Chapter 4 Chapter 3 Zhou Baozhong, Prepare for hardships and never waver

Zhou Baozhong, Bai nationality, native of Dali, Yunnan, the first leader who built the Volunteer Army into a new type of people's anti-Japanese armed forces.At the age of 15, he joined the Yunnan Army as a soldier, made outstanding achievements in the Northern Expedition, and was promoted to the deputy commander of a major general. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1927 and was sent by the party to study in the Soviet Union in 1928. After the "September 18th" incident, he was so anxious that he repeatedly asked to return to the country to join the war. On the way home, he wrote: "Yu'er silver is far away, white mountains and black waters are free to flow. When will the Japanese pirates be wiped out, and the sword will cross Kyushu" oath, After returning to China, he successively served as a member of the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, secretary of the Military Commission, commander, secretary of the party committee and chairman of the military committee of the Suining Anti-Japanese Allied Army, commander and secretary of the Party Committee of the Fifth Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Army, Ji Dong Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Commander of the Teaching Brigade of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army, and member of the Northeast Committee of the Communist Party of China.After Japan surrendered, he served as secretary of the Northeast Committee of the Communist Party of China, member of the Northeast Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, commander of the Jiliao and Jilin military regions, and chairman of the Jilin Provincial People's Government.

Although Zhou Baozhong was born in Dali, Yunnan, which is like spring all the year round, in the vast snowfield of Xing'an Mountains, he often wore shabby single clothes and marched and fought with the Anti-Union fighters. In mid-October 1932, Zhou Baozhong led an army to attack Ning'an County. During the fierce battle, a bullet hit Zhou Baozhong's left leg, and the bullet was caught between two leg bones, causing blood to flow.Zhou Baozhong gritted his teeth and insisted on commanding the battle.After the battle, he led his troops to sit down in a forest and asked the "military doctor" to "remove" the bullet between his leg bones. The "military doctor" turned out to be a grass doctor, and he didn't know how to perform surgery at all, not to mention that he didn't have anesthesia or a scalpel.Seeing Zhou Baozhong's bloody leg, the "military doctor" began to tremble.Zhou Baozhong asked someone to find a sharp bayonet, and said to him loudly: "Come on, it's all right! Back then, Guan Yunchang scraped the bone to cure the poison, today you just help me dig out a small bullet. Don't be afraid, do it!" He While talking, he turned his face away, lit a cigarette, and let the "military doctor" do it.The herbal doctor was trembling, and cut a two-inch-long gash in his leg with a bayonet, and then pulled out the bullet.Seeing Zhou Baozhong holding back the severe pain, his face was livid, and beads of sweat kept gushing out.From then on, the soldiers of the National Salvation Army admired Zhou Baozhong. "Mr. Zhou is really a man of genius! To be able to heal the wounds of such a man of God, I have lived my life in vain!" the "military doctor" said whenever he saw anyone.

In June 1933, Zhou Baozhong and Wu Yicheng led their troops to conquer Antu County in one fell swoop.Soon, a large number of Japanese troops launched a surprise attack on them. He commanded the troops to break through and was wounded a second time, this time on his stomach, and his intestines flowed out.He reluctantly stuffed his intestines back and continued to command the battle.After breaking through, Zhou Baozhong was lying on a stretcher, blocked in front, pursued by soldiers behind, and had a high fever.No doctor, no medicine, no one thinks he can survive.Only the herbal doctor who had "taken" the warhead from between Zhou Baozhong's leg bones didn't think so.The herbal doctor tore off a piece of skin from a live chicken and stuck it to the wound on Zhou Baozhong's abdomen, and the wound healed miraculously.Everyone said: "This southern barbarian has a big life."

