"I was a guard for Commander Yang Guofu".
Wang Jingjian dictated.
Infantry Sergeant pen.
Fourth draft, August 2014).
In August 1957, Yang Guofu went to the Jinan Military Region as the deputy commander of the military region. When he first took up his post, the military region had not arranged a house for him, and he temporarily lived in the Shandong Military Region Guest House at No. 98 Daguanyuan.
Ma Lihua was working in Jiaoxian County at the time, and when he heard that the chief had returned to Shandong to take up his post, he went to Jinan to visit him. Deputy Commander Yang said to Ma Lihua: "I have a fate with the Ma family!."As soon as I arrived in the Fifth Army, the Ma family treated me very well, Ma Yaonan respected me very much, and we both always cooperated very well. ”
Deputy Commander Yang said: Ma Yaonan has a habit of not being able to leave his notebook at any time, as long as I speak, he will take out the notebook and remember it. When I talked about my study experience at Yan'an Kang University, he rememberedWhen I talked about the reorganization and training of the troops, he remembered;When I talk about the military aspect, he remembers. Usually when I was chatting with him, he would take out his notebook and memorize my speech. The training materials for the army were compiled by Ma Yaonan on the basis of my speech. At that time, there were no teaching materials for military training, and Ma Yaonan said that you should tell me what you studied at Kang Da, and you said, I will write it for you, as long as you can write it down, I can write it. Every night, we would both sit together and I would talk to him about what he wrote. Ma Yaonan is very careful, and he recorded the content I talked about very accurately. This is how the initial training materials of the three detachments were written.
Deputy Commander Yang also talked about Ma Tianmin to Ma Lihua, saying: Your father is very measured in dealing with people and things, and dealing with problemsAgain, whatever the organization told him to do, he simply accepted it and was very bold. He said: The Fifth Army has been reorganized into three detachments, and they have all kinds of ideas and attitudes, especially those detachment leaders. He gave a thumbs up and said, "Only your father is this!".”
In 1979, Deputy Commander Yang retired from his leadership position and became an adviser to the Military Region. One day in the first half of 1981, I went to Deputy Commander Yang's house and chatted with him about writing his memoirs. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at that time (February 1978), and the Committee on Culture and History of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference gave him the task of writing a memoir, asking him to record and sort out his experiences in Qinghe and Bohai. Deputy Commander Yang has always been reluctant to write a personal memoir, he is worried that others will say that he is "blowing", but this time it is a task assigned by the Cultural and Historical Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and it is difficult for him to refuse.
At this time, many people have already begun to write memoirs, and we all think that Deputy Commander Yang should also start working on this, because this is not just his personal history. We advised him: if you are worried that others will say that you are "blowing", you can write more about other chiefs, comrades-in-arms, and soldiers. When we were thinking about how to write a memoir with Deputy Commander Yang, he made several points: We should not give prominence to the role of the individual, and we should not take all the credit to ourselves; first, we should give prominence to the party's leadership, second, we should give prominence to collective leadership, third, we should give prominence to the masses of the people, and fourth, we must highlight martyrs and heroic figures.
In the winter of 1981, when Deputy Commander Yang was hospitalized at the Trinity Hospital in Beijing, Director Li and I went to see him. Secretary Zhang of the Jinan Military Region Command went to Beijing with us in a car. After arriving in Beijing, we stayed at the Railway Soldiers Guest House. Zhang Lan has been accompanying the bed in the Trinity Hospital and taking care of Deputy Commander Yang for more than 20 days. I saw that she was tired, so I went to take over for her to take care of the chief, and Zhang Lan also wanted me to accompany the chief. The bathroom in the ward can take a bath, and I give the chief a bath. At that time, he was not very sick, he could still walk, and his mind was very clear.
Zhang Lan later asked me: "You accompany the chief in the ward, did the chief explain anything about the future?"I said, "The chief didn't say, I didn't ask, I just talked to him about his condition, and said something inconsequential." "I have been with the chief for many years, and it has always been this habit, if the chief doesn't tell me anything, I won't take the initiative to ask and inquire.
In February 1982, Deputy Commander Yang died of illness. Zhang Lan called me from Beijing and asked me to draw up a list of veteran comrades who would attend Deputy Commander Yang's memorial service, which I spent two days compiling. Before his death, the chief was a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and vice chairman of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The Jinan Military Region sent a small plane, and Ma Lihua went with him randomly. When the plane returned, we went to the airport to greet him, brought Deputy Commander Yang's ashes to his home, and then organized the funeral. The Jinan Military Region held a memorial service for the chief at the 1 August 1 Auditorium.
