Introduction of Comrade Zhao Jianmin

"Guanxian is Zhao Jianmin's hometown, but also the place where he fought, in this land, countless heroes represented by Zhao Jianmin, with blood and life in exchange for our happy life today......" The narrator's explanation made everyone on the scene deeply infected, and everyone seemed to have returned to that stormy era.

Looking for the party: step on the bicycle and "ride alone for a thousand miles"

In June 1912, Zhao Jianmin was born in Zhaoliangtang Village, Guanxian County. Influenced by the stories of national heroes since childhood, he read a large number of progressive books and periodicals in the county high school, and his desire to take the revolutionary road became stronger and stronger. In 1932, he joined the Communist Party of China at the Jinan Provincial No. 1 Rural Normal (Yixiang Division), and successively served as the secretary of the Party branch of the Yixiang Division, the secretary of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee, and the acting secretary of the Provincial Working Committee.

During that period, the party organizations in Shandong were sabotaged twice in succession, and more than 300 party members and league members were arrested and killed, and the party organizations in Shandong lost contact with the central authorities. For a time, the white terror of the Kuomintang enveloped Jinan and endangered the Quartet.

Under such a cruel situation, Zhao Jianmin did not hesitate to undertake the important task of restoring and developing party organizations at all levels in the province and finding party organizations at higher levels. He ran around, contacted party branches in Luxi, Lunan, Jiaodong and other places, drafted manifestos, leaflets, slogans and slogans by himself, and unswervingly carried out underground struggles.

In December 1935, Zhao Jianmin learned from Guo Chonghao, a member of the First Township Division, that there was news of the Communist Party in Xuzhuang Village, Guyunji, Pu County (now Xuzhuang Village, Guyun Town, Shen County). He was so excited that he stepped on his bicycle and rode along the embankment of the Yellow River to Xuzhuang Village, where he got in touch with Liu Yanchun, an inspector of the CPC Zhinan Special Committee. Soon after, Zhao Jianmin went to Puxian County again to meet with Li Yu, a representative of the Hebei Provincial CPC Committee, in Xuzhuang Village, and reported to Li Yu the details of the party organization in Shandong, and asked the higher-level party organization to send people to Shandong as soon as possible to lead the work. Li Yu reported the situation of the party organization in Shandong to the Northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, which fully affirmed the work of the Shandong Provincial Working Committee and sent Li Yu to Shandong to rebuild the Shandong Provincial Party Committee together with Zhao Jianmin. In this way, Zhao Jianmin's "walking a thousand miles and riding alone" allowed the party organizations in Shandong to finally get in touch with the higher-level party organizations.

Sowing: Igniting a spark in Guan County

From 1934 to 1937, Zhao Jianmin continued to develop party members in Guanxian County, igniting a spark in his hometown.

At the beginning of February 1934, he took advantage of the opportunity to go home during the winter vacation to propagate revolutionary principles and Marxism-Leninism to some progressive students in Guanxian County. Sun Hong, a native of Zhao Village, took the initiative to ask Zhao Jianmin to join the party and became his first party member in Guanxian County. Under Sun Hong's recommendation, Liang Xiujie of Xiaohua Village was also absorbed into the party. Soon, Lanwo, Yanzhuang, and Jia Zhen ...... Young people with advanced ideas continue to join the party.

In the following years, the party organization of Guanxian County developed rapidly. In June 1935, the first grassroots party branch in Guanxian County, the Wangcun Party Branch of the Communist Party of China, was established. There is a lot of saline-alkali land in the village, and most of the peasants make a living by making salt from the soil, and they are seriously exploited by the Kuomintang government. Initiated and organized by the party branch, more than 60 salt households in the village carried out a struggle against taxes for more than a month. In the nearly two years that followed, the Kuomintang county government did not come to the village to collect taxes, and the masses applauded. At the beginning of the summer of 1936, the Guanxian Special Branch of the Communist Party of China was established. At the turn of summer and autumn, when Zhao Jianmin returned to Guan County from Jinan, he went to the special branch to introduce many experiences and practices of party organizations in other places in carrying out work, and encouraged branch members to work actively. In the summer of 1937, the central county committee of Guanxian County of the Communist Party of China was established. On the eve of the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the central county party committee of Guanxian County not only led the three special district committees of Shen County, Tangyi, and Guantao, but also led the three district committees of Xuxin Village, Sanlizhuang and Sang'a in the east of the country. At that time, there were more than 20 grassroots branches in Guanxian County, such as Baozhuang and Xinji, and more than 80 party members.

Imprisoned: Iron-clad and sworn not to bow to the enemy

On September 27, 1936, in order to protect the safe transfer of other leading comrades of the provincial party committee, Zhao Jianmin, then director of the Organization Department of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and secretary of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee, was arrested as a traitor.

The spies tortured Zhao Jianmin, pressed him to the ground, and put wooden sticks with thick bowls on the calves of his legs, so that people could stand and step on them. Zhao Jianmin fainted, and the spies woke him up with cold water. The agents asked him where he lived, where the provincial party committee was, and where the other provincial party leaders were. Zhao Jianmin replied: "I know, but I won't tell you!" The angry spy leader put Zhao Jianmin on the tiger chair, and Zhao Jianmin fainted many times, and when he woke up, he couldn't move.

Three interrogations by the enemy ended in failure. The provincial government sent someone to visit the prison, and Zhao Jianmin endured the pain and wrote a letter to Li Yu, then secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, saying that he would not affect the organization if he was broken. Because he knew that he was protecting the newly rebuilt Shandong Provincial Party Committee and the more than 500 Communist Party members who had survived the White Terror in the province.

With the efforts of the party organization, Zhao Jianmin was rescued in October 1937. The day after he was released from prison, Zhao Jianmin found Li Yu, who asked him to return to the provincial party committee to continue his work. When he learned that the Party Central Committee had instructed that a good Communist Party member should become a good guerrilla, he immediately said: "I have some connections in my hometown to facilitate the mobilization of arms, so I will first go back to fight guerrillas, and then return to the provincial party committee after a while." ”

Transferred to battle: Outstanding achievements and praise from Chief Liu Deng

Zhao Jianmin came to the county seat of Guanxian to gather the guerrillas, and the next day he gathered forty or fifty people. The guerrillas soon grew to more than 100 men and nearly 100 guns. In Dongsanlizhuang alone, more than 30 people from 100 households participated in the anti-Japanese guerrillas. At that time, there were two green forest armies of one or two thousand people each in Guanxian County, "South Pole" and "North Pole", and after several difficult struggles, Zhao Jianmin finally transformed and incorporated them.

