There are three roads in Beijing named after modern people, namely "Zhang Zizhong Road", "Tong Linge Road", and "Zhao Dengyu Road". In 1946, in order to commemorate these three anti-Japanese heroes, the mayor of Beiping named the three roads after the heroes, which have been used since the founding of New China, and now we want to talk about the story behind Zhao Dengyu Road and the anti-Japanese hero Zhao Dengyu.
Zhao Dengyu was once praised by Feng Yuxiang as a "hero to fight tigers", in the Battle of Xifengkou, he made full use of tactics, slashed and killed more than 5,000 Japanese in the First World War, which was called "a nightmare under the day" by the Japanese; after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he insisted on standing in the front line of The defense of Beiping, and did not retreat until he was sacrificed. What kind of glorious story does Zhao Dengyu have on his body? Why is he seen as a nightmare by the Japanese?
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In 1898, Zhao Dengyu was born in Heze, Shandong, and the Zhao family made a living from farming, but due to the low grain production at that time and the continuous natural disasters, Zhao Dengyu's life as a child was extremely poor. His father died when he was very young, and his mother single-handedly took up the burden of the family and painstakingly raised several children in the family. In order to reduce his mother's burden, Zhao Dengyu and several brothers and sisters went out every day to collect mulberry leaves and raise silkworms, using this method to exchange for some meager income and supplement the family.
At the age of seven or eight, his mother took out these provincial money and sent Zhao Dengyu to a private school to study, Zhao Dengyu cherished this hard-won opportunity to study, but looking at his mother's increasingly haggard face, Zhao Dengyu felt very uncomfortable. After studying in a private school for two years, Zhao Dengyu refused to go to school anymore, and he did not want to increase the burden on his mother.
Zhao Dengyu is a very stubborn person, he dropped out of school to help his mother do farm work at home, and did some handyman work to subsidize the family. Zhao Dengyu's favorite thing is to listen to the old people in the village and tell some heroic legends, he admires the heroes who represent the Skywalker, and he is also very yearning for their righteous deeds, hoping that one day, he can also do good things for the people like the heroes of the story, and his interest in martial arts has also arisen.
When Zhao Dengyu was idle, he began to practice some boxing and foot kung fu on his own, although he did not get a systematic education, but under his efforts, he also accumulated some martial arts foundation, and his mother saw that he was very interested in martial arts, so she supported him to learn art from a teacher. At the age of 13, Zhao Dengyu worshipped the local martial arts master Zhu Fengjun as his master and formally learned martial arts.
Because of years of agricultural work, Zhao Dengyu's physical fitness is very good, and coupled with Zhao Dengyu's hard work, his martial arts level has improved rapidly. Master Zhu Fengjun knows all kinds of martial arts, and under his guidance, Zhao Dengyu learned tai chi, bagua, Shaolin and other boxing techniques in less than three years, and was also good at using various weapons. Zhao Dengyu also has a unique skill, he can take away the opponent's sword and gun with his bare hands.
Zhao Dengyu's height is very tall, coupled with his strong martial arts, he can grab the sword with his bare hands, and he does not dare to get close to people, and his reputation has gradually spread. However, Zhao Dengyu did not stay in his hometown to study martial arts, at that time, the revolutionary wind had blown all over the country, and Zhao Lou Village, where Zhao Dengyu was located, was also affected by the revolutionary trend. Because he had a heart of heroism and righteousness since he was a child, Zhao Dengyu also saw a lot of people's livelihood and suffering, and he decided to join the army to serve the country with his martial arts.
In 1914, Zhao Dengyu followed his brother and several friends from his hometown to Shaanxi to join the army led by Feng Yuxiang. At that time, the reputation of Feng Yuxiang's army spread from Shaanxi to Shandong, and Zhao Dengyu heard that Feng Yuxiang's army was strictly disciplined, patriotic and patriotic, and he thought that this was the army of the revolution. So Zhao Dengyu and his brother waded through mountains and rivers, crossed mountains and mountains, and set off from Shandong and walked all the way in the direction of Shaanxi.
Shandong is more than 1,800 miles away from Shanxi, and the dry food they brought with them was quickly eaten, so they could only beg all the way to beg for food, and walked day and night for more than twenty days, and their shoes were worn off, before they reached Tongguan in Shaanxi and became a deputy soldier in Feng Yuxiang's team. Zhao Dengyu was tall and strong, and had a foundation in martial arts, and he also worked very hard in the army, not afraid of hardship, and soon stood out among a group of soldiers, and was promoted by Feng Yuxiang to be a personal escort.
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In 1918, in order to pacify the Liukou in western Hunan Province, Feng Yuxiang led troops into Western Hunan and later stationed in the Changde area. Zhao Dengyu followed the troops to Hunan, during which time he eliminated two major harms for the local people. At that time, there was a Japanese consulate in Changde, and the Japanese rogues in it ran amok in the local area and oppressed the common people. Zhao Dengyu was not accustomed to their behavior, and once several Japanese scoundrels were drunk and not only insulted passers-by, but also beat up traders.
