Chapter 8 Chapter 07 The Underground Struggle in Central Guangdong

In June 1946, after our Dongjiang Column withdrew northward, Ye Hansheng moved to Hong Kong.Yin Linping, the head of the Guangdong Party Committee, talked to Ye Hansheng and said: "Now the organization has decided to send you to Guangzhou, Jiang's administrative area, to do business and make money, so as to solve the economic difficulties of the party organization." Li Jianxing, deputy director of the Guangdong Finance Committee of the Communist Party of China, sent Ye Hansheng and Chen Pei to Guangzhou Work at the "Guanglanxiang" firm in the city.Li Jianxing said to Ye Hansheng and the others earnestly: "You two must keep in mind, first, you are only allowed to make money, not to lose money. The Hong Kong dollars given to you are not much, and the Kuomintang's currency depreciates several times a day. Remember to maintain the value of the Hong Kong dollar , that is, if you don’t see the money, you need to see the goods, and if you sell the goods, you must get back Hong Kong dollars, otherwise you will make mistakes. Second, you must make friends and establish extensive social relations to protect yourself. We can use social funds as our Operating capital, so that we can use small capital to do big business and make big money.” After Ye Hansheng arrived in “Guangxingxiang”, the manager Ye Shi discussed with them and decided that Chen Pei would stay in the store in Guangzhou and sent Ye Hansheng to Zhanjiang City Yikan opened a new store. After Ye Hansheng came to Chikan, he established a salt business name "Nan Xingxiang" on Chikan Seaside Street (now Minzhu Avenue) and acted as the manager himself.

Ye Hansheng's cousin, Ye Weihao, was the deputy commander of the Zhanjiang division of the Kuomintang. Ye Hansheng, as deputy commander Ye's cousin and a well-known salt merchant in Zhanjiang City, dealt with the upper echelons of the Kuomintang's Zhanjiang municipal, military, and financial circles to facilitate expansion. Business. During September and October 1947, the price of salt in Guangzhou City increased, and all the salt from the Wushi Salt Field in Haikang County and the Donghai Salt Field in the suburbs of Zhanjiang City was purchased by Ye Hansheng’s store. The store staff Ye Lou and Ye Ruilin went to the East China Sea to load the salt and planned to accompany the ship. When I went to Guangzhou, something unexpected happened unexpectedly.

Ye Hansheng thought: "The army and police station in Zhanjiang City have a very good relationship with my shop, and they won't play tricks on me. These gunmen may be sent by local bullies!" Soon, Ye Hansheng received a message from the Kuomintang Communication Bureau. Zhang Fusen, the director of Qiong Zhan's workstation, invited him to a game shop for dinner.Ye Hansheng attended the appointment on time. At the entrance of the restaurant, Zhang Kai and his wife greeted Ye Hansheng with a happy face.It turned out that Mrs. Zhang was Ye Hansheng's dance buddy who often danced in the dance hall. When they met, they felt that the atmosphere was harmonious.After Ye Hansheng and the others sat down, Zhang Fusen said hypocritically: "Because my subordinates were ignorant and did something they should not have done, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to you."

Ye Hansheng also pretended to be high-profile and said: "I am treating you tonight. Although Director Zhang and I have never planned to pay a visit, we have known Mrs. Zhang for a long time. We should know each other from now on. If you need Director Zhang again, please take care of him. As for Donghai For salt, I will transfer it to you unconditionally. Tomorrow we will send people to the East China Sea together, and hand over the procedures completed by my shop to you, and you will send people to accompany the ship to Guangzhou to hand over to 'Guang Xingxiang' for sale."

Knowing the relationship between Ye Hansheng and Ye Weihao, Zhang Fusen politely declined.The turmoil ended in this way, and they often communicated with each other in the future.Mrs. Zhang told Ye Hansheng about Zhang's activities, when she went there and when she came back.Ye Hansheng was familiar with the internal and external conditions of his family. On March 3, 1948, Li Jianxing called Ye Hansheng to Hong Kong to accept the task of escorting Xiaolin (Liang Guang) to work on Zhuannan Road in Zhanjiang City.First, Ye Hansheng escorted Liang Guang from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, and then went to Zhanjiang on a civilian ship carrying military supplies from the 10th KMT Protection Regiment.Ye Hansheng, his wife Mailan and shop assistant Ye Ruilin accompanied Liang Guang to Zhanjiang on the boat.

The next day, Ye Hansheng hosted a banquet at the Nanhua Hotel for his cousin Ye Weihao and Chen Yilin, the head of the Bao 10 Regiment. During the dinner, he introduced Liang Guang to them.After dinner, everyone took a walk on the street together to expand their influence, so that the spies and military police had no doubts about Liang Guang.At the beginning of April of the same year, under the arrangement of Ye Hansheng, Liang Guang successfully arrived at the location of the party leadership of the South Road guerrilla zone, and served as the secretary of the party committee of the Guangdong-Guangxi border area and the chairman of the temporary military committee of the Guangdong-Guangxi border area.

In July 1948, Liang Guang sent Wen Zhuohua, Secretary of the Gaolei District Committee, to contact Ye Hansheng about our army's attack on Chikan.After Ye Hansheng described the latest enemy situation he had mastered to Wen in detail, he put forward his own vision for this battle: 1. Hosted a banquet for officers above the company commander of the 10th Regiment at the Nanhua Hotel in his own name.During the banquet, arrest them and ask them to order the entire regiment to surrender. This will reduce the casualties of our army and be clean and tidy; but if the enemy does not surrender, it will be against us after a long time and will expose their identities , is dangerous to your own shop.

