On the eve of the anti-"sweep" in the winter of 1939, after Yang Chengwu led the troops of the First Sub-district of Jin-Cha-Ji to fight a bloody battle against Dalonghua, Zhao Zhizhen, who was working in the Prefectural Committee Women's Rescue Association, was about to give birth. It was their first child.
At that time, Yang Chengwu was busy directing the administrative organs and troops to prepare for the anti-"sweeping" struggle, and he could not take care of her at all.
Fortunately, Wang Guoquan, secretary of the prefectural party committee, considered Zhao Zhizhen's physical inconvenience in advance and informed her to go to the Water Spring Supply Department to find Minister Dong Yongqing, because the conditions there were slightly better.
Zhao Zhizhen went to the Water Spring Supply Department, and Minister Dong specially found Chen Zhenhui, a female doctor in obstetrics and gynecology, in order to take care of her. Dr. Chen ran out of Beiping Tongren Hospital to join the anti-Japanese team, and Zhao Zhizhen was well.
A few days later, the Japanese devils "swept" to the vicinity of the water spring, and Minister Dong got a mule for Zhao Zhizhen and Dr. Chen, and let them ride the cattle to follow the team.
On the battlefield behind enemy lines, after nearly 10 days of long-distance trekking and skillfully maneuvering with Japanese devils, Zhao Zhizhen and his party finally stepped on the smoke of gunfire to Baisha Village in Wanxian County, west of Liujiatai in Yi County.
On this day, the afterglow of the sunset had just smeared the treetops, and Zhao Zhizhen suddenly had a stomachache and almost fell off the back of the animal.
Dr. Chen said that the amniotic fluid was broken, and quickly helped her down and boiled water to prepare for delivery.
Who knew that at this moment, intelligence suddenly came, saying that the Japanese devils were chasing after them, the situation was very urgent, and the child could not be born here!
Dr. Chen was so anxious to stomp his feet, there was no way, he had to rush to help Zhao Zhizhen to the cattle again, and ran with the team for several miles in one breath.
While running, they heard that the devils were not coming this way, so they returned to Baisha Village with the team.
At this time, it was already dark, Dr. Chen delivered the baby under a small pony lamp, which was expected to be difficult to give birth, and had not been born until midnight, so that Zhao Zhizhen died and came back to life.
If it continues like this, the lives of adults and children will be difficult to protect!
Dr. Chen finally laid down a heart, and with a little effort, pulled the child out.
The comrades of the Ministry of Supply hurried to cover the transfer of the masses.
However, when the villagers heard that Zhao Zhizhen was holding the daughter of Yang Chengwu, the commander of a sub-district, in his arms, he disregarded his own safety and quickly unloaded a door panel, tied it with a rope, inserted a wooden bar in the middle, lifted Zhao Zhizhen's mother and daughter and ran desperately.
They left the village on their front feet, and the enemy broke in on their back feet.
The villagers carried Zhao Zhizhen's mother and daughter up the mountain and waded through the water, day and night, and followed the transfer team across the Tang River and up the Hundred Flowers Mountain.
That's the mountain where the legendary "white-haired woman" stole the offerings from the temple!
Due to the cold weather and the indiscriminate bombardment of enemy planes, especially after climbing the winding mountain road, the mountain was steep and steep, and the villagers were afraid that Zhao Zhizhen's mother and daughter would fall into a deep ditch and ravine, so they had to use a rope to tie the mother and baby to the door panel.
In this way, the villagers carried Zhao Zhizhen and her children for 10 days, passing through five counties such as Yi County, Wanxian County, Tang County, Quyang, Laiyuan, and climbing several big mountains such as Hundred Flowers Mountain, Shenxian Mountain, and Huata North Mountain.
The villagers who carried the door panel were sweating and their faces were red. Zhao Zhizhen saw that they were too tired and begged them to put themselves and the child down.
They shook their heads vigorously and said, "Rest assured, we will carry you to a safe place." ”
One day, the Plane of the Japanese Devils suddenly came to bomb, and they had no time to hide, so several villagers put the door panel down and lay down around Zhao Zhizhen and her children, using their bodies to block the shrapnel.
The bomb exploded around, the child was so frightened that he cried, and the smell of gunpowder made Zhao Zhizhen cough.
