On a sunny morning in July 1980, a Japanese girl was anxiously waiting for someone in the Great Hall of the People, while founding marshal Nie Rongzhen slowly appeared in front of everyone.
When this Japanese girl saw Marshal Nie Rongzhen, she was so excited that she burst into tears, threw herself on her knees in front of the marshal, and kept shouting in her mouth: "Daddy, I have finally found you!" ”
As the founding marshal of New China, how could Nie Rongzhen have a Japanese daughter? What are the hidden secrets?
Marshal Nie Rongzhen has been reading a lot of books since his youth, and gradually became a hot-blooded young man with a strong patriotic heart, he often said to his friends that he wanted to make contributions to the rise of the Chinese nation, and his teacher once commented on him: Extraordinary qualifications, not a thing in the pool.
During the May Fourth Movement, Nie Rongzhen actively participated in the students' patriotic struggle, in order to better realize the industrial salvation of the country, Nie Rongzhen went to France and Belgium to work and study, participated in the revolutionary movement, and officially joined the party in 1923.
During his study abroad, he saw the brutality of Western fascism and the strength of imperialism, and deepened the idea of serving the country.
After returning to China, he first went to Shanghai to assist Premier Zhou in his work, and then participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Guangzhou Uprising.
In 1931, when the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area led by Chairman Mao was developing rapidly with the spark that could ignite the plains, it was precisely at a time when military talents like Nie Rongzhen were urgently needed, so he went to the Jiangxi Revolutionary Base Area to serve as the political commissar of the First Army of the Red Army, during which time he left a deep impression on Chairman Mao.
In October 1934, under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek's reactionaries, the Kuomintang began to vainly attempt to carry out the strategy of "encirclement, suppression and pursuit" against our party, and our army was forced to start the long march of 25,000 miles.
Chiang Kai-shek set up four blockade lines during our army's Long March in an attempt to encircle and block, while Nie Rongzhen and Lin Biao partnered to fight with the enemy for life and death, and finally broke through the four lines of defense under unremitting efforts.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Nie Rongzhen successively served as the deputy division commander and political commissar of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and in a later campaign, Nie Rongzhen assisted his old partner Lin Biao and won a battle that made the Chinese clap their hands and applaud, and the foreigners were impressed.
The Battle of Pingxingguan was the first major victory since the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, breaking the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army and winning praise and praise from international public opinion for the Communist Party of China and the Eighth Route Army.
Subsequently, Nie Rongzhen established the Wutaishan Anti-Japanese Base Area in Taiyuan, and in order to expand the armed forces, he fully mobilized the masses, and the Jin-Cha-Ji region gradually developed into a model base area of more than 100,000 people, and even Chairman Mao could not help but praise: There was Lu Zhishen in front of Mount Wutai, and now there is Nie Rongzhen, and he called on the Red Army to learn from the Wutaishan base area.
In the autumn of 1939, the Japanese army repeatedly carried out winter sweeps to the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region in an attempt to completely destroy the anti-Japanese base areas.
Japanese Lieutenant General Norihide Abe was also killed by our soldiers with shells in this battle, the highest-ranking Japanese commander who has been eliminated since the War Chinese of Resistance Against Japan.
If it can be said that the current Battle of the Loess Territory made the enthusiasm of the Chinese people highly increase in their enthusiasm for resisting the war, then the Hundred Regiments War that followed greatly boosted the confidence of the people of the whole country in resisting the war.
The people of our army bravely marched forward to fight a bloody battle against the Japanese aggressors, and fully displayed the spirit of the Chinese nation of being indomitable and not being a slave to the country.
In August 1940, according to the unified deployment of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the troops of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, under the command of Nie Rongzhen, launched an attack on the Japanese army in the eastern section of the Zhengtai Railway, and finally destroyed the Japanese Army's Zhengtai Road traffic, and the joy of victory spread throughout the army for a time.
