General Secretary Xi Jinping said: "The republic is red, and this color cannot be diluted." The blood of countless martyrs has stained our banner red, and we will never be able to build the republic they aspire to, strive for, and sacrifice for. ”
There have been 21 large-scale battles, 15 outrageous tragedies, many famous and unknown heroes, and many historical stories worth remembering. During the revolutionary war, Pinggu was the core area of the anti-Japanese base area in the eastern and western parts of Hebei, the starting point for the liberation of the northeast by the People's Liberation Army, the support area, and the cadre transportation area of the southbound work group. Pinggu's rich and splendid red cultural heritage has constructed the unique "red content" of Pinggu culture, and the people of Pinggu have also inherited the "red gene" of not being afraid of sacrifice and having the courage to take responsibility.
In the 100-year history of the founding of the Communist Party of China, Many characters and stories that can be sung and wept have emerged in Pinggu District. The Organization Department of the Pinggu District Party Committee and the Party History Office of the Pinggu District Committee jointly compiled the "Red Valley Story 100", which collated and included 100 red historical documentaries, celebrity biographies, and folk stories that occurred in the Pinggu area, inheriting red culture, learning the red spirit, and presenting the centennial birthday of the party.
Today, Xiaobian will continue to take you into that magnificent period, look back on those revolutionary past events, and encourage us to keep our original intentions and not forget the road ahead, and undertake the mission to strive for a new journey.
Pinggu Battle 21
(Party History Office)
The 4th Cavalry Division fought fiercely against the Japanese
In March 1933, the Great Wall War of Resistance broke out. In the first half of April, Lengkou, Xifengkou and Gubeikou fell one after another. On the 26th, the Second Army ordered the armies to assemble in the areas of Pinggu, Sanhe, and Tongxian. On 1 May, the 4th Cavalry Division entered Pinggu. On the 18th, it drove to the line of Dahua Mountain, Shangzhen, Nandule River, Paoshan Ji, Heidouyu, Huangsongyu, and Yuzi Mountain, and withdrew to the vicinity of Hanzhuang after a fierce battle between General Pass, Paoshan Ji, and Shuizi and the Japanese army. On the 19th, 12 Japanese aircraft bombed, and many civilians were killed or injured in Pinggu City. The Town Luo camp was lost. More than 1,000 gangs from Jixian County sneaked into the territory and attacked pinggu county with the support of the Japanese army. The 4th Cavalry Division reinforced a unit of the South Dule River and defeated it. On the 20th, the Japanese army, under the cover of aircraft, launched a full-line attack, and the fourth cavalry division was surrounded by a Japanese arc, and the county town fell. The 4th Cavalry Division retreated to Yingcheng at dusk, and on the 21st withdrew from Pinggu, where the Japanese occupied all of Pinggu.
The Eighth Route Army liberated Pinggu City in four columns
In June 1938, the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army advanced into Jidong, cooperated with the anti-Japanese rebellion in eastern Hebei, and reached the Zhenluoying area in the middle of the year. On the 17th, the pseudo-police station of Zhenluoying was destroyed and stationed in Nanshuiyu. On the 19th, the general pass was pulled out, and the pseudo police station was set up on the mountain, and the main force was stationed in the general pass. During this period, he also attacked huangsongyu, Yajishan, Yukou, Emeishan and other pseudo-police stations, and confiscated the materials stored by Xin Zhuangzi's traitors for the Japanese army. In the second half of the year, the county government of Mi (Yun), Ping (Gu) and Ji (County) was established in Zhenluo, and an anti-Japanese guerrilla force led by Ma Weifeng was formed. The 34th Brigade of the Fourth Column mobilized the masses in Luojiagou and Yuzishan mountain villages to form the Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress. An anti-Japanese guerrilla group was formed at Yuzi Mountain and prepared to attack the county seat of Pinggu. On the night of July 19, Captain Yi Yaocai led the 34th Brigade to surround Pinggu County in the rain. Yi Yaocai ordered a platoon leader Song Lairen to lead 18 soldiers to infiltrate the north city from the drainage ditch of the north city, cut the defending enemy to death, open the city