Serial No. 5: Mother's Smoke Years Wen /Guo Wei V. Fight Meng Lianggu

The Battle of Menglianggu was a major battle in which our East China Field Army concentrated its superior forces in the Shandong battlefield during the Liberation War, destroyed the reorganized 74th Division of the five main forces of the Kuomintang, and killed Lieutenant General Zhang Ling. This not only greatly shocked the Kuomintang troops, disrupted Chiang Kai-shek's war arrangements, put an end to the Kuomintang army's key offensive against the Liberated Areas of Shandong, encouraged the morale of the People's Liberation Army, and reversed the tide of the war. The transformation of our army from strategic defense to strategic offensive is of great significance to the liberation of the Shandong region and the whole country. At that time, my mother, together with her comrades-in-arms, braved the rain of bullets and bullets to go to Meng Lianggu. He sacrificed his life and forgot his death, fearlessly threw himself into the tense battlefield rescue, tried his best to save the wounded, and gave himself the glory of his revolutionary career of saving lives. At the beginning of May 1947, Lao was left behind in Pingyi Mengshan due to illness. She took her alone and withdrew to Mengyin Nanguan, where she was bombed by enemy planes at the home of a women's rescue chief, and saw with her own eyes that the left arm of the women's rescue leader was blown off. After encountering the chief secretary, Lu Nanxing reunited with the guards, and after treating the president, he withdrew to the northwest without stopping. When they reached Wazi, far away from Xintai, they received orders from their superiors to stop retreating north, and then turned east and west with most of them, leading the enemy in the mountains near Xintai and Laiwu, and for a few days, their heads were clouded. In fact, in order to break the enemy's attack, Chen Yi and Su Yu formulated a battle plan to mobilize the enemy and destroy the enemy five times in a month in April 1947, but because the enemy was cunning, the results were not very obvious. After several unsuccessful attempts to mobilize the enemy, Su Yu was not discouraged, and with the encouragement of Lord Mao and Chen Yi, he paid close attention to the intricate battle situation and looked for favorable fighters. In May, Su Yu finally found the opportunity. The old mother recalled: "Everyone did not know what tight tasks there were, and they had a question mark in their hearts, but all actions were directed." There were a lot of people who knew or didn't know along the way, and when they saw us, they were all strange and greeted me: 'Why are you going back again?' The Kuomintang is in the back! It was not easy for everyone to answer, just marching and walking, sometimes almost the enemy's cracks were hidden through. The leader said that this was called 'playing with the dragon lamp', and they all held their hearts. When it turned to the clouds again, I wanted to take a leave of absence to go to Nanguanzhuang, and then see how the leader of the wounded women's rescue team was, no, saying that no one was allowed to leave the team, and the military situation was tight. In the evening, the march continued, passing through Mengyin City and heading northeast. I went to the Li family's house and stayed for a day; on the night of the 10th, I moved again, walked to Tanbu, and went north along the sand. The main forces of Duhua in the vicinity were full of villages. At dawn, we walked to the lower east gate and were crossing the river when enemy planes came to bomb again. The town of Tanbu, northeast of Mengyin City, was an old revolutionary area in Shandong, and was the headquarters of the East China Field Army at that time. The front-line command post of Chen Yi and Su Yu in the Menglianggu Campaign was located in Laojundong under Yuntougu in Tanbu. Adjacent to Tanbu Town to the east is Mamuchi Township in Yinan County, which had a mountain "Little Yan'an" during the War of Resistance. Xu Xiangqian, Li Yu and other important capitals once fought here, and it was also the home of the "Red Sister-in-law" Ming Deying. Further east, I will reach my hometown of Yinan Yiwen Town. Because a prisoner soldier fled and reported to the enemy's reorganized 74th Division, Chen and the commander were discovered. On May 11, the plane suddenly flew in and exploded, causing heavy losses in Tanbu and surrounding villages. My mother crossed the river and was bombed. In the afternoon, the enemy's reorganized 74th Division quickly marched north around the western foothills of Menglianggu from Duozhuang, preparing to capture Tanbu, eliminate Chen and Su, and seize the head. Noji general moved in time, and Xiao Wang continued to command in Yishui County. It was also the founding place of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army. Thanks to the transfer fast! Otherwise, our East China Field Army will encounter an Oriental "Waterloo." The old mother recalled: "At that time, I was crossing the river, and the plane led by the plane from the sky shouted 'Lie down.' The brigade of men and horses descended on both sides of the Shahe River, plucking