On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the lunar calendar, on the night of September 16, 1948 AD, the moon was empty and the autumn breeze was refreshing. At exactly 24:00, my powerful artillery group roared, and at the same time launched a general attack on the east and west groups, like two huge iron tongs, clamping the enemy of Jinan tightly. By the 17th, the 10th column of the Western Group captured Tenghua Shutun, Kuang Li Zhuang, and Dujia temple; the 3rd column captured Pipa Mountain, Shuangmiao Tun, Steep Ditch Bridge, Gushan Mountain, and Qiushan Bridge; and the Luzhongnan Column captured Zhonggong, Shuangshantou, and Cuimazhuang. Subsequently, the three columns advanced towards the airfield, Lashan, and Dangjiazhuang respectively. At the same time, the two guangdong columns and the Noji guard regiment attacked and annihilated the enemy of Changqing. The enemy of Qihe abandoned the city and fled south, and the troops of the Jiluyu Military Region occupied the city, and Wang Yaowu, seeing the fierceness of the offensive on the western front, believed that the main force of our army was in the west, lest the airfield be lost, and cut off the only passage between Jinan and the outside world. The Eastern Clique launched a fierce attack on the enemy with lightning speed and could not hide its ears; one part of the Bohai Column captured Hancang and besieged Wangshe Renzhuang, while the other bravely intervened to the west and captured Woniu Mountain, Zhudian Xindian, and other places; the troops of the Bohai Naval Region captured Luokou and Queshan, and most of the enemy fled south; and the Ninth Column, with a sudden move, conquered the most important barriers in the eastern suburbs, such as Maoling Mountain, Yanchi Mountain, and Huilongling.
Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain have twin peaks and stand abruptly. Wang Yaowu attached great importance to these two hills and defended them with the 15th Brigade of the elite reorganized 73rd Division. After our army swept through the Jiaoji railway line in the first half of 1948, Wang was greatly surprised by our army's indestructible attack capability, so he used cannons to destroy the original fortifications on Maoling Mountain, forcibly recruited 700 to 800 people, and rebuilt the semi-permanent fortifications with stone, steel rails, coarse wood, cement, lime and other materials. In addition to setting up a large number of open and dark bunkers, trenches were excavated around the main peak, and the inter-wall fortifications of the covered trench were built to connect with the bunkers, and the tentacle group fortifications were built on the surrounding 4 hills. After the wall was repaired, Wang Yaowu ordered the troops to test fire 3 rounds with cannons from the bottom of the mountain, and it was indeed very strong. Therefore, he boasted to the defenders: "3 cannons can't be broken, and the eight roads can't be fought." The defenders also thought they could hold out for half a month. Yanchi Mountain is steep, only a small road can reach the top of the mountain, and the open terrain in front of the mountain echoes the two strongholds of Yaojiazhuang and Yaotou. The top of the hill is surrounded by dense side forts, and there are sub-mother forts at the bottom of the hill, and there are sandwich walls connected. On the morning of 16 July, Wang Yaowu again inspected the positions of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain, and ordered Brigade Commander Wang Jingzhen to further strengthen the fortifications and barbed wire fences under the mountain. When he found that a bunker at the eastern end of Maoling Mountain was not strong enough, he immediately ordered it to be blown up and redone. He threatened Wang Jingzhen and said, "These two hills are related to the survival of Jinan, and if they are lost in the future, I will kill people!"
Our Ninth Column decided to attack Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain with the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Regiments of the Twenty-fifth Division respectively, demanding that these two mountains be taken with the fastest speed and the fiercest attack, and when the enemy struck a blow in the head, opening the eastern gate leading to Jinan City. The Seventy-fourth Regiment also specially produced a bright red banner that "occupied Maoling Mountain for the first time and opened the victory gate", determined to plant the red flag on the main peak with a single blow.
After the battle began, the Seventy-fourth Regiment attacked Maoling Mountain from the northeast, southeast and northwest at the same time. First, three cannons rang out in the northeast corner, tearing open a gap more than a meter wide; then the southeast corner artillery 5 shots 5 in the middle of the blowing up the wall; the third company also opened the tentacle group fortifications in the northwest hill. Light and heavy machine guns tightly sealed the firing holes of the enemy bunkers, and the commandos launched a wave-by-wave charge at all costs, throwing explosive canisters at the bunkers. Tian Shengxian, the eighth squad leader of the Fourth Company and a first-class meritorious officer, and Dai Xuegong, the deputy squad leader, climbed up to the foothills of the mountain and destroyed the southeast wall with continuous blasting. The enemy's reorganized Seventy-third Division concentrated heavy artillery fire to cover the counterattack of the troops, and the competition between the two sides was very fierce. In spite of the large number of casualties, our army attacked the mountain one after another.
Cui Yufa, the second squad leader of the first company, burst onto the wall with his wounds and swept towards both sides of the breakthrough with submachine guns. The second platoon of the second company of the second echelon then rushed to the root of the wall and fought the enemy with grenades. Liu Wen, commander of the fourth company, and Xu Xiangting, a soldier of the second row of machine gun squads, were both wounded in four or five places, but still insisted on fighting. The warriors shouted, "Don't forget the plan before the war!" Encourage each other to attack the enemy. The fourth company repeatedly charged five times and finally attacked the top of the hill. Our army's firepower suppressed the crazy enemy, the infantry broke into the center of the enemy fortifications, and the remnants of the enemy saw that the general situation had gone, so they had to surrender their guns. After the Third Company annihilated the enemy in the steel-boned cement side defense fort at the northern foot of the mountain, our army occupied Maoling Mountain, and the red flag of victory fluttered in the wind at the peak. Many officers and men of the enemy were stunned by our artillery fire and explosions, and woke up to the rear to know that the position had changed. Zhu Guohua, commander of the enemy battalion, led his troops to guard the rear side of Maoling Mountain, and after the battle began, he saw that our army's offensive was so rapid that he did not dare to engage and retreat down the mountain. The enemy division commander Cao Zhenduo sent people to intercept them and reported to Wang Yaowu to demand punishment, but Wang Guozhen "wanted to kill people" and shot the battalion commander.
Yanchi Mountain was even more clean and beautiful, and the Eighth Company of the Seventy-fourth Regiment captured the mountain in only 50 minutes. When our army's shelling of enemy fortifications was ineffective, company commander Zhang Kexin demanded that his superiors stop shelling and carry out explosions. The special shooter suppressed the enemy fire, the demolitionist Pan Hongxing blew open the breakthrough, and the troops began to attack. The enemy blocked the breakthrough with 3 sides of fire, and the soldiers braved fierce artillery fire and dense gunfire to attack. After the three comrades of the fifth class fell, the fourth class rushed up and engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy in the sandwich wall. Twelve people were wounded in the company and could not get out of the line of fire. Liu Kun, a liberation fighter in the Wenhe Battle of the Jinpu Railway, was wounded in 3 places and still insisted on fighting to the end. Li Tianbo, the commander of the fourth squad, Chi Yuanxing, the platoon commander, Xiao Zhengmo, the deputy company commander, and the soldiers of the fourth squad took the lead in breaking in, and Zhang Company Commander led the follow-up first and second platoons to follow closely up, completely penetrating the breakthrough point and engaging the enemy's short soldiers. The enemy was outnumbered and the situation was critical, and at this moment, Bai Dongsheng, the leader of the second platoon, attacked again. After a fierce battle, the enemy was finally destroyed.
The enemy's positions of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain, which he had been able to hold on to for at least half a month, collapsed overnight, shaking the entire line of defending the enemy in Jinan and causing great panic. Once these two mountains are lost, there is no danger to defend in the eastern suburbs of Jinan. The Kuomintang officials in the city, their wives and ladies, were awakened by the rumbling of cannons, and all of them were sleepy-eyed, disheveled, running and shouting, making a mess, and tossing and turning in the middle of the night. At dawn the next day, the wives of the officials rushed to the airport with their children and gold and silver and fled in a hurry. Wu Huawen, commander of the Western Garrison Area, said in panic, "The positions of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain are so strong, how could they have been lost overnight?" Luo Xingli, chief of staff of the Appeasement District, who was later captured, confessed: "The fall of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain in the east is an important key to the defeat of Jinan!"
After Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain were captured by our army, Wang Yaowu also judged that the main force of our army's siege was on the eastern front, and urgently pulled back the 19th Brigade and the 57th Brigade of the reserve unit west of the ancient city of Western Aid, and combined with the reserve of the 73rd Division to counterattack in an attempt to retake these two mountains, but neither succeeded. Li Pu, commander of the 48th Regiment of the 15th Brigade, was killed, and Zhou Yu, commander of the 203rd Regiment of the 77th Brigade, was also seriously wounded. On this day, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Du Yuming, deputy commander-in-chief of the Xuzhou "Suppression General", to lead the Second and Thirteenth Corps to reinforce the north from southwest Lu, and the Huang Baitao department of the Seventh Corps to assemble in Xuzhou and prepare to go north along the Jinpu Railway. After the commander of the East China Field Army made this information, he ordered the siege corps to continue to attack fiercely, and on the other hand, ordered the various units of the reinforcement corps to quickly enter the position and prepare to meet and assist the enemy.
The Siege East Group took advantage of the victory to advance westward, and lianke yaotou, Yanyi Mountain, Mawuzhai, Dianliuzhuang, Majiazhuang and other strongholds. The battle in Majiazhuang was extremely fierce. After Cao Zhenduo commanded the reorganized 73rd Division to counterattack Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain, he immediately retreated to Majiazhuang, 1.5 kilometers away from the outer city of Yonggumen, and resisted according to the existing positions. Wang Yaowu also threw 7 companies of the reorganized 74th Division, which had just arrived in Ji by air, into the Battle of Majiazhuang. Our army concentrated heavy artillery to bombard the enemy forts, and the infantry suppressed the enemy's fire with small artillery and light and heavy machine guns, covering the blasting team to blast the fort by fort. After fierce fighting, half of Majiazhuang was captured. In order to thwart our army's offensive, Wang Yaowu ordered the 19th Brigade of the reserve to participate in the battle, and the enemy, under the cover of artillery fire, pounced on us and recaptured part of the position. Our army has increased its counterattack, fought with the enemy fort by fort, and regained the lost positions. Zhao Yao, commander of the enemy's 19th Brigade, was extremely stubborn and personally led his troops to counterattack in an attempt to drive me out of Majiazhuang, while our army used houses to block the attack with fierce firepower, and the enemy also opened up houses to attack. The tug-of-war lasted until the afternoon, with both sides advancing and retreating, with heavy casualties and corpses. Zhao Yao, the commander of the enemy brigade, was also wounded.
In the early morning of the 19th, the remnants of the enemy retreated to the southwest corner of the village and stubbornly resisted, and our army attacked the core position of the 56th Regiment of the 19th Brigade from the southeast. The enemy burned a street occupied by our army in the south with a dense number of burn grenades, and the fire burned along the street to block our attack. At dawn, Zhao Yao led the 57th Regiment to counterattack eastward along the south mountain ditch of the village, and was attacked by our light and heavy machine guns, and the enemy suffered heavy casualties. The commanders of the first and second battalions and four or five company commanders were killed and wounded one after another, and the soldiers saw that our fire was fierce, and they were holding their heads and scurrying, and they could not form an army. Zhao Yao was furious and killed more than a dozen people in a row, but he still couldn't block it, and the soldiers threw away their guns and fled west. After dawn, the battlefield gradually fell silent, and the two sides confronted each other on the spot. In the afternoon, the enemy army withdrew to the west, and our army controlled Majiazhuang, except for one to pursue the fleeing enemy, and the main force directly pounced on the outer city of Yonggumen.
Press the Eastern Front not the table, and then the Western Front attack group. The Tenth Column of the Western Group, which continued to advance towards the outer positions, developed east of the Yufu River after capturing the ancient city and Changqitun. Wang Yaowu, who had no reserves to adjust, went so far as to open the Yellow River sluice gate and pour the yellow river water into the Yufu River, causing the water level to soar and widen the river surface several times. In spite of the hardships and dangers, our army braved the enemy's dense firepower to rush to cross and break through the defense line of the Yufu River in one fell swoop. At the same time, luzhongnan column captured Dangjiazhuang and Yueerzhuang. The thirteenth column of the siege reserve also attacked from the north and occupied Shifangyu and Kangerzhuang. The third column attacked and occupied Renlizhuang, Yuhuangshan, Tujishan and other places, annihilated the enemy's reorganized 84th Division, and blocked the airfield with fierce fire and blew up the airstrip. Chiang Kai-shek originally planned to urgently airlift the main force of the 74th Division of Xuzhou's reorganization to defend Jinan, and only transported 7 companies of the 172nd Regiment of the 58th Brigade, and the shells continued to fall on the airfield. After the air transport plane full of follow-up troops flew over the airport, only to see the flames and smoke soaring into the sky, and after hurriedly turning around and returning to the air transport to be interrupted, Chiang Kai-shek urgently ordered Wang Shuming, deputy commander-in-chief of the Air Force, to take a plane to Jinan to reconnoiter and try to continue to transport reinforcements. Wang flew over Jinan and saw that the shells that hit the runway of the airport were constantly exploding, so he had to give up.
In the past three days, our army has attacked on all sides, and good news has been frequently reported. On the eastern front, our army broke through the positions of Maoling Mountain, Yanchi Mountain, and Aozi Mountain, occupied dianliuzhuang, Yaotou, Xindian, and other strongholds, and directly approached the east gate; on the southern front, it captured strongholds such as Zhonggong, Dongxi Thirsty Horse, Dangjiazhuang, Luoerzhuang, and Fenghuangshan, and joined forces with our army on the western front to form a victorious division, and then rushed toward the urban area; after capturing the Qihe River on the northern front, it occupied the strongholds of Beiluokou, Zaoyuan, Quejiazhuang, and Meihuashan to force the defending enemy to cross the river to the south; the western front captured Pipa Mountain, Tuji Mountain, Yangjiazhuang, Daliujiazhuang, and Dayinmazhuang, and controlled the airfield with artillery fire to force the enemy to stop airlift. The enemy of Xuzhou's northern aid did not dare to go north under the shock of our powerful blocking reinforcement corps.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) offensive was sharp, the enemy's airlift in Jinan was cut off, and there was no news of land reinforcements, so Wang Yaowu sent a telegram to Nanjing to request the Ministry of National Defense to send reinforcements. Chiang Kai-shek called back one after another, telling him to stay to the end. On this day, after Chiang Kai-shek called Wang, he was inspecting the terrain in front of a military map of one-hundred-thousandth of a million, when suddenly the bodyguard reported: "General Wang Yaowu's mother and wife have asked to see the president." Chiang Kai-shek wondered: Isn't Wang Yaowu's family in Jinan, and why did Wang Yaowu send them when a fight broke out in Jinan? He asked the guard, "What?" When did they arrive in Nanjing? "Report to the president, they were sent by Commander Wang recently." Is the president seeing or not seeing? Chiang Kai-shek remembered that when the Battle of Xiangfan, the commander of the garrison, Mrs. Kang Ze, repeatedly approached him and asked to withdraw the order to hold Xiangfan, and he caused a lot of trouble, that is, he replied: "I am not seen!" You tell them, jinan doesn't matter. However, Wang Yaowu's mother and wife had the guidance of a friend and waited patiently in front of Jiang's office. As soon as Jiang went out, their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law greeted them. Chiang Kai-shek was really impatient, but he believed that today should not be rewarded with a few words, that is, it would be difficult to get out. The old lady said, tearfully, "We know the president is busy. Unfortunately, the situation in Jinan is not very good, and we are all in a hurry. Now I want to ask the president, look at my old wife's face, either ask the president to give the order so that the reinforcements will arrive early, or ask Yaowu to leave Jinan when they can still break through. Jiang replied, "I care about Commander Wang, just like you." However, there are some major national affairs that I cannot do too much, and I will certainly do my best to relieve the siege of Jinan. Then, the beautiful Mrs. Wang Yaowu whispered again: "O President! The state raises troops for a thousand days, and when the soldiers are used for a while, my mother-in-law should not have come to increase your trouble, but the battle of Jinan was helpless, and the situation was already in front of us. I dare not say that jinan's gains and losses do not matter, but if Yaowu is to stick to it in this situation, it is better to retain some strength. When Chiang Kai-shek saw that the two of them had asked him to take back his life of defending Jinan, he was very angry, snorted, threw the two of them in front of the door, and flew away.
