Geng Wanfu was the chief of the financial section of the Fifth Red Army, born in 1905 in Nanliuzhai, Ren County, Hebei Province, and participated in the Ningdu Rebellion in 1931, and then joined the Red Army.
After the defeat of the Western Route Army, Geng Wanfu led a guerrilla force to block, confuse, and disturb the enemy in the mountains, cover the westward advance of the left detachment, and was captured when dispersed, and then taken to Liangzhou Prison and incorporated into the Yongdeng "Supplementary Regiment".
They were responsible for building the road from Liangzhou to Xining, and he served as a clerk in a company. Geng Wanfu took advantage of his work and often did the ideological work of his comrades.
The most important thing is to let everyone strictly abide by the secrets, he has stressed to many comrades that no one can tell the position of anyone, and everyone has unanimously agreed, at that time, there were many division and regimental cadres in the company, and their identities have not yet been exposed...
The cadres in the supplementary regiment were all cadres of Ma Jiajun, who often scolded Geng Wanfu and them.
Geng Wanfu said to them: "We in the Red Army talk about the equality of officers and soldiers, and you will not get any good results if you suppress us by discriminating and beating us!" ”
His words played a role, once, the commander of the horse company got a chicken from outside, before going out, he threw the chicken into the gang room, and before he had time to explain anything, he rushed out to work, and the guy thought that he was asking him to clean up, so he killed it.
As a result, when the commander of the Ma Company returned, he was very angry when he saw this situation, because in the Hui tribe, the killing of livestock was killed by the imam. According to the past situation, the horse company commander would have had to fight hard, but this time he didn't say anything, just threw the chicken aside, and then left without a word.
The commander of the twelve companies of the supplementary regiment had 5 brothers in his family, all of whom were in the Ma family army, the oldest one was the regimental commander, and he was the youngest.
When he asked Geng Wanfu to help write the letter, he told Geng Wanfu that all four of his brothers had been killed by the Red Army on the battlefield. However, the company commander did not insult the Red Army, but said to Geng Wanfu with his thumb: "Your Red Army is really good at fighting!" ”
There were many people in the Ma family army who feared the Red Army like him. When Geng Wanfu was working as a clerk in the battalion headquarters, the battalion deputy of this battalion once quietly said to Geng Wanfu: "In the future, the world of China will belong to your Red Army!" ”
"How do you see that?"
"No one can compare with the Red Army."
Geng Wanfu and his three comrades-in-arms served as clerks in the first, second, and third battalions and regimental headquarters, respectively, and because they had to receive passwords every day, they basically met every day, and soon formed a core of exchanging information and guiding operations.
Everyone brainstormed and made concerted efforts to think about how to escape from the enemy camp and return to Yan'an as soon as possible.
The first to escape from the enemy camp was Xia Hecheng, a service soldier of the third battalion, who was only seventeen or eighteen years old at the time.
A group of soldiers led by an instructor lived in a large temple outside the city, and outside were enemy sentries, and in order to escape from the enemy camp, this instructor did not work every day, digging the thick and hard walls under the supply table little by little, digging for four or five days in a row before digging through. One night, he led the squad of fighters who had quietly escaped from the enemy camp.
One day, Geng Wanfu was arranged to go to the district to ask for some tools for building roads, and the young district chief received him, this district chief was very well dressed, he was a graduate of Xining Middle School, when he heard that Geng Wanfu came to ask for tools, he agreed and insisted on sending it across the river.
After landing ashore, Geng Wanfu said to the district chief: "Many of us in your district want to 'home', and we will have to run some in three or two days, and I hope you will take more care." ”
Unexpectedly, the other party said: "Don't say take care, I have sympathy for the Red Army, the people you ran out of here to eat, sleep, find guides, we helped each other as much as possible, and never sent a person back to Ma Jiajun." Trust us! ”
Later, in order to prevent them from escaping, the enemy held a special meeting to study. After the meeting, quartermaster Old Li specially found Geng Wanfu and quietly told him:
"The battalion commander said at the meeting, 'Don't tell Old Geng to run away,' and told me to look at you. Do you want to run? ”
"Yes."
