After the failure of the Great Revolution, facing the bloody suppression of the enemy, Li Mingqi decided to answer blows with blows. On the one hand, he actively mobilized the masses and accumulated strength; On the other hand, seize the opportunity and attack the enemy mercilessly. One day, Li Mingqi publicized to the masses in Dongshuangqiao Village, the county seat. A fellow villager from the south of the county told Li Mingqi, "Captain Li, it's terrible. Xu Ertou (Ke Liang), a big evil gentry in Rendian Town, not only colluded with bandits to rob the road these days, but also killed one of our comrades. Someone is willing to pay 1000 yuan for you to kill people. "
Li Mingqi inquired about the situation. These days happen to be the annual June 6th Temple Fair in Rendian Town, which is a good opportunity to publicize the masses. Li Mingqi took two players to Rendian. Identified by local comrades, Li Mingqi and others found Xu Ertou in a pharmacy in the east of Beijie Road in this town. Li Mingqi walked into the shop and said to Xu Ertou, "Are you Xu Ertou? Why do you dare to kill and set fire in broad daylight with only one head? " Seeing that the situation was not good, Xu Ertou ran out and was blocked by the team members at the door. Li Mingqi did so and shot his dog. The three of them retreated to the North Zhaimen in tandem, posted the pre-written notice on the Zhaimen, and then moved safely. Since then, Li Mingqi has executed several reactionary evil gentry such as Fan Tianpei. The people of the county have seen new hope again.
After the August 7th meeting in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Henan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China designated southern Henan as a riot zone, and set up a special committee for southern Henan, with Kelly as the new secretary and Li Mingqi as a member. The South Henan Special Committee decided to hold an autumn harvest riot centered on Queshan, and set up a special office in Queshan, with Li Mingqi as the director, responsible for the leadership of Queshan riots.
1 927165438+1October13 a.m., the night was as dark as ink and silent. Li Mingqi led a death squad of 50 or 60 people to Dongliudian Town, the county seat. The death squads quietly removed the sentries at the east and west gates of Liudian Town, quickly entered the town, surrounded the regimental headquarters of the reactionary evil gentry and militia leader Li Guanghua, and boarded the surrounding roofs. The crisp sound of gunfire pierced the silent night sky. The regiments woke up from their sleep, crying and howling, and were in a mess. Several fugitives got into the fortifications and fought hard. At dawn, Li Mingqi on the roof command team to TuanDing political offensive:
"TuanDing brothers, we have no hatred. We just want to settle accounts with Li Guanghua. Why do you have to work for him? "
Seeing that the tide was gone, the people in the regiment said in fear, "We handed over our guns, but will you still hit us?"
"Good brothers, as long as we hand over our guns, we will never hit anyone again." The death squads shouted in unison. Except for a few recalcitrant guys who were killed, the remaining 50 or 60 Tuanding shouted "Hand over your guns" and threw them into the yard. After more than two hours of fighting, the riot won. In Ran Ran, a bright red flag flies high above Liudian with the rising sun.
On the morning of the same day, Li Mingqi presided over a celebration meeting attended by thousands of people, and announced the establishment of Queshan County Peasant Revolutionary Army, with Yang Jingyu as the commander-in-chief and Li Mingqi as the party representative. Subsequently, with the approval of the Henan Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, Li Mingqi led the establishment of Queshan County Committee and Queshan County Revolutionary Committee of the Communist Party of China, and served as secretary of the county Committee and chairman of the county revolutionary Committee.
After the establishment of the county party committee, Li Mingqi hosted the first enlarged meeting of the county party committee in the backyard of Baohetang drugstore in Liudian town. In the resolution on the work report of the county party Committee, he clearly pointed out the tasks of Queshan Party: expanding the party organization and improving the party foundation; Association for the Restoration of Agriculture; Guerrilla warfare broke out in four townships at the same time, and the rural Soviet regime was established. What is particularly commendable is that in his resolution, he put forward the incisive insight that "we must find a place where the situation is very good and we can fight and defend as the center of constant struggle".
