Re-read "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City": "The spark of stars can burn the plains"

"The spark of the stars can burn the plains", Li Yingru's long novel "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City" presents a microcosm of the formation process of the general trend of the fire plains. Published in 1958, the novel was written by Li Yingru based on his personal experience in the struggle against the enemy and the hypocrites in the Baoding area around 1942. According to the writer's "Words on the Ancient City of Wildfire Spring Breeze Fighting", after the "sweeping and liquidation" of the Japanese Kou in 1941 and 1942, "the area of activity in the Jin-Cha-Ji base area was relatively reduced like other base areas behind enemy lines." In order to survive the arduous stage, in order to meet new victories, the Party called for an advance behind enemy lines; While organizing a large number of armed workers' detachments, a number of cadres were dispatched to large and medium-sized cities such as Ping, Tianjin, Bao, and Shi to carry out underground work in major transportation routes. "Li Yingru was sent to the Pingjin Line to carry out work in the Baoding area during this urgent task, and he experienced the thrilling, tense and bizarre work of the internal line, and "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City" is his fond look back at that unforgettable life and struggle experience. The work takes this as the background of creation, many characters have real-life archetypes, and the tense and exciting and gripping storyline is tense and relaxed on the basis of authenticity, which has strong readability and appeal.

The novel takes Yang Xiaodong's action clues to lead the underground work in the provincial city as the main line, and the impressive thing is not only that it portrays a group of heroic and courageous heroes and thrilling struggle activities, but also clearly and profoundly shows how the mass line adhered to by the Communist Party of China has achieved great victories. In the struggle between the forces of the enemy and ourselves, while maintaining the purity within the organization and the loftiness of personal ideals and beliefs, the Chinese Communists rely on the party's leadership to make strict plans within the organization, strike head-on with heroism and wisdom, and wait for the opportunity to disintegrate the enemy; On the one hand, we should adhere to the party's mass line, unite the broad masses of the people, win the support and support of the masses, and finally awaken the Chinese of "conscience" and "morality", achieve the goal of dividing and disintegrating the enemy, and win the stage victory of the revolution. In Wildfire Spring Breeze Fighting Ancient City, Li Yingru focuses on the three key elements that led to the victory of the Chinese revolution: the frontal struggle between the enemy and ourselves, the party's mass line, and the construction within the party organization.

The clash between the inside team members and the enemy is the most important and most thrilling part of the work. The work depicts heroic figures on the front and reflects the ugly faces of government officials on the reverse, and the two mirror each other, completing the presentation of "dancing on the tip of the knife". In addition to the three main scenes of distributing propaganda materials in the banquet paradise, organizing "anti-grain grabbing", and robbing prisons to rescue comrades-in-arms, the work also designs important plots such as the wisdom fight blue hair, the night attack on Guishan Mountain, the single knife to the pseudo-governor of the meeting, and the plot against Guan Jingtao, which are compact and meticulous, but there are tensions and relaxations, and climaxes.

"Wisdom fighting" is the overall strategy of internal work, at the critical moment, Yang Xiaodong came forward to negotiate with the enemy, relying on superior courage, taking effective information to fight psychological warfare with the enemy, successfully scaring the enemy, and relieving the danger; During the "anti-grain snatching" campaign, they contributed to the rear, abducted the president of the puppet chamber of commerce, forced him to dismiss the grain merchant group, did not send convoys, undermined the plans of the pseudo-security brigade, and bought valuable retreat time for the masses and comrades-in-arms at the front.

The "political offensive" is another strategy for internal work against the enemy, and it is to break through the enemy's defense line ideologically and psychologically, and to achieve the purpose of winning and plotting rebellion through policy infiltration, ideological washing, and soul purification. The members of the task force took the opportunity of the Spring Festival gathering and banquet paradise of the pseudo-officials to distribute Communist Propaganda materials by delivering New Year's greeting cards, causing panic within the enemy organization; Yang Xiaodong single-handedly went to the private residence of the puppet governor and launched a logical and speculative battle over the war situation, national consciousness and the puppet provincial governor, "People can never regard shame as honor. What else can a man who bows his knees at the feet of the enemy of the nation and is guilty before the motherland show off?" He grasped the enemy's psychology and combined reason with poking at his vital point.

When the whole landscape unfolds in conflict between the enemy and us, Li Yingru always deliberately swings a stroke and inserts a "hundred ugly maps" within the puppet government. The psychological depiction of pseudo-officials was meticulously carried out at the feasting paradise event to welcome the New Year, revealing layer by layer the abuse of power for personal gain, mutual calculation, selfishness, and exploitation within the puppet government, thus exposing its internal darkness and fragmentation. When the propaganda materials jumped out of the communist spirit of the declaration and the bitter condemnation: "Those who betray the motherland and sell their souls are humble in heart, low in personality, humiliated in existence, and humble in enjoyment, and any so-called enjoyment of money and material things is also dissatisfied with the above losses in case", the two very different values and ideals are strongly in conflict, and the basic outline of the internal line team members is drawn at this moment, and the overall spiritual outlook and firm ideal belief of the members of the Communist Party of China are also about to come out.

In the "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City", Li Yingru clearly showed how communists always stood on the stand of the people, united the broad masses of the people, and won the support and support of the masses, and what irreplaceable role the masses played in helping the revolution.

