Chapter 94 093. "King of Explosives" Famous——Record of Ma Lixun, Special Class Explosive Hero of Shandong Military Region

Turning over the military volume of "Encyclopedia of China", "Ci Hai", "Dictionary of Chinese Revolutionary History", "Dictionary of Chinese and Foreign Military Figures" and other historical biography works, one can clearly see that the name Ma Lixun ranks with many famous figures from ancient and modern China and abroad. Together.This hero, who grew up in the difficult years of the Anti-Japanese War, was good at blasting. He successively innovated and created sneak blasting, clever blasting and strong blasting techniques, directly killing more than 500 Japanese invaders and puppet troops.For this reason, Shandong soldiers and civilians called him "The King of Blasting". In July 1944, the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army awarded him the title of "Special Demolition Hero".

Ma Lixun was born in 1920 in a miner's family in Zichuan County, Shandong Province (now Zichuan District, Zibo City).He lost his mother since he was a child, and his father, who had worked hard in coal mines for most of his life, also died tragically in a landslide accident.In order to make a living, he was forced to work as a child laborer in a coal mine. When he was 18 years old, an uncle surnamed Hao helped him escape from the coal mine. In April 1940, he joined the Eighth Route Army and was incorporated into the twelfth company of the fourth detachment of the Shandong column. Ma Lixun studied hard and practiced hard, and finally developed a good skill: throwing bombs, shooting, and assassinating all kinds of tricks, he knows everything.Later, the leaders selected him to learn engineering technology for more than half a year, which laid a solid foundation for him to fully master and skillfully use blasting technology in the future.Attacking the enemy's stronghold in Wujiawa, Laiwu, Shandong, he and two comrades in arms successfully carried out the blasting, causing more than 30 Japanese and puppet troops to enter the grave under the loess brick tower more than two feet high.

In the spring of 1942, Ma Lixun's company was reorganized into the Shandong column, one brigade, three regiments and one company.At the beginning of summer, the third regiment returned to Lunan to undertake the task of persevering the anti-Japanese struggle in Tianbaoshan and Nishan areas.At that time, the Lunan anti-Japanese base area was divided into several small pieces, and the Japanese and puppet troops often carried out "mopping up" and "cleaning up".In order to smash the enemy's bunker policy, many commanders and fighters of the three regiments learned blasting techniques.Since the end of 1941, it has used blasting to conquer enemy strongholds many times, and has accumulated combat experience in attacking key points.Ma Lixun's technique of using explosives is the best in the whole regiment. In many battles, he has created the "magic cannon" miracle of repeated explosions and victories.

On August 8 of this year, the Third Regiment and the Nishan Detachment were ordered to attack Sun Xu's stronghold and annihilate Zhang Xianrong's puppet army.Sunxu is a relatively large village in the south of Sishui County. It is divided into two walled villages, the north and the south. There are protruding artillery towers at the four corners of the northern Sunxu wall, and there is a central artillery tower in the village.In the evening of that day, Ma Lixun carried several explosive packs weighing more than 50 kilograms, and followed the troops in the ranks of the vanguard platoon.The assault team went around the village to avoid shops, chose small roads, ran for more than 50 miles, and quietly touched the outside of Beisun Xuzhuang.At this time, Ma Lixun carried an explosive package, and skillfully passed from one haystack to another, touched the foot of the enemy's wall, quickly put the explosive package, and ignited the fuse.When he returned to the original place, there was a "boom" from the explosive package, and suddenly, the enemy's gunshots burst out.The commander of the assault company commanded two machine guns and rifles to cover the firepower. Ma Lixun carried a pack of explosives weighing about 30 kilograms on his back, and quickly jumped to the first blasting place. A blast that completely destroys enemy walls and gun towers.As soon as he returned to the starting point, there was a "bang" that shook the sky, and a hole more than two feet wide was torn open in the southeast corner of the enemy's wall, and the gun tower was shaken down.When the assault company rushed into the siege quickly, the third battalion also rushed in from the northwest corner of the wall, forming a pincer attack on the enemy, and quickly annihilated and captured some of the enemy.However, the enemy is still resisting in the central bunker.In order to completely annihilate and defend the enemy, Ma Lixun carefully observed a corner of a broken wall, and found that there was a dead corner on the southwest back of the enemy's central bunker.Under the cover of the firepower commanded by the instructor, Ma Lixun immediately sent the two explosive packages to the central bunker and lit the fuse.Amidst the huge bang, the bunker turned into a pile of broken bricks.The enemies on the bottom floor of the bunker were buried inside, and the enemies on the upper floor of the bunker were blown to pieces, and more than 60 enemies were all reimbursed.In this battle, due to Ma Lixun's timely and accurate blasting, the Eighth Route Army won the victory by killing and capturing more than 40 enemies at the cost of two wounded.

After defeating Sun Xu, the third regiment used explosives to attack Xigao Village in Fei County, Mashantou and Wangzhuang in Teng County, Houwu Village in Zou County and many other Japanese and puppet strongholds.The explosive packs used by the Eighth Route Army surpassed the "magic cannon". The third regiment had a legend about Ma Lixun, the "King of Demolition", which frightened the enemy.In the battle of Zhuzi Village in November 1943, Ma Lixun once again showed his might. Zhuzi Village and its surrounding strongholds, 40 miles south of Feixian County, were occupied by the Liu Guitang Department of the Japanese and puppet troops. On the night of the attack on Dongzhuzi on November 15, 1943, Ma Lixun's blasting team traveled 50 miles with the assault company and stopped in a depression outside Dongzhu Village.After a while, the correspondent came to convey the order of the commander Wang Jiwen to start the battle.The company commander immediately said to Ma Lixun: "Start!" Ma Lixun picked up the explosive package, jumped out of the bunker with a "swish", and rushed forward like an arrow.

