Chapter 46 2. Look for veterans

I put the interview machine and notebook into the small military green satchel issued by the army and carried it on my shoulder. The travel maps of Hunan Province, Changsha, Changde, and Hengyang urban areas that I never left my hands rubbed out and replaced them with new ones.I walked on the roads half a century ago, looking for the history engraved on this land. Zhang Zhuowen, second lieutenant and platoon leader of the 2nd Battalion of the 305th Regiment of the 102nd Division of the 4th Army, defended Changsha in the fourth Changsha Battle (also known as the Changheng Battle) and was captured. Fifteen nights escaped from the tiger's mouth.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he retired to do business.After liberation, he successively worked in Hunan Textile Company and Provincial Chemical Industry Bureau, and retired in 1980.He died of illness shortly before I found him.

In the third Changsha battle, under the leadership of the division commander Fang Xianjue, Wu Zhongyu, the captain and company commander of the 28th Regiment of the 10th Division of the 10th Army, who participated in the defense of the city, died of pulmonary heart disease in March 1990. dusk.The bustling Huangxing South Road in the southern district of Changsha City.The house number on the address is a store selling local products and groceries. Yan E, also known as Yan Haixiang, served as the captain and company commander of the 9th Battalion 9th Battalion 3rd Battalion 195th Division 565th Brigade 1129th Regiment of the 52nd Army where Tan Yizhi was the division commander, and participated in the first Changsha Battle.Yan Guoliang, owner of the souvenir shop, is Yan E's nephew.

"Fourth Uncle (referring to Yan E), that life is too hard." The nephew said. "During the Spring Festival in 1986, it was either the second or fourth day of junior high school. At 3:30 in the middle of the night, there was a knock on the door. During the 'Cultural Revolution', historical issues were fixed. I worked outside (reform through labor) and came back that day. "In the middle of the night, it was cold. I lit a charcoal basin to warm the fire. I haven't seen each other for 20 years, and I don't know each other. He said that he was ashamed when he saw his nephew and daughter-in-law for the first time. I said it was a family, so don't be polite.

"It's a family, but he actually has a daughter, my cousin. After my aunt passed away, my cousin didn't recognize my father, so he had to come to me. "I lived here for half a year, and lived in my younger sister's house for two years. After mediation by relatives, I went back to my cousin's house. The fourth uncle had a serious lung disease, and there was blood in the sputum. The cousin was afraid of infecting the child, so he let him live in a room by himself. The hut delivered food every day. One day when I went to see him, he was lying on the bed. I saw a bowl beside the bed. I took a closer look and said, "Why do you just eat this?" My uncle said, "It's better to feed the pigs."

"In the last Spring Festival, my little sister and I went to my cousin's house. He couldn't move anymore and wanted to talk, but he was out of breath and couldn't say anything. He just looked at you and only shed tears. In the hall My younger sister lived at home for a year and died." "Did you know he had a good time in his life?" I asked. "Yes, yes. He was the battalion commander at the most (the information provided by the Whampoa Alumni Association is that he was the battalion commander of the 1st Battalion of the 187th Regiment of the 63rd Division)."

"Didn't he talk about beating devils?" I asked again. "I didn't say how detailed it is. I just said that Little Japan's soldiers are also very powerful. He has crawled back from the dead many times..." When I left Yan Guoliang's native product grocery store, the luxurious night in downtown Changsha had just begun, with dazzling neon lights and blaring music.Nowadays, big ballrooms have just cleared up the "accompaniment" phenomenon, and young girls with good figures and beautiful faces stand in groups at the door of the ballroom, waiting for guests to choose them to have a happy time together.The honest and honest rural youths in the labor market in Pioneer Hall have not dispersed.I wander the streets, not knowing where to go.

In the contact address of Wang Yidian, the former platoon leader of the 90th Division of the 4th Army, people said that he moved to Hexi (Changsha City) six months ago, but the exact address is unknown. Tang Renshou was the platoon leader of the 103rd Regiment of the 52nd Brigade of the 18th Division of the 2nd Army during the Songhu Battle.When Dachang fell, his division commander Zhu Yaohua shot himself.He was later transferred to the 177th Regiment of the 59th Division of the 4th Army as the company commander.During the fourth Changsha battle, the 177th regiment was the general reserve of the army. On the day of defeat, the regiment covered the army headquarters withdrew and suffered heavy losses.I searched for No. 42, Qingshan Temple, Changsha City according to the address.I found Qingshan Temple, but no one heard of No. 42. I asked the police station, and said it was demolished two months ago. I asked Tang Renshou, but they didn't know.