On the afternoon of October 1, 1939, more than 4,000 people of the Japanese Otter Brigade went from Jiazhen to Sang'a Town via Chenguanzhuang to "sweep". Zhao Jianmin led his subordinates to repair fortifications around the wall of Chenguanzhuang, first ambushed the enemy's baggage troops, and then took advantage of the favorable terrain to kill and wound a large number of enemy infantry and artillery, and repelled the enemy's attacks many times. More than 110 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded in this battle. Since then, the prestige of "Zhao Sanying" has been greatly enhanced.

In early October, Zhao Jianmin's unit moved to Quzhou and Yongnian in Hebei Province. On October 7, friendly troops stationed in Dalian Zhai Village, southeast of Quzhou County, were attacked by Japanese troops, and Zhao Jianmin led reinforcements to repel the enemy. After the battle, more than 140 Japanese corpses were cleared out, and a large number of food and weapons were captured.

After the battle of Dalianzhai ended, the 129th Division held a meeting of the principal leading cadres of the Hebei, Shandong, and Henan military regions. After listening to the battle situation in Dalian Village, Liu Deng and the two leaders nodded frequently. After understanding Zhao Jianmin's situation, Liu Bocheng was amazed: "Lu Xi has been a good man since ancient times, this is a talent!" Deng Xiaoping immediately decided to send Zhao Jianmin to study at the Yan'an Military and Political Academy.

Zhao Jianmin's many touching stories during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, even the contemporaries called him "Luxi Zhao Zilong", are still being praised in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan border area of that year.

Rebuild the Jinan Municipal Party Committee

After the September 18 Incident in 1931, Japanese imperialism intensified its aggression against China. Chiang Kai-shek, in order to fully implement his national policy of "settling the outside world before securing the interior", allowed the Japanese to run rampant, but wantonly hunted down and killed the Communists. In July 1933, the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the provincial party organizations suffered great damage, the secretary of the provincial party committee was arrested, Song Mingshi, the head of the provincial party committee organization, defected, the party organizations in Shandong lost contact with the central government, and the provincial capital Jinan was in the midst of white terror. In the "Shandong Republic of China Daily" sponsored by the Kuomintang, such news was often published: "The communist bandits rioted, the garrison razed and leveled, and ×× communist bandits were captured, and they were escorted by the Taishan steel armored car"; "There are ×× co-bandits, and the chairman has sentenced them,?? Verify the identity and go to the Wei 8th Road Execution Ground to execute the execution", and so on.

In the face of the bloody repression of the Kuomintang reactionaries, the surviving Communists and Komsomol members were divided. Some rebelled, some depressed, and some disconnected from the organization. Those who persevered in the struggle were only seven or eight young student party members represented by Zhao Jianmin of the provincial No. 1 Township Division and seven or eight workers' party members of the Xincheng Arsenal.

At this critical juncture, Zhao Jianmin stepped forward. He joined forces with party members Yao Zhongming and Wang Wenxuan of the same school, and consciously assumed the leadership of the provincial first township division party branch.

From the successive failures of several armed uprisings in the countryside, Zhao Jianmin and others realized that the trinity of the warlord Han Fuyu, the Kuomintang, and the landlords and bureaucrats was the great enemy of the revolutionary struggle led by the party; Although there were certain contradictions between the Han Fuyu clique and Chiang Kai-shek and the Shandong Kuomintang system, they were completely identical in suppressing the revolutionary struggle; Most of the armed insurrections in the rural areas led by the Party were temporarily seized weapons and organized into units during the insurrection, and in addition there was a lack of military backbone in the troops, so they could not quickly disrupt the enemy's "encirclement and suppression" and turn into guerrilla warfare, resulting in failure. This is the direct cause of the defeat, and the fundamental reason is that it cannot be combined with the broad mass struggle, forming a situation of lonely struggle; It cannot be combined with the work of the military movement, and there is a lack of coordination with the work of the military movement. Therefore, the focus of the Party's work should be on mobilizing the broad masses of workers, peasants, soldiers, and students, making the best use of legal organizations to accumulate strength, and at the same time strengthening the work of the military movement, so as to organize an armed insurrection when the time comes. They have also experienced from the destruction of the work of factories, institutions, and schools in the cities that the work of the party must take a more covert form, make use of legal organizations as much as possible, and avoid exposing itself too much. At the same time, we should be good at taking advantage of the enemy's contradictions in the struggle. In the party's self-building, it is imperative to recruit party members in strict accordance with the conditions and procedures, and eliminate opportunists, corrupt elements, and class dissidents.

In view of this, the provincial first township division party branch has established the current three major tasks: first, actively and prudently restore the party organization and develop new party members; second, to independently carry out the revolutionary struggle in accordance with the objective situation; Third, do everything possible to get in touch with the higher-level party organizations.

Since then, the provincial No. 1 Township Division Party branch has first started to develop new party members from the school. From the second half of 1933 to 1935, there were more than 20 party members. Then, based on the school itself and the Xincheng Arsenal, they restored and developed party organizations in the city, which had a total of 9 party branches and more than 70 party members. During this period, Zhao Jianmin also returned to Guanxian in February 1934 and successively established the central branch of Guanxian County and the branch of Shouzhang Eighth Township Division, and later established party branches in Yanggu, Tangyi and other counties and Liaocheng Provincial Third Normal School. At the same time as restoring and developing the party organization, the party branch of the township division also mobilized the masses to carry out arduous struggles, such as mobilizing the students of the province's normal schools to carry out the struggle against the entrance examination, organizing the "brotherhood of foreign coachmen," taking advantage of various opportunities to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda, holding activities to commemorate the fourth anniversary of Japan's invasion of Northeast China, and expressing solidarity with the "129" student movement in Beijing, and so on.

