In 1948 Chongqing Garrison Headquarters came to the door of a special female prisoner. She was neatly dressed, with fair skin and a neat shoulder-length haircut.
She seemed extremely out of place among the inmates, both in terms of her dress and the way the agents treated the female prisoner, which was different from others.
Who is the woman? And what kind of identity does it have? And why did he come to prison even though he was fully clothed?
Outside the prison
The eldest daughter of the Yang family
In 1941, Sheng Guoyu Influenced by her husband Yu Zicheng, she became a member of the Communist Party and actively devoted herself to underground work. Later, when she joined the party, she was unfortunately arrested.
Three other people were arrested together with Sheng Guoyu. The enemy used both soft and hard tactics in an attempt to get what they wanted from Sheng Guoyu and the other four people. However, the four people always remained tight-lipped and did not know when asked.
In order to get more information, the four people were taken to the Chongqing Garrison Headquarters. Before entering the door, they saw a neatly dressed young woman with fair skin and capable shoulder-length short hair.
After a while, the woman came to the custody room of Sheng Guoyu and others. The first words she said after entering the door were: "We are the same people."
Yang Hanxiu
The woman's words made Sheng Guoyu and others uncomfortable. Dare to believe.
But the woman was very enthusiastic. She asked for Sheng Guoyu’s home address, and then asked about Sheng Guoyu’s age, name, and hobbies.
Faced with the woman's "enthusiasm", Sheng Guoyu was naturally very repulsive. Sheng Guoyu suspected that the woman was sent as a lobbyist. Even though the woman said that she was the same as Sheng Guoyu and others, Sheng Guoyu was still wary.
Until the woman revealed her identity, Sheng Guoyu and others were even more repelled.
Yang Sen
"Yang Sen is my uncle."
Sheng Guoyu and others were shocked when they heard the self-introduction of the woman in front of them.
Yang Sen is not anyone else, but the mayor and garrison commander of Chongqing appointed by the Kuomintang.
Sheng Guoyu and others became wary of women.
The woman is called Yang Hanxiu.
Sheng Guoyu knew that the woman in front of him was not someone else. Since he told everyone that his uncle was Yang Sen, it meant that she was the "eldest lady of the Yang family".
Yang Hanxiu (right)
But Yang Hanxiu faced everyone with a smile on his face: "Don't call me the eldest lady of the Yang family, just call me Yang Hanxiu."
Yang Hanxiu was very comfortable and casual, but Sheng Guoyu and others But they felt that he was not a good person, and he was very wary of Yang Hanxiu. He was also more curious about why Yang Hanxiu was imprisoned in this place with them since Yang Sen was his uncle.
Yang Hanxiu still faced everyone with a smile on his face, even called Sheng Guoyu "Xiao Sheng" very affectionately, and the familiar attitude made Sheng Guoyu become more defensive.
After a while, Yang Hanxiu went outside.
Sheng Guoyu (left)
They can't judge whether Yang Hanxiu is a good person or a bad person.
When it was time to eat, Yang Hanxiu specially brought food to Sheng Guoyu and others. While inviting everyone to eat quickly, he said: "Only when you are full can you have the strength to do the revolutionary work well."
Yang Hanxiu's successive actions, Sheng Guoyu was still a little defensive and didn't understand why Yang Hanxiu was like this.
But I still put my doubts aside for the time being.
Afterwards, Sheng Guoyu asked to go to the toilet, but the guards did not allow him. Even though other comrades helped Sheng Guoyu argue, the guards did not agree.
Yang Hanxiu
At this time, Yang Hanxiu stood up and yelled at the guards: Are you allowed to go to the toilet? "
Yang Hanxiu's eyes were full of anger and his voice was full of majesty. The guards were also a little dull. How could they not know the identity of the woman in front of them? In the end, they were afraid of the name of her uncle Yang Sen, so the guards gave up.
This is Yang Hanxiu who looks like this. Sheng Guoyu and others began to gradually let go of their guard.
Yang Hanxiu also gradually entered the hearts of Sheng Guoyu and others.
The guard outside also said angrily: "It doesn't matter, these people will be delivered in a few days. Zhazidong Prison, and they won’t be so violent by then. "
Zhazidong Prison
Since Sheng Guoyu and others did not disclose any information, what awaited them was what happened to Zhazidong Prison, where a large number of revolutionaries were imprisoned.
The situation in the garrison was not as good as that of Zhazidong Prison. The torture was much harsher than here.
Sheng Guoyu and others who were staying at the garrison began to chat with Yang Hanxiu.
