Chapter 7 Chapter 6: Zhao Shangzhi, an outstanding anti-Japanese national hero

The three words "Zhao Shangzhi" once terrified the Japanese invaders. "The little 'Manchukuo', the big Zhao Shangzhi" is the helpless and admirable sigh of the Japanese pirates.Known by the Japanese puppet as "the most stubborn anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese" element! At that time, there was a saying in the Northeast called "Southern Yang and Northern Zhao". "Southern Yang" refers to Yang Jingyu, and "Northern Zhao" refers to Zhao Shangzhi. He joined the Communist Party of China at the age of 17 and enrolled in the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy in the same year. I would rather die than surrender.

Zhao Shangzhi, who served as the commander of the Third Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army and the deputy commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army, is a well-known anti-Japanese hero.However, he was "expelled from the party" twice during his lifetime, and his rough experience of being restored to the party 40 years after his death is rarely known. Zhao Shangzhi was born on October 26, 1908 in a rural intellectual family in Lamagou, Chaoyang County, Liaoning Province.His father, Zhao Zifu, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, taught a private school in his hometown, so the young Zhao Shangzhi received a good education. At the beginning of 1917, Zhao Zifu was hunted down by the officers and soldiers for participating in the beating and killing of several officers and soldiers who looted the common people and raped their daughters.Zhao Shangzhi came to Harbin with his father and his family in 1919. After being introduced by his fellow villagers, his father worked as an accountant in the big cabinet of the capitalist Lu's family.Zhao Shangzhi, who was only 11 years old, has since embarked on the society to make a living. He has worked as an apprentice, a handyman, and a messenger.The rough experience made him grow into a young man who can bear hardships and stand hard work, has a stubborn character and a spirit of rebellion.

Zhao Shangzhi, who had studied with his father in a private school for three years, regained the opportunity to study because of a slight improvement in his family circumstances. In the summer of 1925, Zhao Shangzhi, who was studying at Harbin Xugong Industrial School, joined the Communist Party of China when he was only 17 years old.Later, as the vice president of the student union, he led his classmates to fight against imperialism and feudal warlords, and was expelled from the school for "not abiding by school rules".After Zhao Shangzhi left the school, with the approval of the party organization, he went south to Guangzhou to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy, and was enrolled in the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. In May 1926, Chiang Kai-shek proposed the "Party Affairs Case" and required the students of the Whampoa Military Academy to declare their party membership.Zhao Shangzhi resolutely quit Whampoa Military Academy and returned to Harbin in accordance with the party's instructions.

In the summer of 1926, after Zhao Shangzhi returned to Harbin, he successively led the student movement in Harbin, engaged in party building work in Shuangcheng, and pioneered party work in Changchun City.In October of the same year, the Changchun branch of the Communist Party of China was formally established, and Zhao Shangzhi was in charge of the party's Changchun Communication Station in the Changchun branch of the Communist Party of China. In November, he took advantage of the favorable opportunity of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to establish the Jilin Provincial Party Headquarters of the Kuomintang together with members of the Kuomintang, and served as a standing committee member and youth minister.Soon, Zhao Shangzhi's activities were discovered and reported by the Japanese secret service. On March 2, 1927, Zhao Shangzhi was arrested by the military police stationed in Changchun by the Fengtian warlords and imprisoned in Changchun No. 1 Prison, and then taken to Nanjing.Because he always insisted that he was a member of the Kuomintang and did not reveal his identity as a member of the Communist Party, he was released from prison on May 20 of the same year.After he was released from prison, Zhao Shangzhi was sent back to work in Northeast China by the party organization. In the autumn of 1930, Zhao Shangzhi arrived in Shenyang and was assigned to work as a regiment in the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. In April 1931, Zhao Shangzhi was arrested and imprisoned for the second time. He strictly guarded the party's secrets and was unyielding. After the "September 18th" Incident, he was rescued by the Party Central Committee and the Manchuria Provincial Committee.

