Tongling First Company is a guerrilla team that is good at fighting and brave and tenacious under the leadership of the Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China. During the Tongling Liberation War, especially in supporting and supporting millions of troops across

4 Army 70th Division presented weapons to the first company of Tongling Tongling in Zhucun. It is a guerrilla team that is good at fighting and brave and tenacious under the leadership of the Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China. During the Tongling Liberation War, especially in supporting and supporting millions of troops across the river, they made indelible contributions.

tells a good red story, inherits the red genes, and continues the red bloodline.

There are many heroic stories in Tongling Company. Today, I will only tell readers and friends about the moving stories of Sun Yunsong, deputy instructor of Tongling Company 1, Wang Busheng, reconnaissance squad leader, Li Aitang, traffic officer, smart reconnaissance enemy defense, and guerrilla Zhao Banggen swam across the Yangtze River to send intelligence. Before the lecture on

, please allow me to briefly introduce the glorious history of Tongling Company.

According to the Party History of the Communist Party of China Tongling County, on October 10, 1945, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting in Xiao Village, the gatekeeper of Tongling County, and decided to establish the Tong (ling) Qing (yang) Nan (ling) County Committee of the Communist Party of China. At the same time, the Tongqingnan Guerrilla Brigade was established, and the Communist Party of China's Tongqingnan County Party Committee Secretary Zhu Nong also served as the political commissar, Zuo Xiudong was appointed as the deputy captain, and Wang Kexiang was appointed as the deputy instructor.

11946, the Central County Committee of the Communist Party of China, in accordance with the instructions of the Southern Anhui Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, abolished the Tongqingnan County Committee of the Communist Party of China and established the Tong (ling) Qing (yang) Nan (ling) Working Committee of the Communist Party of China. At the same time, the Bronze Qingnan Guerrillas were established, and the person in charge was Chen Shanghe, Secretary of the Bronze Qingnan Working Committee of the Communist Party of China.

In February 11948, the Bronze Qingnan Guerrillas were changed to the Bronze Qingnan Guerrilla Company. The person in charge was Yin Bin, Secretary of the Bronze Qingnan Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, Cha Bin served as the instructor, and Zhao Biao served as the deputy company commander.

1948, in order to strengthen the work of the southern Anhui Prefecture Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Southern Anhui Prefecture Committee of the Communist Party of China, decided to establish the Southern Anhui Riverside Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the Southern Qingnan Working Committee of the Communist Party of China was changed to the Fourth Working Committee of the Communist Party of China. The Tongqingnan Guerrilla Company was changed to the Tongling First Company of the Yangtze River Detachment, with Cha Bin as the instructor, Zhao Biao as the deputy company commander, and Sun Yunsong as the deputy instructor.

1949, the CPC Southern Anhui Riverside Working Committee, in accordance with the decision of the CPC Southern Anhui Prefectural Committee, abolished the Fourth Working Committee of the CPC Southern Anhui Riverside and established the CPC Tongling County Committee. Chen Aixi, the Organization Minister of the CPC Anhui Riverside Working Committee and the Deputy Political Commissar of the Yanjiang River Detachment, also serves as Secretary of the Tongling County Party Committee of the CPC. At the same time, Tongling First Company was established, with Cha Bin as the instructor, Zhao Biao as the company commander, and Sun Yunsong as the deputy instructor, with a total of about 60 people.

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When it comes to the movie " Crossing the River Reconnaissance ", many people know and many people have watched it. There is a scene in the

film: Xiao Ma, a scout of the People's Liberation Army, installed a map of enemy river defense facilities obtained by the Jiangnan guerrillas in a reed tube, risked his life, swam across the Yangtze River, and sent it to the Jiangbei PLA Crossing Front Command. This picture later played an important role in the People's Liberation Army's destruction of the enemy's river defense fortifications, especially artillery positions, breaking through the "natural chasm", and crossing the river successfully. This plot in

is basically in line with the reality of life, but the characters, environment and certain details are made necessary artistic processing. The content on the enemy's river defense facility map is the Jiang defense deployment of the enemy troops entrenched in the Tongling area. These important military information were obtained by the Tongling underground party and guerrillas using various reconnaissance methods.