their stomachs like sheep eating grass. I was still on the edge of the river, holding a wounded man with a wounded pillar on his leg. He quickly hid behind a tomb. I stole my face into the sky, and seven or eight bombers came, and even threw bombs with cannons, blowing up the two sides of the river into a mess. The plane "roared" down. I hurriedly pushed the wounded man aside, and he tilted his head behind the grave. The cannon dropped a stone on the stele. On both sides of the river, some were dead and some were injured. After the plane swept past, a lot of gun skin fell, I picked one, 20 centimeters long, so thick, holding it is still hot! It was an old American plane, used by the Kuomintang. I kept that shell skin for several years, and in 1950, when I was reorganizing in Qufu, I asked Lu Yaoting, who was in a class, to go. Alas, if you don't give it to him, keep it for yourself as a souvenir, and now it's also an antiquity! I said in pain, "Oh what a pity! Why don't you pick up more than two?" said the mother: "Oh to save your life, who has the heart to pick up that thing?" There was no place to put it, and after the plane was gone, I helped the injured cross the river. It didn't take long for our gun truck to come. I sat in that weir, counting one by one, a total of 72 cars. The wounded understand! Tell them that this is a mountain cannon, that it is a field cannon, and that it is a shi howitzer, all captured from the Kuomintang side. At that time we used his cannon to set up a 'special column'. After fighting Tai'an, and then retreating here, fighting Meng Lianggu can play a big role" I asked her: "How did you participate in the Battle of Meng Lianggu?" Is it still far away from Meng Lianggu? The old mother said, "When I get to the lower east gate, I won't be able to do it." The people there are all following us and are very enthusiastic before joining the army. As soon as I left, every family was ready to greet me. The wounded and sick who are collected along the way are not, the people can live in them, and the people themselves sleep miserably. It was the same as it was in the village. Seriously injured beds, sleeping bunks, medical staff are also bunks. The good point is to lay a layer of wheat, which is warm and soft; the poor straw grass, that is, the grass fed to the cattle, has a mat on it. They are covered with their own backpacks. The main eaters are pancakes, green onions, and salty paste. The village's women's rescue chief's surname is Song, his name is Song Bingfeng, he is the same age as me, he looks good, he is a model of supporting the former branch, and he shouts the slogan: Whoever signs up for the army first will marry him.' At that time, the name, is a person, and it is known. Bring people to comfort the wounded and sick, hey, the people in the old area of Therela are simple, sincere, don't play those 'virtual three sets', take it at home. I also got a hard-boiled egg! I was very impressed. On that day, the situation on the battlefield was already very tight, the sound of gunfire was clearly heard, and the number of wounded in the hospital began to increase. By the morning of the 15th, our troops surrounded the integrated 74th Division. They had no place to run, so they could only retreat to Meng Lianggu and prepare to hold out there for help and fight us against the siege. Before the battle began, more than a dozen people were led, ready to go to the battlefield at any time to participate in the rescue. One is young and energetic, and the other is to treat those who understand medicine and form a battlefield rescue team. Generally speaking, it is not a military hospital, but only the wounded and sick are treated in the rear. However, at that time, the situation was tight, and if Chen and the chiefs wanted to fight a big battle, they would have to obey the needs of the battlefield, regardless of whether they were military hospitals or local hospitals. On that day, when I was about to leave, the dean made an ideological mobilization and encouraged everyone to join the Hong medical team. Everyone is prepared not to be afraid of death. But you said that you are really not afraid, nor is it, and your heart is strangely nervous. After advancing with the troops on Mount Menglianggu, the second half of the mountain went to a small mountain village called Woto. Each person is equipped with a tourniquet, splint, scissors, and an iodine potion. This is something that cannot be done without rescuing the wounded. I sighed: "At that time, the battlefield rescue was also too simple!" The old mother said: "At that time, if there were good conditions, it would be good' Red mercury iodine wine, wipe it and go. It is numbered, there is no other medicine. Even if there is medicine to eat, it is too late to get water from the battlefield. "Splints, scissors are better to say, I wonder they have such difficult conditions, there is red mercury iodine wine! Just ask her how she came to be? What to use? Mom said, "I deserve it!" Red mercury is easy to say, with iodine wine iodine tablets, potassium iodide, with 75% alcohol, according to the proportion of 1% or 2%, very simple. 