One day in November 1938, when Liu Zhenkui and his comrades rushed into the Japanese barracks, a ghost threw a grenade at him, and Liu Zhenkui immediately bent down to pick it up.
Liu Zhenkui, a native of Luancheng County, Hebei Province, grew up poor and worked as a child laborer for a landlord's family since he was 13 years old. In 1938, the 129th Division went to Luancheng to recruit troops, and Liu Zhenkui signed up to join the army and became a small soldier in the 3rd Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 7th Company, 7th Company, 3rd Platoon, 3rd Platoon of the 769th Regiment of the 385th Brigade, when he was 16 years old.
One day in November 1938, Liu Zhenkui and his comrades in the 7th Company threw away their luggage, took their weapons, and marched in a rush to raid a group of ghosts in Lincheng County, Hebei Province. Liu Zhenkui participated in the war for the first time and ran 12 miles in one breath. When he and his comrades entered the Japanese barracks, the scouts stabbed the ghost sentries to death with daggers, most of the ghosts were still sleeping, they did not expect that the Eighth Route Army would sneak in late at night, and ran out without wearing pants.
After Liu Zhenkui shot and killed a Japanese soldier, he was no longer nervous. At this time, a ghost threw a grenade at him, the grenade hit his feet, he instinctively immediately bent down to pick it up and throw it back, the grenade exploded in the air, was screaming, and the devil squad leader who was commanding the knife was blown down.
All 17 devils were killed, and the 7th Company captured a crooked light machine gun and a pile of ammunition. The Japanese squad leader who was killed by Liu Zhenkui left a saber. The troops rewarded Liu Zhenkui with their swords. The company commander told him that when he saw the grenade's first reaction, he was going to lie down, and the grenade he threw back was exactly five seconds delayed.
In 1939, during an ambush, Liu Zhenkui used this command knife to hack two Japanese soldiers to death. Because of his bravery in battle, in 1940, Liu Zhenkui was transferred to the 129th Division Commander Liu Bocheng as a personal guard. After Liu Bocheng learned of the origin of this command knife, he instructed Liu Zhenkui: "This is evidence of the Japanese invasion of China, and it must be left behind." Liu Zhenkui carried this knife with him and followed Liu Bocheng to participate in the Hundred Regiments War. ，
At the end of July 1940, the transmitters of the 129th Division were busy, constantly entering and leaving Liu Bocheng's station. Liu Zhenkui knew that the troops were going to make a big move. Each soldier was given ten pounds of noodles and millet. Usually, there is not so much such good grain, and there will definitely be a war. Usually, a soldier can only eat 7 taels of millet a day, rely on wild vegetables to fill his hunger, and lack food and clothing. At 22:00 on August 20, the battle was fought simultaneously in the four provinces of Jinji, Hebei, Luyu and Yu. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army simultaneously launched an attack on the Japanese army to cover the military and civilians to break the Zhengtai Railway, Jinpu Railway, Pinghan Railway and Tongpu Railway.
On August 25, Liu Zhenkui's 129th Division took control of the western section of the Zhengtai Railway. Liu Bocheng ordered that the road be broken and put forward the slogans of "leaving no rails, no sleepers, no stations, no bunkers, no bridges, and no electric poles," "let the enemy race with our feet," and "let the enemy use oxen and donkeys to carry artillery shells and cannons." For 20 days, from August 20 to September 10, the Night line along the Zhengtai Railway was filled with sleeper burning fires, and during the day the smoke was thick, paralyzing the "steel blockade line" that the Japanese army regarded as the lifeblood. Rails that can be taken away are transported to rear arsenals for steelmaking and the manufacture of grenades and mines. The workers lit the sleepers and burned the tracks they could not take away red, and the railroads and repairmen used sledgehammer wrenches to twist the rails into a "twist". The workers then walked into the green gauze tent and disappeared into the night.
During the Battle of Guanjia'an, Liu Zhenkui escorted Liu Bocheng to the front. The devils are very cunning, and all they dig is individual fortifications. There was only one person in each fortification, and there were spare fortifications, which was not conducive to encirclement. After the battle began at 11 p.m., two and a half brigades of the Eighth Route Army and a guard regiment from the headquarters joined the battle. Although the Japanese army only has more than 500 people, and our army's strength is far more than that of the Japanese army, it has never been able to completely annihilate the enemy. Through the division commander's telescope, Liu Zhenkui saw the attacking soldiers fall one after another, and the division commander was anxious. The next day the Japanese sent aircraft and ghost brigades to support, the Eighth Route Army could only retreat, after the war buried comrades-in-arms, buried ten people in a grave, buried more than a hundred mounds. The battle annihilated more than 400 Japanese troops, and the leader of the Ghost Brigade, Okazaki, was killed.
In 1943, Liu Zhenkui and his comrades received orders to escort a 3-year-old girl named "Lin'er" to Yan'an to find her father. She has remained in Hebei since she was born, and her family hopes to send her to Yan'an to be cared for. From Hebei to Yan'an, it takes many enemy-occupied areas, and When Zhenkui sleeps during the day and rushes to the road at night, he puts the little girl in a basket on horseback.
As soon as I entered the enemy-occupied area, I caught up with the Zha Liang people's certificate. The agents who infiltrated the enemy's interior deceived the informants in the puppet army and forced him to find a safe place to live at gunpoint. The armed engineering team behind enemy lines looked for someone to cover up and look for a way around the sentry. In Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province, they were crammed into a broken room, and they all built a quilt together. After a month and a half, the soldiers completed the escort mission and sent Deng Lin to the Central General Office in Yan'an.
After the founding of New China, Liu Zhenkui worked in the Fengtai Public Security Bureau and the Beijing Railway Bureau's Combat Readiness Office until his retirement in 1984. The elderly Liu Zhenkui is now 100 years old and lives with his daughter and son-in-law in peace.
