Memorial Hall of the former site of yeting independent League Headquarters

Memorial Hall of the former site of yeting independent League Headquarters

The former site of yeting independent regiment headquarters is located at the end of Zhengdong road in Zhaoqing City, on the stone hill in the riverside dike. There was a stone nunnery built here. During the Xuande period of Ming Dynasty, the nunnery was transformed into Songtai Academy. In the 25th year of Jiajing (1546), the north building, the East and West corridors and the Hao she were built. In 1641, it was renamed Yuejianglou.

In December 2019, the memorial hall at the former site of yeting independent League headquarters was named as the education base for the second batch of Party members in Guangdong Province.

Overview of the memorial

The building is built on a 8-meter-high hill and sits in the north to the south. It is a quadrangle building, covering an area of about 2000 square meters, of which the courtyard area is 248 square meters. The building is two stories high and is divided into four blocks: South, north, East and West. The four buildings are connected by four ear buildings. The north and South floors are the top of Xieshan mountain. There are fish pearls on the roof. The East and West floors are the top of coupons. Milan and sunflower trees are planted in the courtyard, with pools and rockeries, which are quiet and elegant. There are wide stone steps in front of the south gate, and a pair of stone lions under the steps. In the underground Hall of the north building, there are five tablets of Kangxi imperial calligraphy built by Guo Shilong, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty; under the eaves of the south building, there is a wooden plaque of Yuejiang tower written by Lao Chongguang, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Yuejianglou calendar is a place of chanting for academies and literati, and also a military important place. Yongli emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Peng Yulin, the main combatant of the Sino French war, the Gaoyao peasant self-defense army during the great revolution, and Ye Ting independent regiment all commanded and trained the military here. It is now the memorial hall of the former site of yeting independent League.

In July 1962, the people's Committee of Guangdong Province announced that it was a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit in Guangdong Province.

In December 2019, the memorial hall at the former site of yeting independent League headquarters was named as the education base for the second batch of Party members in Guangdong Province.

Independent Group

"Iron Army" -- Ye Ting independent regiment

Ye Ting's independent regiment was formally established in November 1925. It is a revolutionary youth selected by Zhou Enlai from Huangpu Military Academy and a unit with Communists as the main backbone in the Fourth Army of the national revolutionary army. Ye Ting was recommended by the Guangdong district Party committee as the head of the regiment. Ye Ting's independent regiment is nominally subordinate to the Fourth Army and is actually under the specific leadership of the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China. The Communist Party is responsible for the appointment, removal, transfer and supplement of its cadres. All cadres above the company level are party members. Among the more than 2000 members of the regiment, 85% of the soldiers are Communist Party members, members of the Communist Youth League and revolutionary youth who firmly support the Communist Party. This is the first regular armed force under the direct leadership of the Communist Party of China. It had the best political quality and combat effectiveness in the northern expedition.

At the beginning of May 1926, when Ye Ting led the independent regiment out of Zhaoqing for the Northern Expedition and passed through Guangzhou, the CPC Central Committee sent Zhou Enlai to make political mobilization for the cadres above the company level of the independent regiment. The officers and men of the independent regiment, shouldering the great trust of the party, went out of Shaoguan and marched to Hunan. In the middle of May, the independent regiment defeated more than 1000 Guangdong soldiers of Chen Jiongming, occupied Rucheng and won the first battle. At the end of May, Ye Ting received an urgent telegram from Tang Shengzhi, commander of the Eighth Army, and led his troops to help Anren in the rain. After two days of fighting, Ye Ting defeated the forces of four enemy regiments and seized you County, which relieved the threat to Tang Shengzhi's troops and created favorable conditions for the Northern Expedition troops to enter Hunan. Two wars and two victories made yeting independent regiment famous.

When the Northern Expedition troops came to Wuhan, Wu Peifu dispatched nearly 30000 troops in an attempt to take advantage of the tiandang Tingsi bridge on Yuehan Road, which is surrounded by water on three sides and stands on a high mountain on one side. Therefore, the Northern Expedition army's attack on Tingsi bridge was a decisive battle in the northern expedition. On August 26, 1926, six regiments of the fourth army launched a fierce attack on Tingsi bridge. The enemy resisted at risk. Wu Peifu personally supervised the battle, divided the "Dagao team" into eight routes to supervise the army, and ordered "no amnesty for those who retreat". The two sides are facing each other across the bridge, and the competition is very fierce. The Northern Expedition troops charged more than 10 times in a row. Tingsi bridge changed hands four times. There were heavy casualties on both sides. At dawn on the 27th, the yeting independent regiment and a part of the seventh army, led by peasants, detoured back behind the enemy, attacked back and forth, finally broke through the enemy's positions and occupied the Tingsi bridge. Then, the independent regiment seized Xianning City.

