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"Flying Tiger King" Zhao Hengde: Killed countless enemies and captured major general Suzuki Kawazaburo, nephew of the Japanese Emperor

author:Living Shi Renmu

The hero tiger dared to eliminate the Japanese Kou and became the flying tiger king of steel in a hundred battles. Enter the wolf's den and capture Suzuki.

A swirling, majestic mountain range, deep valley, steep cliffs, vast wilderness; mountain flowers, birds, eagles, farmhouse cooking smoke and water, intertwined, condensed into immortal life, this is the Taihang Mountain.

Taihang Mountain brings together the rough, fierce, and fierce character of Changbai Mountain; pours out the bold, unrestrained, and flame-like enthusiasm of Luofu Mountain and Jiulian Mountain; contains the fresh, vigorous, oasis-like vitality of Dabie Mountain; full of the elegance, tranquility, and gentleness of the mountain stream of Mount Emei, condensing the ice, pure, jade-like character of the Tianshan Mountains and the Himalayas; like a majestic, vast, and spectacular dragon, Wei Ran lies across the vast loess plateau.

However, he suffered under the fire of the Japanese!

Gunfire, smoke...

Iron horse, blood...

Located in Pingding County, in the western foothills of Taihang Mountain, there was a hero named Zhao Hengde.

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Zhao Hengde, who was born on June 6, 1922, had just turned fifteen years old when the Lugou Bridge Incident occurred, and the Japanese launched a full-scale war of aggression against China.

On October 26, 1937, the Japanese army captured Niangziguan and occupied Pingding County.

For a time, the streets and alleys were full of Japanese gendarmes, carrying "leather pocket" pistols on their left shoulders and right, combat knives hanging from the left side of the belt, and white cloth armbands on their right arms, with the words "gendarmes" written on their fists.

They shouted and drove in the streets, in the countryside, in places where there were Chinese; they killed, or robbed, or raped, and did nothing evil.

Zhao Hengde, who was still studying in the academy, was full of anger, looked at these demons and ghosts who were arrogant and bullied the common people, and decided to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance.

"Flying Tiger King" Zhao Hengde: Killed countless enemies and captured major general Suzuki Kawazaburo, nephew of the Japanese Emperor

On October 27, the day after the Japanese occupied Pingding County, Zhao Hengde, Liu Jinshan, Shi Qi, Jia Lifeng and 12 other young people bid farewell to their parents and rushed to the enemy's rear to resist Japan.

At dawn on the 29th, Zhao Hengde and others found Qin Jiwei's team, and Qin Jiwei saw that several people were too young to take them to war.

Zhao Hengde said: "The rise and fall of the world, the pifu has the responsibility, a good boy should protect the country and the people, hate can not drink the blood of the Japanese." ”

At the moment, Qin Jiwei was moved, so Zhao Hengde and his party successfully joined the Eighth Route Army.

Zhao Hengde was not only brave in battle, but also quite strategic, and became a special planner of the Eighth Route Army. In February 1939, he was promoted to company commander for His outstanding performance.

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In 1940, Zhao Hengde accompanied the battalion headquarters in the jixi area, and on June 7, Zhao Hengde encountered more than 500 enemies on the banks of the Heishui River.

The enemy reacted quickly, quickly occupied a favorable hill, and suppressed the Eighth Route Army in the ravine with very fierce firepower.

Zhao Hengde saw the situation and knew that things were not good, in order to prevent enemy reinforcements, Zhao Hengde asked the battalion commander to organize fire cover, and he himself took a machine gun to charge upward from the enemy's flank.

When the enemy saw someone charging up, he kept throwing grenades, a grenade exploded around him, blowing his face full of blood, he didn't care where he was injured, just the cat didn't move in that place, the enemy thought he was killed, Zhao Hengde just when the enemy thought he was killed, pulled out a grenade and threw it at the enemy's heavy machine gun, the enemy's heavy machine gun was muted, Zhao Hengde quickly picked up the machine gun and swept it, opening a small gap, the soldiers of the company saw that the company commander hit a small gap, and quickly followed.

At this time, the battalion commander saw that the enemy had been broken through the defensive line and quickly organized an attack, and finally the enemy left more than 100 corpses to escape, and our army also suffered more than 40 casualties because it had been suppressed by the enemy.

This battle also made Zhao Hengde receive a first-class meritorious commendation.

In August 1940, the big sun exploded, poisonous and spicy.

