Chapter 44 3. Execution is more difficult than signing

Suiyuan has a small area and few enemy troops, but there are far more difficulties on the road to peace than in Beiping. In order to implement the peace agreement, our North China Military Region and the North China Bureau immediately started to do a lot of work in accordance with the spirit of the Central Committee's instructions. On June 13, according to the decision of the central government, in order to adapt to the new situation in Suiyuan, the original Mengsui District was renamed Suiyuan Province, the original Mengsui District Party Committee of the Communist Party of China was renamed Suiyuan Provincial Committee, and Gao Kelin was the Secretary of the Provincial Committee; The Suimeng People's Government was renamed the Suiyuan Provincial People's Government, Yang Zhilin was the chairman of the Provincial People's Government, and Kui Bi was the vice-chairman; In the provincial military region, Yao Zhe is the commander, Gao Kelin is the political commissar, Wang Changjiang is the deputy commander, Liu Huaxiang is the chief of staff, and Pei Zhouyu is the director of the Political Department.The offices of the Suiyuan Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People's Government and the Military Region are located in Fengzhen.

On June 20, our North China Bureau and the North China People's Government made the "Agreement on the Implementation of the Suiyuan Peace Agreement".Its main contents are: The Chinese Communist Party's Guisui Working Committee was established, with Pan Jiwen as its secretary.The working policy of the working committee is: "expand the party's influence, win over the masses, unite around the Communist Party, and through various specific tasks, achieve the goal of winning over Dong Qiwu, educating him, and uniting him." In terms of liaison, the Liaison Office of the North China People's Government in Suiyuan established in accordance with the Suiyuan Peace Agreement is the representative agency of the North China People's Government in Guisui.

Set up the Liaison Office of North China Trading Corporation in Sui, under which there are grain department, fur department and department store department to carry out various trade businesses. Set up the Guisui Office of the Headquarters of the People's Bank of China to carry out related financial business. Set up the western section office of the Zhangjiakou branch of the Pingjin District of the Ministry of Railways. Based on the current office in Jining, it will take over the railway staff from the Baita to Baotou section and carry out the transportation business on Pingsui Road. Immediately afterwards, the Suiyuan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China transferred more than 40 cadres to set up the Guisui Liaison Office, with Pan Jiwen as the director and Lu Zhihao as the deputy director.Lu Zhihao, like Pan Jiwen, was also a staff member sent by our party to Fu Zuoyi's Department in the past. He once served as the director of the Political Department of the 211th Brigade (later renamed the New 31st Division) of Fu Zuoyi's Department.

As for Fu Zuoyi, he also sent more than 20 people headed by Wang Kejun to Guisui to implement the "Suiyuan Peace Agreement" with Dong Qiwu on June 14.Before leaving, Fu Zuoyi and Wang Kejun made a detailed study.Fu Zuoyi asked Wang Kejun to pay special attention to two people. The one who revealed was Zhang Qingen, the chief inspector of the Northwest Party Affairs of the Kuomintang in Baotou at the time and the head of the Central Unification spy, and the one who secretly was Liu Wanchun, the commander of the 111 Army.Especially Liu Wanchun, although he was also an old subordinate of Fu Zuoyi in the past, when Dong Qiwu was the commander of the 35th Army, he was the deputy commander.However, when he served as the commander of the Fourth Cavalry Division in 1945, he was dismissed by Fu Zuoyi and investigated for embezzling military pay and selling opium. Since then, he has been at odds with Fu Zuoyi.He himself is a Hui nationality and has a close relationship with Ma Hongkui, the Kuomintang warlord in Ningxia. He thinks he can advance or retreat, and he is quite arrogant.For this person, Fu Zuoyi gave Wang Kejun two words: "Strict precautions must be taken, and he must be isolated to the greatest extent to weaken his interference with the implementation of the agreement."

Sure enough, before Wang Kejun and others arrived in Guisui, Liu Wanchun and others were "waiting" in the eastern suburbs of Guisui.Liu Wanchun asked Wang Kejun for the "Suiyuan Peace Agreement", and told Wang Kejun clearly: "Many people" did not agree with this agreement, and "they" opposed the surrender.Therefore, he demanded that Wang Kejun "must not announce the agreement, otherwise there will be trouble." Although Dong Qiwu did a lot of work for his subordinates, Wang Kejun also had a lot of exchanges with people from all walks of life. The "Suiyuan Peace Agreement" was also officially announced at the Senior Military Officers Meeting on June 14. Dong Qiwu reorganized the Suiyuan The team of "Struggle Daily" publicly published some articles in the newspaper in support of the Communist Party and the peace agreement, but there were still great difficulties.The most obvious problem is that the liaison office sent by our side cannot enter Guisui City at the originally scheduled time, that is, in late June.Why?Because Dong Qiwu was afraid that the troops in the territory would flee westward, he transferred his most powerful independent Seventh Division from Guisui to Wuyuan in the west of Suiyuan. The other cavalry reorganized the 12th Brigade, which was also inclined to the Kuomintang.At this time, Liu Wanchun, the police commander of the two cities of Guisui and Baotou, openly resisted the entry of our liaison office into Guisui, claiming that if Dong Qiwu wanted the liaison office to enter the city, he must gather the guns of the liaison office personnel and hand them over to his people. Keeping, the personnel of the liaison office are not allowed to go out, otherwise his troops are not responsible for the safety of the liaison office.

