One day in early 1930, a man stood on a big tree stump in front of the Soviet government in Longmen District, Pingjiang County, Hunan Province: his face was black and red, his eyes were bright, his head was gray military cap, he was wearing a white coarse cloth double-breasted su

This article comes from the historical material "Chinese Female Heroes" page 218 [Heroic and Strong Women's Minister] - record Feng Xing'e Martyrs compilation and compilation

Feng Xing'e was born in 1903 in a poor peasant family in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province. He has been a child bride at a poor peasant's house since he was six years old. In 1925, the peasant movement led by the Party swept across the vast rural areas in eastern Hunan. Xing'e actively participated in this great struggle and joined the Communist Party of China in March 1926.

01, Mingyang Longmen

One day in the early 1930, on a big tree stump in front of the Soviet government in Longmen District, Pingjiang County, Hunan Province, Hunan Province: his face was black and red, his eyes were bright, his head was gray military cap, he was wearing a white coarse cloth double-breasted suit, black cloth pants, straps, cow eared straw sandals, a straw hat on his back, a wide belt on his waist, and a pistol with a condom hung on it.

If it weren't for the District Soviet Chairman's introduction: This is Feng Xing'e, the Women's Minister of the County Party Committee, you would have thought this was a gay man. Xing'e, this time, she came to Longmen District to help her work. The specific location was Dadi Township. When she walked into the small thatched hut of the Dadi Township Soviet government, she saw several guerrillas sharpening their knives and guns. She knew that they were going to Zaojiang that night to punish the reactionary security chief . Xing'e immediately said to the women director of Longmen District who came with him: "Taoju, let's go together!"

township Soviet chairman He hurriedly said, "Xing'e, you just came here, just rest here, don't go!" Xing'e said in a jokey tone, "Haha, Lao Zhang looks down on us lesbians. To be honest, in war, I'm not a new recruit yet!" Lao Zhang smiled and said, "The female general takes action, one is the best, how can she look down on Luo! Welcome: Welcome."

On the night of early summer, it was drizzling and dark as if it was the bottom of a pot. Lao Zhang took Xing'e and his party to Zaojiang on the muddy road. More than a dozen guerrillas first surrounded the small courtyard of the chief. Xing'e and Taoju were ambushed under the window behind the house, and then Lao Zhang rushed in with two guerrillas. He was about to meet the security chief, the chief A and the local tyrants discussing preparing food for the Kuomintang army. There was also a lot of food scraped from the people's homes in the main hall.

Lao Zhang walked to the security chief, pressed his waist with a pistol, shouted loudly, "Don't move!" The bad guys in the hall were suddenly panicked, frightened, and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. The chief suddenly tilted his body, kicked the table to the ground, swung a bench, headed towards Lao Zhang, and then drilled into the black corner and ran away.

Feng Xing heard the ping-pong sound in the room and knew that he had started to do it. He gently patted Taoju next to him on his hand, indicating that he should pay special attention. After a while, the window door was pushed open and a black shadow jumped out of the window entrance. Xing'e immediately rushed up. The guy was very strong and pushed Taoju to the ground. Xing'e's hand was also thrown away.

In this moment, Xing'e pulled out her dagger and rushed on, stabbing it onto the guy. He heard a "Oh!" and the guy fell to the ground and shouted to spare his life. The guerrillas rushed over and raised it to see it. They realized that it was the security chief who was going to be executed and dragged him into the main hall. At this time, the wife and children of the chief secretary came and knelt down and begged for mercy.

Xing'e pointed at the surveillance chief angrily and said, "Your hands are covered with the blood of our revolutionary masses. If you are tolerant of you today, more comrades will die in your hands in the future!" Then Lao Zhang shouted, "Kill" two guerrillas and dragged him out to execute him. Feng Xing'e scolded the rich and chiefs kneeling on the ground, asking them to be honest, otherwise the fate of the chiefs would be theirs.

