Organized "Mobilization Daily" in Fang County
Lei Tianming, formerly known as Lei Yingjian, was born in April 1916 to a landlord family in Leijiawan, Lianhua Village, Chengguan Town, Fang County. When he was 4 years old, his mother died of illness, so he lived with his father. He started studying at the age of 6 and studied very hard. When he was 8 years old, his father was killed on his way to a provincial meeting. He became an orphan from then on.
After his father died, Lei Tianming continued to go to school under the care of his uncles. Lei Tianming's uncle Lei Zhendian studied in Japan, majoring in textiles, and worked in Wuhan after returning to China. In order to train Lei Tianming, I made a special trip back to Fang County from Wuhan and took 12-year-old Lei Tianming to Wuhan to study. After Lei Tianming arrived in Wuhan, he first studied in Jianghan Junior High School, and then advanced to Jianghan High School to major in chemical engineering.
In 1936, 20-year-old Lei Tianming entered the Hubei Provincial Agricultural College.
In the spring of 1938, Lei Tianming gave up the opportunity to study and was introduced by the Provincial Government Department of Civil Affairs to return to Fang County to start work as a township affairs assistant.
Fang County is an important border town in northwest Hubei. Its strategic location is very important. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, He Long led the Red Army to establish a revolutionary base here, and it has a good mass base.
After the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, many young students from Fangxian County who were studying abroad devoted themselves to the Anti-Japanese War regardless of their own safety. They put national affairs first, gave up their studies, returned to their hometowns, organized propaganda and awakened the people. In the winter of 1937, Zhang Wuchun, who was studying at Daxia University in Shanghai, returned to Wuhan and gathered more than 10 students from Fangxian County, including Xu Yinmin, Xu Chengzhou, and Deng Li, to form the "Anti-Japanese National Salvation Propaganda Group" and recommended Xu Yinmin and Zhang Wuchun as the chief and deputy leaders. , drove thousands of miles and returned to Fang County to light the anti-Japanese beacon fire.
After they returned to Fang County, they established the "Fang County Anti-Japanese War Mobilization Committee" to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda activities. Lei Tianming taught at Xiguan Primary School and was elected as a member of the mobilization committee. Lei Tianming has strong mobility and organizational skills. Soon after returning to Fang County, he fully demonstrated his talents. He and the young students who returned to Fang County first organized an anti-Japanese and national salvation performance team, taught and sang anti-Japanese songs in schools and residents, and performed anti-Japanese dramas. For a time, high-pitched anti-war songs rang out everywhere in the suburbs of Fang County.
In view of the fact that the local people were eager to know the news about the Anti-Japanese War, and newspapers from other places had to be sent back and forth due to inconvenient transportation, which took a lot of time. Lei Tianming, Zhang Wuchun, Xu Yinming and others started to prepare "Mobilization Daily". The newspaper mainly reported news about the Anti-Japanese War and international news, with the purpose of inspiring people's patriotic enthusiasm and mobilizing people to resist the war. The main source of news was the director of the radio station, Dr. Zhu Hanxiuhe. Qu Zizhao listened to the radio with headphones.
Establishing an underground party organization in Fang County -
In May 1938, the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China sent party members Pang Jun, Ji Weixue, Zou Zemin, Zeng Taokun and Bao Ruiqin to Fang County to carry out work. The public identity is to establish cooperative offices, organize cooperatives, and issue loans. Pang Jun serves as the director instructor of the Cooperation Office. His main tasks are to organize and mobilize the masses, secretly establish party organizations, carry out party activities, mobilize the people, and participate in the Anti-Japanese War. Before arriving in Fang County, Pang Jun basically understood the basic situation of the progressive youth in Fang County through the Northern Hubei underground party. After arriving in Fang County, he got in touch with Lei Tianming and taught in the same school as him. Focus on cultivating them.
When Lei Tianming was studying in university, he had met Communist Party members, participated in activities carried out by the school party organization, and had an understanding of the party's program, nature, and tasks. Through contact with Pang Jun, I gained a deeper understanding of the party.
Under the leadership of Pang Jun, Lei Tianming became more active and proactive in his work. They use Xiguan Primary School as their base and work in their legal capacity as teachers. Lei Tianming taught Chinese, English and music courses at the school. He had a heavy workload and heavy responsibilities. He insisted on teaching and publicizing at the same time, using the legal platform to promote the party's anti-Japanese and national salvation policy.
In order to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda activities extensively and deeply, Lei Tianming seized every opportunity and used all forms to go into factories, rural areas, and streets to teach and sing anti-Japanese songs. He talked cordially with the masses, solicited opinions, answered questions, and delivered speeches. His speeches were impassioned. , emotional and quite convincing to the audience.Later, he organized progressive students, founded the anti-Japanese war publication "May", established an anti-Japanese national salvation propaganda team and a singing team, performed on the streets and in squares, with teachers and students on the same stage, and the performances were realistic and emotional, which captivated the city. Look, it was a sensation.