The sunlight is like a burning steel needle burning red, sprinkling a lot of it down, stabbing at people's skin, and like red paprika, it is sprinkled on people's wounds.

People were extremely hot, sweaty, thirsty, and burned all over their bodies, some of them soaked their skin and sunburned their faces, and Zhao Hengde still led his troops to pick up rails, blow up bridges, destroy culverts, destroy enemy transportation arteries, and respond to the "Hundred Regiments War" battle.

"Flying Tiger King" Zhao Hengde: Killed countless enemies and captured major general Suzuki Kawazaburo, nephew of the Japanese Emperor

On October 12, when Zhao Hengde led his team to the outside of Huangcai Village, he suddenly found that more than 600 enemies were preparing to sneak attack a brother camp resting in the village.

Zhao Hengde immediately organized personnel to start fighting, he rushed to the front of the line first, after two shots knocked down two devils, all the soldiers also fired at the same time, the brother battalion in the village heard the sound of gunfire, and immediately organized a counterattack, the two sides came to an internal and external attack, completely annihilated more than 70 of the enemy, Zhao Hengde rong li second class merit.

On November 28, when the troops were ordered to attack the lock spring stronghold, the hateful Japanese devils released poison gas bombs, many soldiers died of enemy gas bombs, and many soldiers were poisoned and fainted, seeing that the mission was about to fail.

Zhao Hengde found a wet towel to cover his mouth and nose, and crawled on the ground with the explosive package for more than 50 meters, successfully detonating the explosive package to destroy the enemy's bunker and pull out the stronghold, and Zhao Hengde won the second class merit in this battle.

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In March 1943, everything recovered and spring returned to the earth.

Zhao Hengde led the reconnaissance team to Zhengtai Road and began to fight behind enemy lines, and they were mainly responsible for cutting off the enemy's transport artery.

In just 20 days, Zhao Hengde led people to blow up 4 enemy locomotives, 17 carriages, and killed 48 ghosts, and in order to ensure the smooth flow of transportation, the Japanese drew a large number of people and horses from the surrounding railways and strongholds to protect Zhengtai Road.

On April 3, Zhao Hengde decided to lead his troops to the Tongpu Railway section, so as to attack the west from the east, and within half a month of coming to the Tongpu Railway section, Zhao Hengde blew up 3 enemy locomotives, 13 carriages, and killed 53 Japanese troops.

"Flying Tiger King" Zhao Hengde: Killed countless enemies and captured major general Suzuki Kawazaburo, nephew of the Japanese Emperor

In order to be able to capture Zhao Hengde, the Japanese dispatched a large number of men and horses from Zhengtai Road to the Tongpu Railway to encircle and suppress Zhao Hengde, but they did not know that the enemy had caught Zhao Hengde's strategy of "moving the tiger away from the mountain".

When the enemy took strict precautions and arranged ambushes everywhere to wait for Zhao Hengde to attack the Tongpu Railway, Zhao Hengde led his troops back to Zhengtai Road on May 9, and touched the enemy's sentry at Duanting Station, blew up the enemy's bunkers, and killed more than 30 enemy people.

The anti-Japanese army and people praised the reconnaissance team led by Zhao Hengde as the "Flying Tiger Team" and Zhao Hengde as the "Flying Tiger King", while the Japanese army called Zhao Hengde a "road blocker".

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In Xiyang County, not far from the headquarters of the Second Taihang Subdistrict, there was a squadron of Japanese troops stationed there, and the squadron leader was called Qing Shui, and in order to be able to successfully capture Zhao Hengde, this squadron leader tried his best to gather a large number of hooligans in the local area and organize a "lollipop team."

These people carried batons around, set up sentries for the enemy, and often went deep into the base areas to spy on intelligence, and every time Zhao Hengde made an action, the gang would go around banging gongs and drums and shouting: "The communist bandits have come down the mountain!" ”

He repeatedly destroyed Zhao Hengde's battle plan, and the leader of this "lollipop team" was even more hateful, he often arrested some innocent people, framed them as the Eighth Route Army, and treated the innocent people as the Eighth Route Army to the Japanese army to reward for their merits.

In order not to let the Japanese army see the flaws, this group of "lollipop troops" often buried or killed people alive first, and then carried the corpses to ask for merit and rewards, which was very hateful.

After zhao hengde's battle plan was destroyed by the "lollipop team" many times, he decided to seize Qing Shui and punish the lollipop team.

So Zhao Hengde led several team members to disguise themselves as ordinary people and quietly sneaked into Xiyang County to conduct reconnaissance.

