The light of Xu Haishan will shine forever.

Selected Stories of Revolutionary Martyrs in Shandong (4)

1984.9 first edition

Shandong civil affairs department

The name of the city is always there.

-Xu Haishan's career as a martyr.

Ji' nan Hero Mountain martyr cemetery

1on the afternoon of September 24th, 948, when the battle of Jinan was about to win the final victory, the political commissar of the 37th Division of the 13th Column of the East China Field Army, comrade Gao Rui and * * * were attacking the provincial government of Wang, commander of the Second Suiqing District of the Kuomintang and chairman of the Shandong provincial government. Unfortunately, the command post of the division was bombed by enemy planes, and Comrade Xu Haishan died heroically at the age of 38.

1965 Mid-Autumn Festival, Comrade Gao Shui revisited Baotu Spring in Jinan, and the scene of fierce fighting in the past emerged in his memory. He remembered the heroic sacrifice of his comrades-in-arms, and was filled with emotion, so he wrote a poem "Man Jiang Hong" in memory of Comrade Xu Haishan.

Baotu Spring, Mid-Autumn Festival, remember the heroes and heroes. On the banks of the Qingxi River, in those days, the mountains shook and the ground cracked. Thunder broke the wall, and the ladder stood upright, passing through the city. Ancient city head, murderous red, heroic blood. The isolated city is broken, Tang Chi is exhausted, and the turtle is in the middle. What can we do? Look at the torrent pouring down, the earth will collapse. Huaihai spring tide swallowed the western Chu state, and the Yangtze River swept away Jinling Que. Comfort the loyal soul, shine through the ages, and the mountains and rivers are bright.

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Comrade Xu Haishan, from Xuwuzha Village, Huahui Association, Second District, Huang An County, Hubei Province (now Xuwuzha Brigade, Zhaohe Public Society, Hong 'an County). Born on July 28th of 19 10. My parents died when I was young, and I lived with my uncle, brother and sister-in-law. From the age of nine, I studied in a private school in the village for three years, that is, I dropped out of school to farm at home.

1925 and 1926 suffered successive famines, with little harvest. Under the favorable situation that the Northern Expeditionary Army captured Wuhan, the poor farmers in Huang An and Macheng areas raised the climax of resisting rent, grain, debt, donation and tax. Sixteen-year-old Xu Haishan blocked this vigorous peasant war with her own eyes and sowed the revolutionary fire in her heart.

1927 In late February, Huang An Farmers Association was formally established. Saddam Hussein's brother Shoushan joined the Producers' Party of China and founded a farmers' association in his hometown. Saddam often saw the party's leaflets, pictorial, books and periodicals from his brother and was influenced by the revolution. "April 12th" and "July 15th", Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Ching-wei successively condemned the revolution and slaughtered the * * * production party and the revolutionary masses. Countless people in jute area died by the enemy's butcher's knife. Three rooms in Saddam's house were burned down and his uncle was burned to death.

1927 1 1 month, the people in jute area held an armed uprising under the leadership of the * * * production party in China, and established a democratic regime of workers and peasants in Huang An county. Saddam was a youth captain in the village at that time. He led everyone to put up posters, distribute leaflets, mobilize the masses, and open warehouses to distribute food.

1928 In May, Comrade Saddam was introduced by Comrade Dong Zhilin and Comrade Dong Zhixing and gloriously joined the China Yiyi Youth League. At this time, he served as chairman of the village Soviet and captain of the Red Guards. I worked as a branch member in the regiment and later as a branch secretary.

1929 In February, Saddam was transferred to the Red Guards as a political instructor. In September, he was transferred to Taohua District as the organization minister of * * * District Committee. 1930 In March, the special committee of the Central Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Region was established, and the Soviet government and the Red Army of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Special Zone were established. Saddam Hussein's Red Army Political Department was appointed as a member of the Youth League Committee to do youth work. 193 1 February, he was transferred to Hekou county in central China as a publicity officer. At this time, the first large-scale struggle against "encirclement and suppression" in the revolutionary base areas of Hubei, Henan and Anhui was close to victory, and the main force of the Red Army won everywhere. Comrade Saddam led the local armed forces, touched the whistle, cut off power lines, eliminated spies, intercepted scattered enemy personnel and seized the horse trench. In May, Comrade Saddam Hussein was transformed into party member, the Chinese production party, at Hekou County Committee, and became a vanguard soldier on the proletarian stage.