Then, Lao Zhang assigned the guerrillas to carry a bag of food that the chief scrapped from the people's houses, and Xing'e also carried a bag of it, weighing about a hundred pounds. On the way back, she seemed very happy. As soon as she entered the base area, she gently hummed the song "Crushing the Enemy's Turtle Shell": "The Communist Party's leadership is really correct, the workers and peasants support it really much, the Red Army's war is really good, and the Kuomintang's Turtle Shell is crushed, we are so happy, we are so happy..." The song was full of emotions and strength, expressing the joy of the guerrillas.

The team returned to Dadi Township. Xing'e reminded everyone to pay special attention to the enemy's revenge in response to some comrades' blind optimistic emotions, and suggested that they move immediately and prepare for ambushing the enemy.

Early the next morning, the enemy who had been relocated to the river to replace the defense and the landlords gathered together and rushed straight to Dadi Township with great momentum. Fortunately, we were prepared and fought a beautiful ambush. We not only defended the people in the base area, but also seized some guns and ammunition and armed the guerrillas.

02, Minister of Women

Xing'e's name was soon familiar to the people in Dadi Township, and she enjoyed a high prestige among the people. Every day, many people come to her to report the situation or ask for solutions to the problem, especially women, and more people look for her. She will deal with problems such as difficulties in production and life, such as parents-in-law abusing child brides, and discord between husband and wife, as long as she finds her, she will deal with them seriously and responsibly.

She said: "We cadres who work in women should always care about the interests of the masses and help them solve specific problems. Even if it is a small problem, they will not be careless. Only in this way can women be fully mobilized." Under her efforts and influence, women in Dadi Township were very active at that time.

Feng Xing'e has never been to school since she was a child. After participating in the revolution, her work tasks were very heavy and the conditions were very difficult. However, she always squeezed out time to learn culture, humbly asked others for advice, and studied hard herself. Sometimes she lay in bed at night and wrote the words she learned that day in her palm.

She often said to class sisters: "Studying is not only a personal matter, it is a revolutionary need. Without culture, it is impossible for women to completely liberate, and it is also impossible to build a new China. In the past, we women suffered the most, and there was no opportunity to study and study, which was harmed by the old society. Today, with this opportunity, we must work hard and persevere, and we can always learn something."

Xing'e educates others like this, and she takes the lead in studying diligently and makes rapid progress. She can make records and write letters in a few years. In 1932, when she was the Women's Minister of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, in order to cooperate with the work of expanding the Red Army, she also wrote songs herself, strongly cooperating with the central work at that time, caring for cadres, and attaching importance to the training and education of cadres was one of Xing'e's biggest characteristics.

Every time a meeting of women's cadres is held and she usually talks to people. She always emphasizes the need to improve her mind, abide by discipline, and be a strong proletarian soldier. She often said that to be a good woman cadre, we must first have a correct understanding of women's work. At that time, a few women cadres believed that women's work was not very big.

Once, the provincial party committee decided to transfer female cadre Chen Ying to work in the Women's Department. She was unwilling to come and said, "Women's work is verbose and thankless, I won't do it." The organization talked to her and she cried. Xing'e knew that Xiao Chen had been a child bride since childhood and had suffered countless tortures.

One day, she found Xiao Chen and did not talk about work at first, but rolled up her sleeve and pointed at the scars and asked her: "How did you get these scars? Xiao Chen said: "I was beaten when I was a child bride. "Then, Xing'e said sincerely to Xiao Chen: "We have suffered this kind of suffering and should be more considerate of women's pain and care about women's liberation. Women account for more than half of the people, which is a very important force. How can we throw away this force and not mobilize them? "

Xing'e's words made Xiao Chen come over and happily accepted this new job. Later, with Feng Xing'e's enthusiastic care and help, Xiao Chen made rapid progress. Not only did she achieve excellent results in the work of women in the base area, but later, she was also sent to white area , and her work was also very good.

