Chapter 6 Chapter 05

In Chaoshan, just after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Kuomintang diehards mobilized the 186th Division of the Army, the 2nd Detachment of the 1st Advancement Team of the 7th Theater, the Provincial Security Regiment, and the Chaoshan Special Administration (5th "Cleaning and Suppression" District) "cleaning and suppressing" troops. Launched a large-scale "clearance and suppression" campaign against the Hanjiang Column of the Guangdong People's Anti-Japanese Guerrillas and the base areas centered on Dananshan in Puning. Pnin is a place with a glorious revolutionary tradition.During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, Danan Mountain was once the center of the Dongjiang Revolutionary Base.After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, with the establishment of the Hanjiang Column of the Chaoshan People's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla, Dananshan became the anti-Japanese guerrilla base again, and many villages became the secret activity base of the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla.

Beginning in October 1945, the Kuomintang army, with nearly a thousand troops, carried out "encirclement and suppression" and "mopping up" for more than three months against the second detachment of the Hanjiang Column, which was based on the Danan Mountain. Killing and looting. While carrying out large-scale "suppression" and "mopping up" in the military, the Kuomintang reactionaries also carried out "clearing up the countryside" and "rehabilitation" politically, and established the "Rehabilitation Committee". The bully Chen Junxiu, the head of the "Tianwang", served as the director of the county's "renewal committee". He forced all villages to implement the "five joint security forces", wanted and arrested our underground party members and anti-Japanese armed personnel; forced activists and villagers in guerrilla stronghold villages Register for "renewal". Those arrested are tortured and killed; if activists cannot be caught, their families are extorted. Many villages in the Dananshan Anti-Japanese Base Area and guerrilla areas were severely devastated, and some revolutionary comrades were brutally murdered. kill.

In the winter of 1945, Huang Guangwu, secretary of the Working Committee of District 2 and instructor of the Hanjiang Column Squadron, and members of the District Committee Chen Haitao and Du Shengji were arrested and brutally killed. However, the communists in this area were not intimidated, and they persisted in the struggle vigorously.In order to adapt to the new struggle situation and strengthen the leadership of the revolutionary struggle in Puning, the Chaoshan Special Committee decided to transfer Zhong Sheng, secretary of the Chaojiefengbian County Party Committee, and Li Xikai, secretary of the (Chaoshan) Railway Working Committee, to Puning to form a team with Li Xueguang, a former member of the Puning District 2 District Committee. The new county party committee held its first meeting.

Wu Jianmin, the Propaganda Minister of the Chaoshan Special Committee who came here on a special trip, presided over the meeting on behalf of the special committee, and conveyed the special committee's analysis of the struggle situation in Puning and the current task instructions: the current central task of the county party committee is to pay close attention to the party members, guerrillas, and active members who have been exposed. The retreat and transfer of elements and the covert work of unexposed personnel, adjust positions, and continue to fight. While leading the handling of the retreat and transfer of some party members and the concealment of most party members on the spot, the county party committee adjusted and improved the organization of the district party committee and grassroots party branches.After half a year of hard work, by the end of June 1946, the district committees of the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th districts with a relatively good mass base had gained a firm foothold, and a total of 29 rural and school party branches had been adjusted and established, with more than 140 party members. .The party organization has undergone severe tests and has made new developments.

At the end of 1946, Chaoshan, like the situation in Guangdong as a whole, also had a new turning point.Due to the tension in the northern battlefield, the enemy moved a large number of Kuomintang troops northward, leaving a void in the south.The 186th Division of the Kuomintang was also transferred from Chaoshan. The Chaoshan Special Committee conveyed in a timely manner the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China that "anyone who is likely to establish an open guerrilla base should immediately establish an open guerrilla base" in the southern provinces, and the Hong Kong Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on rebuilding the armed forces and launching anti-"Three Expeditions" (i.e. Against the KMT's decision to recruit troops, grain, and taxes) and the deployment of special committees.

The instructions of the central government and the decision of the sub-bureau made the majority of party members in Puning County rejoice, and the county party committee actively carried out preparations for rebuilding the armed forces according to the deployment of the special committee. First of all, the county party committee decided to take effective measures to suppress the reactionary leaders, remove the traitors, and clear the way for rebuilding the armed forces.Chen Junxiu, a bully landlord in Nanshan Village in Liusha, killed the anti-Japanese guerrillas and maimed the people. He is the most reactionary "Four Heavenly Kings" in Puning and the biggest obstacle to our party's rebuilding of the armed forces.The Special Committee decided that this obstacle should be removed first.

In order to ensure the success of the action of punishing and killing Chen Junxiu, the county party committee first sent Huang Chuangsong, an underground party member of Dongpu Village, to frequently enter and leave Chen's house under the pretext of being a "guardian", and learned about Chen Junxiu's life, law of action, as well as his guards and armed configuration. and so on. On the morning of January 24, 1947 (the third day of the first month of the lunar calendar), people were celebrating the New Year and watching the excitement.Our special agent team disguised themselves as "New Year's greetings" guests and entered Nanshan Village in twos and threes.At that time, the Chen family had already opened the door. Li Laiji disguised himself as a little beggar begging for money from a "money tree" and went to the Chen family to beg for help, but he did not see Chen Junxiu himself.In order to find out whether Chen was at home, Li Laiji deliberately played tricks and pestered him loudly to ask for more donations.

At that time Chen Junxiu hadn't gotten up yet, when she heard the beggars shouting at the door, she became furious and scolded loudly.After Li Laiji, the spy team disguised as "guests" heard the scolding and knew that Chen was at home. They immediately drew their short guns, rushed into Chen's bedroom, and shot Chen Junxiu on the bed on the spot.Before retreating, the spy team also distributed leaflets "Letter to the People" and sent warning letters to the other three of the "Four Heavenly Kings" not to act rashly. The punishment and killing of Chen Junxiu caused a great shock in Puning County. Around Quicksand The masses all clapped their hands and applauded, while some stubborn reactionaries were terrified and fled to save their lives.

While our Puning County Party Committee was actively preparing to rebuild the armed forces, the enemy also did everything possible to find my hidden armed squad, trying to wipe out and destroy the party's underground organization in one fell swoop. The Kuomintang secret service bought and recruited Yan Jingmu, who had once served as the chief of the company in the second detachment of the Hanjiang column, and later fled the team and went to Shantou City as a spy.In Shantou, he betrayed 5 comrades from the 2nd Detachment of the Hanjiang Column, and Chi Yaohua, Secretary of the Shantou Working Committee of the Communist Party of China (also known as Chi Shengqing, former political commissar of the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Hanjiang Column).Later, he accepted the dispatch, ran back to Puning, broke into the armed forces led by our party, and reported my concealed armed activities to the Kuomintang secret service.