2. To lure the enemy to a place other than Suixi County, our army took advantage of the emptiness and concentrated its forces to destroy the enemy who stayed in Chikan. Because the enemy's law against our army is to find the target, they will concentrate 2 battalions to pursue and suppress, leaving 1 A battalion guards Chikan. At this time, our army can concentrate on destroying the remaining enemies.After leadership research, it was decided to adopt the second option. Then, regardless of personal safety, Wen Zhuohua personally led several scouts, accompanied by Ye Hansheng, to go deep into the tiger's den and "visit" the enemy battalion commander at the enemy camp.The enemy battalion commander who didn't know the truth, because Ye Hansheng was the younger brother of the deputy commander of the Zhanjiang division, was very enthusiastic about Ye Hansheng's visit, and also led Ye Hansheng and the others to visit the defense facilities of the battalion, so that Ye Hansheng and the others had a clear understanding of the enemy's situation. I know what I know and I have a plan in mind.At the same time, Ye Hansheng also provided Wen Zhuohua with information about Zhang Fusen.Later, Ye Hansheng cleverly and flexibly completed the tasks assigned by the party organization many times, not only earning money, but also providing the party organization with a lot of valuable information.

Another big boss who is fighting in the heart of the enemy is Wu Youheng, the South Road Special Commissioner of the Guangdong District Party Committee of the Communist Party of China. At the beginning of 1946, in order to strengthen the underground work in the Zhanjiang area, the Party Committee of the Guangdong District of the Communist Party of China decided to send Wu Youheng and Zeng Zhen to Zhanjiang City immediately. In charge of part of the work of the party organization in Zhanjiang City. In May 1946, Wu Youheng and Zeng Zhen dressed up as "big bosses" and "rich wives", escorted by Yang Keyi, and arrived in Zhanjiang after several rounds.In Zhanjiang, Zeng Zhen and the others met Wen Zhuohua, a special commissioner of the South Road. Wen Zhuohua introduced the struggle in the South Road to Zeng Zhen and the others in detail.Soon, Lao Wu took over his job.Then, Zeng Zhen and the others met with comrades from the local party organization one after another.

According to the situation that the Kuomintang Zhanjiang authorities were hunting down Communist Party members and progressives, the party organization decided that all comrades whose identities had been exposed were withdrawn from Zhanjiang City, and other comrades would strive to gain legal status and continue to fight in the center of the enemy's rule.When Wu Youheng and the others first arrived in Zhanjiang City, they first had to hide themselves well, so as to facilitate the development of their work.Therefore, Wu Youheng's public identity is the big boss of "Changfa Village", and Zeng Zhen is the boss's wife.

When he usually goes out to do business and socialize, Wu Youheng is always well-dressed, and when he talks about business, he speaks clearly and generously.Zeng Zhen permed her curly hair, wore a colorful silk cheongsam, and wore a shining gold chain, becoming a "boss lady" full of style and jewels. "Changfazhuang" self-raised 250,000 yuan in French currency, and the party organization selected Li Jiang, Li Guang, Lin Yujing, Wu Jinchu (Wu Dezhong) as shop assistants, and used local connections to do business with the "98" line (wholesalers). Deals in coffee beans, pepper, silk, cloth, jade, jewellery, raw rubber and beer.Lijiang division of labor solicited business, and got acquainted with the nearby Kuomintang Zhanjiang City Party Headquarters and Zhanjiang Bank, and often received some business. Later, the business expanded, and "Changfazhuang" was changed to "Heyuanhang", and some reliable relatives were found to work as employees of the firm.Also do business in Shuidong, Jiangmen and other places.Therefore, in addition to using the route from Zhanjiang to Hong Kong, the South Road party organization also opened up a traffic route from Shuidong to Hong Kong via Jiangmen.With everyone's joint efforts, "Heyuanhang" has been well concealed, and its business has become more and more prosperous. It has become one of the three famous merchants in Chikan and solved some economic difficulties for the party organization.Wu Youheng and the others were still in this firm, receiving and covering the leading comrades Lin Meinan, Zuo Hongtao, Qian Xing, Ou Chu, etc. sent by the Hong Kong branch.Secretly transmitted party documents, books, and radio stations many times. Chen Yida is from Xinlu District, a suburb of Chikan, and the organization sent him to run for the post of security chief.Using this special identity, he collected a lot of information about the Kuomintang Zhanjiang government and army.Chen Yida's public occupation is a peanut oil businessman in Chikan. Zeng Zhen often goes to his oil store as the proprietress of "Heyuanhang" to discuss the market of peanut oil, in fact to get information.After returning home, quickly use rice soup to write the information in smaller fonts on a small piece of paper and fold it up, let Tan De secretly hide it on his body, go out and hand it over to me at the underground transportation station, and transfer it to the army for the benefit of The leaders of the troops made new deployments for the struggle against the enemy. Once, Zhang Shaozhang, who was sent by the Guangdong District Party Committee to Qiongya Column to do radio work, and another lesbian traveled from Hong Kong to Hainan Island via Zhanjiang City.Due to an accident with the traffic staff, they had to stay in Xiying (now Xiashan, Zhanjiang City), 12 kilometers away from Chikan.In this way, it will not only affect the connection between the Qiongya Column Radio Station and the Party Central Committee and the Hong Kong Branch, but also if you stay in Xiying for a long time, it will easily