The Background of the Establishment of Martyrs Cemetery in Southern Hebei Province

1939 In February, Guo Qizhi, the anti-Japanese county magistrate of Quzhou County, was arrested in Nanyue Village. The enemy pierced Guo Qizhi's wrist with a wire, then twisted it together, and the ground was dyed red with blood. The Japanese invaders leaned in and asked, "Who are you?" Knowing that his identity had been exposed, Guo Qizhi wrote the word "county magistrate" on the ground with his feet. The Japanese invaders were stunned by his heroism and strong and powerful figures. On the afternoon of March 29th, after all the torture and inducements failed, the enemy took Guo Qi to a dug pit in the northeast corner of the city. When the enemy persuaded him to surrender again, Guo Qi looked at the enemy contemptuously and said, "party member is not afraid of death!" Then jump into the pit. When the loess was buried in the chest, the Japanese gendarmerie captain Hirashima once again persuaded him to surrender, and Guo Qizhi shouted with all his last strength: "Down with Japanese imperialism!" "Long live the China * * * production party!" He was only 24 when he died. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, under the leadership of Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping of129th Division, the military and civilians in southern Hebei successively launched the campaigns of attacking highways, punishing the Kuomintang rebels and participating in the Hundred Regiments War, thus smashing the "cage tactics" of the Japanese aggressors. The establishment and expansion of the anti-Japanese base area in southern Hebei became a worry for the Japanese aggressors. 1On April 29th, 942, Japanese imperialism took North China as the rear base of the Pacific War. Okamura Ningji, commander of the North China Army of the Japanese invaders, visited Dezhou and commanded more than 30,000 puppet troops to conduct an unprecedented sweep of the anti-Japanese base areas in southern Hebei, creating a terrible massacre surrounded by iron walls. This time through the camp, the enemy circled twice. One is Linxi, Qiuxian and wei county, which surround the south of Jixing Road, and concentrate four divisions and four new brigades.

At dawn, gunshots rang out in the direction of Qiu County. Our army first exchanged fire with the enemy from Linxi, fighting and withdrawing. Near Yao 'an Town, the first troops of the New Fourth Brigade were besieged one after another. At about 9 am, a fierce battle began, with more and more enemies and fierce fighting. After several battles, 1 1 regiment and 77 1 regiment broke through. Zheng Zheng, Chief of Staff of the Fourth Army Division, Lei Shaokang, Brigadier of the New Fourth Army, and Deputy Brigadier came to break through. Yang Hongming, commander of the Fourth Army Division, was seriously injured in the breakout and died of excessive bleeding in the wheat field. Comrade Sun Yimin, director of the Political Department of the Fourth Army Division, died in the breakout. The 385th Brigade and the New Fourth Army were each besieged in the north of Hewuzhuang Village in Linxi. They seized the favorable terrain, temporarily built fortifications and fought to the death with the enemy. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the wind was blowing hard and the smoke was filled. Our army seized the fighter plane and fought back fiercely. The fighting continued until dusk. When we ran out of bullets, we fought bayonets, bent bayonets and swung gun butts, repelling the enemy's attacks again and again. But in the end, because they were outnumbered, most of them died heroically except for a few who broke through. More than 300 comrades, including Chen Yuanlong, director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Brigade, Chen Zibin, head of the 10th regiment, and Gui Chengzhi, political commissar of the 11th regiment, died heroically.

Another encirclement is in Zaoqiang, north of Wucheng, which mainly surrounds the southern Hebei Military Region, the Party Committee, the administrative office, the party and government organs and troops of the Seventh Brigade and the Sixth Division.

In the encirclement, institutions, troops and schools in southern Hebei gradually concentrated in Shilizhuang, Wangwa and Guo Zhuang. The enemy's encirclement has also narrowed, and the firepower has become more and more fierce, gradually forming layers of encirclement for me. The situation is getting more and more severe, and the head of the army immediately decided to lead the party Committee, the leaders of the administrative office and the comrades in the besieged military region to take extensive, positive and multi-level breakthroughs. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a strong wind suddenly blew, the dust was flying, and the sky was dark, which brought favorable conditions for the breakthrough. The colonel and the cavalry regiment led by political commissar Kuang Yuqiang swooped down on the enemy like arrows. When the cavalry regiment suddenly arrived at Daxinzhuang in Wucheng, the enemy blocked the way forward with fierce fire on the right. They got off the horse, approached the enemy on foot, rushed up at lightning speed, cut down the enemy's machine gun shooter and rushed through Daxinzhuang. Finally, they beat back the enemy who stood in our way, made a gap one or two kilometers wide, followed by a large group of people, and broke through the enemy's first encirclement. Then I was surrounded by the enemy for the second time. An enemy cavalry unit intercepted head-on. Comrades of the cavalry regiment were resourceful and flexible. They hid their horses in the ditch and mobilized twelve machine guns to beat the enemy upside down. The enemy behind panicked, turned the horse's head and retreated, and the troops took the opportunity to rush out of the enemy's second encirclement. However, due to lack of combat experience, some non-combat troops and local government personnel failed to break through many times and were dispersed by the enemy.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, when the weather turned better, the enemy gathered in Huozhuang, killing more than 400 literary and art workers of jinan military area command Cultural and Art Troupe, students and logistics personnel of Jinan Administrative Office Finance Cadre School, and killing 5 10 cadres, soldiers and the masses, resulting in the Huozhuang tragedy. In order to commemorate the soldiers who died in the battle, this cemetery was built and became the embryonic form of the martyrs cemetery in southern Hebei.

Gave the lives of countless outstanding sons and daughters.

The touching story of the people in southern Hebei risking their lives to cover the rescue of our army cadres and soldiers is even more touching. Some women give the baby in their arms to soldiers and dress up as husband and wife; Some grandparents regard soldiers as their own children; Some people hide our comrades in firewood piles and cellars. At that time, there were only more than 60 families in Huozhuang, but more than 50 cadres and soldiers were built. Surrounded by the enemy, hundreds of our comrades were able to escape safely under the cover of the masses.

1On September 2nd, 945, the Japanese aggressor troops signed the surrender letter, and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression ended successfully. Southern Hebei paid a huge price in the eight-year Anti-Japanese War, and the heroes who defended the national interests with their lives are most worthy of our memory: Yang Xiaoxian and Yang Fenglou were loyal and unyielding; Xiao Hu and Fang Tao, who were only 19 years old, stepped forward to save the masses; Guo Qizhi and Fan Zhenting would rather die than be buried alive by the Japanese aggressors; The patriotic general Fan Zhuxian and his son would rather die than surrender; Hu Pingkai was brutally smashed into three pieces by the Japanese invaders; After Ren Guangya was arrested, he was tortured and sacrificed heroically ... and so on, tens of thousands of children in southern Hebei wrote a history of national poetry that made the gods cry with their lives.