In the early morning of October 17, 1942, just after dawn, the villagers and comrades living in Yangxing Village in Zaonan County were awakened by the fierce gunfire, and the Japanese puppet troops in Daying Town and Encha Town actually attacked in a joint attack and suddenly surrounded Yangxing Village.
At that time, Liu Zhijian, then director of the political department of the Ji'nan Military Region, was going to a meeting in Dashi Village, east of Encha Town, and came to the Sixth Subdistrict with a cavalry squad, where he happened to live that night.
Soon, Liu Zhijian received a report that in the case of the enemy being outnumbered, Liu Zhijian did not have time to think much, and ordered everyone to break through, and Liu Zhijian, who was riding on a war horse, even took the lead and rushed to the enemy.
Unfortunately, when he saw that he was about to rush out of the village, a bullet hit Liu Zhijian's thigh, and Liu Zhijian fell off his horse and could not move.
The old revolution is the old revolution, Liu Zhijian, who fell off his horse, did not check his own injuries, but took out the documents he carried with him at the first time, shredded them into his mouth, chewed them up and swallowed them, and then he buried the photo of his beloved wife and a watch in a pit.
After doing all this, the Japanese Kou also surrounded him, Liu Zhijian would rather die than be a prisoner, pulled out a pistol, aimed at his temple, but unfortunately the bullet jammed, Liu Zhijian failed to do so, became a Japanese prisoner.
After being captured, the Japanese army made a surprise review of Liu Zhijian, and in the face of the interrogation of the Japanese army, Liu Zhijian did not rebuke him like most revolutionary martyrs, and his righteousness was awe-inspiring, but he was very "cooperative", he casually made up a name, and then said to them:
"When I say it's a company commander, you won't believe it, and if I say it's a battalion commander, you probably won't believe it, but to be honest, I'm a regimental commander or a deputy."
The Japanese army was very satisfied with Liu Zhijian's performance and decided to send him to the county seat and then interrogate him further.
Soon, the news of Liu Zhijian's capture reached the headquarters of the 129th Division, and the division commander Liu Bocheng and political commissar Deng Xiaoping were shocked when they got the news, and immediately ordered rescue and gave instructions: "We must snatch Liu Zhijian back, we must see people alive, and we must see corpses when we die!" ”。
Liu Zhijian, a native of Pingjiang, Hunan Province, came from a poor peasant background, and after graduating from primary school, he returned to his hometown to herd cattle and worked long-term jobs for the landlord's family.
In 1928, under the leadership of Peng Dehuai, Teng Daiyuan and others, the Pingjiang Uprising broke out, and Liu Zhijian, who was only 16 years old, threw himself into the vigorous agrarian revolution.
Because he had gone to school and had culture, from the very beginning, Liu Zhijian served as a political worker, successively serving as a propagandist in the political department of the Red Third Army, a secretary of the political department, the chief of the clerical section, the secretary general of the political department, and the director of the propaganda department.
Although he was a civilian, Liu Zhijian also participated in many battles, such as attacking Changsha during the agrarian revolution, attacking Ganzhou, and entering Fujian twice, such as the Xiangjiang River, Tucheng, Loushan Pass, Zunyi, Sidu Chishui, and so on during the Long March.
After the Long March, Liu Zhijian served as deputy director of the Propaganda Department and was ordered to go north to propagate the anti-Japanese resistance; after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the propaganda director and deputy political director of the Political Department of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
Beginning in January 1942, the Japanese army launched repeated clearances and suppressions in the southern Hebei region, and the local Eighth Route Army suffered heavy losses, reducing more than 6,000 personnel, and most of the guerrillas in various counties were scattered, and many sub-districts were even reduced to guerrilla areas.
In order to reverse the situation, in mid-October, under the presidency of Chen Zaidao, commander of the military region, and Song Renqian, political commissar, an enlarged meeting of the regional party committee was held.
It was also under these circumstances that Liu Zhijian and the head of the organization department of the district party committee went to the station of the sixth sub-district, but before he could hold a meeting, he went out of Yangxing Village.
Because Liu Zhijian was captured in the territory of the Sixth Division, the heavy responsibility of rescuing Liu Zhijian also fell on Yi Liangpin, the commander of the Sixth Division.
Although the Sixth Division at that time suffered heavy losses in the struggle against the Japanese puppet army, the intelligence system did not collapse, and soon they found out where Liu Zhijian was being held, and received information that the enemy only knew that Liu Zhijian was a high official of the Eighth Road, and the specific identity was not clear.
Therefore, Yi Liangpin decided to organize troops, rush to attack Liu Zhijian's place of detention, and snatch people back, but the lack of troops, which made Yi Liangpin a headache, just at this time, two companies of the 20th Regiment of the Military Region, under the leadership of deputy regiment commander Chu Daming, went south, passing through the garrison of the Sixth Sub-district, and when they learned of their mission on this trip, they just went to the rear to collect cotton clothes, Yi Liangpin immediately left them behind.