attract the attention of the enemy and expose your identity.So, Zeng Zhen ran non-stop, and through the underground relationship of our party, helped them get ID cards and buy train tickets, so that they arrived in Hainan Island smoothly and transferred to Qiongzong soon. In western Guangdong, the Nanlu party group led the Nanlu people to resume armed struggle earlier and faster. In the first half of 1947, the armed forces grew to 6,000 to 7,000 people, and the People's Liberation Army of the Guangdong-Guangxi border area was established; the former anti-Japanese guerrilla bases Suixi and Suilian border areas and Lian (Jiang), Hua (zhou), and Wu ( Sichuan) and other areas successively restored and established the people's regime. The guerrilla warfare gradually expanded to various places along the South Road and some counties in the Guangdong-Guangxi border area, posing a considerable threat to the enemy. In order to consolidate its rear, the Chiang Kai-shek reactionary clique intensified its campaign against our armed forces in South China from the second half of 1947. In October, after Song Ziwen took control of Guangdong, he focused on strengthening the "encirclement and suppression" of the People's Liberation Army in the Guangdong-Guangxi border area.He replaced Chen Pei, the director of the provincial security police, as the "commander in charge of suppressing the Communists on the South Road", and transferred the 1st, 2nd, 9th, and 10th regiments of the provincial security police, 2 battalions of the 92nd brigade, and 2 battalions of the Guangxi security team. A brigade, and gathered the local reactionary armed forces on South Road, with a total strength of more than 10,000. Starting from the winter of 1947, they adopted bunker encroachment and shuttle search and suppression tactics, focusing on attacking guerrilla bases such as Huazhou, Wuchuan, Suixi, and Lianjiang, in an attempt to wipe them out in one fell swoop. The main force of our army, destroy our base. The Guangdong-Guangxi Border Region Committee of the Communist Party of China led the army and civilians in the whole region to launch an arduous anti-encirclement and suppression struggle against the enemy for several months, and the camera dealt a powerful blow to the enemy.However, due to the superiority in the number of enemy troops and weapons and equipment, and our army made some mistakes in the implementation of policies and military affairs, the Huawu base area fell to the enemy again, and the main force of our army retreated to the Suilian area. The room for maneuver was reduced. Lack of, increasing difficulties. At the end of 1947, according to the instructions of the Hong Kong Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Guangdong-Guangxi Border Area Committee decided to mobilize the main force to form The two armies marched westward to the Shiwanda Mountains and eastward to central Guangdong. The Eastern Expedition Force was composed of some companies drawn from the three regiments, named the Eastern Expedition Detachment, with 3 battalions, 8 companies, and about 800 people.Ou Chu, a member of the Guangdong-Guangxi Border Area Committee and director of the political department of the army, served as the commander and political commissar of the detachment. He also transferred the heads of the regiment Huang Fei, Huang Dongming, and Tu Mingkun, Luo Ming, the political commissar of the regiment, and Chen Jun, the director of the political department, to form a leadership team and lead the troops eastward. sign.After the establishment of the Eastern Expedition Detachment, it concentrated in the North District of Suixi County and carried out various preparations.It is mainly to establish a command organization and a political work organization, establish a party committee, study the combat policy and plan of the march, carry out political and ideological mobilization, raise funds and replenish ammunition and materials. After many efforts, thousands of rounds of ammunition were added, with an average of more than 20 rounds per person. On April 5, 1948, the troops set off at Changyang Village, North District, Suixi County, and embarked on a journey to central Guangdong.The first combat task faced by the Eastern Expedition Detachment was to quickly covertly pass through the enemy's blockade. The leaders of the detachment believed that the enemy in the northern part of Lianjiang and the northern part of Huazhou was relatively weak, and our army had a certain mass base, which was more beneficial to the movement of the troops. Determined to rush to the middle of Lianjiang first, then turn to the northeast, and intersperse from the border of Lianjiang and Luchuan to the northern part of Huazhou: If the enemy intercepts, quickly annihilate those who can be wiped out; Don't love to fight, don't fight recklessly, use quick actions to break through the enemy's blockade and encirclement by surprise.The troops left Yangcun, traveled at night and stayed at dawn, passed through the old districts of Xintang and Longwan, and arrived at Dengcaozhang at dawn on the third day. The "enemy security team" did not dare to act rashly, and our army passed smoothly.The troops walked 5 kilometers and arrived at Nanmu Water Village.This is a small village with only more than 10 dilapidated houses in a hilly pit. A few days ago, the local people were repeatedly suppressed by the enemy and their property was looted. Now I am very happy to see that my team has returned. They gathered together one after another, pouring out the atrocities of the enemy.The troops decided to rest and cook here.The detachment headquarters took advantage of the rest time of the troops to study the next course of action. While the troops were eating, the enemy army in the nearby stronghold heard the news and gathered more than 100 people to attack our army.The detachment headquarters ordered the troops to deploy quickly, and charged the enemy violently with the strength of a battalion, and the enemy quickly