Chen Boju Village, located about 15 miles northwest of Nangong City, only 2 miles away from the Nangong-Shijiazhuang Highway, surrounded by Cuijiatun, Wenjiatun, Liujiatun, Yujiatun and Daxingjiazhuang, about 1 Huali to the west is the border of Nangong and Xinhe. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, this village with more than 300 households and more than 1,100 people was under the jurisdiction of the first district of Nangong County, and was a reliable anti-Japanese fortress village of our party.
At the beginning of 1938, after the eastward column of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army arrived at Nangong, Chen Boju quickly established a party group (established in 1940 as a branch) and anti-Japanese mass organizations such as self-defense units, model classes, and peasant associations, and the anti-Japanese struggle was carried out vigorously.
In February 1939, Nangong fell into enemy hands. In order to strengthen the control of nanshi road, the only road from Nangong to Shijiazhuang, in 1940, Rilan set up a number of artillery towers and strongholds along the highway, and set up special telephone lines to Xinhe, Ningjin, Shijiazhuang and other places.
In order to resist the occupation and blockade of the Japanese Kou, the Nangong County Party Committee and the county anti-Japanese government often organized the masses of the people in the villages along the highway to carry out road-breaking struggles. Therefore, some villages on both sides of the Nanshi Highway became the key targets of the Japanese puppet army's retaliation against the "sweeping" in Nangong City.
In the Spring Festival of 1940, when the Japanese puppet army "swept" the area around Chen Boju, it fired more than ten shells at Chen Boju Village, burned dozens of houses, shot and killed 1 innocent person, and several people were severely beaten and maimed.
The atrocities of the Japanese Kou further aroused the anti-Japanese anger of the people of Chen Boju. One night in mid-September 1940, Chen Boju's party branch organized a model class and carried out a major breach of the Nanshi Highway. Under the cover of nightfall, Chen Boju's model class, with a deep hatred for the Japanese Kou, dug ditches and broke roads, cut telephone lines, and once again interrupted the communication and communication links between the Japanese puppet army and Shijiazhuang.
When Ogawa, the leader of the Japanese army in Nangong Castle, received the report, he was furious, and he sent several secret agents to the villages around the broken road to conduct detectives in a vain attempt to retaliate against our anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians. After the secret agent detected that the highway and telephone line were destroyed by Chen Boju Village, he returned to the Nangong to report to Xiaochuan. As a result, a disaster befell Chen Boju Village.
At 3:00 a.m. on September 30, 1939, the Japanese chief Ogawa led more than 300 people from the Japanese military police, pseudo-garrison and secret service organization Shinminhui in the city to attack chen boju village. When the enemy was passing through the south of Dazhao Village, he grabbed Gai Zhi, who was looking at cotton in the field, forced him to lead the way to Chen Boju Village, and immediately surrounded the village tightly.
It was wheat growing season, and the people of the village were busy all day, unaware of the sudden enemy's encirclement. Xing Jichuan's father, the head of the village farmers' association, got up early and went to the mouth of the village, suddenly found that there were many enemies outside the village, and concluded that the village had been surrounded, so he quickly turned around and ran back home, telling his son Xing Jichuan of the enemy situation.
Xing Jichuan put on his clothes and ran barefoot into an idle courtyard. After a while, Jia Xinfeng, director of the District Youth Rescue Association, also ran in. The two of them hid in a middle passage, and there was some straw piled up on the outside.
As soon as dawn came, the Japanese puppet army entered the village and began to search door to door. Suddenly, the slamming of the butt of the gun was the sound of the enemy's screaming and scolding, and the screams of the chickens and dogs became a mess. Several puppet soldiers walked past the door of the broken courtyard where Xing Jichuan was hiding, and saw that the courtyard was overgrown with weeds, and only kicked the door a few times.