At this time, Wang Yaowu of Jinan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and what made him feel most deadly was that he could not figure out the main direction of the PEOPLE's liberation army. According to the general situation, the terrain west of Jinan City is open and there are air passages, and the PLA must put the main direction of attack on the west, so as soon as the battle starts, he will transfer the reserve unit to the west. However, the fighting in the eastern suburbs was very fierce, and he was busy transferring the reserves who had just arrived at the ancient city to the east, and attacking the west. The enemy reserves marched back and forth, exhausted and complaining. Before the war, Chiang Kai-shek had ordered Wang Yaowu to "adopt a mobile defense," but at this moment Wang Yaowu had "maneuvered" his two brigades so badly that it was a laughing stock for a while. The captured enemy officer lamented: "Our good contingent, from east to west and from west to east, only a few shakes, and then it is finished."
Just as Wang Yaowu was busy dealing with our army, another news came from the western front that made him feel even more deadly: Wu Huawen, commander of the Western Garrison District, commander of the reorganized Ninety-sixth Army, and commander of the reorganized 84th Division, led more than 20,000 people to declare a battlefield uprising and withdraw from the civil war! The reason why Wu Huawen led the uprising was by no means accidental. It happened at a time when the plaster had won a major victory in the strategic offensive of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the beginning of a strategic decisive battle; it was realized at a time when the PLA had quickly destroyed Jinan's peripheral defense system, and the defensive line of its garrison area was directly exposed to the PLA's attack, facing the defeat of the army and the destruction of the city and the total annihilation of the army; it was also the result of the underground workers of the CPC concealing themselves for a long time, carrying out arduous and meticulous work, and correctly implementing the instructions of their superiors.
Wuhua Shaozhou was born in 1904 to a poor peasant family in Ye County (now Laizhou City), Shandong Province, and moved with his father to Mengcheng County, Anhui Province, at the age of 8. In 1920, due to the flood in his hometown, he was forced to leave home to join Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, where he cooked, fed horses, and worked as a porter. Because he had studied in private schools, studied in foreign languages, and was alert and intelligent, he was appreciated by Feng Yuxiang, and soon became Feng's service soldier, and later promoted to division chief, platoon leader, and company commander. In 1928, Feng Bao sent him to study at the Army University. In 1930, after Feng Yuxiang was defeated by Chiang Kai-shek in the Battle of the Central Plains by Chiang Kai-shek's warlords, his troops disintegrated, and Han Fuyu of Feng's Sixth Army defected to Chiang Kai-shek. Since then, Wu has followed Han and successively served as the head of the military education regiment, the commander of the pistol brigade, and the commander of the Jinan garrison. In January 1938, Han was executed by Chiang Kai-shek, and Wubu was reorganized into the Central Independent 28th Brigade. After Shen Honglie became chairman of the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Government, the unit was reorganized into a newly organized Fourth Division, under the command of Shen, and stationed in the Yimeng Mountains. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he once resisted the War of Resistance, but soon followed Chiang Kai-shek and Shen to actively oppose communism and passively resist Japan, and later developed into a special attack on the Shandong Eighth Route Army, which resolutely resisted the war. After entering the Yilu Mountains, Wu Huawen, mainly Wu Huawen, together with the Japanese puppet army, Qin Qilong, the head of the Kuomintang Shandong secret service, and Mou Zhongheng, commander of the Fifty-first Army (deputy commander of the Second Appeasement District at the time of the Jinan Campaign), created the Yilu "no man's land" that shocked Shandong, and committed heinous crimes. In January 1943, under Chiang Kai-shek's secret order to "save the country by curve", he surrendered to the Japanese army and was reorganized into the Third Front Of the Pseudo-Peace Founding Army. Since then, with the support of the Japanese army, it has rapidly expanded to nearly 40,000 people, and the main force has been entrenched in the area of Lucun, Nanma and Yuezhuang in the southern foothills of Lushan Mountain. He actively cooperated with the Japanese army in attacking the anti-Japanese base area in Shandong, and his arrogance was extremely arrogant. From the summer of 1943 to the spring of 1944, the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army launched three campaigns against Wu, annihilating most of its troops and basically recovering the Yilu Mountains. After Japan's surrender, chiang was appointed commander-in-chief of the army's newly organized Fifth Route Army and commander of the southern section of the Jinpu Railway, performing the task of "preventing the communist army from occupying railway traffic."
Wu is capricious, scheming, good at watching the wind and making rudders, and adapting to changes. But there are also some good aspects, such as filial piety to parents and respect for teachers. As a warlord, he ruled the troops in a patriarchal manner, with a strong feudal color, and most of the officers above the company commander were his cronies. He regards the team as the lifeblood and spares no effort to preserve his strength.
The work of our party and our army in winning over Wu is long-term, the methods are flexible and diverse, the work is comprehensive, including both political work and military work, and the struggle is also sharp and complicated. The earliest work against Wu was started by Jia Benjia, a member of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1933, when Wu was the commander of the pistol brigade and the commander of the Jinan garrison, there were two regiments in the headquarters, and Jia Benjia was the leader of the first regiment, Jia, as the first party member of our party to break into the Wu department, and did a lot of useful work in the early days, such as providing intelligence and helping our party comrades economically. But soon after he became the head of the regiment, the revolutionary will declined, and he gradually broke away from the organization.
At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, because Wu led his troops to resist the War of Resistance, our army established united front relations with them. When Wubu was in Northern Lubei, Xiao Hua, commander and political commissar of the Eastward Advance Column of the Eighth Route Army stationed in Leling, went to comfort them; the Eighth Route Army stationed in Guangrao also held a joint party with Wubu. After Wu entered the Yilu Mountains, in order to unite his war of resistance, our army gave up the areas of Donglidian and Lucun that it had opened up and used them as bases for activities. In June 1939, the Japanese army "swept up", Wu Bu fought against the enemy at Sanchadian in Linqu County, with serious casualties, and Wu Kehua, the second detachment of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army, actively treated his wounded soldiers. After Wu surrendered to the Japanese Kou, Li Yu, deputy political commissar of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army and director of the Shandong Provincial War Trade Union, sent someone to contact him, hoping that he would wake up, but he was stubborn in his thinking and made no progress in his work. In this regard, Wu later recalled: "At that time, I was very shaken in my thinking, and now I have no regrets." When wu was stationed in Lunan and Luxi, Commander Yang Yong of the Luyu Border Region established secret contact with Yu Huai'an, the commander of the ministry. Our army launched three campaigns to woo Wu, and in addition to military strikes against them, it also strengthened its political offensive. The huge puppet army working group organized by our army against Wu Dagu has launched a powerful political offensive against it in various ways, which has played a very important role in the disintegration of the ministry. Most of the more than 300 officers and more than a thousand soldiers captured in the Third Battle of Wu knew our army's policy. For example, the captives said: "Uprising is the best policy, surrender is the middle strategy, and fighting for the devils is the next strategy," "Battlefield shouts shake the hearts of the army, and the power is very great," "The method of releasing prisoners quickly is good, and the effect of using prisoners to persuade them to surrender is better." Since the beginning of the War of Liberation, our army has carried out an active and effective struggle against Wubu in accordance with Chairman Mao Zedong's instruction that "all the struggles, gaps, and contradictions in the middle of the enemy's camp should be collected and used as a counter-attack to the main enemy at present." Work is carried out through multiple channels. After Wu Bu entered Shandong, the Lunan Military Region and the Shandong Field Army actively launched a political offensive while striking at him militarily; wu, in order to survive, also contacted our party through patriotic democrats; the East China Bureau of the CPC, the New Fourth Army, the Shandong Military Region, the East China Military Region, the Lunan Military Region, the East China Field Army, and the North China Bureau City Engineering Department, in accordance with the instructions of Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, and other CPC leaders, sent people to liaise and negotiate, and sent personnel to infiltrate his unit and plot a rebellion Wu's wife, Lin Shiying, who, under the inspiration of our party's policies, played a considerable role in persuading and inducing Wu; in particular, after Li Changyan, an enemy worker cadre of the Cpc Jiaodongdonghai Committee, infiltrated Wu's department, he carried out work on Wu's family members and relatives, winning over many people around him, and through them doing Wu's work, he made decisive progress and made great contributions to the work of winning over the Wu uprising.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wubu was stationed in the areas around Bengbu and Xuzhou, and because most of the sides of the Jinpu Railway were liberated areas, Wubu had difficulties in providing supplies, often went to the liberated areas to grab grain, and repeatedly clashed with the Jiangbei troops of the New Fourth Army. While the Second, Third, and Fourth Divisions of the New Fourth Army dealt a military blow to them, they also actively carried out political struggle work.