"When?"
"Within five days."
"Are you sure?" Catching it is not a joke. ”
"Since you want to run, you will try not to be caught!"
The quartermaster also offered to prepare a civilian suit for him to go again, so that it would be more convenient. However, he was rejected, just let him not say it!
Geng Wanfu said that he did not say that he had escaped in five days, he had been preparing to escape.
Geng Wanfu and the others had already made a rigorous plan and decided to find a night action that was conducive to action. Moreover, in order to paralyze the enemy's pursuit, after they left the city, they had to first go north, then detour to the south of the city, cross the Yellow River to the southeast, and rush to Yan'an.
August 30, 1937, happened to be the last of the five days that Geng Wanfu had described.
That night, the wind was cold and the sky was drizzling. The battalion commander and battalion deputy who were guarding them were playing cards, and when it came to the appointed time, Geng Wanfu gently got out of bed, looked at the quartermaster Lao Li, who was lying on the bed pretending to be asleep, and silently bid farewell.
Geng Wanfu sneaked to the backyard, climbed over the one-foot-high outer wall, and went straight to the small river outside the village. Usually the river is only two or three feet, but he forgot that it rained today, and the river directly flooded his mouth, which made him very worried, after all, he could not swim, but the yearning for Yan'an made his courage grow, and he moved forward little by little on tiptoe, which crossed the small river.
Soon after, he heard the rapid sound of horses' hooves and the noise of people behind him, as if there were forty or fifty cavalry behind him, and he hurried to the ground next to him and hid. Then he heard someone shouting, "Old Geng! Don't run! Your home is so far away, where to run! ”
Geng Wanfu hid motionless in the ground until the pursuers chased in the direction of Lanzhou.
Soon after joining the others, they heard the enemy chasing behind them again, and several people quickly hid in the woods next to them, and Geng Wanfu almost fell behind because of his age.
Later, Geng Wanfu and everyone were separated, he was next to a valley, met a fellow villager who was pulling grass, so he went forward to ask for directions, but he did not expect that the other party was the secretary of the Special Agent Regiment of the Fifth Red Army. The secretary led him to the Elder Wang of the Management Department of the General Hospital of the Red Fourth Front army for one night, and the two of them were saving money to prepare to go to Yan'an.
Early the next morning, he politely refused to be retained by two comrades-in-arms, and he ran alone to the bank of the Yellow River.
Seeing that the Yellow River was about to arrive, there was a village in front of it, and there were more than a dozen horses on the side of the village, and Geng Wanfu knew at a glance that this was the enemy's cavalry.
He found a fellow villager to inquire whether he could cross the Yellow River, and the fellow saw that he was a Red Army, and implied that his ferry was blocked by the enemy. Geng Wanfu asked his compatriot if there were any other ferries, and the villager told him that he really wanted to cross the river and find someone for him to come over!
After a while of kung fu, Geng Wanfu saw that the fellow had brought a very strong young man, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Can you pass?" ”
"It depends on whether you have the courage to take risks."
"Don't be afraid of risks, as long as you can cross the river!"
When the young man heard him say this, he took the sheepskin raft and asked him to go up, and after two hours, under the skillful skill of the young man, the two of them arrived safely on the shore.
Geng Wanfu took out two yuan as a reward: "I am the Red Army, there may be many Red Army people who want to live here, some people may not have money!" ”
"As long as it's the Red Army, I don't want money!" The boy said and returned the two dollars.
Geng Wanfu said gratefully: "These two yuan are the will of our Red Army, so you can accept them, as long as you can help the Red Army cross the river!" ”
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After Geng Wanfu arrived in Lanzhou, in order to find a place to live, he was blindsided, and he went all the hotels and guild halls, but because he was dressed in rags, no one let him live.
It was hard to find a small earthen house, but there were two beggars in it, and the other party would not let him live. Geng Wanfu quarreled with the other party over this: "They are all poor, why don't they even have this affection?" ”
The quarrel attracted many people watching the liveliness, and one of them, a gentleman-like person, came over, looked at Geng Wanfu carefully and asked, "Where are you from?" ”
"Hebei."