The members of the internal team are basically from poor peasant families, have personal experience of the hardships and pains of peasant life, and have maintained flesh-and-blood ties with the masses of the people for a long time. Yang Xiaodong and his mother spent their lonely and bitter childhood with each other, had deep feelings for the rural laborers represented by their mothers, talked cordially with small traders in the market, and received enthusiastic help from the old lady who sold dates. As a communist fighter who insisted on following the mass line, he believed that "no matter how great the difficulties or how complicated the situation, only by personally attending the scene, drilling into the masses, and finding out the details, there are many ways", the strength of the people is infinite. Jin Huan lost her husband and mother in the war, she turned her pain into revolutionary enthusiasm, and recognized the old dry lady with no children and no daughters in Balizhuang, awakening her class consciousness; She persuaded the puppet headquarters to be blown up by the ghost plane to kill his wife and only daughter's old man, to repay the favor of the savior and avenge her own flesh and bones; She recognized the pseudo-army Tang Er Dog, who had a heart for kindness, as her son, gave him comfort and caress, and successfully rebelled. In order to solve the difficulties of Zhou Uncle and Han Yanlai's life, Silver Ring took off his own fur coat to cover the cold in the winter, and spent the winter with a single coat...

The masses of the people have been helped and inspired by the members of the task force, and in turn not a few have assisted them in their work. Uncle Zhou dug a tunnel overnight for Yang Xiaodong, who successfully escaped from prison, and did not hesitate to sell blood for money to prevent them from returning to the base area, in his opinion, "We must not let them go, with them in one day, we will have a main backbone, without these people, there will be no sun in the sky, and there will be no living head in the world!" Communist Party members are the hope of the future in the eyes of the masses of the people, and they are also the spiritual sustenance for them to grit their teeth and face a difficult life. Han Yan resolutely rescued Pu Xiaoman's mother and daughter who were being violated by the Japanese on their way to escape, and then contributed to the transmission of important information for the internal work... "The people have raised us with blood and defended us with their lives." The feelings of the party and the masses are deeply rooted, which is the result of taking the mass line and being supported by the people, and it is also the reason why we must adhere to the mass line.

As Han Yanlai summed up, "Every move of the leader is for the country and the poor, and helping them is equivalent to helping themselves." "The Communist Party of China has always stood with the masses of the people, truly thought of what the people think and what the people are anxious about, they have great love in their hearts, and with a strong sense of national state and a sense of responsibility of the times, they strive for the reunification of the country and the happiness of the people. When their purpose of "serving the people wholeheartedly" is perceived by more and more people, it is not surprising that they have gained love and support. When the members of the inner line work team developed from the initial "weak" and minority to the huge force that condensed tens of thousands of people, the victory of the Communist Party of China in the revolution had already begun to burn.

In the course of their confrontation with the enemy and the hypocrites, the members of the task force represented by Yang Xiaodong have always adhered to their lofty communist beliefs, strictly enforced organizational discipline, and at the same time established a democratic and equal comradely relationship within the party, thus creating an excellent contingent of courageous, rigorous, united, and fraternal personnel. The construction and improvement of the internal organization team is the guarantee for the "sharp knife" to always be sharp and accurate and to directly pound the enemy's heart.

In the course of the struggle against the enemy and the hypocrites, the members of the task force believed in the communist ideals as solid as a rock, even beyond personal life and death. When Yang Xiaodong's fate was uncertain when he was arrested and imprisoned, the first thing he considered was the issue of revolutionary work, "You fell, and Yan came to them." Besides, the Party will send better comrades to lead the work, so how can it talk about losing all?" Secondly, on the question of personal revolutionary ideals and the realization of values, "a Communist Party member, as long as he asks himself, his whole life is worthy of the people, his own class, and his own Party..." At a time of vital importance, he still wholeheartedly remembers the tasks of the Party and the communist ideals.

Jin Huan, who was tortured after her arrest, recalled in her last letter that her feelings for the party were deeply moving. "I will not humiliate the class that feeds me, the party that educates me as an adult, the comrades who help and love me", "I am neither red-faced nor do I believe in fate, I know that I believe in the party", she is not at all moved by the money and glory thrown by the enemy, she is carrying out attacks on the enemy in the last moments of her life, and is a real communist fighter.

Insisting on criticism and self-criticism is the consciousness of the members of the internal team, and while maintaining the purity of their personal thoughts, they also effectively ensure the advanced nature of their work. After Han Yanlai entered the revolutionary base area, he was full of joy and joy in the new environment, and full of longing and pursuit for joining the party organization soon, but when he saw Yang Xiaodong studying the latest party documents, he felt guilty and couldn't help but introspect himself: "People bury their heads in books, and your mind flies into the clouds, are you ashamed?" As far as Yang Xiaodong, a mature Communist Party member, was concerned, after receiving a letter from a leader, he reflected deeply on the internal work, "How concerned, how trusted, and how much hope the party and superiors have for us!" What have we, the Party members, done to the Party? I personally should first examine it in terms of thought and action. Minister Xiao's secret letter to Yinhuan contained work instructions for rescuing Yang Xiaodong, as well as comprehensive and profound reflections, not only pointing out that there was petty-bourgeois warmth and political paralysis in Yinhuan's work, and alerting her that "a Communist Party member's political sense of smell must be sharp and sensitive at all times", but also reflecting on her own responsibility on the issue of Gao Ziping's defection. They are good at summing up various experiences in the struggle, enhancing their personal ideological understanding, advancing the building of party organizations, and always maintaining the advanced nature of individuals and collectives; this is a powerful guarantee for the victory of the revolution.

Returning to the rather figurative title of "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City", Li Yingru "uses wildfire metaphor as the enemy's fierce flame, and the spring wind as the strength of the party, no matter how high the fierce flame of your enemy, burns inexhaustible Chinese the living force of the people's revolution." The communist fighters represented by Yang Xiaodong declared with heroic struggle that even though the gap between the enemy and our forces was extremely different and the situation was difficult in a certain historical stage, they would strengthen their ideals and beliefs, adhere to truth and justice, and regard the masses of the people as the eternal and solid cornerstone, and the confrontation between the "spring wind" and the "wildfire" would eventually usher in the victory of the "weak," just as history tells us.