Descendants of the Qiongya Revolution narrated: Ma Biqian talked about his father Ma Baishan's leading troops to fight two or three things

　　Ma Biqian, president of the Hainan Provincial Red Culture Promotion Association, told reporters fondly about the life of his father, General Ma Baishan, in an interview.

　　As a person who personally experienced the 23rd anniversary of the Qiongya Revolution, one of the outstanding leaders of the Qiongya Column, and the first general to persist in winning the final victory in the Qiongya Revolutionary Struggle, Ma Baishan made immortal meritorious achievements in the course of more than half a century of fighting.

　　For the eldest son, Ma Biqian, he was both strange and familiar with his father and the century of his father's generation. And his most memorable thing is that many comrades-in-arms jokingly called his father "King of the Western Front", and his father personally commanded several extremely difficult and successful and exemplary battles in different revolutionary periods.

　　On December 5, 1938, Yunlong Town was reorganized, and the Qiongya Red Army guerrilla group became the Qiongya Anti-Japanese Independent Team, with Feng Baiju as the captain and Ma Baishan as the deputy. On February 10 of the following year, the Japanese Kou captured Hainan, and on the same day, the Independent Brigade ordered Huang Dayu's squadron to block the Japanese army at the mouth of the pond on the bank of the Nandu River, firing the first shot of the Anti-Japanese Resistance in Hainan.

　　The first town stronghold of the Japanese army was the siege of Nada, organized and commanded by Ma Baishan himself in November of that year.

　　At that time, it was an important town on the western front, and it was also an important pass in and out of the Wuzhishan area. Pulling out this "nail" is the key to setting off a new situation in the anti-Japanese struggle in Qiongxi.

　　How to start the game and take this first move? After in-depth investigation and deep thinking, Ma Baishan decided to use his strengths and avoid his weaknesses to fight a people's war. After some mobilization, various anti-Japanese forces actively joined, and there were more than 3,000 militia and masses alone.

　　In early November, Ma Baishan, who was in charge of the siege, issued a battle order.

　　In accordance with the battle plan and careful arrangements, the various groups of men and horses acted separately, destroying roads, blocking passages, investigating traitors, and blowing trumpets, firing guns, and shouting around the big area. Multiple feint attacks forced the enemy into a state of extreme tension and exhaustion.

　　In the middle of the night in mid-November, when another large-scale feint attack was launched, the terrified Japanese army was so frightened that they left their strongholds and fled. On the way to Xinzhou, he was ambushed by anti-Japanese guerrillas, the masses, and friendly forces, and was defeated.

　　This beautiful battle shook the whole of Qiong, inspired the people to resist Japan, and also shocked the Japanese army, which is considered to be the greatest shame since entering Qiong, before the Japanese army has never withdrawn the stronghold of the important town.

　　At that time, Southeast Asian newspapers and other media competed to report that military theorists believed that this was a tactical success story in the history of the Chinese revolution, calling it one of the models of "sparrow warfare".

　　Ma Biqian said that through this strange battle, he saw his father's truth-seeking and pragmatism. This sentence actually summarizes his father's lifelong military career, showing his political and military strategy in the process of change, as well as his amazing resilience and determination.

　　In 1942, Ma Baishan founded the fourth detachment in Chengmai and served as the detachment leader and political commissar, and he was also affectionately known as the "King of the Western Front" by many comrades-in-arms. This team led by Ma Baishan sheathed like a sword, galloped across the vast land of qiongya west, and soon became an iron army that made the enemy feel frightened.

　　On September 16, 1945, the Japanese army signed a surrender instrument in Guangzhou. After 6 years of arduous resistance against Japan, more than 200,000 Qiongya anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians died on the battlefield, and Ma Baishan was also seriously injured in the Battle of Dunling.

　　However, just when the Japanese army surrendered unconditionally, the Kuomintang Qiongya defenders hiding in the mountains received secret orders to go out of the mountains to seize the fruits of victory. On December 22, when the military and civilians in Danxian County were celebrating the first winter solstice festival after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang sent troops to launch a surprise attack, creating the "Yangyuan Massacre". The Qiongya Civil War broke out in an all-round way, and the Qiongya Special Committee led the entire island's military and civilians to carry out a self-defense counterattack.

　　In 1947, Cai Jinjun, then commander of the Kuomintang Qiongya Security, launched a frenzied attack on our army's base areas. On December 9, Ma Baishan, then secretary of the Qiongxi Prefectural Committee, led two squadrons of the fourth detachment to lay an ambush position in the Xinxitian section of the Nanfeng-Yayi Highway, and completely annihilated the reinforcement battalion of the enemy's Second Bao Brigade.

