Zhou Jinzhu: Memories of my work during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression

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*This article is excerpted from Yanggu Literature and History Collection (Part I) (April 1999), written by Zhou Jinzhu, with the original title "Memories of My Work During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression"

(Original note: Zhou Jinzhu, born in 1919, was born in North Street, Zhangqiu Town, Yanggu County.) In July 1940, he joined the Communist Party of China, participated in the work at the same time, and retired at the end of 1980 in the Liaocheng City Commercial Bureau. Now settled in Yanggu Town. )

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After the "77" incident in 1937, Han Fuji, chairman of the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Government and commander-in-chief of the Third Route Army, retreated without a fight and abandoned Shandong. In northwestern Shandong, the patriotic general Fan Zhuxian, with the support of the Communists, recruited bandits, built an army and government, stabilized the people's hearts, cracked down on the Japanese invaders, and established a vigorous anti-Japanese base area in northwest Shandong with Liaocheng as the center.

At the beginning of 1938, Li Shuchun, director of the Luxi Xingyuan of the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Government, and Liao Anbang, chief of staff of the Luxi Xingying, came to Zhang Qiu, a famous canal town in the northwest of Shandong, on the orders of Shen Honglie, the new chairman of the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Government and commander of security. On the one hand, they are rampant, living a life of corruption and luxury, drunkenness and money, and they are living here to live in peace; On the other hand, reactionary forces such as bandits, traitors, and Huidaomen were reused to passively resist Japan, conspire against the communists, and harm the people.

At that time, I deeply hated all kinds of ugly acts of the Kuomintang. Out of the belief that "the rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband", I actively sought ways to resist Japan and save the country. In July and August 1938, after being introduced by Xu Fengqi, a party member under the leadership of Comrade Shen Yunpu, the head of the Yanggu County Party organization of the Communist Party of China, I participated in the traffic station under his leadership, and honorably became an intelligence officer under the leadership of the party.

(b)

In January 1940, under the command of Generals Xiao Hua and Yang Yong, the Eighth Route Army of Luxi launched an anti-stubborn operation, defeating part of the troops of the Shiyou Third Division of the 39th Group Army, which was later reorganized into the 39th Group Army of the Tenth Army of the Kuomintang, as well as the reactionary militias organized by them and the instigated Huidaomen armed forces, driving out the reactionary forces such as Li Shuchun, director of the Luxi Xingyuan of Shandong Province, a diehard Kuomintang faction, and liberating Zhangqiu Town and parts of several nearby counties. In October of the same year, with Zhangqiu Town as the center, it was divided into the second district of Dong'e County, the two townships of the ninth district of Dongping County, the fifth district of Yanggu County, and the fourth district of Shouzhang County, and Zhangqiu County was newly established at the junction of these four counties. At that time, the secretary of the county party committee of the county committee (known as the political work office) was Wang Huaxian, the organization minister Yan Hua, the propaganda minister Lei Zhen, the director of the peasant association Zhou Zibin, and the director of the women's association Luo Wen. The Zhang Qiu Anti-Japanese County Government was also established at the same time, with Xia Zhongyuan as the county magistrate and Li Yadong as the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, who was soon succeeded by Li Kedong. The county government has five sections, and the administrative division is divided into five districts.

In the process of preparing for the establishment of the county, some leaders often carried out activities in Zhangqiu Town, and some still lived in my house, and under their education, I raised my consciousness. In July of this year, through the introduction of Luo Wen and Zhou Zibin, I honorably joined the Communist Party of China. In March 1941, the county party committee decided that I should be the secretary of the Zhangqiu Town Party Committee. During this term of office, I successively recruited Huang Dengliang from West Street, Zhao Changhai from South Street, Zhang Hongbo, Zhang Hongchun, and Ma Shuzhi from East Street, and Ren Baozhu, Qin Liye, and Zhang Jingui from North Street as party members.

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On September 27, 1942, the Japanese invaders concentrated more than 10,000 troops to carry out a large-scale sweep in the central areas of Pu, Fan, and Guan, as well as the Kunshan and Zhangqiu areas, with the tactics of encirclement by an iron wall. After that, in addition to the Kunshan area, in our Zhangqiu Town and the surrounding Menglou, Sanguanmiao, Zheng Sanli, Caodikou, Diebo, Shimiao and other places built artillery towers, set up strongholds, plus the previous enemy swept in our county and the surrounding areas of the Turtledove shop, Taochengpu, Liu Shizhuang, Longwang Temple, Acheng, Guanshan, Tomashan, Daimiao, Sili and other places, a total of more than 20 places. The enemy built roads and telephone networks between the strongholds, exchanged information, and coordinated with each other. In addition, the establishment of a puppet political power at the grass-roots level has been relatively common, the household registration has been checked, the good citizen certificate has been used, the armor protection has been compiled, the system of joint sitting has been implemented, intelligence officers have been set up in villages and villages, and anti-communist self-defense forces have been formed, which has forced the armed forces of our counties and districts to be unable to carry out their activities openly, the party and government organizations have gone underground, and the whole county has become an enemy-occupied area under the strict control of the enemy.