How could everyone not be curious about how the eldest daughter of the Yang family, whose uncle was a member of the Kuomintang, entered the garrison. So, the Yang family has sent many people to visit the eldest lady in the past few days, and they always bring good fish and good meat.
Yang Hanxiu
It turns out that Yang Hanxiu is also making a revolution.
Sheng Guoyu was thinking, Yang Hanxiu. As Yang Sen's niece, she was knowledgeable and educated, and her family was rich and powerful. Why did she want to make a revolution?
Yang Hanxiu told Sheng Guoyu, she couldn't stand the hard work of the people, and couldn't stand what the Kuomintang was doing. She was imprisoned? The garrison was taken here for inspection.
Yang Sen promised Yang Hanxiu that he would give him whatever he wanted as long as he "disconnected from the Communist Party." But Yang Hanxiu refused, so he came here.
Yang Sen
Listen. Yang Hanxiu's explanation made Sheng Guoyu look at the woman in front of him with admiration and curiosity.
On the third day, Sheng Guoyu, Yang Hanxiu and others were taken to Zhazidong Prison
Yang. As soon as Han Xiu entered the women's prison, everyone suddenly became quiet.
Everyone was whispering about Yang Hanxiu's identity. The chattering of others did not affect Yang Hanxiu, but he just sat there quietly in a corner.
Sheng Guoyu (in his later years).
Seeing Sheng Guoyu like this, he stood up and talked with him. Others advised Sheng Guoyu to stay away from Yang Hanxiu, but Sheng Guoyu said, Although Yang Hanxiu is a relative of Yang Sen, Yang Hanxiu and Yang Sen are not the same. She has accepted progress. Ideological education, and studied in Yan'an .
Sheng Guoyu told the crowd loudly.
But how can everyone believe that she is Yang Sen’s niece? One after another, denunciations gradually began to spread.
"How can a relative of the Kuomintang be a good person? How can he be a revolutionary comrade? Isn't this a female spy of the Kuomintang?"
Yang Hanxiu
The scorn of the crowd still did not affect Yang Hanxiu. Yang Hanxiu was still as if he was in the garrison for the first time. Sheng Guoyu and others she met introduced her as follows: "My actions can prove my revolution. I am the same person as you."
Then she introduced her own experience, from studying to selling a business. After giving birth, and then using his own money to rescue comrades...
A bloody anti-war woman
Yang Hanxiu was born in a wealthy family. Her father Yang Maoxiu was Yang Sen's second brother. He once served as a soldier in the Yang Sen warlord system. He was the supply commander and a famous local tycoon in Qu County and Guang'an.
Yang Sen
Yang Hanxiu is the eldest of Yang Maoxiu's children. In addition to her cleverness and well-behavedness, her family loves Yang Hanxiu very much. The ice-snow and smart Yang Hanxiu is naturally regarded as the "eldest lady of the Yang family" by everyone.
The reason why took the revolutionary road was because he later heard the conversation between Zhu De and Yang Sen.
Where to start?
During the First Civil Revolutionary War, Comrade Zhu De was dispatched by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to live in Yang Sen's headquarters in Wanxian County. It was also there that Yang Hanxiu met Zhu De and affectionately called him "Uncle Zhu".
Zhu De
Yang Hanxiu often sat in the corner of the room and listened to the arguments and conversations between Zhu De and Yang Sen. It was also under such influence that Yang Hanxiu was full of yearning for "seeking the road to save the country and the people.".
Zhu De’s words full of patriotic enthusiasm, his determination to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, and his patriotic national integrity were deeply imprinted in Yang Hanxiu’s heart.
Yang Hanxiu has a wish. She hopes that she can become a strange woman like Qiu Jin, and hopes that she can make a vigorous cause to save the motherland.
Qiu Jin
In addition, Yang Hanxiu’s tutor happened to be Zhu Yiqing, an underground member of the Communist Party of China, which created opportunities for Yang Hanxiu to embark on the road of revolution.
In early 1939, through the introduction of Zhu Yiqing, Yang Hanxiu arrived in Chengdu. While doing proofreading work for the "Star News", he was waiting for the notice from the underground party organization to go to Yan'an. However, because he was a wealthy gentleman and a landowner, he was delayed. Got the news to go to Yan'an.
Later, it was only at Zhu Yiqing's insistence that he prepared to leave for Yan'an.
