Chapter 35 034. Three Brothers Dedicated to Serving the Country——Record of the Three Heroes of the Sixth Detachment of the New Fourth Army Xie Jishu, Xie Jixiang, and Xie Jiliang

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, many heroes emerged in the sixth detachment of the New Fourth Army led by General Peng Xuefeng.Among them, the deeds of the three brothers Xie Jishu, Xie Jixiang, and Xie Jiliang, who killed the enemy, have been widely praised.The hero's parents were admired by the army and the people, and became a model for the people in the anti-Japanese base areas to support the army and fight against Japan. The hometown of the three Xie family brothers is Xiezhuang, Danchengji, Guoyang County, Anhui Province.Xie Jishu was born in the spring of 1901. After the "September 18th" Incident in 1931, he was the company commander of the cavalry company of Feng Yuxiang's army. When he returned home, he found Zhu Guoheng, the magistrate of Guoyang County, and said: "The Japanese devils have invaded the three eastern provinces of our country. I think they will soon We are in Anhui. In order to protect our family and our country, I think we will set up a cavalry squadron in Guoyang, ready to fight the devils!" Zhu Guoheng agreed, and sent him to recruit soldiers and horses, and make sabers, saddles and other things.After half a year of preparation, the Guoyang County Cavalry Squadron was established, and Xie Jishu served as the squadron leader to lead military training.

In the summer of 1938, the Japanese army invaded and occupied large tracts of land in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu, killing people and setting fire everywhere.At this time, the cavalry squadron expanded into an anti-Japanese guerrilla unit to fight against the Japanese and puppet troops.One day, when Xie Jishu was leading the guerrillas in training, a fellow villager came to report: "Seventy or eighty black dogs (puppet soldiers in black uniforms) and Japanese devils are arresting people and robbing Liuqiao Village! The village chief sent me to invite you Go fight!" Xie Jishu immediately led the guerrillas and rushed towards Liuqiao Village on horseback.From a long distance, they saw a group of Japanese and puppet soldiers leading cattle and sheep, driving a cart carrying grain, and were about to return to the stronghold.Xie Jishu was furious and ordered the cavalry to surround the enemy in three ways.Hearing the sound of horseshoes, the enemy dropped the looted things and ran into a cemetery to shoot at the guerrillas.Xie Jishu led a group of cavalry, braved the rain of bullets, and rushed into the enemy group first.He chopped off the head of the Japanese squad leader with a knife, and then chopped off the arm of a puppet platoon leader.At this time, the other two groups of cavalry also rushed up, slashing and chopping among the enemy groups, killing the Japanese and puppet soldiers without arms or legs.In less than 10 minutes, the battle ended victoriously.In addition to the Japanese and puppet soldiers who were killed, 21 people were taken prisoner.Xie Jishu commanded the guerrillas to clean up the battlefield and return the clothes, food, cattle and sheep looted by the enemy to the masses. The masses were very grateful.

In September 1939, Commander Peng Xuefeng led the guerrilla detachment of the New Fourth Army to Xinxingji between Yongcheng, Henan and Guoyang, Anhui. In February 1940, the guerrilla detachment was reorganized into the sixth detachment of the New Fourth Army.Through hearing and seeing, Xie Jishu realized that only the New Fourth Army is the real people's team.So he led the guerrillas to join the Sixth Detachment of the New Fourth Army.Commander Peng Xuefeng happily shook his hand and said: "Comrade Jishu, you have great ambitions, love the country and worry about the people, and are eager to resist Japan. We welcome you to lead your troops to join the New Fourth Army." In the third battalion of the first division of the detachment, Xie Jishu served as the deputy battalion commander.He led the Third Battalion many times in the area of ​​Xiao County, severely inflicted on the Japanese and puppet troops, and made military exploits.Soon, he joined the Communist Party of China.Later, Xie Jishu went home to discuss with his parents, and mobilized his second brother Xie Jixiang and third brother Xie Jiliang to join the New Fourth Army.

When Xie Jishu led the third battalion in the Xiao County area, one day he received a report: the Japanese puppet army had about one battalion of troops, and they were going to carry out a "crusade" against the villages near Xiao County.Xie Jishu and Captain Lu Yuting decided to fight an ambush after researching.Xie Jishu ordered the platoon leader Liu Xuewen to pretend to be a commoner and go to the Japanese and puppet strongholds for reconnaissance to find out the time and route of the enemy's actions. In the middle of the night, Xie Jishu led the third battalion to ambush in the woods on both sides of a trench 5 miles away from Xiao County.Waited until dawn, but there was no movement of the enemy.Some soldiers got anxious and said: "We missed the air this time!" Xie Jishu ordered: "Don't talk, keep hidden, the enemy will definitely drill into our 'pockets'!"

