Liaozhai Hometown Folk Tales 27 (Zhang Wu Anti-Japanese Story)

In our village, there is a story of Zhang Wu's anti-Japanese resistance, this story is widely circulated, and we, the old people in the village, know a little bit.

Our village name is Zhangjiazhuang is located at the foot of Niuyang Mountain, in the south of the village there is a family surnamed Zhang, it is said that this family surnamed Zhang, is the ming Dynasty Yuan Chonghuan descendant, in the late Ming Dynasty, Yuan Chonghuan was used by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was killed by the late Ming Emperor Chongzhen, the family was exiled, according to the village chronicle, it was one winter, an old man carried a second basket with a burden, there was a two-year-old child in the front basket, and in the back basket were some daily necessities, the old man carried this child and walked to the village head of Zhangjiazhuang. Really can't move, just live in the village head land temple, winter cold, less clothing, plus no food, the old man passed out in the temple, lived in the village head of the Zhang family, at night heard a child crying, just go to the land temple to see, see an old man fainted on the ground, a child crying next to it, the Zhang family was originally a kind family, the Zhang family's man is called Zhang Di, living in the south of the village, just under the Niuyang Mountain, some of their daughters are more than 1 year old, plant a little thin land, barely able to live, in the winter to the mountain hunting, Take the prey to the city and sell it, and then buy some groceries to come back. Zhang Di saw this situation, he called out to his wife, lifted the old man up, and helped the old man to his house, the wife held the child, the old man woke up, said that he fled from the north to here, did not expect, cold and hungry, really can not walk, thanks to the encounter with you to rescue. Zhang Di said, the old man you are also sick, don't go, temporarily live here for a few days, wait for good health and then go, the old man really can't walk, just live here, after dawn, Zhang Di asked Lang Zhong of the village to show the old man, Lang Zhong quietly said to Zhang that this old man is about to die, persuade him not to care about this idle thing, but Zhang Di is kind, and he can't bear to drive them away, just make some food for the old man to eat, the wife will boil some millet soup to feed the child, this child looks like a tiger, it is really likeable. The old man ate a little, he may also feel that he is about to die, he said to Zhang, he is the yuan family miscellaneous family, because Yuan Da artificial people framed, we were exiled, I in order to prevent being assassinated by people, I escaped with the child halfway, just walked to you, this child is the descendant of the Yuan family, I hope you take him in, the old man left the silver hidden in his underwear to Zhang Di, the old man died of illness a few days later, Zhang Di took in the child, Zhang Di had a daughter, just the old man brought this little boy. Zhang Di raised this boy to adulthood, and named this child Zhang Shi, because the old man left them some silver, plus Zhang Di's careful care, and bought acres of land, the days are still OK, Zhang Di died, he left the family property to Zhang Shi, just like this, Zhang Shi took root in Zhangjia Village, and married and had children, became Zhangjia Village people, Zhangjia's descendants grew up in Zhangjia Village generation by generation, of which Zhangjia descendants have two sons in the village, Zhangjia Village was originally good at martial arts, when the farm was idle, whenever night fell, The boxers in this village teach the boys and girls in the village to practice martial arts, so the people in this village basically know martial arts, among which the two sons of the descendants of the Zhang family were originally Zhang's strong, plus they practiced martial arts from a young age, the eldest was 17 years old, the younger was 15 years old, and they practiced a good martial art, the big name was Zhang Wu, and the small one was called Zhang Quan.

So many years Zhangjiazhuang because of the remoteness in the mountains, there is no war, although people have not lived very rich, but also self-sufficient, this is a peaceful small mountain village, people live a sunrise and work, sunset and resting life, the north of the village has a small river flowing from the edge of the village, the south is close to the Niuyang Mountain, in the morning the chickens began to work, the folk customs are simple, occasionally there are outsiders, the villagers are also warmly entertained, especially the Zhang Wu family, there are passing begs to drink, the Zhang family is always enthusiastically satisfied, and always filled with water bags for pedestrians to take away. At the beginning of 1938, the Japanese occupied the local county seat, and since then disrupted the lives of the people here, at the end of 1938, Zhang Wu's father hunted, hunted a few hares, took them to the county town to sell, by the way to buy back some salt and other daily necessities, he arrived at the county seat, the hare was snatched by the Japanese, and was beaten, so he limped home, he told his two sons about the situation of entering the city, this matter planted the seeds of hatred in the hearts of Zhang Wu and Zhang Quan. People don't try not to go into town if they don't have anything special.

