What heroes do you know about China?

Wang Erxiao

Born in 1929 in Shangzhuang Village, Laiyuan County, Hebei Province. During the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Erxiao's hometown was the Eighth Route Army's anti-Japanese base area and was often "swept up" by the Japanese. Wang Erxiao was a member of the village's children's league. He often herded cattle on the hillside while keeping watch for the Eighth Route Army. In 1942, Er Xiao was thirteen years old. On October 25th (September 16th in the lunar calendar), the Japanese came to raid again and lost their way when they reached the mountain pass. The enemy saw Wang Erxiao grazing cattle on the hillside and asked him to lead the way. Wang Erxiao walked in front pretending to be obedient. In order to protect the villagers who had moved into hiding, he led the enemy into the Eighth Route Army's ambush. Suddenly, gunshots rang out from all directions. The enemy knew that they had been fooled, and angrily threw Wang Erxiao to death on the stone. At this time, the Eighth Route Army rushed down from the mountain and wiped out all the enemies. The blood of Wang Erxiao dyed the sky red! ! !

After Wang Erxiao died, local soldiers and civilians buried him on the hillside of Liujiazhuang. At that time, Comrade Zhang Shikui, who was a cadre of the Youth Rescue Association of Laiyuan County (later a retired cadre of Baoding City) received the news and immediately reported it to the Youth Rescue Association of the Border Region. The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Daily published the news on the first page. Lyricist Fang Bing and composer Jie Fu immediately composed the song "Singing the Second Little Cowherd" based on this report. This song has been sung to this day and has infected countless young people. Now, the grave of Wang Erxiao is covered with green grass. The big stone stained red by his blood is still lying quietly in the ravine. People call it the "blood-colored stone".

In order to commemorate the little hero Wang Erxiao, the China Youth Foundation built the "Wang Erxiao Hope Primary School" in Shangzhuang Village, Laiyuan County, the hometown of the second primary school. Chen Mo, an old writer who participated in the revolution during the Yan'an period, created The revolutionary traditional documentary novel "Young Hero Wang Erxiao".

Zhang Zizhong (this person is super famous)

Zhang Zizhong (1891.8.11-1940.5.16), courtesy name Xinchen, was a lieutenant general in the Army of the Republic of China. After his death, he was posthumously awarded the rank of Second Class Colonel General rank, famous anti-Japanese general and national hero. Han nationality, from Tangyuan Village, Linqing, Shandong Province. In 1911, he secretly joined the Tongmenghui while studying at the Tianjin School of Law and Politics, and in 1914 he joined the army. In 1917, he joined Feng Yuxiang's department and served successively as battalion commander, regiment commander, brigade commander, division commander and other positions. After the Central Plains War in 1930, Feng Yuxiang's military group was disintegrated, and Zhang Zizhong's troops were incorporated by Chiang Kai-shek. After 1931, Zhang Zizhong served as the commander of the 38th Division of the 29th Army, the commander of the 59th Army, the Commander-in-Chief of the 33rd Group Army and the Commander of the Right Wing Corps of the 5th Theater. In 1937, after Shanghai and Nanjing fell successively, the Japanese invaders directed their troops towards Xuzhou, aiming to seize this strategic location. In March 1938, the Japanese army invested 70,000 to 80,000 troops and marched in two directions towards Taierzhuang in the northeast of Xuzhou. When they arrived at Linyi and Tengxian, fierce battles broke out with the Chinese army. The 3rd Army Corps of Pang Bingxun was guarding Linyi at that time. Due to the huge disparity in strength and heavy casualties, Pang's troops were in urgent need of reinforcements. Zhang Zizhong was ordered to lead the 59th Army to arrive in time for reinforcements at a speed of 180 miles a day and night. Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun were enemies for a long time, but he put aside personal grudges and led his troops to fight together with Pang Bingxun. Under the cover of aircraft and artillery, the enemy troops cooperated with tanks and armored vehicles to launch an attack on the Tea Mountain position. With the determination to "kill the enemy with all his life" and "serve the motherland in case of emergency", Zhang Zizhong fought fiercely with the enemy and repeatedly fought hand-to-hand. At the foot of the cliff at the foot of Tea Mountain, the Liujiahu position was lost and recovered three or four times, and the battle was extremely fierce. After several days of fierce fighting, the enemy suffered heavy losses and retreated steadily. The Chinese army successively recaptured Mengyin and Ju counties, annihilating more than 4,000 enemies. Soon, the Japanese army sent the Sakamoto Brigade to launch an offensive against Linyi and Sanguan Temple in an attempt to make a breakthrough. The two armies of Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun fought hard. After a fierce battle all night, the Japanese army suffered a heavy blow. Their strategic attempt to reinforce the front line of Taierzhuang was completely shattered, ensuring the victory of the Taierzhuang battle.