gate, and the first and third battalions, as well as the guerrillas and masses participating in the battle, rushed into the city. Send a company to destroy the enemy at the south gate and welcome the second battalion into the city. The Japanese fled from the West Gate. The puppet county magistrate, the pseudo-police chief, and the Japanese adviser fled for their lives from the Nancheng Shuigou Cave, and more than 500 puppet troops were captured by us, and all weapons and ammunition were captured. Pinggu County was liberated, and the Pinggu County Anti-Japanese Democratic Government, the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association and the Pinggu County Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Brigade were established. At the same time, Liu Xiangdao and others launched a rebellion in Mafang, and formed the Pingsan Jishun Guerrilla Brigade with the rebels in Jixian County. On August 23, under the siege of the Japanese puppet army, the anti-Japanese democratic government of Pinggu County withdrew to the northern mountains. On October 8, the four columns and the rioting anti-coalition troops began to withdraw to Pingxi, and on the 17th, when the anti-coalition troops reached the area of Dahua Mountain and Zhenluoying, they were intercepted by the Japanese puppet army. At the beginning of the war, the losses were severe. The remnants of the team withdrew to Dongfan and Xifan. Li Yunchang, deputy commander of the Anti-Japanese Coalition, and Hu Xikui and Li Chuli, responsible persons of the Jirebian Special Committee, decided at an emergency meeting to stop the westward retreat, and the remaining troops returned to Feng, Luan, and Qian to persist in guerrilla warfare.
The third detachment of the Eighth Route Army insisted on guerrilla warfare
When the four columns retreated westward, three detachments remained to persist in guerrilla warfare. The third detachment was active in the Pinggu, Miyun, Xinglong, and Jixian areas. In November 1938, the reactionary landlords of Yuzishan rebelled, forcibly surrendered the guns of the Yuzishan guerrillas, and arrested two guerrilla leaders. Colluded with the armed landlords of Zhuangzhuang and other villages in Shandong province to claim to eliminate the Eighth Route Army. They ransacked the health center of the third detachment in Dongchangyu and looted supplies. After hearing the news, the third detachment rushed from Wuling Mountain, rushed into Yuzi Mountain, defeated the landlord's armed forces, recaptured the looted materials, confiscated the guns of the landlord's armed forces, and stabilized the situation in the area around Yuzi Mountain In December, the Japanese army concentrated its forces to encircle and suppress the three detachments. The three detachments were in the mountainous areas around Nanshuiyu and Luojiagou and were reduced to pieces and were circling the enemy. In a treacherous environment, I persevered for 45 days and survived the difficulties. In February 1939, the three detachments destroyed the General Guan Pseudo Police Station and outsmarted the Nandulehe Pseudo Police Station. In April, it successively pulled out 7 temporary japanese and pseudo-Japanese strongholds of Dogbeiling, Wudaohe, Liudaohe, Shuangdongzi, Sandaohe, Maodongzi, and Zhenluoying. At the end of the month, the three detachments entered the panshan campaign and established contact with several guerrilla groups, bringing them under the command of the three detachments. By the end of the year, the three detachments had grown to five brigades, from more than 100 to more than 2,000.
The armed forces outwitted the Ketou stronghold
In May 1940, Liu Xiangdao, on the orders of Bao Sen, deputy commander of the 13th detachment of the Jirecha Advance Army, led a military engineering team to the junction of Pinggu, Sanhe, and Jixian to open up new areas. In order to educate and win over the bandits to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance, Liu Xiangdao disguised himself as a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, led the armed workers to outwit the Ketou stronghold of the joint defense area, captured more than a dozen rifles, a thousand bullets, ten grenades, and captured more than a dozen puppet troops. The battle struck the enemy and overwhelmed the bandits. The bandits, intimidated by the prestige of the armed workers, accepted the adaptation. Taking this as an opportunity, the armed engineering team opened up a large area in the southern part of Pinggu and the Three Rivers, and established the Three Rivers Special Area.
