"I was a guard for Commander Yang Guofu".
Wang Jingjian dictated.
Infantry Sergeant pen.
Fourth draft, August 2014).
The troops were originally going to rest for a long time, but they only rested for about ten days, and the order came down from above: Enter the customs!
We entered the customs from Xifengkou, and there were mountains on both sides of the road, and the mountains were full of persimmon trees and chestnut trees. The persimmon tree has lost all its leaves, and the tree is full of red persimmons. The common people in this area are very poor, and many of them do not have cotton clothes and trousers, and wear single clothes. The family was lying on the kang, covered with a broken quilt, and the whole family only had a pair of cotton pants, and whoever went out wore them. The cadres and soldiers couldn't bear to see it, and gave the extra clothes to the landlord or the common people.
It is very different when you enter the customs, along the way there are big color gates, big slogans are pasted, there are tea stations on the side of the road, and the people beat gongs and drums, "Welcome to the Northeast Army". The local ** organized the masses to open the road very wide, the widest one was forty or fifty meters, and the troops could march in several columns. When they arrived at the Guannai, the mood of the troops was different, and their morale was high.
Before entering the customs, cadres and soldiers from the northeast deserted, and after entering the customs, there were even more of them. Wang Ti, the technical secretary of the political department of the artillery regiment, a native of Yanbian who could speak Korean, ran away before entering the customs. During the Cultural Revolution, he once returned to the 48th Artillery Regiment to visit his comrades-in-arms. After entering the customs, the artillery regiment camped in a village, and the next day it set out, and a company-level cadre of the Guantong team disappeared. This cadre is from Hebei, and I heard that he was in love with the landlord girl, so he ran away with the girl. Zhang Bailing said to me: "The troops will go first, you and the cavalry squad will stay, and go to the surrounding villages to look for him and see if you can find him." "I took two soldiers from the cavalry squad and searched for more than two days on horseback without seeing anyone.
After the 43rd Army entered the pass, the 128th Division participated in the attack on Tianjin, other units were stationed in the southeast of Beiping, and the 48th Artillery Regiment was stationed in Houhuangzhuang, Tongxian County. In January 1949, after the peaceful liberation of Beiping, the headquarters and the heads of the 43rd Army and military organs were stationed in the Beijing Hotel. The artillery regiment celebrated the Spring Festival in Houhuangzhuang (January 29 of the Gregorian calendar), and Ma Lihua came to the team to celebrate the festival with me. The landlord was very welcoming and made us bud rice cakes with bean noodles in them, which was delicious.
After the Spring Festival, the military headquarters of the 43 rd Army instructed the 48 th Artillery Regiment to organize cadres above the battalion level to go to Beiping in two groups. We took a car into Beiping City and stayed in a small hotel in Qianmen Grinding Factory. It was very cold in the small hotel, and the cadres said to me, "Why don't you go to the Beijing Hotel?"The military headquarters is there, Deputy Army Commander Yang must also be there, and it is warmer to sleep on the floor than here. I thought it made sense, so I went to the Beijing Hotel with Wang Chunchang. When I arrived at the Beijing Hotel, I saw Wang Cheng, director of the Management Department of the Military Headquarters, and I said, "The place where we live is too cold, and we are so cold!"Wang Cheng said, "Then you can sleep here!""He found a house where there was no bed and we slept on the carpet.
The next day, Wang Chunchang and I returned to the small hotel. Mr. Zhu's nephew, Zhu Lin, served as a staff officer (operational staff officer) at the headquarters of the 48th Artillery Regiment, and he had a good relationship with me. He said: "Coordinator, I heard that Mr. Lin lives in the Beijing Hotel, you go to him with me and inquire about my uncle's life." On the third day, I went to the Beijing Hotel with Zhu Lin and found Mr. Lin's office. A secretary received us, and I explained Zhu Lin's situation to him. The secretary said to Zhu Lin: "Mr. Lin is not here, you leave the army station, or you write a letter, I will definitely transfer it to you!."”
