Listen to the story of the Red and witness the centenary history of the Party. Hello everyone, here is the lightning night reading, I am An Chen of the Rong Media Center in Dingtao District, and today I am telling you about the "Pan Liu Zhuang Tunnel Battle".
Tunnels were created by the masses in the practice of war, and they are an effective way of struggle to persist in the struggle in the hinterland and preserve their own strength, and they have played an important role in dealing with the "liquidation and suppression" of the Kuomintang army. In June 1947, tunnel construction in Dingtao County was more common, and the better tunnel was Pan liuzhuang in the eastern part of the county. Pan Liuzhuang, now part of Ran kui Town, is located at the junction of Dingtao District, Cao County and Chengwu County. Including Pan Liu Zhuang, Big and Small Zhangdian, Yang Zhuang, Li Zhuang and other villages.
Data map: Ranzhuang Tunnel War Site
The tunnel of Pan Liu Zhuang is 1.2 meters wide and 1.5 meters high, the upper roof is arched, and the soil layer above the tunnel is 0.5 meters thick, forming a 2 km trunk underground corridor. There are many branch lines and hidden holes dug on both sides of the tunnel trunk line. The tunnel is centered on the cross street in Panliuzhuang Village, with the main east-west trunk line as the base point, so that Liuzhuang and Yangzhuang are connected from east to west; and there are tunnels leading to the outside of the village, forming a tunnel network where the villages and villages are connected, families are connected, can advance and retreat, and can attack and defend. The design of the entrance and exit of the tunnel is very clever, some are repaired on the wall wall inside the house, some are repaired on the ground near the wall root, and some are built on the kang surface, pot table, wellhead, etc., camouflaged exactly like the original building, making it difficult for the enemy to find. In order to give full play to the advantages of the tunnels, high-rise fortifications were built on the roofs of the main crossings in the village. Observation openings were also built in the corners of the walls, at the base of the walls, etc. according to different terrains.
In the spring of 1948, the area around Panliuzhuang was the seat of the Dingtao County Party Committee and the county government. In the early morning of May 18 of that year, the 11th Division of the Kuomintang New Fifth Army and about 1,000 people from the Cao County Security Brigade, led by the traitor Wang Mulin, surrounded the villages around Pan Liuzhuang. But by this time it was already dawn, and it was inconvenient to break through. County Magistrate Liu Mengqin immediately ordered all cadres and fighters to drill into the tunnels and rely on the tunnels to wage a struggle against the enemy. The enemy could not find our cadres and fighters, so they dug a pit every 20 meters on Panliuzhuang Avenue, and the tunnel was finally discovered by the enemy. The enemy did not dare to go down the tunnels, so he piled up sorghum poles, millet poles, and wheat straw at the dug holes, mixed them with peppers and lit them, smoked the tunnels, and blocked the dug openings with machine guns in an attempt to force out our cadres and fighters with thick smoke. With the help and cover of the masses, after a day of fighting, more than 10 enemies were killed, but we also paid a heavy price. Zhang Chiping, director of the organization department of the Dingtao County CPC Committee, Kong Xianxuan, captain of the county armed workers' brigade, Duan Shoujun, secretary of the Ranqu District CPC Committee, and many other comrades died heroically; Liu Mengqin, the county magistrate, and many other comrades were injured; and more than 10 cadres, including Wang Xuejing, the governor of Cao County, who came to rest here, were arrested (and later heroically took up their righteousness in Cao County).
Although this incident was caused by traitors betraying, after the incident, the CPC Dingtao County Party Committee and County Government seriously summed up the reasons for this incident and the lessons learned.
Anchor Profile:
Dingtao District Rong Media Center An Chen
Lightning News reporter Wang Huaisen reports