The Jiang-Japanese pseudo-confluence went north along the Jinpu Railway and attacked the Liberated Area of Shandong. Chiang Kai-shek ordered Wu to lead two armies as a forward, and when they marched between the Lunan Boundary River and the two lower shops, they were ambushed by our army, and the commander of his First Army, Yu Huai'an, had contact with Yang Yong and ordered his troops to lay down their weapons and bring the battle to a smooth end. Most of the wu captured personnel were released after education, and the relationships that could be used were also mixed with repatriation; emphasis was placed on the education and preferential treatment of Huai'an and Jin Wenyuan, chief of staff of the First Army. Inspired by my united front policy, both expressed remorse and self-reliance and were willing to do the work of winning Wu Huawen's rectification. After the kuomintang and the communists signed the "Armistice Agreement," Yu Huai'an, through his summons at Wubu, sent letters to Wu twice, stating our party's policy of opposing civil war and striving for peace, as well as the preferential treatment of the captured officers and men of Wubu in Lunan, and advising him to get rid of Chiang Kai-shek, refuse to participate in the civil war, revolt, and stand on the side of the people at an early date. Our army also sent Jin Wenyuan to the Wuhua Wen Office in Yanzhou as a liaison officer for communicating contacts between the two sides. Through the efforts of the two of them, Wu gained a preliminary understanding of our party's past attitude of not being blameless and upright, and its policy of opposing civil war, and expressed his willingness to establish formal contacts with our army.
On this basis, in July 1945, Hu Cheng, director of the Liaison Department of the Lunan Military Region, talked with Wu in Xuzhou, expounded the situation, knew the great righteousness, and hoped that Wu would consider his own interests: First, he would immediately lead the uprising, not to blame the past, and to be treated favorably; second, if there were difficulties in the immediate uprising, he would withdraw from Yanzhou and let our side solve the problem of troop supply; third, if he did not withdraw from Yanzhou, he must restrain the troops and must not harm the interests of the masses. At this time, Wu Huawen did not want to revolt, and shirked that there were Kuomintang agents monitoring inside, the uprising needed to be prepared for a long time, and it was difficult to revolt immediately; it could restrain the troops not to endanger the interests of the masses, and at the same time ask our army to set aside a certain area to replenish supplies, agree to establish relations, and wait for the time to be ripe for an uprising.
At the end of 1945, Chiang Kai-shek reorganized Wu Bu into the Second Column of Shandong Security, a local Kuomintang unit, and Wu was dissatisfied with this. At this time, Wubu was surrounded by the People's Liberation Army on all sides, and it was difficult for him to go out to grab grain, which was repeatedly attacked by our army, so it was difficult to survive, so in the Battle of Tengxian in December, he did not send aid from Lincheng and Yanzhou according to Chiang Kai-shek's orders. Jiang was very annoyed by this matter, and in January 1946 secretly ordered Wang Yaowu to bring Wu to justice for disobeying military orders, but fortunately He Siyuan, chairman of the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Government, gave him a timely letter, and he refused to go to the aid and was spared death. In this case, he had to think of his own way out. In July 1946, he took advantage of a meeting in Nanjing to secretly visit his old boss, the patriotic general Feng Yuxiang, and poured out his grievances, asking Feng to open joints for him and seek survival. Wu said: "There were more than 40,000 people, and half of them were lost. Now living in Yanzhou, surrounded by the Eighth Route Army on all sides, the Kuomintang did not give equipment, I have no way at all, please sir try. Feng Yuxiang was very angry at his behavior of surrendering to the enemy during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and then attacking the Liberated Areas after the victory of the War of Resistance, and after reprimanding him, he said: "The miscellaneous army has always been unable to gain Chiang Kai-shek's trust, and if you look at the situation in Nanjing, you can see that the treatment of Chiang Kai-shek's army is much higher than that of the miscellaneous army." They also engaged in the 'Five Sons Dengke', and the common people suffered greatly. You are discriminated against, of course uncomfortable. Finally, Feng Yuxiang wrote a business card and introduced him to Li Jishen.
When Wu arrived at Li's place, Zhang Bojun and Wang Sent
I. Chen Mingshu and others are here. Li said: "These people are all dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek, they are the leaders of the democratic parties, they stand on the side of the Communist Party, and they are the bridge between them and the Communist Party." Your matter Huan Zhang (Feng Yuxiangzi) has already been told to me, and it can be discussed openly here. Wu talked to them about his situation and his demands, and Li said, "Discuss with Mr. Zhou Enlai in Nanjing, and then meet and answer you." Soon after, Zhang Bojun told Wu: "I have already talked to Mr. Zhou, and Zhou said that Mr. Wu is willing to come to the people's side, and we welcome it and will maintain close ties in the future." It is said that Zhou Enlai had asked Wu Huawen to meet, but this could not be achieved due to the close surveillance of Kuomintang agents.
Shortly thereafter, Dong Biwu met with Li Jishen and Liu Ziheng in Shanghai. Li proposed to Elder Dong that Wu Huawen be in Shandong and Henan, and asked the Communist Party to enlighten him in policy and take care of his future. Later, Elder Dong telegraphed this situation to the East China Bureau, and accordingly the Enemy Work Department of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army and the Shandong Military Region decided to actively carry out the work of political struggle against Wu and urge him to lead a battlefield uprising. At present, the main thing is to establish ties with him, promote his gradual transformation through education, and abandon the dark and turn to the light when the time is ripe; using the party's united front relations, ask Wu's teacher, Mr. Liu Ziheng, and Wu's former colleague, Wang Dao, who joined our army in 1944 from the puppet army uprising in Shouguang, to write a letter to Wu, positive education and enlightenment to point out the future, expose his historical crimes, expound our party's policies, and dispel his worries; and send people to infiltrate Wu's department as underground liaison officers for the party's work to win over Wu. In the summer of 1946, Liu Guanyi, the liaison officer of the New Fourth Army and Shandong Military Region, met with Wu zai in Yanzhou in accordance with Chen Yi's instructions. Liu elaborated on the situation at home and abroad, exposed Chiang Kai-shek's conspiracy to exclude dissidents, annexed miscellaneous cards, and the crime of launching a counter-revolutionary civil war, and demanded that he have a clear understanding of the current situation, distinguish between right and wrong, strive for an early uprising, and stand on the side of the people. Wu still did not want to revolt, and the following brothers still had to do their work to shirk it. Liu said that as long as your troops do not come out to harass and grab grain, they can not revolt for the time being, and Wu said that the battle may still be fought, but a fake war can be fought to deal with the Nanjing side. After consultation, the two sides decided to establish radio contact and exchange passwords. No major progress has been made in this negotiation, but it will enable our army to concentrate its main forces in the south to strike at the main enemy.
