Brief introduction of martyr Li Hui

Heaven and earth are heroic, and the autumn is still awe-inspiring. In the sky of history, heroes and martyrs are as bright as the stars, which are the shining spiritual coordinates of the Chinese nation.

In the heroic performance hall of the Pingjin Campaign Memorial Hall, there is a group of photos of the martyrs, who are 16 cadres above the regimental level who died in the Pingjin Campaign. Among them were Li Hui, the political commissar of the division with the highest rank at the time of his death, Fan Lu, chief of the reconnaissance section, who was known as the "clairvoyant" of the head of the column, Du Cundian, the youngest regiment commander at the time of his death, and Li Huimin, chief of staff of the regiment, who was unfortunately shot and killed in the enemy's ranks. It is they who have practiced the fearless spirit of front-line commanders with their lives, interpreted the revolutionary heroism vividly and vividly with their blood, and made the solemn party flag more vivid.

In 1949, two division-level cadres went south to participate in the Pingjin Campaign, but unfortunately died in a car accident, who are they? On the eve of the Pingjin Campaign, there was a sensational incident that shook the whole army, when Li Hui, political commissar of the 124th Division of the 42nd Army of the People's Liberation Army, and Hu Yin, director of the Political Department, suffered a car accident in the area of Xifengkou, and unfortunately died heroically. After that, the bodies of Li Hui and Hu Yin martyrs were buried in Santun Camp, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, they were moved to the North China Martyrs Cemetery. Today, I would like to introduce you to the martyr Li Hui.

Li Hui, also known as Changlian, was born in November 1913 in a poor peasant family in Lengshui Village, Cihua Township, Yichun City, Jiangxi Province. At the age of 13, he entered the village primary school, and at the age of 16, he was admitted to Dongzhou Middle School in Daqiao Town, Wanzai County, Jiangxi Province.

When he was in elementary school, Li Hui joined the children's group. In February 1930, he served as a teacher at the Township Red Children's Primary School, joined the Communist Youth League in May, and then served as the secretary of the Township Youth League branch and the secretary of the Township Red Guards, and the secretary of the Cihua District Committee of the Young Communist Party. He joined the Communist Party of China in October 1931.

Under the cultivation of the party, Li Hui grew up quickly, and soon served as the secretary of the Yiping County Party Committee of the Young Communist Party. At this time, the Kuomintang reactionaries stepped up their "encirclement and suppression" of the Soviet areas, and the situation in the Soviet areas continued to deteriorate. The Yiping County CPC Committee, the County Soviet, and other leading organs no longer have a fixed location and have been moved everywhere. In October 1933, only a small base area such as Zengfang remained in Yipingsu District. The Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee called for the organization of the "International League of the Young Communist Party," with the counties providing soldiers. The Yiping County Party Committee designated Li Hui to be in charge of this work. He lived up to the trust and led several cadres to go deep into the Soviet areas occupied by the enemy to propagate and mobilize the masses. Soon, forty or fifty young people were mobilized and organized, broke through the enemy's blockade, and embarked on the front line of defending the red regime. In February of the following year, the Yiping County Party Committee sent Li Hui to lead the working group back to Yiping Soviet District to carry out work. In light of the specific situation that the Soviet area was occupied by the enemy at that time and could only conceal and disperse guerrilla warfare, he divided the personnel into four armed task forces, namely Pingbei, Shuijiang, Jinrui, and Cihua, and carried out extensive revolutionary activities in the midst of the enemy's swords and swords, and bloody rain. After five or six months of work, four enemy pillboxes were burned and the armed task force was expanded to more than 100 people with more than 80 guns. rebuilt three district committees and more than a dozen branches of Jin (Rui), Ci (Hua) and Tong (Mu); It has opened up the traffic line from Anfu in the south to Zhuzhou in the west.

In March 1935, Li Hui was transferred to the 16th Red Division and served as the head of the Propaganda Section of the Political Department.

In March of the following year, Li Hui was appointed chief of the organization section of the 16th Red Division. During his work in the 16th Red Division, it was the most difficult period of the three-year guerrilla war in the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi border region. He went to the north and south with the army, was not pessimistic, did not complain, and was full of confidence in the future.

