Guilinqi's Struggle to Adhere to Dabie Mountain

In the struggle to adhere to the Dabie Mountains, Comrade Gui Linqi showed the fearless spirit of * * * producers who dared to struggle and were not afraid of sacrifice. After the Japanese invaders surrendered in August 1945, on behalf of the interests of the people of the whole country, our party put forward three slogans of peace, democracy and unity. Chairman Mao also went to Chongqing to negotiate with Chiang Kai-shek, forcing the Kuomintang to sign the October 1th Agreement. In order to conscientiously implement the October 1th Agreement, our party agreed to cede the base areas of the people's army in eight provinces and autonomous regions, including Guangdong, Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu, southern Anhui, central Anhui, Hunan, Hubei and Henan (excluding northern Henan). Since September 1945, the Seventh Division of the New Fourth Army has bid farewell to millions of brothers and sisters, and has withdrawn from the Wanjiang Liberated Area in batches. In order to continue to maintain and expand the influence of our Party and persist in the people's revolutionary struggle, the Party Committee of Wanjiang District, after many studies, decided to leave Comrade Gui Linqi with a firm stand, a high level of leadership and policy, a strong ability to work independently, good at uniting comrades and some experience in armed struggle, and lead a lean team of 2-3 people consisting of seven companies, nine companies and a pistol team to advance to the Dabie Mountains and persist in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.

Dabie Mountain, located at the junction of Hubei, Henan and Anhui provinces between Nanjing and Wuhan, is of great importance. After the withdrawal of the main force of the New Fourth Army, the reactionary Kuomintang government stationed a regular brigade in western Anhui, and with the local security guards' three regiments, four regiments, seven regiments, eight regiments and 1, national corps in various counties, the strength between the enemy and us was very different. In the so-called "clean-up", the enemy carried out a large-scale demolition of houses and villages in Dabie Mountain area, and even joined forces to protect the village. They adopted reactionary policies such as burning all the houses and robbing all the houses, creating no man's land, building a large number of bunkers, setting up numerous ambush posts and interrogation posts, and carrying out extremely vicious "comb-comb" tactics to suppress the guerrillas behind our enemy lines in an attempt to trap, starve and destroy them. Some local tyrants and secret agents in Dabie Mountain area have also become arrogant and have helped others. Individual cadres and members of our guerrillas could not stand the test of struggle and their thoughts wavered. Some left, some fled, and some even defected. At the same time, because the enemy lost the motor of our radio station in a raid, the contact with the higher party was once interrupted, and the situation was extremely difficult and the struggle situation was very sinister.

"The more stormy the storm, the more beautiful it will be, and the more blue it will be." These two poems by Comrade Gui Linqi express his firm stance and indomitable fighting spirit in a sinister situation. In October 1945, he led his troops into Dabie Mountains, joined more than 1 people from Zhang Weiqun's department who had been fighting there, and established the West Anhui Working Committee. The troops were called the West Anhui Brigade. Comrade Gui Linqi served as secretary and political commissar, and Comrade Zhong Dahu served as battalion chief. In a difficult environment, he often told everyone repeatedly about the task of persisting in guerrilla warfare behind the enemy lines in Dabie Mountain, and about the hardship, durability, necessity and importance of this struggle, which made comrades clear that it is the sacred duty of the soldiers who fought in western Anhui to develop their arms, establish organizations, attack the enemy, contain the main force of the enemy, and reduce the battlefield pressure in the liberated areas, and strengthened their firm belief in persisting in the final victory. In order to break the enemy's "clean-up" and make our foothold in Dabie Mountain, Comrade Gui Linqi and other comrades boldly broke into the heart of the enemy-Qingcaoda after careful investigation and study. Qingcaoda has a Kuomintang special zone, a "suppression" command division and a secret service center group, and a regiment of enemy troops is often stationed. One day in November 1945, he led his troops to March for 5 miles at night and raided Qingcaoda. After more than two hours of fighting, the enemy's effective force was destroyed and a large number of guns, ammunition and materials were seized. This tactic, which is similar to the ancient war example of "encircling Wei to save Zhao", shocked the enemy and quickly transferred a large number of clearing troops from the Dabie Mountains, thus enabling us to establish a base area on the mountain calmly. As Comrade Gui Linqi said in his poem "Attacking the Grass at Night": "When the enemy is stationed in Guanzhuang, I will go out of the mountain, and the grass will attack Yuantan at night. The gunshots led the monkeys out, and I went back to the mountains to expand my territory. " At the same time, Comrade Gui Linqi studied with other leaders of the guerrilla brigade, such as Zhang Weiqun and Zhong Dahu, and decided to carry out a work of weeding and killing pests when the enemy returned home for the Spring Festival in 1946. Comrade Zhang Youdao led a small team to attack nearly a hundred miles overnight, executed three agents who were guilty of the most heinous crimes and were heavily in debt, and announced their crimes. This shocked the enemy, hit their arrogance and greatly facilitated the smooth development of our guerrilla work. In the struggle situation where the enemy is strong and we are weak, Comrade Gui Linqi applied Comrade Mao Zedong's military thought to the Dabie Mountains. The troops were divided in time and time to mobilize the masses and concentrate on dealing with the enemy. He always implemented Comrade Mao Zedong's 16-character policy of "the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is disturbed, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase", which caused the enemy to get angry in seven places and smoke in eight places. We have to admit that it was "completely eliminated in three months."