He also spread everywhere that Japan has surrendered, and the Kuomintang has American aid, so we might as well go out to do business, have money to marry wives, conspire to shake the morale of the army, and instigate escape.After Yan was arrested and held in custody, due to the negligence of the guards, Yan took the opportunity to snatch the gun and escape.After liberation, our army captured Yan and executed him in Shantou City. In the spring of 1947, the Kuomintang fought a civil war across the country and stepped up the "Three Requisitions" in the "National Controlled Areas". The rural economies in Chaozhou and Shantou went bankrupt, and food prices soared.In order to help the masses overcome the food shortage and reserve the necessary military rations for the establishment of the anti-conquest team, the Chaoshan Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China (at this time the special committee has been changed to the prefectural committee) decided to organize armed forces to cover the actions of the organized masses, break warehouses and distribute food. Expand influence and further mobilize the masses.The specific deployment of this operation is:

With the "secret service team" as the backbone, the short gun teams in Jieyang and Puning counties cooperated, and some armed forces such as the "Shouqing Team" controlled by underground party members were drawn from Jiepu two counties.Select the target in a planned way, first Jieyang and then Puning, and the two counties cross operations, so that the enemy will focus on one thing and lose the other, making it impossible to defend against. In mid-May, after breaking through the Shanglong and Congzhai granaries in Jieyang, the armed forces came to Puning from Jieyang. The first target of breaking the granaries was the two Kuomintang grain depots in Hengxi.After entering Gaopu Village at night to hide for a day, the armed team was led by Li Xikai to hide on Stone Snake House Mountain for a day, and came down from the mountain in the evening to head towards Hengxi.At this time, the party organizations in Dananshan and Pingyuan mobilized a group of people to follow the team and prepare to pick food.More than 100 people from various villages in Dananshan were led by Wang Wangshun; there were more than 200 people from various townships in Pingyuan, led by Xu Shijie, head of organization of the county party committee. On the night of May 24, without firing a single shot, the two warehouses of Yijie and Hengxi were successfully broken, and a total of more than 3,000 stones were accumulated.Since our army has only organized more than 300 people, it is estimated that at most only 1/10 can be picked.Therefore, the local people were mobilized to participate, announcing that "whoever chooses wins". At the beginning, the masses hesitated and waited and watched. Later, when they saw our troops carrying away the millet in loads, a few courageous ones couldn't hold back their participation, and other masses also flocked up.At about 10 o'clock in the evening, the two warehouses in Hengxi had been removed. Some villagers picked up a load, and some picked up a few loads. Knowing that the granary was broken, the Longtou Township Office of the Kuomintang hurriedly organized troops to "pursue" our army by firing bluffing shots. The victory of breaking warehouses and distributing grain not only dealt a blow to the excessive expropriation of the Kuomintang authorities, but also solved the "April famine" for some hungry people. The most important thing was to inspire the enthusiasm of the masses to participate in the revolutionary struggle, and to build a "Chaoshan people's resistance against conquest". The "team" has made initial preparations ideologically, organizationally, and materially. In June, the personnel mobilized by various branches to go up the mountain were escorted by the short gun group across Dabei Mountain (those who joined the army from Chaoyang were also escorted by the Puning short gun group), and assembled in Tianbaotang (now Jiexi County Guolin Farm). On the 14th, the Chaoshan People's Anti-Conquest Team was announced, with Liu Xiangdong as the commander and Zeng Guang as the political commissar. After the establishment of the Chaoshan People's Anti-conquest Team, in order to boost morale, it raided Tangkeng, an important town in Fengshun, on the night of July 30, wiped out the armed forces of the town's police station and district office, and won the first battle. After the raid on Fengshun Tangkeng, in order to put out this revolutionary armed force, the Kuomintang authorities immediately organized forces to "encircle and suppress" the rough pit area of ​​Dabei Mountain.Under the leadership of Commander Liu Xiangdong, our anti-conquest team jumped out of the periphery, attacked Baili Lake on the Jiepu border, wiped out a squadron of the Kuomintang, and surrendered more than 50 guns.Afterwards, they entered the Nanyang mountainous area, publicized anti-"Three Levy" with great fanfare, organized the masses, collected local reactionary armed forces, expanded the team, and then turned back to Dabei Mountain. Tangkeng and Bailihu were victorious in successive battles, which greatly shocked the Kuomintang.The prestige of the anti-conquest team was greatly shocked, the masses supported it, and the team expanded rapidly. On September 29, the anti-expedition team was reorganized in Kongwei Village, Dabei Mountain, and expanded from the original one brigade to the first and third brigades.The prefectural committee announced the appointment of Lin Zhen (Xu Jie) as the captain of the first brigade, Zheng Xi as the political commissar; Li Xikai as the captain of the third brigade, Chen Bin as the political commissar, and Zheng Hui as the instructor.The inside should be combined with the outside to get Jiaocheng In 1947, the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi Border Area Working Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to adopt the policy of "first in eastern Guangdong and then in