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Veteran Li Daisheng Tang Xinmin
The reason why Li Daisheng is remembered by the people of gaochun in his hometown stems from his legendary stories in the eight-year War of Resistance. Examples of his iron bones and wearing stars and moons and fighting days abound. At the same time, there are also many legends about him, such as the legend that he often takes a short gun alone and goes to the bath of the ancient town of Qiqiao, which has been occupied by the Japanese and puppets, and the Wang puppet personnel recognize him and turn a blind eye, and even stay away... For these past events, I have mentioned them to him many times, although Elder Li himself is not willing to respond more, but the villagers regard it as a true story that has actually existed, and word of mouth has been passed on to this day.
As for what he experienced and happened after he withdrew from Gaochun with the New Fourth Army in October 1945, even his parents did not know anything about it. Similarly, the people of his hometown knew even less about his actions in the southern conquest of the Northern War during the entire liberation war. In order to let everyone have a more comprehensive understanding of Li Lao's stormy life, we continue to talk about his liberation war years.
On August 15, 1945, Japan finally announced its unconditional surrender. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which Chinese, has won the final victory.
On August 28, Mao Zedong, chairman of the CPC Central Committee in Yan'an, was invited by Chiang Kai-shek, president of the Kuomintang, to Chongqing to hold a series of negotiations with Chiang Kai-shek on peaceful nation-building. In order to implement the "Double Tenth Agreement," on 20 September, the CPC Central Committee sent a telegram to the Central China Bureau instructing: "The troops of eastern Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu, and southern Anhui should immediately withdraw north to the area north of the Yangtze River, and the sooner the better." After receiving instructions from the CPC Central Committee and the Central China Bureau, the CPC Jiangsu-Zhejiang Regional Party Committee and the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Military Region immediately began to deploy the New Fourth Army's Jiangnan troops and local party and government cadres to withdraw northward, and quickly controlled the northward route to ensure the safety of the northward retreat.
On September 25 and 26, Wu Zhongchao, director of the Organization Department of the CPC Jiangsu and Zhejiang Party Committees, held a meeting of county party secretaries in southern Jiangsu in Lishui Xinqiao District to convey the instructions of his superiors on the withdrawal from the north. Immediately afterward, Wang Yifan, secretary of the Ligao County CPC Committee, conveyed this message to the county party committee and studied and arranged the specific matters for the northern evacuation. At the same time, it was decided that Comrades Wang Yifan, Li Daisheng, and other comrades would lead the retreat to the north.
After the meeting, Secretary Wang Yifan specifically found Li Daisheng and instructed: "We are going to withdraw from our hometown in the north, you should go back immediately, and do some arrangements and comfort work for your parents and family." Therefore, Li Daisheng hurried back to his home in the big port of Qiqiao that day. In order not to make his parents worry too much about their own safety, he told them: "The New Fourth Army's departure from Ligao is only temporary, we will return soon, and the day of seeing each other again will not be very long." Subsequently, he asked some relatives and friends to take more care of their parents in their lives, and then hurried back to the county party committee.
Many years ago, when Elder Li and I talked about the scene of saying goodbye to his hometown and parents at that time, the corners of his eyes were moist. He said that when he left his parents that time, he may have died nine times, and there was an unspeakable nostalgia and pain in his heart. But in the face of the individual and the overall situation, it is the latter that is chosen.
On October 1, 1945, ligao county party and government cadres and local armed personnel gathered in Dalixiang Village, Lishui Xinqiao District, and incorporated Ligao County and district armed forces into the Ligao Guard Regiment, led by Wang Yifan, secretary of the county party committee and political commissar, and Zhang Yiqiao, deputy political commissar, and formed more than 140 county and district party and government cadres into a cadre unit, led by team leader Tong Chao and instructor Li Daisheng, and set off on standby. On October 3, they arrived in Zhulin Town, Jintan County, to camp, and then after several days of meetings and rest. On October 10, he arrived at Chuangang in Yangzhong County, and then crossed the Yangtze River north, and on the same day Li Daisheng wrote the poem "Northern Retreat Preamble". At that juncture, the New Fourth Army within the base area of central China was unified and reorganized into the Central China Field Army, with Su Yu as commander and Tan Zhenlin as political commissar.
After Li Daisheng arrived in northern Jiangsu, he continued north from the port town, passing through Taizhou, Baoying, and arriving in Huaiyin for recuperation. During the recuperation period, the Central China Field Army integrated more than 1,000 people from the Ligao Guard Regiment and its cadres into the Seventy-second Regiment of the First Division of the Eighth Column, and Li Dai was qualified to serve as the chief of the organization unit of the Seventy-second Regiment.
