In late March 1939, in order to meet the needs of the development of the anti-Japanese situation in the Qinghe area of Northern Luzhou, the 3rd Detachment of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army, which persisted in armed struggle behind enemy lines, at the behest of the Shandong Branch of the CPC, selected 62 outstanding commanders and fighters, including Bao Hui, director of the Political Department of the 3rd Detachment, and Pan Jianjun, head of the Special Agent Regiment, to study at the Shandong Military and Political Cadre School in Lunan and the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in Yan'an. Since many of the main traffic routes at that time were occupied by the Japanese and the Japanese, in order to prevent accidents, the leaders of the three detachments specially sent Two companies escorted by the commander of the Battalion of Lü Yiting.
At about 9:00 a.m. on March 30, more than 270 people of our army came to the area of Tonggu Village, which is only a dozen miles away from Taihe Town. At that time, stationed in Taihe Town was Wang Shangzhi's subordinate subordinate to Qin Qirong, commander of the Fifth Column of the Kuomintang, and in order to avoid a conflict with Wang Shangzhi's troops when our army passed through Taihe, Bao Hui specially sent people to contact Wang Shangzhi and informed Wang Shangzhi of the number of guns, explaining that he was passing through Taihe Town, and asked him not to misunderstand, and soon after Wang Shangzhi replied that he could pass.
However, just as our army was preparing to leave, Wang Shangzhi sent someone to inform him that our army was not allowed to pass through the town, and that it could only walk along the western wall. This change in Wang Shangzhi aroused the vigilance of Lü Yiting, who was very familiar with Wang Shangzhi; as early as a year ago, Wang Shangzhi had led his troops to engage in friction with our army, and our army then counterattacked and captured him. Now that the main road in the town is not allowed to go, but it is let pass through the western wall, what is the heart of this Wang Shangzhi?
For Taihe Town, Lü Yiting is no stranger, and he has been here many times during the guerrilla war in the early years. The town is narrow from north to south, surrounded by a stone wall more than a foot high, the western wall is close to the Zihe River, and in the middle is a passage more than three meters wide. Such a narrow aisle, once there is a change, the strength of our army will not develop at all. Considering this situation, Lü Yiting proposed to Bao Hui that he send someone to negotiate with Wang Shangzhi and ask him to allow the troops to pass through the main road in the middle of the town. But Bao Hui did not think that anything would go wrong and ordered him to move on. When our army walked under the wall outside the west gate, Wang Bu suddenly opened fire, Lü Yiting was shot in the chest, and he was killed on the spot, and many soldiers also fell in a pool of blood.
At this time, Bao Hui ordered that no return fire be fired, and everyone shouted in unison, "Chinese do not fight Chinese." However, wang bu did not stop at all, continued to shoot non-stop, and in the end, except for a few people who escaped from danger, most of our army made heroic sacrifices. This was the Taihe Massacre that shocked the whole country at that time. The occurrence of this tragic incident, in addition to Wang Shangzhi's premeditation, also had a lot to do with Bao Hui's wrong command, because most of the people who sacrificed were excellent commanders and fighters of our army, and Luo Shuai was angry when he heard about it. After the massacre, Shen Honglie, then chairman of the Kuomintang's Shandong Province, not only did not pursue the murderer, but also posted signs celebrating the so-called "Great Victory in the Battle of Taihe." Our army could not bear this, Luo Shuai organized troops to launch a counterattack against Wang Shangzhi's troops, completely annihilated his troops, Wang Shangzhi fled to Pingdu alone, surrendered to the Japanese Kou, and died of illness in 1947.