Chapter 282: The Battle of Linqing (1)

After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin ordered Ren Chaoran, commander of the engineering regiment, and Li Zengyu, political commissar, to leave an engineer battalion to take care of the seized weapons and ammunition, dispose of the corpses of devils, and cooperate with the local work team and the district political axe to seize the great opportunity to eliminate the main force of the 21 st Division, quickly set off an upsurge in the construction of base areas in the Hexi region, and strengthen the building of the militia and village-level political power.

In addition to congratulating the instructor on winning the main force of the 21 st Division of the All-Annihilated Chinese Army, the chairman also reported on the situation of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee launching an armed uprising against the Japanese people, organizing troops, and actively cracking down on the Japanese Invaders.

After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin immediately remembered the history of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee launching an uprising and forming the Shandong Column. Counting the time again, yesterday, the day before the instructor eliminated the main force of the 21st Division and the Fourth Brigade of the Chinese Army captured Liaocheng, that is, on January 26, 1938, in the Culai Mountains of Shandong, the glorious unit born from the Culai Mountain Uprising launched by the [***] Shandong Provincial Party Committee, the Fourth Detachment of the Shandong Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, under the leadership of Commander Hong Tao and Political Commissar Li Yu, ambushed the Yue Army, blew up a car of the Yue Army, and eliminated 10 Yue soldiers. Although the results of the battle were not large, it was the first shot fired by the famous Shandong Column, and in the future, this unit would develop into a lion force in the revolutionary war.

Thinking of the mass line and historical materialism that the chairman has consistently advocated, Liu Yimin felt that over the past period of time, he has put too much energy into military struggles and not enough guidance on mobilizing the masses and establishing a solid anti-Japanese base area. If this continues, the main force will form a military-only viewpoint, and it will inevitably cause heavy losses over time.

Liu Yimin, who was full of self-reproach, immediately sent a telegram to Zhang Haitao, demanding that the eastward advance detachment move quickly, and that after entering the mountainous area of central and southern Shandong, it should firstly let go and mobilize the masses, and second, it should closely rely on the party organizations at all levels in Shandong to support and support the anti-Japanese troops under the leadership of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee.

Then, Liu Yimin wrote a letter under the title of "Let Go and Mobilize the Masses to Create an Impenetrable Base Area Behind the Enemy Lines" and sent instructions to all brigades and regiments and to the base areas in southern Hebei and Luxi.

In the telegram, Liu Yimin wrote: "[***] is not afraid of anything, but is afraid of breaking away from the masses." The starting point and the end goal of all our party's work are for the masses. The practical experience of the revolutionary struggle tells us that only by maintaining close ties with the masses and basing our policy on organizing the masses, arming the masses, and seeking interests for the masses will the masses support us, take the initiative to provide material supplies for our army, take the initiative to join the army to support the front, and work with us to drive the devils out of China. On the contrary, if our policy is divorced from the masses, brings losses to the masses, and makes the masses not understand and support it, our army will become water without a source and a tree without roots, and no matter how powerful the army is, it will suffer defeat. Therefore, whether it is the main force or the local troops, whether it is the party's leading departments or its branches and party groups, it is necessary to regard the protection of the safety of the masses' lives and property, the masses to be fed, clothed, have land to plant, and houses to live in, and so on, so that the children in the base areas can go to school and read and write. All localities, counties, districts, and villages must conscientiously implement the land reform policy, let the masses turn over and become masters of their own affairs in the course of land reform, and provide a powerful source of motivation for our war of resistance against Japanese aggression. ”

Liu Yimin then stipulated that in the future anti-sweeping operations, the primary task of the county brigades, district squads, and militia is to cover the safe transfer of the masses, use tunnels and mines to carry out tunnel warfare and mine warfare, and make every effort to block and harass the enemy. The main task of the local troops is to protect the security of the base areas, and the main forces are used for mobile operations. All units should carry forward the traditions of the Red Army, and in addition to combat training, cooperate with local political axes to carry out mass work and help the masses to carry out production. After the end of the anti-sweeping operation, all units and organs in the base areas should carry out cantonment reclamation and establish their own farms and breeding farms, strive to achieve self-sufficiency, and lighten the burden on the masses as much as possible.