Soon, Yi Liangpin got information again, saying that the Japanese army was going to transfer Liu Zhijian to Zaoqiang, and the Japanese army escorted only about 30 people, and the number of puppet troops was not much, this news made Yi Liangpin happy, and even said: "Heaven help me, heaven help me!" ”。
Why did the Japanese army dare to be so bold as to escort the prisoners with a team of one hundred and ten people? There are two reasons, first, the North China Plain is a horse Pingchuan, and they ordered that within 500 meters on both sides of the highway, no corn, sorghum and other high-pole crops should be planted, and there is no place to ambush.
Second, compared with the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army is more mobile, even if it encounters the Eighth Route Army, it can quickly support, and may even surround and annihilate the Eighth Route.
Therefore, in the early morning of October 20, more than 30 Japanese troops and dozens of puppet troops escorted Liu Zhijian on the road.
What they did not expect was that under the impossible circumstances, the Eighth Route Army created a possibility, although there was no corn, sorghum and other high-pole crops as a cover, but at that time, on the necessary road to escort Liu Zhijian, there was a sweet potato field that was not dug, and the long sweet potato vine became the best cover for the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.
Even if the Japanese army had sent people to search in advance, it had not found the ambushed Eighth Route Army.
Soon, the Japanese puppet army entered the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army, and when the last Japanese soldier recently ambushed the circle, Chu Daming, the commander of the 29th Regiment in charge of the vicinity, immediately ordered an attack, and the soldiers of the sixth company immediately opened fire and suppressed the Japanese army to death, while the soldiers of the fourth company took the opportunity to rush to the cart where Liu Zhijian was being held.
As for the puppet army, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army did not care; first, they had little combat effectiveness, and second, they had a secret agreement with the Eighth Route Army, and as long as they did not fight the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army would not fight them.
Soon, the soldiers of the fourth company rescued Liu Zhijian and carried him away from the battlefield, while the sixth company, seeing the success of the rescue, did not have the heart to fight, leaving the Japanese army that was suddenly attacked and hiding in the ravine with a confused face...
The news of Liu Zhijian's rescue soon reached the ears of the leaders of the 129th Division, and their hanging hearts were also put down.
Although this battle was not fierce, among the common people, it was spread like a god, which greatly encouraged the local people's enthusiasm for resisting Japan.
After being rescued, Liu Zhijian was injured for a period of time in the homes of local people, and in the spring of 1943, when Chen Zaidao went to the Taihang Northern Bureau to study, he also carried Liu Zhijian, who was not well injured, and after arriving at his destination, Liu Zhijian was warmly received by Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping.
Because of this injury, Liu Zhijian's left leg was disabled, and he walked with a limp, but this did not affect Liu Zhijian's enthusiasm for revolution, and in September 1943, Liu Zhijian arrived in Yan'an, entered the Central Party School, and in July 1944, he became deputy director of the First Bureau of the General Staff of the Central Military Commission and director of the Military Reporting Department.
After the Liberation War broke out, Liu Zhijian rushed to the Jin-Hebei Luyu battlefield and served as deputy political commissar of the second column of the military region, political commissar of the tenth column, secretary of the party committee, and other posts.
Once, Chairman Mao met with cadres from other places who had come to Beijing, met Liu Zhijian, shook his hand, and said cordially: "It turns out that you are the general who was robbed from the "court of law."! ”。
It can be seen from this that the rescue of Liu Zhijian had a great impact, however, no one expected that the capture of Liu Zhijian in the first place caused a lot of trouble to Liu Zhijian later.
In 1966, China entered a special era, when although he was the leader of the "All-Army Cultural Revolution Group", he was also dissatisfied with Ye Jianying, Chen Yi and other old revolutionaries because he was unwilling to take action against Ye Jianying, Chen Yi and other old revolutionaries.
Immediately afterward, Chen Boda exposed a crime against Liu Zhijian, that is, to be a "traitor", referring to the events of 1942, on the grounds that he was captured by the enemy and returned alive
Liu Zhijian's encounter made many old comrades-in-arms very indignant, and at the Ninth National Congress, Xu Shiyou met Chairman Mao and mentioned two people to him, one was Wang Jinshan, and the other was Liu Zhijian. ”。
Later, Chairman Mao entrusted the work of liberating Liu Zhijian to Premier Zhou, and under the supervision of Premier Zhou, Liu Zhijian was finally freed, but at this time, Liu Zhijian had suffered for 7 years and 9 months...
After regaining his freedom, Liu Zhijian first served as the second political commissar of the Plaster People's Liberation Army Academy of Military Sciences, and was soon transferred to the Kunming Military Region, where he served as the district political commissar and secretary of the district party committee, and in 1979, he also participated in the command of the Kunming Theater's self-defense counterattack operation against Vietnam and the post-war preferential care, commendation, and summary work.
In 1988, at the age of 76, Liu Zhijian was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Red Star of the First Class by the Central Military Commission of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
In 2006, Liu Zhijian died at the age of 94.