On March 14, 1941, the Japanese stronghold at the Longhai Railway Station was shattered by the sudden sound of gunfire.
Several soldiers of the New Fourth Army appeared in the station like divine soldiers descending from heaven, and several Japanese soldiers guarding the platform were caught off guard.
While cleaning up the battlefield, a soldier found a pair of young Men and Women from Japan in the freight room on the east side of the platform.
The woman was eighteen or nineteen years old, with big eyes, a high nose, a delicate short hair, and a dress, which was not an ordinary person's home at first glance.
In the face of the sudden appearance of the new fourth army with guns, the woman was not lightly frightened, her eyes were full of panic, one hand trembled and gestured, and the other hand took out a document from her pocket, as if to express something...
At that time, no one thought that this woman was the niece of the commander of the Japanese division, who gave birth to a son after being captured, and for thirty years, the son was struggling to find relatives.
1. Accidental captivity
The War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 1941 was in a difficult phase of strategic stalemate.
At the beginning of the year, the Third Division of the New Fourth Army (With Huang Kecheng as commander) was tasked with unplugging the Japanese stronghold at the Nianzhuang station of the Longhai Railway.
The task was given to the three brigades of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army, and after sending several soldiers to spy on the enemy, the three major ones found that there were only seven Japanese troops in the stronghold, equipped with six long and short guns, a grenade launcher, they patrolled at night, slept during the day, and there was a puppet army squad around the station.
After the spies understood, the three teams had already made up their minds and sent eleven plainclothes soldiers of the New Fourth Army, led by intelligence staff officer Xu Yintang, to blend into the passenger group and infiltrate the Nianzhuang station.
Soon after, according to intelligence, a train from Bayiji Station came as promised, and seven ghosts appeared on the platform to pick up the train.
After the vehicle pulled out of the platform, the ghosts went back to the house to sleep, and before going to bed, they placed the gun on the gun rack before lying down peacefully.
Several soldiers of the New Fourth Army, who were paying close attention to the situation of the devils, looked at each other and rushed into the devil's house with swift footsteps, and after the gunshots, the five devils fell to the ground.
In addition, a ghost and the New Fourth Army soldier in charge of the guard at the door were also disposed of, and the only fish that slipped through the net was a ghost who was convenient in the toilet, and when he heard the gunshots, he quickly climbed over the wall and fled.
In this battle, our army did not suffer any casualties, and captured a howitzer and some valuable guns and ammunition of the Japanese army, which can be said to be a great harvest.
However, what was even more surprising was that when cleaning up the battlefield, the soldiers of the New Fourth Army found a pair of young Japanese men and women in the freight room on the east side of the platform, and the identities of both were not ordinary.
It turned out that the Japanese youth were newly married couples, from extraordinary origins, the male named Yamanaka Aoichi, a student of Waseda University in Japan, and his father was the military section chief of the Xuhai section of the Longhai Railway.
And this woman Ota Nobuko's history is even more unusual, her uncle is the commander of the Japanese army stationed in Xuzhou, the two came to China to visit relatives and get married by the way, they just visited their father who was the head of the railway section in northeast Manchuria a few days ago, and this time they came to Xuzhou to visit the cousin of the army commander on the day.
Unexpectedly, on the first day of arrival, the cousin who was the commander of the army was killed in this attack, and both the couple became prisoners.
Considering that the identities of these two people were not ordinary, after consultation, the organization decided to send the two Japanese prisoners to Wugongtou Village in Gupi Town, Pizhou County, which was the center of the anti-Japanese base area, and the safety of the prisoners was guaranteed.
Ota Nobuko was young, who had seen such a big battle, and when he saw the soldiers of the New Fourth Army wearing military uniforms, he was full of panic, and after the couple was escorted to the Wugongtou Village Primary School, they were even more unable to enter the water and rice, hugging their headaches and crying.
2. Safe transfer
Strictly speaking, Both Ota Nobuko and Yamanaka Aoichi were considered to be The Second Generation of Japanese Officials, with distinguished status, and when the two were captured, the Japanese army naturally quickly made corresponding actions.
The Japanese troops stationed in Xuzhou first invited Chen Yaodong, a local gang leader, to contact the leaders of the New Fourth Army in the base area, with the intention of redeeming the two prisoners.
Naturally, it is not impossible to redeem the prisoners, and the Japanese army should naturally pay the corresponding conditions, and we propose: thirty light machine guns, ten heavy machine guns, one million rounds of ammunition, and one million yuan of military tickets.
The Japanese soon had a reply: bullets and military tickets could be given in full, but they refused to pay so many machine guns.
The two sides did not reach an agreement, and the negotiations were terminated.
However, the Japanese army has always been reluctant to give up easily, and its other preparation is to organize a sweep and force our army to release the prisoners back.
On March 21, the Japanese side directly organized more than 10,000 puppet troops to attack our army's base area in six routes, and they conducted house-to-house searches in the surrounding towns and villages, intending to rescue the prisoners, and this sweep was eleven days.