In the thick smoke, Minister Dong stumbled from the front of the line to see that the adults and children were all right, and then he was relieved.
Yes, what a good folk, they would rather sacrifice themselves than let the children and soldiers and their descendants suffer any misfortune.
After the anti-"sweeping" victory, one evening, Yang Chengwu led the team to move to a village near Lingxi.
Dong Yongqing reported to him by telephone through the "flying line" on the transfer of the supply department in the past few days, and then said happily:
"Comrade Zhao Zhizhen has given birth to a fat girl, and it has been more than ten days. The common people are really good, risking their lives to carry her mother and daughter with us, we just arrived at Ningjiazhuang today, relatively close to you. Commander, come and see your daughter. ”
Yang Chengwu responded with a "hmmm" in unison.
After hearing the news, Gao Peng, deputy commander of the sub-district, and Huang Shou, chief of staff, urged Yang Chengwu with great joy, saying that they wanted to go and see it together.
At this time, the troops had jumped out of the encirclement of the Japanese devils and were looking for an opportunity to annihilate the enemy. The Japanese devils pounced and had to retreat. The situation has eased for the time being.
So, the next day, Yang Chengwu and they set off.
In Ning Jiazhuang, Dong Yongqing sighed as soon as he saw Yang Chengwu: "It is really difficult for her mother and daughter not to die!" Then led them to a low farmhouse and bent down to get inside.
It is a house that was destroyed by Japanese devils. On the collapsed earthen kang, there was a door panel with a rope tied to it, and on the door panel lay a person. She had her head around her sleeping baby, covered with a charred military quilt, her hair disheveled, her eyes closed, and her face pale. She is Zhao Zhizhen.
Hearing the footsteps, Zhao Zhizhen opened his eyes slightly, and when he saw that it was Yang Chengwu, he couldn't help but cry. No wonder she was only eighteen or nineteen years old. Yang Chengwu was also young, and he bent down to comfort her, but he was not even able to say a word of comfort. Zhao Zhizhen looked at Gao Peng, Huang Shoufa, Dong Yongqing, Dr. Chen and the guards present, stopped crying, and smiled gratefully at them. Then, she sat up and gently lifted the quilt to show everyone the sleeping child. "Beautiful! The face is round. ”
"We added another female warrior..."
After Gao Peng finished praising them, Zhao Zhizhen recounted the deep friendship of the villagers.
Yang Chengwu nodded as he listened, looked at the child, and couldn't help but pick her up.
Lo and behold, she clenched her little pink fists, swaying wildly, a pair of small feet kicking and kicking, how cute!
If there is no protection from the villagers, what will happen to this child and her mother, it is really difficult to say!
"Give your child a name." Zhao Zhizhen could not suppress the joy of being a mother.
Upon hearing this, Gao Peng said without hesitation: "Yi County is the place where Yan Zhaoduo is a generous and tragic man, Jing Ke stabbed the King of Qin. This Qianjin was born in the land of Yanzhao, on the banks of the Yishui River, and I think it is called 'Yisheng' (later known as Yang Yi)! Yang Chengwu and Zhao Zhizhen looked at each other and smiled, both satisfied. Comrades also praised the good name. Gao Peng laughed and said, "We killed Lieutenant General Abe Norihide of rikou, smashed the enemy's sweep, and the commander got a precious girl. ”
Everyone laughed.
Xiao Yisheng did not cry or make trouble, as if he was also listening...
In 1940, the Japanese devils came to "sweep" again.
As a member of the Eighth Route Army, Zhao Zhizhen had to accompany the troops to negotiate with the enemy, so he had to entrust Yi Sheng, who was more than one year old, to a fellow villager in a village in Xizhan County and hand him over to the villagers to raise.
However, the Japanese devils somehow heard that Yang Chengwu's children were in this village, so they suddenly surrounded the village and drove the whole village to the open space outside the Catholic Church, forcing the villagers to hand over Yang Chengwu's children.
The Japanese devils arrested the pseudo-village chief Zhao Zhongsan (an underground member of the CCP) on the spot, tied him to a tree, and threatened the masses: If Yang Chengwu's child is not handed over, just like him, he will say "bang bang bang bang bang..." He shot Zhao Zhongsan several times and shot him to death.