fled in embarrassment.Our army continued to advance in the direction of Huabei.Small groups of enemy troops along the way shot at our troops intermittently, but none of them dared to approach our troops.After walking for a whole day, we arrived at Panguwang Village at the junction of Lianhua and Hua counties in the evening to camp.In the evening, Comrade Ou Chu convened a meeting with the leaders of the detachment overnight to analyze the situation of the rapid march and battle in the past few days, and to study the next route through the northern part of Huazhou. Huabei is one of the key areas where the enemy wiped out the land. The enemy used the "Returning Home Regiment" to force many large villages to set up reactionary armed forces, organize joint defense, and built bunkers at important intersections, highlands, and passes; The county security police are "stationed to suppress Qingxiang".The enemy situation is serious and heavy fighting is likely.Therefore, the meeting decided that the troops should rest until midnight, march quickly and covertly through the area densely populated by enemy strongholds, and advance to Shandi Township.After several hours of rapid march, they arrived at Tiantangzhang before dawn and settled in the village at the foot of the mountain to rest. At noon, the nearby enemy troops and the "returning regiment" got the news of our army's arrival, and tried to take advantage of our army's unstable foothold to attack our army in two ways.Our army immediately launched a fierce battle with the enemy.The battle lasted until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The enemy was killed and injured by our army, and only two soldiers of our army were injured.As night fell, the detachment headquarters decided to move quickly. The troops descended from the north side of Tiantangzhang, then marched eastward, and handed over the wounded to comrades who persisted in the local struggle for covert treatment.After several days of marching and fighting, the troops did not get a rest and were quite tired.That night, there was another torrential rain, everyone was drenched, the ground was rotten and slippery, and many people fell while walking, making it more difficult and slow for the troops to advance.At dawn, everyone realized that they had worked hard all night, only walked 3 kilometers, and had not yet walked out of Tiantangzhang. In order to quickly pass through the last blockade line in Huabei, the troops continued to speed up the march without stopping. After crossing a section of the border in Luchuan County, they entered Huabei again. After walking less than 5 kilometers, the enemy on the hill in front spotted our army and suddenly attacked us. The army opened fire.This group of enemies is the two squadrons of the Huazhou County Security Police. They were repelled by our army before they had time to set up an ambush when they arrived here. The troops of our army marched in an orderly manner according to the predetermined route and entered the white area.The troops marched rapidly, interspersed among enemy bunkers and stronghold groups, broke through layers of blockades, and appeared in the area ruled by the Kuomintang, which caused great shock to the enemy.Local reactionary leaders, landlords and tyrants fled and hid, not daring to act rashly, and some retreated in their own blockhouses to fight coldly.After receiving the news that our Eastern Expedition Detachment had entered its jurisdiction, Chen Pei, the enemy's "South Road Suppression Commander", hastily dispatched troops in an attempt to pursue our army. The enemy changes and I change.In order to avoid the enemy's pursuit, our army changed the night march to the day march, increasing from 20 to 30 kilometers a day to 30 to 40 kilometers, sometimes up to 50 kilometers.In this way, it took only two days for my Eastern Expedition Detachment to pass through Huabei, cross the Luo River by night, and enter Maoxi.In Likeng, Maoxi, our army encountered a political and police brigade of the intercepting enemy, and fought fiercely for several hours to repel the enemy.Unwilling to fail, the enemy concentrated the strength of two battalions of provincial security police and continued to chase after them. Our army decided not to fight head-on with the enemy and not to fight a war of attrition.After throwing off this enemy force, they quickly moved to Maobei.After the troops entered the new area, their lives were sparse and the roads were unfamiliar. Because they were deceived and intimidated by the enemy, the masses did not dare to approach our army.Our army is not clear enough about the enemy's situation, and the environment is becoming more and more complicated.During the march, our army often had no food because of lack of food or enemy situations. Sometimes we ate one meal a day, sometimes we passed away after eating some porridge or drinking some water, and sometimes we had to pick some wild fruits and vegetables by the side of the road. Edible leaves quench thirst and hunger. In order to publicize the Party's ideas, expose the enemy's shameless rumors, eliminate the misunderstanding of the masses, and expand the influence of our Party and our army, our army, in addition to doing a good job in propaganda work, also places great emphasis on strictly enforcing mass discipline and influencing the masses with practical actions.Troops stationed in villages in the middle of the night, entered houses without knocking, bought things and paid for them, returned borrowed things, compensated for damage, and sometimes left the money where the owner could not be found, so as not to take needles from the masses.Seeing that our army was not like the Kuomintang propaganda, the masses quickly dispelled their fears and dared to approach our army, talk about work, and even introduce the situation, and some even took the initiative to lead our army. Soon, the troops got in touch with Liang Fu and other comrades of the local party in Maobei.According to their introduction, the