During this time, there was often a cargo man in the village, a man of about 30 years old, because Zhang Wu's family lived in the south of the village, the freight man was tired, always rested in Zhang Wu's house for a while, drank saliva, and continued to go into the mountain, because he often came, Zhang Wu was acquainted with him, this person called himself Sun, Zhang Wu and Zhang Quan both called him Big Brother Sun, Big Brother Sun often talked about what happened in the city, saying that the bad things done after the Japanese invaded the county town, either killing people today, or forcing other villages to send grain and vegetables tomorrow, and occasionally talking about the teams that beat the Japanese in this mountain. Zhang Wu and Zhang Quan were sometimes fascinated. One summer at noon, Zhang Quan went hunting in the mountains, just arrived at the mouth of the village, suddenly heard the sound of gunfire, saw a person running not far away, holding a gun in his hand, Zhang Wu looked at it, it turned out to be the cargo lang Sun Brother, Zhang Wu saw that Sun Brother was limping, he hurried over, Brother Sun saw that it was Zhang Wu, he said, I put my foot on the wrong side, the Japanese are chasing me. Zhang Wu saw this situation, he hurriedly helped Brother Sun and said to Brother Sun, there is a cave in front of no one knows, because I often practice here, where is the cave, I am very familiar, I led Brother Sun into the cave, and hid the entrance of the cave, I hurried down the mountain, I met the devil, the devil saw Zhang Wu, the interpreter asked Zhang Wu if he saw a person running through here, Zhang Wu made a move, said, there is a big man running down this road to the mountain, the devils and traitors chased down the road, after a while, the devils did not chase, Just follow the original road back, Zhang Wu saw the devils gone, so he went into the cave to pick up Brother Sun, said to Brother Sun, the Japanese are gone, Brother Sun said to Sun Wu, thank you for helping to save me, because I am on my feet, I can't run, I have to ask the devils to catch up. When Zhang Wu saw that Elder Brother Sun was holding a pistol, he asked Elder Brother Sun what you were doing, and when Elder Brother Sun saw Zhang Wu upright, he told the truth, saying that he was a scout of the anti-Japanese guerrillas led by the Communist Party in the mountains, disguised as a cargo lang to collect intelligence on Japanese devils everywhere, this time he had an important piece of intelligence, he wanted to give it to the guerrillas in the mountains, but he was on his own feet and could not move, but the intelligence was urgent, so he said to Zhang Wu, Brother Zhang Wu, you run a trip, Zhang Wu originally grew up in the mountains, and he was also very familiar with here, and Brother Sun took out a small box from his arms and said, You sent this box to Li Jiayu in the mountains to find a person from Wang Qiang, just say that Sun Liang asked you to send it, you also told him about my situation, Zhang Wu once went to Li Jiayu, the road is very familiar, just say you rest assured, I will go, Li Jiayu is 10 kilometers away from this road, will soon arrive, Zhang Wu took some water, and rushed to Li Jiayu. It turned out that Li Jiayu was a base area for our anti-Japanese guerrillas, and the guerrillas were stationed here. Zhang Wu quickly rushed to Li Jiayu, saw Captain Wang Qiang, gave him the box, Captain Wang Qiang opened the box and saw the encrypted letter, said to Zhang Wu, thank you, the information you sent was too timely, Captain Zhang asked about the situation of Brother Sun, and arranged for two people to follow Zhang Wu back, to the cave to pick up Brother Sun, Zhang Wu came back to his brother about this matter, his brother was very excited, but did not tell his parents, afraid that they were worried. After Brother Sun got his feet right, he often passed by here as usual, and went to Zhang Wu's house to sit down.