The Thirteenth Regiment of the Eighth Route Army raided the puppet army stationed in Lugezhuang
In the early morning of August 30, 1940, the 13th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army suddenly attacked the puppet army stationed in Lugezhuang from the east and south directions, and all of the more than 40 puppet troops were annihilated. In the afternoon, the ministry attacked the Hujiaying stronghold, killing more than 50 puppet troops, taking 18 prisoners, and capturing 2 machine guns, 18 rifles, and 20 bicycles.
The Yang family would fight to capture the mountain cannons
In early September 1940, regimental commander Bao Sen led the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 13th Regiment to a fierce battle with the Japanese troops who had come from Beiping to sweep at Shuiyu in the east of Pinggu, and defeated them, pursuing them for 20 kilometers until they reached pinggu castle. On September 20, he fought against the enemy at Yang Jiahui, and the Japanese army was defeated, leaving behind dead bodies, throwing away mountain cannons, and fleeing back to the city. The 13th Regiment captured 1 mountain cannon, 1 grenadier and 1 light machine gun. Forcing the independent mixed fifteenth brigade, the Japanese army did not dare to stay in Pinggu for a long time, and quickly withdrew.
Siege of Zhoucun
In October 1942, Liu Xiangdao, the instructor of the Fifth Brigade (PingmiXing Jigan Team), led 47 soldiers to the plains to transport shoes, and was surrounded by Japanese puppet troops at The North Gang of Zhoucun Village. Lu Xiaoping, director of the organization department of the CPC Pingmixing United County Committee and secretary of the first district party committee, was wounded in the battle and died shortly afterwards.
Tuguzi ambush battle
On January 18, 1943, 600 to 700 Japanese puppet troops stationed in Xinglong surrounded and suppressed Beizhai, Luojiagou and Baiyang in a vain attempt to destroy the supply office and health department of the 13th Regiment. When the enemy and the puppets did not dare to advance, they only burned and killed on the spot for one day; when they returned after dark, the militia, under the leadership of Cui Guilin and Bai Wenlin, cooperated closely with the main forces, set up an ambush at Tuguzi to attack the Japanese puppet army, killed more than 50 Japanese puppet troops, surrendered 7 boxes of ammunition, 14 rifles, and 1 telescope, and covered the safe transfer of personnel from the two places of protection.
The Second Division team won the initial battle
In February 1943, the Second Regional Team was established, and after a short training at Nanshuiyu, it went south into the plains. In May, the Battle of Guanzhuang was fought, and more than 30 Japanese puppet troops were eliminated from the Yukou stronghold. On the night of June 7, the first company of the second district team conquered the Xindian stronghold, completely annihilated 1 squad of the puppet army, captured more than 30 squad leaders or less, and captured more than 20 guns of various kinds.
Battle of Ganying Wangmatai
On September 30, 1943, two companies of the Thirteenth Regiment were stationed in Matai, and three companies of the Second District Brigade were stationed in Ganying, and the militia was sent to the strongholds of Huzhuang, Xia gezhuang, and Pinggu to disperse the wind: "The Eighth Route Army and the county magistrate are coming" to lure the enemy to the bait. The next morning, 7 Japanese and 13 puppet troops from the Xiagezhuang stronghold came down to the Gan camp under the leadership of captain ShinDa, and the second district team completely annihilated the Japanese army and captured the puppet army. Just after the battle, Miyazaki, the squadron leader of the Japanese garrison stationed in Pinggu, led more than 30 Japanese troops and more than 100 puppet troops to pounce on the Gan camp. The second district team attacked the enemy puppet army on both sides, annihilating more than 30 Japanese troops, the puppet army fled back to the county seat, and Miyazaki was stabbed to death by Li Decheng, the platoon leader of the second district. More than 100 Japanese puppet troops of Hu Zhuang and Guo Jiatun marched to the north of Wangmatai Village, set up mortars, and prepared to shoot into the village. Liu Zhilong, the company commander of the Thirteenth Regiment, killed the Japanese shooter with one shot, the soldiers bravely rushed to kill, the Japanese puppet army dropped mortars, and the enemy fled to the Huzhuang stronghold. The battle killed more than 40 Japanese puppet troops, captured 13 puppet troops, surrendered 1 mortar, 1 grenade launcher, 83 shells, more than 20 long and short guns, and a batch of bullets.