Mao Telecommunication Industry Committee has opened up a new area in Yunkai Mountain, Xinyi County, which has a certain mass base and established armed forces. The enemy's troops there are relatively empty.So the detachment headquarters decided to march towards the Yunkai Mountains.After a one-day march, the troops crossed the mountains in Maobei, defeated the harassment of small groups of reactionary forces on the road, and arrived at Sifangtian, Xinyi County in the evening.The next day, before dawn, the troops climbed to the mountain behind the village, walked for more than 2 hours along the mountain road, and arrived at Baijiling.At about 8 o'clock, the enemy chased up from behind and fought with the 3rd Battalion serving as the rear guard.This enemy has a force of about 1 battalion. They once ambushed on the road, trying to ambush our army halfway.When the enemy discovered that our army had reached Baijiling, they chased them up from the rear.The detachment headquarters decided to fight back in order to expand the political influence of our army. The enemy was arrogant and attacked the hill guarded by our army many times in a row. They were all killed by cross fire organized by our army and then retreated. They had to stand on the hill and confront our army. By 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy saw that there was nothing to take advantage of. , and was afraid of the night battle, so he had to retreat mournfully.After a night's rest, the troops entered Yunkai Mountain on the second day.Yunkai Mountain is adjacent to Luoding and Guangsiren Mountains in the northeast of Xinyi County. It has undulating peaks, high mountains and dense forests, stretching for tens of miles. The highest mountain is more than 1,000 meters above sea level. The Mao Telecom Working Committee used to work here, and the masses were influenced by our party and were very friendly to our army.So the detachment stayed in some villages on the mountain to rest.Ou Chu held a meeting in time and decided to temporarily use the Yunkai mountainous area as a foothold to mobilize the masses to attack the enemy's reactionary armed forces and open up guerrilla areas; the troops still concentrated their activities to deal with the enemy's invasion and expand its influence. Then, the Dongzheng detachment took the initiative to attack, successively attacked Heichashan, Shazi and other fair towns, seized the reactionary armed forces, broke warehouses to distribute food, and mobilized the masses.These activities had a great impact. On the one hand, many young people asked to join the army, and our army absorbed some new soldiers from them; on the other hand, it shocked the enemy greatly.As the enemy was preparing to mobilize a large number of troops to encircle Yunkai Mountain, in order to avoid a decisive battle with the enemy and gain greater mobility, our East Expedition Detachment decided to leave Yunkai Mountain and continue to move to the West Mountain. It arrived at Xinyihe Water Fair that night.The personnel of the Heshui Township Office and the Township Self-Defense Force had already fled.Our detachment immediately broke warehouses to distribute food, robbed the rich and helped the poor. The troops left Heshui, took the Shangshi Cave, crossed the high mountains shrouded in clouds and mist, marched continuously for 3 days, and reached the upper east of Xishan.Here, the detachment learned that the enemy was dispatching troops to Xishan in an attempt to block our army, and received instructions from the Hong Kong Branch of the CCP to request the Eastern Expeditionary Force to quickly advance to central Guangdong.Ou Chu immediately discussed with other leaders and decided to divide the troops into two groups and advance towards central Guangdong.One route leads the 1st and 3rd Battalions from the detachment headquarters, penetrates to the east of Xishan, crosses the Moyang River, enters the mountainous area in the north of Yangchun, and gets in touch with the leaders of central Guangdong; Contain and confuse the enemy, cover the operations of the detachment headquarters and the 1st and 3rd battalions, then throw the enemy away with the camera, move east across the Moyang River, and enter the northern area of ​​Yangchun to join the detachment headquarters; if the situation changes and it is not suitable to go east for the time being, then Turn back to Maoxin and stand by.After many days of marching, the Eastern Expedition Detachment finally joined the Guangdong Central Army in the Dongshui and Liudong areas. In January 1949, the three major battles of Liaoshen, Pingjin, and Huaihai ended successfully one after another, and the military situation of the Liberation War has entered a new turning point.Taking advantage of this favorable situation, the Guangdong Central Army Subcommittee assembled its main forces. Chairman Feng of the Guangdong Tenth Army Subcommittee and First Vice Chairman Wu Youheng led the 1st Independent Regiment into Luozhen. In mid-April, it was decided that Ou Chu, the second vice-chairman of the Central Guangdong Army Subcommittee, would lead part of the main force of the 1st Independent Regiment to assist the Binhai area in anti-rural "mopping up" and restore old districts and develop new districts. The Binhai area is located in the hinterland of south-central Guangdong, including Taishan and the original Chixi County, Yaxi and Yanan areas in Xinhui County, southern Kaiping and Enping, and eastern Yangjiang.This area has complex terrain, fertile land and dense population. It is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese with developed economy and culture.For more than a year, Liu Yaohuan's Department of the 11th Police Regiment of the enemy Province and Huang Zhiren's Department of the Provincial Guard Group have carried out two major "sweeps" on the Binhai area, occupying Naqin, Weijiao, Zhaimen, Jiujing and other places in our guerrilla area. , Wedge "nails" in my heart area, build more than 20 bunkers and joint defense