The protagonist of the TV series "Old Woman with Two Guns", an old lady with two guns and a god of marksmanship, can use only three shots to punch the word "Pin" on the enemy's forehead dozens of meters away.
This character has a prototype in history, she is Zhao Hongwenguo, a heroine. Although her marksmanship is not as brilliant as that in the TV series, she made great contributions during the Revolutionary War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and was highly praised by Song Qingling and others, and even swore with Chiang Kai-shek as brother and sister.
However, this old lady with a legendary experience stood on the opposite side of the people during the civil war, brutally murdered more than 300 people, and was finally sentenced to death.
Why is that? Let's dive in**.
In 1881, Zhao Hongwenguo was born in Xiuyan County, Liaoning Province. Zhao Hongwenguo's original name was Hong Wenguo, and she later married into a family surnamed Zhao, so later generations called her Zhao Hongwenguo.
She grew up in the midst of war, and in 1895, the First Sino-Japanese War broke out, and the people of the three northeastern provinces suffered from the cruelty and aggression of the Japanese army. 14-year-old Zhao Hongwenguo witnessed his homeland being trampled by the enemy, and his heart planted a bitter hatred for the Japanese army.
In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and the 23-year-old Zhao Hongwenguo once again experienced the impact of the war and was full of hatred for the Japanese invaders. Although she is a woman, Zhao Hongwenguo vows that one day she will personally go to the battlefield and drive the invaders out of China.
After Zhao Hongwenguo got married, she focused on the affairs of the family for the sake of the family. Although the family is reluctant to let her run around on the battlefield as a woman, this does not mean that the Zhao family is timid.
In fact, all the adult men of the Zhao family went to the battlefield. According to historical records, more than 30 martyrs of the Zhao family died bravely for the country. Although Zhao Hongwenguo was unable to go into battle in person, she taught her children patriotism at home.
She gave birth to 3 sons and 2 daughters, who were smart and well-behaved from an early age, and her favorite thing to tell them was the heroic resistance of the warriors against the invaders.
Despite his poor background, Zhao Hongwenguo always insisted on letting his children receive cultural education. She was frugal, and in order to give the children of her family the opportunity to study, she even began to learn to take care of the family business.
In the past few years, she has run the Zhao family's family business more and more prosperously, and she has also accumulated a fortune in her hands. In the turbulent year of 1929, the people of the three northeastern provinces lived in poverty, and it was difficult to even ensure food and clothing, let alone send their children to school.
However, Zhao Hongwenguo deeply felt that the country needed intellectual and cultural talents. So she used her savings to start a local primary school and actively encourage villagers to send their children to school.
Although Zhao Hongwenguo's cultural level is limited and he can only teach children basic literacy, her enthusiasm for defending the country has inspired the children's ideals of serving the country and national integrity.
She told the children the stories of many famous generals in history who served the country loyally, hoping that they could become promising young people with ideals and integrity.
Zhao Hongwenguo, a great woman who was called by Song Meiling as a contemporary Meng mother and a contemporary mother-in-law. After the outbreak of the "918" incident, her son Zhao Tong returned home and decided to form an anti-Japanese volunteer army.
In the face of his son's decision, Zhao Hongwenguo gave full support, saying that he would let him do it, and he would be his strongest backing. In order to support her son's decision, she even sold her property and invested a large amount of money in the construction of the anti-Japanese volunteers.
This is Zhao Hongwenguo, a selfless mother, who interprets the greatness of maternal love with practical actions.
The Zhao family played an important role in the War of Resistance Against Japan. Zhao Hongwenguo offered to use her house as a base for the anti-Japanese volunteers, which not only provided a command center and transportation station for the volunteers, but also showed her support and encouragement.
At the same time, she also reorganized the Zhaojiabaozi Primary School, which was disbanded by the impact of the "918" incident, and invited her son and his friends to be teachers. Her actions show that she firmly believes that education is the key to changing the status quo, so she wants to ensure that children receive a better education and are not affected by the cultural colonization of the Japanese army.
