Source: Great Wall Network
Great Wall Network reporter Lu Juan Gao Hang
"In the Goubeiling Anti-Japanese base , in order to cover the safe transfer of the 5th Company of the 13th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, Wang Qiang and three other soldiers relied on the favorable terrain of Xiaoxitian to repel the five Japanese and puppet charges, and finally sacrificed their lives bravely. In order to commemorate them, later generations called them the 'Three Martyrs of Xiaoxitian'."
Standing at the Zhujiagou Martyrs Cemetery in Xinglong County, Hebei Province, Sun Jinsheng, who grew up listening to the revolutionary story of "Three Martyrs of Xiaoxitian" since childhood, told this tragic story to the people who came to visit over the past 20 years.
"Three Martyrs of the Little West" Monument. Great Wall Network reporter Gao Hang
"My grandfather was fifteen or sixteen years old at that time, and was a consigner of the Eighth Route Army. When he was a child, his grandfather often told me stories of anti-Japanese war. The story of the "Three Martyrs of the Little West Sky" happened in our village. It was the most impressive and touching." 48-year-old Sun Jinsheng was the party branch secretary of Zhujiagou Village, Xinglong County, Chengde City. He also worked as a volunteer tour guide in the village for 20 years. "I want to tell these stories from generation to generation so that our descendants can remember this history."
In order to implement the "no man's land" policy, the Japanese and puppet army established 199 tribes in Xinglong, namely "people circles". Screenshot of the documentary "The Main Battlefield of the East"
Xinglong County is located at the foot of Yanshan Mountain. It has the saying that "nine mountains, half water, half divided fields". The mountains are high and dense forests are dangerous, and it is an important channel to the inner and outer gates of the pass. Because of this, Xinglong became an important area for Japan to invade China and occupy North China.
From the autumn of 1939 to the spring of 1944, the Japanese invaders created a rare "no man's area" in the world on the Thousand Mile Great Wall Line from Jiumenkou west of Shanhaiguan to the east and Laozhangba north of Dushikou to the west, and the entire Xinglong County is the hardest hit area of the Thousand Mile "no man's area".
"In order to implement the 'collect family and villages', create a thousand-mile 'unmanned area', the Japanese invaders implemented the inhumane 'three lights' policy. In Xinglong 'unmanned area', more than 100,000 people from more than 2,000 natural villages in the county were forcibly driven into 199 tribes (i.e. "people circles") to implement barbaric fascist governance, with the purpose of isolating the connection between the people and the Eighth Route Army." Shen Yajing, an interpreter at the Xinglong County Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, said.
After being frequently "swept" by the Japanese invaders, people and animals were cut off, houses were burned, and no grass was left. During the process of "clustering families and merging villages", with the large-scale massacre of the Japanese army, more than 60,000 people were massacred and tortured to death in Xinglong County alone.
The sand table of Xinglong Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall reproduces the tribes established by the Japanese and puppet troops in Xinglong to implement the "no man's land" policy. Great Wall Network reporter Gao Hang
In the conspicuous place of the Xinglong Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, the carefully crafted sand table restored the real situation of the people living in the tribe at that time.
"The people live a life worse than cows and horses in the tribe. Some ordinary people are unwilling to be driven into the tribe, so they hide in the mountains and fight against the war with the Eighth Route Army." Shen Yajing said that the people in places such as Wuling Mountain , Wuzhishan , Goubeiling and other places insist on fighting with the Japanese invaders in the "no man's land". Some have never stopped fighting the Japanese invaders under the cliffs, and some have kept away from the cold in caves and caves. Although life is hard, people are full of firm confidence in winning the fight against Japan.
During the Anti-Japanese War , more than 6,000 people participated in the Eighth Route Army and the Anti-Japanese Guerrillas, and more than 10,000 people participated in the militia organization for the anti-Japanese struggle. The Communist Party of China and the Eighth Route Army established three anti-Japanese bases in Xinglong, Wuling Mountain, Wuzhi Mountain and Goubeiling. Although the area of these three bases is only more than a thousand square kilometers, it has experienced hundreds of "encirclement and suppression" by the Japanese and puppet troops, it has never been destroyed and has persisted until the final victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
Today's Wuling Mountain Nature Reserve , where the Eighth Route Army established an anti-Japanese base. Great Wall Network reporter Gao Hang
"In history, Xinglong was once classified as the 'Honglong Fengshui Forbidden Land of the Eastern Tombs of Qing Dynasty'. It was banned for 254 years. The vegetation was lush, but it was severely damaged during the War of Resistance Against Japan. The people of Xinglong worked hard to rebuild their homes and gradually restored their ecological environment." Shen Yajing told reporters.
In recent years, Xinglong has always adhered to the path of ecological priority and green development. From the founding of New China to the 1970s, Xinglong has organized and planned to carry out more than 10 large-scale afforestation and fruit planting activities, and the forest coverage rate has increased by nearly three times. In the 1980s and 1990s, the production of hawthorn and chestnuts in Xinglong County grew rapidly, becoming the "national hawthorn production base county" and the "hometown of Chinese chestnuts".
Today's Xinglong mountains and clear waters are known as the "Hometown of Chestnuts in China". Great Wall Network reporter Gao Hang
"Green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains." Today, Xinglong County has a forest coverage rate of 71.25%, ranking first among North China counties and districts. It has now formed a complete tourism resource system such as mountains, forests, water, and caves, attracting more and more tourists to take leisure and vacation. "At the end of 2019, Xinglong Tourism received 4.682 million tourists, with a comprehensive income of 5.6184 billion yuan, and rural tourism received 2.45 million tourists, with a comprehensive income of 1.96 billion yuan." Wang Lixing, a staff member of the Xinglong County Tourism and Culture Radio and Television Bureau, said.
From the former unmanned land to the beautiful scenic tourist destination, Xinglong is currently working hard to create an ecological civilization demonstration county and a national all-round tourism demonstration zone. Under the guidance of the "Xinglong Spirit", a brand new mountain city is coming towards us.