In terms of finding higher-level party organizations, Zhao Jianmin and others are more urgent. From the second half of 1933 onwards, they sent people to Beiping twice, to Shanghai three times, and to Tai'an twice to look for the party relations at the higher levels, but unfortunately they could not find them. In September 1935, when Zhao Jianmin heard that the Puxian Party organization had a connection with the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, he rode a broken bicycle from Jinan to Puxian County along the Yellow River embankment alone, and got in touch with Liu Yanchun, an inspector of the Zhinan Special Committee under the leadership of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee. In the winter of the same year, the local organization of the Communist Party of China in Pu County wrote to Zhao Jianmin to tell him that a responsible person of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee had arrived in Pu County and could send someone to contact him. Zhao Jianmin was very excited, the next morning and rode a bicycle again, facing the biting cold wind to rush to Pu County, the day full trip 360 miles, at dusk in Shouzhang County, the next day and early to rush more than 100 miles, came to Pu County Guyunji, met the representative of the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Zhilu Henan Special Committee Li Yu, through Li Yu and the superiors to get in touch, and finally returned to the embrace of the Party Central Committee.

In order to meet the needs of the struggle situation and strengthen unified leadership, one day in early May 1934, Zhao Jianmin, Wang Wenxuan, Chen Taiping, member of the Xincheng Arsenal Branch of the Communist Party of China, and others gathered at Wuliuzha in the northern suburbs of Jinan City to hold a meeting and decided to set up the Jinan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, with Zhao Jianmin as secretary, Wang Wenxuan as propaganda director, and Chen Taiping as organization director. Since then, Jinan City has a unified organization of the Communist Party of China.

Loyalty and courage in prison

After the establishment of the Jinan Municipal CPC Committee, in order to unify and strengthen the leadership of the party organizations in Luxi and other places, Zhao Jianmin took the initiative to get in touch with party members in various localities, and successively established the Luxi Special Committee of the CPC and the Xintai County CPC Committee, and also got in touch with the Laiwu County CPC Committee. In the early winter of 1935, the Shandong Provincial Working Committee of the Communist Party of China was established in Laiwu, with Liu Zhongying as secretary and Zhao Jianmin as the head of the organization. Soon, Zhao Jianmin was appointed acting secretary.

In late April 1936, the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sent Li Yu to Jinan as a representative of the Northern Bureau and secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee. In May, the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China was re-established, and Zhao Jianmin served as the head of the organization department and the secretary of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee. In September of that year, Zhao Jianmin was betrayed by traitors, arrested, and tortured at the provincial government's military justice department. The agent asked him, "Where are the people from the Northern Bureau?" "Who else is a member of the Communist Party in the township division and the arsenal?" He replied, "I don't know." The agents first whipped him with a bamboo whip and then pressed him with a bar. When he passed out, the enemy doused him with cold water to wake him up, and then pressed him when he woke up. Eventually, the agents confirmed that nothing could come out of his mouth and had to escort him to the Judge Advocate General's Detention Center.

At the detention center, Zhao Jianmin met an underground Communist Party member and learned that he could manage to deliver letters. In order to protect the party organization, Zhao Jianmin endured the pain and wrote a letter to Li Yu: "I was betrayed by an acquaintance in Laiwu and arrested by the special team, testifying that I am the person in charge of the Communist Party, and asking me to tell the relationship between the upper and lower sides. All of their attempts were in vain. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., I was subjected to various forms of torture. All these things are in vain for a man who has firm convictions and has long made up his mind to sacrifice his life for righteousness. No matter what stormy waves await me, I have made up my mind: 'It is better to be broken than to be destroyed.' 'The sea can wither, the stone can rot, and the festival of righteousness is immutable. Rest assured! The foolish brother is broken to pieces, and he will never affect his friends! ”

Two days later, Li Yu sent someone to visit Zhao Jianmin. The person who came was the famous calligrapher Wu Zhongqi. On the fourth day of his arrest, the party organization sent people. This kind of care makes Zhao Jianmin full of strength. Two or three days later, the agents interrogated Zhao Jianmin for the second time. The agents in charge of the trial switched to psychological warfare against him: from the creation of Soviet areas by the Communists, to the fact that there were only a few men left in the Long March, and finally to assert that the Red Army would soon be completely wiped out. Then, he said to Zhao Jianmin: "Aren't you going to resist Japan and save the country?" Then don't follow the Communist Party, this road will not work. Only by following Chairman Chiang can we resist Japan and save the country. Zhao Jianmin smiled contemptuously, and then said sternly: "Chiang Kai-shek should change his course and follow the path that the people of the whole country want, 'stop the civil war and unite with the outside world.'" Song Mingshi, the big traitor present, slapped the table and shouted: "Zhao Jianmin! Do you want to be a martyr of the Communist Party? Well, I'll fulfill you! The spy who presided over the trial was also angry, pointed at Zhao Jianmin and said: "You are not small, you dare to play the Communist Party!" And just like that, the second interrogation ended.

When the agents escorted Zhao Jianmin back to his cell in the detention center, Wu Zhongqi was waiting for him. This was his second visit to Zhao Jianmin and brought Li Yu's handwritten letter. The letter said: "Your arrest is a shock to everyone and a great loss of work. We admire you for sending a letter the day after you were arrested and tortured, saying that you would never bother any of your friends. Now is the time of national crisis, and every conscientious son and daughter of China should immediately put aside their past suspicions, cease hostilities, and unite with the outside world. This can not only have a beneficial impact on the surroundings, but also impress the relevant leaders to a certain extent, and may also be beneficial to my brother's lawsuit. Cut, cut! ”

Zhao Jianmin carefully pondered the meaning of the letter and decided to use every occasion to propagate the party's proposition of "stopping the civil war and uniting to resist Japan."

In mid-October, Han Fuyu, chairman of the Kuomintang Shandong Province and commander-in-chief of the Third Route Army, wanted to personally interrogate Zhao Jianmin, and more than 40 people were interrogated at the same time.

