The red messenger tells the story of the anti-war fortress household - Liu Zidan's family

Tell the story of red and pass on the red gene. Hello everyone, I am Song Xiaohui, a volunteer lecturer of Tangshan Red History. What I want to tell you today is: the Liu Zidan family, a fortress of the War of Resistance.

Liu Zidan's family lived in Liu Chengzi Village after dusk. Before the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, his family was a well-known wealthy family, and Liu Zidan was in charge of the family business. He was upright, benevolent and righteous, and a well-known enlightened gentleman. The younger brother Liu Guizhen took care of the housework with his brother and ran inside and outside. The whole family made great contributions in the anti-Japanese guerrilla war behind enemy lines and was known as a fortress of the War of Resistance.

Every effort was made to raise guns, funds and materials for the War of Resistance

In July 1938, during the people's anti-Japanese rebellion in eastern Jidong, Liu Zidan took advantage of his position as the director of the Xiaoling Thirteen Villages Regiment to hand over 13 large guns from the Tuantu Yu Township Regiment Headquarters to Comrade Su Linyan, the leader of the rebellion, and enhanced the weapons and equipment of our riot team.

Once, Liu Zidan learned in a conversation with ding Zhenjun, the leader of the anti-Japanese resistance, that the funds for anti-Japanese activities had encountered difficulties. Therefore, Liu Zidanto's relatives came forward and borrowed a sum of money from the Zuojiawu Chamber of Commerce to solve the urgent need.

In the winter of 1939, Comrades Chen Di, Zhao Jian, and other comrades hid in the Liu family, talking about the urgent need for anti-Japanese propaganda such as wax paper, ink, paper, and batteries. Liu Zidan took the initiative to ask for orders, broke through the enemy's blockade, bought materials from Tangshan, hired Zhang Qiurong of his village to pull a coal carriage, hid things in the coal pile, mixed with the interrogation of the enemy-occupied area checkpoints, and safely transported the materials to the liberated areas.

Braving the risks, he sent letters to the Eighth Route Army and kept his belongings

In the spring of 1941, Ding Zhenjun, Liu Chengguang and other comrades lived in his home, and in order to contact local cadres, Liu Zidan sent his younger brother Liu Guizhen to Beiling Village to deliver letters. Liu Guizhen had just crossed the Huixiang River to the west of Dusk Yu Village, when he encountered a puppet army besieging zhuang. Under the constant interrogation of the puppet army, Liu Guizhen pretended to be dumb, and then he ran away without the enemy being prepared. Liu Guizhen took advantage of the familiar geographical environment to break out of the enemy's encirclement and deliver the letter to the destination in time.

At the end of 1940, as soon as Chen Zhi, a cadre from Fengluan Qianlian County, came to live in the Liu family, the enemy surrounded the village, and the Liu brothers hurriedly hid Chen Zhi and others in the cave. Chen Zhi handed over the wallet he carried with him to Liu Guizhen for safekeeping, and before the money could be hidden, the enemy broke through the door, and Liu Guizhen cleverly put the wallet in a charcoal barrel. A Japanese soldier pressed them with a bayonet to ask them the whereabouts of the Eighth Route Army, and the brothers were calm. Liu Zidan poured tea and put a packet of "white noodles" under the tea cup and handed it to the agent. The agent benefited, muttered a few words to the Japanese, and the enemy went to the other courtyard to eat. However, the enemy did not die after the air, and searched his house four times in five days, but found no flaws. After the enemy left in chagrin, Liu Guizhen took out his wallet from the charcoal barrel and handed it to Comrade Chen Zhi.

Sacrifice life and death to protect revolutionary cadres, their families and the wounded

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, more than thirty cadres, including li yunchang, Bao Sen, Ding Zhenjun, and Zhou Wenbin, leaders of the party, government, and army in eastern Hebei were hidden in his home.