In Beiping, we visited the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace and other places and played for three days. On this day, we took the car to Beihai Park and got out of the car to hang out. Wang Chun and I both have disabilities in our long legs, I am in the right leg, and he is also in the right leg (injured in Siping), and the two Wang Cripples are not good at walking, and they are gradually falling behind. At lunchtime, I had no money on me, and Wang Chunchang said that he had a gold ring that could be used to exchange money. We found a jewelry store, and Wang Chunchang sold a small piece of the gold ring, exchanged some money, and went to a small restaurant to buy a few meat buns.
During the recuperation period, the troops studied the 1949 New Year's Day speech "Carry the Revolution to the End". In April, the artillery regiment set out from Houhuangzhuang and boarded the train at Yangcun Station, where the personnel and mules and horses sat in stuffy tank cars and artillery on flatbed cars, and went south from the Jinpu Railway.
The train passed through Texas, and a section of the railway ahead was not repaired, and the artillery regiment got off the train and marched. I'm an assistant and usually walk at the end of the line of troops in my direct team. Zhang Bailing didn't like to ride a horse, so he sat on the cart, and he beckoned me to take the cart and pull with him. When passing through Jinan, Chen Shixun, chief of staff of the artillery regiment, took a few of us to ride around the city of Jinan.
The artillery regiment re-boarded the train in Jinan, sometimes by train and sometimes on the march. In Xuzhou, the troops transferred from Jinpu Road to Longhai Road, entered Henan, and passed through Zhengzhou to Xuchang. When they arrived in Xuchang, the wheat in the field had grown very tall, and the troops stopped more than 20 miles southwest of Xuchang to rest.
In Hubei, the troop's marching route is not far from Linjia Dawan, Huanggang County, the hometown of **, and some cadres go to visit **'s home when the troops are resting.
After the rest, we crossed the Yangtze River from Shix (place name to be verified) and entered Jiujiang. It was cloudy before and after crossing the river, and it rained every day. When they arrived at Lushan, the troops rested again, the regiment headquarters was stationed in the north of Tao Yuanming's former residence in Lushan, and a battalion was stationed in the location of Tao Yuanming's former residence, and more than ten miles north was Wang Xizhi's former residence. Wang Ruihua and I took a correspondent and rode horses to Tao Yuanming's former residence. Lushan is indeed a good place, with green mountains and green waters. We saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl in Tao Yuanming's former residence, who looked like a fairy, Wang Ruihua smiled and said: "There are beautiful women in the ravine." ”
When the troops arrived in Nanchang, the artillery regiment was stationed more than 20 miles north of Nanchang, and the garrison was very long. At this time, malaria began to circulate in the army, and I contracted falciparum malaria, and the health team gave me two injections of "Liuliu", and I was quickly cured.
Deputy Army Commander Yang was reappointed deputy commander of the Jiangxi Military Region and stayed in Jiangxi to suppress bandits. Chen Yuke, the head of the regiment, said to me: "Wang Jingjian, the chief is in the car now, don't you want to ask the chief's horse?"”
On August 1, when the troops were on holiday, I asked the regiment for leave to go to the Jiangxi Military Region. Deputy Commander Yang lives in a small building, he goes out to work, and Zhang Lan is at home. There have been some changes in the staff around Deputy Commander Yang, the cooks are still the same, and the breeders have been replaced.
After lunch, Deputy Commander Yang returned, he was very happy to see me, asked me about my work in the artillery regiment, and I made a report to him. I am an old guard, I don't talk politely, I have something to say, and I asked Deputy Commander Yang: "Chief, do you still want your horse?"Deputy Commander Yang understood what I meant, and said briskly: "You can take it back!."”