One day Zhang Wu and Zhang Quan were practicing martial arts at the foot of Niuyang Mountain, and they saw Brother Sun and a few people leading horses and immediately carrying things, so they hurried over, and Brother Sun said that this was an important batch of anti-Japanese materials that needed to be sent to Li Jiayu urgently, and maybe the Japanese devils got intelligence, they were chasing us, you also came to help, and sent this batch of materials to Li Jiayu, I led the chasing devils away, Zhang Wu said good, and several other people hurriedly drove the horses forward, and Brother Sun took the gun in his hand and returned, and it didn't take long to hear the gunshots. The devil chased After Big Brother Sun towards houyu.

After Zhang Wu and the others sent the supplies to Li Jiayu, they ate some food there and went back, but when they came back, they found that the village was burned by the devils, their houses were also burned, the villagers were killed by the devils, and their fathers also died under the devils' guns, Zhang Wu and Zhang Quan saw this situation and stomped their feet, they were going to fight with the devils, and their mother stopped them, saying that the children you go to die, you can't fight hard, we also understand, as long as the Japanese are there, this day can not live a stable life. Zhang Wu told his mother that Brother Sun was a guerrilla in the mountains, and that the guerrillas in the mountains were led by the Communist Party to fight the Japanese devils, and Zhang Wu and Zhang Quan said that we should defect to Brother Sun and beat the Japanese devils to avenge the dead villagers. The mother was very supportive, the two Zhang Wu brothers repaired the house, settled the mother well, and directly defected to Brother Sun, who knew that the two brothers were strong in martial arts and upright, Zhang Wu and Brother Sun became scouts, Zhang Quan worked as a messenger in the guerrillas, their family also became a contact point, and their mother also became a contact person.

After Zhang Wu joined the guerrillas, he showed his skills, Zhang Wu went to the county seat to get intelligence, every week there was always a group of Japanese soldiers patrolling the railway line from Shunbo City to Zicheng, very regular, Zhang Wu passed the situation to the guerrillas in time, the guerrilla leader Wang Qiang led the team, ambushed in Kunhai in advance, and when the devil's squad arrived, he shot and shot, because the intelligence was accurate, the devils were not prepared, and soon the devils' squad was wiped out, one of them ran, this devil ran to the nearby countryside, there was just a farmer who planted land, Hiding the devils under a large vat, the villagers hated the devils to death, so they smashed the devils to death with their heads and dragged the bodies to the nearby river. Zhang Wu also participated in this battle and captured the pistol of the devil squad leader, and Captain Wang rewarded Zhang Wu with this gun, and zhang Wu was even more powerful, using this gun to kill many devils and traitors.