In 1937, except for the First and Second Armies of the First Route Army, all other armies of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces gathered in North Manchuria, especially the Sanjiang area, which was ruled by the Japanese puppet relatively weakly and across the river from the Soviet Union.In May of the same year, several incidents of attacking the Japanese invaders occurred one after another.For this reason, the Kwantung Army changed its focus from the original "crusade and suppression" of the pseudo-Binjiang Province to the focus of "crusade" on the Sanjiang area.The planner and commander of Sanjiang's "Extraordinary Crusade" was Hideki Tojo, Japan's number one war criminal, who was then the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army.This "crusade" is different from the previous ones in that the main divisions of the Kwantung Army went directly into battle, deployed on a large scale and highly dispersed, and carried out force suppression "with a strong color of military control". Shi, the latter is to surrender.Just when the Kwantung Army dispatched troops to take action, the "July 7th Incident" broke out, which made the "special big crusade" in Sanjiang more ferocious with the nature of eliminating worries.

At the beginning of 1938, more than 50,000 Japanese and puppet troops completed the deployment of troops for the "special big crusade" in Sanjiang, and the armies of our Second Route Army were gradually divided.Zhou Baozhong was vigilantly aware that the Second Route Army must immediately make a strategic breakthrough outside the encirclement. At this time, the famous Battle of Baoqing Xiaogushan in the history of the Second Route Army took place. At the beginning of March 1938, more than 2,000 Japanese and puppet troops began to attack the secret camps of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, and 11th armies in the Qixinglazi area.After the first card of the secret camps of the three armies, four divisions, eighth armies, and eleventh armies was burned by the enemy, they turned to attack the secret camps of the fifth armies. On March 18, more than 300 Japanese and puppet troops were riding on horseback and approaching the secret camp of the Fifth Army in Jianshanzi between Baoqing Xigou and Shishihezi. The 14 commanders and fighters of the Eighth Regiment and the company fought fiercely with the enemy in Xiaogushan.Company Commander Li Haifeng, who was born in the green forest, ordered the whole company: "One person, aim at one, and fire!"

14 guns fired in unison.Surrounded by Kazifang watching the fire, 14 enemies fell down. The marksmanship of the "gunner company" showed its prowess.The Japanese commander was hit by this, retreated in a hurry, organized the Japanese and puppet troops, and charged towards Xiaogushan.Hundreds of enemies rushed up, and the hillside was covered with blackness.Bullet migratory locusts generally fly to the top of the mountain.After a long battle, Li Haifeng calmly asked everyone: "Are you ready to take aim?" "Aiming is ready." Everyone said, and some said: "Company commander, do you still need to aim?" "Okay, fire!" He gave an order.Another row of bullets was fired, and the dozen or so Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front fell down.The first Japanese attack was repulsed.Surprised and angry, the Japanese commander knew that he had encountered a strong enemy this time, so he ordered the troops to stop attacking and brought up 4 mortars.

"The hill in front of the target! The artillery team fires!" He raised his command knife high and shouted frantically. There was no preset position on the hill, and the first batch of artillery shells roared down. Li Haifeng's legs were broken and the machine gunner was also killed.The hero Li Haifeng passed out and was awakened by gunshots. It turned out that the enemy rushed up. The enemy is on the offensive.Not without a machine gun.He ordered the soldiers to carry him to the machine gun. The hero Li Haifeng dragged his two broken legs, picked up the machine gun, and shot fiercely at the enemies who swarmed up the hillside like ants.

"Da da da da da da" gunshots shook the valley.The enemy's attack was repulsed again.The enemy troops divided into 3 groups and launched a third storm to the top of the mountain. Four mortars simultaneously fired more than a dozen shells on the hill like rain.The serial casualties were mounting.The hero Li Haifeng has no fear. "Hit the little Japanese devils!" He shouted while shooting fiercely at the enemy, boosting the morale of the whole company.With a string of flames from his muzzle, one Japanese soldier after another was killed.The small lonely mountain is surrounded by enemy corpses and wounded soldiers.

