Chapter 10 Chapter Eight From Waiting to Catch the Cannon Ron Combat Team

Some people said: How could you be so keen on fighting some kind of faction at that time?From the current point of view, your actions at that time really looked like something went wrong with your nerves. I think, so many people have lost their minds at the same time?Can't say that.In the early years, there was a poem that said: We should repent of the mistakes we have made, and we should also cherish the pursuits we have made.People always have some spiritual pursuits, no matter what era they are in. February and March in 1967 were the busiest period on the streets of Changsha during the Cultural Revolution.During this period, not only ran through the fanatic wars against each other, but also often overflowed with the most sincere friendship and unforgettable self-sacrifice.

The leaders of the college student Red Guards in Gaosi did not take advantage of the extremely favorable opportunity for her when the Xiangjiang wind and thunder collapsed, to unite and unify other workers' rebel organizations who had fought side by side with her and now had a sense of confrontation. On the contrary, she tried to use this The situation and the support of the provincial military region completely destroyed the Dongfanghong headquarters and other rebel organizations.She drew up a slogan that was approved by the provincial military region: Completely eradicate the poison of wind and thunder in Xiangjiang River!Under the guidance of this slogan, she drove out a dozen or so workers' rebel organizations, including Dongfanghong headquarters, who were reluctant to come, but did not dare to violate the spirit of the Central Cultural Revolution directive, and reluctantly came to participate in the meeting of tens of thousands of people criticizing the wind and thunder in the Xiangjiang River. The conference venue, and hinted at the conference that Dongfanghong headquarters and other rebel organizations are the poison of Xiangjiang Fenglei.She organized a large-scale criticism meeting. With the participation of army soldiers, she handcuffed the leaders of Xiangjiang Fenglei, and went around the city like criticizing capitalist roaders.Then she organized personnel to sort out the materials of several rebel organizations such as Dongfanghong headquarters, and reported to the provincial military region and the Central Cultural Revolution, hoping that rebel organizations such as Dongfanghong headquarters would also suffer the fate of being destroyed like the Xiangjiang wind and thunder.

All this made Gao Si more antagonistic to other workers' rebel organizations, and also made the rebels represented by Dongfanghong headquarters extremely angry.At that stage of the Cultural Revolution Movement, armed struggle was not the main form of struggle, so the antagonism and anger were mainly reflected in the cultural attack, that is, the big-character poster slogan battle and the propaganda car battle. There are a lot of workers in the rebel organization. Whenever night falls, there will be a stream of workers on the street, flowing to the propaganda vehicles, watching or booing.Due to the sudden reversal of the situation, the lost rebel organization had almost no propaganda vehicles on the street in the first few days of February. Except for groups of army soldiers patrolling with guns and live ammunition from time to time, only Wow, wow, a promotional car sent by Gao Si who keeps shouting.

I'm also an activist who is out on the street almost every night.I am not reconciled to the failure of my own organization. Although I don't know the situation of the people headquartered in Xiangjiang Fenglei Headquarters, I would never believe that our rebel organization with nearly a million people is a reactionary organization.During the day, I have my own fitter job to do, but at night, it is my hope and happiness: Friends who do not know each other but have the same views, meet together on the street, pour out their dissatisfaction and vent their pent-up emotions. The anger, the prospect of a future that could also pop up, made me feel good, and I felt as if I was suddenly energized.

One night in mid-February, that is, about half a month after Xiangjiang Fenglei was suppressed, a propaganda vehicle decorated with a human-powered tricycle suddenly appeared on the bustling Wuyi Street. The flow of people was attracted by it, flocked to it, and surrounded it. This simple but exquisitely decorated publicity vehicle is run by several middle school students.The tricycle has a small gasoline generator and a set of loudspeaker equipment. Although the publicity car is pushed forward by middle school students, the sound from the big speaker installed on the top of the carriage board shocked the wide Wuyi Street. :

Xiangjiang Fenglei is by no means a reactionary organization! Revolution is innocent, rebellion is justified! Whoever suppresses the revolutionary rebels will never end well! As an onlooker, I was immediately moved by this promotional vehicle, and tears of excitement welled up in my eyes. The onlookers were also shocked by the slogan of this promotional vehicle at first.For a moment, there was an incredible silence in the crowd.Soon the silence was broken, and the crowd burst into applause. At first it was sporadic, and then it turned into thunderous applause like a storm, followed by earth-shattering cheers.

I clapped hard, my hands were red and sour, and I didn't want to stop. The middle school students on the publicity van were also excited by the scene before them. They stopped the car, stood up and raised their hands, applauding non-stop. At this time, I could clearly see that on the wooden board decorated with big red paper in front of the propaganda vehicle, there were a few big characters like this: Red Guards of Xiangjiang Middle School are waiting to catch the promotional vehicle of the combat team, and among them, there are three big characters waiting to catch .Looking at the red armbands worn by those Red Guards, there are also three large characters waiting to be caught.Those middle school students were about the same age as me, but their youthful faces revealed a sense of solemnity and sacredness.

My whole body was full of enthusiasm. Facing these respectable friends of the same age, I felt that I should also be a giant. The loudspeaker of the propaganda van began to broadcast an article criticizing the provincial military region. More than a dozen workers who were obviously rebels automatically formed a picket line around the propaganda van to prevent the propaganda van converted from a rickshaw from being crowded by excited crowds. bad. The sound of the broadcast was loud and passionate, with ups and downs, which made the onlookers, including me, feel very satisfied, or extremely surprised, because since the Xiangjiang River was destroyed by wind and thunder, no one has dared to criticize the provincial military region, dare to accuse the provincial military region of suppressing No one among the rebels dared to say that Xiangjiang Fenglei was not a reactionary organization.Therefore, the broadcast of the propaganda vehicle at that time gave the rebels a lot of spiritual satisfaction.