Han Fuyu's interrogation did not follow the provisions of the law, but completely relied on his own joys, sorrows, and sorrows. He also has his own set of rules and regulations, he doesn't read the case file, he only listens to the military judge read the case, and if he reads it lightly, the sentence will be light; If you read it heavily, you will be sentenced to it; When he thought that he should be shot, he swung his right hand forward from his chest, said "kill", and pulled it out and died.

At 3 p.m. that day, Zhao Jianmin and some of the prisoners were taken to the provincial government. After counting Zhao Jianmin's "crimes," the military judge proposed, "Ask the chairman to shoot him." The two law enforcement team members immediately grabbed Zhao Jianmin's arms and were about to pull out, but Zhao Jianmin looked at Han Fuyu calmly. Seeing his expression, Han Fuyu rolled his eyes and thought about it, and suddenly asked: "You are a student, you don't study well, why do you join the Communist Party?" Zhao Jianmin said confidently: "I joined the Communist Party in order to mobilize the people to resist Japan. Chairman, the Japanese in the Republic of China for twenty years, manufacturing 'nine? In November of the same year, in the name of the autonomy of the Communist Party of Eastern Hebei, it took control of more than 20 counties in eastern Hebei; in 24 years, it occupied most of the northern part of Chahar and a part of northern Suiyuan; and now, it is vigorously promoting the autonomy of the five provinces in northern China, including Shandong. Shandong is located on the coast, and once the Japanese army invades on a large scale, it will inevitably be ravaged. As the military and political leader of Shandong, you should not only suppress our anti-Japanese resistance, but also support our anti-Japanese activities to save the country! ”

When Han Fuyu heard this, his body trembled slightly, and then he said in a calm tone: "Young man, you have started propaganda for me. Let me ask you, what are you doing in Laiwu? Are you going to make a riot? I won't agree to a riot. Zhao Jianmin immediately replied: "I went to Laiwu to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda, in case the Japanese army invaded and occupied Shandong, so as to launch an anti-Japanese guerrilla war." As for the riots, we have stopped. Now, we see all the armies of China as part of the anti-Japanese forces. Fighting a civil war, no matter who wins or loses, is a loss of national defense forces"

At this time, Shi Jingzhou, director of the Military Judge Advocate General's Office, who was standing next to him, interjected: "This person is very stubborn, and when he was arrested, he ate all the Communist Party documents. This remark made the atmosphere that had been eased up tense again. Han Fuyu looked at Zhao Jianmin, then at him, thought for a while, and said, "Send it to the court!" As a result, Zhao Jianmin was sent to the Shandong Provincial High Court Detention Center.

Organize anti-Japanese armed forces

In August 1937, the North China Liaison Bureau of the Communist Party of China sent Zhang Youyu to Jinan. On the basis of the work done by Zhang Jingwu, a general of the Red Army sent by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he carried out united front work against Han Fuyu, and reached three agreements with Han Fuyu: (1) The release of political prisoners in custody. (2) The establishment of the Third Route Army Political Training Office, with Yu Xinqing as the director. Organizations at all levels of the Communist Party of China dispatched some Communist Party members and progressives to assist Yu Xinqing in his work. (3) Hold a training course for political workers of the Third Route Army to train cadres who mobilize the people to resist Japan.

Two months later, Zhao Jianmin was released from prison as a political prisoner. At that time, the Party Central Committee called on "every Communist Party member to become a good guerrilla and carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines"; The Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China also called on the Communist Party members in Jinan and a large number of important Party cadres who had been released from Kuomintang prisons to "take off their long shirts and go to the guerrillas." Originally, Li Yu, then secretary of the provincial party committee, suggested that Zhao Jianmin continue to work in the provincial party committee, but Zhao Jianmin said: "My hometown is Guan County, and I am familiar with people in Luxi, so please send me to Luxi to engage in arming first, and then return to work in the provincial party committee after a period of time." The provincial party committee agreed with him and appointed him secretary of the Rusit Committee.

After Zhao Jianmin returned to Guanxian County, he immediately summoned party members Wang Hao, Xu Mengxia, Sun Hong, Feng Gancai, Guo Ying, Guo Linlin, and Zhu Yuetong to hold a meeting in Zhu Sanli to study the establishment of the party's anti-Japanese armed forces and how to deal with the green forest armed forces in the territory. In just over 20 days, the anti-Japanese armed forces have grown to more than 100 people (guns).

At that time, there were two large green forest armed forces in Guanxian County, "South Pole" and "North Pole", each with four or five hundred people. In order to get rid of the "South Pole" from the control of the Kuomintang diehards, Zhao Jianmin penetrated into the "South Pole" as a major political trainer of the Sixth Special Region of Shandong. Then, the "North Pole" was collected. The two armed forces were reorganized into the 5th and 6th detachments of the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Command of the 6th District of Shandong Province. Zhao Jianmin is the head of the party organization of the 6th detachment.

Subsequently, Zhao Jianmin assisted Fan Zhuxian, a patriotic general, administrative inspector of the sixth district of Shandong Province, commander of security, and magistrate of Liaocheng County, to subdue and transform other bandits, militias, and defeated soldiers, and to strengthen the anti-Japanese ranks. At the same time, he successively participated in a series of battles organized by Fan Zhuxian, such as Liangshui Town, Jiepai, Nanzhen, and Fan County, and won many battles and opened up a large area of anti-Japanese guerrilla base areas.

In January 1939, Fan Zhuxian's 3rd Regiment engaged in an encounter with the Japanese army in the south of Guanxian County. Subsequently, the 3rd Regiment was reorganized into the 3rd Battalion, with Zhao Jianmin as the battalion commander. Since then, the combat effectiveness of this team has been greatly improved. From February 1939 to October 1940, they fought dozens of battles against the Japanese and puppet armies in the areas of Shen County, Guanxian, Tangyi, Liaoxi (Chengxi), and Boping, and became an important armed force in consolidating and developing the anti-Japanese base areas in northwest Shandong. The 3rd Battalion and Zhao Jianmin himself were once collectively called "Zhao Sanying".

