The Site of the Huangzhu Jing Ambush Battle is located in Huangzhu Jing, Huangcun Town, Dongyuan County. In the spring of 1949, certain units of the Nationalist Party’s 13th Security Regiment stationed in Huangcun, along with Zhang Qixun, the head of Lanxi Township, and Cheng Fangwei, leader of the Joint Defense Team, launched an offensive into the region in an attempt to reclaim large areas including Wanhe, Zhugang, Qishu, and Wudong villages. The Fourth Regiment of the Second Detachment of the Guangdong–Jiangxi–Hunan Border Column of the People's Liberation Army...
The Site of the Xianshuitang Meeting is located in Xianshuitang, Changjiangtou Village, Lan Kou Town, Dongyuan County. On May 7th in the spring of 1949, leaders of the Dongjiang Second Detachment of the Guangdong–Jiangxi–Hunan Border Column and Zeng Tianjie, commander of the Nationalist Reorganized 13th Regiment, held their third negotiation at this site. They reached agreements on the timing of the uprising, coordinated operations, and the reorganization of troops following the uprising. The Xianshuitang…
Hexi Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Park is located atop Sheliaogang Mountain in Chuantang Street Town, Dongyuan County. Established in 1959, the park commemorates 44 martyrs, including Ouyang Peng and Xie Yingguang, who sacrificed their lives heroically during the Liberation War in the Chuantang area. Covering an area of approximately 5,000 square meters, the main gate features a horizontal plaque inscribed with “Hexi Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Park”; …
Kanghe Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery is located on a small hill near the town government in Ruoba Village, Kanghe Town, Dongyuan County. Built in 1959 and oriented southeast to northwest, the cemetery covers an area of 3,036 square meters and was renovated in 2006. At the front of the hillside is a memorial archway-style gate building consisting of three bays, one story high, with yellow glazed tile roofing. The central bay features a horizontal...
The Baima Battle Site is located in Baima Village, Yihuo Town, Dongyuan County. In October 1948, the Nationalist escort unit was transporting 11 supply ships from Heyuan up the Dong River. Upon learning of this, Yan Shangmin, leader of the Guangdong–Jiangxi–Hunan Border Region Party Committee, along with Zhong Junxian and Zheng Qun, leaders of the Guangdong People’s Liberation Army Guangdong–Jiangxi Border Detachment, conducted a thorough analysis and...
The Qiling Mountain Battle Site is located on Qiling Mountain, between Jieyoucao Village in Dengta Town and the Dengta Market in Dongyuan County. The site covers an area of approximately 40 million square meters. Today, only a very small portion of the fortress wall foundations remain at the site. In 1948, a group of -ists entrenched in Dengta, led by Lai Gunchu and Lai Zizhong, along with remnants of the Kuomintang militia from Dengta Township…
The Site of the Huangkeng Ambush Battle is located in Huangkeng, Kanghe Town, Dongyuan County. On October 1, 1948, after the main forces on the east bank of the river had moved to the west bank, a battalion of over 400 soldiers from the Nationalist Party’s 13th Security Regiment entered Huangkeng via Qingshan’ao and advanced toward Tianxin to invade Kanghe. Zhu Futeng, captain of the Kanghe Local Defense Team, and Huang Ming (also known as Huang Peilin), the political instructor, according to...
The Huangcun Ningshan Xiayapojie Battle Site is located in Ningshan Village, Huangcun Town, Dongyuan County. On November 7, 1948, after a suppression campaign in Lan, Neng, and Kang, the enemy's 13th Security Regiment, relying on its ample manpower and superior equipment, dispatched troops in all directions in an attempt to annihilate our guerrilla forces. Wang Biao, commander of the 4th Regiment of the Guangdong People’s Liberation Army’s Guangdong-Gan Border Column, and Zhang...
The Battle Site of Hetang Village is located in Hetang Village, Huangtian Town, Dongyuan County. On November 29, 1948, a battalion of the Kuomintang’s Bao 5th Regiment and a platoon from the Xingning Puppet Tax Bureau’s Smuggling Suppression Team under Liao Songyao once again escorted military supplies along the Dong River to Lan Kou and Laolong. In the early morning, when the fleet arrived at Hetang Village, the Guangdong People’s...
The Daping Battle Site is located in Daping, Luohu Town, Dongyuan County. In December 1948, after more than 3,000 troops of the Nationalist Party's Guangdong Provincial Security Regiment No. 13—fully equipped with American gear—occupied Lan Kou and Zengtian Market Towns, they became arrogant and overbearing. They planned to send forces to attack Luohu in an attempt to open the way to Dengta and cut off access to our Hexi base area in Luohu...
