At dawn on October 25, 1945, the Enxian Independent Regiment of the Sixth Sub-district of the Ji'nan Military Region, with the close cooperation of the brother troops of the sub-district and the local armed forces, and with the strong support of the artillery units of the Bohai Naval Region, conquered the county seat of Enxian in one fell swoop. More than 1,200 pseudo-county magistrates Wang Huasan, deputy Chu Zhanwen of the puppet brigade, and more than 1,200 pseudo-officers and men below the pseudo-county commander who were known for their crimes were all captured, and two heavy machine guns, more than forty light machine guns, more than ten grenadiers, more than a thousand rifles, grain, cloth, and other materials were captured. At this point, the whole territory of Enxian County was liberated, living under the rule of the Japanese and puppets, and the people of Enxian County, who had been oppressed and ravaged for more than seven years, were rescued and saw the light.
Located on the Northwest Lu Plain, Enxian County (in 1945, it belonged to the Sixth Prefecture Committee and the Sixth Military Sub-district of Southern Hebei, and now belongs to Encheng Town, Pingyuan County) is north of Tongde County, south of Gaotang, east of Pingyuan, west of Xiajin, Wucheng. Before the opening of Jinpu Road, the Daguan Road from Beijing to Fujian passed through it. After Japan's surrender, the three counties of Enxian County, Dexian County, and Pingyuan, which were occupied by the puppet confluence of Jiang and Japan, became horns, and their geographical location was more important. After the "July 7" Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, the Kuomintang army was defeated and retreated, local officials fled with money, bandits, and leaders of the Huidao Gate... Taking the opportunity to set up this and that regiment one after another in the name of the anti-Japanese family, they demanded grain and money from the masses. In October 1938, after the Japanese invading forces occupied the county seat of Enxian county for the third time, They beat Wang Hua, commander of the Kuomintang Shandong Security Brigade, who was born of banditry, and Enwei and Made it. In February 1938, Wang Huasan was officially ordered by the invaders to become the governor (county chief) of the pseudo-county of Enxian County, and became a lackey of the Japanese invading army to brutalize the Chinese people.
Wang Huasan, nicknamed Sorghum Hawthorn, was a native of Xiaotun (now part of Datun Township, Wucheng County) in En County. After the outbreak of the Japanese war of aggression against China, the call for resistance to Japan in urban and rural areas throughout the country was high, and Wang Huasan, who had been a bandit for many years and became a small leader, also recruited soldiers to buy horses to raise the "Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army." "And there are some anti-Japanese manifestations of a small number of poor people and social wanderers who have the heart to save the country. In the spring and summer of 1938, Wang Huasan was successively appointed by the Kuomintang provincial government as the commander of the first regiment of security and the commander of the first brigade. Later, after being coerced and lured by the Japanese army, he was led by Ri te Fan Baoyu and publicly surrendered to Japan in early 1939 and became the pseudo-county magistrate of En County. At first, intimidated by the military prestige of the Eighth Route Army, he also stepped on two boats. Since he was secretly controlled by Kuomintang agents in the winter of 1939, especially after the Eighth Route Army withdrew from the border areas of Gao, En, Xia, Ping, and Yu in May 1940, he became increasingly reactionary and became a hardcore traitor who was determined to be loyal to the Japanese. After Wang Huasan became a pseudo-county magistrate, relying on the strength of the Japanese army, he quickly expanded the team to more than 1,500 people and organized it into a brigade and ten squadrons. Among them, six squadrons were distributed in more than a dozen strongholds such as Tengzhuang, Zhengzhuang, Jiucheng, Nanbeiguanzhuang, Houwangzhuang, Xiaotun, and Xinqiao, and the brigade headquarters and four squadrons were stationed in Enxian County. They often colluded with the Japanese army to arrest and kill Communists and anti-Japanese cadres, plunder property, and squeeze the people, which not only caused great harm to the lives and property of the people of Enxian County, but also posed a great threat to the anti-Japanese activities of our party, government, and military.