Zhao Jianmin was strict in administering the army, and he demanded that every soldier strictly implement the "three major disciplines and eight points of attention." The night march to a village, before dawn is not allowed to call the door of the common people. Living in people's homes, they should help carry water, sweep the yard, and carry out the "water tank" campaign. When encountering the busy agricultural season, we should do our best to help the masses rush to harvest and plant seeds, and solve some practical difficulties. When the troops set out, they had to send someone to say goodbye to the landlord, ask for advice, express gratitude, and check the implementation of the "discipline of the masses". In the northwest of Shandong, because of the great reputation and influence of this unit, the local people affectionately called the 3rd Battalion "our Zhao 3rd Battalion". As soon as the team of the "Zhao San Battalion" arrived, the masses rushed to tell each other and eat pot pulp, while the Japanese puppet army in Guanxian County ordered martial law and was not allowed to leave the city.

Famous in the land of Luxi

Zhao Jianmin was good at surprise attacks, and often led the 3rd battalion to gather and disperse, attacking the Japanese puppet army out of nowhere. For example, in the autumn of 1939, in a battle to attack the stronghold of the puppet army in Wangzhuang, Guanxian County, he assigned 10 scouts to disguise themselves as local farmers who delivered cotton, skillfully entered the stronghold, and more than 90 soldiers were all lightly armed, followed by them, and took the stronghold by surprise, capturing more than 120 puppet soldiers. The list goes on. In particular, the three battles he commanded in Guanxian County made him even more powerful in the land of Luxi.

The first is to attack the crown county. In the spring of 1939, in order to invade and occupy Guanxian County, the Japanese invaders concentrated more than 1,000 Japanese troops and some puppet troops from Shen County, and adopted the method of large-scale "sweeping" and focusing on offensives. Zhao Jianmin analyzed the situation of being outnumbered and decided to temporarily withdraw from the county seat of Guanxian County.

After the enemy occupied the county seat, the "Zhao Third Battalion" immediately dispatched a small detachment to continuously harass the enemy occupying the county seat from all sides. On one occasion, they fought from 12 noon to 4 p.m. As a result of this concentration of forces, the enemy felt that he could not gain a foothold in the county seat, so he used artillery and heavy machine guns to fire in a panic for a while, abandoned the county seat, and fled to the southeast. The "Zhao San Battalion" chased the enemy all the way to Hancun, 7 miles east of the city, and bit him back. At this time, the enemy had to organize a heavy artillery bombardment, and at the same time ordered the puppet cavalry of Shen County to charge the "Zhao San Battalion". The "Zhao 3rd Battalion" seized a brick kiln in the east of Han Village, eventually defeated the puppet cavalry, and engaged in street battles with the enemy at night. At dawn, the enemy concentrated his forces to attack in a northwesterly direction. In order to avoid losses, the "Zhao Third Battalion" took the initiative to withdraw from the battle, and the enemy also fled back to Shen County.

This battle not only drove away the Japanese troops who invaded and occupied Guanxian County and inflicted heavy casualties, but also gave great encouragement to the anti-Japanese people in the area of Guanxian County, and also enabled the officers and men of the "Zhao Third Battalion" to gain experience in fighting the Japanese army.

The second is the war against Chen Guanzhuang. In the autumn of 1939, "Zhao Sanying" lived in Chen Guanzhuang, 30 miles east of Guanxian County. One day, they discovered that a regiment of the Japanese army, totaling more than 4,000 people, was heading south from Jiazhen and would advance to Sang'a Town through Chenguanzhuang. According to the enemy's layout, it can be seen that the opponent has a brigade and squadron, a heavy machine gun company, a mountain artillery team, and a baggage team of more than 40 vehicles.

Zhao Jianmin decided to attack the Japanese automobile baggage team. He personally led the first company and approached the Japanese army covertly. When the Japanese infantry and artillery passed and the automobile team came within the range of the "Zhao San Battalion", the soldiers of the 1st Company fired at the enemy automobile team with a dense platoon of guns. At the same time, when the enemy's baggage cover team got out of the car, it was fiercely attacked by the "Zhao San Battalion". When an officer of the enemy was giving command back and forth, he was shot by a correspondent and a special shooter of the "Zhao Third Battalion" and was killed on the spot. After that, the enemy from the east and northeast did not dare to approach the village. After dusk, the enemy suffered heavy casualties from the attack in all directions, and most of them lay on the ground and did not dare to advance. Even the commander of the enemy army, who repeatedly shouted and scolded to move forward, was to no avail. In this battle, more than 110 enemies were killed and wounded, and Zhang Weihan, the commander of the Zhuxian Column, personally rushed to offer condolences.

The third is to destroy the puppet and recalcitrant government. In the spring of 1940, the northern part of the 8th and 6th districts of Guanxian County was once entrenched by the gentry landlords and refused to allow the troops of the Eighth Route Army to enter. They also set up a pseudo-6th district office, which was located in Tangmu Village.

One night in June, Zhao Jianmin led the 1st and 3rd companies of the "Zhao Third Battalion" to attack Tangmu Village under the leadership of Xu Shuling, a classmate of Tangmu Village. Due to careful planning and quick action, the pseudo-stubborn district headquarters was eliminated without a single shot fired in this battle, and the coach of the district team of the die-hard army was captured alive.

During July, some gentry landlords in the 8th and 6th districts took advantage of the Japanese army's "sweep" of Guanxian and began to carry out large-scale activities again, threatening villages inclined to the anti-Japanese democratic government. In order to smash the enemy's plot, the "Zhao San Battalion" decided to attack Da Liu Shao and Xing Liu Shao, which were controlled by the landlords' armed forces in the 6th District, and confiscated the landlords' guns.

On the night of the day after the Japanese army finished the "sweep," Zhao Jianmin led the soldiers of the 1st and 3rd companies of the "Zhao 3rd Battalion" to attack Daliushao, and the instructors of the "Zhao 3rd Battalion" led the 2nd and 4th companies to attack Xingliushao. After fierce fighting, more than 100 guns were surrendered. It carried out a completely devastating blow to the armed forces of the gentry landlords, and consolidated and expanded the anti-Japanese base area in Guanxian County. Because Zhao Jianmin was resourceful and decisive, bold and careful, he led the "Zhao San Battalion" to pull out strongholds, counter "sweeps", set up ambushes, and won by surprise, which made the Japanese puppet army frightened, so people called him "Luxi Zhao Zilong".

