During the Republic of China, there was a Red Gun Club in Northeast China. Who knows the details?

The Red Gun Club is a rural guild organization active in southern Hebei in the mid-1920s. This organization opposes bandits, bullies, officers and soldiers, tax collectors and corrupt officials. It represents the interests of farmers to a certain extent and is welcomed by farmers. At the beginning of 1927, this organization was active in Julu, Nanhe, Cixian, Longyao, Neiqiu, Jize, Feixiang, Quzhou, Daming and other counties with hundreds of thousands of members. This is a huge peasant armed organization.

At that time, in order to unite, utilize and transform the Red Gun Association and make it play a certain role in the peasant revolutionary movement, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China instructed the Northern District Committee of the Communist Party of China to make every effort to win the Red Gun Association and make it an armed organization of the peasant association. It is also required to establish a unified liaison body with the local Red Gun Association, and then convene representatives of the local Red Gun Association to draw up a unified action plan. According to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's instructions, in the winter of 1926 and the spring of 1927, the Northern District Committee sent a group of outstanding * * * party member to the Red Gun Club for education, which strengthened the leadership of the Red Gun Club.

1In April, 927, under the leadership of the Party, the Xiaolin Village Farmers' Association of Nanhe County attacked the Qiao Hao police station with its own Red Gun Association and seized more than 20 rifles. In May of the same year, the Northern District Committee set up the "Armed Peasant Movement Office" in Shunde (Xingtai), and sent Zhang Jiangong, Liu Yougong and other comrades as military leaders, which further strengthened the fight for the Red Gun Association. Under the leadership of the Party, in June, the Red Gun Club and the Big Sword Club of Nanhe and Renxian jointly conquered these two counties, confiscated the weapons of the security guards and police forces, dispersed the reactionary armed forces and drove away the reactionary county heads. Then, under the guidance of the Armed Farmers' Movement Office, the Red Gun Clubs and Sword Clubs in these two counties assisted the Red Gun Clubs in Xingtai County and conquered Xingtai County. Later, the Red Gun Club and the Big Sword Club of Nanhe, Renxian, Guangzong, Julu, Yongnian, Jize and Longping counties jointly conquered Julu County, drove away the reactionary county magistrate and his minions, disarmed the reactionary forces, destroyed the money and grain depot and distributed the money and grain to poor farmers.

During this period, the above counties were occupied by the Red Gun Club and the Big Sword Club, and temporary political institutions were established. The vigorous peasant movement will inevitably arouse the extreme hatred of the reactionary ruling class. The reactionaries used various barbaric means to suppress the peasants, but most of them were severely hit by the armed forces of the masses, and the Red Gun Association under the leadership of the Party continued to develop in the struggle.