I remember when I was a teenager, I don’t know how many times I have read "The Investigation of Crossing the River" and I never get tired of watching it. The ideal at that time was to become a People's Liberation Army when you grow up and defend your country.

Unexpectedly, in November 1994, I was transferred to the former Tongling County CPPCC Literature and History Materials Committee. On the day I registered for work, I saw a historical article titled "Armed Reconnaissance of the Enemy Jiang Fang". The author was Comrade Sun Yunsong, the deputy instructor of Tongling First Company at the time. sesame fell into the eye of the needle - a coincidence, Comrade Sun Yunsong is actually the old chairman of our CPPCC! From November 1980 to April 1984, Comrade Sun Yunsong served as the chairman of the Fourth Tongling County Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Later, I made a special visit to Chairman Sun. This old revolutionary, amiable and approachable, told me in detail the story of the Tongling underground party and guerrillas reconnaissance of the enemy Jiang Fang.

Decades later, I was transferred to the Party History and Local Chronicles Research Office of the Yi'an District Committee of the Communist Party of China to engage in party history research. I naturally learned a lot of precious historical materials such as the underground party and guerrillas in Tongling that year, using various means to reconnaise the enemy's river defense situation, as well as guerrilla Zhao Banggen swam across the Yangtze River to send intelligence.

below, I will tell you in several parts. In the spring of 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army reached the north bank of the Yangtze River with a force of "sweeping thousands of troops like sweeping over". Although the Kuomintang reactionaries guarding the south bank of the Yangtze River shouted on the surface to resist stubbornly by relying on the natural danger of the Yangtze River, they were actually already in late autumn, and were breathing weakly. The party organizations and guerrilla athletes in our Jiangnan region are confidently mobilizing the broad masses of people to reconnaise the enemy situation, divide and disintegrate the enemy camps, and welcome the army to cross the river. The heroic army crossed the south just around the corner, and the preparations for the Jiangnan to welcome the army to cross the river are being accelerated every minute.

1 On the morning of April 15, 1949, Chen Aixi, secretary of the Tongling County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and deputy political commissar of the Southern Anhui River Detachment, selected three people, including Sun Yunsong, who was then the deputy instructor of the Tongling First Company, and Wang Busheng, the reconnaissance squad leader, and Li Aitang, the traffic officer, to form an armed reconnaissance team and went deep into Tongling River to carry out reconnaissance missions.

The above three comrades are all from Tongling, especially Sun Yunsong, who are more familiar with the terrain along the river. Therefore, the Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China decided that Sun Yunsong would be responsible for leading the team. The specific tasks were: to find out the equipment status of the enemy artillery regiment and the enemy artillery (number of gates, models), the station of the enemy command organ, and the deployment of enemy troops along the river from Hugang to Tongling area.

The Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China requires the reconnaissance team to rely closely on the local people and underground workers to complete this glorious and arduous task on time.

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reconnaissance team immediately made a specific division of labor: Li Aitang dressed as a farmer, held a pass, without weapons, and explored the way forward. Wang Busheng and Sun Yunsong also set a distance and followed behind.

rushed from the Ganjia in Qingyang to the dam in Tongling County. The whole journey was about 45 kilometers. The enemy blockade along the way. The task was extremely arduous to reach the dam in one night. In order to avoid the enemy's eyes and ears, the reconnaissance team decided not to go along the river, but to go through the back mountain area, through Tongling and Fanchang and , and take a small path forward.

The weather in spring changes a lot, and it is still a sunny day during the day. When the reconnaissance team set off in the evening, the sky was covered with clouds and drizzling intermittently. However, this added a little joy to the scouts, because with the cover of this dark night, we can march faster.

Along the way, the reconnaissance team advanced in the dark. On the way, we crossed two rivers at the junction of Tongling and Fanchang. In order not to leave any trace, I crossed the water chestnut basin far away from the ferry. After that, immediately push the basin downstream and let it flow with the water. Near Xu Village, the second river mouth, the reconnaissance team discovered the enemy situation and decided to take a detour of more than 10 miles and walk through the wheat fields in the middle of the emerald.

