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Preface
In 1943, the Japanese army launched an autumn sweep, besieging Baiya Village in Fuping County, Hebei Province, and driving all the people out of their homes.
"Say! Where are the main forces of the Eighth Route Army hiding? A Japanese officer stood in the middle of the wheat field and asked sharply. The Japanese army saw that the people were bowing their heads one by one and were silent, and the anger in their hearts was even stronger.
In a fit of rage, they threw an infant into boiling water, and the child's mother was stabbed to death.
On that day, Baiya Village was filled with a strong smell of blood, and more than 100 innocent people and cadres of the Eighth Route Army died tragically, which is also known as the "Baiya Massacre......
Zhang Li
The founding major general who was "killed and cooked" by the Japanese army
In 1943, the Japanese army launched the autumn sweep, due to the disparity between the enemy and us, the casualties would only be greater if they were hard to fight, so the Eighth Route Army adopted the strategy of scattering and hiding and waging guerrilla warfare with the enemy.
At that time, Minister Yu Guangwen led his troops and logistics personnel to launch a fierce chase battle with a brigade of the Japanese army, for three days and three nights, and the two sides came and went, not giving in to each other.
The officers and men in the army were already exhausted, and they chose to temporarily settle down in Baiya Village in Fuping County, Hebei Province, and prepared to rest and recuperate before continuing to move.
Yu Guangwen
In the team, there are also Yu Guangwen's wife Zhang Li and their children. The eldest daughter, Xiaobao, is innocent and cute, and has just turned three years old; The youngest son was just born and was still in infancy.
Unexpectedly, in the early morning of the next day, the silence was suddenly broken by the sound of gunfire. Yu Guangwen secretly felt bad: "It's not good, the enemy has already attacked!" ”
In the face of the pressing Japanese army, Yu Guangwen decisively ordered the team to disperse quickly to avoid being wiped out by the enemy. He led his troops to break through.
The fighters fought back and retreated, and finally managed to break through the enemy's encirclement and move to a relatively safe place.
Zhang Li and her two young children are in trouble. Since she had just given birth and her body had not fully recovered, she could not run fast with her two children at all.
At the time of transfer, the eldest daughter Xiaobao was handed over to the care of the horseman Shao Yongshun, so that the target was small and the possibility of escape was greater.
In the process of their transfer, the Japanese army had already entered the village. They searched from house to house and gathered all the villagers together.
The horseman Shao Yongshun took Xiao Baodong to hide in Tibet, and finally escaped and joined the large army, while Zhang Li and his son failed to escape in time.
A Japanese officer stood in the crowd, scanned every villager with a fierce gaze, and asked sharply:
"Say! Where are the main forces of the Eighth Route Army hiding? ”
One by one, the people bowed their heads and were silent, and no one spoke. At this time, the Japanese army searched for a pistol from Zhang Li's body.
The Japanese officer thought that her identity was not simple, so he glanced at her and pulled the mother and son out of the crowd. Viciously threatened:
"Tell me, where is the main force of the Eighth Route Army hiding? If you don't say it, throw your child in the pot and boil it! At this time, the water in the cauldron was already boiling and bubbling, emitting bursts of hot steam.
The Japanese army tried to force her to open her mouth in this way, Zhang Li looked at the scene in front of him, and his heart was like a knife. She hugged her son tightly and didn't say a word.
The Japanese officer, however, inhumanely snatched the child from her arms and threw it into boiling water. The child wailed in pain, and the sound faded away.
Zhang Li was crazy and wanted to rush forward to save the child, but it was too late, the child had already stopped struggling, and was boiled alive in boiling water.
Seeing this, the Japanese officer was even more angry, and he brutally pierced the bayonet through Zhang Li's back and body. Zhang Li collapsed in a pool of blood, still shouting, "My child...... My child ...... and he lost his breath.
Everyone was frightened by the scene in front of them, and at this moment, a baby in a woman's arms cried, and the woman quickly covered the child's mouth with her hand and hurriedly coaxed.
But it was too late, and the Japanese army, who had not received the news of the Eighth Route Army, was already annoyed and angry, and used the same method again without humanity to throw the child into the boiling water.
On that day, Baiya Village became a purgatory on earth, and more than 100 innocent people and cadres of the Eighth Route Army died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Japanese army. This tragedy is known as the "Cypress Cliff Massacre".
The sea of blood is deeply feuding, and we do not share the sky
In the blood-stained Baiya Village, the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled weakly on Heng Chen's body, and each corpse carried indescribable grief and anger.
When the Japanese soldiers were leaving, the bayonet fell again, and they stabbed the corpse several times to make sure that there was no survivor, and then they left satisfied.
On the other side, Yu Guangwen only saw the horseman Shao Yongshun rushing over with his eldest daughter Xiaobao, but his wife and youngest son were not there.
Yu Guangwen couldn't help but feel a little panicked in his heart, so he could only silently pray in his heart that his wife and children had just hid in a safe place.
When Yu Guangwen came to the village again with his troops, he was greeted by chaos and dead silence, surrounded by corpses, and Yu Guangwen had a bad premonition in his heart.
He forced himself to compose, but found his wife's body beside the mottled cauldron in the center of the village, where she lay quietly, unable to respond to his call.
Yu Guangwen broke down and cried, he hugged his wife's cold body tightly, his heart ached like a twist, and self-blame and remorse came like a tide.
He kept asking himself, if he had been braver and more resolute at that time, would he have been able to rewrite this tragic fate?
