On January 4, 1941, the Headquarters of the New Fourth Army and its detachment of 9,000 men moved north from Yunling, and were besieged at Maolin, Jing County, Anhui Province
One of the lucky Soldiers of the New Fourth Army, who was captured three times and escaped three times, later became the founding colonel, his name was Lin Gu, born on April 20, 1921, a native of Pingyang, Zhejiang, who joined the New Fourth Army in March 1938 and joined the Communist Party of China in December of the same year.
Lin Gu successively served as a clerk and probationary staff officer of the 2nd Detachment of the New Fourth Army, a special commissioner of the New Fourth Army Teaching Corps, and a special commissioner of the Military Justice Department of the 3rd Detachment of the New Fourth Army.
In one battle, because the enemy was outnumbered and the new company had no combat effectiveness, it collapsed at a touch. The company commander decided to disperse the breakout, when Lin Gu and 4 fighters ran out to the right. On the night of the 14th, Lin Gu was so sleepy that he hid in a family's firewood pile to rest, but after dawn the enemy's search troops arrived, And Lin Gu became a prisoner, which was the first time he was captured.
The enemy took Lin Gu to a nearby town, and on the 18th, Lin Gu took advantage of the enemy's inattention and hid in a basket, escaping from the enemy's hands for the first time. After the enemy left, he decided to go to Jiangbei to find the main force, and with the help of his fellow villagers, he passed through the ferry and came to Meicun.
At that time, the common people were very good to the New Fourth Army, so Lin Gu let down his guard, and as a result, he was denounced, and the enemy patrolling nearby captured him, and Lin Gu became a prisoner for the second time. The enemy regarded Lin Gu as an ordinary soldier of the New Fourth Army, and wanted to keep him as a soldier in the army and give him good food and drink.
Finally, because the company was fully staffed, the enemy company commander gave Lin Gu two silver dollars and sent him away. Lin Gu left Zhangjiadu and learned that the original 3 detachments of the Military Justice Department would pass through Niujialing, so he immediately rushed to Niujialing to wait, only to encounter the enemy patrol, and Lin Gu became a prisoner for the third time.
Lin Gu met a former soldier of the New Fourth Army, the "tailor", and after consultation between the two, with the help of the "tailor", Lin Gu took advantage of the opportunity of the enemy to deliver food and escaped from the enemy's troops for the third time. He rushed all the way to the Badu River, encountered the guerrillas led by Qiu Zihua, the former commissioner of the Fifth Regiment of the New Fourth Army, and others, and truly returned to the New Fourth Army. Later, Lin Gu served as a section member of the Security Department of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army and the chief of the Security Unit of the Political Department directly under the New Fourth Army, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the political commissar of the Communications Corps of the East China Military Region, was awarded the rank of colonel in 1955, promoted to the rank of colonel in 1964, and died of illness on October 29, 2013