Chapter 35 10. Western Henan Incident

A few months later, an armed platoon of the Eighth Route Army drove more than 200 miles, suddenly appeared in Podi Town, picked up my uncle immediately, and sent him to Heipa Village on the bank of the Yellow River in Xin'an County.It turned out that my uncle's activities in the northern mountainous area of ​​L County attracted the close attention of the higher party organization.My uncle's old superior, who was also the officiant of my uncle and my third aunt, Liu Zijiu, then deputy secretary of the CPC Henan District Party Committee and deputy political commissar of the military region, and commander Han Jun led two regiments of the regular troops of the Eighth Route Army to the south from Taiyue base in southern Shanxi Huang He, who came to the west of Henan, connected with his uncle's organizational relationship that had been interrupted for four years.My uncle was very happy to see the comrades who had been separated for many years. On the mountain to Xin'an, he couldn't wait to change clothes with the guards. He took off the black padded jacket of the Self-Defense Army and put on the gray uniform of the Eighth Route Army.

My uncle hadn't returned from Xin'an yet, and this incident had already caused a huge shock in the Four Counties Joint Defense Association.The leaders of the joint defense associations in the three counties are all big landlords who are afraid of "communism", and they all approached Master He to discuss countermeasures.Lord He held a four-county joint defense meeting in Ouchi Village at the junction of the four counties.The three joint defense committee members from Yiyang turned out to be the brigade and regiment commanders of the 20th Route Army of the Kuomintang, and had encircled and suppressed the Red Army in the Henan, Hubei, Anhui and Soviet areas.As soon as they arrived at the meeting, they screamed like old ravens that had been thrown out of their nests, "Oh, the Communist Party is attacking local tyrants and dividing land, and it only targets people like us."The blood of the Communist Party has been stained on our hands again. Once they come, we will never want to live again!The joint defense committee of Shan County also shouted, what else to say, let's fight!Shangguan Ziping, the commander of the Self-Defense Forces from Mianchi, said, ah, the Eighth Route Army is not easy to mess with, even the little Japanese are afraid of it, so we can fight if we say so!Alright, alright, don't bluff, Brother Yushun is the director of the joint defense, it's time to listen to you!

He Ye gave a long speech, which was disclosed in the "Literary and Historical Materials" 35 years later: "It is obvious: when the devils arrive, Lao Jiang runs away, and the Eighth Route Army comes. Who is good and who is bad, compare We know it. In order not to be subjugated slaves, we unite and strive for survival together. Right now, L County, Yiyang Hancheng, Xin'an Tiemen, and Shan County Huixing are all strongholds of devils. But for dozens of miles, the devils mopped up, and they arrived as soon as they said it. The situation is very unfavorable to us. Now, the Eighth Route Army has crossed the Yellow River, and the motherless people have to rely on, and the Japanese and puppet troops have retracted their heads like turtles. Whoever wants to fight against the Eighth Route Army is the same as a traitor! I heard from people from the Yellow River North that the Eighth Route Army’s current policy is that all those who resist the Japanese are friends and let the past go; they don’t divide the land from the landlords, only attack traitors The landlord, because he is a traitor; traitors who are not landlords will also be beaten, regardless of whether they are landlords or not. We don’t follow Lao Jiang to the rear and insist on fighting the Japanese invaders in our hometown. The Eighth Route Army came to us with lanterns. Treat us as friends and comrades-in-arms, and never as enemies. Everyone knows that I, He Yushun, was also the head of the Kuomintang regiment, and my hands are not clean. The landlord in my family is not small, with more than 200 acres of land , three business fronts, but I only have one head, and my head is not made of iron. But it has thought about it, if it wants to protect its hometown and survive, it has no other way out than to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army to resist Japan. talk."