With regard to the building of political power, Liu Yimin explicitly demanded that when conditions improve, elections must be held at the village, district, county, and administrative levels. The "three-three system" is practiced by the members of the political axe groups at and above the district level, with one-third of the party members being party members, one-third of the peasant representatives who are not party members, and one-third of the intellectuals, industrial and commercial representatives who are not party members. Representatives of all strata must be elected in accordance with the principles of universality, openness, and equality. Whoever does not surrender or [***] can participate in the work of the political axe. Party organizations at all levels play a leading and supervisory role in the work of political axes.

After the telegram was drafted, Luo Ronghuan carefully considered it and suggested that it be changed to the first instruction telegram, and that after the current anti-sweeping operation was over and seriously summed up, it should be revised and made more detailed arrangements.

Liu Yimin thought that his "three-three system" was different from our party's "three-three system" in history, and that it had to be tested in practice, so he nodded and agreed with Luo Ronghuan's opinion.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan led the main force to leave the military attache village, crossed the canal overnight, and rushed along the canal in the direction of Linqing.

At this time, the generals of the Yue Army were full of thoughts of making meritorious contributions, hoping for more battles, winning battles, and being promoted to senior officials quickly.

After the occupation of Liaocheng, the old devil Hecun Major General Dong has been immersed in the joy of the success of the sneak attack on Liaocheng.

At this time, the Spring Festival was approaching, but Liaocheng Street was empty. The old devil Dong of Kawamura led a group of devil officers down the street, and the click of leather boots echoed all over the street.

Walking into the headquarters of General Fan Zhuxian, Kawamura Dong was full of smiles and said to a group of devil officers: "Gentlemen, our department has successfully conquered Liaocheng thanks to Emperor Haoen, and Earl Shouichi Terauchi has ordered commendation. However, although Liaocheng was captured by our army, the losses of the surrounding resistance forces in China were not large. Now, His Excellency Commander Nishio Toshizo of the Second Army ordered our troops to quickly attack in the direction of Linqing, and join forces with the 21st Division in Linqing to completely sweep away the resistance forces in this area. What do you think? ”

The officers of the army who were so excited by the success of the sneak attack that they screamed stood up one by one.

Kawamura Dong glanced at the officers with satisfaction, turned his head and blew his nose with a handkerchief, and then said: "According to the order of Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, the brigade decided to leave a squadron to garrison Liaocheng, and the task is to sweep away the resistance forces in Liaocheng County and form a local maintenance association and armed forces that obey the command of the imperial army. After the rest of the troops had eaten and rested, they immediately advanced to Linqing for a rapid attack, striving to capture Liaocheng before the arrival of the 21st Division! ”

The devil officers were another burst of Hai.

It is no wonder that Kawamura Dong is so arrogant, in history, the garrison left after the army occupied Liaocheng was very small, and mainly relied on Han Annihilation to maintain his rule. There is a saying among the people that there are eight devils and 2,000 Han annihilation, which means that there were only eight devils guarding Liaocheng for a while, and there were more than 2,000 Han annihilation who helped the devils achieve rule.

After the devil officers retreated to prepare, Kawamura Dong called the leader of the devil squadron who remained in Liaocheng and ordered him to immediately organize friends who supported Yuhua goodwill after the large army left, and to prepare for the establishment of maintenance associations at all levels in Liaocheng County, and then posted notices everywhere to publicize that the purpose of the imperial army's construction of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was to liberate the Chinese from the dark rule of Chiang Kai-shek's political axe, and that goodwill with China was the only way to change China's current situation. At the same time, it is necessary to use the maintenance association to lobby everywhere to persuade the local forces to surrender and integrate them into the coordinated army of the Great Imperial Army after reform.

The reason why the old devil of Kawamura Dong made such an arrangement was that when he visited Nakano Hidemitsu, the head of the secret service in Jinan, he learned about the relevant situation of the local forces in Shandong from the situation introduced by Nakano Hidemitsu.

During the Republic of China, bandits were rampant in Shandong. In order to eradicate the bandits, the local government vigorously organized various local militia groups, and the non-governmental organizations also organized various militia organizations to protect villages and villages. In addition to suppressing bandits, these local armed forces can also maintain law and order in peacetime, but the disadvantage is that their roles change too quickly, and when the situation is stable, they are militia groups, and when the situation is chaotic, they are easily controlled by local forces, and some are even bandits at times, and sometimes they are militia groups.