In May 1940, in order to control traffic on the Yangtze River and cut off transportation lines to Chongqing, the Japanese army assembled 300,000 troops to launch the Zaoyi Battle. At that time, only two regiments of the 33rd Group Army of the Chinese Army were stationed on the west bank of the Xianghe River. As the commander-in-chief of the group army, Zhang Zizhong did not have to personally lead the troops to attack, but he ignored the repeated dissuasion of his subordinates and insisted on leaving the deputy commander-in-chief to stay. On the evening of May 6, he wrote a letter to deputy commander-in-chief and commander of the 77th Army Feng Zhian:

"My dear brother, I have met: Because of the all-out war in the theater and my own responsibilities, I have to cross the river to fight the enemy. It has been decided to march to the east bank of Xianghe River tonight and arrive at Hedong. Later, if we can get in touch with the 38th Division and the 179th Division, we will lead the two divisions to fight against the enemy advancing north at all costs. If we can't get in touch with the 179th Division and the 38th Division, we will lead three of the cavalry divisions. As a group, we are heading north towards our ultimate goal (death). No matter whether we do good or bad, we must seek comfort for our conscience. From now on, we will have to ask my brother to take responsibility for both public and private matters. You know, this is Buda." He personally led more than 2,000 people to fight across the river.

On May 1st, Zhang Zizhong personally wrote to all the troops and generals: "The country has reached such a point that there is no other way except for us to die for it. I even believe that as long as we can stick to this determination "Our country and our five-thousand-year-old nation will never die at the hands of a mere three-island Japanese slaves. Our determination to die for our country and our nation will never change even if the sea is clear and the stone is not broken." Zhang Zizhong led more than 2,000 people. After crossing the Xianghe River eastward, they attacked bravely and cut off the Japanese 13th Division in the middle.

The Japanese army then used superior forces to encircle and attack Zhang Zizhong's troops. Zhang Zizhong did not flinch and commanded his troops to charge more than 10 times at an enemy that was one and a half times their number. The Japanese suffered heavy casualties.

On May 15, more than 10,000 Japanese troops launched a pincer attack on the troops led by Zhang Zizhong from the north and south. The fierce fighting lasted until dawn on the 16th, and Zhang Zizhong's troops were forced to retreat into the Pumpkin Shop Shili Changshan. Under the cover of aircraft and artillery, the Japanese army launched a fierce attack on the Chinese army's positions. Launched 9 charges throughout the day and night. Zhang Zizhong's casualties increased sharply, and the fighting became unprecedentedly fierce.

In one day on May 16, Zhang Zizhong shouted to supervise the battle from morning to noon. At noon, he was shot in his left arm and still insisted on directing the battle. By 2 p.m., Zhang Zizhong had only a few hundred officers and soldiers left. He transferred all his guards to the front for reinforcements, leaving only eight people including senior staff officer Zhang Jing and adjutant Ma Xiaotang. He took out a pen and wrote a final report of nearly 100 words to the theater headquarters. When he handed it to Ma Xiaotang, he said: "I fought hard and died. I feel that I have no regrets for the country and the nation. You should work hard to kill the enemy and not let down my ambition." "Later, Zhang Zizhong was hit by a machine gun bullet in the waist again. He lay down on the ground and fought bloody battles until he died heroically.