In order to educate and win wang Huasan, the Enxian County Brigade, and the Nineteenth Regiment of the Sixth Subdistrict of the Ji'nan Military Region, the Enxian County CPC Committee, the Enxian County Brigade, and the Ji'nan Military Region fought against Japan. However, Wang Huasan refused to resist the Japanese and stubbornly confessed to the thief as his father. In order to weaken Wang Huasan's power and isolate him, the County Party Committee of Enxian County of the CPC actively carried out the work of enemy workers. Sun Yudong, the chairman of the Huangsha Society in Daxing, the fifth district of Enxian County, was both japanese and Kuomintang, and the leader of his guard, Yin Wenchang, had joined the new battalion of the Jinpu detachment of the Eighth Route Army, lost contact with the troops after the battle at Ningyang Xingshan Villa, and ran home to become Sun Yudong's guard captain and unit commander. In view of this situation, the Enxian County CPC Committee did his job well, and under the assistance of the 19th Regiment and the Enxian County Brigade, Yin Wenchang pulled out more than 100 people and guns from Daxing's Huangshahui. After being pulled out, the original squad was organized into an independent battalion. After pulling Yin Wenchang from Wang Huasan's camp, he began to work as Xu Xiufeng, the pseudo-district chief and pseudo-squadron commander stationed in Liu Wangzhuang's stronghold (he was very close to Wang Huasan, and the father of Liu Ziwei, my deputy commissioner and county magistrate of Enxian County, was a brother, and one of the guards was an underground member of the CCP), so that in January 1945 he led an uprising of more than 100 people. Subsequently, the Enxian County Brigade, the Independent Battalion, and a squadron of Xu Xiufeng's uprising were merged into the Enxian Independent Regiment. At the same time, under the leadership and contact of Pang Jun, minister of enemy engineering of the prefectural party committee, Ma Shen, deputy commander of the Yundong Brigade, and head of the Xiajin Independent Regiment (who had no relations with the Enxian County Party Committee and the county brigade), Zhu Jiuwen (Zhu Jiuwen), the pseudo-sixth district chief (stationed in Lüjing), who had long infiltrated Wang Huasan(Zhu Jiuwen was a Gaotang native, formerly the head of the Kuomintang Gaotang Second District and head of the district regiment, belonged to the Miscellaneous Regiment Chen Shengtang Department, and later defected to Wang Huasan because of Chen's exclusion), also worked hard, and finally Enabled Zhu Jiuwen to lead more than 400 people on July 1, 1945. The gun uprising was organized into the Special Service Regiment of the Sixth Military Subdistrict of Jiluyu.
In the first half of 1945, the Eighth Route Army under the leadership of the Party launched a powerful offensive against the Japanese army on various battlefields throughout the country, compressing the Japanese army near some cities and lines of communication, and on August 8, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and the Soviet Red Army entered northeast China and launched a large-scale attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army. On September 10 and 11, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De issued a seven-line order order ordering the people's armed forces to advance rapidly, collect enemy and fake weapons, and accept the surrender of the Japanese army. When the news came, the party, government, and military and people in Enxian County rejoiced, rushed to tell each other, and their morale was even stronger. With the support of the Nineteenth Regiment, the puppet army was attacked by means of political offensive and military siege, and in a period of about a month, the strongholds in The Southern and Northern Guanzhuang, Houwangzhuang, Sanlipu, and Jiucheng were successively uprooted, and then the stronghold of Xinqiao in the east of Enxian County was besieged. At the same time, the special task force regiment of the military sub-district and the Pingyuan County Brigade used two days and nights to pull out the Pingyuan Xinqiao stronghold (belonging to Wang Junsheng's department) located at the traffic throat of Ping'en County, and repelled the puppet army from the north (one light machine gun and more than ten rifles were captured). At this point, the connection between ping and En cities was completely cut off, making the county town of En a lonely city.
Although the county seat was an isolated city, there were still more than 1,200 puppet troops and more than a dozen Japanese troops defending the enemy, and there were better weapons and sufficient ammunition. Therefore, it is still a major obstacle for our army to enter Jinpu in the east and force Texas in the north. To this end, after the liberation of Xiajin County on September 4 and the abandonment of the puppet army of Gaotang County on September 7 and the escape, the Six Prefectures Committee, the Sixth Specialized Office, and the Sixth Military Sub-district of Ji'nan decided to liberate Enxian County and capture Wang Huasan alive. The head of the sub-district (Commander Zhou Fatian, Deputy Political Commissar Liu Huaqing, and Chief of Staff Liu Mingjian) instructed the Enxian Independent Regiment Headquarters as the operational headquarters, with Hu Yongchang, political commissar of the Independent Regiment, as the commander (the regimental commander Xu Xiufeng generally lives in a safe area due to his age and does not go to the front line), Chief of Staff Yin Wenchang (who has not yet left his post to study), Li Huazhen (newly arrived), and Yu Guanqun, director of the Political Department, who are responsible for assisting him. The troops and weapons of the enemy and us were: two battalions of the Enxian Independent Regiment and two companies of the Xiajin Independent Regiment, as well as more than a thousand district guerrillas and militiamen, and more than a thousand long and short guns; a squad of the Japanese army (about ten people), a brigade of the puppet army, four squadrons, and the guards of Wang Huasan and Chu Zhanwen totaling more than 1,200 people, more than 40 light and heavy machine guns, more than 1,000 rifles, and small artillery.
