The story about Zhazi Cave at the foot of Geleshan Mountain

At that time, the People's Liberation Army had liberated most of Sichuan, and the Kuomintang began to massacre imprisoned people. When the enemy massacred the revolutionaries in Baigongguan Prison, three groups of people were taken from Zhazidong Prison and taken to the vicinity of Baigongguan to be shot. Late at night, the sound of gunfire from the People's Liberation Army could be vaguely heard. At this time, there were still 19 revolutionaries imprisoned in Bai Gongguan and about 200 in Zhazidong.

The executioners in Zhazidong asked for help from the executioners in Bai Gongguan. So, the frantic executioners gathered in Zhazidong and locked all the men and women in the male and female prisons in the name of "immediate transfer and transfer." The eight cells downstairs in the men's prison were suddenly shot with machine guns and carbines.

After the massacre, the cells were set on fire. When the executioners gathered in Zhazi Cave to carry out the massacre, Yang Qindian, the guard of Bai Gongguan, was educated by the revolutionaries in prison. At this critical moment, he resolutely changed sides and stood on the side of justice. He went to open the cell door and let out the last 19 people (including two children).

When the executioners massacred in Zhazi Cave, the martyrs used their bodies to block the cell door to block the enemy's fire. When the executioner set fire to the garbage cave, 30 injured or unshot victims struggled to escape from the pool of blood. When they rushed to the gap in the wall to break out, they were discovered by the executioner. More than a dozen people were shot dead. In the end, 15 people (including Two children) escaped.

The tragedy at the foot of Gele Mountain began in September 1949 and ended on November 29, with more than 300 martyrs.

Extended information

After the Bai Gongguan was converted into the Third Guesthouse of the Sino-US Cooperation Institute in 1943, the political prisoners held there had to be relocated. Shen Zui, the director of the General Affairs Department of the Military Command, personally drove a jeep to inspect everything, and finally selected Zhazidong as the new location for the prisoners in the former Baigongguan Detention Center.

In July 1946, Xifeng Prison and Wanglongmen Detention Center were abolished. All detainees in the detention center were evacuated from the Zhazidong Prison and Detention Center.

After the Sino-US Cooperation Center was abolished, the prisoners moved back in April 1947. Zhazidong Prison was merged into Baigongguan Detention Center, but it was temporarily abandoned.

In December 1947, prisoners were re-detained in Zhazidong and called the "Second Detention Center of Chongqing Xingyuan No. 2 Branch". The detainees are mainly those from education and journalism who were arrested in the "June 1st Arrests" in 1947, those arrested in the underground armed case of the "Little Chinese Revolution", and those captured and arrested in the three armed uprisings in eastern Sichuan. People arrested in the "Newspaper" incident, members of the Sichuan East and Sichuan Kang branch of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, etc., at most, more than 300 people were imprisoned. Jiang Zhuyun, Xu Jianye, Yu Zusheng, etc. were once detained here.

On the eve of the liberation of Chongqing at the end of November 1949, more than 200 revolutionary patriots imprisoned here were killed.