With regard to the emergence of such a grim situation, under the guidance and care of the higher-level party organizations, the Zhangqiu County Party Committee had foreseen and prepared for it. Comrade Wang Huaxian, secretary of the county party committee, made use of his rich experience in the struggle against the enemy, which he had accumulated over a long period of time in the areas under the enemy's, puppet, and recalcitrant rule in Qingping County, and adopted important measures long before the sweep. First, it is necessary to continuously strengthen the building of grass-roots party organizations and repeatedly educate party members and cadres on revolutionary integrity. educate the broad masses of cadres and party members to establish confidence in the final victory, and make ideological preparations to meet the most arduous struggle situation; In addition, it has laid down policies and disciplines related to dealing with the enemy's clearance and intensive training, so that everyone will know and consciously abide by them. Second, it is necessary to resolutely rely on the masses, organize joint defense, carry out armed struggle, and take the initiative to strike at the enemy. For example, in the summer before this sweep, when the enemy puppet army in Dong'e County attacked our area south of Taochengpu, our joint defense forces fought bravely and killed the Japanese army adviser Renbao Sunrise and the deputy of the puppet county brigade, and won a great victory. Third, it is necessary to conscientiously implement the united front policy and unite all those who are willing to resist Japan, including landlords, rich peasants, enlightened gentry, and well-known figures from all walks of life, to participate in the anti-Japanese struggle and engage in various activities conducive to resisting Japan. For example, the old district chief of the second district of Dong'e County in the old government was angry, and under our efforts, he always rallied around us, and he refused to cooperate with the enemy and the hypocrisy many times, and became a model for influencing the masses on one side. Fourth, we should establish a two-faced regime in the border areas ruled by the enemy, which we absolutely control, in order to deceive the enemy and protect the masses. Fifth, it is necessary to attach importance to doing a good job in the work of the enemy and the hypocrisy. In the spring of 1941, the county party committee established the Ministry of Enemy Works, with Yan Hua concurrently serving as the minister, and under his leadership, Zhou Zichen was assigned to be in charge of Dong'e, Guo Jiuming was in charge of Yanggu, and Wei Fuquan was in charge of Shouzhang's enemy and puppet work. In the spring of 1942, I was also transferred from the secretary of the Zhangqiu Town Party Committee to the Ministry of Enemy Works. At the same time, Comrade Wang Huaxian also personally did the work of dispatching and breaking in (such as sending Comrade Ma Yuntao, a member of the Communist Party of China, to the puppet second district department of Dong'e County and the puppet Xinmin Association to do underground work), and personally instructed Zhou Zichen to use his social connections in Zilu Village to mobilize and cooperate with Liu Huating, the landlord of the village, to win over Liu Zhenfa, the commander of the puppet army battalion in Dong'e County, to lead his troops to revolt. Sixth, it is necessary to conscientiously and effectively implement the policy of cracking down on the first evil elements of the enemy and puppeteers, striving to educate the majority, and rewarding those who have made meritorious contributions.

It is precisely because of these works that the puppet organizations in some localities have been able to obey our commands, and there has been a situation in which there is no enemy in enemy-occupied areas. Therefore, in this sweep, the leaders of our county party committee were able to make the enemy situation clear and take contingency measures in a timely manner; At the grassroots level, with the strong leadership of the party organization, the mood of the masses is stable, and the bad guys do not dare to move. Therefore, compared with the situation in other areas, the losses suffered by our county are relatively light.

After the deterioration of the Zhangqiu area, I assisted Yan Hua and Guo Kun, secretary of the county party committee, in transferring more than 10 foreign cadres, including Luo Wen and Zhao Ke, who were not suitable for persisting in the local struggle, to the central area of Pufanguan according to the instructions of the superiors. Soon after his return, the county party committee convened a meeting of activists to implement the strategic principle of strengthening the party's unified leadership and "advancing by the enemy" put forward by the higher-level party organizations in view of the degeneration of the areas, decided to set up a county armed work team, and instructed all districts and villages to create conditions for setting up secret armed groups in order to cooperate with the newly formed Kunzhang detachment, penetrate deep into the enemy-controlled areas, take the initiative to attack, disrupt the enemy's deployment, and turn the enemy-occupied areas into guerrilla areas. At the same time, the meeting also proposed that the whole party should take action to further strengthen the work of the enemy and the puppet. On the one hand, they investigated and mobilized the relatives and friends of the puppet army personnel, persuaded them to "be in Cao Ying, and their hearts were in Han," urging them to abandon the secret and turn to the light; on the other hand, they led the selection of qualified targets to infiltrate the enemy and puppet organizations in order to obtain information, cooperate with the armed struggle, and launch a political offensive to achieve the goal of cracking down, dividing, and disintegrating the enemy. According to the arrangements of this meeting, I was dispatched by the county party committee to break into the enemy puppet organization in Zhangqiu Town, the heart of the enemy's rule, to do underground work.