When the Kuomintang reactionaries carried out the third "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the revolutionary base areas in Hubei, Henan and Anhui, the enemy occupied the estuary. The organs of Hekou County Party Committee led local armed forces to fight in Xiaogan area, and immediately organized a pistol team of more than 20 people to return to Hekou to fight guerrilla warfare, with Comrade Saddam as secretary of the Party branch. After returning to Hekou, the pistol team collected more than 1000 guns saved during the transfer of troops, and mobilized the masses to suppress the heinous reactionaries.

1June, 932, Chiang Kai-shek assembled 630,000 military forces and carried out the fourth military "encirclement and suppression" in the revolutionary base area, first pouncing on the revolutionary base area of Hubei, Henan and Anhui. At that time, Zhang He, then secretary of the Central Branch of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, panicked in the face of the enemy's new attack and decided to abandon the base area of Hubei, Henan and Anhui without authorization. 10, the main force of the Red Fourth Front 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 "Stop at the top of the mountain, kill all the pigs and sheep, kill all the chickens and dogs immediately", the bandit troops of the Kuomintang brutally burned and killed the base areas in Hubei, Henan and Anhui. Smoke billowed everywhere, houses were destroyed, bodies were everywhere, women and children howled, and even some places became no man's land. Comrade Saddam Hussein's pistol team couldn't hold on in the estuary. At the end of the year, it retreated to Laojun Mountain, Tiantai Mountain and Lingyun Temple to fight guerrillas in narrow mountainous areas.

1March, 933, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Special Committee instructed to persist in the struggle in situ and restore the Soviet area. Therefore, Hekou County Committee was changed to Hekou Special Committee, with Dong Zhixing as secretary and Comrade Saddam as organization minister and political instructor of plainclothes team. Under the leadership of the Special Committee, Comrade Saddam Hussein and plainclothes members kept close contact with the masses in Hekou County and actively organized the suppression of 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 the guerrilla mode of coming and going. The Committee decided that Xu Haishan, Li Shiyan and Qian Yunhua would form a plainclothes team, with Comrade Haishan in charge, and work based on Longwang Mountain and Fota Mountain near the estuary. Their tasks are: to do mass work, make the Red Army keep in touch with the masses, collect information, grasp the situation of reactionaries such as landlords, local tyrants and evil gentry, kill counter-revolutionary leaders, deter the enemy, distribute propaganda materials, educate the masses with the Party's policies and disintegrate the enemy.

The white terror in Longwang Mountain and stupa Mountain is particularly serious. Local tyrants and evil gentry and landlords and bullies counterattacked and set up reactionary vigilante groups to cooperate with the white bandits to suppress the revolution by cruel means such as caesarean section and buried alive. Many relatives and activists of party member and the Red Army were killed. The enemy also forcibly organized the Lian Zhuang Association, implemented the Jiabao system, and implemented five consecutive seats. One of them was involved in * * *, and all five people were killed. The masses were forced to search the mountains during the day and keep watch at night. The vigilante groups have ambushes at the main intersections, and as soon as they find the situation, they knock gongs and cannons. One night, three people, including Saddam Hussein, went to a village. As soon as they touched the village, suddenly a man came out of the grass and shouted the password. Before Saddam could answer, the guy knocked on the gong and shouted to arrest people. Then, vigilantes rushed at them with guns. When Saddam Hussein saw this, he used his quick wits. He shot and killed the militia group leader Ding, grabbed the gong and shouted, "The * * * army has escaped!" When the enemy went away, he threw the gong and the three men flew into the forest, but the enemy didn't find them. They hide in the mountains or gullies during the day and come out at night, regardless of mosquito bites and leeches. When it rains, they have to get wet. Sometimes they can't eat any food for days, so they have to pick wild fruits to satisfy their hunger. One night, the three of them touched a small village and finally opened a door. At first, the landlord didn't know who they were and acted very coldly. When they learned that they were plainclothes of the Red Army, they became enthusiastic, immediately told them about the killing of the family members of the Red Army and the suppression of the masses by the militia, and quietly entertained them for dinner.