Now the Luxi region is the time when the situation is out of control, General Fan Zhuxian has just been martyred, the dragons have no leader, the army at this time to persuade the local forces, from the timing, grasp is very accurate.

Kawamura Dong said with a dry mouth, but this pig-headed devil squadron leader does not have the same political vision as him, and he doesn't seem to understand it.

Seeing that his subordinates were full of ignorance, Kawamura Dong resisted the urge to slap him, sighed, and sent a telegram to Nakano Hidemitsu, asking him to send high-ranking spies who were proficient in Chinese and familiar with the situation in Shandong to Liaocheng to help form a local government and armed forces.

After arranging the garrison of Liaocheng, Hecun Dong led the reading force to mix into the main force of the Fourth Brigade, so he repeated his skills and went to Linqing to kill.

The arrogant and meritorious Kawamura Dong couldn't imagine that Linqing was not Liaocheng, and this time, eight thousand devils would return to Dongying with his soul to find Amaterasu to report.

The name of Linqing began in Later Zhao, taking the meaning of proximity to the Qing River.

Linqing is one of the representative cities of canal culture, and there are scenic spots such as the canal banknote pass, the relics pagoda, the mosque, and the Aotouji, which are one of the eight major banknotes in ancient China.

The story of the famous "Golden Vase Plum" takes place in Linqing. The Linqing Banknote Pass, Tushan, Yangong Temple, Shahe, and Linqing Gate mentioned in the book still exist, and the diet such as warm noodles are still retained, and the lion cat mentioned in the book is a unique product of Linqing.

The four classical masterpieces of China, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" are heroic legends, "Journey to the West" is a mythological fantasy, and "Dream of Red Mansions" also describes the life of the aristocracy, all of which are far from ordinary people. To truly describe and reflect the life of the market, "Golden Vase Plum" is a well-deserved first, and its greatness is here. Although the book is [***] for most of the history, and it is indeed full of a large number of erotic descriptions, but aside from the low-level and interesting erotic descriptions, the book is really a rare real picture of the secular life of the ancients, especially the description of the customs and ordinary life at that time, which makes people feel like they are in it.

The story of the Yu opera "Chen Sanliang" is familiar to most Chinese, and the image of Chen Sanliang, a strange woman full of talent and misery, and her experience have been recited by generations of Chinese since it spread. This story happened in Linqing. However, because the play "Chen Sanliang" portrayed Chen Sanliang as a woman who fell into the dust in order to highlight the appeal, the people of Linqing believed that it violated the reality of life and refused to stage the play locally.

The story of Wuxun running a school also takes place in the area around Linqing. Mr. Tao Xingzhi, a civilian educator of later generations, highly respected martial arts training, emphasizing that there is no class in teaching, and the first text of the first volume of the primary school textbook he compiled was "Come, come, come, let's go to school; Go, go, go, everyone go to read. ”

"There is Linqing in Yanjing City", which is said to be the Linqing Gong brick characterized by "knocking sound, breaking without holes, no alkali and no corrosion", which is the main raw material of Yanjing city wall and palace building in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Originally, Linqing is in the Yellow River impact plain, the soil is "a layer of cement and a layer of sand" of the "lotus soil", with this soil to burn out of the brick compression, alkali resistance, wear resistance, "hard than gold stone, sound like bronze", plus Linqing close to the canal, water transport developed, close to the capital, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Shiye and a group of craftsmen were ordered to burn tribute bricks from Anhui to Linqing, built a lot of "horseshoe kiln" on both sides of the canal, after 72 processes, fired out a large green brick weighing 50 catties and "nine catties" bricks, for the construction of Yanjing City. Therefore, the imperial court set up the "Ministry of Industry and Camp Division" in Linqing to manage the firing affairs of tribute bricks in a unified manner, and Linqing became the "hometown of tribute bricks" that is well-known throughout the country.

Linqing is beautiful, but under the iron hooves of Yuekou, Linqing, like most cities in North China, is moaning and fighting.