Some people in the crowd suddenly shouted: "Down with the variant of Xiangjiang Fenglei!"Resolutely suppress counter-revolutionaries! But this discordant shout didn't last long, the stormy whimper suppressed it, and continued to fight!beat!beat!Down with the royalists!The rhythmic slogans and bourgeois royalists, sabotaging the revolution bad, bad, bad!The song that almost all the rebels would sing and specifically attacked the conservatives replaced the weak slogans that suppressed the few people, and quickly became the main theme on the street. Those few people who dared to openly confront the broadcast of this propaganda vehicle were quickly blasted away by the angry rebels. Even if there were conservatives with different views in the crowd, they could only be forced to remain silent.

Before the article was finished broadcasting, a propaganda van from the Gaosi faction suddenly drove up on the street. Two of them bore the red banner of the Public Security Rebel Army of the Public Security Bureau, and several policemen also wore red armbands on their olive green uniforms. Actually brandishing a pistol, rushed over.These policemen with dual identities are the most hated by the rebels.On the one hand, they are mass organizations, which can attack other rebel organizations at will without any restraint; on the other hand, they are the dictatorship organs of the state, which can send people to prison for no reason, if you oppose them.

Hundreds of rebel workers, cadres, and students like me immediately formed a thick human wall, blocking the propaganda vehicles of Gaosi and the red police, and blocking those aggressive policemen and members of conservative organizations, so that Waiting to catch the battle team promotional vehicle and continue broadcasting. The Gaosipai propaganda van could not approach the propaganda van waiting to be caught, and the police with weapons could not rush into the fearless crowd holding hands. Therefore, Gaosipai's propaganda changed its strategy. On the one hand, they let a propaganda van To increase the strength or invite the army to drive away, on the one hand, five or six propaganda vehicles broadcast a song of quotations from Chairman Mao in a louder voice at the same time: All wrong ideas are poisonous weeds, and all ghosts and snakes should be criticized We must not allow them to flood freely, which is both interference and tit-for-tat, so that the broadcasters waiting to catch the propaganda vans are suppressed. Seeing this situation, the Red Guards who were waiting to catch the combat team were not in a hurry. They took advantage of the opportunity of the human wall to block Gaosi's propaganda vehicle, pushed their own tricycle, and walked in the opposite direction of Gaosi's propaganda vehicle. The advancing Gaosi promotional vehicle could only watch and wait to be caught and escaped. Sure enough, after a while, two truckloads of heavily armed policemen arrived. Obviously, they were here to arrest these counter-revolutionaries who openly declared that Xiangjiang Fenglei was definitely not a reactionary organization.Seeing these policemen, the rebels who formed the human wall, were very angry and surrounded them all at once, preventing them from getting out of the car. Facing the surging crowd, the policemen had no choice but to do anything.We were in a stalemate with each other for a long time, and we slowly dispersed when we estimated that we would no longer be able to catch those Red Guards who were waiting to be caught. On the second and third nights, the vans waiting to be caught all appeared on the street, promoting their views without fear.The whole city of Changsha was a sensation. Everyone knew about this propaganda vehicle that was not afraid of going to jail, and about these Red Guards who were waiting to be arrested but insisted on attacking the provincial military region.The worker rebels among the workers encouraged each other by passing on chanting to each other, and at the same time, more people flocked to the streets at night. Neither Gao Si nor the Red Police were able to catch this waiting-to-catch combat team, which was protected by thousands of worker rebels.Although the propaganda vehicles dispatched by the Provincial Military Region kept issuing warnings, accusing someone of attempting to overturn the case against Xiangjiang Fenglei, the army did not make any arrests this time. Perhaps Commander Long of the Provincial Military Region felt that the army was being used to deal with these Red Guards who were still middle school students. , It will damage the image of the army too much. Apparently, the fearless actions of waiting to catch the combat teams and the popular sentiments in the streets at night inspired the leaders of the various rebel groups.The Third Department of the Capital and Beihang Hongqi Liaison Station in Changsha also took a publicity car borrowed from the factory, and drove to the street amidst the tragic singing of what is jail.The publicity vehicle of Dongfanghong headquarters also drove out.Rebels from several large factories in Changsha City also assembled propaganda vehicles and participated in this unusual night battle.The most exciting thing is that the publicity vehicle of the red hard-boned rebel regiment of the People's Liberation Army Engineering Academy stationed in Changsha has also taken to the streets. These military academy rebels are composed of teachers and students, and all of them are active soldiers.When