At the beginning of 1932, the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China appointed Zhao Shangzhi as Secretary of the Military Commission of the Provincial Committee.In June of the same year, most of the Northeast land fell under the iron heel of Japanese imperialism.Faced with the critical situation of national ruin and family ruin, Zhao Shangzhi vowed to establish an anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese armed force in North Manchuria as soon as possible, and directly resist the enslavement and oppression of the Northeast people by Japanese imperialism with armed struggle.Under his repeated request, the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China agreed that Zhao Shangzhi would leave Harbin and secretly go to Bayan County to work in the Bayan guerrillas led by Zhang Jiazhou.After arriving in Bayan, Zhao Shangzhi, whose pseudonym was Li Yucai, helped Zhang Jiazhou reorganize his team and cultivated a group of anti-Japanese backbones. In November 1932, according to the instructions of the Manchuria Provincial Party Committee, the Bayan guerrillas were organized into the Jiangbei Independent Division of the 36th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, with Zhang Jiazhou as the division commander and Zhao Shangzhi as the director of the Political Department.Under the leadership of Zhang Jiazhou, Zhao Shangzhi, etc., this anti-Japanese team went deep into the enemy's rear and carried out guerrilla warfare. It once captured Bayan County, captured Kangjin Railway Station, carried out western expeditions, and swept across the Great Northern Wilderness.Later, in a battle, someone in the army handed over the shotguns of two Oroqen herdsmen without authorization, which immediately aroused the siege of hundreds of Oroqen herdsmen.In a critical moment, Zhao Shangzhi had no choice but to lead a group of soldiers to run in danger.Soon, the army was surrounded and attacked by a large number of Japanese Kwantung Army. Under the heavy blows one after another, this newly established anti-Japanese armed force was finally broken up.

In mid-January 1933, Zhao Shangzhi and others broke through the encirclement and quietly sneaked into Harbin under the rule of the enemy and the puppet, preparing to report the reasons for the failure of the troops to the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.Unexpectedly, the person in charge of the work of the Provincial Party Committee at that time, because he had prejudice against Zhao Shangzhi before, made the "Resolution on Expulsion of Zhao Shangzhi from the Party" without knowing the real reason for the failure of the army.This resolution of the provincial party committee was opposed by most members of the provincial party committee, including Zhao Shangzhi himself.However, under the erroneous guidance of Wang Ming's "Left" leaning, the Manchuria Provincial Party Committee still stubbornly insisted on expelling Zhao Shangzhi from the party.Suffering this serious blow by accident, the resolute Zhao Shangzhi also became extremely heavy.In a letter to his friend, he couldn't help sighing: "The wind beats the wheat waves, and the geese send the recruits a period of sorrow. They are invincible and driven thousands of miles away." Even so, Zhao Shangzhi did not sink , Still firmly devoted to the anti-Japanese battlefield.Although he was expelled from the party, considering his revolutionary experience and years of fighting against the enemy, most members of the provincial party committee still advocated that he should be allowed to do mass work, and he was soon appointed chairman of the trade union.

In April 1933, Zhao Shangzhi came to Sun Chaoyang's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army in Binxian County to participate in anti-Japanese activities.He was a groom at first, and later in the battle against Bin County, Sun Chaoyang adopted Zhao Shangzhi's military strategy to capture the county seat, and Zhao Shangzhi was therefore appointed as the chief of staff of the army. On October 10, 1933, Zhao Shangzhi joined the anti-Japanese guerrillas under the leadership of the Zhuhe County Committee of the Communist Party of China and served as the captain of the county center brigade.Zhao Shangzhi, who was treated unfairly for a time, fought against the enemy with a gun in the Pearl River area. In May 1934, the anti-Japanese guerrillas led by Zhao Shangzhi successively captured the two counties of Wuchang and Bayan.Under the leadership of Zhao Shangzhi, the anti-Japanese armed forces directly led by the Communist Party of China dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders. The Japanese invaders hated him so much that they once published a newspaper offering a reward of 10,000 yuan for his arrest. In June 1934, the Zhuhe Anti-Japanese Guerrilla was expanded into the "Northeast Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Hadong Detachment", and Zhao Shangzhi was appointed as the commander-in-chief.

In January 1935, the leaders of the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China changed, and the individual responsible person who insisted on expelling Zhao Shangzhi from the party had been transferred away.According to Zhao Shangzhi's repeated requests, the new provincial party committee carefully considered Zhao Shangzhi's performance in the two years since he left the party organization, and sent personnel to Bin County and Zhuhe many times to listen carefully to Zhao Shangzhi's opinions.At the same time, for the sake of prudence, the Provincial Party Committee talked with comrades who knew Zhao Shangzhi's situation, and finally figured out the ins and outs of this unjust case. On January 12, the "Resolution on Restoring Comrade Zhao Shangzhi's Party Membership" was formally issued.In the "Resolution", the Provincial Party Committee first pointed out that the punishment of Zhao Shangzhi in 1933 was inappropriate, and at the same time clearly pointed out: "At that time, the Provincial Party Committee followed the 'Left' opportunist line, and did not understand the anti-imperialist united front in the situation in Manchuria at that time. It is completely wrong to re-understand the expulsion of Zhao Shangzhi from the party with the correct standpoint." The "Resolution" of the Provincial Party Committee mentioned that Zhao Shangzhi was expelled from the party. When he was wrongly expelled from the party, he said: "After Comrade Zhao Shangzhi was expelled, he continued to struggle hard in the flames of the national revolutionary war and showed a strong and brave spirit in the long-term struggle against Japanese imperialism.  … In recent years, he created and developed the Pearl River guerrilla army, opened up the anti-Japanese guerrilla area in Manchuria, expanded the great political influence of the party and the guerrilla army, and promoted the anti-Japanese national revolutionary war in Manchuria.” On January 18, 1935, Zhao Shangzhi was arrested Appointed as the commander of the Third Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army.Later, he also served as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese United Army (later changed to the North Manchurian Anti-Japanese Allied Army). In 1936, Zhao Shangzhi served as the commander of the Third Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army.The 9 divisions of the Third Army, under the leadership of Zhao Shangzhi, participated in more than a hundred battles in more than half a year, annihilating more than 1,000 enemies.

