Chapter 45 3. She sang folk songs and became a star. Once, she sang alone and made a company of recruits popular

In 1931, Zeng Zizhen and others were assigned to the Xingguo Independence Group to carry out propaganda work. During this period, she met a legendary figure.The name of this person is Lu Dexian, who is well-known in the revolutionary history of Xingguo County, and people call him "Xia Boyang" in China. Lu Dexian was the leader of the "Dinglong" riot in the early revolution of Xingguo, the pioneer of the revolutionary struggle in Xingguo County, and was the head of the Xingguo County Independent Group at that time.He is of medium build, with sharp eyes, a mustache on his upper lip, and a tuft of beard on his lower lip. He wears a wide coat and wears two pistols on his waist.Lu Dexian is not only good at galloping on horseback, but also good at running fast. He can shoot from left to right and with both hands. He is a famous sharpshooter in the Central Soviet Area.

Not only was Lu Dexian accurate in shooting, he was also born fair, tall and handsome, and he was a well-known handsome man in the local Red Army.Not only that, Lu Dexian is also born with a good singing talent.He has a strong ability to compose and sing, he can compose and sing whatever he sees, and he just opens his mouth. In his spare time, he often discusses with Zeng Zizhen how to compose, antiphonal and battle songs.Gradually, the sex songs in Zeng Zizhen's mouth also turned into new revolutionary songs. Once, when the team was stationed in a place called Shau Kei Wo, Lu Dexian and Zeng Zizhen rested under a big tree to compose songs.

At this time, a woman named Sweet Potato, who was tall and thick, held a stick in her hand, swearing, chasing and beating her little husband who was 4 years younger than her.The little husband is only 15 years old. Although he is flexible, he can't run away from the sweet potato lady. A circle of people who watched the fun laughed. Zeng Zizhen saw it at the side and felt that the influence was not good, so she sang: "Oh, sister-in-law, housekeeper, please be careful, don't worry if you are angry, children will always do wrong things, be patient and reason." Everyone laughed when they heard it.The sweet potato woman listened and gave Zeng Zizhen a hard look.

Someone explained that the child was not her child, but her little husband.Zeng Zizhen felt a little embarrassed when he heard it. Lu Dexian laughed and immediately started singing. "Oh, sister-in-law and sister-in-law take a breath, men and women are equal as husband and wife, it's not right to bully the weak by the strong, and it's more affectionate to discuss things." After singing, the sweet potato woman was embarrassed to chase and beat the little husband, and threw the stick in her hand. Then he gave Zeng Zizhen and Lu Dexian a hard look, and left angrily. The little husband was so tired that he was out of breath, so he sat down to rest.After hearing everyone's teasing, he also laughed happily.

Unexpectedly, when the team left Shau Kei Wo, there was one more person.It turned out that the little husband who was beaten was determined not to be a little husband, but to be a little red soldier.In this way, Zeng Zizhen and Lu Dexian sang folk songs, and they became popular by the way. Lu Dexian had a black woolen coat, which was a very rare treasure at that time.In the cold weather, it is windproof and majestic to wear on the body, and it is very warm to sleep at night as a quilt. This is his beloved thing, and others can only touch it but not borrow it. However, sometimes Zeng Zizhen was very cold, so she borrowed it to wear it and covered it up a few times.Later, this black woolen coat was lost in a battle.

On that day, a detachment of the independent team climbed mountains and ridges to Ruokeng Village in Gaoxing Township.Lu Dexian and Zeng Zizhen walked all the way, singing folk songs all the way. In the distance, an army came down from the opposite mountain, and a red flag was also flying in front of the team.Zeng Zizhen's sharp eyes saw that the uniforms of that team were different from those of the Red Army, so she said: "Regimental Commander, the White Army is coming ahead." Captain Lu said, "You read it wrong, that is the Red Army, not the White Army." After walking a little closer, it was indeed the White Army that came ahead.

Head Lu ordered the troops to retreat immediately, and the Bai army followed suit.The road was crowded and narrow, and the team couldn't run fast. The situation suddenly became urgent.Because Lu Dexian and Zeng Zizhen started to walk in front of the team, and walked behind the team as soon as they retreated. Lu Dexian was wearing a woolen overcoat, stumbling around. Zeng Zizhen saw that the situation was not good, and shouted: "Commander, sacrifice your coat!" Lu Dexian said: "Okay." Zeng Zizhen helped him take off his coat and threw it on the side of the road. Seeing such a fine woolen coat, the chasing Bai Jun rushed over to snatch it.Commander Lu gave an order when he saw the opportunity, and the Red Army lay down together and fired a burst of guns. The White Army left a few corpses and fled.The red army turned around and chased the white army, but the coat was lost.