Hu Zongnan
Yang Hanxiu finally arrived in Yan'an, but he could not go because of the blockade of Hu Zongnan. He had no choice but to go to Qinling to teach in a primary school and wait for notification. During this period, he heard many inhumane atrocities committed by Japanese bandits, which further inspired him. This made him determined to go to Yan'an, the holy land of anti-Japanese war.
Yang Hanxiu decided to go to Zhongtiao Mountain to join the guerrilla captain Gan Yumei . With the help of Gan Yumei, he entered Shanxi. After nine and a half months, he finally found Zhu De in Mount Wutai.
As soon as they met, Yang Hanxiu told Zhu De: "Uncle Zhu, please take me to Yan'an."
Looking at the determination of the child in front of him, Zhu De agreed to Yang Hanxiu's request after thinking for a while.
Zhu De
After arriving in Yan'an, following Zhu De's suggestion, Yang Hanxiu changed her name to Wu Ming to express her complete break with the Yang family and her willingness to become an "unknown" pawn who would fight for the liberation of the national cause all her life. . Soon after
came to Yan'an, he was enrolled in the seventh class of China Women's University. Yang Hanxiu studied at the "Women's University" for more than a year and was admitted to the art department of "Luyi".
But because of her status as a wealthy gentleman and her relationship with Yang Sen, Yang Hanxiu was tortured frequently.
went back and forth asking about family, history, and motivations for participating in the revolution. However, no matter how Yang Hanxiu expressed his determination, the interrogators did not believe him.
Zhu De
Until Zhu De came in person and told the judges very loudly; "Yang Hanxiu resolutely broke with the Yang Sen family and devoted his youth to the cause of national liberation. She was the greatest warlord traitor! "
Even Premier Zhou personally met with Yang Hanxiu and told her that the organization's interrogation of her was wrong. said that she was a firm and brave rebel of the reactionary class and a good comrade who was trustworthy.
Since then, Yang Hanxiu has become a member of the Communist Party and is called "Wu Ming".
In early January 1946, when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party signed the armistice agreement, Yang Hanxiu received an urgent notice from her superiors and was escorted back to Yan'an by a class. Premier Zhou personally received her.
Premier Zhou
At that time, Wang Weizhou served as the deputy secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. He requested the central government to transfer some Sichuan cadres back, and Yang Hanxiu was one of them. The central government hoped that he would return to approach Yang Sen and find opportunities to persuade him, and try his best to persuade him. Strive for more strength for our party.
In early 1946, Yang Hanxiu, who flew back to Chongqing with Premier Zhou, was tracked and monitored by Kuomintang agents as soon as he got off the plane.
She returned to the countryside and used a gun to take back the land that had been occupied by her two brothers. Then she sold off a large amount of land in the name of building a dance hall and doing business, and then secretly purchased weapons, ammunition, clothing, food, etc. Send it to the uprising gathering point led by the underground party.
Yang Hanxiu
During this period, Yang Hanxiu was arrested three times. was first imprisoned in the Provincial Special Prison of Chengdu General and his colleagues. Later, because there was no evidence of organizing a youth dance practice organization, he gave up.
The second time was in the summer of 1948, and it was also this time that I met Sheng Guoyu.
Yang Hanxiu failed to participate in the armed uprising in Qu County. Yang Sen personally took the lead in arresting Yang Hanxiu and detained him in the garrison in Chongqing.
Yang Sen’s purpose is very simple, that is, he wants Yang Hanxiu to “break away from the Communist Party.” He said that as long as he leaves the party, he will give Yang Hanxiu whatever he wants.
Yang Sen
This is how Yang Hanxiu walked into the detention room in a gorgeous outfit, and Sheng Guoyu and others saw it.
Yang Hanxiu vowed to die that he would not break away from the Communist Party.
Even though the concubines of the Yang family came forward one by one to persuade them to eat delicious food, Yang Hanxiu was unwilling and took it all to share with Sheng Guoyu and others, and asked everyone to eat boldly. There are several streets in her home. .
was later taken to Zhazidong Prison together with Sheng Guoyu and others, and it was then that Yang Hanxiu told his story to everyone in Zhazidong Prison.
Zhazidong Prison
Yang Hanxiu in Zhazidong Prison was unwilling to break away from the Communist Party no matter what. Yang Sen even used his son Zhao Zaimin to personally come forward to persuade him, but all failed.
"Don't be afraid, don't cry. Mom is not afraid of death, and neither should you. If mom dies, you have to know that mom was killed by the Kuomintang and died for the liberation of the suffering poor. I hope you Can become a progressive and revolutionary youth."
