In early 1942, Shandong, China.
On the Qingxi Plain in Shandong Province, the heroic Eighth Route Army created a miracle.
Under the frantic sweep of the Japanese army, a deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army led a company of more than 90 people, and was not afraid of the Japanese army with a strength far higher than his own more than 40 times, and even broke out of the encirclement from under the noses of the Japanese army, and there was not a single soldier of his own.
The deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army was Han Ziheng of the Shandong guerrillas. After this incident, he was admired by many soldiers of the Eighth Route Army because of his heroic performance in battle, and was also known as the "Thunderbolt Pioneer".
His heroic deeds are not limited to this, today let's walk into his life together to see the contribution made by this heroic soldier to the Chinese revolution.
In 1906, Han Ziheng was born in Tangkou, Shandong, his family conditions are relatively well-off, he went from Gaoqingshan to Changshan Middle School in Zouping County to study, where he received patriotic education, and his ideological progress was rapid, and he was very angry about the current situation of China's continuous fall and division by foreign powers, hoping to save the country and the people through his own efforts.
After the "77" incident in 1937, Han Ziheng hated the Japanese invaders even more, and in the face of the current situation of the country being invaded, he was full of enthusiasm and called on his fellow villagers and friends to discuss the anti-Japanese plan.
In order to strengthen the anti-Japanese momentum, he studied the Western parades, called on and organized aspiring young people to take to the streets, and exposed the shameless behavior of the Japanese to the passing crowd under the pretense of "playing color" games, and also organized anti-Japanese volunteer activities of donating money and materials.
In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Han Ziheng has been fighting in the Shandong Theater and has made many miraculous achievements, making significant contributions to the revolutionary cause. Until 1943, the Japanese army launched a large-scale and long-term sweep in the Shandong region, Han Ziheng fought bravely with the Japanese army, was seriously wounded by the Japanese army, and he was martyred at the age of 37 without being captured.
FigHan Ziheng.
Establishment of the Self-Defense Forces of the 6th District
Five months after the "77 Incident", the Japanese invasion came to Shandong.
The Japanese army sent 20,000 soldiers to force the Yellow River, and the troops were divided into two routes, launching an attack on Jinan in Shandong and the area near Zhoucun, and the Japanese army also sent fighter planes to bomb the county town of Zouping, where Han Ziheng once studied.
Sadly, all of a sudden, the county "disappeared" from all the sizes. It turned out that the arrival of the Japanese army frightened the Kuomintang **, who were doing evil on weekdays, and most of them packed up and ran away early with their families overnight after receiving the news.
In December 1937, Han Ziheng was appointed as the squadron leader of the 6th District of Changshan County, Shandong Province.
Han Ziheng received an organizational order asking him to "mobilize the masses to actively resist Japan."
In the face of the repeated sweeps by the Japanese invaders and the humiliation and trampling on the people of Zhongbai, Han Ziheng understood that he needed to develop the revolutionary armed forces and protect the people at critical moments.
Battle of Xiaoqinghe
In January 1938, the Shandong People's Anti-Japanese Rescue ** learned that there was a Japanese army motorboat that would sail to Yangjiaogou in Jinan, passing through the Xiaoqing River Valley on the way, and it was said that there were Japanese commanders on it. They decided to flank the Japanese army on both sides of the strait, and when they learned that Han Ziheng's "United Village" anti-Japanese organization was not far from Xiaoqing River, they sent people to seek cooperation, because they had a common purpose, and the two sides quickly reached an agreement.
Han Ziheng led more than a dozen people to set up an ambush on the north bank of the Xiaoqing River, and finally waited for the arrival of the Japanese army at noon on January 19.
The Japanese motorboat was loaded with military supplies, which made Han Ziheng nervous and a little excited at the same time. This was the first time he went to the battlefield to fight with the Japanese army, and tension was inevitable, but the piles of materials really made him red.
FigJapanese troops on board preparing for battle.
In this battle, Han Ziheng's operational commander was very calm, and he told his subordinates: ".Don't be nervous or anxious, wait for the Japanese yacht to get close before fighting. ”
It wasn't until he heard the sound of the anti-Japanese rescue ** shooting in Shandong on the other side of the river that Han Ziheng ordered the attack.
The sudden attack made the Japanese soldiers on the yacht confused, many Japanese soldiers were killed before they could react, and some Japanese soldiers jumped into the river and tried to swim ashore, but they were all killed by Han Ziheng one by one.
Han Ziheng also led people to rush onto the yacht quickly while he was unprepared, with a clear goal, the first thing to kill was the Japanese man who drove the motorboat, and the others cooperated to contain the other Japanese soldiers on the motorboat. In less than a while, Han Ziheng took control of the yacht and forced the motorboat to moor.
