Chapter 34 Chapter 8 Defeating the Japanese Invaders

In accordance with the call of the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao to "expand the liberated areas and shrink the enemy-occupied areas", the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region opened up a new situation in the offensive operations of defending the wheat harvest and expanding the liberated areas in 1944; in September, the Party Central Committee In view of the needs of the expansion of the base area and the struggle situation, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Branch of the Communist Party of China and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region were instructed to establish four district party committees, administrative offices, and second-level military districts of Jishan, Jicha, Jizhong, and Jireliao. The sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth special areas and military divisions of the Chaji Military Region appointed Yang Chengwu as the commander, Lin Tie as the secretary of the Party Committee of the Jizhong District and political commissar of the Jizhong Military Region, and I as the deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department. Luo Yuchuan served as the director of the Jizhong Administrative Office.

Jizhong is a plain area in the central part of Hebei Province. It is located between the three major railways of Pinghan, Jinpu and Beining.Here is an endless and vast plain with criss-crossing rivers, fertile land, rich in grain and cotton, and it is a relatively affluent area in North China; it is surrounded by important bases of the Japanese invading army in North China - Beiping, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Baoding and other central cities. Status is very important. At the beginning of October 1937, Lu Zhengcao followed the instructions of the Northern Bureau of the Communist Party of China and led the 691st Regiment of the 53rd Army of the Northeast Army into Central Hebei to open up an anti-Japanese base area. On April 21, 1938, in Anping The county seat held the first Party Congress of Jizhong District, presided over by Huang Jing, a representative sent by the Northern Bureau, and established the Jizhong District Party Committee, the Office of the Director of Administration, and established the third column of the Eighth Route Army, the Jizhong Military Region, and four military divisions.Under the unified leadership of the Party Committee of Jizhong District, the anti-Japanese armed forces continued to grow and develop. In the autumn of 1938, after repeated failures in besieging our Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Beiyue District, the Japanese army changed its combat policy and attempted to wipe out our troops in the plain area first. troops, and then moved into the mountains.In order to support the anti-Japanese struggle in the plain area, the 120th Division of our army entered Jizhong with the main force led by Commander He Long, united with the Jizhong anti-Japanese armed forces, united the broad masses of the people, carried out extensive guerrilla warfare, and crushed the enemy's five "" "Siege", killing and injuring the enemy in large numbers, and achieved great victories, forcing the enemy to switch to a defensive state of guarding towns and strongholds.In August 1939, the 120th Division completed its mission and left Jizhong and moved to Beiyue District; in February 1940, it returned to Northwest Shanxi.At this time, the anti-Japanese troops in Jizhong had greatly developed, and the base area was relatively consolidated.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese invading army was eager to turn North China into a military base for the so-called "Great East Asian War" in an attempt to secure central Hebei first. From one day onwards, an unprecedented and brutal "sweep" was carried out in the middle of Jizhong.In the anti-"mopping up" struggle, although our Jizhong Military Region fought bravely and tenaciously, the "three alls" policy of "burning, killing, and looting" was implemented on the land trampled by the enemy's iron hooves, which made us hope The central troops suffered great losses. In order to preserve the vitality, the main force of Jizhong and the party, government and military organs had to break out of the encirclement and turn to the outside line, leaving a small number of troops and relying on the masses to persist in the struggle against Japan. Jizhong temporarily became an enemy. Occupied and guerrilla zones.

