One day in 1981, a jeep came to the village of Su County, Anhui Province, and after the car stopped in the village, an old man in military uniform stepped down from the car, and this scene attracted the attention of the surrounding villagers, and everyone sat together and talked about who this person was, what he was doing in this village, and so on.
After a while, this old man in military uniform came to a villager, and then asked this person, there is a person named Kong Xiuying in this village, where her family lives, the villagers heard this name is particularly familiar, they directly told the old man the direction of Kong Xiuying's family, and then the old man in military uniform came to Kong Xiuying's home.
According to the location given to him by the villagers came to Kong Xiuying's house, this is a particularly dilapidated earthen house, called a few times no one agreed, directly pushed open the door into the courtyard, found that Kong Xiuying's family has no one, so they came to her near the house to search, after a while, in front of a field to see the old man, she is holding a hoe in the ground, suddenly called her name, the old man heard it and immediately turned his head, carefully looked at the person behind him, after a while, his face showed an excited expression.
People in military uniforms immediately supported Kong Xiuying, the scene of that year instantly appeared in the mind, all shed sad tears, but also unveiled the past of 40 years, so who is this old man in military uniform, and what kind of experience there is between Kong Xiuying and the old woman, let's take a look.
This old man in military uniform, whose name is Zhang Zhen, is now a founding lieutenant general, and things have to start from 1941, when it was at a relatively difficult moment in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the unanimous foreign policy of the sons and daughters of China broke down with the Kuomintang launching the Anhui Incident that shocked China and foreign countries, and the New Fourth Army at that time was almost completely destroyed, so that the Japanese had an opportunity to take advantage of it, so our army formed a great influence during the battle and suffered particularly great difficulties.
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At that time, Zhang Zhen was the chief of staff of the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army and the chief of staff of the Huaibei Military Region, and at a more difficult time of the War of Resistance, he received a more arduous task, starting from the party committee station in Huaibei District, and then going to the eastern Soviet Region to convey the instructions of the party committee and check the local work.
After coming to this place, he organized a meeting of the group for the first time, mainly according to the situation between the enemy and us, strategic analysis, everyone discussed and studied together, and finally formulated a set of combat plans, at that time it was very late, everyone unanimously proposed that it was not possible to stay in this place, if you stay in this place for a long time, you will be discovered by the Japanese army, then at the same time the people in this village will suffer together, the best way is to take advantage of the night to quickly move to the next place.
Then they came to Shengweizi, 10 kilometers away from here, the night march was a little slow, when they came to this place, it was already midnight, and the village was dark, only some animals could be heard, although they did not want to disturb the local people, but they walked a lot, all the soldiers were particularly tired, Zhang Zhen as a leader, in order to consider and consider the safety of the soldiers, he could only tentatively knock on the door of the people to see if there was a place to stay.
After all, the people were in turmoil at that time, and even if they heard a knock, they would not easily open the door, because they could not tell whether it was the enemy army or our army, in order to ensure their own safety, so they chose to remain silent.
Zhang Zhen even knocked on the door of several people without opening, and looked at the more tired soldiers around him, at this time did not know how to be good, he no longer held out any hope, ready to lead the soldiers to leave, just at this time, a relatively slender voice came out of a gate, asked who was outside, Zhang Zhen quickly replied after hearing it, fellow, please rest assured, I am the New Fourth Army, the purpose of knocking on the door is mainly to spend a night here.
Then the woman opened the door, quickly let Zhang Zhen lead the warrior into his small courtyard, and quickly closed the door, after coming to the courtyard, found that the small courtyard was plastered with big red joy, only to learn that this was a young couple's home, felt particularly sorry, did not expect that this woman did not feel any disturbance, but warmly greeted the soldiers into the house to rest.
After entering the house, Zhang Zhen chatted with the woman and her husband. Later learned that this woman's name is Kong Xiuying, her husband is called Sheng Weifan, and the two people have just married, Zhang Zhen continued, other villagers are afraid, why do you dare to open the door for us, this woman said that her brother also joined the New Fourth Army, suddenly thought of her brother, feel that it is particularly difficult on the battlefield, if his brother encounters such a situation, there is no place to live in the heart, will open the door.
Zhang Zhen felt that the family was particularly good after listening, Kong Xiuying although there were not many rooms in the house, but still vacated a side room, let the soldiers rest, because the soldiers have been marching during the day, especially tired, soon fell asleep, spent a stable night in his home, what everyone did not expect is that the troops led by Zhang Zhen still attracted the attention of the Japanese army, mainly because when they walked at night, they alarmed the cats and dogs, these domestic animals, and a fierce bark occurred. Therefore, the abnormal noise aroused the suspicion of the Japanese army.