Under the hazy moonlight, Ma Lixun, who was moving towards the enemy, was discovered by the enemy in the inner wall gun tower, and he could not raise his head due to the intense firepower.The company commander ordered the machine gun to cover.But the enemy's gun hole was sealed, and the enemy's other gun hole was opened again.At this time, Ma Lixun was very anxious, and secretly made up his mind: even if I sacrificed, I must find a way to blow up the wall and open the way for the assault troops!Coincidentally, there was a small ditch beside him, and he rolled into the ditch, bypassing the small mound and crawling forward to his deputy Liu Bingkun.They were discussing how to distract the enemy's fire when suddenly a bullet grazed his hat.With a light in his heart, he quickly took off his hat, turned the white hat inside out, put it on the top with a branch, inserted it to the right a few dozen steps away, shook it a few times, and then left quickly.This trick really worked, and the enemy's rifles and machine guns shot at the hat together.In an instant, Ma Lixun had already rushed to the base of the wall, stuck the wooden stick binding the explosive package into the ground, and quickly ignited the fuse.He just ran dozens of steps along the left wall, when there was a "bang", a ball of flames mixed with the enemy's corpse flew into the air, and the gun tower disappeared.Immediately afterwards, there was a loud noise, and another gap was torn off the inner wall.The continuous blasting was successful, and the main attacking force rushed into the siege and started fierce street fighting with the enemy.The enemy tried to seize and block the breakthrough, and Ma Lixun led the blasting team to throw the specially-made explosive packs and grenades; a pack of explosives was thrown into the stable, and the frightened groups of war horses broke free from their reins and galloped and screamed. The enemy's attempt was shattered.The attacking troops flooded into Dongzhu Village like a tide, with gunshots and shouts intertwined, and the enemy quickly disintegrated and surrendered one after another.In this campaign, a total of 224 enemies were killed, 1,000 were captured, more than 1,000 guns of various types, more than 70 horses, and a large number of military supplies were seized.

In the spring of 1944, the Shandong Eighth Route Army launched a battle to remove the Pangzhuang stronghold on the road from Pingyi to the back of the city.At this time, Ma Lixun had been promoted to the rank of platoon leader. He took a scout to sneak into Pangzhuang in disguise, and made a reconnaissance of the enemy's fortifications in advance. Pangzhuang is guarded by more than 180 puppet troops. There is a wall and a moat dug outside the wall. The moat is full of water. There are barbed wire fences and deer villages outside the moat, forming a natural barrier. suspension bridge. After Ma Lixun studied the detected situation and the blasting method, he led the blasting team to conduct a pre-war drill in a cemetery.They put iron sand in the explosives to increase the explosive power of blasting the thick wall.They practiced how to shorten the time of the blasting process, and also tested the time for burning five-inch, one-foot, one-and-a-half-foot, and two-foot-long fuses.Ma Lixun said: "The enemy's fortifications in Pangzhuang have changed from one layer to several layers, and they must be continuously exploded." He came up with the method of "quick delivery and quick explosion", using blasting to cover the blasting, and blasting several layers of enemy fortifications in succession.After drills, the blasting team members had a bottom line.

On the night of May 24, 1944, Ma Lixun and the soldiers of the blasting team, along with the vanguard team, approached the south gate of Pangzhuang quickly and covertly, and started fighting according to the predetermined plan.First, a blaster stuffed a pack of explosives into Luzhai, lit the fuse, and left quickly.Ma Lixun saw that the enemy's suspension bridge was not retracted, and heard a "boom", and without waiting for an order from his superiors, he took advantage of the thick smoke to send the second explosive package to the enclosure gate and returned.When the company commander gave the order to blast the door, the explosive pack leaning on the fence had already rang.

The rumbling sound of explosions awakened the enemy.The puppet soldiers in the stronghold were terrified and screaming. "Iron-struck Pangzhuang" suddenly turned into rotten tofu.Some of the enemies were shaken to death, some were buried in the soil, and some were blown out of their wits.The warriors rushed in and quickly wiped out the enemy.The next day, a Japanese squad came to aid from the stronghold behind the city, but was also wiped out by the second and third companies that came to aid. Two Japanese soldiers were captured and more than 20 people were killed. Ma Lixun joined the Communist Party of China in April 1944 after being tempered by blood and fire.In the autumn of this year, he attended the Battle Heroes Congress held by the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army and was awarded the title of "Special Demolition Hero".The Shandong Military Region also issued a decision to learn from Ma Lixun.After that, Ma Lixun participated in the execution of blasting missions during the battles of the Shandong Eighth Route Army attacking Donghu and Sishui City, and continued to make great contributions to the victory of the battle.

Unfortunately, on August 5, 1945, during the battle against Yan Village in Teng County, Ma Lixun was shot in the chest and died heroically. To commemorate this people's hero, the Lunan Military Region of the Eighth Route Army named his platoon "Ma Lixun Pai", and Yan Village was named "Ma Lixun Village".