southwestern Fujian, focusing on eastern Guangdong, and generally launching guerrilla warfare" according to the actual situation in the border area. , The Border Area Working Committee transferred a large number of military backbones from western Fujian to the eastern Guangdong (now Xingmei) area. Based on the special service team of the Meipu Prefectural Committee, the Eastern Guangdong Detachment was established in Porcupine Cave, Pingsha Township, Dapu County in May 1947.Liu Yongsheng served as the head of the detachment, Yang Jianchang served as the political commissar, Liao Qizhong, Cheng Yan, and Xu Da served as the deputy head of the detachment, Wang Lichao served as the deputy political commissar and director of the political department, and the team consisted of 31 members.Soon, the Border Region Working Committee established the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi Border Region Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.Liu Yongsheng served as the general captain (still serving as the captain of the Eastern Guangdong Branch), Wei Jinshui served as the political commissar, and Zhu Manping served as the deputy political commissar, and unified command of the eastern Guangdong, western Fujian, and southern Fujian detachments. At the end of 1947, more than 30 district and township offices of the Kuomintang were destroyed in counties in eastern Guangdong, more than 30 district and township self-defense teams and two county self-defense squadrons were annihilated, and a large number of weapons and ammunition were seized. Our army consisted of more than 100 The number of people has grown to nearly 900 (including local staff), and the Guangdong East Detachment has expanded to 3 squadrons, 1 guard squadron and 1 teaching team; Hua, Meixing Pingjiao, Raohepufeng, Yonghepu, and Hangwu Jiaomei were six guerrilla bases in border counties, which shook the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang in eastern Guangdong and effectively cooperated with the national liberation war and our army's efforts. The strategic counter-offensive dealt a heavy blow to the Fujian and Guangdong Kuomintang reactionaries. In order to deal with the threat of guerrilla growth and active activities, the Kuomintang reactionaries in eastern Guangdong actively adjusted their team, pooled their forces, and planned to attack the guerrillas in the border areas of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi according to Song Ziwen, the chairman of Guangdong Province. Our army units and guerrilla bases carried out "clearance and suppression".Song Ziwen replaced the commissioner of the 6th administrative region (Xingmei area) and the county magistrates of Meixian, Dapu and other counties, and appointed Lieutenant General Zeng Juzhi, who had served as the director of the "Qing Suppression" Committee in the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi border area, as the commissioner and security commander.This guy Zeng Juzhi was very arrogant. As soon as he came to power, he formulated a "half-year bandit suppression plan" to be implemented in two phases from January 1948, and set up three "cleaning and suppression areas" in Laolong, Meixian, and Dapu. It is a vain attempt to extinguish the guerrilla warfare in our eastern Guangdong region within half a year. In late January 1948, the Eastern Guangdong Prefectural Committee held the second enlarged meeting of the Executive Committee at the station of the East Guangdong Detachment in Matu, Fengshun County, and proposed the struggle to persist in Meipufeng, consolidate the positions that had been gained, and hit the heart of the enemy Go, open up a new battlefield, meet Zeng Zhizhi's offensive and other tasks and slogans.The meeting decided that the Eastern Guangdong Detachment would attack in three ways: Cheng Yan, the deputy detachment leader, led half of the No. 3 Squadron to the Meixing Pingjiao Border Area; Advance into the Hangwu Jiaomei border area and attack Jiaoling County.The task of the first 2 roads is: on the one hand, to help these areas to further develop guerrilla activities, and to carry out guerrilla warfare more extensively and generally; , so that the Meipufeng base area can be better consolidated and developed.At the same time, the counties further mobilized the masses to carry out struggles, reorganized the guerrillas in each county into 8 independent brigades, carried out plain guerrilla warfare, and expanded the struggle to the entire eastern part of Guangdong, forming a situation of comprehensive encirclement of the enemy. The East Guangdong Detachment decided to attack Jiaoling County after a long period of deliberation. At the beginning of February, the East Guangdong Detachment, led by Liu Yongsheng and Zhu Manping, left Matu and began to advance towards Hangwu Jiaomei. On February 4, with the cooperation of the 1st Independent Battalion, they captured the Golden City of Fengshun, wiped out a squadron of the Wu Baicang Department of the Fengshun County Security Force and the Township Self-Defense Force, and seized more than 70 long and short guns and more than 2,000 rounds of bullets. On the 15th, the troops crossed the Meijiang River openly at Yinnakou, Yingya Township, Tai Po during the day, and destroyed the Tsz Leung Township Office again. On the 23rd, they went into the water in Fengshi, Yongding County, Fujian Province, confiscated the weapons of Liu Yongtu, head of the 12th Guangdong Security Regiment of the Kuomintang, and seized 2 light machine guns and more than 20 rifles, and then transferred to Taoyuan, Meixian County.Along the way, the troops openly asked the masses about Songkou's enemy situation, and deliberately released the air that they wanted to attack Songkou.After the above-mentioned series of deceptive activities, since the 24th, the Eastern Guangdong Detachment has completely transferred to covert operations, marched overnight, and arrived at the camp at Beishuizhangtian, Jiaoling County on the 26th.The 7th Brigade of Hangwu Jiaomei also joined