Chapter 33 "Double Hug" Movement

In February 1944, at the First Heroes Conference of the Military Region, the news that Rong Guanxiu won the honorary title of "Mother of the Soldiers" in Beiyue District spread throughout the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region. repercussions.Seizing this opportunity, our prefectural committees, divisions and special agencies have extensively carried out the "Learning Rong Guanxiu Movement" in the whole region, so as to promote the struggle against the enemy, the mass production movement, the support of the army, the superiority of the subordinates, the support of the government and the love of the people in the whole region, and set off a struggle to become a leader. There is an upsurge of revolutionary competition between fighting heroes, labor heroes and models of supporting the army and loving the people.

After Rong Guanxiu returned to his hometown Xiapansong Village, Pingshan County, he immediately turned his vow of "strive to be a labor hero" at the Hero Model Conference into practical actions.Xiapansong Village is a small mountain village located in a remote ravine. The whole village has a population of just over 100, and the male and female labor force is only about 40 people. raletively hard.Rong Guanxiu conveyed the spirit of the Heroes Association to the village cadres, starting with the mutual assistance of workers, mobilizing the masses to organize and carry out mass production campaigns.Her family took the lead in reclaiming twenty acres of land, more than double the plan; she used to raise only one sheep and one pig, but this year she raised seven sheep, three pigs, and one cow; Five buckets of stone, nine stones and nine buckets more than the previous year; 7,390 catties of vegetables harvested, more than 5,530 catties of the previous year.In 1943, her family was short of food for three months. In 1944, besides eating and paying off one hundred catties of borrowed grain, there was more than two shi of grain left.In order to express her gratitude to the party and the government, she selected the best grains to pay the public rations; her family should pay 60 catties of public grains, but she paid 90 catties over the limit.Driven by Rong Guanxiu, the whole village has reclaimed 79 mu of land, harvesting 105 shi more grain than the previous year, and the production and life of the masses have changed.

Rong Guanxiu continued to carry forward the spirit of loving his soldiers.Xiapansong Village is the traffic artery of the second and fourth sub-districts, and many people pass by. Every time they pass through this village, they have to go to the "mother"'s house to have a look.Like her relatives, she left the passing children to drink water, eat and stay.Her home is only a hundred steps away from the traffic station. In the spring, she fell ill and her legs and feet became weak. The wounded and sick on the stretcher gave the sick to eat the jelly and sesame paste that her mother had brought her.One day, a patient in the second district passed by her house and wanted to eat a bowl of dried noodles with green vegetables, so she asked someone to buy half a catty of dried noodles, and went to the neighbor to ask for some green vegetables for the patient to eat.She also often led women to pick up manure, push mills, carry water, and do needlework for military subordinates. She also cut more than 3,300 catties of grass and pressed green manure for military subordinates.On November 21, Pingshan County held a meeting of heroes. The 109 delegates present at the meeting unanimously selected Rong Guanxiu as a "labor hero" and elected her to attend the second meeting of heroes in the border area.

We publicized Rong Guanxiu's new deeds in newspapers and various conferences in a timely manner, and gradually led the movement of learning from Rong Guanxiu to a deeper level.The Second District of Lingshou County combined the study of the Rong Guanxiu Movement with the work of the Green Manure Assault Month to carry out labor competitions.In this district, the six-member labor allocation team led by Guo Jinzhi mowed 10,000 catties of green manure and opened up two acres of land in August; the eighteen women in the labor allocation team led by Zhangjiazhuang Women’s Rescue Society cadre Zheng Shougui mowed 19,000 grass in total. She also mowed 900 catties of grass for the army, and she alone mowed 2,200 catties.The cadres and women in Pingshan County regard Rong Guanxiu as a banner to move forward. Kang Yongfu, a cadre of the Women’s Rescue Association of Xiaxiejia Village and a labor hero, organized a work allocation group with five women. Every morning, they learn from Rong Guanxiu to play the bell, urging them to get up early and go to work in the fields. , her working team worked from dawn to dusk to reclaim more than eight acres of wasteland, and also helped military subordinates harvest wheat, pull wheat, and carry firewood. She alone carried more than 700 catties; she also led the village theater troupe to form a condolence team and a laundry team, carrying eggs Went to other villages with cloth shoes and other comfort items made by myself to comfort the wounded and sick of the children and soldiers; seven members of the women's labor group in Yuankeng Village collectively reclaimed six acres of land, sold the harvested grain, and bought eggs, dried noodles and other comfort items to comfort the wounded and wounded passing by. patient.

