In the spring of 1934, the Nationalist army wantonly suppressed the Communists in northern Shaanxi, and as the wife of Liu Zhidan, the commander-in-chief of the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrilla detachment of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Tong Guirong was the target of the Nationalist army's key search and arrest, and the Nationalist army even threatened to "dig three feet into the ground" and also seize Liu Zhidan's family.
Faced with the vicious and vicious enemy's vicious behavior of raiding homes, burning houses, and digging ancestral graves, Tong Guirong had no choice but to take his mother-in-law, aunts, and other old and young people in Liu Zhidan's family to hide in the deep mountains and old forests.
Tong Guirong and Liu Zhidan were married in 1921, when Liu Zhidan was 18 years old, and Tong Guirong, only 15 years old, although Tong Guirong could not read, but Liu Zhidan did not dislike his wife, as soon as he had time, he taught Tong Guirong to learn.
However, the good times did not last long, not long after marriage, Tong Guirong's mother-in-law died of illness, although it was already the Republic of China at that time, but the superstition was still very serious, many people blamed the death of their mother-in-law on Tong Guirong, thinking that Tong Guirong was an ominous person.
Fortunately, her husband Liu Zhidan did not think so, and patiently explained to the villagers, which made the newly married Tong Guirong very moved, and the husband and wife got along more harmoniously.
Later, when Liu Zhidan joined the revolution, Tong Guirong followed Liu Zhidan's side, helping her husband to do some things within his ability for the revolutionary cause, standing guard, making military uniforms and military flags, preaching revolutionary principles, and treating the wounded. ”。
With the help of a wife like Tong Guirong, Who was in the same boat, Liu Zhidan was able to devote himself to the revolution wholeheartedly, organizing the Weihua Uprising in 1928, and in 1931, after the September 18 Incident, organizing the Northwest Anti-Imperialist Alliance Army, and soon became one of the main founders of the Northwest Red Army and the Northwest Revolutionary Base Area.
It is also because of Liu Zhidan's identity that in the suppression of the Communist Party in 1934, the Nationalist army will focus on "taking care" of Liu Zhidan's family.
Even if he fled into the mountains, Tong Guirong and Liu Zhidan's relatives were not stable, and as Liu Zhidan's wife, Tong Guirong knew very well what kind of a blow he would be to the Red Army if he himself was caught, and he had a belief in his heart:
Liu Zhidan's mother-in-law, even if she is dead, cannot let the enemy capture her!
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Once, the enemy pursued, in a hurry, Tong Guirong jumped into the ravine, fortunately blocked by the bushes, which was lucky to survive, and another time, in order to avoid the pursuit, she took her 4-year-old daughter and hid in a deep mountain cave for eight days and eight nights.
As long as there is revolution, there will be sacrifices, and in April 1936, Liu Zhidan was unfortunately killed in Liulin at the age of 33 when he led the 25th Army to participate in the Eastern Crusade.
At the time of Liu Zhidan's sacrifice, Tong Guirong was only 30 years old, and the grief in his heart could be imagined, but soon, Tong Guirong raised his spirits and continued the revolutionary cause completed by her husband.
Tong Guirong's grief is far more than this, she and Liu Zhidan have 2 sons and 1 daughter, but the two sons have not survived.
The eldest son, when he followed Tong Guirong to escape the war, unfortunately fell ill and died, and the second son was also ill when he was sick, because the quack doctor prescribed the wrong medicine, he died, and when Liu Zhidan died, only his 7-year-old daughter Liu Lizhen was left to rely on Tong Guirong.
For his daughter Liu Lizhen, Tong Guirong's requirements are very strict, Liu Lizhen is also very competitive, after the founding of New China, learning traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, embarked on the road of medicine, saving lives and helping the injured, has served as the director of the Xi'an Institute of Medical Sciences, the president of the Affiliated Hospital of the Shaanxi Provincial Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Fifth to Seventh People's Congress of Shaanxi Province.
And Tong Guirong, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, did not idle, long-term engaged in early childhood education work, in November 1985, the 80-year-old Tong Guirong still inscription Mingzhi:"
Inherit Zhidan's legacy and carry the revolution through to the end!
In 1999, Tong Guirong completed his life journey and died of illness in Xi'an at the age of 94.