Wake up（207）

 

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When Zhou Jianguo, Pan Guangfu, and Chai Jianmin continued to chat about what happened in Anqing during the Cultural Revolution, Zhou Jianguo said that "Memories of Stopping Fighting in Anhui" written by Liu Jiaju was the most complete and reliable data on Anhui's handling of fighting.

"Memories of Stopping Fighting in Anhui" written by Liu Jiaju talked about those events in Anqing. The P faction in Taihu County, a subsidiary of Anqing, has been weak since the beginning of the rebellion. They wanted to get an equal seat in the big coalition. They used night raids to enter the city, surrounded the people and armed forces who supported the G faction, and took away all their guns. The People's Armed Forces Department was in a hurry, and Director Xu, the military representative of the G faction, immediately drew a company from the 103rd Regiment and took him to Taihu Lake. Seeing the army pressing down on the border, the P faction fled in a hurry. Director Xu led the company to chase to Susong near Hubei, killing and injuring more than 20 people.

When Director Xu returned to Anqing, he reported to Song Peizhang. Liu Jiaju also went to the meeting. Assistant Li, who accompanied Director Xu on the expedition, burst into tears. Our Director Han also accused Director Xu in front of Song Peizhang, saying that he shouldn't have used military power to intervene by force, so many people were killed and injured, which ruined the good situation. Director Xu said that the two factions had a verbal agreement, and they must be strictly prohibited, and I will suppress whoever messes up.

Liu Jiaju recalled: We argued in the middle of the night and sent a report to Li Desheng in the name of Director Xu, saying that the crackdown was justified.

Liu Jiaju and Director Han returned to their place of residence, and Director Han said that it seemed that there was going to be a big fight again, we couldn't control it anymore, and let Lao Xu wipe his ass by himself.

One morning, a burst of intense gunshots rang out, and Liu Jiaju rushed to the scene. This is outside the city, and there is a high dirt ridge between the two sides in the fierce battle, and they both use the windows of the buildings outside the ridge to shoot at each other.

At this time, Liu Jiaju saw a man in military uniform standing on the ridge and shouting: "You guys fight, shoot me!"

His uniform had been lifted, exposing his chest. Liu Jiaju heard from the voice that he was Assistant Li, Liu Jiaju called out to him: "Old Li, you don't want to die, come down!"

He ignored liu jiaju and continued to shout loudly: "whoever of you has the guts, hit me!"

The shooters on both sides seemed to be stunned by his actions, the gunshots fell silent, Liu Jiaju desperately climbed up the ridge, dragged him down, he didn't do anything, I pushed and shoved him Get it down. He sat down on the ground and burst into tears: "How can it go on like this! Who knows if so many people have been killed?..."

Liu Jiaju tried to persuade him for a while, but he didn't listen, and cursed that there were bad people in the central government. Liu Jiaju was afraid that the rebels would hear his scolding words, so he summoned two soldiers and sent him to the residence of the leading group of the administrative office, so that he could tell Song Peizhang what was in his heart.

Liu Jiaju went to the frontline commanders of the two factions to conduct investigations. Both sides refused to admit the first shot he fired. Liu Jiaju issued a warning: "I still need to investigate. Whoever is found out will be held accountable."

In the evening, Liu Jiaju went to visit Assistant Li at the residence of the leading group. He lay on the bed of Deputy Political Commissar Song. Liu Jiaju didn't even respond to calling him a few times, his eyeballs were motionless, and his body was stiff.

Liu Jiaju came outside, and Song Peizhang was on the phone with Hefei. He was reporting today's fighting situation to the military control committee. After he put down the phone, Liu Jiaju asked, "What's wrong with Assistant Li?"

Song Peizhang was silent for a long time before saying: "He can't stay in Anqing, he will go to the hospital in Hefei immediately."

Staff Officer Yu whispered next to Liu Jiaju, "He's out of his mind. He won't eat or drink, and he's still peeing in his crotch."

Liu Jiaju's heart sank, and he said, "He has experienced the Korean War, so he can't bear the death of a few people in front of him?"

Staff Officer Yu said: "He never kills, he can't see blood, and he can't feel peaceful for days and nights when he sees dead people."

Ten minutes later, an ambulance arrived, and the medical staff who got out of the car rushed Assistant Li into the car. He was lying on a stretcher in the car, and Liu Jiaju held his hand as a farewell.

Later, Liu Jiaju went back to Hefei to visit him. He lost a lot of weight and his speech became normal again. He told Liu Jiaju: The organization has decided to let him change jobs. He chose to go to the mountainous area of Guizhou, where his brother-in-law grows medicinal materials, and he can use them to help the world in the rest of his life.

Song Peizhang was very patient and shuttled around to talk to the leaders of the two factions, but the military friction between the two factions still did not stop. On a whim, Liu Jiaju organized a third force.

Liu Jiaju called for a meeting with the heads of 13 rebel organizations headed by the Five Spinning Corps and the G and P factions with different views. They have 70,000 to 80,000 people and many intellectuals. This is of course unrealistic. Liu Jiaju’s speech condemning the two factions at the meeting was quickly passed on to the leaders of the G and P factions. They all came to Song Peizhang, accusing Liu Jiaju of drawing salary from the bottom of the pot and sabotaging the Cultural Revolution, and asked Liu Jiaju to publicly criticize the two factions Otherwise, they jointly declare Liu Jiaju as "persona non grata".

Song Peizhang criticized Liu Jiaju for not asking for instructions in advance, leaving the leading group in a passive position. Liu Jiaju said, I got into trouble and did something wrong, so I evacuated immediately. Song Peizhang agreed immediately.

The next day, Liu Jiaju left Anqing and returned to Hefei.

In late October, Li Desheng deployed an operation to hand over his guns. The two militant organizations handed over all their weapons to the local garrison at a unified time and at a prescribed location. In 21 cities and 57 counties in the province, more than 400,000 guns, dozens of cannons, and hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition were confiscated. The fighting of hot weapons finally subsided. Subsequently, under strong political pressure, the two factions that were once at odds were forced to realize a "grand alliance".

On April 18, 1968, the celebration meeting for the establishment of the Anhui Provincial Revolutionary Committee was held in Hefei, and Li Desheng served as the director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee.

On April 20, "People's Daily" and "Liberation Army Daily" jointly published an editorial titled "Victory of the Proletarian Revolutionary Party—Warm Congratulations on the Establishment of the Anhui Revolutionary Committee". The result of the victorious struggle between the class, the socialist road and the capitalist road, Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line and the bourgeois reactionary line was achieved after repeated contests between the proletarian revolutionary faction and a handful of capitalist roaders in the party. Great victory."

In this editorial, Mao Zedong announced another "latest instruction": "Chairman Mao pointed out: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is essentially a great political revolution in which the proletariat opposes the bourgeoisie and all exploiting classes under conditions of socialism. The continuation of the long-term struggle between the Chinese Communist Party and the broad masses of the revolutionary people under its leadership and the Kuomintang reactionaries is the continuation of the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie."

Under the guidance of these two ideas of "continuing", with the establishment of revolutionary committees at all levels, another bloody storm of "cleaning up the ranks of the class" blew up on the land of Jianghuai...

When Zhou Jianguo finished talking about what happened in Anhui during the Cultural Revolution, both Pan Guangfu and Chai Jianmin stopped speaking. Now there was only the heavy rumble of the train wheels on the tracks.