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*This article is excerpted from the fifth volume of "Cangshan Literary and Historical Materials" (July 1987), written by Zheng Ximeng, and the original title is "Fragmentary Memories of the Struggle against the Enemy in 1947"
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At the beginning of 1947, after the Kuomintang 26th Division and the First Rapid Column let our East China Field Army annihilated, Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he immediately mobilized 400,000 troops and launched a large-scale attack on the Lunan area in two ways in early February, and threatened to fight to the death with our army in the Linyi area. In order to facilitate the struggle against the enemy and cooperate with the main force to strike at the enemy, the higher authorities decided to divide the county of Zhao Lu [bó] (note: in 1941, the Shandong revolutionary base area was divided from the four counties of Linyi, Fei County, Yi County, and Tancheng, and Manzi (Manxi Village, now eight miles southeast of Rim Town, northwest of Lanling County, Shandong). It was named in memory of Comrade Zhao Rong, Secretary of the Lunan District Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, who died in the silver factory tragedy on October 27, 1941. In May 1950, it was revoked and merged into Cangshan County (now Lanling County). The six districts of Bian Zhuang, Cangshan, Shikeng, Great Wall, Layer Mountain, and Chudun in the east form Cangshan County.
Wang Zitong served as secretary of the county party committee, Yang Quan served as the county magistrate, and I served as the head of the organization department of the county party committee. The leading members of the county party committee and the county government also include: Zhang Zhaoyong, Minister of Propaganda, Zhao Yongxu, Minister of Armed Forces, Ren Guangxiu, Minister of Democracy Movement, and Wei Yimin, Director of the Public Security Bureau; Soon, Dai Zhanru was transferred to the deputy secretary of the county party committee.
At the end of February, the Cangshan County CPC Committee held a swearing-in meeting in Taoyu in Zhaolu County (where the Cangshan County Party Committee lived at that time) to mobilize the masses in depth, organize armed forces, and launch a struggle against the enemy. After the meeting, each district immediately took action to select young and middle-aged militiamen to form a military engineering team, generally 40-50 people, led by the secretary of the district party committee, the district armed forces minister or the district head; Each township also organized a township detachment of 15-20 people, led by the township leader; The county also organized a stretcher regiment of more than 500 people to accompany the army for a year. However, most of the village cadres and militia remained in the rear and persisted in the struggle on the spot. At that time, some villages in Sanhan and the first and second districts were still under our control, and the other districts were all enemy-occupied areas. After the enemy occupied Linyi, all of them became insistent behind enemy lines, and the leading members of the county party committee, except for the secretary of the county party committee and the county magistrate who led the county brigade to maneuver, all other members were divided into various districts to directly lead the armed forces to carry out guerrilla activities.
According to the division of labor of the county party committee, Wei Yimin and I took the military engineering teams of the second district (Shenshan) and the twelfth district (Chudun) to prepare for an ambush against the Huangshan puppet township office after attacking the Xingdun puppet township office. On the evening of 8 June, I led a team to secretly stationed in Liao's house to block news and reconnoiter the enemy's situation. On 9 August, heavy rain and hail fell, the ambush was not completed, and the comrades who sent out reconnaissance and contacted the county party committee did not return.
In the early hours of May 10, the rain became lighter and it continued to fall. At this time, the scouts sent back to report: People in Yingzi and Mawan are shouting and neighing, I don't know what happened? We decided to move the whole team to Duofuzhuang for standby. After a while, the scouts came back and reported that it was the Lunan Military Region that had broken through to the coastal area, and that the brigade had already passed, and now only a small number of village cadres, militiamen, and sporadic stragglers had crossed the Yi River. In order to further clarify the situation and obtain instructions from the county party committee, it was decided to go to Binhai first. When he crossed the Shu River, he met Comrade Li Peiyuan, deputy commander of the Lunan Third Army Division, and learned that the comrades of the Cangshan County Party Committee had been transferred to Huangye Village in the Binhai District, and that Deputy Commander Li led the 17 th Regiment to cover and contain the stragglers. On the same day, we rushed to Huangye Village and met the comrades in the county. At this time, except for the armed engineering teams of the first and third districts, the armed engineering teams of the other districts had already arrived.
