In the spring of 1944, it was a time when the greens and yellows were missing. People's lives were extremely difficult. Little Japan often went to the village to raid, which made everyone even more miserable.
The Hongdong County Party Committee of Shanxi decided that the guerrilla brigade would seize the small Japan’s grain warehouse in , Mingjiang Town, . Mingjiang was also an important military stronghold of the Japanese army. There was a bunker. The situation here is very complicated. There is a district government, . Xinminhui, cooperatives, water conservancy associations and other pseudo-organizations, so they are heavily guarded.
Xu Shengfang was the deputy captain at the time, and Chen Guorun was the deputy political commissar. They organized a meeting for party members to conduct research, and decided that the first and second companies and the second and third division teams would jointly participate in the battle for food, and the local party organization led the people. Cooperate with action.
In the early morning, the sky was so bright that Mingjiang Party Branch Secretary He Yingqing led the way. A company Chang Rongxianyou and Shi Zhanbiao, two peasants disguised as dung pickers, entered the village to study the enemy’s situation at a fellow villager’s home near the Japanese military bunker. In the afternoon, the second and third districts. The government organized many young and powerful people carrying food, waiting for the fighting to start, and immediately grabbing food.
At twelve o’clock in the evening, the guerrillas quietly entered Mingjiang Town and fired fiercely according to the instructions. The powerful fire directly blocked the Japanese bunker. The little devil in the fight could not get out at all. A platoon quickly surrounded the district puppets. In the government compound, the puppet army dared not move at all. One of the puppet soldiers wanted to call the police and was shot dead by our team members. The guerrillas led the people into the food warehouse in the courtyard. The people quickly carried the food. It only took three hours. The 150,000 catties of grain and a large amount of salt were transported out of Mingjiang Town by our army and civilians.
This battle for food not only solved the food crisis of our military and civilians, but also severely hit the arrogance of Little Japan.
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