Section 2: Carrying out propaganda and urban investigation work for the welcoming army
In April 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched a campaign to cross the river, and a million male divisions crossed the Yangtze River in three ways, destroying the Yangtze River defense line painstakingly managed by the Kuomintang in one fell swoop, completely breaking the beautiful dream of the reactionaries in the United States and Chiang Kai-shek to "rule by drawing the river", and creating extremely favorable conditions for the march to the central south and southwest. After the Battle of Hengbao in October, Bai Chongxi's five corps totaling more than 150,000 people shrunk to the old nest in Guangxi, and the 56th Army of Xu Qiming's corps was stationed in Liuzhou. At this time, in Liuzhou City, the streets and alleys were filled with party, government, and military organs of various systems under the Kuomintang Central China Military and Political Chief's Office, as well as a large number of defeated soldiers.
The Gui warlords Li, Bai, and Huang resisted across Guangxi, trying to wait for U.S. aid and the outbreak of World War III to save their dying fate. Therefore, the "encirclement and suppression" of the armed guerrillas in the rural areas has been intensified. In Liuzhou, the Guizhong Military and Political District and the Liuzhou Garrison Headquarters were established, and the local reactionary forces of meng zhiren, Lin Xiushan, Chen Wei, and Liu Dongping, bandit leaders in the Liuzhou area, were used to unify the police and security command, and to implement martial law and secret service rule in the city. Politically, they strengthened anti-communist propaganda, tightened the armor protection system, and persecuted progressives; blocked the news in culture and education, dissolved Longcheng Middle School, an important activity site of the CPC, forced the suspension of classes in all primary and secondary schools, and ceded schools to military and political organs; increased the economy with harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, monopolized the market with bureaucratic capital, gambled and collected donations, sold tobacco and drugs, forced the people to exchange silver dollars for silver dollar coupons, and desperately plundered the people's wealth. In order to cooperate with the victorious march of the People's Liberation Army, the Liuzhou Party organization led the people of the city with greater enthusiasm to break through the pre-dawn darkness and welcome the liberation of Liuzhou.
First, distribute revolutionary leaflets and strengthen the propaganda offensive
In order to smash the enemy's anti-communist rumors, enable the people of all strata in the cities to understand the situation of the national liberation war and the policies of the Communist Party of China and the People's Liberation Army, actively participate in the struggle for liberation, crack down on the most reactionary elements, and divide and disintegrate the enemy, the Liuzhou Party organization has vigorously strengthened its propaganda work and launched the fiercest political propaganda offensive since the spring of 1949. On the evening of May 14, in accordance with the deployment of the Provincial City Working Committee, the Liuzhou Party organization distributed and posted revolutionary leaflets such as "Notice of the Chinese People's Liberation Army" (also known as the "Eight Chapters of the Law"), "Letter of Warning Secret Agents", "Huang Shaohu's Open Letter to Li Zongren", and other revolutionary leaflets in the main streets, schools, factories, and enemy organs throughout the city. Warn those who "sell themselves to Chiang Kai-shek, act as spies, be loyal dogs, do not hesitate to kill the people, and do all kinds of things, if they are still obsessed and unwilling to be loyal dogs to persecute the people, then by the time of the last trial, they will be completely liquidated and repaid all blood debts." At the end of the letter, a list of criminal agents was also drawn up. This action has inspired the people and shocked the enemy, and some of the warned agents have been in a state of panic.
In July, the Liuzhou party organization learned that the Kuomintang authorities in Liuzhou would hold an "anti-communist movement conference from all walks of life in Liuzhou" at the stadium on August 1, after which a "great anti-communist parade" of 10,000 people would be held. In order to mobilize the masses to resist and crack down on the reactionary arrogance of the enemy, on the evening of 28 July, underground workers throughout the city took to the streets again and distributed the "Letter to the People of the Whole City," the "Letter to Teachers and Students of Schools," and the "Warning Letter" to the kuomintang party, government, and military special organs, calling on the people of the whole city to refuse to participate in the "anti-communist parade" and refuse to use silver dollar coupons; and to expose the conspiracy of the Kuomintang reactionaries to deceive the people politically and to plunder the people's wealth economically before the collapse of the Kuomintang reactionaries. Through propaganda, the people's awakening was aroused, and as a result, only 200 to 300 people actually participated in the "anti-communist parade" of 10,000 people.
