Huanghua City, belonging to Cangzhou, Hebei Province. It is named after commemorating Huang Hua, the deputy commander of the Jilu Border Region and the revolutionary martyr who died here in 1946.
However, shortly after Comrade Huang Hua was killed, his wife and newborn daughter mysteriously "disappeared".
No one knows where they have gone, and the central government has sent people to search for them many times, but there has been no news.
It wasn't until 64 years later that an old lady named Liu Lubin appeared and claimed that she was the biological daughter of the martyr Huanghua.
When she took out many photos and letters about "father Huang Hua" left by her mother before her death to prove her identity, Huang Hua's old comrade-in-arms Wang Xinhua looked at these photos and burst into tears, and he asked Liu Lubin in an old voice:
"I've been looking for you for 16 years, where have you been?"
What happened back then that made Huang Hua's biological bloodline reappear after 64 years?
Dazhao Village Tragedy - The tragic death of the hero
On the evening of June 30, 1943, Huang Hua, deputy commander of the Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, led the troops to Dazhao Village, Xinhai County, to hold a military meeting to deploy the autumn anti-"sweeping" mission.
Due to the arduous nature of the task, in order to ensure the successful completion of the task, Deputy Commander Huang Hua held three meetings in a row in one day to patiently and meticulously adjust the content of the tasks that each group member was responsible for.
At this time, Huang Hua had not eaten water and rice for a day, and he was thinking about finishing the last meeting and waiting for his wife and children to have dinner together.
At this time, Zhou Yunhong, who is currently the leader of the brigade pistol team, pushed the door in, claiming that the commander Xing Renfu had a secret letter to hand over to Huang Hua, and also asked that in order to ensure the top secrecy of the order, the others at the scene temporarily avoided it.
As a result, Huang Hua, who has always been cautious, asked his subordinate cadres to withdraw from the venue.
At this time, only Huang Hua and Zhou Yunhong were left in the house.
Huang Hua was so concerned about the content of the secret letter that he didn't notice the fierceness in Zhou Yunhong's eyes that couldn't be hidden when he looked at him.
Just as he was about to open the envelope, he suddenly heard several gunshots outside the house, Huang Hua suspected that there was an enemy raid, and immediately squatted down, and reached the back of his hand to get the gun, but he felt empty.
Huang Hua's heart was cold, and he immediately looked at Zhou Yunhong next to him, and the other party was holding his matching gun in his hand.
Huang Hua instantly understood that the gunshots outside the house just now were probably the sound of his guards being killed by Zhou Yunhong's people.
He stared at Zhou Yunhong vigilantly, and only then did he see the banter in the other party's eyes, but before Huang Hua could open his mouth to question, Xing Renfu's other henchman, Feng Guankui, kicked the door open.
Feng Guankui was originally a bandit leader in the Yanshan area, but was later recruited by Xing Renfu, the commander of the Eighth Route Army Military Region and Huang Hua's top boss.
I saw Feng Guankui raise his hand and shoot him several times when Huang Hua was completely unable to dodge.
One of the shots hit Huang Hua in the head, killing him instantly.
This year, Huang Hua was only 32 years old.
My daughter has just been born, and I am the youngest brigade commander and deputy commander of the Eighth Route Army Military Region, and I planned to reunite with my wife and daughter after the last meeting tonight.
Now he was killed by a traitor, and his life is forever stuck at the age of 32.
When his wife Gu Lanqing arrived at the venue with her newborn daughter, she was frightened by the corpses of the soldiers lying in the courtyard as soon as she entered the door.
But Gu Lanqing, who was concerned about her husband's safety, did not flinch, she held her little daughter's swaddling clothes tightly with one hand, and pushed open the half-hidden door with the other hand tremblingly.
And the person lying on the ground in the room, pale as paper, with blood trickling under him, is not Huang Hua, who is it?
Gu Lanqing was overfrightened, and immediately fainted, and when she woke up again, Huang Hua had been secretly buried by her comrades who rushed to support.
