Chapter 18 hougouzhaizi

Behind Siping Village stands a steep and steep mountain, which is recorded as Zhaojin Mountain.Every spring, when the flowers bloom, the warm spring breeze blows, and the charming mountain peach blossoms bloom on the cliffs that stand like thousands of feet, so the local people also call this mountain Peach Castle.There are two deep ditches stretching for several kilometers around Jinshan Mountain.The ditch in the east is connected with Zhangguo Laoya, and is called Laojun'an ditch.This ditch to the west.Huerliang, which is surrounded by Jinshan Mountain and goes straight to the northwest, is deep. Because a natural cottage is formed at the bottom of the ditch, it is called Zhaizigou.The tops of the two ditches intersect and lead directly to the "neck" of the "rabbit" of Tu'erliang on the back of Zhaojin Mountain.Zhaizigou and Laojun'angou have lush forests and gurgling water.The scenery is beautiful, the rocks are unique, and the environment is quiet.Wufa's two veins of Qingxi gurgled out around Jinshan Mountain, and joined the fast-flowing Tianyu River at the entrance of Siping Village.This extremely dangerous cave on Zhaizigou is the famous Hougou Zhaizi.

The terrain of Hougou Village is dangerous.There are thousands of cliffs on the top, steep stone cliffs on the bottom, and the cliffs under the Tuerliang behind Zhaojin Mountain to the east and west.There is only a small trail on the extension of the cliff in the west, which leads to the outside of the mountain through the dangerous pass on the edge of the cliff. It is about ten miles away from Hougou Village. This is the only way to enter Hougou Village.According to the old people, Hougou Village was first built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At that time, it was built by rich gentry and local people to prevent the harassment of the Nian army and the plunder of the peasant uprising army.During the period of the Republic of China, it became a refuge to prevent Ma Hongkui Muslims from burning, killing and looting.At that time, the Yaoxian government established the Zhaojin Militia headed by the local gentry Zhang Yanning.The Zhaojin militia rammed the wall here, set up a moat, and built a dark fort. In 1922, it defeated the intrusion of more than 200 people under the command of Zhang Zhigong, the warlord Liu Zhenhua.Strongly protect the local people.However, with the establishment of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Revolutionary Base, fundamental changes have taken place in class interests, and a large number of local tyrants and gentlemen have gathered in the stockade to oppose various proposals of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Special Committee and various policies of the Border Region Government. The Sixteenth Army became an enemy and became a stubborn fortress that gathered reactionaries.The Red Twenty-Sixth Army and the Shaanxi-Gansu border guerrillas tried several times to pull out the "nail" that allowed the reactionary forces to enter the Zhaojin Revolutionary Base Area, but they were unable to break through because of the dangerous terrain and the presence of houses, food, and springs in the village. .When the struggle was urgent, the local landlords and gentry sneaked into the village with food and valuables;Zhang Yanning's militia has been hiding in the village for a long time, echoing the regular army of the Kuomintang and other reactionary militias.Waiting for an opportunity to sabotage various movements in the border area.For example, at the beginning of 1933, Liu Decai, the puppet head of the Eight Baobao, took the opportunity to go to Zhaojin City to provoke and disturb the people, but was suppressed by the Red Army troops who came after hearing the news.Zhang Yanning's confidant Sun Xiaoli led more than a dozen regiment members to urge grain collection in Zhaojin Village, but was suppressed by the Red Army troops who got the news and sentenced to death.Zhang Yanning's militia is a stubborn reactionary armed force. Taking advantage of the dangerous terrain of Hougou Village, it has long confronted the military and civilians in our base area, and has become a serious problem in the core area of ​​the base area.

In August 1933, after the Red Fourth Regiment reorganized from Weibei guerrillas, Wang Taiji's Anti-Japanese People's Volunteer Army, and Yaoxian guerrillas successively arrived in Zhaojin, the special committee of the border area and the guerrilla headquarters decided to concentrate their superior forces and open The militias have occupied Hougou Village for many years to eliminate the reactionary forces remaining in the border area.The attacking troops marched from Siping Village to Hougou Village, and surrounded Hougou Village on three sides in three ways.Our army first cut off branches from the rabbit beam on the top of the stockade and lit them, then threw them to the stockade to attack, but it was difficult to achieve any effect.Later, under Wang Taiji's personal command, mortar shells were used. Sometimes the mortar shells fell on the top of the mountain, and sometimes they hit the bottom of the wall of the village.The fierce artillery fire made the enemy huddled in the stockade and could not move.Li Miaozhai also commanded the guerrillas to throw our homemade "mabian bombs" into the village.The militias in the village were terrified by the fierce attack of our Red Army guerrillas, and suffered heavy casualties.It was near dusk, and the political security team also called out to the enemies in the village, hoping to force the enemy to surrender with an active political offensive.At the same time, Li Miaozhai was calm and witty. On the one hand, he sent Duan Yang, a member of the Red Guards of Heitianyu, into the village to negotiate, and on the other hand, he increased the attack firepower of mortars and heavy weapons.Zhang Yanning, the leader of the enemy militia, saw that the situation was over, so he shot two of my guerrillas from the cliff alone with two guns, and then fled in embarrassment by taking advantage of the familiar terrain around the village.The rest of the regiment and the rich man, frightened by the fierce artillery of the guerrillas, obediently opened the gate of the village and surrendered.In one fell swoop, this battle wiped out Zhang Yanning's militia lair that had been separated for many years, and eliminated a major hidden danger in the base area.After this battle, Zhang Yanning, the bandit leader who escaped by chance, has been hiding in the Xiaoqiu Temple area ever since.In addition to cooperating with the large-scale suppression of the reactionaries.Zhao Jin didn't dare to cross the thunder pool half a step.

On the second day after the opening of Hougou Village, the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Special Committee held a large-scale mass meeting in Hougou Village to celebrate the victory and mobilize the masses to open warehouses and distribute food.The people with a radius of hundreds of miles carry people on their shoulders, flowing in an endless stream, more excited than festivals.At the same time, the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Special Committee and the guerrillas resolutely suppressed the hawks and dogs of the reactionary militia and the landlords and gentry attached to them.From then on.The reactionary landlords and tyrants were frightened by the news, and they tucked their tails into their heads. They no longer became the wings and accomplices of the reactionaries. According to various undertakings in the Phnom Penh District, they have achieved considerable development and in-depth advancement.

Standing in today's Hougou stockade, we can still feel its spaciousness and depth.Roughly calculated, the village can accommodate more than 400 people, and there are countless kinds of food that can be hoarded.In the depth of the village, there is a slender stream gurgling down. It dries up from the end of the year all year round, which is enough for the people in the village to drink water.Standing at the butterfly wall in Zhaikou and looking around, I feel a little like "climbing the Qingyun Ladder".Approaching the edge of the wall.We can still appreciate its strange danger and majesty.A gust of breeze blew, and I fell into a long period of contemplation.Looking carefully at the nest-shaped bullet marks on the stone cliff and the butterfly wall, I have a vague feeling that this hole is located. In the troubled history, it has quietly carried the exhaustion of time and experienced various historical events in various periods. , experienced the baptism of countless battles between justice and evil.Regarding the merits and demerits of Hougou Village, when I think back on everything that has happened here, my mind is blank, and I don't know how to comment on everything in Hougou Village.Looking at the mulberry marks stripped by wind and rain all over the village, I only thought of a sentence from the famous thinker Thoreau: "Ah, their colors tell many stories!".

The breeze blows again from these widowed strange cliffs and butterfly walls.Take a closer look.The Hougou stockade in front of us is still majestic and dangerous, but there is a sense of desolation of the times and history.