During this period, for the sake of safety, our army separated the two Japanese youths into hiding to reduce the pressure of pursuit.
Unexpectedly, the Japanese young man Yamanaka Aoichi's desire to flee did not die, and in order to attract the attention of the Japanese army, he used Japanese to shout and shout when the Japanese army was in a desperate pursuit, and even once seized the guns of the soldiers of the New Fourth Army, threatening the safety of our army.
Soon after, the organization ordered the transfer of the female captive Ota Nobuko to the division headquarters, and the task was taken care of by the third battalion and eight companies of the 26th Regiment of the Ninth Brigade of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army.
However, the village of Wugongtou was more than 200 kilometers away from the division headquarters in a straight line, and during this time it was necessary to cross multiple blockade lines and pass through several enemy theaters.
Before the escort, the organization also repeatedly stressed that Japanese female prisoners of war should resolutely carry out the instructions of their superiors during their escort, carry forward humanitarianism, and earnestly follow the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners and take care of them.
Due to the arduousness of the operation, the long distance, and the heavy rain during the escort period, the movement was extremely inconvenient, and the soldiers of the Eighth Company found a small donkey to drive Ota Nobuko, and the soldiers all walked, they lurked during the day, moved at night, lurked and detoured, and it took four days and four nights to reach the division headquarters.
During the escort, Ota's view of the New Fourth Army also changed dramatically.
At first, Ota Yanko was suspicious during the escort, her face was miserable, and her shoulders were shaking constantly, and the general of the New Fourth Army stepped forward, gestured, pointed to her heart, and said that she was relieved, and she calmed down slightly.
Due to the escort process of day and night, for safety reasons, when camping during the day, the Eighth Company placed Ota Nobuko in front of the company headquarters, and specially selected soldiers to stand guard, especially emphasizing that no one was allowed to trespass into Ota Nobuko's room, giving this Japanese woman a sense of security.
Gradually, Ota Nobuko also felt that our army was not a barbaric division, and her face gradually became lively, and sometimes when she gave it food, she was able to bow her head in good faith and express her gratitude.
Third, transformation and separation
Ota Washiko was originally a lively, cheerful, new-minded and righteous Japanese girl, but due to her education in Japan, she had never had a correct understanding of this war of aggression before.
When she arrived at the rear base area of the division headquarters, Ota Quickly adapted to the environment and developed a new understanding of our army.
She joined the Huaibei branch of the Japanese Anti-War Alliance in China, and repeatedly ventured to follow the predecessor of the Anti-War Alliance, Goto Isamu, to the front-line stronghold, and shouted in Japanese to the Japanese troops in the stronghold to rebel.
In 1942, hearing Ota Yasuko's shouts may have been completely disappointed in the war, and several Japanese soldiers stationed in the northern Anhui region of northern Jiangsu chose to lay down their weapons and surrender to our army.
One of them, a Japanese cobia named Shoji Yaguchi, said: "The "arrow" of Nobuko Ota hit me in the heart.
After his surrender, Shoji Yaguchi soon became a like-minded friend with Nobuko Ota, a Japanese student, and after his surrender, he soon became the backbone of the anti-war alliance, printing and distributing a series of Japanese propaganda materials, actively launching a political offensive against the japanese invasion authors, and achieving very good results.
As Shoji Yaguchi and Ota Work together for a long time, their feelings are secret, and they soon fall in love.
In the spring of 1942, the two held a simple but lively wedding under the mediation of Wang Ziguang, the head of the Enemy Works Department of the Fourth Division, and Hou Teng, who was a member of the anti-war alliance, and were blessed by a group of soldiers of the New Fourth Army.
The two were very happy after their marriage and gave birth to a boy.
In 1944, due to the gradual defeat and retreat of the Japanese army, the situation on the anti-Japanese battlefield underwent major changes, and in order to promote the early surrender of the Japanese emperor, nobanSenzo, secretary of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party in Yan'an, ordered that all members of the anti-war alliance scattered abroad should return to Japan to strengthen the anti-war forces in Japan.
Nobane Also deliberately stressed that he should return to China in secret and not bring his family and children with him.
Returning to the war meant the closeness of victory, and for Ota, it meant separation.
The child of Nobuko Ota and Shoji Yaguchi is only four months old, and his nickname is "Magada".
That night, two women came to the residence of Nobuko Ota, who were the adopters of the child.
Ota Had already struggled in her heart countless times, and although she had made up her mind to obey the organization's arrangements, the feelings in her heart still surged like a flood when she transferred the child to someone else.
With a "poof" sound, Ota Nobuko was already on her knees, her eyes full of tears, and she said with tears: "Please, please, you two!" ”
After the child was picked up, Ota Could not bear the torment of her heart, and quietly walked for more than forty miles alone, found the family that adopted the child, and visited the child for the last time.
Ota Finally fed Magada once, and left a few pieces of clothing and two bags of rice noodles, and then she made up her mind and left, and this time she did not know what year and month it was.
Fourth, nurturing and searching for relatives
The adoptive mother of a Japanese baby boy is called Liu Fengying, who is a hard-working, simple and kind cropper.
