What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
At the end of October 1944, the Jirebian Special Committee, the Bureau, and the Military Sub-district held an enlarged work conference in The Refuge Village in Fengrun County, Hebei Province. On the evening of October 16, the special committee, the administrative bureau, and Fengluanqian United County and other organs held a meeting in Fengrun County to study the in-depth development of rent and interest rate reduction campaigns.
In the early morning of October 17, 1944, more than 800 cadres and organ staff members who participated in the work conference on the expansion of the military sub-district of the Jirebian Special Committee were surrounded by more than 3,000 Japanese puppet troops in Fengrun Yangjiapu. Under the leadership of Zhou Wenbin, director of the Organization Department, Li Shan, deputy secretary general of the Special Committee, Lü Guang, deputy director of the Propaganda Department, Ding Zhenjun, secretary of the Fourth Prefectural CPC Committee, and Wang Shaoqi, director of the Health Department and political commissar of the Military Sub-district, they desperately broke through the direction of Panjiayu and faced the encirclement of several thousand Japanese devilish puppet troops and fought with blood. However, due to the fact that the enemy was outnumbered, 430 cadres and fighters, including Zhou Wenbin, Li Shan, Lü Guang, Ding Zhenjun, Wang Shaoqi, Liu Jingyu, Ma Lingfu, and Wei Zhong, died heroically, seriously injuring more than 150 people captured, totaling more than 580 people. There were only more than 120 cadres and fighters who successfully broke through. This is the Yangjiapu massacre that shocked China and foreign countries in the Hebei Hot Border Area since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
After the Yangjiapu massacre, Nie Rongzhen, then commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, pointed out bitterly: "The Battle of Yangjiapu was a rare and heavy loss-making battle of our army on the anti-Japanese battlefield in North China. And Nie Shuai has also been grumpy about the loss of cadres caused by this breakthrough battle in his decades of military career.
The main leaders of the Jirebian Special Committee, the Bureau, and the Military Sub-district held an enlarged work meeting, such a crucial meeting, why was the Japanese army able to carry out a precise strike? How exactly did the enemy and the hypocrites obtain the core confidential information that our Ji'an Rebian Special Committee was holding a meeting in the Yangjiapu area?
It turned out that on the night of October 15, the Japanese army caught a reconnaissance squad leader of the Eighth Route Army at the side of the railway, and from him found important information sent to the He Jiaying area in Fengrun, North Lu, to attend the meeting of third-level cadres; on the 16th, the Japanese army secretly assembled a single eighth brigade regiment with strong combat effectiveness and advanced equipment, did not use a puppet army, and decided to act on the evening of the 16th, advancing north from Tangshan, Fengrun, Changli, and other places in one fell swoop, preparing to annihilate Li Yunchang in one fell swoop (during the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as deputy commander-in-chief of the Jidong Anti-Japanese Coalition Army and commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army). 13 Detachment Commanders, Secretaries of the CPC Jirebian Special Committee and Director of the Bureau, Commander and Political Commissar of the 13th Military Subdistrict of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, Secretary of the Party Committee of The Jireliao District, Commander and Political Commissar of the Jireliao Military Region, Member of the Jin-Cha-Ji Central Bureau, etc.). Unexpectedly, a large number of The Eighth Route Army were found in the area of Zuojiawu, so they caught fire at Yangjiapu in advance and fought an encounter. The Japanese lost only two soldiers and achieved a full victory in just one day.
The Yangjiapu Breakthrough Battle gave the Eighth Route Army intelligence work and even the CCP intelligence protection system a lesson condensed in blood: the work of secrecy is no small matter. If it had not been for the intelligence leak at that time, if the reconnaissance squad leader who sent the letter had strictly observed organizational discipline, adhered to the disciplinary requirement of putting intelligence confidentiality first in the event of a sudden change, and destroyed confidential letters first, such a major loss might have been avoided.
The battle of Yangjiapu was also a microcosm of the anti-"sweeping" campaign, the darkness before dawn, but no matter how sinister and cruel the enemy situation was, our Jidong troops were never overwhelmed and yielded by the enemy, and they were firmly nailed to the border of Manchukuo, which was japanese and pseudo-Japanese. After the great counteroffensives in 1944 and 1945, the troops grew rapidly, starting from small regiments to large regiments, upgrading local armed forces to the main force, and establishing several military sub-districts, with a team of more than 10,000 people.