These three men decided to work in this area and mobilize the masses, but because of the cruel slaughter and reactionary propaganda of the Kuomintang reactionaries, the masses dared not approach them and the work could not be carried out. Comrade Saddam Hussein was very anxious, so he analyzed the local situation with Li Shiyan and Qian Yunhua, and decided to take a foothold first, and then suppress a group of reactionaries to open up the situation.

One night, Saddam touched the Dragon King Temple. Longwang Temple is halfway up the mountain of Wang Long, far away from the stronghold of the white bandits. The monks in the temple are big landlords. The Soviet regime once confiscated his family's property, and his son was a militia. When the monk saw that it was Saddam Hussein, he was shocked, but then he forced a smile to say hello. Hai told the monk about the party's policy, warned him not to be an enemy of the * * * production party, and educated him to work for the Red Army and strive for meritorious service. The monk nodded repeatedly. From then on, the three of them ate and lived with the monks and carried out activities in secret. A few days later, the monk's son came back from the militia and provided Haishan with the number and activities of the militia in the nearby stronghold. Comrade Saddam immediately reported to the Special Committee that the Special Committee had assembled more than 50 plainclothes members, disguised as vigilantes, led by Saddam, Li Shiyan and Qian Yunhua, and broke into the enemy's lair, wiped out the enemy in that stronghold and killed several ringleaders.

Cunning vigilantes heard that Saddam was in the plainclothes team, so they took Saddam's brother, wife and four-year-old boy to the stronghold of Zhan Jia Temple, claiming to exterminate weeds and threatening Saddam to turn himself in. Comrade Saddam Hussein was indomitable, and the enemy soon killed his four-year-old boy. Comrade Saddam Hussein was very angry. He told the special Committee: resolutely revolution and never surrender.

In order to persist in the struggle and deal with the enemy, our Hekou plainclothes team is more active, often drilling under the enemy's "nose", and sometimes reporting the observed enemy situation to the superior in time on the small bamboo building of a hotel next to the road leading to Hekou Town, thus taking the initiative in the struggle against the enemy.

Later, Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army was stationed at the estuary. In order to disintegrate the enemy, the Hekou Special Committee printed the Report on the Army, leaflets and slogans. Saddam Hussein and others often distribute them to enemy strongholds along the road leading to the sea, disintegrating the enemy and deterring the enemy.

After a hard struggle, the plainclothes team in Hekou finally opened up the situation. Many people risked their lives to send messages to the Red Army and cover the wounded and sick. The plainclothes team was also expanded and reorganized into the Hekou spy camp. 1934 In February, Comrade Saddam was transferred to the post of secretary of the Party branch of the spy camp and became an administrative clerk.

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19341February, the main force of the 15th Red Army, which persisted in the struggle between Hubei, Henan and Anhui, held high the banner of "The Second Advance Team of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army went northward to resist Japan" and started the Long March from eastern Hubei under the command of the CPC Central Committee and the leadership of Cheng (later Xu Haidong) political commissar. At the same time, some troops and local armed forces were left to fight guerrilla warfare and persist in the struggle. The special agent battalion of Hekou County and the 5th plainclothes team of Huang An District were incorporated into the Independent Regiment of Northeast Hubei. 1935 In May, the Independent Regiment of Northeast Hubei was incorporated into the 28th Red Army in Xiaogan, and Comrade Saddam was assigned to the pistol regiment as a clerk. After the troops marched to southern Shaanxi, they planned to find the Red Fifteen Army. Unexpectedly, when I joined forces with the Kuomintang bandit troops in Tongbaishan area of Henan Province, Comrade Saddam was injured in the arm. Therefore, Gao Jingting, political commissar of the 28th Red Army, decided to organize a plainclothes team of more than a dozen people, with Comrade Saddam as the captain, responsible for covering and resettling the wounded. Comrade Saddam Hussein quickly completed his task and returned to the original troops in eastern Hubei.