Nanshuiyu Breakout Battle
At the end of December 1943, the 13th Regiment and the 2nd District Team rested in Nanshuiyu and carried out activities to support the army and love the people with the 1st Special Office. It was besieged by more than 900 Japanese puppet troops in Xinglong, Miyun, Pinggu and Sanhe. After a day of fighting, more than 100 Japanese puppet troops and 4 officers were killed or wounded, and the Japanese puppet army continued to reinforce, and the Eighth Route Army and party and government organs broke through and moved by separate routes.
Battle of Nanzhangdai
The Battle of Nanzhangdai took place on February 23, 1944, the thirtieth day of the first lunar month of the old calendar. Under the leadership of Li Manying, the leader of the jirebian military region, and Tan Zhicheng, the political commissar, successfully fought an ambush near Sanhe, and struck hard at the Japanese puppet army in the Xia Mat stronghold of "Qingxiang" (清乡). Subsequently, the troops moved north, and on February 21, they arrived at Nanzhai Village, not far from Nanzhangdai. A crowd of people in Nanzhangdai quietly found the troops, saying that the Japanese devils and garrisons in the Mafang stronghold often came to the area of Nanzhangdai to grab grain, hoping that the troops would wipe them out. Captain Li consulted with Commissar Tan and decided to fight another ambush. The next day the team ambushed on both sides of a small road north of Cui Zhuangzi (east of South Zhangdai). On this day, the enemy did come, but did not enter the village, and went directly to pinggu county. And the enemy went to Pinggu the next day to prepare to return to Mafang, and he would definitely pass by the side of Nanzhangdai Village, and the team stayed in Nanzhangdai Village that night. Under the leadership of the militia, Li Mansheng, the captain of the regiment, inspected the terrain overnight and ambushed the three companies led by Ma Zhenfeng Company Commander in the east of the village and the second company in the north of the village. The commanders and fighters prepared nervously, pulled out the walls of the courtyard with their gunshots, and everything was ready, waiting for the enemy. It was the early morning of the next day, the 23rd. It was dawn, and the enemy was coming from the road to the east. Two agents approached the head of the village first, found a gun hole in the wall, turned around and ran, and my soldier shouted, "Stop, which part?" The agent didn't answer just ran, and a soldier held out his gun, boom! trumpet! Two shots were fired, and the agent was killed. As soon as the Japanese devils and puppet soldiers behind them heard the sound of gunfire, they scattered and quickly occupied the two large graves in the east of the village, set up machine guns and fired fiercely at the village. The commanders and fighters of our three companies, under the command of the commander of the Horse Company, also opened fire fiercely at the same time. For a moment, the gunshots burst out and the smoke and dust filled the air. After fighting for a while, the commander of the Ma Company gave an order: "Rush——! He led his warriors to the enemy position, and some of them fell in the charge. At this moment, the enemy drove three trucks from the direction of Pinggu, full of Japanese and puppet reinforcements. The three companies rushed up, and the second company, which was ambushed in the north of the village, quickly concentrated to the east of the village. After a while, the scouts reported that the enemy had reinforced the horse fang. There were enemies in the east and enemies in the west, and they were attacked on their stomachs and backs, and Captain Lee immediately ordered him to withdraw from his position. The three companies that rushed up, under the blockade of the enemy's dense firepower, could not be withdrawn for a while. I concentrated my fire to suppress the enemy and cover the retreat of the three companies, and some of the soldiers of the three companies fell down again in the retreat. A soldier carrying a seriously wounded horse company commander on his back saw that he was at the head of the village, unfortunately hit by the enemy's bullets, and the horse company commander and the soldier died heroically. Ma Company Commander, also known as Mapud, a native of Jixian County, Tianjin, was only thirty-two years old at the time of his death. Just before withdrawing from the battle, Captain Li sent someone to move a table from the school in Nanzhangdaixin village and build a pontoon bridge over the Yang River in order to cross the river and retreat. At the same time, two squads of the Second Company were sent to guard and take cover in the south of Xinqiao Village. Captain Li and Political Commissar Tan took the warriors