In order to achieve its overall strategic goal, the enemy further strengthened its so-called "four-in-one military, political, economic, and cultural all-in-one warfare" and tried its best to adopt a fortress policy combining points, lines, trenches, and walls. In a town of more than 60,000 square kilometers, more than 1,750 strongholds were built, more than 7,500 kilometers of roads were built, and more than 4,000 kilometers of blockade ditches were dug.There are groups of blockhouses around the enemy's strongholds, densely packed watchtowers along the railways and highways, and the points, blockhouses, roads, and ditches are connected vertically and horizontally. There are several villages in the densest part of the fortress, and there is one in the third village in the least dense place. It is really dense like a cobweb. The central base area was divided into more than 2,000 blocks, and each block was placed under its strict firepower network blockade, and then "cleared up" and "picked up" were carried out district by district and district by district.In addition, the enemy also established a puppet regime in each village, strengthened the traitor spy organization, expanded the puppet army, plundered wantonly, and imposed enslavement education to strengthen public security. There is no village without filial piety, and there is a terrifying world of wolf smoke everywhere", but the enemy's brutality cannot frighten the heroic soldiers and civilians in Jizhong. They changed the form of organization and methods of struggle, broke them up into parts, dispersed guerrillas, and fought with their own strength. They created many guerrilla tactics such as tunnel warfare, mine warfare, and sparrow warfare. They also implemented the "two-faced policy" and carried out legal struggles. The pseudo-organization has become a two-faced organization of "white skin and red heart". It is called a pseudo-organization, which actually serves the anti-Japanese struggle, deals with the enemy, and "keeps the enemy in the dark", making them deaf and blind, and bumping around everywhere.Armed struggle and legal struggle cooperate with each other, so that local armed forces gradually gather strength and continue to grow stronger in the struggle.

After 1943, with the improvement of the overall anti-Japanese struggle situation, the work of the various sub-districts in central Hebei has been greatly developed after the Qingsha tent was set up.By the end of the year, the army and civilians in Jizhong had forced back and demolished more than 600 watchtowers in false strongholds, and restored more than 3,500 villages. Many small base areas had been formed in various military divisions, and the "great change in the environment in 1943" "The situation can be described as "the wild fire is endless, and the spring breeze blows again." Therefore, the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission decided to restore the Jizhong Party Committee and the Jizhong Military Region, and gave us the following: to restore, consolidate and develop the Jizhong Plain Anti-Japanese Base Area, actively Prepare for the mission of a strategic counterattack.

In late October 1944, I came from Division 4 to Cijiatai in Division 1, where I met Yang Chengwu, Lin Tie, Luo Yuchuan and other leaders of the Jizhong Military Region.Cijiatai is the fringe area bordering Jizhong District in the first sub-division. You can enter Jizhong by crossing the enemy's blockade on Pinghan Road.At that time, the enemy situation in central Jizhong was still very serious, and we stayed in Cijiatai for more than a month waiting for the opportunity to cross.On the morning of November 27, the scouts reported that the enemy who attacked Guantou at night had returned to Liujiatai. We took advantage of this gap, changed into plain clothes, and walked westward through Gaoshizhuang.Days of wind, snow and early fog, the hills, woods, and villages were covered with snow, and there were basically no pedestrians on the mountain roads. They looked extraordinarily quiet and solemn, which added a bit of mystery to our group.Passing through mountain villages along the way, the masses saw us from a distance and thought it was the enemy's plainclothes team, and they all ran away one after another. The cooking utensils are also hardened. We wanted to find someone to understand the situation outside the ditch, but there was nowhere to look for them, so we had to camp hastily with a wry smile.

The next morning, because the situation outside the ditch was unknown, we did not dare to act rashly. We did not leave the bottom of Xigou and continued walking eastward until two o'clock in the afternoon. At dusk, we walked near Lingxi and Beitaiyu, and suddenly there was a There was a clear gunshot, and the comrades of the third regiment who were in charge of escorting us came panting to report: "There is an enemy situation ahead!" We were eager to rush to Jizhong, and had no intention of entangled with the enemy, so we temporarily changed our route, detoured westward, and walked overnight After traveling for more than a hundred miles, we arrived at Majiazhuang, where we left the enemy far away, and then we stopped to rest.The head of this village is an underground party member of our "two-faced regime". He specially asked someone to bake pancakes and stewed pork for us, and let us have a delicious meal.During the meal, the village head greeted us warmly and said, "You must eat well tonight and sleep well, so that you will have the strength to cross the blockade ditch tomorrow!"