Learning from the Rong Guanxiu movement has made the work of supporting the army better in the whole region better.Through women's rescue associations, women's night schools, labor groups, children's groups and other mass organizations, Yangko teams and village troupes performed "Rong Guanxiu's story" and sang "Rong Guanxiu's ditties" to vigorously publicize Rong Guanxiu's deeds, and many typical soldiers and excellent families emerged. .Chen Guiqin, a young woman from Xingtang County, saw the wounded passing by her house, so she took the initiative to vacate a warmer room for the wounded to live in, covered the wounded with her own quilt, served water and food for the wounded, washed clothes for the wounded, and took good care of the wounded.A woman outside the blockade ditch in the fifth district of the county used to be very reluctant to stay with soldiers and guerrillas for fear of being implicated. After hearing Rong Guanxiu's story, the troops came to knock on the door at night and stopped pretending to be asleep, and soon opened the door for reception.The deeds of Gong Tingyun, a woman in Huishe District, Pingshan County and a model supporter of the army, are even more touching.Her family lived in a guerrilla area, and the control of the enemy and puppets was very strict, but she was still not afraid. Since Pingshan came to the Eighth Route Army, she had been working hard to cover the passing soldiers and cadres, going through many hardships and trying to ensure their safety.After launching the campaign to learn from Rong Guanxiu, she became more proactive. In 1944 alone, ninety-two wounded and sick people recuperated in her home. Many soldiers moved him and said: "Aunt Wang Tingyun is like his mother." Same, very well cared for!"

After the autumn harvest in 1944, Rong Guanxiu took the lead in setting up a winter school in the village. The masses elected her as the principal to lead the women in the village to learn culture, and carried out cultural and artistic activities through the winter school to educate the masses.The prefectural committees and divisions summed up and publicized Rong Guanxiu's experience in a timely manner, setting off an upsurge in establishing winter schools and launching mass cultural activities in the whole region.Women in Donggangnan Village, District 12, Pingshan County, under the leadership of the labor hero Cao Xiuhua, turned the work allocation group into a literacy group, reading newspapers and literacy in their spare time.The village theater troupe organized by them compiled the crime of massacring more than 100 innocent people in East and West Gangnan Villages during the "Great Sweep" in the autumn of 1943 into a drama "Gangnan Massacre", which toured in many villages in this village and Pingshan County. Exposing the heinous crimes of Japanese robbers ignited the anger of revenge in the hearts of the masses, and received very good publicity effects.The troupe also cooperated with the large-scale production movement to perform Yangge drama "Cao Xiuhua Dial Worker Group" in which the labor hero Cao Xiuhua played herself, which invigorated the cultural life in the countryside. According to the statistics of the seven districts of Pingshan County, there are 2,000 literacy classes Twenty-seven, with 10,300 students, and 367 "reading classes" (evening classes for reading newspapers and learning culture), with more than 14,000 students; statistics from the six districts of Xingtang County , there are 1,565 literacy groups, more than 12,900 students, and 1,200 adults generally can read.