the detachment at this time. On the 28th, the headquarters of the Eastern Guangdong Detachment held a military meeting, chaired by Liu Yongsheng and Zhu Manping, and members of the Hangwu Jiaomei County Party Committee attended the meeting.Comrades from the reconnaissance team and the Jiaoling martial arts team reported the situation of the enemy in Jiaocheng at the meeting, and drew three reconnaissance maps of the street terrain of Jiaocheng, the distribution of enemy garrisons and the courtyard of the county government.The Kuomintang Jiaoling County Government has a police squadron with about 40 people, and a self-defense squadron (including the incorporated Zhongyong bandits) with more than 100 people; a recruit company with about 40 people is stationed in the east of the county government; The total strength of the enemy army is about 250 people. Except for the police squadron and the self-defense force, the rest have no combat effectiveness. The enemy's security is extremely poor.The meeting discussed the operational plan in detail, and determined the operational deployment: the No. 1 Squadron, under the direct command of the deputy detachment leader Liao Qizhong, inserted into the West Street from the foot of Jiaoling in the south of Zhenshan Tower, occupied Shizi Street and North Street, and was responsible for the front of the county government. Attack; the 2nd Squadron descended from the west slope of Zhenshan Tower, along the Ximen Ring Road, interspersed to the South Gate area, attacked the Liu Yuemin Department stationed in Jianchang, and then alerted the direction of Baidu, Meixian County, and prepared to send reinforcements; the teaching team went from Chengbei District to Jiaoling Middle School Go to the right side of the county government and cooperate with the No. 1 Squadron to attack the county government; one part of the guard squadron defends the headquarters and the political department, and one part occupies the commanding heights on the top of Laohukeng behind the Zhenshan Tower, focusing on monitoring the direction of Wuping in the north and the direction of Meixian in the south. To aid and cover the attacking troops in the city; the 1st Squadron of the 7th Independent Battalion, under the command of the captain Xie Qianzan, was responsible for solving the recruit company stationed in the Martyr's Shrine, and then occupied the hill behind the small ancient house at the foot of Hengjiang Mountain for vigilance.Liu Yongsheng and Zhu Manping led the detachment headquarters, the political department and the first part of the guard squadron to occupy Zhenshanlou as the front-line command post of the entire battlefield. March 2 launched an attack on Jiaocheng.At around 5:00 in the morning, the troops arrived at the northern edge of Jiaocheng without anyone noticing. The guard squadron first occupied the commanding heights of Zhenshanlou and Laohukengding. At 5:30, when the No. 1 Squadron, which was in charge of the frontal attack, arrived at Shizi Street and North Street, the assault team jumped out of cover, preparing to capture the sentries guarding the fortification in front of the county government, and then rushed into the county government.Being discovered by the sentries, the enemy fired first, and the No. 1 Squadron immediately opened fire and attacked.Our troops launched several strong attacks, but due to the unfavorable terrain and under the suppression of enemy firepower, the attacks failed to work, resulting in a stalemate. Served as the teaching team attacking from the right, and entered the back and right of the county government through the Jiaoling Middle School playground. A squad broke through the closed back door and entered the county government, but was blocked by fierce enemy fire and was forced to withdraw.The teaching team turned to enter the dormitory area of ​​Jiaoling Middle School, which is next door to the county prison. Although the teaching team organized attacks many times, it failed. The recruit company stationed at the Martyrs’ Shrine and the Liu Yuemin Department stationed at the Jianchang were successively dealt with by the 1st Squadron of the 7th Independent Brigade and the 1st Squadron of the Detachment. The 1st Squadron of the 7th Independent Brigade immediately occupied the top of the mountain behind Xiaoguwu and monitored the way Wuyu came from the north. Cover the siege forces.The No. 2 Squadron of the Detachment occupied the nearby favorable terrain, preparing to stop Meixian and aid the enemy. When the battle of the No. 1 Squadron and the teaching team to attack the county government was blocked, commanders Liu Yongsheng and Zhu Manping readjusted their forces, deployed a new attack, and decided to blow up the wall of the county government.There was only a loud "bang" and a puff of thick smoke shot up into the sky. The enemies guarding the county government were frightened into a mess, dropped their weapons one after another, opened the small east gate that we hadn't detected in advance, and scrambled for the first place. escape.Then, the No. 1 Squadron rushed into the county government, beat those enemies who had no time to escape to death, wounded some, and the rest obediently raised their hands and surrendered. Some county government officials also became prisoners one by one, and the county magistrate Li Qiugu fled in disguise in a hurry.Our army quickly took control of the whole city.In this battle, our army has achieved great military and political victories.Destroyed and annihilated 5 squadrons including the county enemy self-defense force, police force, and recruit company, killed, wounded, and captured more than 80 enemies, seized more than 300 long and short guns, more than 10,000 bullets, a large number of military supplies, and released 100 prisoners many.Our army also opened warehouses to distribute food and protect industrial and commercial people, which won the support and support of people from all walks of life. After completing various tasks, our army calmly withdrew from Jiaoling