From May to the end of 1941, Zhao Jianmin studied at the Party School of the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In January 1942, Zhao Jianmin was appointed commander of the Northwest Lu Military Division (later known as the Third Army Division) of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region of the Eighth Route Army.

In May 1942, the Japanese army carried out a brutal "sweep" of the anti-Japanese base areas in central Hebei, and the Huimin detachment led by Ma Benzhai came to the Third Army Division of Hebei, Shandong, and Henan from Jizhong. Organizationally, it was decided to let Ma Benzhai serve as the commander of the division and Zhao Jianmin as the deputy commander, and Yang Dezhi, commander of the military region, solicited Zhao Jianmin's opinion. Zhao Jianmin immediately said: "What does this matter, please rest assured, I will definitely work with Comrade Ma Benzhai to do a good job in the work of the three sub-districts." After that, Zhao Jianmin and Ma Benzhai worked closely and fought side by side, dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese puppet army, and consolidated and developed the anti-Japanese base area.

In August 1944, Zhao Jianmin led his troops to liberate Xin County, annihilated the puppet army defending the city, and captured alive Liu Xianzhou, the puppet model county magistrate and security commander, and was praised by the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region.

After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhao Jianmin successively served as deputy secretary of the CPC Hebei-Shandong-Henan District Party Committee, deputy political commissar of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, and commander of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region. In February 1949, he served as the political commissar of the 17th Army of the Second Field Army, and in August 1949, he also served as the army commander, and participated in the Battle of Crossing the River and the Southwest Campaign. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as Minister of Communications of the Southwest Military and Political Commission, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Railways of the Government Council, Secretary and Governor of Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. He is an alternate member of the 8th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China; Member of the Central Advisory Committee of the 12th and 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Second, be able to fight well

Before Zhao Jianmin's arrest, he was head of the Organization Department of the Shandong Provincial CPC Committee, and after his release, Li Yu, secretary of the provincial party committee, told him: "The provincial party committee has decided to let you continue to work in the provincial party committee." However, Zhao Jianmin made another choice: in response to the call of the party organization that "every Communist Party member should become a good guerrilla and carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines", he decided to go to the grassroots level to form an anti-Japanese team and devote himself to the battlefield of the War of Resistance. He said to Li Yu: "My hometown is Guan County, and I am familiar with the people in Luxi, so I ask the provincial party committee to send me to Luxi to engage in arming first, and then return to work in the provincial party committee after a period of time." Li Yu respected Zhao Jianmin's opinion and sent him to Luxi to carry out the anti-Japanese struggle.

At the beginning of 1938, after Zhao Jianmin returned to Luxi, he worked in the Liaocheng anti-Japanese guerrilla commander Fan Zhuxian, and served as the secretary of the Luxi Special Committee of the Communist Party of China. He first reformed two bandit teams, one was the "North Pole" and the other was the "South Pole", and after hard work, the "South Pole" was reorganized into the sixth detachment of Fan Zhuxian's department. After the establishment of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Third Army Division, Zhao Jianmin served as the commander and was subordinate to the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region with Yang Dezhi as the commander.

During the difficult period of the Anti-Japanese War, the Hui hero Ma Benzhai led the Jizhong Hui detachment to the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Third Army Sub-district led by Zhao Jianmin. Zhao Jianmin readily agreed: "What does this matter, please rest assured, I will definitely work with Comrade Ma Benzhai to do a good job in the work of the three divisions." It shows the broad-mindedness of a communist who takes into account the overall situation and can go up and down.

More than a year later, due to the extremely difficult anti-Japanese struggle in northwest Shandong, the Third Regiment of the Fan Zhuxian Column of the Eighth Route Army had an encounter with the Japanese army in the south of Guanxian County, and was reorganized into the third battalion of the Zhuxian Column, with Zhao Jianmin as the battalion commander, known as the "Zhao Third Battalion" in history. In November 1938, Liaocheng fell, General Fan Zhuxian was martyred, and the Japanese army successively occupied Linqing, Tangyi (now merged into Guanxian), Xin County, Guantao and other counties. From February 1939 to October 1940, the "Zhao Sanying" fought dozens of battles with the Japanese puppet army in the areas of Shen County, Guanxian, Tangyi, Liao (Chengxi) and Boping, and became an important armed force in consolidating and developing the anti-Japanese base areas in northwest Shandong. Since the Zhuxian Column had always regarded Guanxian as one of its bases of activity, the Japanese army did not dare to rashly occupy the county seat of Guanxian until it occupied several counties around Guanxian and after a "sweeping" test, it entered and occupied it in March 1939.

After the Japanese army occupied the county seat of Guanxian County, Zhao Jianmin flexibly applied Mao Zedong's guerrilla tactics of "clearing the wilderness with strong walls, retreating when the enemy comes, chasing after the enemy when he leaves, disturbing us when the enemy is stationed, and attacking when the enemy is few," and commanded the third battalion to lose no time in dispatching small detachments to carry out uninterrupted attacks and harassment of the enemy stationed in the county town from all directions, causing the enemy to be dizzy and unable to be at peace day and night. The most important blow to the enemy lasted from 12 noon to 4 p.m. Due to the concentration of superior forces in this battle, the enemy felt that he could not gain a foothold in the county seat, so he used artillery and heavy machine guns to bombard and strafe the surroundings indiscriminately for a while, and then abandoned the county seat and fled to the southeast. The "Zhao Third Battalion" chased the enemy all the way to Hancun, seven miles east of the city, and bit him in the back. At this time, the enemy hurriedly organized heavy artillery to bombard the third battalion, and at the same time ordered the puppet cavalry of Shen County to attack the third battalion. The 3rd Battalion seized a brick kiln in the east of Hancun, relying on the favorable terrain to effectively shoot the enemy, and finally defeated the puppet cavalry, and carried forward the spirit of continuous combat, and launched street battles with the enemy at night. At dawn, the enemy gathered forces and stormed in the northwest direction. In order to preserve the vitality, Zhao Jianmin led the third battalion to withdraw from the battle on his own initiative, and the enemy at the end of the strong army also retreated back to Shen County. It was a battle, not only drove away the Japanese troops who invaded and occupied Guanxian County, but also inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy. This was a great encouragement to the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in the area of Guanxian County, and at the same time, it also enabled the cadres and soldiers of the third battalion to accumulate experience in fighting against the Japanese army.

