Anti-Japanese War Hero Lin Boxi: The Qiongya Column’s Anti-Japanese Pioneer on the Blood-stained Battlefield

Lin Boxi was born in Baimao Village, Chongxing Township, Chongxing District, Wenchang County in 1909. He was the daughter of a wealthy local family. In early 1942, he unfortunately died in an ambush on the Japanese army at Jinjiling. He was only 2 years old when he died. 33 years old. Lin Boxi used his short youth to realize his ambition of resisting Japan and killing the enemy to serve the country.

1. Donate to the Chongxing Reading Club and establish the Qiongzhou Volleyball Team

In early 1933, Lin Boxi graduated from the Foreign Languages ??Department of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and returned to his hometown. The youth raised funds to establish the "Chongxing Books and Newspapers". Lin Boxi strongly supported this book and newspaper agency. Before leaving the university and returning to his hometown, he purchased more than 500 progressive books in Guangzhou at his own expense and took them back to his hometown to donate to the Chongxing Books and Newspapers. Lin Boxi also rented a shop in Chongxing Market. As a library that is open regularly to the book and newspaper club, it also brings the methods he learned at the university back to the book and newspaper club, making the book and newspaper club a new thing in popularizing culture and literacy, attracting many young people from Zhongxing to read books, and is related to national events. It laid a good foundation for the establishment of the "Revitalized Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force" during the Anti-Japanese War.

In June 1934, nine Chongxing youths including Lin Boxi, Lu He, Xing Yiguang, Lu Xiguang, Lu Zhixinling, Chen Jiagui and Fu Yiqian went to Nanjing to apply for the Nanjing Infantry Military Academy to study military affairs. During their studies at the military academy, Lin Boxi and Lu He and others not only learned military knowledge from the instructors, but also spontaneously established the "Qiongzhou Volleyball Team". In addition to participating in competitions in Anhui middle schools and other places, the "Qiongzhou Volleyball Team" has also become an organization that unites Qiong students from Nanjing Military Academy.

2. Go to Yan'an and return home, aiming to fight against the Japanese and drive out the Tartars

In June 1936, after Lin Boxi graduated from the Nanjing Infantry Military Academy, he was assigned He became a company commander in a unit of the National Revolutionary Army at a time when the Chinese Red Army was heading north for the Long March. Lin Boxi's unit followed the Red Army who went north to fight against Japan. Along the way, he saw many anti-Japanese slogans and leaflets left by the Red Army. Lin Boxi knew from then on that the Red Army went north to fight against the Japanese invaders. "Resisting Japan" was Lin Boxi's original intention to study military skills at the Nanjing Military Academy. In order to truly devote himself to the fight against Japan, Lin Boxi decided to resign and return to his hometown.

In the second half of 1937, under the leadership of the Qiongdong County Party Committee, Lin Boxi organized the "Anti-Japanese Support Association" in Chongxing area. In the spring of 1938, under the arrangement of the Qiongdong County Committee of the Communist Party of China, Lin Boxi went to Yan'an alone to study at Northern Shaanxi Public School. While studying in Yan'an, Lin Boxi's thoughts changed a lot. He was no longer limited to using ideas to arm the revolution, but wanted to use weapons to fight the Japanese invaders. In the autumn of the same year, he returned to Zhongxing from Yan'an, sold nearly 100 acres of farmland at home, and bought more than 70 German-made rifles and rifles. Under the situation of cooperation between the Qiongya National Democratic Party and the Communist Party, Lin Boxi passed Wenchang County Police * authorities established the Wenchang County Economic Squadron to carry out armed resistance against Japan, with Lin Boxi as squadron leader. Shortly thereafter, the Economic Squadron was incorporated into the Chung Hsing Guerrilla Force, and Lin Boxi and 180 Chung Hsing passionate youths rushed to the anti-Japanese battlefield.