1In March, 936, Comrade Saddam was transferred to Shucheng, West Anhui, as the captain of the plainclothes team. In April, the troops arrived at the buried hill and were surrounded by the enemy. Comrade Saddam Hussein was seriously injured in the battle. The bullet went through his chin and knocked out half his teeth. He hid in the cave for illness under the cover of the buried hill plainclothes team. After being injured in September, he was transferred to the second detachment of Yaoluoping plainclothes team as the vice captain. Relying on the local people, he suppressed the reactionary leader, divided and disintegrated the local reactionary forces, won some enemy personnel to work in our plainclothes team, obtained a lot of information, medicines and medical equipment, and solved the medical difficulties of the Red Army guerrillas.

1in the spring of 937, the Kuomintang white bandit troops carried out a three-month cruel "big cleaning" on the Red Army guerrillas I insisted on in Dabie Mountain. The enemy set fire to the small village and drove everyone into the big village, and many bunkers were built around it, so people should be searched when they enter the mountain. And constantly released Yamakaji, trying to trap, starve and burn the Red Army guerrillas. When they arrested the plainclothes members of the Red Army, they actually skinned and dug their hearts in an inhuman way and killed our soldiers. What is more serious is that my plainclothes players have no food and often eat wild vegetables and mangoes. Saddam Hussein and his comrades-in-arms overcame all kinds of difficulties, persisted in the struggle behind enemy lines, defeated the enemy in the three-month struggle against "encirclement and suppression" and saved the strength for the party.

In July, Comrade Saddam received two documents leading the Xi office of the Lu Army, namely "the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's Letter to All Party Comrades on the Anti-Japanese National Movement" and "Resolution on the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement and the New Situation of National Unity". He immediately reported to the special Committee. Soon, Comrade Gao Jingting, political commissar of the 28th Red Army, went to Yaoluoping plainclothes team to inspect the work, and Comrade Xu Haishan handed him the documents. At this point, Comrade Gao Jingting held talks with the Kuomintang in Yuexi, Anhui Province, on behalf of the Red 28th Army and the local guerrillas who insisted on guerrilla warfare for three years in Dabie Mountain.

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1in August, 937, under the situation that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party negotiated and cooperated and agreed to resist Japan, the Special Committee decided that Comrade Xu Haishan should take the lead, and the winter plainclothes team, which was active in western Anhui, assembled in Yaoluoping, and then drove to Qiliping, Huang An County for training and consolidation. Comrade Saddam Hussein was transferred to the party's training class to study. At that time, some comrades did not understand the anti-Japanese national United front and could not figure out how to turn the Red Army into the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. Especially when they took off the red five-star and put on the hat badge of the Kuomintang, many comrades cried. Comrade Saddam's patience in their ideological work shows that War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is a turning point in China's revolution, and the anti-Japanese national United front policy formulated by the CPC Central Committee is absolutely correct. Listen to the words of the CPC Central Committee and unite all patriots to resist Japan, which will surely win.

1938 1 month, the Red 28th Army, which was concentrated in Qiliping and Xuanhua areas of Huang An County, was reorganized into the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army by order of the Central Military Commission. Comrade Saddam Hussein served as the secretary of the ninth regiment of the fourth detachment, transferred to the deputy battalion commander of the second battalion of the seventh regiment of the fourth detachment in July, and served as the propaganda section chief of the regiment political department in 10.

1939 1 month, comrade Saddam Hussein was appointed as the director of the political department of the seventh regiment and a member of the party Committee of the regiment. In March, the Seventh Regiment moved eastward to Fengyang, An Wei. At that time, due to the continuous attack of the Japanese invaders on the anti-Japanese base areas, our army was short of materials and fought for days, and the situation was very difficult. At that time, Comrade Saddam was leading a battalion in Wujiaweizi, not far from Fengyang. After learning this situation, he immediately led the troops back to the regimental headquarters. He did not hesitate to take decisive measures to stabilize the troops with Comrade Qin Xian 'an, the chief of staff of the regiment (1947, who died gloriously in the battles of Lunan and Manan, and was then the political commissar of the Second Vertical and Fifth Division). Saddam Hussein and other comrades left the company separately to strengthen the ideological work and management education of the troops. And find a way to solve the supply of troops. In order to boost morale, Saddam and his comrades decided to win a battle. After reconnaissance, he personally led a battalion of troops, sank a Japanese motorboat near the Huaihe River, annihilated dozens of Japanese troops, and seized a large number of guns, ammunition and supplies. The mood of cadres and soldiers was unprecedented. In May, the superior Ren Haishan served as the political commissar of the seventh regiment and served as the party secretary of the regiment. Soon, Comrade Saddam was transferred to the Jiangbei Cadre School of the New Fourth Army to study. After graduation, he participated in the first anti-"mopping-up" of the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army in Dingyuan, Anhui Province.

