Original Yuan Guoxiang
Recently, I met with Turak · Ismaili, the veteran leader of the Revolutionary Army of the Third District. He was 93 years old, but his face was red, his smile was hearty, and although his legs and feet were no longer flexible, he shook my hand warmly and asked me how my wife and children were doing. This is because both of us have lived together for 28 years in a compound in the Southern Xinjiang Military Region. Although the nationalities are different and the work is different, after all, they are familiar with each other and have established a deep friendship. His revolutionary deeds are now written down for future generations to enjoy and learn.
He was a hero of the revolution in the three districts
Originally from Kashgar, Turak · Ismail was born in 1920 into a family of hat-making craftsmen, and from childhood to junior high school, he also helped his parents make hats. In the spring of 1937, he became a soldier of Sheng Shicai. In 1944, when the flames of revolution in the Third District were ignited, the Kuomintang authorities sent one of Turak's battalions to Dushanzi to defend against the rebels. Two of them went to Ili to participate in the revolution, and Turak also actively participated, because he fought bravely, successively served as platoon commander and company commander, and fought many bloody battles with the Kuomintang army. In particular, in the autumn of 1945, he crossed the Tien Shan Mountains with the guerrillas led by Abbasov, and once destroyed the enemy on Black Eagle Mountain, and went straight to the city. Then he fought hard again and again in Kurgan, beating through two companies of the enemy and capturing the city of Baicheng again. Then, when they occupied Wensu and attacked the city of Aksu, the revolutionary army of the three districts ordered them to withdraw to Yili. At that time, Turak and others couldn't figure it out, thinking that many comrades-in-arms had died and should resolutely attack the city. However, Abbasov said: "We must proceed from the overall situation, and we have now reached an agreement on the establishment of a coalition government through peace talks with Deputy Zhang Zhizhong in Dihua." In the future, we will cooperate with the Communist Party and finally defeat the Kuomintang. ”
After the southern guerrillas withdrew to the Third District, the revolutionary forces continued to grow and develop, and Turak · Ismail served as battalion commander and deputy regiment commander, and he contributed to the establishment of a regularized army, confronting the Kuomintang army, and defending the interests of the people of the Third District. In 1948, the Revolutionary National Army of the Third District established an officer academy and transferred him to serve as vice president, who made contributions to publicizing the ideas and policies of the Communist Party of China and cultivating a large number of cadres of various nationalities to safeguard the reunification of the motherland.
On October 1, 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded and Xinjiang representative Saifuding stood beside Chairman Mao, the Three Regions Revolution had become part of China's democratic revolution. In the winter of that year, when Wang Zhen led the Second and Sixth Armies of the First Corps to peacefully liberate Xinjiang, the Nationalist Army was also ordered to march to the north and south of Xinjiang. Some of them are stationed in Dihua and Hami, and some of them are stationed in various parts of southern Xinjiang. Together with the Chinese People's Liberation Army, they united the rebel troops and made great contributions to the liberation of Xinjiang and the construction of a new Xinjiang.
He pioneered the stationing in southern Xinjiang
In November 1949, the Revolutionary Army of the Third District, with the Turks Cavalry Regiment as the mainstay, transferred more than 1,000 troops from various units in Ili to prepare for the south, led by Maimaitimin · Iminov, with the participation of Turak · Ismail and the leaders of the regiment, carried out in-depth mobilization, beat naan, brought mutton, entered the Tianshan Gorge, and when they arrived at Shota, it was already icy and snowy, and the weather was bitterly cold. Everyone endured alpine reactions, braved the wind and snow, and struggled to climb the ice Osaka, which is more than 5,000 meters long. When I looked at the steep path down the mountain, it was already an ice slope and cliff, which was difficult for people to walk, and even more difficult for horses. What to do? "In order to liberate the people of southern Xinjiang, the sword mountain and the sea of fire must also be broken!" Iminov said this, and Turak said the same to the fighters. They first used shovels and pickaxes to beat the ice to open the way, dug out ten miles of ice steps, and let the horses lead the horses down the most dangerous canyon. Then, on the slopes of the snowy mountains, people held the horses that knelt down on their hind legs, and slipped down one by one. In this way, this path, which no one has walked in winter, they passed mightily. After walking for a few more days, he safely arrived at Aksu, an important town in southern Xinjiang, and joined forces with the People's Liberation Army that had arrived in advance. Then they followed the grassland on the southern slope of the Tianshan Mountains and walked a short road to Kashgar. I remember that on December 6, our troops of the Second Army and the people of all ethnic groups in Kashgar warmly welcomed these soldiers of the Xinjiang people outside the north gate. I also took pictures of them as they rode tall horses and lined up past the welcoming crowds on both sides of the road.