In September 1936, the puppet Manchukuo army entered "South Manchuria" to "crusade" Yang Jingyu, and the main force of the Kwantung Army gathered in the Sanjiang area to "crusade" North Manchuria and Jidong Anti-Japanese Army. In mid-September, the advance team of the Second and Third Divisions led by Wu Jingcai, director of the Political Department of the Third Division of the Three Armies, crossed the Songhua River. As soon as they entered Tieli Dongshan, they fought fiercely with the local Japanese and puppet troops and eliminated more than 80 enemies. The appearance of the advance team of the three armies in Tieli has attracted the attention of the supreme commander of the Japanese army in North Manchuria. As soon as Zhao Shangzhi led the main force of the three armies to set off, the Japanese army headquarters quickly deployed the "big crusade".In the encirclement of the enemy's heavy troops, Zhao Shangzhi led the cavalry to attack the west and make a detour, convincing the enemy that his attack target was Hulan County, west of Mulan.The Japanese army quickly organized several large and deep attacks on the front line of Bayan.Zhao Shangzhi led the team to turn northward suddenly, heading towards Qingcheng and Tieli. In mid-December, Zhao Shangzhi entered the junction of Hailun and Tongbei counties, and he was determined to "return the carbine" to the chasing enemy.It was mid-winter, icy and snowy, Zhao Shangzhi led his troops into the mountains, and set up an ambush at a place called "Bingtangzi".

This "ice trip" is a hillside with wooden camps (wooden houses) where several lumberjacks live. Several springs flow on the top of the mountain all year round, and ice forms on the hillside in winter. The local people call it "ice". Trip".Zhao Shangzhi asked the troops to build ice walls with snow and water on both sides of the gully.On the night of the third day, seven or eight hundred Japanese troops entered the ditch.Zhao Shangzhi issued an order: "Hit!" In an instant, gunshots were heard on both sides of the ravine, and bullets rained down.Relying on the large number of people, the Japanese army yelled "Ya Ya" and charged at my position on the top of the slope.The enemy couldn't see clearly at night, so they rushed to the "ice trip" and then slid down, slid down and then rushed up, and finally had to lie on the bottom of the ditch, passively beaten.It was extremely cold at night, and the gun bolts of our soldiers would freeze in half an hour. Zhao Shangzhi ordered several fires to be lit in the wooden camp, and asked everyone to come in in turn to roast the gun bolts.The Japanese army was miserable. They lay on the "ice boat", the gun bolts could not be pulled, and the injured Japanese soldiers were frozen on the ice. Dozens of people froze to death overnight.At dawn, our army had almost run out of bullets, and some Japanese troops broke out from the Mizoguchi.Zhao Shangzhi sent people to clean up the battlefield and found more than 300 Japanese soldiers who were killed or wounded and froze to death.