On the second day, the sun was very good, Kong Xiuying got up early to sort out the housework, after all the cleaning, he went outside to collect some firewood, ready to go home to make a breakfast for the soldiers, just nearby to collect firewood, suddenly heard a roar, and the sound is getting louder and louder, so that she feels that something is not good, it must be the devil driving the car, put down the firewood in his hand, and ran back to the house as fast as possible.
After returning home, he shouted loudly to the soldiers, hurry up, there is an enemy coming and running quickly, many soldiers are particularly tired, have been indulging in sleep, heard the shouts quickly sat up, ready to take the gun in their hands to fight the enemy, but Zhang Zhen led the troops are particularly small, if you fight hard with the enemy, the number of casualties in our army will definitely be large.
In order to reduce the casualties of the fighters, the best way is to break through as soon as possible, but Zhang Zhen is not particularly familiar with the terrain of this place, blindly charging, it is very likely to rush into the enemy's encirclement, Kong Xiuying saw the situation and immediately pulled Zhang Zhen to run outside the house, and then said to the soldiers behind, hurry up, you follow me.
She led Zhang Zhen and the warriors to run out of the back door, into the position of a small alley, and then said to Zhang Zhen, you follow this road all the way forward, there is a reed in front, along a river ditch directly past, the enemy will not be able to catch up, Zhang Zhen when he left, said to Kong Xiuying, will definitely repay the favor in the future, after saying that he led the soldiers to hurry forward, Kong Xiuying also quickly ran back to his home.
As soon as Kong Xiuying returned home, the devil's large army began to check the whereabouts of the New Fourth Army door to door, came to Kong Xiuying's house, directly broke into the house to search, did not find any situation, so he asked her if she had ever seen the New Fourth Army, Kong Xiuying was particularly able to talk, I am a woman who works farm work at home all day, how can I see the New Fourth Army, what are they doing.
In order to quickly find out the whereabouts of the New Fourth Army, the Japanese army did not say anything to Kong Xiuying, but directly took a few Japanese soldiers to slip away, and finally Zhang Zhenhe led some of the fighters successfully escaped from danger, several wind-letting fighters died unfortunately when fighting with the enemy, after the wind and waves were calm, Kong Xiuying buried the soldiers, and then lived an ordinary peasant life, after the surrender of the Japanese army, she never mentioned to anyone about the soldiers, and even the name of the soldiers was not known, only that Zhang Zhen's appearance was relatively thin.
After Zhang Zhen left in peace, he continued to fight in the south and the north for the peace of China, and later Zhang Zhen was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, although he was busy in the cause of socialist construction at this time, but there was only one thing in his heart that he could not let go, that is, he especially wanted to suggest Kong Xiuying, who had helped him.
Until 1981, 40 years have passed since then, Zhang Zhen felt that his age is getting older day by day, this matter can not be delayed any longer, in his lifetime must find the life-saving benefactor of the year, and then accompanied by children and local leaders, came to the Sudong area of Anhui, after inquiry, finally found Kong Xiuying, the two people were particularly excited after meeting, Kong Xiuying also became an old woman with white sideburns, Zhang Zhen said to Kong Xiuying, the purpose of this time is to fulfill the promise of 40 years ago, to repay the favor.
They sat together and talked for a long time, and then General Zhang Zhen followed the elderly Kong Xiuying to a place, that is, the place where the sacrificial soldiers were buried, looking at those sacrificial soldiers, Zhang Zhen's heart was particularly unpleasant, looking at the cold grave, he couldn't help but cry bitterly, and choked up that it would be good to build a martyrs' monument for them.
Zhang Zhen's words attracted the attention of the local relevant personnel, and it did not take long for the martyrs' cemetery to be built for these martyrs, and General Zhang Zhen personally inscribed, "Shengwei Battle Martyrs Monument." This time Kong Xiuying took the initiative to stand up again, she decided to guard the tomb for the martyrs, so the relationship between the two people was better, usually often in contact, and Zhang Zhen would often visit Kong Xiuying, and always felt that Anhui was his second hometown.
Unfortunately, Kong Xiuying died of illness in 2007, when she was 88 years old, Zhang Zhen got the news, the first time rushed to Kong Xiuying's hometown, can no longer hide the sadness in his heart, cried loudly, a rescue, a lifelong friendship, Zhang Zhen is a person of heavy friendship, but also fulfilled his promise, repaid his benefactor, although not relatives, but beyond the feelings of relatives, just the so-called military and civilian fish water conditions, each of them has something we are worth learning, pay tribute to the older generation of revolutionaries!
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