The Site of the Battle of Majian’ao is located in Huangcun Town, Dongyuan County. In December 1945, after the Eastward Advance Unit entered Huangcun, they attacked Zhaiwanzhai Building and repelled the enemy troops that had invaded Huangcun. Not willing to accept defeat, on January 10, 1946, over 500 soldiers led by Zhang Zhaowei, the deputy commander of the training regiment of the 63rd Army, launched an offensive from three directions targeting Ningshan and…
The Site of the Radius Ambush Battle is located in Banjing Village, Yetan Town, Dongyuan County. In early 1946, the Kuomintang forces stationed in Lan Kou and the Lan Kou Militia were preparing to attack Huangcun and “encircle and suppress” Communists and revolutionary masses. Upon learning of this intelligence, the leadership of our Eastern Advance Troops conducted a detailed analysis and concluded that enemy troops advancing from Yetan to Huangcun would inevitably pass through Banjing in Yetan...
The Site of the Shangwan Boxi Battle is located in Boxi, Shangwan Town, Dongyuan County. On the morning of August 31, 1947, landlord Chen Likai learned that the Ninth Guerrilla Work Committee was holding a meeting in a farmhouse in Boxi, and instructed his henchman Chen Yaqiu to inform the enemy troops. Immediately, over 500 soldiers from the Fifth and Eighth Security Regiments of the Guangdong Provincial Security Command of the Kuomintang launched a pincer attack on the troops and the Ninth Guerrilla Work Committee headquarters from two directions—Zengtian and Chuantang…
The Pukan Ambush Battle Site is located in Pukan Village, Kanghe Town, Dongyuan County. In May 1948, the Eighth Regiment of the Guangdong Security Forces of the Kuomintang, together with two companies from the 92nd Brigade of the 69th Division of the Kuomintang regular army, the Zijin County Self-Defense Force, landlord armed forces from Zhongba, and the Longchuan County Police Battalion — totaling over 800 men — employed tactics such as “converging attacks from multiple directions”...
The Site of the Battle to Defend Laowei Old Village is located in Laowei Village, Laowei Town, Dongyuan County. In the spring of 1946, a battalion of Kuomintang forces under Chen Shanfen entered Shipai to carry out "village cleansing" and "mopping-up" operations. On February 2 (Chinese New Year’s Eve), hundreds of heavily armed enemy troops launched an attack on Laowei Village, searching for Communist Party members, militiamen, and cadres of the Peasant Association. Party member…
The former site of the first meeting of the Ninth Guerrilla Area Working Committee of the Communist Party of China is located in Rubei Village, Yetan Town, Dongyuan County. In March 1947, Yan Shangmin, Secretary of the Ninth Guerrilla Area Working Committee of the CPC, along with leaders such as Wei Nanjin, Zhong Junxian, and Lin Ruo, convened a meeting at Duanxin Building Corner in Rubei Village, Yetan Town, Dongyuan County. The attendees included members of the county committees of Zijin (Jin), Wuhua, Longchuan, and Heyuan, as well as…
The former site of the expanded meeting of the Ninth Guerrilla Area Committee of the Communist Party of China is located at Longjing in Liushi Village (Baizhukeng), Chuantang Town, Dongyuan County. In June 1948, the Ninth Guerrilla Area Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting in Baizhukeng, Liushi, Chuantang, on the west bank of the Dong River. Huang Songjian, Liang Weilin, Yan Shangmin, along with Wei Nanjin, Zhong Junxian, Zheng Qun, Huang Zhongqiang, Wu Yi (Zeng Zhiyun), Zhang Huaji, Luo...
The former site of the Zhongcai Branch of the Communist Party of China is located in Baicai Village, Dengta Town, Dongyuan County. Between February and March 1948, Zhong Yuanxiong, a leader of the Hexi Sub-branch Working Committee, established the first Party cell of the Communist Party of China in Dengta at this house. In May of the same year, the Hexi Sub-branch Working Committee, in response to revolutionary development and the needs of the struggle, recruited over 20 members of the CPC in Zhongcai, forming the Zhongcai Branch of the Communist Party of China in Dengta under the leadership of Huang Ri...
The former site of the Heyuan County People's Government is located at Changlongwu in Taiyang Village, Shangwan Town, Dongyuan County. On December 7, 1948, a mass rally attended by over 3,000 people was held at Shangwan Xigang to celebrate the establishment of the Heyuan County People's Government. The county head was Huang Zhongqiang, with Deputy County Head Li Hui (also known as Wu Zhenqian), and departments included Finance, Military Affairs, Civil Affairs, and Education & Propaganda. The county...
The former site of Dongjiang Public School is located at Chentang Primary School in Chentang Town, Dongyuan County. In March 1949, the Ninth Guerrilla District Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, following the directives and requirements of the Hong Kong Bureau and the Party Committee of the Guangdong–Jiangxi–Hunan Border Region, established the first school in the Ninth Guerrilla District dedicated to training revolutionary cadres—the Dongjiang Public School—in Chentang, Heyuan. The school was housed in Yat-sen Middle School in Chentang (now...