Xu Haishan’s Illumination for a Thousand Years

Selected Deeds of Shandong Revolutionary Martyrs (4)

1984.9 First Edition

Compiled by Shandong Civil Affairs Department

Famous Names Sprinkled with Blood in Quancheng Always there

——The life of martyr Xu Haishan

Jinan Hero Mountain Martyrs Cemetery

On the afternoon of September 24, 1948, when the Battle of Jinan was about to At the moment of the final victory, Comrade Xu Haishan, political commissar of the 37th Division of the 13th Column of our East China Field Army, together with the division commander Comrade Gao Rui, and *** commanded the troops to break through Kunshun Gate and were approaching the Kuomintang Second Suiqing District Lieutenant General Commander Wang Yaowu, chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, launched an offensive against the divided provincial government. Unfortunately, the division command post was bombed by enemy planes, and Comrade Xu Haishan died gloriously at the age of 38.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1965, Comrade Gao Du came to visit Baotu Spring in Jinan. The scenes of the fierce battles in the past emerged in his memory. He remembered the heroic sacrifice of his comrades, and his heart was filled with emotion, so he wrote a song "Man Jiang Hong" in memory of Comrade Xu Haishan.

Beside Baotu Spring, Mid-Autumn Festival, remember the heroes. By the Qingxi River, there was a fierce battle, and the mountains shook and the ground cracked. The thunder of explosives broke through the solid wall, and the ladder stood upright and climbed over the city. At the top of the ancient city, murderous aura reflected the red sky, and the blood of heroes was reflected. The isolated city is broken, the soup pool is exhausted, and the turtle is trapped in the turtle, how can he escape! Look at the torrents pouring down and the landslides and embankments bursting. The waves of the Huaihai Sea swallowed up the Western Chu Kingdom, and the waves of the Yangtze River rolled into the Jinling Palace. Comforting the loyal soul, shining on the loyal heart through the ages, the moon over the lake and mountains.

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Comrade Xu Haishan, Xuwuza Village, Huahehhui, Ercheng District, Huang'an County, Hubei Province (now the Xuwuza Brigade of Zhaohe Commune, Hong'an County). Born on July 28, 1910. His parents died when he was young, and he lived with his uncle, brother and sister-in-law. He studied in a private school in his village for three years from the age of nine, then dropped out to farm at home.

There were continuous famines in 1925 and 1926, and the harvest was very small. Under the good situation when the Northern Expeditionary Army captured Wuhan, the poor farmers in Huang (An) and Ma (Cheng) areas launched a uprising The climax of resistance to rent, food, debt, donations, and taxes. Sixteen-year-old Xu Haishan witnessed this vigorous peasant war with her own eyes, and the fire of revolution was sown in her heart.

In late February 1927, Huang'an Farmers Association was formally established. Haishan's brother Shoushan joined the Communist Party of China and started a farmers' association in his hometown. Haishan often saw party leaflets, pictorials, and books from her brother, and was influenced by the revolution. On "April 12" and "July 15", Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei successively converted to revolution and carried out massacres against the Communist Party and the revolutionary masses. Countless people in the Jute area died tragically under the enemy's butcher knife. Three houses in Haishan's family were burned down, and her uncle was burned to death.

In November 1927, the people in the Jute area held an armed uprising under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and Huang'an County established a workers' and peasants' democratic regime. At that time, Haishan served as the youth captain in the village. He led everyone to put up slogans and distribute leaflets, mobilize the masses, and open warehouses to distribute food.

In May 1928, Comrade Haishan was introduced by Comrade Dong Zhilin and Dong Zhixing and gloriously joined the Communist Youth League of China. At this time, he served as chairman of the village Soviet and captain of the Red Guard. He served as a branch member and later branch secretary in the league.

