This time, let's start with the work transfer of young intellectual cadres after the battle at Loess Ridge.
Three months after the end of the battles at Yansuya and Loess Ridge, in February and March 1940, the Political Department of the First Division issued an order for transfer, and Wei Wei and Lin Liuqi, the former education officers of the Political Department of the First Regiment, were officially transferred to the Propaganda Section of the Political Department of the First Division as propaganda officers.
Prior to this, a regiment was ordered to go to the Jinchaji Military Region, ready to fight in the southeast of Shanxi with ***, before leaving, Yang Chengwu suddenly ordered Wei Wei and Lin Liuqi to stay, not to travel far with a regiment, the reason is **?
Yang Hao, who had been a tabloid editor in Beiping, also received an order to be transferred to the newly established Pingxi Advance Army to serve as the editor of the Advance Daily. If it weren't for Xu Decao, the new chief of staff of the Advance Army, who had come to Pingxi, the editor of the Advance Newspaper would have done his job like Wei Wei and Lin Liuqi until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
Of course, the premise is that if you can survive the previous sweeps of the Japanese army, because no one can guarantee that you will be able to survive the state of the Japanese army's sweep war.
The law of conducting historical research: All historical processes that are not easy to tell or are not very sure of are generally explained in the form of storytelling, so that if there is a discrepancy between a certain detail and the facts, there will also be room for turnover. Of course, this "oral history" method is similar to the method of writing the history of the Anti-Japanese War, but there is a historiographical argument.
So far, most of the historical materials cited in the First Division are from the newly written history of the 80s and the memories of veteran cadres, but the original historical records of the First Division from the war years are real. It may be that due to the age, the memory of the old people is skewed, and the content of individual dictations is different from the real history. This time, I will talk about the issue of Wei Wei and Lin Liuqi being transferred to the Propaganda Section of the Political Department of the sub-district in early 1940.
The battles of Yansu Cliff and Loess Ridge took place at the end of 1939, because the Japanese retaliatory sweep in November-December of that year was also included. Immediately after that, there were incidents of the successive exodus of some leading cadres of a sub-district, and the exodus of these leaders has been counted: Chen Zhengxiang, Yuan Shengping, Ji Tingxie, Yang Shangkun, Yuan Biao, Zhao Yukun, and others, as well as Zeng Baotang and Xiao Feng, who left earlier.
So many leading cadres have left, and that is the reason for leaving, so a rectification has been set off in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Taihang, and the Yan'an ** Military Commission.
It is not a pleasant thing to be talked about behind the backs of many leading cadres with Red Army qualifications, and Yang Chengwu seems to have reached a desperate situation. At the critical moment, Yang Chengwu's *** who was holding Yang Chengwu reached out to help, and he reminded Yang Chengwu before leaving for Taihang: Chengwu, you have to do something practical, seriously summarize the history of the Anti-Japanese War in the past two years or so in the first division, record it in writing, and then report it to the Jinchaji Military Region and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters for the leaders to transfer for reference.
How do you "summarize" it in words? Yang Chengwu remembered that a few years ago in 1936, when he was studying in the senior class of the Red Army University, Yan'an was due to the foreign correspondent Edgar. The arrival of ** set off a wave of writing about the Long March and recalling the Long March, and the "Red University" he studied was also lively.
In the end, Yang Chengwu's keen political sense of political smell played a role: why can't I make a comprehensive review of the three-year history of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression since the birth of the First Division, just like I did when I write memories of the Long March?
Therefore, Yang Chengwu began to prepare from the beginning of 1940, and he transferred Wei Wei and Lin Liuqi, who were already a little famous, to the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of a sub-district; Some student cadres from the Yixian area who joined the Eighth Route Army, such as Qi Yao, who served as vice president of the Beijing Institute of Technology after the liberation, and Liu Shoupeng, secretary of the party committee of the Beijing Normal College, were all transferred to the political department of the sub-district as "technical secretaries," or "secretaries" in today's terms, and these student cadres were the main force in the collection of historical materials at that time.
Yang Chengwu personally arranged for mobilization, and the leading cadres of all departments and units should actively participate in summing up their work.