During that time, I often went to the chief's house, usually four or five times a week, or at least two or three times. The dry rest house is not far from the chief's house, and it only takes ten minutes to ride a bicycle. Zhang Lan and I sorted out the chief's relics together, including the chief**. Zhang Lan gave me a pair of gold-rimmed reading glasses.
Before the chief died, he once found someone through Song Liyan, secretary of the Zibo Municipal Party Committee, to help him write his memoirs. After the first draft was written, the chief read the first draft when he was examined in Shanghai and was not satisfied. At the suggestion of Political Commissar Jing, the manuscript was handed over to the Party History Department of Huimin District for revision, but a satisfactory draft was not revised. Zhang Lan said to me: "The chief is not satisfied with those drafts. ”
Before Deputy Commander Yang died, there was a draft of his memoirs, which Zhang Lan compiled based on his dictation. When he became seriously ill, the matter stopped. It is said that this manuscript is also incomplete, and it may be a beginning, or it may be an outline.
After the chief's death, Zhang Lan made a request to the Jinan Military Region, hoping that the military region would find someone with writing ability to improve the chief's memoirs, and the candidate recommended by the military region was Wu Honghao, a political instructor at the Jinan Continental School. Wu Honghao needed to collect writing materials, and he first came to me. I started talking about the first time I followed Yang to Weigu in 1938, and introduced Wu Honghao to where I followed Deputy Commander Yang and what battles I fought during the Anti-Japanese War. Wu Honghao made a note, but he just couldn't understand what I was talking about. He doesn't understand the history of the Qinghe and Bohai Anti-Japanese Wars, nor does he understand military affairs, and if you tell him over and over again, he just doesn't understand.
Deputy Commander Yang's memoirs could not be written, so I discussed with Zhang Lan and them what to do. As a result of our discussions, we decided that we should apply to the military region for means of transportation and military maps, go to the places where we had lived and fought, and introduce the deeds of Deputy Commander Yang to Wu Honghao on the spot. Zhang Lan conveyed everyone's opinions to the Military Region, and the Military Region agreed, and instructed the Military Region's Surveying and Mapping Brigade to provide us with specific assistance.
The Surveying and Mapping Brigade of the Military Region is stationed in Zhangdian District, Zibo City, and is codenamed "257". I remember that in the late spring and early summer of 1982, Zhang Lan and Wu Honghao and I set off from Jinan by car, and arrived at the east head of Renmin West Road, Zhangdian District, where the surveying and mapping brigade was stationed, that morning, and stayed at the brigade guest house. After staying in the surveying and mapping brigade, we went to the compound of the Zibo Municipal Party Committee to visit Song Liyan, secretary of the Municipal Party Committee. The compound of the municipal party committee is at the west end of Renmin West Road, and not far to the west is the Zibo Cadre Rest House of the 28th Army.
On the first day, we went to the site in Weigu Town, Zhangdian District, and the leader of the surveying and mapping brigade sent us a car. There were two battles in Weigu under the command of Deputy Commander Yang, and the second one I experienced. In Weigu, we looked at the terrain and told Wu Honghao about my experience in this battle. We also asked a few elderly villagers in the village to recall the situation at that time, and verified the date of the second Weigu battle, which was the 21st day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 1938 (September 14 of the Gregorian calendar), and Wu Honghao made a record.
The next morning, we went to the place where Ma Tianmin died - Daxinzhuang. In the afternoon, we went to Ma Jinxian's house in Zhangzhuang, the former Changshan District 8, and Ma Jinxian introduced to us Ma Yaonan's deeds and the situation of the anti-Japanese armed uprising in Changshan.
On the third day, we first went to Qingshuibo and Niutou Town in Shouguang County, and then went to Yangshang Village, mainly to let Wu Honghao know about the battles related to Deputy Commander Yang, such as the Qingshuibo anti-sweeping and breakthrough battle.
Day 4 We went to Liujiajing Village, Zouping County. After arriving in Zouping, we did not enter the county seat, but went directly to Liujiajing. After entering the village, we first went to the village primary school, and to the east of the school is the Liujiajing Battle Martyrs Cemetery, which has dozens of martyrs' graves. We went to visit the Martyrs' Cemetery, and after returning from the cemetery, we entered the village through the east gate. In the village, we talked to the local people and went to see the courtyard where Deputy Commander Yang lived. We didn't go into the yard, we just looked outside the yard. After the landlord's guidance, we saw that there were bullet holes left by the battle on the west gable, which were very obvious. At that time, the walls of Liujiajing Village were still there, but several cemeteries outside the village were missing. The terrain outside the village has also changed, and it looks flatter than it used to be. I told Wu Honghao about the entire course of the battle at Liujiajing, how the chief commanded the battle at that time, and how the three detachments withdrew to the Sixth District of Changshan. This time, it took a day to go back and forth to Liujiajing, and returned to the surveying and mapping brigade in the afternoon of the same day. This is the first time we have visited the site.
