Battle Site of Dasi Guizi Kan

Battle Site of Dasi Guizi Kan

The Battle Site of Dasi Guizi Kan is a classic red tourism attraction.

The Battle Site of Dasi Guizi Kan is located 8 kilometers southeast of Xinglin Town Government in Tonghua County, at the foot of the hill northeast of Chaoyang Village, by the Chaoyang River, 2 kilometers from the village. The protected area spans 500 square meters. There are no buildings at the site, but a cement road runs through it, with a signpost on the roadside that reads: “Battle Site of Dasi Guizi Kan in Xinglin Town, Tonghua County.”

In the summer of 1936, before the full implementation of the "Great Eastern Frontier Pacification Campaign" by the puppet Manchukuo regime, Japanese and puppet troops often coerced residents of Baijiapuzi in Jinjiang County to destroy the "opium poppies" planted by the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces (AAFF) in the mountains. These crops were intended for treating wounds and trading for ammunition and supplies. Upon learning of this, the AAFF prepared to strike back at the enemy. On July 7, the enemy once again forced local people to destroy the poppies. The next day, after receiving intelligence, Yang Jingyu ordered part of the AAFF to expedite their march and set up an ambush at Leijiagou Kan (also known as Wang Zhiming Kan), south of Baijiapuzi Village. Around 10 a.m., the puppet forestry police, escorting civilians, walked ahead, followed by the Japanese garrison. They walked into the AAFF’s ambush. At the commander’s order, AAFF soldiers hiding in the bushes along the Chaoyang River leaped up, shouting slogans of “Chinese don’t fight Chinese,” and charged toward the Japanese garrison at the rear. Hearing the shouts, the puppet troops and civilians quickly took cover in the nearby woods, leaving the Japanese garrison isolated in the middle of the road. The AAFF soldiers then concentrated their fire and fiercely shot at the Japanese troops, also bravely engaging them in close combat. Overwhelmed by the lightning-fast assault, the Japanese had no means to fight back. The battle lasted only 15 minutes, during which 12 Japanese soldiers were killed—except for one who was wounded and escaped. Enraged by the defeat, the Japanese assembled over 100 troops from the garrisons of Tonghua, Liuhe, and Huinan, plus a battalion of puppet soldiers, to brutally interrogate the residents of Baijiapuzi near Leijiagou Kan. Failing to extract any information about the AAFF, they launched a bloody reprisal. From the 14th to the 15th, under the pretext of “collaborating with bandits,” the Japanese massacred over 400 innocent civilians of Baijiapuzi, committing the horrifying “Baijiapuzi Massacre.”

Formed on July 8, 1936, and put into use in the autumn of 1965.

(Provided by the Party School of Tonghua County Committee)

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