In 1939, the New Soviet Army's Northern Soviet Advance Team marched into the hinterland of central Jiangsu under the orders of General Manager Chen, and quickly developed from this base. The development and growth of the Soviet-Chinese base area soon aroused the hostility of the Japanese puppet army, who sent an army to try to eliminate this base area, while our army, under the leadership of Guan Wenwei and Ye Fei, skillfully used flexible tactics to confront them and repeatedly thwarted their attacks.
In May 1940, after a day and night of bitter fighting with the Japanese puppet army, Ye Fei led his army to Guo Village north of the Tongyang Canal to rest. After continuous combat, the soldiers were all sleeping tiredly, and only the sentries were always keeping a close eye on the four directions. Suddenly a small boat on the river came, and when it came to the shore, a beautiful woman wearing a cheongsam came down.
The sentry saw the woman thinking she was a spy who had come to investigate the infiltration and immediately arrested her. The woman's expression was not panicked, but she was very anxious to see Chief Ye Fei, and when the soldiers brought her to Ye Fei, she told Ye Fei that she had come here for a big news. Who is she? What happened?
1. Red Agent
The name of the person who came was Li Zhenfang, who was both a lieutenant political trainer of the Kuomintang and an underground party member of our army. Born in Yangzhou in 1920, Li Zhenfang has a family of 6 brothers and sisters, but his father is only an employee of the grocery store, so the family is very poor. Nevertheless, the father still did not forget to cultivate his children, so the six brothers and sisters were versatile.
At the same time, Li Zhenfang's martial arts talent is excellent, and Master Liu Dianbi, a well-known martial arts master in Yangzhou, thought that Li Zhenfang was a martial arts genius at a glance, and had to accept her as an apprentice and pass on her martial arts. Others ask for money to learn from teachers, and Liu Dianbi does not collect a penny from Li Zhenfang and passes on his mantle. Under the guidance of Liu Dianbi, Li Zhenfang practiced a good skill, kung fu, riding horses, and shooting guns.
Li Zhenfang has had a sense of resistance since she was a child, and often participates in progressive activities in addition to studying, in which she has absorbed a lot of revolutionary principles. When he was 17 years old, his family was really poor and could not go on, Li Zhenfang wanted to go to Yan'an to participate in the revolution, but the family could not even get the road fare, Li Zhenfang could only give up, instead of participating in the anti-Japanese salvation movement in Yangzhou.
Just when Li Zhenfang was struggling to serve the country from the military, an opportunity appeared in front of her. In 38 years, her father was imprisoned by the Japanese army for a small matter. In prison, he met Xia Lan, an underground party member of our army, and his father saw through the face of the japanese invaders and asked Xia Lan to bring his children to resist Japan together. With the help of Xia Lan, Li Zhenfeng and his brothers and sisters successfully entered the army.
After entering the army, the leaders took a fancy to Li Zhenfang's smart and alert, calm and athletic characteristics, and planned to let her engage in intelligence, so he made her an underground party member. After operation, Li Zhenfang was installed in the Kuomintang Li Mingyang army. Li Zhenfang also lived up to expectations, engaged in his own ability, and became a lieutenant political trainer. In 1940, Li Zhenfang ushered in the final test as an underground party.
Second, shocked to hear about the war
At noon on this day, Li Zhenfang was taking a nap, and her attendants came to tell her to pay the military salary and asked her to quickly collect it, and Li Zhenfang felt very strange about this, because the military salary was issued early. Li Mingyang's unit, where she belonged, was a miscellaneous army, which was not valued by the government, and usually there was basically no punctual military salary, if the military salary was paid in advance, then there was only one possibility, that is, to fight a war.
In order to confirm his suspicions, Li Zhenfang decided to probe the wind when he was leading the army. Walking on the road, Li Zhenfang found that several familiar service chiefs were buying supplies in large quantities, and Li Zhenfang casually asked them: "What are you busy with?" "What else can I do, there is a big battle to be fought," replied the chief of service dissatisfied, she was right, but she also needed to know more specific information.