teams, strengthen the rule of the 9th and 10th districts, and the arrogance is very arrogant.They engaged in the "Reformation Movement" politically, imposed excessive taxes and extortionately on the economy, and the people were in dire straits. In late April 1949, Ou Chu led some troops of the 1st Independent Regiment and the political and industrial corps of the military sub-committee to set off from Enpingdi, and marched rapidly at night, passed the enemy bunkers on the Enping Plain, crossed the Jinjiang River, and advanced forward.Encountered heavy rain on the way, the soldiers were drenched and the load increased. In addition, it was dark and the road was slippery, and many soldiers fell one after another.At five o'clock, the troops arrived at Datian Village on the edge of the Binhai area, rested for a day and continued to advance. On the 22nd, they arrived at Dalongdong, an old area in Taishan. After the troops arrived, they immediately started a struggle and won consecutive battles. On the 23rd, our army broke into Zhaimenwei and confiscated all the armed forces of the enemy's police station and township office; on the 24th, it liberated Shenjing, an important commercial town near the sea in District 10; The joint defense team; on the 25th, opened the Tiantou granary to help the poor; on the 26th, after the Binhai Corps liberated Xiaojiang Wei and Lianhe Wei, they leaped to Yangjiang and liberated Xinzhou; on May 3, our army entered the second largest village in Taishan Wen Village, and liberated several towns such as Yudi, Jiaole, and Hengshan nearby, and destroyed the police station and joint defense team headquarters; , Kaiping City; on the 8th, Shalan and its surrounding Anhexu, Nama Township and Shihexu were liberated.After half a month of the above-mentioned series of battles, our army has shocked Binhai and the enemy is invincible.So far, the coastal guerrilla zone has expanded rapidly and joined together. On May 24, Ou Chu led the main force of the military sub-committee to Shenjingxu, and joined forces with Lin Xinghua, head of the Binhai Corps, and political commissar Xie Shuikuan, who were active in the coastal area.In order to establish a solid base and expand the influence of our party in the hometown of overseas Chinese, on May 25, the People's Government of Taishan County was established in Shenjingxu.Xie Yongkuan, secretary of the Binhai District Working Committee and political commissar of the corps, served as the county magistrate, and Li Guanzhi and Kuang Bingxian served as the deputy county magistrates.On the same day, the county government issued the first announcement, calling on the people of the county to unite and fight for the final elimination of the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang reactionaries and the establishment of the people's new Taishan.That night, every household in Shenjing hung lanterns, and more than 2,000 soldiers and civilians held a grand celebration party. Based on the information we have, our army decided to destroy the enemy's important strongholds in Ennan, Xiao Luo and Da Heng.Xiaoluo is the lair of Wu Renping, captain of the enemy's Self-Defense Forces.The headquarters of the Self-Defense Forces Brigade is located in the "Wenlu" of Wu's family. It is a large house with a blockhouse and walls.Two kilometers away from "Wen Lu" is the 4-story watchtower of Daheng Township Office.The two strongholds echo each other, easy to defend but difficult to attack.Our army decided to adopt a combination of political offensive and military strikes, concentrate superior forces to surround the enemy and force him to surrender.If the stubborn enemy refuses to surrender, a strong attack will be carried out. On June 20, Ou Chu announced the decision and specific combat plan for this battle. On the 21st, using the cover of night, the troops crossed the sea by boat and landed at Shijiao, and quickly surrounded the enemy's stronghold. On the 22nd, just after dawn, the battle began.The soldiers first launched a political offensive, asking the enemy to surrender their guns.However, the enemy entrenched in the Daheng Township Office opened fire, and then the enemy in Xiaoluo also opened fire to resist in an attempt to prevent our army from approaching. Our army took advantage of the outer line of combat and pressed for a close encirclement. At about 10 o'clock, our army received information that hundreds of people from the 3rd Regiment of the enemy's security came from the direction of Nafu for reinforcements. Ou Chu immediately ordered the 4th Regiment of the Guangyang Detachment to be responsible for the reinforcements to ensure the smooth progress of the siege of the stronghold.In order to break down the enemy's strongholds one by one, our army first strengthened its strength and firepower to attack the Daheng Township Office, and at the same time organized the family members of the enemy army to shout in front of the battle. The enemy saw that continuing to resist was a dead end, so they were forced to raise their hands and surrender.Then, the machine gun company of our independent 1st regiment occupied the commanding heights of Xiaoluo, and used heavy machine guns to shoot at the enemy's bunker and "Wenlu" intensively, making the enemy into a mess; at the same time, our army issued an "ultimatum" to Wu Renping, ordering him to surrender immediately Frightened by the mighty power of our army, the enemy finally threw out guns and weapons and waved a white flag to surrender.At dusk, the battle ended victoriously, more than 50 enemies were captured, and a large number of weapons and ammunition were seized.This is a successful battle in which our army used a combination of political offensive and military strike to storm the enemy's stronghold. Under the leadership of Ou Chu, some troops of our independent 1st regiment have fought together with the Binhai Corps in the Binhai area for more than 4 months, and liberated 18 towns and townships; killed more than 80 enemies, wounded