After seizing these materials, Han Ziheng was very happy, which means that the problem of insufficient personnel in the United Village has been solved, and the United Village can further develop and expand with these equipment.
As the news of the victory spread throughout the Qinghe area, there was an endless stream of people who came to sign up to join the army, so that the personnel of Lianzhuang surged to more than 120 people at once.
In this ambush, a total of 12 senior staff officers and above officers of the Japanese army were killed, and even a Japanese brigade commander was killed, and a lot of equipment and military supplies were seized.
When the nearby villagers heard that the squadron had won the battle against the little devils, they were very excited to deliver meals and meat to the soldiers.
The victory in the Battle of Xiaoqinghe greatly encouraged the revolutionary enthusiasm of the anti-Japanese resistance in Shandong, and also allowed the Eighth Route Army to establish a certain mass base in the Qinghe area and even the entire Shandong region, so that the Japanese army no longer became terrible in the hearts of the people.
Soon after, Han Ziheng's United Village was reorganized and incorporated into the Third Detachment of the Shandong People's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army by the Eighth Route Army and continued to fight against the Japanese army. Han Ziheng also served as the commander of the fourth company, and in October of the same year, Han Ziheng officially joined the Communist Party of China.
FigEighth route army.
Establish the Qinghe anti-Japanese base area
In 1940, the Third Detachment of the Shandong People's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army, to which Han Ziheng belonged, was sent to the vast plain area north of the Xiaoqing River to develop and establish a revolutionary base area.
At that time, the activities of the Japanese puppet army in the Qinghe Plain area were extremely rampant. The whereabouts of the third detachment were also discovered by the Japanese army, who tightly blocked the railways along the line, and the puppet army also carried out frequent harassment and attacks on the Eighth Route Army.
In the face of the unbearable harassment, the marching speed of the troops was constantly delayed, and the long-term harassment made many soldiers feel tired, the target of the unit was too large to hide the tracks, the commander of the unit decided to break the troops into pieces and rush to the destination in multiple ways.
Han Ziheng, then the deputy commander of the third detachment, led the whole battalion to fight bravely, broke through the obstruction of the puppet army, and hid into his hometown of Tangkou, Shandong, where Han Ziheng was like a fish in water, actively mobilized the villagers to resist Japan, spread red ideas, and attracted many young and middle-aged people from several nearby villages to join the army.
In March, Han Ziheng and Instructor Li went to a nearby village to do mass work, but they did not expect to be noticed by the traitors, Han Ziheng learned that the traitors left the village, and knew that there would be a battle with the Japanese army, and he called on the soldiers of the whole battalion to actively prepare for war, and to give the Japanese army a head-on blow, to fear them, and to hurt them.
Sure enough, after the Japanese army learned the news, they dispatched a large group of troops to attack nearby. The soldiers who went to investigate sent a message back, and Han Ziheng was also fully prepared, and he distanced himself from the people's houses early, led the soldiers of the whole battalion to hide under the earthen wall at the entrance of the village, and ordered an attack when the enemy was less than 50 meters away from the earthen wall, and the bullets and grenades rained down on the Japanese army, and the two sides fought fiercely, and the firepower did not stop until dusk.
After a while, the enemy regrouped and prepared to attack, considering that the enemy's reinforcements were already on the way, and it was likely to be surrounded if they stayed any longer, Han Ziheng and Instructor Li decided to retreat, taking advantage of the terrain under the cover of the night, retreating while fighting, and successfully evacuated before the enemy's encirclement closed.
FigThe masses welcomed the Eighth Route Army.
This was the first firepower confrontation with the Japanese army after Han Ziheng led the army into the Xiaoqinghe area, annihilating more than 1,000 Japanese troops, greatly dealing a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army, and even playing the prestige of the Eighth Route Army, winning the praise of the local people, and gaining a firm foothold in the Qinghe Plain.
Led 90 people to break through the blockade of 4,000 Japanese troops
Han Ziheng carried out a three-year long-term anti-Japanese struggle in the Qinghe Plain, participated in countless large and small wars against Japan, and experienced the ruthless beating and continuous tempering of the war, which made him grow very rapidly, summed up his experience again and again in actual combat, and constantly improved his combat and command standards. He led his troops into enemy-occupied areas and enemy camps many times, and taught the Japanese army a painful lesson. As early as 1942, Han Ziheng served as the chief of staff of the Independent Regiment of the Qinghe Military Region with his excellent performance.
At the beginning of 1942, he created a myth. In the Changbai Mountain area, Han Ziheng led a company to fight, and in the face of the blockade of more than 4,000 Japanese invaders, he was not afraid of danger, and adopted a mobile and flexible combat method to break through the encirclement of the Japanese army, and led the whole company without a single person**. This miracle set off a huge wave of revolution in the Qinghe Plain.