On September 20, the siege of Enxian County began, and the troops were deployed: the first and third companies of the first battalion of the Enxian Independent Regiment and the regimental special service company surrounded the south gate , mainly attacking the south gate (the commander of the first company was the commando captain); the second company of the first battalion and the fourth and fifth companies of the second battalion surrounded the east gate , mainly attacking the east gate (the second company instructor Guo Tingyin was the commando commander); the sixth company of the second battalion, three district teams and some militia surrounded the north gate; two companies of the Xiajin Independent Regiment surrounded the west gate (soon, two companies of the Xiajin Independent Regiment were ordered to be transferred, and six companies and some militia members were taken over from the north). The operational headquarters is located in Nanguan, and if necessary, the commander also detours back to the East Pass or the North Pass to command nearby.
On the eve of the siege, our command conducted a detailed investigation and meticulous arrangements for the enemy's deployment, defensive facilities, weapons and equipment in the city, stockpiled sufficient grenades, explosive packs, and ladders to the city, dug trenches at siguan, and organized three commandos at the north, east, and south gates. Because the enemy's weapons and equipment are superior to ours, coupled with the three lines of defense of the city wall, the moat, and the barbed wire, the security is tight, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Wang Huasan is very arrogant with his superior terrain and equipment. At that time, our guiding ideology was: besieging the city, cutting off grain and grass, attacking reinforcements, preventing the enemy from escaping, seizing the fighter plane, and annihilating it in one fell swoop. One night, a squad of Japanese troops stationed in the city of Enxian tried in vain to escape from the East Gate, but was shot back by the five companies of our second battalion. A few days later, the Japanese troops stationed in Plain City took advantage of the dark night to quietly pick up the Japanese troops in the city of Enxian, and the Enxian Independent Regiment did not intercept the enemy in view of its strength and weakness. Subsequently, the four gates were strictly sealed, and a political offensive was carried out by shouting, and Xu Xiufeng, as an old friend, declared his righteousness to Wang Huasan, explained the current situation, and persuaded him to surrender, but Wang Huasan refused.
If the military siege and political offensive could not solve the problem, it was decided to use force. Therefore, the mortar company of the Nineteenth Regiment was asked by the district leader to fire three cannons (flat shots) at the north gate of the city, although they all hit the target, but because the hole in the city gate had been compacted with earth rammed, it was difficult to quickly explode the gap. At this time, the superiors urgently ordered the Nineteenth Regiment to rush to the battlefield of Handan, so the command decided to change the artillery bombardment to digging tunnels to attack the city. During the tense construction, Cui Jiwu, the leader of the puppet army who fled to Dezhou, led his troops to Zouzhuang, northeast of Enxian County, in a vain attempt to receive Wang Huasan's breakthrough and escape, our commander immediately made a decision, drew out his troops to meet the head-on attack, and after a fierce battle, the enemy was severely damaged, and the head-holding rat fled northward, and Comrade Sun Dade, the second company company of our company, was unfortunately killed in battle. After repelling enemy reinforcements, he continued to dig tunnels. Unexpectedly, in order to abscond, the enemy also dug from the inside out, and as a result, the two sides met their heads and fought in the tunnels, so that the method of digging tunnels to attack the city was not easy to achieve in a short period of time.
How long was the siege? Fight, and can't open, what to do? The command decided to ask the Bohai Naval Region for assistance. Therefore, Hu Yongchang, Li Huazhen, and Liu Mingjian, chief of staff of the Sixth Subdistrict, went to Wang Man, LiJiaqiao, and Huangheya in Dexian County, successively, to find Yuan Yelie, commander of the Bohai Naval Region, and other chiefs, reported to them the difficulties encountered in attacking Enxian County, and requested that troops be sent for support. Commander Yuan replied: After laying down the Yellow River Station, I will immediately support you. On October 24, the artillery battalion of the 1st Regiment of Special Agents of the Bohai Naval Region came to the north of Enxian City, and the two sides jointly studied the enemy's situation, formulated a new combat plan, and adjusted the deployment of troops. The north gate was changed to the main attack by the artillery battalion of the Bohai Naval Region; the west gate and the small north gate were attacked by the six companies, district teams, and militia of EnXian County; the east gate and the south gate were not moved according to the original deployment, and the headquarters was still in Nanguan, under the specific command of Hu Yongchang and others.