In February 1929, Huishan was transferred to the Red Guard Army as political instructor. In September, he was transferred to Taohua District to serve as the Organization Director of the Shao *** District Committee. In March 1930, the Special Committee of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Region of the Communist Party of China was established, and established the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Special Administrative Region Soviet Government and the First Red Army. Haishan transferred the Political Department of the First Red Army to serve as a member of the Youth League Committee of the Young Communist Party , doing youth work. In February 1931, he was transferred to Hekou County, Central *** as a propaganda officer. At this time, the first large-scale anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui revolutionary base areas was close to victory, and the main force of the Red Army was winning every battle. Comrade Haishan led the local armed forces, patrolled sentries, cut wires, eliminated spies, intercepted scattered enemy personnel, and seized horses and baggage. In May, Comrade Haishan became a member of the Communist Party of China at the Hekou County Committee of the Communist Party of China and became a vanguard fighter in the proletarian stage.

During the third "encirclement and suppression" campaign carried out by the Kuomintang reactionaries against the Hubei-Henan-Anhui revolutionary base areas, the enemy occupied the river mouth. The Hekou County Party Committee led the local armed forces to move to the Xiaogan area and immediately organized a pistol team of more than 20 people to return to Hekou to fight guerrillas. Comrade Haishan was appointed as the party branch secretary. After the pistol team returned to the river mouth, they collected more than a thousand guns that had been saved when the troops were transferred, and mobilized the masses to suppress the heinous reactionaries.

In June 1932, Chiang Kai-shek gathered 630,000 soldiers and horses to launch the fourth military "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the revolutionary base areas, first attacking the Hubei, Henan, and Anhui revolutionary base areas. At that time, Zhang Guotao, who served as secretary of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Central Branch of the Communist Party of China and chairman of the Military Commission, panicked in the face of the enemy's new attack and decided to abandon the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area without authorization. In October, the main force of the Fourth Red Army left Hubei, Henan, and Anhui and moved to southern Shaanxi and northern Sichuan, leaving only a part of the Red Army and a small number of local armed forces to persist in the struggle in the old areas. Under the reactionary slogan of "station all the hills, slaughter all the pigs and sheep, beat them at the slightest sight, and leave no chickens or dogs behind", the Kuomintang bandit troops brutally burned and killed the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base areas. Smoke billowed everywhere, and the houses were in ruins. Corpses littered the fields, women and children howled, and some places even became no-man's land. Comrade Haishan's pistol team could not hold on at the mouth of the river, so at the end of the year it withdrew to the Laojun Mountain, Tiantai Mountain, and Lingyun Temple areas to fight guerrillas in the narrow mountainous areas.

In March 1933, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Special Committee issued instructions to persist in the struggle on the spot and restore the Soviet areas. To this end, the Hekou County Committee was changed to the Hekou Special Committee, with Dong Zhixing as secretary and Comrade Haishan as the organization director and political instructor of the plainclothes team. Under the leadership of the special committee, Comrade Haishan and plainclothes team members stayed in close contact with the masses in Hekou County and actively organized and suppressed the reactionary local tyrants and evil gentry. However, due to the harsh environment at that time, the plainclothes team could not carry out collective activities, so they had to adopt a guerrilla method of coming and going and joining at different times. The special committee decided to form a plainclothes team composed of Xu Haishan, Li Shiyan, and Qian Yunhua, with Comrade Haishan in charge, and work based on Longwang Mountain and Fota Mountain near the river mouth. Their tasks are: to do mass work, maintain contact between the Red Army and the masses, collect intelligence, understand the situation of landlords, local tyrants and evil gentry and other reactionary elements, hunt and kill counterrevolutionary ringleaders, frighten the enemy, distribute propaganda materials, educate the masses with the party's policies, and disintegrate enemy.