Feng Yuxiang arrived in time to hear the news and taught the Group of Japanese a harsh lesson. These people have been running amok in the local area all along, and this is the first time that anyone has dared to beat them. The Japanese scoundrels were very angry and threatened to find the Japanese consulate and would definitely show Zhao Dengyu the color. Unexpectedly, Zhao Dengyu not only did not fear, but also directly twisted them to the Japanese consulate and came up with evidence that they had committed wrongdoing in the local area.
Because of the solid evidence and the fear of Feng Yuxiang's strength, the Japanese consulate could only order those people to apologize to the beaten vendors. Since then, no more Japanese hooligans have dared to oppress the people. Because the place where Zhao Dengyu was stationed was close to the mountain, he often trained with his comrades in the nearby mountain, and during one training, a fierce tiger suddenly ran out. Zhao Dengyu had long heard that there were often fierce tigers in the vicinity, and he had also come down the mountain many times to hurt people and animals, but he did not expect that this time the tigers let them touch it.
The tigers were obviously hungry, staring at them warily, waiting for the opportunity to rush up and bite them. Zhao Dengyu was not afraid to rush in front of the crowd and fired several shots at the tiger, and the tiger who had been hit by several bullets was in pain, because he felt the threat, he turned his head and ran, but jumped into the river in a panic. Zhao Dengyu took the lead in rushing into the river, punching the tiger's head several times in a row, beating the tiger to the point of swallowing before stopping.
The soldiers dragged the tiger out of the river and sent it to Feng Yuxiang, who was very happy and specially invited a photographer to take a picture of Zhao Dengyu riding on the tiger's back. The local people heard about it and were very grateful to Zhao Dengyu for removing this great harm for them, and wanted to celebrate him, and Zhao Dengyu's reputation as a hero who fought the tiger came out. Through Zhao Dengyu's brave and decisive behavior when he eliminated the two evils for the local people, he knew that he was a very courageous person, and his legendary life had just begun.
After the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, due to the Kuomintang's policy of non-resistance, the northeast was comprehensively strategically adopted by the Japanese army, and the country reached a moment of peril, and every patriot was anxious about it. Zhao Dengyu hated the aggressive behavior of the Japanese army to the bone, poured all his energy into military training, he made full use of his martial arts skills, developed a set of knife techniques suitable for use on the battlefield, personally led the soldiers to contact the key points of killing, and was always ready to fight with the Japanese army to the death.
Japan's ambitions were not satisfied by the fact that they had gained the northeast, and they pointed the arrow of aggression at Rehe again, in an attempt to invade Inner Mongolia and Northern China by occupying the area. Subsequently, the Japanese army launched a large-scale war, crossing the Shanhaiguan Pass and launching an attack on the passes of the Great Wall, and the Battle of the Great Wall began. After receiving the order, Zhao Dengyu, under the leadership of the regimental commander Wang Changhai, rushed to Xifengkou to resist the Japanese invasion.
Xifengkou is an important throat of Beiping and Rehe, an important pass in many places, and as early as the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was a barrier for the capital to resist foreign enemies. Once the Xifeng Pass is lost, then the Japanese army will not only grasp the closure of our country and accelerate the pace of aggression, but also rely on the favorable terrain to resist the counterattack of our army. However, by the time Zhao Dengyu's troops arrived, the Japanese army had already occupied the Xifengkou Heights, and hundreds of cavalry had also reached the foot of the Great Wall.
Zhao Dengyu and others did not have the slightest intention of flinching, they fought with the Japanese army to the death, after several hours of charging and fighting, they finally occupied the high ground, taking advantage of this favorable terrain, they annihilated more than a hundred Japanese Kou people. But soon the Japanese army dispatched aircraft artillery, shells continued to be thrown in the direction of Zhao Dengyu, under the cover of artillery fire, the Japanese launched a fierce counterattack, once again taking the heights away.
After that, the Japanese army increased a large number of troops and rushed towards the direction of Xifengkou, preparing to attack again, but Zhao Dengyu's troops were getting smaller and smaller, and in the face of the indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese army, they had almost no chance to advance. At this critical moment, Zhao Dengyu was appointed commander-in-chief, and he led his troops to lie on the peaks on both sides of the Xifeng Pass, hiding for several hours in the Bombardment of the Japanese Army, during which time he never fired a single shot.
Just when the sky was about to light, the smoke of gunfire was filled, and the Japanese army thought that the Chinese troops had all been killed, Zhao Dengyu quietly returned to the trench with all the soldiers, and when the Japanese army entered, Zhao Dengyu and others jumped up from the smoke of gunfire, fought with the enemy in close combat with large knives, and annihilated more than 700 Japanese troops. During the battle, Zhao Dengyu's left leg was hit by a shell, and the guards advised him to retreat first and then take command, but Zhao Dengyu did not want to leave the front line, he simply bandaged the wound on his leg and insisted on the front line of the battle.