1000cc, or 500cc bottles, generally 1% proportion, 2% use less. 5 grams of iodine tablets, add a little potassium iodide, add alcohol, shake it, and then bottle it. At that time, I carried 100cc or 200cc flat glass bottles. You have to be careful, it breaks when you lie down. There is a special strap to wear to the back of the bottle's nose. If only this plastic bottle were fine now, it wouldn't be afraid of pressing" I wondered what they were for with scissors? Mom said, "Oh scissors are my weapon!" On the battlefield, they can't be separated, they all have guns and guns, and the scissors have scissors, and they are all tied up for fear of falling off. The scissors are polished very quickly, and they are usually willing to use them. Why? It is better to wear a single coat in the summer, if it is a cotton coat in winter, it is called blood soaking, and you can't move! Therefore, there must also be a twisting trick. For example, if he hurts his arm, he has to twist up along the seam, lift it to the sides, and immediately treat the wound, and then pull the sleeve down, and use the strap to block the cold and protect the wound. You can't hang horizontally, that's mess. Also, what is the use of the tourniquet tube? If there is a large blood vessel injury and bleeding, you must use a tourniquet, first with a bandage, and then with a tourniquet. The tourniquet is rubberized, and the two ends are blocked. If there is a fracture, it is fixed with a splint, and the outer bandage is tied. What she said seemed very simple, but for me as a layman, it seemed to understand and listen. I checked, Menglianggu is located in the southeast of Mengyin County and the western junction of Yinan County, belongs to the Mengshan Mountain System, the main peak is 536 meters above sea level, the highest peak Da'an Peak is 575.2 meters above sea level, which is one of the "Seventy-two Valleys" in Yimeng Mountain. Legend has it that the famous Northern Song Dynasty general Meng Liang zengtun soldiers here, and was famous at home and abroad after the Battle of Meng Lianggu in 1947. Now it is one of the "Top Ten Scenic Spots of Red Tourism in China", a national AAAA-level tourist scenic spot, a national patriotic education base and a national 100 red tourism classic scenic spots. According to the records, from November 11 to 13, 19475, under the cover of the 83rd and 25th Divisions, the reorganized 74th Division of the Kuomintang marched from Duozhuang to Huangluzhai, Jiuzhai, Wild Boar Wang, and other places, and was repulsed by the 9th Column of our Hua, and then occupied Yangjiazhai, Foshanjiao, Mamuchi and other places, preparing to capture Tanbu on the 14th. On the night of 13 May, the 1st Column and the 8th Column of Huaye attacked the entire 74th Division with one force, and the main force advanced from the gap between its wings to the depth. The 4th and 9th Columns attacked from the front, blocking the attack of the integrated 74th Division. The 6th Column rushed north from the Pingyi Tongshi area and reached the southwest area of Duozhuang on the morning of the 14th. 　　At 10 o'clock on May 14, Zhang Lingfu learned that Ma Muchi and Leishi Mountain on Tianma Mountain had been lost, and he had a premonition that there was a danger of being annihilated, so he hastily retreated in the direction of Lianggu Duozhuang. When the East China Field Army found it retreating southward, it immediately took advantage of the victory and attacked on all sides, forming a four-sided encirclement of the 74th Reorganization in the Lushan and Menglianggu areas. After the 74th Division was surrounded, Chiang Kai-shek and Gu Zhutong ordered them to hold on to their aid, pinpointing the main force of Huaye, and attempting to wipe out the East China Field Army at Mengyin and Qingtuo Temple with the strength of 10 reorganized divisions. At 13:00 on the 15th, the East China Field Army launched a general offensive, and the troops attacked from all directions and multiple roads, and the reorganized 74th Division tried its best to resist. By the morning of the 16th, the main positions were all lost. In the afternoon, the sky was low and the visibility was very poor, and the East China Field Army thought that the reorganized 74th Division had been completely annihilated, but when calculating the number of prisoners, it was found that the number of annihilated enemies was more than 10,000 people different from the number of the division. The troops immediately searched intensively, and finally completely annihilated the remnants of the 74th Division and the 1 regiment of the reorganized 83rd Division, killing Zhang Lingfu of the division. At the end of the battle at 16:30, it was found that the enemy radio was still active, and Su Yu ordered the team to search the valley between Meng Lianggu and The Eagle Nest. By 18:00, more than 7,000 enemy members had been searched. Although the reinforcements of the Kuomintang army under the repeated strict orders of Chiang Kai-shek and Gu Zhutong were advancing with all their might, some of them reached a distance of 5 kilometers from Lianggu, and the shells were able to reach Meng Lianggu, but due to stubborn resistance, they not only failed to save the reorganized 