In April 1950, Mianzhu County sent a great news - with the efforts of the People's Liberation Army, she was previously known as the "old lady with two guns"
Zhao Hongwenguo
Finally falling into the net of justice, he will soon be sent to the people's government for trial.
Cadres of the relevant departments quickly discussed how to deal with the "two-gun old lady", and finally, they concluded:
Zhao Hongwenguo, the "old lady with two guns," acted badly and committed heinous crimes against the Communist Party and the people, and if her merits were not worthy, the central authorities would sentence her to death.
The results of the trial were soon passed into the ears of Premier Zhou, who thanked Zhao Hongwenguo for his contributions during the anti-Japanese period, and the premier personally interceded for her, but the people did not agree to give her a lenient manner, and they all made wishes, asking the central government to immediately execute Zhao Hongwenguo.
This old lady named Zhao Hongwenguo joined the revolution at the age of 50, was once a great hero admired by everyone, what did she do wrong to let herself fall to this point of scorn by thousands of people, and now at the age of 70, she is still required to be put to death?
Zhao Hongwenguo is a native of Hongqigou Township, Xiuyan County, Liaoning Province, whose original name was HongWenguo. At the age of 19, Hong Wenguo married Zhao Yutang, a Manchu. Some places in feudal society followed the tradition and required women to take the surname of their husbands, so her name was preceded by a "Zhao" word, and the local people called her Old Lady Zhao.
At that time, China was backward, and even small Japan had the capital to confront our country. Driven by ambition, the Japanese devils launched war against our country and occupied many of our territories, and Zhao Hongwenguo was one of the three eastern provinces where zhao Hongwenguo was at that time.
After the Japanese devils occupied the three eastern provinces, they plundered the land that belonged to Zhao Hongwenguo's husband, and because of this, the originally peaceful and happy life of the Zhao family became miserable. Under the oppression of the Japanese, the Zhao family began to eat often, which was a stark contrast to the previous life, and in the extreme hunger, the Zhao family hated the Japanese devils to the bone.
At that time, there were not a few people in the society who hated Japanese devils, and the Zhao family was famous because they took action.
In 1932, zhao hongwenguo's third son
Zhao Tong
Dissatisfied with being oppressed by Japanese devils, he resolutely and resolutely cooperated with his fellow classmates
Miao Kexiu
After returning to his homeland from Beiping, he quietly formed an anti-Japanese volunteer army unit, and the young and strong Zhao Tong was elected as the leader of the unit.
But why are the Japanese devils so easy to deal with? Under their pursuit, the crowd could only move to Wei County, which was located on the border of Jin-Cha-Ji. Of course, Zhao Dong did not leave, but stayed in his hometown to continue the hard battle.
The people in Ulsan have temporarily settled down, and although they will still be indignant about the Japanese devils occupying their homeland, they have also begun to look forward to building Ulsan into a second home and living a peaceful life again.
Unfortunately, even though the people had been humbled to this point, the Japanese devils still did not let them go. The people only harvested the crops three times, and the Japanese devils came to fight, so zhao Hongwenguo once again lost her foundation.
This time, Zhao Hongwenguo was finally annoyed, and she held a family meeting to ask her family to join the revolution. She told them,
If they don't drive the Japanese devils out of China one day, they won't be able to live a good life for a day.
Her words reminded the Zhao family of the previous scene, and in the end, everyone was mobilized by her and actively joined the revolution. They returned to Zhao Dong's troops and joined him in resisting The Japanese.
In 1933, Zhao Hongwenguo and his second son
Zhao Lianjun
Together, an anti-Japanese action team was established, and with the assistance of Zhao Tong and Miao Kexiu and others, they formed the "Young Iron Blood Army" the following year.
