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The picture shows Ge Zhenlin in his later years
I'm 78 years old. Whenever I think of the outstanding sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, at the critical juncture of the nation's life and death, building a new Great Wall with flesh and blood, and resisting the Japanese invading army, my mood cannot be calmed for a long time, and the tragic and magnificent course of battle clearly appears in front of me.
My hometown is in Quyang County, Hebei Province. I lost my mother when I was 8 years old, worked for the landlords since I was a child, and suffered oppression and exploitation. In April 1937, under the leadership of the underground party, I threw myself into the revolution, fighting landlords and bullies. Later, the Eighth Route Army came to our village and helped us set up various organizations, and I became the leader of the militia, leading the militia to reduce rent and interest, collect grain and transport grain, support the army and subordinates, and support the front. In February 1938, I joined the Eighth Route Army and was assigned to the seventh company and six squads of a regiment in the first sub-district of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, directly engaged in the fight against fascism and against the Japanese invading army. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, I participated in dozens of battles of Songcheng, Fuping, Dongzhuang, Dalonghua, Loess Ridge, Nanpotou, Wolf's Tooth Mountain, and the Hundred Regiments War.
In August 1941, Okamura Ningji, commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in North China, mobilized more than 100,000 troops to carry out an unprecedented sweep of our Jin-Cha-Ji base area, and the Japanese puppet army attacking the Wolfa Mountain area was a unit commanded by Takami, the commander of the enemy chieftain brigade.
Wolf's Tooth Mountain, named for its peak-like wolf's tooth, is a dangerous terrain and is the eastern gate of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region. It is not only militarily important, but it is also a warehouse in my base area, where many ammunition, equipment and food are stored on the mountain.
On September 23, our regimental commander received a briefing from Yang Chengwu, commander of the sub-district, that the enemy who was sweeping away might have made a big move around Wolf's Tooth Mountain. He immediately deployed. At that time, the main force of the regiment was transferred out to defend the organs of the military region, and only our seven companies and some militia remained in Wolf's Tooth Mountain. We were stationed in Linquan, and after company commander Liu Fushan and instructor Cai Zhanpeng received the order to defend Langya Mountain, they immediately gathered their troops and set off.
In the early morning of September 24, more than 3,500 Japanese troops, led by puppet troops, under the cover of aircraft artillery, encircled Wolf's Tooth Mountain from all directions. The cadres of local party and government organs and the surrounding villages who were surrounded on The Wolf's Tooth Mountain amounted to 30,000 or 40,000 people. The regimental commander deployed our seventh company as a rear guard to cover the breakthrough of the party and government organs and the masses, and when everyone was safely transferred, he left a squad to drag the enemy and finally move.
When our squad leader Ma Baoyu heard the news, he ran to the instructor to ask for battle, asking us to give us the task of finally dragging the enemy. The company commander consulted with the instructor and agreed to our request. At that time, in addition to the comrades who were hospitalized due to injury and illness, there were only five people left in our class: Ma Baoyu, the squad leader, Hu Delin, Hu Fucai, Song Xueyi, and me. I am the deputy squad leader.
At midnight on the 24th, the regimental commander received an order from Commander Yang Chengwu: "The enemy's mouth has been opened, and he will break through immediately." ”
In the blink of an eye, in the cold moonlight, thirty or forty thousand cadres and the masses, covered by troops, quietly moved along the Pantuo Road in an orderly manner towards the direction of the Mill Terrace.
Before leaving, the regimental commander paid special attention to our squad and said to us: "Whether the main force of the breakthrough team and the company can safely jump out of the encirclement depends on whether you can drag the enemy to death." From now on, you alone will have to deal with dozens, even hundreds, of enemies, and if you make full use of the natural dangers of Wolf's Tooth Mountain and the modified terrain to strike at the enemy flexibly and flexibly, you will certainly be able to complete the task. ”
We replied in unison, "Rest assured, Chief!" ”
On September 25, 1941, just after dawn, the breakthrough troops and the masses had unconsciously jumped out of the enemy's encirclement centered on Wolf's Tooth Mountain, but the enemy thought that our main force was surrounded by them. At dawn, like a pack of hungry wolves, they pounced viciously. Our Seventh Company and the remaining militia worked closely together, divided their troops, flexibly resisted the enemy, planted mines on the enemy's inevitable path, and shot at the enemy from all directions, creating the illusion that the Eighth Route Army was everywhere in the mountains. The enemy who climbed up from dongxishui village to the chessboard tower, accompanied by the explosion of mines along the way, killed forty or fifty people. The Japanese commander Takami and the puppet army leader Zhao Yukun were convinced that a big fish had been netted, so they attacked even more frantically.
