Anti-Japanese War hero Ma Dingfu: sacrificed for organizing mass transfer in Taihang Mountains

Ma Dingfu, also known as Ma Zhenxi and nicknamed Martin, was born in 1915 in a peasant family in Donghui Village, Yushe County, Shanxi Province. He was smart and studious since he was a child, and received traditional enlightenment education in his hometown. When he was admitted to the high school in Menshe County at the age of 14, he began to come into contact with the works of advanced figures such as Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, and Lu Xun, and gradually developed democratic ideas and a spirit of resistance against evil forces in society. When he was studying at Xinmin Middle School and Youren Middle School, he was expelled from the school because of his progressive thoughts and often participated in spontaneous struggle activities of his classmates. In 1933, he was admitted to Shanxi Provincial No. 1 Middle School. Once, the school invited a wealthy gentleman to give a lecture at the school, preaching the theory of "endless land", saying that landlords and rich peasants got rich from the land, not from the peasants' livelihood, but that it was the kindness of the landlords that supported the peasants, etc. In response to this fallacy, Ma Dingfu published articles such as "The Earth Will Die and Be Poor" and "The Gentleman with a Pig Mouth" in newspapers such as "News Evening News" and "Taiyuan Taobao", severely criticizing it, and organized progressive students to post slogans and distribute leaflets. , exposing the dark side of society. These progressive actions of his were regarded by the school authorities as "excessive behavior" and "nuisance to society" and he was expelled from the school. In order to pursue a bright future, Ma Dingfu left Shanxi in 1935 and went to Peking to study at Jinghu High School. Through relationships, he began to contact the underground party organizations of the Communist Party of China. He further received the ideological education of patriotism and communism, and in 1935 In 2001, he joined the "Anti-Imperialist Alliance", a peripheral organization of the party, and began his career in revolutionary struggle. Officially joined the Communist Party of China in the second year.

After the July 7th Incident, Ma Dingfu was dispatched by the party, dropped out of school and returned to his hometown of Yushe County, where he joined the Anti-Japanese Sacrifice League, which had legal status in Shanxi at that time, carried out publicity and national salvation activities, and organized the Yuxian Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force. . In order to solve the problem of guns, ammunition and funding for the team, he negotiated with the local National Police many times. However, Fan Liang, who served as the county magistrate, was contrary to the Chinese Communist Party's anti-Japanese proposition and tried every means to delay and shirk the blame, which brought great difficulties to the formation of the guerrillas. To this end, Ma Dingfu led his comrades through legal struggles to expose Fan Liang's various scandals of corruption and bending the law and his deeds of undermining unity in the fight against Japan. Finally, this person was driven out of Yushe and Gao Mohong, a member of the Communist Party, was transferred as the county magistrate. With the support of Gao Mohong and the Eighth Route Army Working Group, the Yushe County Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force was successfully established in October 1937. Ma Dingfu served as instructor and captain of the third guerrilla brigade. In November, the *** Yuxian County Committee was established, and Ma Dingfu served as the organization minister. In May 1938, he was appointed as Propaganda Minister. After 1939, the Yushe Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force was incorporated into the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. He successively served as the education section chief of the Political Department of the Jinzhong Independent Detachment, the democratic movement section chief, and the director of the Political Department of the Taihang Second Division. Later, he served as political commissar of the 30th Regiment of the newly-organized 10th Brigade, and has been leading the troops in bloody battles with the enemy on the Taihang Mountain Anti-Japanese Battlefield. In 1943, he led the entire regiment to participate in the famous attack on the printing and dyeing factory in Qixian County, severely damaging the Japanese and puppet defenders and dealing a heavy blow to the enemy.

Ma Dingfu cared about the masses, loved cadres and soldiers, and was deeply loved by the majority of commanders and soldiers. There is a touching story in Yushe County that he helped a poor farmer who was seriously ill in Liushugou to receive medical treatment and medicine, and led soldiers to sow and harvest crops for him, helping the farmer out of trouble and becoming an anti-Japanese activist.

In June 1943, Ma Dingfu, who served as the political commissar of the 30th Regiment of the newly formed 10th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, led his troops to the Beiling area of ??the Nanshan Base in Taigu County, Shanxi Province, on orders from the military region. , to carry out the combat mission of "harvesting wheat and protecting the summer harvest" assigned by superiors.

Food is of great significance to both sides that are facing each other hard in the long-term war. From time to time, the enemy would send men, horses and vehicles to plunder the wheat harvest areas, while the Eighth Route Army commanders and fighters would help the fellow villagers harvest while standing ready to attack the enemy head-on. Therefore, the enemy has not been able to take advantage since the beginning of the wheat harvest. On this day, Nakano, the captain of the Japanese gendarmerie stationed in Taigu County, gathered more than 100 Japanese and puppet troops from the Fengshan stronghold and launched a sneak attack in the Zhongzhaoling area where wheat was being harvested.

