Now I understand that the four heavyweights gathered in Baoding all of a sudden to pave the way for intelligence work, and at the same time, for the underground work in the enemy-occupied areas, they want to open up secret communication lines in Baoding.

At the end of 1941, Liu Ren and Liu Shenzhi of Beiping sent Zhang Dazhong and Zhang Yifeng to the Baoding area to prepare for the opening of secret communication lines. At that time, Liu Ren was in charge of the traffic department.

Why open up a new secret line of communication in Baoding? Let's start with 1937.

In the early days of the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance against Japanese aggression, the underground organization of the Party in Beiping, Tianjin, Tangshan, and the railway system was led by the Pingjin-Tangdian Line Working Committee in the enemy-occupied area, and the communication lines used were two secret communication lines established by the Ministry of Social Affairs through Miaofeng Mountain and Fangshan in the suburbs of Beiping.

At the beginning of 1941, after the Jin-Cha-Ji Northern Branch of the Central Committee set up the city work committee, in view of the lessons learned from the destruction of the Pingjin-Tangdian Line Work Committee, it was decided not to set up a unified leading organ in the enemy-occupied cities, but to have the city work committees set up in the base areas carry out the work in the enemy-occupied cities in the form of "non-local leadership," "multi-headed contact," and "single-line contact."

As a result, the work of establishing clandestine communications was brought to a more important position. In its "1941 Summary Report on Urban Work," the Urban Work Committee said: "The transportation of the upper and lower levels is the blood vessel of the party in the city," and "under the circumstances of today's leadership centers being set up in base areas, the work of transportation liaison is extremely important." In this report, the urban work committee proposed the establishment of an independent transportation system, emphasizing that "this is a very detailed and complex special work, which requires a considerable number of cadres" and needs to be "started from scratch".

Previously, the communication lines of the city committee were used intersecting with those of the Ministry of Social Affairs, and the organizations of the city committee system in the enemy-occupied cities also crossed with the organizations of the Ministry of Social Affairs. For example, Yao Keyin was originally from the city committee system, but later transferred to the Ministry of Social Affairs to do intelligence work. It is easy for this situation to affect each other, and the destruction of this family will inevitably affect the other. Therefore, the Northern Branch decided to strictly separate the system of the urban work committee from the system of the Ministry of Social Affairs. The city working committee decided to establish its own independent communication line.

But why did you choose to build a traffic line in Baoding?

First of all. The original two lines of communication were very difficult to navigate. In 1941, the Northern Bureau sent people to explore the way, and for the first time entered the Pingxi base area, taking the line of Fangshan. After that, he sent people back to Beiping to evacuate some of the exposed comrades. Take the line of Mt. Myomine.

It turned out that the problem with these two lines was that it was really difficult to walk in the first place, the line on the north side of Mt. Miaomine. After leaving Xizhimen, you have to pass through the two enemy inspection posts of Qinglong Bridge and Xibeiwang, and go to the villages around Qianshajian to connect with the secret traffic officer.

Then pass through the enemy's blockade line in front of Miaofeng Mountain, enter the mountainous area, and then pass through the three enemy blockade lines, including Dacun, Zhaitanggou, and Bauhinia Pass, before reaching the relatively consolidated anti-Japanese base areas in Pingxi -- the western mountainous areas of Fangshan County and Laishui County.

From the map, from Beiping to here. The distance is not far, and it is half a day away by car. But at that time, all roads were patrolled day and night by the enemy, infantry, motorcycles, armored vehicles. Tightly controlled. Comrades who came and went could only pass through the blockade at night.

Crossing the Yongding River was particularly difficult, as the boats were swept away by the enemy after the glacial opening in the spring, and the traffic officers had to pull ropes and let the evacuees cross the rushing river in a basket. The blockade was crossed. You can only take mountain paths and cross mountains and mountains. At that time, this trip went back and forth, and it didn't take a month to go down.

Moreover, the original two lines of communication were not safe enough. Pick up the exposed comrades and go to Miaofeng Mountain. It was because it was discovered that there was a traitor on the Fangshan line, which had been noticed by the enemy, and it was very unsafe to come and go. And the actual line of Miaofeng Mountain is not safe enough.

In April 1941, there was an incident in which the "eight children" were arrested by the enemy on their way to the base area. At that time, Lei Yan and eight other teenagers set out from Xibeiwang, Haidian, and were led by the militia relay, detouring the trails, climbing the terraces, trekking through mountains and rivers day and night, and walked for six days before reaching the Zhaitang. Unexpectedly, the enemy attacked and arrested them.