In the autumn of 1939, Zhao Jianmin led the third battalion to station in Chen Guanzhuang, 30 miles east of Guanxian County. It was a large village with more than 200 households in the wall, and in order to effectively combat the enemy, the troops built fortifications around the wall. One day, Zhao Jianmin discovered that a wing of the Japanese army, totaling more than 4,000 people, was marching south from Jiazhen to Sang'a Town through Chen Guanzhuang, equipped with a heavy machine gun team, a mountain artillery team, and a baggage team of more than 40 vehicles. Zhao Jianmin decided to fight a surprise attack to severely defeat the enemy's spirit. When the enemy infantry and artillery passed and the automobile team entered the range of the third battalion, Zhao Jianmin decisively ordered the first company to shoot at the enemy automobile team with a dense platoon of guns; When the enemy's baggage cover team got out of the car, Zhao Jianmin ordered the whole battalion to attack quickly. During the battle, the enemy's officer-like men rushed back and forth, and his subordinates resisted stubbornly, and were shot dead by the special marksman of the third battalion, forcing the enemy to dare not rush to the village. After dusk, the enemy suffered heavy casualties from the attacks in various places, and most of them lay on the ground and did not dare to move. Even the repeated shouting and reprimands of the commander of the enemy army did not help. When Zhao Jianmin inspected various positions and saw the third company at the south gate, platoon commander Liu Changyi, like the cadres and soldiers of other companies and platoons, made a resolute and powerful guarantee: "Battalion commander, don't worry, on the side of the south gate, I promise to let the little devils die one by one, and the people are in the position." When the battle achieved the expected goal, Zhao Jianmin immediately sent a platoon commander of the first company to lead a squad out of the north gate to reconnoitre. The scouts came back and said that there was no enemy in the northwest direction, and the 3rd Battalion took the opportunity to smoothly withdraw from Chen Guanzhuang. In this battle, the "Zhao Third Battalion" killed and wounded more than 110 enemy soldiers and achieved brilliant results. Early the next morning, Zhang Weihan, commander of the Zhuxian Column, came to the third battalion to offer condolences, and when he saw Zhao Jianmin's face, he said: "You have won a great victory!" Then the cadres and soldiers of the whole battalion were called to speak and give commendations and encouragement.

At that time, the northern part of the eighth and sixth districts of Guanxian County was once occupied by the gentry landlords. They colluded with the Japanese puppet regime and refused to allow the troops of the Eighth Route Army to enter. In the spring of 1940, they set up a puppet sixth district office in Tangmuzhai and established a puppet recalcitrant army. One night in June 1940, at the request of the Guanxian County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and the county anti-Japanese democratic government, Zhao Jianmin led the first and third companies to attack Tangmu Village under the leadership of his classmate Xu Shuling. Due to careful planning and quick action, the battle was fought without firing a single shot, and the pseudo-stubborn district headquarters was eliminated and the Kuomintang die-hard, the coach of the district team, was captured alive. In July, some gentry and landlords in the 8th and 6th districts took advantage of the Japanese army's "sweep" of Guanxian County to carry out a large-scale campaign and make wild remarks to threaten the villages inclined to the anti-Japanese democratic government. In order to smash the enemy's plot, Zhao Jianmin decided to attack Da Liu Shao and Xing Liu Shao, which were controlled by the landlords of the sixth district. On the night of the day after the Japanese army finished its "sweep", battalion commander Zhao Jianmin led the soldiers of the first and third companies to attack Daliushao, and the instructor led the second and fourth companies to attack Xingliushao. After fierce fighting, they conquered the "two Shaos", captured more than 100 rifles, dealt a devastating blow to the armed forces of the gentry and landlords, and consolidated and expanded the anti-Japanese base area in Guanxian County.

In May 1940, the third battalion led by Zhao Jianmin was reorganized into the third battalion of the 22nd Regiment of the newly formed 8th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and he still served as the battalion commander; In October, on the orders of Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, he went to the anti-Japanese battlefield west of the Wei River.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhao Jianmin served as the deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan District and the deputy political commissar of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region. On June 30 of the same year, Liu Deng's army forcibly crossed the Yellow River and launched the famous Southwest Lu Campaign, which lasted for 28 days and annihilated 50,000 or 60,000 enemies. Prior to this, on June 27, Zhao Jianmin was ordered to command the 1st Independent Brigade of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region to cross the Yellow River secretly, defeat the Kuomintang Fourth Appeasement Zone Liu Ruming's River Defenders, clear the way for the large army to forcibly cross the Yellow River, and meet the 1st Column of the Central Plains Field Army in the areas of Daimiao (now Daimiao Town, Dongping) and Cailou (now Zhaogudui Township, Liangshan County) to cross the river, and cooperate with the 1st and 2nd Columns. On August 15 of the same year, Liu Deng's army marched south and leaped thousands of miles into Dabie Mountain. After that, the Nationalist Army made a comeback, and the situation south of the Yellow River deteriorated again. Zhao Jianmin was appointed as the commander of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region.