Among them, Zhao Hongwenguo has been in the rear, responsible for purchasing guns and ammunition, organizing cadres to carry out military meetings, and collecting enemy intelligence. Recalling this past, a soldier once mentioned:
Whenever the Predators needed guns and ammunition, Mrs. Zhao would carefully buy the discarded bullets of the scattered soldiers near the outskirts of the city. At that time, the guerrilla base was established in Bei'anhe Village under the Miaofeng Mountain, and every time it went back and forth, it had to walk more than 40 miles. But Mrs. Zhao didn't even mention how hard she worked, but just ran back and forth herself. Influenced by her spirit, three other old ladies in the village also spontaneously carried bullets with her, dragging heavy steps, and transporting arms. ”
With the support of everyone, the "Young Predator Army" has set a good record and is becoming stronger and stronger, which makes the Japanese devils afraid. In 1934, after the Japanese devils discovered that the Zhao family was the center of that powerful army, they immediately organized people and horses to burn down all 16 houses of the Zhao family, and the wealth accumulated by the Zhao family for more than 30 years turned into nothingness on this day.
What the Japanese devils did not expect was that such a means not only did not make the Zhao family submit, but made them more willing to fight with the Japanese devils. When Zhao Dong asked his mother whether he still wanted to engage in revolution, Mrs. Zhao replied with a sneer:
it! Absolutely drive them away!
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With such a fighting spirit, Zhao Hongwenguo personally went to Dagushan and other areas to buy printing presses and other materials, organized students to print anti-Japanese information, and posted them everywhere in the name of the young predatory army. This move made the people see the tenacity of the predatory army, and for a time the decadence of the people was swept away, and the enemy was afraid.
In order to suppress this force, the Japanese devils once again moved. In August 1934, the Japanese devils boarded again
Zhao Jiabaozi
In front of everyone, the six members of the Zhao family were arrested and imprisoned. In addition, the cruel Japanese devils also connected the Zhao clan and a total of 300 villagers.
Even in this state, Zhao Hongwenguo was still not intimidated, and she still maintained an unyielding attitude in front of the Japanese devils. The enemy used all means to get even the slightest bit of information from her mouth. Two months later, the angry Japanese devils decided to execute him secretly. Fortunately, before his execution, Zhao Hongwenguo seized the opportunity to escape from prison with the action of the Predatory Army, which saved him from disaster. Of course, those villagers who were connected by Zhu Lian were also rescued by the Predator Army.
After two attacks in a row, the Zhao family fort was obviously no longer hidden, so Mrs. Zhao absconded with her husband and children to Beiping and temporarily settled here. With the help of the Northeast Salvation Congress, Zhao Hongwenguo continued to collect arms, contact young people with lofty ideals, and support the revolutionary actions of the Young Predator Army.
At first, the action of the people went relatively smoothly, but soon after, they encountered a key problem - after the fall of Peiping, the traitors were in charge, and the rogue bandits began to stir up, and from time to time they went down the mountain to harass the common people, making the people hate and fear. Because the people could not distinguish which unit was loyal and which unit was a bandit, all the actions of the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army were repeatedly implicated.
Upon learning of this situation, Zhao Hongwenguo immediately reacted, going door to door to tell the people around her what kind of life the Northeasterners had lived before, how miserable the people were after the Japanese devils came, and how her son fought with the Japanese. She said excitedly:
Unless the Japanese devils were driven out of China, they would never have had a peaceful day.
Under her persuasion, countless people were moved, followed her footsteps to become soldiers under Zhao Tong, and fought together with Beiping students and Mentougou miners to resist Japan.
With the passage of time, earth-shaking changes have taken place in everyone, including Zhao Hongwenguo. At the difficult moment of the revolution, Zhao Hongwenguo seemed to be just an ordinary old lady on the surface, but in fact, under her waist skirt, she had been pinning two box guns, and she could pull out her hands at any time and fight with the enemy in blood. More importantly, this approach is stealthy enough to always surprise the enemy.
Once, Zhao Hongwenguo was walking alone in a village, and happened to encounter a small group of Japanese devils who came to the village to burn and loot, and seeing that they were about to come to her, she chose to crouch down to avoid the disturbance in the case of the enemy and the enemy.