At around 10:00 am, the enemy finally appeared in the distance, and soon entered the ambush circle of the third battalion.Xie Jishu gave an order, and the commanders and fighters concentrated their firepower to fight fiercely.The enemy was unsuspecting, and suddenly became chaotic, fleeing for their lives.Xie Jishu asked the trumpeter to blow the charge horn, and with the sound of the horn, the soldiers surrounded the enemy.One after another grenade exploded in the enemy group, causing a large number of enemy casualties.A small captain of the Japanese army held up his command knife and yelled, commanding the Japanese army to resist.Xie Jishu pointed his gun at the Japanese squad leader, and with the gunshot, the guy died.Then, he commanded the soldiers to rush into the enemy group with sharp bayonets and start hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.After a hard fight, except for a few of the devils who committed suicide, all the rest were killed, and most of the more than 170 puppet soldiers were taken prisoner.The third battalion won a big victory, and the commanders and fighters were very happy.

On April 15, 1940, Xie Jishu went to Xinxing to report to work, and was attacked and killed by the enemy on the way back to the station the next day. After Xie Jishu's second brother, Xie Jixiang joined the army, he served as a soldier in the third battalion of the first regiment of the sixth detachment of the New Fourth Army.The organization selected Xie Jixiang to study at the fourth branch of the Anti-Japanese University. After graduation, he was assigned to be the squad leader of the Guard Battalion of the First Corps, and was soon promoted to platoon leader.The guard battalion was stationed near Yongcheng, and the Japanese and puppet troops stationed at the three buildings in the north of the county often went to the countryside to rob food, kill people and set fires.In order to eliminate the enemies in the three buildings, Xie Jixiang was ordered to disguise himself as a scout for the enemy, and the task was accomplished very well.The camp decided to attack the Santolou stronghold that night.

In the middle of the night, the moon and stars are flourishing.The soldiers of the guard battalion rushed into the three buildings in three groups and violently attacked the enemy. The puppet troops fled and hid here and there, causing many casualties. At this time, Banmu Shiping, the captain of the Japanese squad, led the devils to rush over.Xie Jixiang led the warriors of the guard platoon to fight hard.On the battlefield, the New Fourth Army fought a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the devils. Xie Jixiang was like a fierce tiger, fighting around in the enemy group with a bayonet in his hand.A tall devil rushed to Xie Jixiang with a bayonet.Xie Jixiang turned sideways, raised the tip of his gun, pushed aside the barrel of the devil's gun, and shouted "Kill", the bayonet had already penetrated the devil's chest, giving the enemy a heartbreak.Then, the four devils rushed towards Xie Jixiang. Without fear, he brandished a bayonet to cover the left and right in the enemy group, and stabbed the devil on the right with a sudden shot, then turned around quickly, and stabbed the bayonet into the chest of the devil on the left. Quickly got rid of the enemy's attack from all sides.The other two devils babbled and stabbed at him, but with a flash of his body, the devils stabbed in the air.Xie Jixiang jumped up and pierced a devil's back with a bayonet.Another devil wanted to stab Xie Jixiang while he was pulling out his bayonet, but he ducked his head tactfully, and the devil's bayonet brushed past him.He quickly pulled out his bayonet, aimed at the heel of a wall, jumped up, and charged at the devil with a tiger, stabbing him to death.

The fierce bloody battle exhausted Xie Jixiang.At this time, Banmu Shiping, the leader of the devils, brandished a foreign knife and slashed at Xie Jixiang while shouting.Xie Jixiang pulled himself together and started a fight with Banmu Shiping.After a while of hard work, Xie Jixiang knocked the guy to the ground with the butt of his gun and captured him alive. In the early morning of the next day, the battle on the three buildings was over.Xie Jixiang and his comrades escorted the Japanese second lieutenant Ban Mu Shiping and the Japanese and puppet prisoners on their way home. Commander Peng Xuefeng was very happy to learn that Xie Jixiang, the second brother of Xie Jishu, had captured the captain of the Japanese army, Banmu Shiping, and ordered him to be rewarded and promoted to be the commander of the first guard company.Soon, Xie Jixiang joined the Communist Party of China.

