Memoirs of naval battle hero Zhang Yimin
Note: The text has been abridged, "101" is the code name of Shino Hayashi during the war
[This is a memoir left for history.] Real historical records are a mirror of reflection on mistakes, and human nature in real sports is often extremely distorted. We should never again take the "ultra-left" path that has brought endless disasters to countries and nations. ——Zhang Yimin]
The Spring Festival of 1972 is approaching, and the Nanjing Tangshan Study Class is over. Those of us who were "small groups of the fleet" who were subjected to quarantine and examination were all escorted back to the east China Sea Fleet organ station in Dongqian Lake. We were held in the cadre quarters of the Fleet Logistics Department, each confined to a single room with all windows welded to iron bars of less than 10 square meters. I am also a veteran, not afraid for a long time, but the individual is unable to resist a powerful organization. In Tangshan, they woven for me the so-called "seven major crimes", although all of them were "nonsense" and did not have any truth, but they had the right, their mouths were big, and they could still use these false accusations to criticize me to the point of no end, and the dirty water was spilled layer after layer. From the day I lost my freedom, I had no right to defend the truth or falsity of the "seven great sins." Once quarantine is declared, people not only have no right to speak, but also have no right to self-protection, and even their lives are not under their control.
To put it bluntly, back in Dongqian Lake, my reputation, my dignity, my loyalty, and my passion for my career were all completely wiped out by them in Tangshan. The remaining Zhang Yimin is just a target. Looking ahead, it's a blank slate.
I lay alone on the bed in my cell, thinking about my mental state after being held. After being detained, the measures they take against us detainees are to isolate and close your contact with all information from the outside world, including people, newspapers, radio, and any pieces of paper in the language. This closure is extremely cruel, and when a person is completely cut off from all contact with the outside world and enclosed in a small space, his brain quickly withers. You don't know anything about the situation right now, and your access to external information is cut off. Every day you can't see the newspaper or hear the radio, everything is blocked, and people will soon become stupid.
At the same time, those of us who were isolated were also subjected to severe abuse, which made my health deteriorate. And their own state is exactly what they expect. I think about how capable I was at the beginning, and now that I have only been imprisoned for half a year, the half-dead appearance of the prisoner comes out. Not only is there a pathology, but even people have become sluggish and wooden, and they dare not think about it anymore. If I continue like this, I will not only lose my life, but also be unable to remove the dirty water from my body. I immediately warned myself that I could not be led by their noses and allowed to be tortured. We must fight and win back to the greatest extent possible our right to be human.
The winter and spring of Dongqian Lake in 1972 were particularly long and cold, and the temperature often dropped to about minus 5 degrees. Those of us who have in fact been classified as "enemies" eat cold rice and cold vegetables every day, and we can't even drink soup. Clothing bedding that can withstand the cold is also extremely simple and limited. It's really hard. Even a younger person like me felt unbearable, and it was even more torturous to imagine that the other old and frail veterans who were isolated together were even more torturous. That day is not counted by the day, but by minutes and seconds!
Just after the cold, it was ushered in by the sweltering heat of the south. In the early summer of May, Dongqian Lake has become a world of mosquitoes. The cruelty of infighting is often that once you become a loser, you don't have even the slightest right. The victor can humiliate and abuse his former comrades at will. In the war years, our army has always had a policy of giving preferential treatment to prisoners in the war years, and it is conscientiously implemented. Today, however, the treatment of one's former comrades and comrades-in-arms is worse than the abuse of the enemy. This abuse indicates a "political attitude".
During the fleet's detention, they invented a torturous method called "feeding mosquitoes", and in the sweltering heat, when mosquitoes flew, they deliberately opened your doors and windows and did not give you mosquito nets, so that every day you were slowly tortured under the siege of mosquitoes.
During his detention in Dongqian Lake, he not only had to "enjoy" the bites of extra-large mosquitoes every day. There's something even more vicious here, the wolf-like guards. One day after arriving at Dongqian Lake, I suddenly found that one of the guards was the squad leader of the guard company of the Zhoushan base, who only knew his surname Liu and could not remember his name. After the "101" incident, he became an anti-Li Jing and anti-Zhang Yimin hero in the guard company, and now he was sent to Dongqian Lake to watch and detain us. He was specially responsible for the duty in my house at Dongqian Lake, and the first time he entered the house, he said to me with a fierce face: "Zhang Yimin, do you still know me?" Now you have to listen to my command, and you must honestly not talk and move. I didn't even answer his words. He is from Luan County, Hebei Province, and in my heart, he is just a farmer. But I also know that I will not be comfortable in the future.