and captured more than 80 enemies People; seized 2 heavy machine guns, 19 light machine guns, 2 submachine guns and 2 carbines each, more than 230 rifles, 29 short guns, 4 grenade cartridges, 1 motor boat, and a large number of bullets and other military items. results. After completing the task of heading south to Binhai, Ou Chu led the detachment to embark on a new journey. On May 29, 1949, the Kuomintang Heshan County Security Battalion took advantage of the distance of our army and occupied Jingangwei. For several days in a row, they robbed and grabbed food in the Weiwei and nearby villages such as Liao and Lunxia, ​​digging trenches and building forts, preparing to Take a firm stand to divide the new Gaohe base area, cooperate with the provincial security police to attack our base area and ensure the smooth flow of the Guangzhan trunk line. At this time, after the Guangdong Central Army Subcommittee led the main independent 1st regiment to Sanluo (the general name of the three counties of Luoding, Yunfu, and Yunan), they were dividing their troops into two routes to go south to Binhai and east to Xingaohe.In addition to one part of the Independent 1st Regiment, Ou Chu and Huang Dongming were active in Taishan and the east of Yangjiang in the coastal area; There is constant, active in Xingaohe. Chiefs Feng and Wu learned that Jingang was occupied by the enemy, and determined to annihilate the enemy and regain Jingang. They ordered Chen Jun and Pang Zhen to lead a part of the 1st Independent Regiment to cooperate with the main battalion of the New Gaohe Corps; and sent the Chief of Staff of the Military Subcommittee Mo Huai, Zhou Tianxing, political commissar of the new Gaohe corps, and Liang Wenhua, the captain of the new Gaohe corps, unified command.According to reconnaissance, the enemy's security battalion has 3 companies with a total of about 160 people. The firepower is not strong. They are stationed in teahouses and shops in Jingangwei. Shooting positions, bunkers have not yet been built. At this time, the strength of our army included about 250 people in the first independent regiment (including the cadre rotation training team), about 200 people in the two companies of the main battalion of the New Gaohe Corps, and more than 100 people in the Heshan County and District Sergeant Team, a total of about 500 people. People are more than three times as many as the enemy.The enemy's lone army went deep into our base area. Although it was relatively close to Shaping, it was empty of troops; it was more than 50 kilometers away from Jiangmen and Sanbu, each of the ten important towns in Guangdong. It was difficult to reinforce without cars and only on foot.Our army is fighting in the fringe area of ​​the base area. The terrain is familiar, covered by the masses, and it is easy to covertly operate and maneuver.As long as our army makes use of secret movements at night to encircle and attack the enemy, we are fully sure of victory when the enemy has no solid fortifications and reinforcements.Based on the above analysis, Mo Huai, Zhou Wenxing, and Chen Jun decided to use superior forces to attack from a long distance, surround them on all sides, and then lure the enemy out of the polder or forcefully break into the polder to annihilate them. In terms of troop deployment, it was decided that the Independent 1st Regiment would be the main offensive, and the "Lion Company" and "Flying Tiger Company" of the main battalion of the New Gaohe Corps would cooperate with the main attack from the flank cameras and block the enemy's escape route to Shaping. The army and militia guarded the periphery to defend against enemy reinforcements.After the battle deployment was completed, our army's participating troops set off in the Baishuidai area on the afternoon of June 13, marched 35 kilometers by force, and arrived at Fendong Village near Jingangwei in the middle of the night to hide. Each company entered the position before dawn on the 14th. Chen Jun and Pang Zhen led the "Liberation Company", "Freedom Company" and cadre rotation training team of the 1st Independent Regiment, bypassed the village, and secretly moved to Heitougang.Pang Zhen and Chen Jun immediately ordered the "Liberation Company" to covertly occupy the starting position before the post to attack and serve as the first echelon; the "Freedom Company" was deployed behind the post and on the left wing as the second echelon; the cadre rotation training team was mobile as a reserve team.The headquarters is located on the right side close to Heitougang, directing the entire battle. The signs show that the enemy army does not seem to have noticed our army's actions, nor does it know that it is already surrounded by our army, but its security in the polder is quite strict.According to the original plan, Pang Zhen and Chen Jun ordered the "Liberation Company" to fire rifles for tentative shooting first, so that the enemy would mistakenly think that our army was a local backbone team, and sent out pursuit as usual a few days ago, so that our army could gather and annihilate them. However, after the enemy army was suddenly attacked by me this time, they hurriedly huddled in the teahouses and shops in the fair to fight back, and did not dare to move out.The battle lasted for more than an hour, but the enemy still showed no signs of moving out, so the headquarters ordered a storm. The "Liberation Company" immediately fired violently with heavy machine guns and light machine guns, and the enemy troops in the street were thrown into chaos.Under the cover of machine gun fire, the soldiers rushed into the streets and started street fighting with the enemy.After fierce fighting, the enemy suffered a lot of casualties. They fled in the direction of Heshanggang one after another, and were violently shot by the "Lion Company".The enemy who retreated to the Weibian Kuang and Fuxingting Heights was flanked by the "Jiefang Company" from behind.The enemy army was in a dilemma, so they had to fight desperately.At