Father worries about Gele Mountain

Zhou Yong

It's been 70 years since the "11.27" massacre. For the party and the country, it hurts deeply; at home, in my heart, we need to remember it in our bones.

On November 30, 70 years ago, Chongqing was liberated. The next day, his father, Zhou Yonglin, and his surviving comrades immediately went to Gele Mountain to collect the bodies of their comrades who died there.

On the eve of "11.27" 10 years ago, my 90-year-old father said to me: "I can't walk, you have to go to Gele Mountain to see Li Youlin, Tao Jingzhi, Hu Youyou, and go to see if Li Youlin's poem is still there." ”

The next day, I went, and the White Mansion and the Slag Cave were safe, the Gele Mountain was quiet, and Li Youlin's poems were well preserved in the memorial hall. Today, my father is dead. My sister and I, my colleagues and classmates came here to thank the heroes and martyrs and the people.

In this place soaked in the blood of martyrs, there are five people who are directly related to their father, who has spoken about these things many times in his later years.

Discover the martyr's last poem

Li Youlin, a member of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, served as the secretary of the patriotic general Yang Jie. Together with his father, he participated in the activities of the Chongqing United Front Work Group led by the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and as a cover for the chongqing Jukang Banking Commissioner, he engaged in military movement, rebellion and rescue of arrested friends. Later, he was imprisoned for betrayal by traitors and imprisoned in the White Mansion. He was killed in that horrific massacre on November 27, 1949.

After the liberation of Chongqing, my father and others rushed to Gele Mountain for the first time. On the way to the car, my father saw that the road in front of the Dai Gong Ancestral Hall was densely packed with white coffins. At that time, the fire in the slag cave had not yet been extinguished, the remains of martyrs lay everywhere in the courtyard dam outside the cell, and the downstairs cell was full of charred corpses, completely unrecognizable. It is said that the coffins in Chongqing City were sold out that day.

After being instructed, my father came to the White Mansion again. The old man at the gate said that the people detained here had been taken out one by one and shot in the past few days. Under the guidance of the old man, the father came to a small room on the second floor. The old man said, "The man you are talking about (Li Youlin) is locked up here." "But I saw that in the room, there were mats made of grain grass, and on them were torn mats and mattresses. The old man pointed to one of the bunks and told his father that Li Youlin was sleeping here.

My father said, "I immediately turned over the grain straw mat, the rotten mattress, and the mat, hoping to find something left by Li Youlin, and finally found a piece of yellow straw paper under the mat." He carefully removed the straw paper and saw a few lines written on it—

(i)

Traitors to the country and the people hate the only husband,

One vertebrae is not completely lost.

The bell frequently looked between the windows,

A few days the Red Army arrived in Guyu.

(ii)

Why should the revolution ask life and death,

He will be honored by the country.

Now my generation will go to Cheng ren,

In an instant, Huang Quan formed an alliance again.

Another lin on the twenty-fifth day of November

Ah, isn't this Li Youlin's desperate poem!

A few years later, when the Geleshan Revolution Memorial Hall (formerly the "Sino-US Cooperation Institute's American and Chiang Crime Exhibition Hall") was established, my father gave this precious cultural relic to the memorial.

When I was in elementary school, my father taught me to memorize this poem. At that time, I didn't understand what it meant to "promise the country with my body", especially my father used the authentic Sichuan dialect to say "glory" as "guangyun" and "alliance" to "unite the people", and I did not understand the meaning, so I could only memorize the "Book of Heaven". When I grew up, I read the original text and understood the profound meaning of the poem. Later, the poem was widely disseminated and became a symbol of that era.

For Li Youlin's sacrifice, his father greatly regretted, "He is just poorly vigilant, too easy to trust people, otherwise he would not have been arrested."

This is probably the reason why my father asked me to read this poem on that day 10 years ago was still absent--that is, the channel through which he still communicates spiritually with Li Youlin and other heroes, and it is his concern.

Thanksgiving to the two comrades-in-arms

Father and two other comrades died in the slag hole. One was Hu Youyou, who was his superior when he was working in Beibei.