In mid-June, I finally seized the opportunity of these guys to make a bad scene and made a big fuss like a thunderbolt. The people in charge of the security work had to deal with it in person, which made the fleet extremely passive, and finally Wang Yaoli, the person in charge of the "clearance office," and others had to leave Dongqian Lake and return to Zhoushan.
The thing is, in May and June, the mosquitoes in Dongqian Lake were particularly rampant, and the "qingban" personnel in charge of our lives deliberately did not give us mosquito nets, and every morning when we got up, the walls of the house were densely crawled with purple-black mosquitoes. My bed was against the wall as soon as I entered the room, and I slapped it against the wall, and my hands were covered in blood. In order to find an excuse, I got up every morning and slapped the mosquitoes, and after two months, the walls were now full of blood left by mosquitoes. As long as the opportunity comes, this is evidence of my abuse.
In mid-June, there was not a trace of wind in Dongqian Lake like it was in a steamer. The sweaty summer of the year arrived early. The weather was so hot that the task force deliberately confined us quarantine censors to a cramped cell and not allowed them to come out. This is not to mention, one day the guard surnamed Liu deliberately replaced the lighting in my house with a large light bulb of 300 lights. Summer hot days have been sweating, now changed a 300 light bulbs, day and night light is more on the fire to refuel, the temperature in the house has risen higher, even breathing is difficult.
I first calmly said to him: "Xiao Liu, in such a hot weather, you change into a light bulb with 300 lights, I sleep at night only two meters away from the light, can I sleep?" On a hot day, isn't it appropriate for you to do that? "Guess what he said?" He said: "You don't have to care, this is the rule of the task force, and I have the final say in this room." "Yes, at this moment, he is a carefully chosen thug, and he knows the mind of his master very well, and they are happy only if we suffer. After touching my nose of ash, I wondered what methods to use to stop this inhuman "torture". Then I came up with a good idea. I'm going to wait until midnight to get up and shout at the cell window so that people in the surrounding buildings will know about this inhumane practice we've been subjected to, and through them I'll let more people know about it. The guards in the room were on duty on a rotational basis and worked at 12:00 a.m. every day. I have to wait until Liu is on duty at night to take measures, because this is what happened to him.
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One day Liu was on duty, the house was silent, this is a windless Dongqian Lake, sweltering and mosquito bites, full of sweat, I am staying up for a long time. It's hard to wait until midnight! This is both a contest of wisdom and a struggle between right and wrong. At 11 o'clock, I suddenly got up and stood at the window of the iron bar cell and shouted: "My house is loaded with 300 light bulbs, and it is going to roast people to death." The fleet 'clearance' is too inhumane! This is a personal vendetta against the officials! I shouted with the greatest strength in my life. When I shouted, Liu Mou was completely stunned and had a confused expression. Dai Tao, who was imprisoned in another room, also shouted at the north window: "The heat is dead, this is the guard not letting us live!" "Two people in this room were shouting in unison, and the vibration was great. I reckon that not only did those of us who were detained wake up, but even the surrounding residents, the task force, and the guards were all awakened by shouting. The purpose of my trouble is to wake up the good guys and shock the bad guys.
After we shouted and shouted for more than ten minutes, sure enough, someone outside the door was shouting loudly: "Zhang Yimin, what are you arguing about in the middle of the night?" As soon as I heard this voice, I knew that this was Wang Yaoli, deputy chief of staff of the Zhoushan Base Command. My first reaction: How could it be him? Who sent him? I believed my own judgment: it was sent to him by the old commander of the base!
Wang Yaoli, when I arrived in Zhoushan, he was the logistics minister at the time. He was an old anti-war and old eighth road who joined the army in 1937, and he was considered to have the same seniority as the leaders of the base. Although he is senior, he is an old qualification who does not know anything about logistics.
After working in Zhoushan, two things happened that made Me and Li Jing criticize Wang Yaoli fiercely and cause me to have a grudge.
