Chapter 28 4. The great contribution of the underground party

Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan and Liu Yalou are ready to fight Tianjin, and they are quite well prepared.Because this battle is not only a matter of liberating Tianjin, but also requires that it be fought fiercely, ruthlessly, and neatly, and that Fu Zuoyi, Li Wen, Shi Jue and other senior Kuomintang generals in Peking should take a look at it. . In the process of preparing for the attack on Tianjin, we must not forget that not only the officers and soldiers of the PLA have made great efforts, the former supporters in the liberated areas have made great efforts, but the underground party in Tianjin has also made great efforts. s hard work.If the main contribution of the Beiping Underground Party under the leadership of the North China Military Region’s Urban Industry Department was to promote the peaceful liberation of Beiping, the main contribution of the Tianjin Underground Party under the leadership of the North China Military Region’s Urban Industry Department was to help our army successfully take down Tianjin. great contribution.When commemorating the 10th anniversary of the liberation of Tianjin, Liu Yalou said: "It should be said that Tianjin was brought down jointly by the People's Liberation Army and the underground party."

In November 1948, according to the decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the underground party organization in Tianjin was divided into two original systems (the "Northern Department" led by the original Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Southern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China formed during the Anti-Japanese War. The "Southern Department" led by the Communist Party of China) merged and established the Tianjin Working Committee of the Communist Party of China. The external name was called the Tianjin Liberation Committee, and began various tasks to welcome the liberation of Tianjin.Here we only introduce two major events related to the attack on Tianjin.

As mentioned above, the main reason why Chen Changjie dared to resist our army lies in Tianjin's solid city defense system.Our army wants to quickly attack Tianjin, but also minimize the loss of people's lives and property, and reduce the damage to important industrial facilities. It is necessary for our army commanders to grasp the detailed map of Tianjin's city defense, which is the top secret in the hands of the enemy, before the war begins. .Of course, this task can only be done by the underground party, and the Tianjin underground party organization has accomplished this task very well.

The general leading body of the construction of urban defense projects in Tianjin is the Tianjin Urban Defense Construction Committee, with Du Jianshi, the mayor of Tianjin, as the director.Under this committee, there are several special committees. Responsible for design and construction is the engineering committee.There is an engineer named Mai Xuankun in the eighth engineering section of the Engineering Committee, a young technician who graduated from Tianjin Industrial and Commercial College in 1946.Mai Xuankun joined the Communist Party of China in 1947, and was tasked with supervising the eighth project section.The task given to Mai Xuankun by the underground party organization is to find a way to draw a detailed map of the entire Tianjin city defense project. Of course, there will be no problem in drawing this map for the eighth project section he is in. The problem is whether he can master other projects. segment situation.In order to accomplish this task, Mai Xuankun took advantage of the trust placed in him by the director of the engineering department, and often found various opportunities to visit other engineering offices to collect relevant drawings.At the later stage of the project, when the completion survey was carried out, the entire project of each project section was drawn in proportion, especially the position and internal structure of each bunker, as well as the weapon equipment, were reflected in as much detail as possible.After some hard work, he finally completed all the tasks and handed over the whole map to Wang Wenyuan, the person in charge of his organization.Wang Wenyuan then handed it over to Kang Junshan, an underground party member who opened a photo studio, and the photo was reproduced, and Zhao Yan, an underground traffic officer, sent it to the Urban Industry Department of the North China Military Region.

Another underground party member, Zhang Kecheng, worked as a civil servant in the construction department of the Tianjin Public Works Bureau.One task of this department is to check and accept Tianjin's urban defense highways. During the work, it is necessary to refer to the entire Tianjin urban defense fortification map.One day, the engineer in the same office as Zhang Kecheng went out without locking the official city defense fortification plan in the safe and putting it on the bookshelf.Zhang Kecheng immediately took the risk and stole the engineering drawings back home, traced them in two nights, and sealed them with wax pills.Then he hid it in his cotton trousers, and asked his sister to hand it over to Li Zhi, secretary of the Tianjin Working Committee of the underground party, and then Li Zhi handed it over to our army's Eight Columns.This underground party member, who had not been assigned tasks by the superior party organization in advance, provided our army with another complete map of the city defense fortifications.

Another underground party member is a young woman named Zeng Changning. Her father Zeng Yanyi and Fu Zuoyi used to be classmates at Baoding Military Academy, and they even worshiped as brothers.Zeng Yanyi was the deputy commander of the Northwest Army of the Kuomintang. At this time, he had left the military and worked as an apartment in Tianjin, but he had contacts with many figures in the military and political circles of the Kuomintang.One day, Cui Yaxiong, commander of the Tanggu defense of the Kuomintang army, visited her home. Zeng Changning found that Cui Yaxiong's purse happened to contain a map of the garrison distribution and fortifications in the Tanggu area.Zeng Changning immediately secretly copied a copy, sent it to the higher-level party organization through another underground party member Sha Xiaoquan, and then handed it over to our army.

At that time, the logistics supply of the Kuomintang army in Tianjin was in charge of the North China Joint Logistics Branch established by the Kuomintang Joint Logistics Headquarters in Tianjin. Li Yiliang's uncle is an underground member of our party.Through the education of his uncle Li Yiliang, Li Yiliang is willing to work for our party.Li Yiliang not only provided our army with detailed information on all the arsenals and material depots of the Kuomintang army in Tianjin, but also took advantage of the opportunity of registering and compiling books to distribute condolences during the New Year’s condolences to laborers at the end of 1948. Accurate information was provided to underground party organizations.

It is precisely because these underground party members risked their lives to prepare for our army's attack on Tianjin that our army gained great convenience in the attack on Tianjin.Liu Yalou, the commander-in-chief of the Tianjin front line, said: "Because the underground party provided detailed and accurate city defense fortification maps, our army quickly grasped the enemy's situation, so we had reliable goals for making up our minds, making plans, and deploying troops." After Tianjin was liberated, there was a saying among the citizens of Tianjin: "The artillery shells of the PLA have eyes, and they don't hit ordinary people, but only the Kuomintang." In fact, it was a group of heroes of the underground party in Tianjin who put "eyes" on the artillery shells of the PLA. them.