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There is a small village called Dongliu Village in Fei County, Linyi City, Yimeng Mountain, Shandong, which is located 9 kilometers east of the Xinzhuang Town Station. The village was founded in the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, and was named Dongliu Village during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty.
Dongliu Village is located in the Yimeng Mountains in the shape of "Lü", "Xiaokou" is the former village, and "Dakou" is the back village. In the early 20th century, Linteng Avenue, the main traffic route from Linyi to Tengxian, ran from west to east from the village, so the village became a strategic "village". In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, when the Boxer Rebellion arose, there were "boxers" who were active here, and the "Great Knife Society" was also established.
Many villagers followed the "boxers" to learn martial arts, and some simply joined the "Big Knife Society", the folk style is strong, and the style of good martial arts is passed down from generation to generation. In a small village, Sun, Wu, Shen, Ji and several other big families actually have "lianjiazi".
We all know that the Boxer Fist hates foreigners to the bone, killing foreigners does not blink, and slowly, the villagers not only have weapons such as earthen guns, earthen cannons, large knives and spears, but also have a small number of foreign guns and foreign cannons (such as villagers Wu Enqing and Wu Precious have foreign guns). Relying on these weapons, the villagers set up a self-defense armed team, in the chaotic world, they took up simple weapons to successfully resist the bandits again and again harassment and scourge, many villagers in actual combat to train a skill, more firm "dare to resist oppression" strong will.
Among the young and middle-aged people in the village, Wu Enqing, the "sharpshooter", Wu Entang, the "double knife", Wu Xiangyong, the "thunder in the palm", Sun Yishi, the "Hercules", and Shen Wensheng, the "sharp gun", have long been famous.
In addition, the village also built a strong wall and fortifications, and every time the bandits came, they not only found nothing, but also lost soldiers, so that there was such a song: "Jin Dongliu, Silver Gukou, Iron Shanxi Head." ”
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As of 2019, Dongliu Village only has 395 households and 1659 people, which can only be regarded as a small village. In 1938, there were 63 households and 273 people in Qianzhuang and 563 people in Qianzhuang and 112 households in Houzhuang, a total of 175 households and 836 people. In 1939, there was a horrific massacre of the Japanese army in Dongliu Village.
Dongliu Village was originally a member of thousands of ordinary Chinese small villages, but because of the tragic incident, it became famous in history. Liu Fang's future generations are not because of how tragic the tragedy was, but because all the men, women and children in the village fought with the Japanese army like animals like "grandfathers", preferring to stand and die in battle rather than be slaughtered on their knees. The villagers of Dongliu bravely fired the first shot of the Yimeng people's spontaneous anti-Japanese self-defense, and played the lofty righteousness and dignity of the Chinese, which won high praise from the people of the world.
"They can't say anything great, but these simple villagers, who mostly use the most primitive weapons, wiped out 78 well-equipped, well-trained, and vicious Japanese invaders; most of them may be illiterate, but they used their own flesh and blood to write a big character in the history of the Chinese people's resistance to Japan, in this ancient Chinese land!"
After the Japanese army occupied Linyi and Fei County, they swept around, burning and looting. Dongliu Village had long heard of the various brutal acts of the Japanese Kou and was very indignant in their hearts, and the villagers spontaneously organized themselves to set up the Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Force, on the one hand, to continuously strengthen the defensive force, on the other hand, to send people out to inquire about the movements of the devils, and to participate in anti-Japanese activities.
On January 30, 1939, the Japanese troops stationed in Linyi attacked the garrison of the Lunan Special Committee of the COMMUNIST Party of China in three ways in an attempt to "sweep up" the organs of the special committee and the anti-Japanese base area. 200 Japanese Kou invaded Nanpo Village along the Linteng Highway to Nanpo Village, east of Dongliu Village in Fei County, Shandong Province, and they divided their troops into two roads, one way more than 30 people and a horse team marched along the Huangjiaguan River, and all the way more than 150 devils marched west from the Linteng Highway.
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Rikou first sent the traitors as lobbyists, entered the village to negotiate with the villagers, demanded that the villagers give way, and let the devils go west through the Linteng Avenue in the village. The reproached traitor had a poisonous plan of "borrowing a knife to kill people", and he went back to lie to the Japanese army, saying: "The villagers agree to the imperial army to borrow the road!" ”
The Japanese didn't think much of it, because they had always been arrogant, thinking that no villagers had dared to say "no" to them. Therefore, the unsuspecting Japanese army swung toward the village, the villagers of Dongliu Village had already waited in a strict position, and the "sharpshooter" Wu Enqing led 15 villagers to take the initiative to attack; when they arrived at Dajingtou Village, they saw the devils swinging wildly towards Dongliu Village, and the "sharpshooter" Wu Enqing shot and killed a ghost walking in front, the Japanese army returned fire, Wu Enqing could not resist, and ordered to retreat to the village, and the devils who were attacked were ashamed and angry, and ordered the "slaughter of the village" in Dongliu Village.
Earlier, Wu Enqing and others took the lead in selling land to buy guns, and all households in the village bought a total of 50 long and short guns with more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition, and asked Dou Blacksmiths in Doujia Village to make several earthen cannons, 40 earthen guns, 800 earthen grenades, a batch of gunpowder, large knives, spears, and so on. These weapons are placed in the front and rear of the 2 villages and 4 gates of the wall and the reinforced wall.
