From the summer of 1947 to the end of 1949, the whole frontier longitudinal troops moved to Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou provinces 147 county, and established 12 guerrilla base area in an area with a population of about 20 million, which contained nearly150,000 Kuomintang troops. The number of border and longitudinal troops has grown to more than 45,000, the number of guerrillas in counties and districts has increased to more than 65,438+10,000, and more than 665,438+10,000 people have been wiped out, liberating 9 1 county. Among the nine counties in Wenshan (including Hekou County, which now belongs to Honghe Prefecture), eight counties in the border region were liberated, which made indelible contributions to the liberation of Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou provinces in cooperation with the Southern Field Army.
After the peaceful liberation of Yunnan, the border and longitudinal troops were gradually incorporated into the Yunnan Military Region, Guangxi Military Region and Guizhou Military Region 17 Military Division of the China People's Liberation Army; A few officers and men were incorporated into the field army and later participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Some comrades transferred to other places and took up new combat posts.
Located in the southwest of the motherland, Yunnan-Guizhou-Guangxi Border Region, under the autocratic rule of the exploiting classes in past dynasties, has formed a big gap with the social and economic development level of the inland provinces in history, with backward economy and culture, complicated class contradictions and ethnic contradictions, and working people of all ethnic groups are deeply discriminated and oppressed by ethnic groups and are struggling with hunger and death.
Since modern times, people of all ethnic groups in Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou provinces have been actively seeking their own liberation after nearly a hundred years of hard exploration. However, these struggles all failed under the cruel suppression of the reactionary ruling class. The birth of the China * * production party and the opening of the new-democratic revolutionary road have lit a beacon for the people of Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou. Under the leadership of the Production Party of China, it has become a historic and inevitable choice for people of all ethnic groups to take the revolutionary road of encircling cities from rural areas and seizing political power by armed forces.