At this point, Yang Chengwu set up a relatively complete data collection team and writing team in the political department of the sub-district, and the specific person in charge was Shi Jinqian, who replaced Zhong Jiaopan as the head of the propaganda section, and the direct managers were Qian Danhui, Wei Wei, and Lin Liuqi, who were later called "the three major officials of Jin-Cha-Ji", and Yang Chengwu called "the most capable of writing in the whole Jin-Cha-Ji region." After arranging all this, Yang Chengwu suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, so under the instigation and persuasion of the people around him, accompanied by the people, there was a "Spring Outing to Langya Mountain" in the spring of 1940.
These photos of the trip to Langya Mountain, "Touring the Mountain" is a small-scale activity between familiar people, and it may not be possible to bring these unfamiliar cadres together. In November 1939, Liu Feng, who was transferred to the Propaganda Department to study photography, has been closely following the side of the section chief Shi Jinqian, this time following Yang Chengwu to the mountains, and the seventeen-year-old "little ghost" Liu Feng should follow.
After returning from the tour, in May 1940, the summary writing officially began. As we all know, on May 30, 1940, the First Sub-district held a "Cultural and Sports Meeting" in Beiloushan Village, Yi County, to gain momentum. In fact, prior to this congress, throughout the month of May, the 1st Division had already begun the work of summing up the headquarters, the political department, the main regiments, and the guerrilla detachments. Many of the intellectual cadres working in the first sub-district at that time took up the task of writing and collecting writing, helping the leading cadres with low education to dictate and form a written word.
As for the summaries and memoirs of the work of the First Division, which were formed in 1940, I call them the "1940 Archives". This is also the earliest, most accurate and most authentic historical original archive of the first division. Just like Yan'an wrote "Memories of the Long March" in 1936, there are still inaccuracies and untrue places in these original archives, but on the whole they are very successful, leaving a valuable historical record for the eight-year war of resistance in Jinchaji.
The signatories of these historical documents are not counted, and most of them are written by others, just like the army writers in the fifties and sixties who helped the old general write "Sparks in the Plain"; * In the 10s, the secretary and his children helped the old cadres write memoirs. In the original records, there were more than a dozen specific writers who were "on the list", all of whom came from the political departments of the divisions, and I believe that most of the people in the Propaganda Section were involved in this work.
This batch of historical materials of the first division of the war years was named "A division in the three years of the Anti-Japanese War" at that time, a total of 49 articles, most of which were written in May and June of 1940, and were written in the first half of 1941, distributed to the entire Jinchaji region, and some of the completed books arrived in Yan'an. In the early 80s of the last century, these 49 articles, which were produced in the summer and autumn of 1940, were reprinted and published in-house by the historical writing group of the First Division of the Hebei Military Region.
In these historical materials, the author basically pretended to be the person in charge of the main regiments and guerrilla detachments of the first division at that time, with the exception of the first regiment. Because the 1st Regiment was not in the 1st Division at that time, it went to the southeast of Shanxi to participate in the operation, and only returned to the 1st Division in late August of that year. Moreover, Chen Zhengxiang, who had been the head of the regiment for more than two years, left unexpectedly and refused to write a historical summary of the regiment, and the former political commissar of the regiment, Wang Daobang, could not sign it alone, and only the regiment was not written by the regiment commander or the regimental political commissar for three years.
After discussing with ***, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region came forward and divided it into two parts to solve this problem. One was to send Tian Ma, a somewhat famous writer who was in Jinchaji that year, to write a brief history of only three pages after a short interview with Chen Zhengxiang. Taking into account the practical contradictions that existed in the first division at that time, he avoided as much as possible not to advance the first regiment commander Chen Zhengxiang, the regiment political commissar Wang Daobang, the current regiment commander Song Yulin, and the regiment political commissar Zhu Zunbin.
The rest of the main regiments (the three regiments are co-signed by the head Qiu Wei and the deputy head Xiao Yingtang; The 25th Regiment was named by Zhang Rusan, the political commissar of the regiment, and the regiment commander Song Xuefei was still under review; Due to the defection of the regimental commander, Zhan Daokui, the political commissar of the regiment, did not write), the heads of the guerrilla detachments (headed by Zeng Yongya, the head of the three detachments in Laiyuan County). Some military leaders are afraid that the history of their own troops will be introduced too little, and they will only write a lot of space (more is written in the original interview book, and some were deleted when the final version was finalized).