After Japan announced its surrender in August 1945, the Japanese army in the Area of Gaoyou and Shaobo, believing itself to be in many cities, refused to accept the surrender of the New Fourth Army. The city was garrisoned by about 1,100 independent mixed 96 brigades of the Japanese army and about 4,000 people in the seven regiments of the 42nd Division of the puppet army.
To this end, in accordance with the orders of Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, fifteen regiments and local armed forces of the Seventh and Eighth Columns of the Central China Field Army launched the Gaoyou Campaign from December 19 to 26, 1945 under the command of Su Yu and Tan Zhenlin. This was also the last battle against the Japanese in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression against the Chinese.
The first stage was for the Seven Columns to retake Shaobo, clear the Japanese strongholds outside Gaoyou, and besiege Gaoyou. In the second stage, the eight columns attacked gaoyou county. After seven days of fierce fighting, Huaye's troops recaptured Gaoyou County from the Japanese at the cost of more than 600 casualties, and held a ceremony for the surrender of the Japanese army. In this campaign, more than 5,000 Japanese puppet troops were annihilated, of which more than 900 Japanese troops were captured. This was also the first large-scale battle thrown into by Li Gaozi's soldiers led by Li Daisheng and his men since the retreat of the Soviet Union. During the campaign, Li Daisheng, as the head of the organization unit of the 72nd Regiment, was responsible for directing the civilian workers assigned to the regiment to transport the wounded from the front-line battlefield to the rear health center, and at the same time delivering ammunition and food to the front-line troops, which was also the first time he personally experienced a large-scale battle.
In order to penetrate the two major liberated areas of Shandong and Huaibei, following the Battle of Gaoyou, Commander Su Yu commanded the campaign against the Kuomintang army on the eastern section of longhai road on January 11, 1946. After this campaign, the two major strategic areas of central China and Shandong were connected, and preparations were made for the large-scale attack of the Kuomintang army.
In June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government, with the help of the United States, completed preparations for a full-scale civil war. The Seven Soviet-Chinese Wars, which took place from July 15 to August 27, 1946, marked the full-scale outbreak of the Kuomintang-Communist Civil War. In early July 1946, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 120,000 troops from the First Appeasement Zone to attack the Liberated Area of the Suwan Border Region, which had only more than 30,000 troops, with the intention of completely seizing the area under the actual control of the Communists and conquering Huaiyin, the capital of the border region, in one fell swoop. Under the meticulous command of Commander Su Yu, the Central China Field Army annihilated six brigades and five traffic police brigades of the Kuomintang Army, totaling more than 50,000 people, after seven battles in Yitai and Runan, and won a major victory in the "Seven Battles and Seven Victories in the Soviet Union." Throughout the campaign, Li Daisheng was responsible for the forward and backward transportation of the Seventy-second Regiment and the organization of the former migrant workers, and often did not get rest for several days and nights. After the war, during the period of recuperation of the troops on the first line of Xin'an Town on Longhai Road, the First Division newly established the Division Logistics Department, and Li Daisheng was appointed as the director of the Political Office of the Logistics Department.
From December 15 to 19, 1946, the Central China Field Army and the Shandong Field Army launched the Subei Campaign against the Nationalist 69th Division in the Yehaizi area northeast of Suqian, annihilating more than 20,000 people of the division, the division commander Dai Zhiqi committed suicide, and the deputy division commander Rao Shaowei was captured.
Immediately afterward, the two field armies organized the Lunan Campaign from January 2 to 20, 1947, capturing the two county towns of Zaozhuang and Yixian County, annihilating more than 53,000 enemy troops and capturing 24 tanks and 480 vehicles.
In these two battles, Li Daisheng's logistics office directly administered the field hospital, did not abandon a single wounded man, and at the same time requisitioned more than 2,000 migrant workers from the Huaibei Special Bureau for battlefield services, successfully completing the task. In January 1947, the Central China Field Army and the Shandong Field Army were merged to form the East China Field Army. The First Division of the Central China Field Army, where Li Daisheng belonged, was upgraded and reorganized into the Fourth Column of the East China Field Army (military-level formation). From April 20 to 23, 1947, the East China Field Army launched the Battle of Laiwu, in which Huaye exchanged an empty city in Linyi for a major victory in annihilating Wang Yaowu's "Appeasement" district headquarters, two military headquarters, and seven divisions totaling 56,000 people. Huaye's troops lost more than 8,800 casualties, and the Kuomintang army lost about 10,000 people, including more than 40,000 nationalist officers and men in only 63 hours in one battle. In this battle, the four columns alone captured more than 2,000 enemy troops, of which Li Daisheng and his logistics department were responsible for handling more than 200 people, and the prisoners of war were very satisfied with the preferential treatment of prisoners.
