Reconnaissance of Crossing the River, a story of reconnaissance across the river that is more vivid, exciting and thrilling than film and television dramas

In the 1950s, the movie "Reconnaissance Crossing the River" was released nationwide. The vivid and touching story and lifelike characters were known to women and children across the country and have become the memory of a generation. However, few people know that Mr. Shen Mojun completed the script in Tongling. Most of the plot and character prototypes in the play are based on the Tongling guerrillas and the 27th Army's advance reconnaissance brigade that performed reconnaissance missions in Tongfannan.

In fact, the real battle of wits and courage between scouts and guerrillas and the enemy is more vivid, exciting and thrilling than film and television dramas.

1. The "Advanced River Crossing Reconnaissance Brigade" stowaway operation was full of dangers.

On the evening of April 6, 1949, the 27th Army of the Central Group Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army formed an "Advance Crossing River Reconnaissance Brigade" with 300 elite armed forces, divided into two groups to advance across the river to reconnoiter the enemy's situation. The group was led by Ya Bing, the team leader and party secretary, and successfully landed at Shilichang and Huanggong Temple between Tongfan and Tongfan. After a short battle, they got rid of the enemy and went straight to the Lion Rock at the junction of Tongchuan. The other group, led by Mu Sirong, deputy captain and deputy secretary, landed from Beigengwang in Tongling to Jinniu Ferry. As the boat reached the center of the river, it was discovered by the enemy, so it was converted into a forced crossing. The boat of Class 5 on this route was intercepted by the enemy. It was sunk by artillery and 9 comrades died gloriously. Other comrades were divided into two groups and waded ashore. With the help of local guides, they crossed the enemy's blockade and gathered at Xiejia Bridge. Then they crossed the Zhongcang River together and crossed the Shun'an Old River via Shandongwei to Yujia Gate (now Xingzha). ), that is, near the Water Margin Temple (ancestral hall) in Liutanwei, the enemy troops stationed at the Water Margin Temple (ancestral hall) were playing mahjong. The advance team turned left and right to cleverly avoid the enemy, and rushed to Dog-shaped Mountain next to Zhongmingye Mountain at dawn. The advance team took a short rest on the mountain and then climbed over the mountain to reach Hujia Village in Dilongchong (near today's CSR Tongling Locomotive Factory).

Stills of "Reconnaissance Crossing the River"

Dilongchong Hujia Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with high mountains and dense forests. It is an old guerrilla base area with a good mass base, which is convenient for the troops to hide and rest, but it is far away from the The township office is only six or seven miles away. This is indeed an old district, and the people are very alert. That day, a Baoding came into the village to urge his wife. When he saw many soldiers, he turned around and ran away. He told the villagers he met, "Many troops have come to Dilong Village. I don't know which part they are from." The villager immediately reported the situation to the troops. Mu Sirong immediately decided to retreat to the mountains to hide, and left Dilongchong that night. After a night of rapid march, he moved to Mujiating, the junction of Tong and South, to join the Yabing tribe. Sure enough, the next day, the Kuomintang Tongling County Police and Security Brigade dispatched two to three hundred troops to attack Hujia Village. After entering Dilongchong, they fired a burst of gunfire randomly on the mountains on both sides. They walked around the village and found nothing.

In responding to and cooperating with the advance cross-river reconnaissance brigade, the Tongling County Party Committee and the guerrillas of the Communist Party of China made important contributions. On April 10, 17 people from Mu Sirong's detachment were separated after crossing the river. Except for two comrades who separated from the main force due to disorientation, they were unfortunately rounded up and killed by Cui Guanghan's Tongling Police Brigade in Luojiaguai Village after crossing the Zhongcang River. The 15 people were found by underground traffic officers appointed by Tongling County and safely escorted to the advance crossing reconnaissance brigade. Comrade Miao Yunsong, an underground traffic officer in Tongling, was injured and captured by the enemy when he was looking to cover the missing persons after the landing of Mu Sirong's detachment. He was escorted to Nanling County and brutally killed.