In order to combat the enemy's arrogance, Zhao Jianmin commanded the 6th, 9th, 14th, and 15th regiments of the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, and with the cooperation of the three county brigades of Dongping, Wenshang, and Liangshan, launched a battle to liberate Dongping in early December 1947. At 4 p.m. on 4 December, the troops set out from Liangshan, marched 30 kilometers through the canal, and arrived at the designated position at 23 o'clock that night. At 0:00 on the 5th, Zhao Jianmin, who was at the headquarters of Sungang Village in the east of the city, issued an attack order, and the 1st Battalion of the 15th Regiment first started at the south gate, cleared the defenders outside the gate, and took advantage of the victory to open a gap in the southeast corner of the city and attack west along the city wall. The 14th Regiment cleared the defending enemy in the east of the city, annihilated a squadron of the 17th Regiment of the 3rd Brigade of the Shandong Provincial Security Brigade stationed in Dongping, and attacked the county seat from the small east gate. The troops besieging the city from the West Gate broke through the wall, captured the Zhenwu Temple, and compressed all the defenders of the West Gate in the area of Jesus Church and Osumi. The 1st Battalion of the 9th Regiment cleared the enemy forces at Makou, entered the city from the north gate and occupied the mosque. Under the powerful offensive of the People's Liberation Army, the Dongping defenders could not take care of each other, and it was difficult for each other to be horns, so they panicked and collapsed. Taking advantage of the confusion of the enemy, the 1st Battalion of the 6th, 9th, and 15th Regiments surrounded and annihilated the trapped enemy at Osumi Shoujie, and after several hours of fierce fighting, more than 100 enemies were annihilated. The enemy inside and outside the city retreated to Confucian Temple Street, defended it with danger, and resisted stubbornly. The 1st Battalion of the 14th Regiment besieged the shrinking enemy from all sides, and because of the depth of the surrounding water, it was unable to deploy its forces for a while. The two sides fought fiercely for four hours, and the PLA paid the price of more than 40 casualties and repelled three enemy counterattacks. At 5 o'clock on the 6th, after Zhao Jianmin learned the information that the enemy reinforcements had set out from Feicheng, in order to avoid being attacked by the enemy on his back, he immediately made a decision and ordered the troops to withdraw from the battle. In this battle, more than 240 enemy soldiers were killed and wounded, more than 80 enemy squadron leaders and below were captured, and 20 light and heavy machine guns and more than 300 rifles were captured. In the same month, the remnants of Dongping, who had suffered heavy losses, abandoned the city and fled, and the whole county was liberated. It can be seen from this that in the battle to liberate Dongping, Zhao Jianmin adopted the tactics of flowering on all sides and dividing and encircling and annihilating, which demonstrated the courage and wisdom of a brilliant commander.

The Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region carried forward the fine style of continuous operations, and immediately launched the Xiangbaitun Battle. After the stubborn stronghold of the enemy in Feicheng Shiheng was uprooted by the Taixi Military Division, the 15th Brigade of the 73rd Army under the command of Wang Yaowu, commander of the Kuomintang Second Appeasement Zone, took the opportunity to rush back to the Taixi area in an attempt to retaliate and control this strategic location. In order to consolidate the situation in Taixi, the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region decided to launch a battle to gather and annihilate the enemy's 15 brigade and deal a severe blow at the invading enemy. On December 19, 1947, Zhao Jianmin, commander of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, Xu Yunbei, deputy secretary of the regional party committee, and Fu Jiaxuan, chief of staff of the military region, led the independent brigade and artillery battalion of the military region, and some units of the 1st and 7th divisions of the military region to launch a counterattack against the enemy's 15th Brigade with the cooperation of the Taixi Military Division. The battle took place in the area of Xiangtun and Baitun in the fourth district of Feicheng (now Wangzhuang Town), and was known as the "Xiangbaitun Battle" in history. During the battle, the enemy sent two fighters and a reinforcement from the 12th Army. When the enemy and us were engaged in a fierce battle near the Dingjiawu Huihe Bridge, two enemy planes collided in the airspace over Dingjiawu in order to avoid the PLA's ground artillery fire, destroying the plane and killing people. The morale of the People's Liberation Army was greatly boosted, and with one blow, more than 1,000 enemies were annihilated, more than 500 enemies were captured, and a brilliant victory was achieved.

The Battle of Xiangbaitun fully embodied Zhao Jianmin's military ability and wrote a heavy stroke in the history of local military culture: First, it fully demonstrated the flexible and mobile command art of the regular and local troops of the PLA. During the battle, Zhao Jianmin adopted the tactics of night attack by exhausting the enemy, first designing to confuse the enemy, attacking the east and attacking the west, and maneuvering in a false way, and after dragging the enemy to exhaustion and staying in the camp at night, he took advantage of his unpreparedness to attack suddenly, completely annihilating a battalion of the enemy army in one fell swoop, taking the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, and winning a complete victory. Second, they are good at seizing fighters to destroy the enemy in motion. Movement warfare is the magic weapon of the people's army to defeat the enemy. In the battle of Xiangbaitun, Zhao Jianmin's troops creatively used this traditional tactic to seize the weak links of the enemy's army during the movement, annihilate one of them, strive for the initiative, break through each one, and sweep away thousands of troops. Third, it is good at concentrating superior forces to fight a war of annihilation. Gather forces several times larger than the enemy, and use absolute superiority to ensure that the battle can be won, and victory will be complete, so as to boost morale and continue to fight. Fourth, it has set an example of people's war. Before the war, the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region under the command of Zhao Jianmin extensively mobilized the masses to actively participate in the war and support the front through local party organizations. After the battle began, Xiang Shujin and other villagers in Xiangtun volunteered to lead the way for the troops; Bao Chengkun, a peasant woman, braved the rain of bullets and bullets to assist the soldiers in attacking the enemy camp; Liu Chengyou and a large number of other militiamen and villagers rescued the wounded, carried stretchers, and transported ammunition, thus ensuring logistical support for the battle.

After the war, Zhao Jianmin led his troops to participate in the Eastern Henan Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign. In February 1949, in the unified reorganization of the whole army, the units under the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region were organized into the 17th Army of the 5th Corps of the 2nd Field Army of the People's Liberation Army, with Zhao Jianmin as the political commissar and Wang Bingzhang, the former chief of staff of the 115th Division, as the commander. On April 21 of the same year, Zhao Jianmin and Wang Bingzhang led their troops to participate in the battle of crossing the river, and smashed Zhejiang and Jiangxi; In August of the same year, Zhao Jianmin served as army commander and political commissar, and was ordered to command the 17th Army to go west out of Guizhou, Keguiyang, occupy Zunyi, and then enter Yunnan, completing the task of liberating the southwest. In November of the same year, Zhao Jianmin concurrently served as the deputy director of the Guiyang Military Management Commission. From the beginning of the Huaihai Campaign, he fought under the command of Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng, and Chen Yi, and they understood each other and formed a deep friendship.