At this time, the Wubu Zhao Guangxing Regiment in Dawenkou had been surrounded by the first column of the Shandong Field Army for several months, and it had exhausted all its ammunition, and it continued to resist completely by airdrop, facing the trend of being completely annihilated. Wu Huawen sent people to contact the Lunan Military Region and demanded the release of zhao tuan. The Lunan Military Region reported this situation, and in order to win over Wu Huawen, our army withdrew from the siege, and sent Liaison Minister Hu Chengfang and others to contact our troops along the way, so that the regiment could return smoothly. This incident greatly shocked Wu's thoughts, and enabled him to have a better understanding of the policies of the Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army, as well as his open-mindedness and work style of keeping promises. Since then, he has maintained contact with the Lunan Military Region, and the two sides have tried their best to avoid conflicts, so that the situation in the Yanzhou area has been relatively relaxed. In the winter of 1946, Lin Shichang, the fourth brother of Lin Shiying, the wife of Wu Huawen, an underground member of the Communist Party of China who was studying at Chaoyang University in Beiping, went to Xuzhou to find his sister to do the work of winning over Wu at the behest of Wei Yan, head of the Beiping Academic Committee of the North China Bureau's Urban Work Department, and Zhang Ruiying, a member of the underground party organization of Chaoyang University. In order to play a larger role, he did not expose his party membership and worked from the perspective of relatives. The specific tasks are: first to win over Lin Shiying, and then, through her, to persuade Wu Huawen to have a clear understanding of the situation and our Party's policy toward the insurrectionary troops; to point out for him the future and the way out, and to hold an uprising at an appropriate time. In January of the following year, Lin Shichang arrived in Xuzhou.
At this time, Wu Huawenzheng led his troops to garrison Zhuji in Henan. In view of his sister's life and her situation in the Wu family, Lin Shichang first told her about the benefits of the Communist Party and exposed the darkness of Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary rule. Then he said: "Only when the brother-in-law is free from the civil war can he have a bright future, and the disputes and contradictions within your family can be resolved, and you can personally fight for freedom and equal rights and enjoy political status." Since Lin Shiying married Wu Huawen, although he ate mountain treasures and seafood and wore Ayara silk satin, his mood was painful. Because Wu had been mixed in the old army for many years, he was contaminated with many bad habits, and he also took concubines and recruited concubines like other old warlords, which made Lin Chengtian mentally depressed and had a difficult life. Her brother's words ignited the flame of her heart's desire for women's liberation, so she gave her brother the idea to let him go to Henan and talk to Wu in person, prompting him to get lost and return. In order to make Wu have a good impression of his brother, Lin asked his brother to bring Wu leather shoes, leather vests, cotton shoes, and some food. After Lin Shichang arrived in Zhuji, he talked with Wu twice in a row, and Wu has always been more patient and enthusiastic, but he is only worried that his wife and brother are young, lest he not do things firmly, and he has not exposed his true thoughts, but Lin Shichang's visit, after all, has enabled him to further understand the policy of the Communist Party towards the rebel forces and receive an education.
After Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 450,000 troops to launch a key attack on the Shandong Liberated Areas, Wu Huawen saw that Chiang Kai-shek's army was fierce and powerful, and believed that it was difficult for the Shandong Liberated Areas to resist the attack of the Kuomintang army; in addition, Chiang Kai-shek co-opted Wu Huawen and reorganized his troops from the local army into the reorganized Eighty-fourth Division of the regular army, which increased Wu's illusions about Chiang Kai-shek, thus breaking ties with the People's Liberation Army and re-entering the anti-communist and anti-people civil war. Soon, Wubu was placed under the command of Qiu Qingquan of the Kuomintang's reorganized Fifth Army, and operated in Jining, Cao County, Dingtao, and Kaifeng in southwestern Lu.
At the beginning of 1948, Liu Guanyi, director of the Liaison Department of the Political Department of the East China Bureau, sent liaison officer Li Yonglie to join Wu Hua's Cultural Department through the relationship between Wu Huawen's teacher Liu Ziheng and Wang Dao, then deputy commander of the Luzhong Military Region of the People's Liberation Army and commander of the Yidu Garrison. Li arrived with a handwritten letter from Liu Wang and His wife to Wu. Wu first arranged for him to study in the White Horse Mountain Cadet Brigade, and then appointed him as an aide-de-camp of the military department. In addition to actively persuading Wu Huawen himself, Li also used the newly developed Kong Fanxia, chairman of the Kuomintang Shandong Provincial Senate, who had a relationship with Wu, to directly persuade Wu, and played a certain role in disintegration. Through Li Yonglie's intrusion, it communicated the direct contact between our army and Wu. At this time, the situation in the War of Liberation was developing rapidly in the direction of benefiting the people, and the key offensive launched by Chiang Kai-shek had been completely crushed. Wu Huawen, who was extremely good at watching the wind and making the rudder, decided to restore contact with our army. In May, Accompanied by Li Yonglie, Wu went to Xuzhou to meet with Liu Ziheng and Wang Dao. Wang Dao, in his capacity as a representative of the Liaison Department of the East China Field Army, pointed out three paths to Wu: First, he led his troops to detain Wang Yaowu, liberate Jinan, and redeem his merits; second, when our army attacked the city, he launched a battlefield uprising; third, he stubbornly resisted to the end and sat still. Wu said that he would abide by his promise to meet with Minister Liu Guanyi in Yanzhou and raise an affair in Jinan. In August of the same year, Wu again went to Xuzhou to meet with Wang Dao, and Wang conveyed to him the instructions of Commander Chen Yi to revolt in Jinan, and Wu accepted it.
Li Changyan infiltrated Wu Huawen's ministry and instigated Wu Huawen's uprising. A native of Dongnanquan Village, Li Changyanye County, born in 1922. His second brother worked as a quartermaster in the military office of the Wuhua Ministry of Culture, and Wu Huawen's wife, Lin Shiying, was his aunt and cousin. Li joined the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement when he was in school, joined the Anti-Enemy Salvation Congress in Yantai in 1939, returned to Ye County in 1940 to do intelligence work, and completed important tasks many times. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he took the initiative to propose to Yang Guangtian, secretary of the CPC Yecheng Special Committee, to take advantage of the relationship between his aunt and cousin and second brother to do Wu Huawen's work. Yang attached great importance to this and immediately decided to send him to Jinan, and solemnly said to him: "I hope that you can withstand any test in a difficult and complicated environment and contribute to the party and the people." On the question of your request to join the party, if you go to Jinan this time, if you can make great achievements in the work of the enemy army, you will be a member of the Communist Party of China from now on. Li shouldered the heavy trust of the party organization and prepared to go to the rescue. At this time, he was unfortunately arrested by Zhang Tianzuobu, the commissioner of the Eighth District of Shandong by the Kuomintang, and it was not until the winter of 1946 that he was released on bail by his brother in Jinan. Arrived in February of the following year.
He went to his brother's house first, and his sister-in-law was afraid that he would cause trouble and implicate them, and he was very disgusted. So he went to his aunt's house on the pretext of being cured. At this time, Lin Shiying's eldest brother Lin Shida, second brother Lin Shide, and third brother Lin Shixun all lived in Jinan, Lin Shiying was in Xuzhou, and Wu Huawen was in Shangqiu, Henan. He used various methods to win over the 3 brothers of Lin Shida and established a foothold in the Lin family. During this period, he first publicized the light of the Liberated Areas to his aunt and the Lin family brothers, exposed the darkness of Chiang Kai-shek's rule, and enlightened them to understand the nature of the Kuomintang reactionaries and the cause of people's liberation under the leadership of the Communist Party; and then enlightened them not to rely on Wu Huawen's current life, and Chiang's reactionary rule would not last long Wu Huawen if he did not clearly understand the situation and continue to fight against the People's Liberation Army, the consequences would be unimaginable. After a long period of patient work, Lin's family realized that as relatives, they could no longer allow Wu to slide down the old track, and should persuade him to throw himself into the people's bright road. So far, Li has gained a mass base for Wu Huawen's work.
After that, Li Changyan began to do Lin Shiying's work again. Lin Shiying grew up in the old base area of Jiaodong, was deeply influenced by the Liberated Areas, had a sense of justice, and was inclined to progress; he had a certain cultural upbringing, was clever and intelligent, and was reasonable; and people were also born white and beautiful. Wu Yuan and Ma Yuzhen have long died of illness. When Ma was alive, Wu lived with Zhao Huazhen, and there were many aunts and wives, zhao who were eight years older than Wu, who served as the head nurse of Peking Union Medical College Hospital and had close relations with Dai Kasa, the head of the Kuomintang military command. Wu's parents were extremely dissatisfied with this, and once used their parental authority to invite wine in public to disassociate Wu from Zhao and marry Lin as a daughter-in-law. Therefore, Lin has a considerable position in the Wu family and is also favored by Wu.