03, Guanyinyan Battle

At that time, there was a girl company in the Red Army School in the military region. They were all young women who had been tested in the base area. There were more than 100 people in the entire company, divided into three platoons and nine classes, all equipped with weapons, and dressed like Red Army soldiers. Feng Xing'e was very concerned about the girl company and often went there to give reports, which was deeply respected and loved by the female soldiers.

Once, a large number of enemies came to "encircle and suppress" the provincial party committee headquarters, and the Red Army School also accepted the combat mission of smashing the enemy's "encircle and suppression". Feng Xing'e, the provincial party committee division of labor, directed the girls to ambush the enemy in Guanyin Rock. Before the battle, Xing'e personally mobilized the battle. She said: "This is the first time that the girl company has participated in the battle. We must fight this battle well so that people know that women can charge and eliminate the enemy." The female soldiers were in a very high mood, and they all rubbed their hands and swear to fight the enemy with a bloody battle.

At dawn that day, Xing'e led more than 100 female warriors to Guanyin Rock. The female soldiers were carrying guns and wearing military caps, and they could not tell that they were a group of female soldiers. As soon as she arrived at the destination, Xing'e led the cadres to observe the terrain, assign tasks, and specify signals. She selected three experienced female soldiers to disguise themselves and reconnaissance the enemy situation, then led the team away and ambushed in the condescending grass.

The day gradually became brighter, and the surrounding mountains showed clear outlines. After a while, the bright red sun rose from the east. The female warriors were ambushed in the grass, staring at the foot of the mountain, waiting for it, and when the sun was over, they had not seen the shadow of the enemy. At this time, someone said softly: "The enemy may not come, right?"

Xing'e encouraged everyone to wait patiently and never be careless. The comrade who was reconnaissance came back and reported that the enemy slaughtered pigs and chickens for lunch in a village eight miles away from Guanyinyan. Xing'e immediately decided to strengthen her vigilance, and the other comrades should rest on the spot.

At around 2 pm, the enemy team really drove over with a swagger, and Xing'e immediately ordered to prepare for the battle. The female soldiers who had no combat experience were a little impatient and shouted in a low voice: "Minister Feng, shoot!" Xing'e, who was staring at the enemy intently, calmly said: "Don't be anxious, listen to my order!"

The enemy entered the encirclement. Xing'e calmly fired the first shot, and then the gunshots were louder and bullets flew everywhere, and the female soldiers became more and more brave. The enemy was disrupted by this unexpected attack, and the female soldiers took advantage of the victory and rushed down like a tiger going down the mountain. But they just took guns and fired, and no one shouted, in order not to let the enemy find out that they were women.

The bandits were forced to fight back while retreating in panic. Another Red Army unit also accidentally killed the enemy and attacked the female soldiers, hudging the bandits in the middle. The bandits who turned confused raised their hands and begged for mercy. The female soldier company captured them all.

When the female soldiers returned triumphantly with the captives, Xing'e couldn't help singing the song "Smash the Enemy Turtle Shell" again, and the female soldiers also sang it. When the prisoners heard the woman's voice, they were all stunned, and some simply stood still and stopped leaving.

A female soldier went up and pushed the bandit platoon leader who stood still: "Are there a nail on his feet? Why don't you go quickly?" "What, are you all women's soldiers?" Xing'e walked over majestic, took off her military cap, plucked her hair, stared at the prisoner tightly, and said coldly: "Hmph! We are women! What do you dare?"

bandit platoon leader said dissatisfiedly: "I haven't seen it long ago, otherwise, we wouldn't have put down the gun easily like this." Xing'e patted the gun hanging on her waist, and said sternly: "If you don't put down the gun, I can destroy you!" This solid guy lowered his head discouragedly.

