Text: Volume II: The Eventful Years_Chapter 652
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Good news came from the county archives bureau, and the archivist Lao Zhang found two archival materials related to the Qifeng Valley breakout battle from tens of thousands of files. He was able to find these two files not so much because of the work experience he had accumulated over more than two decades, but because of luck.
One dossier is the verdict of the county court after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The verdict is a rectangular piece of white cotton paper, hand-engraved mimeographed, the words are written vertically, the handwriting is very beautiful, the beginning is "Qingshan County People's Court Criminal Judgment", the inscription is stamped with the red seal of the Qingshan County People's Court, the seal is not round, but square.
According to the verdict, a local landlord named He Dazhuang learned that the PLA troops were camped in Qifeng Valley, and quietly sent someone to report to his son He Jipingfeng, who was the head of the county security regiment, thus starting the Qifeng Valley Breakout Battle, in which the PLA suffered more than 40 casualties. The verdict also included the names of several PLA commanders and fighters who died, including squad leader Bi Agen.
It can be seen from this archival material that Bi Agen, the squad leader who covered Liu Dongwei's retreat, had died in the battle. In general, the remains of soldiers who died in battle are buried nearby. Therefore, it is very likely that Bi Agen's body was buried somewhere in Qifeng Valley.
Another dossier confirms Qian Sanyun's judgment.
It is a yellowed diary, and on the title page of the diary is a portrait of Commander-in-Chief Zhu. Due to its age, the diary is not only mutilated, but also has a few pages of illegible handwriting.
The owner of the diary is called Zhang Daqiang, and there is a diary that records some details of the breakout battle in Qifeng Valley.
According to the contents of the diary, it can be learned that at the time of the battle, the fighters were sleeping, the fighters in charge of standing guard were killed by traitors, and some fighters were killed by the county security regiment in their sleep. Due to being outnumbered, many soldiers died in the breakout. In order to cover the retreat of his comrades, the squad leader Bi Agen fought stubbornly with the enemy, and finally died honorably. Zhang Daqiang was also shot in the leg in this battle, and he endured great pain and crawled into the nearby grass, but because it was dark, the enemy did not find him in time.
After the battle, Zhang Daqiang was rescued by nearby villagers. The villager who rescued him was named Hu Jialong. Hu Jialong is a veterinarian, and although he can't see people, he also knows some medical knowledge. Hu Jialong took out the bullet in Zhang Daqiang's leg and cleaned his wounds.
In this battle, the PLA suffered more than 40 casualties, and the rest were safely transferred. Nearby civilians buried the fallen PLA soldiers on the spot.
This diary was obviously left behind by Zhang Daqiang when he left Qifeng Valley after he was injured. Fortunately, with this diary, the tragic breakout battle that took place more than 60 years ago can be well restored.
Qian Sanyun closed the diary and asked a series of questions in his heart: Where did Zhang Daqiang go later? Is he still alive? Also, which village in Qifeng Valley does Hu Jialong live in? Is he still alive? Do the locals know where the bodies of the fallen PLA soldiers are buried?
According to the agreement, Qian Sanyun and Wei Zhengdao, an old expert from the county party history office, went to Xingfu Village, Donghe Township.
Accompanied by township and village cadres, Qian Sanyun and Wei Zhengdao visited many villagers. Some of the older villagers still have an impression of the battle that took place more than 60 years ago, and some villagers described: I was only a teenager at the time, and I was asleep when I suddenly heard a rapid gunshot. The gunfire grew closer and denser, and our family was so frightened that we hid under the bed. After dawn, I found a lot of bullet holes in the doors and windows, in the mud walls, and I also picked up a lot of bullet casings.
After some visits and searches, Qian Sanyun finally found the family of Hu Jialong, a veterinarian who rescued the injured soldiers.
Unfortunately, Hu Jialong died of illness more than ten years ago. An important reason why Hu Jialong rescued the injured soldier was because his eldest son was also a PLA soldier in another unit back then. After the liberation, his eldest son transferred to work in the local area, and died in a car accident six or seven years ago.
Hu Jialong's youngest son, who has been working at home for a long time, is over 60 years old this year, and he was only six years old when the Qifenggu Breakout Battle occurred. He has little memory of the battle that year.
Through the visit, Qian Sanyun finally found a few villagers who participated in burying the remains of the sacrificed soldiers, the youngest of whom was 78 years old.
Although these villagers are old, they still have a certain impression of the battle that year. They all remember the burial place of the remains of the PLA soldiers back then.
An old man said: The battle was so tragic that many of the soldiers who died were seventeen or eighteen-year-old young men who died before they got married, and I couldn't bear to see them throw their corpses into the wilderness, so I buried them in a mass grave with the villagers. At that time, I did not know their names, so I could not erect a monument for them. However, every year during the Qingming and winter solstices, I go to their graves to burn a few pieces of paper money.
Under the guidance of the villagers, Qian Sanyun came to the mass grave where the sacrificed soldiers were buried. In front of a barren hill there was a mound raised high. The mound is overgrown with grass and trees. Villagers said that it was a joint burial tomb, and it seemed that more than 20 bodies were buried back then.
Those young people from all over the world who are in their prime, due to a sudden ambush battle, sleep in this place that was once called Qifeng Valley, with green mountains as companions, green water as neighbors, and sleep listening to insects and birds. A large number of them have no descendants, and their relatives do not know their whereabouts, so they cannot worship them. They are a group of heroic young people who shed their blood for the liberation of the people.
According to local customs, Qian Sanyun bought some sacrifices to worship these martyrs who are buried here.
According to the villagers' recollections, not long after the breakthrough battle of Qifeng Valley, a large army came to Qingshan County and wiped out the county security regiment, and the head of the county security regiment, He Jipu, was killed in the battle, and Qingshan County was liberated. The traitor who betrayed his comrades, who later joined the security corps, was captured alive during the battle, and was immediately shot. The landlord, He Dazhuang, absconded in makeup, and after liberation, he was reported and shot by the newly established people's government.
As for the wounded soldier named Zhang Daqiang, an old man recalled that Zhang Daqiang lived in Hu Dalong's house for about half a month, and after his injuries stabilized, he followed the army south, and then there was no news of him.
Returning to Qingshan County, Qian Sanyun made copies of the materials obtained from the county archives and gave them to Wei Zhengdao. Wei Zhengdao said that through these dusty archival materials and the materials obtained from the field visit to Qifeng Valley, the battle of that year can basically be restored, and he will write an article to commemorate the more than 20 soldiers who died in that battle, so as to comfort their souls in the sky.