At the same time, Pingshan County has also organized 102 village theater troupes and 138 "Bawangbian" teams. Two-thirds of the villages have cultural and entertainment organizations. Programs such as "Winter Learning" and "Gangnan Tragedy", and programs such as "Cao Xiuhua" and "Kang Yongfu" that promote heroic and exemplary deeds, all play themselves, and real people act out real things. This is a creation and is very popular with the masses.In addition, after the divisional "Fireline Theater Troupe" toured to various military bases to perform "Blood and Tears", the reaction was very strong. Some village troupes also studied and rehearsed programs such as "Blood and Tears" and "Brothers and Sisters Opening up Wasteland" to educate the masses.

With the in-depth development of the "Learning from Rong Guanxiu Movement", an upsurge of revolutionary competitions to become heroes and models has been set off in various places. Old heroes have created new deeds, and new heroes and models have continued to emerge.Jia Yu, the hero of the Pingshan militia explosion, used to be very brave in battles, but he looked down on farming and was unwilling to do farm work. After returning from the Heroes Meeting in the Border Areas, he immediately called a family meeting to review his shortcomings of not paying attention to production. He set a production plan for the whole family and took the lead in actively As a result, he harvested twenty-four shi of grain during the autumn harvest, which was six shi more than the previous year. The whole family had enough to eat, and the family's dissatisfaction with him was eliminated.He not only led the militia to fight bravely and forced back the enemy's fortress, but also actively organized the allocation of workers to reform two well-known lazy men in the village.In the past, it took half a month for the whole village to deliver the public grain. This year, the grain collection task was completed in only three days after the autumn harvest, and the public grain was guaranteed to be free from sand, chaff, and rotten rice. The Heroes Meeting.Pingshan County held a county-wide hero meeting on November 21. There were 109 representatives of heroes and models attending the meeting. At the meeting, 16 heroes and models in Pingshan County were selected, including Jia Yu, Zhang Ji, There are three fighting heroes Kang Eryang and Li Heihei, seven labor heroes including Rong Guanxiu, Kang Yongfu, and Gu Zhenggang (four females), and five heroes and models such as military model Wang Tingyun and transportation hero Li Zhengan.

In October 1944, the Xingtang County Committee of the Communist Party of China launched the "Learning Kangfushan Movement" in conjunction with the Learning Rong Guanxiu Movement.Kang Fushan is an honorary soldier. He joined the Eighth Route Army in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War as a machine gun shooter. During a battle in the "Hundred Regiments Campaign", his company was surrounded by the enemy. During the breakout, he was wounded and disabled in his foot to defend the machine gun. , Was rated as a combat model, demobilized and returned home.His family lived in a guerrilla area, and the enemy often came to harass him, so he organized militia guerrillas to move inside and outside the blockade, interspersed between the enemy's camps, and seized the enemy's weapons to arm himself. He once captured traitors and puppet soldiers alive within a month. The thirteen police officers shocked the enemy.After returning to the village after participating in the first Heroes' Meeting in the border area, he sent sentries to monitor the enemy every day in order to protect the production of the masses. When the farming was busy, he was on the front line for several days and nights.He also put forward the slogan of "holding a gun in one hand and a sickle in one hand", turning the shooting team into a contracting team, harvesting the crops under the enemy's artillery building, and sending the blasting team to help the army's subordinates cut the crops, and be responsible for beating, drying, and collecting.They also used the slack season for transportation, raised enough food for the militia, and relieved the burden of the masses.He attached great importance to the education of revolutionary integrity for the guerrillas. Two comrades were loyal and unyielding after being arrested, and they died bravely;At the Heroes' Meeting in Xingtang County, Kang Fushan was selected as a "battle hero" again and attended the second Heroes' Meeting in the border area; the Xingtang County Committee held an armed work meeting and called on the militiamen in the county to learn from Kang Fushan.

The people love the soldiers, and the soldiers repay the people with practical actions.In addition to helping the masses to produce and labor, protecting the masses in farming and harvesting, and participating in disaster relief activities, our sub-district troops regard heroic fighting and defending the border areas as the sacred duty of supporting the government and loving the people, and taking practical actions to learn from the mother of the soldiers, Rong Guanxiu. Zhang Fuyou, the leader of the third company and sixth squad of the "Victory" department and an outstanding party member, led the whole squad to charge forward when they attacked the enemy's Dongyang Fortress and Jintong Fortress. They captured ten rifles and a submachine gun, and captured a false squadron leader alive. .

