My father, Yang Shoumo (1917-1994), a native of Majie Town, Luliang County, Yunnan Province, joined the revolution in 1937, joined the Ccp in 1939, and was sent by the organization to work underground in the Kuomintang Dian Army for 10 years. In 1948, he made important contributions during the liberation of Jinzhou. In 1950, he participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and participated in the Kaesong Negotiations as a representative of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army. In 1962, he was appointed director of the Secretariat of the Political Department of the Heilongjiang Provincial Military Region. In 1964, he transferred to Heilongjiang Provincial Library as the secretary of the party branch and deputy director. After the Cultural Revolution, he served as the director of the Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall for 10 years. He died in a car accident in August 1994 at the age of 78.
After dictating his family history and participating in the revolution in 1981, his father personally wrote some reminiscence articles in the late 1980s and early 1990s, such as his series of articles "From Ganbei to Jinzhou" after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression until the outbreak of the Kuomintang Civil War, and also wrote articles on secret work in Jinzhou in northeast China, which was published in publications such as Yunnan Party History Materials. After my father's death, I sorted out the original text and added subheadings to the chapters as the third part of my father's memories. The first person "I" in the text is still the father's self-designation. I would like to commemorate my beloved father with this series of articles.
Father recalls the third part of secret work in the Dian Army
Farewell to the best friend in distress
In the autumn and winter of 1947, due to the People's Liberation Army in the northeast region, shortly after the end of the autumn offensive, and launched a more powerful winter offensive in December, the entire section of the Bac Ninh Railway south of Jinzhou was seriously attacked and damaged by the PLA, and traffic was once again paralyzed, and the passenger traffic that had always been open and stopped was also completely stopped. The officers who came to Beiping to play together could not be realized in their original plan to return to Jinzhou before the New Year, so they had to stay in Beiping and wait for the resumption of traffic indefinitely.
Beijing Hutong South Luogu Lane
It was not until after New Year's Day in 1948 that the news came that passenger transport in Jinzhou was about to resume. At this time, Sun Bin suddenly received a letter from the chief of the military justice department of the corps department, which brought bad news, and told him in the letter: "The Shenyang 'Suppression General' Military Justice Department went to the Corps Department to investigate and handle the case, involving Sun Bin's corruption and bribery and the release of opium smugglers and suspects of the Communist Party. In this way, it can not be solved, and when things are moved, it is possible to return to the ministry. ”
Beijing Hutong North Luogu Lane
In this regard, I have repeatedly studied with Sun Bin, and I have concluded that Huang Guanwu, the old and treacherous and slippery chief of the Military Justice Department, has taken this opportunity to squeeze Out Sun Bin and signal him to leave his post and leave, so that he can do whatever he wants in the future, use his power, make a windfall, and return to his hometown. Moreover, through Sun Bin, together with Chang Shouren, then chief staff officer, and Zhang Qiyu, intelligence staff officer, I did release many "communist suspects," including Communist Party members in the name of smuggling opium cigarettes.
At that time, the officers of the Sixth Corps and the 93rd Army were semi-openly engaged in opium and tobacco smuggling business, and no one cared about it, and as for the small smugglers who were caught, they often confiscated their opium and destroyed them, and then released. However, we have really all committed the "crime" of "releasing suspects of the Communist Party."
Huang Guanwu's old slippery head only grabbed Sun Bin to make a fuss, and I actually had a share in the matter of releasing people, which may be: first, he did not dare to provoke me; second, I transferred to the press office, and I will not be able to hinder his affairs in the future. However, Sun Bin is still serving in the Military Justice Department and has been promoted to lieutenant colonel military judge, and Huang Guanwu cannot leave Sun Bin behind and engage in extortion, which is the origin of the matter.
After Sun Bin was hit by this accident, he immediately applied to me to join the Communist Party of China, and I considered it again and again, and advised him to temporarily settle down his family (wife, two daughters, and niece who took care of his children) to Hunan (his wife's hometown) and maintain correspondence with me. When I return to Jinzhou, see how the situation is, and then find a way to transfer him back to work (such things are often common in the army, not to mention That Sun Du has a good impression of him). I promised him that when he came again, he would solve his organizational problems immediately. At the same time, after I returned to Jinzhou, I sent someone to send his family, clothes, luggage, etc. to Beiping, his house and furniture, etc., and I left another one for him (this is a Japanese-style independent house, which can be used as a secret radio station to be sent in for resettlement), and we will talk about it.
Sun Bin and I came to Beiping together, but we could not return to Jinzhou together, which was a major loss to my work, and as a close friend who had been with me for many years, I really felt sad. When I left Beiping, he was in Beiping and I returned to Jinzhou to handle the affairs of his return to the south, and after we finally parted ways, the north and south continued to communicate and maintain contact. In the autumn of the same year, when the Liaoshen Campaign began, Jinzhou bore the brunt of the loss of communication, and in another year, the whole country was liberated, and the two sides exchanged letters.
I and other traveling companions who came to Beiping a few years ago set off to return to Jinzhou after our army's winter offensive was stopped and the railway traffic from Beiping to Jinzhou was barely resumed. Also accompanying her was Ma Ruqing, the wife of An Shouren, chief of staff of the Corps; she was a member of the "Field Service Regiment" that had accompanied the army to the front line from Yunnan before the bloody battle of taierzhuang in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; at that time, this service group was very famous throughout the country, and many famous people and communists who propagated the anti-Japanese resistance had contact and help with them.
Father posed with Mr. and Mrs. An Shouren Ma Ruqing in the 1980s. An Shouren (center) was a member of the CPPCC Committee of a certain district in Beijing at that time, and under Sun Du he was the chief of staff of the Kuomintang Sixth Corps, and after Sun Du was transferred to Hebei by Chiang Kai-shek, An Shouren was appointed as the commander of the Kuomintang Provisional 55th Division, he was the long-term work object of his father's underground work, and when Jinzhou was liberated, An Shouren led his troops to revolt on the battlefield, changed defenses with the siege People's Liberation Army, and completely disintegrated the Jinzhou defense line. But later, they were mistakenly identified for a long time, and their father had gone to the ground for them and written proof materials many times.
Father Yang Shoumo and An Shouren and his wife take a group photo, and the first on the right is the father