Wake up（203）

 

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While the train was on its way to Hong Kong, Chai Jianmin continued to read "Memories of Stopping Fighting in Anhui" written by the author Liu Jiaju. At this time, Zhou Jianguo and Pan Guangfu chatted about what happened in Anqing during the Cultural Revolution.

In late August, the Anqing G faction assembled 100,000 militiamen from eight counties under the city, surrounded the city of Jiang, and threatened to destroy the city if it did not surrender. The P faction defended the city, and at the same time appealed to the provincial military control committee. Li Desheng immediately formed a working group to rescue the siege. The members included Song Peizhang, the deputy political commissar of the 12th Army, Li Changlin, the deputy commander of the army, and a division chief from the political department of the headquarters, as well as seven staff officers, officers, and assistants. The officer was Liu Jiaju.

Liu Jiaju recalled: Li Desheng called us to a meeting and told us that the fighting in Anqing was very lively. Behind the two factions were the army standing on the front line to organize and command. There were more than ten large factories in the suburbs of the city. They were military enterprises of the navy and air force, and the workers followed them. G faction, the weapons in their hands are all supplied by the army factory and the Ministry of Human Armed Forces. The biggest combat power of G faction is the militia. The backbone of the squad, platoon, company and battalion is almost all demobilized soldiers. Veterans baptized in the Anti-Japanese War.

The P faction is not weak either. Its core strength is composed of the Second Engineering Regiment of the Nanjing Military Region, the Independent Battalion of the Military Division, and 20 combat battalions mixed by citizens and students. They built barricades in Anqing City, and the high-rise walls are equipped with machine guns and artillery fortifications. If this offensive and defensive battle were to be fought in an open manner, Anqing would be destroyed.

Li Desheng saw the great harm it caused, so he went out in person, determined to put out the burning flames from the source.

Liu Jiaju said: Li Desheng led us to Anqing. He has deployed the 103rd Regiment of the 12th Army in Anqing. He knew that only relying on the force of 2,000 people would not be able to suppress the rebels, but would make things out of hand, so he sent a high-level working group with the intention of restraining the army with organization and administration. hands.

The working group entered Yueshan Mountain outside Anqing, and Liu Jiaju saw that the road was densely covered with guard posts, and there were trenches and ditches everywhere on the top of the mountain. At the foot of Anqing City, Liu Jiaju and others entered the defense area of the P faction. There were bright and dark bunkers everywhere, and personal bunkers were all built with sandbags. The faces of the fighters were covered with gunpowder smoke, squatting in the fortifications and turning their eyes them. More than a dozen houses were still smoldering, as if they had just fought. Several liaison officers from the P faction were waiting at the gate of the city. They came to check their vehicles, confirmed that it was the working group of the 12th Army, and then enthusiastically led them into the city. The streets were full of roadblocks and barricades. When cars passed in front of them, they all jumped out of the fortifications, raised their guns and shouted: "Learn from the 6408 troops! Salute to the 6408 troops!"

  Liu Jiaju said that the 103rd Regiment had arranged a place for us to live in, and the place was the administrative office of the vacant area. Before we unpacked our luggage, Li Desheng told the head of the 103rd Regiment that he was about to meet with the local garrison leader and the commander-in-chief of the two armed factions. The head of the regiment is familiar with the two factions and various garrisons, and the arrangements were made by phone within half an hour.

The meeting place was set on a building in Linjiang, which was the front line of the exchange of fire between the two factions. The head of the group had arranged a guard to ensure the safe entry and exit of the visitors. We followed Li Desheng to this four-story building. Standing on the roof, we had a panoramic view of the rolling Yangtze River. Downstairs was a long street along the river. Stretch out the dark muzzle.

Liu Jiaju suddenly thought that 60 years ago (1907), Xu Xilin held an anti-Qing uprising here and shot and killed the governor Enming. The battle scene was only a few hundred people, but now it is tens of thousands of armed confrontations. Liu Jiaju was a person who had experienced the war. He knew that a fierce war was about to ignite, and the quiet atmosphere before the war made people shudder.

  The leading figures summoned to talk are conducted alone, led by the head of the group. The first one to come up was Zong Shuge, deputy chief of staff of a certain army in the Nanjing Military Region. He is an old subordinate of Li Desheng. When he saw the old chief, he raised his hand and saluted. Li Desheng said straight to the point, "I want you to come, and I want you to restrain more than 30,000 workers in your factories in Anqing." , You must implement the unified order of the army, you must not mix with the local rebels, take back the weapons you issued immediately, and don’t support the local rebels with any supplies, this is an order I issued to you on behalf of the Military Commission!"