On June 1, 1940, the Sixth Detachment of the New Fourth Army held a commemorative meeting of the "May 30th Massacre" in Xinxingji, Guoyang County, where it was stationed, and reviewed the troops.Suddenly, scouts reported: more than 1,000 Japanese and puppet troops in Suxian County, Yongcheng and other places, with more than 20 vehicles, attacked Xinxingji in four ways.Commander Peng Xuefeng immediately deployed various corps at the conference venue to quickly deploy to meet the enemy. Xie Jixiang's No. 1 Corps was ordered to wipe out the enemies who invaded Xinxingji from the South Road.At this time, the enemy's artillery fire has begun to bombard Xinxingji violently.Kong Shiquan, political commissar of the First Corps, ordered the third battalion and the guard battalion to run and occupy Lingzigou.The commanders braved artillery fire to occupy Lingzigou and fired fiercely at the enemy.At this time, Xie Jixiang found that 10 vehicles of the Japanese and puppet troops were approaching the bridge entrance, and hurriedly led the guard company to seize the bridge entrance.Under the cover of light and heavy machine guns, Xie Jixiang threw grenades one after another onto the enemy's car, blowing up the enemy's flesh and blood.The living enemy jumped out of the car and returned fire fiercely at the company of guards.Xie Jixiang and 18 soldiers were surrounded by the enemy in the trenches.

Seeing that the situation was urgent, Xie Jixiang grabbed the machine gun from the machine gunner and shouted: "Comrades, I will cover you to break out!" At this time, the crazy enemy fired violently at them.Xie Jixiang jumped out of the trench suddenly, threw 5 grenades at the enemy in a row, and then raised his machine gun to shoot at the enemy, killing and wounding more than 10 enemies. Eighteen soldiers mounted their bayonets with a swipe, and broke out under the cover of Xie Jixiang. Xie Jixiang, who was surrounded by the enemy on all sides, had been shot in many places. He gritted his teeth and threw the last grenade on his body into the enemy group.Unexpectedly, an enemy bullet hit him in the head, and he died a heroic sacrifice at the age of 24.

