The former headquarters of Mamu Eighth Route Army is located in the center of Ma 'er Village, Xincun Township, Hongtong County. It used to be the residence of a rich man named Xu. Very spacious, with the style of Shanxi merchants. Now it is the resident of Ma 'er village villagers' committee. 1937, the headquarters of the eighth route army led by commander-in-chief Zhu De was stationed here for about 5 1 day, which had a great influence on the local revolutionary development.
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After the fall of Taiyuan, the Kuomintang troops withdrew from Shanxi and most parts of North China, and the anti-Japanese war situation in North China changed greatly. 1937165438+10 In October, when deploying the Eighth Route Army, Mao Zedong emphasized that in North China, the regular war with the Kuomintang as the main body has ended, and the guerrilla war with the * * * production party as the main body has been transferred to the main position. Under the basic principle of the United front, the Eighth Route Army should mobilize the masses freely, abolish exorbitant taxes, reduce rents and interest rates, incorporate troops and buy 0.
In order to strengthen the contact and communication with the World War II area and persist in the anti-Japanese war in Shanxi, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army continued southward, moving closer to the location of the World War II area and the Central North Bureau, and arrived in Hongdong County on193711October 2 1, and successively stationed in Subao, Hanjiazhuang and Gaogong in Wan 'an Town.
At this time, the Japanese army is organizing troops in all parts of North China to carry out a large-scale siege of the Eighth Route Army, which is active in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region, northwest Shanxi and southeast Shanxi, seriously threatening the safety of its rear area and traffic lines. Zhu De and Peng directed various ministries to launch an anti-siege here: in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, Nie directed more than 20,000 Japanese troops to smash the siege of the Eighth Route Army, annihilated more than 2,000 enemy troops, and increased the number of counties under the jurisdiction of the border region to more than 30. In the northwest of Shanxi, 65438 and 120 divisions launched troops in Guancenshan Mountain range and organized troops to go south to Luliangshan area and the west of Jinzhong Plain, thus opening up an anti-Japanese base area in the northwest of Shanxi./kloc In the southeast of Shanxi, the 129 division smashed the six-way siege of more than 5,000 Japanese troops, creating conditions for the establishment of the anti-Japanese base areas in Shanxi, Hebei and Henan.
1February, 938, the situation in Shanxi was very serious. The Japanese army attacked Jinnan from the north and east, and the governor of World War II left Linfen and retreated to Jixian in the west. Our Eighth Route Army resolutely chose to enter Taihang Mountain eastward to fight guerrilla warfare. On February 20th, 1938, Zhu De and Peng each led a division to advance to Taihang Mountain.