Across the prison fence, Yang Hanxiu warned his son. When he arrived at Zhazidong Prison, Yang Hanxiu didn't understand what was coming to him. Yang Hanxiu is using his own strength to tell the people in prison that he is a revolutionary warrior and a flesh-and-blood Communist fighter.
Yang Hanxiu
In prison, Zuo Shaoying and Peng Canbi gave birth to children respectively. Yang Hanxiu asked her guards to buy milk powder and help change diapers. The child had no clothes, so he asked the aunts at home to send them clothes and chicken soup. .
Yang Hanxiu said: "While protecting the revolutionary comrades, we must also protect the descendants of the revolution."
In addition, Long Guangzhang died in prison because the enemy did not treat him when he was ill. In order to hold a memorial service for the martyr Long Guangzhang , Yang Hanxiu suggested a hunger strike to fight the enemy. Xu Guilin was afraid of something happening, so he had to report to Xu Yuanju and Zhou Yanghao, and then there was a memorial service.
In Zhazidong Prison--the place of memorial service
He had been living a dark life in prison, and with the death of his comrades, everyone's morale was very low. Yang Hanxiu took the lead and told the comrades: "The enemy is not scary. As long as everyone is united, the struggle will be victorious. "
In January and February 1949, the People's Liberation Army won decisive victories in the three major battles of and was arriving on the north bank of the Yangtze River with overwhelming momentum. These exciting news inspired everyone. Morale, Yang Hanxiu led everyone to sing "The Internationale" and also organized a study group in prison with Sheng Guoyu and others.
They recalled Chairman Mao's "On the People's Democratic Dictatorship" and other books to each other, and the learning atmosphere was very high.
In April 1949, Yang Hanxiu was taken out of Zhazi Cave by Yang Sen and " released on medical parole" because of illness.
Zuo Shaoying
and placed her under house arrest at Chongqing Jintang Street Civil Hospital. Before leaving the prison, Yang Hanxiu knew that Zuo Shaoying also had a daughter fostered in the family of party member Yuan Zun, but because Yuan Zun was arrested, her daughter's whereabouts were unknown. Yang Hanxiu promised Zuo Shaoying that he would help him find his daughter.
So Yang Hanxiu secretly returned to Guang'an from the hospital, and finally found Zuo Shaoying's daughter Wang Kai in a fellow villager's home. In order to avoid enemy tracking and persecution, he placed his daughter in the home of farmer Li Ziqiang and changed her name to Li. Kay.
But Yang Hanxiu had no time to take care of his daughter. The daughter had been fostered with her mother until her death, and Yang Hanxiu was not able to see her little daughter.
Yang Sen
In 1949, the "September 2nd" fire occurred in Chongqing. Yang Hanxiu, who witnessed the tragedy, began to angrily accuse Yang Sen in public of being the creator of the fire. Yang Sen was very angry about this.
On September 17, 1949, Yang Sen ordered people to secretly arrest Yang Hanxiu, and imprisoned him in Lime City. No matter what Yang Sen tried to persuade, Yang Hanxiu refused to listen. Instead, he advised Yang Sen to abandon the dark side and turn to the bright side. He also cursed Yang Sen for being too reactionary and poisonous in the Kuomintang. deep.
Yang Hanxiu's words directly angered Yang Sen. Yang Sen also understood that he imprisoned him and found family members to say good things. Yang Hanxiu was in trouble, and he still expected him to break away from the Communist Party. I was afraid that he would It’s impossible.
Geleshan
On November 23, 1949, Yang Sen ordered that Yang Hanxiu be executed.
In the summer of 1975, a farmer from Geleshan reported that on the eve of liberation, a handcuffed female corpse was found in the Jingangpo Bunker. The Martyrs Cemetery sent people to investigate and verify and determined that this was the body sent by the central government to do Yang Sen's work. Yang Hanxiu.
In addition to the skeletal identification conducted by experts to confirm his identity, among the relics beside Yang Hanxiu is a letter of introduction signed "Comrade Wu Ming", which not only has Comrade Wang Weizhou's seal, but also has Premier Zhou's personal approval.
Then it was determined that the identity of the female corpse was that of Yang Hanxiu.
Wang Weizhou's letter of introduction
Sheng Guoyu, who later learned all this, was very sad and would go to Geleshan when she had time. She never thought that the eldest lady who betrayed her family and embarked on the road of revolution would actually see her for the last time in prison. .
After retirement, Sheng Guoyu would always talk about this bloody anti-war woman every time she recalled these days. Such Yang Hanxiu was not the greatest warlord traitor in Zhu De's mouth.