and crossed the pontoon bridge along the west slope of Zhangdai Village in southern China and withdrew to Guogezhuang in Hexi. The two vigilant squads resisted the enemy and covered the retreat, and finally when they withdrew to the pontoon bridge, many people also flocked to the bridge. The fighters covered the masses to pass first, until the enemy caught up, and then they retreated while returning fire and demolishing the pontoon bridge. The Japanese devils who caught up with them set up machine guns on the other side of the river, and several of my soldiers unfortunately spilled blood on the river. By this time it was past midnight. The team withdrew into Guogezhuang, and the second company held on to the east of the village. The enemy chased after me and attacked us from the south and east. The Japanese devils set up small cannons on the east bank of the Yang River, fired cannons straight at Guogezhuang, and released poisonous gas. Our commanders and fighters fought in unity against the enemy, braved the enemy's guns and bullets, and stubbornly repelled the enemy's attacks again and again. The machang camp pseudo-security unit, which was ten miles away from Guogezhuang, heard the sound of gunfire in the morning, and the turtles shrank in the stronghold and did not dare to come out; in the afternoon, because of the strong wind, they could not hear the gunshots, thinking that they were all right, they wanted to take advantage of the fire and robbery, and more than 20 puppet troops came shakily. Our commanders and fighters had already discovered that when they approached, they suddenly launched a charge, captured more than a dozen alive at once, and captured a large number of bullets, which replenished the urgent need for battle. The commanders and fighters held out until dark, and Captain Li and Commissar Tan led the team to get rid of the enemy and safely retreated to the northern mountains. During the battle, the Nanzhangdai militiaman Zhang Ren, holding a flower gun, disregarded his personal safety when the three companies retreated, braving a dense number of bullets to rescue a soldier wounded in the leg. The militia and the masses formed stretcher teams, rushed into the line of fire, and transferred the wounded. In this battle, dozens of enemies were eliminated, and more than 30 people were sacrificed on our side. Although it failed to achieve the expected victory, it dealt a blow to the arrogance of the enemy. When it was found that the enemy was outnumbered and it was difficult to win for a while, he resolutely withdrew from the battle, avoided greater losses of the troops, and preserved the living forces for the final victory of the War of Resistance. After the battle, local cadres and the masses buried more than 30 revolutionary martyrs in two places, Nanzhangdai and Guogezhuang. Soon, in order to forever remember and commemorate the revolutionary martyrs, two monuments were secretly engraved from Beiping and stood in front of the tombs of the two martyrs. Because Mafang had a Japanese stronghold, the monument was later buried under the tomb of the martyrs, and it was re-erected after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. The Guogezhuang Martyrs Monument is no longer extant, but in early 1987, the Nanzhangdai Martyrs Monument was reinforced by the local government on a cement base and was well preserved for people to hang and admire.
Battle of The Northern Tumen of Xiong'er Village
In the summer of 1944, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the stage of partial counteroffensive. In this favorable situation, the military and civilians of eastern Jidong launched a summer offensive. The battles of Beitumen and Xiong'erzhai were an important battle in this summer offensive. At the beginning of the summer offensive, the Thirteenth Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, which was engaged in chengxing secret activities, first attacked along the Great Wall to contain the enemy and seek opportunities to strike. On May 29, the 13th Regiment laid an ambush at Qianziyu and severely damaged a Japanese puppet army. Six rebel brigades immediately besieged the Thirteenth Regiment. The thirteenth regiment took this part of the enemy, along the Qingshui River, past Reed Yu, turning the mountain, passing through the Huangmen River to skillfully shake off the enemy, and then continue to move south. In June, two squadrons of the Japanese army gathered more than 1,000 people from liu qi, Shi Zhen, Cheng Bin, and Sun De' four pseudo-Manchu crusade brigades, carrying nine mortars and forty-two light and heavy machine guns, and swept along the Great Wall line in an attempt to pinch the thirteen regiments, and on the 2nd sneaked into the two villages of Beitumen and Xiong'erzhai to