Ma Benzhai was in the rear hospital of the military region, endured the pain, and sat on the bed with difficulty to write a battle diary. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info This is already his old habit, no matter how cruel the environment is, how busy the work, he always finds time to write a battle diary, never stopping.

He did not think that "he could not learn it when he was old," but he often went to bed because he studied the party's principles and policies, and even more often forgot the time to eat in order to learn some art of war. He carefully studied every party document and military work he obtained, and kept a diary in connection with combat practice.

Every day, he personally wrote down the day's activities in a slip of paper, and a few days later, Zhao Yinqing of the headquarters took it to Tengqing and put it in a 32-carat black hardcover notebook. Those close to him fondly remember that in the dead of night, he was still reading and writing in his diary, and the next day at dawn he quickly got up to deal with the miscellaneous work.

Now, Ma Benzhai has understood that his days are numbered, but as long as he still has a breath, he must compete with the disease and death as he used to lead the soldiers on the battlefield to fight for time, and continue to record his hard work for future generations.

At that time, Ma Benzhai's family was also taking care of Comrade Ma Benzhai in the hospital. Ma Benzhai's child, Ma Guochao, was too young to listen to his mother's dissuasion and pounced on Ma Benzhai, asking his father to tell him a battle story. In order not to disappoint the child, Ma Benzhai still cheered up and took the child's hand and sang the "Song of the Anti-Japanese Fighters" together.

At this time, Ma Benzhai's condition deteriorated, and it had turned into pneumonia, coughing repeatedly, singing a few words, stopping, and then panting and saying: "It's okay, minor injuries can't get out of the line of fire." Come, Daddy will sing with you again. ”

The mother urged the child to leave quickly, but Ma Guochao was reluctant to leave his father, who rarely saw him. Ma Benzhai took the child's hand and asked, "Did Dad teach you two words?" Ma Guochao said, "Yes," and took a pencil and wrote the word "China" on the paper crookedly.

Ma Benzhai smiled with satisfaction and said: "Child, remember, our motherland is called China, and without the Communist Party, there would be no New China!" "In the young hearts of his children, he carried out the earliest enlightenment of loving the great motherland and the Communist Party of China step by step.

At this time, the Muslim detachment received an order to go to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area to defend Yan'an, and the political commissar went to the hospital to visit Comrade Ma Benzhai. Ma Benzhai endured the pain and joked: "Comrade Political Commissar, I will report to Marx. He said, "Your mission hasn't been completed yet, why did you come here?" As soon as I heard it, yes, my mission wasn't done yet, so I'm back! ”

When the political commissar heard Ma Benzhai's words, his eyes flashed with irrepressible tears.

The commissar told him: "Here's a telegram? ”

Ma Benzhai said, "I'm very sorry, please read it to me." ”

"This is a telegram from Yan'an!" The commissar said excitedly.

When Ma Benzhai heard that it was a telegram from Yan'an, he was so excited that he unexpectedly sat up from the hospital bed. He took the telegram with trembling hands, read it himself, and read it intermittently: "Comrade Ma Benzhai of the Jizhong Huimin Detachment; The Party Central Committee greets you and all the commanders and fighters. With great wisdom and courage, you galloped through the North China Plain and achieved outstanding results. The headquarters decided to order your department to come to Yan'an as soon as possible and accept the important task......"

His dream of going to Yan'an to see Chairman Mao and Commander-in-Chief Zhu was about to come true, and he was extremely excited. He read the telegram softly and repeatedly, his emaciated face flushed with a smile. He said: "Political commissar, the telegram of the Party Central Committee is too encouraging for us Hui people. We must resolutely carry out the order and set out as soon as possible. But the burden of mobilization falls on you alone. ”

At the end of January, the troops received an order to leave for Yan'an. Before leaving, Commander Yang Dezhi personally visited Comrade Ma Benzhai in the hospital to convey the decision of the central authorities. Ma Benzhai insisted on going with the army, and after Yang Dezhi's repeated persuasion, Ma Benzhai agreed to stay in the hospital for treatment.

He felt very sorry that he could not go west with the army, and sadly instructed the cadres of the Huimin detachment: "We must resolutely obey the command of Commander Yang." …… After you meet Chairman Mao and Commander-in-Chief Zhu, I would like to convey my greetings to them. ”

On 1 February, the Muslim detachment followed Commander Yang Dezhi on the march to defend Yan'an. At this time, Comrade Ma Benzhai was critically ill, but his heart was still thinking about the troops, the War of Resistance, and the Muslim detachment.

When he woke up, he blamed the nursing staff for not wasting the oil, saying: "Listen to Chairman Mao's words, save every copper plate, and for the cause of war and revolution, I just need to have a lamp in this room." ”

When he was dying, he said to his comrades: "Let the troops wait for me...... I can't do it anymore, send my family to Yan'an to continue the revolution. Tell the third brother to fight to the end. ”

When he was dying, he said to his family: "I think it's a pity that I can't do more work for the people, the country and the party, teach my children to continue my ambition to do revolutionary work, and tell my third brother to lead the national war of resistance and revolution to the end!" ”

On February 7, 1944, Ma Benzhai, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China and a famous hero of the Chinese nation, died at the age of 43 and died in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region Hospital.

At that time, after the news of Ma Benzhai's unfortunate death came out, it caused great grief among all the soldiers and civilians in Hebei, Shandong, and Henan. On the same day, in accordance with Ma Benzhai's will, the Military Region immediately sent his body to Zhang Luji, Shen County, the center of the Hui people in northwest Shandong, for burial, and was escorted by Chief of Staff Yan of the Military Region, Political Commissar Liu of the Three Services Sub-district, and the armed forces.