In September 1940, the Chongxing Guerrillas were reorganized into the First Squadron of the First Brigade of the Qiongya Anti-Japanese Independent Corps, with Lin Boxi as the squadron leader. Lin Boxi, who studied at the Nanjing Infantry Military Academy and the Northern Shaanxi Public School, received professional military education. Therefore, during the Qiongzong Anti-Japanese War, he gave full play to his military talents and was highly praised by Commander Feng Baiju. In the winter of 1940, Lin Boxi was appointed commander of the First Battalion and First Squadron.

In order to verify the increasing combat effectiveness of the reorganized guerrillas, in early 1941, Lin Boxi led a team of 19 members of 2 short-gun squads in accordance with the deployment of the independent corps. In a dark night, he did not know the ghost. Unknowingly, I walked into the gun tower of the Japanese stronghold in Tanmen Town, Qionghai. Suddenly there was a loud sound of gunfire, and the Japanese soldiers who were awakened from their sleep had no time to respond and saw the Lord of Hell one after another. In less than 10 minutes, more than 10 Japanese and puppet soldiers were killed and 30 were captured. This was the first large-scale battle after the establishment of the first squadron, and the results were brilliant: one light machine gun and more than 10 long and short guns were seized. This battle was the "good start" of Qiongzong's 1941 Anti-Japanese War, and opened the prelude to a series of glorious battles by Lin Boxi and his troops.

After this battle, Lin Boxi was promoted to deputy captain of the first detachment and became a young and promising commander of the Qiongya Independent Corps. In the same year, he was elected as a member of the Anti-Japanese Democratic Communist Party of Qiongya Northeast District.

In early April 1941, Lin Boxi, who was already the deputy detachment leader of the first team, led the fifth squadron of the second brigade and the special agent company to advance into Wenchang and attack the Wengtian stronghold. This was a typical "encirclement and reinforcements" battle. In order to ensure that Wengtian's stronghold was eradicated in one fell swoop, he also sent two troops to ambush: one at Longma Bridge to ambush the enemies of Changsha who came to help, and the other at Fengfengzhijin. The enemy who came to Jinshan's rescue was ambushed on the mountain road. With the close cooperation of the reinforcement troops in two locations, Lin Boxi quickly won the decisive battle and annihilated more than 50 enemies in three locations.

At this time, news came from a large group that the Japanese army had ravaged Chongxing Town: After occupying Chongxing, the Japanese army burned, killed and looted, arrested migrant workers everywhere, built gun towers and strongholds, and forced the villagers to live in the market. In order to "shock" the anti-Japanese comrades, the Japanese invaders also burned Lin Boxi's hometown Baimao Village to the ground, and even the remaining bricks, tiles and wood were demolished and used to build gun towers.

Lin Boxi could not bear the atrocities committed by the Japanese aggressors against his fellow villagers. He led a large group back to the Chongxing area and set up an ambush at "Sanniupoping" in Tiezuanling. He burned a Japanese aggressor military vehicle and killed him. More than 10 Japanese soldiers severely attacked the Japanese and puppet troops who massacred the people of Zhongxing. This battle effectively dealt a blow to the enemy's prestige. Encouraged by the victory in the battle, more than 200 young men and women from the Chongxing area actively signed up to join the independent corps.

3. Use military talents to reverse the situation of the war

Lin Boxi's military talent was very high and his combat style was changeable, making it difficult for the Japanese army to guard against him.

In July 1941, the Japanese army occupied Meide Village, Dachang Township, Wenchang County, in the central area of ??Qiongwen and established a stronghold. In order to repel the Japanese troops who occupied the stronghold of Meide Village, the special committee made detailed military arrangements: feigning an attack on Meide, luring Japanese reinforcements from Tanniu and Dapo, destroying them on the way, and then turning back to attack the stronghold of Meide. The first and second detachments of the Qiongya Independent Corps worked closely together to continuously annihilate the Japanese troops while repelling the encirclement and suppression by the *** Baoliu and Baoqi regiments and the Qiongshan and *** Wenchang guerrillas. On July 4, the first and second detachments of the Qiongya Independent Corps ambushed the Japanese troops between the three Japanese strongholds of Dapo in Qiongshan County and Meide Village and Tanniuxu in Dachang Township, Wenchang County.

