After the Yanjiawazi Conference in the Gyeongbuk Soviet District, I was appointed political commissar of the Gyeongyang guerrillas. The northeastern region of Qingyang is a barren land of agriculture and animal husbandry, which has been ravaged by bandits for a long time, and the people have suffered deeply. We first gathered our forces and completely defeated the local bandit Li Ting, who had committed the most heinous crimes. Subsequently, a mass meeting was held in Rouyuan Chengzi (now Huachi) to propagate the ideas of the Communist Party, call on the peasants to revitalize the revolution, overthrow the system of oppressing the people, establish the peasant cooperative, and return all power to the peasant association. We have successively set up branches of the Federation of Peasants and peasant associations in the vicinity of Rouyuandonggou, Wujiahe, Dapan, Liuwangou, Dujiahe, Xiaochuangou, and Chenghaochuan to launch the struggle against the gentry and the distribution of land. The peasants who had acquired the land set up mass organizations such as the Red Guards, the Poor Peasants' League, and the Peasants' Union. The first batch of rural grassroots party branches of the Communist Party of China in Gyeongbuk came into being, and the party members gradually grew. The flames of revolution quickly spread throughout the Gyeongbuk region.
For a while, I stayed at Liu Maogong's uncle's house. Liu Maogong, who is sixteen or seventeen years old, was born poor and unpretentious. We instilled revolutionary ideas in him, secretly introduced him to the Komsomol and joined the Red Guards. After Liu Maogong joined the Red Army, he performed heroically and made rapid progress, and eventually became the commander of the air force of the Lanzhou Military Region in the 60s. During his short tenure in the Qingyang guerrillas, Wang Shitai of the 3rd Red Regiment completed the cooperation with the northern Shaanxi guerrillas, successfully smashed the enemy's first "encirclement and suppression" of northern Shaanxi, and joined the Qingyang guerrillas. The task of the 3rd Red Regiment was to actively expand the Gyeongbuk base area in accordance with the requirements of the "July Resolution" together with the Gyeongyang guerrillas. Xie Zichang, the political commissar of the 42nd Division of the Red Army, was injured and could not continue to perform his duties, so I returned to the 42nd Division of the Red Army and served as political commissar. This is my second time in this position, and Janssen is the division commander.
On October 20, 1934, Guo Baoshan led part of the Kuomintang 17th Route Army troops stationed in Longdong to launch an uprising in Qingbei, joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and became the Northwest Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army. In order to improve the relationship between the Red Army and the Volunteers, and to increase mutual trust, we arranged for the Volunteers to serve as the rearguard unit on a regular basis. On the march, they served as our umbrella in an orderly manner. In order to make the Volunteers trust us, we will never divide their ranks. often has heart-to-heart friends with Guo Baoshan and others, and is intimate.
At the beginning of February 1935, we returned to the rear of Liyuan Fort to rest, coinciding with the "27" commemorative meeting, due to heavy snow, we were urgently moved to the hall of the temple. At the meeting, I shared the history and significance of the "27" movement. I saw some of the Volunteers standing outside, fearing that we would confiscate their guns. I made it clear that the Red Army would not bother them, relieving them of their doubts. Guo Baoshan also expressed his determination to participate in the revolution at the meeting. In the process of transforming the Volunteers, we carried out a great deal of ideological and political education, taught them political lessons in a planned way, conveyed Marxism-Leninism to them, expounded the principles and bright prospects of the revolution, and revealed the betrayal and behavior of the Kuomintang. This process has played a key role in raising the awareness of the volunteers and taking a firm stand.