There are folk songs because of feelings, and emotion is the inner life of folk songs. What a good mountain singer Lu Dexian is, in the common battle and singing career, little by little, he improved Zeng Zizhen's ability to compose songs, and established a deep relationship with Zeng Zizhen. On May 19, 1932, Lu Dexian was falsely accused of being an "AB" regiment, and it disappeared overnight, at the age of 38.The death of Lu Dexian is a song of pain that Zeng Zizhen will never sing in his heart. Folk songs have souls.Singing folk songs is the most enjoyable, but also the most painful, because folk songs are also full of blood and tears.

The most unforgettable thing about Zeng Zizhen is the story of the third campaign against encirclement and suppression, on the battlefield of Laoyingpan. The old camp is the ancient camp, which is the camp where the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom once stationed troops and fought wars.About 20 kilometers away from Xingguo County, the mountains here are steep and easy to defend but difficult to attack.The Red Army has assembled a large number of troops many times and fought a life-and-death battle with the White Army here. On the eve of departure, my sister-in-law came over and asked Zeng Zizhen to bring two pairs of straw sandals, a bamboo tube with pickled vegetables, and fried chili with dried fish.

As soon as Zeng Zizhen arrived at the old camp, he went to look for and visit his brother.My brother's troops also took part in the battle on the Laoyingpan battlefield. When they met suddenly on the battlefield, they were very excited. The brother and sister held hands and told each other about the situation at home and the experience after parting. Zeng Zizhen handed over the straw sandals brought by his sister-in-law, fried chili dried fish with pickled vegetables, and handed them to his brother one by one. The elder brother immediately opened the lid of the bamboo jar, and with his dark hands, took a piece of dried fish into his mouth. Seeing that his sister was ashamed of himself, he picked up another piece of dried fish and fed it to her mouth.The two chewed the dried fish, looked at each other and smiled... how many words have to be said, and the battle started before the words were finished. The elder brother told the younger sister to go back to a safe place. He waved his hands and said with a smile:

"Sister, you sing folk songs really well, wait a minute and sing louder, we all like to hear you sing folk songs!" "Okay, I will sing folk songs hard to encourage you, you must fight bravely!" On the battlefield, Zeng Zizhen sang many folk songs, and the Red Army also won a big victory. After the battle, the younger sister went to look for her brother, asking from camp to camp, but she couldn't find him. A fellow villager told her: "Your brother was very brave in the war, but he was killed!" In an instant, the sky was dark, and the younger sister couldn't believe her ears. Wasn't it just a few hours ago? , the words are not finished yet. Tears flowed down like a river.She staggered, climbed up the hill, stumbled, and searched among the corpses. There were several holes on the brother's body, and his body was soaked in blood, which was beyond recognition. It was the bamboo jars, pickles, and straw sandals in the backpack that proved his identity. That night, at the victory celebration meeting, Zeng Zizhen was the only one missing.The soldiers whispered to each other and talked a lot. At the end of the party, the soldiers finally couldn't bear it anymore. A soldier on the left stood up and called "Zeng Zizhen—" and two or three soldiers on the right stood up and shouted: "Zeng Zizhen", as if firing a signal flare. More and more fighters stand up.In an instant, tens of thousands of soldiers all stood up, and the shouts became an overwhelming wave. "Zeng Zizhen, Zeng Zizhen—" The performance could no longer go on, and there might be troubles. In desperation, the leader had no choice but to tell the soldiers the truth: Zeng Zizhen was not on the stage, she did not come back for dinner, and she is still seeing off her brother in the back mountain. "Zeng Zizhen, Zeng Zizhen." The excited soldiers only heard his name but didn't see him, and couldn't hear or listen to those explanations.They must meet Zeng Zizhen -- this long-awaited star. Just when the leader was at a loss, Zeng Zizhen came back suddenly and appeared on the stage.In just half a day, she seemed to have lost weight, her eyes were red and swollen, and her dusty military uniform was stained with blood.She bent down, respectful, and saluted the soldiers, and the applause sounded like thunder. "My brother died, and I just buried his body. My brother fell, and all your soldiers are my brothers and sisters." With a hoarse voice, Zeng Zizhen described the situation when he met his brother during the day: "Brother, brother, don't you want to hear my sister sing a folk song? My sister will sing it to you now..." She cried and sang: "My brother died and my sister came to bury her. Her body was stained with blood and her heart was moistened. I will never forget a stroke of hatred. I will sing on stage overnight." A hoarse voice floated in the night sky.Under the reflection of several bright gas lamps and horse lanterns, Zeng Zizhen's tears dripped down like strings of silver beads.As she sang, she burst into tears... There was a lot of sighing on and off the stage, and the old camp night wind whimpered and wailed endlessly. It was a night of tears flowing like rivers. Wherever there is a war, the folk song team will be transferred there.After getting along with the war for a long time, Zeng Zizhen has been tempered calmly.Decades later, people still tell her jokes, telling stories about her telling men to hide under her skirts. It was the beginning of 1932. The troops went to Yudu County to besiege the bandits in Ma'anshishangbao and wipe out Zhang Xiuxian's Jingwei regiment. At that time, the most powerful weapon of the White Army was aircraft, and many Red Army soldiers were killed in every battle.The Red Army only knew that the planes were powerful, but they didn't quite understand the principles of the planes, and they were a little bit pale when they talked about them. On the march that day, a plane from the White Army arrived. A comrade who had just joined the battle was timid and terrified. call: "Hey, man who is afraid of death, hide under my apron!" As soon as he finished speaking, everyone laughed, and the comrade also laughed, embarrassed to hide again.In fact, it was a transport plane of the White Army and would not drop bombs. During the war, Xingguo folk songs not only inspired the fighting spirit of the Red Army, but also played a role in disintegrating the White Army. In the spring and summer of 1931, the 60th and 61st divisions of the Kuomintang invaded and occupied Xingguo County. Because the people in the Soviet area were hard-pressed and cleared the fields, the Bai army was besieged in the city. They could not buy vegetables and food if they had money.With food and lack of vegetables, a small group of white troops sneaked out of the city to loot. One day, the platoon leader of the Bai Army stationed in the county led a group of soldiers to cross the Lianjiang River out of the county and went to Hanwu and Changgang on the opposite bank to grab food and vegetables. Unexpectedly, just as they were about to step into the village, they were discovered by Zeng Zizhen's folk song team. One after another folk songs, smashed over head and face. "White Army officers and soldiers must listen clearly, do not come to beat your own family, put down your weapons and surrender, and ensure your life is safe." "The officers and soldiers of the White Army must listen clearly. It is up to you to surrender or not. You are very welcome to surrender. If you do not surrender, you will not show mercy." Hearing the bursts of folk songs, the Bai Army was in a dilemma.If you advance, you are afraid of meeting the Red Army guerrillas who will shoot you in volleyball, and if you retreat, you will return to the city and be scolded by the chief.Because after tossing and tossing for a long time, they didn't find even a chicken feather, and they didn't find a single chaff. Sleepy and tired, the white soldiers simply sat in the shade of a tree to rest and listen to folk songs. "Oh, the soldiers of the White Army are so pitiful. Their shirts and trousers are torn and no one repairs them. They are hungry and have no food and drink. They can't sleep at night when they think of their parents..." They are all Cantonese soldiers and are familiar with Hakka accents.Listening, thinking, and missing the young and old in the family, I couldn't help being moved, and they all sighed. Suddenly, the platoon leader Lao threw his hands: "Fuck it, I'll die anyway if I go back, let's go—" He actually led a group of brothers to defect and defected to the Red Army. When it comes to the Red Army's political attack, the White Army officers at the front hated and hated singing folk songs. In the summer of 1931, after the Kuomintang occupied