In February and March 1948, Lin Shiying went from Xuzhou to Jinan to treat his daughter, and Li Changyan took the initiative to greet him at the station and found a doctor to treat his daughter carefully, which was quite favored by Lin. During this period, he talked to Lin about the current situation, analyzed Wu's advance and retreat interests, and contacted Lin's situation in the Wu family, saying: "Although you are very good in front of you, Wu has an aunt and wife, and there are concubines, and there are intrigues within the family. If Wu changes his heart, you and the child will be treated coldly. Only by defecting to the Communist Party can we truly achieve equality between men and women and emancipate women. These words deeply touched Lin's heart.
On the basis of Lin Shiying's understanding of the people's liberation cause, Li revealed his identity to him and told him some information about the underground work of our party, asking for her opinion on whether she was willing to participate. Lin readily agreed. Li arranged for her to constantly instill in Wu the truth that the Kuomintang must fail and the Communist Party must win. The specific method is to put himself in Wu's shoes, explain the suffering and fate of the miscellaneous army being excluded and attacked by Jiang at every turn, and the fate of eventual annihilation, and persuade him to make early plans for the sake of his wife, children, and his subordinates, and not to continue to walk along the road of death. Lin Shiying made rapid progress, linking the revolutionary cause with the individual's struggle for freedom and liberation, believing that it was an unshirkable task to help Wu turn to the people, and did not feel sad and depressed about his fate as in the past, and Gu Ying pitied himself. Since then, she has reported Wu's ideological dynamics to Li in a timely manner, and directly persuaded Wu to abandon the dark and cast light.
Li Changyan also actively worked as Wu's parents. Because Wu is very filial to his parents, he is a famous "filial piety", and his parents' attitude can influence Wu's actions. His father originally had a prejudice against the Communist Party, but through Li Propaganda and Education, he changed his understanding, expressed his hatred for the dark corruption of the Kuomintang, expressed appreciation for the policies of the Liberated Areas and the strict discipline of the People's Liberation Army. Wang Yaowu personally apologized for the incident, but he turned him away. He once complained: "There is no good person in the Kuomintang, they are all bad breeds!" During the Battle of Yanzhou, Wu led reinforcements, and he scolded his son as a "bastard", "ignorant of current affairs", "looking for his own death", and threatened to "go to the liberated areas by himself". Some people provoked and said, "The Communist Party wants to kill and fight, and you are the old man of the Kuomintang division commander, so you must walk away quickly." He retorted with the phrase "the eight-way knife is fast, but it does not kill the innocent." In addition, Li Changyan also developed relationships such as Li Rugang, Li Yuankai, and Lin Shibao. They provided transportation and intelligence for Li Dang.
Through Li Changyan's arduous and meticulous work, he won over Wu's family and relatives, so that there were assistants and eyes and ears everywhere in the work who knew the activities of Wu's troops and the dynamics of Wu's thinking. Lin Shiying, in particular, unswervingly admonished Wu and played a unique role in winning over the Wu uprising. So far, a working network composed of his family and relatives has been formed around Wu, creating a good environment for winning Wu's work.
Our army conquered Zhoucun and Zhangdian, and then launched the Weixian Campaign. The Nationalist army in Shandong was empty, and Chiang Kai-shek transferred Wu from Henan to Jinan under the command of Wang Yaowu. Wang ordered Wu to reinforce Wei County. At this time, Wu Huawen, after lin shiying's repeated persuasion and the Communist Party's multi-channel work, was no longer as hard as in the past. He marched slowly in reinforcements, and as soon as the troops crossed the Zihe River, Weixian was liberated. But his mind was still wavering, wandering, and unwilling to make decisions. Because Lin Shiying repeatedly persuaded Wu to break away from the Kuomintang, and the news of the defeat of the Kuomintang she received from Li Changyan every time was very accurate, it aroused Wu's suspicions. One day in June 1948, he said to Lin, "No matter what you think of finding me a way out, I'm going to talk to the underground Communist Party workers." Lin was overjoyed, thinking that his long-term persuasion had finally come to fruition, that is, Li Changyan's situation and the end of the plate, but Unexpectedly, Wu suddenly changed his face and yelled at Lin: "You and I have been married for many years, you are actually a communist party today, what am I doing in the wind and rain?" If you are still my wife, you will summon Li Changyan's address, otherwise..." Lin replied: "I am the Communist Party, and you can do whatever you want!" Wu drew his gun to fight, and Wu's father rushed into the door to take the gun down. Since then, Lin has been imprisoned. Lin Tuo's daughter sent a letter to Li Changyan, which read: "I have not seen through Shao Zhou's good plan, he used the relationship between husband and wife to seize our secrets, tonight his attitude has changed greatly, he has pretended to be faceless with wine, and he has tried to kill me. My sacrifice was to die for the revolution, and I feel infinitely honored to die like this. After I die, please relay my intentions to my superiors, knowing that I died for the people and want to avenge me. My children ask you to take care of them more, and I want to thank you for your great kindness under the Nine Springs. I wish you success in your revolution. The dying Shiying, The Book of Tears, was on the evening of June 17. But soon, Wu Huawen was forced by his parents to release Lin.
In May 1948, in order to cooperate with the development of the war situation, the underground party organization of the North China Bureau's Urban Work Department decided to send Zhang Ruiying and Lin Shichang to Jinan again to further do the work of winning over Wu. In order to dispel Wu's doubts, the higher-level party instructed wu to put forward three guarantees: after the Wu uprising, his life and safety would be guaranteed; his property would be protected; his posts would be retained, and his troops would be reorganized according to the principles of the People's Liberation Army. In the way of work, Zhang Ruiying has worked with Lin Shiying's sister-in-law in the name of visiting old colleagues; Lin Shichang can make his identity public, so that Lin Shiying can cooperate with our party to do Wu's work better. After Lin arrived at Jiji, he became acquainted with Li Changyan, who lived in his mother's house, but the two did not have a cross-relationship because they did not know each other's identities, and Lin only heard Li talk about Wu's recent situation from small talk. At this time, shortly after Wu Huawen's retreat from Jinan to reinforce Weixian County, Wu was intercepted by our army near Linzi on the way back to the army, and his mood was extremely depressed. Lin decided to talk to his sister first and wait for wu's work. When Lin Shiying learned that his brother was a member of the Communist Party of China and an underground party, he was very happy and told him about Wu's developments in the past year and the work of the two of them after Li Changyan came.
Because Wu's thinking was shaken and his mood was abnormal, he also became suspicious of Lin Shiying, and Lin Shichang felt that under such circumstances, it was inconvenient to directly interview Wu, that is, to tell his sister, asking her to relay to Wu Huawen: Once or twice, he was a special dispatch of the underground party, hoping that his brother-in-law would understand the 3 guarantees of the higher-level party and immediately hold an uprising; second, his husband's real estate and grain in Beijing had long been used by the underground party through his connections, which showed that Wu had made contributions to the revolution.
During the Battle of Yanzhou, Liu Zhi, the commander-in-chief of Xuzhou's "Suppression General", ordered Wu to lead his troops to break the siege. Lin Shiying advised Wu according to Li Changyan's instructions that if he continued to help Jiang do evil and kill the people, he would eat himself. Wu slowly marched south to preserve his strength and reached Tai'an for more than ten days. Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Yaowu strictly ordered him to quickly assist him before he led his troops to the south, and as soon as they arrived at Dawenkou, Yanzhou was declared liberated. Wu saw that things were not good and retreated north in a hurry, the People's Liberation Army braved the rain to chase after it, ambushed and annihilated more than 10,000 of its defenders at Dawenkou, and Xu Yuezheng, the commander of the 161st Brigade, was also captured. This was the biggest blow wu Huawen had suffered since the Battle of Jiehe. In particular, Xu Yuezheng's capture stimulated Wu Huawen greatly and he cried bitterly. Lin Shiying took the opportunity to say: "Xu Yuezheng opposed the Communist Party, opposed the people, and committed many evil deeds, so he was captured, this is an example. I'm just worried about your life and death right now. Wu Huawen couldn't laugh when he heard it. After the fiasco at Dawenkou, Wang Yaowu not only did not blame Wu Huawen, but instead awarded him the title of commander of the reorganized Ninety-sixth Army, allowing Wu to rapidly expand the 161st Brigade, and at the same time transferred the 2nd Security Brigade, which had strong combat effectiveness, to Wu's command and organized it into an independent brigade of the military department, and also promised Wu "half of the rivers and mountains of Shandong." In addition, Chiang Kai-shek promised to equip him with new weapons. In this way, Wu's thinking changed again, from cold to distant from Lin Shiying, and finally found an excuse to drive Lin and his parents to Shanghai.