In order to prevent the situation from deteriorating further and to give Dong Qiwu more time, our Liaison Office decided to postpone entering the city until July 14.However, at this moment, accidents occurred in Guisui city: Suiyuan's "Struggle Daily" which advocated the road of peace was smashed by mobs, and rumors such as "the third world war is about to break out" were flying everywhere in Guisui. There were many slogans slandering the Communist Party and opposing peace. There was also an anti-communist parade organized by a small number of spies in Baotou. The team even shouted the slogan "Down with Fu Zuoyi, Down with Dong Qiwu"... After many consultations with Dong Qiwu, I contacted It was only on July 11 and 17 that the staff entered Guisui City in two batches.

On the evening of July 18, Dong Qiwu entered the city to hold a banquet for the staff of the Liaison Office. There were nearly 30 celebrities from all walks of life, but only one military representative attended. At this time, the Chiang Kai-shek clique's destruction of Suiyuan's peaceful liberation was also increasing.Chiang Kai-shek sent people to Suiyuan for activities three times.The first time was to send Qi Zihou, a member of the Central Legislative Council of the Kuomintang, and Yan Ziyan, a fellow of Dong Qiwu, to Guisui to persuade Dong Qiwu to go to Nanjing to discuss everything, and said that only in this way can food and wages be paid.The second time was to send a plane to pick up Dong Qiwu to Guangzhou to attend the meeting of provincial chairmen.The third time was to send Xu Yongchang, who had gone to Beiping to persuade Fu Zuoyi, and Wang Shuming, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Air Force, to Shanba to have a long talk with Dong Qiwu and Sun Lanfeng. Liu Wanchun was the deputy commander, and all the troops in Suiyuan were under the command of the Ninth Corps.The real purpose of promotion and wish was to remove Dong Qiwu's military power and create conflicts between Dong Qiwu, Sun Lanfeng, and Liu Wanchun; Ningxia and Gansu jointly built the northwest anti-communist base (on April 24, our army liberated Taiyuan; on April 29, liberated Datong; on May 5, liberated Anyang and Xinxiang. So far, except for Suiyuan, all North China has been liberated , so Chiang Kai-shek decided to abandon Suiyuan and stick to the northwest).On the surface, Dong Qiwu was perfunctory with Xu Yongchang, but he resolutely ignored the westward retreat.Although Sun Lanfeng accepted the appointment of the commander of the Ninth Corps, it was completely empty air, and he did not dare to seize Dong Qiwu's military power.

The frantic activity of the reactionaries reached its climax on July 24.On this day, Wang Shixin, secretary of the railway group of my liaison office, Wang Baotang, Guangdi, Tao Jun and other four people were passing through the gate of the Guisui Police Command when they were stopped by three special agents and searched forcibly. They were severely reprimanded by our side.Due to the large crowd of onlookers on the street, the spies did not dare to act rashly.But these spies followed all the way to the Charity Hall between the new city and the old city. After joining up with more than a dozen thugs who had ambushed there in advance, they shot and threw grenades at our personnel. Wang Shixin died of serious injuries, and Tao Jun injured his right leg.

When other comrades from my liaison office arrived and sent Wang Shixin and Tao Jun to the provincial hospital, the rampant spies even called the hospital and refused to allow the hospital to treat them.This was the "July 24th" incident that shocked Suiyuan at that time.It was later found out that the mastermind of this incident was Zhao Yuande, political director of the 258th Division under Liu Wanchun. The "July 24th" incident caused shocks in all aspects.From the perspective of our party, Mao Zedong instructed on this matter: "Things have twists and turns. The liberation of Suiyuan will not change with the Suiyuan method."

According to the instructions of the Central Committee, the North China Bureau made three decisions: (1) Most of the comrades in the Liaison Office withdrew to Fengzhen, leaving three comrades to work under the leadership of Lu Zhihao and resolutely not to withdraw from Guisui; Martyr Wang Shixin only holds a memorial service and does not hold a parade; (3) The method of implementing Suiyuan remains unchanged, and all contacts are as usual.As far as Dong Qiwu is concerned, my liaison office was moved to the safer original Mongolian Dewang Mansion, and his guards were sent as guards.After that, comrades from my liaison office entered Guisui one after another. Our Suiyuan Provincial Party Committee sent additional staff to Guisui to fully mobilize the masses and use the peace-loving power of the masses to gradually suppress the arrogance of a small group of reactionaries. pressed down.