After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces appointed Li Hui to return to Yichun to serve as the secretary of the Wanzai Central County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, responsible for leading the anti-Japanese rescue work in Pingxiang, Yichun, Wanzai, Shanggao, Fenyi and other counties. In January 1939, Li Hui was transferred to the post of secretary of the Special Committee of the Communist Party of China in Northwest Jiangxi and director of the New Fourth Army Communications Office in Yichun, leading the anti-Japanese activities in northwest Jiangxi.

In July, Li Hui was transferred to the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China as the head of the organization department and the minister of society. At this time, Nanchang had fallen, and together with the provincial party committee, he continued to lead the anti-Japanese democratic struggle in the areas of Ji'an and Taihe. At the end of the year, Jiangxi Province's delegates to the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China and representatives of southern provinces formed a southern delegation, and Li Hui was one of the members of the delegation and went to Yan'an. After a year's long journey, they finally arrived in Yan'an. Here, he rests and learns at the same time. Later, he entered the Central Party School, which gave him the opportunity to study political theory and read many Chinese and foreign history books and literary masterpieces that he had not seen before, and his theoretical level and cultural attainment were improved. In April 1945, he attended the Seventh Party Congress.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the party organization sent Li Hui to work in the northeast to open up a new area. In the winter of 1945, he went to Northeast China and South Manchuria, and served as the secretary of the Xiuyan Central County Party Committee of the Chinese People. In January of the following year, he was changed to secretary of the Zhuang (He) Xiu (Yan) Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China and political commissar of the Fifth Division, responsible for leading the work of Xiuyan, Fuxian, Zhuanghe, Xinjin, Gaiping, Qingcheng and other counties.

In May 1946, in order to cope with the grim situation that the southern Liaoning region might be divided by the Kuomintang, the former Liaoning Military Division and the Andong Military Region were merged to form the Liaoning South Military Region and the Liaoning Independent Division. Li Hui served as a member of the Liaonan Provincial CPC Committee, a member of the Standing Committee, a deputy political commissar of the Liaoning Military Region, and a deputy political commissar of the Independent Division. As soon as he took office, he encountered the Kuomintang mobilizing more than 30,000 troops to focus on attacking South Manchuria in order to realize its strategic plan of "attacking the south and defending the north, first the south and then the north." In order to defend South Manchuria and contain the enemy, Li Hui and the leaders of the military region commanded the troops to first annihilate the enemy's two reinforced companies at Pailutun and Daxueshan to stop the enemy's attack. Soon after, the enemy, with five times our strength, laid siege to Ximu City, in a vain attempt to annihilate the Liaonan Military Region and the Independent Division in one fell swoop. Together with the leaders of the front-line command post of the Liaoning South Military Region, Li Hui defended the strong enemy, rose up to resist, covered the transfer of organs and the main force, divided his troops to break out of the heavy encirclement, and launched guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines relying on Motianling and Buyun Mountain. Due to the outnumbered enemy and frequent battles, the base area gradually shrank, and the supply of troops, materials, and ammunition encountered difficulties. Under these circumstances, Li Hui made full use of the gap between battles to educate the cadres and fighters on persisting in the struggle and inevitably winning the battle. He often appeared on the front line of battles, carried out political and ideological work in the forefront of the position, and made sure that the cadres and fighters were in the hearts and minds of the cadres and soldiers, so that the troops could unite and fight, and dragged the more than 100,000 Kuomintang troops in southern Liaoning, unable to extricate themselves, and worked with other units to contribute to the victory in the northeast battlefield. The South Liaoning Military Region and the Independent Division were commended by the South Manchurian Military Region. Chen Yun, who was the secretary of the Nanman Sub-Bureau at that time, was very satisfied with Li Hui's work and once praised him as "like a bright lamp in southern Liaoning, illuminating the land within a radius of hundreds of miles." ”

During his more than three years of military career in Northeast China, he participated in organizing and commanding hundreds of large and small battles, including the liberation of Anshan, Liaoyang, and Yingkou in southern Liaoning, as well as the three attacks on Dashiqiao. He personally commanded many battles. On May 9, 1947, the summer offensive began, the troops of the southern Liaoning Military Region were divided into three routes, Li Hui led the middle column, and the other two columns led by commander Wu Ruilin, and at the same time attacked the southern Liaoning area occupied by the Kuomintang, after nearly four months of fighting, annihilated tens of thousands of enemies, captured more than 8,800 pieces of various weapons, conquered more than 110 enemy strongholds, liberated 18,000 square kilometers of land occupied by the Kuomintang, and recovered Pulandian, Wafangdian, Gaiping, Fuxian, Wanfu, Zhuanghe, Xinjin, Xiuyan and other county seats. The liberation of 2.3 million people and the recovery of 300 kilometers of railways brought about a fundamental change in the situation of the war. This is the "great victory in southern Liaoning" that was commended by the Central Military Commission, the Northeast Military Region, and the South Manchurian Military Region.