To prompt Wu to wake up, Li Changyan wrote two anonymous letters on July 15, which were placed on the desks of Wu and his deputy division commander Yang Tuanyi, with a grenade pressed on them. This incident made Wu Bu panic, as if he were facing a great enemy. Wu believed that Li Yonglie, a liaison officer sent by the Liaison Department of the East China Bureau, had taken Li to Luokou for assassination. However, Li had no fear and reasoned to refute Wu's rebellious behavior, causing his assassination plot to end hastily. In the autumn of 1948, the Western Front of the East China Field Army, Northern Jiangsu and Shandong Corps met victoriously and prepared to attack Jinan. Huaye's main force was waiting in a strict position along Juye, Jiaxiang, Jining, and Yanzhou on the west bank of the canal, preparing to block the enemy in xuzhou's northern reinforcements; the Shandong Corps surrounded Jinan from the east and west flanks, forming a pincer-shaped position. Jinan has become a dead city. Wu Huawen felt that the situation was serious, and in order to survive, he had to seek negotiations with our party and our army, and he believed that the anonymous letter from the military department was written by Li Changyan. At first, he looked down on this crooked relative who swept the floor and cooked everything in the Lin family; after Lin Shiying told him that Li was an underground worker from the Jiaodong party, he ignored it. Now, he suddenly felt that this person was a very important role and needed to be treated as a VIP. Li Zhengyan, the second brother of Li Changyan, said: "An anonymous letter was found inside our troops, and it is very likely that someone is plotting against me. In the current situation, there is a need to pull a relationship with them. Do you know of a fellow countryman named Li Changyan? If he has the guts, we will meet and forget if we don't have the guts. The next day, Li Changyan appeared in Wu's office. Wu was very surprised by Li's arrival, and immediately withdrew to close the doors and windows, "We didn't talk about it in the past, we wanted to meet earlier, because my wife went to Shanghai to drag it until now." I used to know a little bit less about the Communist Party, but now that I'm listening to what my wife is saying, I agree with it and am trying to act. "Then, he talked about how after Xu Yuezheng was captured in Dawenkou, Chiang Kai-shek not only did not take care of his family, but instead sent spies to monitor him, and there was no freedom to speak of, and there was really no way to serve under old Chiang Kai-shek." I have met with Liu Guanyi, minister of the East China People's Liberation Army, and there were some misunderstandings in the past, but the environment was different at that time" Finally, Wu Cut into the main topic and said: "I want to revolt, and the Kuomintang troops in Jinan mainly rely on me." If I revolt, Jinan can solve it, jinan can directly pound Xuzhou, and the overall situation in North China can be determined. Chiang Kai-shek wants to supply me with some arms now, so wouldn't it add to his strength? When you deceive this batch of weapons, and then pick up your family from Shanghai, you can act. Ask your superiors to wait another month or two."
He asked Li Changyan to contact Commander Chen Yi. After the conversation, Li Changyan asked Wu to issue 4 certificates in order to contact him out of the city. As soon as Li had left, Wu Huawen, who was suspicious by nature, found Li Zhengyan and said worriedly: "They can't handle this properly, and the secret agents already know that Li Changyan is a person, and once he is arrested, he will not be able to do it." When Li Zhengyan told him that Changyan had left the city, Wu sighed helplessly.
At this time, Li Changyan was excited and excited about the major progress made in his work, and although Wu Huawen's speech was too loud and whether he could eventually revolt, he formally put forward an uprising demand to our party. Over the past few years, in order to plot against wu Huawen's uprising, after going through hardships and tribulations, and now that major progress has been made in his work, how can he not be excited? At the same time, he felt a great responsibility. Early in the morning of August 4, he flew out of the city with Li Rugang and two progressive young people he recommended to apply for the East China Military Academy. According to the normal work channels, yang Guangtian, the Jiaodong-Haitian Committee, should be reported, but he was afraid of missing the opportunity, so he decided to report directly to the head of the East China Field Army. After several exhibitions, in the Area of Xiying in Licheng County, Jiang Fangyu, deputy secretary of the Jinan Municipal CPC Committee of the Cpc Central Luzhong South District, was found.
The Jinan Municipal CPC Committee quickly telegraphed this major situation to the East China Bureau in Minjiazhuang, Yidu, and sent Zeng Dingshi, deputy director of the National Army Work Department of the Municipal CPC Committee, to report to the luzhongnan district party committee. The United Front Work Department of the East China Bureau immediately verified Li Changyan's identity by the Party Committee of Jiaodong District, and then reported to Rao Shushi, secretary of the East China Bureau and political commissar of the East China Military Region. Secretary Rao instructed: "Wu Huawen has committed crimes in history, especially the surrender of the Japanese Kou and the creation of no man's land in the Linqu area of Luzhong, and the people's anger is great. The initial attitude towards him cannot be overestimated, and if the work is good, there is also a possibility of success. Only by exposing the evils of the past, knowing the great righteousness, using powerful metaphors, and pointing out the future, so that he can understand his mistakes, make meritorious contributions to his sins, and make practical achievements, so as to win the understanding of the masses. And put forward three strategies for Wu to choose: the upper strategy is to solve Jinan by a separate uprising; the central strategy is to cooperate with the outside world and cooperate with the PLA when it approaches; the lower strategy is to resist to the end and die. Rao Shushi also pointed out: "On the issue of dealing with the uprising, Wang Jiashan in the northeast is a good example, and Huo Shouyi in Yanzhou is a bad example. Huo had always made some gestures with me, but at the crucial moment of the battle, he made mistakes in his own way, causing the troops to be annihilated and ruined. I hope Wu will learn a lesson. The Jinan Municipal CPC Committee is requested to work hard in accordance with the above spirit and strive to quickly establish radio contact with Wu. ”
Yu Rao Shushi also sent Wang Zhengming, chief of the first section of the United Front Work Department, to the Jinan Municipal CPC Committee to convey the instructions of the East China Bureau and assist the MUNICIPAL CPC Committee in carrying out this work. In order to strengthen leadership, the Jinan Municipal CPC Committee set up a leading group for the struggle for the Wu Huawen uprising, composed of Jiang Fangyu, Wang Zhengming, and Zeng Dingshi (deputy director of the Enemy Work Department of the Municipal CPC Committee). Since then, the work of winning the Uprising of Wu Huawen has been carried out in an all-round way.
Li Changyan returned to Jinan and met with Wu on August 14 to convey Rao Shushi's instructions to him. He first exposed Wu's evils, pointing out that only an uprising could gain the tolerance and understanding of the people. He solemnly said to Wu: "Although you have engaged in 'no man's land' in the past and done wrong things, as long as you can do a good job this time, you can guarantee a bright future." General Zhang Xueliang lost 3 northeastern provinces before the war, and the people of the whole country were dissatisfied with him, but after the Xi'an Incident, people's impressions of him soon changed. Wu expressed his deep gratitude to Secretary Rao for pointing out a bright future for him, saying: "I want to take the initiative and be sure to do a good job." However, they are reluctant to discuss in detail the issue of establishing radio contacts and specific actions, and they are excused by "family members have not yet received" and "they must wait for the opportunity." From this point of view, he did not make up his mind about the uprising, still had illusions about Chiang Kai-shek, and was still worried that after the uprising, his big fortune and many small wives would be lost.