Deputy Chief of Staff Zong is short and round. While wiping the beads of sweat from his head, he promised in a low voice: "I will do my work, I will do my work, and I will resolutely implement the instructions of the Proletarian Headquarters."

Liu Jiaju later learned that during the fierce battle against Dayang Lake in the War of Liberation, his regiment was down to dozens of people and could not break through. Li Desheng ordered him to take the cooking squad and the wounded who could walk. To break in! In the words of Deputy Chief of Staff Zong, the war can only be won by fighting to the death.

Li Desheng told him again: "In Anqing I sent a leading group, you are familiar with them, and you led the 103rd regiment, if you have any difficulties that cannot be solved, you can ask them."

Deputy Chief of Staff Zong said: "Yes, yes, I will do my best."

Liu Jiaju said: Before leaving, Deputy Chief of Staff Zong shook hands with us one by one. He patted the head of the regiment on the shoulder and said, "It's all Qiu Ba. If we have something to say, we will talk behind closed doors."

The deputy chief of staff Zong was sent away, and the head of the regiment brought the deputy director of the logistics department of the East China Sea Fleet. Although the Nanjing Military Region can't control them, when they met, Li Desheng told him straightforwardly like the deputy chief of staff, "The leadership of the Nanjing Military Region has been paralyzed. Commander Xu was driven into the Dabie Mountains by the rebels. The Military Commission appointed me as the military commander He also took over the full power of the party, government and army in Anhui Province. Anqing cannot be chaotic. If the Yangtze River shipping is interrupted, the food and clothing of the people in East China will be seriously affected. The Military Commission wants me to make it clear to you that military enterprises must not participate in the activities of the local rebels. Combat, confiscating the weapons you issued, you can only start a revolution in your own courtyard. You must implement it!"

Listening to Li Desheng's words, the deputy minister's face became more and more sad. He is also a veteran of the Anti-Japanese War. Although he is not an old subordinate of Li Desheng, he knows that he has no value to talk to the military chief. In the end, he said that he would resolutely obey the decision of the Military Commission.

He was a grassroots inspector of the factory, and he didn't want to get involved in factionalism, so he slipped away at a glance. The team leader invited him here because he wanted to put a rope around his neck. He is the head of a department with an old background in logistics, and his political ability is far inferior to Zong's deputy chief of staff. Once the rebellious workers' faction broke out, even his parents would not buy it. The head of the regiment said that he had decades of experience in political struggles in the army, and he was under tremendous pressure from the Military Commission, and his sense of responsibility would force him to find ways to deal with various difficulties.

Then the commander-in-chief of the G faction came. He was a medium-sized man in his 40s, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a fierce look. He was originally the chief of staff of the 60th Division of our 20th Army. He moved to Anqing in the early 1960s. When the Food Commissioner. He was wearing a singlet, shorts, and a steel helmet. Behind him was a squad of bodyguards, all of whom were carrying long and short guys. When he saw Li Desheng, he raised his hands in a salute neither humble nor humble. Li Desheng nodded slightly, motioning for him to sit down.

The commander-in-chief was very talkative and told Li Desheng that he was a soldier who enlisted in northern Jiangsu in 1942 and participated in the Battle of Central Jiangsu and the Battle of Menglianggu. Right now, the G faction militias in Anqing City and its eight counties are all under his command, and the P faction in the eight counties are surrounded by the G faction armed forces under his command. As long as he gives an order, they can enter Anqing City in the near future.

Li Desheng asked calmly with his big words: "You have won Anqing, and there are millions of people from the P faction in other areas of Anhui, and the support of Hubei's "Sanxin" and "Sangang". How to deal with it?"

The commander-in-chief did not appreciate the flavor of Li Desheng's words, but still said loudly and grandly: "If you are great, you can divide the world. Chairman Mao is happy that the world is in chaos. His old man's philosophy of struggle is to use chaos to achieve great order. We firmly hold on Fight to the end with the Chairman's revolutionary line!"

Li Desheng said: "Some of you proposed to encircle the cities from the countryside. It is a clear regulation of the central government that peasant rebels are not allowed to enter the cities. If anyone refuses to implement it and insists on going his own way, we will resolutely stop it. I am here to ask you to hand over your weapons and join the P faction. To resolve your power grab, I hope to have your support."

"No problem!" The commander-in-chief stated simply, "Our weapons have been counted, and we will hand them over as soon as we say, and we will not leave a single bullet, and we will never disobey the orders of the central government." It can be seen that he is richer than ordinary people in society From experience, he knew that the faction war would not last long, and he still had a problem with his own future after taking away the guns. Li Desheng's private summoning to him may have given him hope in this regard.