After the "Ice Trip" battle, Zhao Shangzhi led a division and the army's juvenile company to continue northward, entering the Heilongjiang River Basin and Longmen territory.Here is a vast forest with no human habitation, and the troops sleep in the snowy fields every night in the severe cold of minus 40 to 50 degrees Celsius.The supplies were cut off, and Zhao Shangzhi was forced to order the killing of horses to satisfy his hunger.The Japanese army sent three planes and a large number of infantry to pursue them.At this time, there were only a hundred people left around Zhao Shangzhi, and he asked people to bury the extra guns.One night, when the troops camped, the sentry fell asleep due to overwork, and the following enemies took the opportunity to surround our army.In the battle, our army sacrificed 30 people and lost all the horses. Only more than 70 people broke out.Under the leadership of Zhao Shangzhi, they lived on acorns, and finally traveled through the vast virgin forest and returned to the base area behind the Tangwang River in Tangyuan.For more than a year, in the face of the key "crusade" of the Japanese army, the three armies and the six armies had more than 2,000 miles of wind and snow, and more than a hundred battles, large and small, broke the Kwantung Army's 1936 winter confrontation. The plan, but the strength has suffered a major loss.In the case of a long-term shortage of food, they ate 1,500 war horses alone. In distress, he turned his eyes northward, hoping to get support from Moscow, because the CCP delegation was leading the struggle in the Northeast in Moscow.The Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces not only fought for the motherland, but also contained the Japanese army and defended the Soviet Union. After the "July 7th Incident" in 1937, the Japanese army increased its troops in Northeast China. Stalin concluded that the Japanese-Soviet War was inevitable, and the Soviet Far East Army urgently needed all kinds of information from the Japanese army. In February 1939, Wang Xinlin (pseudonym), a representative of the intelligence department of the Soviet Far East Army, held a "meeting" with Zhao Shangzhi in prison, saying that everything that happened in the past was a misunderstanding. Based on the spirit of internationalism, the Soviet side promised Zhao Shangzhi to propose To help the Northeast Anti-Japanese War in all aspects, and at the same time require the Anti-Japanese Federation to establish an "intelligence sharing" relationship with it. After thinking for two days, Zhao Shangzhi agreed to the Soviet side's proposal. The only requirement was to ask him to organize all the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army personnel who had crossed the border into a team, and the Soviet side would provide clothing, weapons and ammunition to fight back to the Northeast. go. Zhao Shangzhi quickly organized his own team. This team of more than 100 people included people who had been detained by the North Manchurian side for entering the Soviet Union. Among them were Dai Hongbin, commander of the Sixth Army, and Qi Zhizhong, commander of the Eleventh Army.Zhao Shangzhi organized this team into a corps, two squadrons, and a teaching team. He appointed Dai Hongbin, commander of the Sixth Army, as the chief of staff and commander-in-chief to directly lead the teaching team; ; Liu Fengyang is the captain of the second squadron.The Soviets distributed a full set of Japanese military uniforms and weapons to this team, as well as a radio station for contacting the Soviet side and "sharing intelligence". One night at the end of June 1939, the team boarded an old Soviet passenger ship in a Soviet village called Labin on the north bank of Heilongjiang. After sailing overnight, Zhao Shangzhi and all the team members were successfully sent to their homeland. With the dawn in the east, Zhao Shangzhi, who had set foot on the land of the motherland again, let out a long breath. After Zhao Shangzhi returned to China, he didn't realize that the two fulcrums on which his thoughts, emotions, and new life goals were built were very fragile.Fulcrum one: Although he was in prison for a year and a half, he finally won the recognition and support of the Soviet side. In the Northeast Party in the late 1930s, this was a very heavy weight.Even out of respect for the Soviet Union and the CCP delegation in Moscow, others must respect and obey his leadership; the second point is: After serving behind bars for more than a year, he still firmly believes that his prestige in the party and army in North Manchuria is still intact. He thought that as long as he returned to the Northeast and raised his arms, the North Manchurian Party and the army would come back to him.Zhao Shangzhi didn't understand. First, what the Soviets needed was not him, but wanted to get information about the Japanese army in the Northeast through him. If the original intention of the Soviet side is realized, the recognition and support from the other side of Heilongjiang will no longer exist”; second, after the “anti-inclination” struggle that began in March 1938, the new leadership and authority center within the Party and the army in North Manchuria has been established. Formed, no one needs this past leader and hero anymore.Not only that, his sudden return will reopen a freshly healed wound on the body of the North Manchurian Party and the army. Zhao Shangzhi fought the Ulaga Gold Mine in the first battle after returning to China. Six recalcitrant Japanese were killed, more than 20 puppet soldiers