Her efforts and contributions laid a solid foundation for the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Zhao Hongwenguo denounced the cunning behavior of the Japanese army, and she asked Zhao Tong to actively teach Chinese in schools, tell children about the cruel crimes of Japanese imperialism against the Chinese people in a clear and clear way, let children receive patriotic education from an early age, and establish a lofty ideal of resisting Japan and saving the country.
Zhao Hongwenguo's approach to education was a remarkable success, and all the teachers and students of Zhaojiabaozi Primary School eventually became the mainstay of the Sino-Japanese War. In just one year, the Anti-Japanese Volunteers grew in strength with the help of Zhao Hongwenguo and won widespread praise.
Bai Junshi and Liu Zhuangfei and others are famous, hoping to get the support of the Zhao family. Zhao Hongwenguo readily agreed to their request and, together with her second son, Zhao Lianxiu, helped them form the Anti-Japanese Einsatzgruppen.
Zhao Hongwenguo firmly believes that the future belongs to young people, so she encourages and supports more patriotic teams led by young people.
In 1934, Zhao Tong took over the anti-Japanese special forces from Bai Junshi and Liu Zhuangfei and began his path of reform. He deeply realized the importance of improving the overall combat effectiveness of the team, so he reorganized the Einsatzgruppen and created the Southern Liaoning Youth Iron Army on this basis.
At the same time, Zhao Hongwenguo has been silently supporting his son behind his back, taking on the heavy responsibility of preparing for *** and collecting Japanese pseudo-intelligence. Although both of these tasks were fraught with danger, Zhao Hongwenguo did a remarkable job.
At that time, it was extremely difficult to acquire *** under the noses of the Japanese, and it was even more difficult to transport this batch of *** back to the base. Originally, Zhao Tong planned to send another young man to complete this task, but was stopped by Zhao Hongwenguo.
Zhao Hongwenguo said that young people now either have money at home, stay at home, or join the anti-Japanese army, or are captured by the Japanese invaders.
However, an old lady like her is different, she does not seem to pose any threat to the Japanese army, and can make the Japanese army relax their vigilance.
Zhao Tong agreed with his mother's suggestion, but he was worried about his mother's safety and hesitated. Zhao Hongwenguo believes that the old lady has more experience than the young man, and she can get a lot of information in small talk, so that she can go to the city to prepare for *** and listen to the latest information of the Japanese puppet, which is a good idea to kill two birds with one stone, and there is no need to hesitate at all.
At his mother's insistence, Zhao Tong had no choice but to agree. In February 1934, the secret activities of the Young Predator were discovered by the Japanese army. Fortunately, Zhao Hongwenguo got the news in advance and immediately evacuated to another place with everyone.
Although the Japanese army found the location of the Zhao family, they pounced. To vent their anger, they set fire to 16 rooms of the Zhao family.
When the Japanese army finally withdrew, Zhao Hongwenguo returned to his destroyed home. Looking at the former family business, her heart was full of grief and indignation, and she secretly made up her mind that she could not let the Japanese punish her heart and tactics affect her patriotic enthusiasm.
She firmly believes that the Chinese will not be intimidated, but will only strengthen their determination to resist Japan because of this, and vow to fight the enemy to the end. In order to expand the scale of the anti-Japanese army, Zhao Hongwenguo did not hesitate to work hard and personally purchased a printing press from Dagushan.
She installed the printing press at Zhaojiabaozi Primary School and personally instructed the students to print out various inspiring anti-Japanese slogans. Every day after school, the children would hand out these leaflets with slogans printed on them.
These slogans evoked a strong response in the local area, with many villagers responding positively, and the size of the Iron Army grew rapidly.
Zhao Hongwenguo's actions were discovered by the eyes of the Japanese, which led to her and her family's death in August 1934**, as well as the rest of the Zhao family and the villagers in the village, with a total of more than 300 people.
The Japanese tried to get news of the anti-Japanese army from Zhao Hongwenguo, but she resolutely refused to answer. The cunning Japanese coerced and lured her, but she did not waver.
The Japanese brutally tortured Zhao Hongwenguo, but the 53-year-old never revealed anything. Zhao Hongwenguo was tortured in prison for two months, and finally the Japanese army gave up trying to obtain valid information from her and planned to secretly execute her.
