Zhang Yingsong
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In May 1915, Tian Shouyao was born in a poor tenant farmer family in Tiandun Village, Shunhe Township, Lu'an County, Anhui Province. Tian Shouyao, who was a child, was thin and short because he couldn't eat enough, and at the age of 10, he cut grass for the landlord's cattle and suffered from being squeezed. In 1931, Tian Shouyao joined the Red Army, and because of his courage and resourcefulness in battle, he participated in the Long March and entered southern Shaanxi in 1934 and was promoted to the commander of the main regiment of the Red 25th Army. In 1935, he arrived in northern Shaanxi as the commander of the 78th Division of the Red 15th Army Corps, and led his troops to participate in famous battles such as Laoshan, Yulinqiao, and Zhiluo Town.
The Red Army generals moved to northern Jiangsu
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Tian Shouyao served as the deputy commander of the 687th Regiment of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. On September 24, 1937, the 115th Division made a detour behind enemy lines and set up an ambush pass. At 7 o'clock in the morning of the 25th, the main force of the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army and a large number of heavy vehicles entered the ambush circle of our army. After the battle began, Tian Shouyao led the 687th Regiment from Caijiayu to Hanjiawan, braving a dense rain of bullets to charge the besieged Japanese army. In the tragic white-knuckle battle, Tian Shouyao was seriously wounded and still lay on a stretcher to continue commanding, severely inflicting heavy damage on the 3rd Brigade of the 21st Wing of the Japanese Army and the baggage team. After the victory of Pingxingguan, Tian Shouyao, who was seriously wounded, was promoted to regimental commander. Since 1939, Tian Shouyao has served as the commander of the newly formed 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Column of the Eighth Route Army and the commander of the 2nd Detachment of the 5th Column. After the Southern Anhui Incident in January 1941, Huang Kecheng was ordered to lead the 5th Column of the Eighth Route Army south to Central China to support the New Fourth Army, and the 5th Column of the Eighth Route Army was reorganized into the 7th, 8th, and 9th Brigades under the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army. As a result, the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th regiments under the jurisdiction of the 8th Brigade carried out guerrilla warfare in northern Jiangsu and opened up an anti-Japanese base area in Yanfu District, and undertook the tasks of resisting Japanese aggression and fighting against stubborn traitors in the areas north of Yancheng and east of Guanyun and Huai'an, and fighting against pirates and bandits and feudal sects.
Yanfu area is bordered by the Yellow Sea in the east, the South of Jiangsu and Central China, the Longhai Railway in the north, and the Salt River in the west. When Tian Shouyao led the 8th Brigade into Yanfu District, the social order was turbulent, the Japanese puppet army frequently dispatched "sweeping" to burn, kill and loot, ruffians and bullies were rampant in the countryside, and the Kuomintang recalcitrant troops also went to the countryside from time to time to harass them, and the masses were miserable and lived in dire straits. In the face of this grim situation, Tian Shouyao commanded the troops to first take the initiative to attack and annihilate the Japanese puppet army, comprehensively suppress the reactionary landlord forces with great public anger, eliminate bandits and bullies, and calm the people's hearts, thus greatly enhancing the reputation and prestige of the New Fourth Army among the masses. On February 15, 1941, Tian Shouyao led his troops to annihilate all the more than 600 bandits of Gu Baoceng's department, who were entrenched in Jijiawei, and the people all applauded. In the spring of 1941, Gaozuo Town, Suining County, gang bandits took advantage of the Japanese army's "sweep" against us to launch a sneak attack and destroy the field hospital of the New Fourth Army headquarters in Gaozuo, killing the wounded and medical personnel, arousing the monstrous anger of the officers and men of the 8th Brigade. Tian Shouyao sent Zhang Tianyun, the head of the 22nd Regiment, to exterminate all the bandits in one fell swoop. The Japanese puppet army was panicked by the New Fourth Army's entry into the Yanfu area, and took advantage of the unstable foothold of the 8th Brigade to frequently "sweep" in a vain attempt to annihilate our army or drive it out of the Yanfu area. At dawn on April 26, 1941, more than 200 Japanese troops and more