Blood Wo Yi Meng -- Commemorating the 79th anniversary of the martyrdom of Li Zhuru

Blood Wo Yi Meng

Commemorate the 79th anniversary of the martyrdom of Li Zhuru

In the late autumn and early winter of 1942, the Japanese invaders carried out a large-scale "sweep" in Shandong, and the organs of the Shandong Provincial WarTime Promotion Work Committee (Provincial Government) retreated to Luzhong. On November 2, 1942, Li Zhuru, secretary general of the Shandong War Trade Union, showed composure and bravery in the battle, without fear, and fought several bloody battles with the enemy. After dark, our army began to break through, Li Zhuru was hit in the head by a bullet when he climbed over the stone wall on the top of the mountain, and died heroically at the age of 37.

Marxism and Leninism spread to the whole world, and the world must be united. Li Zhuru, formerly known as Yicao, zi Shihua, was born in Zhuangke Village, Lijin County, Shandong Province, Li Zhuru was poor since childhood, but his widowed mother insisted on sending him to study, and when he was studying at Huimin No. 4 Middle School, he began to be influenced by the revolutionary ideas of early Shandong Communists such as Wang Gemei and Deng Enming, and became a firm follower of communism. In the Spring Festival of 1925, Li Zhuru, who returned home for the New Year, posted a couplet at the gate of his home that read, "Marxism-Leninism spreads to the world, and the world wants to be united." After that, he studied at the Affiliated Middle School of Nanjing Central University, Jinan Zhengyi Middle School, and Nanjing Central University, and in 1927, the white terror enveloped the entire land of China, and the Great Revolution fell into a bloody storm. Beginning in 1935, he successively sponsored New Asia Daily, Culture Daily, Chinese Daily, Xinhua Daily (North China Edition) and Dazhong Daily. In 1936, he self-financed and founded the Cultural Daily in Shanghai with a group of revolutionary intellectuals who had joined the Chinese Communist Party in the early years. After Mr. Lu Xun's death, he wrote a full-page newsletter, "The Death of Mr. Lu Xun", and set up a column to introduce dozens of progressive writers and scholars. Most of the comments of the "Culture Daily" on current affairs at home and abroad were written by Li Zhuru himself, actively publicizing the culture of the War of Resistance and inspiring the spirit of the war of resistance of the whole nation.

Exercise in the anti-Japanese flames, grow in shouts and battles. In 1937, the "August 13 Incident", the Japanese invading army attacked Shanghai on a large scale, Li Zhuru was forced to leave Shanghai and rush to Yan'an, he almost did not bring any clothes, but brought a barrel of wax paper, a steel plate and an engraved iron pen. Along the way, enemy planes bombed and traffic was interrupted, and he walked to Bengbu, constantly printed the party's proposal of resisting Japan and saving the country into leaflets, distributed them along the way, and constantly attracted intellectual youth to join him. In 1938, he served as the president and editor-in-chief of Chinese Bao, an organ newspaper of the party committee of Jinji-Hebei Yu District, and in 1939, he became the deputy editor-in-chief of Xinhua Daily (North China Edition), an organ of the Northern Bureau of the Communist Party of China

The exhibition work encouraged the people's confidence and determination to persist in the War of Resistance and win the victory of the War of Resistance.

Remember the chairman's teachings and do not forget the original mission. At the end of 1939, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the founding of the "Dazhong Daily", Li Zhuru, then director of the democratic movement of the Shandong Branch of the CPC, suggested that in order to enhance the influence and appeal of the "Dazhong Ribao", it was decided to ask Chairman Mao to write an inscription. A few days later, Chairman Mao sent an inscription by telegram. Chairman Mao sent an inscription: "Mobilize newspapers, periodicals, schools, propaganda groups, cultural and artistic groups, military political organs, mass organizations, and all other possible forces to raise national consciousness, carry forward national self-confidence, and self-esteem, oppose any attempt to surrender and compromise, persist in resisting the war to the end, not afraid of difficulties, not afraid of sacrifice, we must be free, we must be victorious." Chairman Mao's inscription is not only a hope and encouragement for the "Mass Daily", but also a solemn call and instruction to resist the Japanese military and people, and has become the "Mass Daily" to arouse the people and adhere to the guiding principle of the War of Resistance.