this time, Chen Jun immediately ordered the "Freedom Company" to go into battle, and cooperated with the "Liberation Company" to launch a general attack on the enemy. The "Lion Company" cooperated from the flanks, forming a three-sided attack.The enemy suffered a heavy blow, and the casualties increased sharply. The battalion commander Wei Wujun was also injured. There were more than 50 remnants of the enemy, so they had to throw away their bodies, abandon their armor and seize the road to flee to the northeast, breaking through and escaping. In this battle, our army wiped out 2 enemy companies, defeated 1 company, killed 42 enemies, injured more than 40 enemy battalion commanders, and captured 27 enemy platoon leaders.Our army only sacrificed 4 people and injured 1 person, and won this battle at a small price. In this battle, in the War of Liberation in Central Guangdong, our army succeeded in successfully attacking Wei Town, which was guarded by a local battalion of the enemy. Performance.It is of positive significance to the development of guerrilla warfare in central Guangdong, and finally to cooperate with the army to liberate central Guangdong.Since then, the Jingang area has been firmly under the control of our army, and the enemy no longer dares to invade, thus ensuring that our army and local staff can come and go freely in the base area. On the southwest side of Houdi Town, Enping County, Guangdong Province, there is a tall and towering mountain, which is called Guogai Mountain by the local people.At this time, the "Red Star Company" of our Guangdong Central Independent 1st Regiment and a company of the 5th Regiment of Guangyang Detachment were training at the end. In the summer of 1949, the reactionary armed forces occupying Guangdong, in order to clear the passage from Guangzhou to Zhanjiang for the remnants of the defeated soldiers who fled south, mobilized troops to carry out "mopping up" in central Guangdong. On July 8, it was the market trade day. People carrying firewood, chickens and ducks, and vegetables came to the town in small groups.At 8 o'clock in the morning, the commanders and fighters of our army were having breakfast, and the traffic sent information that the Kuomintang troops were mixed among the crowds rushing to the fair, trying to attack our army suddenly.At this time, the Enping County Committee of the Communist Party of China happened to hold a meeting here to study issues such as "reducing rent and interest" and welcoming the army to the south. The enemies who came to attack were more than 600 people from the Li Jiang Department, the security commander of the 10th District of Guangdong Province, the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Provincial Security Division, and the Enping Security Police. Our army only had two to three hundred people, and the strength was very different.因此，县委领导和部队领导当机决定：由部队阻击敌人，掩护县委会议人员转移撤退。部队立即发出紧急集合令，5团团长马平作了动员，“红星连”指导员郑才作了担负阻击任务的战斗部署，立即带领部队出发。 我“红星连”1排(主力排)担任抢占锅盖山制高点阻击来犯之敌，掩护部队撤退的任务。全排一共31人，由排长吴宽(原名吴瑞宽，共产党员)带领，迅速向锅盖山攀登。埋伏在树林中的广阳支队5团的1个连，便用猛烈火力截击敌人。1排居高临下用密集火力支援。 顿时，敌人的六○炮、重机枪一齐向我军阵地开火。战斗从上午9时多一直到下午3时左右，双方形成对峙状态。敌人则付出了更大的代价，二三十人被击毙，其中军官4人。西侧小山头阵地的我军区队奉命撤出战斗。1排仍坚守着锅盖山，继续作掩护。 这时原来龟缩在山脚的敌人，爬上了刚才区队撤出的山头，严重地威胁着1排的阵地。为了避免更大的损失，保存有生力量，排长吴宽决定除由他带领6名战士坚守阵地外，其余23人迅速撤出阵地，跟上撤退的部队。战士们刚撤出阵地，数百名敌人就包围了锅盖山，并从山脚蜂拥而上，发起了冲锋。 这样，山顶上只剩下吴宽、关森、谭植、吴浓、苏宙和关华6个人了。他们面对强敌，毫不畏惧，决心与敌人拼搏到底，掩护大部队安全突围。最后，有5位亲如兄弟的战友，都壮。烈牺牲了。仅剩下关华1人，他也身负重伤。关华多么希望他们还活着，因此一遍又一遍地呼喊着他们，摇晃着他们，直到精疲力竭一次又一次昏倒过去。 当关华再次醒来时，他决心找寻部队，向部队首长和同志们汇报战友们牺牲的情况。于是，他拖着像灌了铅的身躯，不顾伤口的剧痛，一步一步朝着旁底圩的方向爬去。但后来又昏迷过去了……大约深夜时分，待关华醒来时，发现自己已躺在游击队的医疗站里了。原来，当地群众发现了关华，立即把他送到交通站，以后又由交通站辗转送到部队医疗站。 关华忍着疼痛，向部队领导断断续续地汇报了战友们战斗和牺牲的经过。领导同志听完关华的报告后，十分激动，连夜派人把烈士遗体运到底圩掩埋。现在，6位烈士的纪念碑高高矗立在恩平旁底圩的西南侧，永远纪念他们为中国人民的解放事业而壮烈捐躯的革命精神。 位于英德县西部与清远接壤的九龙乡，虽地处偏僻，山道崎岖，但却是广宁、四会、清远通往阳山、连县、曲江、乳源等县的要冲，且离粤汉铁路不远，地理位置十分重要。1949年1月16日，中共粤桂湘边区工委策动九龙乡乡长罗佛金举行武装暴动，成立了英清阳边区人民解放大队(代号太阳队)，以罗发为大队长，谢洪照为政委。从此，罗发的家乡九龙乡金造村成为游击队活动的中心。 由于失去了九龙乡这个北边的门户，国民党英德县当局十分恐慌，匆匆纠集大队人马，气势汹汹地进攻金造村，企图一举扑灭我人民武装。 得知敌人进攻的消息后，粤桂湘边区部队和边区工委领导连夜召开紧急会议，研究对策。大家一致认为：这里的地理位置重要，为了支援边区部队第一、第二梯队挺进连阳，外辟粤湘边区游击根据地，牵制敌人，并巩固九龙起义成果，保卫金造人民生命财产安全，必须在金造村打一场保卫战。会后，梁政委亲率独立团(东风团)和连江支队4团共600多人，从清远转入九龙乡地区桐油坪一带，准备与“太阳队”和余造人民并肩战斗。 1949年2月13日，正是山区人民闹元宵而兴犹未尽的第二天。清晨，村前突然枪声大作。我守卫在庙角山的民兵发现，一股敌人鬼鬼祟祟地正从中岗栋登山，直达枫木营前面的制高点狮头顶，便先发制人，开枪迎击。这时，英德县反动武装共1000多人，在保警大队长张隆的指挥下，正分兵两路，从正面、侧面向我军进攻。这时，从正面进攻的敌人，已气势汹汹地逼进了庙角山。守卫庙角山的郭贤等8名民兵，勇敢战斗，利用几块大石头作天然屏障，打死打伤敌人20多名。由于战斗激烈，罗发奉命率“太阳队”回金造村支援战斗，与民兵群众一起，牢牢地控制着阵地，使敌人进不了村。天黑后，敌人暂时停止了进攻。 为不给敌人喘气的机会，梁政委给早巳隐蔽在九龙潭方向的“东风”团发出命令。深夜，寒风刺骨，怒火燃烧的战士却像猛虎下山一样，迅猛地扑向敌人。“飞鹰”队在队长周锡的率领下，从右翼突入；“加强”队队长陈三珠指挥本队突击敌左翼。敌人被打得焦头烂额，连滚带爬地退出阵地，往县城方向逃去了。这一仗，我军击溃敌人1个连，全歼1个排，缴获轻机枪2挺。 打退敌人第一次进攻后，全体军民征尘未洗，又斗志昂扬地开始准备第二次战斗。2月18日拂晓，敌人再次进犯，人数比第一次多了1倍。他们以省保警4师17团2营为主力，纠合英德保警大队及地方武装共2000多人，由反动县长周文浩亲自指挥，杀气腾腾地开了过来。 此时，我军兵力部署是，由80多名民兵防守金造村，由“太阳”队防守太平水村，“东风”团则隐蔽在犀牛方向的龙潭坑一带断敌退路。敌人这次进攻，仍然先用炮轰，然后集中轻重机枪向我军阵地密集射击，我军则以逸待劳，凭借坚固的工事与敌人周旋。指挥员告诫战士们，把敌人放近了打。当左前方敌步兵离我军仅30米、右前方之敌步兵离我军仅50米时，我军才突然开火，一下子就打倒了10多名，逼使敌人往后退去。 另外两路敌人，在占领庙角山右侧的234高地后，与保警17团2营一起，由营长魏冠中督战，也向我军阵地冲锋，但同样遭到我军顽强的阻击。我军阵地的的竹管、竹钉、木栅等障碍物，显示了威力，伤害、阻滞了敌人，使敌人不得不派人来清除。我“东风”团“力强”队队长李伙，乘机端着机枪，跳上战壕，突然向敌人一阵猛烈射击，当场毙敌17名。随后，我军即组织正面突击，向敌人占领的狮头岭阵地发起猛烈攻击。与此同时，“飞鹰”队也从大芝窝迂辶回敌后，向敌人发动突然袭击。敌人吓慌了手脚，不敢恋战，慌忙溃逃而去。敌人进攻金造两次失败，国民党广东省政府主席宋子文恼羞成怒，从胡琏兵团调来1个加强团(473团)，拼凑了英德、清远两县的反动武装共计3000多人，向九龙地区发动第三次全面进攻，从东、西、北三面重点攻打金造村。3月5日早晨，敌人的第三次进犯开始了。 敌人以1个营的兵力攻打苏坑，2个连的兵力攻打独石寨，473团主力攻打庙角山，形成三面合围态势。敌炮弹猛烈打来，我军战士和民兵沉着冷静，严守阵地。守卫苏坑山头的民兵，利用石头、石洞、石孔作隐蔽，居高临下一个个灵活机动地杀伤敌人，使敌人始终爬不上来。在独石寨方向，我军放敌人进村，我军民连续打退了敌人的五次进攻，粉碎了敌人从背后威胁金造村的企图。 敌人押下的最大赌注是在金造庙角山方向攻村。敌473团在枫木营一带设置了炮兵阵地，从早晨开始，连续向我庙角山前沿阵地和金造村发射了几百发炮弹。敌人见我军一直没有还击后，其步兵大胆往前爬。待敌人进至我前沿火力圈时，我军突然用密集的火力杀向敌人，打得敌人纷纷后退。直到下午，庙角山始终牢牢掌握在我军手中。敌人白天进攻未能得逞，又在5日傍晚实施三面总攻。 敌人的突击队从大平头山摸上来，并很快就爬上了庙角山北侧。罗发他们沉着应战，一排子弹打过去。毙敌近20名，打得敌人突击队滚下山去。控制了正面局势后，罗发他们派兵抢占大基窝等制高点。同时，又派小分队袭扰敌人狮头岭阵地。战斗持续到深夜，各方的敌人均被我军击退。鉴于在敌我力量悬殊的情况下继续坚守，于我不利。为了保存力量，为了金造村100多人民群众生命安全，罗发他们决定掩护群众突围。 夜幕渐浓，前方枪声渐渐稀流，我军部队、民兵掩护群众，悄悄地撤出了金造，向黄基圩、严婆髻方向转移。100多名群众在部队和民兵的帮助下，扶老携幼顺利到达大洞、黎洞，受到了当地群众的热情接待。 金造保卫战，牵制和杀伤了敌人，有力地配合了其他游击区的人民武装斗争，锤炼了我军指战员，民兵和群众，体现了人民战争的威力，在粤桂湘边区人民解放斗争史上写下了光辉的一页。