The tiger who hoeed the traitor and anti-hegemony plucked his teeth
Speaking of the enemy's work of hoeing and opposing hegemony and dividing the puppet army, Zhang Ying used several very vivid and vivid words to summarize: one is called "digging up sparrows" and "digging nests", and the other is called "shouting in the artillery tower" and "talking education.". The armed workers' brigade often cooperates with the enemy's industrial departments to crack down on the traitorous and vicious bully who has committed many evils and is dead-hearted, and can "dig him out" no matter where he is; Most of the puppet armies were counter-offensive and disintegrated. Therefore, the traitorous bullies are most afraid of the armed forces.
In the winter of 1942, a traitor from a certain village on the north bank of the Shahe River in Dingxian County returned to the village with several puppet troops and killed several Communists. Hearing the news, Zhang Ying immediately sent someone to reconnoiter, find out which street and which door this guy lived in, and which kang he slept in, led the armed workers' team into the village in the middle of the night, arranged vigilance around him, and sent a detachment leader, Zhang Haolin, and others to infiltrate the traitor's house to "dig a nest," arrest him outside the village, and use a bayonet to pick him to death. The next day, the armed workers' brigade posted a large red paper writing on the crimes of the traitor, pronounced the sentence and executed him in the name of the anti-Japanese government. As the news spread, the threat shook in all directions, and the traitorous bully trembled in fear and struck hard at the enemy's arrogance.
There was a big traitor Ding Ruida in Ding County, who committed many evil deeds and was extremely indignant. The armed workers' brigade printed his crimes on leaflets, painted his head, and spread public opinion that he was going to "knock on" him. Once, the puppet army came out of the stronghold, and did not dare to go near him and distance themselves from him. So Zhang Ying commanded the rifle squad, and shot him from a distance to "upside down", which really became a "single shot". —— Editor's Note: This narrative is wrong! According to the "Ding Ruida Counter-revolutionary Murder Case" in the "Dingzhou Chronicle", Ding Ruida destroyed his face with incense after liberation, absconded to a different place, and actually stole the position of township chief (it can be seen that this is a "talent", but unfortunately a "crooked talent" and did not go the right way). Dingxian has not given up tracking his whereabouts, and it took more than ten years to finally arrest him. Approved by the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, this traitor was held on January 26, 1960, in Dingxian County, where a 10,000-person sentencing conference was held, sentencing the counter-revolutionary murderer Ding Ruida to death, immediately executing him, and depriving him of his political rights for life.
The "History of the Armed Workers Behind Enemy Lines (First Draft)" records that after the "May Day Sweep" of the Japanese devils, the environment was extremely cruel, and the enemy, in order to sabotage our anti-Japanese work and search for our anti-Japanese cadres, installed traitors everywhere who were dead-hearted and confessed to being thieves as fathers and ears. Relying on the close cooperation between the local party organizations and the anti-Japanese masses, the armed workers' brigade sometimes dug up the eyes and ears of several enemies in a single day, so that the Japanese and pseudo-traitors were afraid and the anti-Japanese people were happy. In August 1942, in the eastern part of Xinle County, there were two enemy turrets, about 5 miles apart. The puppet army had 2 squads, led by our inner line, from the south turret to the north turret. As agreed in advance, I wore a straw hat as a marker on my inner line, and the armed engineering team ambushed in a green gauze tent on the side of the road between the two artillery towers. When the enemy reached the site where the armed workers were ambushed, Comrade Huo Tianjin fired a gun (agreed in advance), and the armed workers rushed out to catch the enemy, and the enemy fled to the east side of the green yarn tent. Comrade Zhang Haolin, the leader of the first detachment, quickly boarded the front and grabbed the head of the traitor and the captain of the pseudo-guard. This person did a lot of bad things, the people were extremely indignant, and after the approval of the report, the armed workers' team executed him and posted a notice. This action was a victory for the armed workers to divide and disintegrate the enemy, and to strike at the first evil and kill one hundred people.
