In the 1930s and 1940s, Yan Xishan was definitely a figure in Shanxi.
One day in 1939, Yan Xishan told Liang Huazhi, director general of the Shanxi "League", that it was a pity that this person had been killed, and it was a disaster to keep it.
So, who is the "man" mentioned in Yan Xishankou?
He was Han Jun, who was then the director of the Political Department of the Second Column of The Anti-Enemy Death in Shanxi.
Born in 1912 in Xinxian County, Henan, Han Jun studied at the Fourth Senior Normal School of Luoyang, Henan province and Peking University of China. During his time at the school, he came into contact with a large number of works by writers of the "Literary Research Society" and the "Creation Society", began to read marxist-Leninist theoretical works, and organized the "Social Science Research Society" with his classmates to explore revolutionary truths and organize and participate in the mass movements of "anti-warlords" and "want democracy".
After the September 18 Incident, because Han Jun was engaged in the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement in Beiping, he petitioned the government to join forces to resist Japan, and was arrested by the authorities and imprisoned in Caolanzi Prison. In prison, he joined our party under the introduction of Bo Lao and others, and fought tit-for-tat struggles with the enemy, and he was even listed as a person who executed the execution. In September 1936, Han Jun was rescued from prison by the organization, went to Taiyuan to participate in party work, and served as an officer of the Political Department of the Military and Political Training Committee of the Shanxi "Sacrifice national salvation alliance association".
After the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, Han Jun was ordered to organize the establishment of the Shanxi Youth Death Squad in Qi County, and served as the director of the General Political Department. Led his troops to march to jindong and joined the Eighth Route Army in attacking the Japanese army at Niangziguan. After the fall of Taiyuan, Han Diao led the Second General Brigade to carry out guerrilla activities in the area of Hongdong and Zhaocheng, and the team quickly grew to more than 15,000 people, and was organized into the Second Column of Death.
Under the influence of the Second Column, the "New Army" series of young people in Shanxi who resisted the enemy and died were also deeply encouraged, and the "New Army" such as the Third Column, the Fourth Column, the Workers' Guard Brigade, the Political Guard Brigade, and the Temporary First Division were also established. The rise of these new armies in Shanxi led by our Party has also aroused uneasiness and anxiety among Yan Xishan, the "king of Shanxi." At that time, when the Kuomintang began to oppose communism, Yan Xishan was also ready to start liberating these "new armies" led by our Party.
Yan Xishan aimed the first sign of rectifying the "New Army" at the death-defying Second Column, which had behaved vigorously in the War of Resistance.
Yan Xishan first transferred Han Jun to the "Officer Training Corps" in Ji County as an instructor, and then forcibly left him in his old nest Qiulin to let his confidant Liang Huazhi, director general of the Shanxi "Shanxi League", do softening work. However, Han Jun was moved by the words and deeds of Liang Huazhi and the others, but instead completely saw their faces, making Yan Xishan want to kill them quickly.
Therefore, there is Yan Xishan's lament to Liang Huazhi that "it is a pity that this person killed, and it is a disaster to stay" that he left behind.
So, what happened to Han Jun later?
At the end of 1939, Yan Xishan agreed that Han Jun would return to his hometown and return to the army by the way. On the way back, Han Jun and the guards cleverly evaded Yan Xishan's halfway interception and reached the troops safely. Angry, Old Yan scolded Liang Hua for being useless, and in the end Liang Huazhi could only retreat on his own.
In order to completely liberate the problem of the Second Column of Death, Yan Xishan ordered the Death Second Column to carry out a "winter offensive" against the Japanese army as the first-line unit on December 1, and at the same time ordered Wang Jingguo, commander-in-chief of the 13th Group and commander of the 19th Army, and Chen Changjie, commander-in-chief of the Sixth Army and commander of the 61st Army, to lead the troops as the second-line troops, to sandwich the death of the Second Column between the Japanese and stubborn, in an attempt to attack on both sides and eliminate the Second Column.
Yan Xishan's move eventually triggered the "Jinxi Incident". Forced to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy on the one hand and having to defend themselves against the "old army" on the other, Han Jun's troops fought hard for half a month, and finally broke through the encirclement of the Japanese and the "old army", moved to the northwest of Jin, and were incorporated into the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army in early 1940.
After returning to the Eighth Route Army, Han Jun successively served as the commander of the Second Column of the Death Squad and concurrently served as the commander of the Eighth Army Sub-district of the Eighth Route Army and the commander of the Second Sub-district of Western Henan. In the Liberation War, Han Jun once assisted General Chen Geng in his work as the deputy commander of the Fourth Column of The Jinji-Hebei Luyu; in early 1949, Han Jun participated in the peaceful liberation of Beiping, making important contributions to the peaceful liberation of Beiping and the preservation of this civilized ancient city.
It is deplorable that Comrade Han Jun, then a member of the Beiping Municipal Party Committee, secretary general of the Municipal Party Committee and secretary general of the Military Control Commission, died on March 23, 1949 at the age of 37 due to overwork and the recurrence of old diseases.