When I was about to arrive in Ruan Village, the reconnaissance team discovered a new situation. Someone told them that Minhexiangxiang Office recently moved to the Chen Family Ancestral Hall next to Ruan Village, which is a must-pass way to Ruan Village. If the reconnaissance team still passes from here as planned, it will be prone to contact and conflict with the enemy. In order not to alert the enemy, which is conducive to the action, the reconnaissance team decided to take a detour and wade to the nearby Dunshangchen Village first. There, the reconnaissance team found Yao Xuesheng, a female underground party member. After listening to her report, the reconnaissance team first assigned her reconnaissance mission, then turned back and walked from another road to Ruan Village.

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Before dawn, after a night of climbing mountains and overcoming all kinds of difficulties, the reconnaissance team finally arrived in Ruan Village according to the scheduled plan directed by the Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China.

There are more than 80 families in Ruan Village, with the whole surname Ruan, and it is a large village in the Wu District. Ruan Zhiang, who works underground here, has already been waiting there.

Ruan Zhiang's home lives in the middle of Ruan Village, and there is a larger tiled house.

After observing the surrounding situation, and when Ruan Zhiang went to report the situation to the Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China the day before, the county committee had instructed him to rush back first and cooperate with the completion of the reconnaissance mission. Therefore, the reconnaissance team decided to settle in Ruan Zhiang's house and carry out work.

Ruan Zhiang introduced to the reconnaissance team in detail that most of the enemy's river defense forces on the border between Tongling and Fanchang were around Ruan Village. The command of the enemy artillery regiment was located at the dam ridge 2 miles away from Ruan Village. The enemy artillery position is just 1.5 miles away from the Cui family in the village. One enemy division was stationed in the Jiu County at Huogang, and one division was stationed in Tongling, and the division headquarters was located in the Cui Family Ancestral Hall. In addition to the above-mentioned key garrisons, the enemy also arranged some peripheral troops scatteredly. For example, two enemy infantry companies are stationed at 2 miles from Xinhekou and five miles from Sanjiangkou. In addition, the Chen Family Ancestral Hall near Ruan Village is the location of Minhexiang Township Office and is armed. The township chief Wang Zepu himself is a very reactionary guy. The leaders of the Kuomintang’s river defense forces often come and go to the Wang family.

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To obtain important enemy intelligence in a short day, it is indeed a task that cannot be completed by relying on three people in the reconnaissance team alone.

Therefore, the reconnaissance team relied closely on the general public and actively carried out the following work:

. Ruan Zhiang and Li Aitang were reconnaissance outside Ruan Village, setting secret wards to respond to the incident.

2. Arrange Ruan Zhi'ang's father and wife to see his brother receive the enemies who came to arrest Ruan Village and sent donations at home. If you encounter enemy artillery personnel, you will be more attentive to receive them and put pastries on the table as bait to attract them to talk about military affairs while eating and drinking. Because of some food, the enemy troops ran towards the Ruan family one after another. From early morning to sunset, they kept flowing, receiving more than 100 people, and gained a lot of information from it.

3. Send people to the enemy's positions to work. In order to strengthen the river defense fortifications, the enemy had to send lights to each village every day. Take advantage of this opportunity to send reconnaissance personnel in. At that time, Communist Party member Ruan Laoqi was sent to the periphery of the enemy's artillery position and the riverside position along the dam gangtou to inspect. Through the on-site inspections of these comrades, the accurate position, number of gates, model and force of the enemy artillery positions were finally clearly observed.

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. Sun Yunsong, Ruan Zhiang, Li Aitang and others went deep into the field to conduct reconnaissance near Cuicun.

. Find 3 types of people to talk to. First, the basic masses who worked on the enemy's frontier positions; second, the people who had surrendered themselves after joining our army, all of whom had contact with the enemy to varying degrees and had some understanding of the enemy's situation. Talk to them, you can get some information; the third is to find some local upper-level figures and launch a political offensive.