Before the enlarged meeting of the county party committee was over, a peasant army reported to Li Mingqi that three people in the county claimed to be representatives of the garrison and the county government and had something important to see. Li Mingqi let people into the headquarters of the agricultural army. Zhang Deshu, director of the Political Department of the Brigadier General Queshan Garrison, couldn't wait to explain his intention: "I was entrusted by the brigade to cooperate with your military operations. You are young and promising, you are highly valued, you are all revolutionary, and you can completely unite. All peasant armies can be organized into regular armies, and all weapons and supplies are given by the brigade. You can all be appointed as team leaders. We sincerely welcome your department to enter the city and work together for the party and the country. " Li Mingqi took a sip of tea and then said humorously, "You value your brother so much, why don't you want to be edited?" As for defense, why bother with travel seats? Weapons supply? You can send them to Liudian. Of course, Brigadier Zhang will never ask about trivial matters such as the actions of the peasant army! Don't you think so? The three "negotiators" were rebuffed.
When Zhang Deshu saw that he could not be soft, he immediately sent a letter: "To crack down on local tyrants and evil gentry, due process must be followed, otherwise it will be a mob. If this kind of action does not stop immediately, our army will never stand idly by. "
Li Mingqi was also impolite, and wrote back a letter: "What my brother and others did was to crack down on local tyrants and evil gentry in accordance with the revolutionism demanded by the people, and there was nothing excessive. If the brigade commander is revolutionary, he should immediately unite to eliminate reactionaries and realize the idea of the Prime Minister, then the future of the party and the country is very lucky. Brigadier general, such as harboring evil gentry, brother, etc. People in the county will never be polite. If we have no way out, we must despair ... "
The letter from Gao Ziyuan, the county magistrate, also threatened the agricultural army: "Dissolve all social undertakings as soon as possible, otherwise it will be strictly investigated ..."
Li Mingqi disdainfully said that Gao Ziyuan was really hateful, and wrote a cursive script: "What the pseudo-county magistrate said was all counter-revolutionary remarks, and he had no idea about revolution. How dare he talk nonsense? Please leave here quickly and run away overnight, or you will be exposed. " Li Mingqi immediately prepared for the enemy's attack. 1927165438+1October 12 At dawn, Zhang Deshu gathered more than a thousand people and killed Liu Dian in three ways. No one stopped along the way, thinking that the peasant army was scared away, they enlarged their courage and howled at the village entrance. The enemy is getting closer and closer, and the enemy in front is less than 20 meters away from the Zhaimen. Suddenly, Li Mingqi raised his pistol from the gate and shouted, "Fight!" The farmers opened fire together, and grenades mixed with bricks flew to the enemy group. The enemy who rushed in front fell to the ground, and the enemy behind turned and ran back. At this time, Zhang Deshu, chief of staff, rushed over on horseback and forced the enemy to rush forward with a gun. Li Mingqi saw clearly that he immediately asked the peasant army for a rifle and killed the enemy's chief of staff with one shot. The enemy retreated across the board, killing and injuring more than 40 people in less than ten minutes. The peasant army chased the enemy for more than ten miles in one breath. The peasant army won a great victory in this battle, with no casualties. In view of the objective situation that the enemy is strong and we are weak, it is not appropriate to stay in Liudian for a long time. According to the original plan, Li Mingqi led the agricultural army to Zhangbanqiao at the junction of Queshan and Xinyang overnight, and opened up guerrilla base areas at the junction of Queshan, Zhengyang and Xinyang.
In mid-February, 65438+, Li Mingqi led the peasant army to Liu Zhuang Town at the junction of Queshan and Runan, and decided to execute Wang Jieying, commander-in-chief of Qiu Chi in southern Henan. At that time, Wang Jieying was busy distributing food and property to the local people. At this moment, the liaison officer of Henan Special Committee found Li Mingqi breathlessly and sent a letter marked with a red triangle. Li Mingqi quickly opened it. The letter said that Xinyang agricultural army was "encircled" by the enemy, and the situation was critical. He asked Queshan agricultural army to rush to the rescue. Li Mingqi immediately decided to leave a part of party member backbone to Queshan, and personally led more than 200 main members of the agricultural army, and rushed to Xinyang Wangsi Mountain overnight. Together with Xinyang agricultural army, they quickly smashed the enemy's "encirclement and suppression". After that, Queshan Agricultural Army fought Xinyang Agricultural Army for more than 20 times, and created the Siwangshan Red Guerrilla Base Area with a vertical and horizontal distance of more than 100 miles.
