On July 16, 1950, a 70-year-old lady walked to the execution ground amid the cheers of the crowd. Although she was too old and should have enjoyed the years when her children and grandchildren were on her knees and raised her days, she became a hero in the hearts of the people in another way.
This old lady's name is Zhao Hongwenguo, who was once a nationally renowned anti-Japanese heroine, who led her family to resist the Japanese invasion, founded the army, prepared for the establishment of schools, and made significant contributions to the revolutionary cause.
Zhao Hongwenguo's heroic deeds have been widely publicized at home and abroad, and have received strong support from people from all walks of life, including Zhang Xueliang's enthusiastic donation, He Yingqin's personal engagement and Chen Jiageng's strong praise.
Zhao Hongwenguo, an anti-Japanese heroine who once fought for the country and the people, was hated by the people in her later years, and after being shot, the people at the scene shouted "** wise", which is regrettable.
What's even more shocking is that it was *** himself who gave the order to shoot. So, what caused this anti-Japanese heroine to become an enemy of the people, and what did she do to make *** personally order to be shot?
Zhao Hongwenguo, whose surname is Hong, is Wenguo, because her husband's surname is Zhao, so she is called "Zhao Hongwenguo", she was fifty or sixty years old during the Anti-Japanese War, and everyone affectionately calls her "Mrs. Zhao".
Born in 1881, she witnessed the corruption of the imperial court and the invasion of foreign powers in the late Qing Dynasty, and the tragic death of her fellow villagers under the guns of the invaders.
Although Zhao Hongwenguo has no formal education, she understands the importance of education. With the support of her hometown, she set up a school with the aim of cultivating a group of educated and aspiring Chinese youth.
Although Zhao Hongwenguo devoted herself to the cause of saving the country, for the sake of her children's education, she resolutely took time out to supervise her children's studies. Her efforts were not in vain, and her third son, Zhao Tong, was successfully admitted to Northeastern University.
Influenced by his mother, Zhao Tong was also a patriotic young man, and he often promoted the idea of resisting Japan and saving the country in school. After the "918" incident, he secretly sneaked back to his hometown to prepare for the anti-Japanese struggle.
Zhao Hongwenguo and Zhao Tong hit it off and mobilized the villagers to resist the devil together. She said firmly: "If we don't fight the devils, we won't have a good life." Instead of waiting to be slaughtered, it is better to resist to the end! ”
The villagers were bullied by the Japanese army, and their hearts were full of anger. After learning the news of the anti-Japanese resistance, they joined one after another and formed an anti-Japanese volunteer army. In 1933, the mother and son joined forces with the revolutionary aspirants to establish the Anti-Japanese Einsatzgruppen and the Young Iron Army.
Zhao Hongwenguo spent all his family wealth, raised military funds everywhere, and even risked his life to provide ammunition for the team, so he became famous in the local area. His heroic deeds attracted many students to join the army, and the ranks continued to grow.
At the military conference, Zhao Hongwenguo stood on the stage and passionately shouted "recover the northeast and rejuvenate China," and the audience immediately resounded with a thunderous response.
No matter how much opposition and ridicule Zhao Hongwenguo encountered, she always adhered to the War of Resistance, and her team continued to grow, finally attracting the attention of the Japanese army. In 1934, the Japanese army attacked Zhaojiabao, burned down the Zhao family's house, looted their property, and arrested all the Zhao family in prison.
In prison, Zhao Hongwenguo was severely tortured, but she always gritted her teeth and did not say a word. At the last moment, she was secretly rescued by the Predators from being executed.
Zhao Hongwenguo's anti-Japanese enthusiasm did not fade because of the experience, but made her more determined to drive out the Japanese army. "Only when Japan leaves, can the Chinese have a peaceful life!" ”
After the stronghold in the northeast was severely damaged, Zhao Hongwenguo decided to lead his family to fight in Beiping. Before leaving, she bought a printer at her own expense, printed a large number of anti-Japanese propaganda leaflets, and distributed them along the way, actively conveying the idea of anti-Japanese war to the masses.