In March 1950, when the rebel troops in southern Xinjiang moved to northern Xinjiang, the military headquarters of the Second Army was stationed in the Dayamen military camp in Shule City, and the city of Laining in Kashgar was given to the national army garrison of the 13th Division of the Fifth Army. Division commander Maimaitimin · Iminov also took up the post of deputy commander of the Kashgar Military Region; soon political commissar Ma Hongshan, director of the Political Department Xu Li, and some political work cadres entered, and began to establish communist organizations in the national army, strengthen political work, and soon make this unit a people's army worthy of the name.
At that time, part of the 13th Division was stationed in Aksu and organized into the 37th Regiment, the 39th Regiment rode across the Tarim Desert and stationed in Hotan, and the 38th Regiment was stationed in Kashgar with the division headquarters·. In the spring of 1950, under the direct care of Comrade Wang Enmao, political commissar of the Southern Xinjiang Military Region and secretary of the Kashgar District Party Committee, several leading revolutionary comrades of the three regions, including · Ismail and Iminov, took the oath to join the Communist Party of China and became the first batch of advanced fighters with proletarian revolutionary ideas in the national army.
He has cultivated a number of outstanding cadres
At that time, the national army recruited a large number of new recruits, carried out military and political training, equipped political cadres, and established a complete battalion and company establishment. The 38th Regiment also marched into the rural areas of Shufu County to launch the 334 Production Campaign, and the officers and men worked hard and achieved very good results for three consecutive years. At the same time, the regiment also set up a training team, with the head of the regiment as the captain, and with the help of Han instructors, selected and transferred hundreds of educated veterans to learn Chinese while learning political and military technology, and soon trained a number of outstanding ethnic cadres, which not only enriched the troops, but also supported the localities. After they were demobilized and demobilized, many comrades performed well and gradually took up leading posts in local party and government organs.
In 1952, the Xinjiang army was reorganized, the numbers of the second, fifth, and sixth armies were revoked, and except for the fourth division of national defense, the rest were organized into production troops, that is, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, which was established in 1954. The 13th Division was reduced to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, and Turak · Ismail was promoted to deputy commander of the Shache Military Division. I have been there twice and know that he has done a great deal of work to eliminate the enemy, stabilize society, participate in social reform, and build people's power at all levels. In 1956, when the Shache Military Division was abolished, he was transferred to the 79th Public Security Regiment as the head of the regiment, and took on the important task of maintaining law and order in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. Since then, we have never seen each other again, and we don't know what happened to him in the future.
He returned to southern Xinjiang and fought all his life
In 1958, Turak. After returning from graduating from the Central Party School, Ismail was appointed deputy chief of staff of the Southern Xinjiang Military Region Command. At that time, since Deputy Commander Iminov had already served as vice chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Deputy Chief of Staff Iminov · Hamit had also become commissioner of the Kashgar Prefecture Administrative Office, the deputy chief of staff Tu (the affectionate abbreviation used to by Han comrades, or only the name Turak and the position, could not carry his father's surname Ismaili. He became the only leading cadre of ethnic minorities in the Southern Xinjiang Military Region. By 1966, he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Military Region, mainly responsible for the work of the militia. In particular, during the chaotic years of the Cultural Revolution, he assisted the head of the military region in stopping armed struggles, eliminating factionalism, and establishing normal social order. In particular, when some ethnic separatists instigated the masses to make trouble and even rebelled and fled abroad, he always courageously went out to do propaganda and education work on a large scale, assisted the revolutionary committee at that time, and worked together with the relevant units of the military region to quell the rebellion and maintain social tranquility.