In late August 1940, ** personally led a regiment to return from the southeast of Shanxi to Jinchaji, and the first step was to go straight to the first division and interview Yang Chengwu. As I said, I interviewed Yang Chengwu on many issues that time, including the second phase of the Hundred Regiments War, the issue of launching the Lailing Campaign, and the issue of Zhu Zunbin.
**Go to a section in person to review the original draft and make specific comments.
Among them, *** had selectively and carefully read the manuscript of the "work summary" of the first division, and after reading it, he basically nodded in approval, but pointed out some deficiencies, which was the revision and supplement made by the first division to this batch of manuscripts at the end of 1940.
In the past, when I expressed *** this trip to the First Division, I was likely to make a major mistake. My wife's father, who was an officer in the Propaganda Section at the time, told me with certainty that it was in December 1940 that Yang Chengwu publicly announced the reorganization of the leadership of the old regiment after returning from the heavy snow to aid the Pingxi Advance Army. Your father also participated in this conference with a somewhat tense atmosphere, and what Yang Chengwu said word by word with his eyes at the meeting is still fresh in the memory of many people present more than 40 years later.
But in fact, when ** came to the first division, he reorganized the leadership of the old regiment with Yang Chengwu in person. In addition to Song Yulin, the acting head of the regiment, the rest of the regiment's political commissar Zhu Zunbin, regimental chief of staff Ma Qingshan, director of the regiment's political office, and Luo Jiawang, secretary of the general branch, were all replaced. Why? Because the leadership of the first regiment was temporarily formed by Yang Chengwu without the approval of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters after Chen Zhengxiang left.
At this time, in the list of the leading group of the first regiment approved by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army: except for the new regiment commander Qiu Wei, who did not leave the third regiment for the time being due to the needs of the Lailing Campaign, the rest of the new regimental political commissar Chen Haihan, regimental chief of staff Chen Guang, director of the regimental political office Shi Jinqian, and secretary of the general branch Zheng Xiuyu took office at the same time. Shi Jian, who was vice chairman of the Tianjin People's Congress and vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was one of the two correspondents in the Propaganda Section at that time (the other correspondent, Zhao Baohua, later served as the deputy political commissar of the 65th Army).
During the Battle of Lailing, Shi Jian (at that time, his name was Ma Hansan, and his children were all surnamed Ma) followed Wei Wei to the Laiyuan Yang Chengwu Headquarters, and saw that on the river beach, Zheng Xiuyu was speaking to the cadres and soldiers of a regiment on the battlefield. I remember for a long time I was puzzled: Why did Zheng Xiuyu, who was an officer in the sub-district organization section, go to mobilize a regiment of combat grounds? Now it is finally understood: he was already the secretary of the general branch of any regiment at that time, and because the regimental political commissar Chen Haihan had not yet arrived, he replaced the regimental political commissar to mobilize on the battlefield before the attack.
Back to the original topic, **After leaving, the Propaganda Department reworked the collected manuscripts, and Yang Chengwu personally drafted the "Lailing Battle Plan", and after that, there was an inadvertent Wei Wei leak incident, which made Yang Chengwu furious. After this turmoil passed, Yang Chengwu often came to the Propaganda Department in his spare time, claiming to "smoke the literary atmosphere of these literati talents", and at the same time personally supervised the revision of these manuscripts. This was definitely a very important task in those years, so much so that Shi Jinqian, who was appointed director of the Political Department of the First Regiment, could not get out of his body, and he had to keep an eye on the post of the head of the propaganda section to ensure the completion of this batch of documents.
On this day, Shi Jinqian, Wei Wei and others said to Yang Chengwu: Commander Yang, the materials have been collected completely, there is a lot of money, and the revision and supplementation have been completed, the editor has been published, the work we have undertaken has come to an end, and Commander Yang can transfer these manuscripts to the next stage of editing work.
Yang Chengwu's eyes widened in surprise: What editor? Aren't you literati? You can write manuscripts and write articles, so why can't you edit these well-written articles?