That night, Zhao Dengyu organized a second night raid, he led the warriors to take the night around the camp behind the enemy, each soldier carried a large knife, when the battle began, the soldiers brandished a large knife, slashed and killed more than a thousand people, ushered in the victory of the Battle of Xifengkou. In this battle, Zhao Dengyu led the soldiers to annihilate a total of 5,000 Japanese troops, captured countless booty, and the large knife team he led also became a nightmare for devils.
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After this battle, Zhao Dengyu led his division to garrison Zhangbei County, and it was here that the sensational "Zhangbei Incident" occurred. In 1934, 8 Japanese people used travel as an excuse to pass through Zhangbei County, but they not only did not show their documents, but also blurted out insults to the guards guarding the city, and their attitude was very contemptuous. When Zhao Dengyu learned of this, he arrested all these Japanese, but they still had a brutal attitude and insulted the soldiers.
In order to destroy the prestige of these Japanese, Zhao Dengyu specially selected a group of tall and strong soldiers, let them hold bayonets, a group of ten people, and continuously stabbed at a distance of one inch from the head of the Japanese. Coincidentally, just the next year, a similar incident occurred in Zhang Bei.
In 1935, four Japanese agents, passing through Zhangbei again, tried to steal our national defense map, and they were arrogant and did not cooperate with the inspection of the guards, thinking that we did not dare to do anything with them. But they did not expect that Zhao Dengyu would give an order to arrest them and imprison them for one night. Soon after, the people in the Japanese consulate again provoked unreasonably, and in accordance with the chiang kai-shek clique's policy of non-resistance, even ordinary Japanese who did not hold guns dared to shout at our soldiers.
Zhao Dengyu did not hide his patience and directly ordered them to return the attack, frightening these Japanese to flee, and the soldiers present were very happy in their hearts. Subsequently, the Japanese army took advantage of the Zhangbei incident to continuously exert pressure on our army, and the Nationalist government actually adhered to the policy of non-resistance, not only dismissing Zhao Dengyu's superior and Song Zheyuan from his posts, but also signing the humiliating "Qin-Soil Agreement" with Japan, so that the two provinces of China once again fell into the hands of the Japanese army.
The Nationalist government's policy of non-resistance disappointed Zhao Dengyu, who was bent on killing the Japanese and regaining China's territory, but he did not expect that every city now had been sent out by the Nationalist government. It was not until 1937, when the Lugou Bridge Incident occurred, that Japan gathered a large number of troops to march toward north China, and Song Zheyuan appointed Zhao Dengyu as commander to guard nanyuan outside Beijing. Zhao Dengyu encouraged everyone, saying: "Soldiers have no life or death in the War of Resistance, and the Lugou Bridge is our grave." And his last grave is located next to the Lugou Bridge.
On July 27, 1937, the Japanese army took advantage of the weakness of the Nanyuan defenders to launch an attack, Zhao Dengyu and Tong Linge stubbornly held their positions, in addition to the army soldiers, the defenders also included student regiments that did not even have guns. Under the castle were more than 3,000 mechanized troops of the Japanese army, more than 30 bombers overhead, bullets and bombs constantly falling on the city, and the people around them fell one by one. Zhao Dengyu led his men to swing a large knife to rush to the enemy, and when they saw the large knife, the Japanese army was frightened and retreated a kilometer.
However, what followed was the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army, and Zhao Dengyu could only give up the pursuit and withdraw to the original position. Just when Zhao Dengyu was preparing to reorganize the troops, but because of the betrayal of the traitor Pan Yugui, the reinforcement route of the reinforcements was controlled by the Japanese army, and both regiments were annihilated by the Japanese army. Later, Zhao Dengyu's troops retreated to Dahongmen, where the Japanese troops who had known the news set up an ambush here, and the troops suffered heavy casualties, and Zhao Dengyu was also blown off by the Japanese bombs and broke his legs.
Zhao Dengyu, who had been shot several times, woke up from his coma, knowing that he could not survive, but there was still an elderly mother at home, which made him unable to let go. Zhao Dengyu looked at the messenger soldiers around him, instructed the other party to go to his mother after the war, bring the news of his sacrifice, and ask the army to be able to take care of the elderly mother. As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Dengyu stopped breathing, and he was only 39 years old this year.
When the news of Zhao Dengyu's sacrifice came, Feng Yuxiang was deeply saddened, and he found the photo of Zhao Dengyu who had taken a tiger fight before, and nominated him for the "Seven Years of fighting tiger generals in the Republic of China". Later, the Nationalist government posthumously awarded Zhao Dengyu the title of general and buried his remains next to the Lugou Bridge. At the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, all walks of life in Beiping came to participate in Zhao Dengyu's public sacrifice ceremony, and the road named after his nationality is still in The West City of Beijing, silently telling that tragic past.
Zhao Dengyu regarded death as a homecoming and was loyal to the country, and showed the national spirit of the Chinese nation's bravery and fearlessness and unwillingness to yield; he was the backbone of the Chinese people, a model for the whole Chinese people, and a martyr that we should always remember and respect. Peace is never dull, it is made up of glorious and tragic stories. It is precisely because people like Zhao Dengyu have blocked the disaster for us that we have a peaceful and stable life today.