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Walk into the red attractions of Weixian
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Introduction to the strategic position of Weixian
Weixian has a long history and a very important strategic position. The county seat is bounded by the Bailang River and is divided into two cities: east and west. The Kuomintang has built a semi-permanent defense system here, the city defense fortifications are extremely strong, and it is called the "Luzhong Fortress", and the Kuomintang defenders boast of "Weixian County defense fortifications with deep ditches and high fortifications, Jincheng soup pool".
In March 1948, the East China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to establish Weifang Special City after the liberation of Weixian.
On April 2 of the same year, the curtain of the Weixian Campaign was officially opened, and the Shandong Corps of the People's Liberation Army was ordered by the Central Military Commission to sweep away the enemy on the periphery, cut off the enemy's aid from Jinan and Qingdao, and took it by surprise and waved its army directly to the city of Weixian.
After 37 days of fierce battles, more than 45,000 Kuomintang defenders were annihilated, Weixian County was successfully conquered, the entire territory of Weifang was liberated, and the three liberated areas of Jiaodong, Bohai, and Luzhong were connected, creating conditions for the liberation of Jinan.
The historical significance of the Battle of Weixian
The Battle of Weixian was the first urban battle of our army on the battlefield in East China during the War of Liberation, and it was also a major victory won by the military and people in East China after they switched to a strategic counteroffensive.
The Weixian Campaign has set up two glorious examples in the annals of our party and our army: "victory in battle, victory in battle, courage to pull out hard nails" and "complete victory of the military and government". As a successful example of our party's early takeover of the city, Weifang creatively achieved many firsts in the history of our party.
The successful takeover and transformation of Weifang has made useful explorations and accumulated valuable experience for our party to take over large and medium-sized cities and improve urban policies in the later stage of the Liberation War.
Mao Zedong pointed out in the article "Carry the Revolution to the End" that the People's Liberation Army learned the art of attacking tough battles in the operation of conquering Weixian and other cities. Later, the "Eight Chapters of the Law" of the newly liberated areas was promulgated, mainly drawing on the experience of Weixian County.
"Example of tackling tough problems" Weixian Battle Revolutionary Cultural Relics Theme Route Map
The "Example of Tackling Tough Problems" Weixian Battle Revolutionary Cultural Relics Theme Trail takes the Weixian Battle Site and related exhibition venues as the carrier, strings beads into a chain, and creates a red cultural theme tour route. By re-taking the revolutionary line, revisiting the purpose and concept of the revolutionary martyrs, the will to tackle tough problems and the sense of discipline, we will gather the strength to forge ahead in the great journey of Weifang's reform and development in the new era, and resolutely win every "Weixian Battle" with an attitude of being responsible for development, history and the people.
01 ▏ The former site of the Weixian Battle Headquarters
The former site of the Weixian Campaign Headquarters is located in Dongchangzhai Village, Gudi Street, Hanting District, Shandong Province Cultural Relics Protection Unit. The headquarters is located in the north house of the courtyard, with 4 rooms, one door and three windows, covering an area of 120 square meters.
Hanting District
East Changzhai Village, Gudi Street
In April 1948, Xu Shiyou, commander of the Shandong Corps of the East China Field Army, and Tan Zhenlin, political commissar, commanded the famous Weixian Battle in the history of revolutionary warfare.
02 ▏ Weixian Campaign Headquarters Exhibition Hall
The exhibition hall of Weixian Campaign Headquarters is located in East Changzhai Village, Gudi Street, Hanting District. The exhibition hall covers an area of 1,465 square meters, which is composed of six exhibition halls: "Decisive Victory for a Thousand Miles, Sword Pointing to Changwei", "Liberation of Weixian County, People's Aspirations", "Single-minded to the Party, Invincible", "Civil and Military Victory", "Red Inheritance of Weibei Land", "Loyalty to the Liver, Righteousness and Courage, Famous in History".
Hanting District
East Changzhai Village, Gudi Street
Through the display of historical pictures, collection of historical materials, film and television resources, etc., the whole process of the thrilling and arduous Weixian Campaign is reproduced, and the purpose concept of "who is a soldier and who is fighting for" is profoundly expounded, the will to "win the battle and conquer" and the discipline consciousness of "go in with glory and come out cleanly", and educate and guide party members and cadres to adhere to their ideals and beliefs and uphold their original mission.
03 ▏ The site of the Sananzi Temporary Field Hospital
San'anzi Village is five kilometers away from Weixian County, and has become a front-line temporary field hospital for the liberation of Weixian County by virtue of its easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain.
On the eve of the Qingming Festival in 1948, the People's Liberation Army was stationed in the village, helping the villagers carry water, giving food to the villagers, and mingling with the villagers. Villagers have vacated their houses to be used as housing for troops, bandages for the wounded, and parking the remains of martyrs.
