Wang Bao Town, Qidong County, Jiangsu Province, is named after the two martyrs, Wang Cheng and Bao Zhichun. Wang Cheng and Bao Zhichun, two anti-Japanese heroes, had surprisingly similar experiences. Also born in 1914, after graduating from high school in 1932, he joined the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement, joined the anti-Japanese army led by the Communist Party of China in 1938, and served as the commander of the Southeast Guard Regiment from 1943, and died on December 26, 1944.
Wang Cheng, whose ancestral home is Zhenjiang, was born in Shanghai, and his father was a small clerk. After graduating from high school in 1932, he devoted himself to the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement. In 1937, he participated in military air defense training, and in the same year he was sent to work at the air defense surveillance post in The town of Jiulong, Qidong. In the spring of 1938, when the Japanese invading army ravaged Qidong, Wang Cheng witnessed the tragic situation and angrily left the post to join the Qidong Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army led by Qu Li and Wang Jin. In 1939, he secretly joined the Communist Party of China. In 1940, Wang Cheng's unit was reorganized into the New Fifth Regiment of the Advancing Column of the New Fourth Army, with Wang Cheng as the regimental commander. In January 1941, Wang Cheng's regiment was changed to the Eighth Regiment of the Third Brigade of the First Division of the New Fourth Army. In August, Wang Cheng led the regiment, together with the Nantong County Guard Regiment, to fight the Japanese puppet army more than 20 times in Liuqiao, Linzi, Fengli, Shigang, Chaoqiao and other places, effectively smashing the "sweeping" of the enemy puppet army. On December 8, Wang Cheng led his troops, with the cooperation of the militia, ambushed the Japanese puppet army on the front line of Shuangshi Mountain and Huashi Street, annihilated more than 200 people below the commander of the Japanese detachment and the commander of the puppet regiment, captured nearly 200 enemy soldiers, captured many light and heavy machine guns, mortars, rifles, etc., and severely damaged the invading Japanese puppet army. In early 1943, Wang Cheng was appointed head of the Southeast Guard Regiment. In December, he was also appointed Director of the Southeast Bureau.
Bao Zhichun, a native of Changshu Wangzhuang Township, lost his father at an early age and was raised by his widowed mother. When he was a student, he studied diligently, and after graduating from high school, he worried about the future of the motherland, resolutely gave up the opportunity to go to college, threw himself into the anti-Japanese salvation movement, became a people's night school teacher in Wuxi, publicized the principle of anti-Japanese salvation to the workers, and organized the leaders to carry out strike struggles. In March 1936, Bao Zhichun secretly joined the Communist Party of China at Jinan University in Shanghai. In July 1937, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Bao Zhichun returned to his hometown in accordance with the instructions of the party organization, and jointly initiated the establishment of the Wang zhuang Anti-Enemy Support Association with several classmates to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda, collect consolation goods, and support the soldiers in the front. In February 1940, Bao Zhichun served as a political instructor in the training class for political workers of the second column of the Guerrilla Command of the Kuomintang Lusu-Anhui Border Region, publicizing the Communist Party's anti-Japanese national united front policy and the "Ten Programs for Resisting Japan and Saving the Country", arousing the patriotic enthusiasm of many officers. Soon, Bao Zhichun was ordered to return to the New Fourth Army and serve as the political secretary of the advance column. At the beginning of 1941, Bao Zhichun served as the director of the political office of the Eighth Regiment of the Third Brigade of the First Division of the New Fourth Army, and began to fight side by side with Wang Cheng. In March 1943, Bao Zhichun was appointed deputy secretary of the Southeast County Party Committee and deputy political commissar of the Southeast Guard Regiment. In June 1944, he was promoted to secretary of the Southeast County Party Committee and political commissar of the Southeast Guard Regiment, and together with Wang Cheng, led and commanded the anti-Japanese and anti-"Qingxiang" struggles of the military and people in the southeast region.
Wang Cheng and Bao Zhichun were generals in the War of Resistance Against Japan. After the two of them arrived at the Southeast Guard Regiment, in the face of the grim situation of the Japanese puppet army planning and carrying out large-scale "sweeping" and "clearing the countryside" in the northern Jiangsu region, they led their troops to persist in the struggle in situ and launched an extremely arduous struggle against the Japanese puppet army that was eyeing the tiger. They established the armed system of "three combinations" of county regiments, district units, and township guerrillas, and launched an open armed struggle within the enemy's circle of "clearing the countryside." In September 1943, in the name of the Southeast People's Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Corps, they issued an order to carry out the "918" guerrilla movement throughout the county. Within half a month, it surrounded 10 enemy strongholds and fought 81 battles, forming a climax of the huge anti-"clearing" struggle. They are good at grasping the fighter plane in command operations and winning the initiative strategically. After the summer offensive of 1944 began, according to the geographical location of The Town of Shuhe and the deployment of the Japanese and puppet armies, they decided to attack the enemy stronghold in the town of Shuhe, resulting in the strategic passivity of the enemy. On May 22, Wang Cheng and Bao Zhichun commanded the troops, and with the cooperation of the militia, launched a battle to attack the stronghold of Shuhe Town. Using a combination of political offensive and armed attack, they forced the enemy to withdraw from the strongholds, won a complete victory in the battle, and sounded the clarion call for the struggle against the strongholds in the entire southeast and even the entire four sub-districts of central Soviet Union. Then, they launched an autumn offensive against the Japanese puppet army, successively removing 12 enemy strongholds and capturing 6 "96" machine guns, accounting for half of the total number of captured in the division, and winning a major victory in the struggle against "clearing the countryside." The Southeast Guard Regiment led by Wang Cheng and Bao Zhichun was invincible and invincible, and its name shook the southeast, and the enemy was terrified.
On the morning of December 26, 1944, the Southeast Guard Regiment Headquarters, the Southeast County Party Committee and the Southeast Bureau were stationed in the town of Palm. After being secretly reconnoitred by the enemy, the Japanese puppet army dispatched a large number of men and horses to attack our garrison in three ways and surrounded it in regiments. Wang Cheng and Bao Zhichun, not afraid of danger, quickly arranged their troops to meet the battle, and on the other hand, personally went to the field to inspect the enemy's situation and terrain. Because intelligence had been received before this, the Japanese army had sent snipers into the area, and the guards reminded them to try to hide as much as possible, but the regimental commander and the political commissar did not believe that there would be any snipers, and there was no covert observation of the position, just when the two of them were holding telescopes while observing and discussing, they were unfortunately shot by the Japanese special shooters, unfortunately died at the same time, and they were only 30 years old at the time.