Historical background information of the Five Heroes of Wolf Tooth Mountain

The Five Heroes of Wolf Tooth Mountain

"The spirit of the revolutionary soldiers should be like a home away from home; preferring death to subjugation is the glorious tradition of the heroes of Yanzhao." This is when the Jinchahi Military Region Division Commander Nie Rongzhen for the Wolf Tooth Mountain Five Heroes Memorial Tower inscribed words. During the war, the Jinchahi Military Region, a sub-district of the Jinchahi Military Region, a group of seven companies, six class warriors Ma Baoyu, Ge Zhenlin, Song Xueyi, Hu Delin, Hu Fucai five heroes, in order to cover the retreat of the masses and the main force, the enemy resolutely led the Wolf Tooth Mountain Qipantuo Peak top of the desperate, in the case of bullets out of the situation, jumped off the ten thousand feet of the cliff, with the blood of the life and wrote a magnificent poem of the swallowing of the mountains and rivers.

In 1941, the Japanese army carried out a succession of "sweeps" on the anti-Japanese base in the Wolf Tooth Mountain area of Yixian County, Hebei Province, creating a number of horrific tragedies, such as Tiangang and Dongloushan, and attempting to use the ferocious "Three Lights" policy to "nibble away" at the anti-Japanese base in the area of Wolf Tooth Mountain. "On September 23rd, the Japanese army marched to Yixian County in three directions, trying to encircle the first sub-district of the Jinchaji Military Division under the command of Commander Yang Chengwu. 3,000 Japanese and pseudo-army troops suddenly encircled the area of the Wolf's Tooth Mountains on the 24th and surrounded Qiu Wei's regiment, the guerrillas of Yixian County, Tingxing, Xushui, and Manchu City, as well as the surrounding masses of the people *** More than 2,000 people surrounded the area, and the situation was very serious. **The situation was very serious. Qiu Wei quickly reported the situation to Commander Yang Chengwu, and in order to rescue the guerrillas and the local people, Commander Yang Chengwu formulated the combat plan of "Surrounding the Wei-Save Zhao", ordering the 3rd Regiment and the 20th Regiment to feint attacking the Japanese troops in the area of Guan Tou, Song Shan, Gan He, and to induce the Japanese to deploy reinforcements from the northeast of the Wolf Tooth Mountain, so as to be surrounded by the Japanese and the Japanese. The Japanese army was prompted to mobilize reinforcements from the northeast of the Wolf Tooth Mountain, so that the besieged guerrillas and the people could break out from the northeast of the Wolf Tooth Mountain. According to this battle plan, Qiu Wei entrusted 7 Company with the task of covering the transfer of troops. At midnight, Qiu Wei commanded the troops and the local people to move safely from Pantuo Road to the area of Tiangang, Niugang and Songgang. Early in the morning, the Japanese and pseudo army mistakenly thought that Qiu Wei Regiment had been encircled, under the cover of airplanes and artillery, more than 500 Japanese and pseudo army ferociously attacked in the direction of the Wolf Tooth Mountain. 7 Company soldiers had already planted mines on the enemy's road, which caused the Japanese and pseudo army to leave more than 50 corpses behind and fled back in panic. Convinced that Qiu Wei Regiment had been surrounded, the Japanese commander ordered his troops to once again attack frantically in the direction of Wolf Tooth Mountain. During the fierce battle, most of the soldiers of the 7th Company were killed, and Company Commander Liu Fushan was seriously wounded and his life was in danger. In order to allow the troops to go farther and the wounded soldiers of the 7th Company to move safely, instructor Cai Zhanpeng ordered Ma Baoyu's squad to stay behind and hold on. In order to stall and attract the Japanese and pseudo-army, Ma Baoyu led Ge Zhenlin, Song Xueyi and other five soldiers to fight while retreating to the direction of Qipantuo, leading the Japanese and pseudo-army to the cliffs. When they retreated to the top of the chessboard tower has been left 5 people, and all the bullets have been exhausted, they had to raise the stone to the Japanese and the pseudo-army smashed. The Japanese and pseudo forces realized that they had no more bullets, swarmed to the top of the mountain, and called "Catch them alive, catch them alive!" Ma Baoyu, Ge Zhenlin, Song Xueyi, Hu Delin, Hu Fucai five people would rather die than give up, in order to not let the Japanese and pseudo-army alive and weapons into the hands of the Japanese and pseudo-army, smashed the gun, shouting "Long live the Chinese **** production party!" "Down with Japanese imperialism!" and other slogans jumped into the cliff. Ma Baoyu, Hu Delin, Hu Fucai three people died heroically, Ge Zhenlin, Song Xueyi was hanging on the cliff branches, survived. Ma Baoyu and other five soldiers of heroic feats quickly spread throughout the whole country, known as the "Wolf Tooth Mountain Five Heroes", in May 1942, Jinchahi Military Region held a "Wolf Tooth Mountain Five Heroes" named and anti-sweeping victory congratulatory meeting, Jinchahi Military Region, the leadership of the organs awarded the three martyrs "exemplary". Three martyrs "exemplary honorary warrior" title, and posthumously recognized Hu Delin, Hu Fucai as a member of the Communist Party of China ****; General Order of commendation Ge Zhenlin, Song Xueyi, and awarded the "bravery and tenacity" medal. Wolfsbane five brave spirit of sacrifice and steadfastness of the national temperament by Nie Rongzhen, commander of the high evaluation, he said: "they embodied the people's army under the leadership of the People's ****productivity Party of China's outstanding qualities, embodied the heroism of the Chinese nation."

To commemorate and honor the five anti-Japanese heroes, the local revolutionary government built a memorial tower on the main peak of Qipantuo.

After the founding of New China, the heroic deeds of the five heroes of Wolfsbane Mountain were included in elementary school textbooks.

Song Xueyi died in 1978 due to illness, and rested in the Martyrs' Mausoleum in Qinyang City.

The Five Heroes of Wolf Tooth Mountain (1958)Synopsis

Yixian County, Hebei Province, is a place of overlapping and majestic mountains. Two thousand years ago, Yan Crown Prince Dan sent off Jing Ke, the brave warrior who stabbed the King of Qin, here. The Eighth Route Army, a squad leader Ma Baoyu and soldiers Ge Zhenlin, Song Xueyi, Hu Fucai, Hu Delin, accepted the task of blocking the Japanese army, climbed the main peak of the Wolf Tooth Mountain Qipantuo. The Japanese army stormed Wolf Tooth Mountain with 3,000 troops. Ma Baoyu and other five soldiers, by virtue of the favorable terrain from above, and the enemy with airplanes and artillery to start a tenacious battle. The enemy launched three consecutive charges, which were all repelled by them, and successfully accomplished the task of holding the enemy at bay. But by this time, the soldiers had also reached the point of running out of ammunition. They used stones as weapons, smashing the enemy, for a fight to the death. Finally, the five strong face of the enemy step by step close to the enemy, fearlessly jumped off the cliff.