First find the great gentleman from Minhe Township Zhu Yongya . This person was the target of unity of our party during the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation. His home lives next door to the enemy's artillery regiment headquarters. He can learn about some situations and use his influence as cover to ensure the safety of the reconnaissance team. But it is Minhexiangxiangguan that poses a direct threat to the reconnaissance team.

So the reconnaissance team found the township representative chairman Chen Yongkang , frankly expressed his intentions to him, and taught him that at this critical moment, he should stand on the side of the people, make contributions and atone for his sins, and help carry out his work. Chen Yongkang was worried, drooped his head and nodded for a while. Unexpectedly, shortly after Chen Yongkang left, the township chief Wang Zepu brought more than 20 fully armed soldiers and rushed straight to Ruan Village. Suddenly, the reconnaissance personnel were in an extremely dangerous situation, worried that they would be betrayed by Chen Yongkang? Therefore, on the one hand, the reconnaissance personnel were ready for combat, and on the other hand, they held an emergency meeting to analyze the enemy's movements and arranged for the traffic officer to send the information out when an accident occurred. If the traffic officer is no longer able, it will be teleported by the underground party members of Ruan Zhiangpai. All kinds of preparations were made, but the enemy only passed by Ruan Village. After the enemy passed, Chen Yongkang sent someone to deliver a letter and said that the township chief Wang Zepu did not understand our actions and took people to other places to pay and send them lightly.

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After a whole day of multi-party reconnaissance and investigation, after gathering various situations, we basically figured out the enemy's river defense deployment: along the river, there are barbed wire mesh connected to form a barrier, open bunkers, trenches, and there are small mobile whistles for civilians. If there is any situation, the gong will be a sound. There are armed patrols at important transportation routes and ports. In the Yangtze River, enemy ships patrol back and forth on the river from time to time. There are planes in the air to reconnaise. The two main enemy divisions stationed along the rivers of Tongling and Fanchang are bounded by the "foreign lanterns" of Huanggong Temple in Tongling County. There are more than 50 mountain cannons hidden on the enemy artillery positions near Cuicun, and the black muzzles all face the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Around 19:00 on April 16, 1949, before leaving Ruan Village, the reconnaissance team summoned the security chief, Baoding and the deputy security team of the guarantor, and conducted a positive situation education for them, asking them to recognize the situation and ensure that there will be no problems in Ruan Village after the reconnaissance team leaves. At the same time, a basic mass symposium was held to tell them that the army was about to cross the river, and encourage them to organize anti-Central, anti-food, tax, support the front line, and welcome liberation. And arranged for Ruan Zhiang's family to try to hide just in case. Afterwards, something really happened. The next day, the township chief Wang Zepu heard the news and brought 30 spearmen and 1 machine gun , surrounding Ruan Village and was asked to capture the scouts of the New Fourth Army. In this incident, the educated security chief Ruan Lungang performed well. He patted his chest and insisted that he did not see the New Fourth Army. After his treatment and the cover of the general public, the matter was finally settled.

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1949 On the evening of April 16, 1949, the reconnaissance team left Ruan Village with the important enemy intelligence obtained, walked around the territory of Fanchang, and walked out of the enemy's layers of blockade lines. Finally, at around 9 a.m. on April 17, with the joy of victory, he returned to Ganjia Chong in Qingyang.

The three reconnaissance teams of Sun Yunsong, Wang Busheng and Li Aitang drew a sketch, and together with the enemy's troops, gave a detailed report to Chen Aixi.

The Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China attached great importance to the information obtained, quickly found someone to sort it out, and drew an accurate map. The rope head small calligraphy and various symbols on the picture indicate the troops numbers, command centers, and troop deployments, defensive fortifications, firepower, artillery type, artillery position of the Kuomintang’s troops guarding this section of the river defense force, as well as important signs such as transportation, communications, ferry depth, and flow rate.

Then, the Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China promptly selected Zhao Banggen, a guerrilla mate of excellent water, and sent the information across the river...

