Huang Luobin talked about the Northwest Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army

Guo Baoshan, the family is very poor. Exploited and oppressed by the landlords, he led his family from Shandong to flee to the area of Gaoyang (Heyang), and soon after, he defected to Liang Zhankui and Jia Degong (bandit leaders). At that time, Liang and Jia were stationed at Liangshan in the Huanglong Mountains. Guo Baoshan was a very brave man who fought in battle, and could independently lead two or three hundred people to fight, and Liang and Jia saw that he was very capable, so they gave Guo Baoshan the title of battalion commander. In 1933 and 1934, Liu Zhidan wanted to win him over, so he wrote a letter to Comrade Huang Luowu (my brother) and asked him to meet Guo Baoshan, which I saw with my own eyes. Huang Luowu went to Guo Baoshan's ideological work and explained to Guo Baoshan why he was exploited and oppressed by the landlords, our Communist Party's defense policy, and why he attacked local tycoons and divided up the land. It was hoped that Guo Baoshan would cooperate with the Red Twenty-sixth Army.

Liang Zhankui and Jia Degong's troops were absorbed by Yang Ziheng and drove from Huanglong Mountain to Qingyang. When passing through the Heshui Taibai and Heishui Temples, Guo Baoshan heard from the masses about Liu Zhidan's policies and might of the Red Army, and was mentally prepared to defect to Nanliang when there was no way out. The Kuomintang troops at Qingyang prepared to eliminate Guo Baoshan's troops, and Guo immediately withdrew from Qingyang in this situation and declared an uprising.

In 1934, the Red Third Regiment went to northern Shaanxi. Liu Zhidan heard that Guo Baoshan's troops were coming to Qingyang, and later heard that Guo Bu was in a difficult situation, and decided to transfer the Red Third Regiment back. In November, the Red Third Regiment returned to Nanliang and immediately went to pick up Guo Baoshan's troops. After the Guobu Uprising, it was reorganized into the Northwest Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army and sent Comrade Ren Langhua to do political work.

After the battle of Yanagimura, I was transferred to the Northwest Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army as a political commissar. In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the troops, the Red Army formulated twenty concise military disciplines, and at that time I used these "twenty articles" to give lectures to the Northwest Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, publicize the policies of the Communist Party, and talk about who to fight for, and so on. At the same time, the soldiers of Guo Baoshan's troops were mobilized to quit smoking. 99 percent of the people in this unit smoked heavily, and began to tell them to smoke less and gradually not to smoke. Guo Baoshan was very determined, the first to take the lead in quitting smoking, and suffered great grievances for quitting smoking. Since then, the composition of the troops has changed greatly. There were not many people in the original, and the composition of workers and peasants increased.

At that time, Guo Baoshan was already in her 40s and did not have a wife, and Comrade Liu Zhidan introduced Guo Baoshan to his wife, named Che Xianfeng (who now lives in Xi'an), so that Guo Baoshan's mood was also more stable. Later, party branches were established and party members were developed. The troops have political education everywhere, and none of them deserted. In general, these people gave their lives and blood to the Soviet zone.

Northern Shaanxi rebelled and shot And shot Yu Zhenxi, the commander of the Guo battalion. Guo Baoshan is a person who follows Liu Zhidan very closely and is also a person who can go up and down. After the Liberation War, he served as the commander of the 12th Division and served as the commander of the (Ganquan) Security Brigade. This man was older at the time and of good quality. Since the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign and beating Up Mu Jiayuan, Ma Peixun took over the formalities of my political commissar.

(Excerpt from "The Twenty-sixth Red Army and the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Soviet Zone I"