"Flying Tiger King" Zhao Hengde: Killed countless enemies and captured major general Suzuki Kawazaburo, nephew of the Japanese Emperor

This morning, the weather was clear, Zhao Hengde and the team members ate noodles at the stall, happened to meet Qing Shui to bring people out to patrol the security, because there were too many people in Qing Shui, Zhao Hengde did not move, but ate noodles on the side and pondered how to start.

After wandering around the city for a few days, Zhao Hengde did not find the opportunity to start, and just when he was about to give up another plan, he received an information sent by the underground traffic officer, and it turned out that Qing shui was going to see a play in The Evening.

After learning of this information, Zhao Hengde immediately went out of the city and organized more than a dozen team members disguised as farmers to rush to the front of the stage.

But when he came to the stage, Qing ShuiZhen sat in the middle of the stage to watch the play, Zhao Hengde slowly moved forward, and when the opera climaxed, Qing Shui was fascinated, Zhao Hengde and the team members suddenly shot, the team members solved the two guards, and Zhao Hengde directly covered Qing Shui's mouth with a towel, and several team members tied up Qing Shui and quickly got out.

When he returned to the base area and interrogated him, Zhao Hengde found that it was not Qing Shui who was arrested, but a squad leader named Xiao Yucong, and Zhao Hengde was very angry and grabbed a stand-in for half a day. He was about to shoot Xiao Yucong.

When Xiao Yucong heard that he was going to shoot him, he immediately knelt on the ground and cried and begged for forgiveness, and finally Zhao Hengde assigned him several tasks, asking him to lure Yan Yu, the captain of the stick army, and make eyeliner for the Eighth Route Army before he was willing to let him have a way to live.

Xiao Yucong hurriedly agreed to these conditions and promised to complete the task.

Not long after he returned, Xiao Yucong found Yan Yu, pretended that Qing Shui had a task for him, tricked him out, and was killed by Zhao Hengde, after which Zhao Hengde used the information provided by Xiao Yucong to greet the members of the baseball team one by one, and those who were willing to change their ways would let go of a horse, and those who were unwilling to abandon the dark and cast light were shot on the spot.

For a time, the lollipop team disappeared, and Qing Shui strengthened his defense from then on, and he was afraid that he would not be able to live forever.

After xiao Yucong's education in our party, he finally changed from evil to righteousness and became an undercover agent, and the information provided by him allowed Zhao Hengde to kill 53 Japanese troops in Xiyang County.

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At the junction of heshun, Xiyang, Pingding and Shouyang counties, there is a Mafang village, where the Japanese army has established a stronghold and stationed more than 170 people, posing a great threat to the base area.

On February 3, 1943, Zhao Hengde received an order to investigate the detailed deployment of troops in this Mafang stronghold.

In order to reduce the casualties of the battle and be able to successfully take the stronghold, Zhao Hengde tried his best to blend into Mafang to reconnoiter the enemy's deployment.

There was a ghost squadron leader named Hosokawa, who was very and often asked the maintenance people to give him women. And hosokawa is a prostitute, nicknamed "Little Jinbao".

Zhao Hengde thought for a long time and decided to use this woman, when Zhao Hengde came to the residence of "Little Jinbao", he told the intention straight to the point, hoping that she could make some contributions to the anti-Japanese resistance, originally Zhao Hengde planned to salute first and then soldier, but unexpectedly, "Little Jinbao" immediately expressed his willingness to help Zhao Hengde, and she also hoped that Zhao Hengde could avenge her dead relatives.

"Flying Tiger King" Zhao Hengde: Killed countless enemies and captured major general Suzuki Kawazaburo, nephew of the Japanese Emperor

Stills of Zhao Henderson

It turned out that the relatives of this "little Jinbao" had died in the artillery fire of the Japanese army, and due to the compulsion of life, he had to commit himself to perfection.

The next day, Zhao Hengde disguised himself as a big boss, carrying a basket of salted duck eggs, and successfully entered the horse factory under the leadership of "Little Jinbao".

After the introduction of "Little Jinbao", Hosokawa thought that Zhao Hengde was the cousin of "Little Jinbao" who had been scattered, and then saw that Zhao Hengde brought an unusual salted duck egg, and immediately praised Zhao Hengde as a good citizen.

When Hosokawa and the "Little Jinbao" were having fun, Zhao Hengde wandered around and scouted.

