In mid-August 1945, when Japan had already surrendered, the Japanese army in Fenyang colluded with Yan's army (a Shanxi warlord) and refused to surrender to our army, and our Eighth Route Army planned to capture Fenyang city. At that time, there was an air-raid shelter dug by the Japanese in the northwest corner of the city (another said it was dug by the inner line), which was used to connect the inside and outside of the city to prepare for the capture of Fenyang from the inside and the outside. At that time, there were more than 1,000 Japanese garrison in Fenyang, plus the pseudo army, estimated to be about 1,334, and the minimum number of attacking troops was about 3,000. On the night of August 21st, a battalion of the Eighth Route Army led by a student from Fenzhong Middle School sneaked into an air-raid shelter. When there was still one squad left to enter, the enemy had already discovered it and blocked the hole with machine guns. Meanwhile, the large forces outside the city did not storm the city even after a night of attack because of the high walls and the destruction of the inner lines.

And the two platoons*** of 67 soldiers in the cave, after holding out all night, never rushed out. Finally, early the next morning, the enemy cast poisonous gas into the hole, and all of my 67 heroes were sacrificed in the air-raid shelter. The large forces outside the city also temporarily abandoned their plan to capture Fenyang because of other missions, which became a great pity.

I refer to pages 533 to 556 from Fenzhou Cangshang, Volume I.

Note: The martyrs who died on the ground of Fenzhou were 67 combatants of the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 17th Regiment of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Brigade of Jinsui, and the deputy company commander was Xue Chunrong.