I saw the red hard-boned members who also wore green uniforms, red hats, red collars and badges, they shouted that the People's Liberation Army should support the real leftists!Revolution is innocent, rebellion is justified!slogan, while fighting side by side with the publicity vehicle of Dongfanghong’s headquarters, we rebels who were onlookers suddenly burst into joy and cheered with excitement, congratulating us that we also have the People’s Liberation Army! In front of the publicity vehicle of the Liaison Station of the Third Division of the Capital, there is a red wooden sign that says Red Fortress. The Red Guards at the Liaison Station are all college students in Beijing. Articles accusing Gao Si and criticizing the provincial military region, like a bomb, aroused an extremely enthusiastic reaction among the crowd.They showed a lot of charm in the confrontation with Gaosi's propaganda vehicle and the propaganda vehicle dispatched by the provincial military region.On the one hand, this is due to their identities as Beijing Red Guards, and on the other hand, it is also caused by the obvious inclinations of the people watching.When the Red Fortress leads the call to suppress the rebels, there will be no good end!When it came to slogans, those who responded were like thunder, while the Gaosi publicity vehicle shouted to eliminate the wind and thunder in the Xiangjiang River!When the slogan was spoken, it was covered by the booing of the crowd. Obviously very annoyed by Gao Si's promotional vehicle, he decided to adopt the tactic of quantity versus quality, and once dispatched seven or eight promotional vehicles to try to surround the red fortress.But those of us who support the Red Fort will not stand idly by.When Gaosi's propaganda van was found approaching, there would always be a group of young worker rebels lying on the road, forming a roadblock that no one dared to cross.Facing such a spectacular scene, Gaosi's publicity vehicle had no choice but to retreat.Once, I also participated in the construction of this kind of roadblock. When I saw Gaosi's propaganda car coming, I didn't care what happened, and followed a group of young people to lie down in the road, waiting quietly for the car The approach of the wheel.Finally, Gao Si's publicity car had to stop one meter away from me. Blocked the opponent's rumbling wheel attack with flesh and blood; Defended the voice of our rebels with a determination to defy death; At that time, I felt that I was a bit of a hero, and I also felt a tragic impulse. Naturally, when the menacing wheels rushed over, I also thought of the possibility of becoming a ghost under the car. The momentary sense of terror and the sudden sense of tension quickly enveloped me.However, before I could think about it carefully, the matter ended quickly: it was not my thinking that stopped, but the rolling wheels of the car that forced me to stop. During that period of propaganda war, during the daytime Gaosi ruled the world, and when it came to writing slogans to create public opinion, no organization could be the opponent of Gaosi's more than 20,000 college students, Red Guards and talented scholars. In addition, they also had the military region and the police as their backing.And at night, facing the rebel workers who rushed to the streets after getting off work from the factory one after another and relied on the cover of night, the balance of propaganda war was obviously biased towards the rebels such as Dongfanghong headquarters. However, at the beginning of the propaganda war, the army and the military police still arrested some rebels who dared to criticize the provincial military region in public opinion.Several Red Guards from the No. 1 Middle School in Changsha formed a combat team to seize military power, wrote leaflets and posted big-character posters, severely accused the commander of the provincial military region for suppressing the rebels, and called for the seizure of power by the capitalist roaders in the provincial military region. As a result, the police rushed to the school Here, these Red Guards were all arrested and put in the prison of the Public Security Bureau.Among them, there was a Red Guard, Yang Xiaokai, an economist who later became famous internationally but died in 2004. At that time, his name was Yang Xiguang and he was only 18 years old. But later, in the face of tens of thousands of people on the street who disagreed with the provincial military region and Gaosi, the army and the police obviously had nothing to do.After all, they can't take everyone who opposes them. Yang Jinhe and Hou Chuanjiang and I went to the streets almost every night to participate in the exciting propaganda war.One night, when I took the initiative to act as a protector waiting to capture the propaganda vehicle of the combat team, and a dozen other rebel workers surrounded and waited to capture the propaganda vehicle, a former Red Guard in our factory Saw.The next day, an unnamed big-character poster appeared on the propaganda column in the factory, saying that there was a leader of Xiangjiang Fenglei who slipped through the net in our factory. , just wait, there will be a day to catch you! I was very angry about this, and I wanted to write a big-character poster immediately to attack that former member of the Red Guard, but Yang Jinhe advised me not to argue with that person, saying that whoever laughs last laughs the best.I think that's right, okay, let's wait