than 500 puppet soldiers from Lianshui County suddenly surrounded Dahuzhuang in Huai'an County. The 2nd Company of the 24th Regiment of the 8th Brigade stationed in Dahuzhuang quickly deployed, using courtyard walls, pigsties, and houses to resist stubbornly, and repelled three enemy charges in a row. The inhumane enemy used poison gas and smoke to launch a charge, and the 2nd Company Commander engaged the enemy in hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, broadswords, and rifle butts, repelling the enemy's fourth charge. The ferocious enemy began to set fire to the house again, and the soldiers repeatedly rushed to kill in the thick smoke and flames, killing and wounding more than 100 Japanese puppet soldiers. However, due to the disparity in numbers, 82 people under the deputy battalion commander Gong Diankun and company commander Jin Zhiyun died, and only one seriously wounded survived. After learning of this tragic incident, Tian Shouyao said with tears in his eyes: "The soldiers of the 2nd Company who can sing and cry have dealt a heavy blow to the aggressors and shed their last drop of blood for the liberation of the Chinese nation. Their heroic righteousness and fearless spirit of seeing death as if they were at home will always be our role models for learning!" Zhengtankou is located 30 kilometers northeast of Lianshui County, east and north by water, the street is across a river embankment, the condescending position is dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack. This is not only the link between the two anti-Japanese base areas of Yanfu and Huaihai, but also the throat of the Japanese puppet in the first-line base areas of Wugang, Daxinji, and Xin'an Town. The Japanese puppet army painstakingly built Zhengtankou into a dark tunnel all over, bunkers are lined up, there are more than 90 bunkers, hidden forts, turrets on the ground are connected, and there are dozens of tunnels underground. There are more than 800 Japanese puppet troops in the Zhengtankou stronghold, and the Japanese invaders also often provide supplies to continuously strengthen their strength. Because of these many advantages, the puppet army in the stronghold, this group of national scum, is even more crazy, and they have become the "living Hades" who are rampant in this area for dozens of miles. In September 1941, Tian Shouyao commanded the 8th Brigade to conquer the stronghold of Zhengtankou of the Japanese puppet army, killed more than 300 Japanese puppet soldiers and captured more than 500 people, captured 4 light and heavy machine guns, more than 800 long and short guns, rescued more than 100 people from Sixiang, and pulled out the nails inserted between the two base areas of Yanfu and Huaihai.
Went north to further his studies in the Yellow Sea and was in distress
On February 17, 1943, the Central and North China Dispatch Corps of the Japanese Invasion Army dispatched the 17th and 35th Divisions of the Japanese Army and the 12th Independent Mixed Brigade of the 15th Division, together with a total of 24,000 puppet troops, to begin a "dragnet sweep" against the anti-Japanese democratic base area in Funing, China. On the eve of the enemy's sweep, in order to unify their thinking and greet the arrival of the new situation of the great counteroffensive in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the central authorities transferred Peng Xiong, chief of staff of the 3rd Division, Tian Shouyao, commander of the 8th Brigade, and 51 cadres and attachés at and above the regimental level to Yan'an for further study. Huang Kecheng, commander of the 3rd Division, designated Peng Xiong and Tian Shouyao as the principal and deputy captains of the cadre team respectively, and demanded that they set off before the formation of the "encirclement" situation of the Japanese and pseudo-Japanese forces. Although the cadres quickly assembled and set off north, the Japanese army soon began to sweep from the Huaihai area and quickly blockaded the Salt River. Sure enough, when the contingent of cadres overcame many dangers and obstacles to reach the south bank of the Salt River, the opposite bank was already densely packed with pillboxes and turrets, and all the boats crossing the river had been dragged into the north bank by the devils. In view of the changes in the enemy's situation, Peng Xiong and Tian Shouyao changed their original plan, did not cross the Salt River to cross the tug-of-war area on the south bank, and after bypassing the Lianyungang naval blockade line by sea, they landed at Zhewangkou in the area controlled by our side at the junction of Jiangsu and Shandong north of Ganyu County, and then crossed the liberated area of Shandong and went to Shaanxi by land.