After Hosokawa finished, he and "Little Jinbao" left Mafang, immediately returned to the troops to report the results of reconnaissance, and after pre-war analysis and deployment, the Eighth Route Army headquarters decided to attack Mafang at night.

Before the operation, Zhao Hengde grabbed the members of the maintenance club as guides for each squad.

At night, night, moonless night. The clouds sped away, and the sky occasionally leaked out sparse starlight.

The first echelon of the Twenty-eighth Regiment of 120 people, each carrying a machete and carrying a box gun, set out under the leadership of the members of the Maintenance Association, and more than 100 people in the second echelon followed suit with submachine guns and rifles.

When it was time to blockade the dogs, seven or eight members of the maintenance association pulled the carriage and shouted to bring food to the imperial army, the enemy did not know what to do, the enemy had just lowered the suspension bridge, and Zhao Hengde, who was mixed with the maintenance members, a pair of flexible eyes like a cat peered at the enemy's every move.

Suddenly, he drew his machete and cut the rope of the suspension bridge, and the first echelon of the ambush jumped forward and rushed across the suspension bridge with Zhao Hengde to kill the enemy.

Then the second echelon followed behind and began to charge, and organized the explosion.

In 30 minutes, the enemy successfully took the stronghold, captured 17 ghosts, and annihilated the rest.

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In November 1944, the Taihang Military Region held a meeting of heroes, and Zhao Hengde was awarded the glorious title of "Taihang Special Hero of Killing the Enemy", and was awarded a medal, a pennant, a blanket, a military uniform, a shirt, a leather bag, a towel, a soap, a toothbrush, and a bag of tooth powder.

On the 22nd, Xinhua Daily interviewed Zhao Hengde and reported in particular on Zhao Hengde's heroic killing of the enemy, and since then Zhao Hengde has become a well-known anti-Japanese hero in Jinji and Hebei Luyu.

On January 3, 1945, the headquarters sent a correspondent and said in a fiery manner that he would look for Zhao Hengde.

After receiving the order, Zhao Hengde rushed to the headquarters, and it turned out that the Japanese army had lost in the Pacific War and was also in trouble in the war of aggression against China.

In order to survive and make a final fight, the Japanese army had to dispatch the chief adviser of the Shanxi puppet government stationed in Taiyuan, the student affairs commissioner, the key member who mastered the top secret intelligence of the secret agent, and the nephew of The Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Lieutenant General Ichigo Kawa saburo, to Beiping to discuss strategies against the Chinese military and people.

The commander of the military sub-district gave Zhao Hengde a death order, telling him to intercept the concession vehicle and capture Suzuki Kawazaburo alive.

Zhao Hengde immediately issued a military order and promised to complete the task.

"Flying Tiger King" Zhao Hengde: Killed countless enemies and captured major general Suzuki Kawazaburo, nephew of the Japanese Emperor

In order to get accurate information and get Suzuki Kawasaburo's chartered car to leave at what time on which day, Zhao Hengde disguised himself as a Japanese ghost soldier and mixed into Taiyuan, where he connected with underground agents.

The secret agent station broke into the tutor's house at the Suzuki Mansion and cleverly learned from Suzuki's daughter that the specific time of the Suzuki chartered car was 12 midnight on the 17th of the same month.

After obtaining this accurate information, Zhao Hengde immediately rushed back to the headquarters to report the situation, and after careful deployment. It was decided to set up an ambush in the eastern section of Qinquan Station in Shouyang County to intercept Suzuki's concession car.

On the night of January 17, it was the middle of winter, and the cold made the snow on the road freeze, and the icicles under the eaves were like wolf teeth, as if waiting to be eaten by the chosen person.

Zhao Hengde led the team to ambush on both sides of the railway, there was no wind, even the wind seemed to be frozen to death, the dense clouds were low pressure, and the heavens and the earth seemed to be filled with a murderous gas that was enough to freeze all life.

Zhao Hengde nervously pressed his left ear to the track and listened carefully to the movement of the train.

Suddenly, a burst of train whistles broke the silence between heaven and earth, zhao Hengde listened carefully, estimating that when the train entered the ambush section, Zhao Hengde ordered the car to be bombed with a gesture.

"Flying Tiger King" Zhao Hengde: Killed countless enemies and captured major general Suzuki Kawazaburo, nephew of the Japanese Emperor

Suddenly, the demolition man lit the fuse, the concession car was blown paralyzed on the road, the soldiers were preparing to charge, but the enemy had a large number of guards in the two escort carriages in front of and behind them, and they used machine guns to fiercely strafe to block the attack of our army.