In this place in the Great Wasteland, there was a cannon tower of the devils, stationed a group of traitors, this traitor captain was extremely angry, often went to the countryside to loot the people's wealth, suppressed the anti-Japanese villagers, people hated him to the bone, people gave him the nickname Toad Head, the guerrillas caught him several times, all told him to run away cunningly, this toad head was very vigilant, and carried two guards with him, riding an Oriental horse, in the recent devil's sweep of Dongyu Village, because of the intelligence of this toad head, the contact point of the village guerrillas was destroyed, and the master of the car who grabbed the contact point. After a fruitless interrogation, he was brutally murdered. Captain Wang Qiang of the guerrilla group made up his mind to pull out this watchtower and get rid of the head of this traitor captain for the people, Captain Wang Qiang gave this task to Zhang Wu, and after Zhang Wu received the task, he disguised himself as a meal to investigate in the great wasteland, and after a period of squatting, Zhang Wu found that in the south of this great wasteland, there was a widow of a landlord, and this toad always went to this woman's house several times a month for the night, and the law touched, Zhang Wu took his brother Zhang Quan and several teammates to ambush him early near the widow's home of the landlord in the wasteland. After dark, this traitor toad head really came, carrying a bottle of wine in his hand and two guards. Late at night, Zhang Wu and Zhang Quan and the other two touched it, originally Zhang Wu was strong in martial arts, the wall was high as long as his hands were on the wall, he could turn over into the wall, Zhang Wu accelerated and ran, he jumped up and grabbed the wall with his hands, turned over on the wall, this landlord's family raised a wolf dog is very powerful, when Zhang Wu landed on the wall, the dog pounced on it, Zhang Wuyun foot qigong, kicked the dog's stomach with one foot, kicked the dog to death. Zhang Wu opened the gate, after the others came in, the two men and a group of people solved the guards living in the East House, this toad head lived in the south house, Zhang Wu took a large piece of wood to break the window in an instant, people jumped into the house, this toad head woke up in a dream, touched the gun with his hand, Zhang Wu saw this person and pressed it, several other people lit candles, and found that the widow of the landlord had long been frightened and rolled to the ground, Zhang Wu pressed this toad head, this toad head could not move, several people tied up this traitor, At the same time, Zhang Quan was asked to send a letter to Captain Wang Qiang, who had solved the toad head. Wang Qiang led the team to pull out this watchtower, and finally took this toad head to the north of the wasteland, shot to death, dug a pit to bury, and the guerrillas distributed leaflets everywhere, cracked down on the traitors, and stimulated the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the local people. The guerrilla captain Wang Qiang also issued the captured toad head pistol to Zhang Wu, and from then on Zhang Wu made two guns, and the ghost was haunted, and the frightened devils and traitors did not dare to come out at all, but the devils and traitors also hated Zhang Wu and tried every means to capture Zhang Wu, but several times Zhang Wu turned the danger into a disaster and turned the danger into safety, and the most mythical time was the spider to save Zhang Wu.

Once Zhang Wu and Zhang Quan and two guerrillas went to the city to carry out a mission, trying to find a way to get some cloth for the guerrillas, because it was autumn, it was almost winter, they had to prepare in advance, after they got the cloth, they used a carriage to pull back, did not expect to call a traitor to find out, they secretly informed the devils, the devils got the information, gathered a group of more than 100 devils and surrounded the four of them, Zhang Wu saw this situation, he drove the carriage to a large nearby puddle, threw the cloth into the puddle and hid it, and the four of them ran into the mountains. Unexpectedly, this time the devils were prepared, the road to the mountain was also sealed, Zhang Wu they ran to the west mountain, the devils chased from all sides, Zhang Wu could not see that he could not go up the mountain, he ran to a large local ditch, this ditch is rarely visited, the ditch is deep and densely forested, they ran into the ditch, there is a cave in the middle of the ditch, the cave entrance is very small, but people can climb in, four people climbed into the hole, when they entered the cave, a guerrilla found that there were several large spiders at the mouth of the cave, the team members were worried about being bitten by spiders, they wanted to kill these spiders, Zhang Wu hurriedly stopped, do not hurt them , carefully use the branches to get them to the side, a few of them hid in the cave, the devils came up from all sides, began to search into the ditch, I don't know how long it took, the devils searched to the mouth of the cave, Zhang Wu They heard the voices of the devils and the traitors, a traitor said: Taijun here is a small hole, the devil captain to the cave entrance to take a look, found that the cave entrance is full of spider webs, spider webs sealed the cave entrance, the devil's captain scolded the traitor, no one entered here, you did not see the cobwebs at the mouth of the cave are intact, you hurry to search elsewhere, The devils searched for darkness, of course, found nothing, after the news spread in the local area, people said that spiders saved their lives, this also shows that people do not kill at will, if you kill these spiders at that time, they may die.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, their guerrilla unit was incorporated into Xu Shiyou's field troops, liberated Jinan from Shandong, fought across the Yangtze River, liberated Shanghai, and finally Zhang Wu and Zhang Quan stayed in Shanghai, started a family in Shanghai, and worked in the Shanghai Public Security Bureau.