Speaking of this, let's go back to the movie "Crossing the River Reconnaissance". In the video of

, the People's Liberation Army scout Xiao Ma left a deep impression on the audience. Especially in the critical moment, he was not afraid of sacrifice. His feat of swimming across the Yangtze River to send intelligence and his fearless revolutionary spirit moved and inspired countless next generations to advance bravely along the footsteps of revolutionary ancestors, create a future and create a better tomorrow!

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The prototype of Xiaoma, who is it? I guess not many people know about it. He is Zhao Banggen.

Zhao Banggen

During my time in the Party History and Local Chronicles Research Office of the Yi'an District Committee of the Communist Party of China, I asked Mr. Zheng Shaoqiu, a party history expert, about many questions about Zhao Banggen swam across the Yangtze River to send intelligence. Mr. Zheng, who is over 90 years old this year, once wrote historical articles on "The "Pony" Swimming Crossing the River to Sending Information" based on verification and careful research. The old man was very happy to ask me, a junior, for advice, and he did not hesitate to give me advice, which allowed me to learn more about Zhao Banggen's heroic deeds of swimming across the Yangtze River to send intelligence. In addition, I also found the precious historical materials of "Swimming the Yangtze River to Sending Intelligence" written by Zhao Banggen during his lifetime in the Party History Materials of Tongling County of the Communist Party of China. Under

, I will tell readers and friends about the revolutionary story of Xiaoma's prototype - Zhao Banggen.

According to the Party History of the Communist Party of China Tongling County, in order to adapt to the task of crossing the river by the army, in July 1948, the Southern Anhui Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to establish the Southern Anhui Riverside Working Committee to unify the party, government and military work in the southern Anhui Riverside area.The CPC Anhui Southern Riverside Working Committee consists of six people including Sun Zongrong, Chen Hong, Li Youbai, Xu Zhangfa (Xu Dabao), Shi Yueqin (female) and Chen Aixi. Sun Zongrong serves as secretary, Chen Hong serves as deputy secretary, Chen Aixi serves as organization minister, and Sun Zongrong, Chen Hong and Chen Aixi serves as members of the Standing Committee. The Yanjiang Detachment was also established at the same time. The detachment leader Chen Hong, the detachment deputy Li Youbai, the political commissar Sun Zongrong, and Chen Aixi served as deputy political commissar. The main force of the detachment has about 3 battalions and more than 1,000 people.

In order to strengthen the work on the front line along the river, in February 1949, the Anhui Riverside Working Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to establish 44 county committees, Tongling, Fanchang, Nanling, and Qingyang. The CPC Anhui Riverside Working Committee decided that Chen Aixi would also serve as Secretary of the CPC Tongling County Committee, Comrade Chen Ce, member, and Comrade Xu Shida, alternate member.

After Chen Aixi took office, he immediately rushed to Mingshanchong, where the Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China was located, and held a cadre meeting in a timely manner to convey the instructions of the Southern Anhui Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China on January 8 and the supplementary instructions of February 7, and further implement all preparations for welcoming the army to cross the river.

In order to grasp the enemy's intelligence, Chen Aixi and Comrade Chen Ce agreed to send Comrade Xu Shida to be responsible for the work on the front line from Tongling to Digang. Comrade Cha Bin is a political instructor of the Tongling Company, responsible for the front line of Tongling to Datong. Comrade Ruan Zhiang, an underground worker on the riverside, reported that since February 1949, the enemy from Digang to Datong have mobilized two divisions of troops. More importantly, an enemy artillery regiment was also arranged by the river at the dam. The Southern Anhui Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China requested the Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China to immediately investigate the situation of the enemy by the river and send it to Jiangbei as soon as possible.

1949 On the morning of April 15, 1949, Chen Aixi handed over this task to Sun Yunsong, deputy instructor of Tongling Company 1, and reconnaissance squad leader Wang Busheng, and traffic officer Li Aitang.