Lei Tianming is not only a talented organizer and leader, but also an excellent director and actor. He has played the leading role in dramas such as "Three Rivers Are Good", "Put Down Your Whip", "Send Your Husband to Be a Soldier" and "Criticizing Wang Jingwei".
When he sang "Exile Trilogy" solo, his tone was tragic and exciting. In order to meet the needs of the masses and expand the publicity effect, Lei Tianming used Sundays or holidays to perform in Baiguoshu, Sanhaiyan, Xiadianzi and Shangdanghe on the outskirts of the city. Everywhere I go, I get to know the people and talk cordially. While performing at Toad Rock, he learned about Maoping Deng Baochang's misdeeds of buying and selling young men and extorting money, so he immediately wrote a paragraph enumerating the crimes of Baochang . The security chief happened to be present, so he was asked to be pushed out by the crowd. The crowd clapped and applauded, saying: "It's a real show."
After the test of the revolutionary struggle, in July 1938, Pang Jun introduced Lei Tianming to join the Communist Party of China . After 22-year-old Lei Tianming joined the party, he became more active in his work and was often busy late into the night. He closely united a large number of progressive young people around him, laying the foundation for the establishment of an underground party organization in Fang County.
moved to the Hubei-Henan border area to carry out the struggle -
In October 1938, due to the needs of the revolutionary struggle, the Northern Hubei Special Representative Lei Tianming was sent to Xiangfan to carry out underground work. In the spring of 1939, the Nationalist Government disbanded the anti-Japanese and national salvation groups in counties in northwest Hubei and arrested Communist Party members working in Fang County. The anti-Japanese propaganda activities and party organizations suffered a great setback.
In order to mobilize the masses to join the Anti-Japanese War, the Northern Hubei Special Committee sent Lei Tianming and Cai Jinying (also known as Cai Jing and Jiang Jin) back to Fang County to publicize and mobilize the masses, identify targets, develop party members, and rebuild underground party organizations.
After Lei Tianming returned to Fang County, he reorganized some activists, carried out anti-Japanese propaganda, and secretly carried out party building work. By November 1939, Lei Tianming and Cai Jinying successively recruited a large number of party members such as Liu Yanchun, Wang Daosheng, Sun Yunguang, Cai Linglong, Li Daorun, Yu Jinrong, and Chen Zhengxi and established underground party branches in Chengguan Town and Jundian Town, Fang County. Lei Tianming was appointed secretary. After the establishment of the
party organization, the anti-Japanese propaganda activities in Fang County became more and more powerful and influential. The activities organized by the Chinese Communist Party attracted the attention of the Kuomintang county party headquarters. County Party Secretary Liu Guanru sent spies to investigate the activities of Communist Party organizations, and led a police squadron to Jundian Town to arrest Communist Party member Cai Jinying and Secretary of the CPC Zhufang County Party Committee Feng Xisan, and placed Lei Tianming under surveillance. In view of the destruction of the underground party organization in Fang County and the exposure of Lei Tianming, the Northern Hubei Special Committee instructed Lei Tianming to temporarily leave Fang County and carry out armed struggle in the Hubei-Henan border area in order to preserve the revolutionary forces.
February 10, 1940 was the third day of the first lunar month. Lei Tianming left Fang County and arrived at Gucheng County . He found the Northern Hubei Special Committee and reported on the situation in Fang County. Subsequently, the Northern Hubei Special Committee sent Lei Tianming to the Hubei-Henan border area to carry out armed struggle.
At that time, the Kuomintang troops and local reactionary armed forces had tight control over various places. Lei Tianming, Zhang Zhiyi and others disguised themselves as businessmen and broke through the blockades to reach the Hubei-Henan border area.
In the Hubei-Henan border area, Lei Tianming worked in the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army. He successively served as the director of the political department of the 43rd regiment of the 14th brigade, the liaison section chief of the second military division, the deputy director of the political department of the military division, and the director of the United Front Work Department of the prefectural committee. Responsible for dividing and dismantling the Kuomintang army and striving to unite progressive forces to resist Japan.
In April 1942, Yu Lin, the director of the Democratic Movement Department of the Northern Hubei Prefectural Committee, went to the countryside with his team to borrow grain. He happened to meet Lei Tianming who came to cooperate with the grain borrowing work. Lei Tianming and Yu Lin are both from Fang County. They are teachers and students, colleagues and comrades-in-arms. In the war-torn era, a couple met in a different place. The sparks of revolution collided and burned into raging flames. . In October 1942, with the approval of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Lei Tianming and Yu Lin got married at the Political Department of the Central Hubei Military Region.