In the near autumn of 1943, after investigation, it was learned that the pseudo-baochang man in Xiaoqiao Town in the northern part of Jin County was very bad, and was a traitor with a dead heart and a thief as his father. The armed workers' team set out from the Dingxian area and after a long-distance raid of more than 100 miles, carried out the tactic of digging up the nest and sentenced this false chief to death.
"Single-handedly attacking one" has become a creation that must be done against the enemy and the hypocrites, and has produced a tremendous shocking effect, so that everyone who has beaten the traitors has endangered themselves, and they have asked their families to find the Eighth Route Army and the Armed Workers' Brigade through their relations and leave a way back for themselves.
Gather and escort the scattered cadres
In the fierce battles and breakthroughs against "sweeping" on May Day, some cadres and fighters of the troops were scattered; Some local political power has been temporarily undermined, and many local cadres have lost contact with the organization. These comrades found the armed workers through underground party organizations. So Zhang Ying led the armed workers to undertake the task of escorting the cadres through the road: every once in a while, a group of scattered cadres were gathered and armed escorts crossed the Pinghan Railway.
The Pinghan Railway was a major north-south communication artery of the Japanese invasion of North China, and also a large barrier to block the base area in Central Hebei. The enemy imposed an extremely tight blockade on it: on both sides of the railway, a blockade ditch was dug eight or nine meters deep and more than 3 meters wide, sharp wooden stakes were buried at the bottom of the ditch, water was released in some areas, a guard tower was set up not far away, wolfhounds were raised on the watchtower, and the patrol cars equipped with searchlights on the railway searched every half hour. The difficulty of crossing the railway can be imagined.
One night in the autumn of 1942, Zhang Ying led a team of armed workers to personally cover the passage of Wang Qicai, director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Central Hebei Military Region, Li Jizhi, director of propaganda, and Han Wei, commander of the Ninth Subdistrict. Using the green gauze tents that had just harvested the corn, they quickly approached the railway. Zhang Ying arranged the rifle squad to block the watchtowers at both ends, grasped the gap between the patrol cars patrolling back and forth, and the armed workers team members set up two people to quickly help the cadres cross the railway and run for one or two0 kilometers before stopping.
Sometimes, when the armed workers' brigade encounters a leading cadre who is generally young and weak, it has to go through the internal line relations, disguise themselves as ordinary people, and legally escort them. In a short period of time, the armed workers' brigade has escorted more than 100 cadres safely through the road, making important contributions to protecting cadres, reducing losses, and preserving the backbone of the revolution.
The "History of the Armed Workers Behind Enemy Lines (First Draft)" records that in the method of escorting cadres through the road, some of the armed workers' teams were legally escorted after being dressed up, and some were secretly escorted at night. When escorting An ××, secretary general of the Party Committee of Jizhong District, because he was older and had difficulties in escorting at night, he adopted the method of escorting in disguise, bought a long shirt for him to wear, hired a small car pulled by livestock, and escorted him from Dingxian during the day.
Copper wall iron wall "fortress household"
The enemy was repeatedly attacked by the armed workers' brigade, and they hated and feared the armed workers' brigade. The Yangtze River Brigade of the Japanese army stationed in Dingxian County was wanted in the pseudo-Xinmin newspaper and arrested Zhang Ying with a reward of 500 pieces of silver.
After Zhang Ying was injured, due to his inability to move, the target was greater and the situation was very dangerous. Wang Dianji, the village chief of the "white skin and red heart", hid him and placed him in the "fortress household" home of Xiaoxinzhuang. After the enemy retracted to the stronghold after dark, Director Zhu of the health center under the sub-district health department came to treat Zhang Ying's wounds. Zhang Ying's leg bones had been broken, and her legs and feet were red, swollen and translucent, and generally thick up and down. Director Zhu was worried that the infection could not be controlled, and he would have a high-level amputation in the future, even endangering his life, so he reported to the division and prepared to saw off his calf from his knee. Yu Quanshen, commander of the Seventh Division, approved a few words: "He is still very young, and he must do his best to retain him." "He also sent people to bring gold and smoke and sneak into Baoding City in disguise to buy medicine." Director Zhu said that after 3 days of observation, if the leg changes color, it can only be amputated, and it is not possible to approve it by commander Yu, and it is important to save his life. After 3 days, the injured leg did not change color, and the swelling seemed to be lighter, and Zhang Ying's leg was saved.
