During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, five Eighth Route Army heroes who fought bravely against the Japanese puppet troops in the Battle of Langyashan in Yixian County, Hebei Province wrote a magnificent poem with their lives and blood. They are the squad leaders and vice squad leaders of Class 6, Company 7 of the Eighth Route Army Jinchaji Military Region 1 Regiment 1 Military Division, Ma Baoyu, Ge Zhenlin, party member, Song Xueyi, Hu Delin and Hu Fucai. 194 1 In August, 2000, the North China Army of the Japanese invaders mobilized more than 70,000 troops and carried out a devastating "sweeping" of Beiyue and Pingxi base areas belonging to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region. On September 25th, about 3,500 Japanese puppet troops besieged the Langya Mountain area in the southwest of Yixian County in an attempt to annihilate the Eighth Route Army and local party and government organs. Company 7 of a certain unit of Jinchaji Military Region 1 Military Division was ordered to cover the transfer of party and government organs, troops and the masses. After the evacuation, five soldiers, including Ma Baoyu of Class 6, were left as guards to prevent and cover the transfer of the whole company. They were firm and calm, took advantage of favorable terrain, fought back bravely, and repelled many attacks by the Japanese puppet troops, killing more than 90 people. The next day, in order not to let the Japanese puppet troops find out that the company was changing direction, they fought and retreated, leading the Japanese puppet troops to the top of Qipaituo Mountain in Langya Mountain. The Japanese puppet troops mistakenly thought that they had bitten the main force of the Eighth Route Army, so they launched a storm. The five soldiers fought bravely in the face of danger. When the bullets ran out, they fought back with stones and fought until sunset. Facing the Japanese puppet troops approaching step by step, they would rather die than surrender, destroy their guns and jump off a cliff dozens of feet deep without hesitation. Ma Baoyu, Hu Delin and Hu Fucai died heroically; Ge Zhenlin and Song Xueyi were caught by branches on the mountainside and survived. The feats of five soldiers, including Ma Baoyu, showed lofty patriotism, revolutionary heroism and unyielding national integrity, and were praised by the people as "the five strong men of Langya Mountain". The leading organs of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region awarded three martyrs the title of "honorary model" and approved Hu Delin and Hu Fucai to join the Party. Ge Zhenlin and Song Xueyi were awarded a writ and were awarded the medal of "Courage and Tenacity". Song Xueyi gloriously joined the China Producers' Party. In order to commemorate and commend the five anti-Japanese heroes, the local revolutionary government built the "Three Martyrs Monument of Langya Mountain" at the top of Qipaituo Mountain. /kloc-rebuilt in May, 1959, renamed as "Five Warriors Memorial Tower of Langya Mountain". Nie Rongzhen wrote an inscription for the memorial tower: "Revolutionary soldiers should have spirit and would rather die than surrender is the glorious tradition of Zhao Yan heroes". After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Song Xueyi moved to work in a local area, and 1978 died. Ge Zhenlin (1981) left his post in July to recuperate. When he retired, he was the former deputy director of the logistics department of Hengyang Military Division of Hunan Military Region, and died in March 2005. This is an oil painting by the five strong men of Langya Mountain.
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