Yasuko Miyasu
Nostalgia Village History Museum
The villagers dismantled their door panels as stretchers, helped wash their bloody clothes with gauze, and dyed the two large bays in the village red at that time.
The stretcher team and doctors of the People's Liberation Army leave the village every evening to participate in the battle in the west of the city, return to the village at dawn, and carry back many wounded when they return, and the seriously injured are simply bandaged in the village and sent to the temporary field hospital on the front line in the rear (Shouguang Yuejiazhuang Bohai Hospital), and the lightly injured continue to participate in the battle in the evening after simple treatment, and the sacrificed are buried on the earthen port behind the village with the help of the villagers, and the names of the martyrs are engraved with small green bricks as tombstones, which has made great contributions to the search for martyrs after the founding of New China.
As a temporary field hospital for the Weixian Campaign, San'anzi Village witnessed the history of the army's love for the people and the people's support for the army during the Liberation War, fully embodied the situation of the army and the people in the blend of water and milk, life and death, and concentrated on the vivid practice of the people's army in practicing the mass line. The village's "San'anzi Nostalgia Village History Museum" restores and displays this history.
04 ▏ Yuqing Palace battle site
The battle site of Yuqing Palace is located in the training base of Weifang Vocational College (No. 195, Beigong West Street, Weicheng District), and is a cultural relics protection unit of Weifang City.
Yuqing Palace, also known as the North Palace, is the oldest Taoist Zen forest in Wei County, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, there are more than a dozen palaces, and there is a cemetery outside the courtyard. The terrain is slightly higher and the view is wide. The battle of Yuqing Palace was the fiercest battle in the peripheral battle of the Weixian Campaign.
Weicheng District
Weifang Vocational College
The firepower here can control the entire northern part of the city. The Kuomintang army used the temple as the core fortification, built a large number of forts around it, and built trenches, barbed wire, deer barricades, traps, stumbling pits, tripping horse piles, minefields and other fortifications, which were called "impenetrable fortresses" by the Kuomintang army.
From April 8 to 12, 1948, after fierce and brutal battles, the 77th Regiment of the 26th Division of the Ninth Column occupied Yuqing Palace. Only two buildings remain, the north and the south.
05 ▏ Weixian city wall
Weixian City Wall is located on the north side of Beima Road, Chengguan Street, Weicheng District, and is a cultural relics protection unit in Shandong Province. Founded in the Han Dynasty, the system of ramming the earth, changed to the external masonry at the end of the Ming Dynasty, rebuilt for the 23rd year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1843), and the inner façade is the triple soil (lime, sand, soil).
Weicheng District
The north side of the north road of Chengguan Street
Now only a part of the north city wall remains, which is divided into east and west sections by Xiangyang Road, the east section is 32 meters long, the west section is 63 meters long, the city wall is 34.5 meters wide, and the highest point is 12 meters.
In the early morning of April 24, 1948, the 79th Regiment of the 27th Division of the Ninth Column successfully blew up the first breakthrough on the north city wall with a 40-kilogram explosive bag and six consecutive blasts, and firmly planted the battle flag with the words "Insert the Red Flag of Victory on the head of Weixian County" at the head of Weixian County.
06 ▏The former site of the Weifang Special Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China
The former site of the Weifang Special Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China is located in the old campus of Weifang Commercial School in Weicheng District, Shandong Province Cultural Relics Protection Unit. The main landmark building is a yellow two-story German-style building, which is also known as the Little Yellow Building, the Octagonal Building, and the Yuanbao Building.
The building was built by Ding Shuyan, the richest man in Weixian around 1935, and on January 10, 1938, the Japanese army occupied Weixian, and the building became the residence of the Weixian branch of the Japan gendarmerie. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang army occupied Weixian, and the building was used as the urban defense headquarters of Chen Jincheng, commander of the 96th Army of the Kuomintang and commander of the 45th Division.
Weicheng District
The old campus of Weifang Commercial School
On April 24, 1948, the People's Liberation Army conquered Weixian County, and the Ninth Column Headquarters was located in the building. After the victory of the Weixian Campaign, the building and the Ding family compound where it is located became the office of the Weifang Special Municipal Party Committee. The interior is now arranged as a special exhibition with the theme of "City Takeover".
07 ▏ Lotus Bay Battle Site
The Lotus Bay Battle Site is located in the Caojiaxiang Community, Chengguan Street, Weicheng District, which is the location of the Lotus Bay during the Weixian Battle, and the cultural relics protection unit of Weifang City. The Battle of Lotus Bay was an offensive and defensive battle of urban positions with overall impact in the Weixian Campaign.
Chengguan Street, Weicheng District
Caojiaxiang Community
In the early morning of April 24, 1948, our army launched a general attack on the west city of Weixian, and Lotus Bay was the first place to enter the city after our army broke through the city wall. The 5th Company of the 79th Regiment of the 27th Division of the 9th Column fought with 10 times the enemy, and more than 160 people fought until only 16 people remained, holding their positions for 13 hours, opening up the way forward for the large army to enter the city to fight, and the 5th Company was awarded the honorary title of "Weicheng Combat Model Company".
