During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made Nanjing its capital, it sent troops to the north to attack Linfen and Hongdong in Shanxi from Yun Guan and other small roads. Crossing the Taihang Mountain mouth to the east, sinking into Shahe River and entering Baoding to the north (1853). Xianfeng fled to Jehol in fright. At that time, the Taiping Army on the West Road entered Shaanxi from Shaanxi, crossed the King of Wu to the east, entered Henan, crossed Baoding to the north, and reached Beijing (1868).
During Guangxu period (1900), Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing, while Cixi fled to the west, crossed Taihang Mountain into Shanxi, crossed Qixian County and went south to xi 'an.
In the early Republic of China, there was a war between Jiang Feng and Yan, and the main battlefield was at the junction of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui. Later, Zhang Xueliang led troops into Hebei and ended in Jiangsheng. There is also a small-scale war between the direct line of Taihang Mountain and the border of Jin Dynasty. For example, Jingxing in the west of Shijiazhuang had a border conflict with Pingding and Xiyang in Shanxi, and the west of Jingxing County was occupied by the Jin Dynasty (according to the old Jingxing County Records).
2. After the end of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression,
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Taihang Mountain became an anti-Japanese base. The Eighth Route Army led by the early * * * production party won a great victory in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. After that, the Kuomintang fell to Niangziguan, and the Japanese army made a big push into Jin. The positional warfare did not stop the Japanese army, so a large-scale guerrilla warfare was launched in Taihang Mountain, with the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region in the north and the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan guerrilla zone in the south. After the riots in eastern Hebei, some militia retreated into Taihang Mountain.
In these guerrilla zones, a series of touching stories happened. Dr Bethune came to Wutai-Taihang Mountain to heal the wounded and rescue the dying, and finally died in Tangxian County, Dongpo, Hebei Province. In Licheng, there were "two little cowboys" who led the Japanese invaders into the ambush area of the Eighth Route Army and died in the battlefield. This leads to the famous folk song "Sing for Two Hours and Let the Cowherd Go". Liaoxian Cross Ridge is the place where Zuo Quan, deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, died heroically. Later, Liao County was changed to Zuoquan County. In the middle of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army launched a hundred regiments war on the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan railway line, demolishing railways, bombing bunkers and uprooting strongholds in a planned way.
Five chivalrous men of Langya Mountain
In the northern part of Taihang Mountain, there was a famous ambush in Dalonghua (Yixian County). The five strong men of Langya Mountain finally jumped off the cliff to cover their fellow villagers and were surrounded by Japanese invaders. Since then, Yima Village at the foot of the mountain has become Wu Yong Village. In Laiyuan area, the Eighth Route Army counter-swept, and a mortar shell killed Sakamoto, a famous Japanese soldier.
During the War of Liberation, in the Shangdang Campaign of 1946, Liu Dengjun annihilated five divisions provoked by the Kuomintang and forced the Kuomintang to sign an armistice agreement. 1947, Liu Deng's army obeyed Chairman Mao's orders, first crossed the Yellow River and jumped into Dabie Mountain, which started the counterattack of the Liberation War. In the same year, Chairman Mao led the Party Central Committee to cross the Yellow River from northern Shaanxi, enter Wutai Mountain, cross Taihang Mountain obliquely, cross Taihang Mountain from Shizui in the east of Wutai County, and go to Xibaipo, where he worked and lived until Beijing was liberated.
3. Summary
Throughout the 5,000-year history of civilization, the majestic Taihang Mountain has become a battleground for military strategists, so there are many passes along the Taihang Mountain, from Badaling to Xiyang to build the Great Wall.
The great and small wars mentioned in this book come from Atlas of China's Draft History (Guo Moruo, Volume I, 1996, China Map Publishing House), General History of China (China's Outline of General History, Fan Wenlan, 4th edition, 1965, People's Publishing House) and Five Thousand Years in China (lin li). Most of these wars are self-interest among warlords, and a few are peasant uprisings to resist foreign invasion.
Because Shanxi is located in Xianyang -Xi 'an, Anyang-Shangqiu, Luoyang, Kaifeng and Beijing, and at the edge of Shanxi Plateau, it has the nature of vault and screen protection. In order to defend the national capital, wars and bonfires continue.