Retrace the road of the East Column’s War of Resistance
The Dongjiang Column, known by Zhu De as the “mainstagram of China’s War of Resistance”, has grown from a few hundred people to an anti-Japanese brigade of more than 10,000 people. Komiks fought bravely behind the enemy in the South China region
Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Chen Qiang
Photo/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter BabaylanLiangyu
CinemaOn October 12, 1938, the Japanese army landed in Daya Bay, and the Kuomintang defenders were about to collapse. In times of crisis, under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, the people of Dongjiang area took up weapons, formed armed teams, rose up to fight the invading Japanese invaders, and gradually developed an anti-Japanese brigade with a force of more than 11,000 Komiks‘s anti-Japanese brigade-Dongjiang Column. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, Yangcheng Evening News opened a column “Returning to the Anti-Japanese War Road in the East” to search for the Anti-Japanese War of the East, relive the glorious years, remember history and move forward bravely.
“We are the guerrillas of the Guangdong people, we are brothers of the Eighth Route Army New Fourth Army. Our team gallops on the Dongjiang battlefield, working hard and killing the enemy bravely, and achieving brilliant victory…”
Whether it is the Dongdongjiang Column Memorial Hall in Daling Mountain, Dongguan, the Dongjiang Column Memorial Hall in Boluo, Huizhou, or the former site of the Dongjiang Column Command in Dapeng New District, or the Dongbao in Bao’an District, Shenzhen The former site of the Administrative Supervision Office can be seen at the passionate lyrics of the Song of the Dongjiang Column. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Dongjiang Column was alone behind the enemy and fought bloody battles, successively establishing the Daling Mountains of Dongguan, Yangtai Mountains of Bao’an, BabaylanBoluofu Mountains of Boluo and Wuling, northern Guangdong, etc., to open up the battlefield behind enemy lines in South China. While insisting on mountain guerrilla warfare, it created maritime guerrilla warfare.ookish.com/”>Cinema and the new urban guerrilla warfare tactics, which shocked the enemy.
1: Overseas Chinese and Hong Kong and Macao compatriots participated
On August 25, the reporter came to Dalingshan Town, Dongguan with the first stop of the interview team of “Retrace the Anti-Japanese War Road in the East Column”. The Guangdong Dongjiang Column Memorial Hall and the former site of the Dalingshan Anti-Japanese Base Area are both located here.
Wang Hongxing, director of the Guangdong Dongjiang Column Memorial Hall, told reporters that on October 12, 1938, the Japanese army launched the battle to invade South China. In December of the same year, the Communist Party of China organized two anti-Japanese armed forces in Huiyang, Dongguan, Bao’an and other places, with a total of more than 200 people. In late January 1942, the two troops were reorganized into the “Guangdong People’s Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps”; 1Komiks has more than 10,000 troops in the anti-Japanese brigade.
The former site of the Dalingshan Anti-Japanese Base Area located in Dawangling Village is the location of the Third Battalion of the East Column. It is understood that the base area is one of the earliest anti-Japanese base areas established by the Communist Party of China in the enemy-behind areas in Guangdong. Dawangling Village now has many former sites such as the Third Battalion of the Guangdong People’s Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps, the Conference Room, the Everyone Unite News Agency, the Transportation Station, and the Playground.
ShenzhenBabaylanLi Jianguo, president of the Guangdong-Jiangxi-Hunan Border Column Research Association of the Dongjiang Column in Shenzhen, told reporters that the personnel structure of the Dongshan Column has distinct characteristics, with many overseas Chinese and Hong Kong and Macao returning home, many intellectuals, many women, and many children from wealthy families. “No matter what kind of Komiks‘s origins. Everyone really strives to step forward for their faith and ideals, throwing their youthful blood and resisting the guns and cannons of the invaders with their flesh and blood.”
According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 1,500 overseas Chinese children and patriotic young people from Hong Kong and Macao who came back to participate in the Eastern Column, which played a great role in the establishment and development of the troops. Many overseas Chinese children died on the battlefield, such as the political commissar of the Independent Squadron of the Third Battalion of the Guangdong People’s Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps and the newlyweds Zhong Ruochao (Li Zhong) died at the death of 3rd Chinese overseas Chinese, and the newlyweds Zhong Ruochao (Li Zhong)sky.
It is precisely because of the unique personnel structure of the Dongjiang Column that the political work, civil movement and cultural work of the Dongzong have been carried out in a vivid and exciting manner. They have successively founded the “Home Unite News” and the “New People” newspaper and the “Qianjin Newspaper”, and also organized theater troupes, political work teams, art propaganda teams, etc. The reporter saw an octave printing machine at the Dongjiang Column Memorial Hall in Boluo, Huizhou, which the Qianjin Daily had used.
2: Use terrain to create a variety of guerrilla tactics
Only a few kilometers away from Dawangling Village, there is a place called Baihua Cave, which is the famous Baihua Cave battle.