At dawn on the 29th, we continued to move forward. In order to prevent the enemy from capturing us all, I and Lin Tie, Yang Chengwu, Luo Yuchuan and other comrades acted separately. It is the third time to pass through the enemy's blockade that blocks the communication between Beiyue District and Jizhong.From August to October 1941, during the anti-"mopping up" campaign in Beiyue District, I took the first regiment of the Second Branch of the Anti-Japanese University from Chenzhuang, Lingshou County, and crossed this blockade to find the Third Anti-Japanese Regiment in central Jizhong. , insisted on training behind the enemy lines; after the victory of the anti-"mopping up", he returned to Chenzhuang, Lingshou County through this blockade line. The enemy's armored patrol vehicles rushed past; this time when we crossed the blockade, although the enemy stepped up their patrols and sealed it tightly, we relied on the masses, and with the armed cover of the third regiment, we passed through victoriously.At that time, I had two feelings. One was that no matter how tightly the enemy sealed off, digging ditches, building walls, building fortresses, and dispatching armored vehicles to patrol day and night, they tried everything, but they could not block the heroic army and the heroic people; In order to pass this blockade, how many heroes and sons and daughters have sacrificed their youth and lives. I sincerely miss them and admire them!I secretly made up my mind that to pass the blockade this time, I must mobilize millions of people in central Jizhong to wipe out all these fortifications, ditches, and blockades!

How to rebuild the Jizhong Military Region?At that time, the military region was quite capable. The political department of the military region had only 20 to 30 people. Wang Qicai was the director. A member (later renamed the minister) and several officers, in addition, the team directly under the front newspaper and theater troupe.The cadres of the Political Department are composed of personnel from these three aspects: one is drawn from the Political Department of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region; Studying, this time they were transferred from the teaching group and returned to work in Jizhong; the third was the cadres transferred from the first and fourth districts in Luxi.The cadres in Luxi are not familiar with the situation in Jizhong, and the former cadres in Jizhong have left Jizhong for more than two years. The situation in Jizhong has changed, and they need to get familiar with it again.Therefore, we believe that there is no need to be in a hurry to set up the airs of the agency and give orders. Instead, we should start with investigation and research, disperse the staff of the agency across the blockade line, and go to each division first. It takes about two months to go deep into the army and work with the army. , to understand the ideological situation and struggle situation of each unit, to be familiar with the cadres, to be aware of it, and then to gather together, to summarize and exchange the situation and experience, and to carry out the work of the organization.At that time they reported that the Sixth Division was better at carrying out the struggle against the enemy and the united front work. The thirty-first division team of the division was combined with the "United Front Army" to reorganize the fortieth division team and expand the team. I think it should be Go and have a look, feel the experience, and go to the sixth district first.Sure enough, after a period of understanding, I found that the work in this division was very solid, and Comrades Lu Ping and Wei Zhen were capable of working. Soon, I suggested that they be transferred to work in the military region.

Before the Spring Festival in 1945, the cadres who had been scattered in various sub-districts gradually gathered in Zhanggang Village, south of Suning County, where the military region was stationed.At this time, Yang Chengwu, Lin Tie, Luo Yuchuan and other leading comrades had arrived. They were very excited to join forces after going through many hardships. They each told their "adventures" of crossing the blockade, which really added a bit of fun to the Spring Festival.During this period of time, I promptly organized reports to the cadres in each division. They fought and lived together with army cadres, soldiers, militiamen, and the masses. The questions raised were very practical. After discussion and comprehensive analysis and research, I immediately wrote letters to the division in the name of the Political Department or myself to praise their achievements and put forward suggestions for improving the work. The results were relatively good.In some divisions, the local district teams and armed forces teams fought well, but the mobilization of the masses was not enough, and the unity among cadres was not good; We all made suggestions for improvement in a timely manner.In the report, everyone heard many stories about the struggle of the military and civilians in Jizhong since the "May 1st" anti-"mopping up", and learned about the brutal crimes of the enemy and the heroic struggle spirit of the military and civilians in Jizhong, which further strengthened the determination and confidence in the struggle to restore and develop the Jizhong Military Region .