A newspaper is worth a shell. At the beginning of 1940, Comrade Li Zhuru served as the propaganda director of the Shandong branch and concurrently served as the director of the management committee of the "Dazhong Daily", the organ of the Shandong branch. During his tenure as director of the management committee of Dazhong Daily, he also founded the Shandong branch of the China Young Journalists Association, serving as the chairman of the board, as well as the Shandong branch of Xinhua News Agency, and the first director of the Shandong branch of Xinhua News Agency. "A newspaper is worth a shell!" It was a phrase he often hung on his lips. From the very beginning, he led the direction of running the newspaper with a firm party position and a clear journalistic concept, which were concentrated in articles such as "Propaganda and Agitation War in the Three Years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" and "Glorious History and Glorious Tasks - For the September 1st Journalists' Day", which were published in the "Mass Daily" in 1940. Under the guidance of this ideology, the "Dazhong Daily" successfully carried out major reports such as the "Joint Congress Meeting," the "Anhui Southern Incident," and the "Rent and Interest Rate Reduction" in an extremely difficult war environment and under extremely poor material conditions. As the director of the management committee, he personally wrote editorials and articles, and from November 1939 to May 1941, he published 12 signed articles in the "Mass Daily", totaling more than 80,000 words, and even more unsigned editorials and monographs. In the winter of 1941, when Zhao Ling, secretary of the Lunan District CPC Committee, bravely took up his righteousness, Li Zhuru led the first wartime news group of the "Dazhong Daily" to follow the Lunan inspection group of the sub-bureau to Lunan District to deal with the crisis, and insisted on publishing the article to the outside world in the dangerous situation of being able to "penetrate with one shot.". At that time, the Yimeng base area had a harsh environment behind enemy lines and could not be publicly issued. Li Zhuru led the mass newspapermen to creatively establish a wartime post office trinity system according to actual needs. Thousands of postal routes have been opened up that are not scattered and constantly beaten, and the great power of newspapers has been brought into play. Comrade Li Zhuru innovated and launched the method of walking on two legs, one was to organize a procurement team of 6 people to purchase in the enemy-occupied areas; the other was to send personnel to Yiwen in Yinan County to open a shop "Liyuanyong" to purchase peanut oil, honeysuckle and other local specialties for printing materials, and later established an underground procurement line in Lianyungang. Li Zhuru also set up a mass cooperative in the newspaper organs, which greatly facilitated the cadres and soldiers of the newspaper organs, the sub-bureau organs, and the organs of the 115th Division. In November 1940, the newspaper set up the Public Press, which was in charge of publishing books, and Li Zhuru served as the chairman of the board. At this time, the provisional senate of the Shandong base area successively discussed and adopted the "Regulations on the Organization of The Senate at All Levels in Shandong Province" and a series of laws and regulations on finance and trade, education, rent reduction and interest reduction, etc. These were all drafted by Li Zhuru.com. Among them, the "Regulations on the Protection of Human Rights" is the first regulation on the protection of human rights in the history of China.

