After the establishment of "City Competition", the student movement in the city has developed rapidly to a new breadth and depth. Campfires were held in all campuses, and a series of inter-school activities were widely carried out. Cheerleading and yangko teams were active for some time. Some dead ends of student movement strictly controlled by reactionary schools have been opened one after another. The struggle of seven municipal schools is becoming more and more United. For example, a girls' middle school is a school severely bound by feudalism. Cheerleaders from No.1 Middle School were sent to help, and the get-together between the two schools turned into a joint demonstration against Chiang Kai-shek, scaring President Li Hongming to play truant. The political situation in City No.2 Middle School is more complicated. On the one hand, there are many exiles and nursing students among them. They all rely on public funds to make a living, and they are very determined to fight hunger. There are also powerful underground organizations among their classmates. On the other hand, among the students, there are not only party member and League members, but also scouts and secret service organizations of Zhongtong. School administration is mainly controlled by some leaders of the Youth League. During the student movement, the two brother schools often fought side by side. For example, No.2 Middle School is going to conduct a wall newspaper inspection. The "Wall Association" of No.1 Middle School launched a joint exhibition of wall newspapers of two schools, and dozens of wall newspapers were hung on the playground of No.2 Middle School, which washed away the inspection system of reactionaries and fully demonstrated the fighting spirit of unity and mutual assistance!
The propaganda team of No.1 Middle School is not only active in the urban area, but also goes deep into the outer suburbs such as Shapingba, Jiangbei, Nan 'an and Nan Hot Springs. They set up a "chorus", and Soviet revolutionary songs, liberated areas songs and various folk songs were once popular. In the program created by the students themselves, they openly called for "seeing the army crossing the river", and the live news drama "Dancing with the Devil" was played by four people: Jiang, Song, Kong and Chen. Whenever I go to a party at any school, these ugly people are embarrassed to cross the city under the escort of their classmates. The reactionaries brazenly declared emergency martial law 4, cars stopped driving, the two rivers were closed, and the armed forces and the constitutional police mobilized to divide and surround the school district. In Gucheng No.1 Middle School, the school is still in full swing. On the evening of the 20th, nearly 300 students stayed at school and insisted on the March. In addition, a publicity team from No.2 Middle School listed on the market, farmers and students who sneaked across Jialing River after crossing the river, as well as several students from Kerry Middle School and Xianghui College, about 400 students gathered in this stronghold of No.1 Middle School.
"April 2 1 Day" woke up early in the morning, and the whole Chongqing has become a dead city, with few people along the two intersections. Around the campus of No.1 Middle School, there are military police everywhere, and there are three rows of machine guns side by side on the road opposite the school gate. As soon as the parade in Shami area came, students from No.1 Middle School rushed out from two floating branches to join the brigade. Towards noon, Lan Shuhua, the representative of "Competing for Alliance in the Same City", secretly came to No.1 Middle School, bringing the students the news that the People's Liberation Army was going to cross the river, and also talking about some repressive measures of the reactionaries. As the situation changes rapidly, the Presidium of the "Urban Competition Alliance" decided not to hold a city-wide parade, but to hold a regional parade or a school parade. Considering the status and influence of No.1 Middle School, we sent people into the city to convey the decision of "city competition" to avoid accidents.
At noon, the parade in No.1 Middle School began. After gathering at the flag-raising ping, the procession walked along the stone steps of the teaching building until it reached the school gate. The students rushed head-on to Jie Bing, walked to the gate a stone's throw away from their machine gun positions, and then turned and marched around the school. The students in No.1 Middle School started to move, and the nearby Baxian Middle School and the provincial high-tech school began to March. Even some teachers in eastern Sichuan heard the slogan. Everyone looked at each other from a distance, echoing each other, and the roar shocked the whole intersection area.
On the night of April 2 1 day, whistles suddenly sounded on two fluttering branches, and a group of people gathered and rushed to the school gate of No.1 Middle School, throwing bricks and pebbles at the school and whistling away! The whole school was awakened, and hooligans were rampant in the darkness. Obviously, it was a planned provocation by the secret service. The Presidium of the "Debate Committee" immediately decided to retreat from the past and strengthen the sentry posts along the slope. The students on duty are also ready to fight to the death with the spies who dare to enter the school!