Hu Youyou, a native of Fenggang, Guizhou, is a member of the Communist Party of China and served as the secretary of the Beibei Special Branch of the Communist Party of China. In April 1948, he was arrested in Beibei for the "Zhenjin Bao" incident and imprisoned in the second room upstairs of the Zhazhidong Prison. On November 14, 1949, he was killed at radio station.

One was Tao Jingzhi, who was his father's superior when he later went to work in the suburbs of Chongqing.

Tao Jingzhi, a native of Ba County, Sichuan (present-day Banan District, Chongqing), was a member of the Communist Party of China and a former propaganda committee member of the Chongqing Suburban District Committee of the Communist Party of China. In June 1948, he was arrested for the rebellion of Tu Xiaowen, the secretary of the Shimokawa East Prefectural Committee, and imprisoned in the fourth room upstairs of the Zhadong Prison. On November 14, 1949, he was killed at radio station.

Before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, my family lived in Chipingba Ciqikou. In 1936, after my father joined the revolution, he has been active in the city. At that time, the anti-Japanese salvation movement was on the rise, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party reached a climax, and the activities of the Communist Party were frequent and exposed.

After the fall of Guangzhou and Wuhan in October 1938, the Kuomintang policy turned inward, the situation was suddenly tense, and the communists began to be arrested. To this end, the Party Central Committee and Mao Zedong put forward a new policy for the work of the Kuomintang region: "Concealment and ability, long-term ambush, accumulation of strength, waiting for the opportunity, and oppose acuteness and exposure."

After Zhou En's arrival in Chongqing in early 1939, in order to implement the new policy, he put forward the "three diligences" (that is, diligent study, diligent work, and diligent dating) and "three modernizations" (that is, professionalization, socialization, and legalization). In accordance with the spirit of the instructions, with the consent of the party organization, the father was transferred to Beibei that year and has been led by Hu Youyou.

My father first came to XiemaChang and studied in the Agricultural Specialty Department of the Chinese Rural Construction Yucai Institute founded by Yanyang, mainly studying "citrus". When he graduated in the summer of 1942, due to the tension between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the party organization decided that it was not appropriate for him to return to the urban area to work, so he continued to stay in the countryside for employment.

He first worked as an investigator at the General Bureau of Reclamation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Qingliang'an, Xindianzi, Gele Mountain, and then transferred to the Training Course for Agricultural Reclamation Technicians of the Ministry of Education at the Longju Temple of Caijiachang in Beibei. It was not until 1944 that he left Beibei and moved to the city.

His father had been in Beibei for a long time, and Hu Youyou was very familiar with his situation.

He was betrayed by Li Wenxiang

Another was imprisoned in the White Mansion. His name was Li Wenxiang, and he was the leader of his father after he went to work in the city, and he was also his last direct leader before liberation.

Li Wenxiang, who joined the Communist Party of China in 1939, was the secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee. In April 1948, he was betrayed by Liu Guoding and arrested. Several times he tortured to extract a confession, but he survived. But it lasted only 8 months, and finally defected to survive, betraying 16 comrades, including my father. As a result, my father lost contact with the party organization (he did not regain his membership until after liberation).

Soon after Li Wenxiang rebelled, he brought agents to arrest my father. My father told me, "That was December 1948. That day, it happened that the boss of the company was working overtime, and I accompanied him. When it was dark, Wang Daosheng, the boss's 'long follower' (servant on duty), suddenly went upstairs and told me that someone downstairs inquired about my absence, saying that he wanted to buy a house in my hand. Wang Daosheng saw that the man's look was not right, and then he thought, what house to buy when it was dark, it must be wrong. So I lied that I had left work. Thus taking away Li Wenxiang and the gang of spies.

The father listened to Wang Daosheng's account, knew that there was an "accident" (the agent came to arrest people), and immediately quietly left the company through the back door. At that time, the organization had regulations that once the list was leaked, it was immediately transferred. Therefore, after informing other comrades, my father left Chongqing overnight and took refuge in Neijiang, Sichuan, where he escaped a disaster.