County at 5 pm. This raid on Jiaoling County was a major victory achieved since the establishment of the Eastern Guangdong Detachment and the struggle in the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi border area, which greatly shocked the enemy.This action not only promoted the further development of armed struggles in Meipufeng, Meixingfenghua, Raohepufeng, Meixing Pingjiao, and Yonghepu areas, but also gave a speech to the enemy's 6th district commissioner and security commander who had just come to power. Straight to the head, shattered the so-called "half-year bandit suppression plan" he planned, and it was also a head-on blow to Guangdong Provincial Chairman Song Ziwen.People in power in Shanghang and Wuping counties and some districts and townships in Fujian Province sent people to form a line one after another, expressing that they would no longer be enemies with our army, and some even expressed that they would lead an uprising at an appropriate time. In November 1948, Yu Yingqi, the enemy's "General Commander of Bandit Suppression in the Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi Border Areas", concentrated more than 3,000 troops in Chaoshan and Xingmei districts through careful planning and preparation. The battalion (the commander of the battalion, Fang Jinghan, who governs 3 infantry companies, 1 heavy machine gun company, and 1 mortar company, with a total of more than 600 people) acted as the main force and began a desperate and adventurous attack on our Chaoshan Revolutionary Base (commonly known as the fifth "Encirclement and Suppression"). Since July, Zhang Weimin, the deputy commander of the enemy's "Fifth Clearance and Suppression Area", Wu Wujun, the county magistrate of Fengshun, led the county security police, joint defense corps and the "1st Clearance and Suppression Brigade" with a total of about 500 people, occupying the Tangkeng Hexi area Villages were built to encircle and blockhouses to carry out "station suppression". Fang Jinghan, the main force of the enemy's "National Defense Force", is far away in Huilai County, where mountains and seas intersect 100 kilometers away. The trick of "showing the distance" is extremely sinister: to conceal the truth and show the false, to lure the main force of our army into Hexi, and achieve the purpose of attacking the west and raiding fertile land. Our army decided to follow suit.In order to cater to the enemy's desire to transfer the tiger away from the mountain and lure the enemy into submission, Liu Xiangdong and Zeng Guang considered letting the 1st regiment of our army show up in Hexi.Liu Xiangdong immediately ordered the 1st regiment to march to the west of Hexi during the daytime on the 10th, with a feint shot, and must rush back to Liangtian secretly before the 13th.At this time, Qiu Zhijian put forward two suggestions: "First, we should revise our combat plan and use ambush warfare instead of blocking warfare, so that we can win more with fewer, attack the stronger with the weak, and annihilate the enemy in motion; second, as the enemy's situation becomes clearer, we should consider Concentrate the use of troops and squeeze the enemy into one fist." Liu Xiangdong and Zeng Guang immediately adopted Qiu Zhijian's first opinion, and determined that the 1st regiment would go all out and prepare for an ambush. Use 2 main regiments and try to fight a big battle of annihilation. At 4 o'clock in the morning on the 10th, the 1st regiment moved as planned, walked 50 kilometers in 9 hours, and entered Fengshun Hexi. At noon on the 11th, when the troops went to the fields in batches to help the people in the autumn harvest, the enemy launched a tentative attack. The 1st Regiment and the 2nd Independent Battalion immediately invested all their troops to outflank the enemy who had entered Anqian Village, defeated them, and chased them to the vicinity of Tangkeng. At night, the 1st regiment withdrew from the battlefield in units of companies, and returned to fertile fields one after another on the 12th and 13th, completing various preparations ahead of the enemy. In the early morning of the 13th, Liu Xiangdong led cadres above the 1st regiment to sneak into Maoaozhang to survey the terrain and issue combat tasks.Deploy the 1st company to occupy the left-wing highlands, the 2nd company to occupy the right-wing highlands, and take on the main offensive task, and the 3rd and 4th companies are the reserve teams, responsible for clearing out the remaining enemies and blocking reinforcements.The Liangtian militia is deployed on the second-line position, and after the start of the battle, it will go into battle and develop victoriously. At 10 o'clock in the morning on the 14th, the enemy's Jinghan tribe advanced from Hepo Town to Hengjiang Wei.The Liangtian militia climbed the mountain to guard and grasp the enemy's movements. At about 17:00, the enemy entered Luogengba, heavily guarded and blocked news. The leaders of our detachment and regiment judged that the enemy will sneak attack on Liangtian on the 15th.Immediately, a meeting of cadres above the platoon was held in Liangtian Central Primary School. Commander Liu and Qiu Zhijian were responsible for mobilizing troops and organizing the battle.In the middle of the night, Qiu Zhijian and others led the 1st, 2nd, 4th companies and the regiment's direct subordinate team. Against the bitter north wind, they climbed over the rugged mountains in the dark, entered an ambush to resist, and attracted the firepower of the enemy's heavy machine guns and mortars.At this time, our 1st and 4th companies took advantage of the chaos of the enemy and launched a countercharge.In the fierce battle, the commander of my 1st company died heroically. Many soldiers, including the cooks, fought bravely and bravely.Due to the heroic combat and coordinated actions of our soldiers, the unnamed highland was finally recaptured and firmly in the hands of our army.The battle lasted until about 4 pm, and the enemy and the enemy were in a stalemate.Qiu Zhijian