Comrade Mao Zedong once pointed out: "After the political line is determined, cadres are the decisive factor." "The responsibilities of leaders, in sum, are mainly two things: making ideas and using them for the ministry." ("The Chinese Communist Party in the National War Status", "Mao Zedong Selected Works" Volume II (April 1964 edition - the same below) pp. 492, 493) If we want to restore and develop the Jizhong Military Region, we must strengthen our strength, which requires a large number of Cadres, therefore, the key is to treat cadres correctly, use cadres boldly, and play the role of cadres. The enemy's "May 1st Sweep" in 1942 came ferociously, and suddenly, the methods were very cruel.At the beginning, the Jizhong Military Region underestimated the scale of the enemy's "mopping up". Under the crazy attack of the enemy, some troops were dispersed, and some cadres had no time to transfer. ; Some cadres were captured by the enemy together with the masses and escorted to the northeast to work as laborers. Later, some people escaped from the tiger's mouth one after another, some fled to the Luxi base area to study in the teaching group; some escaped and returned home.Most of these dispersed cadres stood firm and used various methods to fight the enemy with the local people, but some comrades could not see the situation clearly for a while and were passive and pessimistic.In the instructions of the Party Central Committee and the Jinchaji Military Region to restore and develop the Jizhong Military Region, there is a principle in dealing with these cadres: that is, under the special circumstances of Jizhong, the cadres who disperse and go home, except for a few defectors and defectors, should try their best to Win them back into the ranks of the revolution. Since June 1944, our local armed forces in central Hebei began to launch extensive offensives against the enemy. Combined with the defense of the wheat harvest, a new situation in the struggle was opened. The scattered and hidden cadres and soldiers returned to the army one after another. After the news of the military region, a large number of cadres and soldiers returned to the army automatically; some not only returned to the army by themselves, but also mobilized some young people to join the army.However, there are also some cadres who still have concerns, or are embarrassed to return to the team. We send people to mobilize them to come back, comfort them patiently, and treat them correctly according to the party's policies.At that time, there was a special commissioner surnamed Qi. During the enemy's "May 1st Sweepstakes", the troops were dispersed. He hid at home. So I sent someone to his home to ask him to come back, and he was still a special commissioner. After that, he performed well after going through various battle tests. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the second-level minister of our headquarters. In order to commend the cadres and soldiers who persisted in the struggle behind the enemy's rear in Jizhong after the "May 1st" anti-"mopping up", in order to carry forward the spirit of "hard work, heroic sacrifice" and indomitable struggle, I put forward a proposal, which was approved by the Party Committee of Jizhong District and the Party Committee of the Military Region , awarded the "May 1st Medal" in the name of the Jizhong District Party Committee and the Jizhong Military Region.Awarded to the broad masses of cadres, soldiers, militiamen and the masses who persist in the struggle behind enemy lines.Medals are divided into first and second grades. According to the length of time the recipients have persisted in fighting and the size of their achievements, organizations at all levels are responsible for deliberation and evaluation according to the scope of their duties.Although the material conditions were poor at that time, the medal was made of steel plate compression molding, and there was only a relief head of a soldier in the center of the round medal, but it also looked very mighty and solemn; Heroes and exemplary deeds, the award-winning comrades feel honored and proud, and they are more actively involved in new struggles. Among the personnel who returned to the team, the situation was different. Some comrades who were arrested or left the team had more complicated experiences. Our party committees and political organs at all levels, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, on the one hand, seriously clarified the situation, and on the other hand, realistically Treat them correctly and take into account the cruel environment of the struggle at that time. Don't regard comrades who are passive for a while as betrayal or betrayal of the revolution. We should unite with more comrades and let them continue to test and temper in future struggles; of course, we should not be confused because of this. The boundary between the enemy and the enemy should also be severely punished for the crime of treason with solid evidence.At that time, a group of cadres were captured and escorted by the enemy to the Northeast or Japan as laborers.Among the comrades working as laborers in the Northeast, some risked their lives to escape from the tiger's mouth and then returned to the team or temporarily hid. At that