surrendered, and the puppet police captain was captured. Zhao Shangzhi ordered people to open the gold mine warehouse and was very happy to see a lot of flour piled inside.At night, the army held a miners' meeting, and Zhao Shangzhi personally explained to everyone the principles of resisting Japan and saving the nation, and announced policies.The miners asked who this person was, and the soldiers said: He is the famous Zhao Shangzhi, the commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese League.There was a sensation at the venue, and more than 40 people asked to join "Commander Zhao's Team".After the first battle after returning to China, the team expanded to 150 people. In the early morning of the next day, the army executed the pseudo-police captain whom everyone hated, educated and released the pseudo-policemen, took the captured spoils, and marched towards the forest area of ​​Xiaoxing'anling.Before the trip, Zhao Shangzhi asked everyone to carry two bags of flour, and he himself was no exception.But even so, the flour in the warehouse could not be finished.Without waiting for mobilization, the miners offered to help this "Chinese team" transport flour. However, on this day, there was a person who blatantly violated Zhao Shangzhi's order, did not back fans, and expressed his dissatisfaction with Zhao Shangzhi to some soldiers in private.This person is Qi Zhizhong, commander of the 11th Army of the Anti-Japanese Army. Qi Zhizhong's dissatisfaction with Zhao Shangzhi has a long history. In 1936, Xie Wendong's People's Salvation Army was reorganized into the Eighth Army of the Anti-Union Army, and Li Huatang's Self-Defense Army Detachment was reorganized into the Ninth Army of the Anti-Union Army. Anti-Union Independent Division.It was only because Li Zhaolin had done a lot of work for him when he was sent to Jidong that Qi Zhizhong did not make up his mind to leave the North Manchurian Anti-Union Headquarters. Qi Zhizhong crossed the border to the Soviet Union and was imprisoned. He heard the news that Li Zhaolin had left the main force of the 11th Army to go to Heinen.The anti-Japanese hero who was a miner was full of resentment at this time, and he was deeply suspicious of everyone.Not only is it impossible for him to trust the entire North Manchurian Provincial Party Committee and the North Manchurian Anti-Japanese Alliance, including Li Zhaolin, he can no longer trust Zhao Shangzhi.Both he and Dai Hongbin were army commanders under the leadership of the General Command of the North Manchurian Anti-Japanese Army.When he was released and returned to China, Zhao Shangzhi made Dai his chief of staff and the captain of the team, but only let him be a deputy chief with no real power and the captain of the first squadron.Qi Zhizhong had always felt that Zhao Shangzhi looked down on him, and this arrangement made him angry again.Therefore, at the beginning of crossing the river, he had the idea of ​​parting ways with Zhao Shangzhi. Two things happened next, leading to Qi Zhizhong's death.The first thing is that when attacking the Ulaga Gold Mine, Dai Hongbin led his troops to surround the puppet army of the Western Academy.It was only after Zhao Shangzhi personally led the staff of the headquarters to attack the East Court that Qi Zhizhong rushed up. The second thing has been mentioned above: when leaving the Ulaga Gold Mine, the whole team, including Zhao Shangzhi, carried two bags of white flour, but Qi Zhizhong refused to carry out the commander-in-chief's order and was determined not to carry it.He said: I didn't even carry a gun in the past, but today I carry flour. Perhaps Qi Zhizhong never imagined that he had greatly "scorned" the dignity and authority of the commander-in-chief. Zhao Shangzhi wanted to rebuild his leadership authority, maintain the unity and unity of this small team, and open up the situation in the entire Northeast again. Such open offense and "division" cannot be tolerated. So, just before the team continued to march to the hinterland of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, Qi Zhizhong, the commander of the 11th Army of the Anti-Japanese Army and a famous anti-Japanese hero, was shot dead at the age of 25. Shooting and killing Qi Zhizhong was the biggest mistake Zhao Shangzhi made in his life. He not only killed an anti-Japanese hero, but also directly caused the disintegration of this team and his own downfall. The latter result was never expected by him. The team moves on.In the Qingshanli area of ​​Xiaoxing'anling, they encountered a Japanese armed survey team.After just a few minutes of firefighting, the battle ended, a Japanese surveyor was captured, and a batch of border maps just surveyed by the Japanese army were seized.Then, they came to Mabutou "Dui Camp" in Tangyuan. Zhao Shangzhi decided to stop temporarily and use this as a base to divide his troops for guerrilla warfare.He sent Chief of Staff Dai Hongbin to lead the main force of more than 100 people to the west to restore the old guerrilla area in Tanglichuan where the former Sixth Army had been active; he sent Liu Fengyang to lead more than 40 people to Suibin to open up a new area; The traffic officer, in the name of the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Northern Manchurian Provisional Provincial Party Committee and the Commander-in-Chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, "notified" the main leaders of the Northern Manchurian Party and the army, Li Zhaolin, Feng Zhongyun, and Jin Ce, to come to him for a meeting, "to study the Regional reorganization, continued