The Japanese devil quickly walked up to her, saw that she was upset, and kicked her. Such an "old lady" is not the target that the Japanese devils want to seize, and even the peasants in the village look down on her.
On that day, she also went to a village in northern Jin to persuade the people to resist japan, but the peasants only thought that she was bragging.
"You old lady, what do you know about fighting?"
They sneered and sneered, not taking this seriously at all, and Zhao Hongwenguo did not defend anything, but just let the peasants follow her and walk together to the outside of the town. Everyone wanted to know what trick she was playing, so they obediently followed.
At that time, the sky was already faintly dark, and in the afterglow of the setting sun, the people saw a group of cavalry marching by a hill, Zhao Hongwenguo did not say a word, he pulled out the two box cannons from under the waist skirt, slammed two shots to put down the two Japanese sentries, and when she wanted to hit the third, the sentry ran away. The people present were all impressed by her powerful skill, and in this way, Zhao Dong's troops had two hundred more peasants.
After that, Zhao Dong took the Iron Blooded Army as the leading backbone and established the "Provisional Government of Southern Liaoning", the first people's anti-Japanese self-help government in China, and he was the leader of the government and concurrently served as the commander-in-chief of the Iron Blooded Army.
In September 1937, Zhao Hongwenguo accepted Zhao Tong's instructions and went to Wuhan to seek financial support from people with hearts. On the way, the old lady also encouraged the local Red Gun Society to set up an anti-Japanese guerrilla group in Hui County, Henan, but because the members were too large and complex and lacked capable leadership, the force eventually had to escape the fate of disbanding.
In the spring of 1938, Zhao Hongwenguo's eldest son was unfortunately killed in a battle, and the brutal Japanese devils saw this as a good opportunity to demonstrate, so they cut off his head and showed it to the public. After the bad news came, Zhao Hongwenguo hated the Japanese devils even more, and in order to avenge her son, she worked harder to participate in the anti-Japanese activities.
Soon after, the anti-Japanese forces and the Japanese devils fought in the Qingbar Ridge of the Taihang Mountains, and Zhao Hongwenguo, with a two-gun technique in one hand, killed 33 enemies at the cost of 27 casualties, making outstanding contributions to the victory of the army. Maybe it's that a character like her is too special,
The Ta Kung Pao also devoted her story to her, and subsequently, the New York Times and local Japanese newspapers also published news related to it. Under the pursuit of all the media, the news of Zhao Hongwenguo spread throughout the country, and because she always fought with two guns, people began to call her "two-gun old lady".
In the same year, Zhao Hongwenguo traveled south from Wuhan to Hong Kong and Guangzhou to publicize the anti-Japanese resistance and organize fundraising activities, and her arrival was welcomed and respected by people from all walks of life. In this regard, Huang Dinghui recalled that she had run to Zhao Hongwenguo's residence to visit the old lady, and then accompanied the elderly to participate in the speech activities organized by patriotic groups such as women's groups and rescue groups for several days. When the old man was interviewed, Huang Dinghui would also help her reply to media questions.
On September 2, in order to welcome the arrival of the elderly, the four major women's groups in Hong Kong also held a special gathering, attended by Tao Xingzhi, who had just returned from the anti-Japanese propaganda activities in Europe and the United States, Deng Yingchao, a famous communist cadre, and Huang Dinghui, who had appeared before. At the party, Zhao Hongwenguo tearfully told her own experience since the 918 incident and the contributions made by the young predatory army, and after her speech, the venue resounded with warm applause, and everyone present was touched by their tenacious fighting spirit.
Some time later, Tao Xingzhi also wrote a poem "Old Lady Zhao", which was widely circulated at that time:
The East is out of the monster, the Chinese out of the old lady. The old lady catches the monster, and the monster is frightened. The old lady has a son, whose name is Zhao Dong...
