After losing the contest to the female Red Army, Xu Shiyou laughed: "Still old Zhou is strong, dare to marry He Ziyou!" "
In October 1933, a contest was taking place in an open space in Yilong County, Sichuan Province, located in the revolutionary base area of Sichuan and Shaanxi. On the other side of the confrontation, on one side is a big man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and on the other side is a woman with a clear eyebrow. I saw that the big man was making a Shaolin fist all the way, opening and closing, and the tiger was full of wind; the woman opposite him was as light as a swallow, moving left and right. The big man suddenly rushed to her side and reached out to grab the woman, and the woman quickly dodged, taking advantage of the momentum to fly up and slap it the door of the big man's head. Although this slap did not injure the big man, the hundreds of Red Army soldiers who were watching roared one by one, and some people were still shouting: "Xu Monk, you have lost, come down!" "
The man and woman who were competing in the competition were none other than Xu Shiyou, commander of the Thirty-fourth Regiment of the Twelfth Division of the Fourth Army of the Red Fourth Front, and He Ziyou, the head of the Women's Defense Work Team of the Political Protection Bureau of the Red Fourth Front, and the wife of Zhou Zikun, later deputy chief of staff of the New Fourth Army.
Xu Shiyou is a legendary figure in the history of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He entered Shaolin to learn martial arts since he was a child, and practiced a unique martial art, and a female general actually fought with him for a lifetime, what is the origin of this He Ziyou?
Unlike Xu Shiyou, He Ziyou is a Wudang heroine, the twelfth generation of Wudang Taihemen, whose name has been included in the "History of Chinese Martial Arts" and is a famous female Haojie in the martial arts world. She once singled out the "King of the Mountains", punched the bandit leader, captured the enemy cavalry instructor, and was known as the "Iron Fist He Grandmother".
He Ziyou was born in February 1913 to a poor family in Cangxi County, Sichuan Province. Because her family was too poor to open the pot, when she was ten years old, her father sent her to the "Jingwu Boxing Room" in Cangxi City to work as a miscellaneous worker, hoping that she would have food to eat and survive.
In 1925, a revolution broke out in Cangxi County, and her father joined the Red Army and became the chairman of the township soviet. Unexpectedly, Chiang Kai-shek betrayed the revolution, the reactionaries went on a killing spree of the Communists, and her father was also killed by the enemy. He Ziyou, who had a strong personality since childhood, secretly swore: "Lao Tzu must take revenge on this!" "
He Ziyou's "Jingwu Boxing Room" was built in the early Ming Dynasty and is one of the famous martial arts halls in Sichuan, which brings together many masters. Li Deyuan, the chief teacher of this martial arts gym, especially liked He Ziyou, a stubborn little girl.
This Li Deyuan is not simple, he fled to Cangxi from his hometown of Taiyuan, Shanxi, after killing the local bullies because of his unevenness at home. He was the apprentice of Huang Chunyan, a famous master of the Wudang Sect during the Guangxu period, and was known as the "Holy Hand Li Laowu" for his "Pai Shu Palm". His master, Huang Chunyan, was a well-known hero who had killed three assassins who had assassinated Sun Yat-sen at the Confucius Temple in Nanjing in 1912.
Li Deyuan has a daughter named Li Yingying, who is about the same age as He Ziyou, and the two play well. Li Deyuan found that He Ziyou could endure hardships, had high understanding, and had a quick response, so he accepted him as a righteous daughter and taught her all his skills. Under the careful guidance of Li Deyuan, He Ziyou spent five years immersed himself in learning the secret skill of "paid palming", and finally practiced a real kung fu.
In October 1932, the Red Fourth Front moved to Sichuan and Shaanxi and created the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area. In July of the following year, a Soviet government was established in Cangxi County and a vigorous "expansion of red" work was carried out. In order to avenge himself, He Ziyou signed up for the Red Army and became a soldier in the Women's Independent Regiment of the Red Fourth Front.
Once, He Ziyou and several female comrades went out to collect grain, and on the way they encountered a group of bandits who occupied the mountain as the king. The bandit's boss bandit number", "Black Seven", has practiced fists and feet, and three or five ordinary people are not his opponents.