time, most of the comrades who returned to the team went to the teaching regiment of the military region to study.There are also a group of people who came back from Japan after Japan surrendered (about 100 people). The military region decided to set up a special team in the Jizhong Corps of the Second Branch of the Anti-Japanese University to organize them to study documents, conduct education, raise awareness, and voluntarily explain what happened after being arrested. experience, performance. At that time, it was not possible to be transferred outside, and the only way to rely on self-confession and proof to each other was the comrades around.In fact, after they were captured, they still secretly set up party branches and party groups, and the performance of each individual can basically be grasped.After they were captured, they lived an inhuman life and suffered a lot. It would be inappropriate to adopt an attitude of total distrust. Therefore, after a basic understanding of the situation, except for a few who need further investigation, they were all assigned jobs. Reinstated party membership or re-joined the party.For example, an organization section leader surnamed Li and a cadre surnamed Zhu in a certain district studied in the Luxi teaching group after fleeing Hukou in the northeast, and we still let them take up their original positions; ), but he was brave in combat and capable of action. After review, no reactionary words and deeds were found, so he was still appointed as the head of the regiment.There was a young section chief surnamed Zhao, who was captured by the enemy in Ding County and falsely claimed to be a culture and educationist, without revealing his identity, because he was handsome, young and lively, and could play the accordion and dance ballroom dancing. He taught dancing, so he took the opportunity to infiltrate the enemy, using the advantage of being able to move freely among enemy strongholds, get in touch with our underground party and deliver information. He escaped with a Chinese girl who was snatched by the Japanese army team leader as a concubine. After returning to the team, we checked the truth and still trusted him. There was also a district leader (tuangan) surnamed Bai who was captured. Some people suspected that there was something wrong with him. After examination, there was no evidence of surrender and apostasy. We continued to investigate during use, and the results were also good. He was still restored as the district leader. duty.Facts have proved that such a bold use of cadres at that time, this kind of cadre policy was popular and supported by cadres; in this way, mutual trust, cadres put down their ideological burdens, and went into battle lightly, so that more comrades could be united and victory was guaranteed.Since then, most of these cadres have withstood the test in the struggle, trained and grown up, and some became senior cadres and made great contributions to the revolution.It can be imagined that if we were afraid of wolves and tigers, adopted a closed-door policy, and did not dare to use cadres boldly, we would lose many people, and it would be impossible to mobilize tens of thousands of people, and it would be impossible for our ranks to grow rapidly. . When we first entered the Jizhong Military Region, the enemy situation was still serious, and the divisions were still divided by the enemy, fighting on their own. The communication between the top and bottom mainly relied on telegrams and personnel exchanges, and the leadership was very inconvenient.At that time, the military region directly controlled only one small regiment, and a large number of regional teams (small regiments) and county squads and martial arts teams of various military divisions. Among the masses, guerrilla between the enemy's fortresses.They persisted in guerrilla warfare for more than two years. Although they created tunnel warfare, landmine warfare, sparrow warfare, and many other tactics and achieved great results, they still had to complete the arduous task of consolidating and developing the anti-Japanese base areas and shifting to a strategic counter-offensive. It is necessary to improve the military and political quality of the troops so that they can quickly transform from scattered guerrillas into the main force capable of carrying out large-scale offensive and defensive tasks, so as to form a fist force in the strategic counter-offensive. The training of the troops focused on the regional teams of each division. The military region established a training group in the Luxi base area, and transferred some of the regional teams from each division to the training group for intensive training.Political education mainly focuses on situation and task education. The technical training of military training focuses on the three major techniques of shooting, bombing, and assassination.Tactical training is based on the tactical actions of individual soldiers and squads, and the focus is on using terrain and features to develop firepower.Training is very different from no training. In the past, they were all guerrilla-style activities. Threes and fives, ten and eights acted alone. After training, they made great progress.As soon as the training group focused on the serious