One team and three teams are responsible for the task of pretending to attack virtue. In the early morning of the 4th, Lin Boxi led two squadrons of about 300 people to quietly arrive near the virtue stronghold. At that time, it was just dawn and the feint attack had not yet begun. Suddenly, intensive gunfire came from the Tanniu Highway, and the detachment headquarters messenger quickly ran to report: The Tanniu Japanese army discovered our ambush unit in advance and launched a fierce attack. Faced with the rapidly changing battlefield situation, Lin Boxi discussed with his comrades and believed that the Japanese army in the virtue stronghold was likely to send reinforcements immediately. They promptly changed their original battle plan and instead lurked in the bushes beside the road from Meide to Tanniu, preparing to eliminate the Japanese reinforcements coming out of the Meide stronghold. Sure enough, two Japanese vehicles drove straight over soon. Lin Boxi calmly waited until the Japanese army completely entered the ambush circle before issuing a combat order. The sudden and fierce firepower of our army made the Japanese troops howl like ghosts and wolves. After a fierce charge, the two Japanese troops were basically wiped out.

In this battle, Lin Boxi demonstrated a high ability to deal with the battlefield in real time, turning the entire battle situation around. He annihilated more than 30 enemies, destroyed a Japanese vehicle, and captured a heavy machine gun and two light ones. Machine guns and more than 20 rifles.

4. Disguised as porters to outsmart the Taoyuan stronghold

In mid-August 1941, Lin Boxi led a short gun squad to Lehui County to eliminate the Japanese army's Qiaoyuan stronghold. The stronghold has strong facilities, with a trench more than 2 meters deep on the outer layer, a dense barbed wire fence in the middle, and a 3-meter-high wall on the inner layer, with a bunker in between.

After on-the-spot reconnaissance, Lin Boxi believed that the stronghold could only be outmaneuvered, and it was difficult to succeed by force. No matter how strong a fortress is, it will have its fatal weakness, and he is determined to find out the weakness of the stronghold. After collecting intelligence from many sources, he learned that on the 24th day of every lunar calendar, the Japanese army would open the gate of the stronghold to allow nearby people to send firewood.

In Lin Boxi's view, this was nothing less than a God-given opportunity, so they planned to hide their guns in firewood, disguise themselves as porters, and blend into the stronghold on the 24th day of the eighth lunar month. The day of reckoning finally arrived for these Japanese invaders who had always done all kinds of evil. They were unprepared when our soldiers approached, and more than 10 of them were killed on the spot and 8 were captured. Our army also seized a machine gun, more than 10 rifles, and a valuable 60 gun.

5. Join the *** in the front line, and die without fulfilling your ambition

Feng Baiju, Zhuang Tian and other Qiongzong leaders spoke highly of Lin Boxi's military talents and tenacious performance in killing the enemy. evaluate. In early 1942, during the Battle of Dashui, Commander Feng Baiju took the initiative to propose that he and Wu Kezhi be the introducers for Lin Boxi to join the party. Feng Baiju said to Lin Boxi: "Although you were born in a family of big landowners, you have betrayed the family. In the flames of the Revolutionary War, he was already a true Communist Party member." With the approval of the Qiongya Special Committee, Lin Boxi joined the Chinese Communist Party on the front line and was promoted to the leader of the third detachment.

In early 1942, Lin Boxi led more than 20 people from Meide Village to Wanning County. When he was passing through to revive his hometown, he went to Baimao Village to visit his wife Wu Xiulan and her family. He also took this opportunity to mobilize a group of rejuvenating young people to join the battlefield of anti-Japanese and national salvation. Mobilized by Lin Boxi, nearly a hundred young people from Chongxing joined the third detachment of Qiongzong. In early February, Lin Boxi led three detachments and unfortunately died in a battle to ambush the Japanese army at Jinjiling. The last drop of blood was shed for the Anti-Japanese War.

After liberation, Lin Boxi's remains were moved back to Chongxing Town for burial. In 1980, the then Chongxing Commune erected a revolutionary martyr's tombstone for him.