The gunfire from Lin Biao’s hometown Huilongshan: the Sixth Army of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Revolutionary Army raised with bare hands

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Huilong Mountain is not famous at all. It is only famous because Marshal Lin Biao was born in Linjiadawan at the foot of the mountain.

The geographical location of Huilong Mountain is very important. It is backed by the Dabie Mountains and faces the Yangtze River in the front. It faces Wuhan to the west, is connected to Jushui, faces Huangzhou to the south and Jiaoba River to the east. There is a large natural lake in the north and south of the mountain. Linjia Bay is sandwiched between the lake and the mountain. It is built on the mountain and the water. The mountain is the leader and the two lakes are the eyes. The whole is like a giant dragon, rushing towards the Yangtze River in one go.

This is of course a superstitious statement. However, the Huilongshan and Yangyingling riots that occurred here gave birth to a heroic army for the Chinese revolution. This is the Sixth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.

In August 1927, the "August 7th Conference" was held in Wuhan, and the country began to set off the prelude to armed riots under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. With the occurrence of the Jute Uprising, the Hubei, Henan, and Anhui regions became the cradle of revolution. It was under such circumstances that the Huilongshan Uprising broke out.

In October 1927, Zhang Yinan, a member of the Xishui County Committee of the Communist Party of China, secretly came to Shisanmiao Village, Tuanpi Town, Xishui County today, and entrusted Wang Ji, Shi Yaohua, He Zheng and others to go there. Huanggang looked for the East Hubei Special Committee of the Communist Party of China and made connections.

After Wang Ji and others established relations with the Central Hubei Special Committee for East Hubei, they listened to the spirit of the "August 7th Conference" at Fengshan Mountain, Huanggang. At the same time, the Eastern Hubei Special Committee of the Communist Party of China instructed that the work of the Xishui County Committee of the Communist Party of China be unifiedly led by the Huanggang County Committee of the Communist Party of China. In this way, the spirit of the "August 7th Conference" also began to be quickly implemented in the Xishui area .

On the evening of December 30, 1927, under the instruction of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Huanggang County Committee of the Communist Party of China unifiedly led the uprisings in Huilongshan and Yangyingling. The rioters reached Nearly ten thousand people.

This uprising not only destroyed the prestige of the reactionary forces of the Kuomintang, but also greatly inspired the ambitions of the revolutionary masses in Hubei, Henan, and Anhui. It also swept away the low morale after the failure of the Jute Uprising, and declared that the revolution in eastern Hubei has begun. The historical process of transition from the low ebb of the failure of the Great Revolution to the high ebb of the Agrarian Revolution was completed.

In early January 1928, in order to consolidate the fruits of the victory of the riots in Huilongshan, Yangyingling and other places in Huanggang, the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China instructed 30 people from Huanggang, Xishui and Macheng counties to Based on the key personnel, the Sixth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was formally established in Huanggang Fengshan, with Wang Dingzhou as commander, Luo Siwei as party representative, and Xu Shilin as deputy commander, with three squadrons under its jurisdiction. There are more than 40 people in the army, but they only have some ordinary farm tools, swords and other weapons, but no guns.

In mid-January 1928, under the leadership of Army Commander Wang Dingzhou, the newly formed Sixth Army began to fight in the Xishui area, and mobilized more than 300 local farmers to attack the Kuomintang at night. The security group stationed in Xishui failed because they had no weapons.

On January 14, 16 soldiers from Xishui in the Sixth Army, including Shi Yaohua, He Zheng, and Xu Shicun, learned that there was a Kuomintang surnamed Lu in Xugu Town, Macheng County, which is now part of Xinzhou District, Wuhan. The regiment leader returned to his hometown in Xishui for the New Year, and he may have brought a batch of guns and bullets with him. Shi Yaohua and others rushed into Lu's house that night and seized 1 pistol, 2 long guns, and more than 200 rounds of bullets, which greatly enhanced the weapons and equipment of the Sixth Army.

In February of that year, under the instructions of the Sixth Army, Shi Yaohua and others were ordered to secretly return to Xishui again and were responsible for organizing armed riots in Guankou and other places, but they failed because the news was leaked.

On May 17, Xu Shilin, deputy commander of the Sixth Army, led a team of 9 key members including Xishui personnel Shi Yaohua, Chen Jili, and He Dongcai from Huanggang to attack 42 people in Xishui County. There were activities in the Thirteen Temple area, and they secretly camped at Zhu Hanqing's house that night.

On the evening of May 18, Xu Shilin led a team to sneak into Huangnifan Village and captured alive the wife of local tycoon Xu Boping and three housekeepers. He also captured the reactionary landlord Wang Shui'er in Earl Court. That night They were shot and executed on the spot, which caused huge repercussions in the local area and greatly aroused the enthusiasm of the local oppressed and poor people for struggle.

Soon, the Seventh Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army led by Wu Guanghao moved from Mulan Mountain to Huanggang, and met with the Sixth Army in Daqi Mountain at the junction of Huanggang, Luotian, Macheng and Xinzhou counties. With the successful rendezvous, the strength of the two armies was further enhanced.

After hearing the news, the Kuomintang reactionaries began to mobilize large forces to besiege the Sixth Army and the Seventh Army. In fierce fighting, the Sixth Army and the Seventh Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army were forced to fight separately. In June of the same year, the Sixth Army finally failed under the crazy siege of the Kuomintang army, and most of its personnel died heroically.

There is very little information about the Sixth Army in the records. Except for some key personnel, the names of many other people have been lost in the long river of history. The most representative member of the Sixth Army was Luo Siwei, the first party representative.

Luo Siwei, a native of Huanggang, Hubei, was born in 1898. His previous names were Luo Siwei and Qiu Chunsheng. In 1915, he was admitted to the High School Affiliated to Zhonghua University in Wuchang. After graduation, he went to Northeast China to work as a counselor in Fengtian. Under the influence of the Communist Party of China, he began to embark on the revolutionary road and joined the Communist Party of China.

In 1922, Luo Siwei was assigned by the party organization to engage in the peasant movement in Xingyang and Kaifeng, Henan Province. He received enthusiastic support from the local people and laid a good mass foundation.

In 1925, Luo Siwei went to northern Henan alone to organize the workers' movement and served as the propaganda committee member and acting secretary of the Jiaozuo Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China. In October of the same year, he returned to Wuhan to work and served as chairman of the Hanyang Committee of the Chinese Agricultural Association.

In October 1927, under the instruction of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Luo Siwei returned to his hometown of Huanggang to prepare for the establishment of a secret Soviet regime, and led the Huilongshan and Yangyingling riots at the end of December , together with Wang Dingzhou, Xu Shilin and others, formed the Sixth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army and served as party representative. At the same time, special committees for the Huang'an, Qichun and Luotian regions of the Communist Party of China were established, with Luo Siwei serving as secretary and political commissar of the special committee.

In 1928, the Sixth Army finally failed under the siege of the Kuomintang's superior troops. Luo Siwei was ordered to go to Wuhan to further seek connections with the party organization, but unfortunately he was arrested in Hanyang and brutally killed. He was only 30 years old.

Although the Sixth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army existed for a short time, it ignited the enthusiasm of the people in Huanggang, Luotian, and Xishui counties for struggle. In particular, the Thirteen Temple Village of Xishui County, the birthplace of the Sixth Army, under the leadership of the Huanggang County Committee of the Communist Party of China, established the Thirteen Temple Special Branch of the Communist Party of China and continued to organize and lead local struggle activities until The victory of the revolution.