Wu Peifu also set up a headquarters in heshengqiao, which is located in the same dangerous terrain. He concentrated more than 40000 troops, arranged three lines of defense, and personally took command. The fourth army was ordered to attack Hesheng bridge first. Ye Ting's independent regiment was the first line main attacker. Ye Ting commanded the troops to fight continuously. While Wu Peifu was still breathing, he quickly advanced in the night and went straight into the enemy's deep position, completing the task of central breakthrough. In the case of going out alone and facing the enemy on three sides, Ye Ting strictly ordered his troops to attack forward and successively broke through the enemy's core positions such as yeniudushan and railway bridge. After a fierce hand-to-hand battle, Wu Peifu left the armored train command post at heshengqiao and fled in a hurry. By this time, the tens of thousands of Beiyang troops had been completely frightened by the prestige of the independent regiment, and they were defeated without fighting. Wu Peifu shot a brigade commander himself to save his defeat. He hung his head on the Hesheng bridge and failed to stabilize the morale of the army. With the support of the follow-up troops, the independent regiment broke through the last two lines of defense and opened the door to Wuhan.

As the pioneer of the northern expedition, Ye Ting's independent regiment went through life and death in famous battles such as tingsiqiao and heshengqiao, and won the glorious title of "Iron Army" for the Fourth Army. Ye Ting was recognized as a "famous general of the Northern Expedition".

Ye Ting's life

Ye Ting, the word Xiyi. He is a famous Chinese militarist and one of the founders of the Chinese people's Liberation Army. He was born in Huiyang County, Guangdong Province in 1896.

In 1911, at the age of 15, Ye Ting resolutely cut off his braids when he was studying in Huizhou government secondary vocational school, and responded to Sun Yat Sen's struggle against the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty.

In 1912, Ye Ting was admitted to Huangpu Army primary school in Guangzhou, and later entered Baoding military academy. In 1919, Ye Ting joined the three democratic revolution led by Sun Yat Sen, joined the Guangdong army, and joined the Chinese Kuomintang in the same year. Later, he was promoted to the post of chief of staff of the major and commander of the presidential palace guard regiment. When Chen Jiongming, commander-in-chief of the Guangdong army, defected, he led his troops and the whole regiment to guard the presidential palace, bravely counterattacked the rebels several times as many as he had, and protected Mrs. sun Qingling from danger.

In 1924, Ye Ting quit his post in the army and went to study in the Soviet Union. He studied in the Chinese class of Moscow Oriental workers' Communist University and Red Army school, and joined the Communist Party of China branch in Mozambique.

After returning from the Soviet Union, Ye Ting served as the head of the independent regiment of the Fourth Army of the national revolutionary army. He led the regiment as the advance team of the northern expedition. Together with his brother troops, they marched forward to capture tingsiqiao, occupy heshengqiao and capture Wuchang. They were invincible and made outstanding contributions to the victory of the northern expedition. Therefore, the Fourth Army is known as the "Iron Army".

After Chiang Kai Shek's rebellion and revolution, Ye Ting led his troops to participate in the armed struggle independently led by the CPC. On August 1, 1927, together with Zhou Enlai, he long, Zhu De and Liu Bocheng, he launched the world-famous Nanchang Uprising. During the uprising, Ye Ting served as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy and commander of the 11th army. When the uprising army went south to Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, it failed because it was outnumbered. In December of the same year, Ye Ting and Zhang Tailei led the Guangzhou Uprising, which shocked China and foreign countries, but failed.

Shortly after the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, Ye Ting broke away from the CPC organization and went into exile overseas for ten years.

In the early 1930s, after the Japanese invaders occupied the three eastern provinces of China, Ye Ting lived in Macao. In 1937, Japan launched a war of aggression against China in an all-round way. He stood up as the commander of the New Fourth Army, commanding the troops in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River behind the enemy's lines, moving to the north and south of the Yangtze River, and establishing Anti Japanese base areas such as Southern Jiangsu, Northern Jiangsu, eastern Anhui, border areas of Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu.

In January 1941, the Kuomintang reactionaries launched the "Southern Anhui Incident". Ye Ting was illegally detained by Chiang Kai Shek and imprisoned for five years. In this regard, Zhou Enlai once said affectionately: "ten years in exile, five years in prison, although pale your hair, but stronger your will." After five years in prison, Ye Ting experienced the most severe test of his life. When the Kuomintang authorities forced him to surrender, Ye Ting firmly said: "the head can be broken, the blood can flow, and the will cannot be subdued.". Ye Ting wrote the song of prisoners in prison, determined to live forever in the fire and blood. All these fully reflect Ye Ting's indomitable revolutionary will and unswerving political belief.

On March 4, 1946, after repeated negotiations and struggles between the CPC Central Committee and the Kuomintang authorities, Ye Ting was released from prison at the strong request of the people of the whole country. The first thing he did when he got out of prison was to ask to rejoin the Communist Party of China. Mao Zedong personally revised the reply of the CPC Central Committee to Ye Ting about accepting him to join the Communist Party.

On April 8, 1946, when Ye Ting, Wang Ruofei, Qin bangxian and Deng FA were ordered to fly from Chongqing to Yan'an by plane, the plane crashed in Heichashan, Xingxian County, Shanxi Province. He was 50 years old when he died. Chairman Mao wrote an inscription for him, "to die for the people is glorious."

Ye Ting's story

Ye Ting (1896-1946) is a well-known general. He became famous in the first World War of the northern expedition. He led the New Fourth Army to the north and the south in the Anti Japanese War and made great contributions to the Chinese revolution. Little known is that this famous general, who was once called "the first commander-in-chief of the Communist Party" by Mao Zedong, once had a period of overseas exile, which had an important impact on Ye Ting's future life

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