194 1 year 1 at the beginning of the month, the Kuomintang die-hards created the "Southern Anhui Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries. On the 20th, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission issued an order to establish the headquarters of the New Fourth Army. On the 28th, the new headquarters of the New Fourth Army was established in Yancheng, northern Jiangsu, and the troops were immediately reorganized 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, with Comrade Saddam as the political commissar of the Twelfth Regiment of the Fourth Brigade. In order to meet some scattered troops when the Southern Anhui Incident broke out, the division ordered the 12th regiment to occupy Baliqiao and Shilicha ferries. Comrade Saddam analyzed the enemy's situation at two ferries and decided to deal with the enemy by means of education and military strike. We 12 immediately wiped out a stubborn resistance at Shilicha Ferry and occupied the ferry. The stubborn army of Baliqiao Ferry, after education, gave us the ferry. In this way, more than 500 soldiers of the New Fourth Army crossed the river in Taipei, and the 12 regiment was praised by the Jiangbei headquarters of the New Fourth Army.

194 1 In March, the Japanese invaders invaded our Huainan base area from Gaoyou, Tianchang, Yangzhou and Yizheng. Under the leadership of General Luo Binghui, some troops of the New Fourth Army fought the famous Yizheng Campaign (Jinniushan Campaign), in which Comrade Saddam Hussein led the 1st12nd regiment.

In the struggle to open up Yiyang (state) new district, the troops are in urgent need of supplies and eat boiled soybeans every day. Southern soldiers are used to eating rice, but they don't agree with cooking soybeans. Many people have abdominal distension, which seriously affects the combat effectiveness of the troops. It is suggested that soybeans and businessmen be exchanged for rice through enemy-occupied areas. Comrade Saddam Hussein agrees and supports this, but some people think it is to help the enemy. This incident was reflected in the Jiangbei headquarters of the New Fourth Army. Comrade Deng Zihui, director of the Political Department, sent a telegram to the 12 regiment, ordering Saddam Hussein and Comrade Pei Xianbai to report the situation overnight. Saddam Hussein and Comrade Pei Xianbai went to the headquarters to report in detail the reasons for the decline in combat effectiveness, the mood of the troops and the measures to stabilize and consolidate the troops. Comrade Deng Zihui affirmed their practice.

194 1 In May, Comrade Saddam Hussein was transferred from the 12 regiment to the 2nd Division, where he served as deputy director of the organization department and member of the Party Committee of the Division. I have worked in the Second Division for more than three years, loyal to the revolutionary cause, never forgetting the Party's principles, earnestly grasping the principles and policies, and setting an example everywhere. He has always been hard and plain in his life. A bed of blue cloth has been covered for many years, and his clothes are worn out. He mended it again after all. Comrades brought him new ones, and he sent them back. He gave them to others to wear, and asked his lover, Comrade Jason, to make him a pair with thick needle and thread, saying it was much better than wearing sandals in Dabie Mountain. He has a passionate heart for comrades, cares for cadres, and boldly lets them go to work and exercise. He is usually good at being close to the masses, treating others as equals, has no airs, and can help others enthusiastically. Therefore, everyone is willing to approach him and tell him the truth.

1On August 25th, 944, Comrade Saddam Hussein was transferred to Huazhong Party School organized by East China Bureau as a member of the Party Committee and secretary of the Party branch. After a period of study, his ideological consciousness and cultural theory level have been further improved. With a serious attitude and an open mind, he wrote a "self-reflection autobiography" of more than 16 thousand words. Between the lines, full of love for the party and confidence in the victory of the China revolution. He realistically analyzed the progress he had made since he joined the revolution and reviewed his thoughts.

