In the War of Resistance Against Japan, the heroic "two-gun old lady" was praised by countless people. In the face of the invasion of China, Zhao Hongwenguo, as a woman, was not afraid at all, and the two pistols he carried with him killed countless enemies.
However, after the founding of New China, she was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad by the People's Liberation Army of the Southwest Military Region.
What exactly did Zhao Hongwenguo do that caused the local people to complain bitterly, and even if Premier Zhou interceded, he could not stop the death penalty?
Win over the ranks and rise up against Japan
In 1881, Hong Wenguo was born in a small mountain village in Liaoning Province. Due to her family's poverty, Hong Wenguo, a Manchu, did not wrap her feet, and often worked in the fields to strengthen her physique, which laid the foundation for her later participation in the War of Resistance.
After getting married, she took her husband's surname before her name according to custom and became Zhao Hongwenguo.
In 1931, the Japanese army launched the September 18 Incident, which opened a large-scale invasion of China.
Zhao Hongwenguo, who was patriotic and earnest, immediately sold his property to buy supplies, took his son Zhao Dong to pull up an anti-Japanese team, and then the whole family embarked on the road of supporting the revolution
。 Zhao Dong was young and strong, and was responsible for the establishment of the Young Iron Blood Army. After all, Zhao Hongwenguo is more than half a hundred years old, and in addition to undertaking the logistics of ammunition and weapons supply, he is mainly responsible for collecting intelligence on the activities of the Japanese army in the surrounding areas.
At that time, the Japanese army established a puppet regime in the northeast region, vigorously promoted the Japanese language and Japanese culture, and attempted to enslave the ideas of the Chinese and erase traditional Chinese culture.
In this regard, Zhao Hongwenguo restored the local primary school of Zhao Jiabao, which was disbanded by the Japanese army.
Mobilize everyone to regain Chinese teaching materials and resist Japan's brainwashing education. Under her influence, the teachers and students who came out of the Zhao Jiabao Primary School to resist Japan, even if they were severely tortured by the Japanese army, never revealed to the enemy the situation of half of the anti-Japanese team.
Rescue the villagers, the team grows
In order to kill more Japanese soldiers, Zhao Hongwenguo always carried two pistols with him. She couldn't shoot, but it didn't take long to learn that her marksmanship was extremely accurate. When following his son Zhao Dong to face the enemy attack,
You can always knock down a large piece at a sharp angle. As a result, the name of "old lady with two guns" became more and more popular, which bothered the nearby Japanese army even more.
In 1934, the Japanese army sneaked into Zhao Jiabao, and Zhao Hongwenguo's family, along with more than 300 villagers in the village, were arrested and imprisoned. In the face of torture by the Japanese army to extract confessions, Zhao Hongwenguo gritted his teeth and vowed to die and refused to disclose anti-Japanese intelligence.
Under the bail of the Predator, Zhao Hongwenguo was finally rescued two months later. After being released from prison, she devised a plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, rescued the remaining imprisoned villagers, and then fled to Beiping.
The anti-Japanese feats of Zhao Hongwenguo's mother and son were appreciated by many patriots, and all the funding they received was invested in the Predator Army.
This revolutionary contingent of ordinary people grew stronger and stronger, participating in hundreds of battles in the course of the anti-Japanese war, killing more than 10,000 enemies. It's heroic.
Defeated by inducements, mutilated compatriots
It is reasonable to say that such a revolutionary heroine should not be shot, but should be praised. But the point is, when the Predator ranks grow,
Zhao Hongwenguo could not resist Chiang Kai-shek's lure and aimed his double guns, which had killed countless Japanese Kou, at his compatriots in the land of China.
Chiang Kai-shek received Zhao Hongwenguo's mother and son in 1940 and praised her as the "mother of guerrillas." At that time, the scene was very lively, not only did reporters take photos to commemorate the occasion, but also celebrities like Dong Biwu came to celebrate.
This greatly satisfied the vanity of the old lady.
Zhao Hongwenguo regarded the Kuomintang government as an orthodox regime, felt the attention of the supreme leader Chiang Kai-shek, and was eager to show loyalty on the spot.
She was satisfied with her appointment as the commander-in-chief of the Hebei-Liao Border Region, and she was even more grateful to Chiang Kai-shek.
But What Zhao Hongwenguo did not understand was that Chiang Kai-shek's generous treatment was to show favor to her son Zhao Dong. After all, he was the first person to establish a "Liaonan government" behind enemy lines in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and it was conducive to confrontation with the Communists.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zhao Hongwenguo led the Kuomintang troops to repeatedly launch attacks against the Chinese Communist Party.
The unexpected death of Zhao Dong made Zhao Hongwenguo lose the value of containment and exploitation, and the snub of Chiang Kai-shek's government made her transfer her hatred to the Communists.
When Zhao Hongwenguo was sent by Chiang Kai-shek to carry out reactionary activities in western Sichuan, she actually united with the horse bandits who were raging in Sichuan and launched them to violently attack the county seat. The masses who were suspected of being Communists were ruthlessly killed by her.
This act of maiming compatriots caused outrage among the masses, and after the People's Liberation Army arrested zhao Hongwenguo, who had fled, there was a strong call for him to be shot. She was sentenced to death the year after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
epilogue:
Resisting foreign enemies, killing Japanese Kou, and saving the people from water and fire, Zhao Hongwenguo's contribution in the first half of his life in the War of Resistance was undoubtedly indelible, but this was not the reason why she killed her compatriots. After being co-opted by Chiang Kai-shek,
In order to gain the approval of the National Government, in order to gain the favor of high-ranking officials, they kill their compatriots at will, and such people who disregard life cannot be said to be glorious and righteous at all. Only in the chaotic world at that time could such a discredited person be created!