considered that our army had dealt an annihilating blow to the enemy, shattered its sneak attack attempt, and that our army had exhausted its ammunition, so he decided to voluntarily withdraw from the three highlands in Maoaozhang and move to the second-line position in front of Zhangshang Village. , to lure the enemy into the terrain that is conducive to our army's mobile attack but not conducive to the enemy's power, and then create a fighter to destroy the enemy. At this time, Commander Liu Xiangdong came with the 3rd company and the militia. He excitedly praised the major victory of the 1st regiment in this battle, and studied and deployed the next strategy with Qiu Zhijian and the others.After the ambush was over, the 1st regiment was ordered to maneuver long distances and take advantage of the victory to attack the Hexi area.In the two battles of the Maoaozhang ambush and the Hexi rush, our army killed, wounded and captured more than 250 enemies.After the enemies on the east and west routes were annihilated by our army, the enemies on the other three routes fled after hearing the news.Our 1st regiment, together with other fraternal troops, took advantage of the victory to attack the plain area, thus completely smashing the enemy's "encirclement and suppression" organization this time. "Whoever surrenders the machine gun will have his name engraved on the butt of the gun" Huliao is an important town in Dapu County. It is the hometown of Luo Zhuoying, the former chairman of Guangdong Province of the Kuomintang, and Wu Qiwei, deputy director of the Guangdong Appeasement Office. The situation is dangerous.In addition to the Kuomintang district government and the police station, there is also a well-equipped self-defense brigade with 3 squadrons stationed there.The brigade built trenches, fortifications and gun towers on Wuhu Mountain, dispatched teams to guard day and night, and cooperated with the police to set up checkpoints on the five passages and ferries entering and leaving Huliao to check pedestrians. Every fair day, the defense is stricter.Huliao has become a well-known reactionary fortress.Pulling out the enemy's important stronghold, as the first battle of the spring offensive when our frontier troops turned into a strategic offensive, not only has important military significance, but also has important political influence. In mid-December 1948, Liu Yongsheng, the commander of the Frontier Column, and Zhu Manping, the deputy political commissar, arranged for the Raohe Pufeng Border District County Party Committee to learn about the enemy's situation in Huliao, and asked Chen Weilin, a member of the political office of the regiment who lived in Huliao Street, to learn about the situation. The company commander of the 1st regiment secretly sneaked into Huliao to scout the enemy's situation on the spot, and sent Huang Keyong, the deputy political commissar of the 1st Bianzong regiment, and Xu Da, the chief of staff, to investigate the marching route.In this way, a detailed on-the-spot investigation was conducted on the enemy's dynamics, fortifications and facilities at Wuhu Mountain, the assembly positions of our troops, the route of attacking Wuhu Mountain and the enemy's detour back to Huliao Street; campsite, etc.Finally, the head of Bianzong made a combat deployment: use the 1st and 4th companies of the 1st Bianzong Regiment to annihilate the enemies on Wuhu Mountain, and the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th companies to annihilate the enemies in Fudiping and Huliao Street.The 5th Brigade of the Han Dong Independent Brigade, the 3rd Regiment of the Western Fujian Brigade, and the 2nd Regiment of the First Bianzong Brigade of our army contained the enemies of Sanheba, Gaopi, Dapu County, and Songkou respectively to ensure the victory of the Huliao battle.The date of the attack on Huliao was set for the morning of January 10. On the evening of the 8th, the Bian 1 Regiment set out from Gangtou Village under the leadership of Commander Liu Yongsheng and Deputy Political Commissar Zhu Manping.Before dawn, the troops arrived at the foot of Maoshan Mountain and took a rest for a day in the bamboo forest near Jinguan Village.After nightfall, continue to drive towards Huliao despite the severe cold. At around 1 am on the 10th, the troops arrived at Kuikeng Village, south of Wuhu Mountain in Huliao.It is 3 kilometers away from Huliao and is the scheduled troop assembly point.The troops are lightly loaded here, making final preparations before the attack. Commander Liu Yongsheng conducted a brief mobilization of the troops, requiring that the battle should start at 5 o'clock as stipulated, emphasizing that the raid should be concealed, fast, and sure to win.Commander Liu said: "Huliao is a piece of fat. It is good to have more guns there, but the enemy's combat effectiveness is not strong. In this surprise attack, the enemy can only be wiped out and the guns handed over. Come here. Otherwise, the fat will turn into bones".Then, Commander Liu called on everyone to have a competition to kill the enemy and hand in the gun, and proposed that whoever handed in the machine gun would have his name engraved on the butt of the gun. After the mobilization of Commander Liu, the head of the regiment Liao Qizhong, the deputy head Chen Yuguang, and the deputy political commissar Huang Keyong led the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th companies, and the chief of staff Xu Da led the 1st company and the 4th company to advance to the attack target separately.When Head Liao and his team circled Wuhu Mountain from the left, passed Dashaba and entered near Hushan Middle School, there were already bursts of gunshots when they raided the enemy on Wuhu Mountain.Commander Liao immediately ordered the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th companies to run to attack the planned targets in Fudiping and Jieli, and at the same time blocked Wuhushan Middle School with a force.After more than half an hour of fighting, most of