At the same time, the enemy found the pseudo-village chief Xing Heming (sent by our side) and took him to a house to ask him to tell him about the communists, the Eighth Route Army, and the people who broke the road in the village. At first, Xing Heming did not say anything, and the enemy executed him. In the end, Xing Heming promised to secretly identify the village cadres and activists with the enemy, and agreed with Ogawa on a criminal plan.
At about eight o'clock, the whole village was driven to the center of the street by the enemy. The enemy chiefTain Ogawa wielded a command knife and told the crowd to stand separately according to men and women, and then let the men stand in a single line, from the north end of South Street to the south. Xiao Chuan sat in front of a gate on the west side of South Street Road, the gate was hidden, and Xing Heming identified anti-Japanese cadres and anti-Japanese activists behind the door.
As soon as Xing Heming found that cadres and activists were passing in front of the door, he gently knocked on the door, and as soon as Xiaochuan heard the knock, he asked the people who walked to the door to stand on the other side. In this way, Xing Heming identified 8 people in a row.
They were: Zhang Zhenhui, secretary of the village branch; Xie Jinxiang, director of the organization department of the peasant association; Chen Jinzhuo, director of the armed forces of the peasant association; Shi Erzhang, a traffic officer who was a party member (the father of Jia Xinfeng, director of the District Youth Rescue Association); Li Dengchen, head of the guerrilla group; Jin Jindong, a district traffic officer who was about to take office; and a hired worker who came out to see the liveliness. The enemy bundled the 8 men, along with Gai Zhi who led the way, back to Gucheng and imprisoned in the gendarmerie prison.
In prison, Rikou interrogated Zhang Zhenhui and nine others. The enemy hoisted them to beams and beat them severely, and tortured them with boiling water toppings and burning their backs with incense. Driven by Zhang Zhenhui, Jia Zhenjiang, Shi Erzhang, and other party members and cadres, although the arrested masses were tortured to death and brought to life, they all preferred to die unyieldingly, and no one exposed any situation to the enemy and the hypocrites, showing the patriotic spirit of vowing to die not to be a slave to the country.
In order to rescue the arrested people, Chen Boju prepared a sum of more than 3,000 yuan and handed it over to the traitor Zhang Dongzhi (executed by our anti-Japanese government in 1943) to let him go to the city to try to bail out the arrested people. Zhang Dongzhi took the money in his hand and went to the city twice, but the people did not save it, and the money was also spent by him.
Ogawa saw that he could not get any information from the arrestees and poisoned them. On the afternoon of November 8, Rikou escorted 9 people captured from Chen Boju, along with 3 other people, to the edge of the reed pit in the southwest corner of Nanguan, first letting them stand in front of an earth pit that had been dug, and then sending people to bring two buckets of cold water for cutting people and dipping knives, and the massacre began. 12 people were slashed and shot by inhumane enemies, pushed into a pit and buried.
The next afternoon, the bad news reached Chen Boju, and the whole village was sad and wept. The families of the victims wept bitterly, and the whole village was immersed in a state of sorrow.
Chinese people cannot be killed and intimidated. In the face of the bloodthirsty Japanese Kou, the people of Chen Boju did not give in, but strengthened their determination to resist Japan to the end. The anti-Japanese organizations in the village actively broke the road, supported the front, stepped up production, and made contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance.
In 1945, Nangong returned to the embrace of the people. In the autumn of that year, Chen Boju's masses fought against Xing Heming, who had betrayed the anti-Japanese cadres and the masses, and before he could send him to the people's court for trial, Xing Heming was even frightened to death by illness.
The following year, Chen Boju's party branch organized the masses to bring the bones of the 8 compatriots who were killed back to their villages. At the time of burial, except for Chen Jinzhuo (who was recognized by his family because of a gold tooth) who was buried in the ancestral grave, the rest of the personnel were buried in a cemetery in the southwest of the village because they could not be identified.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Party and the people's government posthumously regarded Zhang Zhenhui, Xie Jinxiang, and Shi Erzhang Jia Zhenjiang as revolutionary martyrs in accordance with the criteria and conditions for pursuing martyrs.