In the early 1940s, the Hai Duong militia did not have landmines and had no experience in using mines to attack the enemy. In the spring of 1943, the County People's Armed Forces Committee held a meeting of directors of the district armed committees in Nanbu Village, Xiaoji District. Luan Jinjie, director of the County Armed Forces Committee, introduced the experience of the militiamen in Daze Mountain District, Pingdu County, in setting up mine formations to kill the enemy. Staff officer Yang Zhaolong taught the methods of laying mines and distributed several iron mines to each district. Only then did the Haiyang militiamen begin to understand landmines and He has an indissoluble bond with mines. In May of the same year, Yu Fengming, deputy captain of the soldiers in Ruiyu Village, Xiaoji District, planted two landmines on the road between Ruiyu and Dongcun Village, killing and injuring five Japanese and puppet soldiers who came out of Xingcun Village to rob wheat. The prelude to the Haiyang mine war began.
At the same time, militias in other villages also took active action and began to use landmines to attack the Japanese invaders. In the autumn of the same year, Zhao Tonglun, the captain of the Zhaotuan village militia, received two large landmines from the district armed committee. After returning to the village, he worked with Zhao Shoufu and other militiamen to develop several methods of laying mines, such as pull wires and trip wires. One day in early October, Zhao Tonglun led Zhao Shoufu and others to plant two trip mines near the top of Zaobu Mountain in the southwest of the village, killing and wounding 5 puppet soldiers. When soldiers from Wenshan Hou Village learned that the enemies in Xingcun were "mopping up" in the Heya, Zhaitou, and Xiaoji areas, instructor Li Shuzi and squad leader Yu Huahu led the village explosion team and laid two landmines in Yehu Mountain to "mopping up" the enemies. After returning from Xiaojizhuan, as soon as I walked onto Yehu Mountain, I stepped on a landmine and four or five Japanese soldiers flew into the sky. The enemy panicked, and just as they turned to the front hillside, they stepped on another mine, and three more enemies met the King of Hell. The remaining enemies were so frightened that they fled back to their strongholds and did not dare to move out for more than a month. Ye Hongfu, the basic cadre leader of the Yejia villagers in the Dashan District, planted a mine in Xiejia Village, killing and wounding 5 Japanese and puppet soldiers; Yu Fengming twice led the militiamen to kill and wound 3 Japanese soldiers and 8 puppet soldiers with landmines, and killed the adjutant. One each and one translator, and one war horse was killed.
Landmines made in the base area
The successful practice of early mine warfare greatly encouraged the anti-Japanese fighting spirit of the county militia, and landmine warfare began to be carried out from point to area throughout the county. At first, mine warfare was only carried out in Xiaoji, Xingcun, Dashan and other districts close to enemy strongholds. Later, it gradually spread to the entire county, with militias in some villages in Yushan, Longshan, Leishi, Changshui, Gaojia, Xujiadian and other districts , successfully applied landmine warfare to counter "mopping up" and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese aggressors.
After the widespread development of landmine warfare, the supply of landmines was insufficient. In order to solve this problem, Wenshan Hou Village soldiers such as Yu Huahu, Li Shuzi, Yu Xishui, Yu Jinhu and other explosive backbones gathered together to discuss and study the issue of mine-making. After repeated trials, they developed various mines such as stone mines and trip mines. After that, village soldiers such as Zhao Tuan, "Five Tiger Village", Luan Jia, Xia Ze and others also discovered Shi Lei.
In May 1943, Yu Huahu, captain of the Wenshan Hou Village militia, led the militia to plant more than 70 stone mines. All of them "bloomed", killing 17 enemies at a time. After the county and district armed committees summarized and promoted their experience, the militia across the county generally learned how to make stone mines.
Since the launch of mine warfare, the enemies who came out to "mopping up" have suffered repeated setbacks and dare not act rashly. Party organizations at all levels seized this favorable opportunity to mobilize the masses to "resist donations" and "resist food", cutting off the enemy's source of support and causing the enemy's strongholds to run out of food and grass. The trapped enemies sprang out like vicious tigers to "sweep" them. The militiamen in the Penzi Mountain area united to fight against the enemy.
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