Due to transportation difficulties, some young students were arrested by the enemy on their way to the base area. Some comrades who had already been exposed in Peiping could not be transferred to the base areas in time and could only hide in the city to Tibet. The consequence of this is that, according to the organizational principle of underground work, comrades with whom they have direct or indirect ties must quickly go into hiding and transfer, so that some comrades have lost organizational ties because of this.

What is even more worrying is that the instructions of the higher-level party organizations cannot be conveyed to Beiping in a timely manner, and the situation of the party organizations in Beiping cannot be reported to the urban work committee in a timely manner.

The geographical environment of Baoding is obviously different from the above two traffic lines.

First of all, Baoding is relatively close to the Jin-Cha-Ji base area, and there is only one enemy blockade line in Mancheng, which is convenient to enter and exit. Most of the border of Mancheng County is a guerrilla area on the plains, and the western part is a marginal mountainous area, so it is relatively safe once you pass the county seat of Mancheng. Then go into the mountains, and enter the hinterland of the Jinchaji base area.

Secondly, Baoding is a relatively large city, is the capital of the puppet Hebei Province, there are many people, urban and rural contacts, at that time the city and rural people wear different clothes, the city people to the general small county is very eye-catching, and to Baoding such a big city is not. There are many daily necessities in Baoding, the urban and rural trade of agricultural products is relatively active, and there are many small merchants and hawkers and farmers who go to the city to buy things. People from Beiping and Tianjin did not attract attention when they came to Baoding.

Beekeeping and sheep in the nearby mountains, honey, sheepskin, mutton, persimmons, walnuts, jujubes and other mountain goods need to be transported into Baoding for trading, and the daily necessities needed in the countryside also have to be bought back from Baoding. Urban-rural trade drives the convection of urban and rural populations. We are inconspicuous among the merchants, peddlers, and peasants who come and go.

At that time, it was said that the lines of communication were the blood of our party, and it was difficult to do the work because the blood was not connected. With the lines of communication, the bloodline lives.

At the earliest, through the introduction of Wang Guoquan, secretary of the prefectural party committee of the first sub-district of Jinchaji, and Niu Shucai, director of the organization department, a traffic station was set up in Dongzhaozhuang, the residence of the Mancheng County Party Committee. This traffic station is also where Zhang Dazhong and Zhang Yifeng work and stay, and is the hub of the secret traffic line.

With the traffic station, it is necessary to establish a number of secret liaison stations, so that the dots can be connected to form a secret communication line.

Shi Jinkui, secretary of the Mancheng County Party Committee, is a native of Xuzhuang in this county, he is resourceful, and knows the local situation well, and he is nicknamed "Jigong". According to Shi Jinkui's introduction, it was decided to establish a secret liaison station in Manziying Village, a suburb of Baoding. With the help of the local Fifth District Committee and the village party branch, we selected a secret traffic officer. and use their families as secret points of contact.

What is the Barbarian Battalion?

As soon as you exit the Baoding Railway Station, you will see a police pavilion erected on the side of the train track, which is the checkpoint of the Japanese puppet police. The first level of getting off the train is to pass through the inspection here. Then three or four miles to the west, we arrived at Shuiniantou Village.

After the water, Niantou Village is a trolley village, and if you don't enter the trolley village, you will go around the village and pass from the edge of the village. We arrived at the barbarian camp village. This area is a guerrilla zone, and the east of the barbarian battalion is only 145 miles away from Baoding. Our men got off the train in Baoding during the day and arrived at the barbarian camp in an hour or two. Vegetables, lotus roots, and water chestnuts are produced in the area of the Manzi Camp, and there are lotus ponds there.

At night, we set out from the barbarian camp and slipped west through Zhuangzi, and then went directly to the enemy's blockade ditch. At the beginning of the opening of the secret communication line, it was still very difficult to break through the blockade. Each crossing of the ditch requires the cooperation of the Eighth Route Army or the local armed district squad. At that time, Yang Chengwu, commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji First Army Division, and Xiao Yingtang, commander of the Third Regiment stationed in the Mancheng area, often sent troops to support the traffic station.

When groups of intellectuals and celebrities crossed the ditch, the Third Regiment sent troops to surround the turrets, and the soldiers set up machine guns to blockade the turrets on both sides. In the middle, the armed traffic team at the traffic station leads passers-by through the blockade ditch.

For example, in the autumn of 1941, comrades from Beiping waited for more than a month in Dongzhaozhuang before they had the opportunity to cross the blockade ditch with the Eighth Route Army. Another example is that at the end of 1941, several comrades went to the border area for a meeting and came to the Baoding guerrilla zone from Beiping to prepare to cross the ditch with the local armed zone squads.