One day in the early spring of 1940, Ding Zhenjun, Zhang Heming and four others lived in the Liu family. Early in the morning, the enemy surrounded the village. As soon as they got the news, the Japanese army broke in with an interpreter. Liu Zidan was busy lighting cigarettes and pouring water for the Japanese army to stabilize the enemy. Liu Guizhen took the opportunity to hide Ding Zhenjun and other comrades in the cave. The Japanese army asked Liu Zidan, "What are your jobs?" Liu Zidan replied, "I am the common people!" The Japanese army said: "Some people say that you have smuggled the Eighth Road, and today they will take you to Zuojiawu." Liu Zidan defended: "I am a big family in Fengrun, how can I fornicate the Eight Roads?" Isn't that a false accusation? I'll take care of the food at home, and tomorrow I'll go myself! He said, and then pointed to the translation: "We are friends, I have a family and a business, I can't run, he can guarantee it." The translator saw that there was money to think of, so he said a few words, and the Japanese army gave up. Sending away the enemy, Liu Zidan asked his wife Zhen Fengchun and sister-in-law Zhang Cuirong to make dumplings, stir-fry vegetables, and hot wine to suppress Ding Zhenjun and other comrades. The next day, Liu Zidan came to the Zuojiawu stronghold alone, and the Japanese army wanted to get the whereabouts of Li Yunchang, Bao Sen, Ding Zhenjun and other anti-Japanese leaders from his mouth, but he was tight-lipped. Just say, "I am a common man, I only know how to grow crops, and I don't know anything else." The enemy could not help it, and escorted him to Toyonin Castle to hand him over to the japanese leader Sasaki. During his imprisonment in the city, the enemy threatened to induce and severely tortured. At night, he splashed water on the floor of his cell to keep him from sleeping. Liu Zidan gritted his teeth and endured pain, never revealing a single secret. Later, our party bought the translator through connections, and entrusted someone to give a famous calligraphy painting from the Qing Dynasty to Sasaki, and only then did he rescue Liu Zidan.

Treat the families of cadres as relatives. Yan Dakai's father, Yan Bingzheng, and Wang Pinglu's sister Zhao Pingyuan both lived in the Liu family. In June 1939, when the enemy was besieging the village, the Liu family was in time for a funeral, and Liu Zidan asked Zhao Pingyuan to put on filial piety clothes and dress up as a relative of the Liu family, thus escaping the enemy's search. Later, zhao Pingyuan was transferred to Liu Zidan's fourth aunt, and after staying for half a month, the organization sent Su Linyan to pick her up.

Protecting the wounded is a big deal. In the autumn of 1938, Deng Hua's troops attacked Xinglong County, and more than a dozen wounded people went to Liu's house to recuperate. The brothers arranged the wounded in an orchard shack outside the village, Liu Zidan personally delivered water and food, and his uncle dispensed medicine to treat the wounded. Unexpectedly, after being tipped off by the traitors, the enemy of the iron factory wanted to arrest people. In this emergency situation, Lu Yinbo, the third brother-in-law of Liu Guizhen, who was serving in the pseudo-police station, sent his third sister Liu Guiyan to her mother's house overnight with her baby, who had just passed the full moon, to report the news. After Liu Guizhen received the letter, she hurriedly transferred the wounded to the belt mountain, disguised as a Taoist priest, and was protected by her father. After the enemy situation eased, the wounded went down the mountain and stayed in Liu's house for a few days, and after healing their wounds, they returned to the anti-Japanese troops one after another. However, because of sending a letter to the wounded, the third sister Liu Guiyan's child died of illness due to wind and cold, and the whole family was grieving. Liu Zidan's mother said with deep understanding: "The death of a child in our family is a trivial matter, the wounded of the Eighth Route Army returned safely and safely, to fight for the common people, to fight the Japanese devils is a big thing!" ”

In this way, Liu Zidan's family made great contributions to the Cause of The Chinese Revolution and National Liberation. The revolutionary spirit of their family of sacrificing their lives and forgetting their lives to support the War of Resistance Against Japan and to wage a heroic struggle against the enemy is always worthy of our admiration and commemoration.

Let's relive the red memory and forever be the red heir. Today's story is shared here, thank you for listening, and we will meet again in the next issue.

(Source: Selected Historical Materials of the Fengrun Revolution)