Just as he was sinking into the abyss of despair, an even more brutal discovery struck like a bolt from the blue—the bodies of two innocent babies lay quietly in the cauldron, one of whom was his youngest son.
At this moment, Yu Guangwen's world collapsed, and he fell weakly and fell unconscious. Seeing this, the soldiers hurried over to check.
The surrounding warriors were filled with grief and anger when they witnessed this scene, tears and anger intertwined in their eyes. They vowed to fight blood for blood, tooth for tooth, and seek justice for all innocent lives!
After Yu Guangwen woke up slowly, he opened his mouth, and was speechless in pain for a while, and he secretly vowed in his heart: to drive these invaders out of China and avenge the dead relatives and soldiers!
The bodies were buried in the "Tomb of the Souls" at the back of the village, so that the deceased could rest in peace.
Among them, there is a photojournalist named Sha Fei, who suffered a heavy blow in the war due to the injuries he sustained during the breakout, and later suffered from "persecution paranoia".
As long as he is Japanese, he hates it, and always feels that the other party will harm him. Once, while being treated in the hospital, the attending doctor was a Japanese, and the fear and hatred buried deep in his heart made him lose his mind, and Sha Fei took out a pistol and shot him to death without saying anything.
Many years later, the comrades-in-arms recalled this scene, and the scene in Baiya Village is still as clear as yesterday: "At that time, we had just arrived in Baiya, and not long after, we heard gunshots outside.
I thought: Oh no, the enemy is coming. Minister Yu ordered me to quickly withdraw with my troops and cover with fire. But the enemy occupied the hill and strafed condescendingly, and it became somewhat difficult to break through. ”
According to another team member:
"When we ran into the village, we saw Minister Yu holding his wife crying, and the child was boiled alive in the pot, so we took the child out and buried it with Minister Yu's wife, Zhang Li."
Yu Guangwen erected a monument to his wife Zhang Li, and after a simple burial, he joined the battle again. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Yu Guangwen came to his wife's grave, wiped the tombstone while shedding tears, and said softly:
"I didn't lie to you, we kicked out all the Japanese! We really won! It would be nice to see this with you......"
In 1961, Yu Guangwen was promoted to the rank of major general, and in the years that followed, he continued to devote himself to the construction of the country with enthusiasm until the last moment of his life.
In 1985, the hero passed away peacefully at the age of 83.
Yu Guangwen's revolutionary road
In the glimmer of morning light at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, in a remote village in 1902, an extraordinary life quietly descended - Yu Guangwen.
The poverty of his family tightly bound his childhood, and it was precisely because of this hardship that the young Yu Guangwen had a premature glimpse of the world, especially the bottomless suffering and struggle of the people at the bottom.
There are no ornate schools, no abundant books, his world is made of dirt, sweat and the endless labor of the landlord's family.
Sixteen years old is the beginning of the heavy burden on Yu Guangwen's shoulders. He became a long-term laborer in the landlord's family, day after day, year after year, in endless labor.
Later, Yu Guangwen met a well-known local boxer, and began to follow him to practice martial arts.
When the wave of revolution swept through Pingjiang County in 1925, Yu Guangwen joined the Self-Defense Army and later joined the Communist Party with his strong body and superb martial arts.
Yu Guangwen is very brave in battle, every charge is a challenge to fate, and every victory is a commitment to faith. He also followed the troops to participate in the Red Army, and he persevered in these hardships and tiredness.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yu Guangwen was transferred to the Jinchaji region and served as the head of the hoeing and rape department, as the name suggests, to catch up with spies and traitors.
Don't look at Yu Guangwen who hasn't read many books, he looks like a big and three rough person. But he is a very serious and careful person in his work.
Every time, he will investigate them one by one, not punishing a good person by mistake, and of course not letting go of a bad person. One day, a group of young intellectuals came to the Jin-Cha-Ji region.
At this time, a telegram was received that a spy had mixed in with the group, and that he should be arrested as soon as possible to prevent anything unpleasant.
Yu Guangwen immediately ordered everyone to be temporarily isolated for review. It is indeed difficult to find a spy from a group of people.
He tried it himself, interrogated him repeatedly, and finally found the deeply hidden agent.
During this period, Yu Guangwen met his wife Zhang Li, an intellectual woman who came out of Anhui Women's Normal School.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Li was also affected by the revolution, and traveled thousands of miles from Anhui to Yan'an, and the commander was transferred to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region as an officer.
At the same time, she and Yu Guangwen met and knew each other, and the two hearts gradually approached in the common belief and pursuit. The two have walked through ups and downs hand in hand, and have a daughter and a son after marriage.
However, due to the sweep of the Japanese army, the youngest son died before he could grow up, and the daughter also lost her mother in this catastrophe.
epilogue
Yu Guangwen went through the baptism of war and was promoted to the rank of major general. However, behind this glory, there is a painful blood feud.
In order to search for the main force of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army gathered the innocent people who were unarmed. In a heinous act of brutality, they brutally threw the infant innocent baby into boiling water.
Eventually, we drove these invaders out of Chinese soil. War is brutal and it brings untold suffering and disasters to people.
Each and every one of us should be deeply aware of the preciousness of peace, and only in the sunshine of peace can people live and work in peace and contentment, and children can grow up carefree.
We must not forget those martyrs who bravely sacrificed their lives to defend their homeland and fight for national independence, their blood stained the earth red, and their spirit will always shine brightly.
History is a mirror that allows us to see the past and alert us to the future.
Resources
Major General of the Republic who was killed by the Japanese army. Globe.com