In mid-May 1947, the East China Field Army launched the Battle of Menglianggu in the southeast of Mengyin County, Shandong Province. This was a large-scale trench warfare, and it was also a key battle to break the nationalist army's key offensive against the Shandong Liberated Area and to change the war situation in East China. Under the personal command of Commander Su Yu, from April to early May, he constantly mobilized to confuse the enemy and capture fighters, and on May 11, he cut off the contact between the enemy's Seventy-fourth Division and its friendly and neighboring troops.
After the Battle of Nanma Linqu, the 3rd, 4th, 6th and 8th Columns crossed the Yellow River south on September 3, 1947, and reached the shatuji area in southwest Lu, with the 3rd, 6th, and 8th columns as the main attack, and Li Daisheng's 4th column served as a blocker and launched the shatuji campaign, fighting until September 9, completely annihilating the 57th Division of the Nationalist Army in the shatuji and nearby areas.
In order to cooperate with Liu Deng's army in the battle at Dabie Mountain, from November 8, 1947, Li Daisheng's Huaye Line Corps launched a groundbreaking battle against the Lanfeng to Haozhai section of Longhai Road and the section south of Xuzhou on Jinpu Road, and by the 17th, it had destroyed more than 150 kilometers of railways, annihilated more than 10,000 enemy troops, and conquered nine counties, including Xiao County, Yanshan, Minquan, and Yutai. On December 13, 1947, the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 6th Columns marched south along the Pinghan Road, destroying the railway and annihilating all isolated and scattered enemy forces. By December 31, more than 45,000 enemy troops had been annihilated, more than 400 kilometers of railways had been destroyed, and more than 50 towns such as Xuchang and Zhumadian had been conquered.
After that, Huaye 1st, 4th, and 6th columns went north to the area of Puyang (now part of Henan Province) in Hebei Province to rest and stand by. During this period, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De personally visited Puyang to inspect huaye troops and received cadres at and above the regimental level, and Li Daisheng was received by General Zhu for the first time with Chen Yi and Su Yu.
In late May 1948, chiefs Chen and Su led their troops resting in Puyang to cross the Yellow River to the south and attack Kaifeng on May 30. From June 27 to July 2, the Battle of Eastern Henan was launched in Sui County, QiXian County, and Tongxu, and the Shounian Corps of the National Military Region was annihilated and the commander of the Corps, Ou Shounian, was captured alive.
In the subsequent rest in the Suluwan area, the four vertical organs were adjusted, the former Political Department, the Ministry of Democracy Movement, and the Liaison Department were adjusted to the Liaison Department and the Ministry of Democracy Movement, and Li Daisheng was transferred from the director of the Political Department of the Logistics Department to the director of the Fourth Vertical Democracy Movement Department (the post of the main division).
Li Daisheng during the Battle of Huaihai
In November 1948, the Battle of Huaihai, one of the three major battles of the Liberation War, began. The first stage was initiated on November 6, 1948, and ended on November 22, when sixteen columns of the East China Field Army annihilated eighteen whole divisions of the enemy's Huang Botao Corps in the Xin'an Town and Nianzhuang area east of Xuzhou, and attacked four corps of Qiu Qingquan, Li Mi, Sun Yuanliang, and Liu Ruming, occupying a large area outside Xuzhou and leaving Xuzhou in an isolated position. In the second stage, from December 4 to December 10, 1948, the 130,000 people of Du Yuming's group were surrounded in the areas of Chen Guanzhuang, Qinglongji, and Li Shilin in the northeast of Yongcheng, and first annihilated the breakthrough Sun Yuanliang Corps and Huang Wei Corps, thus besieging the Du Group in an area of 50 square kilometers centered on Chen Guanzhuang. In the third stage, a general offensive was launched on January 6, 1949, and by the 10th, the Du clique was completely annihilated, Du Yuming was captured, and Qiu Qingquan was killed. The three phases of the Huaihai Campaign lasted 66 days and annihilated more than 555,000 Kuomintang troops. At this point, the east china and central plains north of the Yangtze River were basically liberated, and the capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing, was under the direct threat of the People's Liberation Army.
After the Battle of Huaihai, the central authorities ordered Huaye's troops to rest for two months.