The comrades-in-arms knew that Gu Lanqing couldn't accept the bad news for a while, but the deceased was gone, and what they could do was to bring the murderer to justice as soon as possible and avenge Huang Hua.
But what no one could have imagined was that not long after Huang Hua's accident, Gu Lanqing "disappeared" with her infant daughter.
Although the central government sent a lot of manpower to find it, there was still no news of Gu Lanqing's mother and daughter.
In September 1945, in order to commemorate the martyrs of Huanghua, the Shandong Military Region changed Xinqing County (established by the merger of Xinhai County and Qingcheng County in January 1944) to Huanghua County (known as Huanghua City after 1989).
And the culprit Xing Renfu was very proud after the conspiracy succeeded.
After living happily for a while, his design to kill Huang Hua was revealed, and Xing Renfu had to flee with his little wife and a group of cronies to avoid being pursued by the Eighth Route Army.
(Xing Renfu and Song Kuiling)
But Xing Renfu, who had already served as the commander of the Eighth Route Army's Hebei-Lubian Military Region at that time, not only had a heavy responsibility, but also married Song Kuiling, the army's propaganda officer, to his little wife.
In this case, why did he put aside his stable and happy life, and still deliberately killed Deputy Commander Huang Hua?
It turned out that everything was driven by Xing Renfu's jealousy.
A generation of heroes died
Xing Renfu once served as a soldier in the national army, fought desperately for three years, and only became an adjutant.
He felt more and more that in the ranks of warlords, he had no skills but no place for them.
Therefore, after the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began in 1937, Xing Renfu and the Eighth Route Army in Jinnan, Lubei and other places formed an anti-Japanese armed force.
On July 15, the North China People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army was formally established, and this unit was later reorganized into the "31st Guerrilla Brigade of the National Revolutionary Army", with Xing Renfu as its commander.
At that time, this army led by Xing Renfu was famous in the land of North China, and it broke out of the encirclement of the Japanese puppet and Kuomintang troops many times, and destroyed countless enemies.
In 1941, Xing Renfu not only served as the commander of the 6th Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, but also served as the commander of the Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region.
It was also in this year that when the soldiers were fighting the enemy hard, Xing Renfu, who had already gained great prestige and status, began to embark on a desperate path of greedy for pleasure.
He no longer went to the front line to command the war, no longer cared about the lives of the people after the war, and even embezzled 37,000 public funds, and only cared about enjoying himself in a comfortable nest with his little wife all day long.
However, due to the "division of labor system" of the leaders of the military region, the party committee failed to discover Xing Renfu's various evil deeds in a timely manner.
Until, the superiors assigned Huang Hua to be his deputy.
Huang Hua, formerly known as Golden Mountain, participated in the revolution in his early years, and went through the tempering of the Long March, unlike Xing Renfu's "halfway monk", Huang Hua is an old Red Army with firm beliefs and strong roots.
After Huang Hua arrived in the army, he vigorously promoted the reform of the system, he respected every soldier and treated every citizen well.
In just one year, the military region has taken on a new look, and he himself has won the support of many former Xing Renfu's old troops and soldiers.
But the more support and respect Huang Hua received, the deeper the jealousy in Xing Renfu's heart.
He turned a blind eye to Huang Hua's behavior of rectifying the military region and treating the people well, and was paranoid that Huang Hua was simply here to "seize power" with him.
(Huang Hua's last photo before he was killed)
Therefore, when Huang Hua truthfully reported the situation of the Hebei-Lu Border Military Region to Zhou Guanwu, which led to Xing Renfu being criticized in public at the party congress, Xing Renfu had murderous intentions against the upright Huang Hua.
In 1943, the higher authorities decided to appoint Xing Renfu to go to the Yan'an Party School for exchange and study, and Huang Hua temporarily took over the post of commander of the Hebei-Shandong Border Military Region.
It was such a normal assignment that became the fuse that indirectly led to Huang Hua's death.