Tian Shouyao with his wife
On March 16, the team crossed the blockade line and successfully arrived at Liuhezhuang, a small seaside fishing village in Fudong County, and was lucky to find a 400-tonnage 8-cabin wooden sailing boat captured by our army. Therefore, the team carried short weapons and disguised themselves and set out from the mouth of the Yanhe River in northern Jiangsu Province to cross north along the Yellow Sea. Wang Laohan, a ship boss in his 60s, often sails back and forth between northern Jiangsu and Shandong, and is familiar with the enemy's movement patterns along the way, as well as the hydrology and meteorology of the sea routes, and he judged that if there is no accident, he will arrive at Zhewangkou at 11 noon the next day at the latest. The sailboat sailed into the vast Yellow Sea, where the water and sky were colorful, and many cadres reacted strongly to seasickness in the bumps and ups and downs of the waves. On the night of the 16th, the sea suddenly calmed down, and the sailing ship that had lost power was moored for 10 hours and then drifted with the waves. In the early morning of the 17th, the ship drifted to the sea surface of the Yellow Sea in Xiaoshadong, Jiuli Township, Ganyu County, outside Lianyungang. At more than 7 o'clock in the morning, the vigilant Wang Laohan suddenly discovered that the coastline looming at the end of the vast white sea was actually the stronghold of the devil Lanshantou, "Not good, the enemy must have discovered us!" Wang Laohan's spine was cold and frightened. After a while, a Japanese patrol boat with a plaster flag galloped towards the wooden boat. "There is a situation!" Tian Shouyao suddenly got up and said to Peng Xiong: "Prepare for battle, I am the military commander, and I am in charge of the battle command on the deck!" As the motorboat approached, I saw more than 10 heavily armed Japanese soldiers standing on the bow and stern of the boat, shouting loudly in Japanese to approach the inspection. According to the countermeasures agreed upon in advance by Tian Shouyao, Peng Xiong, and others, the ship boss replied with a "merchant ship" but did not go around. When the two boats approached, the two devils jumped onto the wooden boat with their bayonets and fierce looks. A cadre was quick to take advantage of the devil's unstable footing, rushed forward and pushed him down into the sea. Then he took out the grenade hidden in his sleeve and threw it at the enemy boat, instantly blowing up the devil's flesh and blood. "Hit!" As Tian Shouyao gave the order, the grenades and shell guns opened heavy fire on the enemy boat, and the dazed motorboat quickly turned around and fled, stopping 400 meters outside the effective killing range of the grenades and short guns. Several cadres on the deck returned fire with short guns, but due to the weak firepower and the range was only a few tens of meters, they could not effectively kill and injure the enemy, and the wooden boat was powerless to fight back out of a passive situation. After a while, several members of the team died, and the rest of the comrades were forced to retreat to the cabin. At the critical moment, Tian Shouyao said with a serious expression: "Comrades, we must not let the enemy get any of us, now everyone tears up all the secret documents they are carrying and throws them into the sea!" Outside the cabin, a Japanese interpreter shouted through a loudspeaker to order the New Fourth Army to disarm and surrender, and the team members shouted almost in unison: "Dream of it, little devil, I'd rather die than surrender!" The devil's machine gun bullets rained down on the cabin again, Tian Shouyao's wife Chen Luolian was hit and bleeding like a body and was seriously wounded, and another evil bullet hit Peng Xiong's head and died heroically immediately, a generation of heroes was only 29 years old. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, after the team repelled three close attacks from the enemy boats, the ammunition was about to run out, the wooden boats had lost their ability to resist and were facing a desperate situation, and everyone was ready to die with the enemy. However, the enemy boats were afraid of the courage of the officers and men of the New Fourth Army to resist to the death at close range, and when they saw that it was getting late, they turned around and returned to the Lanshantou stronghold with more than 10 corpses of devils.