camp. Under the command of Comrade Shu Xing, the regimental commander, the Thirteenth Regiment immediately seized this favorable fighter, took advantage of the enemy's lack of preparation, and quickly surrounded the two villages and occupied the nearby hills. Comrade Shu Xing commanded at Jiuli Mountain in Beitumen, comrade Chen Yunzhong, chief of staff of the 13th Regiment, and Comrade Wang Wen, director of the Political Department, commanded at the top of Xiong'erzhai East Mountain. At dawn on the 3rd, the 1st Company of the 13th Regiment and the Special Agent Company first attacked the Beitu Gate, blocking the sleeping enemy in the house, and the soldiers threw grenades to kill many enemies. The remnant fled into the compound where the enemy commander lived. There were 12 light and heavy machine guns in this compound, and although the firepower was fierce, it was difficult to deploy due to close combat night combat. More than a dozen of my soldiers swerved past, dug holes in the roof and stuffed grenades, blew up machine guns in two houses, and killed one enemy commander. My commanders and fighters took the opportunity to rush into the courtyard and killed a number of enemies. During the battle, an enemy unit attempted to occupy the North Hill and was beaten back by a platoon of the thirteenth regiment that had been ambushed in advance. The platoon became more and more courageous, repelling five enemy attacks in a row. On the last occasion, only three warriors remained in the platoon, still holding their positions and repelling the enemy's counterattack. At the same time, the battle of Xiong'erzhai was also extremely fierce. It was fought by the commanders and fighters of the Second and Fifth Companies. Our army overwhelmed the enemy in the house and the wall from a commanding position, and grenades blossomed in the enemy groups in the house; the walls of the courtyard also opened gaps, and the soldiers fought from one courtyard to another, destroying the enemy from house to house. Then fierce street battles and hand-to-hand combat ensued, annihilating more than a hundred enemy people at the mouth of Xiong'erzhai East Street alone. Under the organization of local cadres, the local militia masses risked the risk of sending water, food, and ammunition to the Eighth Route Army. With the cooperation of the militia, the morale of our commanders and fighters was even stronger; the enemy was exhausted by the long journey, but because of the numerical superiority, he struggled to cope. The whole battle between the two sides of the battle lasted for three hours, and when it was bright, my fighting mood doubled, and I insisted on fighting until two o'clock in the afternoon. The enemy dispatched aircraft to drop ammunition, and the nearby strongholds were constantly reinforced, and the situation was unfavorable to me. After a major victory, the Thirteenth Regiment immediately withdrew from the battle. This battle killed and wounded more than 500 enemies, and was the largest battle in the eastern and western regions of Hebei and the largest number of enemy annihilations. It caused heavy casualties and greatly reduced the morale of the pseudo-Manchu crusade team that had long been entrenched on the Great Wall line to create thousands of miles of "no man's land" and owe me a blood debt. This battle is of great significance to consolidating and developing the base areas in the eastern and western parts of Hebei and has greatly encouraged the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of our soldiers and people. In this battle, 70 commanders and fighters of the Thirteenth Regiment died heroically. The local people sacrificed forty plates and buried the remains of the martyrs in the back mountain of Beitumen and the east mountain of Xiong'erzhai, and the people's heroes were with the mountains and rivers, forever inspiring people to forge ahead.
Battle of Yue Gezhuang
On June 25, 1944, 4 companies of the 13th Regiment were stationed in Yue Gezhuang, and 3 companies of the 2nd District Were stationed in Zhao Gezhuang, and they were attacked by more than 1,000 Japanese puppet troops. Regiment Commander Shu Xing, Chief of Staff Chen Yunzhong, Political Office Director Wang Wen, Political Commissar Li Ziguang, and District Captain Li Manying led commanders and fighters to hold the village and repulse the Japanese puppet army's repeated attacks. Under the organization of the village cadres, the masses of the two villages rescued the wounded and delivered water and food. Fierce battle for a day, victory breakout at night. During the battle, more than 300 Japanese puppet troops were killed and wounded, and 2 light machine guns and more than 20 rifles were captured. The Eighth Route Army suffered more than 100 casualties.
