December 19, 1943. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Hebei Guye, Zhaogezhuang Coal Mine.

Guye is in the eastern part of Tangshan. Now, large forces are encircling Tangshan, and the situation is chaotic. Guye had few enemies, and there were no large anti-Japanese coalition troops, only local troops.

In addition to the coal mine, there is a squadron of devils and a regiment of traitors stationed in the mining area and Guye Town, and the surrounding countryside has been liberated. Even the workers' ghettos near the Zhaogezhuang coal mine fell into the hands of the guerrillas.

On a country road near the Zhaogezhuang Coal Mine, a group of people walked towards a village. There were thousands of people in this group, including miners, peasants, some pushing a wheelbarrow, some driving a horse-drawn cart, some carrying boxes, and some even carrying burdens. Insiders can identify at a glance that the box is a weapon box produced by the Northeast Military Factory, and it must be weapons and ammunition inside.

There were hundreds of soldiers scattered around the team, and although it was almost dark, they could still see the grass-green cotton uniforms and dogskin hats.

There was a man in his thirties in the team who said to everyone: "Comrades, we will be home soon, everyone will work harder." The meal is already ready at home. ”

An old man driving a carriage said: "This time I got a foreign gun and cannon, even if I didn't eat, I was full." Captain Jie, when are we going to move again? ”

The captain of this festival is surnamed Jie, and the festival of the festival is called Jiezhenguo. He is now the chief captain of the workers' pickets at the Kailuan Coal Mine. This time, they went to the north to pick up a batch of weapons, and by the way, they picked up a small unit of the anti-Japanese coalition army. These weapons are armed with their troops, while small units have additional tasks.

Jie Zhenguo said: "Don't worry. On these two occasions, the workers' pickets and guerrillas in Kailuan were all armed. We immediately liberated all the villages and towns near the coal mines, and there were large troops to clean them up. ”

Jie Zhenguo is a native of northern Shandong, and fled to Hebei to work as a miner when he was a child. In March 1938, a strike broke out in the Kailuan Coal Mine, and Jie Zhenguo was the leader of the picket team of Zhaogezhuang miners.

On May 6, the Japanese puppet gendarmes surrounded Jie's house and searched for Jie Zhenguo and others. The enemy captured Jie Zhenguo's brother, who had just returned from the mine, rushed up to seize the saber of the Japanese military police captain, and killed the Japanese military police captain and several Japanese puppet soldiers on the spot, and then escaped from danger with wounds. The news of Jie Zhenguo's sword slashing the Japanese military police shook eastern Hebei and inspired the people's hearts.

Wu De reported his deeds to Mao Gong, and Mao Gong said: "Jie Zhenguo is good!" This sentence is widely sung in Tangshan, Hebei Province. In fact, Mao also has a sentence: "This comrade is very good, we must pay attention to protection and training, otherwise he will be sacrificed." ”

In a word, it is a prophecy.

Originally, after winning a battle in 1940, he would have stopped shooting wounded Japanese, but instead he was coldly shot and killed by wounded Japanese devils.

The emergence of the trail has changed the situation in Hebei.

At the beginning of the summer of 40, Jie Zhenguo's troops were transferred to Liaoning to carry weapons, and later fought with the Rehe army, and instead of dying, they grew stronger. In addition, because of the timely adjustment of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, like Jie Zhenguo, many people avoided the fate of dying in battle.

His unit is still the leader of the Eastern Hebei Anti-Japanese Allied Army, Li Yunchang, and was organized as the first special brigade directly under the Second Road Command of the Eastern Hebei Anti-Japanese Alliance, that is, the workers' special service brigade.

This winter, the Kailuan coal miners' pickets, in cooperation with the large army, have mobilized all the workers in the coal mine, and also mobilized the uprising of the puppet army through kinship, doing underground work and underground work. Because of the victory in the Northeast and Outer Northeast Outer Mongolia, the devils in Hebei are panicking, especially the puppet army, and everyone understands that the devil's days are short. Almost all the puppet armies are looking for a way. Many strongholds, without devils, directly revolted.

In the past few days, Shanhaiguan has won a great victory, and the workers' pickets have sent two groups of people to carry a large number of weapons, and this time, five or six thousand people are all armed.

Another person said: "Captain Jie, Kailuan and Tangshan are about to be liberated, right?" ”

Jie Zhenguo said: "It's almost there." It has been almost 20 days since Shanhaiguan and Qinhuangdao were liberated, and this time, our large army has eliminated hundreds of thousands of devils, tens of thousands of puppet troops, and tens of thousands of puppet army uprisings. Today, we have more than 200,000 guns in our hands. All these guns are given to Hebei, you say, is Hebei about to be liberated! ”

A worker-like man said: "In the past, we couldn't even divide a gun, and a gun had a maximum of ten bullets. As soon as the fight began, there were no bullets. The devil's bullets are very full. Now, with our bullets and everyone's skills, I think we can liberate the Zhaogezhuang Coal Mine and Guye. ”

Jie Zhenguo said: "Don't worry, everyone gets a weapon, and you have to train it." ”

A person beside Jie Zhenguo said: "Captain Jie, in the past two years, the army and the devils have fought a tug-of-war in Tangshan, and you have suffered hardships. "The Northeast Coalition Army and the Rehe Army have attacked Tangshan many times in the past two years, and the Japanese army counterattacked, and they retreated. The purpose is to drain the strength of the Japanese.