The White Terror was particularly serious in the Longwang Mountain and Fota Mountain areas. The local tyrants, evil gentry, and landlord bullies carried out counterattacks and set up reactionary militia groups to cooperate with the white bandits to suppress the revolution with cruel methods such as disembowelment and burial alive. Many party members, relatives of the Red Army and The activists were brutally massacred, and the enemy also forced the organization of a joint village meeting, implemented the Baojia system, and implemented the practice of connecting five families together, one "connecting to the Communist Party", and all five families were killed. The masses were forced to search the mountains during the day and watch at night. Vigilante groups have ambushes at major intersections, and they will beat gongs and shoot whenever they discover a situation. One night, Haishan and three other people went to a village. As soon as they reached the village, a man suddenly emerged from the grass and shouted for a password. Before Haishan could answer, the guy beat the gong and shouted for him. Arrest people. Then, the vigilantes came towards them with guns drawn. When Hai Shan saw it, she was so anxious that she shot the militia member to death, took the gong, and while banging it shouted, "The Japanese army has escaped!" When the enemy was far away, he threw the gong away, and the three of them flew away. They got into the mountains and forests, but the enemy did not find them. They hide in the mountains or ravines during the day and come out at night, ignoring mosquito bites and leeches. When it rains, they have no choice but to get wet. Sometimes they can't eat any food for several days, so they have to pick wild fruits to satisfy their hunger. One night, the three of them went to a small village and finally managed to open the door of a house. At first, the landlord didn't understand who they were and acted very coldly. When he learned that they were Red Army plainclothes, he became enthusiastic and immediately told them about the militia's killing of Red Army family members and suppression of the masses, and quietly entertained them for dinner.

The three people from Haishan decided to carry out work in this area and mobilize the masses. However, due to the brutal massacre and reactionary propaganda by the Kuomintang reactionaries, the masses did not dare to approach them and the work could not be carried out. Comrade Haishan was very anxious, so she analyzed the local situation with Li Shiyan and Qian Yunhua, and decided to establish a foothold first, and then suppress a group of culprit reactionaries in order to open up the situation.

One night, Haishan and the other three came to the Dragon King Temple. Longwang Temple is located halfway up Longwang Mountain, far away from the White Bandit stronghold. The monk in the temple is a big landowner. The Soviet regime once confiscated his family's property, and his son is a member of the militia. When the monk saw that it was Hai Shan and the others, he couldn't help but feel shocked, but then he forced a smile to say hello. Hai Shanzhi explained the party's policies to the monk, warned him not to be the enemy of the Communist Party, and taught him to serve the Red Army and strive for meritorious service. The monk nodded repeatedly. From then on, the three of them lived and ate at the monk's place and carried out activities in secret. A few days later, the monk's son returned from the militia and provided Haishan with the number and activities of the militia in nearby strongholds.

Comrade Haishan immediately reported to the special committee. The special committee gathered more than 50 plainclothes members and disguised themselves as a militia. Led by Haishan, Li Shiyan, and Comrade Qian Yunhua, they sneaked into the enemy's nest and eliminated the enemies in that stronghold. Several people were shot to death. A villain.

The cunning militia found out that Haishan was in the plainclothes team, so they took Haishan's brother, wife and four-year-old boy to the Zhanjiasi stronghold, claiming that they would eradicate the roots, thereby threatening Haishan to rebel and surrender. . Comrade Haishan was unyielding, and the enemy soon killed his four-year-old boy. Comrade Haishan was very angry. He told the special committee that he was resolute in revolution and vowed not to surrender.

In order to persist in the struggle and deal with the enemy, our Hekou plainclothes team became more active and often went under the enemy's "nose". Sometimes they were in the small bamboo building of a hotel next to the road leading to Hekou Town. On the battlefield, he promptly reported the observed enemy situation to his superiors, thereby taking the initiative in the fight against the enemy.

Later, Zhang Xueliang’s Northeastern Army stationed at the mouth of the river. In order to disrupt the enemy's forces, the Hekou Special Committee printed the "Advice to the Army", leaflets, and slogans. Haishan and the others also often dispersed into the enemy's strongholds along the road leading to the river mouth, disintegrating the enemy's troops and intimidating the enemy.