　　At this point, due to repeated blows from our army's movement warfare and ambush warfare, Cai Jinjun's "clean-up and suppression plan" was completely defeated.

　　Cai Jinjun once relied on his familiarity with the terrain of Hainan and the strength of 15,000 troops to boast of destroying the Qiongya column within 6 months, but unexpectedly, more than a year later, he was dismissed from his post due to "weak suppression of bandits" and rolled out of Qiongya alone.

　　Ma Biqian said that after his father had fought this battle, the Qiongya column sent a telegram to the Central Military Commission, and Zhou Enlai personally sent a telegram to congratulate the Central Military Commission.

　　The Qiongya column gradually gained the initiative in the war in successive defeats of the enemy and entered the stage of strategic counter-offensive.

　　However, with the solid and reliable rear area of the Bai (Sha), Bao (Ting), and Le (East) base areas centered on the Five Finger Mountain, from the autumn of 1948 onwards, our Qiongya Column successively launched three major military offensives against the enemy in autumn, spring, and summer, and achieved brilliant results, and also prepared conditions for welcoming the large army to cross the sea to fight, to cooperate with the outside world, and to liberate Hainan.

　　In the spring of 1950, Ma Baishan was ordered to assist the combat troops of the Liberation of Hainan Campaign to cross the sea.

　　At 7:30 p.m. on March 26, more than 3,000 people of the reinforcement regiment took 81 warships and marched southwest to ride the wind and waves. In the middle of the night and the second half of the night, there was no wind, thick fog and "east flowing water", and at this time there were reconnaissance enemy planes flying over the fleet, and the situation was critical. Ma Baishan judged the situation, weighed the pros and cons, and decisively proposed to Liu Zhenhua to avoid the disadvantages of fighting a naval battle with the enemy ships during the day, open a gap nearby, and forcibly land.

　　The troops on the shore crossed the forest and crossed the ridge to the central base area of Wuzhishan. After escaping the enemy's heavy blockade, the biggest difficulty at this time was the lack of food. Ma Baishan led the team to cut a short road and hurry, teach everyone to identify and pick wild vegetables, catch snakes and beat mountain pigs, and fill the hunger with a "fragrant and saltless" picnic to tide over the difficulties, and finally meet the main force of the Qiongya Column.

　　"In this battle to cross the sea, my father and Liu Zhenhua, the commander-in-chief of the front line, established a deep friendship!" Ma Biqian said that on the 100th anniversary of his father's birth in March 2007, General Liu Zhenhua personally inscribed "Forever remember Comrade Ma Baishan who lived and died together in the same boat."

　　Before liberation, a gun accompanied Ma Baishan to fight on Qiongdao Island; after liberation, a Venus pen helped him devote himself to writing revolutionary memoirs.

　　In 1951, Ma Baishan entered the Chinese the Senior Accelerated Department of the Military Academy of the People's Liberation Army, and after completing his studies, Marshal Liu Bocheng issued a certificate of completion. Since then, the special prize that Ma Baishan has always retained is a Gold Star brand pen of the famous Chinese brand at that time.

　　Ma Biqian clearly remembered that in the bedroom and "study" of less than 10 square meters, the thick manuscript "Bloody Heaven" and the information books occupied half of the space of the hut.

　　"The humidity in the house is high, the heat is high, and it is stuffy!" Ma Biqian said that his father sometimes had to put down his shiny pen and grab the fan and fan it. Tired, he lay down on the marching bed that had followed him for decades.

　　Today, Ma Biqian's home has old photos, badges, medals, etc. of his father Ma Baishan, and what he often stares at is the pen that his father never leaves.

　　Biography

　　Ma Baishan (1907-1992), a native of Chengmai Ma Village, Hainan. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1927 and entered the Nanjing Central Military Academy in 1929. In 1932, he became a member of the Changgan County Committee of the Communist Party of China. In 1938, he was reorganized by the Qiongya Red Army as the deputy of the 14th District Independent Brigade of the Guangdong Provincial People's Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Regiment. In 1949, he went to Beijing to participate in the First National Political Consultative Conference and the Founding Ceremony. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of major general and was awarded the Order of Independence and Freedom of the People's Republic of China, Second Class and the Liberation Medal of the First Class. In 1988, he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Red Star, First Class.

Source: Haikou Network