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Before I entered Zhangqiu Town, Comrade Wang Huaxian, secretary of the county party committee, gave me the following tasks: In accordance with the principle of "concealing and being capable, laying in ambush for a long time, accumulating strength, and waiting for the opportune moment," we should use all kinds of legal means to get close to the enemy's puppet army, police, constitutional, and special organizations, penetrate their key departments, discover forces that can win unity, develop relations, obtain intelligence, and prevent the enemy from sabotaging our party organizations and the masses. He also laid down a code of conduct for me to "flow together without contaminating with the pollution, and from the sludge without staining", requiring me to be highly vigilant, bold and careful, good at analyzing the situation, identifying various characters, strictly abiding by the discipline of secrecy, and preventing sabotage by the enemy. As for my cover occupation after I broke in, it was Comrade Ma Yuntao, who had already entered the office, that I had already found for me in the office of the Xinmin Association in Zhangqiu, a puppet county, to facilitate understanding the enemy's secrets, to get close to the enemy's puppet organizations, and to be responsible for the internal work of liaison with the enemy's puppet organizations. At that time, he was also transferred to this unit, and in early 1943, Ma was sent by the higher party organization to work in the enemy-controlled city of Jinan. Before leaving, he took advantage of his contacts with Pang Tonghua, head of the Zhang Qiu dispatch team of the Japanese Pingjing Military Police Special Task Force, to introduce me to this key department. In order for me to control the team's secrets, Ma also took advantage of the characteristics of Pang Ai's gun to buy a broken gun and exchange it for a box gun from the pseudo-district department, and handed it over to me to give to him, so that I became Pang's internal officer. As for my communication with the county party committee, Dou Yanchang, who was assigned by the organization to open a restaurant in Zhang Qiu as a cover, was in charge.

At that time, Comrade Ma Yuntao and I did not know each other, but it was Yan Hua's brother Yan Shiduan (Yan was a non-party member and had no job, and he did not know about Ma's party membership and work details) to take me to Zhang Qiuzhen to contact Ma. After I entered, before Ma Wei left Zhang Qiu to go to Jinan, we discussed some work together, and after he left, I worked on my own. During the period from October 1942 to April 22, 1944, when our army attacked Zhang Qiu and before I withdrew, I mainly carried out the following work:

1. After I arrived at the office of the puppet Dong'e County Xinmin Association in Zhangqiu, according to my position, Li Jianzhi, the main person in charge, led me to contact various puppet organizations. At that time, the puppet organizations in Zhang Qiu Town were set up according to the administrative divisions of the old government, and the puppet army, government, police, constitution, special, and Xinmin associations of Dong'e, Yanggu, and Shouzhang counties all stationed troops and institutions, but they were not subordinate to each other, and each operated within the jurisdiction of its own county, and in addition to accepting the superior leadership of the county to which it belonged, it also accepted the unified command of the Japanese army headquarters in the locality, and only the Zhang Qiu dispatch team of the special task force of the Japanese military police in Pingjing could operate in the counties. Li Jianzhi led me first to contact the special task force of the three counties of Zhangqiu Town, which was directly led by the Japanese Command. The captain Zhang Longfa was originally a spy of the Shouzhang County Puppet Police Station, and the team members included Wang Huimin (also known as Junde, who was originally the head of my Zhangqiu County Taxation Bureau, I was born as a vagrant, and used to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble everything, Zhang Qiuzhen, non-party member, and defected to the enemy after the September · and 27 sweeps), Chai Fengling (formerly the guard squad leader of my Zhangqiu County Public Security Bureau, non-party member, defected to the enemy after the September · and 27 sweeps), Zhao Ziyuan, Ding Hanmin, Gao Dengyue, Xing Jinyu, translator Ma Longchen, etc., a total of more than ten people. Later, Li led me to Lu Rongsan Office, director of the Yanggu County Puppet Xinmin Association's Zhangqiu Office, Mi Zhongping, director of the Zhangqiu Police Station, Zeng Jingchun, director of the Shouzhang County Puppet Xinmin Association's Zhangqiu Office, Zhang Yanhong, director of the Zhangqiu Police Station, and Zhou Mairong, director of the Zhangqiu Police Station in Dong'e County. For the needs of future work, I recognized the brotherhood of the same clan with Zhou at that time. Through the above contacts, I got to know them, that is, I deliberately took the initiative to associate with them in order to understand the situation and expand my influence, because the rumor that I was a big traitor was widely spread among the enemy and puppet organizations and the masses in Zhang Qiuzhen, which was very beneficial to cover my true identity and carry out my work. At the same time, I also found the opportunity to join the Anqing Gang (i.e., Sanbanzi), which was very popular and active in the puppet army and puppet organization, and made friends by recognizing the relationship between mentor and apprentice and worshipping the leaders and members of the puppet organization, creating conditions for my work.