At 00:10 on October 26, the siege began. The artillery of the Bohai Naval Region, which was the main attacker, first shelled the north gate, and the enemy also continued to fire shells outward. After bian yujiu,900 of my sixth squad was injured, he still insisted on directing the gunners to fire. At 1:30 a.m., the gunner Ma Ruoju noticed that there was a machine gun in the enemy's east gate turret that was hitting wildly, so he adjusted his fire direction and aimed at the target, and a cannon hit the northeast corner, and the enemy's machine gun was suddenly dumb. Subsequently, the West City Gate Tower was also beaten to pieces. After accurate bombardment by the artillery, the enemy fortifications were destroyed one by one. Our north gate commando was preparing to use gun smoke as a cover to charge the enemy, but it was discovered by the enemy in the west guard tower, and they used electric lights and favorable terrain to block the way forward of our army with machine guns and rifles, and our commander ordered the artillery to quickly destroy the power plant. Huang Chengjun, the leader of the seventh squad, immediately turned the muzzle of the gun, and there were two loud bangs and two loud bangs, and suddenly the whole city was pitch black. Immediately afterwards, several cannons were fired into the city, causing the enemy to panic and panic, and the army was in disarray and rushing to escape for their lives. Taking advantage of the enemy's panic, our army's machine guns, rifles, grenades, and explosive packages roared in unison and sounded in a circle, and the East Gate was led by Guo Tingyin, the instructor of the Second Company of commando commanders; the South Gate Commando Team, under the leadership of a company commander, embraced the explosive packs and rushed to the door in the billowing smoke. Chen Lantang and Zhu Xuexian, the first demolition group of the North Gate Commando, completed the established blasting task after blowing open a gap in the city gate, and the second group and the third group also quickly rushed upwards one after another, and when Yu Shijun advanced in the thick smoke, due to unclear vision, he fell into the city trench, Xu Zhaohe took the explosive package, rushed to the gap, ignited the fuse, and with a loud "bang", exploded half of the city gate. The commandos rushed into the city gate with the sound of explosions. The eighth class controlled the buildings on the east side of the North Gate; the battle hero Xiang Xuewu and others controlled the power plant gate. They bravely and calmly repelled four enemy counterattacks and held their positions. Relying on the trenches to the west, the seventh squad repelled the enemy on the city wall; the ninth squad rushed up the city gate tower from the middle of the road, first captured the enemy in the fortifications, and then beat away the defenders on both sides of the city gate and occupied the city tower. The second company, which was the main attacker, captured all the enemies who were entrenched in the power plant. At two o'clock and thirty o'clock, our army had all entered the city and engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy on the city wall. In half an hour, most of the defenders surrendered their weapons, and only more than three hundred remnants of the enemy shrank to the courtyard of the puppet county government to resist. At 4:30 a.m., our army launched an attack on the pseudo-county government and ended the fighting before dawn. The puppet county magistrate Wang Huasan and the puppet brigade deputy Chu Zhanwen were captured alive. The county seat of En county is back in the hands of the people.
On the third day of the liberation of Enxian County, a Zhujie conference was held at the stadium in the city, and Chu Zhanwen, deputy of the puppet brigade, and Yang Hongzhi, a traitor and secret agent, were executed. The puppet county magistrate Wang Huasan and his son Wang Guihua were escorted to Wucheng and imprisoned. After the meeting, the artillery battalion of the 1st Regiment of Special Agents of the Bohai Naval Region returned to the military region with the joy of victory, and the Enxian Independent Regiment was ordered to enter Gaotang County and undertake the task of fighting against the east of Gaotang City, the pseudo-miscellaneous army in the south of the city, and the stubborn Kuomintang army. At the beginning of 1946, in view of the unspeakable crimes committed by Wang Hua's three fathers and sons, after the study and decision of the prefectural party committee and the special bureau, they were escorted back to Enxian County, and a public trial meeting was held to shoot him. Since then, the "sorghum hawthorn" who has plagued the people of Enxian County for many years and his son Wang Guihua have ended their evil lives.