and see if he has the ability to arrest me. Many old workers in the Dongfanghong headquarters team of our machine repair factory secretly persuaded me not to go to the streets in the future. I think that no one can stop me from going to the streets, shouting slogans, applauding, and lying on the road to stop cars, unless someone can lift the shadow of the Xiangjiang Fenglei reactionary leader who covers me, or at the moment Chairman Mao of the Party Central Committee is Issue a call to stop the rebellion and stop the Cultural Revolution movement. When the central cultural revolution leaders were proud of winning points for beating the veterans in the Huairentang incident in Beijing in February, when the rebel leaders Wang Hongwen and Chen Ada in Shanghai were jumping to power While the throne was full of joy, the rebels in Changsha City, Hunan Province were in a more difficult period. Due to the destruction of the Xiangjiang River by wind and thunder, the power of the rebel organization was greatly weakened.And Gao Si, the old Red Guard rebel organization, not only stood on the opposing side of the workers' rebels, but also revived the collapsed conservative organization and launched a new attack on the rebels.More importantly, the People's Liberation Army has always been respected, loved and admired by the people.However, represented by the provincial military region, it has become a strong pressure to criticize the rebels and a solid backing for the conservatives.Therefore, during this period, except for some sporadic demonstrations and frequent underground activities, the rebels were basically unable to carry out large-scale and organized rebellion actions, let alone unite to seize the provincial party committee. , The power of the provincial government. What's interesting is that the first secretary of the Provincial Party Committee wrote a big-character poster at this time, entitled "My Exposure of the Wind and Thunder in Xiangjiang River and Review of My Mistakes", which was posted by Gao Si's Red Guards.In this big-character poster, the first secretary of the Provincial Party Committee was able to expose and accuse Xiangjiang Fenglei of a mass organization like Xiangjiang Fenglei for persecuting him. After the worker rebel faction represented by Xiangjiang Fenglei was suppressed, the leaders of Gaosi planned to seize power in Hunan Province. They combined and accepted various factions and organizations under the banner of Gaosi to form a Red Rebels Joint Committee of Hunan Province ( Referred to as the Provincial Red Union), headed by Gao Si.Except for a very small number of workers' rebel organizations, most of its members are organizations rebuilt by members of the former Red Regime Defense Army and Red Guards.In addition, with the help of the provincial military region and the armed forces of the counties, they successfully accepted the Poor and Lower-Middle Peasant Association, an official organization at all levels before the Cultural Revolution, into an institutionalized form and formed the Poor and Lower-Middle Peasant Rebel Army. Added strength. However, at this time, the faction attributes of the Gaosi faction became complicated. The leaders of the Red Guards in Gaosi still claimed to be rebels, but most of them commanded members of the former Red Guard Army and the old Red Guards who did not approve of rebellion in their bones; However, they stood on the same front with the provincial military region who sympathized with the provincial party committee, and claimed to be a military supporter; they undoubtedly still agreed in theory with the policy of the Cultural Revolution that rebellion was reasonable, but in factional struggles they regarded Dongfanghong headquarters and other Workers' rebel organizations are sworn enemies. Therefore, the workers' rebels began to call the Gaosi Red Guards conservatives, treating them as the same as the Red Guards and Red Guards.Although, these college student Red Guards were the initiators and vanguards of the rebellion movement in Changsha City and Hunan Province. After the collapse of the Gang of Four and the end of the Cultural Revolution, some leaders of Gaosi picked up the conservative hats thrown to them by the rebels during the Cultural Revolution, and put them on their own heads as laurels showing meritorious service. sign.Later, however, the process of liquidating the rebellion traced back to the initial stage of the rebellion when the Red Guards ignited the flames and fanned the flames at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.Finally, these are based on the eighth year.The former college student Red Guards, who made a big rebellion declaration during the 1999 incident and made it onto the stage, were also inevitably rejected.Although the political outcome of the leaders of the Gaosi faction is much better and luckier than that of the unlucky workers' rebel leaders such as Xiangjiang Fenglei and Dongfanghong headquarters, their political future is far inferior to those of the peripatetic faction in the Cultural Revolution. They are booming. Just when the Provincial Red Federation headed by Gao Si decided to accuse the first secretary, the second secretary, and another alternate secretary of the provincial party committee as Sanjia Village, and announced that they would resolutely overthrow them. Unexpectedly, the Central Committee of the Party, which originally called for the rebels to seize power from the capitalists through