The person who conveyed the news of the adoption of "Magada" was her husband, whose husband was named Liu Yifu, also doing revolutionary work.
"Feng Ying, you are a cadre of the Women's Salvation Association and a member of the party, and today the party organization asked me to entrust you with a special task, to adopt a child left behind by the Japanese and change your name to Liu Taishan. Liu Yifu said this to Liu Fengying.
After listening, the simple rural woman nodded her head busily, and then followed her mother-in-law to the residence of Ota Yanko and raised the "Magada" who had just turned four months old.
Although there is no blood relationship, Liu Fengying completely regards "Magada" as her own, she feeds the children, sews clothes, makes shoes, covers, in order to supplement the nutrition of the thin "Magada", she asks people for milk, makes meat paste, and swallows chaff all day long.
Soon after, Liu Fengying herself gave birth to a girl, but her love for "Magada" was not less at all.
Magada was weak and sickly, Liu Fengying dragged her heavy little feet to more than ten miles away to ask Langzhong, in order to raise money for Magada's treatment, she even sold her wedding ring...
Although Magada lost his biological mother, he received no less maternal love.
Time passed quickly, Magada's name was changed to Liu Taishan, and he reached the age when he could go to school.
But the rumors in the village made him blind, and his classmates often called him a "devil", and some students even beat him, which frightened him into fleeing the school every five minutes.
When it came to the fourth grade of primary school, Liu Taishan refused to go to school anymore, and Liu Fengying blamed him:
"Shan'er, your mother is not afraid to suffer for you, but you can't be disobedient, you don't go to school, I'm sorry for you, and I'm sorry for your father."
Xiao Taishan's face was full of grievances, and he suddenly cried out with tears:
"Mom, tell me the truth, are you my own mother?"
"Yes... Yes, how could it not? Liu Fengying wrapped his arms around his son, and his heart gushed with bitterness.
Soon after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Fengying and her husband divorced, in that difficult era, a woman pulling two children to live is very difficult, despite the hardships of life, she has never given up pulling her children to adulthood.
She wanted to eat, escaped the wilderness, dug up wild vegetables, and was always reluctant to let her two children endure hunger and frost, so she had to raise a pair of children to start a family.
In 1975, Liu Fengying could not wake up for several days in a row, she was already old, and her body was not as good as a day.
Liu Taishan and his wife guarded their mother's bed day and night, taking care of their sleepy mother.
After a long time, Liu Fengying, who had been sleeping for a long time, slowly opened her eyes, she moved her lips slightly, but she could not make a sound, her fingers trembled slightly, pointed to the stove, and then pointed to Liu Taishan.
Liu Taishan looked in the direction of Liu Fengying's finger, and the two eggs were neatly arranged on the stove top, which was the last thing his mother left him...
Liu Fengying protected Liu Taishan from the secret that she was not her own child until her death.
On September 25, 1972, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka visited China, and Sino-Japanese relations returned to normal.
Liu Taishan's adoptive father resumed his work at this time, serving as the deputy political commissar of the Yangzhou Military Subdistrict, and he took his adopted son to Yangzhou and introduced him to work.
In the spring of 1973, Liu Yifu decided to tell him about Liu Taishan's origins.
Kakuei Tanaka
For his own life, although he had already speculated about his own life from a young age, his father's words still made him unexpected, and Liu Taishan hugged Liu Yifu tightly and cried:
"I am the son of Chinese, I will not leave China, even if I can find my biological parents in the future, I will call your father..."
Liu Yifu is extremely indebted to Liu Taishan, he thinks that he is ashamed of the organization's entrustment, he regrets not taking Liu Taishan with him, so that his adopted son suffered a lot of grievances when he was young, only received a primary school education, he said: "In the future, if I can see Ota Yanzi, I will review it with her." ”
Since the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations, Liu Yifu has traveled to many units that can contact the Japanese side, but because Ota Nobuko is secretly returning to China, he has never been able to get a single message, and he will not have the opportunity to see Ota Nobuko after all.
In October 1988, Liu Yifu died of illness, and before his death, he said that he hoped that the organization would come forward to help his adopted son Liu Taishan find relatives in Japan.
Although the Chinese side inquired about the whereabouts of Liu Taishan's biological parents in many ways, it was still like finding a needle in a haystack, and a former member of the Anti-War Alliance, Lin Bo, wrote that he had seen the figure of Nobuko Ota in Osaka, and the Chinese side went to Osaka to look for it, but still found nothing.
After the anti-war alliance member Hou Teng Yong returned to Osaka, there was a letter to China, so it can be inferred that Liu Taishan's biological parents must have also returned to their homeland, but why there is no news, it is always unclear.
Years can not help but wait for a long time, to this day, there is still no news about Ota Nobuko, whether she is still alive is still unknown, only hope that the world peace, do not let such a tragedy of separation of flesh and bones reappear in the world.
bibliography:
"The Special Itinerary of Nobuko Ota", Beacon Years, 1994