On October 1, the People's Republic of China was officially proclaimed in Beijing. When the good news came, the masses of the people were elated, while the reactionaries were like dogs that had lost their families, still struggling to the death. In order to strike at the enemy, boost the people's fighting spirit, and call on the people to carry out the activities of defending the city and welcoming the army, the Liuzhou City Working Committee of the CPC led the underground workers in the city to distribute revolutionary leaflets "Letter to Workers" and "Letter to Responsible Persons of Various Organs" at the end of October. We call on the staff and workers of factories and organs to organize and protect factories, schools, railways, material warehouses, and telecommunications facilities to prevent plunder and sabotage by the enemy; we urge the responsible persons of all organs to have a clear understanding of the situation, draw closer to the people, and strive to make meritorious atonement for their sins.
2. Carry out urban research work
After the "January Meeting" of the Guangxi Provincial City Working Committee of the CPC in 1949, some party members of the Liuzhou Party organization, members of the Democratic League, and progressive backbones carried out urban investigation work in accordance with the "Outline of Urban Investigation and Research" formulated by the Provincial City Work Committee. This work is carried out in two aspects: First, through the staff of the enemy organs or the underground workers who have relatives and friends with the enemy personnel, they will promptly report the military and political enemy situation they have spied to their superiors; the second is to generally collect the personnel and material archives of the city's organs, factories, schools, social organizations, and other units. After the establishment of the Liuzhou City Working Committee, the urban research work was strengthened, and the underground workers who accepted the task risked their lives to obtain a large amount of enemy intelligence and archives by means of visiting the organs, visiting through kinship, and indirectly listening to the introduction of friends. For example, the underground workers who infiltrated the police station compiled the "Questionnaire for Organs and Groups of Organs and Organizations in Liuzhou City," which detailed the personnel and assets of the enemy's politics, military, gendarmerie, finance, economics, culture and education, transportation, factories and enterprises, health and medicine, self-defense teams, and people's organizations in Liuzhou City.
In order to grasp the secrets of the Kuomintang Liuzhou Air Force Depot, the Liuzhou Party organization successively sent Jiang Yukun, Luo Hongkun, Jiang Haiqing, and other CPC members and members of Aiqing to enter the Airport Air Force Station 14 Meteorological Observatory and the Air Force 273 Supply Squadron to carry out work through social relations, and established a party work base at Liuzhou Airport in September.
They used the cover of their positions to draw up an airfield plan and obtained important information such as the dynamics of the Kuomintang Liuzhou Air Force, the deployment of the airport, the number of aircraft, and the list of key personnel. Guan Haotong, a member of the Communist Party of China, took advantage of his internship at the Liuzhou power plant to investigate the power plant equipment, lines, equipment, fixed assets, and personnel situation, and wrote an investigation report and handed it to the party organization. Liu Yuesheng, a member of Aiqing, accepted the task of investigating the equipment and equipment of the telephone bureau, and tried to use social relations to enter the telephone bureau in the name of learning telephone communication technology to investigate and understand the overall situation of equipment and equipment. Cpc members of the Railway Bureau and members of the Xiangguiqian Railway Workers' Liberation Federation used all available conditions to collect important information such as the organizational system of the special party department of the Liuzhou Railway Bureau of the Kuomintang and its backbones, the distribution and activities of the secret agents of the Central And Military Command, the list of personnel at or above the level of the chief of the various departments of the Railway Bureau and their political performance, the accounting books of the Road Bureau, the location of the preservation of the materials and documents and archives of the main materials, and the storage site of the quantity and specifications of the main materials and varieties; the comrades who broke into the confidential departments of the Railway Bureau also copied the secret documents of the Road Bureau - The traffic liaison map of the Goose Mountain area was drawn up, and the floor plan of the railway bureau was drawn.
By mid-November, the research work was completed, and the Liuzhou City Working Committee of the Communist Party of China designated Xiong Yuanqing, Wei Jingxin, Qin Jiageng and others to be responsible for the comprehensive collation of investigation materials. Among the materials that have been sorted out are the core secrets and archives of the Kuomintang's military and political, economic, cultural, and educational departments, the personnel and material files of various enterprises, institutions, and schools, and the list of police agents. After the liberation of Liuzhou, these materials played a great role in the People's Liberation Army's rapid takeover of various institutions, the investigation of Kuomintang party, government, and army personnel, the elimination of hidden agents, the maintenance of public order, and the resumption of production.
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Source: Party History Research Office of the Liuzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China
Editor: Liuzhou Women's Federation New Media Studio
