In the spring of 1941, the Yixian County Party Committee of Shandong Province decided to transfer Wang Lei, director of the Ganyu County Party Committee of the Fifth District Prefectural Committee of the CPC Luzhong District, to Carry out underground work in Yixian County. After two nights of arduous trekking and passing through the pseudo-stronghold of Jiantouji, he finally reached his destination, Huangqiutao, where the canal detachment was located.
Huangqiutao, located in the southwest of Jiantouji, southeast of Weishan Lake, and northeast of Jiawang, is the anti-Japanese base of the county governments of Yi, Tong, Teng, and Pibian Districts, and is also the base of the canal detachment. The county party committees of Yi, Tong, Teng, and Pi border areas held a county party committee meeting here and studied the work of the county party committee. At the meeting, it was decided that three comrades, Wang Lei, Liu Xiangyi, and Li Yimin, would be responsible for the area north of Longhai Road, east of the Weishan Hujinpu Line, west of Taierzhuang Yi County, and south of the Linzao Railway. Because Comrade Wang Lei was more familiar with the situation in Yunbei and had some contacts with old comrades in the past, he was responsible for the work of Yunbei. Liu Xiangyi and Li Yimin were responsible for yunnan. Their tasks in carrying out underground work are: after breaking into the enemy-occupied areas, they can get in touch with the underground party, convey the instructions of their superiors, secretly recruit party members, and establish organizations.
Comrade Wang Lei The picture comes from the Internet
Underground work must be carried out under the cover of open occupation. Since Liu Xiangyi had never worked in a certain profession, he used the help of the party organization in the northern enemy-occupied area of Tongshan (Mountain) to sell books and pen and ink paper as a cover to carry out activities in the area of the Great Temple in Tongshan County. Li Yimin was a native of the enemy-occupied area, and he carried out underground work under the cover of teaching just north of Tongshan County. The two of them were mainly responsible for secret work south of the canal. Wang Lei's task was to hide in the enemy-occupied areas north of the canal and be responsible for the secret work of transporting the north.
Because Wang Lei's family was born into poverty, he lost his parents since he was a child and was raised by his second uncle. When he was fourteen or fifteen years old, he made a living selling kerosene, so he chose the oil selling profession that he had relied on as a teenager as a cover, and re-provoked the oil pickers to carry out underground party work.
Since he came alone to the enemy-occupied area of Yunbei, it was very dangerous if he did not have any connections, so the organization decided to let him contact a comrade named Huang Changxin and take root in the former Wafang Village, south of the pseudo-stronghold of Yinping Town, where Huang Changxin's family was located. Huang Changxin was a member of the Communist Party and a political traffic officer of the Yunbei Underground Party, and the Wenfeng guerrillas were also active near the former tile house, and they could cover and protect Comrade Wang Lei's safety at an appropriate time.
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Underground work is very different from public activities, which require careful deployment and arrangement first, and every slightest negligence can cost blood and lives. Although the county party committee clarified the division of labor and tasks, a large number of specific details still need to be seriously investigated afterwards, grasp the situation, carefully analyzed, and then made a decision.
Although Comrade Wang Lei's place of work and cover occupation have been determined, on what grounds can he enter the former tile house to convince the local masses and not attract the attention of the enemy?
Ji Hua, political commissar of the canal detachment and secretary of the county party committee, found Liu Qijia, the instructor of the Eighth Company, and asked him to help Wang Lei take root in the former tile house. In the east of the Jiawang Coal Mine, three miles southwest of Huangqiutao, there is a walled village called Xiaozongzhuang, and Liu Qijia is a Xiaozongzhuang person. Through his connections, Wang Lei found his old classmate Liu Yonghui, through whom he learned that Xiaozongzhuang had a man named Wang Xiuhuan, who had also sold oil in the past, and later died outside as a soldier and never came back. Everyone in the village knows about this matter, and after repeated analysis and consideration, Wang Lei decided to impersonate Wang Xiuhuan.
But Wang Xiuhuan was a xiaozongzhuang person, so why did he go to qianwafang village in Yunbei to live and sell oil there? To this end, he and his comrades pondered for a long time, and finally came up with a way, first asking Huang Changxin to create public opinion everywhere in the former tile house, saying that Wang Xiuhuan had served as a soldier with the warlord Feng Yuxiang's troops and was a brother in law. Because Wang quarreled with his parents at home and did not want to stay at home, he held his breath and went to the home of his brother Huang Changxin to make a living. At the same time, considering that Wang Lei will also live with his lover Li Fang in the future, he is also publicized everywhere, Wang Xiuhuan is a bare stick man, not only to do business in the former tile house, but also to start a family here in the future! After the public opinion was created, everyone actually believed it.
After all the preparations were ready, Wang Lei bought a new pair of oil picks through underground relations. In order to make people believe, he used this new oil pick to exchange it for an old oil pick that had been used for many years, and from then on, Wang Lei officially began his underground work with the oil pick. (To be continued)