March and fight during the day and write a summary at night -
During the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla War, due to the siege of the Japanese puppets, KMT diehard troops and local reactionary armed forces, the New Fourth Army had to march and fight every day. In a difficult environment, Lei Tian marched and fought during the day, reported and wrote summaries at night, and found time to read and study. He rarely met Yu Lin.
In October 1943, Yu Lin suddenly suffered from severe illness and severe anemia and was admitted to the hospital. Lei Tianming, who was fighting at the front, was extremely anxious when he heard about it and asked someone to buy two bottles of "tap blood" in enemy-occupied areas to give to Yu Lin. At that time, Lei Tianming was promoted from Liaison Section Chief to Deputy Director of the Political Department. After the medicine was taken away, he wrote in his diary: Xiaoyu was sick, severely anemic, and nervous about fighting, so she could not visit her. I asked someone to buy her two bottles of blood-replenishing medicine. , for personal affairs, using public money, inspection, it is very wrong, this is not commensurate with my position. When your position changes, your loyalty to the Party cannot change. When your position changes, you should not be special, but you should work diligently for the Party.
In May 1945, Lei Tianming's eldest daughter Lei Ying was half a year old and was being fed at the wet nurse's house. He rarely had the opportunity to see her. Once the troops moved to the area where Yu Lin worked, and originally planned to stay for three days, Yu Lin brought the wet nurse and Lei Ying over and asked Lei Tianming to take a good look at his daughter. Unexpectedly, Lei Ying developed a high fever the next day. Lei Tianming and Yu Lin were anxious and tried every means to send Lei Ying for treatment. At this moment, Lei Tianming received intelligence that the enemy was going to carry out a large-scale "mopping up" and the troops immediately moved. Lei Tianming said to Yu Lin: "To be honest, I love you very much and I love my daughter very much, but the enemy is mopping up and the troops are going to war. I can't stay, and I have no conditions to take the child away, and I don't have the money to treat the child. I'm sorry for the child! We will charge this debt to the Japanese and let them repay it twice!" After saying that, Lei Tianming kissed the child and set off with tears.
In August 1945, after 14 years of arduous struggle, the Anti-Japanese War achieved a great victory. The Chinese people, who had been devastated by the disaster, all longed for peace and a good life. However, Chiang Kai-shek , with the support of the United States, launched a full-scale civil war. On June 26, 1946, the Kuomintang gathered 300,000 troops and besieged the Central Plains Liberated Area. The Central Plains troops broke out in accordance with the instructions of Chairman Mao Zedong of the Party Central Committee.
At that time, Lei Tianming served as deputy political commissar of the Independent Brigade of the Jianghan Military Region, because Yu Lin was pregnant with his second child and was about to give birth. In order to take care of her, the organization decided to let Lei Tianming and Yu Lin disguise themselves and go north to the liberated areas. On the balance between the party's cause and personal interests, Lei Tianming put all his weight on the revolutionary cause. He took the initiative to ask for a fight at the headquarters: "I am from Fangxian County and I am familiar with the situation in Fangxian County. I firmly request to participate in the breakout and go to northwest Hubei to carry out work!" The headquarters agreed to his request.
At dawn on June 26, 1946, the Kuomintang launched a general attack on Xuanhuadian, and the Central Plains Military Region troops began to break through in three groups. Lei Tianming's independent brigade of the Jianghan Military Region was the vanguard of the South Road breakout force. They crossed the Ping-Han Railway line heavily guarded by the enemy, broke through the natural barriers of Xianghe , and opened Nanzhang , Yicheng , Baokang , arrived in Fangxian County on July 17th.
On August 27, 1946, the troops of the Jianghan Military Region and a column led by Wang Shusheng met in Shanggon, Fang County, and immediately established the Northwest Hubei Military Region and the Party Committee of the Western Hubei District, and the troops dispersed to carry out guerrilla warfare. Lei Tianming was appointed as Secretary of the Fangxian County Party Committee and County Magistrate, and led the troops to carry out struggles in the southwest area of Fangxian County. During this period, Lei Tianming encountered the enemy and was unfortunately arrested. On February 23, 1947, Lei Tianming was killed by the Wudang anti-enemy. He was only 31 years old when he died.
After Lei Tianming died, his relatives found the body after many twists and turns, carried it back and buried it in Leijiawan. After Fangxian County was liberated, his remains were moved to the Red Army Martyrs Tower.
Lei Tianming is an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China and one of the leaders of the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Movement in Northwest Hubei and the Liberation War in Northwest Hubei. In 1987, Fang County built the Lei Tianming Martyr Memorial Hall, which has received more than 200,000 people from primary and secondary school teachers and students, garrison commanders and soldiers, party and government cadres, and employees of enterprises and institutions inside and outside the county.
In May 2011, the Lei Tianming Martyr Memorial Hall was established by the Fang County Commission for Discipline Inspection as a traditional anti-corruption education base in Fang County; in November 2012, it was established as a city-wide anti-corruption education base by the Shiyan Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision.
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