Chapter 71 20. Recalling the Bloody Years——An Interview with Li Min, a Female Soldier of the Sixth Army of the Anti-Union Army

With the help of an expert on the history of the Anti-Union Alliance, Sa had the honor to interview Li Min, a former female soldier of the Sixth Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army.When we met, I couldn't help looking at this "little devil" next to General Zhou Baozhong.The Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces reached tens of thousands of troops in its heyday, but fewer than a thousand were able to return to the black land in 1945 and sacrifice their blood to the military flag. Even the two commanders, Yang Jingyu and Zhao Shangzhi, died in battle, which shows the brutality of the battle.

Li Min, an old man, was only 12 years old when he joined the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces in 1936. He successively worked in the Clothing Factory of the Sixth Army of the Third Route Army and other troops. The Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army Teaching Brigade (the Soviet Army’s designation of the 88th Independent Infantry Brigade of the Soviet Far East Red Banner Army) composed of anti-Japanese fighters returned to the Northeast with the army in 1945.Her husband, Chen Lei, is also a well-known sharpshooter and hero of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army. The cruel battles and the erosion of the years have left very few veterans in the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces today. However, the 87-year-old Mr. Li shook hands with me so quickly that I was surprised. If we climbed the mountain together, I might not be the old man's opponent.In fact, last year, in order to revisit the secret camp where he fought, the old man climbed a mountain with a height of more than 1,000 meters by himself without help.

According to other veterans of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Min was famous for his flexible movements back then, otherwise, it would have been impossible to stand out from the encirclement of the Japanese army in the Battle of Guokuishan. All I can say is, I wish the old man good health and a long life. The purpose of interviewing the elderly is to ask them to talk about their combat life in the years of the Anti-Japanese War. On the other hand, I found a group of old photos related to the Anti-Japanese War taken by the Japanese army in Japan, and I also asked the old people to identify them.

It can be seen that these old photos have attracted the attention of the old man. She flipped through the pages one by one, showing excitement from time to time. It turned out that the old man belonged to the Sixth Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army. Baoqing and other places reflected in these photos were the areas where the Sixth Army and the Third Army, an allied army of the Sixth Army, were active. During the big crusade in the autumn of 1938, Although the main forces of the three armies and six armies are marching westward, the old man is exactly the army left behind! Perhaps because of these factors, this batch of photos made the elderly feel very cordial.She pointed to the secret camp in the photo and told us that it was their camp, with a few sticks of wood sticking out from under the windows, which they called "Mulengzi" at the time.We speculate that one of the anti-union officers who died was very similar to her old superior, Xu Guanghai, director of the Political Department of the First Division of the Sixth Army.They came out of a village (in the Japanese army's notes, it was recorded as "the chief of staff of the Sixth Division × Hai ×"), and they recalled that the enemy chopped off Director Xu Guanghai's head, and later hung it in the county.The old man Li Min participated in that battle, which she called the Battle of Guokui Mountain in the winter of 1938.During that battle, she recalled that three male soldiers and four female soldiers were captured by the Japanese army (according to later records, they were all brutally killed).However, the anti-union officer who died should not be Xu Guanghai, but the platoon leader of Liu Changyou. He was shot and fell to the ground when he was trying to grab the enemy's machine gun.

Li Min was a survivor in that battle. She protruded from the siege, and she seemed to be only 13 years old (some materials also believed that she was 14 years old). Li Min recalled that this battle was short-handed, and it was very difficult for the Anti-Japanese Alliance to break through. The enemy used bayonets, but we used butts, because most of the anti-Japanese Czech and Russian rifles did not have bayonets. Go in (they also used German-made rifles, four kinds of guns and four kinds of bullets, all of which are not universal, so that sometimes an Anti-Union soldier carries several guns on his back in order to use all the bullets).It wasn't until some Japanese rifles were seized later that there were some bayonets, which we couldn't make ourselves.

After breaking through, she survived by catching mice and eating, and found the troops.She recalled that when she returned to the Guokui Mountain battlefield, she found Director Xu's body in the snow, only the body but no head.So they cremated their comrades and moved on.Some accounts that they did not return to their original battle sites are not accurate.In fact, including the remains of some of the fighters who threw eight women into the river, the anti-union forces later discovered and restrained them. Regarding the military uniforms of the Anti-Japanese Federation, she recalled that the Anti-Japanese Federation not only wore Soviet-style military uniforms, but also had promotion regulations, which were quite formal.Today there are still two Anti-Union female soldiers who made military uniforms alive.

The portraits of the Anti-Japanese War in pictorials in the 1930s were just like that. We once found a flag of the Anti-Union Army on a photo of the Japanese army, and thought it was the flag of the Guard Regiment of the Third Army of the Anti-Union Army. After seeing it, Mr. Li recognized that it was not the flag of the "Guard Corps", but the flag of the Third Army The regiment flag of the "left-behind regiment", in 1938, the main force of the third army and the sixth army marched westward, leaving a "left-behind regiment" under the command of Jiang Lixin to persevere in the resistance struggle in the old base area.Jiang Lixin, the head of Zhao Shangzhi's security team, was nicknamed "Jiang Bald Claw" by the old Kanglian.It is estimated that the left-behind personnel are members of the guard group, but the words on the flag are "left-behind group" instead of "guard group".

The old man Li Min also recalled how the anti-Japanese allied forces reconnaissance and attacked the Japanese cars and seized the bullets when the ammunition was scarce at that time. It was too late, and when I was about to leave, an old man came in and saluted Li Min. He was originally a teacher of the brigade. In 1941 (or 1942), the Puppet Manchukuo Army joined the Anti-Japanese Alliance anyway, and his name was Lu Bao. country.Now living in Hubei, I can no longer speak or listen, but I can still talk with a pen. The veterans will not die, and the Anti-Japanese League will not die.