the defending enemies on Wuhu Mountain were wiped out.The self-defense brigade stationed in Fudi Pinghe Street, the district government, and the police station were wiped out under the attacks of the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th companies, and the rest fled along the streets and alleys. After dawn, the 2nd company and the 5th company each climbed over the wall and entered Hushan Middle School, and captured 10 self-defense troops guarding the ordnance warehouse and 10 Kuomintang military instructors stationed in Huzhong. The enemies of Sanheba, Gaopi and Dapu counties were afraid of being ambushed and did not dare to come to the aid of Huliao.Rao Bangtai, the mayor of Dapu County, was worried about the loss of the county seat. He urgently sent a message to the 12th Security Regiment of Songkou, asking for more troops to ensure the safety of the county seat.The Bao 12th Regiment sent a battalion to Tai Po, and was ambushed by the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Detachment of our army when passing through Gaopikeng in Pingsha, with one casualty. During the battle in Huliao, a total of 68 enemies were killed, wounded, and captured, and 4 mortars, 11 light and heavy machine guns, 16 submachine guns and carbines, more than 130 long and short guns, more than 20,000 bullets, 2 transceivers, There are 3 military horses and a large number of other military supplies. The enemy self-defense forces that were not eliminated in this battle were reorganized later.After the joint instigation of the Handong Prefectural Committee and the Western Fujian Prefectural Committee, the uprising took place on February 10, 1949 under the leadership of the new captain Liu Yingji. Password: "Ani, take out my shoes" The 1st Battalion of the KMT's Guangdong Security Independence Battalion is well-equipped with excellent weapons and equipment. The battalion commander Lan Juchu has 4 companies under his jurisdiction, and the 1st company is its main force. In January 1949, after serious research, the headquarters of the 1st Brigade of our side decided that "to capture the thief first, capture the king", and to eliminate the "Blue Battalion", the 1st company, its main force, must first be knocked out.Not long after, the Songyuan District Committee sent information that the Songyuan Baokeng Liao House was stationed in an enemy company, which was known to be the first company, the main force of the "Blue Battalion".This is exactly what our army wants to attack. Liaowu is a village with more than 30 households located in the northwest of the mountain. There is a small river in front of the village, and dry land and rice fields behind the village. In order to further find out the situation, the headquarters assigned Xie Qianzan to bring 2 guards into the village in disguise for on-the-spot reconnaissance.They found that the company's resident was a rectangular two-story "joint building" at the head of the village near the small river.There is only one gate downstairs, and all the enemies live upstairs. The large window facing the gate downstairs is the place where machine guns are set up. Behind the building is the main road, and there are sentry sheds on the road.According to a fellow villager, when this group of people did not go out in the daytime, there were sentries on both sides of the sentry shed and the gate to monitor the pedestrians.All were withdrawn at night, the gate was closed, and there was a soldier guarding the gate. When someone went to the bathroom at night, they had to register their names. If the names did not match when they came back, the door would not be opened.Then, Liao Yueguang, a poor farmer living next door to the enemy, provided details about the main company of the "Blue Battalion": This company has a total of 90 people, equipped with 1 heavy machine gun, 3 light machine guns, 5 short guns, and rifles. Eighty or ninety, 3 grenade cartridges, and 2 grenades. They eat breakfast at 8:30 every morning. The officials eat upstairs, and the soldiers eat downstairs. They don't bring weapons.He suggested that according to this law of activity, it is the best time to attack and annihilate the enemy while the meal is open. Under the soil in front of the enemy's garrison, there are two rows of small houses, which are used as toilets, pig nests, and utility rooms.For example, if the troops lay in ambush in advance in the miscellaneous room where the straw is piled up the night before, when the enemy is having breakfast the next day, he will issue a signal, and the troops will rush out to destroy the enemy.The agreed code was, "Sister Annie, take out my shoes." The detachment commander Zheng Jinwang and the others thought this method was good and they could refer to it. The detachment headquarters decided to take action on February 13 (the evening of the Lantern Festival in the old calendar).Zheng Jinwang and the others then secretly notified Liao Yueguang of the decision, asking him to make all preparations and pay close attention to the enemy's every move.The headquarters selected 24 people to form two short and capable commandos, each equipped with a pistol, and Xie Qianzan served as the captain.Xie Qianzan divided the commando team into 4 commando groups, assigned tasks to each, and explained in detail the matters needing attention when concealing an ambush and launching a surprise attack. After dinner on February 13, the detachment commander Zheng Jinwang and the deputy political commissar were mobilizing for battle. Xie Qianzan, deputy head of the 2nd regiment and commando captain, announced the list of 4 commando groups and team leaders.The troops were immediately ready to go. At 10 o'clock in the evening, the troops set off on time and successfully arrived at the river embankment near Liao's house.At this time, the commando captain issued an order from the headquarters: to implement the second combat plan-to capture the enemy soldiers who came out to defecate at night.The commando leader led the third group to perform the task of