Si County at the beginning of the Liberation War
Liu Xing
Baiyi Lane, Si County, during the Japanese occupation
Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out in his "The Situation After the Victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan and Our Policy": "The arduous resistance of the Chinese people has been victorious. The War of Resistance Against Japan, as a historical stage, has passed. However, it must be soberly recognized that the danger of civil war is very serious. Chiang Kai-shek is already sharpening his knife, so we must also sharpen our knives. Sure enough, Chiang Kai-shek, who had hidden on Mount Emei during the War of Resistance Against Japan, came down to seize the fruits of the victory of the War of Resistance after the Japanese surrendered, desperately dispatched troops, and ordered the puppet army to become a "national army" and seize many large cities and transportation arteries. Cities along the Jinpu route, such as Xuzhou, Bengbu, Guzhen, and Sucheng, were all controlled by Jiang Jun. After the adjustment of administrative divisions, the three counties of Si, Ling, and Sui all resumed their original county structure and carried out their work under the leadership of the Seven Prefectures Committee and the Seven Special Bureaus. The broad masses of the people have just ushered in the recuperation, production and construction after liberation. According to the instructions of the party committee at a higher level, Si County first carried out rent reduction and interest reduction in Baimiao Township in Sibei Province, with rapid results and remarkable results. The campaign to punish adultery and anti-blackmail in Sicheng was also vigorously launched. First, three Japanese pseudo-county magistrates were tried and punished: Luo Shaoquan and Zhang Baojian, the pseudo-governors of Si County, and Yu Naigui, the pseudo-county magistrate of Wuhe County. Then he fought against the pseudo-district governor Gao Wenxin, tried and executed the traitor Chen Changyou on the spot. The masses clapped their hands and applauded. In May, Sicheng held a 10,000-person conference to celebrate the victory of punishing adultery, opposing hegemony, and reducing rent and interest. By the end of April 1946, the five districts of Sibei, Dazhuang, Zhanglou, Ganghe, and Chengguan had mobilized more than 1,800 people, waged 211 struggles, liquidated 239 traitors, waged a reasoning struggle against 173 landlords who were unwilling to reduce rents, and more than 8,000 peasant households had gained benefits, obtained 7,463 mu of land, 113,600 jin of grain, 2075961 yuan of resistance, and 286 houses; by the end of May, the county had punished 410 traitors (including 37 were righteous) and nearly 400 were destroying the counterfeit regime. Farmers recovered 20,000 mu of land and 140,000 catties of grain. After the Party Central Committee's "May Fourth" land reform instructions were issued, the Seven Sub-districts Joint Rescue Association, in coordination with the Sixian County Party Committee, organized a land reform task force of more than 50 people, led by Me and Zhang Yiping, to conduct a typical experiment of land reform in Wafang Township, Zhanglou District.
The Kuomintang reactionaries will seize every inch of power and win every inch of profit. The Kuomintang troops stationed in the first line of Bengbu, Xuzhou Guzhen, and Suxian County constantly launched attacks on the border areas of our Seventh Sub-district. In May 1946, Jiang's army in Xuzhou gathered a large number of troops and launched a large-scale attack on the Liberated Areas. The situation in the Seventh Division suddenly became tense. To this end, more than 6,000 soldiers and civilians in Sicheng gathered to resolutely oppose the civil war and shout slogans such as "Defend peace, defend the liberated areas." Lai Yi, secretary of the Seventh Prefectural Committee and political commissar of the Seventh Sub-district, spoke at the meeting and called on everyone to urgently mobilize and resolutely smash the reactionaries' civil war plot.
In July of that year, Chiang Kai-shek, after making full preparations, completely tore off the mask of "peace" and launched a large-scale attack on the liberated area east of Huaibei Road with 100,000 troops. From July 26 to 27, Commander Chen Yi led the main forces of the 2nd Column of Shanye and the 9th Column of Huaye to surround the 92nd and 60th Divisions of Chiang Kai-shek's army in the area of Chaoyangji and Yugou in Lingbei, fighting fiercely for a day and night, and all the 92nd Division and the 1st Division of the 60th Division had more than 5,000 people, and captured Shen Shengkai, deputy commander of the 92nd Division, alive, and fought a beautiful battle of annihilation. In this regard, Chen Yi once improvised poetry. Poem titled "The Ninety-second Brigade of chiang Kai-shek's Army in the Initial Battle of Huaibei":
"100,000 Jingqi Surabaya Yang, Huainan Huaibei all over Xuanhuang."
Land attacked the air and exploded the sky and the earth, burning and looting chickens and dogs to die.
Returning to the homeland, the old and the treacherous, the new tiger and wolf of the Us weapon Jiang Jun.
The people shook the mountains and rivers in anger, and the enemy fell on the back of the water. ”
On July 23, the enemy invaded Sicheng. The county party committee and the county people's government of Si County moved to the area north of Ping Shan. In addition to paying close attention to the enemy's movements outward, the armed forces in Sibei, Dunji, Ganghe, and other districts and townships also attacked and harassed the enemy in Sicheng at night. On the eve of the enemy's occupation of Sicheng, according to the instructions of the county party committee and in order to help persist in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, the land reform task force, which was originally in Zhanglou District, was divided into two teams and went to the two districts of South Suinan and Dazhuang to seize the time and carry out land reform in a bold and bold manner. A large number of prisoners captured by our army in the battle of Chaoyangji were escorted to the east from the north road on the bank of the Sui River, and the masses stood on the side of the road to watch, which boosted their morale. More than 500 poor peasants and militiamen who had been given land in Wafang, Sishan, and other townships, armed with earthen cannons, red tassels, wooden sticks, knives, and other weapons, held a turnaround rally in QiluZhou Village, burned the land title deeds they had chased from the landlord's home on the spot, and drank chicken blood wine to express their determination to defend their hometown and the fruits of the victory in land reform. Some reactionary landlords in Dazhuang District colluded with Kuomintang agents to plot to attack our Liuji Township Office. The responsible person of our district party committee led the militia to suppress it in a timely manner, and the enemy's conspiracy failed to succeed. Due to the influence of Chaoyangji's victory in battle, the enemy who invaded sicheng did not dare to act rashly except to set up a peripheral stronghold near the city.
