At that time, it was required to expand and accommodate 50 American heavy bombers. Gu requested that it be completed within six months. If it is overdue, it will be punished as delaying the fighter. At that time, all the commissioners and county magistrates at the meeting looked at each other, and no one dared to speak. Knowing that this is an arduous national defense project, the chairman tearfully said to the county magistrates: "We are the heads of local governments, and of course we have our difficulties, but the difficulties of the army are greater than ours. What should we do with the Chief Executive's orders? We absolutely obey, and bloodshed is our ultimate responsibility. "
Huang county magistrate has written a written pledge to fulfill a military order to complete the project to the death. At that time, it was necessary to collect 3.6 million trees with a diameter of 20 cm and 900,000 bamboos. There is no such big wood in counties of Quzhou. In order to complete the task, collect the population of each county. For example, in Kaihua County, the population was less than 6.5438+million, and the wood was distributed to 6.5438+million, one per capita, and it was also responsible for transportation. Civilized people can walk by water, but some counties have to carry them on their shoulders.
It was winter and the mountain was blocked by heavy snow. Counties and villages cut down mountains and trees, and they are transported with the cutting. Hundreds of thousands of people braved the wind and snow and stepped on the hard ice to flow to Quxian County. Some county magistrates were transporting wood with ordinary people in heavy snow and mud. Lin Xiyue, the county magistrate of Shou Chang County, fell down and was injured while transporting wood, which could not be cured for a long time. Frostbite, falls and drowning of migrant workers are heard every day. After the bamboo and wood were transported to the airport, they were criticized by the inspectors. If it doesn't fit the size, it can only be counted as two or three. Bamboo and wood piles that do not meet the requirements are piled up outside Quxian, like mountains. There are four mountains and four forests in Quzhou, all of which have been cut down, leaving no trace of birds and animals. When Huang came to Quxian and saw bamboo forests and migrant workers running around, he felt sad and couldn't help crying.
While collecting wood, we also collect labor. Distribute according to the population of each county, bring your own dry food, bring your own cooking utensils, lift stones, level trenches, repair runways, work day and night, and dare not neglect. There was only a sea of people at the scene, as many as 20 thousand people, reaching more than 40 thousand people at the most tense time. After reconnaissance, the Japanese army found that the airport was under maintenance, planes were frequently bombed, migrant workers had nowhere to hide, and people were often killed or injured. There was a Japanese plane attack, and more than 50 migrant workers hid in a trench, which happened to be bombed by the plane, and more than 40 migrant workers were killed on the spot. Even so, people are still desperately trying to repair the airport. In order to defend the country and drive away the Japanese invaders, they suffered and gave their lives.
1942 On April 18, the US military plane took off from the aircraft carrier, bombed Tokyo, Japan, and landed at Quzhou Airport when returning. Due to the storm that night, the American plane lost its way and flew blindly After the plane ran out of fuel, the pilots were forced to skydive in Sanmen, Linhai, Jiangshan and Lin 'an, and more than 50 people landed in Quzhou, including the team leader doolittle, who was rescued and sent to the rear.
After the American bombing of Tokyo, the Japanese army quickly noticed the existence of Quzhou Airport, so they thought that the American bombing of Tokyo took off from Quzhou Airport. So in May of that year, the Japanese army mobilized more than 65,438+10,000 troops and invaded along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line. The Third Theater Command immediately ordered the destruction of Quzhou Airport, which was not reserved for Japanese troops.
One afternoon in mid-May, when 20,000 migrant workers were still repairing the unfinished project, they received an order to destroy the airport, which was completed in three days. Thousands of airport migrant workers have to tear down the airport they have worked so hard to build. At that time, there was a shortage of migrant workers, and the elderly, weak women and children were temporarily recruited from nearby villages. Everyone joined in the action of destroying the airport.
The runway that has just been repaired, the plane has not flown once, and it has to be dug with a hoe, and the annex has to be bombed. After three days and three nights, the airport, which embodies the painstaking efforts of countless Quzhou people, was completely destroyed, and everyone was extremely sad.
On the third day after the airport was destroyed, the Japanese army had arrived in Quzhou City. The fortifications outside Quzhou Airport were completely occupied by the Japanese in less than three days, and the officers and men guarding Quzhou City suffered heavy casualties. In the early morning of June 7, Japanese soldiers entered Quzhou in two ways, and Quzhou Airport fell into the enemy. After the Japanese army occupied Quzhou Airport, more than 70 migrant workers were tied up with ropes and all of them were taken to the airport to search for mines and fill ravines.
The Japanese army drove away thousands of migrant workers. If they were a little unhappy, they split it with a knife, threw it into a ditch and buried it with soil. In just three days, 1000 more migrant workers and captured soldiers were buried in the airport. After a week of emergency repairs, the airport can take off and land planes again. Japanese planes began to stop at Quzhou Airport, with dozens every day.
Soon after, flash floods broke out and the river was steep. Overnight, the Japanese plane was washed away and the Japanese army went into the water to salvage it, but it didn't help. After the flood receded, the Japanese plane was rushed to the graveyard and abandoned village. The Japanese army drove thousands of soldiers and civilians and dragged the Japanese plane back from abandoned village with ropes. Since then, Japanese planes have never stopped at Quzhou Airport, but they still forced the military and civilians to repair the airport day and night.
In late August, the Japanese army was losing ground. Before the retreat, the Japanese army sent cavalry, assembled tens of thousands of able-bodied men nearby and concentrated in the airport, completely destroying the airport. Under the devil's whip and bayonet, migrant workers waved hoes day and night, hungry and sick, stabbed to death by bayonets or hit on the head by hoes as soon as they relaxed, and countless people were killed on the spot and buried in the airport stratum. There is blood everywhere inside and outside the airport, and the suffering migrant workers are like purgatory.
After the Japanese army retreated, the authorities wanted to rebuild the airport, and all counties in Quzhou dared not agree to talk about the discoloration of the airport. During the Anti-Japanese War, Quzhou Airport experienced at least four large-scale maintenance and damage. We repaired and destroyed it. The Japanese army came and fixed it. The Japanese army left and was destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people in Quzhou County have suffered heavy casualties for the airport, and they have bled and sweated for the airport many times, but the role of the airport has not really come into play.
Wang Zhenguo witnessed the construction of Quzhou Airport with his own eyes, and witnessed the great hardships and sacrifices paid by the soldiers and civilians in Quzhou to repair the airport. An airport affects the lives of thousands of people. In countless times of repeated repairs and damages, the soldiers and civilians in Quzhou silently persisted with blood and tears, hoping only to drive away the Japanese aggressors one day.
Memoirs of Wang Zhenguo, the county magistrate, truly recorded the ill-fated Quzhou Airport and the great sacrifices made by the soldiers and civilians in Quzhou for the Anti-Japanese War. A small airport in Quzhou witnessed the most tragic and tenacious scene of China people War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the cruelty of the war and the hard-won victory.