Li Daisheng's four-column division was resting in the Taixing area of northern Jiangsu. In February 1949, the fourth column of the East China Field Army was renamed the 23rd Army, and Li Dai was qualified as the director of the Military and Civilian Movement Department.
On the night of April 21, 1949, Li Daisheng's 23rd Army forcibly crossed the Yangtze River from the eastern section of the Yangtze River and pursued and annihilated the fleeing enemy through Danyang, Liyang, Yixing, and Huzhou. On May 3, the 7th Corps of Sanye, where the 23rd Army was located, liberated Hangzhou, which was also a key battle in the entire Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou Campaign.
After the liberation of Hangzhou, the Sanye troops launched the Shanghai Campaign on May 12, except for Tang Enbo and more than 50,000 people who escaped by warship, the remaining 150,000 people were all annihilated, and Shanghai was liberated on the 27th. On June 2, Chongming Island, an outlying island in Shanghai, was liberated, annihilating more than 3,700 enemy troops. At this point, the victory of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou war came to an end.
After the Battle of Shanghai, the 23rd Army was ordered to garrison the Jiaxing area of Zhejiang province for recuperation and assist the Jiaxing Prefectural Committee in opening up local work. Li Daisheng was appointed to the Jiaxing Prefectural Committee and concurrently served as a member of the Prefectural Committee. In July 1949, with the approval of the Military Party Committee, he married his comrade-in-arms Lin Junwei.
Wedding photo with Lin Junwei during the 23rd Army
Here, I need to briefly introduce Li Daisheng's wife, Lin Junwei: Lin Junwei was born in Xiamen, Fujian Province, and was born in Shanghai in 1925. In December 1941, at the age of sixteen, she gave up the superior family conditions in Shanghai and chose to resist Japan and save the country to join the New Fourth Army, and served as a service regiment member and cultural teacher during the War of Resistance. During the Liberation War, he successively served as an officer of the democratic movement, a technical secretary, a political instructor, and a secretary of the party branch. After liberation, he successively served as secretary, member, deputy section chief, section chief, deputy secretary of the regional party committee, deputy minister, minister, director of the office, deputy director of the political department, and secretary of the party committee of the organ in the political department of the Hangzhou Railway Branch, the political department of the Shanghai Railway Bureau, the political department of the Changchun Railway Bureau, the Changchun Bus Factory, and the Nanjing Railway Branch.
In August 1942, Lin Junwei and some of her comrades in the New Fourth Army were attacked by the Wang puppet army on the way and were collectively arrested, but she was unyielding and maintained the integrity of an anti-Japanese fighter. After returning to the army, in an extremely difficult and complicated war environment, he later participated in the seven battles of the Soviet Union and China, Huaihai, crossing the river and other major battles. After liberation, especially during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, she was persecuted again, slandered as a traitor, a self-surrendered renegade, and a family member of a bourgeoisie, and was isolated and examined for a long time. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, the Nanjing Railway Sub-Bureau was rehabilitated and restored. She spent 31 spring and autumn with Li Daisheng, gave birth to three daughters, and was very strictly tutored. On May 5, 1980, he died in Nanjing due to illness at the age of 55.
In September 1949, the 23rd Army was ordered to attack the Zhoushan Islands, and Li Daisheng led the pro-democracy movement team to withdraw from the Jiaxing Prefectural Committee, and was immediately transferred to Hangzhou, where the Warship Management Office was formed together with the Military Staff Office under the Liuhe Pagoda, with Jia Hongjun, the chief of the General Staff Office, as the director of the department, and Li Dai as the political commissar. In a short period of time, in the coastal areas of Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, more than 300 ships were collected and transferred, and more than 1,200 shipwrights were collected and dispatched to Hangzhou Bay for intensive training. Just as the troops were preparing to attack Zhoushan, the Kuomintang troops stationed on the island hurriedly withdrew to Taiwan, and since then, the Sanye troops have successfully recovered the Zhoushan Islands. After the zhoushan islands were recaptured, the 23rd army was stationed in Cixi County, Zhejiang Province. At this time, the East China Bureau of the CPC issued a circular asking the troops to dispatch a number of cadres to work in the localities.
In April 1950, Li Daisheng and Lin Junwei were transferred to the Organization Department of the East China Bureau to report together, and Li Daisheng was assigned to the Ministry of Health of the East China Military and Political Committee as the director of the Personnel Department and a member of the party group of the ministry. Lin Junwei was assigned to the Organization Department of the Shanghai Railway Bureau. Since then, they have been transferred from the army to local work.