Another interesting "folk tale" is the story of place names and people's names. It is also to let everyone see what is really spread in the story about the Anti-Japanese War now!

Let's talk about an introduction first, everyone still remembers Dou Jiande who fought for territory with Li Shimin in Hebei at the end of the Sui Dynasty, this common people say that Dou Jiande retreated from the front line and walked to a place, and asked the local people what is the boundary of this place? The common people said, this place is called Mozi Mountain in the east, Jiguanzi Village in the west, three-legged kettle in the north, and Huojiao Liang in the south.

Further on, I walked to Niukouyu, and I thought, can this bean be good if it enters the cow's mouth! As soon as he was in a hurry, he was wounded by an arrow and died.

Speaking of the anti-Japanese battlefield, there was also such a case of people and place names rushing out.

After the independent regiment entered Laiyuan, Yang Chengwu had to conduct a social investigation as usual in order to determine the direction of the next march. In the history of a division, this is the famous "Yang Chengwu asked Lai Guangling". Several local gentry in Laiyuan County, all of whom were well-known scholars in the Laiguangling area, immediately introduced the geographical situation around Laiyuan to the head of Yang. After talking about several famous mountains in Yi County, the first but not the highest Langya Mountain is the focus of the introduction.

As he was talking, several gentry suddenly looked at each other, and hesitated in their words, showing the meaning of spitting and spitting. Yang Chengwu immediately asked: If the gentlemen have something to say, you can let it go. Don't worry. If it's not right, the Eighth Route Army won't blame it.

The gentry said that this Lai Guangling area was the place where Li Mu led his army to defeat Lin Hu after Hu Fu, the king of Zhao Wuling, rode and shot. It's a bit famous. After the early Northern Song Dynasty. The Yang family will also fight here. Therefore, the story of Yang Lao Linggong is widely circulated. Yang Lao Linggong, whose real name is Yang Ye, is known as "Yang Invincible", why did he die at the hands of Liao after he died? It is because it caught up with a place name of "Xiangke", which is "Two Wolf Mountain".

The Liao State carefully chose to fight in such a place, in order to defeat the "sheep" with the "wolf". Yang Lao Linggong was trapped in Li Ling Temple because "the sheep entered the wolf's mouth" and strayed into the two wolf mountains. Committed a big taboo. And it's "two wolves and one sheep". After being humiliated because he refused to be arrested, Yang Lao ordered his public to commit suicide by touching Li Lingbei.

The gentry said that General Yang defended the country and the people, resisted foreign invasion, and made great contributions to the world, far better than that of Yang Lao Linggong. However, the Chinese should also attach importance to Zhou Yi's gossip and respect the mandate of heaven, and the principle that these two things "restrain each other" must be followed. The general's surname is Yang, Langya Mountain in Yi County. Did it become the land of the "gram" generals? It's better to be careful.

In short, no matter what the outcome is. But at that time, as the old saying goes: "Listen to people's persuasion and eat well." "The fact is that Yang Chengwu did not personally enter Langya Mountain, but turned around and went north to Wei County. One cannot but wonder if this rumor is true.

was misled by this rumor, and Meng Gechen was the first to be recommended. Meng Gechen, who occupied dozens of villages in the southern area of Langya Mountain, was formerly known as the "Seventh Route Army", which was one bone joint worse than the "Eighth Route Army". However, at that time, it had already been subordinated to the Eighth Route Army, and was designated as the "Sixth Army Division" by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.

At the end of 1938, some people in the "senior staff" around Meng Gechen had already seen that under the suppression of the Japanese army, they had lost the first division of the territory of Wei County, and it was difficult to survive in the barren Laiyuan County, and it was possible to plot the territory of Yi County, which was rich. Moreover, the next step of the Japanese army at that time was to enter Laiyuan County and drive the troops of the First Division to the southernmost part of Laiyuan County, where the horses were raised and the area around Yinfang.

It is said that at that time, some people used Liu Bei, who temporarily lived in Xinye, to describe Yang Chengwu's first district, and compared Yi County to Jingzhou in that year. reminded Yang Chengwu that he lost Laiyuan County, just like Liu Bei lost Xinye, and told Meng Gechen not to "carelessly lose Jingzhou".

However, Meng Gechen, who accepted the leadership of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region at that time, already regarded himself as a "member of the Eighth Route Army" and believed that since the establishment of his unit, he has been fighting devils and has never done anything to be sorry for the Eighth Route Army. How can the Eighth Route Army have the truth of "their own people fighting their own people". What's more, he has 7,000 people, and one division has taken three regiments, and at this time there are only about 6,000 people, so there is nothing to fear. Besides, Yang Chengwu taboos "Wolf Tooth Mountain", and will not "sheep into the wolf's mouth", looking for "mutual restraint".

But the Communist Party doesn't talk about superstition, and Yang Chengwu just came. After January 1939, the 6th Division ceased to exist, and the southern area of Langya Mountain became a reliable base for the 1st Division.

The Memorial Hall of the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain has released a very wrong information, on a schematic map of the anti-sweeping of the first division in the autumn of 1941, Yang Chengwu brought the command organ of the first division to Langya Mountain, and the five heroes sacrificed themselves to cover the breakthrough of the command organ of the first division.