Tian Shouyao and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army
Enemy pretended to assassinate and bankrupt
Seeing the enemy boat go away, the big man sighed, and the wooden boat slowly moved north. Unexpectedly, half an hour later, when the ship reached the sea less than 30 kilometers away from Zhewangkou, three Japanese motorboats suddenly "suddenly" chased after them from the direction of Lianyungang, and the situation changed sharply. In order to reduce casualties, Tian Shouyao ordered everyone to lie prone to the bilge and wait for the enemy to get close before fighting, but the cunning enemy only fired at the wooden ship with 7 machine guns from a distance. The enemy is strong and I am weak and can't sit still, Tian Shouyao resolutely decided to sail the wooden boat to the near shore, and all the personnel waded ashore and attacked in the direction of Zhewangkou, "Comrades, because the motorboat has a deep draft and is afraid of running aground, it can't dock as much as possible like a wooden boat, only in this way can we get away from the superior firepower of the devils. Before the words fell, the captain of the ship was shot and died, and the sailor squad leader Xiao Wang drove the wooden boat to the shore, and the wooden boat successfully ran aground with the help of the wind and waves at 3 miles offshore. At this time, the three Japanese patrol boats that caught up at the tail formed a semi-arc encirclement, blocking the way to shore the sea with machine gun crossfire. Tian Shouyao took his wife in his arms and jumped into the water first, while the rest of the comrades supported their wounded comrades-in-arms to follow closely behind Tian Shouyao and his wife, and rushed to the shore with one foot deep and one foot shallow. At this time, the hull cover was lost and exposed to the enemy's firing range, and many comrades were shot and wounded and died, and circles of red blood appeared on the turbid water. Close to the coastline, after two consecutive days of turbulence and fighting, Tian Shouyao and Chen Luolian were already exhausted and struggling, and suddenly Tian Shouyao and his wife fell into a deep water ditch on the beach, and Chen Luolian was seriously injured and lost too much blood, and as soon as he fell into the ditch, the couple was powerless and struggling and was instantly swallowed by the rising tide. The waves crashed on the shore of the Yellow Sea to mourn, and Tian Shouyao, who was only 28 years old, died heroically. The remaining comrades-in-arms did not have time to grieve, and under the command of Zhang Chimin, the director of the Political Department of the 8th Brigade, Zhang Chiming (i.e., Zhang Chiming, who was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955), they diverted their routes and waded through the water to rush forward. At the last moment, the second battalion of the coastal garrison regiment stationed in Wangcun rushed to the rescue after hearing the news, and while suppressing the Japanese army with firepower, it went to the sea to rescue its comrades. The Japanese motorboats could not resist the fire from the shore, so they had to give up and turn back.
After a short rest, the surviving comrades, led by Zhang Chiming, continued to arrive in Yan'an via Shandong, Hebei, and Shanxi. When the bad news came, Luo Ronghuan, then commander of the Shandong Military Region, was very saddened by the sacrifices of Peng Xiong and Tian Shouyao, two beloved generals, and after personally presiding over a solemn public memorial ceremony and a memorial service, the bodies of the 16 cadres and sailors on board who died together with Peng Xiong and Tian Shouyao were buried in the Anti-Japanese Mountain Martyrs Cemetery in Ma'anshan, Ganyu County. Tian Shouyao's old comrade-in-arms and old partner, Cui Tianmin, the former political commissar of the 78th Division of the 15th Red Army, inscribed a couplet for the martyrs with deep affection: The Civil War and the War of Resistance have made miraculous achievements in a hundred battles, and they have been famous for the party and the country through the ages; The horizontal batch is: Immortal!
Huang Kecheng, who was full of remorse for the heavy losses suffered heavy losses in the cadres of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army who went north to Yan'an, could not have imagined that a few months after the Lianyungang naval encounter, Wang's puppet secret service had spent a lot of effort to finally find out the identity list of most of the fallen soldiers of the New Fourth Army. At that time, due to traffic conditions and intelligence conditions, Yan'an did not know the details of Tian Shouyao's sacrifice. The cunning military commander also obtained this top-secret information through his own eyeliner. After Dai Li's personal planning, a high-ranking spy Li Daitao was sent to Yan'an to pretend to be Tian Shouyao, and a high-ranking spy of the military command pretending to be "Brigade Commander Tian" stayed in the Central Military Commission's guest house for five days, in a vain attempt to plan to assassinate Mao Zedong with a silent pistol at 10 a.m. on 22 June. Fortunately, on 21 June, the day before the meeting was arranged, the enemy was captured in one fell swoop by Chen Bo, director of the Security Department of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region Government and known as "Yan'an Holmes." It turned out that Chen Bo, who was meticulous as a hair, read the arrangements for the daily activities of the principal leaders of the central government copied from the Central Military Commission and the Central Committee Office every day. When he found out that Mao Zedong was going to meet with Tian Shouyao, he immediately asked Qian Yimin, chief of the reconnaissance section of the Hoeing and Rape Department of the General Political Department of the Central Military Commission, about the situation, and found clues during the strict inspection, and finally exposed the true face of the spy, so that the shocking case carefully planned by the military commander was completely aborted at the last moment, and this true story was reproduced in the TV series "Yan'an Elimination of Adultery".