When the coffin passed by the military and political station, the regional party committee, administrative office, and military region held a solemn memorial meeting to send the soul. Comrade Zhang Linzhi, political commissar of the Soviet Union of the Military Region and the regional party committee, and Jia Jia, deputy director of the administrative department, personally led the cadres of the directly subordinate organs to pay tribute. On the afternoon of the 8th, the coffin entered the border of Chaocheng County in Luxi, and when resting outside Chaocheng City, many Hui Han compatriots came to pay respects.

They said, "We can't repay Commander Ma, so let's burn some paper and kowtow, and we'll do our best." ”

On the evening of the 8th, the coffin arrived at Zhangluji. Suddenly, the news spread throughout Zhangluji and the neighboring villages, and the mourners poured into the mosque like a tidal wave until the next morning.

On the morning of 9 July, Comrade Huang Jing, a representative of the Communist Party, Wang Jing, deputy director of the Southern Hebei Administration, Zhu Political Commissar and Director Zhu of the Southern Hebei Military Region, representatives of seven military sub-districts, and military and political cadres at and above the regimental level came to mourn. Before and after breakfast, Imam Ho of the mosque presided over all the ceremonies before the burial. A public memorial service was held at 11 o'clock.

Thousands of men, women and children, wearing filial piety charms, were brought from the mosque to the burial ground. With the guidance of Imam He, Comrades Huang Jing, Director Wang, and Political Commissar Zhu led representatives from all walks of life to personally go to the Lingqian to bid a final farewell to the body of Commander Ma Benzhai. The atmosphere of the audience was solemn and calm, and they silently sent back the last journey of the people's heroes.

Ma Benzhai, a national hero for the country and the people, slept underground in Zhangluji, Luxixin County, where he once fought. With reverence for this national hero, the local people donated ten acres of land to build a tomb for Ma Ben Zhai. The cemetery is surrounded by red wattles and cypresses, symbolizing the eternal spirit of Ma Ben Zhai!

On the 16th, the association of people from all walks of life in northwest Shandong decided to organize the Honsai Primary School and the Bunzhai Guerrilla Brigade to commemorate Commander Ma Benzhai.

On March 17, 1944, all walks of life in Yan'an solemnly mourned Comrade Ma Benzhai. , Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and other central leading comrades have offered their respects and spoke highly of Comrade Ma Benzhai's glorious life. Ma Benzhai's heroic name and his glorious achievements will forever be recorded in the glorious history of the Chinese nation.

The heroes are gone, but the living still have to fight. The main work of Han Xing is still in the enemy's engineering department, and there is a lot of work in the enemy's engineering department, and the most important thing is to organize the masses to defend themselves and join forces to fight the enemy. Han Xing led Wu Xiaominglian and Wang Xiu'e, the minister of enemy labor, to find Zhang Daqian, secretary of the county party committee of Dangyi County and captain of the Liaotang detachment.

Several people sat down in an ordinary farmhouse in Ganguantun Village, North of Tangyi, and first expressed their deep condolences to Commander Ma Benzhai, and then studied the current work. In addition to Zhang Daqian, Han Xing, and Wang Xiu'e, Wu Xiaoming and Li Dazhong also attended the meeting.

Han Xing said: "Captain Zhang, if you look at the work in the north of Tangyi and the north of Guanxian, which bones are difficult to gnaw?" ”

Zhang Daqian said: "It turned out that this area was a no-man's land, and since the work in the no-man's land was carried out, it has gradually gained popularity, but the enemy has also reached out here. At present, we are mainly carrying out the work of District 2, but this District 2 is connected to District 6 and District 8 of Guan County. In the sixth and eighth districts of Guan County, there are feudal landlords, armed heads, Tang Fu and Liu Zurong entrenched......"

Han Xing and they slowly learned that Tang Fudu mainly built an earthen fence in Tang Village. This Tang Village, 18 kilometers north of Guanxian County, in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Tang Fudu organized a self-defense regiment under the banner of armed self-protection, and put the guns of each household in his hands, and he was the head of the regiment. Those who oppose their rule are tortured in private courts, and at least they are confined and punished, and at worst they are beheaded.

Liu Zurong is entrenched in Liu Tun in the eighth district, and Tang Fu is all the way.

In fact, they are inextricably linked to the Japanese, the false, the stubborn, and the miscellaneous. Under the protection of these dark forces, they claim to be the king and hegemon, prey on the villagers, make enemies of our anti-Japanese army and people, prevent our anti-Japanese military and political personnel, and carry out anti-Japanese mass movements within their jurisdiction.

The central base in the second district of Tangyi is Ganguantun, and the southwest of Ganguantun is Sanhuali is Wangerzhuang. There is a turret of Japanese devils in the village, and a small detachment of the Japanese army and a squadron of the puppet army live in the turret. In the northwest 12 miles of Ganguantun, there is also a village where the landlords are entrenched, called Yingzhuang Village, where the landlord militia of Gao Dengke is stationed.

This Gordonko had a connection with the Japanese army in Linqing, and he had already surrendered to the Japanese in a semi-open manner.

After listening to Zhang Daqian's introduction, Han Xing said: "The situation in Ganguantun is not good, the surrounding villages are either entrenched by landlords, or the strongholds of Japanese puppets. We must also adopt a two-pronged strategy, which is to crack down on the feudal enclosures and isolate the Japanese puppet army, and on the other hand, we must step up efforts to strengthen our militia joint defense forces. ”

After listening to so much analysis, Li Dazhong couldn't help it a little and asked: "I said leaders, can you speak simply, just say who we will fight first?" ”