However, the villagers of Dongliu Village are not easy to provoke, only 25-year-old Wu Enqing is an enlightened landlord in the village, both the organizer of the defensive war, but also the leader of the anti-Japanese self-defense force in the village, when the Japanese army chased to the small bridge about a hundred steps away from the former village, Wu Enqing ordered the three earthen cannons on the East Gate Gun Tower to fire, and the unsuspecting Japanese army suppressed an attack, resulting in shells, more than 20 dead and wounded, and 1 Japanese officer was killed.
The Japanese troops who suffered losses retreated one after another, set up artillery positions, and allocated attacks. The cunning Japanese army set up a command and small steel artillery position on the hill north of the village, and from a commanding height, they saw the earth artillery fire point in the village clearly, and they used the watchtower banner to command, and quickly removed the earthen artillery fire point set by the villagers.
Next, the Japanese army used steel artillery to bombard the weak point of the village wall, at 11:00 a.m., the front village was lost, and the five artillery towers at the south gate of the back village were penetrated by The Japanese steel cannon, and the ghosts under the command of the banner language continued to attack the collapse of the wall, which was stubbornly resisted by the villagers and was difficult to attack for a while.
The south gate could not be attacked, the Japanese army attacked the east gate and the north gate, and at 2 p.m., the devils blew down the wall of the gate. A 74-year-old villager picked up a stone to block the gap in the collapsed wall when he was hit by a ghost shell and died heroically. At the same time, more than 100 Japanese troops rushed to reinforcements, the situation was critical, and after the devils rushed into the village from the gap and the east gate, a tragic and tragic street battle was staged.
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Sun Yishan, who was more than an old man, and wu Precious, a villager, took a kitchen knife and fought with the devil's white blade, and were stabbed to death by several devil's bayonets, and before dying, they struggled to scratch the devil's face with several blood marks. Houses in the village collapsed, a fire broke out, and the villagers were seriously injured. The devils searched from house to house street, killing people when they saw them.
In order to cover the safe retreat of the villagers, all the men, women, and children in the village, as long as they have combat effectiveness, all of them went into battle, took up weapons such as knives, guns, sticks, pickaxes, iron pickaxes, and stones to fight with the devils to the death.
Wu Xiangyong, the "mine in the palm of his hand," took several earthen grenades and threw them out one after another, killing several enemies. Wu Endang and other villagers armed with large knives and spears waited in the streets, alleys, and courtyards to slash and kill the enemy until they were killed. "Hercules" Sun Yishi swung his sword and split the devils who rushed into the East Gate in half. Wu Guangying heroically killed the enemy and fell to the ground, did not change his color in the face of the blood-dripping bayonet of the devils who rushed up, angrily cursed the invaders, and angrily smashed the stone at the enemy before dying...
The villagers shouted, "Fight the devils, beat the devils!" Kill the beast, kill the beast! Kill one enough, kill two and make a lot of money! "Wu Enlan, the eldest lady in the village, was stabbed through the abdomen by the devil's bayonet and nailed to the wall, she endured severe pain, and she cut out one of the devil's eyeballs to death, and the pregnant young daughter-in-law fell next to her, and the unborn grandson was picked out by the devil's bayonet, and the scene was extremely tragic. The devils wanted to insult and kill the young Wu Shaoqing for fun, but Wu Shaoqing grabbed his crotch to death, and the devils passed out in pain and finally died.
Under the protection of Wu Enqing and others, the old and young women and children in the village retreated to the north of the village, and it seemed that they were about to break through successfully. The cunning Japanese army set up a machine gun fire point at the exit north of the village, and the sound of machine guns sounded, the breakthrough road was blocked, and Wu Enqing stepped forward. While killing a bloody road for the villagers, he was unfortunately shot and killed.
During the battle, Wu Enqing calmly commanded and fought bravely, killing 21 enemy people in one person, and was only 25 years old when he was killed. He was a true national hero and a hero of the Anti-Japanese Resistance.
There was no way back for the old women and children, and even the little dolls did not change their faces, and they returned with the adults to fight with the pursuing Japanese Kou, all of them heroically sacrificed. It was not until 4:30 p.m. that the fierce battle ended, some of the people broke through successfully, 62 people were heroically killed (14 wounded), and 78 people were killed.
At the end of the battle, the village was in ruins, devastated, and miserable, and the trees, houses, walls, and floors were covered with blood stains and the blown-up limbs of the villagers. In this battle, a total of 78 devils were killed, and 62 people were killed and wounded by Japanese devils in the battle, and 14 people were wounded. There are more than 180 households in the village, 17 households have been killed by ghosts, the oldest of the villagers killed by ghosts is 74 years old, and the youngest is still a fetus!
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The Dongliu Villagers' Anti-Japanese Self-Defense War was a self-defense war organized entirely by the villagers and consciously resisted the Japanese Kou, and it was two years earlier than the famous anti-Japanese example of Yimeng villagers led by our party, the Yuanziya Village Defense War. After this battle, until the victory of the War of Resistance, the Japanese puppet army passed through Dongliu Village, and chose to take a detour and never went in to sweep, at most it was just to fire two shots outside the village and fire a few shots to intimidate.
Dignity is only above the blade of the sword, and truth is only within the range of the cannon. Kneeling and stealing life, there will never be a peaceful day! Standing and watching death as a homecoming can win dignity!
In 1946, to commemorate the first anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhu Qimin, then propaganda director of the Wenhe County Party Committee, led some militia members to hold a memorial service for the villagers who died in the Dongliu Anti-Japanese Self-Defense War. Nowadays, Dongliu Village has been announced by its superiors as a memorial site for the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and a memorial hall of Dongliu villagers' anti-Japanese self-defense war has been built, as well as sculptures and ruins.
(Editor's note: This article is 3027 words, the 19th original article in 2022)