After hard struggle, our Hekou plainclothes team finally opened up the situation. Many people risked their lives to pass information to the Red Army and cover the wounded and sick. The plainclothes team was also expanded and reorganized into the Bayou Agent Battalion. In February 1934, Comrade Haishan was transferred to the position of Secretary of the Party Branch of the Special Agent Battalion, with the administrative appointment document.

Two

In December 1934, the main force of the 25th Red Army, which persisted in fighting in the Hubei, Henan, and Anhui regions, was ordered by the Party Central Committee under the command of Army Commander Cheng Zihua ( Under the leadership of political commissar Wu Huanxian (later Xu Haidong), holding high the banner of "The Second Advance Team of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Going North to Resist Japan", they set out from eastern Hubei and began the Long March. At the same time, some troops and local armed forces were left behind to fight guerrillas and persist in the struggle. Our Hekou County Special Agent Battalion and Huang'an District 5 plainclothes team were incorporated into the Northeast Hubei Independent Regiment. In May 1935, the Northeast Hubei Independent Regiment was incorporated into the 28th Red Army in Xiaogan, and Comrade Haishan was assigned to serve as a clerk in the Pistol Regiment. The rear troops moved towards southern Shaanxi, intending to find the 25th Red Army. Unexpectedly, when he walked to the Tongbai Mountain area of ??Henan and encountered the Kuomintang bandits, Comrade Haishan was injured in his arm. Therefore, political commissar Gao Jingting of the 28th Red Army decided to organize a plainclothes team of more than a dozen people, with Comrade Haishan as the captain, responsible for covering and settling the wounded. Comrade Haishan quickly completed the task and returned to his original army in eastern Hubei.

In March 1936, Comrade Haishan was transferred to Shucheng in western Anhui Province as captain of the plainclothes team. In April, the troops arrived in Qianshan for activities and were surrounded by the enemy again. Comrade Haishan was seriously injured in the battle. The bullet passed through his lower jaw and knocked out half of his teeth. He hid in a cave to recuperate under the cover of the Qianshan plainclothes team. After recovering from his injury in September, he was transferred to the second detachment of the Yaoluoping plainclothes team as deputy captain. He relied closely on the local people, suppressed the reactionary ringleaders, divided and dismantled the local reactionary forces, and enlisted some enemy personnel to work for our plainclothes team. He obtained a lot of intelligence, drugs, and medical equipment, and solved the medical difficulties of the Red Army guerrillas.

In the spring of 1937, the White Army of the Kuomintang conducted a three-month brutal "clearance campaign" against the Red Army guerrillas that I persisted in the Dabie Mountains. The enemy set fire to the small villages, drove all the people into the big villages, and built many bunkers around them. People were searched when they entered the mountains. And they constantly set fire to the mountains in an attempt to trap, starve, and burn the Red Army guerrillas to death. When they captured the plainclothes members of the Red Army, they actually killed our soldiers by inhumane methods such as skinning and removing their hearts. What's more serious is that my plainclothes team members have nothing to eat and often eat wild vegetables and wild fruits to satisfy their hunger. Haishan and her comrades overcame various difficulties and persisted in fighting behind enemy lines. In the three-month struggle against "encirclement and suppression", they defeated the enemy and preserved strength for the party.

In July, Comrade Haishan received the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's "Message to All Party Comrades" on the Anti-Japanese National Movement and "On the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Movement" from the Xi'an Office of the Leading Route Army. He immediately reported to the Special Committee the two documents "Resolution on the Situation and the National Democratic Alliance". Soon, Comrade Gao Jingting, political commissar of the 28th Red Army, went to the Yaoluoping plainclothes team to inspect the work, and Comrade Xu Haishan handed the documents to him. At this point, Comrade Gao Jingting negotiated with the Kuomintang in Yuexi, Anhui on behalf of the 28th Red Army and local guerrillas who had persisted in the guerrilla war for three years in the Dabie Mountains.