an editorial in the "People's Daily" on January 22, revised this policy of seizing power in mid-February. A Good Example of the Revolutionaries' Struggle to Seize Power", "Resolutely Defend the Correct Policy of the Three Combinations" and other articles in the editorial department of People's Daily put forward and emphasized the information that the three combinations can be used to seize power. In the fifth editorial of the Red Flag magazine, Chairman Mao Zedong’s latest instructions came: In those places and units that need to seize power, the revolutionary three-in-one policy must be implemented, and a revolutionary, representative, and proletarian authority must be established. provisional authority.The name of this organization is called the Revolutionary Committee.In this way, the dream of seizing power by mass organizations alone must be discarded, and some leading cadres in the original regime and representatives of the People’s Liberation Army must be allowed to participate in the revolutionary committee after the seizure of power, and the status of representatives of mass organizations has been reduced from the head to the three-in-one in the third place. Since the three secretaries of the provincial party committee had been declared targets of overthrow, Gao Si could only allow the remaining provincial party secretaries and an alternate secretary to join the future revolutionary committee. While Gao Sipai was busy preparing for the post-seizure provincial revolutionary committee candidates, a series of news came from Beijing, which greatly encouraged the repressed workers' rebels and other rebel organizations: On March 24, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council, the Central Military Commission, and the Central Cultural Revolution jointly issued an order on Zhao Yongfu, the deputy commander of the Qinghai Provincial Military Region, who commanded the army to send troops to Qinghai on February 23.On the 18th, the rebel organization opened fire and suppressed it, causing more than 300 casualties. It was decided to deal with the serious problem.The decision of the central government also announced the restoration of the Eighth Army that was labeled as a reactionary organization by the Qinghai Provincial Military Region.18. Rebel organizations. It is also a provincial military region! It is also labeling a rebel organization as a reactionary organization! The Dongfanghong Headquarters, the Jinggangshan Red Guards and other rebel groups who lost no time immediately launched a slogan war in the whole city of Changsha, and a series of brand new slogans quickly filled the streets and alleys of the city: Resolutely support the central government's decision on the handling of the Qinghai issue! Down with Zhao Yongfu, the executioner who suppressed the capitalist roaders in the army and suppressed the revolutionary rebels! Eight to Qinghai.18 Rebel comrades-in-arms study! Down with Zhao Yongfu in Hunan Province! Undoubtedly, the Qinghai incident has greatly shaken various political forces in Hunan Province, including the provincial military region, field troops stationed in Hunan Province, and military academies. No one wants to be another Zhao Yongfu.Cracks have also appeared in the image of the sacred and inviolable People's Army.Thus, the provincial military region's original plan to declare several rebel organizations illegal before seizing power and establishing the Provincial Revolutionary Committee was immediately abandoned, and the activities of the rebel organizations that had become increasingly powerful had to be tolerated. Another piece of news encouraged the rebels even more: in February, several veterans of Huairentang were criticized, especially Tan Zhenlin, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee; The nature of a February countercurrent has been determined, and the streets of Beijing will resolutely fight back against the February countercurrent!Defeat the vanguard Tan Zhenlin who is against the flow in February!Waiting for big slogans to be overwhelming. February, the perfect timing! Countercurrents, coincidences of nature! Although there is no direct connection between the struggle in Huairentang in Beijing and the suppression in Hunan, the two events are fundamentally different in nature, and even the dictatorship instructions issued to the Hunan rebel organizations came from the Central Cultural Revolution Group However, the Hunan rebels, who were devastated in mid-February, immediately seized this opportunity and quickly posted a batch of slogans copying Beijing's slogans. At the same time, they also secretly acted. Planning a counterattack. As for the Provincial Military Region and Gaosi, the Provincial Red Federation organized by them did not include most of the rebel organizations in Hunan, especially the representative large-scale workers’ rebel organizations. The committee's plan has never been approved by the central government.On the contrary, some liaison officers sent by the Central Cultural Revolution, in the name of Xinhua News Agency reporters, kept secretly active in various workers' rebel organizations, investigated and understood the situation, and sent reports to the Central Cultural Revolution Group.At the same time, the Red Guards of the Third Department of the Capital and the Red Flag Liaison Station of Beihang University in Changsha, although they have followed the central government’s order that the Red Guards in Beijing