A hundred years in an instant
Ranzhuang Tunnel War Site
In 1942, the invading Japanese army began to carry out an unprecedented and cruel sweeping operation against the anti-Japanese base areas in Central Hebei, gradually compressing the anti-Japanese base areas in Central Hebei, and the situation in the anti-Japanese struggle was extremely difficult. Lü Zhengcao, then commander of the Jizhong Military Region, led the broad masses of soldiers and people to adopt mobile and flexible tactics such as tunnel warfare and mine warfare in the plains where there was almost no danger to defend, and exerted tremendous power in actual combat and effectively dealt a blow to the arrogance of the enemy.
Lü Zhengcao during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
Lü Zhengcao: The enemy lives in his own heartland, so it is said that the sweep in Jizhong is the most cruel. At that time, my troops developed very rapidly in Jizhong, and by the time of the "May Day sweep," the whole of Jizhong had become an authentic one. The enemy is above, and the masses, the army, the common people, and the militia are underground, and this is created by the masses.
Anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians laid mines
The film "Tunnel Warfare" produced by the Bayi Film Studio in 1965 vividly tells the story of the people of Jizhong, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, who innovatively used the struggle method of tunnel warfare to fight against the Japanese aggressors.
Movie "Tunnel Warfare":
Narrator: The road is one foot high, the devil is one foot high, and as the situation of struggle becomes more and more brutal, the masses, under the leadership of the party branch, have used their brains to find ways to transform simple earthen caves and cellars into several interconnected multi-mouth tunnels, and it is from here that the tunnel warfare of great power began!
People: Hey, all the way! Cow Baby come and see. Let's dig it up!
People: Yes, dig it up, get it out.
Gao Chuanbao: No, keep it. In case the devil finds the opening of the cave and pours water and poisons it, we will plug it. If the devil comes in, we can use it to resist for a while!
Gao Laozhong: Well said, wouldn't it be better if the enemy didn't even let the enemy find the opening of the cave?
The militia fought against the enemy entering the village at the tunnel entrance
Tunnel warfare made the Jizhong Plain, which was originally undefendable, an important combat area for Chinese soldiers and civilians to fight against the Japanese invading army. In March 1942, the Jizhong Military Region issued the "Letter of Instruction on Carrying Out Tunnel Struggle", which comprehensively promoted tunnel warfare throughout the whole region of Jizhong and continuously carried forward the tunnel warfare tactics. By the end of 1944, the tunnels in Jizhong had reached more than 10,000 kilometers, scattered in more than 8,000 villages, and became a strong underground fortress in the anti-Japanese struggle of the Chinese people.
In 1944, Captain Durham of the U.S. Military's Yan'an Observation Group visited the Jizhong base area.
The movie "Tunnel Warfare": Underground Warfare Hey Tunnel Warfare, ambush under the thousands of Divine Soldiers, Hey ambush under the Divine Soldiers millions, thousands of miles of great plains to launch guerrilla warfare. The village and the village and the household tunnel are connected into pieces, the invaders dare to come, beat his soul and tremble, the invaders dare to come, and beat others on their backs!
Source | Communist Network
Edited | Gao Xuejun Typesetting | Zhou Yan
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