In 1940, the famine swept through the Yimeng border union in Shandong, coupled with the Japanese invaders to grab food, the people survived hard and starved all over the wilderness.
It was not until the arrival of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army that the situation here eased slightly, they fought guerrilla attacks against the Japanese during the day and attacked the Japanese army logistics at night, and the soldiers used their lives to get back some of the food for the local people.
And the Eighth Route Army dug wild vegetables in the field every day to eat, and Aunt Fang felt very uncomfortable when she saw it, so she tried her best to save a little from her own food and let the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army eat it.
When the soldiers come back from the war, Aunt Fang will always greet her daughter Xiaolan at the entrance of the village, Xiaolan will happily run forward when she sees the warrior brothers coming back, many local little soldiers like Xiaolan, if you get candy from somewhere, you will put it in your pocket and wait for Xiaolan to eat.
However, as the situation deteriorated, the eldest lady looked at the bottomed rice bowl at home and was worried alone.
Looking at those soldiers who had no legs and no arms, how could Aunt Fang not be sad? In the eyes of the eldest mother, they were all children like Xiaolan, how could they bear to let them starve and freeze?
After a night of consideration, Aunt Fang made up her mind: "Let's do it." Tears flowed unconsciously.
The Great "Mother of the Revolution"
This lady's full name is Fang Lanting, Aunt Fang was a hard-working girl in her early years, and her family wrapped her feet, but the "rebellious" she took it off after going out, and wrapped it back when she went home.
And the eldest mother is also lucky, because she did not bind her feet, many in-laws looked down on such a girl, so they gave her the opportunity to fall in love freely.
When she was in her twenties, she met a man named Zhou Zhencang, who was honest and honest, and Aunt Fang took a fancy to his hard-working spirit in her early years, and the two became husband and wife in 1909.
They didn't have a wedding, they just went through the motions, but the young couple who fell in love always believed that as long as they worked hard, they would be able to live a happy life.
coincided with the sudden change of the situation, the background of the warlord melee crushed every ordinary person into the dust of the times, no matter how hard Zhou Zhencang struggled, the family was still hungry and full, coupled with the frequent disasters caused by God's tricks, and in desperation, Zhou Zhencang decided to go to the eastern part of the country.
Before leaving, he did not take his wife with him, but just hugged him goodbye and promised her: "When I come back, I will let you live a good life." ”
Zhou Zhencang, who originally planned to accumulate a little entanglement in the northeast and then come back, never expected that the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders would step on the fertile black soil from 1931, which made it even more difficult for him to survive.
When passing through Hebei, he met Guo Yunfang, a progressive, who told him the story of the Red Army's fight against local tyrants and the division of land, which made him yearn for it, so when he arrived home, he immediately told his wife everything he had seen and heard.
Aunt Fang was a little skeptical at first, she said to her husband: "If there are really people in the world who speak for the poor, then I look forward to their arrival from the bottom of my heart." ”
In the face of the ferocious Japanese soldiers, the local masses also held a mobilization meeting, but the Kuomintang county magistrate chose armed suppression, and many people fell in a pool of blood.
Several Kuomintang soldiers tried to drive the crowd away, but Mrs. Fang pointed at his nose and scolded: "You vampires, you are camped here and eating our food, and now you don't fight devils and point guns at your own people?"
Some soldiers were moved by Aunt Fang's words, and they put down their guns one after another, and the division commander saw that it was not a solution, so he simply removed the county magistrate from his post to settle the matter.
Since then, Aunt Fang has been looking forward to the arrival of the "poor man's team" even more, and is gradually trying her best to understand this distant and mysterious team.
Unexpectedly, this day really came.
A teacher who accepted the new ideas found Zhou Zhencang, hoping that he could help the Red Army deliver documents, and Zhou Zhencang took the job without saying a word, and from then on, this dilapidated house became a local underground party traffic station.
The Kuomintang searched for Communist Party members everywhere, which also brought great pressure to the people, but Zhou Zhencang and his wife remained unmoved, and even in the most dangerous period, they held this traffic station.
Because Fang often helped her husband, her prestige gradually increased, and after the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance, Fang became the head of the local democracy movement department and joined the Communist Party.
In the autumn of 1939, the Bianlian County Party Committee sent an important telegram to Luo Ronghuan, the head of the 115th Division, which was delivered by Zhou Zhencang in a cigarette stick.