In the above activities, in accordance with the instructions of the enemy engineering department of the county party committee, I further investigated and verified the deployment of the Japanese puppet army in Zhangqiu Town. At that time, the Japanese army headquarters built four artillery towers, with a wall about 29 meters high and the surrounding blockade ditch connected to form a large stronghold, and there were bunkers under the four artillery towers to extend out of the wall, as a bunker can shoot externally, forming a criss-crossing fire network up and down, easy to defend and difficult to attack. In the winter of 1943, the Japanese army gathered troops in order to open up our Pinghan line, and many Japanese strongholds were replaced by puppet troops, and the Japanese army in Zhang Qiuzhen withdrew, and two battalions of the Ninth Regiment of the Fourth Group Army of the puppet North China Public Security Army were transferred to take over the defense. Zhang Yuhuan, the commander of the first battalion, and Zhang, the commander of the third battalion, are well-armed and equipped, each company has 7 light machine guns, all the rifles are made in Hanyang, and the machine gun company is equipped with 4 heavy machine guns, two mortars, and a radio station, and there is sufficient ammunition, which is very arrogant. The puppet army of each county, the Cangyonghai squadron stationed in Shouzhang County at the South Gate has a total of more than 90 people; The East Gate is stationed in Dong'e County, with a total of more than 80 Wang Yanzhu squadrons, stationed in two places, the East Gate is garrisoned by the team leader Song Shijun, and the squadron leader leads the rest of the troops to garrison the newly built turret outside the East Gate; The two squadrons of Zhao Xisheng and Wang Xingde stationed in Yanggu County at the North Gate, and later replaced by Yuan Yuqi (who was the commander of the first company of my independent battalion in Zhangqiu County, and he and Wang Chunshan, the commander of the second company, were both guerrilla troops that I had incorporated, and they all led their troops to surrender to the deputy Yang Chaoyuan department of the puppet brigade in Yanggu County during the Ninth ·and Twenty-seventh Sweeps), and Liu Dongliang two squadrons, each squadron had less than 100 people; A squad of the Ximen garrison Guo Anren's squadron in Yanggu County, the captain Meng Xianchen, Guo Anren led the rest of the troops to the Menglou stronghold in Zhang Qiubei. In addition, the puppet army of Dong'e County also built a gun tower in Zheng Sanli on the outskirts of Zhang Qiu, and a squadron of Fang Huihua was stationed with a total of more than 90 people. There are also artillery towers in Cao Dikou, Sanguan Temple, and Diebo on the periphery of Zhang Qiu, which are garrisoned by puppet armies sent by their counties, and the puppet armies in the above counties do not have machine guns.

In the course of the above activities, I also investigated whether the party members had defected during the sweep in accordance with the instructions of the county party committee. Since the county party committee had already educated party members on integrity before the sweep, I did not find any party members who openly betrayed the party, but I found out a few compromisers, such as Zhou Yanchang, a party member of Gu Zhuang, who had taken advantage of acquaintances to take refuge in the pseudo-organization; Ma Shuzhi, a party member of Dongjie in Zhangqiuzhen, went to Dongjie Pseudo Primary School to work as a teacher, and married his daughter to Yuan Qingyou, the principal of the school. None of the above have been approved by the party organization. There is also Tian Renlai, director of the Armed Forces Committee of the Fourth District of Zhangqiu County, although he is still working in our district, he has contacts with the members of the puppet organization. I reported all of the above to the county party committee and did an investigation and processing.