At the beginning of 1943, the Japanese army gathered 10,000 troops to sweep the Qinghe Plain in Shandong. The Japanese army adopted the usual sweeping tactic of "encirclement with an iron wall", trying to encircle the Eighth Route Army and compress it into a narrow area for annihilation.
The main forces of the Eighth Route Army fought nimbly with the enemy, disrupting the layout of the enemy's mutual encirclement, and thus escaped from the encirclement. After this defeat, the Japanese set their sights on the garrison of the Qingxi Military Region and launched a siege of it in mid-January.
At this time, Han Ziheng was stationed in the northern area of the Xiaoqing River, and after receiving organizational information, he made an estimate of the pace of the Japanese army's attack, "according to the speed of the Japanese army's march, it is about to be encircled", so Han Ziheng led the troops to evacuate.
FigEighth Route Army combat bunker.
However, the situation they faced was somewhat difficult, because there were strongholds of the enemy with loaded guns and ammunition in the west, and a large number of Japanese troops had already arrived in the south.
After repeated resolutions, Han Ziheng decided that if he could not break through the encirclement, he would divide into multiple roads and look for opportunities to break through, and Han Ziheng led the ninth company to seek a breakthrough from the northeast. At the same time, more than 3,000 Japanese troops surrounded Taotangkou, cutting off the retreat of the Eighth Route Army from Gaoyuan to Qingcheng.
When Han Ziheng arrived at Tianguo Village, he saw that Tianzhen not far away was already in flames, and he could still see the Japanese army in the city from a distance, so he hurriedly led the army to move to Miaocui Village.
Since Han Ziheng could see the Japanese army, the Japanese army naturally discovered the traces of Han Ziheng's troops, and now they hurriedly sent troops to follow behind Han Ziheng's troops to pursue, and carried out a four-way raid on Han Ziheng's troops in Miaozi Village. Fortunately, Han Ziheng responded properly, first let the troops blow up a passage with grenades, and then let the troops retreat while fighting, with fierce combat, Han Ziheng led his troops to withdraw from Miaozi Village.
However, Han Ziheng led the troops in Wangjia Village and was once again surrounded by the tide of Japanese troops, and the disparity in strength was very obvious. Han Ziheng, who is at a disadvantage, called on everyone to move forward bravely and emphasized that it will be done"A person must also rush out, and those who can rush out are counted as one, and don't be afraid to fight."
This battle was in the open area, and there was nothing to use as a shield, and the few dead trees were also occupied by the Japanese drama early, so Han Ziheng had to choose to lean over on the spot and fight on the flat ground.
The grenades are like sparks, constantly falling on the enemy's position, blowing the enemy to pieces; The machine guns also fired non-stop, looking like tongues of fire from the front. All of a sudden, the smoke and dust brought up made the battlefield a little unclear.
Han Ziheng's troops were like they were dying, and after beating the enemy army in the south, they hit the north, and after fighting the front, they hit the flank. Although the soldiers fought bravely, the disparity between the forces could not be easily erased. One by one, the warriors fell, and the other warriors quickly filled their positions before they had time to grieve.
FigWangjia Village.
In this battle, the machine gun squad, as a heavy fire output, suffered heavy blows from the Japanese side. The machine gunners were constantly falling, and other soldiers were constantly coming to take over, and even then, none of the soldiers in the machine gun squad survived.
The soldiers led by Han Ziheng repelled wave after wave of Japanese attacks, and as long as the Japanese soldiers rushed in front of them, they all turned into corpses.
But the enemy was constantly rushing up, seeing that the enemy was constantly shrinking the encirclement, Han Ziheng was very nervous, because now the soldiers did not have many bullets left in their hands, and the situation was so grim. Han Ziheng commanded everyone to fight with bayonets, he took the lead in rushing forward, and the soldiers followed him closely to kill the enemy.
During hand-to-hand combat, Han Ziheng was hit in the thigh by a Japanese bullet, but he still stood up strong and fought against the Japanese army. But his legs were wounded, his movement was noticeably slower, he was cut in the waist by the enemy, and soon he was shot in the left shoulder by the enemy, but even then he insisted on commanding the battle.
It wasn't until later that the Japanese shot at him many times, causing him to be shot several times, and the wounds on his body were full of blood, and he even fainted for a while. When he woke up and found himself being carried on his back by several soldiers, he asked the soldiers to put him down, which would seriously slow down everyone's journey, and the Japanese would catch up sooner or later. He told the soldiers firmly:"I really can't do it, you go first and I'll cut you off. Remember to rush out, as long as you can rush out, there is hope for anything.