shortcomings of the guerrilla habits of the troops, they first focused on the formation training and advocated "regularization". According to the material conditions at the time, the colorful casual clothes were uniformly adjusted to blue, gray or black according to the material conditions at the time. Chinese tunic suits, so that the whole team looks neat and uniform, coupled with morning and evening queue training and weekly parade, the team will present a new look. On May 1, the training group finished the training of the two major subjects of shooting and bombing, held a big review, and conducted a general test.There are many new fighters in the regiment who joined the army within one year, and the original foundation is poor. For the first time shooting (prone position, 130 meters away from the ten-ring target), the average of the whole regiment is only 3.4 rings, and the number of missed targets accounts for 62.3 percent. After six weeks of training, the group average reached 14.4 points, and the miss rate only accounted for 31.4 percent.Hao Yuanzhen, the deputy platoon leader of the sixth training area team, and Guo Jinyun, the correspondent of the eighth training area team, all hit 30 points with three shots. There are eight squads in the company that hit every shot and hit an average of more than 20 rings.In terms of bomb-throwing training, at the beginning of training, the whole training group dropped bombs (the No. 3 grenade weighed one catty, hit a target with a radius of five meters, and it was required to shoot accurate and long-distance shots) only 28 meters on average. Into 35.13 meters, the average of 40.27 meters in the "May 1" general survey in the sixth week, the team in the sixth training area had the best performance, and the average of the entire team was 43 meters; Scout Song Fulu reached 63 meters, setting the highest record.Under the conditions of that kind of weapon back then, it was really not easy to achieve such an achievement. The troops who stayed in the center of Jizhong and persisted in the struggle also set off an upsurge of troop training. However, at that time, the troops had just been concentrated from a scattered state.Therefore, we specially held a political work meeting in Raoyang in April and May, and called on the troops in the whole region to carry out the movement of respecting cadres and loving soldiers, which played a great role in consolidating the troops and promoting training.The No. 9 Squad of the Fourth Company of the Sixth District Team of the Military Training Corps was originally a backward class. There was no party member in the whole class.Although the deputy squad leader is more active in his work, his attitude is blunt, his discipline method is not good, and he has conflicts with the soldiers. Demonstrating over and over again on the training ground to correct the fighters' movements, the ninth squad later became the advanced squad of the whole company, and the bombing training increased from an average of 26 meters to 37 meters, and the soldier Cheng Zhijun reached 53 meters.Under the slogan of "Promoting Democracy and Encouraging Consciousness", the thirty-sixth district team overcame the tendency of extreme democratization, the relationship between officers and soldiers was greatly improved, and military training became a conscious action. Ninety-seven times, Jiao Anze, known as the "steel arm", held the gun with both arms for 40,314 times, and his posture remained unchanged from after breakfast to when the lamp was lit.The team in the district dropped an average of 36.1 meters of bombs. Zhao Fengzhen, the "Bomb King", threw bombs up to 57 meters. Geng Zhenhu, an expert shooter, shot 21 rings with three guns and 20 rings with kneeling shots. Excellent shooters Hong Wu and Yang Chun Shooting at a humanoid target 300 meters away, three hits out of three. The combat effectiveness of the troops improved significantly after training. At the beginning of June 1945, the training regiment was completed, and it was organized into four large regiments and returned to Jizhong. They immediately participated in the summer offensive organized by the military region and launched the Battle of Ziya River.In the battle of Guanliu on June 9th, three or four hundred Japanese troops in Huaizhen, the elite who supported the enemy and puppet forces in Hadong, were defeated, and the enemy's captain Aoki was killed.The young gunner Zhang Jikun listened to the instructor's encouragement and said: "During the training, your grades were the first in the entire training regiment. Today you have to show your skills!" Feeling very excited, he fired four consecutive shots at the enemy 400 meters away. Hit, the enemy retreated in a swarm; then, a burst of machine gun fire caused the enemy to flee.During the battle of Beixinzhuang, gunner Lu Qingheng's small cannon fired several times at the enemy's firepower point on the roof, and black smoke rose from the roof several times, and the firepower point was wiped out immediately; the enemy's special shooter probed to find the target of my small cannon Before he could see clearly, my special shooter, Xie Dashui, smashed his skull with one shot. Another enemy watched from the hole, and Xie Dashui hit the hole with another shot. It’s