At the beginning of 1928, Li Mingqi, Minister of Finance and Minister of Propaganda of Henan Revolutionary Committee and representative of Henan Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army, went to Kaifeng to attend the third congress of Henan Province as a representative of Queshan and Henan. During Li Mingqi's attendance at the meeting, the enemy carried out a bloody "encirclement and suppression" on a larger scale in the revolutionary base area of Siwangshan. The peasant army fought bloody battles with the enemy for ten days and nights, running out of ammunition and food, and finally failed. When Li Mingqi returned to the south of Henan, the murdered peasant army and the masses could be seen everywhere, and they cut open their stomachs to show the public, which was terrible. Li Mingqi is very sad. After many twists and turns, he finally found two comrades of Xinyang County Committee and Chen, a member of Henan Special Committee, in several small mountain villages in Xiawan and Yangwan. Li Mingqi said to everyone with passion: "Our struggle has suffered setbacks, which is temporary. The party is still there, and the masses are still there. We will not stop fighting. We will fight against counter-revolutionary forces more bravely and will certainly create a bright new world. " Let everyone feel warm in their hearts.
After Li Mingqi's efforts, a guerrilla army of workers and peasants with 20 or 30 people was born in Xiawan. In order to combat the fierce flames of the enemy and inspire the people's struggle, Li Mingqi decided to bomb the Lixin Temple Fair.
Li Xindian is a small town at the southernmost tip of Queshan Mountain, and the "February 2nd" temple fair is not held every year. This year, Yang Xueyan, the big evil gentry in this town, saw that the peasant army of * * * was defeated, and he was happy to set up a temple fair. In spite of this, Yang Xueyan went to the meeting, but he still took four bodyguards with live ammunition. On this day, Li Mingqi came to the meeting with five guerrillas. He saw a deadly man sitting four or five meters in front of the stage, with two men holding guns next to him. You don't have to ask this man. Yang is the target you are looking for. But he's surrounded by people. How can he shoot? Eyebrows slightly wrinkled, arranged the players around the venue, and then squeezed into Yang for further study alone, stepped forward and fuels, politely said:
"Miss Yang, come to the theatre? I'm Li Ruifeng from the city. I will bring a letter when I come. Can we talk outside? "
Yang Xueyan looked at Li Mingqi and saw him wearing a hat and a dark blue robe. He is very young and looks like a weak scholar. There is no doubt that he got up and walked out of the stadium with his bodyguard and Li Mingqi. Just pushing through the crowd, Li Mingqi suddenly turned around and a black pistol stood against Yang Xueyan's chest. "Ping Ping" two, Yang Xueyan and his bodyguard fell to the ground. At this time, gunshots rang out around the venue at the same time, giving people a feeling that the venue was surrounded. Li Wuqi picked up his rifle and rushed to the stage quickly. He shouted to the crowd, "villagers, don't be afraid!" We are red army guerrillas of workers and peasants led by * * *, and we devote ourselves to fighting the enemy and killing people. You don't have to run, keep watching your play. " Since then, the prestige of the Red Army guerrillas and the name of Li Mingqi have spread all over southern Henan, and all the reactionary gentry are terrified. An evil gentry in Minggang heard dogs barking late at night and thought that the Red Army guerrillas had entered the village. He was so scared that he ran over the wall and broke his leg.
A month later, Li Mingqi, secretary of Zhumadian Municipal Party Committee, was transferred to Henan Provincial Party Committee.
Shortly after Li Mingqi went to work in the provincial party committee, he was informed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China that he would go to the Soviet Union to attend the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). At the meeting, Li Mingqi drafted the Southern Henan Report on behalf of Henan Provincial Committee, and was appointed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to make a report to the General Assembly. The report summarizes in detail the experience and lessons of the Party in developing the peasant movement and leading the armed struggle in southern Henan, which is highly valued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, especially Zhou Enlai. After the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee asked him to stay in Moscow to study and return to China three months later to serve as the propaganda minister of the CPC Henan Provincial Committee.