When the Iron Bloods learned of this, they managed to inform Zhao Hongwenguo and ask her to find an excuse to get parole.
Zhao Hongwenguo took advantage of the greed and stupidity of the Japanese army to successfully escape from prison and guide the Iron Blood Army to rescue his clansmen and villagers. On July 20, 1937, she formed the North China National Anti-Japanese Army and launched an uprising in Baiyang City, personally leading the anti-Japanese army to rescue thousands of prisoners.
After that, she went to Wuhan to prepare munitions for the army, and formed an anti-Japanese recovery army in Taihang Mountain, Henan, to personally kill the enemy.
Zhao Hongwenguo was once known as a heroine, and even *** was amazed by her deeds. However, during the civil war, she betrayed the people and stood in opposition to them.
In 1940, the Chongqing masses' understanding of the image of the Eighth Route Army was deliberately scandalized by Chiang Kai-shek, and in order to explain the truth, the Senate of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region appointed Zhao Hongwenguo to Chongqing to give an anti-Japanese lecture.
However, her speech was disrupted by Kuomintang agents. The spy had planned to assassinate her during the speech, but suddenly received an order from his superiors, which stated that Zhao Hongwenguo had a good reputation among the people and could be used by them.
As a result, Zhao Hongwenguo escaped this assassination by chance.
Zhao Hongwenguo was personally received by Chiang Kai-shek after the lecture. Chiang Kai-shek, with his unique way of winning people's hearts, adopted a high-standard reception ceremony, which flattered Zhao Hongwenguo.
During the conversation, Chiang Kai-shek highly praised Zhao Hongwenguo's outstanding performance in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and even said that he would write her deeds into the textbooks of the Boy Scouts. In order to further impress Zhao Hongwenguo, Chiang Kai-shek promised that if she joined the Kuomintang, she would be made a lieutenant general and commander-in-chief of the general headquarters of the second road of appeasement on the Hebei-Liaobian side.
Zhao Hongwenguo always dreamed of going into battle to kill the enemy and establish meritorious deeds, and her son Zhao Tong also defected to the Kuomintang in 1939. Therefore, after the end of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, for these two reasons, Zhao Hongwenguo chose to betray the party and returned to the northeast with the army with Chiang Kai-shek.
Zhao Hongwenguo used to be the commander of the second road appeasement of the ** guerrillas in the southwest, but she turned a blind eye to the large-scale support of the masses for our party, and instead came to the western Sichuan Plain with a large amount of ammunition to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek to start the Battle of Chengdu.
However, the general trend of the Kuomintang has gone, and the battle of Chengdu was the most heavy, and the team led by Zhao Hongwenguo also fled in all directions under the counterattack of the Communist Party. But she still did not give up, and lurked, trying to find an opportunity to defeat the Communist Party.
In February 1950, a group of bandit troops appeared in western Sichuan, and Zhao Hongwenguo incorporated the bandit army, and under the guise of fighting the bandit army, deceived the local people to attack a small local county town with her.
Along the way, Zhao Hongwenguo burned, killed and plundered all kinds of evil, completely forgetting how much he once loved the people. She brutally murdered more than 300 Communist Party grain requisitioners and ordinary people, and burned down more than 500 houses of ordinary people.
However, her evil deeds were quickly stopped by the People's Liberation Army, and the team she led was broken up, and she herself was captured by PLA soldiers in hiding. Zhao Hongwenguo's actions are reactionary, and her crimes should be severely punished.
On July 16, 1950, Zhao Hongwenguo was sentenced to death for a crime, and the life of this legendary old lady came to an end. 4.Epilogue The story of Zhao Hongwenguo is emotional, she fought for the well-being of the people during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and made outstanding contributions to the country.
Most of her children died bravely in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which can be called a heroic martyr.
Although Zhao Hongwenguo tried to seek a high position and false fame after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he gradually forgot his original intention to serve the country, and even pointed his ** at the innocent people, stood on the opposite side of the people, and finally reaped the consequences.
All this tells us that we should always keep our original intention and stick to the original goal, so as to avoid going astray and going to the wrong end.