should not participate in the Cultural Revolution Movement in other provinces and all the liaison stations stationed in other places have been withdrawn, no longer set up a liaison station. However, there are still many Red Guards in Hunan, helping the worker rebels to report the situation to the central government, or quickly conveying the favorable news from Beijing to the workers' rebel organizations in Hunan, so that the worker rebels will not commit blind and unreasonable mistakes in the contest with the provincial military region. Isolated bug. The tide is turning left. The rebels started to move as if they had gone through hibernation. Qinghai eight.After being a reactionary organization for a month, the 18th rebel organization was restored to its reputation and re-entered the stage of the Cultural Revolution. This news made me very happy.Immediately, I discussed with Yang Jinhe and Hou Chuanjiang that I would go out again and form a rebel team.The wind and thunder on the Xiangjiang River can't be recovered for a while, so we can't use this flag first. According to Mao Zedong's poem Huang Yangjie, the sound of guns is booming, and the report of the enemy's disappearance, we decided to organize a combat team with booming guns. When it is booming, it is the time when capitalist roaders and conservatives disappear.Of course, I like this term very much. After connecting together, only seven or eight young people are willing to participate.Seeing that the number of people in the Xiangjiang Fenglei Squad was far lower than his original number, Yang Jinhe became a little restless.I advised him, it doesn't matter, there are always a few people who take the lead, and once the situation is opened, most people will support us and follow us. In the battle team with the sound of guns, we promoted Yang Jinhe as the captain.Yang declined, saying that I should be in charge.I said, in the machine shop, you should be the leader of the rebel faction.Yang is relatively stable, and I am an activist, and I will not be content with the affairs of the factory. Once there is a chance, I will be indispensable to restore the Xiangjiang Fenglei organization in the company system and rescue the arrested Zhong Youxin and Lao Yi. We posted a founding statement in the factory, announcing that we had organized a rebellion again.The Dongfanghong headquarters team immediately wrote a big-character poster to express their welcome. Members of the Combat Team to Defend Mao Zedong Thought remained silent.Naturally, there will be no welcome move, but let's curse the variant of Xiangjiang Fenglei again!I think, at this time, they don't have the courage.Qinghai eight.The events of the 18th and the events of Tan Zhenlin in Beijing have been told to every Changsha citizen through the big-character posters plastered all over the streets and alleys.No matter who it is, they can more or less weigh the weight of those two seemingly unrelated things. We also approached Secretary Su of the party branch to ask for money and an office.Secretary Su, who was very concerned about the situation, immediately approved a note to buy flags, paper and ink, etc. without saying a word, and still allocated the office used by the Xiangjiang Fenglei Squad to us.Seeing that Secretary Su could satisfy our demands, Yang Jinhe was very satisfied. He smiled and said to Secretary Su: "Old Su, a revolutionary committee will be established in the factory in the future. We will elect you as a leading cadre of one of the three combinations. As long as you really support us.Secretary Su also smiled slightly, but didn't say anything. At that time, the power of our factory was mainly supervised by the Rebel Joint Committee (Joint Committee) organized by Dongfanghong Headquarters in the factory after the Xiangjiang wind and thunder was suppressed. However, the administrative power has not been completely deprived. It is just that everyone no longer calls him the secretary, but Lao Su, and at the same time, he is no longer in charge of it alone, but must be supervised and countersigned by the factory association committee. In public, Secretary Su still plays the role of neither opposing nor supporting.But secretly, we found that he was still concerned with defending the Mao Zedong Thought Battle Team, and often attended their meetings. Yang Jinhe was very annoyed by this, saying that Secretary Su was too cunning, and he might not be allowed to join the triple combination in the future. I said, those conservatives were all cultivated by him. When they first rebelled, they were all devoted to protecting him. How could he not have feelings for those people?What three combinations, let's talk about it at that time, there is no sign of horoscope yet. With this cannon-sounding combat team, our rebellion has another ground.But for this rebellion, there is basically no rebellion in the factory, at least for now.As for the secretary of the party branch and the director of the factory, during the rebellion earlier, those who should be approved were also approved, and those who should be fought were also fought. The old workers wanted to vent their accumulated anger, and they also posted a lot. It's immature at this time, at least the three unions are asking for military representatives, where do they come from?Looking for someone from the military region?We won't do it even if we are killed.What about pie wars?The Mao Zedong Thought Defense Team in the factory, apart from cursing us