On October 16, 1944, a fierce battle took place in the northern mountains of Fengrun.
As a result of the betrayal of the traitors, more than 800 cadres of the Eighth Route Army's Hebei Rebian Special Committee and the Military Sub-district were almost wiped out by the enemy, and more than 800 people experienced a bloody battle, and only more than 120 people survived.
A shout "Comrades, kill back!" In the face of ten times as many Japanese puppet troops, Liu Jingquan, company commander of the Eighth Route Army, shouted loudly, took a gun, and pounced on the enemy. In the rain of bullets and bullets, Zhou Wenbin, Lü Guang and more than 400 other people fell on the charging battlefield.
In 1944, only one year after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army at that time was already thinning the western mountains, like grasshoppers in autumn, and it could not be jumped for a few days. The Eighth Route Army border area vigorously carried out land reform and economic construction, and the situation was very good, and as a result, the vigilance against the Japanese puppet army was relaxed.
Danger?
On October 16, 1944, the Cpc Jirebian Special Committee held a general meeting, the theme of which was "Further Implementing the Rent Reduction and Interest Reduction Conference".
The meeting was not a short meeting, and many details needed to be discussed, and the majority of the participants were administrative cadres plus a small number of guards.
At the final stage of the congress, an accident suddenly occurred, which brought the cadres and soldiers of the border areas out of reach.
On that day, the Japanese army received intelligence from the inside that there were a large number of Eighth Route Army cadres in the Yangjiapu area holding a meeting there. After receiving the information, the Japanese army quickly gathered its forces and formed a team of more than 3,000 people to attack Yangjiapu.
In order to protect the safety of these five hundred people, Zhou Wenbin, the special commissar of the border area, ordered two platoons of soldiers to be responsible for the vigilance work around Yangjiapu.
Ding Zhenjun, political commissar of the military sub-district, led a company and a platoon led by Liu Jingyu, commander of a special agent company, all doing security work around Yangjiapu.
Logically, more than five hundred people held meetings, and more than three hundred people did escort work, and from the perspective of defense work alone, they were quite well done.
However, at that time, no one expected that the situation in Yangjiapu had been clearly understood by the Japanese puppet army, and the cause was due to the unfortunate capture of a scout by the Japanese army.
The Japanese found letters from the scout, tortured him to confess, obtained a lot of information, and then killed the Eighth Route Army scout.
The day after learning the information, the Japanese army independently mixed into the main force of the Eighth Brigade Regiment, plus the Japanese puppet army stationed in the surrounding areas, a total of more than 3,000 people, quietly approached the vicinity of Yangjiapu in the fog, preparing to attack the Eighth Route Army that was resting.
Soon, the Japanese army quickly surrounded several villages near Yangjiapu through heavy fog, forming a huge encirclement.
It was very unfortunate that the news of the Japanese attack on Yangjiapu was not detected, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were not prepared at all.
It was not until the next day, when the Japanese began to attack forward and narrow the encirclement, that a soldier of the special service company found the enemy and opened fire, exchanging fire with the enemy.
As soon as the gunshots rang out, all the members were awakened, and soon, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in several surrounding villages quickly organized their armed forces, and even the peasants picked up their guns and prepared to meet the enemy's attack.
Zhou Wenbin, Lü Guang, and others quickly assembled their troops and moved closer to Yangjiapu, forming a force of more than five hundred people to guard the cadres there.
The enemy's encirclement was shrinking, coming from all directions, and our army quickly exchanged fire with them.
Zhou Wenbin immediately made a decision, let people occupy the commanding heights, and prepared to block the enemy, but soon because the enemy was too numerous and the firepower was too fierce, it gradually became unsupported.
Zhou Wenbin judged that this enemy was prepared, knew the situation here very well, and had a large number of people, and it was definitely not possible to rely on blocking the attack, and it would not last long, and the only hope was to break through.
Soon, the soldiers came with the news that Ding Zhenjun, who commanded the sniper at the front line to snipe the enemy, had died, and the soldiers shed tears when they heard it; in the border area, Ding Zhenjun was a good cadre, who joined the party in his early years, worked seriously, and was deeply loved by the people in the border area.