The leader of the Eighth Route Army's armed engineering team who hid the reward and arrested, in case it was leaked, he would be killed by the whole family. In order to avoid the enemy's search, the "fortress household" lady and son made a small bed board with a door panel, installed 4 rudders under the board, fixed Zhang Ying on the wooden board, tied a rope at one end, and hoarded grain in the house, transformed a hole, dug the hole large, made a slope shape, put him down in the cave during the day, and then pulled him up at night, and cooperated with the doctors of the underground health center to change his medicine and feed him. The eldest lady treated Zhang Ying even more dearly than her son, not only spreading the only mattress and quilt for him on the bed board, eating chaff vegetables by herself, saving the province to make me noodles and flapjacks, but also boiling eggs and peeling peanuts, and pouring everything she had to increase his nutrition.
Soon, in order to avoid the enemy's frequent searches and to improve the conditions for treatment, Instructor Cui of the Armed Forces Brigade contacted a hospital run by our underground workers in Dongting Town, Dingxian County, through the Divisional Enemy Work Department and the Prefectural Committee's Urban Work Department, and decided to send Zhang Ying to the Dongting Town stronghold where the puppet army was entrenched to recuperate. Instructor Cui made a long coat for Zhang Yingding, hired a carriage with a tall mule and a brand new blue cloth palanquin, disguised Zhang Yinghua as a rich businessman, and carefully studied the coping plan for various situations, sent an underground party member disguised as a coachman, and sent Zhang Ying into Dongting Town through the enemy's checkpoint. After Zhang Ying was admitted to the hospital, The underground party member President Wang risked his life to cover Zhang Ying for meticulous treatment. After a few months, the splint on his leg was removed, and he walked around on both crutches to exercise, gradually recovering from his injured leg.
After Zhang Ying was discharged from the hospital, the sub-district specially bought a donkey for him, sent guards to protect it, and under the cover of the party organizations and the masses in various villages, he went to recuperate his wounds. Relying on the cover of the masses, Zhang Ying recovered his injured leg and returned to the combat unit.
The armed engineering team has fulfilled its historical mission
The "History of the Armed Workers Behind Enemy Lines (Preliminary Draft)" says: After the formation of the green yarn tent in 1943, our armed forces have successively returned to Ludong, and the guerrilla units in various counties and districts have grown and strengthened, attacking the enemy everywhere, and have begun to uproot the enemy's guard towers and force away the enemy puppet army that forced away the artillery towers. At the same time, the Party has also made great achievements in its political work in the area of the enemy and puppet armies, the situation has undergone great changes, and the anti-Japanese work has gained a certain degree of freedom of activity. At the instruction of their superiors, the work of the armed engineering team behind enemy lines was completed, and some members of the team reported to the sub-district headquarters and were assigned to various combat units, becoming the backbone of the combat troops; Some of the team members reported to the political department of the sub-district, and most of them were successively sent to work inside the enemy, and they made good achievements in the extremely difficult environment and within the enemy.
In 1942, the enemy's "May Day sweep" of the Jizhong Plain, in a situation where the strength of the enemy and our forces was greatly disparity between the strength and the weak, promptly organized a military, political, and internal and external activities skillfully combined, well-known, short and lean, light and flexible, and with strong political quality, which was in line with Chairman Mao's foresight in "On Protracted War" in the situation that "in the stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the enemy in the plains base areas is strong and we are weak." Born in the western jujube forest of Xicheng Village on the south bank of the Shahe River in Dingxian County, the first armed engineering team behind enemy lines in Jizhong District and even in the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, and even in the national anti-Japanese base areas--the Enemy Rear Armed Workers Brigade of the Seventh Sub-district of Jizhong and its captain Comrade Zhang Ying will certainly be recorded in the annals of history forever and will be respected and remembered by the people.
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