Ye Ting's poems include: "Prison Song"
"Prison Song"
The door for people to enter and exit is locked,
For The hole the dog climbed out of was open,
A voice shouted:
——Climb out, I will give you freedom!
I long for freedom,
but I know deeply——
How can a human body crawl out of a dog hole!
I hope that one day,
the fire underground,
burns me together with this living coffin,
I should be there Gain eternal life in fire and blood!
Introduction
Ye Ting (September 10, 1896 - April 8, 1946) was a Hakka in Huiyang, Guangdong. A member of the Communist Party of China, leader of the New Fourth Army, and an outstanding military strategist[1], his original name was Ye Xun, and his courtesy name was Xiyi. His ancestral home was Heshui Town, Xingning City, Guangdong Province. He was born on September 10, 1896 (the 20th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty). Born on the fourth day of August 2011 in Zhoutian Village, Huiyang County, Guangdong Province, he graduated from the Guangdong Army Primary School, the Wuchang Army Second Preparatory School and the Baoding Army Officer School. In early 1919, he served as the adjutant of the detachment in the Guangdong Army and joined the Chinese Kuomintang in the same year. In 1921, he served as the commander of the second battalion of the Guard Corps of Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen's Army and Navy. In June 1922, when Commander-in-Chief of the Guangdong Army Chen Jiongming rebelled, he was ordered to guard the front yard of the Presidential Palace and cover the escape of Mrs. Sun Soong Ching Ling; in 1924, he went to the Soviet Union and entered Moscow Oriental He studied at the Workers' Communist University (Oriental University) and the China Class of the Red Army School. In the same year, he joined the Communist Youth League of China and the Communist Party of China, switching from his belief in the Three People's Principles to his belief in communism. . ?
Biographical information
After returning to China in 1925, he served as the commander of the 36th Regiment of the 12th Division of the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army (Guangdong Army) and the commander of the independent regiment; he accompanied the 12th Division of the Fourth Army Division Commander Zhang Fakui participated in the battles of Tingsi Bridge and Hesheng Bridge in Hubei Province and was known as the "Famous General of the Northern Expedition". The Fourth Army was also known as the "Iron Army". After the Northern Expeditionary Army occupied Wuhan, the army expanded massively and was promoted to the 20th Army of the Eleventh Army. Commander of the Fourth Division; after the outbreak of the Nanchang Uprising, he served as the former enemy commander-in-chief and commander of the Eleventh Army. Among the three divisions he belonged to, one division (Cai Tingkai) led a rebellion and personally led one division to be defeated by Xue Yue in Tangkeng. The other division Since the division commander Zhou Shidi and all the officers above the regiment left the team, only Yunnan Army veteran Zhu De led 800 people to persist, and later became the spark of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In December 1927, he sneaked into Guangzhou alone, participated in the leadership of the Guangzhou Uprising, and served as the commander-in-chief of the insurgent Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. After the failure of the uprising, he was severely criticized by the Communist International, broke away from the party, went into exile in Europe, and later lived in seclusion in Macau. In November 1933, he went to Fuzhou to help Cai Tingkai, Jiang Guangnai and others establish the "People's Revolutionary Government of the Republic of China" after the "Fujian Incident". In 1934, he joined the Chinese National Revolutionary Alliance in Hong Kong organized by Li Jishen, Chen Mingshu and others with the purpose of resisting Japan.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Ye Ting served as the commander of the New Fourth Army. Although he did not rejoin the Communist Party of China, he resolutely implemented the correct line of the Party Central Committee and persisted in the war of resistance behind enemy lines in Central China[2]. Many conflicts with political commissar Xiang Ying led to him running away several times, but under the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese War and the persuasion of Zhou Enlai, he finally returned to the New Fourth Army headquarters; in January 1941, the Kuomintang die-hards created the Wannan Incident that shocked China and the world, and were surrounded by heavy Kuomintang troops. In the serious situation, Ye Ting commanded the troops to break out and fought bloody for eight days and nights. He was detained when he was sent to negotiate with the Kuomintang troops.
General Ye Ting sternly rejected Chiang Kai-shek's coercion and inducement, and declined his friend Chen Cheng's request to go to Burma to defend the enemy. He was imprisoned in Shangrao, Jiangxi, Enshi, Hubei, Guilin, Guangxi and other places, and was finally moved to Chongqing. In the "China-U.S. Institute of Special Technology Cooperation" concentration camp, he wrote "Prison Song" in his cell to express his ambition: "I hope that one day, the fire underground will burn me with this living coffin. I should be able to gain the freedom in the fire and blood." Eternal life! "This poem vividly depicts his ambition and unyielding spirit.
On March 4, 1946, through the efforts of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Ye Ting was freed. The day after he was released from prison, he telegraphed the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and requested to rejoin the Communist Party of China. Communist Party: "I was released from prison last night. I am determined to fulfill my long-standing wish to join the great Communist Party of China and, under your leadership, contribute everything I have to the liberation of the Chinese people. I request the Central Committee Check whether my history is qualified and please reply"; on March 7, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chairman Mao Zedong telegraphed Ye Ting to approve his joining the Communist Party of China, with the title "Dear Comrade Ye Ting"; April 8 Ye Ting was flying back to Yan'an from Chongqing when his plane crashed and he died near Black Tea Mountain in Xing County, Shanxi Province. The victims on the same plane also included Ye Ting's wife Li Xiuwen and daughter Ye Yangmei, the unnamed child "Ajiu" and Wang Ruofei. , Bogu (Qin Bangxian), Deng Fa and other important leaders of the Communist Party of China.
In October 1988, Ye Ting was selected by the Central Military Commission as one of the 36 founding military strategists of our army; in September 2009, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China, Ye Ting was named one of the "Top 100 New China Soldiers" One of the "heroic model figures".