Fight in blood, blood sprinkled. On October 27, 1942, more than 12,000 enemy troops in Linyi, Yishui, Mengyin and other counties divided into 12 roads to "pull the net and encircle" the area around the southern wall of Yishui County. However, the Shandong Provincial War Trade Union, the Shandong Military Region and other leading organs were besieged by the enemy on November 1 in Guyu, and the situation was extremely critical. The enemy cavalry ran up and down the hill, and the infantry began to attack the hill. In the piercing screams, the Nangu outpost was shrouded in black smoke, the fierce artillery fire lasted for nearly 40 minutes, the enemy troops descending from the north under the cover of artillery fire attacked along the east and west ditches from three directions, for a time, the sound of gunfire and grenade explosions sounded in one piece, and after an hour, the gunfire fell thinly, the smoke around the small highland dissipated, and a "sun flag" was revealed on the top of the hill. During the battle, a platoon of the Eighth Route Army that stood firm here was all sacrificed, and Yan Yulin, commander of the special service battalion of our army, shouted with sorrow and indignation: "Comrades, avenge the martyrs, fight until dark!" Immediately, a majestic, passionate cry rang out from the position. The enemy came from three sides and launched an onslaught, and they rushed up with shining bayonets in their hands. A company commander Wang Jixian rushed up the small heights with a platoon, he jumped back and forth, brandishing a pistol to direct the soldiers to counterattack the enemy, the enemy's corpses on the hillside accumulated more and more, and the battle began to enter a white-hot. Yan Yulin continued to receive reports of injuries, "18 casualties in three companies" and "12 casualties in one company". At about 1 p.m., the Japanese transferred two planes from Yishui, took turns dropping bombs and strafing at Guding, and supported by artillery and heavy machine gun fire to cooperate with the infantry charge. The grenades of the eighth route army were exhausted, and the enemy in the west rushed to the front of a company of positions, only about a hundred meters away from the command post of our army, Wang Jixian jumped out of the fortification with only a dozen or so fighters, and fought with the enemy with bayonets. Many soldiers were killed with bayonets, and they slammed the enemy's head with rifle butts and grenades; in the fierce fighting, the corpses of the Japanese army were lying on the ground, the officers and men of our army's special service battalion had sacrificed more than 200 people, and Wang Jixian's body was heroically sacrificed by the enemy's shells. After a brutal fight and the repulsion of the enemy's fourth charge, only 3 fighters remained on the western position. After Wang Jixian's sacrifice, Xie Xun, a company instructor who succeeded Wang Jixian in command, was hit in the right eye by a bullet, and blood flowed down his cheek, but he opened his left eye and said to the soldiers: "No one is allowed to retreat, hold out until dusk, victory is ours!" As soon as the words fell, he fell down and never got up again. At more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the number of staff officers, officers, and chief guards of the military region organs who could fight with guns on the position was less than a hundred. Li Yu, Wang Jian'an, Li Zhuru and other leading comrades all took up arms and took action, and under the cover of the guard troops, they threw themselves into battle. It was getting dark, and night was coming. At this time, the enemy troops in the three directions were about to rush up again, and Yan Yulin, commander of the special agent battalion, reported that there were only 14 people left in the whole battalion, and Wang Jian'an consulted with Li Yu, Li Zhuru and other emergency consultations and decided to immediately break through the siege. Yan Yulin, commander of the special agent battalion, said: "Chief: You don't have troops to defend you, but you must be more careful!" Wang Jian'an said: "Rest assured, we are all fighters, we can all fight!" After a burst of gunfire, the breakout began. Jiang Hua led a squad to take the lead in jumping down from the northeast corner and killing a bloody road, the comrades behind them immediately scattered and charged outwards, the cliffs were steep, the sky was dark, some of the soldiers were creeping forward, some of them slipped down, some of them rolled down, the Japanese army found that after our army broke through, they immediately fired luminous bullets and lit a fire to illuminate, dense bullets poured down like raindrops, and when Li Zhuru struggled to break through, a bullet hit his head, unfortunately heroically sacrificed. During the battle, Li Yu, director of the Shandong Provincial War Trade Union, was wounded, and hundreds of commanders and fighters, including Liu Yuquan, commander of the first regiment, and Wang Rui, political commissar, were martyred.

After Li Zhuru's sacrifice, Comrade Xu Qianqian wrote an inscription: "Comrade Li Zhuru is an outstanding organizer and activist on the propaganda and news front of our party."

(Author: Cheng Jianguo, Member of China Writers Association, Vice Chairman of Shandong Financial Writers Association, Vice Chairman of Dongying Writers Association)