Zhou Wenbin did not have time to be sad, quickly wiped away his tears, and said to everyone in a firm tone: "Comrades, time does not allow us to mourn. Dry your tears and turn grief into strength. Burn all the documents, completely lighten up, and prepare for the breakout. ”
The losses were heavy, with only more than 120 people breaking through the siege
In an instant, all the relevant documents were burned, and the fire burned for a while.
Company commander Zhang Jingyu led the charge and broke through to the outside, but the enemy's fire was too fierce, and the gaps that were opened several times were blocked by the enemy's fire, and the weapons in the hands of the soldiers were old, and there were no heavy weapons.
Propaganda Minister Lü Guang also led a unit, holding a pistol in one hand, his lover Yu Fen in the other, and more than a hundred cadres in the border area rushing toward the enemy's encirclement.
In the middle of the charge, Lü Guang took the lead in falling to the ground, and before sacrificing, he said to Yu Fen: "Keep up with the team and move forward." Remember, where we bleed, dense crops will grow. ”
Yu Fen, with her husband's instructions, shouted loudly to the comrades: "Advance, rush out and there is hope." In the middle of the charge, Yu Fen was shot in the chest and died after being seriously injured.
The remaining warriors occupied the commanding heights beforehand due to the heavy enemy firepower, and most of the fighters were killed in the battle.
The troops of Liu Jingyu, the commander of the special agent company, had already rushed out of the enemy's encirclement circle after paying a huge price of casualties and transported a small number of cadres from the border area.
After reaching the safety zone, Liu Jingyu found that a large number of cadres were still trapped in the enemy's encirclement, and he said to the soldiers: "What is our mission?" The soldiers were highly motivated and said in unison: "Defend the organization organs, defend the chief." ”
Liu Jingyu then shouted, "Kill back!" In addition to the cadres and members of the organs, the remaining twenty or so fighters followed Liu Jingyu, and these fighters regarded death as a homecoming, and most of them died in this battle.
In the encirclement, the cadres of the border area had no weapons in their hands, only a few short guns in their hands, and the bullets were almost exhausted. Dozens of militia fighters surrounded the cadres in the middle, forming a circle and breaking out step by step.
Under the suppression of firepower, the enemy shrank the encirclement circle very small, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese puppet army were in a short contact, and they would encounter an enemy after a few steps, so the casualties were very large.
Zhou Wenbin, who was in charge of the rear, covered the retreat of cadres and militia in the border areas, and fought alone with more than a dozen enemies.
After the enemy discovered that Zhou Wenbin was a "high official," he concentrated his forces to move closer to him, and one by one dense bullets swept around him. After a while, Zhou Wenbin's eyes went black, and the bullet hit him in the head and was sacrificed.
Zhou Wenbin, a North Korean, came to China at the age of seven and grew up to join the Chinese Communist Party, dedicating his life to China's anti-Japanese cause.
The whole battle was fierce, from the early morning to the afternoon the sound of gunfire gradually weakened, around the Yang family shop, blood stained the land red.
Due to insufficient preparations, the vast majority of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were killed, including more than 800 guards, militia, and cadres, and only more than 120 people successfully broke through, and the casualties were quite tragic.
Due to the enemy's adequate preparation in advance, coupled with the advantage of weapons and equipment, they temporarily won a victory, with few casualties, only a few dozen, and the data of the death of the Japanese war report recorded, only two people (of course, this may be mixed with water, excluding puppet casualties).
epilogue?
The main reason for such a large loss in the Battle of Yangjiapu was that the intelligence was clarified by the enemy in advance, and it was difficult for our army to resist under the strong superior strength of the Japanese army.
Those warriors who broke through the siege, they were all dead, none of them were not wounded, and they could not highlight the enemy's encirclement without desperate efforts.
More than 120 cadres and fighters who stood out from the siege gathered at Qian'an Horseshoe Yu, where they made a vow: fight on the blood of martyrs and avenge their comrades-in-arms! A year later, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army finally defeated the Japanese army, won a comprehensive victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and avenged the soldiers who died.