In 1942, the all-out War of Resistance entered its most difficult moment. Because the Chinese and Japanese armies were gradually in a state of stalemate on the frontal battlefield, the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and other people's armed forces frequently attacked the battlefield behind the enemy lines, and the Japanese and puppet armies were frightened. To this end, the Japanese army dispatched heavy troops, carried out a frenzied "sweep" of the anti-Japanese armed forces and base areas behind the enemy lines, and implemented the "three-light policy" in a vain attempt to strike at the morale of the people's army and disintegrate the resistance forces in the base areas. The entire year of 1942 was undoubtedly the most difficult year in the history of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. According to incomplete statistics, in this year's struggle, the number of victims of the Eighth Route Army alone reached 66,200, equivalent to the total number of the two 74th Armies of Chiang Kai-shek's army, with an average of one company sacrificed a day.
(1) Cover the transfer of troops, and the director of the Political Department of the Military Region was unfortunately seriously wounded and captured
Faced with the crisis, Chen Zaidao, commander of the Ji'nan Military Region, and Song Renqiang, political commissar, immediately began to arrange a response plan. After consultation, the military region decided to adopt the policy of dispersing the breakthrough, and the head of the military region each led a unit to jump from the gap in the enemy's encirclement circle to the outer line, and after the confluence, he would concentrate his forces on launching a counterattack from the enemy's rear and breaking the enemy's blockade and encirclement. According to the plan, Liu Zhijian, director of the Political Department of the Military Region, went to the Sixth Sub-district near Zaoqiang on October 15 to explain the combat plan of the military region to the officers and men, and led the sixth sub-district to break through.
Liu Zhijian
Unfortunately, on the evening of the 16th, Liu Zhijian was spending the night in a village. Suddenly, gunfire broke out, and then everyone heard the Japanese troops shouting in Japanese. The situation is not good, it seems that there should be a traitor informant. Due to the suddenness of the incident, the Eighth Route Army was completely unprepared, and the team was quickly dispersed. In a hurry, Liu Zhiguo gave the order that everyone should not panic, and immediately took the gun and rushed out along the sparse sound of the enemy's gunshots, and he himself led the guards to meet the enemy to buy time for everyone to break through.
In order to attract the enemy as much as possible, Liu Zhijian rode on his horse and went back and forth in a few circles, letting the horse's hiss lead the enemy to him. The Japanese army knew that because there were very few cars in the Eighth Route Army, in addition to communications and confidential personnel, the vast majority of those who had horses were middle and senior officers. As a result, many Japanese troops pounced on the roar of the horses and shot as they advanced. After a burst of random gunfire, Liu Zhijian's leg was hit, and he immediately fell from his horse with blood.
When Liu Zhijian looked at the injury, he knew that he could not leave. So he tore the confidential documents he was carrying to shreds, and then swallowed the scraps of paper. He then pulled out his pistol and tried to kill himself, but with a pull of the trigger he jammed. At this time, the Japanese army had surrounded him, and Liu Zhijian was unfortunately captured.
(2) Chief Liu Deng ordered: Whether dead or alive, we must be rescued!
When the Japanese captured Liu Zhijian, it was of course ecstatic. You know, at that time, Liu Zhijian's "fame" was already quite large. The old Red Army, who joined the revolution at the age of 16, was the director of the political department of the 4th Army of the Red Fourth Front. Note that the 4th Army of the Red Fourth Front, the commander at that time was Xu Shiyou, the political commissar was Wang Jian'an, the chief of staff was Zhang Zongxun, the founding general of the country, and among the division-level cadres under his command, there were Wang Jinshan and Hu Qicai, all of whom were well-known Red Army generals.
At that time, the Japanese puppet army gave Liu Zhijian a reward of up to 600,000 silver yuan for his head, and among the division chiefs of the 129th Division (Liu Zhijian was then the deputy director of the Political Department of the 129th Division), in addition to Liu Shichang and Deng Political Commissar, the "treatment" was similar to that of Xu Xiangqian, Li Da, Cai Shufan, and others, and even 50,000 silver yuan higher than that of Chen Geng, commander of the 386th Brigade.
Transferred to the 129th Division of the Eighth Route in Southern Hebei
Therefore, the Japanese army immediately interrogated Liu Zhijian. But the tried-and-tested old Reds said nothing. The Japanese exhausted all means, even deliberately destroyed his wounds, causing them to become infected, and tortured Liu Zhijian's spirit in an almost perverted way, but they failed to make him submit. The Japanese army saw that he was not easy to deal with, so they decided to move him to Zaoqiang's stronghold first, and then slowly clean it up.
Because the 129th Division has been rooted in the Jiluyu area for many years, the mass work has been fruitful. Every move of the Japanese army was passed on to the headquarters of the 129th Division without a bad eyeliner. Upon learning that Liu Zhijian had been captured, Master Liu and Political Commissar Deng decided to rescue the people at any cost. They even prepared for the worst, even if they could not save the living, they would have to snatch the remains out!