1In March, 945, Comrade Saddam graduated from the Central Party School and was transferred to the Political Department of the New Fourth Army as the head of the cadre. On August 9th, Chairman Mao issued a statement entitled "The Last Battle of the Japanese aggressors". 10, 1 1 0, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De issued seven orders, such as surrender and cooperation with the Soviet Union, and ordered the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and other troops to launch an all-out attack on the enemy, and issued a general order to the Japanese army to surrender within a time limit. If they resist, they will be resolutely eliminated. Under the call of the CPC Central Committee, the Party, government, army and people in the liberated areas mobilized urgently to form a massive counterattack force. Our New Fourth Army troops advanced into the south section of Jinpu Road and the east section of Longhai Road of Shanghai-Nanjing, Luhang-Ningbo, Zhejiang-Jiangxi and Huainan railways. In this situation, Comrade Saddam Hussein was transferred to the post of Director of the Political Department of the Fourth Brigade of the Second Division of the New Fourth Army on August 12. 10, the second division of the new fourth army, led by general Luo Binghui, went north to southern Shandong, attacked enemy-occupied areas, and accepted the Japanese puppet surrender. Comrade Saddam Hussein's four brigades and brothers together annihilated the Japanese puppet troops in Han Zhuang (north of Xuzhou) and defended Lunan.

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After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, there was a short period of peace in the whole country. Some comrades developed the idea of peace paralysis, but Comrade Saddam maintained a high degree of political vigilance. He said to his comrades, "Kuomintang reactionaries don't want peace, so we should be vigilant." He led the comrades of the Political Department to go deep into the company, educating everyone to maintain high morale and be ready to fight at any time. Later facts proved that the whole party was preparing for the war of self-defense during this period.

19451February 3, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided that the military department of the new fourth army should concurrently serve as the leading organ 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. 19461February 8, Comrade Saddam Hussein was transferred from the fourth brigade to the second column as the deputy director of the political department.

1947 1 late last month, after the Lunan campaign, the East China Army was reorganized, the Shandong and Central China field armies were abolished, and the East China Military Region and the East China field army were formally established. At the beginning of February, the second-class team launched an attack on the rebellious Hao department in Baita Port of Longhai Road, killing two divisions in one fell swoop and capturing Hao alive. Then I took part in the battle of Laiwu. In May, I participated in the Battle of Menglianggu. In June, the 2nd, 7th, 9th and 13th verticals formed Shandong Corps, led by Tan Zhenlin and Xu, to carry out interior-line operations in Shandong. In August, the troops took a short break, reorganized their organizations and supplemented their troops. Comrade Saddam Hussein, together with his comrades, educated the troops on the revolutionary situation and combat tasks, which made the officers and men have a clear understanding of the situation of the national counter-offensive, established a sense of glory and responsibility in defending East China, and improved their confidence in winning the final victory. In September, under the command of Comrade Tan Zhenlin, the Second Longitudinal Army swept the Huaixian and Gaomi sections of the Ji Jiao Railway overnight, wiping out more than 500 people. 12, our army attacked Laiyang city, and the 2nd platoon was at the ditch head to stop the enemy's aid. The fighting was fierce, and the enemy threw tons of shells and bombs at our position. Most of the fortifications were destroyed by the enemy and the trenches were filled in. However, our officers and men were brave and tenacious, and fought bloody battles until they captured Laiyang City.

1948 Just after the Spring Festival in February, Comrade Saddam Hussein was transferred from the second column to the thirteenth column as political commissar. The troops rested in Laiyang area and launched a new-style army consolidation movement with the main contents of "complaining", "three investigations" and mass training activities, which greatly improved the political consciousness, organizational discipline and combat effectiveness of the troops.

In late May, Shandong Corps marched into Jinpu Road. During the hard fighting life, Comrade Saddam got lung disease and was very weak, but he often kept on working. In early July, the army attacked Yanzhou. At this time, Comrade Saddam was already very weak, but he still insisted on political athletes and organizational work before the war. When the battle started, he insisted on standing on the side of the division command post and the division commander to direct the battle until he won the final victory.