At that time, the villagers holding Yisheng were standing in the crowd. But the whole village looked at the bloody Zhao Zhongsan and the abominable-looking Japanese devil, and without fear, they insisted: "Yang Chengwu's child has long been taken away, not here, we guarantee with our lives!" ”
The Japanese devil, half-convinced, pulled several women with babies out of the crowd and forced them to tell the truth with bayonets.
The woman who held Yi Sheng understood that the Japanese devil wanted to use threats to find the child in her hand, and then use the method of torturing the child to shake the anti-Japanese will of the commander of the Eighth Route Army.
Her face did not change color, and she calmly said to Yi Sheng, who was crying: "Baby, don't cry! Mother will feed you. He said, shoving the nipple into Yi Sheng's mouth.
The Japanese devils looked left and right, and they didn't see any flaws. After a whole day of tossing and turning, he found nothing, and finally withdrew to the stronghold of Jinpo in frustration.
In 1943, Zhao Zhizhen took Yi Sheng from under the nose of the Japanese devil, next to Jinpo, to Wufeng Village, a mountain higher than Wolf's Tooth Mountain, and lived in a place called Bulao'an.
There was only one family, 4 rooms, and the terrain was hidden.
Although it was only 20 miles away from the Jinpo stronghold of the Japanese devils, the 25th Regiment headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was stationed in Niugang to the south of it, and a reconnaissance company of the 25th Regiment was stationed in Dugang to the east.
Because Japanese devils did not dare to come easily, people called it "Bulao-an Gela".
One day, no one expected that several Eighth Route Army escorted Yang Chengwu, who was suffering from malaria, to come here to recuperate, and happened to run into Zhao Zhizhen's mother and daughter.
When the whole family is reunited, Zhao Zhizhen is naturally happy, but she is also worried about her husband's illness. Only Easy to be carefree and lively.
The landlords are a pair of brothers. The older brother is named Jin Sheng, who is over 40 years old, dark and thin, and has not yet married. The younger brother has married his daughter-in-law. These two brothers are thick and simple, and they are authentic farmers. According to local customs, the family affectionately referred to Zhao Zhizhen as "old girl" and Yang Chengwu as "brother-in-law".
Zhao Zhizhen and Yang Chengwu treated them like brothers. He called Yu Niu the eldest brother and his younger brother and daughter-in-law the second brother and second sister-in-law.
At this time, Yang Chengwu's malaria attacked again. He was sometimes cold, sometimes hot, sweating profusely after the heat, headache, thirst, and weakness.
After two days of illness, on the third day he was leaning on the kang to eat breakfast, when suddenly there was a "tom" sound, and the door was knocked open.
"Commander ... The Japanese devils are coming! As soon as the guard Zeng Rongchang's voice fell, gunshots rang out on the beams of Dongshan. Yang Chengwu put down his rice bowl and asked. "What's going on?"
One of the scouts said that probably the Japanese devils had smelled something, and they had rushed straight from the Jinpo stronghold through the path this morning, and now the Japanese devils had engaged the troops of our Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Yang Chengwu asked Zeng Rongchang to immediately send people to Dongshan Liang to understand the enemy situation and see if the unit of the Twenty-fifth Regiment could resist the Japanese devils.
The gunfire grew more intense. Listening to the sound, the Japanese devil's grenadier was also used.
After a while, Tian Shuangxi, who had gone to Dongshan Liang to see the situation, and an instructor of the Twenty-fifth Regiment came running.
Tian Shuangxi shouted as he ran, "Commander, go fast and go fast!" ”
The instructor ran to Yang Chengwu and urged, "It looks like it's coming for you!" There are a lot of people, you hurry up and go wow! ”
Lu Xingwen, a military doctor, Zeng Rongchang, and Zhao Zhizhen, a guard, all urged Yang Chengwu to leave quickly.
After a while, a flash of white light flashed on the Beam of Higashiyama, and the bomb dropped by the Japanese plane exploded.
Yi Sheng was so frightened that he cried, and Yang Chengwu quickly picked her up.
Zhao Zhizhen snatched the child from her husband's hand, pushed her husband and said, "You go fast, go fast!" Leave us alone. "Big Brother Jin Sheng next to him also said angrily;" Let's go! Ladies and gentlemen, there we are! ”
The Japanese devils had already rushed up to the Higashiyama Beam, only a few hundred meters away from here. Enemy aircraft have already begun a second dive. "Go!" Yang Chengwu roared, and he didn't know where the momentum came from, and an arrow step flew out of the door.