The Japanese invaders took revenge in the village immediately after discovering that the information might be leaked, and they successfully found out through the traitor that it was Zhou Zhencang who sent the telegram, and Zhou Zhencang saw the Japanese soldiers who broke into the door, and also knew that his life was about to come to an end.
The devil soldiers who took the lead tied Zhou Zhencang to a tree, and the huge leather whip whipped him one by one.
The translator on the side wiped the sweat on his body and quickly asked Zhou Zhencang in Chinese what the specific content of the information was.
Zhou Zhencang took a sip of phlegm, and the devil soldiers beat him again, and the leading few people were tired, so they let the traitors on the side continue to beat.
After working for several hours, Zhou Zhencang was stunned and didn't say a word, and the embarrassed and angry devil directly cut off Zhou Zhencang's head with a big knife and hung it on the turret, and shouted to the other villagers:
"If any of you disobey, then he will be doomed!"
When this happened, Aunt Fang was watching quietly from a distance.
When the devil army returned to the city, Aunt Fang's emotions finally exploded, she whimpered and took down her husband's body, and buried her lover's heroic torso with grief and indignation.
The threat of the devil can only make Aunt Fang stronger, and she wants to continue the road that her husband has not finished.
The majesty of an eldest lady in charge of herself began to manifest from this moment.
At that time, there was a "Shi Bangjie Armed Force" in the area managed by the Bianlian County Party Committee, and after organizational research, it was found that the armed leader Shi Bangjie was originally just a lonely and helpless street child, who was given alms by Fang Da Niang when he was begging for food on the street in the past, and later he grew up and pulled a group of people to go up the mountain, and after the Japanese invaded him, he actively resisted Japan, and fled to Fang Da Niang's house after being cornered by the Japanese invaders.
However, because Shi Bangjie was accustomed to the life of a coward, he was reluctant to join the Communist Party, and the organization decided to let Aunt Fang think of a way.
After Mrs. Fang received the task, she came to Shi Bangjie's "headquarters" alone, Shi Bangjie immediately ran to greet her, when he heard that Mrs. Fang was already a party member, he hesitated a little, and before he could speak, Mrs. Fang pointed at him and reprimanded: "
As a mother, it is to show you a clear path, is it a long-term solution for you to mix like this for a day?"
After living in Shi Bangjie's "barracks" for three days, Shi Bangjie joined our party's anti-Japanese team with 300 troops, and he himself died honorably in a later battle.
When Aunt Fang was running around working, Xiaolan, who was only 5 years old, was often alone at home, this little baby was very sensible, she usually didn't cry or make trouble, and she would obediently wait for her mother to come back at home.
In 1940, the famine swept through the border alliance of the four counties, coupled with the frantic offensive of the Japanese army, the supply of the troops, let alone ordinary people, became a problem.
In order to solve the food and clothing of the soldiers, Aunt Fang had to make a move that she was very reluctant to.
Heavy grains
After a few days of sneaky inquiry, Mrs. Fang contacted a local family that was quite wealthy and came back with two liters of millet.
On the way home with the grain on her back, the eldest lady's heart was complicated, but she didn't have time to think about it, so she wanted to quickly take advantage of the night and the Eighth Route Army to recuperate and grind the grain and make fragrant pancakes.
The next morning, a few hungry little soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were looking for food, and the eldest lady stopped them with a smile:
“快，小同志，你们过来喝粥。 ”
The soldiers were already dizzy with hunger, and they all swallowed their saliva, but we have military regulations, we can't just take a stitch from the common people, and now is a difficult time, let alone eat Aunt Fang's food.
Aunt Fang knew that food was not easy to come by, so she stuffed the bowl in her hand into the soldier's hand, and the soldier was afraid of spilling it, so she only held the bowl firmly in her hand, and she was reluctant to swallow it.
The warrior on the side suddenly said:
"Auntie, where can you get so much food now?"
Aunt Fang motioned for him to hurry up and eat, and "reprimanded":
"As far as you, a little comrade, talk the most, the eldest mother borrowed it, and I will return it to him when the harvest is good next year. ”
But the squad leader on the side suddenly found that in this winter, why is Xiaolan gone, when she was at the eldest mother's house in the past, this little girl never recognized her life, and when she heard the voice, she would run out and let her brothers lift high, why is she still introverted today?