After Comrade Gui Linqi arrived in Dabie Mountain, a working committee was set up in western Anhui, which consists of four county committees: Yuebei, Qiantai, Shucheng, Liuan and Tonglu. The troops were renamed Wanxi detachment, transferred to four brigades and two directly affiliated companies. Soon, it merged with the two subordinate units of the Second Division and the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army, and established the People's Guard of West Anhui, with Comrade Liu Changyi as the commander and Comrade Gui Linqi as the political commissar. A new situation quickly emerged in the revolutionary base area of West Anhui, and successively won battles such as Guantang, Yuantanpu, Shiguankou, Pictographic Land, Maodanchang, Zhangjiawei, Huanggang, Huangnigang, Chuchong and Dongjia Ancestral Hall, which not only

On November 3, 1947, People's Daily published an article entitled "Talking about the Current Situation in Dabie Mountains" by a spokesman of the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Front Command, and spoke highly of it: "The Hubei, Henan and Anhui people with a revolutionary tradition of 2 years and comrades who have always adhered to the guerrilla war in Dabie Mountains for two years are important forces that enable our army to quickly gain a foothold and quickly integrate with the people." Since August, 1947, when the Third Longitudinal Army of Liu Deng and a large number of its cadres went south to join forces with the People's Self-Defense Forces in West Anhui, the revolutionary base area in West Anhui has been expanding day by day. In November, the Party Committee of West Anhui was established, with Comrade Peng Tao as secretary and two comrades, Gui Linqi and Yu Yichuan, as deputy secretaries. There were three prefectural committees, one, two and three, and later a fourth prefectural Committee was set up in the area without nests. For the enemy, it's like putting a sword in his chest. They quickly dispatched a large number of troops from the northern line to the south. In the west of Anhui alone, there were seven, four and forty-six armies of Guangxi, twenty-five armies of Chiang Kai-shek's clique, two divisions of the Youth Army in 22 and 23 and other regular troops, plus peace preservation corps and local vigilantes, with a total of more than 2, people, who often went crazy in the mountains repeatedly. In the struggle, Comrade Gui Linqi, like everyone else, stubbornly persisted in the plight of being hungry and naked, and adopted the method of Kahe tax collection in the Fourth District Committee to solve the biggest problem of food and clothing for the troops at that time, which also ensured the supply of materials for the troops and helped them through extremely difficult years. In the process of persistence, more than 3 well-trained cadres, such as Liang Cheng, Wu Wanyin, Li Tang, Bai Tao, Gu Zhengjun, Hou Zhendong, Kun Li, Yao Shouyong, Liu Jianmin, Huang Liuqiang, Peng Nian, Wu Doushan and Yu Chengyu, died heroically, showing the noble quality of * * * producing party member at the expense of personal lives for the people's cause. Thanks to the efforts of all comrades, the main revolutionary force in western Anhui has always preserved and a clean base area with a population of 5, has always been maintained, and the people's revolutionary struggle in western Anhui has always persisted, until the main force of our army joined forces, until the liberation of the whole north of Anhui and the reunification of the whole north of Anhui, which was praised by the Central Plains Bureau. When Comrade Liu Bocheng stayed in Lu 'an for crossing the river at the end of 1948, he said in front of Ma Fangting and Comrade Qingmei Zeng, "Compared with other base areas, your base areas in western Anhui are the best." Although this is mainly attributed to the correct leadership of the Central Plains Bureau and the unity and bravery of all cadres and the masses, Comrade Gui Linqi has also devoted a lot of efforts to it and made no small contribution.