In October 1937, the army set out from Xingtai and captured Linqing. Later, due to the attack and occupation of Tianjin by the instructor, all the units of the Yue army urgently assembled and marched towards Tianjin, leaving only 600 "Great Imperial Army Coordination Army" commanded by Cui Peide to garrison Linqing. After the instructor established the Luxi Military Region, the Second Brigade quickly occupied Linqing, eliminated Cui Peide's Imperial Army, established the Linqing Anti-Ming Cooking Political Axe, and set off a resistance in the ten districts of Linqing.

In just a few days after the main force of the instructor went north to eliminate the 21st Division of the Yue Army, the situation in Linqing changed, and the local forces that were forced away by the main force of the instructor thought that the Eighth Route Army would not come back, and immediately made a comeback, and even ignored the warnings of the Linqing anti-Ming political axe and the county brigade, and occupied the eastern area of Linqing. In this way, the situation in the small Linqing has become extremely complicated.

At half past six o'clock in the morning of January 27, the Fifth Brigade of the Sect, which was preparing to march east into Shandong in Wei County, received a telegram from Liu Yimin to Linqing. Brigade Commander Hong Chaoyuan and Political Commissar Hu Xuerong immediately mobilized their troops and began to move in concealment.

At about 6 o'clock in the evening, Hong Chaoyuan once again received a telegram from Liu Yimin, asking him to strictly implement the clear field of the strong wall after entering Linqing, stick to Linqing, and report the loss of Liaocheng and the martyrdom of Fan Zhuxian.

Hong Chaoyuan immediately realized that the Fourth Brigade of the Reading Force of the Yue Army might come in the direction of Linqing at any time. At this time, there was no main force in Linqing County, except for the newly formed Linqing County Anti-Ming Cooking Political Axe and the County Brigade of the Luxi Military Region, and once the devils came, the city would be broken immediately. Therefore, Hong Chaoyuan strictly ordered all troops to overcome fatigue, and under the guidance of the district squad, immediately crossed the canal, took control of the county seat, ordered the reconnaissance company to reconnoiter in the direction of Liaocheng overnight in several ways, and ordered the cavalry battalion to rush to Liu Gaozi along the road to set up defenses.

Linqing City was already gloomy at this time. The troops of the Sixth Guerrilla Zone, which had been withdrawn from Liaocheng, poured into the county seat and began to ask the county magistrate Shi Lieguang for money and food, so that Shi Lieguang was eager to disarm these troops, but unfortunately the main force was not here, and a county brigade and some district squads and militia alone could not solve these rout-like troops.

Zhang Linzhi, secretary of the [***] Luxi Special Committee, Li Kuiyuan, secretary of the Linqing County Party Committee, and Shi Lieguang, the county magistrate, who were withdrawn from Liaocheng, told the two that they had reported the news of Fan Zhuxian's sacrifice and the loss of Liaocheng to the Northern Bureau, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, and the Central Committee. With the authorization of the central authorities, a report was made to the leaders of our army's main instructors hidden in southern Hebei, and I believe that the leaders will deal with it quickly. However, before the arrival of the main force, it was necessary to stabilize these troops and strengthen the city defenses. Otherwise, once the army comes to attack, these troops are likely to flee or even sack the place before fleeing.

When Li Kuiyuan and Shi Lieguang heard this, they felt that they had to take measures immediately, so they discussed with Zhang Linzhi whether to let the county brigade and the 10 detachments quickly control all key points in the county, mobilize the forces controlled by Fan Zhuxian's party, cooperate with the county brigade to act, and disarm those armed forces with bandit backgrounds. Then concentrate on deploying the city defenses and prepare for the attack of the Japanese army.

Zhang Linzhi shook his head after hearing this, and said to Shi Lieguang: "I have been in contact with General Fan Zhuxian for a long time, and I know a little about these troops he reorganized. When General Fan is alive, it is easy to do, and with his banner, it is easy to gather sand in piles. Now that the flag is down, the pile of sand has become quicksand. Unless we have our main forces, it will be impossible to reorganize these forces by our strength. ”

While the two were discussing, the messenger ran in and reported that the troops of Wang Laixian, commander of the First Route Army, and Ji Zhanao, commander of the sixteenth detachment, were open in the city.

Zhang Linzhi was furious when he heard this, if it weren't for Wang Laixian's first people's army fleeing without a fight, General Fan Zhuxian would not have been able to sacrifice! It's good now, the deserters are justified, not to mention entering Linqing City, but also asking for money and food, even ignoring the army's advance, and fighting in the city, it's simply the opposite!