74th Division, but also suffered heavy casualties. In this campaign, the East China Field Army annihilated a regiment of the reorganized 74th Division of the Kuomintang Army and the 83rd Division attached to it, totaling 32,680 people, of whom 19,680 were taken prisoner. The PLA lost about 2,043 people, about 9,300 wounded, and about 846 other attritions, for a total of 12,189 people. During the Battle of Menglianggu, my mother worked as a battlefield ambulance team member and participated in the rescue and transportation of the wounded from beginning to end. She recalled: "When I was in Li woto, the battle was fierce, the gunshots were not divided, the sound of the cannons could be heard, 'grunts' and 'grunts' rang out non-stop, and those were all our special cannons. The enemy's heavy weapons were thrown down the mountain, and he had no heavy artillery on the mountain, at most some mortars or something. ay! Guns are like firecrackers on the fifth day of the year, and there is no stopping for a while! I went forward for more than a mile from the nest, and set up a transport point for the wounded at that large rock, which was responsible for transporting the wounded down. I asked her, "How far are you from the real battlefield?" The old mother said: "The enemy's stray bullets have hit the point, and the shells have also exploded into stone chaos, how far can you say?" They both choked on the smell of gunpowder and couldn't breathe. The wounded who were transported from above and down were all the people in front of the local branch, because the mountain was full of stones, and it was impossible to carry them on stretchers, so they could only carry them down, or help them down, and send them to the transfer point before he went up. He took the wounded man, and the horse briefly bandaged and stopped the bleeding, and then transported him to the nest. I was seventeen or eighteen years old, tall, and most of the wounded were Southerners, short, and I was generally on my back. But at once, all over his body, he called himself sweat and the blood of the wounded, like a bloody man, the mountain was windy, the hair was also wet and dry, dry and wet, where is there a person? Some of the wounded carried them on their backs and died halfway down the road. How can it be said to be 'dead' and 'dead'? As long as you feel that your shoulders are not moving, you start to fall down, getting heavier and heavier, then it will definitely be over, so you have to put aside and go back to say goodbye. There is a small battle, with a baby face, not tall, not much different from my age when the people carry it down. After The doctor wrapped his bandages around him, I quickly ran down on my back. Running and running, listening to him in my ear to me. Running straight and breathless, I couldn't hear what he was saying, so I stopped asking him what was going on? There was not much energy, and there was something in the throat that was not clear, and it took half a day to say: 'Sister, you put it down... I can't stand it.... 'Where can I put it at this time?' I thought that if you insisted on insisting on it, when you reached the bottom, I couldn't stop you. When he saw me, he had to grit his teeth and continue to say to me: My family is... It's salt,...... Of, not yet... Not yet...,' before he could finish speaking, he didn't move. I knew it was not okay, so I quickly put him over my shoulder and let him lean on a pine tree, shake it vigorously, and stimulate him to wake up, but he had lost his breath and could not lift his head. Oops you say how much I regret it! Don't know what he's going to say to me? He didn't know if he was Yancheng or Zhuang and looked at the name on his clothes, the blood was stained into one, and nothing could be seen. alas! He ended up 'not yet', is there nothing he wants to say what it means? I don't know. I really regret it! The old mother shook her head and sighed unceasingly, and there were still all kinds of regrets in her heart. I listened to it with infinite emotion, a revolutionary fighter so young, a life like a living, this ended The old mother said here, the mood was low, the heart was sad, and the old man stopped talking. I brought a towel and wiped her face for a while, asking her to adjust her mood. In the most, I still can't help but say all the thoughts in my heart: "Alas! Still a kid! Where did his family know that he had sacrificed so much pity, I looked at him, it would be sad for a while, and the tears couldn't help but fall down. Hearing her say this, I was also in tears. alas! How many people have thrown themselves into the revolution for the sake of our happiness today, the blood field! I am reminded of Chairman Mao's poem: "In order to have the courage to sacrifice more, dare to teach the sun and the moon to change into a new heaven." Wasn't that the heroic sacrifice of the little warrior exactly like that? The old mother recovered from her sadness and continued, "I couldn't do it then!" You can't just feel sorry for him alone? When others saw me there, they shouted at me: 'Leave him alone, I can't care!' Hurry up and save the 'Alas!' There were too many people dying next to the road! I