In 1950, Li Wenxiang was arrested by our public security organs. In February 1951, he was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad. On the verdict announcement, his father's name was prominently on Li Wenxiang's list of betrayed comrades.

The traitor Liu Guoding came

Although the other person was not locked up in the Slag Cave and the White Mansion, it must also be mentioned that he was Liu Guoding.

Liu Guoding and his father were middle school classmates when they were studying at the "Sanli Vocational School", and they were a few years older than their father. In 1936, they joined the revolution together, joined the Chongqing Student Circle National Salvation Federation (also known as the "Secret Student Federation"), and joined the Party in 1938. Later, Liu Guoding served as the secretary of the CPC Baxian County CPC Committee, the secretary of the Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee, a member of the Chuandong Linlin Committee, and the secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Working Committee.

After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Sichuan Party organization led by the former Southern Bureau was divided into two parts, some of which were led by the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and some of which were led by the Southern Bureau through the Chongqing United Front Work Group. Liu Guoding worked in the Sichuan provincial party committee system, and his father worked in the Chongqing United Front Work Group system of the Southern Bureau. Although they are acquainted with each other, according to the regulations, they are not subordinate to each other in their work, and there is no horizontal connection.

Due to the improvement of the political situation at that time, the party organization decided to transfer a group of comrades from the countryside back to the urban areas and "infiltrate" all walks of life and organs and units through various social relations. With the approval of the superior organization, his father successively entered chongqing private Yimin Qianzhuang and Junyi Company. Junyi Company is located in Lanjia Lane near Xiaoshizi in the urban area, and his father lives in the company because he is single.

19 4 In April 8, Liu Guoding defected to the enemy, causing great damage to the Chongqing party organization. One day in August, chongqing was sweltering hot, and my father was settling accounts in the Lanjia Lane office. Suddenly, the concierge reported that a man named Liu Guoding was looking for him.

The news of Liu Guoding's rebellion was already known to his father. Hearing Liu Guoding's visit, he was shocked and nervous. Years of underground work experience told him that if he came to arrest people, the front and back doors must have been blocked. He calmed down, did not move, but asked the concierge to bring Liu and got up to let him sit down.

Liu Guoding looked bleak, first bowed his head and did not say a word, and then he talked about the real estate and gold market. Suddenly, the father slapped it on the table and said, "I heard that something happened to your baby?!" Liu Guoding burst into tears. His father said to him, "Human nature is indestructible, and one must die, and if you engage in such a mess, how can your heart endure?" Liu said: "Liquidate the struggle and wait for a different day." Before leaving, Liu Guoding said to his father: "You told those classmates that you should never say hello when you see me on the street in the future." After saying that, he got up and left. It turned out that Liu Guoding had come to report the letter, and his father immediately informed all the classmates.

After the liberation of Chongqing, Liu Guoding went to Chengdu, was arrested by the public security organs in 1950, and then escorted back to Chongqing. In February 1951, after the Chongqing Municipal People's Court conducted a public trial of Liu Guoding, he was executed by firing squad.

Because of Liu Guoding's ventilated message, his father and other classmates were able to avoid the disaster of imprisonment. But during the Cultural Revolution, my father was labeled a "suspected traitor" and censored for eight years. Until March 1974, the unit's rebel organization held a general meeting and said: "After investigating more than 120 people, Zhou Yonglin has no problems in political history." "This is because they found the interrogation records of Liu Guoding that year." It is said that Liu once made meritorious contributions to not betraying his classmates and wanted to avoid death. With this record, my father took off the hat of "treason" and obtained "liberation".

At that time, my father was just an ordinary party member fighting in the front line of the hidden struggle, and he was tight-lipped about that period of history. Whether he wrote it or told us it, it was only a scale and a half claw. However, there is one point he made clear: "At any time, Communists must do a good job in the relations between the masses; this is not a slogan, but the truth that I have learned with my life." ”

I will never forget!