2. Strive for the work of puppet soldiers and puppet personnel. At that time, according to my understanding, there were very few puppet soldiers and puppet personnel in Zhang Qiuzhen who were really desperate to work for the enemy, and most of them dealt with the enemy on the surface, but there were great contradictions in their hearts, and they wanted to leave a way out for themselves. To this end, I made friends with them or through their relatives and friends, and cooperated with the armed detachment composed of the enemy engineering team and the main force of our county, that is, the Kunzhang Detachment, to carry out a political offensive against their attack and threat cameras, gave them propaganda pamphlets or personally explained to them the truth of resisting Japan and saving the country to arouse their national consciousness, and talked about the situation, the future, the policy, and pointed out the way. He accepted the task of working for us, and assured that our personnel would be safe in and out of the defense area, and that they would be ready to take our instructions to lead the uprising. I sent him a sympathetic anti-Japanese certificate. In addition, Guo Anren (a native of Lao Zhuang in the northwest of Yanggu County, who had served as the captain of the anti-Japanese armed forces in Yanggu County, and later became the leader of the puppet army squadron) met with Yan Hua, the minister of enemy industry, and after education, he also said that he could obey our command. In addition, I also fought for the two squadron leaders of the Yanggu puppet army, Zhao Xisheng and Wang Xingde, who were stationed at the North Gate, and because they were transferred to other places, the enemy engineering department sent another person to take over my fighting work. As for the puppet troops stationed in Zhangqiu Town in Shouzhang and Dong'e counties, the enemy engineering department of the county party committee instructed that the personnel in charge of the enemy's puppet work in that county still carry out the work, and I did not participate. Regarding the police police stations stationed in Zhangqiu Town, I won over the head of the Yanggu police station, Mi Zhongping (a native of Gucheng County, Hebei Province), who accepted the task of working for us and accepted the intelligence relations Jiao Xianglin and Chen Zhongdao sent by me to work in the police station. The county party committee proposed that in order to facilitate our staff's activities in enemy areas, we needed some blank certificates of good citizenship issued by the puppet county police, and he and I went to Yanggu County to get these certificates and a stamping machine and hand them over to the enemy engineering department of the county party committee for printing and distributing them. In addition, Zhang Yanhong (a native of Jining City), the head of the police station in Shouzhang, also accepted the intelligence relationship I had sent, and Jing Qingyun worked in the station. Both of them promised to follow our command and lead an uprising if necessary, and I also issued them anti-Japanese sympathy certificates. In addition, I also managed to send Tang Shiyou, an intelligence relation, into the special team for suppressing the Communist Party in the three counties, and these people have achieved very good results. After I broke into the Zhang Qiu dispatch team of the enemy's Pingjing Military Police Special Task Force, I also won over the members of the team, Zhang Shengxian (from Zhang Fangfu of Taiqian County) and Tang Hongen (from Tangzhuang of Taiqian County), to become our working relationship, and also issued them anti-Japanese sympathy certificates. And without revealing my identity, Qiao Ziming, Yang Guang, and Zhao Baoshan, members of the team, directly met with Yan Hua, the head of the enemy industry department of our county party committee, and received education, and they also expressed that they could accept our task. I also worked on Zhang Yulin, a member of the team, through Tang Hongen, and he commanded him. In short, most of the members of the team have made clear their relationship to our work. In the winter of 1943, due to the concentration of Japanese forces to shrink the defensive line, the Hirai Military Police Special Task Force Japan Military Police also withdrew. Under the leadership of the North China Institute of Culture, an intelligence organization composed of Chinese, the Hirai Gendarmerie Special Task Force was renamed the Luxi Cultural Research Institute, and under his leadership, Zhou Mou, the person in charge, set up a branch in Zhangqiu Town, with me as the director, and a branch in Fushan with Qiao Ziming as the director.

3. Taking advantage of the contradictions between the enemies, using the enemy to contain the enemy, eliminating and eradicating the big traitors, big spies, big traitors, and bandits, and removing the major threat to the party organizations and the masses in our county.