There was silence at the joint defense meeting.After a long time, it suddenly became lively again.Some said, Brother Yushun, don’t worry, I still have to buy a roast chicken—”Think about it”!Some people said, I don't think we need to be confused and smoke from seven orifices. This river is muddy, as long as Brother Yushun dares to touch it, I will dare to touch it!Some said that Brother Yushun was right, and I think that's the only way.Some said, what is the hurry?Let's talk! Not long after the meeting, Shangguan Ziping of Mianchi County asked He Ye for help. A regiment of Japanese and puppet troops occupied Mianchi by force, and asked He Ye to find the Eighth Route Army to assist in the suppression?Master He sent someone to Xin'an overnight to send a letter to his son He Sheng asking for help.Commander Han Jun led two regiments in person, and the troops were divided into two groups. They rushed to help in the starry night and recovered Mianchi in one fell swoop. More than 800 Japanese and puppet troops were captured.When Shangguan Ziping saw Han Jun, he fell to the ground and bowed.Armed leaders in various counties approached He Ye one after another, demanding cooperation with the Eighth Route Army.Master He introduced them to meet Commander Han Jun one by one.The self-defense force of Shangguan Ziping in Mianchi and the anti-Japanese guerrilla led by Li Guiwu, a patriotic soldier in L County, both took the initiative to accept the adaptation of the Eighth Route Army.

The Henan District Party Committee accepted the Central County Party Committee of L County and its affiliated party organizations established by my uncle, and included the fifth detachment of the L County Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Army into the series belonging to the military division, and changed the designation to the Divisional Special Task Force. Yiwu counties established local governments at all levels, creating an anti-Japanese base area in western Henan with a radius of more than 400 Huali and a population of more than 300,000. What left a deep impression on my uncle was that he saw his own radio station for the first time in a village in Mianchi.The radio was beeping, and he thought it was pleasant music.One night there was music belonging to Commander-in-Chief Zhu De. "Memorabilia in the History of L County of the Communist Party of China" specifically records that Commander-in-Chief Zhu De dispatched a telegram and appointed He Sheng as Deputy Secretary of the Western Henan Prefectural Committee and Deputy Political Commissar of the Military Division; Commissioner of the Western Commissioner.Liu Maoen, chairman of the Henan Provincial Government of the Kuomintang, who was hiding at the southern foot of Funiu Mountain, heard the news, and immediately delivered a speech in the corner of the mountain, angrily denouncing "He Bandit Yushun" as the "culprit in western Henan" who "communicated and voted for the Communist Party".

Master He did not expect that Liu Maoen would be furious because of him.But he knew that when gray hairs grew on his temples, he had converted to the Son's Revolution.The divisional special task force, which was reorganized from five detachments, already has a new head and political commissar.He suddenly felt relaxed and tired.At this time, he received an invitation letter from General Chen Geng, commander of the Four Columns, inviting him to visit the Taiyue Liberated Area on the North Bank of the Yellow River.He had deep admiration for General Chen Geng, and decided to go there to see what else he could do for this strange revolution.

Lord He is about to embark on a journey.His sixth sense told him that he was saying goodbye to a piece of history, and everything in his hometown would no longer belong to him.In the evening, he went up to the north slope alone, and wandered with his head down on the grave of the ancestors of the He family.The ancestors of the He family are passing on the good dreams of making a fortune and starting a business in each grave.His shrewd and capable elder brother has left the dyeing workshop, oil workshop and tobacco workshop he founded, and came here to rest prematurely.His industrious and down-to-earth second brother is leading a group of long-term workers, and has also turned himself into a long-term worker, quietly managing the land left by his ancestors.However, he is leaving.He felt a little dizzy, and the graves surged like black waves.He staggered for a moment, then stood firm on his feet arrogantly.It's not me who wants to move, he said to the grave, it's the world that wants to move.Master He walked around the cemetery, and when he heard horses neighing and dogs barking from the village, he stopped firmly and looked at the sky full of stars.A meteor dragged a long tail across the sky.Oh, I should go.He said to the grave, I will come back and dig a pit for myself here.He walked slowly down the north slope.A small bug protruded from the corner of his eye, crawling hotly on his cold and hard cheek.