Due to the storms and hailstorms that hit the breakout, not only did some comrades freeze to death, but they also felt very tired after a long journey, suffering from hunger and cold. After a two-day break, several leaders of the county party committee convened a meeting to study the issue of returning to persistence. Zhao Yongxu and Zhang Zhaoyong and I signed up on the spot to go back to the enemy-occupied area and persist in the struggle. The county party committee decided that the county magistrate Yang Quan would lead the county brigade to return with us.
There were also more than 250 people in the martial arts team led by Lu Gan, deputy secretary of the Pi County Working Committee, and Wang Rongye, the county captain. Starting from Huangye Village, crossing the Shu River and the Yi River, traveling 45 kilometers at night, arriving at Xiaoshanzi Village west of Yongquan before dawn, suddenly ambushed by Jiang's army, we fought and retreated, retreated to Duofuzhuang, and were surrounded by the enemy, so we had to break through to the south along the west bank of the Yi River, and reached Majiachang east of Xu Weizi, and got rid of the enemy's pursuit. It was 45 kilometers from Xiaoshanzi to Majiachang, and I ran for a day and a night, and only had a meal in the evening. In Majiachang, he met Liu Zijian, director of the organization department of the prefectural party committee, and several cadres of the prefectural party committee led by him. In order to avoid being attacked by the enemy again, we moved to Lanshantun together with the leaders of the prefectural committee.
He first gave a briefing on the recent situation of the enemy, analyzed the situation of the struggle, and put forward the tasks and strategies for the struggle against the enemy, and finally decided to set up the Cangbei Command, with Shan Lizhen, deputy commander of the special service battalion of the military sub-district, as the commander, I as the political commissar, and Wang Yufu, instructor of the special service battalion of the military sub-district, as the deputy political commissar. On the night of the second day, our headquarters led the team to set off, crossed the Zao Highway, and arrived at Lengshuigou Village in the northwest of Shenshan.
As soon as I arrived here, I heard from the masses that the repatriation regiment in Xidabu often extorted the families of the martyrs and the masses. Therefore, we immediately decided to disguise ourselves as Jiang Jun and have Comrade Shan Lizhen lead the attack on them, Comrade Wang Yufu and I will lead a small part of the troops to be on guard, and Comrade Zhang Shanyu, the head of Xidabu Village, will disguise himself as a person who has been arrested and escorted back to the village to lead the way. The Xidabu Returning Home Regiment was indeed deceived, and when they were welcomed by the organization, they were all arrested and punished according to their crimes. The crowd applauded.
In the guerrilla war to persist in Cangshan County, the battle of Xiyongan was a crucial battle. After Jiang's army occupied Linyi, the fugitive landlords returned to their hometowns one after another, organized armed forces, openly carried out counteroffensives, arrested and killed the families of martyrs and workers, and oppressed the masses. In particular, the return regiment of Xi Yongan was even more rampant, they built strongholds, recruited troops, and made enemies of the people. In order to severely crack down on the arrogance of the elements of the Returned to the Hometown, strengthen public order, protect and consolidate the victorious achievements of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the county party committee studied and decided to uproot the stronghold of Xiyong'an, and obtained the cooperation of the first battalion of the Yihe detachment.
At dawn one day in early May, the county brigade and the armed forces of the five districts went out with all their might to surround Xiyong'an and compress it step by step. The repatriation group stubbornly resisted and refused to surrender. It was not until 11 o'clock in the morning that the stronghold was breached, 57 enemies were killed and 26 were captured, and a very beautiful battle of annihilation was fought. We also paid the price of six casualties. Since then, the returning regiment in Cangshan County was terrified when they heard the martial arts team, and they no longer dared to act rashly. The situation of struggle in the whole county opened up.
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Cangshan Literary and Historical Materials, Volume 5 (July 1987)