(1) In October 1942, Zhang Zidong, a big traitor and spy in Dong'e County, led a group of spies to Taochengpu and Zhangqiu Town, and recruited some local homeless people and bandits in an attempt to sabotage the party organizations and masses in our county. Comrade Ma Yuntao discussed with me at that time, believing that he was a major threat to our county's work and that we must try to eliminate him as soon as possible. Zhang Zidong was originally the company commander of my Pingyin County Independent Battalion, and after the deterioration of the environment in 1940, he led his troops to surrender to the enemy, and served as the special agent captain of the Japanese adviser of the Dong'e County Puppet County Office, Renbao Sunrise, and he had seriously damaged and persecuted the grassroots party organizations and the masses in Pingyin County in the southeastern mountainous area of Dong'e County, and participated in the sweeps of the Dong'e Japanese puppet army against my Tongcheng, Guangliangmen, Chendianzi, Turtledove Shop, Taochengpu and other places, burning, killing, raping, and committing all kinds of evil, because they were familiar with the laws of our activities, and the means of destroying me were also particularly insidious, ferocious, and vicious. For example, they arranged secret agents, opened nets to catch fish, and attacked from long distances, and they also extorted confessions and induced confessions, tortured, hanged, and beaten our arrested personnel, which was extremely cruel, and this person was the vanguard of sabotaging our work in Pingyin and Dong'e County. The most vicious thing is that when the leader of Pingyin County sent a section chief named Xin Ze to mobilize one of his close relatives to persuade us to "stop doing evil and leave a way back," on the one hand, he falsely told us that he should "change his past mistakes and become a new person," and on the other hand, he reported that he had set up a trap and planned a big conspiracy to trap us, the section chief, by means of casting a long line to catch a big fish. He contacted us several times through his close relatives and provided some false information. Later, in order to receive a better education and ensure the safety of his dearest relative, he proposed to meet directly with our section chief, and we agreed to his request and agreed on a time and place, but he disregarded the credibility of his dearest relative, secretly arranged a special agent, and when our section chief arrived, he was arrested and handed over to the enemy, and escorted to the enemy's secret service in Jinan for processing. In addition, he also widely disseminated spies in the pseudo-organizations and industrial and commercial organizations, neighborhoods, and schools in Dong'e County, collecting intelligence, often fabricating charges, persecuting innocent people, and intimidating the masses, thus arousing everyone's hatred. It is precisely because he is so vicious that he has won the special trust of the enemy advisers, and he is arrogant and unstoppable for this, often riding a high-headed horse, going in and out of the puppet county office, meeting the puppet county magistrate, the police chief, the deputy of the brigade, etc., and even the head of the special task force of the Pingjing gendarmerie does not dismount, which has aroused the strong dissatisfaction of these people against him, and he has also wantonly insulted Liu Zhenyu, the puppet second district head of Dong'e County, causing a deep contradiction between the two. In the summer of this year, his bad luck arrived, and his hard-line backstage Rikou County adviser was killed by the joint defense forces of my Zhangqiu County and the deputy Zhang of the puppet county brigade when he attacked the area south of my Taocheng Japan pu. Within a few days of arriving, he arrested the family of one of my district chiefs and hanged several people, and at the same time, the head of the special task force of the enemy's Pingjing gendarmerie also came to Zhang Qiu to inspect the work. Zhang Zidong still believed that he had made meritorious contributions to the enemy, and did not come forward to greet Hirai or report his work to him. At this time, Liu Zhenyu, the puppet second district head, also came to Zhang Qiu, and he had a close relationship with Hirai. For this reason, Comrade Ma Yuntao put forward a plan to incite Liu Zhenyu to arouse Hirai's anger and get rid of Zhang Zidong, and asked me to quickly ask Yan Hua, the enemy's minister of industry. After obtaining Yan's consent, he acted quickly. Within a few days, Hirai arrested him, ransacked his home, found hundreds of thousands of yuan of counterfeit money he had extorted, dismissed the three women he had occupied, and detained them in the puppet county office prison, but did not deal with them quickly. Comrade Ma Yuntao considered that Zhang Zidong was, after all, a loyal lackey of the enemy, and the enemy quickly arrested him without waking up, and once he calmed down, he might regret it. In order to eliminate all evil, he found Qiao Dizhi, the puppet magistrate of Dong'e County, through one of his relatives (a working relationship with the Enemy Labor Department of my Dong'e County Party Committee), and took advantage of his dissatisfaction with Zhang Zidong and his still a certain sense of nationality to persuade him to send a puppet police officer to escort Zhang out of prison and lead the way to arrest the criminal He escaped halfway, and shot him to death in the suburbs of Dong'e City, thus completely eradicating a big tumor.

(2) In December 1942, Comrade Ma Yuntao discussed with me and asked Minister Yan Hua to agree to take advantage of the contradictions between the enemies to get rid of Zhou Kuiqi, the acting puppet county magistrate of Dong'e County stationed in Zhang Qiu. Zhou Yuan served as the deputy of the puppet brigade of Dong'e County, a native of Northeast China, and was a junior officer in Zhang Zuolin's department in his early years, and participated in the puppet organization after the "September · 18" incident. This person has a serious idea of enslavement, believing that sooner or later China will be the world of the Japan, so he has repeatedly commanded the puppet army to sweep our Dong'a and Pingyin areas, all of which are set by arsonists to burn, kill, loot, rape women, and commit serious crimes. After Zhang Mianzhi left his post, he came to Zhang Qiu to serve as the acting puppet county magistrate of Dong'e, commanding the activities of the puppet military and political organization in Dong'e County stationed in Zhang Qiu, he himself was the leader of the Anqing Gang (Sanfanzi), and had recruited disciples in the puppet army, which had a certain influence, and after coming to Zhang Qiu, he recruited some ruffians, hooligans, and broken landlords to become apprentices in the local area, in an attempt to rely on these people to sabotage us and make great achievements. Based on these circumstances, Comrade Ma Yuntao believed that this person was a big traitor with great ambitions, and if he did not eradicate it, it would be a great disaster. He learned that Li Jianzhi, one of the persons in charge of the office of the puppet Dong'e County Xinmin Association in Zhangqiu, and Zhou Wei were vying for power and had deep contradictions with each other, and Li had mastered that Zhou had collected land taxes (i.e., agricultural taxes) for many years in the townships of Dong'e County near Zhangqiu. Therefore, Comrade Ma Yuntao immediately encouraged Li to grasp this problem and get rid of it. After Li agreed, he reported the matter to Yujin, the newly appointed Japanese adviser to the Dong'e County Office, and after he verified it, he arrested him and put him in prison. Since then, no one from the Dong'an enemy has come to Zhang Qiu to act as the puppet county magistrate, and the masses have thus reduced a lot of burdens.