anti-Japanese armed struggle and other major issues." Zhao Shangzhi wanted to make it clear that he was also the chairman of the executive committee of the Northeast Manchurian Provisional Provincial Committee and the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War.If you come, you are admitting that all the resolutions you have made in the past are invalid.However, as the days passed, not only did no one who received his "notice" come, even the two teams he sent out, Dai Hongbin and Liu Fengyang, never returned.Zhao Shangzhi didn't realize that his act of shooting Qi Zhizhong had caused a huge psychological shock in the team, and the commanders and fighters of this team no longer trusted him.After Dai Hongbin led his team to leave the Mabutou "Dui Camp", he began to defeat a Belarusian railway garrison in the area of ​​Tangwang River Ditch.On the second night, they were counterattacked by this White Russian force and the team was broken up.After breaking through the siege, Dai Hongbin gathered his troops, leaving only a dozen people.With such a "record" he dared not go back to see Zhao Shangzhi.After hiding in the mountains for a few days, he simply took the last dozen or so people across the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, heading west to Tieli, looking for the Beiman Provincial Committee. Another 40-member team led by Liu Fengyang encountered a Japanese "crusade team" on the way east to Suibin, and the whole team was broken up.Liu Fengyang led a few people to fight and retreat, all the way to the edge of the Heilongjiang River. There was no food and ammunition, and he didn't dare to see the commander-in-chief again, so he had to retreat into the Soviet Union again. In the late autumn of this year, the Northern Manchurian Provincial Committee in the Heinen area heard the news of Qi Zhizhong's murder from Dai Hongbin and others, and made a formal resolution: "Expel Zhao Shangzhi from the party forever."The Kwantung Army Command was informed of Zhao Shangzhi's return to North Manchuria, and immediately became highly nervous, ordering all the Japanese and puppet military, police and police officers along the Heilongjiang line to enter an "emergency state of public security and order".The secret service agencies of the Japanese puppet provinces of Sanjiang, Binjiang, and Longjiang also received a special notice, asking them to send all their spies, disguised as woodcutters, hunters, and fur dealers, into the deep mountains and old forests to look for Zhao Shangzhi.Entering November, the weather was freezing cold, supplies were cut off, and none of the news that should have arrived, and none of the people who should have come, Zhao Shangzhi realized that "the situation is serious."He sent a telegram to the Su side, and the Su side told Zhao Shangzhi: The Northern Manchurian Provincial Party Committee had sent Feng Zhongyun as a representative to the Soviet Union in September, requesting the Soviet side to assist in "convening an enlarged meeting of the North Manchu and Jidong parties to decide on the the unification and merger of the Second and Third Route Armies". Zhao Shangzhi quickly sent a telegram to the Soviet side, requesting to cross the boundary to attend the meeting.He probably realized that when he returned home, the two fulcrums of life he relied on were collapsing.Neither the North Manchurian Party nor the Anti-Union Forces welcome and no longer recognize him as their commander-in-chief; only by attending this meeting and maintaining the support of the Soviet side can he fight for his right to return to North Manchuria. The Soviet side agreed to his request. In mid-December, Zhao Shangzhi and his party of more than 10 people crossed the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, which are covered with ice and snow, and went north to Heilongjiang.Late one night, they stepped across the solid ice on the Heilongjiang River and returned to the city where he had been imprisoned. As soon as Zhao Shangzhi arrived in Boli, he found that he was actually in an extremely weak position.Neither Li Zhaolin in China nor Zhou Baozhong and Feng Zhongyun in Boli think that he "has no mistakes". In their eyes, he has become a person who "made serious mistakes". It was yesterday's Commander-in-Chief. Will Zhao Shangzhi, who has a fiery temper, has ups and downs in the inner-party struggle, and has never admitted his mistakes, accept all this?He accepted.Zhao Shangzhi not only accepted the punishment given to him by the Beiman Provincial Party Committee, but also wrote a "sincerely sincere" review letter.It is conceivable that it was not easy for him to make this choice, and the reason why he "accepted" the punishment was simply to return to North Manchuria in this way.But the North Manchurian side did not give him this opportunity.The telegram sent by the Northern Manchurian Provincial Party Committee to Zhou Baozhong and Feng Zhongyun stated that their decision not to let Zhao Shangzhi return to the armed forces was "unchangeable".Facing the unbreakable deadlock, Zhou Baozhong was furious and made a decision: invite Zhao Shangzhi to serve as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army under his leadership. Zhao Shangzhi's "problem" was solved in this way.But Zhao Shangzhi is no longer the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War.The Khabarovsk Conference is of great significance in the history of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War.Over the years, the Anti-Union forces have repeatedly risen and fallen. One important