04. Attacking the Tiger Field Bunker

After the enemy was defeated in the "encirclement and suppression, they launched a new attack on the base area even more rampantly. In order to strengthen the work of the Pingjiang County Party Committee, the Hunan-Europe Provincial Party Committee transferred Feng Xing'e to serve as the secretary of the Pingjiang County Party Committee. After she took office, she mobilized the masses, organized the masses, and personally led the troops and guerrillas to attack the enemy in a elusive way. The enemy knew that there was a powerful female secretary.

Hu'ao in the Golden Cave Area of Pingjiang County, there was a strong enemy bunker, all built with mashi . The nearby landlords and gentry moved here. The Red Army guerrillas had to pull out this nail several times, but they could not defeat it.After Xing'e took office, she asked everyone to give advice, find ways to actively prepare, and sent reconnaissance to find out the situation inside the enemy.

It was an autumn evening, and Xing'e personally interrogated a chef captured by the scout. From the interrogation, it was learned that the next day, an enemy from a company went to Hu'ao to change defense. After discussing with everyone, Xing'e immediately decided to ambush the enemy in the deep mountains and dense forests of Songshuao. Sure enough, they successfully annihilated the enemy who had switched defenses, seized two machine guns, and dozens of rifles, and equipped themselves.

After they annihilated the enemy's defense, they cut off all the telephone lines leading to Hu'ao, making it an isolated stronghold, and then attacked with powerful fire and unexpectedly annihilated the enemy inside.

Xing'e organized the troops and the masses into several groups, lying on the important roads around Hu'ao, and piled up piles of dry firewood, dead grass, bamboo planting, etc., waiting for the unified order action.

It’s late at night, and the time for action has come. Xing'e first ignites the fire. In an instant, around Hu'ao, firelights soar into the sky, and it lasts for several miles. Rifles, "machine guns" (the sound of firecrackers in foreign oil barrels are like machine guns), the sound of military trumpets and the sound of killings shook the earth. Xing'e led the squadrons to rush into the dead corner in front of the bunker and shouted loudly: "Brothers, you are surrounded by the Red Army. Surrender quickly!" "The Red Army treats prisoners with preferential treatment and does not kill them!

The enemies in the bunker, I don't know how many Red Army came, but the fires around them soar into the sky, and the sound of killings shook the earth. At this moment, the comrades of the squadrons rushed into the bunker and shouted: "We are the Red Army, put down our weapons, and do not kill them! "Doctors of enemies surrendered, and dozens of guns and a batch of bullets were seized on the spot.

Xing'e distributed all the food, cloth and other materials stored by the local tyrants to the masses. The masses were happy, and Xing'e was also very happy. She took the lead in singing the song "Shammering the Enemy's Turtle Shell". During this period, Xing'e led the troops to fight many victories, which made the enemy frightened.

05, Red Expansion Movement

Starting from the autumn of 1934, the enemy became more rampant to "encircle and suppress" our base area, and the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi base area entered a more difficult period. At this time, Feng Xing'e was transferred back to the provincial party committee to serve as the Chang Commission and Minister of Women. In order to better defend the base area and fight against the enemy, the provincial party committee decided to list the expansion of the Red Army as the overwhelming central task.

Xing'e held a meeting of women's cadres in a timely manner and resolutely implemented the decision of the provincial party committee. She emphasized that every woman cadre must ensure that three to five young people should be mobilized to participate in the Red Army and strive to be a model in the Red Army expansion movement. After the meeting, she went down to participate in the Red Army expansion work. During this period, she often stayed up late and her eyes were covered with blood.

One night, she came back from the village and said happily when she saw the comrades: "It was really unexpected that the task was exceeded in such a short time, which fully demonstrated that the Party and the Red Army had lofty prestige among the masses. "Then she also told many moving examples of parents sending their sons and wives to their husbands, and brothers fighting to join the army. Xing'e said excitedly after finishing her speech: "This kind of thing is so touching and should be widely publicized. This is the most vivid and practical education. "

Once, Xing'e went to work in the Bai District. When she came back, she brought back a boy and a girl. It turned out that the boy was Xing'e's son named Su Ping, and the girl was the child bride brought by the Tu family for Su Ping. Xing'e came to Tang Jun and walked into her husband's door when she came back from the Bai District.