(3) The bandit Zhang Zicheng (also known as Zhang Shimeng) and the squadron leaders of the Yanggu puppet army, Guo Anren and Lu Zexin, are righteous brothers, and this person, together with Guo's guard Wang Erxiao and another bandit Liu Ziqing, often borrowed the names of Guo and Lu to extort the families of our anti-Japanese personnel in the area of Zhangqiu Town, and harmed one party. Because Guo Anren is my working relationship, after I informed him of this situation, after Guo and Lu discussed it, Zhang Zicheng was shot near the stronghold they defended

(4) The bandit Su Jicheng (a native of Shuangmiao, District 1, Zhangqiu County), occupied a woman in Jiahai, lived in a concubine for a long time, and often said to the outside world that he was the close relative of Yang Chaoyuan, deputy of the puppet county brigade in Yanggu County, and used Yang's name to kidnap and blackmail the families of our anti-Japanese personnel, which did me great harm. Because I joined the Anqing Gang for work needs, I had a mentor-apprentice relationship with Yang Chaoyuan, and after I informed him of this situation, he was about to assassinate Su Jicheng in North Street, Zhangqiu Town.

4. In order to demonstrate the power of our policy, in Zhang Qiu Town, which was under the close control of the enemy, we executed the chief evildoers who were loyal to the enemy, divided and disintegrated the enemy, and inspired the masses.

In the spring of 1943, under the direct leadership of the commander of the garrison of Zhang Qiurikou, the special task force of the three counties to suppress the Communist Party was very rampant, and its reactionary activities were very rampant, and it often organized spies and police officers to block certain areas in turn, check household registration, and search for the staff members I entered, which posed a great threat to me, especially the traitor Wang Huimin, the hardcore spy Zhao Ziyuan, and the translator Ma Longchen were the most arrogant. At that time, I learned that the commander of the Japanese army, Xiao Shimizu, had a secret prostitute near his stronghold, and often fooled around there, sometimes returning to the stronghold very late, and Wang, Zhao, and Ma all had family members who lived on the streets of Zhang Qiuzhen. In light of the above situation, after I reported to the county party committee, after studying and deciding, in order to shock the enemy's prestige, show the power of our policy, and support the masses, I decided to send the county military engineering team into Zhangqiu Town, and form four anti-traitor teams with the armed members of the Zhang Qiu dispatch team of the Hirai Military Police Special Task Force that I had won over, and selected to execute the Japanese army commander Xiao Qingshui, the spy Zhao Ziyuan, and the interpreter Ma Longchen in Zhangqiu Town at 12 o'clock at night, and to arrest the traitor Wang Huimin and execute him at a public trial. And prepare a notice in advance that the county government will announce his execution of the crime, and after the execution, it will be posted on the spot. In order not to reveal my identity, I was only instructed to do two things: first, at 11 o'clock that night, I informed Meng Xianchen, the leader of the puppet army team I fought for, at the west gate of Zhang Qiuzhen, to open the city gate and let the members of the county martial arts team enter; Second, before the execution, I was responsible for reconnoitering whether the above four people were all in the places where they were fooling around and living, and if so, I put half a brick at their door as a signal, and I was not there. In addition, the armed members of the special task force of the Pingjing gendarmerie who participated in the anti-traitor group were notified by the enemy engineering department of the county party committee, and the county party committee also informed the Kunzhang detachment to send a company to be deployed near the stronghold of the four gates of Zhangqiu Town that night, and to make a feint attack on the stronghold during the execution, so as to contain the puppet army from daring to leave the artillery tower. After the execution, the county military engineering team climbed the wall 500 meters south of the west gate and withdrew. Everything went according to plan after the selected date. Before 12 o'clock that night, I found that the four criminals were in their respective residences. However, before the execution, the commander of the Japanese army, Xiao Shimizu, returned to the stronghold from his secret place, and the interpreter Ma Longchen heard that someone had jumped into his house, so he fled to the Japanese headquarters through the back window of his apartment. The execution of the above two men was unsuccessful. Spy Zhao Ziyuan was shot dead by me in his apartment, and after I captured the traitor Wang Huimin, I took him out of Zhang Qiuzhen, because he screamed and couldn't leave, so I had to shoot him dead in front of the Beitou Hotel on Mishi Street. After the execution of the above two people, notices from our county government were posted.

After this execution of the first evildoer, Zhang Longfa, the head of the special service for the suppression of the Communist Party in the three counties, quickly fled back to the puppet police station in Shouzhang County and did not dare to come back, and the interpreter Ma Longchen fled back to his hometown of origin the next day with his family through Dong'e, and the rest of the spies were also scattered, and this spy agency disbanded itself. It has been learned that other puppet military and political personnel stationed in Zhangqiu were greatly shaken, saying that they could not do anything bad in the future, and the masses also felt proud and dared to reason with them when they were oppressed by the puppet personnel.