The commander-in-chief finally said: "As long as Commander Li treats everyone equally and is impartial, I will firmly support the central government." The good faction with a large number of people in the Anqing area still has an absolute advantage even if they put down their weapons.

When he left, Liu Jiaju escorted him downstairs, and his guards were on both sides of the street downstairs, patrolling in groups of three and five, obviously worried that Li Desheng would arrange a "Hongmen Banquet". The commander-in-chief went downstairs safely and boarded the command vehicle, and more than a hundred guards safely climbed into four trucks and sped away to the eastern suburbs.

It was noon, and Section Chief Du from the Propaganda Section of the Anqing Army Division came. He was the commander-in-chief of the P faction, and he was lightly dressed and only brought a guard. As soon as he saw Li Desheng, he opened his clothes and lifted his trouser legs, revealing the scars all over his body. With tears in his eyes, he complained about the inhumane torture of the military division. Li Desheng reassured him for a while and said, if there is a blood debt, we will all settle the score. Li Desheng asked him the current situation of the P faction: "How much strength do you have in fighting?"

Du Kechang replied: "There are 20 combat organizations with more than 13,000 people. The 3,000 members of the Second Engineer Regiment of the Nanjing Military Region and the 500 members of the Independent Battalion of the Military Division are our strongest backing. Without the armed forces, the P faction has almost no combat effectiveness. Compared with faction G, the number of faction P is a hundred times smaller. For Chairman Mao's revolutionary line, we will not give up armed struggle easily."

Li Desheng asked again: "I heard that your weapons are still new. Who provided them to you?"

Chief Du Ke said bluntly: "Our weapons are really excellent. They were all supported by the rebels of Wuhan's "Steel Division" by vehicle and ship. They were all manufactured by the Hanyang Arsenal. Some of them have not been equipped with troops, such as Type 57 submachine guns. , the rocket launchers manufactured in 1962 are all the latest models."

Li Desheng said: "How much did they give you?"

"I didn't count them, they were distributed to individuals, and a batch was stored in the warehouse. As long as the P faction organizations in various counties ask for guns, we will support them." Du Kechang's statement is frank.

Li Desheng warned him: "It was wrong for the military division to arrest you. The central government has made organizational corrections for you. You are still a soldier and should obey the military commission. The great alliance is the general direction of the central government. You must let the P faction lay down their arms. If the fight continues, if you want to gain victory on the battlefield, the two factions will pay a heavier price, and you must first blame people in military uniforms like you, you have to think twice."

Section Chief Du seemed to have realized that Li Desheng's conversation was beneficial to him, and said: "Everyone sit down and negotiate on an equal footing. !"

The last one to come was the political commissar of the second regiment of the engineering corps of the military region. Li Desheng ordered him directly to withdraw the engineering regiment from the city of Anqing immediately, and the cadres of the left branch also evacuated. The political commissar's eyes were straightened, and he said after a while: "We have been fighting with the P faction, and we are already close. Besides, the G faction is attacking the city. Let us leave. The cadres and soldiers will not agree, and the rebels will not agree."

Li Desheng said: "I'm afraid you are reluctant. If you understand it, you must implement it, and if you don't understand it, you must implement it. You will be given 7 days. If you can't withdraw the troops, you will be removed as the political commissar of the head of the regiment!"

The political commissar said awkwardly: "I'll hold a meeting to deliver your instructions when I go back, and then..."

Li Desheng raised his voice involuntarily: "I am the deputy commander of the military region, and I am issuing orders to you on behalf of the military region." He calmed down his excitement and said: "Chairman Mao taught me when dealing with the Wuhu issue, and asked me to publicize the bad leaders. Crime, I don’t want to see bad people in the army, your factionalism is already deep, if you don’t pull it out, your political commissar will bear full responsibility for disobeying the central government’s instructions.”

Li Desheng also said: "Our 103rd Regiment is fully responsible for the safety of the P faction. The G faction has promised me that they will not attack the city again."

The political commissar had nothing to say, and he could not ignore his political life in front of his majestic immediate superior. He said to Li Desheng: "I will withdraw within three days, and there will be no soldiers left behind."

Li Desheng seemed to be a resolute commander on the battlefield. He grasped the main contradiction in Anqing and subdued the two factions who were strategizing and wearing military uniforms. That night, he returned to Hefei in a hurry, and the seven-member team stayed to clean up the mess.

Liu Jiaju said: That night, Song Peizhang made a division of labor for us. Director Xu of the Political Department brought Assistant Li to the G faction, and Director Han of the headquarters took me to the P faction. Prepare for public opinion.