Xingguo, a head of the White Army sent his men to capture the female folk singers of the Red Army. In Niukengtang in Xingguo, he personally commanded and killed a dozen female mountain singers including Mao Nili. After the victory of the world-famous "Ningdu Military Violence", Xingguo County organized a massive consolation team to go to Ruijin and Shicheng to give condolences. There were many condolences, including more than 100 live pigs.Twenty-three members of the Red Army folk song team went, including Xie Changbao, Zhong Meisheng and others. Because the road was far away, everyone went on horseback. Before leaving, the leader called them away alone, and quietly told them: "You girls, be careful. The Fifth Army has just been reorganized from the White Army. It still has the barbaric habits of warlords. It is not as disciplined as the Red Army. When you see a girl, hug it and leave..." The girls were scared when they heard it Terrible, everyone said, since this is the case, then we will not go to comfort them.The leader hurriedly said, condolences should still be condolences, if you can pay attention, try to pay attention, if you don't notice, there is no way, there will be sacrifices in war? !Singing folk songs is also fighting.No way, they prepared to go to Ruijin and Shicheng with the spirit of sacrifice. "Ningdu was violent", more than 10,000 people from the 26th Route Army of the Kuomintang formed the Fifth Red Army, which was stationed in Qiuxi, Shicheng for reorganization. The Fifth Red Army Corps are all from the north, tall, well-armed, and majestic. The local people jokingly call them "Northern Guys". "Beigulao" also likes to watch the folk song team's performance.They are different from the local people when watching the opera. When the local people are happy watching, they will stand up and shout and cheer. When they watch the opera, they are used to applauding when they are happy. At the beginning, when the girls saw the "Beigu guy" coming, they felt uneasy. It can be seen that the "Beigu guy" speaks pleasantly and behaves very civilized, so they feel relieved. After returning from Shicheng, I went to Ruijin, where there are also some "Northern Guys".The folk song team lived in an ancestral hall called Guancangxia in Ruijin, and performed for more than 20 days before returning to Xingguo.There has never been a "North Guy" hugging a woman. Later, Zeng Zizhen also hung up the post of inspector of the provincial party committee, and took the folk song team there to sing and express condolences many times. Zeng Zizhen remembers some songs all her life. "Alas - we are a model county for rejuvenating the country, and the expansion of the Red Army is voluntary; women learn to plow and rake the fields, and they can do both plowing and three harrowing..." In the interview, Zeng Zizhen said: "Sister Cai Chang was the minister of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee at the time. , also in charge of women's work, listened to my singing, liked it very much, ran to the backstage, picked me up and twirled. She was older than me, and had a lot to say with us, chatting non-stop. When it comes to women giving birth If she couldn’t give birth, she said that she could have a caesarean section. We didn’t know what a caesarean section was. She explained that the doctor used a knife to open the woman’s stomach, took out the baby and then sewed it back. It’s like mending the belly like clothes? We didn’t believe it at the time , Sister Cai lifted up her clothes and showed us the scar from her operation. We saw a trace that had been mended with needles and thread. partner". One of them was named Xie Changbao.Xie Changbao is not tall and has pockmarks on his face, which can't be seen when he puts on makeup. He is very beautiful.He is articulate, good at speech, and is particularly provocative. He sings like a small river, and his voice is never hoarse.When he and Zeng Zizhen came on stage, they often couldn't get off the stage, singing one song after another. That day, the two were "stuck" again on the stage of the Chen Family Ancestral Hall, and sang folk songs all night. It was almost dawn, but the soldiers and the masses refused to let them step down. In the hearts of the Red Army and the masses, Zeng Zizhen and Xie Changbao's folk song duet is the best program to listen to.So we often call names and ask them to go to the front to sing.Once, when the battle was raging, Zeng Zizhen and Xie Changbao came to the line of fire. Seeing that the Red Army was already in a tight spot, the two sang folk songs with their voices open. "The sound of artillery fire comes to the sound of bugles, play a folk song for the Red Army to listen to, and fight the enemy to the death, and a hundred thousand straw sandals will be sent to you." Enemy." They sang and sang unrepentantly, but who knows, this folk song didn't work.The White Army fought more and more fiercely, and Jier launched a large-scale countercharge. Zeng Zizhen and Xie Changbao braved the enemy's artillery fire and still sang and sang.Suddenly, there was a sound like wind, and several machine gun bullets swept over.Zeng Zizhen felt a burst of heat on his face and neck, and when he touched it, his head and face were covered with bloody brains. "Wow, I'm injured." She moved a bit, her hands and feet could still move, and then she looked to the side, her singing partner Xie Changbao's head was blown, and he fell to the ground, twitching like a chicken and burrowing into the soil, and then remained motionless. up. The Red Army was defeated, and Zeng Zizhen remained silent for several days. In war, sacrifice and failure are normal things, and she sang again after a few days.During the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Red Army was exhausted, and it was difficult to recruit troops.Some young people put forward conditions when they went to the Red Army, and specifically asked Zeng Zizhen to sing folk songs for them, so that he was willing to join the army without hesitation. Decades later, Zeng Zizhen still remembered: "Li Shunda and others in Chengtang are like this. And my younger brother is also like this. The younger brother just got married and was reluctant to have a new wife. His superiors mobilized him to become the Red Army. He said he would listen to his sister. I went to sing folk songs. I came back from other places to comfort them, and I sang for them. After listening to the folk songs, they really went to the Red Army. In my singing, I don’t know how many people went to the Red Army. My four brothers, one after another I went to join the Red Army, 4 people, and I never came back, and there was no news after I left.” At that time, she recruited a company of recruits by herself.