the one with eyes, and the gun hits it, it’s amazing.” During the offensive in Xianxian County, the enemy relied on a heavy machine gun to hold on to the watchtower. Liu Chenzhen, the first bomber in my training regiment, spotted the target and threw it from a distance. The grenade hit the watchtower, killing the heavy machine gunner of the puppet army. The enemy panicked. Our troops took advantage of the victory to attack and took down the enemy watchtower in one go. Liu Chenzhen rushed forward and captured the heavy machine gun and a rifle. The soldiers applauded . Although the regional teams that insist on fighting in the middle of Jizhong have less time for training, they seize the gaps in the battle to carry out training, training while fighting, and their combat effectiveness has also been greatly improved.In a battle in the Tenth Division in 1944, because the gunners were not proficient in grenadiers, they did not play a coordinated role. After the battle, everyone felt ashamed, so this time the training was held. After that, he worked very hard, and he was not afraid of the severe cold for three or nine days. He practiced hard and made great progress after a month. In the battle of Daishan, the enemy relied on the favorable terrain to resist. The terrain continued to resist, and Han Bingzhong fired another shell into the enemy's position. The enemy dared not resist anymore, leaving behind dead bodies and dragging the wounded to escape. Our troops pursued the victory and finally won the victory. During the training, the troops generally carried out situation and task education, accusing the crimes of the Japanese invaders and traitors, arousing the hatred of the commanders and fighters against the enemy, not only accusing the Japanese and puppet troops of the bloody atrocities in the "May 1st" "mopping up" in the education, It is also combined with the accusation of the current crimes that the enemy is still burning, killing, and looting, and calls on the commanders and fighters to fight bravely, drive the enemy out, and avenge the suffering compatriots. In the summer of 1945, after the wheat harvest began, the enemy robbed wheat even more frantically. On June 9, the enemies from Jinxian County, Luancheng, and Gaocheng gathered together and surrounded four villages in the central area of ​​the three districts of Zhao County. One hundred and sixty-one animals were taken away, one hundred and fifty-eight young men and women were captured, and twenty-eight houses were burned. In addition to looting the harvested wheat, the unthreshed wheat was also burned on the threshing ground, and the masses were killed. Three people, two wounded.On the 10th, this group of enemies surrounded Dongshishi Village and Xixiangyang again, and took away thirty-one livestock and fifty ordinary people.On the 14th, Ma Yu of Jin County surrounded Houpengtou and captured 12 young and middle-aged men. On the 18th, he took a cart to Houpengtou, Loudi, Shaozhuang, Susheng, and Guerzhuang to rob wheat four times. Sixteen carts, and the next day, they went to Sizhongzuo and other villages to rob 21 carts of wheat. The enemy even threatened the masses: "If you don't hand over the wheat, you will be accused of collaborating with bandits, and they will all die." , and used despicable means to rape women and insult my compatriots.On June 8, more than 400 enemies from Anguocheng rushed to the village of Anguocheng in the east and west. There were more than 340 households of Hui compatriots living in the village. A pig's head was hung on the door of two Hui people, two pieces of pork were thrown on the bed boards and pillows of Liu Zhuanghua and Li Yinhai's family, and pork, pig hair, and dead chicken were thrown into three wells in the village; Entering the mosque, they smashed the doors and windows around the mosque, smashed two gas lamps and three oil lamps, tore up the Koran, and wantonly insulted the Hui compatriots. At the beginning of April 1945, the traitor Wang Fenggang, who controlled both sides of the Daqing River, attempted to "use water instead of soldiers" to destroy our summer harvest and planting, destroy our tunnels, and attempted to divide our base area by flood, and then destroy our base area, colluding with Zhuo County Pei Hongyun, the leader of the traitor, diverted the Yongding River into the Daqing River, causing the Daqing River to rise six feet. Wang Ni then blocked most of the bridge openings of the Shilipu Bridge to reduce the southward flow of the Daqing River. The west embankment caused the river to flood the seventy to eighty miles of plains on both sides of the Daqing River, causing floods in 1670 villages.The flood destroyed countless houses, drowned thousands of people, destroyed large tracts of wheat fields, and left tens of thousands of people homeless.When the puppet army broke the embankment, the local people rushed to block it, but the puppet army in Xinqiao, Xinzhen, Zhangqingtian and other places were ordered to shoot, kill and wound the people who went to block and repair the embankment, and refused to rescue them.The inhumane crimes of the traitor Wang Fenggang aroused great indignation among the masses. People from all walks of life in the tenth district held a meeting to accuse Wang Fenggang