When Li Zhenfang was in line to receive her salary, she talked to the soldiers around her, and the soldiers saw that Li Zhenfang was wearing the uniform of a lieutenant and looked beautiful, so they were defenseless against her and told her: "Guo Village is going to be beaten up." Hearing this, Li Zhenfang's heart mentioned the throat eye. She began to use her role as a political trainer to travel from station to station to explore useful information.
Holding the document, she had a chat with the acquaintances of the various stations under the pretext of passing on the order, and through the cliché she got the time, strategy, and route of Li Mingyang's troops to take advantage of Ye Feibu's weakness to attack them. After Li Zhenfang got the information he wanted, instead of being happy, he became worried, and the intelligence showed that Li Mingyang's troops were going to attack Ye Fei in the early morning of the next day, and the intelligence was still too late to spread.
In order to transmit information, Li Zhenfang went to the county town in the name of following the soldiers to eat and enjoy, and then she sold eggs to get rid of the small subordinate assigned to her by her superiors. She originally wanted to pass the news out through her own line, she did not want to go out of the line to run errands, and it was definitely too late to wait for him to come back, thinking about li Zhenfang resolutely decided to go to Guo Village personally to pass on the information.
3. Trek to pass on the message
In order not to make the goal too obvious, she went to a well-known tailor's shop, took off her military uniform, and changed into a cheongsam. If you follow the normal road, it will take no more than ten miles from the town to Guo Village, and it will take no more than an hour. But at this time, the road must be dissatisfied with Li Mingyang's people, taking this road is definitely impossible, only the detour can quietly deliver the news to the past.
Jiangnan has many water network mountains and mountains, but also many wild grass and wild trees, and the road to delivering letters is destined to be full of difficulties. But Li Zhenfang didn't have time to think about it so much. She wrote down the message and stuffed it into her bun to make a backup, and then hurried on the road. She traveled in the dark along the way, crossing one village after another, wading through one river after another, she was not good at water, but in order to pass on the news, she could only pounce across the river with a hard scalp.
The heavy walking overwhelmed the shoes and scrapped them halfway through. Li Zhenfang can only walk barefoot. The road was overgrown with weeds and rubble, drawing Li Zhenfang's feet one after another, and tiredness also came up like a tide, only the will was still supporting the action. After all the hardships, Li Zhenfang finally arrived at the Tongyang Canal, and after crossing the river, she reached Guo Village, but the canal was deeper than her head, so how could she pass?
When she was embarrassed, she saw a small boat nearby, and she didn't have time to think about Li Zhenfang before she rowed over. When she reached the other side of the river breathlessly, she was arrested by the sentry as a secret agent. Li Zhenfang was anxious and clamored to see General Ye Fei. At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, Li Zhenfang finally saw Ye Fei, and she hurriedly told Ye Fei what she knew, and after saying that, she fainted because she was too tired.
Ye Fei hurriedly carried out military deployment after learning of this, and Li Mingyang's troops attacked as scheduled, but our army had already made preparations and fought fiercely with them, Ye Feibu, with the support of friendly troops who rushed to the scene, annihilated three regiments of the enemy army, the enemy army was completely shaken, and the battle was fought from June 28 to July 4, and finally ended in the victory of our army. Because Li Zhenfang's identity was exposed, he stayed in our army to work.
summary
Known as the "Prelude to the Eastward Advance", the Defense of Guocun was a military and political victory. It not only dealt a blow to the Kuomintang diehards engaged in infighting, encouraged the mood of struggle of the broad masses, but also opened up a channel for the New Fourth Army to march eastward to resist Japan and establish a base area in the Soviet Union and China. And the key figure among them, Li Zhenfang, has made great contributions, and she has completed a great feat with a strong will.
Later, Li Zhenfang has been the deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Justice, she has been a low-key person in her life, silently contributing, never told her children that she had such a wonderful experience, only a photo in the Guocun Defense War Memorial Hall tells everything about her past. This is the case with the older generation of Party members, who do not seek fame and fortune, but are only willing to make their own contributions to the country, the party, and the people.