The second time was in the winter of the same year, and it was also the first to settle in the surveying and mapping brigade. After resting for a day or two in the brigade's guest house, we went to visit Song Liyan, secretary of the municipal party committee, and exchanged some information with Song Liyan about Deputy Commander Yang's situation in those years.
This time, we first went to Dongying, and the surveying and mapping brigade sent a car to take us there. Wang Gan, a former Bohai cadre, who lived in the military region's logistics Zhangdian cadre rest house after his retirement, also joined our small team, so that there were four of us. After arriving in Dongying, we stayed at the guest house of Shengli Oilfield (then known as the 923 Factory), and a deputy commander of the oilfield was responsible for receiving us. The accommodation of Shengli Oilfield Guest House was very good and we were very attentive.
We first went to the eight major groups, mainly to find out where the troops and the chiefs were stationed, which unit lived where, and which chief lived. The streets of the eight groups are still in the original pattern, there is no change, some of the original houses are still there, some have collapsed, and some only have foundations left. The house where Xu Binzhou, director of the Political Department of the Military Region, and Chen Chu, deputy director of the Military Region, still live, is still located, and near their former residence is the house of the Bohai District Supply and Marketing Cooperative. The house of the military district training battalion has been destroyed, and only the foundations remain. The large courtyard in the village is gone, and houses have been built on the original site.
After returning to the Shengli Oilfield Guest House from the Eighth Group, Zhang Lan caught a cold and was hospitalized in the Oilfield Hospital**.
The second place we went to this time was the county seat of Lijin. In Lijin City, I told Wu Honghao about the process of Deputy Commander Yang commanding the battle of Lijin. At noon, the Lijin County Party Committee and the county ** entertained us for lunch.
In the afternoon of the same day, we went to Fuguo Town, Zhanhua County. At this time, Fuguo Town has become the first place in Zhanhua County, and the leaders of the county party committee and the county government received us very warmly. At lunchtime, I asked them, "Is Xia from Commander Yang's guard squad working here?"The county leader said that there was this person, who was the director of the county **, and immediately sent staff to call him. Comrades-in-arms who have not seen each other for decades are very happy to meet.
I stayed in Phu Quoc for one night, and the next day I went to Xu's family in the south of Phu Quoc. On November 1, 1944, the battle of Xujia Wanliang was a famous battle in Bohai District, and the regiment and special battalion directly under the military region surrounded more than 1,000 puppet troops in Xujia Wanliang Village, including more than 300 people from the Japanese Kuanoqing Brigade (the 43rd Independent Brigade of the 59th Division). The cadres and soldiers of the directly subordinate regiment called the Caoye Qing Brigade the Straw Bale Brigade, and at that time, they heard from the people of the directly subordinate regiment that the Xu family Wanliang fought and almost annihilated the Straw Bale Brigade. After the Japanese army occupied Xujia Wanliang, it was self-defeating and did a stupid thing. In order to prevent the Eighth Route Army from attacking at night, they set fire to the sorghum stalks, wheat straw, and millet straw that the common people piled up around the village after the autumn. As a result, the devil is in the light, we are in the dark, and the devil's activities can be seen very clearly.
When we arrived at Xujia Wanliang, we first looked at the terrain and asked the locals to introduce the battle situation at that time, the Japanese army was deployed in **, and our troops were attacking from **, and so on. According to the villagers, the troops were attacking the enemy from the northwest corner of the village. The houses north of the Yellow River are all flat-roofed houses, and the houses in the northwest of Xujia Wanliang Village are relatively high, and the yards are relatively large.
During the Cultural Revolution, in 1970, when I was in Jinan for the "Provincial Cultural Revolution", Zhang Chongling, the former commander of the second battalion of the regiment directly under the regiment, was the deputy chief of staff of the Shandong Provincial Military Region at this time, and he came to see me. I asked the Xu family about the battle of Wanliang, and he gave a brief introduction. The second battalion of the regiment directly under the military region was deployed in the northwest of the village, the first battalion was deployed in the southeast, and the second battalion was the main attacker, digging some trenches to approach the village. The Xu family's Wanliang was not defeated in the end, and the troops withdrew from the battle at dawn. The Japanese army is not small, and when they retreated, they pulled a lot of corpses with carts, and the ** of our troops was not small. Later, the battle results were announced, and more than 100 Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded in the battle of Xu Jiawanliang, and a Japanese officer was killed.
On the third day, we went to Yihezhuang. In Yihezhuang, I mainly talked about how Deputy Commander Yang commanded the battle of Yihezhuang.
After that, Zhang Lan took Wu Honghao to visit other Bohai cadres to collect writing materials.
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