In 1975, Turak. Sima Yi was promoted to deputy commander of the Southern Xinjiang Military Region, and he went all out to do a good job in the formation of the Kashgar Reserve Militia Division, went deep into the border defense to establish militia posts to ensure the safety of the long border defense, and resisted the invasion of the expansionists. For example, in the Yecheng riots that occurred in 1980, a command group composed of Zhang Zhentang, deputy commander and chief of staff of Turak, and Tang Guangcai, deputy director of the Political Department, rushed to the scene of the accident in Yecheng, urgently mobilized nearby troops, took vigilance measures, separated the masses besieging the county party committee, and carried out an in-depth propaganda offensive, exposing the conspiracy of some instructors of the Uygur public security squadron who were cloaked in religious cloak and wanted to catch and burn down mosques, which were actually national separatists who opposed the Communist Party and the people's government. The majority of the parishioners knew that the mosque was not burned by the instructors, thus stabilizing the social order and quickly quelling the riots. More importantly, it has educated the masses not to believe rumors and make trouble with people with ulterior motives.
In 1981, at the age of 60, Turak · Simayi served as an adviser to the Southern Xinjiang Military Region, a position he held for another five years. He continued to make many contributions to the building of the army and the tranquility of the border in southern Xinjiang, to the unity of the military and the government, the army and the people, and all ethnic groups, and to supporting the cause of local socialist construction. It was not until 1985 that he left his post and rested, and then went to Urumqi to enter the No. 1 Cadre Rest Center of the Xinjiang Military Region to spend his old age in peace. Before that, I had been working in the Political Department of the Southern Xinjiang Military Region, and then I worked in Ali for 10 years, but my family was still in the Southern Xinjiang Military Region. Therefore, the two of us have been together in the same compound for more than 20 years, so it is natural for us to get to know each other.
He gave birth to a large number of revolutionary children and grandchildren
In our long-term working life together, my wife and I have the impression that Turak is loyal and simple, approachable, and has never been official. They lived a peaceful life as a husband and wife. They had seven children, and life was still difficult, the eldest child wore clothes for the younger one, and was very frugal in buying vegetables and meat. Once watching a movie in the club, the whole family came back to sleep, but the number of children was one less, so I quickly went to the club to find it, it turned out that Xiaoliu fell asleep there, and his father quickly hugged it back. This incident has been passed down by the officials of the agency, and in fact, I have come into contact with these children.
Around 1962, I worked as a youth officer, and the chief asked me to take care of some of the children in the camp. It was the era of "one doctrine and three regiments," and the Communist Youth League should be concerned about the growth of the children's regiment and the Young Pioneers. What's more, when the holidays come, primary and middle school students go home and run around in the compound of the military region, sometimes fighting and making trouble, although they are all the children of the leaders and cadres, everyone is annoying. What to do? I opened a small library for them in the big amusement hall of the institution, and bought a cabinet of comic books, villain books, popular novels, picture books, etc., for them to see. At the same time, during the working hours of the cadres of the organs, they are allowed to play table tennis and krona balls, as well as chess and poker in other rooms of the amusement hall. In this way, the children have a place to read, play, and have fun together. I remember that Hou Nanjiang, the head of the children's regiment at that time, was the eldest son of Hou Mupo, the head of the logistics department, and the deputy head of the regiment was Wan Li, the second son of the deputy chief of staff of Turak. Through them, the children can be brought together and controlled. Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, these children have grown up to become talents: Hou Nanjiang served as the political commissar of the Xinjiang Military Region's anti-aircraft artillery regiment, and Wan Li also served as a regimental staff officer in the Xinjiang Military Region. Recently, when I visited the old chief of Turak, I asked about some of his children. Harif, who pushed his wheelchair to let his father bask in the sun, smiled and said, "I'm the sixth child who fell asleep in the cinema!" She also took the initiative to say: Five of our seven children are party members. My eldest sister, Haridan, is a nurse in charge of the pediatric department of the General Hospital of Xinjiang Military Region and has retired; The third sister, Zuria, is the chief pharmacist of the pharmacy of the General Hospital; The fourth brother, Alimu, now works in the Kashgar District Court; The fifth brother also had a good job when he came back from demobilization after serving in the army. The seventh sister, Guli, also works at the Military Service Agency. When I asked, "How many grandchildren do you have?" the old chief laughed. He counted his fingers and said, "There are more than a dozen, five of them have gone to university, one is a master's degree student and a member of the Communist Party of China, and the others are also working." I said, "You are truly full of children and grandchildren, and you are blessed with many children." They will all follow your example, follow the Communist Party, be the successors of the revolution, and work hard for the motherland and the people of Xinjiang. After saying that, I took a picture of the old chief, and his sixth child also took a photo for us. Deputy Commander Turak still held my hand and said, "Let's all take care, I hope we see each other often!" ”