March

In August 1937, under the situation where the two parties of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party negotiated and cooperated to fight the war, the Special Committee decided that Comrade Xu Haishan would be in charge and organize the activities in The winter plainclothes teams in western Anhui gathered in Yaoluoping and then drove to Qiliping in Huang'an County for training.

Comrade Haishan was transferred to the party training class. At that time, some comrades did not understand the Anti-Japanese National United Front and were completely against the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. They had no idea that the Red Army should be changed into the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. Especially when they took off the red five-star and replaced it with the Kuomintang cap badge, many comrades cried. Comrade Haishan patiently did their ideological work, explaining that the Anti-Japanese War was a turning point in the Chinese revolution, and that the anti-Japanese national united front policy formulated by the Party Central Committee was correct. Listening to the Party Central Committee and uniting with all patriotic people to resist Japan will definitely lead to success. Achieve victory.

In January 1938, the 28th Red Army, which was concentrated in Qiliping and Xuanhua areas of Huang'an County, was reorganized into the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army on the order of the Party's Central Military Commission. Comrade Hai Shan served as secretary of the 9th Regiment of the 4th Detachment. In July, he was transferred to the deputy battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 7th Regiment of the 4th Detachment. In October, he was appointed as the Propaganda Section Chief of the Regiment Political Department.

In January 1939, Comrade Haishan was appointed director of the Political Department of the Seventh Regiment and a member of the Youth League Party Committee. In March, the Seventh Regiment marched eastward to the Fengyang area of ??Anwei. At that time, due to the continuous attacks by the Japanese invaders on the anti-Japanese base areas, our army was short of supplies and had to fight for days. The situation was very difficult. At that time, Comrade Haishan was leading a battalion in Wujiaweizi, not far from Fengyang. After learning about this situation, he immediately led his troops back to the regiment headquarters. He did not hesitate to take decisive measures to stabilize the troops with Comrade Qin Xian'an, chief of staff of the regiment (who died gloriously in the battle of Nanma, Lunan, in 1947, and was the political commissar of the Second Column and Fifth Division). Haishan and other comrades went to the company separately to strengthen the ideological work and management education of the army. And find ways to provide supplies for the troops. In order to boost morale, Haishan and her comrades studied and decided to win the battle. After reconnaissance, he personally led a battalion of troops to sink a Japanese motorboat on the Huai River, wiped out dozens of Japanese soldiers, and seized a large number of guns, ammunition, and supplies. The mood of the cadres and soldiers was unprecedentedly high. In May, his superior, Comrade Haishan, served as political commissar of the Seventh Regiment and secretary of the Youth League Party Committee. Soon, Comrade Haishan was transferred to the Jiangbei Cadre School of the New Fourth Army to study. After graduation, he participated in the first counter-"mopping up" campaign by the fourth detachment of our New Fourth Army in the anti-Japanese base area in Dingyuan, Anhui Province in September.

In early January 1941, the Kuomintang diehards created the "Southern Anhui Incident" that shocked China and the rest of the world. On the 20th, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission of the Communist Party of China issued an order to build the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army. On the 28th, the new military headquarters of the New Fourth Army was established in Yancheng, northern Jiangsu, and the troops were immediately unified into seven divisions and an independent brigade. The original four detachments were reorganized into the Fourth Brigade of the Second Division of the New Fourth Army, and Comrade Haishan was appointed as the political commissar of the 12th Regiment of the 4th Brigade. In order to catch up with some of the troops that were scattered during the breakout of the Wannan Incident, the division headquarters ordered the 12th Regiment to occupy the two crossings of Bali Bridge and Shilicha. Comrade Haishan analyzed the enemy's situation at the two crossings and decided to deal with the enemy with education and military force. A company of stubborn soldiers resisted at Shilicha Ferry. Our 12th Regiment immediately eliminated them and occupied the ferry. The stubborn soldiers at Baliqiao Ferry were educated and gave up the ferry to us. In this way, they responded to more than 500 New Fourth Army soldiers who were crossing the Yangtze River from Taipei. The 12th Regiment was commended by the New Fourth Army Jiangbei Command.