"Black Seven" saw that He Ziyou and several others were female soldiers, so he proposed that as long as anyone could beat him, he would let the Red Army go; otherwise, he would have to stay and buy road money. He Ziyou didn't say a word, and when he went up, he slapped the "Black Seven" to the ground, and the rest of the small bandits were frightened and held their heads. The "Black Seven" was so frightened that he begged for forgiveness and vowed never to dare to block the road of the Red Army again.
After this incident, the organization saw that He Ziyou was highly skilled in martial arts and was a malleable material, so he promoted her to the head of the women's independent regiment and assigned her a short gun. Soon after, He Ziyou practiced a good marksmanship, and in one battle, she single-handedly killed five or six enemies. After the victory of the battle, the regimental commander promoted her to the rank of reconnaissance platoon leader, and rewarded her with one of the enemy's pistols she captured, and from then on she held a double gun in her hand and became the "double-gun He Grandmother" who made the enemy feel frightened.
It was at this time that Xu Shiyou learned that there was a female platoon leader named He Ziyou in the Women's Independent League, who had a good kung fu and wanted to meet her. Xu Shiyou was a Shaolin teacher, known as "Xu Monk" in the Red Army, and never met an opponent in the competition.
On this day, He Ziyou and several sisters were ordered to come to Xu Shiyou's regiment for official business, and Xu Shiyou proposed to her to have a discussion and meet the friends with wu. Although everyone did not believe that He Ziyou was Xu Shiyou's opponent, the two masters were also very rare to see, so after a while, the playground of the regimental headquarters was surrounded.
He Ziyou is not a brave and fierce person, she has also heard of Xu Shiyou's name for a long time, and always modestly believes that she will not be Xu Shiyou's opponent. Several female warriors who came with her also objected to her and Xu Shiyou's competition, saying that a good man would not fight with a woman, and in case Xu Shiyou lost his hand, He Ziyou might be injured. Xu Shiyou did not do it, he said to He Ziyou, today is only to meet friends with martial arts, point to the end, will not let her be hurt; and then the competition is also to improve the ability to kill the enemy.
Under everyone's affix, He Ziyou agreed to Xu Shiyou's request. This happened to the scene described above: Xu Shiyou, who was entrusted with a slap on the head by He Ziyou, had to concede defeat.
Xu Shiyou is also very able to afford to put down, losing is losing, although he did not do his best, but the other party is a woman after all, what else to say? So he toasted He Ziyou with a glass of wine according to the prior agreement, indicating that he was willing to bow to the wind.
In 1935, the Red Army and the Fourth Front successfully met in Maogong, Sichuan. Zhou Zikun, then director of the First Bureau of the General Headquarters of the Red Army, was sent by the Central Committee to work in the Red Fourth Front. It was during this period that Zhou Zikun heard He Ziyou's name many times.
Zhou Zikun, born in 1901, is a leader of our party who is both wise and courageous. During the Great Revolution, he accompanied Ye Ting on the Northern Expedition and served as a battalion commander in Ye Ting's independent regiment; later he participated in the Nanchang Uprising, and then went up to Jinggangshan with the troops, successively serving as division commanders, army commanders, and corps chiefs of staff of the Red Army.
After years of revolutionary career, Zhou Zikun never had time to think about personal problems. He Changgong, the political commissar of the Red Ninth Army, who worked with him in the Four Fronts Army, was very concerned about the personal problems of this old comrade-in-arms and was determined to find a like-minded revolutionary partner for Zhou Zikun in the Four Fronts Army.
At that time, in the Women's Independent Regiment of the Four Fronts Army, other female soldiers were chased, but no one dared to chase He Ziyou. Everyone knows that even Xu Shiyou is not her opponent, in the future, if the husband and wife quarrel, they must not be beaten down by He Ziyou?
Coincidentally, after He Changgong was transferred to the Fourth Front Army, when forming the Left Route Army, Xu Xiangqian assigned the Women's Independent Regiment to He Changgong's men, which gave He Changgong, who had the intention of finding a revolutionary partner for Zhou Zikun, a lot of opportunities. Through a period of observation, He Changgong found that He Ziyou was not only good-looking, but also brave in combat, but also knew kung fu, and Zhou Zikun was simply a natural pair.