After arriving in Beiping, she immediately invested in raising military funds, contacted anti-Japanese soldiers, and formed an anti-Japanese united front. Under the leadership of Zhao Hongwenguo and his third son, Zhao Tong, the size of the army continued to expand, eventually growing to more than 10,000 people.
They fought in all directions, fought against the Japanese army and the Japanese puppet army, successfully annihilated and captured thousands of enemy troops, and achieved a major victory.
In 1937, when the Japanese army continued to increase its troops to invade China, Zhao Hongwenguo formed the North China National Anti-Japanese Army, and she learned that many revolutionaries were imprisoned in Beiping Prison, so she organized a team to rush into the prison and successfully rescued thousands of people.
However, due to their poor equipment, they often suffered defeat in battles with the Japanese army, especially after the enemy dispatched fighter planes, and the anti-Japanese troops on the ground could only be beaten passively.
Zhao Hongwenguo was indignant at this, and she had been thinking about how to shoot down the enemy's plane. Although she doesn't know how to operate herself, she firmly believes that there must be someone in the team who can come up with a solution.
In the war-torn era, there was a heroic female warrior who proved that women can be heroes on the battlefield with her actions. In a battle, Zhao Hongwenguo commanded full firepower and successfully destroyed the enemy plane hovering overhead, which caused a huge sensation throughout the country.
With the growth of the team, Zhao Hongwenguo has received extensive attention and reports at home and abroad, including the praise of the Japanese anti-war writer Eiko Midorikawa, and an exclusive interview with "Xinhua**".
Celebrities from all walks of life also expressed their praise and support for her, including the praise of the anti-Japanese general Feng Yuxiang, the military support provided by the Qinggang boss Du Yuesheng, the invitation of the educator Tao Xingzhi to give a speech, and the three sisters of the Song family personally wrote an inscription for her, and He Xiangning and other democratic revolutionaries jointly publicized the anti-Japanese resistance.
Zhao Hongwenguo's deeds have become a symbol of the heroic struggle of women in that era, inspiring more people to fight for the liberation of the country and the nation.
New copywriting: Zhao Hongwenguo and her son, Zhao Tong, faced invitations from both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party during the War of Resistance Against Japan. In 1937, the commander-in-chief of the communist army** personally invited Zhao Tong to join the Communist Party, but Zhao Tong politely refused.
Despite this, for a number of reasons, Zhao Tong accepted the incorporation of the communist army, and the National Anti-Japanese Army was incorporated into the fifth detachment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. However, it didn't take long for Zhao Tong to leave with the team again, and even shot the head of the detachment on the way, which was considered a "defection" by the Communists.
However, in 1938, Chiang Kai-shek also extended an invitation to Zhao Hongwenguo and Zhao Tong. This time, the mother and son did not refuse, and immediately packed up and went to Chongqing.
There, Zhao Tong was awarded the rank of major general, and Zhao Hongwenguo was also used as a prototype to shoot a documentary. The following year, He Yingqin hired her as a national compulsory military service propagandist to vigorously publicize her heroic deeds of resistance against Japan.
These honors have not changed the original intention of Zhao Hongwenguo and her family to "resist Japan and save the country". Whether on the side of the Communist Party or the Kuomintang, they will go down in history.
However, in the end, they were still attacked by the Kuomintang and stood on the opposite side of the people. Summary: Zhao Hongwenguo and her family faced invitations from both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and although they had served in the Communist army, they were eventually taken by the Kuomintang and stood on the opposite side of the people.
Zhao Tong is a profit-seeker, and he has been maintaining a vague relationship with the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in an attempt to reap double benefits from it. He left the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region without permission because the organization had talked to him many times and asked him to make his stand clear, and he himself was arrogant and could not endure the constraints of the Communist Party's military discipline, so he broke away from the control of the Communist Party.
In order to create his image, after he arrived in Chongqing, he always claimed that the Communist Party was jealous of his combat talent, maliciously excluded and suppressed him, and forced him to leave. Not only did he discredit the Communists, but he also accepted Chiang Kai-shek's appointment to return to North China to fight his former comrades-in-arms.
