Gushi County, the junction of Yu and Anhui, north of the Huai River, south of the Dabie Mountains, now 1.85 million people, is the first population of Henan County, is the gateway to East China, but also the "east to the west" bridgehead.
Fujin Mountain, located in Honghua Village, Chen Linzi Town, Gushi County, The remnants of Dabie Mountain, the main peak is more than 300 meters above sea level, four kilometers long from north to south, and two kilometers wide from east to west, because the mountain is rich in copper, phosphorus and other minerals and named "Fujin Mountain". Don't look at this small mountain, but its east is connected to Lu'an, Hefei, and west to Huangchuan and Xinyang, which is actually the throat of traffic in the northern foothills of Dabie Mountain, and has always been a place where soldiers must fight. From September 2 to 11, 1938, an unprecedented and fierce battle took place here, known in the history of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression as the Battle of Fujinshan.
(The Japanese army directly approached Fujin Mountain)
In the spring of 1938, the Japanese decided to carry out the Battle of Wuhan after the Battle of Xuzhou. On July 4, the Japanese 11th Army attacked the main attack and advanced westward; The 2nd Army, assisted, attacked west along the northern foothills of the Dabie Mountains. On August 22, the Japanese 2nd Army divided into two more routes, one of which was the 13th Division, which on September 2 directly approached FujinShan.
On the morning of the 2nd, more than twenty Japanese planes bombarded the Fujinshan position, and it was night, and the 13th Division forcibly crossed the Shi River and began a crazy attack. The headquarters of Song Xilian's 71st Army was located at the myoko Temple, a thousand-year-old temple. Chen Ruihe, commander of the 36th Division, led the reserve team to counterattack tenaciously. After two days of fierce fighting, the Japanese army was still unable to open the mouth of the Fujin Mountain Gorge, and two more brigades were transferred. Commander Song always commanded from the front, and the most said sentence was "fight fiercely." Enraged, Riko frantically bombed the headquarters Myoko-ji Temple, and the thousand-year-old temple was razed to the ground, leaving only a mountain gate.
(General Song Xilian, Commander of the 71st Army)
On September 7, the Japanese ordered the 10th Division and the 16th Division to reinforce the 13th Division that attacked Fujinshan. In the face of the encirclement of the enemy and the enemy with three modern equipment, our 71st Army has no fear. By the 9th, the 36th Division had only a thousand lightly wounded men who could shoot guns. Commander Song Xilian personally went into battle and told Commander Chen Ruihe: The 36th Division must live forever and must not lie down, and only by beating them fiercely can the brethren die without regrets! On this day, the first lady, Ms. Song Meiling, came to the front line in a military uniform, and her condolences and encouragement greatly enhanced the confidence of the officers and men on the front line in resisting the war. By the 10th, more than a thousand people of the 36th Division had fought bloodily, and countless attacks by the Japanese army had been powdered.
At about 9 o'clock on the 11th, the 13th Division broke into our army's position, and the two sides launched a white-knife battle. At about 16:00 p.m., most of the position was lost, and at this critical moment, Commander Chen Ruihe organized the remnants of the whole division to carry out a final counterattack against Japan. Fortunately, the officers and men of the 71st Army were prepared, each of them covered their mouths and noses with wet towels, fortunately, there would be no serious large-scale poisoning, the entire Fujinshan position had become a scorched earth, and the Nationalist army had to retreat while fighting, retreating west to Huangchuan, Shangcheng, Xinyang and other places. From the 14th to the 16th, the two battalions withdrew to Shangcheng and the 31st Division of Chifeng City, which had originally supported Fujin Mountain, set up an ambush at the mouth of the Shangcheng Gorge, and carried out a three-day and night-long "Blockade Battle of the Shangcheng Gorge".
(Monument to the Heroic Martyrs of the Anti-Japanese Resistance at Fujinshan)
The Battle of Fujinshan was the fiercest battle on the outskirts of the Battle of Wuhan. Our side paid a heavy price, with about 15,000 casualties, and only 800 strong soldiers remained in the 36th Division of more than 10,000 people after the war, but it also caused the Japanese army to suffer the first heavy blow in southern Henan, blocking the Japanese army for ten days and nights, killing more than 4,000 Japanese troops, wounding about 10,000 people, and the Japanese 13th Division replenished its troops five times in a row.
The Battle of Fujinshan curbed the crazy momentum of the Japanese army, won precious time for the strategic deployment of the entire Battle of Wuhan, completely powdered the strategic attempt of the Japanese army to cross the Dabie Mountain to detour to Wuhan, created a successful example of defensive warfare in the position during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, played a mighty style of Chinese soldiers, and left a singable and weeping and colorful stroke in the history of the War of Resistance, and Commander Song Xilian and Division Commander Chen Ruihe both won the highest medal of honor.
"Jing Kang shame, Yu Wei Xue... Zhuangzhi was hungry for meat, laughing and thirsting for the blood of the Huns...". When stepping onto the battlefield of the Fujin Mountain Resistance Battle in Gushi County, walking into the Zhonglie Cemetery and the Heroic Martyrs' Hall, and standing in front of the Monument to the Heroic Martyrs of the Anti-Japanese Resistance, the excitement was surging with emotion, and the ten days and nights of artillery fire 84 years ago appeared in front of me, and I involuntarily recited the "Manjiang Hong" with great ambition and pride, and the strong naked child emotions spontaneously appeared. It is no wonder that many Taiwan veterans who participated in this campaign in the 1980s and 1990s came to Fujinshan to pay tribute to their comrades-in-arms who were buried underground, and they were all in tears and could not help themselves.
"The country is in difficulty, the armor; People are in danger, and all soldiers are vying for the first", this is the fine tradition of the Chinese nation. More than eighty years ago, in the face of the inhuman aggression and ravages of the Wokou, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party put aside their internal class contradictions, put aside their internal class contradictions, put the interests of the country and the nation first, swore to die not to be a slave to the country, shared the same hatred for the enemy, and united in will, and jointly composed a song of praise for the mighty mountains and rivers, and made the great contribution we Chinese due to the victory of the world anti-fascist war!
(Monument inscription)