At this time, the Dongshan beam was full of Japanese devils wearing steel helmets, shooting at here, and the bullets were chirping on the roof. Bombs dropped by enemy planes also exploded nearby.
Lu Xingwen and Zeng Rongchang pushed Yang Chengwu to the Western Mountains liang, fortunately, at this time, his malaria did not occur.
They had just ascended the West Mountain Liang, and the enemy had already chased them down from the East Mountain Liang. They hurried over the Western Mountain Beam again. At this time, in front of it was a ravine and a small river. They don't care about anything. Cross the ravine and head straight for the river. Fortunately, the cold and piercing water was not deep, and they all passed.
Ahead, however, there was an open field, and the enemy mounted machine guns on the favorable terrain and strafed at them.
Bullets chirped overhead, and they ran faster.
When they ran to the top of the mountain in Tianjingou in one breath, they were able to get rid of the enemy.
The four houses of the Bulao-an were on fire, surrounded by yellow wax and wax, full of enemies.
"Oops! Zhi Zhen and Jin Sheng can't come out! Yang Chengwu looked at the raging fire, anxious in his heart, but unexpectedly, his body trembled, his body was cold, and malaria was committed again.
That night, several of them hid on the mountain beams of Tianjin Gou.
The next day, just after dawn, Yang Chengwu took out the telephone set they were carrying and put it on the "flying line", only then did they realize that the enemy had retreated and that the troops were sending people to look for them. Therefore, Yang Chengwu, with the support of Lu Xingwen and Zeng Rongchang, walked in the direction of the Bulao'an.
They ascended the western mountain beam and looked into the depression, and they were greeted by a scorched ruin. Yang Chengwu's heart beat harder, and his breathing became urgent.
After descending the mountain beam, I just turned a corner when I overheard someone shouting loudly: "Master Yang, are you back?" ”
He fixed his eyes on it and cried out in surprise, "Big Brother Jinsheng! He threw himself at him.
"How are you?" Yang Chengwu couldn't wait to ask.
"Nothing! Lo and behold, the old lady was there. Big Brother JinSheng smiled comfortably and pointed to the ruins in the distance. What about the second brother and the second sister-in-law? "It's all right. All worked. ”
Yang Chengwu hurried toward the ruins and found that there was a shed with branches on the side of the broken wall, and there was a pile of grass in the shed, and someone in the grass pile was humming quietly:
"The stars shine, the moon shines,
Although the moon is bright and my heart is sad,
Because the devils are running rampant in our country.
Everybody wake up, don't dream again,
Don't get drunk and dream,
When will Mengsheng be drunk and die to drive away the Japanese brutal soldiers..."
This is Zhao Zhizhen teaching Yi Sheng to sing. The song was so deep, so poignant, and so exciting.
Yang Chengwu stopped and stood outside the grass shed, listening and listening, his heart was almost drunk. The familiar, elegant song not only touched his heart, but also shook the land trampled by the enemy.
It turned out that when the Japanese devils were 100 meters away from the Bulao'an, Jin Sheng took Zhao Zhizhen and Yi Sheng to a nearby stone cliff.
There was a hole there that could hold two or three people, very hidden, and the cave was stocked with turnips and hay.
That hole was used by the Jinsheng family to hide, and after he placed Zhao Zhizhen and Yi Sheng, the family of three ran down the stone cliff to another cave to hide.
After the Japanese devils arrived at Bulao-an, they saw that the house was empty, and several Eighth Route Army had already run away, so they did not seriously search the mountain, but only set fire to four houses in a hurry, and then returned with disappointment. Yes, this escape from danger, if there is no cover from the Jinsheng family, it is simply impossible. It once again illustrates the water conditions of the military and civilian fish in the war, which is really as deep as the sea!
After the victory of the anti-"sweeping" in 1943, Yang Chengwu bid farewell to the first division and became the commander of the Jizhong Military Region, he once poured out his passion for the first division in a diary. He recounted the scene of saying goodbye to his comrades-in-arms and fellow villagers, and also recorded the scene when he said goodbye to his wife Zhao Zhizhen and his daughters Yisheng and Junsheng, and his eldest son Zhensheng in Xiaolan Village, Dalianggang:
"She and the kids sent me to the front door.
