Li Wenzong (1882~1941), formerly known as Li Mingde, also known as Li Hongru, was a native of Lizhuang, Wangxu Village, Xunbei Township, Hugou District. He entered a private school from an early age, and in the twenty-fifth year of the Qing Dynasty (1899), he was tested by Fengyang Province to show talent, and later opened a school to teach.
In May of the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the Japanese invading army occupied Hugouji, burned and looted, and did all kinds of evil. Inspired and guided by Mengzichuan, an underground worker of the CPC, Li Wenzong resolutely threw himself into the pen and embarked on the revolutionary road, starting with the name of matching characters. He called on his own ethnic group and neighbors to send people, guns, and money to organize an anti-Japanese defense team of more than 200 people in more than a month. They used the green yarn tent to fight the Japanese and the puppets and catch the bandits, especially the japanese puppet army strongholds that organized the shrewd and capable detachments to attack the Renqiao Railway Station seven times and the Xisipo Railway Station twice, which had a considerable impact. After the autumn, he pulled the team to the area around Fangdian and Yongzhen in Suxian County, which were far away from the railway. In winter, when Li Wenzong returned home to visit due to his mother's illness, his subordinates Geng Anren and Xu Yuwen, under the instigation of Ma Zihe, the head of the pseudo-Hugou District, and shan Junqing, his minions, each defected to the enemy with his headquarters and guns. Filled with righteous indignation, Li Wenzong immediately pulled the remnants back to Guangou for rectification, and soon expanded to more than 100 people, re-active on both sides of the railway, which greatly encouraged the people's anti-Japanese fighting spirit. Ma Zihe and Shan Junqing, who were based on Hugou, lured Li Wenzong's troops to "co-edit" with him with money and status, and Li Wenzong rebuked him: "Sooner or later, the Japanese devils will be doomed, and there will be no good end when they are traitors, and victory must belong to the Chinese people with backbone!"
In the spring of the following year, Mengzichuan took Li Wenzong and his team to Shicun, Suxian County, and organized them into three squadrons of seven brigades of the six anti-japanese detachments, and became a regular anti-Japanese unit under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (later organized into three companies of the first battalion of the twenty-seventh regiment of the ninth brigade of the New Fourth Army). After participating in the battles of Suxian Railing, Miao'an, Taqiao, Dieluzhao, Huangling, and Fuwei in Lingbi County, Li Wenzong and Mengzichuan were ordered to return to the Area of Guangou ji to organize another armed force of nearly 60 people, which merged with the team formed by Shen Liancheng at the same time to form the Sudong Independent Regiment of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army, with Shen Liancheng as the regimental commander. Because Li Wenzong was too old to lead troops, he was appointed to the Senate and was honored as "Li Laowen".
In the spring of the 30th year of the Republic of China (1941), Chiang Kai-shek launched the second anti-communist upsurge. More than 200,000 troops were mobilized to attack the CCP's Yuwan-Anhui Border Region. The Sudong Independent Regiment was ordered to march to Longkangji in Huaiyuan County, renamed the Huaishang Independent Regiment, and was responsible for defending the HUAI Shangxing Bureau. In order to change the grim situation in which the Japanese puppet army and the Kuomintang army merged to attack the New Fourth Army, Li Wenzong used his old connections to cover the enemy worker cadre Zhang Wenhua to enter Hugou ji alone, forcing Shan Junqing to send his brother Shan Shuoqing to promise not to be an enemy of the New Fourth Army, and to send reliable information in time before the Japanese army "swept up." Li Wenzong also took advantage of his old ties with the "An Qing Gang" to win over the leaders of the puppet armies in Yaoji, Yangmiao, Heji, Xinmaqiao, and other places, and forced Xu Yintang, a traitor from Guzhen, to indirectly state that he would "never be an enemy of the New Fourth Army." So far, the puppet army west of the Jinpu Railway and the local Kuomintang troops have established united front relations with the Chinese Communists, enabling the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army to smoothly complete the task of strategic transfer to the base areas in northeast Anhui.
In May, in order to strengthen the military strength of the Sudong region and put the western gate of the base area in the northeast of Haowan Province, Peng Xuefeng appointed Zhou Qibang as the political commissar, led two main companies to merge with the Sudong Independent Regiment, which had reverted to its original name, to form the Sudong guerrilla detachment, and mobilized Li Wenzong, who was nearly a year old, to work in the base area. However, Li Wenzong was overwhelmed with courage, was not afraid of the hardships of the war environment, refused to take care of the organization, and was determined to fight on the front line.
In November, the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army sent Chief of Staff Zhang Zhen to Sudong to inspect the work. On the evening of the 19th, Zhang Zhen held a joint meeting of the party, government and army in the Sudong region at Xiaoqin's house in Jinfengsi Township. After the meeting was adjourned at 11:00 a.m., the Sudong guerrilla detachment moved with Zhang Zhen and others via Chehu to the Shengweizi camp at the southeastern end of Suxian County. At dawn the next day, I was suddenly attacked by a Japanese puppet army (including more than 100 Japanese troops) in 11 trucks, several times larger than me. In the battle to cover the transfer of the chief, Li Wenzong was shot several times and died heroically.
In 1986, in order to commemorate Li Wenzong and 18 other martyrs who died in this battle, the Suxian People's Government erected a monument in Shengxu Village, Luling Town, and the inscription was personally written by Zhang Zhen, deputy chief of general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.