Chapter 27 Hard work, heroic sacrifice

"Students, work hard, work hard, and sacrifice heroically, our tradition." This is a very important line in "Song of the Anti-University College".It expresses the dedication spirit of Kangda Tong, who is willing to fight hard for the revolutionary cause and is ready to sacrifice everything personally, and fully embodies the educational policy of Kangda University. The Anti-Japanese War inherits and carries forward the indomitable spirit of revolutionary heroism of our army, and can persist in fighting in any difficult and difficult situation.In the spring of 1944, the Taiyue Brigade of the General School of the Anti-Japanese University was besieged by the Japanese army on Mianshan Mountain in Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province, and the situation was very difficult.In order to solve the problem of food and persist in fighting and studying, at the beginning, they organized small teams to attack the enemy in the middle of the night and seize food.Later, the enemy stepped up their guard. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties and preserve their strength, they mobilized the whole team to dig wild vegetables, pick leaves and fruits, catch wild boars to satisfy their hunger, and live a life like primitive people.Although the environment was so difficult, no one complained of suffering, no one faltered and fled, and persisted until victory.

The faculty and students of the Anti-Japanese University not only have the tenacious perseverance to overcome difficulties, but also have the heroic spirit to overwhelm all enemies. They have fought very well in previous anti-"sweeping" and anti-friction battles, and created many heroic deeds. On October 20, 1940, that is, when our Eighth Route Army launched the "Hundred Regiments War" against the Japanese army and won successive victories, the Japanese chieftain took advantage of the opportunity of our main force to fight on the front line, and suddenly moved from Licheng, Xiangyuan, Wuzhou, Shanxi In the township area, thousands of Japanese and puppet troops were gathered to attack our rear area, carried out retaliatory "mopping up", threatened to "eliminate the communist university", and tried to wipe out my Anti-Japanese General Assembly in the mountainous areas of Xijing and Caozhuang, Licheng County. School and Eighth Route Army headquarters rear organs.The general school of our Anti-Japanese University was ordered by the headquarters to block the enemy from Licheng to Xijing in the Hongling area, cover the transfer of the headquarters and the rear organs of the headquarters and the local people, buy time, wait for the main force to make new combat deployments, and annihilate the intruders enemy.

At dawn on October 22, the three companies of the First Battalion of the Second Regiment of the Anti-Japanese University, the third company of the First Regiment of the Anti-Japanese University (also known as the "Youth Company"), the sixth company, and the school security company, a total of six companies Under the unified command of Guo Linxiang, head of the second regiment, Lai Guangxun, chief military instructor, Fu Chongbi, director of the political department, and other comrades, the blocking force composed of five or six hundred people occupied the positions on the mountains on both sides of the southeast road of Hongling.At eight or nine o'clock in the morning, under the cover of artillery fire, the enemy began to attack our forward positions in Hongling along the road.At that time, the weapons and equipment of the Anti-Dalian University were very poor. There were only two light machine guns in each company, and the rest were non-brand rifles for teaching, with very little ammunition.As soon as the battle started, the enemy launched a fierce attack on the position of the sixth company of the first regiment on the right side of the road and the positions of the first and third companies of the second regiment on the left side of the road.The old Red Army cadres in these three companies accounted for more than half, and their combat effectiveness was very strong.They were not afraid of the enemy's menacing approach, so they responded calmly, took advantage of the favorable terrain of the mountain, stood down, fought bravely, and repelled the enemy's three attacks.Seeing that the attack could not stop, the enemy brutally fired "tear gas" shells at our position, and launched a fourth onslaught with the help of poisonous smoke.Our blocking company discovered that the enemy used chemical weapons, and immediately used a wet towel to make a mask to protect against the virus, continued to fight, and repelled the enemy's rampant attack again.At this time, the sun was already in the west, and the three companies I was in charge of blocking the enemy at the cost of more than 20 casualties wiped out fifty or sixty people, successfully completed the blocking task, and then retreated while fighting, and all evacuated when it was dark Hongling, via Caozhuang, arrived at Thirty Mu Village to rest and stand by.