Shi Jinqian and Wei Wei explained: This manuscript writing is one business, and editing manuscripts is another business, and they are irreplaceable for each other. The editing job is to re-review the manuscript, correct the misuse of typos, change the grammatical ill sentences to be smooth, remove the repetitive and inappropriate paragraphs, and make the paragraphs before and after smooth, so that the whole article can be coherent into a whole, rather than a loose pile of words.
Yang Chengwu said: We have more than 20,000 people in a sub-district, and more than 1,000 people with culture, can't we find a capable editor?
Wei Wei said: There are such people in our first district, but now they are not in the first district, but they are working as editors in the Pingxi Advance Daily. He is a Hubei Yankee, and Zhou Ziwei, a staff officer of the Operations Section, and Peng Peng, an officer of the Propaganda Section, must be transferred back.
Yang Chengwu said: What's so difficult about that? I asked Commander Nie, and after he agreed, he directly followed the dignitaries of the advance army, can they not give it?
What happened behind this matter, no one may be able to say clearly, but at that time, the Advance Daily immediately replied to a sub-district: We have an editor surnamed Yang here, but she is a woman, from the Propaganda Department of the 10th District of Jizhong. It turned out that the male editor surnamed Yang had already gone to the military, and at this time he was entangled in work and couldn't get in touch, and even if he did, he couldn't get out of it for a while.
This is the Pingxi Advance Army suddenly transferred Yang Hao from the Advance Newspaper, from May 1940, which had just been assigned to the leadership of the Advance Army, Yang Mo, the director of the Propaganda Section, and the author of "Song of Youth" more than ten years later, to take over Yang Hao's editorial work. Yang Hao was transferred to the Advance Army Headquarters as an operational staff officer, and I guess this is also the countermeasure when the Advance Army dealt with the dignitaries of the neighboring first division - I let you not find this person, see how you want to go back.
However, as the saying goes, "if you can hide from the first day of the new year, you can't hide from the fifteenth year", although the level of the advance army was high, but the military strength was too weak, and finally at the end of 1940, because the taxes were too high and the conscription was too much, the people revolted. The advance army, which had only one regiment to maintain the situation in Pingxi, could not be protected alone, so it had to ask Commander Nie of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region for help. **Urgently notify Yang Chengwu to rush to the aid of Pingxi on a snowy night to help the advance army survive the catastrophe. At this time, what do you want from the marching army, can they not agree? Give what you want.
After the re-copying of this batch of "1940 Original Archives" in the eighties (1984), the original text has not been changed in the slightest, and there are three printed editions in total, including the first, middle and lower copies of "One Division in the Three Years of the Anti-Japanese War". In addition, in 1983, some new historical materials were published by veteran cadres of the First Division, such as "Supply Work during the Anti-Japanese War of the First Division" and "Health Work during the Anti-Japanese War of the First Division", which were also more detailed in content.
Today, those who are enthusiastic about the history of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei can read these words of mine, and Liu Lanlan has contributed a lot.
Thanks to Qian Danhui, Wei Wei, Lin Liuqi, and other veteran cadres, for telling me about this history, the "Story of Lamp Oil" that I wrote before was actually the days and nights spent editing these manuscripts. Qian Danhui, the head of the Propaganda Section of the First Division at that time, replaced Shi Jinqian, the former section chief who was transferred. At that time, he didn't even count the approval slips of section chief Qian Danhui, and he had to be approved by Yang Chengwu himself to receive a bottle of lamp oil from the management department. It can be seen how scarce the materials of the Jinchaji No. 1 Division were at that time.
The work of editing manuscripts originally belonged to the work of the Political Department, but at that time it was all under the responsibility of the Propaganda Section, and Li Qingchuan's Combat Training Section (also known as the Education Section) had just been established and lacked manpower.
In particular, it should be mentioned that in those years, including Yang Chengwu, Qian Danhui, and the officials of the Propaganda Section, who were responsible for their duties, only a handful of people were able to read through all the articles of "A Division in the Three Years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression." Because of the needs of editorial work, only a very limited number of people had to read through all the articles carefully.
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