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"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." Hearing the interpreter, and then looking at the "very cooperative" deputy commander of the Eighth Route Army in front of him, the Japanese officer detained him with other prisoners of war and planned to send him to the county town together in a few days to see if he could get some information from this "deputy regiment commander."
The name of this eighth route army prisoner who was shot in the leg was made up by him on a temporary basis, and he was not a deputy regimental commander at all, but a deputy political commissar and director of the political department of the Ji'nan Military Region of the 129th Division, whose real name was Liu Zhijian.
【Photo】 Founding Lieutenant General Liu Zhijian
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In 1942, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression fell into a bitter stalemate, and in order to open the stalemate, the Japanese army repeatedly organized heavy troops to carry out an iron wall encirclement sweep of the Taihang Mountain base area of our country. In order to better carry out the anti-"sweeping" work, Liu Zhijian, director of the Political Department of the Ji'nan Military Region, under the instructions of his superiors, led a cavalry squad to the Sixth Sub-district of the Ji'nan Military Region to convey the instructions of the party committee of the Ji'nan Military Region and direct the anti-"sweeping" work.
But in the middle of the road, Liu Zhijian encountered a squadron of devils, he led the cavalry squad of fighters and fought and retreated, but they were outnumbered, and as the soldiers sacrificed one by one, Liu Zhijian was also shot by the devils in the leg and fell off his horse. Seeing the Japanese approaching, Liu Zhijian quickly tore up the classified documents and swallowed his stomach, then buried a photo with his wife and a pocket watch he carried with him. After doing all this, Liu Zhijian continued to pull out his pistol and circle with the enemy, and finally ran out of bullets and was captured by the Japanese army.
【Photo】 Liu Zhijian and his wife Liu Laiying
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Looking at this posture, the devils also felt that Liu Zhijian was also a person with an identity, so Liu Zhijian, who was escorted to the stronghold, saw that he could not hide from the devils, and he was "frank and lenient" and admitted that he was a deputy regimental commander. The Japanese army did not know Liu Zhijian's identity, and besides, it was also very remarkable that it could capture a deputy commander of the Eighth Route Army alive, so they imprisoned Liu Zhijian and other captured anti-Japanese elements and prepared to send him to Zaoqiang County for further interrogation. The news of Liu Zhijian's capture was quickly learned by the headquarters of the 129th Division, and Liu Bocheng personally ordered: to see people alive, and to see corpses in death. Liu Bocheng believed that this tried-and-tested Communist Party member, the old revolutionary who had come all the way from the Pingjiang Uprising, would certainly not divulge secrets, but I was afraid that he would not be able to escape the clutches of the devil.
Receiving Liu Bocheng's rescue order was Chen Zaidao, commander of the Ji'nan Military Region, who actively formulated a rescue plan after receiving information from the inside that Liu Zhijian had not yet died and that his identity had not been revealed and that he was about to be escorted to the county seat. When it was learned that the Japanese troops escorting the prisoners and resisting japanese soldiers were heading from their strongholds toward the county seat, the Eighth Route Army, which had already made preparations, proceeded according to the plan, first dispatching more than a dozen soldiers dressed as chai fu on the necessary road of the Japanese puppet army, blocking the road with the firewood that had been prepared, and when the Japanese army got off the car for inspection, the Eighth Route Army, which had already been ambushed, opened fire in unison.
【Pictured】 Liu Bocheng, commander of the 129th Division
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It is worth mentioning that perhaps the enemy really does not attach much importance to this "deputy regimental commander" of the Eighth Route Army, although more than a hundred people were sent to escort him, but except for a dozen ghosts, the rest are puppet troops. And these puppet troops "reached a consensus" as early as in the process of dealing with our army for many years and months, so as soon as the Eighth Route Army opened fire, it specifically greeted the dozen or so Japanese troops, and those puppet troops, although crackling and crackling, were fierce, but they were "unable to fight." In order to prevent the Japanese dogs from jumping the wall in a hurry, in the battle between the two sides, our army rescued Liu Zhijian and the rest of the anti-Japanese soldiers under the eyes of the puppet army. After the mission was completed, the Japanese army was also wiped out, and our army quickly withdrew. When the large japanese troops rushed to reinforcements, our army had long disappeared, leaving only a dozen Japanese corpses and puppet "wounded soldiers" on the ground.
Subsequently, the Japanese army with hindsight figured out the real name and identity of this "deputy regimental commander". "Cunning, deceived, the Eighth Route Army is really haunted", although the Japanese army that released the "big fish" was angry and corrupt, it could only look incompetent and furious. On the other side, Liu Zhijian, who was rescued, was arranged to recuperate at his hometown, and although he was carefully cared for, the injured leg was disabled.
[Photo] Chen Zaidao: Founding General and then Commander of the Ji'nan Military Region
Liu Zhijian, who returned to the army, first entered the Central Party School to study, and then continued to devote himself to the revolutionary cause, making great contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Zhijian successively served as the director of the Intelligence Department and the director of propaganda of the Central Military Commission, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955.
It is worth mentioning that when Mao Zedong gave him the title, he also patted him on the shoulder and quipped: "You are the crippled Man who robbed the law!" ”