/kloc-in the winter of 0/928, the white terror in Kaifeng, the capital of Henan province, became more serious, and police cars with harsh flutes ran rampant in the streets. As Wu Yaoqing of the Youth League Committee rebelled against the revolution, the Party and the Youth League Committee suffered serious damage again, and Li Mingqi was arrested and imprisoned. The enemy used both hard and soft methods to extract a confession from him. He is steadfast and unyielding, and has waged a tenacious struggle with the former provincial party Committee leaders, Ren and other leaders. He also wrote revolutionary songs such as "Comrades are getting stronger as they sit" and sang them in prison, showing a strong revolutionary will and a high degree of optimism. 1In the summer of 929, Han Fuju, the general of the Kuomintang Northwest Army, defected from Feng to Jiang, served as the chairman of the Henan provincial government, and set up a "political prisoner" cleanup committee in Kaifeng. The Henan Provincial Party Committee took the opportunity to rescue more than 200 comrades in prison. After he was released from prison, Li Mingqi still returned to work in Henan Provincial Party Committee, and was soon transferred to Henan Province as Secretary-General and Propaganda Minister of the Communist Youth League.
193 1 At the beginning of the year, Li Mingqi was arrested again because of the traitor's betrayal. The enemy found Party documents from Li Mingqi and was classified as a political prisoner. After several consecutive torture interrogations, Li Mingqi was unable to walk. He endured physical pain and kept the secret of the party. He established a friendship association with Zeng Siting, secretary of the provincial party Committee, to jointly resist the enemy; Later, in the meeting of friends, a party organization, the Secretary General Meeting of the Party Committee, was established, with Li Mingqi as the Secretary General. On March 25th, Secretary of CPC Kaifeng Municipal Committee came to Zhao Xue and was killed by the enemy. Li Mingqi fought back his grief and said to everyone, "Our party has such a good comrade, which is the glory and pride of the party and a model for us and future generations. Their heroic deeds are only clear to us, and we have the responsibility to record them, report them to the party organization and pass them on to future generations. " He overcame many difficulties, wrote down the life stories of Lai and others with half a pencil point and a few pieces of tissue paper outside the prison, and passed them to the Henan Provincial Party Committee through the secret communication line established in the prison.
In the face of mass murder by the enemy, Li Mingqi and Zeng Siting studied and decided to organize prison break. On may 1 day, the provincial party Committee approved the escape plan. The first step in organizing a prison break is to break everyone's chains. This is not an easy task, and Li Mingqi is anxious about it. This morning, Li Mingqi went to the toilet in the northeast corner of the prison and suddenly heard the cries of selling vegetables nearby. He thought that the back wall of the prison might be adjacent to the streets and lanes, and he could use the urinal passage leading to the outside of the wall. He immediately reported this situation to the party organization outside the prison, and it was indeed the case after investigation. So three brand-new steel files were smuggled into the prison from the urinal passage. Li Mingqi ordered everyone to cover each other, remove the shackles and quickly prepare to escape. In the early morning of April 30, the enemy suddenly sent a large number of gendarmes to the prison for a big search. The number of sentries has also tripled, and all the weapons secretly sent to prison, such as steel files, iron bars and daggers, have been found out, and the crazy enemies have smashed chains on them again in frustration.
What was the world like in the early morning of May 9th? It's drizzling, and the dark ancient city of Kaifeng is as silent as death. The door of the prison was opened by the enemy. Through the dim street lamp, I saw two rows of armed gendarmes standing in the yard. The enemy has begun to curse. Li Mingqi adjusted her clothes and hair, walked out of the prison gate with her head held high, and stepped onto the van parked in the yard. Later, Zeng Siting and Mou Xiuwu were also taken to the car. The car started and went along the street to the north gate. "Down with the warlords!" The slogan "Long live * * *" echoed over Kaifeng.
Li Mingqi was only 26 when he died. After the founding of New China, he was designated as a revolutionary martyr by the Party and the government for the first time. His fame and achievements are recorded in the Biography of Revolutionary Martyrs, and the people will always miss this outstanding soldier of the Party.