reason is that there is no solid rear support. Now this rear has appeared.Another result of the meeting was the end of the dispute between North Manchuria and Jidong. Zhou Baozhong became the new core leader of Jidong, the North Manchurian Party, and the Anti-Japanese Forces recognized by the Soviet side. But the Khabarovsk meeting had another meaning for Zhao Shangzhi: it brought the anti-Japanese hero to the end quickly.Before the meeting, he was still full of confidence in the prospect of leading the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army and even the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army in the future. A person who was "expelled from the party" for "serious mistakes", a person who temporarily has a place to live after being taken in by others. On the night of March 27 after the Boli meeting, Zhao Shangzhi, accompanied by Zhou Baozhong, led the guard of the Second Route Army Headquarters, crossed the Wusuli River, and arrived at the Second Route Army Headquarters in Xiaomulinghe, Hulin County on the morning of the 28th.After that, he worked under the leadership of Zhou Baozhong for a little over half a year. At the end of October, Zhou Baozhong and Zhao Shangzhi separated. Zhao took a team directly under the Second Route Army to Hulin for activities. Under the pursuit of the Japanese army, he crossed the border and went to the Soviet Union. In terms of the South Camp, 26 kilometers north of Vladivostok, where Kim Il Sung and others entered the Soviet Union). From January 1940 to October 1941, Zhao Shangzhi spent a year and 10 months alone in a small room in the North Camp.During this period of time, he formed such a belief: he could not just live with humiliation, he lived to resist the Japanese, and he should die on the battlefield.He wants to go back to the northeast to reopen the great anti-Japanese situation, or die heroically. In June 1941, fascist Germany brazenly launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union.The Japanese army continued to increase its troops to the Northeast. Zhao Shangzhi, who was alone in the northern camp, thought: Once the Japanese army aggressively attacked the Soviet Union, the Northeast would be empty of troops, and an opportunity to launch a large-scale guerrilla war behind enemy lines would come. At dawn one day in October 1941, Zhao Shangzhi led a team of five people across the frozen Heilongjiang River and set foot on the land of the motherland again. Zhao Shangzhi didn't think there were too many people.When he pulled out the Zhuhe Guerrillas, there were only 7 people in the team.They went ashore in Luobei; soon on the northern slope of Laobai Mountain in the Wutong River area, a tributary of the Songhua River, Zhao Shangzhi met the first hunter's Mukelen (wooden house).The Japanese have not forgotten Zhao Shangzhi.Since the last time he led his team back to the country and "disappeared" mysteriously, the enemy has never given up the "net of warning" that was opened.Only in Heli County, where Zhao Shangzhi arrived, more than 300 spies were sent by the head of the Japanese and puppet secret service agencies to lurk in the mountains and forests a year. In Mukelen lived a young hunter Wang Yongxiao and a "fur merchant" named Feng Jiede.Knowing that the person who appeared in front of them was the famous Zhao Shangzhi, the eyes of both of them "lighted up" for a moment.Wang Yongxiao immediately decided to join Zhao Shangzhi's team and fight against Japan together.Feng Jiede declined on the grounds that his family was a drag.At night, the "fur merchant" slipped away quietly. After the Japanese spy Feng Jiede went down the mountain, he ran to the Xingshan Police Station in Heli County, and reported the news of the discovery of Zhao Shangzhi to the Heli County Police Officer and Xingshan Police Chief Tian Jingjiujiro and the director of the Secret Service Masao Tojo. One day in January 1942, Liu Deshan, an "old customer" who "received fur goods", found Zhao Shangzhi in the mountains.Liu Deshan wanted to "follow Commander Zhao to fight against Japan". A month later, Tian Jingjiujiro and Dongcheng Zhengxiong sent another special agent named Zhang Qingyu into the mountain, who also "joined" Zhao Shangzhi's team after being introduced by Liu Deshan.One day, the two of them offered advice to Zhao Shangzhi: there was a fake police station near the Wutonghe Gold Mine. Zhao Shangzhi really needs weapons to expand the team.He decided to take a risk. At 3 a.m. on February 12, Liu Deshan and Zhang Qingyu took Zhao Shangzhi, Jiang Lixin, and Wang Yongxiao to a vegetable garden about one kilometer away from the pseudo-police station in Wutong River.At this time Zhang Qingyu said to Zhao Shangzhi that he wanted to "check the situation first".Zhao Shangzhi agreed.Zhang Qingyu ran to the pseudo-police station in one breath, and reported to Masao Tojo and Takeo Anazawa, captain of the Japanese garrison who were waiting there: "Zhao Shangzhi is here!" The vegetable garden was surrounded.Zhao Shangzhi waited for Zhang Qingyu not to return in the vegetable garden for a long time, a little anxious, and asked Liu Deshan to lead the way to the pseudo-police station.Seeing that Zhao Shangzhi was about to leave, Liu Deshan became flustered, pretended to relieve himself, squatted on the side of the road, let Zhao Shangzhi and Wang Yongxiao walk in front of him, and suddenly raised his gun to shoot.Zhao Shangzhi was walking forward when two gunshots were fired from behind, the first shot went into his left rib and the right abdomen; the