The soldiers insisted on refusing, and the Japanese troops behind them kept shouting, saying that they wanted to capture the leaders of the Eighth Route Army alive. Han Ziheng held a gun to his temple and forced several soldiers of the Eighth Route Army to leave, and when the enemy gradually approached, Han Ziheng did not want to be captured, so he pulled the trigger and martyred the country.
FigEighth route army.
Seeing Han Ziheng's heroic sacrifice, there were still more than 20 soldiers in the team, shouting the slogan of swearing to die and not being taken prisoner, and rushed to the camp of the Japanese army. With the belief of death, the encirclement was finally highlighted. In this battle, more than 180 Japanese soldiers were killed, and the Eighth Route Army also lost more than 50 soldiers.
When the news of Han Ziheng's martyrdom came, it caused great grief among the masses in Shandong, and the people could not accept Han Ziheng's departure.
Han Ziheng often helped the villagers in their lives, and fought many victories in the Qingxi area, protecting the safety of local residents, and people were grateful for his kindness.
The Qinghe Party organization held a farewell ceremony for Han Ziheng, and on that day the entire village was surrounded by people who came to mourn. Political Commissar Li of the Qingxi Military Region even said something like this:"Han Ziheng's heroic sacrifice was a huge grief that the people in the Qingxi region could not accept, and it also caused the Qingxi Theater to lose a fierce general. "
Yang Chengwu
Yang Chengwu is one of the ten founding marshals of New China, and he once led a company to retreat in the encirclement of 10,000 people of the Japanese army. When the Japanese army invaded the North China Plain in 1940, Yang Chengwu received an order to lead the army to move to Langya Mountain.
In the middle of the night, when passing through the north mountain of the flower bed, Yang Chengwu found that a large group of Japanese soldiers suddenly came to the bottom of the mountain, and it was roughly estimated that there were tens of thousands of people.
You must know that at this time, the troops led by Yang Chengwu only had one company, and in the face of the Japanese army with as many as 10,000 people, it was like delivering food.
After a period of panic, he calmed down, and he ordered the guards to break out with the company commander first, and the others divided into three squads to harass and storm the enemy. The Japanese army took a short rest here, and did not find that there were people on the mountain, and the Eighth Route Army suddenly fell from the sky, which put the Japanese army into a panic, and the troops led by Yang Wucheng also fell into the encirclement of the Japanese army.
FigYang Chengwu
But it didn't take long for the Japanese army to relieve, and at this time, Yang Chengwu had already led the team to break through, so he ordered to increase the firepower output, attack the enemy's weak place, and finally successfully broke through the encirclement and fled into the ravine.
The Japanese army immediately pursued, but they had no way to start in the face of one wide ravine after another, and were finally freed by Yang Chengwu.
After Yang Chengwu escaped, he did not quickly lead the troops to escape, but sent scouts to reconnoiter the whereabouts of the Japanese army, and found the enemy's base camp not too far ahead.
This discovery made Yang Chengwu sweat coldly, and now their company was being flanked by the Japanese army in front and back, and it was only a matter of time before they were discovered, and the slightest carelessness would wipe out the entire army.
After thinking about it for a long time, Yang Chengwu divided into two ways. The company commander led a road army to the south to raid, he led a road to the north to raid, such a layout made the Japanese army fall into a panic, for the strength of the Eighth Route Army also has some doubts, when the enemy is still hesitant and entangled, the two roads have broken through the enemy's defense line, and finally converged in Jiulian Mountain.
Xu Henglu
Xu Henglu was a veteran revolutionary soldier who joined the Eighth Route Army in 1945. Participated in the War of Liberation and fought heroically many times in the war. By the time of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he was already a company commander. In January 1951, he received orders to guard the Nanshan position, and he faced the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army. In this war, the enemy sent 12 tanks to crush the position, but he easily defused it with grenades.
FigXu Henglu
However, the U.S. army added 19 tanks and sent another regiment of troops to attack in turn, resulting in Xu Henglu's troops remaining with only 30 people. In the end, hand-to-hand combat was staged, and after a round of charge, Xu Henglu's company was left with only seven people.
If people are still there, the battle must continue, this is the belief of the Chinese people. Without ammunition, he asked everyone to pile up stones in front of the position and smash them down on the enemy. The seven surviving warriors firmly believed that they would die on the battlefield, and they were about to start a new round of hand-to-hand combat. Fortunately, reinforcements arrived and joined the battle, and in the end, Xu Henglu's company was left with him and another soldier.
They persevered for an extra five hours to complete the task of blocking the attack with a large number of personnel and insufficient ammunition, and the entire company held out for two days and two nights.
From childhood to adulthood, we have heard many heroic stories, but what we empathize with the most in these stories must be the deeds of those heroes who have succeeded each other for the establishment of New China. Learn about the heroic deeds of a martyr every time, remember a heroic martyr every time, and let them be remembered forever.