However, when my blocking troops were resting and preparing to cook, the scouts reported that the enemy was advancing in the direction of my Thirty Mu Village.At this time, the third and sixth companies of the first regiment and the guard company of the school headquarters had been ordered to evacuate the Thirty Mu Village with the school headquarters, and only the three companies of the first battalion of the second regiment could continue to take on the blocking task.Regardless of the lack of grain of rice in the day, they immediately occupied the front line of the highland south of the Thirty Mu Village, preparing to deal a head-on blow to the enemy.At around 7 o'clock in the evening, the cunning enemy suddenly changed the previous pattern of not walking at night or on small roads, and instead of taking the main road to drill the ravine, the infantry led the way, and the artillery led the mules and horses behind the cannon, sneaking along the ravine to the enemy. Thirty Mu Village approached quietly.Our blocking company stood ready, and when the enemy got into our firepower circle, he gave an order and beat the enemy into a mess, killing and wounding sixty or seventy people below the enemy commander.

At the beginning of the battle, the enemy thought we were "Tuba Road" (referring to the guerrillas). After being hit hard by me, they exclaimed that they had encountered the "Old Eight Road" and fled in the direction of Licheng in a hurry. The Hongling battle was fought beautifully. , Eliminated more than a hundred enemies, covered the school headquarters and headquarters rear organs and the safe transfer of the local people. In the autumn of 1943, during the anti-"mopping up" battle in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, more than 600 teachers and students of the Army Middle School, the second branch of the Anti-Japanese University, were ordered to persist in the struggle on the spot.They led the local militia to flexibly launch sparrow warfare, mine warfare, and ambush warfare. They won many battles and wiped out hundreds of enemies.On one occasion, they found out through reconnaissance that there was a part of the Heixu Regiment of the Puppet Mongolian Garrison Army stationed in Chiwawu, more than 30 kilometers away from the garrison, and a total of about 600 or 700 puppet troops. Grab food, go out early and return late.After they mastered the enemy's activity patterns, they sent the fourth team of more than one hundred teachers and students to attack Chiwa House overnight, and lay in ambush on the mountain behind Chiwa House before dawn.Early in the morning, the two groups of enemies dispatched one after another, and they did not disturb the enemy. When the third group of enemies assembled to prepare to set off, they suddenly opened fire. Casualties created a successful example of long-distance raids.In the battle, the Second Branch Army Middle School is not only good at using flexible tactics, but also has a tough fighting style.One day, on their way to transfer, they suddenly encountered Japanese and puppet troops in Lishucao Village.In the situation of outnumbered enemies and unfavorable terrain, the teachers and students fought very tenaciously. Some of their legs were broken and they continued to fight until the last drop of blood was shed; Some fired the last grenade and died with the enemy.When three enemies surrounded the student Zheng Hongnian, he heroically slammed a grenade at the enemy, killing the enemy and seriously wounding himself. Later, he rescued my comrades who cleaned the battlefield, and was awarded the title of "Battle Hero" by the military region.In this battle, although 14 people were sacrificed and more than 10 people were injured, dozens of people were wiped out once they were captured, smashing the enemy's conspiracy to search for mountains and covering thousands of people hiding in nearby ravines. A group of people and local cadres wrote a heroic battle song with their own blood and lives.