In 1989, a cultural square was built on the original site of Lotus Bay, and in 2016, it was built as a red cultural theme park.
08 ▏ The main exhibition hall of the Weixian Campaign Party Spirit Education Base
The main exhibition hall of Weixian Campaign Party Spirit Education Base is located in the cultural block of Shihu Garden, with an exhibition area of 790 square meters, divided into three exhibition halls: the preface hall, the main exhibition hall and the inheritance hall.
The preface hall is mainly for the Weixian Campaign video education film "Insert the Red Flag of Victory on the Head of Weixian County" and the sand table of the offensive and defensive situation of the Weixian Campaign, systematically introduce the process of the Weixian Campaign, and show the Kuomintang Weixian County defense system during the Weixian Campaign.
Shihu Garden Cultural District
The main exhibition hall is a two-story building, focusing on the process of the Weixian Campaign and the touching stories through five units: the turning point of history, who to fight for, the hard nail of Weixian, the complete victory of the military and the government, and the historical monument. The inheritance hall mainly introduces the generals who came out of the Weixian Campaign, and undertakes the function of reviewing the oath ceremony of joining the party.
09 ▏ Nandaying Battle Site
The Nandaying battle site is located in the courtyard of No. 1789 Qingnian Road, Weicheng District, and is a cultural relics protection unit of Weifang City. Historically, the area was a barracks garrison and has had garrisons since the middle of the Qing Dynasty.
During the Anti-Japanese War, it was a concentration camp for the Japanese army to detain our anti-Japanese people; After the occupation of the Kuomintang, it became an important independent garrison in the south of Weixian County, and the fortifications were strong.
Qingnian Road, Weicheng District
Inside the hospital No. 1789
In the Battle of Weixian in 1948, the Shandong Corps of the People's Liberation Army attacked Weixian, and Nandaying became the primary point of the People's Liberation Army due to its high geographical location and proximity to the railway. The People's Liberation Army's Bohai Column and Luzhong troops attacked the Nandaying area, and after three days of fierce fighting, they were able to conquer it.
After the liberation, the municipal government planned and built the Weifang grain and oil reserve depot in Shandong Province on the basis of the old site of the Nandaying battle, retaining the large warehouses built during the Republic of China period and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, with unique architectural style, and some warehouses are Russia style buildings. It is now the "Nandaying · 1789 Cultural and Art District".
10 ▏ Victory Monument in the Battle of Weixian
The Weixian Battle Victory Monument is located about 200 meters northeast of the intersection of Dongfeng Street and Heping Road in Weifang City, and is a cultural relics protection unit in Weifang City. On the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Weixian Campaign, the 11th Weifang Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference proposed the construction of the Weixian Campaign Victory Square and placed stone commemoration.
Dongfeng Street, Weifang City
Intersection with Heping Road
The memorial stone is made of Mount Tai rough stone, which is 11.5 meters high, 4.5 meters wide, 1.7 meters thick, and weighs 138 tons. Chi Haotian, former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, former state councilor and minister of national defense, inscribed "Weixian Battle Victory Commemoration" in eight characters, and Wang Qingde wrote the Weixian Battle Record, which was completed in April 2009.
11 ▏ Weixian Dongguan City Wall
Weixian Dongguan City Wall (the former site of the Weixian Battle Siege Point) is located in the north section of the Tongji Gate of the Dongguan City Wall in Weixian County, Kuiwen District, and is a cultural relics protection unit in Shandong Province. The final battle of the Weixian Campaign was carried out in 2 siege blasting points left behind in the Dongguan City Wall, with a total area of about 150 square meters, which were located in the north and south sections of the city wall.
Kuiwen District
Weixian Dongguan City Wall
There are a large number of bullet marks distributed on the city wall, and there is a commemorative stone tablet inlaid at the mouth of the city wall, and the inscription in regular script is "On April 27, 1948, the Shandong Corps of the East China Field Army conquered Weixian".
12 ▏ Weifang Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery
Weifang Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery is located at No. 75, Dongfeng East Street, Kuiwen District, and is a county-level cultural relics protection unit. The park was founded in 1951 and covers an area of 50 acres.
Kuiwen District
75 Dongfeng East Street
It is mainly composed of 7 memorial points, namely the Martyrs' Monument, the Martyrs' Memorial Hall, the Martyrs' Memorial Pavilion, the Weixian Battle Martyrs' Cemetery Area, the Martyrs' Cemetery Area to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Scattered Martyrs' Lying Monument Area and the Martyrs' Lying Monument Area. A total of 1,806 martyrs were buried, including 525 unknown martyrs.
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