The Japanese commander was in a panic, almost hysterical!The battle had been fought from dawn to noon, and he could clearly see that there were only a dozen anti-Japanese coalition troops on the top of the mountain, and the puppet army he commanded for more than 400 days couldn't even take half a step beyond the small lonely mountain!He ordered the artillery to bombard the mountain again, blasting Xiaogushan into scorched earth! Amid the rumbling shell explosions, the anti-Japanese hero Li Haifeng and the instructor Ban Luyi sacrificed heroically one after another. 14 people reduced to 8 people!Zhu Yuting, the deputy instructor of the first company, took over the command of the company commander and instructor.Under the enemy's artillery fire, he said to everyone with tears in his eyes: "The company commander and the instructor have all died, now it's up to us!" The seven soldiers replied with righteous indignation: "Don't worry, the deputy instructor, as long as we live, the devil will not let us die." I want to go through here!"

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the battle started again.While the enemy continued to bombard the mountain, they dug out deep trenches from the snow and moved towards the top of the mountain.When our soldiers find out, the enemy is close at hand.The soldier Wei Xilin picked up the machine gun left by the company commander, jumped out of the trench, rushed into the enemy group, killed more than a dozen enemies in a row, and repelled the ferocious enemy again, and he himself died heroically. The bloody battle in Xiaogushan lasted until dusk. Zhu Yuting and other 6 people died in battle one after another, but the enemy still failed to occupy the hill.At this point my reinforcements arrived and attacked from the side. The total casualties of more than 400 Japanese and puppet troops exceeded one-third, and they were unable to fight any more, so they had to use sleds to pull some wounded soldiers and corpses, and fled in embarrassment.In this confrontation between justice and evil, 12 of the 14 members of the Hero Company died heroically, and the remaining 2 were seriously injured.