In the anti-friction battle, the anti-masters and students also performed very bravely.In the spring of 1941, the diehards of the Kuomintang launched the Southern Anhui Incident, setting off a second anti-communist upsurge. They dispatched 200,000 troops to cooperate with the Japanese and puppet troops to attack the Henan, Anhui and Soviet border areas where the Fourth Division of our New Fourth Army was active.On the evening of May 2, the Fourth Branch of the Anti-Japanese University was ordered to pass through the Su (county) Meng (City) highway in Anhui Province and the puppet army blockade along with the 11th Brigade of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army, and transferred to Miaozhuang, north of Mengcheng, on standby. Enter.Unexpectedly, in the early morning of the 3rd, two cavalry regiments of Li Pinxian, a diehard Kuomintang faction, were suddenly found crossing the Wohe River and approaching my Miaozhuang. The situation was very critical.Liu Qingming, the head of education, considered the overall situation and ordered the first brigade and one team to contain the enemy, covering the school's direct team and the girls' team to move closer to the eleventh brigade.The first team is a military team, more than 110 trainees are battalion and company cadres selected by the army, and there are more than a dozen old Red Army cadres with strong combat effectiveness.But this area is a plain area, which is conducive to the movement of the enemy's cavalry and is very unfavorable to me; and as soon as the battle started, the only machine gun of the whole team guarding the entrance of the village broke down, and the firepower was greatly weakened.Facing a fierce battle, a team of comrades was firm and calm, carried forward the fearless spirit of "I am invincible" and "people are on the ground", relying on roofs, tree trunks and wall foundations, they stubbornly fought against the enemy with rifles, pistols and grenades.After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the team suffered heavy casualties and ran out of ammunition.At this critical moment, the instructor Yang Zhiping led a pistol squad mainly composed of Red Army cadres, threw away the pistols, took over the rifles of the sacrificed comrades, took the lead in jumping off the roof, and started hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.Immediately, the morale was boosted, and all the comrades were like tigers pouncing on their food, bayonets were red, and they fought the enemy for more than two hours in the wheat field, and finally successfully completed the blocking task, covering the school directly under the team and the girls The team moved safely.At this time, because the enemy was outnumbered, most of the comrades in the first team died heroically. Only the instructor Yang Zhiping and a few seriously injured comrades were rescued after the enemy withdrew, and the school sent people to clean up the battlefield.In the anti-"mopping up" and anti-friction battles of the Fourth Branch of the Anti-Japanese University from February to May 1941; the casualties of the whole school amounted to 200 to 300 people, and the losses were great, but the teachers and students withstood a severe battle Trials and exercises made me stronger.

The Anti-Japanese University attaches great importance to the education of integrity, and requires everyone to establish a noble sentiment of "it is better to be broken than to be destroyed".In September 1939, when the head school advanced behind the enemy and passed through the blockade of the Tongpu Railway, the third echelon was attacked by the Japanese army. A small number of district teams were dispersed by the enemy, and unfortunately some comrades were captured.At this critical moment of life-and-death test, the comrades showed incomparable perseverance. Instructor Chang Bai and other comrades bravely smashed the enemy sentry with bricks and escaped from the tiger's mouth; escaped danger; Zhao Dexin and other six comrades were cruelly impaled by the enemy with their hands and ears pierced together with wire, and escorted to Taiyuan.

In August 1941, the Japanese and puppet troops carried out an unprecedented cruel and long-lasting autumn "mopping up" of our Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area.The second branch of the Anti-Japanese University decided that President Sun Yi would lead the directly subordinate team and the Anti-Second Regiment to stay in the mountains around Hanxintai to deal with the enemy. Education Training.Tang Kai, the head of the Anti-1 Regiment, and Fu Chongbi, the director of the Political Department, and I led our troops to risk the blockade of the enemy's bunkers and the day and night patrols of armored vehicles. The blockade line entered the Jizhong Plain.However, the team had just arrived at "Youwei Village" in Dingxian County in the middle of Hebei Province and only had a half-day rest in hiding. In the evening, a sentinel suddenly came to report that the enemy cavalry was approaching in the direction of "Youwei Village".I immediately ordered the troops to disperse and hide in the nearby green gauze tents. After the troops were evacuated, Tang Kai and I took five or six government officials to hide in a corn field not far from the village.Soon, the enemy cavalry approached from east to west in two ways, sandwiching our hidden green gauze tent in the middle. The enemies on both sides were less than a hundred meters away from us. The voices of people and horseshoes could be heard clearly. Suddenly, unexpectedly, a war horse scattered and concealed in the cavalry company of the Jizhong Army not far from us neighed because of being disturbed.When the enemy heard the sound of the horses, they immediately stopped and looked around, and some even yelled: "Where is the horse calling?" It’s dead, it’s dead!” I knew in my heart that the enemy was threatening us, and if they really found us, they would have rushed in; however, the current situation is indeed dangerous, if the enemy determines the direction of the neighing of the horse, breaks into this area There is bound to be a fierce battle in the green gauze tent. Since the enemy is outnumbered, sacrifices are inevitable.Therefore, I signaled Tang Kai and other comrades around me to move closer to me, and said to everyone in a low voice: "The situation in front of us is very critical. If the enemy breaks into the green gauze tent, we must fight resolutely. We will kill as many of them as we can. Kill him as many times as possible, leave the last bullet for yourself, and never be a prisoner. This is a test for each of our party members and revolutionary fighters! Now, everyone separates and puts the documents on the wall first, and prepares to fight!" Comrades listened to my words In the end, I didn’t say much, just nodded firmly, shook hands with the comrades beside me as a sign of “farewell”, and went separately to prepare for the battle. Two bullets, check to see if everyone has died. If there are wounds that have not yet been sacrificed, a shot must be made, and finally commit suicide.He nodded knowingly, then leaned close to me affectionately, and lay down beside me.After a while, unexpectedly, the neighing of our war horses caused a chain reaction, and the mules and horses of the enemy on the south and north roads also neighed one after another. Not sure where the horse neighed.Probably the enemy mistakenly thought that the first neighing just now was the mules and horses of their own troops calling, so they stopped doubting and continued westward in peace, and we turned the corner.Although this encounter with the enemy was saved from danger, in the face of the test of life and death, the spirit and courage of everyone who is not afraid of danger and sacrifice is still very valuable.