Surprise attack on Pinggu County
On the night of September 4, 1944, the Japanese troops in Pinggu County set out to rescue the Huzhuang stronghold besieged by the militia. The commander of the Thirteenth Regiment seized this opportunity to lead a surprise attack on Pinggu County, with the intention of mobilizing Jixian county and the Sanhe Japanese puppet army to reinforce Pinggu and enter the North Mountain, and the main force of the Thirteenth Regiment again marched south to restore the plain area south of the Tongtang Highway. Shu Xing made combat arrangements: the special agent company and the first company were the main attacks in the north and west respectively, and the militia followed suit, preparing to organize the masses to clean up the battlefield and grab the spoils of war after entering the city; the second and fifth companies guarded the enemy's breakthrough and south channeling in the area of the Fire Temple outside the south gate, and blocked the enemy who might come to the rescue. The commander is located outside the North Gate of the Jinjia Tomb. At 00:00 on the 5th, each company departed and arrived at the designated place. Attacking at one o'clock in the morning, the warriors used the shelter of the houses to approach the city wall, set up a ladder, and climbed to the head of the city. At about two o'clock, the special agent company and the first company entered the city from the north and west respectively to expand the results of the battle. At about three o'clock, two pseudo-security squadrons and security brigades and police stations were disarmed and the pseudo-county government, the Japanese gendarmerie team headquarters, and the reactionary organization Shinmin Association were destroyed. Smash open the prison and rescue more than 100 compatriots killed. The surprise attack on Pinggu County took just over 3 hours, capturing 121 long and short guns, more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition, more than 4,000 grenades, and 12 telephones. Before dawn, according to the prior plan, the thirteen regiments were hidden in Xia Gezhuang, while the militia and the masses drove carts and livestock carrying grain and other trophies, and lined up in long formations to the mountains to the north. In the afternoon, more than 1,000 Japanese mobile units stationed in Tongxian, Jixian and Sanhe first assembled in Pinggu and then pursued north along the route taken by the militia and the masses. The Second District Brigade and the militia held the enemy back in the northern mountains, and that night the Thirteenth Regiment set out from Xia Gezhuang and marched to Jixian County and Sanhe in the south, seeking opportunities to fight, and Lianke Houjia Camp and other 15 strongholds.
Ambush of Li Xinzhuang
On October 24, 1944, more than 30 Japanese troops and more than 70 puppet troops stationed in Pinggu County were sent to the Huzhuang stronghold, and two companies of the 13th Regiment set up an ambush in the east of Li Xinzhuang Village. In the afternoon, the Japanese puppet army returned and was surrounded by the first and second companies, and the battle was fought from 3 p.m. to about 10 p.m., annihilating more than 20 Japanese troops, more than 50 puppet troops, and the squad leader Omura Yoshizo was killed, and 1 machine gun, 1 grenade launcher, and more than 20 long and short guns were captured.
The bloody battle between Daguanzhuang and Xiaoguanzhuang
On December 28, 1944, more than 10,000 japanese puppet troops from the 63rd Division of the Japanese Army and the Fifth Army of Rehe made a long-distance attack, attacking the area west of Pinggu County, targeting the headquarters of the military sub-district and a group of cadres at or above the regimental level sent by Jin-Cha-Ji who had just arrived in eastern Jidong. Commander Li Yunchang, the main force of the prefectural party committee, the special office, the 13th Regiment, and the cadre troops just sent to break through by separate routes. A platoon led by The newly arrived chief of staff of the 13th Regiment, Guan Xu, led by the newly built engineering company, the propaganda team, the volunteer brigade, the training team, and the political commissar of the second district team, Tan Zhicheng, was surrounded in the villages of Daguanzhuang and Xiaoguanzhuang. Tan Zhicheng and Guan Xu commanded the organization to counterattack, and after a day of fierce fighting, although they repelled the Japanese puppet army's repeated attacks and killed many Japanese puppet troops, in the end, because the enemy was outnumbered, the troops suffered heavy casualties, and a small number of them broke through the siege. More than 120 people, including Guan Xu, Tan Zhicheng, Wang Qunying, commander of the propaganda team, Du Rongchun, commander of the engineer company, and Chen Ren, chief of the financial section of the special bureau, died heroically, and more than 80 people were captured. Hundreds of people were also killed or injured.