other shot hit Wang Yongxiao.Zhao Shangzhi knew that he had been deceived, so he shook his body for a while, turned around, and cursed at Liu Deshan: "Bad guy!" Enduring the great pain, he took out his pistol, and hit Liu Deshan in the chest with one shot, and shot Liu Deshan with the other. middle head.The Japanese spy who recognized the thief as his father died before he received the reward. The Japanese heard the gunshots and swarmed towards the vegetable garden.Zhao Shangzhi, who was seriously injured and dying, gritted his teeth and handed over the document bag to Jiang Lixin, telling him to escape quickly.Then he fell down on the ground and shot at the enemy until he passed out. Masao Dongcheng and Takeo Anezawa used horse sledges to drag Zhao Shangzhi and Wang Yongxiao to Wutong River Puppet Police Station. Chen Yunfeng, chief of the pseudo-police section of Heli County, and Heikichi Kasuga, deputy of the Japanese section, immediately interrogated him in surprise. "Are you Zhao Shangzhi, commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese Federation?" Chen Yunfeng asked. "You are a Chinese scum, you are not qualified to talk to me!" Zhao Shangzhi scolded the traitor.Chen Yunfeng was so scolded that he couldn't speak.Masao Tojo came over and stepped on his punctured abdomen. "Your, tell me quickly!" Zhao Shangzhi regained consciousness after fainting, and turned his eyes of contempt and hatred to the Japanese invaders. Eight hours later, Zhao Shangzhi shed his last drop of blood and stopped breathing. He was only 34 years old.In the last 8 hours, the Japanese did not get any "confession" from him. Three hours later, Wang Yongxiao, who was seriously injured, also died in the enemy's cell.Two days after Zhao Shangzhi died, the Japanese were ecstatic and called Li Huatang, the former commander of the Ninth Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army who had surrendered to the Japanese invaders at that time, to identify the body.For quite a long period of time, Li Huatang was a follower and admirer of Zhao Shangzhi's anti-Japanese line.In a cold room, Li Huatang recognized at a glance that the deceased in front of him was Zhao Shangzhi, the anti-Japanese hero he had followed for many years.Although many Japanese followed him, he still cried and shouted: Commander, are you in the same way?Are you in it too?He wailed and was forced out by the Japanese. I often think of this meeting.What kind of mood did Li Huatang want to express to Zhao Shangzhi?Has he ever thought that Zhao Shangzhi is the real hero, he is still alive even though he is dead, and although he himself is alive, he is actually dead. The Japanese invaders sawed off the hero's head, put it in a wooden box, and sent it to the Puppet Sanjiang Provincial Police Department overnight.Soon, Zhao Shangzhi's head was sent to the Military and Political Department of the Puppet Manchukuo in Changchun, where it was displayed together with Yang Jingyu's head. The Japanese publicized the death of Zhao Shangzhi.They also really believed that if Yang Jingyu was killed and then Zhao Shangzhi killed, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance would be completely over. But the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army is not only not finished, but is still fighting! The wind is sad and the pine mountains are dark, the snow is angry and the three rivers are cold, the strong men go with the waves, and the long songs come and mourn. The national hero Zhao Shangzhi participated in the anti-Japanese struggle in Northeast China in 1932. He fought bloody battles with the Japanese invaders for 10 years and made outstanding achievements.The Japanese and puppets were frightened and lamented: "The little 'Manchukuo', the big Zhao Shangzhi." No matter how dangerous the adversity was, he could not shake his firm belief until he died heroically.The torrential Songjiang River echoes the voice of Comrade Zhao Shangzhi day and night: "Party membership is the life of every Communist... I cannot leave the Party for a day, and I hope that the Party organization will never give up on my leadership." In 1982, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the death of Comrade Zhao Shangzhi, the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sent a letter to the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, requesting a re-investigation on the issue of Zhao Shangzhi's party membership and drawing conclusions based on facts. On June 8, the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee made the "Decision": "After review, Comrade Zhao Shangzhi did not oppose the Central Committee's strategic policy on the anti-Japanese national united front at and after the joint meeting of Zhuhai and Tonga. Criticism was put forward for some issues in the letter from the representative of the Central Committee and the instruction letters of Wang Ming and Kang Sheng. There was no question of opposing the Central Committee and the party's 'Left' leaning closed-doorism line, and there was no question of attempting to arrest and kill the leaders of the Northern Manchurian Provincial Party Committee. Zhao Comrade Shang Zhi's life was a life of loyalty to the party's cause. He was a staunch communist fighter. He was unyielding and heroic in the national liberation struggle against Japanese imperialism's invasion of China. My precious life." The "Decision" restored Comrade Zhao Shangzhi's party membership and completely restored his reputation; he also rehabilitated the implicated comrades, and made a fair historical conclusion.