Site of the Furong Battle

Site of the Furong Battle

On March 21, 1945, over 200 Japanese soldiers invaded Furong Town, setting up camp at Qiaotou Tang Primary School in an attempt to use it as a base to annihilate the guerrilla forces. The Lishui County Committee of the Chinese Communist Party decided that Zhou Pixian would lead a detachment of the Lishui People’s Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps to attack the Japanese troops in Furong Town. At 8 p.m. on the night of March 22, the guerrillas set out from Shanmian Township (now Lingdi Township), splitting into two routes to reach Liangyuan Village in Furong Town, less than three li away from the Japanese encampment. Just as the guerrilla leaders were listening to the village party branch’s report on the enemy situation in Furong, Yu Longgui, who had been sent by the CPC Zhejiang-Eastern Regional Committee to strengthen military leadership in Lishui, arrived at Liangyuan Village accompanied by Qiu Xueqing. He brought a letter of instruction from Tan Qilong, Secretary of the Zhejiang-Eastern Regional Committee, and He Kexi, Commander of the Brigade, and immediately joined the guerrilla leaders to discuss battle plans. It was decided that Yu Longgui and Huang Yitao would command the Fifth Company to attack the Japanese camp at Qiaotou Tang Primary School, while Zhou Pixian would lead the Fourth Company to swiftly occupy Longkoujian opposite the school, advance straight to Hengtangjiao, and block the Japanese escape route. At 9:30 p.m. on the 22nd, the battle commenced. The Japanese organized firepower to counterattack and made several attempts to charge out and eliminate the guerrillas, but all were repelled by the guerrillas’ machine guns and grenades. Realizing the dire situation, the Japanese retreated from the school under the cover of darkness, fell back to Hengtangjiao, used the embankment as cover, and secretly fled. Furong Town was thus liberated.

The Site of the Furong Battle is located at Longkoujian in Furong Town, Yueqing City. Qiaotou Tang Primary School has since been demolished and replaced with residential buildings.

Source: Party History Research Office of the Wenzhou Municipal Committee of the CPC