The Hebei Provincial Special Committee for The Protection of The People's Republic of China is in Anping

In the spring of 1933, the Kuomintang set up a camp in Baoding, which was a secret service agency dedicated to suppressing the revolutionary activities of the Communists. The situation in the Baoding revolution worsened, and in June Liu Tieniu, secretary of the Special Committee for Safeguarding The People's Republic of China, and Li Hongzhen, a member of the Special Committee, were arrested and sent to Wuhan to be killed. The Hebei Provincial CPC Committee also appointed Pei Zhong as secretary of the special committee, and Lu Zhiguo and Fan Kemin as members of the special committee. In view of the seriousness of the white terror in Baoding, the special committee moved to Anping and Shenxian to carry out work, and sent inspectors to inspect the work in various places and develop the organization.

Anping County was one of the earliest places where the Communists began their activities. In 1923, Gong Zhongtao was sent back to Anping by Li Dazhao to develop party members, and established the first rural branch of the Communist Party of China, the Taicheng Special Branch of the Communist Party of China, and in 1924, he established the first county committee of Hebei Province, the Anping County Committee of the Communist Party of China. There are quite a few grass-roots party organizations in this area, and the revolutionary situation is developing very well, so Anping was chosen as the office of the special committee for the protection of subordinates. When Pei Zhongxuan, secretary of the special committee, first arrived in Anping, he lived in the ChenTun Kiln Factory on the edge of Anping County, where there were many kiln workers, it was easy to hide, and they were all poor people and easy to carry out their work.

In the autumn of 1933, Inspector Fan Kemin, a member of the Special Committee, violated discipline and returned home without the approval of the organization to get married and was arrested and betrayed. After Fan Kemin defected, he led the detective team to Shenxian County, Raoyang, Anping, Renqiu, Shenze and other places to arrest communists and kill the red masses. On January 19, 1934, Fan Kemin led the detective team to The Village of Nanlianghe cheng in Anping County to arrest Lu Zhiguo, because Ma Chengrui, an underground party member who was the deputy captain of the reconnaissance team, did the work of the detective team leader, deliberately delaying time, so that Lu Zhiguo could escape. Lu Zhiguo informed the party organizations of Boye, Zhengding, and Fukazawa overnight, and quickly transferred and concealed them. In late January, the enemy went to camp villages to arrest Ma Jinsheng, to Taicheng to arrest Gong Zhongtao, to Nanzhangwo to arrest Liu Guosheng, and to Xue Gezhuang to arrest Li Xiayuan. Due to the rampant activities of the enemy, the Special Committee for The Preservation of Subordinate Affairs and the Hebei Provincial Party Committee lost contact. Pei Zhong, secretary of the special committee, chose to return to his hometown to contact the party organization, and he never returned. Liu Guosheng, secretary of the Anping County CPC Committee, went to Shijiazhuang, and Ma Jinsheng was sent by Lu Zhiguo to find a higher-level party organization.

Lu Zhiguo was a native of Nanlianghe Village, Anping County, joined the Communist Party in 1925 at Boye Tongren High School, and served as deputy secretary of the branch and secretary of the youth league branch, in 1927 he was admitted to Baoding Tongren Middle School, he was expelled from the school for participating in party activities, and then transferred to Minsheng Middle School, Jingren Middle School and other party organizations to continue to lead the school's party group organization, and commanded the "May Day" flight rally. In 1930, he participated in the work of the Special Committee for the Protection of Subordinates, served as the secretary of the Special Committee of the Youth League, mainly developed the party organizations in Anxin, Rongcheng, Yixian and other places, participated in the arrangement of the Wuligang peasant rebellion in Guanxian County, served for a period of time as the secretary of the Special Committee for The Protection of The People's Procuratorate, and later transferred to Shijiazhuang as the secretary of the Zhizhong Youth League Committee and the director of the Anti-Warlord Department, directly led the anti-Japanese student movement and the Lingshou Rebellion in the Seventh Division and Eighth Middle School of Zhengding, responded to the Gaoli rebellion, and was transferred back to the work of the Special Committee for The Protection of The People's Republic of China in 1933. Lu Zhiguo's family is a relatively wealthy family in Nanlianghe Village, with more than forty acres of land. The residences of Luzhi State are divided into three courtyards: front, middle and rear. In the face of the white terror and bloody massacre of the Kuomintang, Lu Zhiguo thought about it, thought of the comrades who sacrificed their lives, thought of the suffering people of the world, and thought of the oath taken under the party banner. He found Hou Yutian, a communist party member in Shenxian County, and said: "Old Hou, now that the special committee has lost contact with its superiors, our activities cannot be stopped. The two decided to develop the organization while developing the armed forces, and using both civilian and military forces. Lu Zhiguo was responsible for developing the party's organization and concurrently served as secretary of the shenze, raoyang, and anping central county party committees; Hou Yutian was in charge of the military and was responsible for fighting traitors and raising funds for activities. Lu Zhiguo said to Hou Yutian affectionately: We must preserve this red zone, and even if we sacrifice, we must leave behind the seeds of revolution. After Fan Kemin had just defected, Pei Zhongxuan consulted with Lu Zhiguo and got twelve guns to set up a dog fighting team, and the captain was Hou Yutian. The two decided to continue to expand their original armed forces, and Lu Zhiguo, hiding from his father, consulted with his brother to take out the hundred pieces of ocean that his family had originally planned to build a house, purchased two handfuls of picks, a "six-wheeler" and a "single one", and set up a special task force with twenty-four guns on the basis of the original dog fighting team, with members including Communists and poor people from Anping, Raoyang, Shenxian and other surrounding counties. The main tasks of the special task force are to eliminate traitors, to fight against local tyrants and gentry, to protect the salt people, to fight salt patrols, and to raise funds for the revolution.

