"Taihang Wind and Bone"—Memoirs of Yang Yunxi 66

Participated in the Campaign to Liberate the Great Northwest

After leaving Taiyuan and laying taiyuan city, we slowly left Taiyuan by train. The car was as slow as an ox cart, and it was good that you could look at the place where the battle had been fought, and the west head, the twin pagoda temples, the old tombs, and the brick well positions were slowly moved to the rear. Arrived at Yuci, lived in the west of the city Guojiabao. The troops straightened out a bit, Bai Xichun got married here, and I remember that day I kept vomiting blood, and finally I didn't know why. Jiang Caibin, the commander of the first regiment of the artillery brigade, asked the 185th Division for my "reason" that I had learned to observe. Liu Zhuheng, chief of staff of the brigade, said: "If you want to change, you need the approval of the director of the artillery teaching team of the corps." Jiang Caibin said, "I can give you a few observers." "Bai Xi's pure will will not let me go. At this time, Li Hongfa came to be an instructor and advised me: "Don't leave, we need you for work." Bai Xichun also said: "Be sure to be careful of your party membership." "To suppress me with force, as a party member, I had to obey the organization. After departing from Yuci, I still took a train and slowly went south along Tongpu. The railway in Linfen has not yet been repaired. Therefore, I got off the bus in Linfen, and there were many comrades near Linfen, who stayed for two days, said goodbye to the party, and some went to their homes to see it. The troops marched west to liberate all of China, but some women were afraid that their husbands would never return. As a result, some people take the opportunity to break away from the relationship between husband and wife. Like the lover of the cultural officer of my company, he came to the training base to negotiate once before attacking Taiyuan, and this officer also wanted to get away, and when his family came to the team, he did not live in the same place, and the last foot was kicked. One night when we marched to Linfen, Fei's lover (who was originally married in the Kuomintang ranks) came to the team, and the woman did not live with Fei Fei and wanted to disassociate herself from Fei Fei. When I left Linfen, I was greeted with gongs and drums along the way. One day, the troops stayed at the East Fortress on the Pass. I am familiar with this area, seven or eight miles to the west is Wenxi, the original seat of the Xindi County Party Committee, and then to the west, is Liyang, the seat of our district government. More than ten miles from the original road, passing through Liyang is my home. It is conceivable that after receiving a notice of the critical illness of his parents on the Taiyuan front, it has been one or two months, and his father may have died and rested in peace in the cemetery of the meadow. Only the old mother is old, the brother is at home, and there is a smell of missing hometown in my heart. But as the army advanced, it could only love its hometown and mother and brother. After advancing to Xikang, it was learned on December 23, 1951, that his father died on the sixth day of June 1949, and was buried on June 25. Jinnan is flat all the way, and the conditions of the masses are good. At the time of harvesting the wheat, everywhere they went, the local comrades mobilized all the logistics, did not need to cook, and when they stayed, they could wash their faces and feet, and most of them ate white-faced steamed buns and dried noodles made of wheat that had just been harvested. This period of action was very relaxed and pleasant, and along the way, the young people gave the troops a lot of encouragement and gave some souvenirs and small gifts, and everyone was very happy.