In March 1941, the Japanese invaders attacked our Huainan base area from Gaoyou, Tianchang, Yangzhou, and Yizheng. Part of the New Fourth Army, under General Luo Binghui, carried out the famous Yizheng Battle (Jinniushan Battle). Comrade Haishan led the 12th Regiment to also participate in this battle.

During the struggle to open up the Yi (Zheng) Yang (Prefecture) New District, the troops were extremely short of supplies and ate boiled soybeans every day. The soldiers in the south were accustomed to eating rice and could not tolerate boiled soybeans. Many of them had bloated stomachs, which seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the troops. Someone proposed to exchange soybeans and merchants for rice through the enemy-occupied areas. Comrade Hussein agreed and supported this, but some people thought it was doing the enemy a favor. This incident was reported to the Jiangbei Command of the New Fourth Army. Comrade Deng Zihui, director of the Political Department, sent a telegram to the 12th Regiment, ordering Comrades Haishan and Pei Xianbai to report the situation overnight. Comrades Haishan and Pei Xianbai went to the headquarters to report in detail the reasons for the decline in combat effectiveness, the mood of the troops, and measures to stabilize and consolidate the troops. Comrade Deng Zihui affirmed their approach.

In May 1941, Comrade Haishan was transferred from the 12th Regiment to the Second Division as deputy director of the Organization Department and a member of the Division Party Committee. Working in the Second Division for more than three years, he was loyal to the revolutionary cause, never forgetting the party's principles, conscientiously grasping the principles and policies, and setting an example everywhere. He had always lived a simple and hard life. He had been covered with a blue calico quilt for many years and his clothes were too torn to wear, but he still mended them again and again. The comrades brought him new ones, and he sent them back. He gave the government-issued shoes to others to wear, and asked his lover, Comrade Zhang Jie, to make a pair for him with thick needles and big thread. They said they were much better than wearing straw sandals in the Dabie Mountains.

He has a passionate heart for comrades, cares about cadres, loves cadres, and boldly allows them to work and exercise. He is usually good at getting close to the masses, treats others equally, has no airs, and can help others with enthusiasm. Therefore, everyone is willing to get close to him and tell him what is on his mind.

On August 25, 1944, Comrade Haishan was promoted to study at the Central China Party School organized by the East China Bureau of the Communist Party of China, and served as a member of the school party committee and party branch secretary. After a period of time, Through study, his ideological consciousness and cultural theoretical level were further improved. With a serious attitude and an aboveboard mind, he wrote a "reflective autobiography" of more than 16,000 words. Between the lines, there is love for the party and confidence in the victory of the Chinese revolution. He realistically analyzed the progress he had made since joining the revolution and reviewed his own thoughts.

In March 1945, Comrade Haishan graduated from the Central China Party School and was transferred to the Political Department of the New Fourth Army as the cadre section chief. On August 9, Chairman Mao issued the statement "The Last Battle of the Japanese Invaders". On the 10th and 11th, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De issued a seven-sided order to surrender and cooperate with the Soviet army, ordering the Eighth Route Army, New Fourth Army and other armies to launch a full-scale attack on the enemy, and issued an ultimatum to the Japanese army to surrender within a time limit. If they resisted, they would resolutely To eliminate them, under the call of the Party Central Committee, the party, government, military and civilians in each liberated area urgently mobilized to form a massive counterattack army. Our New Fourth Army troops marched towards the southern section of Jinpu Road and the eastern section of Longhai Road along the Shanghai-Nanjing, Luhang-Ningbo, Zhejiang-Jiangxi, and Huainan railway lines. Under this situation, Comrade Haishan was transferred to the position of Director of the Political Department of the Fourth Brigade of the Second Division of the New Fourth Army on August 12. In October, the Second Division of the New Fourth Army, led by General Luo Binghui, moved north to southern Shandong, attacked enemy-occupied areas, and accepted the surrender of the Japanese and puppet troops. Comrade Haishan's Fourth Brigade, together with the brothers' troops, annihilated the Japanese and puppet troops in Hanzhuang (north of Xuzhou) and defended Southern Shandong.

