Cover news reporter Xie Ying
The autumn breeze is cool and cool, and the millet is golden and yellow
This year's harvest is good, and the barn is full
It was all because the Eighth Route Army had saved its hometown
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On April 5, 2022, at the Revolution Memorial Hall in Jinsui Border District, Shanxi Province, young docents hummed the local folk song "QuickLy Pay Public Grain", which attracted countless tourists to stop and listen. 1200 kilometers away in Bazhou District, Bazhong City, Sichuan Province, an old house sounded the same melody, the singer Bai Gaihua, a 98-year-old century old man, in the vicissitudes of the song, the old man's thoughts returned to his hometown under the Lüliang Mountains, Taihang Beacon Smoke.
At the age of 97, he relived the oath of joining the party
Laying mines to raise food and grass
Bigfoot became a guerrilla leader
In 1937, the iron hooves of the Japanese Kou approached the Taihang Mountains. In Guxian Township, Lüliangxing County, Shanxi, a small remote village lit up the anti-Japanese beacon.
Unlike other girls in the village, 14-year-old Bai Gaihua has a pair of large footboards, and when she was a child, she refused to wrap her feet, and the cloth shoes made by her mother walked like a fly, making her peers envious.
Like the adults, Bai Gaihua joined the anti-Japanese ranks. A cadre of the unit gave several questions, she took the lead in answering 3, coupled with the flexibility and quick action, Bai Gaihua became a small team leader of the village women's rescue association, organizing women in the village to read and write and make military shoes for soldiers every day. In March 1938, Xingxian was occupied by the Japanese army, and she and her sisters united around the Eighth Route Army, and with a witty mind and a pair of big feet, Bai Gaihua served as the local guerrilla leader.
Once, the Japanese army swept through the village, and in order to let the masses move safely, Bai Gaihua was ordered to drag the enemy along. They chose an open field and dug pits to lay mines. How do I lure my enemies to the bait? Bai Gaihua came up with a solution: she left fresh footprints on the ground where the mines were buried. A pair of Japanese soldiers swung over, and when they saw the footprints on the ground, they relaxed their vigilance, "rumbled" a few times, the Japanese army was blown up and turned over on their horses, and Bai Gaihua, who was hiding in the shadows, clapped his hands and laughed. On another occasion, Bai Gaihua and several militiamen infiltrated the enemy-occupied area and climbed up the telephone pole at night to cut off the wires, and the brightly lit Japanese military camp was instantly dark.
With the development of the war, the military food was becoming increasingly scarce, and collecting grain and grass became a new task for the guerrillas. Based on local folk songs, the troops compiled a new "QuickLy Pay Public Grain," and Bai Gaihua not only learned to sing it himself, but also led everyone to learn it together. Under the guidance of the song, the enthusiasm of the people to hand over public grain was unprecedentedly high.
Taking advantage of the loophole that the enemy did not search women too strictly, Bai Gaihua ventured to the enemy-occupied areas to collect food. She smeared a handful of ash on her face, carried a small bamboo basket, found the village chief to hand over the notes of the Eighth Route Army, raised 3,000 kilograms of grain overnight, and took advantage of the gap between the Japanese soldiers patrolling and changing the guard, and sent people to transport the grain out of the two or three miles and handed it over to the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who came to meet her. When I went for the third time, the village chief was not at home, but he encountered a ghost. A Japanese soldier put Ming's dangling bayonet around her neck, fortunately, she did not bring a strip this time, the devil searched all over her body and found nothing, just at this moment, the village chief returned, he hurriedly said: "This is a guest of my family, a good citizen." Bai Gaihua was able to escape.
The country hates the family
The first husband was killed by the Japanese
The mother's heart contains a secret that the children do not know until they are adults.
When my mother, who has always been quick and fast," talked about this matter, she was eager to say goodbye. "She seems a little embarrassed." The youngest daughter recalls the scene of that year.
This is a story of national hatred and family hatred. When he was young, through the mastership of his parents, Bai Gaihua and the noble Qian of the same village betrothed dolls. Gao Shangqian served as a platoon commander of a reconnaissance company of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and the two married each other. In the winter of 1944, Gao Shangqian and two comrades-in-arms disguised themselves to infiltrate the enemy-occupied areas to spy on intelligence, and were recognized by the traitors, the three of them hid in a cellar in the courtyard of their hometown, the enemy surrounded the courtyard and threw lit firewood into the cellar, the two comrades-in-arms drew their guns and committed suicide, Gao Shangqian did not have time to commit suicide, the enemy held his hands, pierced his shoulder blades with wire, and inflicted a variety of tortures such as "five horses and corpses", torturing him alive to death. Gao Shangqian never revealed any secrets.
After learning the news of her husband's sacrifice, it was after the victory of the War of Resistance. Bai Gaihua ran to the hillside every day, cried in the direction of her husband's sacrifice, and cried tired before going down the mountain.
"Gao Yindong, a native of Xingxian County, was a platoon leader of the reconnaissance company of the 120th Division Headquarters, and was hunted and killed by the enemy on March 13, 1945, while reconnoitring the enemy in Hejia Nangou in Lan County." There is such a simple record on the Xingxian Martyrs' Memorial Wall. Bai Gaihua told his children that this person on the memorial wall was his close comrade-in-arms and beloved relative, Gaoyin Cave was Gao Shangqian, and "Silver Cave" was his milk name.