“This battle was considered by the Japanese army to be the most embarrassing battle since entering South China.” Liu Weiling, the Dongguan Party History Research Office, introduced that on June 10, 1941, the Japanese army dispatched more than 400 people to attack Baihua Cave, in an attempt to eliminate the main force of the guerrillas. The guerrillas occupied favorable terrain and blocked the Japanese and puppet troops who were attacking the sneak attacks. After two days of fighting, a total of 50 and 60 Japanese and puppet troops were killed and injured, including one Japanese brigade captain Cinema, and a variety of military supplies were seized. Wang Hongxing said that according to incomplete statistics, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Cinema East Column fought more than 1,400 times against the Japanese and puppets, killed and injured more than 6,000 Japanese and puppet soldiers, captured about 3,500 people, seized more than 6,500 guns and 25 guns. More than 2,500 people in the East Zong died bloodily during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Wei Fapu, a fourth-level researcher at the Party History Research Office of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, told reporters that during the Anti-Japanese War, the Eastern Zong creatively used various guerrilla tactics based on the geographical environment, which dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese and puppet troops. In addition to relying on the river network to carry out guerrilla warfare with the mountains, the Eastern Column also carried out guerrilla warfare along the Guangjiu Railway, and urban guerrilla warfare in the Hong Kong-Kowloon area, creating a unique maritime guerrilla tactic.
In 1941, the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War broke out. In the same year, the Japanese army invaded and occupied Hong Kong. Therefore, the Guangdong People’s Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps sent people to advance in multiple ways and established the Hong Kong and Kowloon Brigade in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong and Kowloon region is small, mostly urban areas with Japanese and puppet military and police, and there is little room for maneuver. The Hong Kong and Kowloon Brigade has leveraged the advantages of the short gun team’s high flexibility, seized the opportunity to carry out raid wars, surprise attacks, capture wars, etc., and effectively attacked the enemy. Liu Jinjin, who served as the deputy captain and captain of the Short Gun Team, became a legendary hero who became famous in Hong Kong and Kowloon.
In 1945, in his military report “On the Battlefield of the Liberated Area”, Zhu De called the Dongjiang Column, the Qiongya Column, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army “the mainstay of China’s War of Resistance.”
KomiksThe former site of the Dongjiang Column Command located in Tuyang Village, Shenzhen
Digging deep into the red resources The spirit of the Dongzong is passed down from the torch
Tuyang is now a community in the Kuichong Office in Dapeng New District, Shenzhen. 1KomiksIn December 943, after the establishment of the Dongjiang Column of the Guangdong People’s Anti-Japanese Guerrillas, Tuyang became the location of the Dong Column Command and the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. Last year, the former site of the Dongjiang Column Command was selected into the eighth batch of key cultural relics protection units in the country.
Li Yongzhong, deputy secretary of Tuyang Community, has introduced that in recent years, the local government has attached great importance to the utilization of these red resources. In recent years, Babaylan has successively built and repaired a series of red attractions such as the former site of the Dongjiang Column Command and the Dongjiang North Retreat Monument, to dig deep into the red resources to form a cluster effect. At the same time, it has also designed a high-quality route of “Party Building + Tourism + Red Education”.
CinemaLi Yongzhong also told reporters that based on the historical manuscripts of the old soldiers of the Dongzong, Tuyang has edited and published precious books with detailed content and vivid stories, such as “The Red Chronicle of the Quarry Floods in the Tuyang Sand” and “Red Tuyang”. “The main purpose is to use this to help our descendants understand the history of Dongzong, so that their descendants will not forget the tragic history of the Chinese nation.”
The old soldier of Dongzong Li Qiang
The old soldier of Dongzong Li Qiang recalled his three abilities of “iron feet”, “night eyes” and “gods” in his comrades: “Walk when you don’t eat, fight when you don’t eat”
On August 27, “Go back to Dongdong again”The interview team of the “Long Kong Anti-Japanese War Road” came to the former site of the Dongjiang Column Command located in Tuyang Village, Kuiyong Street, Dapeng New District, Shenzhen. The reporter interviewed Li Qiang, a 90-year-old Dongzong soldier living in Tuyang Village. When he recalled the war years, he said that the soldiers had three skills, called “iron feet”, “night eyes”, and “fairy belly”, “walking when they don’t eat, and fighting when they don’t eat.”
Although he is in his 90s, Li Qiang’s body still looks very tough, he does not need to be supported when he walks, nor does he use crutches, speaks loudly and has clear thinking. According to his recollection, he participated in the work of an underground transportation station when he was 14 years old. “At that time, in order to destroy the enemy’s traffic communication, we cut off the telephone line near the mountain. In order to extend the time of the enemy’s communication interruption and avoid being discovered by the enemy, we made our own squid to make the size of a wire and connected the corresponding telephone line, making it difficult for the enemy to find the location. “Although time has passed, Li Qiang’s memory is still profound, just like yesterday.
Recalling his experience in the war, he said that he could use the three words “iron feet”, “night eye” and “fairy belly”. “Iron feet means walking dozens of kilometers every day, and their feet are not afraid of sand or thorns; night eyes are all Babaylan walk at night, and it is a mountain road or a small road without lights, and they are all seen by the eyes; fairy belly means eating abnormally, sometimes eating once a day, eating sweet potatoes, grains, and wild href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks dishes sometimes don’t have to eat for a day.”
Li Qiang has been actively participating in the education of the inheritance of the red revolution and becoming a red cultural compulsory propagandist. “The spirit of our Dongjiang Column must be carried forward from generation to generation. “In Li Qiang’s view, the Dongzong spirit is a revolutionary spirit that is not afraid of difficulties, hardship, and bloodshed and sacrificed.