Four

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, a brief period of peace appeared in the country. Some comrades developed the idea of ??peace paralysis, but Comrade Haishan maintained a high degree of political vigilance. He told his comrades: "The Kuomintang reactionaries do not want peace, and we must be more vigilant." He led the comrades of the Political Department into the company, educating everyone to maintain a high fighting mood and be ready to fight at any time. Later facts proved that the entire party was preparing for a war of self-defense during this period.

On December 3, 1945, the Party Central Committee decided that the New Fourth Army Military Headquarters would also serve as the leading authority of the Shandong Military Region, and the Fourth Brigade of the Second Division of the New Fourth Army was ordered to be reorganized into the Fourth Brigade of the Second Column of the Shandong Field Army. On December 8, 1946, Comrade Haishan was transferred from the Fourth Brigade to the Second Column as deputy director of the Political Department.

In late January 1947, after the Battle of Southern Shandong, the entire East China Army implemented unified reorganization, canceled the Shandong and Central China Field Armies, and formally formed the East China Military Region and the East China Field Army. In early February, the second-level team attacked the rebellious Hao Pengju's troops stationed in Baitabu, Longhai Road, annihilating two enemy divisions in one fell swoop and capturing Hao Pengju alive. Then he participated in the Battle of Laiwu. In May, he participated in the Battle of Menglianggu. In June, the Second Column and the Seventh, Ninth and Thirteenth Columns formed the Shandong Corps. Under the leadership of Comrades Tan Zhenlin and Xu Shiyou, they carried out internal combat missions in Shandong. In August, the troops took a short break to reorganize their organization and replenish their troops. Together with his comrades, Comrade Haishan educated the troops on the revolutionary situation and combat tasks, so that the officers and soldiers clearly understood the situation of the national counterattack, established a sense of glory and responsibility in defending East China, and increased their confidence in winning the final victory. In September, the Second Column, under the command of Comrade Tan Zhenlin, swept across the Huai County and high-density sections of the Jiaoji Railway overnight, wiping out more than 1,500 enemies. On the 12th, our army attacked Laiyang City, and the Second Column blocked the enemy's reinforcements in the Shuigoutou area. The battle was fierce. The enemy poured tons of artillery shells and bombs on our army's positions. Most of the fortifications were destroyed by the enemy and the trenches were filled up. However, our army's commanders and fighters were brave and tenacious and fought bloody battles until they captured Leyang City.

Just after the Spring Festival in February 1948, Comrade Haishan was transferred from the Second Column to the Thirty-seventh Column as political commissar. The troops rested in the Laiyang area and carried out a new military reorganization movement with "complaints", "three investigations" and mass training activities as the main content, which greatly improved the political awareness, organizational discipline and combat effectiveness of the troops.

In late May, the Shandong Corps advanced to Jinpu Road. During the hard fighting life, Comrade Haishan suffered from lung disease and was very weak, but he often persisted in working. In early July, the troops attacked Yanzhou. , Comrade Hassan's body was already very weak, but he still persisted in his pre-war political athlete and organizational work.

The battle started, and he insisted on directing the battle from the division command post and the division commander's side until the final victory was achieved.

After the Battle of Yanzhou, Comrade Haishan's condition worsened and she could no longer ride her horse during the dinner march. The organization planned to let him rest for a while, but he said: "Jinan has not been liberated yet, so I cannot leave the army to rest." In mid-August, our East China Field Army began preparations for the Jinan Campaign. Comrade Haishan, who was seriously ill, led the cadres to the company to conduct pre-war mobilization education and organizational work. Together with the commanders and soldiers, he raised his hands and swore that he would resolutely "open Jinan Mansion and capture Wang Yaowu alive" at the expense of his own life.