Returning to the arms of the organization, tears appeared in the corners of the old man's eyes.
From Taihang Mountain to Daba Mountain
Taking care of her second husband is also "revolutionary work"
In 1948, Bai Gaihua ushered in a second relationship. After being introduced by the organization, she combined herself with Yang Mingchen, who was then the political commissar of a certain department of the People's Liberation Army in Chejiazhuang, Xingxian County.
Yang Mingchen, a native of Bazhong, Sichuan, joined the Red Army in 1933 and later joined the Eighth Route Army, and was heroically wounded during the battle against Japan in Shanxi, with multiple fractures in his right hand and right leg.
In 1955, Yang Mingchen returned to his hometown of Bazhong with his military exploits and scars. Considering his inability to move, the troops specially rewarded him with a war horse, "He rode a high-headed horse, good and mighty." Whenever he said this, Bai Gaihua's face was full of pride.
From the smoke-filled battlefield to the beautiful Daba Mountain, the legendary story of the female guerrilla leader is drowned in the smoke and dust of history. The neighbors only knew that this middle-aged woman with a thick foreign accent and busy every day was a lover of an old Red Army.
In fact, as early as when she married Yang Mingchen, Bai Gaihua calmly accepted the change of role and identity, and the head of the army told her, "Taking good care of Comrade Yang Mingchen is also revolutionary work." ”
Bai Gaihua has always kept this sentence in mind, taking good care of her husband's life, the two have seven children, and the big family lives peacefully in an old house that is not spacious.
40 years later hometown trip
The story of the heroic mother surfaced
In 1968, Yang Mingchen died of illness at the age of 60. At that time, only the eldest daughter had just joined the work force, and the remaining 6 children were all minors. When her husband was gone, the unaccompanied Bai Gaihua believed that he was "detached from revolutionary work." Although she dreamed back to her hometown countless times and had no choice but to raise her children as soon as possible.
Bazhong has lived for decades, and the white change of Chinese rural pronunciation has not changed, and in the eyes of the children, the mother is no different from others. In her spare time, my mother would hum the folk songs of her hometown, and the most sung was the song "QuickLy Pay the Public Grain". At this time, the mother's eyes lit up, as if she had changed into a person.
In September 1993, 70-year-old Bai Gaihua, accompanied by his eldest daughter, set foot on his homeland for the first time after more than 40 years, and the jujube tree behind the house in front of the house, the cave where she lived as a child are still there, and of course, she also went to the sacrificial place of GaoyinDong. When he saw his two party introducers, Yang Chengshu and Koshi Maoyuan, Bai Gaihua was excited, and a kite that had been disconnected for many years finally returned to the place of departure.
Yang and Ji confirmed that Bai Gaihua joined the Communist Party of China on April 11, 1939, and the Village Committee of Koshijiazhuang, the Government of Guxian Township, and the Civil Affairs Bureau of Xingxian County issued a certificate: Bai Gaihua had served as the director of the Women's Rescue Association of Guxian District, founded a textile cooperative, a garment factory in Zhiqian County, collected public grain, spun yarn and weaving fabrics to support the front line, and also went to the front line to participate in anti-Japanese national salvation activities such as delivering intelligence, planting mines, cutting wires, and rescuing the wounded.
At this point, Bai Gaihua's heroic past has finally surfaced, and the children have finally understood the extraordinary meaning contained in the mother's ageless song.
He Ping ,second from right, secretary of the Central Committee of the Bazhong Municipal Cpc Committee, visits Bai Gaihua
The original intention has never changed
He returned to the arms of the organization at the age of 97
After returning to Bazhong, Bai Gaihua handed over a series of certification materials to the former Bazhong County Civil Affairs Bureau for the first time, but did not get a clear reply, and she was "not good enough to add trouble to the organization", which was more than 20 years.
"After her father's death, my mother completed the 'revolutionary work' given to her by the organization, and for decades, what she cared about most was to return to the embrace of the organization." The children understand the mother's mind. With the passage of time, the old man's desire became more and more urgent.
In recent years, the main leaders of the Bazhong Municipal Party Committee have visited Bai Gaihua's home many times to visit and comfort, she has also expressed her wishes many times, the relevant departments of Bazhong City, in line with the attitude of being responsible for history, have learned through in-depth investigation and understanding from many parties that on October 26, 2021, the Organization Department of the Bazhong Municipal Party Committee agreed to restore Bai Gaihua's party membership, and the party age was calculated continuously from April 11, 1939. On November 11, in his own home, the old man threw away his crutches, shook his fist in his right hand, and revisited the oath of joining the party in front of the party flag.
The autumn breeze is cool and cool, and the millet is golden and yellow
This year's harvest is good, and the barn is full
It was all because the Eighth Route Army had saved its hometown
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Due to an illness a few years ago, the elderly's hearing is not as good as before. When a visitor visited and talked about her hometown, she immediately opened her voice, and the song drifted out of the window and out of the alley, and the revolutionary memorial hall of the Jinsui Border District and the taihang Mountain converged with a moving symphony.
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