She just mentioned that she wanted to take her son Su Ping to join the Red Army, so her mother-in-law cursed. Xing'e patiently explained to her, pointing out that this was for the future of the children and for the liberation of the poor people. But her mother-in-law couldn't listen to these words and said to Xing'e sternly: "You have been away from the Tu family for ten years and have nothing to do with the Tu family. From now on, you should not enter the Tu family again. "

Xing'e knew that it would be useless to reason with them again, so she patiently worked for her son and daughter-in-law, and took them away from the Tu family that night.

When Xie Yiwu heard this news, he immediately approved Su Ping to be a correspondent in the provincial party committee and his daughter-in-law to be a nurse in the military hospital. Xing'e asked Su Ping to be put in the army for training, and said sincerely: "The child belongs to the Party, don't stay by my side just to take care of me." Secretary-General Xie was deeply moved and agreed to her request. A few days later, Su Ping was assigned to the Reconnaissance Company of the 16th Red Division as a soldier.

06. Hard life

In the winter of 1936, the enemy mobilized a large number of troops and once again launched a large-scale attack on the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi base areas, boasting arrogantly that they would pull out the Red Army in Hunan-Hubei-Hubei. As the environment becomes worse and the base area is shrinking, the main force of the military region breaks through the Golden Cave, detours to the rear of the enemy, restrains the enemy and eliminates the enemy's living forces.

The comrades who stayed in the Golden Cave established an action committee, with the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, Zeng Guoqi , as the director and Feng Xing'e as the deputy director. At that time, Zeng Guoqi was seriously ill, and the heavy burden of the Action Committee actually fell on Xing'e's shoulders. The enemy strictly blocked and surrounded the base, causing it to almost cut off all contact with the outside world.

After the enemy entered the base area, they implemented the "three lights" policy of burning out, killing all of them, and snatching them. Under this situation, our comrades' lives are extremely hard. At first, they could add a little rice and mixed grains to the wild vegetables. From then on, they rely entirely on bitter vegetables , artemisia and other wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger, and they are even more invisible to oil and salt.

Comrades were all pale and thin, and their physical strength was weak day by day. Once, a farmer risked his life to deliver a small bag of rice. Xing'e convened everyone for a meeting and suggested giving the food to the wounded. She said: "We have so many people, and this little food cannot solve the problem. Everyone should stick to it. The wounded need food more than us."

Everyone agreed with her opinion. Xing'e's guard Xingxiang was worried that her body would be dragged down, so she privately asked the clerk to ask for a small handful of rice and cook it in the wild vegetables. When Xing'e was consuming, she found out that she put down her chopsticks and refused to eat them, and criticized Xingxiang. The little guard said aggrievedly: "I'm not for you, your burden is heavy!"

Xing'e said patiently: "Comrades are suffering. How can I be so special by myself? Besides, the suffering is temporary, and the suffering for the revolution is nothing." After that, he poured the bowl of wild vegetables mixed with rice into a big pot and stirred them well, and ate them with everyone.

During those difficult days, Xing'e had to worry about everyone's life, but also did political and ideological work for everyone, inspire the fighting spirit of the troops, and command the war.

Once, a soldier came to Xing'e with a family letter. The letter said: "These few days, the Chief of the Security Bureau brought the regiments to our house every day, saying that the Red Army was surrounded by them and would be eliminated soon. If you are willing to come back, you can save your life and get rewards. If you don't come back, you will kill the whole family..." After reading the letter, Xing'e asked the soldier: "What are you going to do?"

