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In the summer of 1939, Zhao Peiyuan, as a 22-year-old recruit, was selected to join the Ninth Regiment of the Zhijiang Military Police in Xiangxi. Soon after, the gendarmerie headquarters decided to send a group of personnel to the occupied areas of Hebei, Henan, and Anhui to conduct military police recruitment.
In fact, this is just a superficial façade, but in fact it is to allow them to go deep into the Japanese-occupied areas to carry out underground work. Zhao Peiyuan became one of the chosen people and bravely threw himself into the struggle against the Japanese invaders.
First, it is necessary to actively propagate the idea of building a country during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, encourage young people to join the anti-Japanese war, and thwart the Japanese army's policy of softness; second, we must not betray the motherland; The third is to return as planned, regardless of the progress of the work.
Originally, it was planned to take the Xiangfan Laohekou from Changde, Jinshi, and Gong'an to Luoyang, but due to the Japanese army's attack on Yichang, it had to change the route and change to Sandouping from Zhijiang and Dangyang to Sandouping in the upper reaches of Yichang, and go up the river by boat, through Wanxian and Fuling to Chongqing, and then transfer to Chengdu by car, and then reach Luoyang through Baoji and Xi'an.
After a long time of running, the team finally arrived in Luoyang and carried out a group operation. Zhao Peiyuan was assigned to the second group, led by the leader Liu Guangshen, which had a total of 4 members.
In enemy-occupied areas, they needed a "certificate of good citizenship", and Zhao Peiyuan carved a seal with daylight soap - a special seal of the Great Japanese Garrison.
With the assistance of the local People's Army, Zhao Peiyuan and others successfully crossed the Yellow River and were able to safely reach Qiaomiao Town, Wuzhi County. They found refuge in the home of a man named Lei Baixiang, a merchant who traded on both sides of the Yellow River.
He was an upright, loyal, and righteous man, who often helped the anti-Japanese people. Through Lei Baixiang's relationship, Zhao Peiyuan got a "travel certificate" in Wuzhi County.
This is because at that time, it was necessary to take a train or stay in a hotel. Lei Baixiang revealed that Chen Jinqing, the magistrate of Wuzhi County, was a white-skinned and red-hearted person, who sympathized with the Anti-Japanese War and provided assistance to anti-Japanese personnel from all sides.
With the help of Lei Baixiang, Zhao Peiyuan was able to contact the puppet county magistrate Chen Jinqing and get his secret help. With Chen Jinqing's help, the activities of Zhao Peiyuan and others in Wuzhi County became smoother.
For the sake of safety, Zhao Peiyuan and Liu Guangshen took a car in Huojia and Xinxiang respectively, so as not to be exposed at the same time.
I came here from Peking to run business, and I don't know much about other things. ”
Zhao Peiyuan had the idea of escaping during the escort, but because he was unfamiliar with the streets of Xinxiang and the two traitors were armed with pistols, he knew that this was tantamount to killing himself.
Therefore, he decided to act after arriving at the gendarmerie. In the gendarmerie, Zhao Peiyuan was immediately put in a prison cell. He found that everyone here was harshly interrogated, beaten and subjected to all kinds of torture.
It can be said that few people will survive here. Zhao Peiyuan realized that only by surviving this period could he have the possibility of survival. For the first three days, Zhao Peiyuan was not interrogated.
He used this time to reminisce about his life, realizing that he had handled things so poorly that he had fallen into the clutches of his enemies. He realized that if he fought the Japanese army on the battlefield, even sacrifice was an honorable thing, but in prison, even living lost his dignity.
In order to cope with the interrogation of the Japanese army, Zhao Peiyuan imagined various possible scenarios and thought about how to deal with them. Eventually, he concocted an improvised rhetoric for the Japanese interrogation in preparation for the upcoming interrogation.
New copywriting: Zhao Peiyuan was interrogated by Nakamura, the squad leader of the Japanese military police, during the interrogation. Nakamura is dressed in a Chinese robe, with a pure accent and beautiful calligraphy, and it is difficult to tell that he is Japanese unless you distinguish him carefully.
He asked Zhao Peiyuan: "Is China good?" Isn't the Eight Roads good? You tell everything from the age of eight to the present, don't lie. "This is an attempt by the Japanese army to lure Zhao Peiyuan to confess more information.