During the 14 days of advance reconnaissance activities, the Wannan party organization and guerrillas actively sent personnel to find contacts, lead the way for the advance team, and cooperate with the reconnaissance operations. With the assistance of local party organizations and guerrillas, the advance team moved freely like a dragon into the sea, like a sharp knife inserted into the enemy's heart. They collected intelligence, cut wires, disrupted traffic, disrupted the enemy's deployment, disrupted the enemy's command, and successfully completed the response to the army. The glorious mission of crossing the river.

2. The guerrillas reconnoitred the enemy's situation, and there was no danger

The 70th Division of the 24th Army joined forces with the Tongling guerrillas and donated weapons to the guerrillas

April 1949 On the evening of March 14th, Ruan Zhiang, the person in charge of the riverside underground transportation station in Ruan Village, Shilithang, spent a whole day walking dozens of miles to rush to the Tongling County Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Ganjiachong at the junction of Qingyang and Qingyang in Tongling. Reported a very threatening enemy situation: the enemy recently suddenly transferred an artillery regiment to secretly repair the artillery position on the high ground near the Basengtou River near Ruan Village.

Chen Aixi and other county party committee leaders knew that this military information was particularly important and asked Ruan Zhiang to return to Ruan Village at night. At the same time, they decided to send instructor Sun Ke (Sun Yunsong) of Tongling No. 1 Company and reconnaissance squad leader Wang Xuesheng on the morning of April 15. Traffic officer Li Aitang and other three people formed an armed reconnaissance team and went to Ruan Village Damengtou along the river to detect the enemy's situation. After a long journey of more than ten hours, Sun Ke and other three people arrived at Ruan Zhiang's house in Ruan Village. The reconnaissance team relied on the underground party and people in Ruan Village, Chen Village and Basengtou area to go all out and use all their strength to cross the sea and show their magical powers. Through Ruan Zhiang's father and family, they entertained the enemy's artillery regiment and other relevant personnel in a timely manner. Extract information. Through underground party members Ruan Laoqi and others to work at the enemy's artillery positions, and by sending female middle school underground traffic officer Yao Xuesheng and others to dig wild vegetables around the enemy's artillery positions to observe the terrain, we finally determined the exact location of the enemy's artillery positions in more than a day. The location, more than 50 mountain cannons, their models, ammunition depots, troop strength, etc. were clearly understood.

During more than a day of reconnaissance at Ruancunba Ridge, every step was startling and dangerous. Thanks to the bravery and wit of Ruan Zhiang and other underground party members, the life-saving cover of the people, and the full help of rural progressives, the three-person reconnaissance team repeatedly saved the day. Sun Ke and other three-person reconnaissance teams successfully returned to the Central Plains at 9 a.m. on the 17th. Ganjiachong is the seat of Tongling County Party Committee.

The underground struggle at that time was very cruel, and many comrades were brutally killed by the enemy for spying on the enemy. On April 15, Wang Jinying, the person in charge of our underground transportation station in Bagentou, was captured by the Kuomintang military commander while delivering information about the enemy artillery regiment in Bagentou. Finally, he was buried alive by the enemy in Fanchang Tiger (Bu) not far from Bagentou. .

3. The traffic officer sent the "River Defense Map" wisely and swam across the river.

Based on the information obtained by the reconnaissance, underground traffic officer Zhang Xiuzhi drew the Kuomintang Army's "Tongling River Defense Map"

The guerrilla Zhang Xiuzhi drew the Kuomintang Army's "Tongling River Defense Map"

Zhang Xiuzhi drew two identical Jiang defense maps. One copy was given to the Tongling County Party Committee and arrangements were made for guerrilla Zhao Banggen to be sent to Jiangbei. (The other copy was given to Zhang Defa, secretary of the underground party branch. Zhang Defa kept the picture until after liberation and until his death. He gave the picture to his son, Zhang Liangcai, a Communist Party member in Nonglin Village. , Zhang Liangcai handed this picture to the Tongling City Party History Office in the spring of 1985)

Zhao Banggen, a guerrilla who swam across the Yangtze River to deliver intelligence

This is "Reconnaissance across the Yangtze River". The prototype of the "pony" that swam across the river to deliver the enemy's Jiang defense map, Zhao Banggen was praised by many newspapers and media as the "Messenger of the People in the South of the Yangtze River" and "The First Warrior to Cross the River" after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Zhao Banggen ( Also known as Zhao Yun) is a native of Shizishan Village, Xihu Town, Tongling City. He joined the Wannan guerrillas in 1947 and is a witty and brave underground traffic officer.