In the fierce battle, company commander Liu Fushan was seriously wounded. Most of the second and machine gun squads he led were killed and in critical condition. The instructor moved the company commander into the grass, let a soldier hold it, and then said to us: "You take cover on the mountain, try to let the transferred comrades go further, and ensure that the main force of the company breaks through safely." You hold out until noon, and then, depending on the situation, you can withdraw there as you can, and tomorrow you will meet at the prescribed place. "After saying that, we were refilled with some ammunition and left all the mines, and then we broke through with the main force of the company in the direction of the Dragon King Temple."
At this time, the 5 people in our class quickly planted mines at various key crossings. The instructor and the guide had just drilled out of the enemy's fire net, and we started fighting with the enemy, and in order to attract the enemy, we stood and raised our guns to shoot at the enemy. More than 500 Japanese troops and Zhao Yukun's puppet army screamed and pounced on us, and they stepped on the mines, blowing up the ghosts and howling wolves, and the corpses flew everywhere. The undead trembling moved his feet, but he still chased after him. Seeing this scene, the squad leader Ma Baoyu crawled over and whispered, "Attention! No one is allowed to shoot without my orders, and here each person is allowed to shoot a maximum of five grenades. ”
The Japanese army was getting closer, and we were staring at the hideous faces.
Suddenly, the squad leader Ma Baoyu lifted up half-cut his body, slammed out a grenade, and shouted: "Fight! ”
Grenades and bullets roared toward the enemy, and the devils were blown up and retreated.
After repelling the enemy, we attracted a fierce burst of artillery fire, and the stones on the mountain exploded all over the sky, and the smoke of gunfire enveloped us, and we could not see anything. All five feared for each other that their comrades would be in trouble. It was hard to stop the enemy shelling. The squad leader took a closer look, Ho! All five were there, and none of them had hurt a single hair.
We drew the enemy in with the sparse sound of gunfire as we climbed towards the top of the checkerboard mountain. Suddenly, when he came across a fellow named Ran Yuantong, he quickly shouted: "Fellow, the devil is coming, hurry up and find a place to hide!" ”
Ran Yuantong then asked, "Where are you going?" "I told him to go on the chessboard. He then advised us not to go there, saying that there was a cave nearby and that the devils could not find it, and told us to go with him. We told him gratefully that we could not hide, but that we should lead the enemy to the chessboard.
At this time, there was a strange cry of the Japanese army, and we hurried to climb the peak of the chessboard top, who knew that the enemy had already gone up there, and the machine guns hit us vigorously. We had to climb another mountain near the checkerboard.
This mountain is called the horn pot, and it is extremely dangerous, and the cliff that rises up in the sky and sticks out like a cow's horn is daunting. The horn pot is a cliff on three sides, and we are equivalent to a dead end. Ran Yuantong looked at him in a daze, the Japanese army found him, shot at him, and he quickly hid in the Big Lotus Petal Mountain near the horn pot.
We climbed toward the horn pot for a while and then stopped. As we all know, there is a dead end in front of us, and at this time we can still get rid of the enemy along the hidden Pantuo Road, but everyone is worried that the troops and the masses have not gone far, and the enemy will continue to pursue.
The squad leader looked at the surrounding terrain and said, "Let's stand here for a while!" Everyone lay down, opened the grenade cover, and swung it in front of them. There are small trees here, grass that is more than half a person tall, and it is no problem to hide a hundred and eighty people. Because of this, the enemy cannot grasp the truth and does not dare to act hastily. For us, it bought time for the main force to move.
The hundreds of Japanese troops who pounced on the bull horn pot rushed up 7 times in the first round, 2 in front and 5 in the back. Only to hear a "snap" of a gunshot, a Japanese soldier with a machine gun leaned back, and the one next to him quickly supported him, put him under a small grass, wrapped his head in a cloth, and then carried him down. A ghost waved a small flag, and more than 30 ghosts came up, and put on a small cannon on the pine tree pass, set up a heavy machine gun in the East and West Water Village, and shot at the bull horn pot fiercely.
After a burst of artillery fire, the enemy began to charge. We repelled four enemy attacks in a row, and not one of the five men was missing. "The devil is coming up again, fight!" Squad leader Ma Baoyu shouted. Song Xueyi grabbed the grenade and threw it, and I shot it to change places, as if I couldn't finish it. The half-man-deep grass was hit by artillery fire, and the flames flew so high. Hu Delin pushed me: "Deputy, you're here!" "As soon as I saw that the back of the cotton jacket was on fire, even the button could not be solved, so I tore it with all my strength, took it off and threw it away. The enemy's fifth charge was repulsed again.
The sun is far to the west, relatives and comrades-in-arms have long gone, the task of covering the breakthrough has long been completed, and now it is time to withdraw. However, I couldn't get out.
