"The 15-year-old daughter was insulted by the Japanese army, and her father avenged with the life of the 700 Japanese army" - Li Zhongqi
In my military career, I was most touched by a father who was a carpenter in Fuyang. I will remember his tragedy for the rest of my life:
Li Zhongqi
In November 1937, the Hunan disciples who prepared the 11th Division, under the leadership of the division commander Hu Da, fought a bloody battle with the Japanese invaders in the Songhu battlefield. Due to the heavy sacrifice, he was transferred to Minxi, Zhejiang for training, and was ordered to take over the Tiexuanwu Department of the Zhejiang Security Column, responsible for the defense of the west bank of the Fuchun River, along the Hunan Mountain, Lime Mountain, Qinglong Bridge, Turtle Mountain to Lin'an.
Before the handover of the two armies was completed, the Japanese invaders suddenly mobilized heavy troops and launched a fierce attack on our positions. The military headquarters urgently ordered the Tie Xuanwu Division to postpone the transfer and work with the reserve 11th Division to meet the incoming attack and annihilate the enemy in the position. At that time I was a captain and staff officer at the division headquarters.
The Japanese army launched a fierce attack on our position, and the Qinglong Bridge and Turtle Mountain next to the Fuxin Highway were the most fiercely attacked, and there were sappers rushing to repair the road. The two sides formed a battle and saw each other, and the position was lost and regained many times. Both sides suffered extremely heavy casualties, and a state of confrontation was formed for a time.
Japanese attack
That night, an old man came to the division headquarters, about 50 years old. He knelt in front of me and Master Huda and wept, begging him to avenge his daughter. I quickly helped him up and asked him what had happened to him and why he was crying like this.
The old man said that his surname was Pan, and his family lived in Fuyang City, and he made a living by helping people work as carpenters. After the Japanese occupied Fuyang, he often made carpentry for the Japanese army, so he learned simple Japanese. He has a daughter under his knees, Fang Nian is only 15 years old, beautiful and well-behaved, and the father and daughter depend on each other.
carpenter
One morning, three Japanese soldiers rushed to Pan's house, bumped into Pan's carpenter's daughter, and forcibly dragged Pan's daughter to the courtyard to commit violence. When Carpenter Pan returned home from outside, he saw his neighbors crying around the well, and when he asked, he learned that his daughter had been ravaged and had committed suicide by throwing herself into the well.
Carpenter Pan fished out his daughter's body, picked up an axe and wanted to fight hard, but he felt that he was weak and would only die if he did it. After our army was transferred to Minxi and engaged the Japanese army, Pan Carpenter risked his life to leave Fuyang City, and came to kneel at night to beg the division commander to avenge him.
Carpenter Pan knew simple Japanese, and had contact with the Japanese army in Fuyang, so he was able to detect the movements of the Japanese army in the city, and he was willing to cooperate with our army to eliminate the Japanese invaders. Seeing that he was eager for revenge and really needed intelligence officers, Commander Huda agreed to his request.
Atrocities of the Japanese army
A few days later, in the early hours of the morning, the Japanese concentrated their forces and stormed the Lime Mountain position. Japanese planes strafed and dropped bombs back and forth on the Lime Mountain position, and the position turned into a sea of fire, and all the fortifications on the Lime Mountain were destroyed.
Half an hour later, 60 or 70 Japanese cavalry men took the lead, followed by more than 600 infantrymen, crossed the paddy fields west of Fuyang, inserted into the depth of the lime mountain position, and went straight to the lime kiln site along the main road for transporting lime. After a moment's pause, the Japanese continued their march towards the hill path, where the cavalry waited. ——"Fuyang Cultural and Historical Materials"
The division commander decided to destroy this enemy, mobilized the 1118 Regiment as the main attacking force, and transferred mortars, heavy machine guns and other heavy firepower from each regiment. The regiment commander Xu Xinren ordered a small team to make contact with the vanguard of the Japanese army, and to retreat to maintain contact with the Japanese army.
The main attacking force was about two regiments, and the tactics of flanking from the east and west sides were adopted to gather and annihilate this Japanese army in the lime mountain.
The Japanese entered the position
At about nine o'clock in the morning, the regiments completed the siege posture. Inamura, the leader of the Japanese squadron, rode on a horse and looked around in the lime kiln with a telescope. Suddenly, the sound of machine guns in the mountains rang out, and the Japanese infantry fell to the ground one after another. Inamura was furious, drew his sword and hacked the guide next to him, and commanded the Japanese army to break through.
