Song Mountain is one of the Five Peaks, in the middle of the world. There is the world-famous Shaolin Temple. Then, we have to ask: During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Eighth Route Army liked to build up base areas on the basis of mountains, and did it also establish anti-Japanese base areas in Songshan?
Isn't that a natural and wonderful terrain? In fact, after the Battle of Yuxianggui, the 400,000 troops of the Kuomintang First Theater of Operations collapsed for thousands of miles, and Henan became a fallen area. When the Kuomintang army was gone, the Eighth Route Army was naturally going to advance, no matter how dangerous it was.
The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army decided to send Pi Dingjun to take command and open up an anti-Japanese base area in western Henan. As a Native of Henan, we must not forget Pi Dingjun, and many mountainous areas in western Henan still have the remains of Pi Dingjun in the areas of Gongyi, Xinmi and Dengfeng, as well as the former headquarters site where he worked.
As a base area, of course, it must also be based on the mountains. The big mountain selected by the headquarters for Pi Dingjun is, of course, Song Mountain. It was a big mountain, enough to exert its fists and feet to establish a solid and stable rear base.
Pi Dingjun had never been to Mount Song, so he strictly followed the instructions of his superiors. He led his troops across the Yellow River skillfully to the foot of the Song Mountains in western Henan, where he could already see the majestic peaks and the red stones that spread over the mountains. Well, when you reach your destination, start settling down, and establish a base here.
However, Pi Dingjun did not act blindly, he always investigated first, and then made a decision, even if there was an order from his superiors. Besides, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army asked him to come to Songshan, but it was only circled on the map, and the headquarters did not send anyone to Songshan for field investigation.
The construction of the base areas has a bearing on the overall situation of the anti-Japanese resistance in western Henan, and there can be no sloppiness in the slightest. Whether Songshan is suitable for establishing a base area or not, Pi Dingjun must personally look at it before deciding. On this day, Pi Dingjun and political commissar Xu Zirong climbed Mount Song together.
They climbed from the bottom of the mountain to the highest point. Pi Dingdu was not here for sightseeing, he was surveying the terrain here. Standing at the top of Mount Song, Pi Dingjun couldn't help but frown. Sure enough, there was a problem. What's the problem?
Looking down from above, Songshan Mountain can be seen from all over the place, and those trails, the boulders, including the villages under the mountain, and even the county seat of Dengfeng in the distance, can be seen in an unobstructed view. Why? Quite simply, because SongShan does not have dense trees that shade the sky.
Songshan is not like some big mountains in the south, thick and plump. The song mountain is very thin. Pi Dingjun looked at it for a long time and told political commissar Xu Zirong that this place is not suitable for guerrilla warfare, the mountain is too thin, and there is no room for maneuver. When a war starts, it is easy to be caught by the devil.
You can think about it, the reason why dashan can be used as the base of the Eighth Route Army is because the mountain is relatively deep, more dangerous, can not see the edge at a glance, can hide people, can hide, the Japanese army came, we hid in the mountains, he can't see, he can't find it.
And Songshan can't do it. There are no mountain trees at all to hide, and a single bullet can penetrate the entire base area. Therefore, Pi Dingjun wrote to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, proposing to abandon the idea of using Songshan as the center of the base area, and to open up Jishan Mountain, where the base camp of the anti-Japanese revolution in western Henan was established. Later history proved that Pi Dingjun was completely correct.