After Zhang Zizhong died in battle, the Japanese discovered the body of General Zhang. They examined it and found it to be correct. They worshiped together, buried it with fine wood, and erected a wooden plaque. The entire army saluted him. Even when his body was transported back to the rear, the Japanese army received the news and ordered a halt to the air force's air raids for one day to avoid damaging Zhang Zizhong's body. It can be seen that the military ethics displayed by General Zhang Zizhong during the Anti-Japanese War moved even the Japanese army who advocated militarism at the time.

Chiang Kai-shek was shocked to hear that Zhang Zizhong had been martyred, and immediately ordered the 5th Theater Command to retrieve Zhang Zizhong's remains at any cost. More than a hundred outstanding soldiers snatched General Zhang's body and transported it to Chongqing overnight. When the coffin passed through Yichang, the city's flags flew at half-mast, and more than 100,000 people went to pay homage. When the coffin arrived in Chongqing, Chiang Kai-shek came to greet the coffin in person and offered sacrifices. He held the coffin and cried bitterly, and wrote a handwritten plaque with the words "Heroes for a lifetime" in praise. Mao Zedong inscribed "Serve the country with all my loyalty". Zhang Zizhong was only 50 years old when he died for his country. His wife, Ms. Li Minhui, died on a seven-day hunger strike after hearing the news of his death. The couple was buried together at the foot of Meihua Mountain in Chongqing. Later, the General Zhang Zizhong Cemetery and the General Zhang Zizhong Memorial Hall and the Military Life and Deeds Exhibition Hall were built. . Zhou Enlai once personally wrote an article praising Zhang Zizhong as "his loyalty and heroic spirit can be regarded as the soul of the Chinese anti-Japanese war soldiers."

Yue Fei's famous saying: "Civil officials do not care about money, but military attachés do not hesitate to die, and the world will be peaceful!" General Zhang Zizhong's resistance against Japan embodies this spirit of "military officers do not hesitate to die". His last words before his death were:

"I died well and gloriously like this. My conscience is at peace for my country, my nation, and my superiors." When he was dying, he still kept thinking "This is how I died." Die well... Conscience is at peace."

On April 16, 1982, the People's Republic of China government posthumously recognized Zhang Zizhong as a "revolutionary martyr."

In 1991, to commemorate the centenary of Zhang Zizhong’s birth, Hubei Province built the General Zhang Zizhong Memorial Hall in Yicheng.

Zhao Yiman

After the September 18th Incident in 1931, Zhao Yiman was sent to the Northeast region by the Chinese Communist Party to lead the revolutionary struggle. In 1934, he served as a member of the Zhuhe Center County Committee and Secretary of the Railway North District Committee of the Communist Party of China. He organized the Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Force and launched a guerrilla war against the Japanese army. In 1935, he served as the political commissar of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division of the 3rd Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army. In November, he was unfortunately arrested due to leg injuries while fighting with the Japanese and puppet troops. In order to obtain valuable information from Zhao Yiman, the Japanese army found a military doctor to briefly treat his leg injury and then conducted a harsh interrogation on him overnight.

Facing the ferocious Japanese army, Zhao Yiman, who did not care about life and death, endured the pain and angrily denounced the various crimes committed by the Japanese army since they invaded China. Seeing that Zhao Yiman refused to give in, the brutal Japanese army stabbed the wound in his leg with a riding crop. Zhao Yiman, who was seriously injured, showed the strong will of a Communist Party member and the determination to fight to the death. He fainted several times from the pain, but still firmly said: "My purpose, my doctrine, my belief." , that is, anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese." He did not say a word about the situation of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

On December 13, 1935, because Zhao Yiman suffered a serious leg injury and was in critical condition, the Japanese army sent her to Harbin Municipal Hospital for surveillance and treatment in order to obtain an important confession. While Zhao Yiman was hospitalized, she took advantage of various opportunities to educate her policeman Dong Xianxun and female nurse Han Yongyi on anti-Japanese patriotism. The two were deeply moved and decided to help Zhao Yiman escape from the clutches of the Japanese army. On June 28, 1936, Dong Xianxun and Han Yongyi carried Zhao Yiman out of the hospital and put him in a car hired in advance. After going around, Zhao Yiman arrived at the home of Dong Xianxun's uncle in the Jin family shack in Acheng County. On June 30, Zhao Yiman was unfortunately caught up by the Japanese troops who were chasing him on his way to the anti-Japanese guerrilla zone, and fell into the hands of the Japanese troops again.

