Does anyone know the history of Linwu Lujiawei?

In September 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army launched the Heng (Yang) Bao (Qing) Battle and annihilated more than 40,000 Bai Chongxi's main forces.

Then, the People's Liberation Army drove southward and approached the Chenzhou and Yongzhou areas.

In mid-November, the *** Hunan Provincial Party Committee held a meeting attended by the provincial military region, *** 46th Army leaders, and the secretaries of the four regional committees in southern Hunan. At the meeting, the Southern Hunan Bandit Suppression Headquarters was established. The three counties of Jiahe, Lanshan and Linwu in the Chenxian area were determined to be the focus of the suppression of bandits in southern Hunan, and careful arrangements were made for the suppression of bandits.

On the 21st, the 46th Army issued an order to suppress bandits in southern Hunan. The 136th Division was responsible for the main task of suppressing bandits. With the cooperation of the 137th Division and the Chenxian Division troops, the enemy was completely surrounded and annihilated in southern Hunan.

After receiving the main attack mission, the 136th Division immediately carried out general mobilization and made a strategic deployment of "based on reality, flexible use of tactics, implementation of internal encirclement, interspersion, division and annihilation of the enemy", and decided to start from Qidong, Yongzhou The troops in the county set off in three routes. The 408th Regiment was responsible for the east route attack, passing through Xintian County and entering the Jiahe, Shiqiao, and Puma areas, and went straight to the southern foot of Huayin Mountain in the southwest of Linwu County.

The 407th Regiment is on the west route, passing through Xintian County to directly attack Lanshan County, and then inserts into Huayin Mountain to join the east route troops, and will attack from Jiahe, Lanshan and other places The remaining bandits who fled south were attacked and annihilated.

The 406th Regiment was the middle route, passing through Zhengyiwei in Xintian County and approaching Jiahe County, and finally captured the Maojun area of ??Lanshan, the bandit command center.

In the same month, the Chenxian Prefectural Committee notified Li Shaqing to go to Chenxian for an interview. After hearing the report, he informed the 136th Division of the 46th Army of the *** about the distribution and activities of Jiahe underground party organizations, and instructed Chenxian The independent regiment of the southern Hunan detachment of the divisional force (Lei Mengyan's Department) cooperated with the 136th Division to prepare for the suppression of bandits in the Jiahe and Lanshan areas.

On the 29th, the 406th and 407th regiments of the 136th Division of the *** set out from Jinlan Bridge in Qidong County, crossed Xintian County and advanced towards Jiahe, Lanshan, and Linwu.

As they approached Jiahe, division commander Zeng Yongya and Secretary Gu Ziyuan of Chenxian County Party Committee jointly studied the specific matters of liberating Jiahe.

In order to peacefully liberate Jiahe County and reduce the loss of lives and property of the people, the Chenxian County Committee and the Jiahe underground party organization instructed Li Ezhao, the son of revolutionary veteran Li Guozhu, to continue the work of transforming and surrendering Li Ziqing.

Wang Shixuan, the leader of the 406th Regiment, wrote a letter to the people in the name of the regiment headquarters. Jiahe County Magistrate Li Ziqing wrote a letter with the content of persuading surrender:

This headquarters is ordered to liberate Jiahe and save the entire territory. people.

Your Excellency has previously sent personnel to contact our army to liberate Jiahe peacefully. At that time, I wrote to you, hoping to send personnel out of the city immediately to avoid troops approaching the city and the people throughout the territory suffering from artillery fire.

The three-year People's Liberation War is almost over, and the country will soon be liberated.

Now our troops entering Sichuan have liberated Chongqing on the 1st; our troops entering Guangxi have liberated the three major cities in Guangxi and recovered eighteen county towns; our troops entering Guizhou have liberated Guiyang and recovered dozens of county towns.

In the three years of the Liberation War, our army wiped out nearly 6 million people from the Bai and Li gangs and captured nearly 1,500 general-level officers.

When our army advanced to Pingjin, General Fu Zuoyi accepted Chairman Mao's eight peace conditions, and Beijing was peacefully liberated; when our army marched to Changsha, Hunan, Generals Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren held high the flag of righteousness, and Changsha was peacefully liberated.

