After Lu Shilong's death, the underground workers of our party put his body in a coffin and temporarily enlarged it to a room inside the east city gate, preparing to hold a solemn burial ceremony after his appearance improved.

I didn't expect Liu Xianzhou to occupy Shen County so quickly, and after Liu Xianzhou occupied Shen County, his intelligence officers told Liu Xianzhou about this news, and built a yì to throw Lu Shilong's body out, and the dog gnawed on the cat to vent his hatred for the Communist Party.

Liu Xianzhou thought for a while and said: "People cannot be resurrected after death, and the habit of the Chinese is to enter the soil for peace." Not only should it not be thrown out, but it must be protected. Whatever happens to him in life, let his soul rest in death! ”

I, the underground personnel, want to escort Lu Shilong's body to his hometown of Tai'an, so that he can be "reunited" with his ancestors in his hometown.

Liu Xianzhou heard that Lu Shilong's hometown is also from Tai'an, and the traitors who followed Liu Xianzhou to Shen County are mostly from Tai'an, Ningyang, and Wenshang, and Lu Shilong and himself are also fellow villagers. Liu Xianzhou not only did not obstruct this matter, but sent troops to escort Lu Shilong's coffin back to Lu Shilong's hometown.

Nominally for the dead, in reality it's for the living. Liu Xianzhou's actions won the favor of the traitors, who thought that Liu Xianzhou was "righteous", "enough friends", and "has a hometown flavor", and since then he has worked even more hard for Liu Xianzhou.

But this move has brought countless troubles to Lu Shilong's family. The people in his hometown don't know Lu Shilong's true identity and glorious achievements in Shen County at all, they only know that he is the county magistrate appointed by the Kuomintang, and he was sent home by the big traitor Liu Xianzhou in a coffin, so he is not a bad person.

Thirty years later, Wang Huiqing passed by Tai'an and wanted to go back to Lu Shilong's hometown to see the descendants of his old comrades-in-arms.

Unexpectedly, after arriving at Lu Shilong's house, he saw the environment where Lu Shilong's wife, son, and grandson lived, but Wang Huiqing was surprised.

Poverty in life is nothing, the countryside just after the reform and opening up, it is the same, adobe houses, clay courtyard walls, broken board doors, wooden mullioned windows. But more importantly, there was political discrimination, and Lu Shilong's family was treated as a counter-revolutionary family member for a long time.

Everyone knows what it means for the families of counter-revolutionaries to be unable to join the party, to be promoted, to join the army, to be called for labor, and to go to school with strict restrictions. In other words, as long as he was born in Lu Shilong's family, he will have no future in his life.

Wang Huiqing felt a deep pain in his heart, and he couldn't change the big policy, but as Lu Shilong's comrade-in-arms, a small negligence caused his family and descendants to suffer so many years of injustice. Regret, regret.

Wang Huiqing explained the situation to the local government and issued relevant certificates, so that the local government restored Lu Shilong's reputation as a "revolutionary martyr."

Han Xing, as a descendant, knows about this history. He said: "Write these grievances on Liu Xianzhou's head, right? The diehards harmed Lu Shilong, and Liu Xianzhou harmed his family. ”

A large number of Japanese troops went south, and there was no time to look north. Taking advantage of the fact that Liu Xianzhou's foothold was not stable and his wings were not full, and the stubborn army Wang Jinxiang was blocked in the area south of Chaocheng, the advance column of our Eighth Route Army and the Zhuxian Column (10 detachments) frequently attacked, constantly dealing heavy blows to the enemy who went out to sweep and grab grain, and created excellent conditions for the development and growth of the revolutionary forces in Shen County.

The Shenxian County CPC Committee seized this favorable opportunity to vigorously carry out its work and set up anti-Japanese base areas in northern and northwest Shen. The first is to restore and develop the party's organizations, liaise with party members, restore a number of old branches, establish a number of new branches, and establish some district committees.

The second is to establish political power, and establish the anti-Japanese democratic government of Shen County in Chaizhuang in the second district, with Guo Chengzhi as the county magistrate, and then establish the anti-Japanese district offices in each district. The establishment of the anti-Japanese democratic government in Shen County marked an important step in the construction of the anti-Japanese base area in Shen County.

The third is to build up arms. They collected civilian guns and expanded the anti-Japanese ranks, so that the first guerrilla brigade of the advance column expanded two squadrons on the basis of the original one squadron, with county magistrate Guo Chengzhi concurrently serving as the captain, Jiang Shengxing serving as the third deputy captain, and Wang Lingwei as the instructor, with a total strength of more than 120 people.

Later, the Shen County guerrilla battalion was established, with Wang Huiqing as the battalion commander and Jia Lufeng as the instructor, with 4 squadrons and 2560 people.

Fourth, it is necessary to organize party members and activists to carry out various forms of struggle against the enemy, such as scattering leaflets, pasting notices, sawing wires, breaking highways, and catching traitors and spies.

The focus of this work was on the second, third, and fourth districts in the north-western part of the country, because this area was far away from the county seat and the enemy's central stronghold, and bordered by Gwannam, Tangyi, and Chaobei, and the party's work had a better foundation.

Yang Ligong, secretary of the second district party committee, Xu Guangwen, member of the organization committee, and Zhang Yushu, member of the propaganda committee, worked actively day and night, and built new party branches in Zaokechang, Dayangjia, Chujia, Guojia, and Jiazhuang villages in a short period of time, and restored party branches in Maqiao, Macaiyuan, Panzhuang, Jijia, Sanmen, Fenghai, Caotun, Xinzhuang, and other villages.

They mobilized party members and activists to post and distribute leaflets reflecting the situation of the nationwide War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and mobilizing the masses of the people to resist the war, took advantage of the favorable conditions of covert work to send intelligence to our army, and captured alive Zhou Famu, the leader of the feudal diehard forces in the second district and the head of the militia regiment.