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htmlOn April 17, Sun Yunsong and his three-member reconnaissance team successfully completed the task. The reconnaissance team found out that the enemy's 4th division had 2 divisions stationed in Tongling to Datong and Tongling to Digang, one division headquarters was stationed in Datong, and the other division headquarters was stationed in Cuijia Ancestral Hall. The command post of the artillery regiment is located at the dam ridge 2 miles away from Ruan Village. The enemy used barbed wire to connect obstacles along the river, with 3 steps and 1 undercover castle, 100 meters and 1 in the open castle, the large ones stationed in 1 platoon, and the small ones stationed in 1 squad, and there was a mobile whistle of the civilians every 200 meters. Important traffic routes and ports have enemy armed patrols.

According to the information, the Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China quickly found someone to sort it out and drew an accurate map.

For the sake of this extremely important military intelligence, the Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China specially folded and twisted the military defense map drawn on white burlap paper about 40 cm long and 26 cm wide, put it in a small bottle, and sealed the bottle mouth with burned candle oil. Afterwards, he handed over to Zhao Banggen, a guerrilla troop member with excellent water quality, and asked him to swim across the Yangtze River on the evening of April 17 and send this extremely important information to the Jiangbei People's Liberation Army Crossing Command in a timely manner.

1949 On the evening of April 17, 1949, the bright moon was in the sky, the stars were dotted, and the moonlight sprinkled on the ground like mercury.

Zhao Banggen disguised himself as a "fisherman", carrying a small fishing basin on his shoulders and fishing gear in his hands. Taking advantage of the moonlight, under the escort of Xu Wanrong and Ruan Deming, he quietly walked from the Tongling Mountains to the Kuomintang River Defense Fortress at Yangshanji...

Zhao Banggen carries the enemy's military defense map with him, and feels a great responsibility. In order to ensure that everything is foolproof, he used a thin linen (small made of three hemp, specially used for making cloth shoes and soles) to tie it from the bottleneck, and then tied it to his belt.

Xu Wanrong and Ruan Deming safely escorted Zhao Banggen to the Lantern Grotto between Henggang and Yangshanji, and then returned the same way.

Lantern Gully is located between two small hills next to Yangshan Rock not far from Datong, a small gully that is close to the Yangtze River. Four bunkers set up by the river stand on the top of the two mountains, facing high, with black gun holes and gun holes, like the eyes of poisonous snakes, staring at and looking for "prey" that can be acquired and swallowed at any time. searchlight is regularly sweeping from the river surface and around the bunker, looking for "winds and movements".

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smuggled across the river from here, how easy it is!

Zhao Banggen lurks in the grass near the edge of the ditch and is not found by searchlights, allowing mosquito bites to bite, not moving at all, waiting for the opportunity.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

Time passes quietly every minute and second. Several hours have passed, Zhao Bangen clearly heard the soldiers on the bunker, changing their guards again and again.

Until the early morning of the next day, the opportunity finally came!

Suddenly, a dark cloud floated over, covering the moon, and a brief dimness appeared on the earth. Zhao Banggen quickly carried the small fishing basin, quietly bypassed the bunker, headed straight to the surface of the Xiaogou River, and put the small fishing basin into the water.

At this time, Zhao Banggen's arms seemed to be in his arms, his heart beating pounding. He took a deep breath, checked the "small bottle" tied to the belt of his underwear, quickly climbed into the water, pushed the small fishing basin, and gently floated into the river. The tracer bullets and searchlights emitted from the shore swung around his head like ghosts. With years of water skills and experience, he desperately floated towards the heart of the river regardless of everything.

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When it floated across the river about two-thirds, Zhao Banggen pushed down the small fishing basin, swam across with his bare hands, and successfully reached the north bank of the river.

At this time, the sky began to turn white and shine, and a red sun rose slowly from the east.

Shortly after reaching the north shore, Zhao Banggen was caught by three patrol soldiers in plain clothes. During the interrogation of

, Zhao Banggen said calmly: "My surname is Ma, and people call me Xiaoma. I was captured by the National Army. I am about to farm and produce in spring, so I just swam secretly from Jiangnan and returned to my hometown in Chao County." When the patrolman heard this, he was both credible and suspicious, and immediately escorted Zhao Banggen to the company.