Li Changyan reported to the Jinan Municipal Party Committee for the second time. The municipal party committee instructed Li to instruct the Wu leading group: First of all, we must build up confidence in Wu's work; his wavering and repetition are expected, and we must use every opportunity to continue to expose his past evils, continue to persuade and educate him, make them clearly understand the overall situation, and never miss a good opportunity. If the uprising will be welcomed by the people, if it is stubborn, it will become a sinner for eternity. Relayed to Wu: Jinan must be fought, and the siege of the city cannot wait; if we are determined to revolt, our army can arrive at any time to meet it. Specific requirements for Wu were: occupy the enemy's organs, disarm the enemy, rectify discipline, protect the city, quickly take home relatives, set up radio stations, and send out codes. If there is no ability to rebel alone to achieve the best policy, the middle policy can be implemented.
Li Changyan met with Wu twice in succession on 20 and 22 July, and repeatedly explained to him whether or not to fight Jinan, and when to fight depends on the Platon Army, and that the entire strategic action will not be affected by your delay, so he made up his mind early and not to repeat the old road of Kang Ze and Huo Shouyi being captured by our army. He unceremoniously exposed and criticized Wu, emphasizing that the stakes were at hand. Wu realized that empty promises that were not seen in action would not gain the trust of the PLA. He said: "I don't care how the international and domestic situation develops, today for the people, not for speculation, you don't misunderstand." We plan everything this time, and you can take the radio code out on the 25th. In the future, I will use radio contact and do not have to run back and forth, that would be too dangerous. "And agreed to meet again on the 24th." At this point, Wu Huawen began to consider the specific issues of the uprising in order to find a way to contact our army and conduct tests.
On the day that Wu And Li agreed to meet, something else happened. After Zhang Ruihuan, a member of the Kuomintang Central Committee and Wu's brother-in-law, met with Wu, Wu's attitude deteriorated. The two of them have a deep affection. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, after Wu Huawen surrendered to the enemy, he spent a year in prison in Chongqing on Wu's behalf. After the meeting, Wu said to Lin Shiying: "This person is in contact with the CPC and is directly led by Mao Zedong, and I have talked about everything, and Mr. Zhang is completely responsible for us and does not believe these young people's nonsense, and now he will not fight Jinan at all." Lin thought the situation was not good and persuaded him to meet with Li Changyan. Because Li had exposed his historical crimes more deeply during his talks with Wu, Wu felt insulted and suddenly burst into attack: "These young people are making a fool of themselves at all, can this kind of thing still be urgent?" The Communist Party used these stupid boys to fight for their lives! He also threatened Lin Shiying: "How dare he really be, where he lives, I will arrest him!" Lin Shiying did not budge: "Do you have the ability to arrest him right away, he is in your house." Wu refused to concede defeat and continued to vent his hatred for Li, saying that the Communists could not listen to their words, and they would never say that they could not do it himself. President Chiang Kai-shek can't do it, and it won't exist for decades. Now that the most powerful large quantities of erosive poison gas imported from Canada have arrived, the Communist Party cannot defeat Jinan! ”
After Zhang Ruihuan's agitation, Wu Li failed to meet. In the days that followed, Wu xiang fell into a neurosis, refused to see guests, and lay in bed all day sighing and sighing. Lin Shiying tried his best to persuade Wu under difficult circumstances: "If you interrupt Li Changyan's line, you will have nowhere to go and will be on the verge of a desperate situation."
Li Changyan, who could not see Wu Huawen for several days in a row, was extremely indignant and angry in front of the entire Lin family: "Hao Huawen is a military commander, has no credibility, and speaks irresponsibly." "Today is not my business, it is his own business. I don't know what I have done, but when the traitors kill the common people and do how many sins they have committed, they don't know when the disaster is imminent, so they must find their own way to die, and see what to do if they are prisoners! He also said that he would immediately return to the liberated areas and no longer be nosy. He saw the effect of this trouble, and Wu immediately took him
Please go and apologize, saying that you have "fainted for two days". When Li asked him what he was planning, Wu said, "Go pick up your father right away."
Mother, there is still a part of the division headquarters directly under the division headquarters in Xuzhou, which is now in the process of reorganization, and it is planned to send a telegram to the Ministry of National Defense to send aircraft to return to construction. At that time, the old people can also be picked up, and they can revolt as soon as they arrive. He proposed to ask his superiors to prepare 3 columns to respond, and handed the password to Li, agreeing to formally communicate and contact from September 1 to 3. He also revealed to Lee that if a battle broke out, the defending enemy might use poison gas.
In order to do a better job in the work of Wu and request instructions from the superiors on the next step of work, the Jinan Municipal CPC Committee sent deputy secretary Jiang Guangyu and others to the Shandong Corps Headquarters on September 1 to report. Tan Zhenlin, deputy political commissar of Huaye and political commissar of the Shandong Corps, Wang Jian'an, deputy commander of the corps, Zhang Kaifan, secretary general of the corps, and principal responsible persons of the political department of the headquarters listened to the report. Political Commissar Tan instructed: Wu Huawen is a warlord by birth, has endured the wind and frost for a long time, and is good at coping, but under our strong military pressure, it is possible to revolt or cooperate with our army's actions; to tell Wu Huawen that Jinan must be fought, and if it is to be fought, it must be opened, so that Li Changyan, as a relative, thinks of Wu, guides and inspires, and strives for early action; the demands on Wu can be great, such as detaining Wang Yaowu and occupying the airfield, otherwise it is also a victory to ask him to give way; to explain the policy, we must ensure the safety of his life and property; and to the troops to which he belongs After the uprising, it was reorganized according to the principles of the People's Liberation Army. Political Commissar Tan repeatedly stressed: "At present, the demands on Wu cannot be too high, and when our soldiers approach the city, ask him to give way to a road, even if he has made a great contribution!" Deputy Commander Wang Jian'an said humorously, "It seems that Wu Huawen really wants to do something practical!" The instructions of the political commissar pointed out the direction for the work of winning the Uprising of Wubu.
However, Wu Huawen did not contact my radio station. The reason was that Wu and his relatives in Nanjing learned by phone that once Jinan was launched, Xuzhou would send a large army to reinforce. Wu also invited Zhao Huazhen, his sister-in-law in Nanjing, to Jinan, where he stayed with her for several days and refused to meet. Li Changyan and Lin Shiying could not see Wu. Li Ji arranged for Xu Yuezheng's wife to be captured at Dawenkou told Wu: Xu Yuezheng wrote to him that the Eighth Route Army was about to attack Jinan, and it was absolutely forbidden to take his path! Wu was shaken. Because Zhao was unfavorable to the Wu uprising in Jinan, Lin Shiying immediately created public opinion that Jinan was about to go to war and air traffic was about to be interrupted, and Zhao Huazhen believed that it was true and fled to Nanjing in a hurry.
Over the past few days, Wu's ideological struggle has been fierce and his spirit is uncertain. He usually didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but at this time he became superstitious. First, he invited his mother-in-law to the Luzu Temple in Baotu Spring to ask for a signature. Mother Lin was illiterate and handed the signature back to Li Changyan to see, and Li took the opportunity to steal another one. When Wu Zi's mother-in-law received the signature in her hand, she couldn't help but be frightened, and saw a small poem on it: "Drifting a small boat, the water reaches the beachhead, unfolds its wings, and the prince of Xunye is promoted." Wu was very shocked, thinking that he was in the right mind, so he called Li Changyan to see. Li explained, and Wu was more convinced, feeling like a god, and sighing. So he invited the famous "Zhuge Kongming" of the Grand View Garden to meet him. This old man had asked about the eight characters of the birthday, that is, the military commander was full of heaven, the earth pavilion was round, the face was noble, and now the orthogonal eyebrows were lucky, the eyebrows were good, and the Lord had a high rise. Wu inquired about the misfortune in front of him, and the old man said nonsense: "Do whatever you want to do boldly, don't be half-hearted, you must be promoted high..." Li Changyan guided from the side: "Old sir, do you say that the military commander is like a stone in his heart, don't take it, don't put it down, you should take it up, is this what you mean?" The old man thought that he had guessed Wu's heart, and hurriedly said, "That's right, that's it!" These two fortune-telling, carefully arranged by Li Changyan and Lin Shiying, temporarily liberated Wu from the extremely contradictory ideological struggle and stabilized Wu's mood. Since then, Wu has taken the initiative to talk to Li and Lin again.