The first thing was that shortly after we took up our post in Zhoushan, the base arranged for the leading group of the Logistics Department to report on logistics work. And this first work report was smashed. The reason was that they thought that the two of us were still free to deal with confusion like our predecessors, but at the meeting, Li Jing asked the logistics minister to personally report and answer questions. As a result, Wang Yaoli did not know anything about the logistics work, and the report would be frozen there and could not continue to report. At the same time, a deputy minister of the Logistics Department surnamed Fang, who participated in the report, sat idly sniffing melon seeds like nothing happened, looking indifferent. This angered Li Jing. Li Jing stood up and yelled, "What is this report, the minister asked three questions and did not know!" The deputy minister sniffed melon seeds next to him. This is debriefing, not a tea party! ”
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Then he pointed at Vice Minister Fang and said, "You are a vice minister who has no leader." Hello big guts. This concludes today's debriefing. After saying that, he turned around and left. Frightened, vice minister surnamed Fang spilled the melon seeds on the ground, and the others looked embarrassed and overwhelmed. Such a result is something that the logistics leaders never thought of, and this is at least an embarrassment to the logistics leaders, so that a group of them cannot get off the stage. At the moment, I couldn't leave, so I had to take a step late to make a circle for everyone to find a step. I told them to hurry up and get ready when they went back, and the next report must be prepared.
Our second clash with Wang Yaoli took place at the artillery shell depot at the base of Huang Jia'ao. It was also after we learned of the rust of the 130 shells in the Huangjia'ao warehouse that Li Jing was very relieved to learn of this situation, and he and I personally visited the Huangjia'ao warehouse for on-site inspection. At the warehouse, when Li Jing asked why the work of wiping the rust of the shells was progressing so slowly, the director of the warehouse reported: "The progress of the wiping work is already slow, and now it is necessary to take at least an hour every day to organize the migrant workers who wipe the shells to learn Mao. Li Jing said, "What if you don't study Mao's writings?" The warehouse director replied: "At least an extra hour of work per day, which can improve the wiping progress of the shells." Li Jing immediately said: "Starting tomorrow, we will not study Mao for the time being, and you must organize migrant workers to concentrate all their energy on wiping the shells well." ”
At this moment, Wang Yaoli, who was accompanying us, spoke: "No one can move during the time of learning Mao, that was set by Deputy Commander Lin, and it was thunderous." ”
Wang thought that his words would scare Li Jing back. Li Jing turned to Wang Yaoli and said, "You are old, and you dare to change the content of my speech." Then he said a heavy sentence: "From tomorrow onwards, we will resolutely put down the study of Mao's writings, and we must wipe the shells with all our might." Wang Yaoli, if you dare to disobey my decision, I will remove you first, understand? After saying that, Li Jing turned and left. After Li Jing left, I said to Wang Yaoli, "You are really wrong in this way. In the current warehouse readiness, nothing is more important than wiping off the rust spots of shells as soon as possible. You must quickly mobilize everyone to wipe the shells as the commander asks. "I worked at the Zhoushan base for two years and nine months, and I know Wang Yaoli's strengths and weaknesses very well. In short, he is such an old qualification who relies on the "crutch" of left and right.
Wang Yaoli came, and as soon as he entered the house, he still posed that posture: "Zhang Yimin, what are you arguing about in the middle of the night?" I took over: "Oh, Wang Yaoli, how could it be you?" Today is too coincidental, since it is you Wang Yaoli who is in charge of the lives of those of us. Well, now it's up to you to solve these problems! Wang Yaoli said, "What's the big deal?" It's all a trivial matter, what's the shouting? ”
I said, "It's not a trivial thing, it's all a big deal, it's all a big deal that can kill people." Wang Yaoli, you say, this ten square meter house is so hot in summer, why do you put these 300 light bulbs in the house? Is it because the lighting is not bright? No, you are malicious wholesome! With such hot weather, plus 300 light bulbs roasted, do you want to roast me? You say, is this not your deliberate revenge on us? On Wang Yaoli's gloomy face, a smile appeared, and he smiled and said, "You don't have to ignore people." ”
"Well, you're going to solve the second problem now: Do you see how many mosquito blood stains there are on this wall?" It's hot summer, there are so many mosquitoes in Dongqian Lake, why don't you send us mosquito nets? Are you trying to feed us mosquitoes? Wang Yaoli has the ability not to play tricks, your method of revenge is too inhuman. He knew that he was wrong, and said in a continuous voice: "In recent days, it will be issued, and it will be issued in recent days." ”
I said, "You have to solve the third problem for us now, we have been in Dongqian Lake for so long, we have been eating cold rice every day, and we can't even drink soup." Today you have to solve the lunchbox problem! He also agreed to solve the lunchbox problem.
I know, of course, that he treated us in this way was both an act of revenge for the criticism of him in our past work and in accordance with the will of his master. But after this trouble, our demands have also been resolved.
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