In order to rescue Liu Zhijian, the 129th Division and the Ji'nan Military Region can be described as elite: Chen Zaidao and Song Renqian, commander of the Ji'nan Military Region, are not to say more, specific to the person in charge of the rescue, one is Yi Liangpin, commander of the Sixth Sub-district, who joined the revolution in 1927 when he was less than 17 years old, and every battle was to compete for the first, from a soldier in the four fronts to a regiment in only three years, and once led a regiment to defeat a division of Chiang Kai-shek's army There was also Chu Daming, deputy commander of the 20th Regiment of the Sixth Division, who was also a lord who fought and did not die, known as the first fierce general under Chen Geng and the "one tiger" in Ji'nan, who had rubbed shoulders with the god of death 28 times since joining the Red Army in 1932, and there were as many as 62 scars on his body. The fierce generals of the Ji'nan Military Region came out in unison, which can really be said to be "heroic robbery of the law field."
(3) The Eighth Route Army was wise and courageous in "robbing the legal field", and Liu Zhijian escaped from danger safely
According to intelligence, the Japanese army will transfer Liu Zhijian on the morning of the 20th. Probably because the Japanese army was greedy, or because the light enemy did not take the Eighth Route Army seriously, although they put more than 100 infantry, 50 cavalry, and more than 60 puppet troops in the escort team, they did not notify Zao Qiang's friendly troops to come and meet them. Moreover, on the forward route of the Japanese army, there was a sweet potato field that had not been harvested. The sweet potato vines that had grown in the ground were just convenient for the Eighth Route Army to hide. And the sweet potato field is slightly above the road, which happens to be a commanding height. "This is called Heaven help me!" Yi Liangpin resolutely ordered the abandonment of the original strong attack plan and instead set up an ambush in the sweet potato field to hit the enemy with an ambush.
On the evening of the 19th, Chu Daming led 3 companies of the 20th Regiment to quietly march to the sweet potato field and ambush them at night. It was late autumn, and with gusts of wind at night, it was hard not to shiver. But the stakes were high, and everyone had to hold back the cold, lying motionless on the ground, not making a sound at all, just waiting for the enemy to come.
Taiyue Hu will Chu Daming
Finally, the sun came out. At about 8:00 a.m., Chu Daming looked up, only to see a group of people and horses on the road in front of him: walking in front was a puppet army wearing dark blue military uniforms and large brimmed hats, followed by a Japanese army wearing steel helmets, and then a large car, which could be vaguely seen lying on top of a person, and the Japanese cavalry was guarding around the car. It can be seen that the enemy's vigilance is not tight, many people are smoking, and even occasionally some people sit down to take a nap. Chu Daming quietly gave the order, telling the officers and men not to act rashly, but to hold their breath and receive instructions before firing. Holding their breath, everyone pulled out the fuse of the gun and the grenade, and opened fire as soon as the order arrived.
Finally, the enemy who was walking at the end also entered the ambush circle. The time had come, and Chu Daming immediately ordered, "Fight me!" The machine guns of the 6th Company opened fire first, and the bullets brought down the first few enemies like a rainstorm. The enemy was suddenly hit, and some of them did not know why, they jumped into the ditch on the side of the road to take shelter. In an instant, rows of grenades were thrown over and exploded on top of the enemy's head.
The enemy was crowded in the ditch and could not hide, and the dead and wounded were in a mess. Taking advantage of the enemy's confusion, the 4th Company, under the cover of the 6th Company, quickly rushed onto the road and went straight to the big car in the enemy team. At this time, seeing the Eighth Route Army rushing in, some puppet troops immediately raised their guns to the sky and turned around to guide the Eighth Route Army to seize the big car.
It turned out that the Eighth Route Army had already done a good job in some of the work of the puppet army through the informants installed in the puppet army. As long as the puppet army did not resist, the Eighth Route Army would not beat them. As soon as the puppet army released the water, the Japanese army behind it was unknown. Before they could understand what was going on, they saw the puppet army flashing to both sides, and the Eighth Route Army immediately grabbed the box gun and fired a fierce shot at the Japanese troops guarding the cart, scattering it. A squad leader named Ji Zhiming had fast eyes, flew to jump on the big car, and protected Liu Zhijian with his body. Two Japanese cavalry came to grab, Ji Zhiming adjusted the box gun to the automatic block, and a company of fire knocked the two off their horses. At this time, two more fighters jumped on the car and carried Liu Zhijian down. Ji Zhiming opened the way in front of him and quickly killed him.
Chu Daming saw that the rescue had been completed, did not love the battle, and immediately led the army to withdraw without a trace. When Japanese reinforcements arrived, they found nothing but more than 30 Japanese corpses.
Liu Zhijian and his wife
Liu Zhijian was successfully rescued, and the Eighth Route Army suffered no casualties. When the news came, Master Liu couldn't help but clap his hands and shout, "Beautiful! "But a little regret, Liu Zhijian's leg wound missed the best rescue time, resulting in his limp leg, and thus got a nickname." Later, Liu Zhijian served as the political commissar of the Column of the Second Field Army, the deputy political commissar of the Corps, and the deputy director of the General Political Department. However, many of the comrades who rescued him from the court at that time, including Yi Liangpin and Chu Daming, were unfortunately sacrificed. Whenever he recalled the past, Liu Zhijian would always say with tears in his eyes: "Compared with the martyrs, I am lucky, without them, I would not have been able to live to see the victory of the revolution!" ”
In 1955, Liu Zhijian was awarded the title of lieutenant general. After the award, the chairman shook his hand and smiled, "Are you Liu Zhijian, who was saved from the court by the heroes?" Liu Zhijian saluted: "Chairman of the report, I am Liu Zhijian..."
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