From here, Zhao Hongwenguo is undoubtedly a great hero of the nation and is deeply loved by the people, so how did she embark on the dark road and begin to become a demon?
In January 1939, he became the leader of the National Government
Chiang Kai-shek
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek personally wrote down The Ink Treasure and praised Mrs. Zhao as the "mother of the guerrillas," and Soong Mei-ling called her a "model of Chinese women." In order to show the importance he attached to Zhao Hongwenguo, Chiang Kai-shek also took a cordial photo with her in front of the media and talked about the declaration of worshiping with the old lady as a brother and sister.
When many honors fell on her, Zhao Hongwenguo could not help but lose his mind in that prosperity, and since then decided to stay in Nanjing.
After Zhao Tong, who was far away in the army, saw his mother's beautiful life, he also began to sit still. In 1938, after Zhao Tong accepted the arrangement of the central government and led his troops to Fuping, he was required to obey the iron military rules and discipline of our army. For others, this situation was just a small thing, but for Zhao Tong, it was a presence that made him extremely annoyed.
When he led the troops to fight alone, everything in the army was under his control, he was saying that there was no difference between one and the other, and after a long time, he was raised into an official frame, and he could not change it.
Our army units are all democratic, and every decision is made through the deliberations of various cadres, and it is impossible for a person to think about what he wants, and it is completely inconsistent with what Zhao Dong thinks.
In the people's army, Zhao Dong still regarded himself as commander-in-chief and practiced warlord rule downwards, which made the cadres very dissatisfied. At a meeting of cadres, comrades also discussed this matter specifically, at that time, Comrade Wang Zhili made a speech on this matter, he clearly pointed out that Zhao Dong often put up the posture of commander-in-chief, thinking everywhere that he was a commander-in-chief, could give orders to the soldiers alone, lacked consultation and communication with the cadres, and finally, this comrade also gave some examples of warlordism, stating that Zhao Dong was hindering the progress of the troops...
After the meeting, everyone thought that Zhao Dong would correct his attitude, but they did not expect that he not only did not improve, but began to react passively, and the revolutionary mood was very high. In accordance with this situation, the various cadres unanimously passed the decision to remove him from his post.
The crowd reported the matter to them
Nie Rongzhen
After the commander, he criticized everyone bitterly, believing that at this stage, it was still in a difficult moment of resistance against Japan, and everyone needed to unite and help them get rid of this old thinking. In order to "correct" Zhao Tong, the leaders of the military region specifically talked to him once, which did not let him lose his post.
However, Zhao Dong betrayed the kindness of the people, and in 1939, Zhao Tong led more than a dozen of his cronies to break away from our army and secretly defected to Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing on the grounds of the grass-roots level.
Recalling this past, some party members and cadres once mentioned:
In September, Zhao Dong fled with a dozen of his closest confidants. We quickly sent comrades to chase him and persuade him to come back. He did not come back, and wrote a letter to the cadres above the squadron level, saying, "I want to catch you all the time, but considering that we have been working together for so long with the hardships and hardships, I can't bear to do it."
Zhao Hongwenguo, regardless of the importance of the matter, only knew how to support his son's cause, so he said a lot of good things about Zhao Dong in front of Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek always wanted to deal with our party, and it was rare for Zhao Dong to be bent on turning to him behind enemy lines, so she began to "reuse" him according to her words.
The Nationalist Government boasted of Zhao Tong's skill, issued him a letter of appointment, and asked him to return to North China, compete with the Communists for turf, engage in friction, and destroy the enemy rear base areas created by our party.
Before his return, Zhao Tong also went to Xi'an for a period of training, and when he returned, the Kuomintang equipped his troops with advanced radio stations and various new weapons.
Perhaps it was those weapons and equipment that gave Zhao Dong strong confidence, or perhaps the superior skills of our reconnaissance personnel, in short, our army soon discovered the traces of Zhao Dong and his entourage: near Sunjiazhuang in Shijiazhuang, the 120th Division led by He Long happened to meet Zhao Dong.
