According to the "History of the Communist Party of China in Zhumadian", during the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Communist Party of China established the Rucaisui anti-Japanese base area in the border area of Suiping and Shangcai in Runan, and established the Rucaisui County Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Rucaisui Administrative Committee, and the county party committee was set up in the Zhouzhuang villager group of Pengzhuang Village, Liudian Town, Queshan County. Cao Jinyong, who worked in the government of Liudian Town, Queshan County, and was the principal of Liudian Township Middle School for many years, is a native of Pengzhuang Village, and he has heard about the revolutionary stories that took place in Zhouzhuang that year. Under his leadership, Ma Qingong, a third-level researcher of the Propaganda Department of the Queshan County Party Committee and the captain of the Red Culture Communication Volunteer Service Team of Queshan County, came to the Zhouzhuang villager group to look for the red stories that happened here.
It is the grass that grows and the warbler flies in April, the breeze is not irritable, and the wheat field is green. In Zhouzhuang Village, under the shade of green trees, the elderly are busy herding sheep, and the young people are weeding and loosening the soil in the vegetable field, which is a scene of spring ploughing.
When he came to the house of Zhou Guoping, a villager in Zhouzhuang Village, and asked about those years, Zhou Guoping, who is now 76 years old, talked about what his grandfather Zhou Huanan told him.
Zhou Hua went to a normal school, taught after school, and got acquainted with Wang Laohan (Wang Guohua), Hu Youlu, Liu Canting, Wang Lanfu, Guo Jingrong and other communists. Zhou Huanan's home in Zhouzhuang Village was a place where Communist Party members often held meetings in secret. "My grandfather said that they often come," Zhou Guoping said, "in the courtyard where I live now, there used to be no courtyard here, only a few thatched houses, and it was a big ditch when I went out." ”
In the 90s of the last century, Zhou Guoping partially filled part of the ditch in front of the door and built a new house and yard. Is this the location of the Rucaisui County Party Committee recorded in the historical materials, but Zhou Guoping has not heard his grandfather talk about it. Zhou Guoping's father died of illness in his 40s, Zhou Guoping's family lived in this courtyard with his grandfather Zhou Huanan, Zhou Huanan died more than 30 years ago, many things, Zhou Huanan did not tell Zhou Guoping, and Zhou Guoping forgot some of what he said. No one in the village who is older than Zhou Guoping can tell what happened back then. We can learn from the record of the "History of the Communist Party of China in Zhumadian" that the Rucaisui anti-Japanese base area and the Rucaisui County Party Committee were established and played a role.
In February 1943, the great victory of the Soviet Red Army in the Battle of Stalingrad brought about a fundamental turning point in the situation of the world anti-fascist war. In July, after winning the Battle of Midway against Japan, the US military began a counteroffensive in the Solomon Islands, thus ending Japan's superiority in the Pacific War and being forced to shift from strategic offensive to strategic defense. In April 1944, in order to save its defeat in the Pacific theater, avoid the annihilation of the lone army invading Nanyang, and destroy the air bases provided by the Kuomintang government for the US military in East and South China, the Japanese imperialists gathered forces from Henan to launch an operation from Henan to open up the communication lines of Chinese mainland. The 400,000 troops of the Kuomintang were crushed at the touch of a button, 38 cities were lost in 37 days, and most of Henan (including Queshan) fell. In May, in order to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders who invaded Henan, to regain lost territory, to strategically link up the three major regions of Central China, North China, and Northern Shaanxi, and to create a situation of resistance against Japanese aggression in Henan, the Party Central Committee and the Party Committee of the Henan-Hubei Border Region promptly made arrangements for marching to the Central Plains behind enemy lines in Henan, and ordered the Eighth Route Army to move south, the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army to the west, and the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army to go north, so as to open up an anti-Japanese base area.
