The anti-Japanese drama "The Old Lady with Two Guns" should be the childhood memories of many post-80s and post-90s friends. At that time, there were always a few friends with two wooden guns or paper guns, imitating the old woman with two guns. But many people should not know that the protagonist in the play is in its original form, but in reality, this "two-gun old woman" did not have a satisfactory ending, and was shot after the founding of the country. What made this anti-Japanese hero end up being shot?
The "old lady with two guns" was originally named Hong Wenguo, because her husband's surname was Zhao, and she followed her husband's surname and changed her name to Zhao Hongwenguo. Although Zhao Hongwenguo was born in 1881 in Hongqigou, Whistle River Township, Xiuyan County, Liaoning Province, he was a descendant of the Qing Dynasty Han Army Banner people. But she is a down-to-earth ordinary peasant woman. So what if this ordinary village woman became a two-gun old woman who shocked the whole country?
When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, Zhao Hongwenguo was over 50 years old, but because he had witnessed the crimes of the Japanese army invading China since childhood, he was full of hatred for the Japanese army from an early age. Later, as Japan's ambitions gradually emerged, the Japanese army began to achieve "enslavement education" for Chinese children in Japanese-occupied areas, in order to make Chinese teenagers not become slaves to the country, Zhao Hongwenguo founded zhao jiabaozi primary school to resist Japanese slavery education and insisted on using Chinese teaching materials.
But what made Zhao Hongwenguo determined to go to the battlefield was her third son, Zhao Tong. Zhao Tong was a student at Northeastern University and later returned to his hometown to organize the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army. However, organizing an armed force requires financial support, and just when Zhao Tong did not know what to do, Zhao Hongwenguo took the initiative to sell his family's belongings, and the money obtained was used as funds for his son to recruit more people. And her home has become a transit point for her son's contact. In this way, Zhao Hongwenguo's mother and son pulled up an anti-Japanese guerrilla group of 500 people.
In 1934, the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army was renamed the "Young Predator Army", which was called the "Predator Army" by locals, and Zhao Hongwenguo took the women in her family to do logistics for the Predator Army, and she often kept guns and ammunition for the team herself, as well as monitoring and collecting intelligence on the Japanese puppet army.
In the spring of 1938, Zhao Hongwenguo's eldest son was brutally killed by Japanese devils in a battle and shown to the public. This made Zhao Hongwenguo hate the Japanese army even more, and vowed to drive the Japanese army out of China. In order to practice the killing skills of the enemy, Zhao Hongwenguo thought of many ways. Because of the perennial agricultural work, Zhao Hongwenguo is very flexible, and the left and right hands can be switched freely, so Zhao Hongwenguo came up with the idea of holding a gun with both hands.
Holding a gun in both hands at the same time means that sometimes one more Japanese soldier can be killed on the battlefield. In the Battle of Qingbar Ridge in the Taihang Mountains, Zhao Hongwenguo made the enemy careless because of the unique skills of the double gun, and finally killed 33 Japanese troops and won a complete victory. At that time, the Ta Kung Pao reported that she had ambushed the Japanese army, which inspired the people, and the New York Times in the United States and domestic newspapers in Japan also published telegrams. Because Zhao Hongwenguo always held a double gun, the world began to honor her as "two-gun old woman". Song Meiling published an article on Women's Day in 1938, calling Mrs. Zhao a "model for women in the country" and "the mother of the nation", comparing her to Meng's mother and mother-in-law. Celebrities in women's circles such as Song Qingling, He Xiangning, Song Xialing, Zhu Guangzhen, and Shi Liang also wrote inscriptions praising Old Lady Zhao as a "model among women," "a mother's education to save the country," "seeking a free and equal status on the road to the liberation of the Chinese nation, and being a leading vanguard in the spirit of stubborn resistance to the enemy.
In January 1939, Chiang Kai-shek invited Zhao Hongwenguo and Zhao Dong to Chongqing. Chiang Kai-shek not only took a group photo with Zhao Hongwenguo, who had two guns in his waist, but also married her as a brother and sister. Subsequently, Zhao Hongwenguo refused the car house donated by the National Government, and at the same time rejected the advice of some celebrities to persuade Zhao Tong and his comrades-in-arms to stay in the rear to recuperate or go abroad for further study, and insisted on returning to the anti-Japanese front. Zhao Hongwenguo and his son Zhao Tong and the old comrades-in-arms of the Northeast War of Resistance again recruited and selected patriotic young people in the northeast. The "Zhao Dong Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Group" named after Zhao Dong was reorganized into the first detachment by our Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region. Zhao Dong was appointed commander-in-chief by the Nationalist government, with the rank of major general, and Zhao Hongwenguo as deputy commander and chief of staff. The two men led 200 people to the north in two batches to join the old anti-Japanese forces in northern China and southern Liaoning to consolidate and expand the anti-Japanese base areas.
However, what he did not expect was that Zhao Hongwenguo's son Zhao Tong was heroically killed by the Japanese army in the following year, only 28 years old, and after Chiang Kai-shek heard about this, he posthumously awarded Zhao Dong as a lieutenant general. After the death of her son Zhao Tong, Zhao Hongwenguo, who was nearly 70 years old, continued to pull up the team and took her fourth son, Zhao Lianzhong, to fight the Japanese army until the end of the anti-Japanese resistance.
So why would such a hero end up being executed? This is because during the Liberation War, the Nationalist Government did its best to win over local forces in various places in order to crack down on our Party, and Zhao Hongwenguo was one of them. Before the Chengdu Metropolitan War, Zhao Hongwenguo, with some of his henchmen, took a large amount of ammunition donated by Chiang Kai-shek to the Western Sichuan Plain and prepared to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek in the Chengdu Metropolitan War. In the end, the Chengdu Warring States Army either collapsed or surrendered, and Song Xilian was captured, but Zhao Hongwenguo was still obsessed and sneaked to the area of Red and White Field in Sanhe Township, Shifang County.
In order to show her determination, she held an oath-taking meeting at the Three Holy Palaces, arrested more than 20 peasant activists and members of the grain collection team, and beheaded them all for public display. After the killing, she made a speech demanding that "all the people in the township must fight the Communist Party with me, and whoever does not go will kill his whole family." The farmer Zhang Baoming did not comply, she let the bandits cut off his head on the spot, which is not to mention, and let the bandits gang rape Zhang Baoming's daughter in public. Within 10 days, she had killed more than 200 members of the grain collection team and peasant masses close to the Communist Party. Mrs. Zhao not only did not heed the advice herself, but also obstructed the uprising of the Kuomintang Sixteenth Corps and incited anti-communist elements to kill the NEGOTIATORS of the People's Liberation Army.
In 1950, Zhao Hongwenguo was arrested and refused to surrender, and could only be sentenced to death. When Zhou Enlai, who was far away in Beijing, learned of the situation, he called and hoped that Nian Nian would be able to leave people under the knife for her meritorious anti-Japanese contribution. But without shooting Zhao Hongwenguo, the local victims did not agree, especially the families of the more than 200 people killed by her could not forgive her. They felt that only by executing Zhao Hongwenguo could they comfort the spirit of the deceased in heaven. In the end, this female middle school Haojie, who fought for the country in blood, because of her own historical mistakes. He was shot by law enforcement officers of the Southwest Military Region at the age of 70. After Zhao Hongwenguo and Zhao Lianzhong were shot, Mao Zedong personally instructed his family to be treated kindly, and Zhao Lianzhong's wife, Deng Waitao, and her children were released, after which they went to Hong Kong and disappeared.