In October 1941, after the victory of the anti-"sweeping" campaign in autumn, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region sent two heroes, Ge Zhenlin and Song Xueyi, who survived the "Five Heroes of Langya Mountain" to the Army Middle School of the Second Branch of the Anti-Japanese University to study .We held a welcome meeting attended by the whole school, publicized their heroic deeds, and called on the teachers and students of the school to learn from the "Five Heroes of Langya Mountain", which produced a great response.During the "May 1st Anti-sweeping" struggle in central Hebei in 1942, the comrades of the Anti-Third Regiment of the Second Branch of the Anti-Japanese University were not afraid of danger during the round-up and "cleaning-up" of the Japanese and puppet troops. Some persisted in fighting, and some were unyielding and sacrificed heroically.Cui Jiahe, a military instructor, was surrounded by the enemy and stuck in the latrine. He blew a grenade and died with the enemies who hunted him down.Practitioner Wang Anfu was a member of the party branch. After he was seriously injured, he feared that the documents he brought would fall into the hands of the enemy, so he soaked the documents with his own blood and crushed them, and finally stopped breathing.Dong Zhisen, a Communist Party member, led the printing team to hide in Songfang Village, Xianxian County. He was suddenly surrounded by the enemy. He covered everyone to break through, and threw two grenades in a row, killing three enemies. Unfortunately, he was stabbed in the heart by the enemy's bayonet. At this time, Lao Zheng, a cook hiding beside him, was so furious that he raised a big shovel to kill the Japanese bandit who stabbed Dong Zhisen to death, and he himself fell in a pool of blood and died heroically.Vice-Captain Zhao of the Second Squadron of the Third Brigade and Xiao Zhou, the correspondent, lost their way when crossing the railway blockade and were unfortunately arrested. Shouting: "Down with Japanese imperialism, the war of resistance must be won!"Together with six comrades fighting inside the Kuomintang's "military reunification" secret service agency, she accomplished the task brilliantly.Soon, all seven of them unfortunately fell into the clutches of the devil. They were first imprisoned in the "China-US Cooperation Institute" in Chongqing, and then transferred to the Xifeng Prison under the "military command".Zhang Luping was imprisoned and her fighting spirit became stronger. No matter how the spies tortured or bribed her, she always kept her mouth shut and never leaked any secrets of the party. She persisted in the struggle for more than four years until her heroic death in the winter of 1944, when she was only 20 years old. four years old.

