiangxi Province to strengthen ties with the Guangdong Dongjiang Guerrilla Zone and form an efficient and coordinated defense body on the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi border. Wuping, located on the border of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi, plays an important strategic fulcrum role.

As early as July 1932, according to the needs of the military struggle on the southeastern front of the Central Soviet Area, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission and the Jiangxi Military Region decided to establish the third division of the Jiangxi Military Region in Wupingdongliu. The defense area included the entire Wuping County. On April 21, 1933, in order to unify the military command of the southern front of the Central Soviet Area, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission decided to merge the three divisions of the Jiangxi Military Region stationed at Junmen Ridge in Huichang and the five divisions of the Jiangxi Military Region stationed in Yudu to establish the Guangdong-Jiangxi Military Region , consists of 3 partitions. Among them, the third division defense area runs from southern Gansu to the northwest of Wuping, and then extends to Shanghang and Hexi. The third division headquarters has been stationed in Junmen Ridge of Huichang, Maocun Yongping in Wuping, and Tingtou in Taoxi, Wuping. The basic corps is the tenth independent regiment.

In March 1934, Xu Zhuo, head of the inspection team of the Central Red Army Headquarters, and his party arrived at Yongping Maocun, the headquarters of the third division of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Military Region, to inspect the defense work of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" war. They were attacked by Zhong Shaokui at Maple Ridge in Yongping. A plainclothes team, local militia groups, and Da Dao Hui ambushed him, and all died heroically. The headquarters of the Third Division of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Military Region was moved from Yongping Maocun to Taoxi Tingtou. Taoxi became the residence of Wuping party, government and military organs and the revolutionary command center. The Red Army gathered, the military flags were hunting, the bugles were loud, and the fighting continued.

In May 1934, the Southern Jiangxi Field Committee and the Southern Gansu Military Region were established. The first division of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Military Region was placed under the jurisdiction of the Southern Gansu Military Region, and the second and third divisions were changed to the first and second divisions of the Guangdong-Jiangsi Military Region respectively. At the same time, the Wuping county-level party, government and military forces stationed in Taoxi integrated and established the Wuping Field Committee in Xiaolan. The commander-in-chief was Ge Xueming, Wang Xingfu, Nie Zutang, Zhu Jinyun, etc. During this period, although important towns in Wuping were occupied by the Kuomintang army, the vast rural areas were still in the hands of the Red Army. The Red Army also had more than 1,000 people from the Third Division Independent Regiment, more than 1,600 people from the County Independent Battalion and 9 District Squadrons, and 15,000 Red Army Brigades. Multiple people.

Taoxi made huge sacrifices and made significant contributions to defend the Central Soviet Area and coordinate the main Red Army's Long March, becoming the last Soviet area to fall in western Fujian. After the Red Army's Long March in October 1934, the 10th Independent Regiment was placed under the command of the Fujian Military Region, and was still active in Taoxi and other places. In December, more than 400 people from the First Brigade of the Fujian Military Region's Rear Area Command were stationed in Wubei. They were divided into three guerrilla groups: Xiaolan, Tingtou, and Dashukeng. They were soon dispersed one after another.On December 17, Captain Nie Yunhu led the First Division of the 10th Independent Regiment from Xiangdian Dayao to attack the Xiaoxiangkeng earthen fortress in three directions. Unfortunately, he was shot and died. In the early morning of May 22, 1935, Wan Qingquan, commander of the 10th Independent Regiment, led his remaining 130 troops to Zhongbao. They were surrounded by enemy troops several times larger than his own in Qingshanjing. Most of them died heroically, and 11 people broke through the encirclement. He went to Xiangdong and was captured and killed. The independent tenth regiment, which was so powerful in the Fujian and Jiangxi borders, was defeated. The Wuping County Field Committee accompanying the operation persisted in Taoxi until the end of 1935.

Conclusion

The glorious history of Wubei's "Fiery Red World" has made great sacrifices and made significant contributions to the liberation of the country and the establishment of New China. Wuping is the famous hometown of the Red Army. During the Agrarian Revolution, tens of thousands of people joined the Red Army. Among the founding generals, there were five from Wuping, namely General Liu Yalou and Major General Luo Bin from Xiangdian, Major Generals Liao Buyun and Lin Wei from Wudong, and Major General Lan Wenzhao from Taoxi.

There are 1,069 registered martyrs in Wuping County. Among them, there are 198 registered martyrs in Taoxi Town, accounting for 18.52% of the total number of registered martyrs in Wuping County. It is the town with the most registered martyrs in Wuping County. Taoxi Xinlan Village (formerly known as Lanyuan) has 43 registered martyrs, accounting for 4.02% of the total registered martyrs in Wuping County. It is the village with the most martyrs in Wuping County. There are 166 revolutionary base villages in Wuping County, including 27 provincial-level revolutionary base villages and 139 county-level revolutionary base villages. Among them, there are 12 revolutionary base villages in Taoxi, accounting for 80% of the total administrative villages in the town.

The fiery world, the test of blood and fire, has accumulated Wubei's rich red resources. This is a precious spiritual wealth, giving it a special status in western Fujian. Taoxi Tingtou is a village in western Fujian that has a relatively complete and concentrated collection of revolutionary historical sites. Since the pavilion was once the seat of the party, government and military organs of Wuping County, dozens of well-preserved revolutionary historical sites have been left behind. Important ones include Chunyuan Villa, the former site of the Political Department of the 36th Division of the 12th Red Army, Xiping Di, and the former site of the Wuping County Party Committee. Shanju, Sangouju, the former site of the county Soviet government, Zerenju, the former site of the county political security team and the county Workers' and Peasants' Procuratorate, etc.

During the arduous revolutionary war years, the people of Wuping were indomitable, fought bravely and fought bravely, building a solid and strong southeastern barrier of the Central Soviet Area, and wrote a magnificent revolutionary epic with their blood and lives. Wubei, the "Fiery World", shines in the annals of history!

　(Author: Wuping County Taoxi Town Party Committee, Government, Wuping County Party Committee Party History and Local History Research Office Research Group

"Red Taoxi" Research Group Members: Sun Ling, Lin Dan, Li Yueping, Wu Xichao, Li Yude, Xiu Qirun)