During the ambush in Ganjiazhuang on May 29, he led the whole squad to rush towards a mixed team composed of more than 20 Japanese and puppet troops, pinning the enemy in a small ravine. When the enemy fired violently, another group of enemies on the hill on the left used machine gun fire to support the enemy in the ravine. Zhang Fuyou was injured in three places on the head and back, and his shirt was stained red with blood. However, in order to cooperate with the brother troops to quickly destroy the enemy, he ignored the pain. Without fear of bloodshed, he led the whole squad to immediately turn around and rush up to the hill on the left, killing two puppet soldiers, seriously injuring the puppet squadron leader, annihilating this firepower point, capturing a machine gun and six pack bags full of supplies, and rescued more than 20 soldiers. Civil husband. The deeds of Hu Fenggang, a combat hero, a production model, and the leader of the Xingtang Detachment are even more touching. During the first ambush in the ditch in March 1944, the enemy and the enemy fought fiercely, and the squadron leader and soldier Liu Gang died. Regardless of personal safety, Hu Fenggang carried them one by one to a safe area to hide. His jaw and arm were injured in two places and he did not say anything. He continued to command the team to charge the enemy, and together with his brother troops, he eliminated more than 60 enemies. battle hero.After the battle, he was sent to the hospital to recuperate. When he was able to move a little, he participated in carpentry production and helped the masses repair and build houses. He was also rated as a production model. On May 2, Hu Fenggang returned to the team shortly after recovering from injury, and immediately participated in the battle of the Chasing Day and the puppet army crusade.At noon that day, more than 120 Japanese and puppet troops had just arrived at Yuehuokou. Our Tang detachment caught up with the enemy. Hu Fenggang was ordered to compete with the enemy for the top of the mountain. The enemy counterattacked several times, killing and injuring a large number of enemies.At this time, unfortunately, he was shot in the waist and abdomen, and blood flowed out from the wound. He was afraid of affecting the soldiers' emotions, so he quickly tightened his belt, endured the pain and kept silent, and persisted in fighting until victory. Only then did the comrades realize that he was seriously injured and carried him away Hospital.I was very touched when I learned of this situation, because our divisional agency was stationed in Bolin Village, Pingshan, more than a hundred miles away from Xingtang, and could not go to condolences in person, so we sent Feng Zheng, the head of the "Fire Line Theater Troupe", and Hu Bingtang, Wang Tao, the propaganda officers. He took the troupe to the Xingtang detachment to express condolences, and wrote a letter of condolence to Hu Fenggang in the name of the head of the division, asking them to visit Hu Fenggang in the hospital. I wrote in the letter: "Recently, the 30th Regiment and the Xingtang Detachment have fought many beautiful battles, and there have also emerged many combat models. This is inseparable from your brave and courageous spirit, especially your two times. The spirit of wounded flowers and active production has touched everyone in the district, and everyone should learn from you. If you can get better early, we will miss one day less. Today, we specially sent Comrade Feng Zheng to see you. I hope you can rest assured and take care of yourself. Myself, get well soon. The Party places great hopes on you!" Hu Fenggang was very excited after reading the letter. He asked Comrade Feng Zheng to convey his thanks, and said: "Although the bullet in my wound has not been taken out, but It doesn't matter, please don't worry about it, after I recover from my injury, I will definitely answer the concerns of the leaders and comrades with practical actions!" "Zidi Bingbao" published Hu Fenggang's deeds and the letter from the head of the division on May 27, 1944, which aroused great repercussions among the troops in the whole district, and they all expressed their desire to learn from Hu Fenggang and strive to be a fighting hero .