Xing Renfu, who was already jealous, thought that this was Huang Hua's "plan to divert the tiger from the mountain" and that the other party wanted to seize his "great power," so he repeatedly delayed the departure time and refused to go on the grounds that "the green gauze tent has not yet been set up, and the troops have no cover and are not safe."
At the same time, Xing Renfu secretly summoned Liu Yongsheng, Feng Guankui, Yang Jinghou, Zhou Yunhong and other cronies to a meeting.
At this point, the criminal plan of "killing Huang Hua and defending Xing Quan" took shape.
This is the later "Da Zhao Village Tragedy" - the villain won his will and the hero died tragically.
In the process of being pursued by the Eighth Route Army, Xing Renfu fled to Tianjin with his little wife.
Who would have thought that the original anti-Japanese fighters would now rely on writing articles such as "Allegiance to the Emperor" to flatter the Japanese.
What is even more unforgivable is that he also took the initiative to betray all the important military information he knew about the party and the army to consolidate his position as a traitor.
In 1945, after Japan surrendered, Xing Renfu changed his name and surname to "Luo Zhen" and became the leader of the major group of the Tianjin Military Command Station.
But as the saying goes, Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky.
On September 7, 1950, on the eve of Xing Renfu's execution at the 10,000-person public trial, he still did not repent and insulted the martyr Huang Hua.
The wicked got the punishment they deserved, but the martyr Huang Hua never came back.
In the tenth year of Huang Hua's departure, that is, in 1953, Huang Hua's bones were moved to Jinan Hero Mountain Martyrs Cemetery, and the hero could finally rest in peace.
In the past ten years, the central government has never given up the search for Huang Hua's wife and daughter, but they seem to have evaporated from the world, and there is no news.
After 64 years, father and daughter recognize each other
Until June 29, 2007, Huanghua City, Hebei Province, a small coastal city named after a hero, finally ushered in the hero's daughter, Liu Lubin.
When Huang Hua died, she was just a baby, and when she reappeared, she was already 65 years old, with gray hair and a faltering gait.
When talking about why Gu Lanqing "disappeared" with herself, she said:
"After my father was killed, my mother was worried that the bad guys would attack our mother and daughter, and there were already traitors in the army at that time, my mother was just a woman's family, and after my father died, she didn't know who to believe, so she could only take me to hide in Tibet."
(65-year-old Liu Lubin cried bitterly after learning of his father's death)
Liu Lubin said that the mother and daughter traveled to many places, and it was not until Gu Lanqing married a man named Liu Liangming that their lives settled down, and they also changed their surname to Liu.
Before his mother died, Liu Lubin learned about his life experience from his mother.
She knew her mother's concerns, and knew that her mother was worried that she would affect the current family because of this identity, so she never revealed it to herself for so many years.
Liu Lubin is well aware of his mother's good intentions, and has never revealed his identity in any public appearance.
Until a news report of a "90-year-old martyr looking for the orphans of his deceased comrades-in-arms for 16 years" appeared on TV.
Only then did Liu Lubin know that in this world, his father still had such a comrade-in-arms, and he did not forget to look for their mother and daughter.
This comrade-in-arms is named Wang Xinhua, and he is Huang Hua's platoon commander in the 115th Division.
Since Huang Hua was killed, Wang Xinhua has never given up the search for their mother and daughter.
Now that the two old men have met, Wang Xinhua finally got rid of one of his thoughts, and he and Liu Lubin told a lot about her father.
And Liu Lubin finally decided to go to Huanghua City, Hebei Province, to see his father, whom he had never met.
(Father and daughter meet for the first time in 64 years)
When she walked into the room where Huang Hua was killed and saw the tables, chairs and benches in the room, she couldn't control her tears anymore, touched her father's martyr's monument, and said, "Dad, I'm coming to see you", which made everyone present red-eyed.
More than 60 years of life has changed her from a baby in swaddling clothes to a faltering old lady, leaving her and her father forever, but she will always remember her father in her heart, and will also let future generations remember:
It is the blood of revolutionary martyrs that flows in our bodies!
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[Text: Jiang Chen]
[Editor|Chang Gung]