"Taihang Wind and Bone"—— Yang Yunxi's Memoirs 46

Cover district organs and nearby cadres

In addition to striking at the enemy with armament, protecting the masses, and consolidating and expanding the base areas, the tasks of the district squadrons are also to carry out safety work for cadres in the protected areas. In addition, wenxi mountain is not armed, and we are responsible for protection work in the spirit of revolutionary friendship and unshirkable responsibility. In addition, when ten detachments on the west side of the road pass, they often cooperate.

In March and April 1945, the enemy "swept up", and for safety reasons, we lived in the Big Cape Pass. A few people in the auspicious district lived in a village behind us, separated from us by a ditch. At eight or nine o'clock in the morning, we were cooking in a small ditch outside the village, and the crowd poured into the ditch and said, "The devils are coming!" We ran up the hill before we could eat. After going up the mountain, I asked the machine gun team and most of the team members to press the top from the mountain, and Wang Tongwa and I, a big man with big ears and black faces, stayed behind and asked him to monitor the enemy on the fork road. I thought of reaching out to the front of a mountain pass to observe, and the cadres in the district could be notified in time. While we were looking forward, the cunning enemy came from behind us, and Wang Tongwa shouted: "The enemy is coming!" "Jump up and run. Originally told him to control the road, he jumped up and ran. I returned from the mountain mouth to the fork in the road, and a group of enemies (black dogs) followed me only about 10 meters. I took up my big-nosed gun and slammed it at the enemy, who immediately lay on the ground and fired at me with fire. Tongwa had already run far, so I fought and retreated, and the enemy only used firepower, not to chase.

Our machine gun group was still flexible, banging on the high mountain seven or eight meters away, firing a few points at the enemy, effectively covering my retreat. I retreated from a beam to a height of 40 to 50 degrees, retreating to a distance of 300 meters from the machine gun, at this time I was extremely hot, I rested for a while, the district chief they had already gone up the mountain, so they were relieved. The warrior named Wang Tongwa, who followed me, ran away when he saw the enemy, so it can be seen that the selection of warriors must be tested, not only look at the surface, not necessarily brave. This time, there was no loss and experience gained.

Another time, also in March. The mountains were full of clouds and fog, and the grass on the mountain was frozen into ice because of the thick fog, and it looked good, as if it was full of small beans, and it hurt to hit the feet when walking, and the low-lying areas were covered with one or twenty centimeters of white snow. The enemy is tight and cannot live in the village. Wenxi County's deputy county magistrate Feng and the messenger came, and Ji Xiang said that if necessary, he would act with Captain Yang all the way. Ji Xiang is familiar, he is gone, I feel a heavy responsibility, where to go? The team members have experience and say that there is our hidden hole nearby. So we went west from the Wangjia River, about ten miles away, in a small ditch on a slow hillside, and there was a small cave that could not be seen in the distance, and the bushes and artemisia grass near the mouth of the cave were covered with snow. After leaving the sidewalk, I sent a comrade to clean up my footprints, so that when the wind blew, there was no trace. The cave was not tall or wide, but it was deep, and the whole team and the feng county magistrate spent the night. The next day. It was safe to simply drive to the junction of the front mountain and the plain.