The fiasco of Xiaogushan made the Japanese army go down the river to "crusade" the troops as a great shame.The Japanese commander who led the battle committed seppuku after returning to camp. The next day, Zhou Baozhong received the report. With tears in his eyes, he rushed to Xiaogushan in person to preside over the memorial service. He instructed the remains of the twelve martyrs to be buried on the cliff on the top of the mountain. He also recognized Li Haifeng and others as members of the Communist Party of China. The isolated mountain was named "Twelve Martyrs Mountain".He also wrote poems to commemorate the twelve martyrs with deep affection: clouds and mist hang down on the top of Lanbang Mountain, and snowflakes fly by the river of gemstones.The ferocious flames of bandits are still lingering, and the twelve martyrs are surrounded.Where the sharp guns were shot, there was a pile of blood and flesh of Japanese slaves and fake dogs.Fighting fiercely all day long shocked the world, and moved ghosts and gods with courage.He does not hesitate to sacrifice his life for the revolution, and hopes that the lost land will return soon.In the year when the whole nation was liberated, he pointed out the loyal souls on the battlefield. This poem enthusiastically praises the lofty revolutionary integrity and patriotic spirit of Li Haifeng, Ban Luyi, Zhu Yuting and other twelve martyrs. Their famous names and brilliant achievements will always be engraved on Xiaogu Mountain and in people's hearts. "Mountains are not high, if there are immortals, they will be named...", people in the fairyland have never seen it, but the hill full of heroes and martyrs makes people feel simple, close, natural and quiet.In order to commemorate the martyrs, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage designated Twelve Martyrs Mountain as a famous mountain in China. Baoqing County Party Committee and County Government set up a sign on the mountain in 1956. In 1991, a permanent monument was built on the mountain. In 1994, it was designated as patriotic education. The base was designated as a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit by the Heilongjiang Provincial Government in 1999. In the face of the enemy's fierce offensive, the main force of the Anti-Union Second Route Army needs to quickly jump out of the enemy's encirclement and open up connections with other Anti-Union troops.The General Headquarters of the Second Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Army decided to turn to the West after the failure of the main force of the Second Route Army's southern expedition. On July 2, 1938, under the leadership of Li Yanping, commander of the Fourth Army, and Wang Guangyu, deputy commander of the army, they first attacked Sandaotong on the left bank of Mudanjiang, broke through the Japanese defense line, passed through Sidaohezi, crossed Laoyeling, and traveled 300 meters. The desolate and uninhabited deep mountains and dense forests entered Weihe County on the 8th. At dawn on the 12th, the enemy captured Loushan Town in the northeast of Weihe County by surprise, killing and wounding more than 140 Japanese and puppet soldiers, and seized 2 machine guns, more than 100 rifles, more than 10,000 rounds of bullets and a large amount of supplies, and replenished the troops in time. After the battle in Loushan Town, the alarmed Japanese army mobilized troops to pursue and intercept them.The Western Expeditionary Force adjusted its deployment.Afterwards, the various ministries of the Western Expedition went through several twists and turns, separated and reunited, and fought continuously with the enemy along the way, causing heavy casualties. In late September, the Fourth Army, with only a hundred men left, was surrounded by the Japanese army. During the fierce battle, the troops were separated, and Li Yanping and Wang Guangyu died gloriously.The Fourth Army basically collapsed. The troops of the Fifth Army were surrounded and chased by powerful enemies, and their activities were difficult, so they decided to return east.Guan Shufan led more than a hundred people from the Fifth Army and one division into Laoyeling virgin forest area.It was a tragic march. Due to lack of supplies, many old, weak, sick and wounded died, and some people wavered.When the troops walked out of the forest area, there were only more than 30 people left, including 8 women. In late October, this expeditionary team, which traveled thousands of miles and climbed mountains and forests, withdrew to camp at the foot of Zhamugang Mountain on the south bank of the Usihun River in Linkou County, but was discovered by the enemy and was attacked by surprise.Eight female soldiers, including Leng Yun, the Women's Regiment of the Fourth and Fifth Army, who accompanied the division, fought against the water to cover the troops' breakout. Usihunhe wrote the tragic poem "Eight Girls Throwing into the River" with his own blood and life. In early November, the breakout troops of the Fifth Army returned to the rear base.So far, the Western Expedition of the Anti-Japanese Second Route Army, which lasted more than five months, finally suffered serious setbacks. The Western Expedition caused the Second Route Army to completely lose the Fourth Army, three divisions of the Fifth Army lost two, the main force of the Second Route Army was wiped out, and the situation in the Xiajiang area worsened.The failure of the Western Expedition also caused some troops and leaders to shake. Zhou Baozhong and the entire Second Route Army reached a critical moment of life and death. Zhou Baozhong stopped the trend of rebellion with the anti-rape action.But he didn't expect that the person who wavered and surrendered to the enemy this time was actually a person he trusted.Zhou Baozhong decisively executed his beloved general Guan Shufan, turning the tide and preventing the collapse of the Five Armies. On May 10, 1949, Comrade Mao Zedong cordially received Comrade Zhou Baozhong in Beijing, and had a 4-hour conversation with him (see "Recalling Zhou Baozhong"). This was the only in-depth conversation between Mao Zedong and the leader of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War .In this meeting, Mao Zedong warmly praised Zhou Baozhong as "our national hero" (ibid.), and spoke highly of "Comrade Baozhong wrote epic poems in the 14-year anti-Japanese and national salvation struggle in Northeast China" (October 26, 2005 " Forever Monument"). On the 16th, when Mao Zedong was drafting the Central Instruction Telegram to the Northeast Bureau, the Central Plains Bureau, Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan, and Tan Zheng on the issue of the Anti-Japanese War, he once again praised Zhou Baozhong as "a comrade who consistently implemented the party's line" ("Mao Zedong Chronicle ( 1893-1949) "below). The majestic Changbai Mountain and the secluded Tianchi water.The Changbai Mountains stretch for hundreds of kilometers with high mountains, dense forests and abrupt cliffs.The anti-union fighters fought side by side with the enemy in this deep mountain and dense forest.