At this time, heavy rain fell in the Sixian area, the ditch was full of river level, and many embankments such as the Sui River and the Long River broke or flooded the embankment, and there was a vast ocean. Our cadres and local armed forces are inconvenient to move, often have to wade waist-deep water, and when they are tired, they can only rest their feet in the high places of the village. Enemy activities also have difficulties. In order to further strike at the arrogance of Chiang Kai-shek's army, the main force of our army attacked Sicheng on August 7, regardless of the barrier of the great water. The pre-branch work in Si County mainly relies on several districts in northern Si to organize stretcher teams and deliver food. The masses in front of the branch waded through the water to the designated place. The wounded soldier transfer station is located in the area of Bali Bridge, northeast of the city. In addition to the health personnel organized by the troops, there are also women activists organized by the women's federations of the fenhe and Dunji districts to assist in bandaging and nursing work. The battle lasted for three days, and due to changes in the situation, our army took the initiative to retreat.
The situation in Silingju is becoming increasingly tense. Under the leadership of Li Renzhi, political commissar of the regiment, and Wu Zhongtai, deputy regiment leader, the three regiments of the sub-district were active in the countryside of northern Sibei. In order to meet the needs of the struggle and better carry out the struggle behind enemy lines in the Silingju area, the Seven Prefectural Committees decided to establish the Siling Sui Work Committee. It is composed of comrades Li Renzhi, Wu Zhongtai, Wu Yunpei, Nong Chaomou, Liu Yongzhang, Xie Jinghong, Wang Yunzhao, Hu Tiemin, Liu Xing and other comrades. Li Renzhi concurrently served as secretary, and Yao Ke and Liu Yongzhang served as deputy secretaries. The original structure of Sixian, Lingbi and Juning counties remained unchanged, and under normal circumstances, they still carried out their own activities.
In order to facilitate guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, several districts in northern Sibei, under the leadership of the county party committee, carried out a struggle to pick up traitors and declare in various villages that those who sent messages to Chiang Kai-shek's bandit army, or who identified or killed our army's dependents, martyrs' dependents, and cadres during the enemy's sweep, and who helped the landlords return to their hometowns to carry out counter-offensive reckoning, would be severely punished.
In order to encourage cadres and masses to unite as one and defend the fruits of victory in land reform, Wu Jianxun, a missionary of the Seven Prefectural Committees, and Sun Qizhi, a reporter for The Dawn, and others edited and mimeographed the tabloid "The Frontline of the Suihe River" in Zhou Village, Qilu, Wafang Township, Zhanglou District, and published three issues in succession.
One day in mid-September, the Sicheng enemy conducted the first sweep of the north in two ways. All the way along the Si Sui Highway, through Ping Shan to Dazhuang, and then along the Sui River through Wafang to the Sishan Ji area; The other way to the area of Machang Mountain, ready to attack me at the mouth of the Xinguan River. The armed forces of the districts and townships of Southern Henan, Dazhuang, Zhanglou, and other districts and townships were transferred while fighting, so that the enemy could not understand the truth. The roads are muddy and difficult to navigate. When the Sixian county government and some district and township armed forces crossed the Sishan Ji southeast of the Yang family and retreated toward the mouth of the Xinguan River, gunshots rang out in the direction of the Horse Factory, and later it was learned that it was a gun fired at the enemy by the Wuhe County Headquarters, which delayed the enemy's action, so that the local armed forces and cadres in Si County seized the opportunity to cross the Mouth of the Xinguan River, move to the east of Chonggang Mountain, and safely jump out of the enemy's encirclement.
Not only did our side suffer no losses during this enemy sweep, but on the night of this day, the three regiments of our sub-district, which had been hidden in the northwest of Dazhuang, under the command of Li Renzhi and Wu Zhongtai, suddenly surrounded and destroyed the important stronghold of Daliji, killing and wounding more than 260 enemy prisoners. Among them, more than 20 leaders of the return to their hometowns who committed the most heinous crimes were handed over to our Dazhuang District for execution. At the same time, they also destroyed the Enemy FengMiao District Office and the JianWu Township Office living in Liji.
Soon, Suining's enemies reoccupied Da Li Ji. One morning, it was raining lightly, and the Suining enemy swept around Zhang Lou. When the armed forces of our Zhanglou District moved to the four mountains, the enemy followed in pursuit. At this time, Li Renzhi's troops were living in Sishan, and immediately took a company and three machine guns with him, crouched on the east bank of the forked river, and opened fierce fire on the enemy. On this night, our three regiments overheard a dialogue between the enemies in Sicheng and Suining through military radio: "There are more than 2,000 people in the area of the Four Mountains, and they want to jointly attack" Yunyun. Based on this situation, Li Renzhi informed our local armed forces and cadres to move with the troops to the northeast of Chonggang Mountain and jumped out of the enemy's combined attack circle.