With such an idea, He Changgong began to "fake public welfare and private welfare", often giving He Ziyou some tasks that needed to be reported to Zhou Zikun. Because Zhou Zikun was the director of the First Bureau at that time and was responsible for the protection of the Red Army, He Changgong often asked He Ziyou to reconnoiter the situation and reported to Zhou Zikun almost every day.
Once, Zhou Zikun took He Ziyou and several other soldiers to scout the enemy's situation, but unexpectedly encountered more than twenty enemy cavalry. When the enemy saw that there were only five or six of us, and there was a woman, he rushed over on horseback and tried to catch them alive. Running in front of the enemy, a cavalryman wielded a saber and slashed at her. He Ziyou's eyes were fast, and he used the "Pai Shu Palm" to hit the abdomen of the war horse. The enemy's war horse was beaten to a tumble, and the enemy fell off the horse. He Ziyou stepped on this guy's back, and the enemy could not break free no matter how he struggled. The other enemies saw this and fled in a hurry.
Through this incident, Zhou Zikun became interested in He Ziyou. Later, he learned about this girl's experience through He Changgong, and he admired her even more.
In the autumn of 1937, 24-year-old He Ziyou and 36-year-old Zhou Zikun married in Yan'an. At the wedding, Mao Zedong personally delivered a congratulatory speech and presented He Ziyou with a fountain pen as a souvenir. Zhou Enlai said in his speech: "Zhou Zikun, He Ziyou, both of you have a "son" in your names, and I hope that you will strive to become the 'Gemini constellation' of the revolution! "
Zhou Zikun
Among the leaders who attended the wedding that day, Several Shiyou laughed hard. He Changgong did not understand, so he asked Xu Shiyou, people old Zhou married, why are you so happy? Xu Shiyou smiled and said, "Still Old Zhou is strong, not afraid of death!" That is to say, he dared to marry He Ziyou, who dares us in the four fronts! "
After marriage, Zhou Zikun and He Ziyou taught me to learn culture, and I taught you to learn martial arts, which was very loving. Although He Ziyou is strong in martial arts, he has a naturally good voice, especially good at singing those mighty and majestic military songs. It was in the company of her singing voice that Zhou Zikun completed the lyrics of "New Fourth Army Military Song".
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Party Central Committee sent Zhou Zikun to the New Fourth Army as chief of staff to lead the anti-Japanese work in the southern region. He Ziyou also took his newborn little daughter with him and accompanied her husband from Yan'an to southern Anhui.
On January 4, 1941, more than 9,000 people of the New Fourth Army were ordered to move north, but the Kuomintang secretly plotted against them, creating the "Anhui Southern Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries. Zhou Zikun and his deputy commander Xiang Ying were killed by the traitor Liu Houzong on the way to the transfer, and died at the age of 40.
When the "Anhui Southern Incident" occurred, He Ziyou, who was pregnant, had evacuated southern Anhui with the families of the New Fourth Army and non-combatants just a month ago and came to Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. After learning the news of her husband's sacrifice, the woman showed her strength. She said to her comrades who comforted her: "Please rest assured that I still have the revolutionary task, and I still want to inherit Zi Kun's legacy, give birth to Zi Kun's children, and continue the revolution!" "
A few months later, she gave birth to her second child, Zhou Lin. Since then, she has repeatedly refused the kindness of her comrades to find another partner for her, and raised her two children alone - in her heart, she always cherished the inseparable love for her husband.
In June 1955, the bodies of Xiang Ying and Zhou Zikun were finally found, and the central government buried them in Yuhuatai, Nanjing. Every year after that, He Ziyou would come to worship her husband and talk to him about his heart.
After the liberation of the whole country, He Ziyou was organized to go to Shanghai to take charge of military management work, and did a lot of work for the recovery of production and economic development in Shanghai after the liberation. This heroine, who had made countless meritorious contributions during the war years, was awarded the Order of August 1 of the Third Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Third Class, the Liberation Medal of the Third Class, and the Medal of Merit of the Red Star of the Second Class, and finally retired with the treatment of deputy soldier.
On February 22, 2016, He Ziyou, who was 103 years old, died in Nanjing. The Central Military Commission specially sent her a link: "Rong Ma is a female soldier all her life, and she is also a hero in her journey of tens of thousands of miles." "