Jie Zhenguo 丨 in the days of the Party School of the Northern Branch

In the article introducing Jie Zhenguo, there are very few texts about his study at the Party School of the Northern Branch Bureau, only a dozen words of "in 1939 he went to the Party School of the Northern Branch and returned to Jidong in the summer of 1940" in a few words.

What was the real situation during Jie Zhenguo's study at the Party School of the Northern Branch Bureau? According to the memoirs of Li Yuezhi and JiangDong, Hebei Eye made a brief combing.

In September 1939, Jie Zhenguo and his party of 44 people entered the Party School of the Northern Branch of the CPC Central Committee from the eastern part of Jidong for training, and belonged to the third batch of students, and the cadres of jidong were assigned to the seventh, eighth, and ninth classes, and Jie Zhenguo was the eighth class of students.

The seven classes were: Su Linyan (Yan An), Yang Wenhan (Wang Shulao), Han Fudong (Han Dongzheng), Kong Qingtong, Ye Tian (Mu Lin), Gao Jingzhi (Bu Yi), Zhang Zhenyu (Zhang Jun), Li Zhenhua (Li Haitao), Li Yuezhi, Wang Huayi, Li Shangwu, Chang Yunqing, Zhang Yuhui, Su Ran, Zhao Yiou, Wang Wenlong, Yue Wu, Gao Ping, and Shan Degui, a total of 19 people.

The eighth class was organized into the following categories: Gao Chunyi (Xia Yonglin), Xu Shangye, Jie Zhenguo, Jiang Dong (Zhu Guang), Wang Mulin, Ma Jun, Yang Hexuan (Kan Yi), Zhang Litai, Mu Sen, Wang Zhanzhi, Zhong Kedong, Ge Zhenwu, Xia Jungle, Qiu Huijun, and Zhou Mingqi, totaling 15 people.

The ninth class was organized into the ninth class: Tian Rong, Lin Yuan, Zhou Yixuan, Bai Yunsheng, Wei Changshun, Yang Caizhang, Gu Fu, An Ping, Zhang Ruizhen, Liu Fengyou, a total of 10 people.

One evening in early November 1939, the Party School of the Northern Bureau held an opening ceremony for the third batch of students. The ceremonial platform is set up on the edge of a cliff in Xiaohenan, like a rural stage, with a bright red party flag hanging in the middle of the stage screen, and a bright gas lamp hanging in the front of the stage. The venue was solemnly and simply arranged, and all the students stood on the square in front of the stage. At 8 p.m., Provost Zhou Rongxin announced a meeting, and everyone sang the Internationale. After singing the song, President Peng Zhen made a speech to the effect that, first, the current situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and second, the study tasks, purposes, and purposes of the Party School were put forward. Finally, the FireWire Theatre Society performed the one-act opera "Building the Road" for the students.

The next day, the school department conveyed the study plan to the trainees through the branch, and the basic semester was basically 6 months and was divided into three stages, the first stage was to study party building, armed struggle, and the united front; the second stage was to study Mao Zedong's treatises "On Protracted War," "On the New Stage," and "On New Democracy," and the third stage was to study party building, party history, revolutionary strategies, tactics, and basic policies for building base areas.

A few days later, classes began, and the party school attached great importance to the issue of teaching. Starting from Comrade Peng Zhen, secretary of the sub-bureau, Yao Yilin, secretary general, Li Changqing, director of propaganda, Lin Tie, minister of democracy movement, Xiao Ming, minister of staff and workers, and Xu Jianguo, minister of security, also gave lectures, and the responsible persons of the party committees of the major regions under the sub-bureau also concurrently held some courses. For example, Lu Guan and Huang Jing, secretaries of the Jizhong District Party Committee, and Liu Lantao, secretary of the Jijin District Party Committee, all traveled remotely to the mountains and waded to attend classes.