Li Jiarui, served as the instructor of the lieutenant company of the 190th Division 570 Regiment of the 10th Zhuyue Army during the Second Changsha Battle, and the instructor of the Lieutenant Company of the 28th Regiment of the 10th Division of Xianjue Pre-10th Division of the army during the three Changsha Battles. Captain Captain.Just as I was preparing for a good interview, I came to "No. 41 Shuyuan Road" according to the address.The master said: There has never been such a person, is it a mistake? No. 35, Shizichong, Laodong Road, Changsha City, the home of Wei Zhenzhao, second lieutenant and platoon leader of the 90th Division of the 4th Army.After walking around Shizichong on Laodong Road for several hours, I couldn't find No. 35.

During the Fourth Changsha Battle, Huang Binqing, lieutenant and platoon leader of the 1st Company of the Artillery Battalion of the 4th Army, had his home address at No. 273, Chuxiang Street, South District, Changsha City.Looking for it, there are no old and new ones 273.When asked, the old people vaguely remembered that in the early days of the "Cultural Revolution" there were large-character slogans that knocked him down on the street, but they never saw or heard anything. During the author's stay in Changsha, a new official of the city's leadership team took office, and the "Seminar on Building Changsha into a Modern International Metropolis" was being planned.Of course, this is something to do on the basis of a great development.There are many new buildings in Changsha. Citizens learn from Guangzhou and foreign countries.But at the same time, another thing is disappearing suddenly or quietly, which makes me inexplicably sad suddenly or quietly.

In the six battles in Hunan, Zeng Dewei, the platoon leader of the mortar company of the 1st Field Supplementary Regiment of the 79th Army, participated in two times, all of which were reinforcements.One was to reinforce the 57th Division of the 74th Army of Changde, and the other was to reinforce the 10th Army of Hengyang.In the late period of the War of Liberation, Zeng Dewei's troops were defeated on the mainland and headed for Taiwan.He didn't want to leave his hometown and sneaked back to his hometown.At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, you can’t be too left. His father was a landlord, and he was a small military officer of the Kuomintang. People from the peasant association in his hometown dug a hole and called him, and he jumped out of the window to escape.Avoid the most chaotic time, talk about the policy and don't bury people alive, but they often find out and criticize them. In 1981, the policy was implemented to return to the city according to retirement, 240 yuan per month, enough to eat, he said.

In the past, I dared not mention the history of the Anti-Japanese War, but now that the policy is good, I dare to tell others.That is a glorious history.Hello Deng Xiaoping, he said. 1995 was the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and the 60th anniversary of the marriage of Wu Kedi and Liang Dinggu. When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Wu Kedi changed his original name to this name, aiming at resisting Japanese aggression and defeating the enemy. He was admitted to the Hunan Wugang branch of Whampoa 18th, and joined the battlefield after graduating from the Artillery Department for two years.He is an only child, and he lived with his father after his mother died at the age of 6.My father said, you go, you must respect the chief when you are in the team. After graduating, I went to Rao Shaowei's 54th Division to report temporarily. On the same day, I received a letter that my father was critically ill. On the second day when I got home, my father died in peace.When they were in the military academy, the father and son often corresponded.My father said: Study hard, kill the enemy and serve the country.The son said, you must ask a doctor to see a doctor. In 1944, he participated in the Hengyang Defense War and served as the deputy commander of the mortar company, with 10 mortars in the whole company.One day when the enemy attacked, not far from the position, someone in the enemy group shouted: "Don't fight, it's your own!" Wu Kedi recognized the Hubei accent.Seeing the puppet army in uniform, he shouted: "It's not my own, it's from Hubei, fight!" When I got anxious, I called the puppet army "Hubei people". He defended the city for 47 days, and he was shot in the left leg and scalp. Fortunately, it was not heavy, and he did not go off the line of fire. He was captured until the city was broken, and soon fled. During the civil war, he was in the 154th brigade, and the troops were distracted. He took advantage of the opportunity to go to Hainan Island to pick up troops and ran back home. During the "Cultural Revolution", he was imprisoned in the cowshed together with many old Red Army soldiers and Lao Balu, and he felt quite balanced.Wearing a white cloth armband with the words "Historical counter-revolutionary Wu Kedi City Textile Revolutionary Committee People's Defense Organization System" and selling goods in the store.Many buyers whispered: "Old Wu, you should talk less and take care of your health."In addition to selling goods, he had to boil water for the revolutionary masses who fought against him, and sweep the streets for everyone to walk.If you do a job well, you can do it well, so that the revolutionary masses lose their temper, and the leaders say: "The policy is about to be implemented, you have to stick to it." Sure enough, the policy is implemented, and employees are retired.A daughter has long been married, and a grandson is the jewel in the palm of her hand, and she can't stop worrying about it.The old couple often had conversations about who died first, and the conclusion was: no one can live without the other, and no one can die first. The 50th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and the 60th anniversary of their marriage, the two old people remember these two historic days. I still remember the artillery command: "Turn left 15 degrees, salvo, let go!" 78-year-old Wu Kedi shouted.