Before he set off on the road, he gave the small platinum pistol to Commander Han Jun.The small pistol was as shiny as new, with a silvery frosty halo under the faint starlight.He said: "Commander Han, this small pistol is useless to me. Give it to you, and I will become a proletarian." Han Jun had already taken a fancy to this small pistol, and he said it was his Best gift ever received.After Master He shook hands with Commander Han Jun tightly, he got on his horse, surrounded by a row of soldiers on horseback, and rushed to a strange and boiling land in the distance. He Ye received a warm welcome in the Taiyue liberated area.Uncle Mingbiao, who arrived at the Taiyue base area in advance and went to the branch of the Anti-Japanese University, saw his father wearing a top hat, a long gown, and glasses many times, and appeared politely at the welcome party of the Taiyue Administrative Office, the Taiyue Military Region, and the Four Columns Command superior.Not long after Mr. He arrived in Taiyue, he saw two appointments in one document: he was appointed as the counselor of the Taiyue Administrative Office and the director of the Henan Democratic Construction Association, and he was removed from his post as a commissioner of the Western Henan Commissioner, and his son He Sheng took over. .

Master He did not expect that not long after he left Western Henan, the tragic "Western Henan Incident" happened.The base area in western Henan carried out "reduction of rent and interest" and "reduction of land movement" (note: return to farmers the land that landlords bought at low prices in times of famine), which violated the interests of Shangguan Ziping and his subordinates who had just been recruited. During the "Democratic Reorganization", they shot and executed a deputy commander who raped a civilian girl and opposed the reorganization, which aroused their panic.Shangguanzi Pingan joined forces with Liu Maoen, chairman of the Henan Province of the Kuomintang, and took advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the three regiments of the Eighth Route Army to go out to perform tasks. On the night of May 26, 1945, he launched a rebellion and killed eight soldiers sent to the Seventh Brigade by the Eighth Route Army overnight. More than a dozen brigade, regiment, battalion and company cadres.Li Guiwu, commander of the Eighth Brigade and a patriotic soldier who insisted on cooperating with the Communist Party to resist Japan, was also killed by his subordinates.The incorporated local armed forces in Shan County rebelled at the same time.The uncle who led his troops to perform missions in Shan County was ambushed by the rebels, and the bullets passed by like locusts, and he fought hard to escape.The three main regiments of the Eighth Route Army quickly withdrew to quell the rebellion, but they had already caused heavy losses. Most of the more than 100 cadres brought by Commander Han Jun from Yan'an were brutally killed, and more than 100 soldiers were killed.

By chance, I got to know the son of martyr Wang Zhouping, political commissar of the Seventh Brigade, who was brutally killed in the "Western Henan Incident".After his father died and his mother was imprisoned again, the jailer took him out and gave him to a railway worker to raise him.When he grew up, his adoptive parents told him about his life experience.I once went to Mianchi with him to find the place where his father died.Pointing to a wheat field near the village, the farmer said, "It was in this field that Political Commissar Wang was stabbed to death with a bayonet. Shangguan Ziping was afraid that he would alarm the Eighth Route Army, and ordered not to shoot. It was dead. I heard someone humming in the wheat field in the first half of the night, and kept humming until the second half of the night. I don’t know what happened, and no one dared to get up. It was early in the morning that I saw Political Commissar Wang lying here, covered in blood. He didn't close his eyes. He stabbed him more than a dozen times, but he didn't kill him. He bounced all night, and the wheat trees overwhelmed a large area, and he died at dawn. Since then, the crops in this field Every year, the head droops, but the crops grow stiffly, and the wind has never seen them fall!"