Seeing that Zhao Dong was threatening, He Long found Nie Rongzhen and asked how to deal with him, and the two sat down for a moment, and finally came to the conclusion that ——
Quickly eliminate Zhao Dong and not let him have the opportunity to create chaos.
After making a decision, the intelligence officers of our army immediately discovered the location of Zhao Dong. Soon after, the troops divided into four routes and launched an attack on Zhao Dong's location. When the soldiers found Zhao Dong, their group was eating, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they wanted to break the bowl and flee, but his speed of action could not match that of our soldiers, and the battle lasted only half an hour, and all the reactionary personnel were captured by our army, and Zhao Dong was killed on the spot.
The loss of her beloved son grieved Zhao Hongwenguo, and her heart officially turned to the Kuomintang and vowed to follow Chiang Kai-shek.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek appointed him as the "Commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Suppression of the Communists" and sent him to North China to "encircle and suppress" the Communist Party.
In 1949, Zhao Hongwenguo led a division of soldiers to flee to Sichuan with the defeated Kuomintang army. Before Chiang Kai-shek set out for Taiwan, he also left her a hand message with ulterior motives, encouraging her to "rise up the spirit of that year and carry forward the guerrilla experience" and wish her in advance to "make another military contribution."
Chiang Kai-shek's words made the old lady who was like a loser's dog feel valued at this moment, and she began to think that Chiang Kai-shek was her "regenerative parent". After Chiang Kai-shek fled, she declared herself "staying behind in the Presidential Palace" and stayed on the mainland, leading the reactionaries in an attempt to continue to attack our Party's forces. When Liu Deng's army conquered Chongqing, she showed greedy eyes in the shelling, plundered more than a dozen banks in one go, and quickly fled.
After the People's Liberation Army entered Shancheng, it remembered her meritorious efforts in resisting Japan and sent people to negotiate with her countless times, hoping that she would be able to distinguish between right and wrong and return to the ranks of the people. However, Zhao Hongwenguo still did not change his heart, and he was determined to obey Chiang Kai-shek's instructions and fight the Communists to the death. In order to achieve this goal, she was willing to be the leader of the bandits.
Soon after, Zhao Hongwenguo led his troops to Shiyu County, plotted against a small number of diehards in the local Kuomintang Sixteenth Corps, which was preparing for an uprising, and brutally killed our army in the work of reorganization
Sun Luping
and
Chen Wengao
Two excellent comrades.
Although the people's army was a little uncomfortable at this time, it still hoped to make Zhao Hongwenguo reformed. Therefore, the Southwest Military Region of the People's Liberation Army also sent Li Kefu and Fu Chuanzuo to infiltrate the regiment to explain to the officers and men the wise policies of the Communist Party and the current situation, and the two also ventured to meet with Zhao Hongwenguo and persuade her to put down her butcher's knife and surrender to our army.
Helplessly, Zhao Hongwenguo was already overwhelmed by Chiang Kai-shek's rhetoric, and he still insisted on saying "the parents of those who gave birth to me, and the chairman of the Committee who knows me." After the Sixteenth Corps was formally incorporated by our army, Zhao Hongwenguo fled to the deep mountains and old forests.
In 1950, Zhao Hongwenguo planned to create a large-scale riot and sent a large number of agents to contact other reactionaries in An County and around Mianzhu. On the evening of the eleventh day of the first month, just before Zhao Hongwenguo was about to launch an operation, the People's Liberation Army, which had timely information, swept them all away, and since then, this big bandit has finally fallen into the net.
When he was arrested alive, Zhao Hongwenguo was still arrogant and had a bad attitude, and the people's government saw this scene and, after referring to his previous deeds, decided to put him to death. Premier Zhou had offered to spare her life, but the people would not allow evil elements like her to live in the world, and demanded that she be executed.
On July 16, 1950, Zhao Hongwenguo was shot.