Underground struggle of the Vortex Huai Working Committee

The scope of work of the Vortex Huai Working Committee is to have jurisdiction over most of the fourth district south of the Wohe River in the old Huaiyuan County, the third district and the two districts of Fengtai County south of the Qianhe River. In September 1946, the Fourth Regiment of the Kuomintang Security Army and the local bandit army launched a large-scale attack on the Liberated Area of Suhuaimeng. On September 5, the Suhuai County Party Committee held an emergency meeting near Xiaoyangji to study and analyze the enemy situation. In order to preserve the revolutionary forces, it was decided to withdraw westward. At that time, two-step action was taken, one was that the county party committee led some comrades to go west to find the prefectural committee, and the other was to establish an underground organization. The county party committee decided: Cui Jianxiao, deputy secretary of the county party committee, Ding Wenshan, and Li Xingguang, members of the county party committee, stayed behind and formed the Vortex Huai Work Committee. Cui Jianxiao served as secretary.

Carry out underground work: First, develop the party organization so that we can stand firm. Comrade Cui Jianxiao's underground party activities in Fengtai established two branches within the boundaries of the two districts. One is the Baitang branch, branch secretary Wu Lin. Another branch was in Wang Weizi, branch secretary Hu Guang. Li Xingguang established two party groups while working at the Vortex Huai Working Committee. Xuwangzhuang Party Group and Maotang Party Group. The second is to carry out propaganda and agitation work within our capabilities. In a legal and public capacity, he visited relatives and friends, became a teacher, made businesses, ran rivers and lakes, visited villages and households, and secretly insisted on the party's underground work. Li Xingguang recognized Gu Zhusheng, who had the prestige of Maotang, as his uncle and Gu's wife Xia, so Li Xingguang changed his name to Xia Renguang. After Gu came forward to negotiate, Li soon became a teacher at Maotangbao Primary School, and later transferred to the disaster child education station as an administrator, conducting political propaganda to the masses and inspiring the class consciousness of the masses. Zhang Wenzhong and Zhao Zikai were dressed as peasants, carrying out secret traffic work in the name of selling grain, old donkeys, and white cloth, and Liu Hongyi sold medicine and walked the road as a Jianghu person, and often went in and out of the Daohuimen family. We used these activities as a cover, observed the terrain, understood the enemy's situation, and secretly carried out propaganda to "overthrow the Chiang dynasty!" The Kuomintang is almost finished!" It shows the determination to recover the lost land, publicizes the conditions for our army's victory, and encourages the people's confidence in victory. When the masses of the people saw and heard these news, they all said that "there are many people in the Communist Party, and sooner or later the People's Liberation Army will return"; this has sown the seeds of revolution among the masses for our Party and our army. The third is that we continue to carry out secret underground traffic intelligence work: so that the Vortex Huai Work Committee and the Suhuai County Party Committee can maintain regular contact, convey instructions from their superiors at any time, and understand important information about the enemy-occupied areas. At that time, the Suhuai County Party Committee was stationed in the GuanyinTang area at the junction of Woyang and Bo County, and began to cut off contact between the Wohuai Work Committee and the Suhuai County Cpc Committee and the Eight Prefectures Committee, and Zhang Wenzhong took the handwritten letter of Wang Bingshi, the secretary of the county party committee, and sent it to the east of Jinghan Road to find the Eighth Prefecture Committee. Starting from longkang westward migration village set, walked for one night and one day, and arrived at the Temple Set in Woyang County. At all the intersections of the Temple Pavilion, there were sentries of The Kuomintang troops guarding and inspecting them. Comrade Zhang Wenzhong skillfully evaded the enemy's interrogation, and finally after seven days and nights, he found the troops of the Eighth Sub-district at Dongpinggang on Jinghan Road. He took out the letter from the cotton wool of his torn cotton robe and handed it to the comrade on duty to forward to the chief, and after a while, Mao Gengshuan, the minister of enemy industry, shook his hand and said, "Come here, stay here for a few days, take a rest." Zhang stayed in the eighth division for a few days and accepted a new assignment. The fourth is to actively make preparations for the restoration of Suhuai County. In April 1947, Comrade Cui Jianxiao went from Fengtai to Wobei, and the Suhuai County Party Committee was stationed in Qiao Lizhuang in the Guanyin Tang District, and the prefectural party committee decided to restore the Suhuai area. The first thing the leading comrades of the sub-district said when they looked for Cui Jianxiao was: "You are not allowed to come out when you go back." How to do it, at that time made a very careful plan, so that every comrade can say what he thinks and talk about the worst plan. The organization made three plans, the upper, middle, and lower three strategies, and put forward the slogan of "swearing to coexist and die with the old people." Meticulous political and ideological work was a prominent point in the preparations for the restoration of the Suhuai area at that time. The second is sound organization. Before we arrived in Suhuai County, we carried out personal work, and the leaders clearly pointed out the regional scope of each comrade's work after arriving in Suhuai County. The third task is to restore power. The fourth task is to expand our power in every possible way. On this issue, our principle at that time was: those who come do not refuse, as long as they are willing to come to participate, they will receive. In June 1947, according to the notice of the Suhuai County Party Committee, Ding Wenshan returned to the Suhuai area to work, and after Li Xingguang went to Suhuai County to report on his work, he returned to Maotang, and the Vortex Huai Work Committee was responsible for Li Xingguang. He returned to Suhuai County to work in October. In the past year, the Vortex Huai Working Committee has trained a large number of backbone cadres for the party.