The anti-Japanese general was severed and sacrificed by the Japanese army, and his wife went to ask for it alone, and the Japanese army respectfully returned it
The next thing we want to talk about is that this famous anti-Japanese general, known to the world as the "severed head" general, after his heroic righteousness, was cut off by the cruel Japanese army, when his wife was still pregnant, she decided to go to the Japanese military camp alone to beg for her husband's head, so what was the next result?
Chen Zhongzhu was born on October 22, 1906 to a peasant family in Yandong Village, Caoyankou Township, Jianhu County. Five brothers, he ranked second, his father died early, led by a widowed mother, cultivating a few acres of thin land, difficult to maintain life, although the life is very difficult, the mother still insists on letting the children go to school, because she believes that reading changes fate, but the fate is always bad, the hometown is flooded, Chen Zhongzhu, who is going to school, was forced to drop out of school and go to Shanghai to work.
After coming to Shanghai, Chen Zhongzhu found a job as a tram conductor, he sent almost all the money he earned to his family, he himself was reluctant to spend money, in the 16th year of the Republic of China, on the eve of the Northern Expeditionary Army crossing the river, he abandoned his post and returned to his hometown, coordinating with local enlightened people to organize and respond. After the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived in Yanfu District, he participated in the preparation of the Kuomintang Caoyankou Branch and the Peasants' Association Organization. After the defeat of the Great Revolution, he was introduced by his cousin Chen Duzhen and entered the Jiangsu Police Academy to study.
In 1930, Chen Zhongzhu graduated with excellent academic results and was assigned to the Jiangsu Provincial Government as a messenger, which was appreciated by Ye Chuling at that time. The following year, he entered the "July 7" Lugou Bridge Incident in 937, the outbreak of the National War of Resistance, he was full of enthusiasm for resisting Japan and saving the country, actively participated in the anti-Japanese salvation movement, organized railway employees, students and the masses along the Jinpu Road to set up a field service regiment, and was appointed as the commander of the third general corps of the field special regiment of the Military Commission of the National Government. He was later promoted to brigade commander of the Second Brigade of the Second Route Army and placed under the command of Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater. He fought in the famous Battle of Taierzhuang and the Battle of Xuzhou. Once, he fought a fierce battle with the Japanese Kou near Xuzhou, suffering heavy casualties, the team was scattered, and the peasants had to cover them to escape danger. At the end of 1938, appointed by Li Mingyang, the commander-in-chief of the Sulu-Anhui guerrillas, Chen Zhongzhu was appointed as the commander of the Fourth Column of the Guerrilla General Headquarters of the district.
At the end of 1939, zhao Jingzhi, an underground member of the Communist Party of China, while teaching at a vocational middle school, mobilized a group of young students to go to northeast Anhui for training, and was arrested and imprisoned in a prison in Wuyi Lane, Dongtai, because of the whistle-blowing of Kuomintang agents. After the incident, the party organization sent Zhao Jingzhi's wife, Chen Jing, to Taizhou to find Chen Zhongzhu and ask him to try to rescue him. When he heard that Zhao Jingzhi was being held by Han Deloitte's troops, he sent his fifth brother Xun Wu and third brother Bu Ping to Dongtai in the starry night, released Zhao Jingzhi on bail, and took him to Taizhou to arrange for medical treatment. After Zhao Jingzhi recovered from his illness, he was invited by Chen Zhongzhu to guide the propaganda work of the fourth column. Soon, Zhao Jingzhi returned to Yancheng.
In June 1940, the New Fourth Army marched eastward to resist the Japanese and rested in Guo Village. Li Changjiang, the deputy commander of the Sulu-Anhui guerrilla, was provoked by Han Deloitte to order an attack on Guocun, and ordered Chen Zhongzhu to send troops to attack, and Chen Zhongzhu was forced by military orders to send some troops to participate in the battle, losing a battalion of troops.
Not long after, Chen Zhongzhu's troops were surrounded by enemy troops, and then he asked his guards to move with his pregnant wife Wang Zhifang and his six-year-old daughter, and he stayed behind to continue fighting with the enemy, and after a few days of fierce fighting, the enemy army hit Taizhou City, and he was martyred, and the Japanese army found Chen Zhongzhu's body in the battlefield, because there was a reward, the Japanese army cruelly cut off his head and asked for merit.
After the battle, Wang Zhifang found the place where her husband was killed. At that time, the battlefield had been cleaned up, the body was buried on the spot, Chen Zhongzhu's headless body was buried by the local people with a coffin nailed with a door panel, and a wooden plaque was inserted on the grave head, with the words "General Chen Zhongzhu" written on it. Wang Zhifang asked someone to open the coffin, and when she saw her husband's headless body, the 25-year-old was devastated. Later, Wang Zhifang made a decision to ask Japan for her husband's head.
Wang Zhifang, with sorrow and pain, first tried to contact Nanfang Xiangji through people he knew. The other party promised to return Chen Zhongzhu's head to her, and agreed on a date for her to pick it up. When the agreed date was reached, Wang Zhifang found a small boat, took her six-year-old daughter, and accompanied by others, transported her husband's body to the southern Xiangji headquarters outside Taizhou. When he got there, Wang Zhifang saw a wooden box on the incense case in the hall, and guessed that her husband's head should be inside the wooden box.
Nanfang Xiangji said that he expressed his respect for Chen Zhongzhu's selfless and fearless spirit of heroic dedication to the country, and his patriotic spirit was worth learning, and then let the soldiers line up, he paid tribute to him, handed the wooden box to Wang Zhifang, and then he asked others to stitch up her husband's head and buried it in the field of a family under the Xicang Bridge outside the West Gate of Taizhou.