Chapter 403 9. Li, Miao and other masses ambushed Kuomintang troops

After the People's Liberation Army landed on Hainan Island, during the pursuit and annihilation battle, the people of Hainan Island, under the leadership of local party organizations and people's governments, actively supported the pursuit troops to intercept and annihilate the remnants of the fleeing Kuomintang army.They took up various weapons, carried out extensive guerrilla warfare, guarded traffic arteries, ambushed Kuomintang army vehicles, and cut off the Kuomintang army's escape route. Armed with shotguns, bows and arrows, the Li and Miao people in Ya County and other areas ambushed the Kuomintang army on the way to Yulingang, blocking them by surprise, delaying the escape time of the Kuomintang army, and creating conditions for the People's Liberation Army to annihilate the Kuomintang army.They are also actively delivering supplies for the chasing troops, and they will support wherever the troops go.

In the base areas and guerrilla areas along the way, supply points and medical stations were set up in units of townships to supplement supplies for the chasing troops and rescue the wounded and sick. Every time the troops went to a place, the masses would take the initiative to send rice and vegetables, make up houses, build beds, and help the soldiers wash their clothes.Yun Jingru, the women's director of Wennan District in Wenchang County, led dozens of women to set up a temporary medical station and carefully nursed more than 200 wounded soldiers until they recovered.People of the Li and Miao ethnic groups in the Wuzhishan area ran in groups for dozens of miles, carrying coconuts, bananas, pineapples, rice wine, etc., to condolences to the PLA.The strong support of the people of all ethnic groups in Hainan Island has greatly encouraged the PLA. (Compiled by the Military Chronicles Office of the Guangdong Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army: "The Battle of Lingnan", Guangdong People's Publishing House, November 2000 edition, p. 245)

What touched the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army most was the different feelings of the people of Hainan Island towards the two armies. Reporter Xu Zhen wrote about the People's Liberation Army during the pursuit.When a fellow Chen Zhaoping put a branch of flowers on the chest of a comrade, he wanted to put the second one on another, but when he saw that it was a fallen enemy soldier wearing a KMT cap badge, he immediately turned his head and kicked him, saying: "You Grab again? '" At the Dragon Rolling Bridge, when the women saw our comrades who were overheated, they carried them into the house to fan them, and brought out water to give to the chasing comrades. After a meal, he said: 'Not for you!'" (Xuzhen: "Pieces of the Chasing Battle in Hainan", contained in "The Commemorative Book of the Fourth Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Troops of the Central South Military Region", 1950). The cities and villages that the enemy just passed through were looted like a frosty autumn, and all men, women, and children ran away; Coconuts." In Longlou Township, Qiongshan, before the enemy's stragglers left, the common people brought coconuts, flowers and cigarettes to comfort them.