In the struggle to adhere to the Dabie Mountains, Comrade Gui Linqi showed the fine style of * * * the producers keeping close contact with the masses. Comrade Gui Linqi never forgot the instructions given by the higher party organizations to the guerrillas to protect the interests of the masses, and resolutely protected activists and families of martyrs. For those who have difficulties in life, they will be given timely relief when they are captured in every battle; Those who were persecuted by the enemy did everything possible to cover and comfort them, and gave the enemy a tit-for-tat counterattack, which made these comrades feel that they had a strong backing behind them and strengthened their revolutionary belief. In response to the enemy's white terror policy, Comrade Gui Linqi not only organized secret party branches, peasant associations and party sympathy groups in all parts of Dabie Mountain, but also organized a large number of gray mass organizations to fight the enemy by legal and illegal means. In the struggle, we should publicize the Party's ideas to them, explain the national situation, and turn the hearts of the masses towards the Party and the revolution. On behalf of the masses, Comrade Gui Linqi and others drafted many propaganda slogans, such as "Clear, Clear, People are Terrible", "Demolition of Houses and Houses, People Cry", "Poor people, no firewood and no salt, Kuomintang tax collection is indispensable" and "Catch". It was first discussed and passed in the army, then handed over to the masses for discussion, and then printed into leaflets, brushed into slogans, distributed and posted in various places, which won the support and welcome of the masses. Many people took risks to ask for it and then returned to the local area to distribute it. Some of them were stuffed into township offices and enemy spy organizations, which greatly increased the ambition of the masses, greatly destroyed the prestige of the enemy, and effectively promoted the struggle against Ding, Liang and the merger of villages. Comrade Gui Linqi is also very concerned about young intellectuals who demand progress, and often has heart-to-heart talks with them to guide them to the revolution. For example, a young teacher in Lu 'an sympathized with my revolutionary cause and hoped to meet the leading comrades of the guerrillas. When Comrade Gui Linqi learned about this situation, he immediately asked him to talk. Under his training, this comrade used the opportunity of teaching to often send newspapers and information to us and did useful work for the revolution. Comrade Gui Linqi insists on the party's style of keeping close contact with the masses, which is also manifested in his ability to admit and correct mistakes from the standpoint of the party's interests. In the second half of 1947, the Dabie Mountains once carried out acute land reform, which infringed on the interests of some middle peasants and businessmen. When attacking enemy agents, they tended to expand and made "Left" mistakes. Comrade Gui Linqi and other leading comrades, once discovered, were able to accept the opinions of the masses with a good attitude and correct them. For example, in a place called the watershed at the junction of the buried hill and Yuexi, when attacking enemy agents, some people who should not be detained were locked up in the ancestral hall, and some people who should not be attacked were attacked. Comrade Gui Linqi and others immediately went here after hearing this reflection. After investigation and study, these people were not only released, but also publicly admitted their mistakes to the masses, which won their understanding and praise. The masses said that if you make mistakes, you will correct them, and we can forgive you for your good intentions. Because of this, Comrade Gui Linqi has a high prestige in Dabie Mountain area, and everyone affectionately calls him "Lao Gui" or "Mr. Zhao". It is precisely because our guerrillas have always stood in the position of protecting the interests of the masses that the masses have helped our party a lot, often covering my wounded and sick, carrying stretchers for me to transport, actively supplying our information, sharing clothes and food with us in extremely difficult times, and even sacrificing their relatives to cover our guerrilla commanders and soldiers, which fully reflects the relationship between the army and the people, and this is also an important guarantee for our party to persist in Dabie Mountain area.

In the struggle to adhere to the Dabie Mountains, Comrade Gui Linqi actively carried out United front work, divided and disintegrated the enemy, and strengthened his own strength. At that time, the overall situation in Dabie Mountains was that the enemy was strong and we were weak. We had no base area, so we could only carry out guerrilla warfare. In the enemy-occupied areas, it was like drilling around in a grid, and no political power was established. Supplies were not replenished, and medical care for the wounded was seriously difficult. In the face of this struggle situation, Comrade Gui Linqi, as the main person in charge of the West Anhui Working Committee, conscientiously implemented the party's United front policy, divided and disintegrated the enemy, and used all available forces as much as possible to benefit the survival and development of our party and army. The struggle life in Dabie Mountain for more than three years is very hard. For a time, the enemy cut us off from the masses, putting us in an extremely difficult position. Food, clothing and medicine were very scarce, and we often couldn't even eat salt. At night, we had to sleep in the mountains and fields, and we had to fight at any time, and we couldn't even take off our sandals. Several times, when we got food and were cooking, the enemy touched it, and the rice was moved urgently before it was cooked. On one occasion, in Bancang at the junction of Buried Hill and Shucheng, our troops were hidden for seven days and seven nights. Without a bite of rice, they bought pickles from fellow villagers, one for each person to satisfy their hunger. Later, when I got a little food, I cooked with enemy helmets without a pot, and before I ate it, the battle started. In such a tense and hard fighting life, Comrade Gui Linqi was firm, tenacious and full of winning beliefs. He is strict with himself, sharing weal and woe with the cadres and soldiers, and doing the same with clothing, food, housing and transportation. There is never anything special. He often shares a bowl of rice with the guards, covers a quilt and gives the animals to the soldiers to ride. For a time, his body was weak, hemorrhoids broke out, and he was bleeding profusely every day. In winter, his cotton trousers were wet with blood and frozen into ice. After marching day and night, his skin was worn and cracked. He didn't say a word and didn't let the guards get something else to eat. Between battles, he also took the time to read books and newspapers. He is also very approachable. When people call him political commissar, he always says, "Don't call me political commissar, just call me Lao Gui. Aren't we about the same age?" When he was camping, he was separated from the soldiers' residence by a wall. The soldiers talked and laughed, which affected his work and rest. When the guards stopped him, he criticized the guards and said, "The soldiers don't fight, they have to entertain. How can they be hindered?" Make everyone deeply moved.