A hundred years of pioneers| the five heroes of Wolf Tooth Mountain: five people and three martyrs, the history of war is magnificent and high

"Party Building" magazine co-produced by communication university of China

"Treating death as a return to the spirit of a revolutionary soldier; preferring to die is the glorious tradition of Yan Zhao heroes." This is the inscription of Nie Rongzhen, commander and political commissar of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, for the commemorative tower of the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain, and among them, the five heroes who praised ma Baoyu, Ge Zhenlin, Song Xueyi, Hu Delin, and Hu Fucai, five heroes of the Seven Companies of the Regiment of the First Division of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region. In order to cover the retreat of the masses and the main forces, they composed a heroic song with their lives and blood.

In 1941, the invading Japanese army stepped up its "sweeping" and "encroachment" on the anti-Japanese base areas in North China, and mobilized more than 70,000 people to launch a "great sweep" of the jin-Cha-Ji anti-Japanese base areas in the autumn. Among them, more than 3,500 people rushed to the Wolf's Tooth Mountain area in multiple ways. At noon on September 23, the Japanese and puppet armies had gathered under the Wolf's Tooth Mountain. At that time, there were 30,000 or 40,000 party and government organs, guerrillas, and masses in Yi county, Dingxing, Xushui, and Mancheng counties who remained in Langya Mountain. In order to cover the transfer of personnel and masses of these organs, Yang Chengwu, commander of the first sub-district, ordered a regiment to take advantage of the dangerous terrain to hold the position, and then wait for the opportunity to break through.

After the organs and the masses were transferred, a regiment of seven companies was sent to stay behind to block the enemy and cover the withdrawal of the main force of the regiment. At noon on the 24th, the division headquarters and the main force of the regiment completed the transfer safely. Late that night, the commander of the Seventh Company and the instructor withdrew with the team, and ordered the sixth squad to occupy the West Pass, attract enemy fire, and continue to cover the battle. Ma Baoyu, the leader of the sixth squad, Ge Zhenlin, the deputy squad leader, and the soldiers Hu Delin, Hu Fucai, and Song Xueyi hid in the two most dangerous strongholds of The Chessboard, ready to block the enemy at any time.

In the early morning of the 25th, more than 500 Japanese and puppet troops launched an attack on Wolf's Tooth Mountain. The two machine guns of the sixth squad attracted the attention of the enemy, who mistakenly thought that the hill was the main force of our army, and thus opened up more firepower. Six squads of 5 fighters fought bravely and began to retreat after repelling four fierce chargees from the enemy. There is a fork in the road, one road leads to the direction where the main force is transferred, and the other leads to the summit of the checkerboard, but it is a dead end road with a steep slope on one side and a cliff on 3 sides. In order not to expose the transfer route of the troops, the 5 warriors resolutely chose to retreat to the top of the chessboard, and the enemy chased after them. Under the leadership of squad leader Ma Baoyu, the soldiers fought fiercely with the enemy at the top of the mountain for 5 hours. At the critical moment when it was outnumbered and difficult to support, 5 brave men destroyed their guns and jumped off the cliff. Ma Baoyu, Hu Delin, and Hu Fucai were martyred in a heroic way, and Ge Zhenlin and Song Xueyi were hung on the branches of the cliff after jumping off a cliff, survived, and were later rescued by a Taoist priest from the local Taoist temple.

The heroic deeds of the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain soon spread in the border area. In May 1942, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region decided to award three martyrs the title of "Exemplary Honorary Soldier", posthumously recognizing Hu Delin and Hu Fucai as members of the Communist Party of China; the general order rewarded Ge Zhenlin and Song Xueyi with the medal of "bravery and tenacity".

On September 3, 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping praised the five heroes of Langya Mountain as one of the outstanding representatives of the Chinese people who braved rape and violence and martyred the country with their lives at a symposium commemorating the 69th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. This is the highest evaluation of the five heroes by the party and the people, and their heroic names will forever remain in the annals of history.

(Written by Zhai Jiaqi Unit: Central Academy of Party History and Documentation)

Source: Party Building Network