In accordance with the instructions of the county party committee, they also launched a sabotage campaign, and more than a dozen villages worked together to cut all the telephone lines from Tangyi to Shen County on a stretch of more than 10 miles overnight, sawing down electric poles, and cutting off the enemy's telephone contacts.

This qiē struggle made Liu Xianzhou angry. On a dark and windy night, Liu Xianzhou sent troops to poison the anti-Japanese activists in Xinbei in accordance with the blacklist drawn up in advance.

The enemy's horse corps, with their infantry behind, set out in the middle of the night, entered the village before dawn, divided into several routes, and carried out a surprise attack. In Zhang Yushu's hometown, Zhang Yushu, a propaganda commissioner in the second district, was arrested, and in Xu Guangwen's hometown, Xu Guangwen, an organizing committee member, was arrested.

Coincidentally, Wang Huiqing, Sun Chao, and Wang Yuebo were not at home, and they jumped over the wall in a hurry, arrested Wang Huiqing's younger brother and Wang Yuebo's father, and burned down Sun Chao and Wang Yuebo's house.

When a group of traitors who arrested Yang Ligong passed through Caotun Village, there happened to be a quagmire on the edge of the village, and the horse team was trapped in the mud.

Yang Ligong heard the barking of dogs from various villages, mixed with the sound of horses neighing, and knew that something might be wrong, so he hurriedly escaped from the house over the wall. By the time the traitors arrived at Zaokechang Village, it was already dawn, and Yang Ligong had already run away.

In the headquarters of the Japanese army in Shen County, which the enemy called the "Hades Palace", the enemy tortured Zhang Yushu and Xu Guangwen in various ways, asking them to confess the party's secrets, but the two were unyielding and refused to reveal any of the party's secrets.

The enemy had no choice but to brutally kill the two.

In order to fight back against the White Terror, the Zhuxian Column decided to pull out the puppet headquarters of the second and third districts of Shen County.

Before the war, Ji Hongjiu and Wang Yuebo of the Ji family and Yandian branch were both locals, so they drew a detailed map of the enemy's troop deployment and topographical map, and personally guided the troops, and overnight, they eliminated two puppet districts at the same time, and captured more than 60 puppet soldiers, which greatly dealt a blow to Liu Xianzhou's arrogance.

In the headquarters of the Zhuxian Column in Guanxian County, an enlarged meeting of cadres above the regimental level was also being held.

Liu Zhiyuan, Li Fengzao, Song Fengqi, Hao Guofan, Hou Dashan, and Zhao Xiaozhou naturally had to attend, and Jin Weiguo, Yin Zhaoli, and You Qianqian, although they were only cadres at the battalion level, because their positions were important, they were of course treated as cadres at the regimental level. Also present as observers were relevant staff officers of the headquarters.

The venue was extremely simple, with three square tables in a row, regiment-level cadres lined up on both sides, sitting on benches, and Zhang Weihan, Han Xing, and Wu Zhengzhì from the headquarters sat at the top.

The meeting was presided over by Zhang Weihan, who said: "The shape of Liaocheng is basically like this, our Zhuxian column occupies Guanxian County, backed by the large troops of Guantao, Qiu County, and southern Hebei, and can be attacked when advancing and defended when retreating. As for the Japanese army, they have now occupied several county towns in Liaocheng, Linqing, and Xinxian, and their forces are weak at present, and there is no sign of attacking again for the time being. The rest of the place, temporarily occupied by recalcitrant troops. If you have any constructive opinions on the development of the military form and the military actions we will take in the future, please tell us about it. ”

The venue was silent for a while, and Jin Weiguo spoke first: "According to the strength of our Zhuxian column, the strength of the devils in Shen County, and the strength of Liu Xianzhou, we are fully capable of taking Shen County." In this way, Guan County and Shen County will be united, which will be more beneficial to the development of our pioneer column. ”

Li Fengzao and Song Fengqi nodded, and Hao Guofan also applauded loudly. Jin Weiguo's mention was supported by most of the regimental commanders.

Han Xing asked rhetorically: "What if we occupy Shen County and the devils come to attack again?" ”

"Then resolutely hold on," Jin Weiguo said firmly, "carry forward our fighting spirit of not being afraid of hardship and death, and resolutely block the little devils outside Shen County." ”

Han Xing's heart said, then the Zhuxian column will be dangerous. But Han Xing didn't say a word, he was waiting for the following objections.

Sure enough, Liu Zhiyuan couldn't listen anymore and said, "Camp Commander Jin, the battle has not been fought like this. First of all, there are many devils, let alone weapons, if we want to defend it, it must not be so easy, and it is not necessary. Our strength is not good, so why fight with the devil for the gains and losses of one city and one place? If it really fights like that, the Zhuxian column will be clean, and I'm afraid it won't be able to hold Shen County. Instead of not being able to hold Shen County, what are you still doing to defend it, and what are you still occupying it if you know that you can't hold it? ”

Han Xing smiled, Liu Zhiyuan seemed to have improved, and he even used reasoning when he spoke. Although this is on paper, it also makes sense, attacking Shen County, the time is not yet ripe, it is better to save strength and fight a protracted war. This is also what Chairman Mao said.

Jin Weiguo was gagged and unconvinced, but he couldn't find the appropriate words to refute Liu Zhiyuan, so he could only say a little breathlessly: "That...... That...... What do you say, you can't eat here, drink here, train here, and do nothing, right? ”

"Yes," Han Xing said as he guided, "Go to the outside line, hit the enemy-occupied area!" The Eighth Route Army fought from Shanxi to southern Hebei, organized an advance column, and supported our Luxi. We can also hit the outside line! ”