After the news came, Ma Dingfu immediately led his troops to set up an ambush on the enemy's only route. He first used a small group of militiamen in Taigu County to disrupt and attract the enemy. Seeing that the only ones blocking him were a few "tubalu", Nakano thought he had a plan, so he rushed over aggressively. After chasing him, he caught up to the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army. Seeing that the enemy had been fooled, Ma Dingfu gave an order and fired at the enemy with machine guns, rifles and grenades. Suddenly, gunpowder smoke was everywhere, and the sound of killing was loud. The Eighth Route Army soldiers were like tigers descending from the mountain, killing the enemy group one by one. The Japanese and puppets were arrogant and arrogant just now. The army, under the sudden blow, was beaten to the ground in an instant. The military police captain Nakano was shot dead before he could organize a resistance, and more than 30 enemies were killed.

A beautiful ambush battle greatly inspired the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians' ambition and destroyed the enemy's prestige. From then on, the enemies in the city no longer dared to go to the countryside to grab food unscrupulously. Under the protection of the commanders and fighters of the 30th Regiment, the masses successfully harvested mature wheat, effectively supporting the anti-Japanese troops.

After the summer harvest, the Democratic Party of the Sixth District of Taigu County held a military-civilian party in Fengziling on the night of July 22 to celebrate their victory. The enemy got the intelligence and gathered more than 200 Japanese and puppet troops from the Huangfeng stronghold to launch an attack on Fengziling. At about 4 o'clock in the morning on the 23rd, when the enemy's situation was discovered, the enemy had occupied the southeastern hilltop of Fengziling. The battle begins. Taking advantage of the commanding heights they occupied, the enemy strafed and bombarded the village with fierce artillery fire. The road to retreat and transfer had been tightly blocked. If we want to protect the safety of the masses and Communist personnel, we must capture the commanding heights on the southeastern hilltop of Lingnan. Otherwise, when the enemy gains a foothold and attacks the village, the consequences will be disastrous. After calmly analyzing the enemy's situation, Ma Dingfu decisively informed the district cadres to prepare for the transfer, and at the same time issued a battle order to the troops: "Comrades, the situation is urgent now. We must capture the southeastern hills and cover the transfer of the masses. Our slogan Yes, we have the masses. We must not let the masses be harmed by the Japanese!"

The battle for the commanding heights began. Ma Dingfu led all the commanders and soldiers of the regiment to charge up the mountain again and again under the fierce enemy fire. The enemy counterattacked again and again with the advantage of terrain and powerful firepower. The fierce battle lasted for more than three hours, and the enemy was finally defeated by the heroic attack of the Eighth Route Army soldiers. After Ma Dingfu led his troops to occupy the hilltop, he took advantage of the favorable terrain and stubbornly resisted the enemy's counterattack. He did not withdraw from the battle until more than 1,000 people and cadres in Fengziling were safely transferred. However, he himself was shot in the abdomen during this battle and failed to be rescued, so he unfortunately died. Only 29 years old.

Upon learning that Ma Dingfu had died heroically in defense of the people and cadres in the base area, the local people were extremely sad and held a grand memorial meeting for him. His hometown Yushe County immediately organized the "Ma Dingfu Revenge Company" with 120 people to attack the invading enemies in the Taihang Mountains. In order to commemorate him, the Taihang Second District Democratic Party named the third company of the 30th regiment "Ma Dingfu's Love for the People Company". In 1946, Taigu County renamed Fengziling Village "Ma Dingfu Village" and built the Ma Dingfu Martyr Memorial Hall to forever remember this anti-Japanese hero.

The young man is as talented as Jin Yu, and his reputation for articles spreads far and wide.

The young man was determined to worship Marxism-Leninism and joined the army at an early age to kill leopards and foxes.

When he moved to fight in Zhangyuan, the people supported him, and when he left the army, the enemy in Guyi exclaimed.

The hero's blood-stained maple forest road, Ma Dingfu will be remembered for thousands of years.

This poem was written by Liu Xiufeng, a Taihang revolutionary veteran who served as president of the Shanxi Higher People's Court and secretary-general of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference after the founding of New China, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Ma Dingfu's sacrifice. With sincere feelings and vivid pen and ink, the author accurately summarizes the short but glorious life of martyr Ma Dingfu, making the image of this bookish anti-Japanese hero vividly reappeared in front of people.