Editor's Note:
History is the best textbook.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited the Red Holy Land many times to remember the revolutionary heroes and tell the story of red. Let us relive the story of party history told by the general secretary and draw wisdom and strength from it.
△ On the afternoon of September 3, 2020, the CPC Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission held a symposium at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the forum and delivered an important speech. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi photographed
"Tunnel warfare, hey! Tunnel warfare, ambushing millions of divine soldiers..." This is an episode of the classic film "Tunnel Warfare", which describes the unity of the military and the people during the War of Resistance Against Japan and the creative use of tunnel warfare to fight against the Japanese aggressors.
In the autumn of 1941, the anti-Japanese struggle in the Jizhong Plain entered a difficult stage, and the "sweeping" of the Japanese puppet army became increasingly cruel. In order to preserve its own strength, the Jizhong People's Anti-Japanese Armed Forces persisted in guerrilla warfare on the plains for a long time and began to dig and use tunnels to fight against the Japanese puppet army.
In the early winter of 1941, the Ranzhuang militia in Qingyuan District, Baoding City, Hebei Province, first dug a single hidden hole (commonly known as toad squatting) in their home, which was quickly destroyed by the Japanese puppet army. The militia converted the single-mouth concealed tunnels into double-mouth concealed tunnels that could enter and exit, but they could not fight effectively, and most of the tunnels were destroyed.
Later, during the battle, the structure of the tunnels in the Jizhong Plain was continuously improved and perfected, and the tunnels were equipped with lookout holes, shooting holes, ventilation holes, traps, movable flaps, guiding signs, wells, grain storage rooms, etc., and initially formed a network of tunnels where households were connected and villages were connected, which could not only conceal, transfer, but also facilitate relying on operations.
After the anti-"sweeping" began in the summer of 1942, the CPC Jizhong District Committee and the Jizhong Military Region called on the people of Jizhong to carry out tunnel-digging activities in general.
In The village of Shandi, about 10 kilometers southwest of Yijing Town, Fengfeng Mining District, Handan City, Hebei Province, preserves the most complete and longest tunnel site during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China - the anti-Japanese tunnel war site at the bottom of The South Mountain of Jihe Mountain. When filming the film "Tunnel Warfare" in the 1950s, the editorial team and the film crew made many field trips and interviews in the village of Yamadi, and many of the storylines were based on this.
Take history as a mirror and create the future
General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed
The comrades of the whole Party must do it
The history of learning is clear and reasonable, and the history of learning is increased
Learn history and practice
Study party history and enlighten thought
Do practical things and open a new situation
Open with a high posture
A new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country
Text: Li Jiwei
Source: Xinhua News Agency