After the battle of Yanzhou, Comrade Saddam became seriously ill, and he could not even ride a horse when marching for dinner at night. The organization is going to let him rest for a while. He said: "Jinan has not been liberated, so I can't leave the army to rest." In mid-August, our East China Field Army began to prepare for the battle of Jinan. Comrade Saddam Hussein dragged his seriously ill body and led government officials to the company for pre-war mobilization education and organization. Together with the officers and men, he raised his hand and vowed to "open the Jin 'an mansion and capture the king alive" at the cost of his own life.

At 24: 00 on September 16, the battle of Jinan started. Comrade Saddam insisted on commanding the battle despite his illness. On the night of September 18, the troops were ordered to attack in the direction of baimashan and Dingjiashan. Comrade Saddam rode his horse from the division headquarters at a rapid speed, crossed the troops and went straight to the vanguard to join the command of the division's forward command post, regardless of the danger. From attacking Dingjiashan, breaking through the Kazimen in the southwest corner of the commercial port, to breaking through the Yongsui Gate in the outer city, he and his teacher, Comrade Gao Rui, stayed for six days and six nights without any rest. According to the development and changes of the fighting situation, he put forward political agitation slogans in time to boost morale and inspire troops to overcome difficulties. He paid great attention to the unity between troops and cooperation in combat, and paid great attention to wartime policy discipline. When problems are found, he helps to solve them. At this time, the troops quickly won the victory in the peripheral war and played an important role.

On September 23, the battle of Jinan entered the final stage. At noon 12, the Corps ordered the first 13 stage team to break through Kunshun Gate, and then assisted the Kuomintang provincial government, the command center of the three vertical and nine vertical kings, to attack. The head of the 13th column handed over the task of breaking through Kunshun Gate to the 37th Division where Comrade Xu Haishan was located.

Kunshunmen is a city gate in the southwest corner of Jinan inner city, near the northeast corner of Tuquan, with the west gate in the north and the south gate in the east. There are many bunkers under the city, and there are barriers such as moats and barbed wire outside the city walls. The enemy attaches great importance to the strength and firepower here in an attempt to stop our army from attacking.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, there was an earth-shattering gunshot and the siege war began. All kinds of artillery of our army fired at the enemy at the top and bottom of the city. The blasting heroes rushed to the blasting target with explosives in their hands and explosives in their arms, like arrows leaving the string. The enemy is like a mad dog being beaten, resisting desperately, and grenades are flying down the wall in batches ... Our soldiers are desperate and brave. Everyone has only one belief: to win the battle with blood and life.

After some fierce battles and repeated struggles, the breakthrough was finally opened by the 37 th Division of our army. On the afternoon of September 24th, the West Route Army besieging the inner city entered the inner city from the breakthrough point of Kunshunmen, and together with the East Route Army invading the inner city from the southeast corner (Jiefangge area), it quickly attacked the enemy provincial capital. The command post of the 37th Division of our army is located in the small building in the northwest corner of Zhangjia Mansion on the west side of Baotu Spring, and will soon move to the city. Suddenly, two "B-29" bombers flew in and bombed our position near Kunshunmen desperately. A bomb landed in the northwest corner of the small building of the command post of the 37th Division. The whole building was blown over and the command post was buried in the ruins. When the comrades rescued Mr. Gao Rui and several seriously injured comrades, the fighting in the inner city had basically ended, and Xu Haishan, the political commissar of our division, and several staff members died gloriously.

After the Battle of Jinan, the hero model who participated in the liberation of Jinan was commended by Chairman Mao and the CPC Central Committee, and the Central Military Commission awarded the honorary title of "Jinan 2nd Regiment" to the 37th Division 109 Infantry Regiment. At the burial meeting of Comrade Saddam Hussein, all the officers and men of the 37th Division raised their guns in tears and took an oath. 19481October 10, Comrade Zhou Zhijian, the former commander of the 13th column in Hua Ye, wrote an inscription in the column "March": "In memory of Comrade Xu Haishan and all the comrades who died. We must carry forward their spirit of resolutely executing orders, completing tasks, being brave and tenacious, and actively fighting, and strive to inherit their good style! "

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