So, the squad leader asked the eldest mother where Xiaolan went, but the eldest lady just didn't say.
There was really no way, so the squad leader reported the matter to his superiors, and the chief sent someone to investigate, and this investigation found out the truth.
It turned out that Aunt Fang gave Xiaolan to a big family, and the big family gave her two liters of millet.
After the soldiers heard about it, they knelt down in front of Aunt Fang and wept bitterly, and the troops also called on everyone to make up all the money to redeem Xiaolan, Aunt Fang really couldn't stop it, and also shed tears, and finally Xiaolan was ransomed!
The chief also specially organized a troop meeting to affirm Fang Damiang's spirit of loving the army, and since then, Fang Damiang has become the "mother of the revolution".
At that meeting, the chief told another story:
"Aunt Wang of Guanzhuang Village, Chaoyang, sent her second son to the army, and after the second son died, he sent his eldest son, third son, fourth son, and son-in-law to the front line. ”
In the extremely difficult years, these heroic families only placed bamboo baskets, flat poles and other objects, and there was nothing of value else, and the food, grass, and military shoes of the front-line soldiers were the result of the joint efforts of countless ordinary people.
The spirit of Yimeng is the precious spiritual wealth of the party and the country, and Mrs. Fang is a well-deserved representative of it.
It was still in the winter of that year that Aunt Fang's home was surrounded by the traitor's "security maintenance meeting", and in desperation, she climbed over the wall and hid in a local bully's house.
Sure enough, the Japanese invaders had discovered the "secret" on Aunt Fang's body, so they sent such a group of traitors to search door to door.
Fortunately, all this was expected by the eldest mother, she thought that the relationship between the bully and those traitors was usually very good, so his home would not be searched.
And the bully is also very "interesting", he also knows the relationship between the eldest mother and the Eighth Route Army, if he sends the eldest mother out, then the Eighth Route Army will definitely not spare him when he comes back.
As the anti-Japanese resistance gradually entered the stage of stalemate, a lot of ideological emancipation work was also put on the agenda, and Mrs. Fang, who was not educated, was successfully elected as the president of the women's association with her excellent eloquence and strong memory, and she also became a role model in the hearts of local women.
Later, the Lunan Women's National Salvation Association was established, Aunt Fang has always been very outstanding, she will organize women to cover the wounded, send intelligence, catch traitors, and make a lot of efforts to resist Japan, and finally ushered in the dawn of victory, which is also the best explanation to her husband.
In 1947, the Kuomintang placed the main offensive force in Shandong, and the new task that Fang Damiang received was to retreat north with her family team.
But when the team reached Mengyin County, there was no food, and the accompanying children were hungry and crying.
Seeing this, Aunt Fang did not hesitate, and immediately asked the husband to kill the horse and eat meat.
When everyone walked to the bank of the Yellow River, everyone couldn't make up their minds, and looked at Aunt Fang, but the Kuomintang army behind was about to catch up.
"I received an order to take President Fang's family across the river. ”
Aunt Fang was very angry, and immediately scolded: "I won't go, I can't just let myself go." ”
The other party had no choice but to take a few older family members to pass first, and Aunt Fang inquired around, and finally learned that the people nearby said that there was a ferry that could cross the river, and after passing over, it happened to find that the People's Liberation Army was crossing the river, and the leader was still Wang Moshan, a cadre from Lunan.
Wang Moshan was also startled when he saw Aunt Fang: "My mother, why are you still here, hurry, I'll take you with me!"
Aunt Fang's answer was categorical: "I want to be with them." ”
After the other family members arrived, they all cried and hugged Aunt Fang's legs, for fear that Aunt Fang would not care about them, and Aunt Fang also raised her voice to assure everyone: "Don't worry, the child and I will leave last, and wait for you all to pass!"
With the help of the troops, more than 200 people successfully crossed the river.
During the war years, Aunt Fang once made a first-class merit and a third-class merit, and her heart was not only tied to the people's army, but also to the people of the whole country.
She has witnessed many moments of the growth of New China, and she has also fulfilled her vow to her husband.
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1. 红动沂蒙 | 【巾帼大宣讲】舍子拥军方兰亭 《澎湃新闻》
2. The most beautiful Fei County people in Quancheng|Zhou Qinglan, a witness to the red story: The red gene is passed down from generation to generation "Shunwang"