On the evening of April 17, for the safety and portability of this important military intelligence, Zhao Panggen folded and twisted the 40×26 cm piece of white paper with rough edges and put it into a small bottle. Seal the mouth of the bottle with burned candle oil, then tie it with a thin linen thread from the neck of the bottle, tie it to your belt, and set off from the Tongling River to Yangshanji. Tongling guerrilla team leader Xu Wanrong and soldier Ruan Deming escorted Zhao Banggen to the lantern ditch between Datong and Yangshanji, lurking in the reeds. At that time, the situation was very dangerous. There were two Kuomintang army bunkers on one side of Denggenggou. Perhaps the most dangerous place was the safest. Zhao Panggen chose to cross the river to send intelligence under the eyes of the enemy.

At about nine or ten o'clock in the evening, Zhao Panggen was pushing a small wooden basin toward the Yangtze River in Lantern Ditch. Unexpectedly, he was discovered by a wolf dog in the enemy's bunker. As the wolf dog barked, the bunker was closed. The searchlights and machine gunfire from inside followed closely, which really made Zhao Panggen very anxious. But soon, the enemy's searchlight and machine gunfire turned to another direction. It turned out that it was Xu Wanrong and Ruan Deming who were attacking from the east to the west to attract the enemy. Focus on protecting Zhao Panggen while swimming across the river. Zhao Panggen took the opportunity to paddle toward the north of the Yangtze River with his superb basin-drawing skills. When we paddled to the middle of the river, the water was deep and fast, and the small basin was spinning in the whirlpool. In order to buy time, Zhao Panggen took off his coat decisively and went for a swim in the water. The river water in April was quite cold, especially at night. After four or five hours of struggling with the river water, he huddled up in a ball due to the cold. The exhausted Zhao Panggen finally climbed up to the tidal flat in the north of the river. The first three people to spot him were When Zhao Panggen confirmed that this was the People's Liberation Army and the relative he had longed for day and night, he took off the small bottle sealed with wax that was tightly tied to his waist with a hemp rope and reported that I was from the Tongling underground party. The traffic officer who came to deliver important information collapsed from exhaustion after finishing speaking.

On the morning of April 18, Tan Zhenlin, a member of the General Front Committee of the Crossing River Campaign and commanding the 300,000-strong People's Liberation Army of China Group, met with cadres and officers of the Dujiang Branch Front Headquarters in Wunan County at Baiheguan, Wuwei Xiang'an. The masses, when Tan Zhenlin opened the bottle of the enemy's Tongling River defense map, he could not restrain his inner joy. He slapped the case and said repeatedly, "Great! Great!"

It was precisely with that precious Jiang defense map. Figure, 3 days later, on the night of April 20, our People's Liberation Army first broke through the natural moat of the Yangtze River in the Tongfan section and successfully completed the assault mission across the river.

Today’s Yangshanji

(Yangshanji, Hubei Chenglingji, Ma’anshan Caishiji, and Nanjing Yanziji are also known as the four famous rocks in the Yangtze River. They are located about 100 meters southwest of the main urban area of ??our city. The 15-kilometer river bank of Datong Town. Because Yangshanji is close to the Yangtze River, it forms a relatively steep river bank, protruding into the middle of the river, forming the momentum of "the river turns and the sea turns around". Yangshan has been a strategic military location for thousands of years. Ji has experienced the baptism of war and witnessed Tongling becoming the first city in the liberation of Jiangnan)