of his crimes and called on the army and civilians in the whole district to rise up and fight against the disaster. , Organize all young and middle-aged people to rush to repair the embankment, the troops and militiamen cover the front, repel the harassing enemies, hundreds of thousands of people work hard day and night to build embankments, divert the flood water into the Juma River and other river forks, and reduce losses. The Second Squadron of the 34th District Team of the Ninth Division created a new form of mass self-education in the situational education.While accusing the Japanese invaders and traitors of crimes, they mobilized everyone to contact their own sufferings and discuss "Should we resolutely fight to the end?" The soldiers expressed their opinions while complaining. The soldier Wang Xiufeng said: "My brother was killed by the enemy. I was killed by the enemy, and all the things in my house were robbed by the enemy. I will not avenge this revenge, and I swear that I will not be a human being. From now on, I will fight to the end.” Wu Shengkui and many other soldiers continued to cry, telling that their home was burned and looted by the enemy. After being massacred, some said: "If you don't fight the war, you can't live anymore!" Review the erroneous thinking of wanting to desert.The new soldier Jin Mengyuan listened to others' accusations of the enemy's crimes, which touched his own mind. He cried bitterly and said: "I am really sorry for everyone. The Japanese devils murdered and set fire so cruelly in China, and I also helped the enemy to kill my compatriots." Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, and he continued, "Let me confess today. I used to be the squad leader of the suppression of the Communist Party, and I was considered a celebrity in the hands of the enemy. The Eighth Route Army and village cadres also raped women, and led the enemy to rob food. I was injured and disabled in order to contribute to the enemy. I saw all the wounded in the Eighth Route Army have honor certificates, but my injury can only be regarded as a trace of shame.” After talking, she cried and sobbed: "One of my own sisters was also raped by the enemy. Not only did I not seek revenge, but I did things for the enemy. Do you think I am still a human being? Alas! I am determined to clean up this paragraph. Evil history, I am determined to fight to the end in the future, if you don’t believe me, read it!” This confession gave all the commanders and fighters a more profound education and inspiration.After the squadron was educated, during the campaign of counterattacking the enemy and reoccupying Suning, the soldiers neither asked for leave to go home nor spoke strange words, and the phenomenon of fleeing was also eliminated. Everyone united and fought bravely and won the battle . In conducting military and political education and training, the Political Department vigorously carried out cultural and artistic work to strengthen the educational effect.The mass singing activities of various troops were very active, and the anti-Japanese songs spread quickly. The troops sang, and the masses also sang, and the anti-Japanese songs could be heard everywhere: "Go to the rear of the enemy and drive the devils out" "Slash the devils' heads with a big knife" Go" singing inspires fighting spirit, promotes learning and training, and encourages soldiers to charge, fight, and fight devils!At the celebration party, the singing was flying, singing the joy of victory and the heroic spirit of going forward! The "Fireline Drama Club" of the military region is a vanguard of literature and art. Cui Gui, the president of the drama club, and Huang Tuo, the instructor, are both strong literary and art fighters. , Crossing the enemy's blockade lines, active in various bases in central Hebei.They performed many dramas and newspaper dramas in combination with the central task, especially the performance of the large-scale opera "Blood, Tears and Vengeance". , Class enmity, national enmity, inspire the soldiers to kill the enemy. The "Fireline Theater Club" also grew up in the struggle, and cultivated a group of literary and artistic backbones. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was still the backbone of the theater and film industries. I have always attached great importance to the role of newspapers and periodicals. When the Political Department was formed, I actively suggested that the original "Frontline Newspaper" in Central Hebei be restored immediately, and Comrade Lu Yang was recommended as the president.Comrade Lu Yang came to me and said that he had never worked in a newspaper. I said to him: "You have been doing propaganda work for a long time, and you have also done cultural and educational work in the teaching group. You have a certain foundation. There are not many people who have run a newspaper. ，你边学习边干，一定能干好。报纸主要是进行形势教育、传播胜利消息和战斗经验，并配合军政教育，总结经验，宣扬典型，鼓舞和激励士气。”我还说：“目前冀中地区的形势仍然还处于敌强我弱的情况，各分区和县、乡仍被敌人的封锁线和据点分割，要保证报纸能尽快送到战士手中，发挥应有的作用，就要建立健全交通网，沟通上下联络，才能掌握各地的斗争动态。”当时研究确定，仍为三日刊，三天出四版，先搞石印，以后争取搞铅印，发行数暂定每期一千五百份，把报纸发到班、排，直接与战士见面。陆阳同志原是第十分区教育科长，反“扫荡”后随分区机关撤到路西第一分区，任军区教导团政治文化教育股长，他对冀中情况较熟，一九四四年十月就先过封锁线，回冀中，到几个分区了解情况，组织通讯员队伍和沟通交通网的关系，所以，一九四五年春节后即开始出版，报纸越办越好，真正成为军区喉舌，在部队分散的情况下，对传播捷报、经验，激励鼓舞部队发挥了很大作用。