behind our backs, they dare not say anything in front of us, and they can't even write big-character posters.However, they did not disband their organization, nor did they issue a statement agreeing with our views.On the contrary, some of them went to the streets every day to read big-character posters and applaud Gao Si's propaganda broadcasts. I think it's still the same old truth: big rivers have water and small rivers are full, while big rivers have no water and small rivers are dry.Whether the rebels in our factory and our company can win or not depends on whether the rebels in Changsha City, Hunan Province can win.Therefore, we can also take part in social rebellion activities first. Everyone agrees with me. I made up my mind to quit working as a fitter again and concentrate on being a professional rebel.The apprentice salary of 20 yuan per month is not afraid that the factory will not pay me. I approached Secretary Su and said: From today onwards, as a full-time member of the Paoshenglong combat team, I will no longer go to work, please approve. Old Su said quickly: Yes, yes. I also said: Yang Jinhe and Hou Chuanjiang sometimes need to go to some rebel meetings and activities, so they often have to take half a day or one day off. Please say hello to the workshop. Lao Su still said enthusiastically: OK!OK! He doesn't object, doesn't hold back, but he never praises our request.We had a meeting and decided that I would do more social contact, while Yang Jinhe would lead the organization of the Paoshenglong combat team in the factory. I don’t have to go to the workshop to work, so I have more time for activities. I don’t have to wait until night. In broad daylight, I can also go to various rebel organizations to connect with each other and learn about the situation so that I can organize and participate in various rebellious actions. On April 7th, after some careful planning and organization, the rebels in Changsha finally launched a large-scale counterattack. The newspaper "Hunan Daily" was closed. I was not there on the day the newspaper was published, but I heard someone describe the somewhat romantic scene afterwards: That morning, hundreds of middle school Red Guards held the banners of their respective rebel organizations, secretly carried hundreds of seals prepared, buckets of paste, and bundles of white paper. Amidst the singing of Mao Zedong's quotations making a fuss, the parade stopped in front of the gate of the "Hunan Daily" newspaper office. Most of these middle school Red Guards belonged to the Jinggangshan Red Guards organization.Their commander was a nineteen-year-old female middle school student, surnamed Xie, a probationary member of the Communist Party of China. At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, she was labeled as a counter-revolutionary by the party organization in her middle school for no reason. When receiving tens of thousands of Red Guards, she was fortunate enough to be invited to the Tiananmen Gate Tower, confront Mao Zedong, sued an imperial court, and asked Mao Zedong to sign Mao Zedong in one of her notebooks.As a result, Commander Xie became a staunch rebel Red Guard. Immediately after she returned to Changsha, she organized the Jinggangshan Red Guard Revolutionary Rebel Headquarters with middle school students as the main body, and took an active role in the Hunan Cultural Revolution stage as a rebel left wing.Later, when she was less than 20 years old, she was appointed by the central government as the leading member of the preparatory group of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee and served as a member of the first Provincial Revolutionary Committee. More than a dozen Red Guards suddenly raised their bronze trumpets, and Dada Dadi's majestic marching horn resounded through the sky. Go!Hundreds of Red Guards ran towards the gate of the newspaper, holding red flags and holding paper and ink, shouting. Members of the Red News Soldiers, a rebel organization in the newspaper that had been notified earlier, immediately walked out of the office and out of the workshop of the printing factory, and welcomed the arrival of the Jinggangshan Red Guards with warm applause.There was no resistance, no quarreling, just watching the Red Guards use the seals of more than a dozen rebel organizations to lock and seal the doors of offices and workshops of printing factories. Occasionally, a few cadres of conservative organizations , tried to stop them, but they were all shouted away by the rebel colleagues in the newspaper office.Things went smoothly, and within half an hour the highly motivated Red Guards had sealed off the entire newspaper building, stopping all work at the newspaper. Signed by more than a dozen rebel organizations, a serious statement on the closure of the "Hunan Daily" was posted. The statement was also prepared in advance, and there were more than a dozen round and square bright red seals on the signature. After enumerating all kinds of crimes committed by the Hunan Daily, the statement unilaterally announced several regulations, to the effect that: 1. From now on, "Hunan Daily" (including "Chasing the Poor Bandits" printed and distributed by Gao Si and the Provincial Red Federation) shall not be published; 2. However, a "Xinhua News Agency Telegraph" is published every day, which only publishes important domestic and foreign news and news sent by Beijing Xinhua News Agency; 3. When the newspaper will be unsealed and published again, our consent is required; Fourth, we immediately report this matter to the Party Central Committee. We, of course, are the dozen or so rebel organizations participating in the newspaper. The president and editor-in-chief of the newspaper office have experienced the Cultural Revolution for more than half a year, so they don't appear to be very panicked about such things.Moreover, they also understood that the Red Guards and the rebels did not come for them. They didn't need to fight against the Red Guards, and they also knew that doing so was useless. Moreover, at that time they themselves were the targets of criticism from the masses.The only thing to do is to report and ask for instructions from above. Who do I report to? 