Zhao Peiyuan replied in pre-made words: "When I was eight years old, I went to school in Beijing, and at the age of twelve, I went to Tianjin to work as an apprentice because my family was poor, and later became a worker. This year, Tianjin was hit by floods and factories closed down, so I went to work for my brother in Luoyang.
Now that Tianjin has recovered, I plan to go back to work. Nakamura asked, "How did you cross the Yellow River?" Zhao Peiyuan replied: "I gave them money, and they let me pass." ”
Nakamura then asked, "Are there any soldiers by the river?" What kind of guns did they use? Zhao Peiyuan replied: "There are many soldiers by the river, with long guns and short guns, I saw them when they were eating out. ”
After a night of suffering, Zhao Peiyuan was taken back to his cell, where his friends told him that the Japanese army would most likely execute him tomorrow. They warned him that no flaws should be revealed under any circumstances, otherwise the Japanese would torture him with all kinds of torture.
The next day's interrogation began, and the Japanese military police captain Harada Pen Ji shouted: "You are wrong. He pulled out Zhao Peiyuan's confession and re-interrogated, burning his face with cigarette butts as he interrogated.
The fire of the cigarette butt burned Zhao Peiyuan's face, and the smell of the burnt cigarette butt and the severe pain made him almost unbearable. But he gritted his teeth, and his face was burned with twenty or thirty scars.
It wasn't until later that he learned that the person who interrogated him today was not Nakamura, but Harada Biji, the commander of the Japanese army's military police. Despite the unbearable pain, Zhao Peiyuan still persevered, he bit his lip and did not let go.
This was the end of the second interrogation.
On the third day of Zhao's interrogation, the Japanese continued to use violent means to try to force him to admit that he was a soldier. They slapped him wildly, kicked him with leather boots, knocked him to the ground, and kicked him hard with their boots, while shouting orders to check whether there were signs of a gun in his right hand and signs of leggings and a military hat on his calves and head.
However, Zhao Peiyuan had already made up his mind that no matter how the Japanese army abused and lured him, he was resolutely unmoved, always remained silent, gritted his teeth, and insisted on his beliefs.
He knew that as long as the Japanese army found his flaws, he could only fight to the death, even if he sacrificed his life, he would be a backbone Chinese and leave an eternal mark on the country and the nation.
He silently recited in his heart: "Fight to the death to reward your ambition, and keep Dan to take care of your sweat." ”
The fourth and fifth interrogations made Zhao Peiyuan suffer inhumanely, and the Japanese army used cruel methods such as sticking fingernails and piercing pipa bones with iron wires to extract confessions. Zhao Peiyuan endured the pain, several ribs were broken on his left side, ten fingernails were also pulled out, and several teeth were broken.
Although he had been tortured to death, he still gritted his teeth and insisted, no matter how the devil tortured him, it would be useless. After a long period of torture and the harsh environment of the prison, Zhao Peiyuan's face began to grow sores, and insects began to grow on the injured area, and his body emitted a pungent smell of decay.
The 19 days of torture made Zhao Peiyuan lose his human appearance. Although the Japanese army did not get any valuable information from Zhao Peiyuan's mouth in the end, he put the family of County Magistrate Chen Jinqing in danger the day after the first day.
Fortunately, Zhao Peiyuan couldn't help but didn't tell the truth at that time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. After Zhao Peiyuan recovered from his wounds, he accepted a new mission, and he successfully brought a group of young people who escaped from the occupied area back to Luoyang.
Zhao Peiyuan, formerly a sergeant of the Chongqing Military Police, was praised for sticking to his beliefs and refusing to accept punishment when he was **. However, he was deeply dissatisfied with the corruption in the rear, resigned from the military and changed his name to Zhao Nianzi, and applied for the military academy.
During the War of Liberation, he gave up his military position and lived a peaceful life. Although he kept a low profile, he always remembered the nineteen days and nights of the Japanese military police, as well as the cruelty and shamelessness of the traitors.
Zhao Peiyuan's personal experience allows us to see the cruelty and ruthlessness of the Japanese army, feel the heroic feat of revolutionaries who sacrificed their lives for the country, and have a deeper understanding of the hard-won victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
It was a time full of gloom, but it was thanks to the perseverance of countless people like Zhao Peiyuan that China finally defeated the invaders and achieved the final victory.