The story of the railway guerrillas is familiar to many people. However, among these anti-Japanese heroes, one of them later became a traitor, which many people do not know much about. This man's name was Xu Guangtian, and he was one of the founders of the railway guerrilla group. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he did not care about his life, but after the victory of the War of Resistance, he surrendered to the enemy because of personality factors. Today we will tell his story.
Xu Guangtian Lunan Coal City Zaozhuang people, born in a poor family, he has three older brothers, but the second brother died in the early years, the brothers also have the eldest brother Xu Guanglin, the third brother Xu Guangsong, and the fifth brother Xu Guangcai.
The Xu brothers grew up on the side of the railway, and they were able to get on and off the speeding train freely, easily taking away the things on the train, and this craft became the basis for later participation in the railway guerrillas.
After the Japanese Kou occupied Zaozhuang, they burned and looted, and Xu Guangtian could not see it, so he and his good friend Wang Zhisheng and others pulled up a team of more than a dozen people. Xu Guangtian used his pickpocketing skills to get a lot of Japanese guns from the train and equip them for the team members.
The guerrillas of these dozen people, day and night, attacked the Japanese army everywhere, which made the devils very headache. Later, Xu Guangtian led this team to join the official anti-Japanese guerrillas. At this time, Xu Guangtian's brothers also joined the team.
Xu Guangtian's team uprooted the Japanese strongholds, intercepted the Japanese transportation, eliminated the escort team, and fought many beautiful battles. The most exciting battle was that they sneaked into the residence of the head of the Japanese secret service, Takaoka Daisa, killed him, and retreated with all his body.
At that time, when the devils mentioned Xu Guangtian's team, they all hated it, and they issued a high reward order to reward the heads of the Xu family brothers.
In the subsequent struggle, Xu Guanglin was captured and died, Xu Guangsong and the enemy died, and Xu Guangcai was ambushed and heroically sacrificed. Among the Xu brothers, only Xu Guangtian was left to stubbornly struggle against the Japanese army.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the zaozhuang organization was promoted to a bureau-level unit because of its military achievements. In order to maintain the advanced nature of this contingent, the superiors decided to send a cadre to serve as the leader of the jujube and let Xu Guangtian go to the army for further study.
Although Xu Guangtian is brave and unusual, his personality is extreme and his vision is short-sighted. He thought that he had made so much contribution to the neutrality of the War of Resistance Against Japan, but in the end he was made the director of the bureau by someone else, which was unfair. So he said, I'm not going to do it, go home.
The organization was laughed at by his ideas, but still thought that he was a rare talent, so it sent a commissioner to his house to explain why, hoping that he would continue to serve the country.
Unexpectedly, Xu Guangtian accepted the lead of the secret agent, ran to the Kuomintang army, and became a company commander.
Xu Guangtian may feel that the KmT is stronger and has more oil and water, which is more suitable for his own development. However, his move was an obvious act of rebellion.
Later, the Kuomintang failed, and Xu Guangtian paid the price for the defection. As the founder of the railway guerrilla group and a provincial first-class combat hero, Xu Guangtian should have been honored, but in the end, due to his grumpy temper and short-sighted eyes, he embarked on the evil road and was spurned.