In the 40s of the 20th century, Fang Bing and Li Zaofu teamed up to create a beautiful song "Wang Erxiao", which has accompanied the growth of several generations. The song tells the story of a brave cowherd Wang Erxiao, who resolutely decided to lure the enemy into the encirclement of our army in order to protect the people of the village from the burning and looting of the Japanese invaders.
Seeing that their ranks were about to be completely annihilated by our army, the Japanese invaders angrily ended Wang Erxiao's life with bayonets.
In that era of the Anti-Japanese War, countless children, like Wang Erxiao, had to face the hardships of life at the age of thirteen, and did not have the opportunity to sit in a spacious and bright classroom to learn knowledge, let alone enjoy the warmth and sweetness of life.
However, in the village of South Rolling Longgou in Hebei Province, there is a historical exhibition hall, which carries the history of the village and also has secrets related to Wang Erxiao. After the investigation and visit of scholars, they found that the historical figure commemorated in this exhibition hall is named Yan Fuhua, and he has a lot of overlap and intersection with Wang Erxiao in the song, so most people think that Yan Fuhua is Wang Erxiao.
One of the important witnesses, Shi Linshan, strengthened this possibility.
In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the whole people, the Children's League came into being under the call and guidance of the organization. Most of the members of these children's groups are teenagers and children, and they cover as children, but in fact carry out great anti-war operations.
Shi Linshan and Yan Fuhua are among them. One day, they were cruising through the mountains with their oxen when they suddenly found that the Japanese invading army was advancing in the direction of the village.
At the critical moment, Yan Fuhua asked Shi Linshan to immediately run to the encirclement of our army to transmit the signal and prepare for annihilation, while he disguised himself as a cattle herding baby to attract the attention of the Japanese devils.
Their courageous behavior shows the spirit of the members of the Children's League who are not afraid of difficulties and sacrifice their lives for the country, which is worthy of our eternal memory and learning.
After Yan Fuhua**, in the face of the coercion and temptation of the Japanese army, he chose to pretend to give in, and cleverly led them to circle in the mountains to delay time. In his heart, he silently prayed that Shi Linshan could pass on the information to our team as soon as possible.
Finally, he found an excellent opportunity to lead the Japanese army to the encirclement of our army. In an instant, the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the gunfire of the breakthrough echoed throughout the mountain forest.
Under our strong attack, the Japanese troops fell to the ground one after another. Shi Linshan was worried about Yan Fuhua's safety, and took the risk of sending the information to our army, and hid next to the encirclement and suppression site. The leader of the Japanese army, realizing that he had been deceived, roared angrily.
With the moonlight shining on the mottled mountain road, Shi Linshan led the villagers to the tomb of their heroically deceased friend, Yan Fuhua. Due to the difficult conditions and the urgency of the incident, they could not even bury him in a decent coffin, let alone a tombstone.
However, Shi Linshan would come to the tomb every day to pay tribute to this brave friend, and he vowed to avenge Yan Fuhua. Shi Linshan took part in various actions of the Children's League more actively, hoping to exterminate the Japanese devils with his own hands.
In the blink of an eye, nearly sixty years have passed, and Shi Linshan's persistence and determination have not changed. Under his publicity, the local people learned about Yan Fuhua's heroic story and came to pay tribute to him and express their admiration for their hero.
With guests and experts from all over the world, Shi Linshan began to learn Mandarin, gradually changing his strong local accent to tell the story of him and his friends to the guests in clear and accurate language, so that Yan Fuhua's deeds could be spread all over the world.
When visitors listen to Shi Linshan's heroic deeds, they are often moved to tears. In front of Yan Fuhua's monument, I don't know how many people's tears were soaked. People lamented the greatness of the anti-Japanese martyrs, and also admired the protection of Shilin Mountain.
Historians and surveyors have found that there are actually many heroes known as Wang Erxiao. In Shunping County, Hebei Province, there was a cruel **, and the people in the village were brutally abused by the Japanese devils, even women, the elderly and children.
It is rumored that there was a heroic young man Wang Pu, in the face of the Japanese devil's persecution and threats, swore to die, and finally died heroically under the devil's butcher's knife, becoming a local people's mouth of the anti-Japanese hero, his deeds are remembered on a monument engraved with "heroic spirit forever".
Because Wang Pu has the same surname as Wang Erxiao, the cowherd in the song, many people mistakenly think that he is Wang Erxiao. In Xingtang County, there is also a Zhang Liuzi, who is also considered by the local people to be Wang Erxiao, who, like Wang Pu, was at the age when he was sacrificed.
It is said that Zhang Liuzi also joined the Children's League organization at that time, and his willpower even exceeded that of many older adults, and in the face of the beating and abuse of the Japanese army, he was fearless, even if he was burned, he resolutely did not disclose any information about the Eighth Route Army.
For this little hero, the children's group is the pride of his heart and his responsibility to protect his family and defend the country.
The name "Wang Erxiao" exists everywhere, but who is the real "Wang Erxiao"? Songwriter Fang Bing gave the answer. He spent some time in China's anti-Japanese war base and was deeply moved by the deep gratitude and admiration of the soldiers there.
In order to spread this patriotic spirit forever, he decided to record the legends of the heroes in his songs. The children's regiment in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region adhered to the belief in the War of Resistance and resolutely refused to let the enemy get any news from our army.
The heroic deeds of these young people who sacrificed for the country deeply moved Fang Bing. Therefore, he used the fictitious name "Wang Erxiao" with a sense of age and intimacy as the character in the song to praise those anti-Japanese teenagers who died bravely.
Many stories of little heroes like "Wang Erxiao" have been included in primary school Chinese textbooks and television, among which the story of "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" has left a deep memory on the childhood of a generation.
In the face of those unforgettable scenes of the Anti-Japanese War, people left tears of heartache.
The brutal atrocities of the Japanese invaders and the tenacity of the teenage heroes shocked and moved us in front of the TV. In fact, it doesn't matter who Wang Erxiao is, Wang Erxiao's cute code name is the epitome of all young heroes, and the preservation of songs and names is to let our memories forever engrave those who once used their lives to protect the motherland.
Every April drizzle, we can look out from the hillside where we worship our ancestors, and entrust the spring breeze to blow our thoughts to the monument to the heroes, so that they know that we have never forgotten.