When Zhao Banggen saw many People's Liberation Army wearing yellow coarse cloth uniforms, red five-star octagonal hat , and a rectangular cloth badge on the chest, she immediately burst into tears and said excitedly: "My surname is Zhao, my name is Banggen, and I am from the Tongling Guerrillas. The leader sent me to send intelligence from Jiangnan. I didn't know who were wearing plain clothes just now, so I didn't tell the truth. I asked to see the leader of the crossing the river immediately, and there was a 100,000 urgent matter report!" The company 1 of the People's Liberation Army saw that it was of great importance, and immediately sent Zhao Banggen to the Crossing River Front Command of a certain division of the People's Liberation Army, and was warmly entertained by Director Jin and other leaders.

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Zhao Banggen sent the information in time for the night of April 20, 1949, three days later, on the night of April 20, 1949, our PLA first broke through the Yangtze River chasm in Tongling and Fanchang areas, and successfully completed the crossing the river battle mission, playing an important role.

Next, readers and friends will take a look at the precious historical materials of "Swimming the Yangtze River to Sending Information" written by Zhao Banggen during his lifetime.

Zhao Banggen recalled: "In the spring of 1949, the Kuomintang army blocked the Yangtze River. Our guerrillas in the south of the Yangtze River lost contact with Jiangbei, and they did not understand the situation of preparing the army to cross the river. In order to get in touch, in mid-March of the lunar calendar in 1949, the organization organized the fortifications, enemy troops and firepower arranged along the south bank of the river, and after drawing, it was filled in bottles, and Xu Wanrong handed it over to me, and asked me to float across the river and send the information to the Jiangbei People's Liberation Army Crossing Command. After accepting the mission, under the escort of Xu Wanrong and Ruan Deming, I chose a small ditch connecting the Yangtze River near Yangshanji under Datong, lurking in the grass by the small ditch, waiting for the opportunity to swim across the river. At that time, the enemy was facing the Yangtze River against the Yangtze River. At that time, the enemy was facing the Yangtze River. The south bank is tightly blocked, and four bunkers were built on both sides of this small ditch alone to monitor the movements of the small ditch and the Yangtze River.

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At about 10 o'clock in the evening, I took the map and carried a small fishing basin on my shoulders. I secretly touched two bunkers, climbed into the small ditch, and slowly drew to the Yangtze River. I used force to cross two thirds of the Yangtze River, pushed the small fishing basin off, and swam across the north of the Yangtze River with bare hands.

just walked about half a mile ashore, and three people came and asked me what I was doing? I said I was caught by a catcher, living in Chao County, and ran over from the south of the Yangtze River tonight. Because I have officially plowed spring, I went home to produce.Later, I learned that the three of them were indeed our scouts. Then I said that I was from the Tongling guerrillas and sent information across the river to contact the troops. As a result, the three of them took me to the company and division headquarters, met with Director Jin, and handed over the information to him. He treated me warmly. There happened to be a soldier named Tang in this company. He asked me where I was from the south. I said I was from Jiaojiabu, Shun'an, Tongling County. Tang asked me if I knew Kong Yadong (renamed Wang Dabie. I lived in the old house of Tang's family in Lujiang County at that time and wanted to take me to see Kong...). The army crossed the river on the night of April 20, 1949. Kong Yadong and I crossed the river for 7 days before we returned to Tongling County from Lujiang . "

Finally, let's briefly introduce Zhao Banggen's life.

According to the "Tongling County Chronicles", Zhao Banggen (1913-1972), also known as Zhao Yun, was originally named Banggen, and also known as Bangyin. In 1913, he was born in Xihu Township, Tongling County (now Yi'an District) (now Xihu Town, , belonging to Tongguan District, ). His ancestral home is Wuwei County. He has been poor since childhood, and often relies on helpers and fishing and shrimps to make a living. Later, he became a tenant and suffered the pain of exploitation and oppression.