省委書記們今天不是被造反組織搞去批鬥，明天就是被高司屬下的組織弄去檢討、請罪，到哪兒去找？找到了，又有什麼用？ 省委宣傳部？整個省委都癱瘓了，省委宣傳部還管什麼用？何況，省委機關大院內都分成了兩派。 但社長和總編以及臨時掌管了報社大權的保守派組織的頭頭，仍有可以匯報的地方。 省軍區司令部宣傳處長便接到了他們打來的電話。 宣傳處長火速向省軍區司令員作了匯報。 宣傳處長希望司令員立即下令。大概，他會想，派出一個營的部隊就夠了，他相信，紅帽徽紅領章綠軍裝的解放軍，可以輕而易舉地戰勝那些雖也身著褪色軍裝但只佩有紅袖章的紅衛兵，趕走他們，奪回報社。 我沒有在近處見過省軍區的龍書金司令員。但，從湖南文革當時發展的形勢，可想而知，當時他顯然不能輕易地打這一仗。青海趙永夫的下場，北京老帥們的結局，像濃濃的陰影，沉沉地罩住了他。 龍司令是一個老革命，湖南省茶陵縣人，一九二九年就參加農民赤衛隊，後編入中國工農紅軍，參加了二萬五千里長征，還參加了著名的平型關大捷一戰，一九五五年被授予少將軍銜。幾十年南征北戰，他都沒怯過場，始終敢打敢衝也善防善守。然而，文革一來，他沒轍了，相信他的確不知這場仗該如何打了，因為，在文革運動中，他弄不清敵人在哪兒。 毛澤東說誰是我們的敵人？誰是我們的朋友？這是中國革命的首要問題。自然，這也是文革運動的首要問題。黨中央要軍隊支持左派，命令下得似乎很明確，可誰是左派呀？後來，龍司令稍稍明白了一點，左派應該在造反派之中，因為中央都支持造反派。但是，問題又來了，湘江風雷與高司可都是造反派呀？然而，他們兩家卻成了你死我活的對頭，省軍區應該支持誰？大概，龍司令想來想去，研究的結果是似乎應該支持高司紅衛兵，因為他從軍區偵察部門報來的情報資料中分析，湘江風雷人員複雜，其組織中什麼人都有，而且那幾個頭頭的來歷與家庭出身也有可疑之處，而高司就不同了，全是年輕人大學生，全是紅衛兵，組織人員非常單純，他的頭頭有幾個還是共產黨員；更重要的是，湘江風雷那一派，是經常與軍區發生衝突的，甚至在一月二十日那天晚上，他們還來衝擊省軍區，還差一點衝到了軍區作戰室，這可是犯法的大事。湘江風雷一派的人說，他們是懷疑省軍區藏有省委的黑材料，所以他們要進來搜。Damn it!他們忘記了這是軍隊！軍區豈能由你老百姓來逛來搜？ !中央軍委不是也已下達了命令，不能允許群眾組織衝擊軍隊嗎？ !可見，這個什麼湘江風雷值得懷疑。而高司紅衛兵可就好多了，他們造反的幹勁也很大，但是卻只對準省委本來嘛，走資派只是在地方黨委之中，與我們軍隊沒有什麼關係從不與軍區發生衝突，而且還主動與軍區保持聯繫。這樣看來，高司的確是左派！中央文革在北京支持的左派，不也是蒯大富、韓愛晶那些造反的大學生紅衛兵嘛！而對湘江風雷不僅不能支持，相反，還要整整他們的材料，向廣州軍區與中央報告他們的問題。這不，很快中央就下了批示，而且是中央文革小組下的，支持省軍區的觀點，還要軍區對湘江風雷與紅旗軍的反動頭目採取專政措施，摧垮這兩個反動組織。 對省軍區的舉措，龍司令顯然有過一陣高興。 但是，沒過多久，顯然他發現，事態的發展已超出他與省軍區黨委的預計，鎮壓了與軍區唱反調的湘江風雷後，地方上的造反派不僅沒有來主動改善與軍區的關係，相反，除高司派外，其他造反派對軍區的反感卻越來越大，而軍區欲希望通過高司，來強化軍隊與地方群眾組織的融洽友好氛圍的設想，也落了空。因為，高司畢竟只是大學生，看來他們還沒有左右局勢的能力，甚至，高司與北京的左派大學生紅衛兵首都三司、北航紅旗都發生了觀點對立，而不能站在一起。 這一來，在湖南文革運動的態勢中，省軍區便不知不覺陷入了某種被動。原本軍隊因為是支左，故很受地方上造反派們的歡迎，而都想與軍區拉上關係，使軍隊能支持他們。可是現在，由於急於支持高司，而將湘江風雷打了下去，結果卻導致湖南大部分造反派，特別是工人造反組織與軍區產生了對立，而且，這種對立，越來越強烈，連砲轟省軍區！油炸龍書金！這樣明明白白針對軍區的大標語，都已不顧中央堅決不能衝擊軍隊的指令，而公開被貼上了街。現在，竟又組織大批人員來封閉《湖南日報》社，不讓出報，說報社自二月以來成了復辟資本主義的喉舌！ what to do?是堅決回擊，甚至再打他幾個反動組織，殺殺這些造反派的威風？或者，還是找工人造反派組織做工作，爭取他們？ 面對如此大事，龍司令無疑會慎重地將問題擺到軍區黨委會上。 終於，省軍區除了向廣州軍區等上級報告情況外，沒有採取其他反擊行動，只是密切注視事態的發展。 也許，經過討論、研究，一生戎馬征戰的省軍區首長們只能排除武裝奪回報社的任何方案，而選擇他們並不擅長的戰鬥方式：文攻。即採取一切只靠嘴巴和筆墨紙張、廣播器材為武器的方式。也許，他們不得不佩服：這狗日的造反派，真會選擇時機！要是早一個月敢這麼搞，非把他們全關進監獄不可！ 可是現在，省軍區不能這樣了。 因為，前幾天，即四月二日出版的《人民日報》發表了一篇社論《正確對待革命小將》，文章中說：當前，社會上出現了一股資本主義復辟的反革命逆流。黨內一小撮走資本主義道路的當權派，對革命小將玩弄陰謀詭計，在革命小將之間播弄是非，拉一批，打一批，妄圖分裂革命小將的隊伍，將革命小將引向邪路全盤否定革命小將的大方向，甚至操縱已垮臺的保守派組織進行翻案活動，把一些革命小將重新打成反革命。他們這樣做，就是反對毛主席的無產階級革命路線，就是否定前階段的無產階級文化大革命的偉大成果。對於這股逆流，我們必須堅決回擊，徹底粉碎！ 此刻，省軍區不能不細心地思考研究《人民日報》文章的目標所指，更不能忽視《人民日報》文章的份量。畢竟，現在是搞文化大革命，中央的文化內容，就是下面的行動指南針！ 軍區不能給報社以明白的支持，還要做事的報社總編們就只好按造反派的命令辦事，《湖南日報》封了，就出《新華社電訊》吧，總不能讓報社來個集體放假。 井岡山紅衛兵將《湖南日報》封閉後不到一小時，一批批《湖南日報》封得好！堅決支持井岡山紅衛兵的革命行動！的大標語便刷上了長沙市街頭。一隊隊舉著各自組織名稱旗幟的造反派紛紛朝《湖南日報》社開去。在報社內外一片口號聲、鼓掌聲、甚至還有鞭砲聲音的齊鳴中，成千成萬的人流湧進了報社，衝上報社四層大樓的最高露天平臺，將自己組織的旗幟插上，加入到已插上了的井岡山紅衛兵等幾十個造反組織的紅旗之林中，以示參入對報社的佔領。 封閉《湖南日報》社的第二天，即四月八日，省市公安、檢察、法院支持高司的保守派組織，卻搞了一次前所未有的幾千人的武裝遊行，遊行者一方面戴著群眾組織的紅袖章，一方面又身著警服佩著手槍，舉著紅旗打著橫幅，開著宣傳車，高喊支持高司與封《湖南日報》是反革命行為！、堅決鎮壓一切牛鬼蛇神！等口號，遊行到《湖南日報》社大樓前。對此，造反派方面則也針鋒相對，借歡呼當天的《人民日報》社論《高舉無產階級的革命的批判旗幟》，迅速組織了一次全市大規模的反擊性遊行，依靠人多勢眾，在氣勢上，壓倒了公檢法方面的武裝示威。 後來，在造反派戰勝了省軍區與高司派時，長沙的省市公、檢、法系統的幹警，遭到了很大的打擊，很多公、檢、法人員被打傷，有數名公安警察甚至被人打死。這原因，一方面，固然是中央領導人發出了徹底砸爛舊公檢法指示的大局所致；另一方面，則的確是因他們以群眾組織面貌來介入兩派鬥爭，卻又穿著警察的制服、佩著武器來威脅造反派，而導致了造反派群眾對他們的極度反感所致。 當然，也有一些是原來的勞教人員，趁亂而對他們施加了的報復。例如，有一個幾乎全部由原勞教人員與正在勞教期間時逃出來的勞教人員所糾集的組織，叫長沙青年，約有上百名成員，其司令是一個原被勞教過的年輕扒手。他們趁文革動亂之機，也造起了反，但其造反的重點，卻不在於什麼政治觀點，而只是捕捉報復曾管教過他們的公安警察，也確實打死打傷了一些警察，並趁機搞打砸搶、發橫財。一九六八年省革命委員會成立後，這個長沙青年組織的司令，被當局予以逮捕，不久即予以槍決了。對於長沙青年這類流氓組織，造反派們對其也很惱火，因為其打著的也是造反旗號，卻又不按政策辦事，且專門在造反有利；因而，造反派們認為這是在敗壞造反有理的政治聲譽。所以，對於當局打擊與鎮壓這類組織與人員，也都是持肯定與支持態度。甚至，後來，造反派們自己還聯合成立了一個治安指揮部，而這個有半執法權力機構建立的起始初衷，便是為了清剿這類害群之馬。 三天之後，高司派實在不能容忍了，讓肆無忌憚的中學生紅衛兵及支持她的造反組織，繼續佔據在省報大樓耀武揚威，實在是個大大的挑戰。 中午時分，游弋在省報大樓的紅衛兵、造反派，已沒有幾個人了。一則封報已封了幾天，省軍區與高司、省紅聯都沒有什麼動靜，於是乎，高昂警惕的鬥志已疲了下來。二則，午飯午休之時，本是人去樓空之際。不料，數百名高司大學生及支持他們的保守組織人員，卻神不知鬼不覺地衝進了大樓，一下子撕下報社內所有貼的封條，驅趕、毆打那些敢於阻擋他們的中學紅衛兵，並且氣沖沖地跑到大樓頂上，將那數百杆象徵各造反組織的旗幟，一古腦都拔了起來，扔下了大樓。隨著大學生們一陣陣歡呼聲、一杆杆紅旗都倒栽下來，橫躺到了地上。 然而，高司派的人員卻不敢久留，要知道，在人數勢力上講，東方紅總部、長沙工人等工人造反組織，加上原湘江風雷人員，是佔據絕對優勢，除了獲得省軍區的支持，否則在動武方面，他們不會是贏家。所以，他們在迅速刷出一批封《湖南日報》是反革命行動！牛鬼蛇神翻天，堅決鎮壓！之類的標語後，便得意洋洋呼著口號凱旋而去。 不過，高司派的這次突襲的勝利，沒有維持多長時間。很快，聞迅而來的造反派又如潮水般湧來，封條又被重新貼上，一杆杆紅旗又被插上原處。而且，各造反組織決定成立一個前線指揮部，組織一批強悍的工人和學生，長期駐守在報社，以抵禦隨時可能來撕封條的高司派。 這一封，就封了幾個月，《湖南日報》始終出不了。對此，造反派高興，反正每天發《新華社電訊》，國內外大事的新聞不會耽誤，而造反派找到了省報這個突破口，並以此為契機，向省軍區和高司派展開了聲勢愈來愈大的反攻。 《湖南日報》被封的消息，我們廠裡的人都知道了。那陣，不管你關心不關心，只要你稍稍認得幾個字，滿街的大字報大標語，就可以迅速地讓你知道長沙市發生的一切大事。 我們砲聲隆戰鬥隊不隸屬於社會上的哪個造反組織，因而沒有人通知我們去參加封報的行動。但，我一從大街上得知這個消息，便馬上與楊金河商量，決定立即加入支持封報的行列。 《湖南日報》社大樓頂上數百杆飄揚著的紅旗中，又有了一面我們機修廠砲聲隆戰鬥隊的旗幟。旗幟插在了那兒，不知會要多久，但我們不能期望它馬上能取回。那樣做，會造成誤會的，別人會以為我們撤回對封報的支持，因此，我們便又重新定做了一杆新旗。 我們砲聲隆戰鬥隊的旗幟，也插上了省報大樓，廠裡有人看見了，於是，廠裡的人也知道了。 我想，知道了就好！我就是要讓保衛毛澤東思想戰鬥隊那些人知道：我們人還在，心不死！ 廠裡的東方紅總部分隊有幾位老工人，則勸我：你們造反精神強，我們佩服，但，湘江風雷打成反動組織是中央文革批的，你們還是要注意點，要策略點咯。 但，我不是什麼反動頭目，我是響應毛主席號召的造反派，我要注意什麼！ ? 不過，我還是感謝他們的好心。何況，他們畢竟是我們的長輩，只是不必全聽他們的，而只管走自己的路就是。 東方紅總部分隊的老工人，打心裡是支持封報的，口裡也為此事大唱讚歌，但始終，沒有將自己組織的旗幟插到報社大樓上去，也沒有正式組織了自己的隊伍去表示聲援。 然而，我們都毫不猶豫的做了。 這也許就是年輕人與中、老年人的區別吧，哪怕同樣都是扛著一面造反的紅旗。