During the arduous years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was a district captain in the Jizhong Plain, who commanded a small unit of the plain, engaged in a short white-knife battle with the Japanese invaders, and repeatedly dealt annihilating blows to the enemy with surprise attacks.
Qian Yunqing, born in 1906, is a native of Hunan. As a teenager, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and participated in the Long March.
After the outbreak of the nationwide War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Qian Yunqing moved with the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army to the anti-Japanese battlefield in northwestern Jinxi and served as a company commander of the special service regiment. Soon after, he was transferred to the Central Guard Brigade and served as a battalion commander and deputy chief of the operations unit.
In 1942, the Japanese army carried out a brutal "May Day" sweep of the anti-Japanese base areas in Central Hebei and implemented a barbaric "three lights" policy. Qian Yunqing, who was then the captain of the 31st District of the 6th Military Subdistrict of the Jizhong Military Region, led the troops to move in Shen County, Shulu County, Zhao County, Jin County, and other places, and repeatedly gave the Japanese army a head-on attack by means of surprise attacks. Once, through continuous reconnaissance, Qian Yunqing found that whenever the escort pond "Daji" was gathered, the Japanese troops in the former Motou stronghold would be fully armed along the newly built highway to "escort" here, come in the morning, and return to the same road in the afternoon. After figuring out the situation, he decided to make an ambush here. Therefore, before the arrival of the next escort pool "Big Set", he and the scouts carefully "stepped on" the enemy's travel route and set up the ambush position in the "green yarn tent" 50 meters away from the Sunjiacun Highway. At dawn on the day of the escort pool "Big Set", Qian Yunqing led the team to hide in the preset position. At about 8:30, when more than 30 devils swung from the former Motou stronghold to a distance of twenty or thirty meters from the ambush position, a dense number of bullets and grenades were suddenly fired from both sides of the road, and many devils were killed on the road before they could understand it. This "one-sided" battle lasted less than 15 minutes, more than 30 ghosts were all wiped out, and the "crooked handle" machine gun, more than 20 "three-eight big covers" and a grenadier barrel carried by them became the spoils of the Eighth Route Army, and our side lost only one member in the battle. Although the scale of this ambush battle was not large, it created a model example of a surprise attack on the enemy army by the 6th Military Sub-district of Jizhong and was commended by the general order of the Jizhong Military Region.
In May 1943, Qian Yunqing was transferred to the 40th District Of the Jizhong Garrison Brigade, personally commanded more than 20 battles such as Dali Temple, Xizebei, Hezhuang, and Huanglong, captured a large number of weapons and equipment of the enemy army, and captured more than 100 Japanese puppet troops alive. The commander of the Japanese army also had to praise: "The tactics of the Eighth Route Army are clever, and the dry troops are really powerful!" The soldiers also trusted and admired him very much, often saying: "Follow Captain Qian, fight and win battles every day!" ”
In August 1943, our army fought a fierce battle with the Japanese army in Huanglong, Shenxian County. Qian Yunqing bravely took the lead, and when the battle was nearing the end, he was hit by a stray bullet of the Japanese army and unfortunately died heroically, at the age of 37. After his sacrifice, he was posthumously recognized as a "combat hero" by the Jizhong Military Region.
In 2014, Qian Yunqing was included in the first batch of 300 famous anti-Japanese heroes and heroes approved by the Party Central Committee and the State Council.
Author: Liu Wangmin
EDIT: Wei Zhong