capturing prisoners.There are 4 single-person toilets under the gate. The team leader assigned the 4 comrades in the third group to each occupy one. He went to call the door. The commando leader hid himself in an abandoned pigsty next to him, and went out to check every 15 minutes to prevent the team members from falling asleep.But God is not good, the weather was very cold that night, it was more than 4 o'clock in the morning, and not a single enemy came out to go to the toilet.At 5 o'clock in the morning on the 13th, Xie Qianzan had no choice but to withdraw the team and decided to act according to the third plan-to make a surprise attack when the enemy had breakfast. Group 1 and Group 3 are responsible for assault. After hearing the signal, they rush into the enemy's garrison step by step, rush upstairs to destroy the resisting enemies, and collect weapons and supplies; Sentinels; the fourth group is responsible for monitoring and guarding the prisoners downstairs.After the task was issued, my commando entered the room where Liao Yueguang piled up the straw to hide.The warriors maintained a high degree of vigilance and silence, waiting for Liao Yueguang's signal. At 8:30, the enemy's normal breakfast time has long passed, but they have not heard the signal for action. At 9:30, there was a burst of whistles and shouts, and the enemy had dinner.At this moment, Liao Yueguang shouted: "Sister Ani, take out my shoes." As soon as he heard the signal, the commando leader immediately ordered: "The whole team goes out!" camp. 第1组不顾蹲在门坪吃饭的敌人，径直冲进敌楼上住房。 第2组、第3组紧跟着冲了出来，马上向敌兵开枪射击。敌人被打得晕头转向，鬼哭狼嚎，几名敌军官束手待擒。在我突击队的迅猛攻击下，敌人根本无法招架，大部分成了我军的俘虏。 这一仗只用了10分钟就胜利结束。我军共打死打伤敌人10多名，生俘70多名，缴获重机枪1挺、轻机枪6挺、短枪3支、步枪60余支、掷弹筒2支、枪榴弹筒6支、各种子弹1万余发、军用物资一大批。我方仅伤1人。 敌人1个连被消灭的消息传到松源新圩后，驻在该地的营部2个连十分恐慌，第二天上午，蓝举初带着剩下的2个连，夹着尾巴往松口逃跑了。宝坑战斗后，我军乘胜进军，解放了以松源为中心的抗武蕉梅大片地区，在梅州地区最早建立了区、乡人民政权，并加强了农会和民兵的建设。 敌连长张爱群被俘后，经我军教育有所转变。他写信劝说该营另1名连长起义投向人民解放军。边区党委又通过该连长向该营营长蓝举初开展工作。后来，蓝举初也率部在蕉岭起义。粤东大起义 在粤东地区我人民武装与敌人开展武装斗争的同时，争取了梅州区专员李洁之等人的起义，使梅州地区7县和平解放。 李洁之过去是第三党(后改称中国农工民主党)创始人邓演达先生的旧部，对邓素怀崇仰。对该党一向反对蒋介石独裁、实行民主政治的主张，极表同情与支持。抗日战争胜利后，李洁之在政治上所凭藉与支持的余汉谋的粤系部队被蒋介石陆续分化瓦解，同时看到蒋介石撕毁旧政协决议，勾结美帝国主义发动内战，亦深恶痛绝，乃于1947年5月前往汕头市，决意改行以经营海洋渔业为名，联系一些旧军政人员和社会人士，组织力量，配合当时各界进行反独裁、反内战的民主运动，借以建立反蒋的一种政治势力。 是年秋，先后被蒋介石从军队中排挤出来的莫希德、练惕生、林君勋都陆续来到汕头市闲住。李洁之也再次由广州经香港到达汕头市，正式开办中国渔业公司。他们原是云南讲武堂的同学，李洁之和他们则是粤系部队的旧同事，平日交情很好，彼此无话不谈。 大家在晤谈中，共同为政治无出路而感到苦闷，都想乘内战的机会重握兵权，伺机反蒋，以便东山再起。经过一番考虑后，李洁之便对他们说：“你们的意见很好，不过要在蒋介石手上取得兵权不是容易的事。 据说现在师长以上的人选，都由蒋亲自核定，大家想想有什么方法可以打破这一关？”李洁之想了一下，又说：“不过现在有一个机会，可以考虑。宋子文新任广东省政府主席，黄镇球为广东省保安副司令，负责军事。如果我们真要活动的话，乘他用人之际，不如去活动行政区的督察专员兼保安司令来干。 这个职务地位不高，不为人所注意，但既有地盘又有兵力，很为适宜。凭我们过去与宋、黄的一些关系，比较容易弄到手，”李洁之这个意见得到大家的支持。听李洁之这一番话之后，众人都十分兴奋，决定趁热打铁，推李洁之马上行动。 第2天(10月5日)，李洁之即乘飞机到广州。到达广州后，李洁之马上去找罗梓材，将他们几人在汕头商谈的事情告诉他。罗表示自己不搞行政区督察专员，而愿从旁帮助，促成其事。 次日清早，李洁之又到沙面胜利大厦去找黄镇球，李洁之推举廖鸣欧、莫希德、梁世骥、练惕生为行政区专员人选。黄镇球满口答应一定向宋推荐。尔后，李洁之又去找广东省民政厅厅长徐景唐，请他对此事从中予以帮忙。过半月，粤省府决定琼崖系的张光琼为惠州区专员，特务头目喻英奇为潮州区专员，四军系的曾举直为梅州区专员，而李洁之所提议的人则全部落空。嗣后，练惕生和林君石示亲往福州活动，亦无结果。一时，大家都感到很是失望，认为此路不通，必须另找门径。 不久，喻英奇赴任军职，对莫希德大事拉拢。李洁之乘机建议莫希德去担任他的副指挥，尔后转任潮州区行政督察专员，以后以练惕生继任副指挥。取得他们的同意后，李洁之又到广州替他们活动。过几天，广州绥靖公署便决定莫为闽粤边区“剿共”副指挥，大约不到1个月，即调任潮州区专员。以后，莫便释放了张维真等一批政治犯，并设法阻止了喻英奇一次动员5个步兵营去围剿八乡山的人民游击队。此时，廖鸣欧托人在南京活动，取得孙科的介绍，亦当上了惠州区专员。不久，练惕生的副指挥也拿到手了。只是梅州区专员一职，仍在继续设法争取。 1948年12月中旬，当淮海战役紧锣密鼓的时候，前任蒋介石的侍从室主任钱人钧由南京飞来广州，李洁之在黄镇球公馆见了他，两人深入交换了对形势的看法，此次会晤和交谈对李洁之思想起了非常深刻的影响。李洁之想，国民党不但垮定了，而且将垮得很快。现在的问题不只是推倒蒋介石的问题，而应该怎样来适应这个急转直下形势。 今后粤东方面，只有组织起义，投靠共产党，才是唯一可走的道路。李洁之一面将这些情况和自己的想法，转告廖、莫、练诸人，并要求他们在思想上作好准备；一面通过关系，在香港见了中共方面的谭天度同志。谭天度对李洁之倾向进步表示热忱欢迎，同时鼓励李洁之去广州国民党政权中抓住一部分实力，以掩护共产党的地下工作人员活动和保护公有财产不受破坏。 1949年3月中旬，余汉谋、薛岳、张建以李洁之是粤系部队的老干部为由，商定要李洁之去担任梅州行政区督察专员兼保安司令。这正合李洁之他们把粤东、闽西各行政区联成一片，互相支持，共同行动的心愿。便欣然应召来广州，准备接受这一任命，并决定在赴任前，先与中共方面取得联系，征求同意。3月23日，李洁之又会见了中共方面的饶彰风、黄声两同志。4月9日，中共华南分局书记方方同志通过地下党员陈汉欣的联系，约李洁之去谈话。 李洁之向他报告了广东军事、政治、经济情况，余、薛、张对时局的看法和态度，以及李洁之要联合廖鸣欧、莫希德、李汉冲和练惕生等人准备起义等情况后，方方指示李洁之说：“你接任梅州区专员后，请尽可能释放政治犯，设法向外采购米粮接济民众和准备迎接南下大军。至于起义时间，因你们实力不厚，为避免国民党反动派的进击，最好在解放大军到达边境时才行动。 同时还要利用向上级述职的名义，多到广州策动余汉谋反正过来，以减少战争的灾祸”。4月23日拂晓，李洁之秘密离开汕头，经由揭阳、汤坑、丰顺前往兴宁，于24日下午抵达目的地。5月1日上午，李洁之以很简单的仪式接任了梅州即第9区行政督察专员兼保安司令职。随即委任林君勐为副司令兼军事处长，陈伟霖为政务处长，李则谋为主任秘书，对旧人员留用很少。5月2日下午，曾天节、魏鉴贤和魏汉新的代表魏正明以及蓝举初的代表李昌庆，先后来到兴宁县与李洁之商议联合起义事项，陈郁萍也出席了会议。 这次商议，起义日期虽没有确定下来，但彼此的政治态度已得到互相了解，并建立了合作关系，打下了起义时互相支持的基础。关于粤东起义时间，李洁之原来设想，是5月20日左右与各方会议后，至解放大军到达边境时为妥。现在客观形势发生了变化，只好按各自的情况分别在驻地起义了。 5月上旬梅州地委书记廖伟，陈仲平派干部陈伯鳞在松口附近约李昌庆、蓝举初会面，按地委关于鼓励国民党军队中一部分人首先起义的方针，劝说蓝举初、李昌庆首先起义立功。并经地委批准，决定由蓝举初的独1营于5月14日在蕉岭县城起义，攻打国民党蕉岭县政府与县自卫大队，配合我军1支队解放蕉岭县城。 蓝举初接受这一决定，布置李昌庆等按计划执行；蓝举初营在松口按闽粤赣边纵命令出发，于5月14日解放了蕉岭县。县长陈英杰逃走，县政府由中共梅州地委派钟化雨、黄德维等同志接管。大埔县由闽粤赣边纵派兵于5月12日解放。县长侥邦泰率部投降，后潜逃。 14日正午以后，兴宁县长途电站站站长罗蔚材连续转来电话说，曾天节团与列应佳团在老隆，不知因何发生冲突。李洁之获得这个消息后，知道曾团已去进攻反动的列应佳团。随即告诉林君勤、陈郁萍，并用电话转告梅县县长张君燮和驻军营长孔昭泉，立即宣布戒严准备支援曾团作战。 15日正午，李洁之又由长途电话站获知被围于老隆的保5团部队(后查明是保4师师部直属部队)和列应佳亲率1个营由彭寨来向老隆增援，企图挽救其灭亡的命运，均已被曾团协同粤赣湘边纵林镜秋支队将之全部歼灭，列反以身免，逃回东水率残部负隅顽抗，其后亦被曾团派乓前往解决，并解放了和平县，同日下午2时，曾大节派人打电话给李洁之说：“列团在老隆一带的部队已被解决，龙川县宣告解放。” 再说15日这天早晨，张润进营长应约由匠华县来见李洁之，在谈话中，李洁之发现他举棋不定。最后，李洁之对他说，我们和曾天节团长已经接受中国共产党领导，实行联合起义，反对蒋介石的统治。于是，张下决心，表示愿即率部反正，听从驱使。李洁之便请他回去协同杨竟华县长办理五华解放事宜。后来五华反动县长杨竞华弃职潜逃，该县由张主持和平解放，县政由粤赣湘边纵派张日和、魏麟基同志前往接管。在梅州松口的魏汉新团长，曾于5月13日打电报来表示，将肖曾团采取一致行动。 17日早，魏汉新团和张君燮县长在梅县宣布起义。魏鉴贤是魏汉新的旧族叔，第一次国内革命战争时期曾参加革命组织，大革命失败后长期在国民党政府机关任职。1948年冬，他曾到香港找到中共中央香港分局统战组长饶彰风，表明自己希望回到革命队伍中来。 为了争取魏汉新尽快定下起义决心，边区党委从各方面做了大量工作。4月初，中共中央华南分局(此时中共香港分局改称华南分局)把魏鉴贤大松口保12团策动起义的情况通知中共闽粤赣边区党委，要区党委迅速派人与魏鉴贤取得联系。4月下旬与5月上旬，在与魏鉴贤取得联系后，区党委又先后两次派区党委财委副主任陈明，与魏鉴贤、魏汉新等见面会谈，敦促魏汉新早下决心，弃暗投明。 保11团团长魏汉新经过反复思考，在保13团宣布起义和大埔、蕉岭2县城又被解放的影响下，于15日率直属队及第3营从松口到达梅城。在未与我军联系商量的情况下，于16日先把国民党驻梅城军政机关看管起来，又把所有仓库物资，武器弹药，银行存款等全部收缴，然后于17日宣布起义。梅县自卫队2个大队共500多人，被勒令放下的武器，弹药和物资也全部被没收。 17日，保12团在梅城宣布起义，王维即通知梅州地委立即率1支队直属团从蕉岭南下到梅城北郊曾龙岌驻下，并建议地委命令已起义的省保独1营从白渡开到梅城东郊驻下。 在兴宁，李洁之于17日早，便请县长陈郁萍约集兴宁县各界代表召开座谈会，告诉他们，李洁之、陈郁萍已接受中国共产党领导，实行起义。18日，陈郁萍县长即发布兴宁和平解放布告。李洁之也以梅州区专保公署的名义，补发一电报给所属各县，电报说：“第9行政区已接受中国共产党领导，实行起义，脱离国民党政府，希各县宣布和平解放所属文武机关人员，各守岗位，保管公共财物，维持治安秩序，听候中共派员接管。”不久，丰顺县亦由闽粤赣边区纵队解放。从5月中旬至6月上旬，历时半个多月，经过紧张的战斗，尖锐复杂的斗争，整个梅州地区7县(五华由粤赣湘边纵解放)获得了解放。 此时，李洁之一面于5月20日将起义详情打电报向中共华南分局报告；一面于22日前往梅县与闽粤赣边区纵队负责同志计议进兵韩江下游，解放潮汕，以扩大影响。其后，梅州地区7县的行政人员多数安排在人民政府工作，保安团队改编为中国人民解放军，大家走上了新生。李洁之他们得到毛主席、朱总司令来电嘉许。闽粤赣边区纵队也来信庆贺。