...Bai Chongxi relied on the Guangdong-Han and Hunan-Guangxi routes in southern Hunan to prevent our army from going south at Hengbao. (Our army) only fought in Shaoyang and (we) wiped out its main four divisions. The white bandit scurried away with his head in his arms and returned to his old home in Guangxi.

Our army entered Guangxi and did not encounter any resistance from the white bandits. (The white bandits) fled southwest without looking back.

The facts have told the war criminals and reactionaries that the only way out is to lay down their weapons. Otherwise, if they run to the ends of the earth, the Communist Party will finally annihilate them.

We believe that you have already understood the current situation. When our army arrives in southern Hunan, we will send people to contact us and express our willingness to peacefully liberate Jiahe.

This is great and we welcome it.

Based on the battlefield situation, the 136th Division temporarily decided to divide the 406th Regiment into two groups.

With the 2nd Battalion as one, and two squads of the regiment's artillery company and the regiment's reconnaissance company, at 6:00 on December 5, they separated from the main force of the regiment at Qiaoxiadong, Xintian County, and rushed towards Jiahe.

On the other side were the 1st and 3rd battalions of the main force of the regiment. They made a long-distance attack on Huotiandu and Maojun in Lanshan, the heart of the bandits, and threatened the enemy's command center.

In early December, *** scouts came to Guangfa Township Central Primary School and directly contacted Li Huachun, who was temporarily in charge of Jiahe underground party organization.

Li Huachun sent people to Chujiang to take down the woodblock map on the front page of the "Jiahe County Chronicle" treasured at home and handed it to the scouts. He also sent party member Li Tianxiang to accompany the scouts to Xintian County to report to the 406th Regiment of the 136th Division. The leader reported on the situation of enemy and friendly forces and terrain conditions in Jiahe.

The Jiahe Nationalist *** authorities were greatly shocked when they learned that the People's Liberation Army was pressing the border.

On December 2, County Magistrate Li Ziqing led some members of the county police, county self-defense force and police squadron to quietly move out of the city and monitor the current situation and movements inside and outside the city in the Shigao and Fukou areas.

On the morning of the 5th, the Second Battalion of the *** 406th Regiment rushed forward in the rain and cold to reach Guangfawei.

*** According to the established division of labor, the Jiahe underground party organization immediately organized party members and members of the "Red Eagle Society" to do cooking and propaganda separately.

Underground party members of Guangfa Central Primary School and members of the Hongying Society wrote on five-color paper "Down with Chiang Kai-shek and liberate all of China", "Down with the landlords and bullies, local tyrants and bad people", "Long live the Communist Party of China", etc. Hundreds of propaganda slogans based on the content were quickly posted at the entrances of Tanping, Shiqiao, Lianhe, Zhuquan and other villages. and the road section at the entrance of the county town.

Li Zhanzi, Li Huanxi, Mao Zhongxin, Li Mange, Li Liangde and others hid in the attic of the creek at the east gate of the county, compiled and distributed the "Welcome to the Liberation Express", calling on the compatriots in the county to take practical actions to welcome the solution The arrival of the liberation army.

*** The stationing in Guangfa Wei coincided with the fair day market, but they did not arrest husbands, did not disturb the market, and did not scare the masses. They had strict discipline and were well received by the masses.

People from Guangfawei, Shuitouling, Datang and other villages went to intersections and campsites to bring steaming tea to ***, which reflected the deep affection between the military and the people.

After a short rest in Guangfawei, the People's Liberation Army organized a commando team, led by Chen Guojun, a scout who knew the situation in Jiahe in advance. They took the lead with light weapons. Large troops and heavy weapons followed later and headed for Jiefang County. .

While traveling to the Lianhe section of Qingwei Township, *** met *** the remnants of Nanjing Traffic Police Lieutenant General Guo Motao's fugitives. After the enemy fired several false shots at *** near Pingshi Village, He fled towards Nanling Mountain without looking back.

After passing Qumaitang Village, the *** troops were divided into three groups, one group stationed in Shigaobei Village, one group stationed in Hantian Village, and one group stationed in Wenjia Village, occupying Wenmiao Ridge in the east of the city and Hantian Village in the north of the city respectively. Highlands such as Houlong Mountain and Jinshan Ridge in the northwest of the city form an encirclement and approach Jiahe County.