In 1939, Zhao Dong's army and the Eighth Route Army led by ** met in the Shijiazhuang area of Hebei Province, when the two armies exchanged fire, Zhao Tong saw that the situation was not good, left the team and fled, the Eighth Route Army chased closely, and finally killed him and his sister Zhao Lizhi.
Zhao Tong and Zhao Lizhi are the pride of Zhao Hongwenguo, they are anti-Japanese leaders, graduated from prestigious schools, and have a bright future. But once she died, this hit Zhao Hongwenguo hard, and she lost the treasure in her heart.
When the news of her son's and daughter's deaths came, Zhao Hongwenguo was devastated by the news, but instead of reflecting on her son's mistakes, she shifted the blame to the Communist Party. Coupled with Chiang Kai-shek's sowing of discord, she developed a deep hatred for the Communist Party.
In order to take revenge, Zhao Hongwenguo accepted Chiang Kai-shek's appointment as the "commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Suppression of the Communist Party". She infiltrated Shanxi, gathered a large number of old Kuomintang units, and secretly sabotaged the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area, causing heavy losses to the Communist Party.
Zhao Hongwenguo was a contradictory figure, and although she hated the Communist Party to the core, she never stopped resisting Japan. After the death of her son and daughter, she did not indulge in grief, but sent the remaining children to a military school, hoping to reorganize her forces and continue the war of resistance.
Zhao Hongwenguo served the country and the people in the Anti-Japanese War, and resolutely sent his children to the battlefield. However, after the war, she decided to live in seclusion in order to recuperate physically and mentally.
However, in a letter of invitation in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek asked her to go out again and form an army to resist the PLA offensive. In the face of hatred, Zhao Hongwenguo decided to accept the appointment and form a large road guerrilla force to engage in fierce battles with the PLA.
After Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang fled to Taiwan, Zhao Hongwenguo proclaimed himself "the first government to stay behind" and stayed in Chongqing to fight, and she vowed to hold on to the end and do her duty for Chiang Kai-shek.
Some people advised her to see the general trend clearly, that the unification of the whole country by the People's Liberation Army was an inevitable trend, and that continuing to serve the Kuomintang would not lead to good results, but she angrily rebuked the other party. After the liberation of Chengdu, Zhao Hongwenguo organized local bandits to continue to sabotage and established a first-class base in Shifang County.
During this period, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) sent peace talks, hoping that she would be wise and not continue to stand on the opposite side of the people, but instead she did not listen, but instead plotted against the 302nd Division of the 16th Corps of the Yunxi Uprising Army, and even brutally killed more than 20 staff members of the Shifang County Trade Union, and shot the PLA's representatives for peace talks.
In front of everyone, she chopped up the corpse into pieces and threw it into a dung pit.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) quickly eliminated the brutality of the Western Sichuan Military Region, successfully annihilating Zhao Hongwenguo's troops within a month and capturing him himself. Considering that she had contributed to the cause of the Anti-Japanese War, ** promised that as long as she admitted her mistakes, she would be kept alive and properly cared for in her life.
However, instead of realizing her mistake, Zhao Hongwenguo made unacceptable demands: first, to give preferential treatment to her team left in the mountain, and second, to divide a piece of land for her to go back to manage her team.
Zhao Hongwenguo must be shot immediately! Otherwise, how can the innocent people who were killed by her rest in peace? ”
Zhao Hongwenguo walked to the execution ground on July 16, 1950, and although her eyes were blurred and she could not see the faces around her, her hearing was still sharp and she could hear the crowd cursing at her.
Before the execution, she looked around in trepidation, as if unable to believe her current situation. She has been fighting against Japan and saving the country all her life, and many of her children have died on the front line of the Anti-Japanese War.
There will be a time for heroes, and there will be times for confusion. The Communist Party has always been fair, and will not forget Zhao Hongwenguo's contributions, nor will it cover up her crimes.