had to get off him, run back quickly, and then carry the man. On the way back and forth, the stray bullet that came to that time, but not afraid, crossed a heart, heart: you blow up and pull down, blow up, I still carry, can save one count one" At this moment, the heroic feelings of the old mother carrying the wounded to move forward jumped in front of my eyes This revolutionary martyr, I don't know if the relevant departments can find out his origin after the founding of the country? But think about it, from the period of the agrarian revolution to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, how many unsung heroic martyrs of the sons and daughters of China died on the battlefield? Not just thousands! Why is it that our happy life today is not easy to come by is that these revolutionary martyrs have exchanged their blood and lives for it, and my mother and I are silent. I couldn't bear to ask any more. The next day, I introduced the topic of the Battle of Meng Lianggu again: "You rescued the wounded on Meng Lianggu, can't we save the People on the Kuomintang side?" The Soldiers of the Kuomintang were also ordinary people, and there were also many Soldiers in Guizhou on their side, and the sub-gold who was later in the pharmacy of our hospital was from the 74th Division. He was still captured by Aunt Gong Yang's uncle. Yang Xiufen's uncle was a platoon leader at that time, and after he captured Jiang Zijin, he stayed in their platoon and became our liberation fighter, and later developed him into the party and promised Yang Xiufen to him. Uncle Jiang and Aunt Yang are familiar to me, they are old neighbors for many years, and both of them have passed away. Just because Uncle Jiang was liberated by the 74th Division, I remember that during the "Cultural Revolution", I also saw the "big character poster" that posted on him, changed "Jiang Zijin" to "Jiang Zijin", satirized him with cartoons, and called the rebels to fight not lightly. Unexpectedly, the two opposing sides on the battlefield in the past ended up working in a unit for decades The old mother continued: "However, those captured soldiers of the 74th Division felt that we had won unfairly, and once we opened the light, they did not fight him, and surrounded him for two days, and there was no water to drink on the mountain, nor food to eat, and the most bullets were also exhausted." The steamed buns, flatbread, and bullets dropped by the plane all floated to our side, calling us cheap. It was yo! When his plane was low, we shot it into the air with our machine guns; when it was high, the parachute he threw blew in the wind and went up to our position. The people are all facing us, and those who send water, food, and ammunition are all the people around us. There are old women and two women, a little little foot, carrying a small dog head can, up the mountain to bring boiling water to drink. The Kuomintang soldiers were in vain, only staring at them, unable to drink, and thirst also killed them. Can the Kuomintang remain undefeated in this law? He had a captive officer who was still dissatisfied, and he was fighting with the doctor. Yu Hong was tall, and he took the anti-cliff down his head, patted his body, and said, "Hey, you still fight with me!" Not convinced, right? You can't do it again! The officer had no nose blown. Yu Hong is powerful! When he transported the wounded, he clipped one in his arm socket and carried another in his hand. Than no, at the beginning, I couldn't stop fighting for a day, and there were many wounded, and I couldn't drink any water on my back! My lips were dry and full of puffs, and I thought at that time, I could carry one more, and the more I carried, the more I couldn't walk. I can imagine her carrying the wounded step by step in the midst of the artillery fire and the rocky hills. Even if the official battle is over, there is certainly a process to be made by the wounded. People's physical strength is limited, and those heroic rescuers, because they have reached the limit of continuous transportation day and night, I asked her: "How long have you stayed in Meng Lianggu?" The old mother said: "I stayed there for three days and two nights, and I didn't rest at all, and I was exhausted!" Oops down so many wounded! On the street, in the homes of ordinary people, in the millway, even the toilet door is blocked. The surrounding villages down the hill are everywhere, and there are more wounded! Count the Kuomintang, take us here, one or two thousand! The villages are full of people. In the world-famous heavy battle, my mother and comrades-in-arms withstood the severe test of the battle, practiced the humanitarianism of the revolution with a weak body, joined hands with others to save countless fresh lives, and completed a magnificent song of youth in her extraordinary and extraordinary feat of ordinary life! In this way alone, it can bear the lofty respects of future generations. The history of Meng Lianggu's war will forever be remembered as such an ordinary battlefield rescue team member Ying!

(To be continued)

It was published on January 21, 2022 in Liumao Bookstore, Liuqiaoyu Village, Gangcheng District, Jinan City.