Beginning in 1942, the Taihang Mountains suffered from drought, and crops in many places were not harvested. To make matters worse, the plague suddenly broke out again, which can be described as worse. The Japanese army seized the opportunity to speed up the pace of "sweeping" and the total blockade of the base areas, and the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in the base areas could be said to have been forced into a desperate situation. However, in the history of our army, many examples of desperate battles have been created, and the Japanese army cannot trap the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians.
After chen yi, commander of the New Fourth Army, learned about the situation in the Taihang Mountains, he immediately sent a telegram to Peng Dehuai, deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, and said in the telegram: "Northern Jiangsu and Shandong have a good geographical location, and grain and seafood are relatively abundant. In addition to the New Fourth Army's own use, it can allocate parts to support the Eighth Route Army. Mr. Peng was overjoyed, and the soldiers and civilians of Taihang Mountain were finally saved. However, the two sides are thousands of miles away, and how to deliver the materials safely is a problem. Chen Yi entrusted the task of transporting supplies to Lai Chuanzhu, chief of staff; the docking officer of the Eighth Route Army was Teng Daiyuan, director of the Intelligence Department, and Wang Xing, director of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Border Region, served as the commander-in-chief of the operation.
Jiangnan and North China are far away, there are layers of checkpoints set up by the Japanese army on the way, as well as bunker stoppages all over the place, if you don't pay attention, the materials may fall into the hands of the enemy, lose your wife and fold the troops. In order to transport safely, our side used the method of relay transfer, the process is as follows: set up a stronghold in Qingdao, Shanghai, and Tianjin occupied by the Japanese army, and then set up two strongholds in LinXian and Wu'an County on the outskirts of the Taihang Mountain base area, selling the materials into money in the middle of the way, and then turning the money into checks, and so on and back, and finally sending the money to the Taihang Mountains.
After the plan was determined, a special operation to deliver supplies for thousands of miles was officially launched.
In the autumn of 1943, the shanghai cinema was crowded. Chen Xiangsheng, liaison officer of the New Fourth Army, successfully met with Wu Qing, liaison officer of the Eighth Route Army, at the gate. No one noticed them, and it was a great place to dock missions. The two exchanged in Shanghainese, Chen Xiangsheng said, took out a Zhuang ticket from his pocket and handed it to Wu Qing: "The money in this is all handed in by the business name in our hometown, you can go to the place written on the ticket to withdraw the cash." As soon as Wu Qing heard it, he understood that this ticket was a tax paid to the base area by a business name in the vicinity of central China.
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Wu Qing then returned home, thinking about how to act. If we directly use this ticket to withdraw money from the bank, once it is targeted by Japanese agents, it will be directly ruined, and it will lead to the stalemate of the entire operation. Therefore, Wu Qing planned to first exchange the zhuang cheque for a bank cheque and erase the connection with the base area, so as to be safe. Wu Qing, a native of Shanghai, has a well-to-do family and has been living in the French Concession, which provides a good shelter for her lurking. Fortunately, Wu Qing's younger brother Wu Tianyin was working at a private bank at the time, and Wu Qing planned to use his brother to do something.
A few days later, in the evening, Wu Tianyin returned home with a briefcase. Wu Qing immediately greeted him and said, "Brother, your brother-in-law is currently doing a partnership business with someone else, and we plan to deposit some money into the bank where you work first." Wait a few days for your brother-in-law's partner to withdraw the money. Writing here, it is really lamentable: Wu Qing's husband He Yun had passed away at that time, and Wu Qing did not tell his family the news. Her husband, the president of Xinhua Daily, was tragically killed in the Japanese sweep of 1942. Wu Qing, a woman who endured the pain of bereavement and obeyed the organization's arrangements, can be described as a scarf that does not let her eyebrows be raised.
【Monument built to commemorate the martyrs who died on the news front such as He Yun】
As soon as the younger brother heard that the brother-in-law was doing business, it was all his own family's business, how could he not help? Without much thought, I agreed to it. After that, Wu Qing deposited the zhuang ticket into the bank where his brother worked, and then exchanged it for a bank check. Subsequently, Wu Qing rushed to the Qingfeng Warehouse in the Shanghai Public Concession and handed the bank check to Song Qingxiang, the manager of the warehouse. This warehouse was set up by our side for the Eighth Route Army to successfully receive money and materials from the New Fourth Army.
Since then, Chen Xiangsheng and Wu Qing have secretly handed over zhuang tickets many times, and then exchanged them for bank checks and handed them to Song Qingxiang. After Receiving the check, Song Qingxiang exchanged the reserve coupons used in the enemy-occupied areas for the United Bank coupons of the North China General, and finally remitted the money to the Jintaichang Warehouse in Tianjin. The comrades of the hidden front in Tianjin took out the money, and then transferred it to the Dexing Warehouse in Linxian County, Henan Province, and the Deqinglong Warehouse in Wu'an County, Hebei Province, and finally sent it to the Taihang Mountain base area. If you directly transport grain and other materials, the target is too large, and it is very likely that it will be intercepted by the Japanese army in the middle of the way. So shipping cash is convenient and less risky. From the beginning to the end of the operation, it did not arouse the slightest suspicion of the Japanese army.
By 1944, the entire Thousand Mile Support Operation was over. Before and after the New Fourth Army, it remitted more than 37 million yuan to the Eighth Route Army. Among them, nearly 20 million yuan was handed over to the Taihang Mountain base area, and the rest of the money was handed over to Yan'an. To a certain extent, these funds have solved the urgent needs of the anti-Japanese military and people, and many fields can be described as desperate and revitalized.
(Franchised Author: Zhong Yi)