The battle deployment was ready. The commanders used telescopes to observe the movements around the county town and found enemy activities in the south, east of the city, Shuangpavilion and other places. They immediately ordered the mortar crew to fire three rounds in the direction of Shuangpavilion at the south gate of the city.

Suddenly, the remnants of the city's foreign police panicked and fled toward the Chetou Bridge with their heads in their hands; the guards in the city closed the city gate tightly and were in chaos.

Then, *** commanders and fighters launched a political offensive to promote the party's enlightened policies and force the enemy to descend quickly.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the *** entered the city from the east gate in a mighty manner. The five-star red flag was planted high on the east gate tower, and the county was liberated.

In the evening, the Kuomintang County Magistrate Li Ziqing, who was waiting outside the city to observe the current situation, sent a letter to the *** 406th Regiment, explaining the reasons for leaving the city and promising to lead his troops into the city the next day to hand over weapons and be organized.

On the morning of the 6th, Li Ziqing led the county self-defense brigade, police squadron and police officers to surrender and be organized at the county middle school in accordance with the predetermined location and form. More than 150 police officers were handed over. There are more than 100 long and short guns, including 2 machine guns and 1 telephone switchboard.

Within the next two days, the Communist Party of China arranged for personnel to clean up the files of the original county police, police station, and Self-Defense Force, then sealed them and conducted intensive training for the old military and political personnel.

After the liberation of the county and most of the areas, a festive atmosphere was permeated both inside and outside Jiahe City.

The broad masses of people rejoiced and rushed to tell each other, revolutionary songs were sung in every village, and Yangko dance was popular everywhere.

The county held a mass meeting in the playground of the county middle school and held a massive *** activity.

In addition to teaching during the day, many teachers from Guangfa Township Central High School also arranged cultural and artistic programs at night, practiced singing revolutionary songs, made lanterns and torches, etc., to celebrate liberation and victory with colorful activities.

(2) The battle to suppress the remnants of the bandits

After the Battle of Hengbao, *** traffic police corps, 1 brigade and 5 corps commanded by Wang Chunhui, Director of the Southeast Office of the Traffic Police General Administration The reactionary armed forces such as the Xiangnan Column and Baoyi Division commanded by Lieutenant General Xie Shengyi were entrenched in Jiahe, Lanshan, and Linwu areas and resisted stubbornly.

According to the characteristics of Wang and Xie’s bandits, which concentrated their forces to control vast mountainous areas and were supported by the reactionary regime, *** adopted a “concentration versus concentration” approach, focusing on military suppression and political offensives. As a supplementary policy, the troops of the six regiments were concentrated, encircled from east to west, broke through from the middle, and comprehensively pursued and suppressed the bandits in Jiahe and nearby areas.

On November 29, the 408th Regiment set off from Guiyang Town, Qidong County, and the 406th Regiment and 407th Regiment in Jinlanqiao Town at the same time to advance towards Xintian and Jiahe.

In order to secretly engage the enemy, the regiment headquarters adopted a small force disguised as local cadres and a food-raising team to go first, and then the main force followed up to attack the target.

On December 4, we arrived at Xintian Taipingwei, seven kilometers away from the Jiahe border. After asking the masses, it was confirmed that there were *** Lei Zhonghe, captain of the 17th Traffic Police Corps, and the remaining members of the Department in Pumanwei area. *** The "Xiannan Column" commanded by Lieutenant General Xie Shengyi of the Southeast Office of the Traffic Police General Administration.

The regiment headquarters ordered the reconnaissance platoon to conduct reconnaissance, and the first battalion followed up.

Under the leadership of two local villagers, platoon leader Li Deyou secretly rushed into the home of Lei Zhonghe in Chawu Village, Guixian Township. Lei Zhonghe escaped in fear under the cover of his wife.

Li Deyou immediately approached the bandit headquarters in the nunnery on the side of Pumanwei, and unexpectedly threw a grenade inside. The enemy was killed and injured several people.

During the battle, Li Deyou was hit by the enemy's grenade and died heroically①.

Then the regiment headquarters ordered the first battalion to quickly encircle the Puqian Mountain area in Guixian Township, where the remnant bandits were active.

The enemy built fortifications on the mountain, and fired cross-fire from heavy machine guns and machine guns. The Seventh Company of the First Battalion attacked for three hours, causing more than 20 casualties, but the Puman position was still not captured.