In July 1944, the Party Committee of the Henan-Hubei Border Region and the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army decided to establish the Southern Henan Working Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Southern Henan Guerrilla Corps (changed to the Henan Working Committee and the Henan Advance Corps in November). In August, the CPC Ru (South) Zheng (Yang) and Que (Shan) Working Committee was established in Yangdian, Queshan County, and in December, it was rebuilt into the Ruzheng County Party Committee, with five district committees under its jurisdiction, and a task force of several hundred people was organized to collect grain and taxes, and to wage an arduous struggle against the Japanese puppeteers. At the same time, the Huainan Central County of the Communist Party of China appointed Hu Youlu and Lai Peng to lead two companies of armed forces to Liudian in Queshan to open up work; in August, Zhouzhuang in Pengzhuang Village, north of Liudian, announced the establishment of the Ru (South) (Shang) Cai Sui (Ping) Working Committee of the Communist Party of China and its military and political organizations, and in October it was rebuilt into the Ru Cai Sui County Party Committee, under the jurisdiction of three district committees and 14 township anti-Japanese democratic governments. Zhang Ziming served as secretary and chairman of the administrative committee and political commissar of the Ru Cai Sui Corps, Hu Youlu served as the head of the organization department and vice chairman, and Zhang Jiuying, military minister and chief of the Ru Cai Sui Corps. The Working Committee was subordinate to the Southern Henan Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, and in November, it was changed to the Fourth Prefectural Committee of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui-Hunan and Jiangxi Border Regions of the Communist Party of China. In October 1945, it was changed to the leadership of the South Henan Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China. The organs have been set up in Zhouzhuang, Silou and other places in Liudian. After 1945, due to the offensive of the Kuomintang army, the county party committee successively moved to Zhanglishan in Liuzhuang in the southeast of Queshan, Gushanchong in Shiluanhe in the southwest of Queshan, and Wangwan in Tongbai County. In November 1945, it was revoked. The Ru Cai Sui Border District is actually the Ru Cai Sui Border District. It includes the vast area west of the Liudian and Runan Guanzhuang to the Wuliangsi Township of Shangcai, to the west of the Pinghan Railway Section of Suiping Queshan, and to the west of the Ru (South) Zheng (Yang) and Ru (South) Shang (Cai) Highway. Rucai Sui was an anti-Japanese democratic base in the northernmost part of the Henan-Hubei Border Region, which linked the Henan-Hubei Border Region with the Hebei-Shandong-Henan, Henan-Anhui and Soviet Border Regions, and took over the two regiments of the Eighth Route Army stationed in Shuidong to join the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army, thus strengthening the anti-Japanese armed forces on the periphery of Wuhan.
After the establishment of the Rucaisui County Party Committee, it actively launched a struggle against the enemy and issued a warning to Liu Ying, commander of the "Qingxiang" in Runan, ordering him to rein in the activities of "clearing the township," asking him to report to the New Fourth Army in advance on the situation of the Japanese invaders going out of the city to fight and take captivity and on the highway routes, and not to become traitors and lackeys in a desperate manner; and to warn the Kuomintang armed forces in various localities and townships: "If you attack me once, I will resolutely destroy you." At the same time, it has stepped up the building of political power at the grassroots level and the building of the armed forces in districts and townships, and has constantly waged fierce struggles against the Japanese puppets and stubborn people; collected public grain according to the quality of the land; in the work of taxation, business tax has been levied by the progressive tax law, and the property of traitors has been resolutely confiscated, thus lightening the people's burdens, initially improving the people's livelihood, and strengthening and expanding the anti-Japanese forces; and a large number of young people and students have also been mobilized to join the army or study at military and political cadre schools, thus increasing the new strength of the army and making positive contributions to winning the final victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
During the interview, I also learned that the Choru Caisui Border Region still has a glorious revolutionary tradition. During the period of the Great Revolution, it was the rear of the Queshan Uprising; during the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the preparatory meeting for the Queshan Uprising was held in the nearby Yangzhangzhuang, and it was also the center of the second uprising in Queshan, the seat of the Soviet Government of the Ruqo Special Economic Zone, and the place of activity in the Hubei-Henan border guerrilla area during the three-year guerrilla war; during the War of Liberation, the first column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army, the first part of the East China Field Army, and the first part of the Chen Xie Corps successfully joined forces here, successfully advancing the battle line from the north and south of the Yellow River to the north bank of the Yangtze River. (Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China Queshan County Party Committee, Ma Qingong, Zhang Hong)