Zhao Hengde saw the fierce fire of the enemy, so he drew out the grenade in his waist to let the machine gun cover, and moved his cat waist to the front section of the guard box, pulling off the grenade fuse and throwing it into the carriage from the window hole.

Unexpectedly, the reaction of the Japanese army was very rapid, the grenade was just thrown in, it was picked up by the enemy and thrown out, the grenade exploded next to Zhao Hengde, Zhao Hengde was blown out of his temper by this explosion, he did not care about his face full of blood and forehead wounds, directly in the extraction of two grenades, pulled off the fuse and watched the medicine twist the heart of the human handle, which quickly threw into the carriage.

With the explosion of the grenade, the two machine guns in the front compartment were muted, but the fire of the rear compartment was still very fierce.

Zhao Hengde crawled forward to the back of the car, and in the same way, after throwing two grenades, it happened that one grenade was a dud, and the other hit the enemy's gun and bounced out.

Seeing that the carriage behind him did not explode, Zhao Hengde climbed the door ladder connecting the carriages and beckoned the soldiers to send explosives packages.

When the warrior Luo Tian brought the explosive package, he was hit by the enemy's machine gun and was wounded. Zhao Hengde was anxious, ran back to get the explosive package in the hands of the warrior Luo Tian, and when Zhao Hengde stuffed the explosive package into the carriage and pulled the fuse, he jumped out of the car, and the carriage was finally blown up.

Seeing this, the warriors rushed into the carriages to fight the remnants of the enemy.

Zhao Hengde broke through the window and went directly to find Suzuki Kawasaburo, and when he found Suzuki Kawasaburo, the two guards of Zhao Hengde and Suzuki Kawasaburo engaged in a close fight.

The devil hiding behind the door stabbed through his left arm, Zhao Hengde kicked a wild horse's crotch, causing him to kneel on the ground in pain, another devil, holding a bayonet from the front of the carriage, stabbed Zhao Hengde in the chest, Zhao Hengde dodged, followed by a poisonous snake strung leg kicking the devil's calf, causing it to fall to the ground, Zhao Hengde followed by a rhinoceros horn, clamped the devil's head and twisted, resulting in him.

"Flying Tiger King" Zhao Hengde: Killed countless enemies and captured major general Suzuki Kawazaburo, nephew of the Japanese Emperor

In this way, Zhao Hengde endured severe pain, rushed to the front of Suzuki Kawa Saburo, gave him a yellow python out of the hole, this leg hit fiercely, as soon as the attack was like a snake out of the hole, he went forward with his head held high, and kicked at Suzuki Kawasaburo's ribs, causing him to squat down in pain.

Seeing this, the warriors quickly took over, tied up Suzuki Kawasaburo, and captured 7 of Suzuki's key men, Suzuki's two sons, Suzuki's two sons, Suzuki Hiroko and Suzuki Fumiko, and his wife escaped capture because she went to the toilet.

In this battle, more than 90 enemy soldiers were killed, more than 800 confidential documents were captured, and more than 100 military supplies and military supplies were captured.

The Rear Military Division sent Saburo Suzuki and his four children to Yan'an.

Later, The Japanese Emperor Hirohito urgently ordered the Japanese High Command to send a delegation to Yan'an to negotiate, willing to exchange the weapons and equipment of the three divisions for Suzuki Kawasaburo, but yan'an strictly refused. This time, Zhao Hengde won the "special merit".

Saburo Suzuki spent some time in Yan'an, and after "educational transformation", eventually became an anti-war activist. On August 15, 1945, after Japan's unconditional surrender, it returned to Japan.

The incident of capturing Saburo Suzukigawa alive was later adapted into the movie "Secret Order Interception".

"Flying Tiger King" Zhao Hengde: Killed countless enemies and captured major general Suzuki Kawazaburo, nephew of the Japanese Emperor

In 1947, Zhao Hengde was promoted to chief of staff of the 42nd Regiment of the Second Taihang Subdistrict.

On April 19, 1947, in the battle of Pingding Zhuangwo Village, Zhao Hengde was unfortunately killed by an enemy stray bullet at the age of 26.

After Zhao Hengde's sacrifice, tens of thousands of people gathered in Pingding County, and everyone held a solemn memorial meeting for the hero Zhao Hengde. And in Pingding Lion's Mouth for Zhao Hengde erected a monument.