During the autumn offensive in October of the same year, at the Tonghua operational meeting, Li Hui and Wu Ruilin put forward an operational plan for fighting Dashiqiao again, and Xiao Jinguang, commander of the South Manchurian Military Region, and Chen Yun, political commissar, designated Li Hui and Jin Zhenzhong, chief of staff of the division, to organize and direct the battle. Before the war, as usual, he went deep into the regiments, battalions, and companies with the main attack mission for mobilization. He pointed to the combat sand table and said to the commanders and fighters: "The capture of Dashiqiao and Haicheng and the cutting off of the enemy's communication line from Changchun to Siping are of great strategic significance to our army to further grasp the initiative in the northeast battlefield and completely annihilate Chiang Kai-shek's army in the northeast." With the cooperation of the 11th Division of the Fourth Column, he led the independent division to attack between Liaoyang and Dashiqiao. During the march for two days and one night, due to Li Hui's decisive command, he first annihilated a regiment of the enemy's 52nd Army between Niuzhuang and Haicheng. Then he concentrated six times the enemy's troops, and captured Dashiqiao and Haicheng with tactics such as speed, onslaught, and siege, and completely annihilated the enemy's first column of traffic police in one fell swoop. This police is a special service column in the northeast of the Kuomintang, which was personally organized by the spy leader Dai Li and sent to United States for training, and is a fascist unit armed to the teeth. In this battle, more than 1,100 people below the enemy's column commander were killed, more than 2,100 people below the enemy's deputy column commander and chief of staff were captured, and a large number of weapons, equipment, food, and cash were captured. Laying down Dashiqiao and Haicheng, threatening Anshan and Liaoyang, and creating new fighters for our army to further annihilate Chiang's army in the northeast.

In March 1948, after the end of our army's winter offensive, the balance of forces between us and the enemy changed radically. The First Independent Division of the Liaoning South Military Region was reorganized into the 13th Division of the Fifth Column of the Northeast Field Army, and Li Hui served as the political commissar and secretary of the party committee of the division. In September of the same year, he and division commander Xu Guofu led their troops to participate in the Liaoshen Campaign, and took on the task of blocking and encircling the enemy's Liao Yaoxiang Corps. In the early morning of October 26, the 13th Division, together with its brother troops, advanced to the first line of Erdaojingzi and Zhengjia's shack under dense fog, cut off the enemy's way to Xinmin and Shenyang, surrounded the enemy regiments within an area of about 120 square kilometers north of Weijia's shack, divided and encircled and annihilated, annihilating more than 5,000 enemies and capturing nearly 10,000 enemies south of Wuliangdian alone. It played a major role in the complete victory of the battle.

In November 1948, the 13th Division of the Fifth Column was renamed the 124th Division of the 42nd Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and Xu Guofu and Li Hui succeeded them as commanders and political commissars of the 124th Division. As the vanguard division of the 42nd Army, the 124th Division quickly entered the pass through Yixian, Jianchang, and Xifengkou and participated in the Pingjin Campaign. Li Hui and others led the whole division to march to the Pingjin front at night.

On the night of December 3, just as the troops were passing through the Xifeng Pass and about to step into the pass, a car accident unfortunately occurred, Xu Guofu was seriously injured, and Li Hui and Hu Yin, director of the Political Department, died honorably. Li Hui sacrificed his life at the age of 35 for the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people. In the early morning of the next day, Deputy Army Commander Wu Ruilin went to the scene to deal with the aftermath. The loyal bones of Li Hui and Hu Yin were buried in Santun Camp, Hebei Province, and moved to Shijiazhuang - North China Martyrs Cemetery after liberation.

One day in April 1949, the 42nd Army held a memorial meeting for Li Hui and other martyrs in Zhuo County, Hebei Province, attended by more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians. In his eulogy, army commander Wu Ruilin said: "It was the flames of the agrarian revolution, the flames of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the smoke of the War of Liberation that made Li Hui grow into an excellent commander praised by everyone from top to bottom, a political commissar who was deeply loved by the soldiers, and a good cadre and a good party member that the people will always remember." ”