Unfortunately, the enemy of Jiangcheng suddenly attacked. The district squad fought with the enemy for a while and retreated, and the people from Beiping had to return to the barbarian camp and Xinzhuang respectively, and waited for another seven or eight days before crossing the blockade line with the Eighth Route Army and returning to the base area.

The section of the blockade ditch through which the secret communication line to be laid is Shunmin Village on the east side of the ditch and Baoyang Village on the west side of the ditch. After the blockade ditch there is our township government. There are our fortress households, and the fortress households have secret caves. Our guests live in a hole in the ground where they can hide.

It is 40 miles from the barbarian camp to the blockade ditch. Set off in the evening, walk for three hours, and cross the ditch before dawn. After crossing the ditch and going west, along the ravine, you will reach Shijing Village, and it is already broad daylight. This is already part of the base area. Walking up from Shijing Village is our transportation station in Higashizhaozhuang.

The area around the barbarian battalion is still our guerrilla zone, and the distribution of the surrounding enemies is as follows: getting off the train from Baoding is the Sili camp Kazi, north of the barbarian battalion is the horse farm, south is Jiangcheng, and the horse farm and Jiangcheng each have a large enemy stronghold, and there are artillery towers. The line of Baoyang and Wuhou in the west is the enemy's blockade ditch, and the Southern Qi to the north of Yiluo Zhuangzi also has the enemy's artillery stronghold.

On both sides of the blockade ditch, Shunmin and Baoyang each have an enemy turret. The local government is a two-faced regime, and the enemy implements the armor protection system, issues "residence permits", and clears the township and checks the household registration every three or five places. On the surface, the rule of the enemy and the puppet is very tight, but in fact there is our party branch in the village, and there are more than a dozen party members in more than 100 households in the village, the mass base is good, the party strength is strong, and the guerrillas often come to operate at night.

Moreover, the comrades who are ready to be selected to work around the secret communication line are roughly divided into the following three groups:

(1) Full-time secret traffic officers, who are farmers who do not leave their jobs.

(2) Armed traffic officers, who are off-duty cadres and are equipped with guns and grenades.

(3) Peasant traffic officers, who are not full-time or full-time, but only complete some specific tasks according to the specific situation.

There is another important reason for the urgent need to lay a safe and hidden line of communication, intellectuals!

At that time, uniting and recruiting intellectuals to join the ranks of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was an important task of the underground party in Beiping. As early as the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Northern Bureau put forward a call: every outstanding member should take off his long shirt and go to the guerrillas.

According to the Xinhua News Agency, from 1937 to March 1938, more than 7,000 party members and revolutionary youths were introduced by the underground party in Beiping and Tianjin to various places behind enemy lines to participate in the anti-Japanese guerrilla war.

After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the phase of stalemate, the situation of the struggle changed, and under the extremely harsh situation of the Japanese puppet fascist military rule, the underground party in Peiping continued to carry out the work of uniting and absorbing intellectuals.

In 1941, after the establishment of the Urban Working Committee of the Jin-Cha-Ji Northern Branch, it began to actively recruit intellectuals to the base areas, participate in the anti-Japanese work behind enemy lines, and accumulate strength for the strategic counteroffensive. The underground party organization in Beiping actively carried out its work, and by the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, it had sent hundreds of people to the base areas. When these intellectuals arrived at the free land of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, which was behind enemy lines, they were extremely excited and felt that "I am no longer a slave to the country, I am a Chinese who stands up to the sky!" They were in high spirits and enthusiastically threw themselves into the actual anti-Japanese struggle.

The party organization in Beiping attaches special importance to uniting and recruiting intellectuals and young people to participate in the anti-Japanese struggle, so as to continuously strengthen the anti-Japanese national united front led by China. The significance of this work can be described in this way: when an intellectual in the city arrives in the countryside, he becomes the force of a hundred people.

Under the conditions of frequent guerrilla warfare and extremely difficult life in the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines, it takes a great deal of determination and perseverance to leave the big cities where life is relatively stable and go to the rural areas. Therefore, the task of the comrades of the transport stations and the relevant underground party organizations is not only to do a good job of uniting and mobilizing the intellectuals and youth, but also to ensure the safety of their trips.

To sum up, the Northern Bureau sent so many heavyweights at one time to supervise the affairs of the traffic line, and on this festival, Yang Stick made such a fuss, don't you say this is a mess!

The latest chapter of Yang Bangzi and his prisoner squad at high speed, this chapter is the one hundred and thirteenth chapter of the fourth section of the old man Dongyang, and the address of the secret traffic line is