At 24:00 on September 16th, the Battle of Jinan began. Comrade Haishan insisted on commanding the battle regardless of his illness and weakness. On the night of September 18th, the troops were ordered to attack in the direction of Baima Mountain and Dingjiashan. The march was very fast. Regardless of the danger, Comrade Haishan mounted his horse from the division headquarters, crossed the troops, and ran straight to the vanguard regiment to participate in the command work of the division's forward command post. From attacking Dingjiashan, breaking through the Kazi Gate in the southwest corner of the commercial port, to breaking through the Yongsui Gate in the outer city, for six consecutive days and nights, he was with his division commander Comrade Gurui and rarely rested. He put forward political agitation slogans in a timely manner according to the development and changes of the combat situation, boosted morale and inspired the troops to overcome difficulties. He paid great attention to the unity among the troops and cooperation during operations. He also paid great attention to wartime policies and disciplines. When he found problems, he helped solve them. At this time, the troops played an important role in quickly winning the peripheral battle.

On September 23, the Battle of Jinan entered the final decisive stage. At 12 o'clock at noon, the Corps ordered the 13th phase team to break through Kunshunmen, and then assisted the third and ninth columns to attack Wang Yaowu's command center, the Kuomintang provincial government. The head of the Thirteenth Column assigned the task of breaking through Kunshun Gate to Comrade Xu Haishan's Thirty-seventh Division.

Kunshun Gate is a city gate in the southwest corner of Jinan's inner city. It is adjacent to the northeast corner of Tuquan, not far to the north is the west gate, and to the east is the south gate. There are many fortresses above and below the city, and there are moats, barbed wire and other obstacles outside the city walls. The enemy attaches great importance to the troops and firepower equipment here, trying to prevent our army from attacking.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, earth-shattering cannon fire sounded, and the siege began. All kinds of guns and artillery of our army fired at the enemies above and below the city. The blasting heroes held blasting tubes in their hands and explosive packs in their arms, and rushed towards the blasting target like arrows leaving the string. The enemy was like a beaten mad dog, resisting desperately, and grenades flew down from the city wall in batches... Our soldiers were desperate and marched forward bravely. Everyone had only one belief: to win the battle with blood and life.

After a fierce battle and repeated struggles, the breakthrough was finally opened by the 37th Division of our army. On the afternoon of September 24, the army from the west route besieging the inner city continued to enter the inner city through the breakthrough of Kunshun Gate. Together with the army from the east route that invaded the inner city from the southeast corner (the Jiefang Pavilion area), they quickly and violently attacked the enemy. The provincial government launched an attack. The command post of the 37th Division of our army is located in the small building at the northwest corner of the Zhang family mansion on the west side of Baotu Spring and is about to be moved into the city. Suddenly, two "B-29" bombers flew in and bombed our army's position near Kunshunmen desperately. A bomb fell on the northwest corner of the 37th Division command post building. The entire building was blown over, and the command post was buried under the In the rubble. When the comrades rescued Commander Gurry and several seriously injured comrades, the fighting in the inner city basically ended, and our division political commissar Comrade Xu Haishan and several staff officers died gloriously.

After the Battle of Jinan, the heroes and role models who participated in the liberation of Jinan and made military exploits were commended by Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee. The Central Military Commission awarded the "Jinan 1st Infantry Regiment" to the 109th Infantry Regiment of the 37th Division. The honorable title of "Second Regiment". At the meeting to bury Comrade Haishan, all the officers and men of the 37th Division shed tears and raised their guns to take an oath. Comrade Zhou Zhijian, the former commander of the Thirteenth Column of Huaye, wrote an inscription in the column's "March News" on October 10, 1948: "In memory of Comrade Xu Haishan and other fallen comrades. We should implement their resolute execution of orders and complete the task. , brave and tenacious, active fighting spirit, and work hard to inherit their good style!"

Comrade Haishan, rest in peace! Under the leadership of the party, we must inherit the legacy of the martyrs, follow in your footsteps, and strive endlessly to build a socialist modern motherland!