Daughter Yisheng continued to send forward, but she leaned on the door wall with her hands behind her back and seemed to have no idea, and her eyes did not dare to face my shadow.
"I said, 'Go back, see you later, and wish you well.'"
"Zhao Zhizhen only said one sentence: 'Be careful on the road.'" There seems to be a lot to say, but the mood at the time is impossible to say. ”
"Yi Sheng saw us go and went to the front of the Tutai, and I said, 'Yi Sheng, you go back!' ”
"She burst into tears without saying a word."
"A 6-year-old child can't bear her father and doesn't want to be separated."
"I immediately had a heart as hard as steel, and I saw her crying and couldn't continue."
"I took a few steps and looked back at her, and she was still standing on the dirt platform and didn't go back."
In 1945, after graduating from the Party School of the Northern Bureau of the Communist Party of China, Zhao Zhizhen served as an officer in the Treachery Section of the First Sub-district of Jin-Cha-Ji. Soon, together with her guard Xu Guoshun and other comrades, she crossed the Pinghan Railway and rushed to Gaoyang, Anxin, and Renqiu to serve as the political commissar of the Left Behind Office of the Third Column of the Central Hebei Military Region.
However, at this stage, Yang Chengwu led his troops to carry out five consecutive campaigns against the Japanese army in the Jizhong Plain. Namely: the Battle of Ren (Qiu) River (間), the Battle of Wen (An) Xin (Zhen), the Battle of Rao (Yang) An (Ping), the Battle of Daqing Hebei and the Battle of An (Guo) Bo (Ye) Li (County).
In August of the same year, Yang Chengwu led his troops to Shengfang, and according to the orders of Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, marched to Tianjin.
However, Chiang Kai-shek, with the support of US imperialism, blatantly snatched the fruits of victory.
At that time, Yang Chengwu had just gathered the armed forces of the Jizhong Military Region.
People and horses from all walks of life threw away their bicycles, threw off their donkeys, lifted the white towels on their heads, undid the hemp ropes around their waists, and came out from the bottom of the tunnels, from the green yarn tents, from the homes of the fortress households, from the corners and corners of hide-and-seek with the enemy, and from the battlefields of fighting sparrow wars, curtain picking battles, pot throwing battles, tunnel wars, and other small guerrilla warfare, gathered together, and squeezed into "fists."
Yang Chengwu decided to first lead his troops to attack Han Liushu and Yang Liuqing on the outskirts of Tianjin.
The troops are about to assemble.
Yang Chengwu put on the new military uniform made by the villagers in Jizhong for his sons and soldiers, and suddenly received a telegram taken by Zhao Zhizhen: "Erzhen was born at 3 o'clock on the night of the 20th and died of illness."
He did not expect that his beloved son, who loved so much, would never leave his parents when victory came! Yang Chengwu's heart tightened with pain.
However, in order to Chinese the cause of the liberation of the people, he resolutely tucked the pain into the pocket of his shirt along with the telegram paper and said to the guards: "Go! "Just assemble the team and go."
Obviously, when Zhao Zhizhen was in the battle of Ambole, he refused to tell him the news of Zhen's illness and death, for fear of affecting his command of the battle!
The war has caused them to lose 3 children - Yansheng, Jisheng and Zhensheng. Although these 3 children were born in foster care in their hometowns, and the villagers treated them as if they were their own children, they were carefully fed, but the harsh environment and disease still took their young lives.
Indeed, during the war years, our army and our relatives did not care about anything for the victory of the revolution, they gave up everything!
When the troops captured Han Liushu, Yang Liuqing, Yangcun East Station, Beicang Station, and Airfield, as well as Ashdui, Dagu, Qikou, and other places, because Fu Zuoyi's troops were about to invade Zhangjiakou again, Yang Chengwu was ordered to immediately lead his troops to defend Zhangjiakou. He rushed to Zhangjiakou in a hurry.
Although Zhao Zhizhen led the children to Shengfang at this time, they did not see it.
Later, when Zhao Zhizhen took Yisheng to Zhangjiakou, the second daughter Junsheng had already been placed in the home of his fellow villagers in Jizhong. As a result, Yang Chengwu and Zhao Zhizhen, as well as their daughters Yi Sheng and Junsheng, were not reunited until after the liberation of Pingjin.