The soldier answered firmly: "The reactionaries want me to rebel and surrender to the enemy, which is a delusion. I am a Red Army soldier, and I will die in the Red Army even if I die." Xing'e talked with the soldier for a long time. During the conversation, he found that the soldier had not said everything in his heart. After a long inspiration, he asked, "The enemy is coming fiercely this time. Can we smash their "encirclement and suppression"?

Xing'e patiently explained to him: "The reactionaries have siegeed countless times on us, but they were all beaten. This time it seems that the enemy is coming fiercely, but there is actually nothing scary..." Then Xing'e also talked about the arrival of the Red Army led by Mao Zedong in northern Shaanxi, the situation of anti-Japanese war was very good, and the Chinese revolution entered a new stage, etc. After hearing these words, the soldier excitedly hit the table and said, "I am determined to fight the reactionaries to the end!"

Action Committee was very small at the time, so Xing'e organized several groups to rely on the deep mountains and forests to fight maneuver and flexibly, and create favorable conditions to actively attack the enemy and eliminate the enemy.At this moment, her husband Ming'anlou wrote that his son Su Ping died heroically in order to cover his comrades' transfer during a breakthrough.

Soon after, unfortunate news came from the front, and Ming'anlou also died heroically in the battle. Faced with these unfortunate news one after another, Xing'e endured her personal grief and led everyone to fight resolutely and tenaciously. When the main force of the military region and the comrades who stayed in the Golden Cave to fight, Xing'e and everyone were so excited that they shed tears.

07. Tenacious struggle to the end

After the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated to fight against Japan in 1937, the Southern guerrillas and the Red Army troops were reorganized into the New Fourth Army and headed to the front line of the anti-Japanese war. The Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee decided that more than 300 female cadres would be scattered to the countryside and transferred underground after concentrated training. At that time, many comrades were not conscious. Xing'e took the lead in returning to her hometown Pingjiang Tanghu and set up a small stall selling cigarettes. On the surface, she was "demobilized and returned home", but in fact she used this as a cover to do secret work of the Party.

This long-trained Communist Party member was not intimidated by the reactionary butcher knife during the white terror in 1927. During the Pingjiang battle in 1928, more than 200 women were organized to participate in the war. Later, he served as the vice chairman of the township Soviet and director of the district women's association, and until the Women's Minister of the Provincial Party Committee, he now lives like an ordinary peasant woman.

A year later, Xing'e developed some party members and established the Tang and Ha underground party branch. Although her actions have attracted the attention of the Chief and others, there have never been any flaws.

Soon after, the Kuomintang reactionaries tore off the mask of "cooperating with Japan" and hunted and killed Communists and revolutionary masses in various places. On June 12, 1939, a "Pingjiang Massacre" that caused a sensation in Chiayi, Pingjiang. Comrades such as Tu Zhengkun , Luo Ziming were brutally killed, and the party organization was severely damaged.

At this time, the underground party organization of Tang and his superiors cut off contact, and the situation was very serious. Some comrades considered that the enemy had already paid attention to Xing'e, so they advised her to avoid it for the time being. Xing'e said firmly: "The enemy's massacre cannot scare the Communists. We must carry the burden of sacrificing comrades and must not leave our posts at critical moments."

From then on, she has been more active in propaganda to the masses and expose the true face of the Kuomintang reactionaries' real anti-communist and fake anti-Japanese resistance. Not long after, she was arrested by the reactionaries and imprisoned her. The enemy leader personally interrogated her and asked her to provide her with the task of returning home, the list of party organizations, etc.

Xing'e said coldly and said flatly: "You traitors, even if they grind my bones into powder, they would never get a word from me." The enemy could not get anything, so they tortured her all kinds of tortures. What the enemy got from this iron-like female Communist Party member was not confession, but reprimanding and scolding like a sharp sword.

The enemy used up all the means and finally attacked Xing'e. One night in March 1940, the enemy killed Xing'e. Feng Xing'e died heroically, but her heroic deeds and tenacious revolutionary spirit will always dance to us forward.

May Feng Xing'e last forever!

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