What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In 1938, the Japanese army invaded Shandong Province on a large scale, and the Sulu People's Anti-Japanese Forces led by Hong Zhenhai and Wang Zhisheng entered Zaozhuang and established a secret intelligence station. In the autumn of the following year, Luo Ronghuan led his army to Zaozhuang to resist the invasion of the Japanese devils, and incorporated the local anti-Japanese volunteers into the Sulu detachment of the Eighth Route Army. In order to do a good job in intelligence work, Hong Zhenhai secretly set up an 11-man Zaozhuang railway team. This railway team was the good later Lunan Railway Brigade, and then expanded and juxtaposed to form the Lunan Railway Brigade. What Xiaobian wants to introduce to you today is Xu Guangtian, the earliest member of the Lunan Railway Guerrilla, who was once commended as a Class-A combat hero for his meritorious work in shoveling and committing adultery, but later he chose to defect to the enemy and ended up in a tragic end. He was the elder of the railway guerrillas, a Class A combat hero, but was finally sentenced to prison for defecting to the enemy!
Xu Guangtian has outstanding ability as the captain of the spear team, and is deeply loved by the team members, he usually takes care of his subordinates, loves to come out in everything, and plays a front. His battle record was remarkable, and he once commanded the night raid on foreign trade, cut the railway, and blew up the iron bridge, all of which were invincible. It is precisely because of this that the Kuomintang army also praised him and had the intention of attracting his own use. However, at that time, Xu Guangtian was very famous in the Eighth Route Army, and he did not look down on the Kuomintang troops.
In 1943, the Provincial Combat Hero Model Appraisal Conference was held in the Shandong Military Region, and because of Xu Guangtian's merits, he was selected as a First Class Combat Hero. Xu Guangtian is one of the most outstanding combat heroes, he is definitely one of the best masters in fighting Japanese devils, and he is one of the most feared people in the Northeast Japanese army. However, people's hearts are insufficient, Xu Guangtian's political consciousness is not high, he never starts to do things from a political point of view, and only relies on personal preferences. He was born in poverty, and he could not lose his troubles, and he was particularly concerned about the appraisal and merit, and whenever there was something he did not like, he would make a fuss.
Xu Guangtian has the strength to be rewarded, but his behavior is very extreme. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our party set up a railway management bureau in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province, and Liu Jinshan and Wang Zhisheng, who fought against Xu Guangtian, were promoted to be the leaders of the bureau, and Xu Guangtian was still the squadron leader of the spear brigade. The explanation given by the superiors was that he was reluctant to have all the advanced Japanese weapons and equipment in the spear team, and wanted Xu Guangtian to continue to maintain it. But Xu Guangtian, who was stingy, didn't think so, he felt that Liu Jinshan wanted to retaliate against him, and Liu Jinshan was willing to promote others, just not waiting to see him! He didn't hear much explanation either, so he went straight back to his hometown and went to the territory of the Nationalist army.
After much consideration, the superiors decided to promote him to battalion commander and sent someone to look for him, but Xu Guangtian had already joined the Kuomintang and became a company commander of the Nationalist army! After liberation, Xu Guangtian was sentenced to 2 years in prison and died of illness at home in his later years.