Without waiting for Zhang Linzhi to get angry, Shi Lieguang had already jumped high, and ordered the county brigade and the ten detachments to assemble one after another, and took out his pistol to lead the troops to solve the first route of the people's army and the sixteenth detachment by force.

Zhang Linzhi saw that Shi Lieguang was about to act, he was shocked, knowing that he was impulsive, he hurriedly grabbed Shi Lieguang and asked him to calm down, now the strength of our army in Linqing City is too weak, the county brigade and ten detachments together are less than 1,500 people, both teams are new troops, how can they be the opponent of the first route people's army of tens of thousands of people and the sixteenth detachment of 3,000 people? If you don't fight, you can still play a role in diversion, and if you do, it is very likely that these two troops will join forces and completely occupy Linqing. This matter can only be outwitted, not rash.

After listening to Zhang Linzhi's words, Shi Lie was so angry that he threw the pistol on the table and said hatefully: "Okay! Good! This Wang Laixian and Ji Zhanao are really fucking kind, they don't go to fight this devil, they actually go to Linqing to make trouble. I'd like to see, when we come back from teaching the Second Brigade, these guys know how to write dead words! ”

Zhang Linzhi had calmed down at this time, and said to Shi Lieguang: "You stay here to control the troops, guard the county government axe and the city gate, and I will meet them." In any case, they can't be allowed to mess around in Linqing City, the army may be here soon, and now is not the time for a civil war. ”

Shi Lieguang was worried about Zhang Linzhi's safety, and offered to let Zhang Linzhi stay in control of the troops, and he went to Wang Laixian and Ji Zhanao to ask them to stop fighting.

Zhang Linzhi considered that he was from the Northwest Lu Special Committee, and he was not familiar with the situation of Luxi District created by the instructor, and the leaders of Luxi District went north with the main force, so Shi Lieguang was inseparable here, so he said: "Don't fight, you command here, I'll go to them." Remember, whatever happens, be calm and try to drag it until our main forces arrive. ”

After speaking, Zhang Linzhi went out with the guards.

This Wang Laixian is a native of Yulin, Luqiaobei, Guantao County. Since he was a child, he was idle, and when he grew up, he pulled the pole and became a bandit, and his hands were stained with the blood of ordinary people. "VII. After the "Seventh" incident, Wang Laixian, Wang Jinjia, and Wu Zuoxiu jointly entrenched themselves in the area of Guantao District 4 and Quzhou Dongmu Village, claiming to be the North China Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, using the 29th Army's 20 machine guns, more than 10 cannons, grenadiers and other weapons intercepted when retreating, and it quickly developed, and now has seven regiments, an artillery regiment, and a pistol battalion, known as 10,000 people. On the seventh day of the lunar month in 1937, Wang Laixian took thousands of people to Zhaozhuang Village, and personally held a guillotine knife to kill five members of the villager Cao Defeng's family. On this day, Wang Laixian killed a total of 84 people and injured 21 people in Zhaozhuang Village.

After Fan Zhuxian insisted on resisting in the northwest of Shandong, he sent people to do Wang Laixian's work many times and mobilized him to resist. In the end, an agreement was reached that the Sixth Guerrilla Command would organize Wang's troops into the First Route People's Army and appoint Wang Laixian as its commander.

Historically, the main force of Wang Laixian's department was wiped out by the 688th Regiment and the 10th Detachment, the main force of our army, and Wang Laixian himself surrendered to the army in 1940 to do the Han annihilation. After liberation, Wang Laixian fled to Yanjing to sell vegetables and do business, and was captured and escorted back to Guantao County to be shot.

Ji Zhanao was also a habitual bandit, and he grew his army to 300 people under the banner of the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army. After this unit was incorporated by Fan Zhuxian into the 16th Shandong Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Detachment, it was militarily under the command of General Fan Zhuxian's Sixth Guerrilla Command, and politically under the leadership of the Political Department of the Special Committee of the Northwest Lu Province of our party.

Historically, after Fan Zhuxian was martyred, most of the other detachments he incorporated except for the 10 detachments directly controlled by our party and then surrendered to the Han Dynasty for annihilation, which further deteriorated the situation of the War of Resistance in Northwest Shandong.

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(To be continued)