Chapter 77 4. Chinese female machine gunners in Moscow

On November 17, 2010, Lao Sa participated in a symposium on the 65th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War in Beijing, which was attended by veterans of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces and veterans of the Soviet Army in China. This is a party held in the majestic Russian military songs.Among them, what attracted me the most were the female soldiers who had fought in the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army and the Soviet Red Army.This is a world of hugs. Meeting old comrades-in-arms and old leaders, without exception, is a warm hug. In the era when the country was ruined and the family was destroyed, when the generals and officials put down their weapons and "non-resistance", these young Chinese women embedded their youth deeply in the battlefield of blood and fire. Fighting bravely for the independence and freedom of the motherland.

The old man Li Min recalled that in the winter of 1938, the Japanese and puppet troops took advantage of the heavy snow and went into the mountains to fight against the First Division of the Sixth Army of the United Nations to encircle and suppress.The secret camp where she was located was surrounded by the Japanese army at the clothing factory and the hospital, and the instructor Pei Chengchun was seriously injured in the attack. She said to Li Min and others: "Go quickly, I will cover behind!" Before Li Min and his comrades rushed out of the encirclement Then came the voice of Sister Pei shouting "Long live the country"...

Behind each of their figures are the huge sacrifices made by the Chinese for this holy war. Some of the photos in this album record many battles between the Japanese army and the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces from 1937 to 1941, including field photos of the battlefields fighting against the Anti-Japanese Allies, secret camps of the Anti-Japanese Allies, sacrifices and captured Anti-Japanese Allies Warrior etc.The veterans of the Third Army and Sixth Army of the Anti-Japanese Army who attended the meeting happened to be fighting in the area where he took the photos. Some of the photos were recognized by them, including the Sixth Army Clothes Factory, the former site of the radio training class of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and the Battle of Guokui Mountain The scene at the end... This Japanese officer with a camera inadvertently preserved for us a piece of historical material of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces fighting hard in the white mountains and black waters.

I asked the old man about the combat history of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Unexpectedly, this smiling old man shook his head and said, I am not from the Anti-Japanese Alliance. After taking a closer look, he found that the medals on the old man's chest were all medals from the Soviet Army. Among them, a medal for veterans of the Great Patriotic War was in sight! "Are you..." Sa couldn't help asking. Someone on the side introduced—this is an old soldier of our Soviet Red Army. During the Defense of Moscow, she was a machine gunner, and she jumped over the Molotov cocktails of the German devils.

"You were a machine gunner back then?" The old man looked over and nodded, with a look of embarrassment on his face. However, it is really difficult to connect this old man with elegant manners and quick eyes with the Soviet Red Army machine gunner. However, this is a fact. This old man is not only a machine gunner of the Soviet Red Army, but even has a Soviet name——Rosa. In 1941, the German Nazis launched a crazy attack on Moscow.In order to defend the capital of the Soviet Union, Stalin held a military parade on Red Square. The Soviet Red Army soldiers who participated in the parade shouted "Ula" and went directly to the front line. The heroic Moscow defense battle kicked off.Rosa, who was studying at the First International Children's Academy at the time, joined the Red Army Reserve Army and passed the training of a machine gunner. She was only 17 years old.Under the banner of "Everything for the Front", she joined the ranks of the anti-fascist fight that lasted for four years.She, named Li Tete, is the only daughter of Li Fuchun and Cai Chang.

This life experience made me unable to bear to look at this old man again. Li Fuchun and Cai Chang, a red couple, got married in France (Deng Xiaoping witnessed the marriage). There is such a memory about them, because they lived abroad for a long time, influenced by the Western way of life, they always hug and kiss when they meet again after a long absence.Many old colleagues who have studied in France know their habit.Once, when Li Fuchun returned from a visit, Cai Chang went to the airport to greet him.As soon as Li Fuchun stepped out of the cabin, Chen Yi jokingly said: "Sister, hurry up! Do a foreign courtesy!" Cai Chang greeted Li Fuchun with a smile on his face, hugged and kissed Li Fuchun warmly.It amazed everyone present who didn't know why.

This should not be a legend. In Quan Yanchi's description, Zhou Enlai always called Deng Yingchao "Xiaochao", which is exactly in contrast to Li Fuchun.Li Fuchun always calls his wife Cai Chang "sister", even in grand public occasions.And every time we meet again after goodbye, we must hug and kiss, and don't mind what people around us think.If Zhou Enlai is like a big brother in front of Deng Yingchao, then Li Fuchun is really like a little brother in front of Cai Chang. I once saw Cai Chang holding his little brother Li Fuchun’s face and kissing him like a big sister. This was probably during the work-study program in France. The reason for being influenced by Western civilization like Paris.

It turns out that this old man in a red dress, a female machine gunner of the Soviet Red Army in the Great Patriotic War, is the crystallization of this red romance. However, the parents that the old man recalled were not so western.She recalled that during the "Cultural Revolution", Li Fuchun was accused of being a "black general in February against the current" and framed.But he always refused to check.Cai Chang was also deprived of power in the Women's Federation, and she was forced to "draw a clear line" with Li Fuchun.At the most severe moment of the struggle, "whenever my father went out to accept criticism, my mother always waited in the living room for his return, brought a cup of strong tea, silently accompanied him, and shared his spiritual pain."

Looking at the old man's smile, I suddenly remembered that in the first half of his life, parents who were busy with work could hardly give their children the love of an ordinary family; in the second half of his life, there were also many difficult moments due to political upheavals. However, she still loves to laugh like that. For a moment, the shadow of the old man and the figures of the female soldiers in "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" suddenly merged into one. At this time, I remembered the name of the Soviet Red Army song that has been echoing in the venue. That's a song from "Holy War."

Pay tribute to the Chinese veterans who died and survived that holy war.