944, under the influence of the anti-Japanese war, he participated in the revolution and soon served as the company commander of the People's Government of Xinxing Township (now Shun'an Town, ), actively organized militias Set up a team to support the main force of the New Fourth Army and local armed forces to fight against the enemy, and made positive contributions to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in Tongling.

Zhao Banggen loved to listen to the stories of the Three Kingdoms since childhood, and especially admired Zhao Yun's martial arts skills and made many outstanding achievements. He changed his name to Zhao Yun to show his willingness and determination to make a difference in anti-Japanese and national salvation activities.

In September 11945, the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui was ordered to retreat north. He stayed in his hometown to continue his work. He was soon arrested by the Tongling County Investigation Office of the Kuomintang and detained for more than four months. After being released from prison, his already poor family was even more impoverished. There was no way, so he had to live by fishing and shrimps.

1947, he contacted Xu Wanrong, a guerrilla team of the Communist Party of China (later the Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China) and served as the guerrilla team of Xu Wanrong, who was the guerrilla team of the Communist Party of China. The important work of communicating the army.

949, the situation of the Liberation War took a strategic turning point. The Chinese People's Liberation Army, while winning the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai , and Pingjin, rushed its troops south and drank the Yangtze River. However, the Kuomintang was unwilling to fail and mobilized more than 700,000 troops to deploy the front line on the south bank of the Yangtze River, attempting to make the final struggle.

Tongling is located on the south bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, more than 100 miles along the river. The terrain is very dangerous. The 74th Division of the 55th Army of the Kuomintang and the 149th Division of the 88th Army defended the river defense. In order to enable our Liberation Army to understand the enemy's defense situation on the south bank as soon as possible, the Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China established more than 10 intelligence stations along the south bank of the Yangtze River from above and from below to collect enemy intelligence extensively and deeply.

According to the intelligence station's reconnaissance, the Tongling County Committee of the Communist Party of China promptly learned about the enemy's number, force, artillery type, artillery position, Jiangbao fortifications and its command center, ferry, water depth, water speed and other information. It immediately sorted and drew it into a map, put it in a small bottle, and sealed it with wax. So it decided to select Zhao Banggen to take on the important task of crossing the river to convey intelligence.

Zhao Bang was familiar with , had super human swimming skills, and had experience in crossing the river. After repeated and careful research, the lantern ditch between Henggang and Yangshanji was selected as the starting point for smuggling.

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1949, under the cover of guerrilla scouts, Zhao Banggen risked his life to ride a small fishing basin and landed into the river. Go downstream through Henggang, cleverly cross the enemy's river blockade line, and safely reach Dezhou, the county town of Wuwei . The next day, the information will be delivered to the Jiangbei Army Crossing the River Front Command. Just two days later, on the night of April 20, the army crossed the river first broke through the Yangtze River from the Fanchang area of ​​Tong (ling). The next morning, Tongling County was liberated, making Tongling County the first city to liberation in Jiangnan.

After the founding of New China, Zhao Bangen actively devoted himself to the grand cause of socialism in and contributed his strength. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1956 and served as a grassroots rural cadre. For decades, I have never taken credit for myself, ignored my personal gains and losses, and never changed my true nature of a worker.

1959, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the victory of the Battle of Crossing the River and to commend Zhao Banggen's fearless revolutionary spirit, " Anhui Daily " once published a long article detailing the heroic deeds of Zhao Banggen swimming across the Yangtze River to convey intelligence regardless of his personal safety. Later, the feature film "Search Crossing the River" filmed was based on Zhao Banggen and created the heroic image of the scout Xiaoma. On February 24, 1972, Zhao Banggen died of illness at the age of 59.

Zhao Banggen's heroic achievements and image will always remain in the hearts of the people of Tongling!

The world changes. More than 70 years have passed, and although the revolutionary ancestors in Tongling have left us forever, they have been born and died for the sake of the revolution and the New China, and are willing to shed their blood to write the revolutionary spirit of the Spring and Autumn Period, which will never disappear, and we will pass on it from generation to generation!

Author: Wang Xianfeng