In the War of Resistance Against Japan, the comrades of the Anti-Japanese War died heroically, died heroically, and dedicated themselves in the arduous struggle. Thousands of martyrs lost their lives to hunger and disease.In order to commemorate these martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and national liberation, in the summer of 1942, our second branch of the Anti-Japanese University built a "Monument to the Anti-Japanese Martyrs" in the woods between Hanxintai and Dazhuang, Lingshou County, Hebei Province , engraved on the tall granite stone the list of martyrs who died in the battle and work of the Second Branch School in the past three years; President Sun Yi wrote an inscription: "The blood of the martyrs, the flower of the revolution"; The eight characters of "Light, Light of the Nation" express our feelings of remembering heroes and admiring martyrs.On the day when the monument was inaugurated, the whole school held a grand unveiling ceremony. Commander Nie Rongzhen of the Revolutionary District also visited the venue in person and addressed the teachers and students of the school, advocating the heroic dedication of the martyrs and calling on the teachers and students of the school to learn from the martyrs.The unveiling ceremony was very solemn and solemn, and I couldn't help but shed tears of mourning and pain, because the name of a close comrade-in-arms of mine - my wife, Comrade Hu Yi - was engraved in the list of martyrs.She was born in a Tujia farmer's family in Yongshun County, Xiangxi, Hunan Province. She studied diligently since she was a child, received party education in middle school, and actively participated in the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement. After studying for a period of time, he married me after graduation in April 1939.On the surface, she looks very quiet, docile, and sincere in dealing with others, but in fact she is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and she is quite stubborn in her heart.She is conscientious in her work and career, and has a strong desire to win. In July 1939, the general school of the Anti-Japanese University marched from Yan'an to run a school behind the enemy in Jinchaji. , even refused to let my mule carry the backpack for her, and insisted on marching with the student team with the backpack until the end of September, when they arrived at Chenzhuang Station in Lingshou County, Hebei Province. It took two and a half months and the journey was 2,500 For the rest of the year, crossing the Yellow River and crossing the blockade, they persisted tenaciously.

In January 1940, I was transferred to be the director of the Political Department of the No. 2 Campus of the Anti-Japanese University. Hu Yi did not want to stay at the No. 2 Campus, thinking that she would work in the same unit as me and become a family member of a leading cadre. Comrades would take care of her everywhere. You should also be cautious in your own work, dare not let go of bold work, it is better to separate.Therefore, the request organization arranged her to work as a teacher in a rural primary school near Chenzhuang.She went to the countryside to both teach and carry out mass work, and she gained the trust and love of the masses.In the spring of 1940, we gave birth to a boy. She was very happy and named him "Bu Ke", which is a homonym for "Book" in English, which means that he should study hard when he grows up and contribute his wisdom to the construction of a new China. talent.She lived in the countryside with Little Buck, living with the masses, very poor and frugal, and only came to the school on Saturdays for holidays.Our husband and wife lived a happy and harmonious life. Unfortunately, in October 1941, when the anti-"mopping up" was about to end successfully, she was pregnant with her second child and was about to give birth. She hid herself in the homes of the masses and gave birth without conditions. Disinfected the delivery equipment well, got "partum fever", and within a few days, even the newborn daughter was killed by the disease.At that time, I was leading an anti-resistance regiment into the Jizhong area for education and training. I was unable to take care of her when she was about to give birth, and even had no time to see her before she died. I didn't know the sad news until I returned to the branch school from Jizhong.I really regret not being able to settle her down well before going to Jizhong, but, in that war-torn environment, the medical and sanitary conditions are so poor, even if I am by her side, what can I do to recover?Not long after, my son Burke contracted diphtheria again and died. It really made things worse and hit me too hard.At this time, I stood in front of the Martyrs Monument, mourning my comrades-in-arms in the Anti-Japanese War, and remembering the love between husband and wife with Hu Yi. In an instant, I was ignited with fierce anger at the crimes committed by the Japanese aggressors for destroying the happy life of me and hundreds of millions of compatriots. Determined to attack the enemy fiercely for the revenge of the country and the family! Although this "Monument to the Martyrs of the Anti-Japanese War" was destroyed in the following days and during the puppet army's "mopping up", and now only one precious photo remains, the monument admired by thousands of people will always stand in my heart, martyrs His heroic deeds and revolutionary spirit will be immortalized forever!