At dawn on the 22nd, an officer walked away alive with a classmate from Xiehe Agricultural School. Geng Daojing, who was on duty at the school gate, and other students wanted to go to the rescue. The police officer fired several shots head on! These gunshots are particularly sharp and harsh in the mountain city where all the voices of life have stopped because of martial law. Martial law has been declared again in the two intersection areas where martial law has been lifted. The first middle school also beat gongs and drums to warn students and called the whole school to discuss countermeasures. Because the party organization has written to the school twice, telling that under the situation that the army is crossing the south, it is necessary to change the struggle strategy in time and not rashly. The headmaster Wen also came to dissuade the students. He entrusted President Wen to leave the school to negotiate and find another social way to save him. But at this time, the reactionaries mobilized troops and surrounded the school with iron drums. President Wen couldn't get out several times. Workers and Dr. Zhang, who were adjacent to the hospital, quietly heard the news, which made the students know that the Kuomintang's defense line across the river had been broken. Yang Sen went on the rampage, shouting that he would not hesitate to let the dam shooting tragedy repeat itself, and issued a live-fire shooting order to the troops surrounded by No.1 Middle School. Obviously, he borrowed several heads from a middle school student in order to suppress the bloody intention of the city's student movement.
At noon, Luo Xiangxi came to the school and told Yu Yin that three students were locked up in a small room next to the US Information Office and tied up and hanged by reactionary military police. The troops around the school shot at a middle school student. It is said that No.1 Middle School is a stronghold for "Hua Ying bandits" to attack the city, and guns are hidden in the school. If the military and police are not allowed to enter the school to search for guns, the three students will be shot under the skydiving tower.
In the evening, another administrative official of the puppet government came to the school and said that all the teachers and students would be called to speak in order to release the arrested students. As soon as the students went to the first episode, reactionary military police rushed into the school from all directions and surrounded the students with American guns. The spy threatened his classmates to report the so-called party member. The students were depressed and angry, but they calmly responded to the spy's search. After the search, students from other schools such as City No.2 Middle School and City Agricultural School were taken away in batches. Call the names of the other students in No.1 Middle School and arrest them according to the blacklist collected in advance. That night, principal Wen, teacher Zhou Meixiu and 48 classmates Tan Shunyi, Wan Zhangzu, Ma and Gao Xianzhe were arrested. However, the main backbone of the student movement has all passed under the eyes of spies.
The search went on until late at night, and finally martial law was declared to the teachers and students after the robbery, and Yang Sen's wanted order was read out: "A middle school student in the city is stubborn, and the principal who has been appointed for a long time is ineffective, and he is dissolved immediately." Hearing this, some students smiled at each other and thought that the dissolution order was a praise for the fighting spirit of a middle school student. After the reactionaries dissolved the No.1 Middle School, the location of the school was occupied by the Kuomintang Central Party Department which moved westward. And announced the permanent disintegration of the school, the dismissal of faculty and staff, and the transfer of students after leaving their jobs. But the reactionaries dare not disperse a middle school student after all. Instead, after taking the so-called screening examination, the rest of the students were transferred to a remote village in the new market of Huangjueya, Nan 'an, and placed under the surveillance of the 20 th Army Rear Office and the Nan 'an League, so that the students were unreasonably detained for singing at night. Comrades in underground societies are still trying to keep this school under difficult circumstances. In accordance with the requirements of the party organization, they summarized the "April 21" struggle, organized students to study, and developed activists emerging from the student movement to join the community. Actively prepare to investigate the enemy's situation, investigate unfavorable production, protect the city and cooperate with the takeover. Not long after, the People's Liberation Army rushed to Chongqing along the direction of South Hot Springs, and Chiang Kai-shek's position in Huangjueya was on the verge of collapse. Before the smoke dispersed, the suffering teachers and students of No.1 Middle School poured into the streets, cheering "It's dawn!" That's how they were liberated one day earlier than their urban classmates!
In order to commemorate the development of the "April 21" student movement and to remember the ancestors who died in the movement, Chongqing No.1 Middle School set the annual celebration day as April 2 1 day, and built the "April 21" memorial square in 20001year.