The martyr's son cried, and he said, "I don't know why my father came from Yan'an, and where is his hometown? The commander at that time, Han Jun, is gone, so I don't know who to ask!" I said, "" Let me inquire for you, okay?" He asked, "Who do you ask?" I said, "I'm looking for He Sheng." He said, "It's Minister He! How do you know him?" I said, "He is My uncle." He shook his head repeatedly and said, "Don't look for him!" I said, "Why?" He said, "I wrote to him, and I received his reply soon. He also said I don’t know my father’s history, so he wrote five papers just to write me a review. Afterwards, his secretary said that after writing the letter, he just sat there and wept secretly, and then he had a heart attack and sent You didn’t save it until you got to the hospital. Don’t ask your uncle again!” He praised again: “Your uncle’s handwriting is really good, every stroke is so strong that it penetrates the back of the paper, and you can tell it’s from a copybook!” Even today, more than half a century after the "Western Henan Incident", I still dare not bring up this heavy event in front of my uncle.As the deputy secretary of the Western Henan Prefectural Committee, the deputy political commissar of the district, and the commissioner of the commissioner, although he had already discovered some signs of the possible incident before the incident, and had repeatedly proposed preventive measures that were not adopted by the main leaders, the party organization also He has not been held personally responsible, but when he mentioned the incident, he shed tears many times.In the "Self-Report" he wrote for his children in his later years, he still called the "Western Henan Incident" "the greatest pain in his life", and he had to liquidate his endless "landlord family background, long-term asset management" in the "Self-Report". class education, the worldview has not been reformed well, and the right-leaning ideology is serious", and he regards May 26 as the death day of the martyrs. Every time this day comes, he will be seen looking at the calendar anxiously, looking at him for a long time with sad eyes. The clouds of my hometown. I don't understand why my uncle always tortured himself about "being born in a landlord family and receiving bourgeois education for a long time".This is true for an "old Bolshevik" who participated in the revolution at the age of seventeen and "although died nine times without regret". How can we reform the thinking of those "little intellectuals" who started working after the founding of the People's Republic of China? The War of Resistance Against Japan had just ended, and the southern part of the Kuomintang Hu Zong moved eastward along the Longhai Railway.The Party Central Committee decided to avoid the enemy's edge, and all three sets of personnel, party, government, and army, were required to withdraw from the western Henan base area.The uncle took all the members of his "landlord family", including the white-haired old mother, two young brothers, the second uncle who was leading the long-term workers in the field to shake the columbine and sow wheat, and the little foot of Tuoer who was sitting on the grass mound twisting the thread. Erniang and their two daughters, the parents and sister of He Shi, a major staff officer of the Kuomintang, all gathered together, crossed the Yellow River north with the troops, and withdrew to the Taiyue base area.Regardless of whether they were voluntary or not, the landlords of the He Family Courtyard and their descendants were "wrapped" under Marx's command by his uncle without exception, and the He Family Courtyard was emptied out.My uncle’s second uncle and second mother left their hometowns, and they couldn’t hold on to their homes or had no homes to stay. After crossing the Yellow River, they were stunned when they saw the portrait of Marx, “Hey, who is this? Look at how his beard grows. , and ask people to eat or not?" After Commander Han Jun led his troops to withdraw to the Taiyue base area, the "Western Henan Incident" became a great pain that tormented him for a long time, but he finally freed himself.One of his old subordinates told me that in 1948, Peiping was "peacefully liberated", and Han Jun was transferred to work in Peking.On the day the Party Central Committee moved from Xibaipo to Peiping, he was notified that Chairman Mao and Commander-in-Chief Zhu wanted to talk to him.He remembered that three years ago, when he left Yan'an to open up a base area in western Henan, Chairman Mao and Commander-in-Chief Zhu also summoned him, had high hopes for him, and asked him to take away more than a hundred battle-tested cadres.He issued a "military order".But now, most of the comrades he took away have become martyrs in the "Western Henan Incident" tragically and uselessly.He felt ashamed to say goodbye to Chairman Mao and Commander-in-Chief Zhu.At night, he locked himself in the house, holding a big tea mug to drink away his worries.In the middle of the night, there was a muffled sound in the room, and he was already lying in a pool of blood, holding the small platinum pistol given to him by Master He in his hand.