In a war, it is always those who are tortured and violated by those who have no power to tie their hands, as early as when Nie Rongzhen led the troops to focus on attacking the Jingxin Coal Mine and the Niangziguan area, the Japanese army used shells to bombard to stop the Eighth Route Army from advancing, and the mining area instantly became a sea of fire.
In the midst of this smoke, the sudden sound of children crying and shouting made several soldiers rush into the fire without hesitation, following the cries to find two little girls, the eldest of the two girls was four or five years old, the youngest was still in their infancy, next to their mother who had been shot and their injured father.
The fighters immediately braved the hail of bullets and bullets to take the two little girls and their father to the camp's ambulance station, and later the soldiers learned that their father was the station manager of the Station of the Injō Coal Mine in Japan, not a Japanese officer.
The fathers of the two girls died of injuries and ineffective rescue, and looking at the two girls who were crying and crying, the soldiers did not know what to do, so they asked their superiors for instructions.
After Nie Rongzhen heard about it, he immediately instructed the two children to be sent to the command post of the military region, and after the little girl was sent, Nie Rongzhen looked at the girl's frightened and helpless eyes, and his heart was greatly shaken, he let the soldiers boil a bowl of porridge, feed the older girls to eat, and personally cut a snowflake pear for her, and then asked the guards to quickly go to the village to find lactating women to feed the small children.
He said to the soldiers: "Our Eighth Army has always been known for its benevolence, although the Japanese army is indeed hateful. But the child is innocent after all. ”
The older little girl was Mei Suizi, who saw that Nie Rongzhen was so kind and kind, so she always followed Nie Rongzhen's side, dragging Nie Rongzhen's pants leg with her small hand, and followed wherever she went, at this time a soldier in the command headquarters took a group photo of Nie Rongzhen and the little girl, and this photo later became a precious historical witness.
Marshal Nie considered the war situation in the border area at that time, decided to send the two little girls back to the Japanese military camp, he found a reliable fellow, put the children in the basket, reluctantly touched the heads of the two children, and prepared a lot of food to prevent the children from starving halfway, and finally wrote a letter in his own handwriting and put them in the basket, saying: I hope that the Japanese army will send the two children back to Japan and transfer them to relatives to raise.
Time passed quickly, and in 1980, the headlines on the front page of a famous Japanese newspaper published: "Sister Mihoko, Chinese Marshal Nie Rongzhen Misses You", which immediately attracted the attention of the Japanese people.
The Japanese media found the Mihoko sisters who were married at the time, and the Mieko sisters immediately decided to go to China to thank the benefactors.
In July 1980, accompanied by her family, the Miho sisters traveled thousands of miles to Beijing and met the savior who thought about it day and night in the Great Hall of the People, Mihoko saw Nie Rongzhen excitedly and did not know what to say, holding Nie Rongzhen's hand tearfully, bowing deeply, Nie Rongzhen also held Mihoko's hand for a long time and did not want to let go, and everyone present was moved.
Mihoko said: If there is no Marshal Nie, there would be no current self.
In fact, at that time, people did not understand why Nie Rongzhen wanted to take in these two Japanese girls, when the Japanese army wantonly persecuted and destroyed the Chinese people, implemented the mad policy of burning, killing, and robbing the light, and in the Nanjing Massacre, it was also cruel to innocent people, including women and children, so why did Nie Rongzhen still want to help them?
Although at that time, the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army against our country were heinous and abhorrent, but the children were always innocent, they were also victims of war, and he believed that the war was not initiated by the enemy country, but by the reactionary forces and the frenzied militarists who tried to enslave others.
Nie Rongzhen showed the soldiers the humanitarian spirit of the Eighth Route Army with practical actions, and highlighted the broad mind of proletarian politicians.
Inspired by Nie Rongzhen's humanitarian feelings, Mihoko also actively engaged in Sino-Japanese friendship activities and was commended by the China-Japan Friendship Association, and Nie Rongzhen's rescue of Japan's orphan daughter has gradually become a historical witness of the friendship between the Chinese and Japanese peoples.