Conquer the Mafang stronghold
On August 14, 1945, the Eighth Route Army and militia worked closely together to besiege the Mafang stronghold. There was 1 small group of Japanese troops and more than 100 puppet troops stationed in the stronghold. Before the siege, it was planned to blow up the artillery tower with explosives. After the siege began, it was found that the turrets were all made of stone, very strong, and the enemy was blocked with machine guns and was difficult to approach. Therefore, instead, tunnels were dug from the ground to the bottom of the turret, and then destroyed with explosives. After 3 days and nights of hard work, the tunnel was dug under the three corners of the turret. At this time, due to the lack of water and food in the artillery tower, the Japanese army drove out the puppet army and tried to hold on. The puppet army surrendered. With several earth-shattering noises, half of the turret collapsed, and the soldiers and civilians rushed to the turret and captured 12 Japanese troops alive. On September 13, the armed forces and militia of the county and district of the 14th Military Subdistrict liberated the county seat of Pinggu County, and the enemy fled. At this point, the whole territory of Pinggu was liberated.
Liberate the county seat of Pinggu
On September 16, 1946, the 29th Division of the 92nd Army of the Kuomintang Army occupied the county seat of Pinggu county and 44 surrounding villages. At the end of September, the defenders changed their defenses, leaving only 1 battalion to defend the city. The 29th Regiment, the main force of the Jidong Second Military Subdistrict, seized the fighter and carried out a fierce siege of Pinggu County. In addition to delivering letters, reconnaissance, and transporting the wounded, the militias of the first, second, fifth, and sixth districts also cooperated with the main force to participate in siege operations. The masses on the outskirts of the city organized stretcher teams and transport teams to participate in the war. Trade unions, peasant associations, and women's associations also organized their way to the line of fire to comfort and care for the wounded. The siege forces occupied three-quarters of the county seat and killed or wounded more than 200 Kuomintang troops. The Nationalist army was reinforced, and the Twenty-ninth Regiment and the militia withdrew. After April 1947, the Kuomintang army increased the defense of Tianjin and transferred most of the troops stationed in Pinggu, and the garrison was insufficient. The Fourteenth Military Subdistrict stepped up its encirclement of the county seat. On June 16, the Kuomintang army abandoned the city and fled, and the enemies of Mafang also fled, and the entire territory of Pinggu was liberated.
Beitun militia village warfare
On May 6, 1947, more than 600 Kuomintang troops and gang members suddenly surrounded Beitun Village with 2 heavy machine guns and 1 mortar. With rudimentary weapons, the Beitun militia calmly fought in the fortress, repelled 30 times more enemies than themselves, killed and wounded more than 20 people, and was commended by the county government.
Rear Battalion Blockade Battle
In 1948, the People's Liberation Army launched a summer offensive, and Zheng Weishan and Hu Yaobang led the three columns of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region into Pinggu. The Kuomintang army followed, and on the evening of June 5, the main force of the three columns continued to march eastward, leaving a part of it, with the cooperation of the county detachment, to hide in the first-line villages of more than 20 kilometers from Dayuzi and Xiaoyuzi to Xincheng and Mafang, with a battalion in the former Rui camp and a regiment and part of the county detachment in the back. Trenches were built that night, bunkers were dug, and the masses were evacuated. On the morning of the 6th, more than 10 Kuomintang planes circled and bombed in front of the positions. After the three vertical breaks, part of the retreat was to camp Rui. At about 9 o'clock, the Kuomintang army occupied the villages of Tingting and Bogezhuang, and after the aircraft bombarded, the cavalry and infantry launched a charge at the position of the Qianrui camp. By noon, the three columns and the county detachment repelled the Nationalist attack five or six times, and obtained from the captives white cloth and code words instructing the aircraft to bomb signals, and all the bombs were dropped on the Nationalist positions. The Kuomintang army never broke through the Rui camp defense line. Due to the completion of the blockade task, at about 5 p.m., the three columns and one unit and the county detachment took the initiative to withdraw, killing and wounding more than 300 Kuomintang troops in the battle.