"Oh, then we're fellow countrymen, I'm from Shandong."
The other party asked him to live there, and through chatting, Geng Wanfu learned that the other party was the director of the lanzhou airport office, and one of Geng Wanfu's uncles was also a classmate of the second phase of the Baoding Military Academy, and the two were closer.
Geng Wanfu lived here temporarily, often using his rest time to talk with the workers, many of whom were from Sichuan and Hubei, and when they inquired, they learned that everyone was a Red Army.
Geng Wanfu asked them why they didn't leave? The other party told him that it was getting colder and he was afraid that he would not be able to go back. Geng Wanfu said: "If you want to leave, you should hurry up, and it will only be ten and a half days to arrive in Yan'an." ”
Many were gone shortly afterwards.
Geng Wanfu heard that the Eighth Route Army had offices in many places, so he looked for the eighth route army office everywhere in Lanzhou, and later he finally found a small courtyard under a large locust tree with a wooden sign that read,"The Office of the Eighteenth Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army in Lanzhou."
As soon as he saw this name, Geng Wanfu muttered, "I saw the ghost!" I want to find the Eighth Route Army, how can there be an Eighteenth Group Army? Just when he was wondering, he suddenly saw an acquaintance come out of it, it was the administrator of the military and health department, and the other party obviously recognized him and quickly led him in.
After Zhu Liangcai learned of Geng Wanfu's experience, he said to him: "We are lacking an internal line in the Kuomintang in Lanzhou, and you have upper-level relations, so why don't you do the underground party here?" ”
So Geng Wanfu stayed in Lanzhou, but he was not suitable for underground work.
One day, he met one of his comrades-in-arms on the street, and he warmly came forward to greet him, but the other party did not even pay attention to him, and after a while, he reacted that he was now engaged in underground work.
Geng Wanfu was extremely unaccustomed to this way of working, and took the opportunity to report to the office: "I am not suitable for underground work!" I always think of Yan'an. Because this is a task entrusted to me by the Party organization of the Western Route Army, I must fulfill it and repay this wish for many comrades-in-arms who have made heroic sacrifices! ”
The office understood his pain and wishes, so it arranged for him to go to Yan'an.
When Geng Wanfu, who finally arrived in Yan'an, saw the towering Pagoda Mountain for the first time, his heart was sour, and tears flowed directly.
Soon after, when he heard that more than 1,000 people who had suffered in the Ma family army had returned, he rushed to their residence. But everyone was snorting the sun and the sun, and after seeing him, they cried out in surprise: "Isn't this Lao Geng?" ”
"Chief Geng, how did you get back?"
"Did you suffer a lot along the way?"
Comrades-in-arms embraced excitedly...
On December 9, 1937, the sixth anniversary of the founding of the Fifth Red Army, the soldiers invited Chairman Mao to take a group photo with everyone.
Chairman Mao said with a smile: "Today is the sixth anniversary of your Fifth Army, and I am not a member of your army. ”
"We are all under the leadership of Chairman Mao!" Everyone answered in unison.
After the group photo, Mao Zedong took a photo inscription for the Fifth Red Army: "In the spirit of the Ningdu Uprising against Japanese imperialism, we are invincible!" ”
After that, Geng Wanfu has been doing financial accounting work in Yan'an, and has been praised by Chen Yun many times. During the Liberation War, he went to the northeast and worked under the leadership of Li Fuchun
Logistics support work of the People's Liberation Army. He successively served as the director of the Economic construction department of the Logistics Department of the West Manchuria Military Region of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, the political commissar of the Supply Department of the Nenjiang Military Region, the director of the Audit Department of the Logistics Department of the Northeast Military Region, and the director of the Logistics Department of the 50th Army of the Fourth Field Army. After the founding of New China, Geng Wanfu served as the director of the Barracks Department of the Logistics Department of the Northeast Military Region.
On October 23, 1994, Geng Wanfu fell ill
Shenyang
Died at the age of 89.
Geng Wanfu's life is great, and his spirit of not being afraid of hardships and dangers, pursuing Yan'an, and pursuing return to the embrace of the Party Central Committee is the most admirable!