Jie Zhenguo said: "Captain Wang, fighting with the Japanese, it's nothing to be bitter. Now that I see hope, everyone's morale is high. Now that we are fully armed, we can spread our hands and feet. ”

This Captain Wang is none other than Wang Santai.

Wang Santai has been very busy for a while, and wherever there is a big war, he is there. Now, the focus of the campaign has shifted to Tianjin. Yan'an ordered a large army to quietly march into Tanggu in the east of Tianjin, as well as Wuqing in the northwest of Tianjin.

One of Wang Santai's tasks this time was to help local troops liberate the coal mines. Yan'an attaches great importance to the Kailuan Coal Mine and demands that the coal mines in this area be completely liberated. So, the Northeast Bureau sent him. Of course, the liberation of the coal mine is only one of the tasks, and after the liberation of the coal mine, his small unit will enter Tianjin and do the work of liberating Tianjin. Only by combining the inside and the outside can Tianjin's losses be mitigated.

As for Tangshan, the cadres here have already done a lot of work, and now, his purpose is to leave behind more than 100 of his special combat personnel to carry out training, assassinate and behead, and so on. The dozens of people he led were the ones who really went to Tianjin to carry out the mission.

Wang Santai said: "The plans of the local government have been formulated, and the large army will arrive tomorrow." I brought a hundred or so people this time, and I left you a hundred. ”

Jie Zhenguo said: "That's great. Your team, I can be considered to be satisfied with the combat effectiveness. "He has seen the special combat team and knows that the combat effectiveness of the special combat team is too strong. He even wanted to use the methods of special combat teams to train his own team.

Wang Santai said: "Their task is to cooperate with your battle. ”

Jie Zhenguo said: "After the battle, they simply stayed in our troops. ”

Wang Santai said: "I'm afraid it won't work." The whole country has been liberated, and we have to fight to Japan. ”

Jie Zhenguo said: "The brother troops in the northeast are fighting too well, this time the big counteroffensive, Hebei is about to be liberated." ”

Wang Santai said: "The central government still means that the countryside surrounds the city. As a matter of fact, the soldiers just now can see that we are going to solve the rural areas of Hebei first, and this task is almost completed. And then there are small and medium-sized cities, and this is the main task at this stage. In this way, we have formed a situation of encirclement of the big cities, and soon, we will solve the big cities. ”

Jie Zhenguo said: "This is the encroachment policy. Our guerrilla warfare and base areas have finally come into full swing. This time, we must take a complete Tangshan. ”

Wang Santai said: "Now, since the victory at Shanhaiguan, the devils are actively preparing for war in eastern Hebei and Beijing-Tianjin. The next step is to attack the fortifications, and there will be major battles on the front line of Beiping and Tianjin. ”

Jie Zhenguo Road: "To the south of Beiping, the devils focus on guarding the railway line and the big cities of Baoding. The county seat, the town, the stronghold, these are almost liberated. The encirclement is about to take shape. ”

Wang Santai said: "The devil knows that he can't hold these small places, so he has to guard the railway, big cities, and industrial and mining enterprises. It's ridiculous, they can't see the big picture and don't retreat yet. You are a local soldier, what are your plans after the liberation of this place? ”

Jie Zhenguo said: "My superiors talked to me and asked me to be in charge of local work after the liberation of Tangshan, and most of them left the army to work in coal mines. What's next for you? ”

Wang Santai said: "I can't say specifically. Anyway, you should pay attention to the great battle of the whole country. There's a big battle, there's me. "He has the latest information that the Japanese garrison in Tangshan is very small and will not defend it. It is estimated that it will be evacuated after the destruction. At present, the underground party in Tangshan has organized a mine protection team and a factory protection team, and there are not much problems, and there are dozens of mine protection teams like Jie Zhenguo and them. Tangshan was largely liberated.

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1. Jie Zhenguo, (1910-1940) National Hero of the Anti-Japanese Resistance in Eastern Hebei. He was born in 1910 in a poor peasant family in Liutang Village, Wucheng County, Shandong. At the age of 10, he fled with his father and brother to Kailuan Zhaogezhuang Coal Mine, and at the age of 14, he entered the mine as a worker, and in 1938, in the Kailuan Coal Mine Anti-Japanese Strike, the legendary story of Kailuan Zhaogezhuang miners' Jiezhenguo was widely sung. In the autumn of 1939, Jie Zhenguo joined the Communist Party of China. On August 1, 1940, Jie Zhenguo led his troops to fight against the Japanese puppet army and died at the age of 30. There is a flat drama "Jie Zhenguo", which is about him.

2. On December 12, 1948, Tangshan was liberated. On November 23, the Northeast Coalition Army marched into the customs and marched from Lengkou, Xifengkou and Shanhaiguan. The Nationalist troops in Luan County blew up the Luanhe Bridge and fled south. On December 5, the Battle of Pingjin began. On the night of 11 December, the desperate leaders of the Kuomintang party, government, army, and special forces in Tangshan held an emergency meeting to convey the retreat order of the "general suppression" in North China, and decided to begin the retreat to Tianjin in the early morning of the 12th.

At around 2 a.m. on the 12th, the Kuomintang 87th Army stationed in Tangshan began to flee. The local troops in Tangshan, under the leadership of Jiang Zhiqi, began to accept the various factory organs at 1 p.m.

In the early morning of the next day, the third echelon led by Wu De, Yan Dakai, Li Yifu and others arrived in Tangshan. Tangshan was liberated.