The Eighth Company and the Ninth Company, which attacked in a roundabout way, also encountered stubborn resistance from the enemy, and the enemy attacked more and more, so the troops had to postpone the attack, reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and readjust their troop deployment.

After comprehensive reconnaissance, it turned out that on the night before our army attacked, Wang Chunhui mobilized more than 800 armed forces from two detachments to lurk and reinforce the enemy.

Accordingly, Feng Songyun, the commander of the 408th Regiment, transferred the second battalion to Puma to readjust the firepower.

In the early morning of the 5th, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 408th Regiment launched an attack on the enemy in Puman.

The troops first used artillery fire to block the enemy's retreat, then *** carried forward the characteristics of close combat and night combat, fought hard and rushed into the trenches to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

The bayonets were red. Although the enemies had advanced weapons, they had never fought a regular battle. They were killed and fell one after another. Some took advantage of the night to flee towards the county seat.

After twenty-five minutes of fierce fighting, *** *** eliminated 125 enemy bandits, completely annihilated the first team of the fourth detachment of the "Shonan Column", and captured 83 people including Captain Li Ying.

Then, the 408th Regiment took advantage of the situation and moved south to capture Linwu Lujiawu, and the main force quickly advanced towards Huayin Mountain.

While controlling the county and stabilizing the situation, the *** 406th Regiment ordered the second battalion to quickly advance southward.

Passing all the way into Yuanjia Village, Panxi Township, only encountering sporadic gunfire resistance, the *** entered Yuanjia Village.

March all the way to Nanping Xiangtang Village, and cooperate with large forces to besiege the headquarters of the remnant bandits in southern Hunan.

The Chenxian Divisional Forces and the 137th Division have already formed an external encirclement against the remaining bandits in southern Hunan.

On December 5, the 136th Division's advance and suppression troops completed the attack and detour missions with lightning speed, and launched a series of offensives at Jiahetang Village and Lanshan Bamboo Pipe north of Huayin Mountain. Temple and other areas formed an inner encirclement against the enemy.

The National *** led by bandit leader Wang Chunhui, the remnants of the 2nd, 4th, 14th, 17th and 18th Traffic Police Corps, the 1st Bao Division and the remnants of the Self-Defense Forces of Jiahe, Lanshan and Linwu counties** *A total of more than 12,000 people were divided and besieged.

Among them, more than 2,000 people from the remnants of the 18th Traffic Police Corps, the 1st Division of the 4th Corps and the 2nd Traffic Police Brigade were surrounded by the main force of the *** 406th Regiment in the Tangcunwei area.

The enemy's defensive deployment and command were disrupted, and he was hit from the front and back, unable to look at each other from head to tail.

On the night of the 6th, the 2nd Battalion of the 406th Regiment came into contact with the enemy in the north of Tangcun. Battalion Commander Zhao Hua commanded the battalion to attack and annihilate an enemy platoon, but a large number of enemies escaped during the night.

In the early morning of the next day, the commanders and soldiers discovered that there were enemies on the high ground on the west side, and immediately ordered the 4th and 6th companies to attack. The enemies fled westward in panic.

Regardless of fatigue, *** pursued the enemy with the help of the local people, and walked to Zhanjiafang Road in Lanshan County where he encountered a large group of bandits from the 18th Column of the *** Traffic Police.

Facing a large group of bandits, the *** negotiation team remained calm and adopted the strategy of using weakness to control strength and using falsehood to counterfeit. They ordered the commander to blow the charge horn on both sides of the enemy's flanks, while the mortar crews Bombarding the enemy camp, falsely encircling the enemy, and breaking the enemy bandit's trick of "pretending to surrender but really resisting", captured more than a thousand enemy bandits including reinforcements, and captured the enemy column leader Wang Ruiwen alive.

After the battle in Zhanjiafang, the main force of *** returned to Tangcunwei.

In the following days, the 406th Regiment encircled the 407th Regiment and the 408th Regiment on three sides and captured Mao Junwei, the headquarters of the bandit leader Wang Chunhui, according to the arrangement of the superiors.

Since then, the troops of the 136th Division have gradually moved to the stage of sporadic searches and suppression of remnant bandits.

On December 15, the entire Jialanlin battle came to an end.

A few days later, the bandit leader Wang Chunhui was captured by the police who had been waiting for a long time when he fled to Changsha Xiangjiang Pier.