Moving south from Nanchang, the troops rested in the Ganzhou area. The 2nd Field Artillery Unit passed by our station, and I stood on the side of the road to look at their equipment. Suddenly, a man ran out of the queue and called my name, and I looked at it and it was a calf. Xiao Niu is a native of the Youjia River Beach in the Eighth District of Changshan, and was a soldier of the Changshan Independent Battalion during the Anti-Japanese War. He said: "I followed the troops to Erye, and now I am an instructor, and Erye is going to the southwest. "The Erye troops were marching quickly, and they were walking very fast, and after a few words, he chased after the troops. I didn't have time to ask which unit he worked in later and why he went to Erye.
In October 1949, Guangzhou was liberated, and the 48th Artillery Regiment was stationed at Tianhe Airport in the north of Guangzhou. At this time, the 48th Artillery Regiment was separated from the 43rd Army and subordinated to the 15th Corps Headquarters and became an artillery regiment directly under the Corps.
In February 1950, I served as deputy chief of the Organization Unit of the Political Department of the 48th Artillery Regiment. At this time, Siye was preparing to attack Hainan Island, and the 48th Artillery Regiment went to the Leizhou Peninsula to prepare to participate in the Battle of Hainan Island. We went to Yangjiang and Dianbai, and our superiors ordered us to return to Guangzhou to form the 8th Artillery Division. The Eighth Artillery Division was composed of the 46th, 47th, and 48th Artillery Regiments, with Wang Heng as the first division commander and Li Zhenbang as the political commissar. Wang Heng later died of relapsing fever in North Korea.
In 1950, our troupe celebrated the Spring Festival in Jiangmen (February 17 of the Gregorian calendar), and we went to the opera garden to watch the play in the evening. On February 20th, we returned to Guangzhou and settled in the northern suburbs. The 8th Artillery Division received another order to return to the northeast and go to Mishan County, Songjiang Province (now Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province) to open up wasteland for farming. Before going to Northeast China, I had appendicitis and had surgery at Zhongshan Hospital in Guangzhou.
On February 28, the 48th Artillery Regiment held a pledge meeting in the northern suburbs of Guangzhou. On 1 March, the 48th Artillery Regiment left behind two Korean companies, the guard company and the machine gun company, and the whole regiment went north by train. On the way through Wuhan, the troops rested for a few days. In the evening, Ma Lihua and I went to the Wuhan Night Market, and met a few children, and one of the boys sold us a luminous watch, saying that the family was in trouble and that he would sell the watch to help us. I saw that the boy was pitiful, and I had a few silver dollars at the time, so I bought this watch. A few days later, the watch was gone, and it turned out to be a fake watch.
In Wuhan, we unexpectedly met Xu Binzhou and Liu Qiren. Xu Binzhou, who was serving as a political commissar in a certain ministry in Wuhan at the time, went out for a meeting, and the driver picked up the wrong place, so he walked back to the unit and met us on the street. He saw Ma Lihua first and shouted, "Hey, isn't this a pony?"”
Xu Binzhou took us to meet Liu Qiren, who was very happy to see us and invited us to dinner. At that time, we hadn't changed our clothes yet, we were wearing single clothes. Liu Qiren said: "It's very cold in the Northeast now, and it's snowing heavily, so you are too thinly dressed!"He took out a small leather jacket of Xia Ming's Lenin suit and gave it to Ma Lihua. He knew I had a disability in my foot and gave me a pair of woolen socks.
The troops changed into winter clothes in Wuhan and continued to travel north by train, getting off at the end of March in Mishan County. When I went there, I saw a large wasteland, as far as the eye could see, the grass grew more than one person high, and the grass was full of black soil. In order to prevent the spread of fire, it is necessary to open a wide fire road. The troops burned the grass and shrubs, dug up the roots of the bushes, led the mules and horses pulling the cannons, put on ploughshares and ploughed the ground, and planted soybeans after the ground was finished. The ground is fertilized here, and there is no need for fertilizer, and the soybeans grow vigorously, and there are more than one person tall.