At the beginning of December, just after the second stage of study was arranged, the Japanese began to sweep the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, and the troops divided into ten ways and attacked us. One night, upon receiving the order of the military region's counter-sweeping, the party school must immediately make preparations for the transfer, and that night the General Affairs Section prepared mules and necessary materials, and the cadets were lightly loaded. The next day, we set off from The Village of Pingfang. In the anti-"sweeping" campaign, the party school is a non-combat contingent and has no armed protection, but it must operate independently and be free from losses. To this end, the brigade commander Chen Jun selected four people from among the Jidong cadets to form a reconnaissance group. The four are: Gao Jingzhi, Zhang Zhenyu, Jie Zhenguo and Jiangdong. The tasks of the reconnaissance group are: First, to investigate the enemy situation tens of miles away from the party school station every day and come back to report the situation; second, to ensure that the investigation is accurate; and third, to abide by the discipline of the masses. In addition, two hundred yuan of reserve currency was issued to the investigation team in case of emergency. After the reconnaissance began, sometimes they went out for a day, and when they returned at night, the party school had been transferred to another place, and they were very tired after chasing and reporting on the situation overnight; sometimes they went out for a day and were safe; sometimes they bumped into the arms of the enemy and were shot by the enemy. Once, when we went out, we suddenly went to the edge of the village of Shangbaozi, and saw the devils walking next to the small temple, the bayonets shining, and we went around the sentry and saw that the enemy troops in the village were roasting the fire, and by the light of the fire, we not only saw the horses, artillery trucks, guns, and even the faces of some ghost soldiers. Zhang Zhenyu whispered to Jiangdong that the enemy had more than a thousand people, all of whom were regular troops, and we should quickly retreat. As soon as we ran, we were spotted, and the devils shot at us fiercely. trumpet! ...... Bullets flew over their heads, and the enemy chased after them as they fought, but thanks to their fast running, they were able to get out of danger. After running until dawn, I found an isolated hut with people to rest, asked my fellow villagers for two bowls of paste to drink, and continued to rush in the direction of the party school.

After the anti-sweeping campaign, the Party School officially resumed classes, and before the Spring Festival at the end of January 1940, the students began to teach themselves Mao Zedong's "On Protracted War", "On the New Stage", and "On New Democracy". In line with the study of Mao Zedong's writings, Lü Zhengcao talked about "the current problem of the anti-Japanese guerrilla war in the Hebei Central Military Region," which corroborated the practice of guerrilla warfare with Mao's writings and explained many issues. In addition, at this stage, Xiao Ming talked about the basic issues of Leninism, dialectical materialism, and historical materialism; Lin Tie talked about the work of the democracy movement several times, and Geng Biao talked about the work of enemy workers once.

From the end of March to the end of April, it is the third stage of learning, which is basically Peng Zhen's lectures, which have been lectured for nearly a month. He mainly talks about the party's strategy, tactical issues, and basic policies. Finally, he talked about the party's various basic policies, such as the fiscal and economic policy, the policy of rationally burdening agricultural taxes, the trade policy of enemy-occupied areas, and so on.

At the end of April, the study entered the end stage, the students studied and discussed during the day, and often lit the grate oil oil lamp at night to study, held party group meetings, and sometimes learned late at night.

In April, the comrades of the seventh class also organized an inspection delegation, and the comrades of the sub-bureau led more than 60 people in the class to Fuping, Lingshou, Pingshan and other counties to conduct on-the-spot investigation of the construction of base areas.

In mid-May, the study was completed. The cadets of each class successively left the party school of the sub-bureau and returned to their respective regions, and all the trainees of Jidong returned to the Party Committee of Pingxi District to join the troops who came to the reorganization in 1938 to prepare to return to Jidong together. At this time, the troops were organized into twelve regiments. On the evening of June 10, from the village of Junxiang in Pingxi, the troops were also accompanied by the first battalion of the 10th Regiment and the regimental straight led by Comrade Bai Yihua. Here, after the organizational decision, five comrades, including Li Yuezhi, Jiang Dong, Li Shangwu, Wang Mulin, and Lin Yuan, were left from the cadet corps to do the work of opening up Jixian County, Pinggu, Miyun, and other areas, and 39 people, including Jie Zhenguo, returned to the eastern part of Hebei to distribute the work.