The two regiments condescendingly surrounded and annihilated 700 Japanese troops, and with heavy firepower, the Japanese troops were beaten and fled in disarray at Lime Mountain, and the formation was instantly disintegrated. The Japanese army was strafed by heavy machine gun fire, hiding behind the bamboo forest and frantically counterattacking, the bamboo forest was also interrupted by bullets and broken into powder, and the blood and bamboo chips of the Japanese army were splashed.
The Japanese casualties gradually increased, and they hid under the rocks and ridges to resist stubbornly, and the mortars continued to shell, causing stones and mud to fly wildly, and many Japanese soldiers hiding under the rocks and ridges were killed. After the shelling, the infantry searched and killed, and the Japanese soldiers were searched out and killed one by one. ——"Fuyang Cultural and Historical Materials"
Beat the Japanese army
Seeing that the situation was not good, Inamura urged the cavalry to flee from the lime kiln, but the exit had already been blocked by heavy machine guns. Seven or eight cavalrymen were killed on the spot, and the cavalry had to dismount and fight on foot, and our army's mortar shells and grenades fell in the lime kiln, and the quicklime powder from the explosion confused the eyes of the Japanese soldiers.
The prepared death squad covered their mouths and noses with gauze, and after the lime powder gradually dissipated, they rushed in with bayonets and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese soldiers. The death squad rushed bravely, and the Japanese cavalry resisted with sabers, but in the end they were unable to defeat the superior number of daredevils, and Inamura and his more than 50 cavalry were all hacked to death.
At noon on the next day, Japanese planes came to help, and under the circling strafing fire, many soldiers who searched and killed the remnants of the enemy were shot and died. Regardless of the plane's strafing, the soldiers stubbornly searched every stone and every bamboo forest, and finally wiped out all the infantry and cavalry scattered in the mountains. ——"Fuyang Cultural and Historical Materials"
Cavalry of the Japanese army
In this battle, more than 700 Japanese troops were annihilated, and a Inamura cavalry squadron was completely annihilated, the leader of the Inamura squadron was hacked to death, and more than 10 photos were taken and reported, and the captured war horses were sent to the theater commander's headquarters and the military and political department 4 each.
In this battle, our army killed battalion commander Chen Guoxiong and more than 800 officers and men, more than 500 officers and men were seriously and lightly wounded, with a total of more than 1,300 casualties and more than 700 enemies. There was a huge gap in combat strength between us and the enemy, and the strafing of Japanese planes caused many casualties among soldiers.
The deeds of the carpenter Pan recorded in the archives
While cleaning up the battlefield, I saw the corpse of Pan's carpenter, who led the Japanese to the same guide in the lime hills. Carpenter Pan was slashed more than 10 times on his body, which was the cruel revenge of Inamura and the Japanese army after they found out that they had been fooled.
Pan Carpenter died, he avenged his daughter's blood with the lives of 700 Japanese soldiers, and he was a true civilian hero. His deeds soon spread throughout Fuyang, and his deeds were compiled into a drama and staged in the local area and in the army.
The remains of the soldiers who were sheltered after the war, as well as the remains of Pan carpenter, were buried on the Xiandi Mountain in Fangjiajing, and the military headquarters built tall monuments and cemeteries for them. Division Commander Huda wrote a very good elegy on the monument:
The blood is sprinkled on the spring river, and the turbulent waves destroy the three islands;
The tomb of Ying is adjacent to the tomb of Yue, and the loyal ministers and righteous people are thousands of years.
——"Fuyang Cultural and Historical Materials"
The current situation of the cemetery
I was touched by the story of Carpenter Pan, who was a great father whose fatherly love was expressed deeply and strongly.
Decades later, when I visited the Xiandi Mountain Cemetery again, I was saddened and saddened. The tall cemetery has become a ruin, the tombstones engraved with the big characters of heroes have become the stepping stones of small ditches and ditches, and the tombstones of the soldiers fall in the barren grass, looking messy and decadent.
The memories of the murder of the enemy decades ago are still vivid, and the image of the heroic father is still in front of me, but their cemetery has been reduced to ruins, which is indeed heart-wrenching. Their sacrifice is worthy of future generations, and future generations should also remember them and give them a place to stay.
The hero became a stepping stone to the small ditch
In the midst of the grass, everything has become a thing of the past. But the deeds of Carpenter Pan avenging the woman will always remain in people's hearts and indelible memories......