5. Rescue the families of the revolutionaries.

(1) In November 1942, Wang Yuming, a revolutionary family member of Guzhuang in the Third District of Zhangqiu County, who was the father of Comrade Wang Yang, was arrested by the Zhangqiu Office of the Shouzhang County Puppet Xinmin Association, and Yan Hua, the head of the enemy work department of the county party committee, immediately notified Comrade Ma Yuntao and me to rescue him (Comrade Wang Yang was an old Communist Party member during the Second Civil Revolutionary War, and worked as a teacher in Dong'e County in 1935. After the "77" incident, he launched an armed uprising of the anti-Japanese masses in the area of central Lu, and formed troops, and served as the commander and brigade commander of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army, and the commander and political commissar of the Taishan Military Division. At that time, after we received the notice, Ma and I immediately went to negotiate on the grounds that Guzhuang belonged to the administrative division of Laodong'e County and that all the arrested people should be handed over to the county for handling.

(2) At the beginning of 1943, Dong Shumei's aunt and aunt of Dong Zhuangkang, a subordinate of Dong Zhuang in the Third District of Zhangqiu County, were arrested by Pang Tonghua of the Zhang Qiu Dispatch Team of the Pingjing Military Police Special Task Force.

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On April 22, 1944, Zeng Siyu, commander of the Second Army Division of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, and Fan Chunyang, political commissar, commanded the 7th and 8th regiments and the Kunzhang detachment to besiege Zhangqiu Town, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments of the First Army Division cooperated to send reinforcements. Before the siege, the military sub-district had sent a staff officer through the enemy engineering department of the Zhangqiu County Party Committee to ask me to give full protection and cooperation to our personnel who had entered Zhangqiu Town to survey the terrain and the enemy's firepower point; at the same time, because my residence of the enemy and puppet organizations in Zhangqiu Town was close to the defense of the puppet security army, which was a commanding height, the county party committee instructed me to go all out to defend it, and when the battle began and the troops arrived, I would hand over this place to them. At that time, the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 9th Regiment of the 4th Group Army of the Puppet Security Army, which were defending Zhangqiu Town, under the unified command of Zhang Yuhuan, the commander of the 1st Battalion, tried to escape back to Yanggu because they were aware of our army's intentions. After the battle began, because the enemy engineering department of our Zhangqiu County Party Committee had effectively carried out the enemy and puppet work before, and because of the work we had carried out to win over them, the puppet army and police police stations in the surrounding counties and strongholds in Zhangqiu Simen and the surrounding strongholds were quickly disarmed and surrendered. A battalion of the puppet security army sent by Yanggu County to aid Zhang Qiu and the puppet county police team were also ambushed by our Yanggu County Anti-Japanese Cadre Brigade in the vicinity of Guo Wei and Chenzhuang, and all of them retreated, but Zhang Qiu's security army under the command of Zhang Yuhuan stubbornly resisted with its strong fortifications. At that time, our army concentrated its firepower to carry out a fierce attack, but because it could not be attacked for a long time, we suffered more than 40 casualties. Under these circumstances, because I had dealings with the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the puppet security army, the commander of the 8th Regiment, Zidingen, asked me to shout to him, explain his policy, and urge him to surrender, but I met with more fierce fire resistance. Later, considering that due to the heavy rain and the protracted invincibility of the battle, it would be unfavorable to us, the leadership of the military sub-district decided to withdraw all troops from the battle.

During this campaign, because I had shouted and my identity was exposed, the county party committee decided to transfer me out of the enemy area, and after consulting with the military sub-district, sent me to study in the enemy's engineering department in the sub-division. Two months later, he was assigned to the Yanji Work Group under the Enemy Engineering Section of the Division as an internal service officer.

In the autumn of 1944, the first and third battalions of the Ninth Regiment of the Puppet Security Army in Zhangqiu Town took the initiative to abandon their strongholds and retreat to Yanggu County, and Zhangqiu Town was liberated. On July 20, 1945, our army launched the Yanggu Campaign, before that, Zhang Yuhuan, the commander of the first battalion of the puppet security army, had been promoted to the commander of the ninth regiment, and was killed by me in this battle, and Yanggu County was completely liberated.

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In the autumn of 1945, I was transferred back to Zhangqiu County from the Yanji Working Group of the Enemy Engineering Section of the Second Army Subdivision and served as the chief of the interrogation section of the county public security bureau. In order to explain to the cadres and the masses my true identity and work situation during the period of breaking into the enemy and puppet organizations, the county party committee decided to divide them into two meetings, one at a meeting of the district's party and government leaders throughout the county, and the other at an ancient meeting attended by more than 10,000 people at the Guandi Temple in the seventh lunar month. Very good results have been achieved in protecting the party organizations and the revolutionary masses. As a result, the vast number of cadres and masses inside and outside the county have learned about my real situation, and I have also felt great comfort.

(Original note: Zhou Jinzhu, born in 1919, was born in North Street, Zhangqiu Town, Yanggu County.) In July 1940, he joined the Communist Party of China, participated in the work at the same time, and retired at the end of 1980 in the Liaocheng City Commercial Bureau. Now settled in Yanggu Town. )

Sources:

Yanggu Literature and History Collection (Part I) (April 1999)