Left Hou Yutian, Zhonglu Zhiguo, Right Ma Jinsheng

There is an organization, there is a team, and the team of so many people has to have a hidden place. Lu Zhiguo and Hou Yutian agreed to use Lu Zhiguo's home as a secret office location. Hou Yutian lived in Lu Zhiguo's home as a long-term worker, and the other members of the team came to Luzhiguo to eat and live in the name of short-term workers and monthly workers, and they often hid in the pear tree fields and threshing fields of LuZhiguo, and went out day and night to carry out revolutionary activities. The middle court of the Lu zhi state became the place for meetings and offices, and mobile checkpoints were set up on the roof, and tunnels were dug from the inner house to lead directly to the outside of the wall, and a hidden door was opened on the middle wall to prevent the enemy from suddenly attacking. Lu Zhiguo's family was also busy inside and out, standing guard and guarding the guard, washing and cooking, taking care of the injured and sick, and so on. Later, Li Zishou, a member of the Communist Party, came to Nanlianghe Village Primary School to teach and connected with Lu Zhiguo, who appointed Li Zishou as the liaison officer of the special committee for the protection of subordinates, with the Nanlianghe Primary School as the liaison station, and the outsiders had to go to the Nanlianghe Primary School to find Li Zishou before they could meet with the special committee personnel. Since then, the special committee headed by Lu Zhiguo and Hou Yutian has been carrying out solid activities in the areas of Anping, Shenxian, Shenze, Raoyang, Zhengding, Boye, and Anxin. On the one hand, they recruit party members and restore and rebuild the party organization; on the other hand, they use their armed forces to fight traitors, bully landlords, salt patrols, protect salt people, and protect the toiling people.

In September 1935, the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China established a new special committee for the protection of subordinates in Renqiu, with Li Zhenyu as its secretary. At the beginning of 1936, Niu Wencang, secretary of the Military Commission of the New Special Committee, and six other people were killed by the enemy in Gaoyang, and the Special Committee for The Protection of the Special Committee was again severely damaged. At this time, When Li Zhenyu heard that there was still a special committee for the protection of subordinates in the Anping area and that the revolutionary work was carried out with great sound and color, Li Zhenyu was overjoyed and immediately decided to look for Lu Zhiguo and Hou Yutian, the special committee for protecting subordinates. Li Zishou received the liaison officer sent by Li Zhenyu and reported the situation to Hou Yutian of Lu Zhiguo, and the two were both happy and worried, happy that they had finally found the organization, and worried about whether this was a trap trapped by the enemy. After several arguments and consultations, Lu Zhiguo and Hou Yutian finally decided to let Hou Yutian go to the joint and chose to meet on a boat in Baiyangdian, because this boat was a contact point for Lu Zhiguo's development. Later, things were simple, Li Zhenyu asked the Hebei Provincial Party Committee to appoint Lu Zhiguo as a member of the special committee, and Hou Yutian as a member of the special committee and military minister, and since then the two special committees for protecting subordinates have been merged. Soon Hou Yutian disguised himself as a grape seller and single-handedly shot and killed the traitor who informed Niu Wencang. The special committee activities went smoothly, and the special task force also grew, and later this team had a company of soldiers, who continued to be active in the Jizhong area until after the July 7 Incident, when they threw themselves into the great national anti-Japanese struggle.

In Anping, the party's activities were relatively early, and the activities of The Special Committee for the Protection of the People's Republic of China, Hou Yutian, the ruler of the country, in Anping, enabled the preservation of the flames of the revolution, and laid a good mass foundation and made indelible contributions to the organization of the anti-Japanese contingent in Jizhong by Meng Qingshan, the uprising of Lü Zhengcao in Jizhong, and the 100,000 anti-Japanese army organized in Hebei.

Source: The country's first rural party branch memorial hall

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