We see it inexplicably when a commander instructs the enemy to plant a Japanese flag on the ground and spread out another. Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the air, two enemy planes swooped down, and as soon as we fell down, the enemy planes fired a string of bullets, whizzing past the ground, causing the small trees to shake like drunks. Then the enemy commander under the mountain swung his sword, and the enemy rushed up again! We climbed to the top of the cliff, followed by the enemy. In order not to keep the enemy from following too closely, whenever we reached a place where we could shoot, we raised our guns and shot at the enemy. Just like that, lead the enemy's nose to the top of the mountain.
When the sun was tilted to the west, we reached the top of the dangerous peak, and there was no way out. On three sides are cliffs, and on one side are full of ghost soldiers.
"Eight-way, can't run..." The autumn wind sent a triumphant cry from the devil. Our grenades and bullets were gone, and everyone was in a hurry.
"Hey!" Hu Delin shouted and picked up a grenade from the ground, and he was about to throw it down after he raised it, when the squad leader Ma Baoyu grabbed it and pinned it to his waist. Everyone understands that this is for their own. The enemy was screaming, and we stood up and threw stones down, and the big ones couldn't move, so they carried them in two. The stones rolled down and smashed the enemy into a scream. The enemy poured up like locusts, one by one. Finally, there was no stone left, and the squad leader Ma Baoyu pulled out the only grenade and looked at it with an unusually severe gaze, and all four of us understood and leaned toward the squad leader together.
"Eight-way, surrender!"
"Catch the living, catch the living—"
The squad leader turned his head to look at it and roared, "Fuck your mother!" "Throw that grenade at the enemy who is climbing up."
With a "bang", several Japanese troops in front of them were blown up.
"Withdraw!" Comrade Ma Baoyu said. In fact, this is just a sentence that he subconsciously gushed to his mouth, surrounded by cliffs on three sides, from the front cliff to the back cliff, only ten steps, where to retreat?
I walked last, and by the time I caught up, the squad leader and the other three were already standing on the edge of the cliff. At this time, everyone's expression was unusually calm. The squad leader grabbed my arm and said intermittently, "Old Ge, we sacrificed, valuable, glorious!" "I understand what the squad leader means. I was the deputy squad leader, and only two of us out of five were party members, and we should set an example, so I said, "When a man is sacrificed, the gun cannot be called the enemy." ”
The enemy came up, the squad leader threw it casually, and the brand-new three-eight big cover flew down the cliff. I raised my gun and threw it at the rock, and when I didn't smash it, I threw it off the cliff. Song Xueyi and the three of them choked on tears, raised their beloved guns, and fell several times fiercely.
The enemy howled wildly.
The five of us held our heads high and walked step by step to the edge of the cliff.
Wolf's Tooth Mountain towered like a giant, and the Yishui River floated into the distance like a jade belt. On this Wolf's Tooth Mountain, we studied and trained troops, welcomed new comrades-in-arms, and destroyed the enemy more than once; at the bottom of this mountain, we ate the sticks and red dates sent by the compatriots when they were condolence, and listened to the leaders of the sub-districts tell the story of the ancient heroic jingke, and the generous and tragic song of "the wind is cold and the water is cold, and the brave soldiers will never return once they are gone" has always been swirling in our ears; we have bathed and cooked on the banks of the Yishui River to block the Japanese invading army; and now we have covered our comrades-in-arms and villagers on this mountain to highlight the siege. And destroy more than a hundred enemies and the mission is complete! We can say goodbye to the mountains and rivers of the motherland without shame!
When the enemy came and tried to capture us alive, Ma Baoyu straightened his regular hat and shouted loudly, as if launching a charge: "Comrades, come with me!" Suddenly, the peaks and valleys of Wolf's Tooth Mountain echoed with the slogans of the mighty mountains and rivers——
"Long live the Chinese Communist Party!"
"Long live the liberation of the Chinese nation!"
"Comrades, folks, farewell forever!"
Stunned, the Japanese soldiers watched the five of us jump off the cliff...
Song Xueyi and I were lucky enough to be hung by the branches of the tree, and we were in a desperate situation. After my waist injuries during the cliff jump were healed, I continued to march with the troops to fight, and later participated in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments commanded by Peng Lao and the later Battle of Pingjin.
The victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the liberation of the Chinese nation were bought with the blood and lives of countless of our revolutionary martyrs. Today, as we solemnly commemorate the 50 th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, we must not forget those revolutionary martyrs who heroically sacrificed their lives for the liberation of the Chinese nation.
(Excerpt from: Cpc Central Committee Party History Research Office, ed., "Cpc History Materials", CPC Party History Publishing House)