After Xie Jishu's third brother, Xie Jiliang, joined the army, he was assigned to be a soldier in the communications team of the First Corps of the New Sixth Detachment of the New Fourth Army. One day, Xie Jiliang was practicing assassination on the training ground, and the team leader Lu Yuting came over and asked, "Jiliang, how are you practicing?" "It's not good." Xie Jiliang said with a smile: "Captain, please don't worry, I am determined to practice well!" Lu Yuting encouraged him to practice his skills.He trained hard, achieved outstanding results, and was soon promoted to the communications squad leader. On November 3, 1939, Lu Yuting led a corps to attack the Yuanlou puppet stronghold at night. Yuanlou is located in the north of Xiayi County, Henan Province.The puppet army forced the common people to rush to repair the fortifications day and night, set up barbed wire fences around them, dug trenches 4 meters deep, and built bright and dark forts.The command post of the puppet army is located in the artillery tower in the center of Yuanlou. At midnight, Commander Lu Yuting gave an order, and the officers and men opened fire on Yuan Lou from all sides.As the enemy was shooting out from the bunker, it was difficult for the soldiers to shoot the enemy, and they failed to charge four times in a row. Lu Yuting's eyes were red with anger.If the central gun tower is not blown up in time, it will directly affect the victory of the battle.Xie Jiliang eagerly said to Lu Yuting: "Captain, let me lead two soldiers to blow up the gun tower!" "Okay! I'll send people to light the firewood around Yuanlou first, and then you will complete the task under the cover of artillery fire and thick smoke!" Lu Yuting said, immediately adjusted the firepower to suppress and attract the enemy, and quickly sent people to light the firewood .Suddenly, thick smoke billowed, and Yuan Lou was shrouded in thick smoke. Xie Jiliang led two soldiers, and the three of them set off with grenades stuck in their bodies, two packs of explosives in their arms, and a light machine gun on their shoulders.They rushed through the trench, and when they were about to approach the central gun tower, suddenly an enemy bullet hit Xie Jiliang's left leg, causing blood to flow immediately.He didn't care about bandaging, and asked two soldiers to put explosives under the gun tower to prepare for blasting.At this time, he saw that the central gun tower was tall, and the explosive package he brought was too small to blow up the gun tower, so he said to the two soldiers: "It is too late to get the explosive pack now, you two guard the gate of the gun tower, we Get in there and kill them!" The two soldiers said anxiously: "Squad leader, there are many enemies in the gun tower. It's dangerous for you to go in alone. Why don't we rush in together and kill the enemies!" "For the victory of the battle, leave me alone!" After speaking, he flashed and rushed into the enemy's gun tower. At this time, the puppet soldiers in the gun tower couldn't figure out the situation outside, and they were all terrified.Holding grenades in both hands, Xie Jiliang yelled: "Put down your weapons quickly, the New Fourth Army treats the prisoners leniently!" The puppet army was startled by the sudden shout, and I don't know how many New Fourth Army soldiers came. Xie Jiliang then shouted: "Brothers in the puppet army, laying down your weapons is the only way out, otherwise I will throw grenades! We put explosives under the gun tower, and the gun tower will be blown up soon!" At this time, the puppet army officer pointed his gun at Xie Jiliang.Xie Jiliang had sharp eyes and quick hands, and smashed the head of the pseudo-officer with a grenade.The puppet officer snorted, and he was so sad. Fearing that the explosives would explode, the puppet soldiers put down their weapons one by one, raised their hands in surrender, and walked out of the gun tower.The two soldiers guarding outside counted the number of people and captured 68 people in total. Xie Jiliang grabbed Wang Puchen, the leader of the puppet army, pointed his gun at his head, and forced him to give an order to surrender to the puppet army in the bright bunker.More than 400 people from Yuan Lou's puppet army were all captured. After the war, Xie Jiliang was awarded the "Third Class Fighting Hero" by the Sixth Team. In the spring of 1940, Lu Yuting led a corps of commanders and fighters to cooperate with the brother troops to attack Zhang Datun at night, besiege Wang Bailou, fight Yanjing, Jiangzhuang, and Dinglou in a bloody battle, and kill the commander of the Japanese army. , Beishan Captain and other hundreds of people. The enemy suffered disastrous defeats many times, became angry from embarrassment, and waited for an opportunity to retaliate.At that time, the enemy gathered more than 3,000 Japanese and puppet troops from Boxian County, Dangshan County and other counties, with more than 30 vehicles attached to them. Captain Lu Yuting and political commissar Kong Shiquan broke up the troops into pieces, occupied Xishan, Taoshan and other hills, and fought fiercely with the enemy.At that time, Xie Jiliang and the soldiers of the communication squad braved the rain of bullets to convey the orders of Lu Yuting and Kong Shiquan to the battalions.After that, they threw grenades one after another into the enemy group, causing the devils to fall in pieces in front of the position.In the afternoon of fierce fighting, Lu Yuting led the troops to fight a bloody road, occupied Li Heilou, and commanded the troops to repel the enemy's charge many times.Seeing that Lu Yuting was injured, Xie Jiliang begged, "Captain, go to the command post!" "This is my command post!" After Lu Yuting finished speaking, he raised his pistol to shoot at the enemy, and shouted: "Comrades, we must stick to Li Heilou and swear to survive and die with the position!" At this time, the enemy rushed up.Xie Jiliang led the communications team and the commanders and fighters of the special service company to shoot at the enemy, and the grenades bloomed among the enemy groups.They repelled the enemy's 6 charges in a row.The bullets ran out.They wielded big knives and held bayonets, and started hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. On the battlefield, the sword was shining, and the sound of killing was loud.Xie Jiliang tightened his belt, fitted the bayonet with a "click", jumped out of the fortification, and stabbed a tall devil with a gallop.At this time, four devils stabbed him with bloody bayonets.With all his strength, he made a quick sweep.In an instant, the two devils' arms were bleeding, and they yelled in pain.The other two devils stabbed at him from left to right with bayonets in their hands.He blocked the bayonet of the devil on the left, but unfortunately the devil on the right stabbed him in the waist, and blood spurted out.Xie Jiliang didn't care about it at all, "Huo" jumped up and stabbed the devil's chest on the left with a bayonet.The ghost on the right stabbed at him fiercely again.Xie Jiliang made a false shot, followed by a stabbing stabbing gun, and pierced the back of the devil's heart.At this moment, a devil shot at him in the distance.I saw him swaying and fell to the ground, shedding the last drop of blood. He was only 19 years old. In more than two months, three brothers Xie Jishu, Xie Jixiang, and Xie Jiliang died heroically. General Peng Xuefeng was extremely sad when he heard the bad news.In order to express his condolences to Mrs. Xie, and in recognition of the old man's patriotic actions and profound sense of righteousness, he personally wrote a letter to Mrs. Xie, and sent an officer from the Political Department of the Sixth Detachment of the New Fourth Army to travel to Xie's house to express condolences and condolences. General Peng Xuefeng wrote in the letter: The old lady Xie excitedly said to Youli: "You go back and tell Commander Peng that Jishu, Jixiang, and Jiliang died for the country, and they are worthy of death! I am too old to be loyal to the country, but I and The daughter-in-law wants to raise the four grandchildren and let them serve the country loyally when they grow up!"