Where is the former site of the Eighth Route Army 129 Shidong Column Command?

The former site of the Eighth Route Army 129 Shidong Column Command is a cultural relic protection unit in Hebei Province.

Year: 1938

Location: Nangong North Street, Xingtai, Hebei

Cultural relics grade: provincial level

Date of approval: February 7, 2006 5438+0

The former site of the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column Command of the Eighth Route Army 129 Division is located in the east of Nangong North Street Road, Xingtai City, Hebei Province. The former site was Nangong Huaxing Public Tobacco Distribution Office of Tianjin British American Tobacco Company, which was built in 19 19 with a total area of 850 square meters. There are currently 12 buildings in the west building, 5 buildings in the north building, 3 buildings in the east building and 3 buildings in the south building. Xingtai patriotism education base and provincial key cultural relics protection units.

1937, after the full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, in order to establish anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines, according to the strategic deployment of the CPC Central Committee,129th Division deployed troops to form the eastward anti-Japanese guerrillas (referred to as "eastward column"). Under the leadership of Chen Zaidao, commander of the army, and Li Jingyu, political commissar, they set out from Taihang, crossed Pinghan Line, advanced into southern Hebei, and entered Nangong County on February 8 1938. Party, political and military leaders, Liu Bocheng, Xu, Song Renqiong, Chen Zaidao, Liu Zhijian, Yang Xiufeng, Malaysia, Chen Geng, Guangyi Xu, and other comrades successively arrived in Nangong to study and restore the deployment of the party's grass-roots organizations, lead the military and civilians in southern Hebei to develop anti-Japanese armed forces, establish base areas, stubbornly resist and rise up against the Japanese aggressors.

A large number of anti-Japanese military and political cadres have been trained. Jinan Anti-Japanese Military and Political Cadre School, Hebei-Shandong-Henan Provincial Party School, Jinan Political Cadre School and Jinan Anti-Japanese War College have been established successively, and more than 4,000 cadres have been trained. Establish anti-Japanese military and political organizations. The Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region Provincial Committee, the Third Special Committee of Hebei, the Anti-Japanese Military and Political Committee of Jinan, the Anti-Japanese Military Region of Jinan, the Party Committee of Jinan Region and the Administrative Office of Jinan have been organized and established successively, which has jurisdiction over more than 50 counties.

It embodies the anti-Japanese forces. In order to do a good job in anti-Japanese propaganda, Jinan Daily, Saving the Nation and Saving the Nation, and Mobilization Weekly were founded. At the column headquarters, Xu and Song Renqiong met with the military attaché of the US Embassy in China, and introduced the guerrilla warfare in southern Hebei to him in detail, exposing the fact that the United States provided war materials to Japan. The talks with Lu, Chairman of the Kuomintang Hebei Province, and Shi Yousan, Commander of the Tenth Kuomintang Army, showed our party's unity and cooperation and sincerity in resisting Japan.

Guided the formation of more than ten anti-Japanese mass organizations such as Nangong County Cultural Society and Shop Assistant Society. Develop anti-Japanese armed forces. Put down the rebellion of the reactionary armed forces "leaving the meeting six times", recruit more than 10 thousand bandits, and expand the eastward column. Established the Jin-Pu detachment, youth column, Zhu Xian column, independent second division and other field forces. It opened up the first plain anti-Japanese base area in China and made great contributions to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's overall victory. 1February 9, 939, Nangong County fell, and the headquarters was transferred to the countryside to continue to lead the army and civilians in southern Hebei to launch a new round of guerrilla warfare.

Attaching importance to the protection and utilization of the old site, we have successively invested in the restoration of offices in Song Renqiong, Chen Zaidao, Liu Zhijian and Yang Xiufeng, and collected more than 30 photos of cultural relics/kloc-0. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's 50th anniversary photo exhibition, Deng Xiaoping's birthday100th anniversary commemoration, portrait exhibition of great men, symposium of veteran cadres, poetry recitation and other activities were held here. Chen Zaidao, Song Renqiong, Ma, Guangyi Xu, Yang Xiufeng and other family members of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries personally went to condolence for many times. In recent years, Zhang Quanjing, former head of the Central Organization Department, Li Zhaoxing, minister of foreign affairs, Ren Shaozu, director of the Sports Commission, Bai Keming, secretary of the provincial party committee, Ji Yunshi, governor and other provincial and ministerial leaders, as well as tens of thousands of people, including children of old revolutionaries, veteran cadres in the south, veterans, cadres and people in neighboring counties and cities, young people, students and foreign businessmen, have visited and studied here.