This is inaccurate. The command organ of the first division has been at the foot of Langya Mountain for several years, and for whatever reason, Yang Chengwu never thought of moving the command organ of the first division to Langya Mountain. This is true even in the case of an emergency when the devil sweeps up.

In "Yang Chengwu's Memoirs", there are only two recorded visits to Langya Mountain. Once in the spring of 1940, after the Zhao Yukun and Yang Shangkun incidents, when the headquarters of the First Division was stationed in Beiloushan, Yang Chengwu and Gao Peng, together with several cadres of the Political Department, Huang Lianqiu, head of the Propaganda Section, Shi Jinqian, Chief of the Headquarters Management Section, and Wang Guoquan, Secretary of the Prefectural Party Committee (the first batch of old ambassadors of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after liberation), Zhao Fan, director of the Organization Department of the Prefectural Party Committee (deputy mayor of Beijing after the liberation and deputy minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Reclamation), Liu Feng served as the photographer.

This was the first time Yang Chengwu went up the mountain after coming to Yi County in January 1939, and it was basically the same as today's general tourism. Wake up early and go up the mountain, eat on the mountain, and go down the mountain at noon. This time I went up the mountain, not only to inspect the terrain of Langya Mountain, but also to set up ancient Chinese mountain defense facilities such as "rolling stone and sandalwood" on the main road of Langya Mountain. In particular, Yang Chengwu also learned about the history of Langya Mountain, and learned that Langya Mountain was originally "Lang Mountain", and the locals called it white, so it became "Langya Mountain".

The second time Yang Chengwu went to Langya Mountain was in the second half of 1943, when Yang Chengwu suffered from malaria, accompanied by Lu Xingwen, deputy minister of health of the first district, went to Laojuntang in Langya Mountain to recuperate. As soon as I went up the mountain, I caught up with the devils to sweep away, so I moved to the more remote Wufengzhai area of the Bulao Nunnery. This location is adjacent to Laiyuan County, southwest of Bauhinia Pass, north of Lianggang, and belongs to the Wuhuiling mountain system. It is more than 20 miles away from the enemy's Jinpo stronghold, but there are the headquarters of the 25th Regiment and the reconnaissance company of the 25th Regiment in the middle, so Yang Chengwu is relieved: "The enemy does not dare to come easily." ”

Probably afraid that something would happen, the 25th Regiment specially sent an additional company, "transferred to a small mountain village east of the Bulao Nunnery, just in case." "Judging from the high-powered map, this small mountain village in the east should include Nie Jiayan, Shikang, Xigou, Niangzigou, Guanyu, etc., at that time, the population was sparse, and each small village was only one or two households, and only one squad could be stationed.

On the way from Laojuntang to Wufengzhai Bulao'an, Yang Chengwu recalled, "I only occasionally met a fellow countryman passing by." It's one of the "fellow villagers" that I met that someone would report to the devil. Moreover, the devils who "didn't dare to come easily" actually came, and when the devil soldiers heard the news, they immediately dispatched a small force to carry out a sneak attack.

In 1943, it was the most difficult time for the Jin-Cha-Ji Eighth Route Army, with no food to eat and no to wear. You can't expect too much from the people back then. Even the cadres and soldiers of the first division were not optimistic about the future of the Eighth Route Army, and abandoned the Eighth Route Army to defect to the devils. You can't even ask the peasants what to do. For a bounty of several dozen yuan, reporting Yang Chengwu's whereabouts to the Japanese devils is another manifestation of the inferior nature of the Chinese: For some people, there is no justice and injustice, there is no patriotism and betrayal, as long as I can get benefits, as long as I can get money, whoever holds the power I will be loyal to, and anything can be betrayed.

According to the analysis after the fact, the devils who attacked Wufeng Village came from the nearest garrison of the Da Longhua stronghold. The Jinpo stronghold is a garrison guarding the Laiyi Highway, and the number of devils will not be large. And the dispatch of the puppet army is obviously not good at combat effectiveness. Da Longhua is a big stronghold of devils, more than 100 devils are more than rich at a time, plus the local puppet army who is familiar with the geography of Yi County leads the way, although the number of devil soldiers who come to sneak attack is not large, but they do not take the 25th Regiment of the 1st Division stationed in the middle of the way.

In fact, it is true, the devils who came to sneak attack attacked fiercely, and the company of the 25th Regiment placed on the east side of the Bulao Nunnery could not resist it at all. Yang Chengwu and his entourage could only retreat west in a hurry, and Zhao Zhizhen and eldest daughter Yi Sheng, who followed Yang Chengwu, had no one to protect them, so they could only find a stone cave to hide by their fellow villagers.

In an emergency, the 25th Regiment dispatched two more companies to drive away the devils. Afterwards, Yang Chengwu was transferred to Xiaolan Village and continued to recuperate. After that, Yang Chengwu never went to Langya Mountain again. Until the autumn of 1944, Yang Chengwu was transferred to the Jizhong Military Region as the commander, and he also started from Xiaolan Village and went south to Cijiatai, Mancheng County.

In recent years, the oral history of the Eighth Route Army has been told rottenly, and it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity, so some people think of "improvisation". Now even this kind of folk tales with a legendary nature have been taken out as official history, and I can't help but say that the cuteness of the common people! (To be continued......)