After Zhao Yiman was brought back to Harbin, the brutal Japanese military police subjected her to more severe torture methods such as the tiger bench and pepper water. According to enemy and puppet archives, the Japanese military police brutally tortured her in order to force her to reveal the secrets of the Anti-League and the Party’s underground organization. Dozens of torture methods were used before and after torture, including electrocution. But she remained unyielding and never revealed any truth.

The Japanese army knew that they could not get any useful information from Zhao Yiman, so they decided to send her back to Zhuhe County to execute her "in public display".

On August 2, Zhao Yiman was put on a train to Zhuhe County (now Shangzhi City). She knew that the Japanese army was going to shoot her. At this time, she thought of her son who was far away in Sichuan. She asked the escorting police for a Using pen and paper, I wrote a tear-jerking suicide note to my son: "Mom, I am really sorry that you failed to fulfill your educational responsibilities. Because my mother resolutely fought against the Manchus and resisted Japan, today has reached the eve of her death. . I hope you, Ning'er, will grow up as soon as possible to comfort your underground mother! When you grow up, I hope you will not forget that your mother died for the country!"

The Chinese people will never forget it! Keep in mind the tragic anti-Japanese deeds of the female national hero Zhao Yiman. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu De wrote the inscription "Revolutionary hero Zhao Yiman and martyr will be immortal" for Zhao Yiman, and the city of Harbin named a main street where she fought as Yiman Street.

Yang Jingyu

Yang Jingyu (1905-1940.2.28) Chinese proletarian revolutionary, famous anti-Japanese national hero, one of the founders of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area and its Red Army, Northeast Anti-Japanese War One of the main leaders of the coalition. Henan Queshan people, Han nationality. His original name was Ma Shangde and his courtesy name was Jisheng.

On February 26, 1905 (the 23rd day of the first lunar month in the 31st year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), he was born into a poor peasant family in Liwan Village, Queshan County, Henan Province (now Yicheng District, Zhumadian City). When he was engaged in underground party work in Northeast China, he used the pseudonyms Zhang Guanyi and Naichao. When he went to South Manchuria to lead the anti-Japanese armed struggle in 1932, he changed his name to Yang Jingyu. Yang Jingyu's father, Ma Xiling, was a poor farmer.

Yang Jingyu entered a private school when he was eight years old. In 1918, he entered Queshan County Higher Primary School. In 1923, he entered Kaifeng Textile and Dye Industrial School and began to accept Marxism. In June 1925, he joined the Communist Youth League of China. In March 1927, in order to welcome the Northern Expeditionary Army's successful northward march, he led the Queshan Peasant Uprising. Joined the Communist Party of China in May of the same year. In early 1928, he was transferred to the Henan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and was arrested and imprisoned three times in Luoyang, Kaifeng and other places.

In 1929, he went to Northeast China on the order of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and served as secretary of the Fushun Special Branch of the Communist Party of China. He was arrested in the autumn of the same year and continued to fight in prison. After the September 18th Incident in 1931, he was released from prison and served as secretary of the Harbin Municipal Party Committee, member of the Manchuria Provincial Party Committee, and acting secretary of the Military Commission. He actively led the people of Northeast China in their anti-Japanese struggle. In 1933, he served as political commissar of the South Manchu Guerrilla Force of the 32nd Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and division commander and political commissar of the First Independent Division of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army. In 1934, he served as commander-in-chief of the South Manchuria Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, commander and political commissar of the First Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army. In 1937, he served as the commander-in-chief and political commissar of the First Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. The basic team consisted of more than 6,000 people and was distributed in southern Manchuria to carry out the anti-Japanese struggle. After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Yang Jingyu launched the Western Expedition, often attacking the Japanese army and supporting the struggle within the pass. In May 1938, a meeting was convened with party and army cadres in South Manchuria to discuss the strategy of adhering to guerrilla warfare. After the meeting, the anti-Japanese struggle was launched in Tonghua and Linjiang areas, dealing a heavy blow to the enemy and puppet troops. In the winter of the same year, the Japanese invaders implemented the inhumane policy of returning villages to villages and merging households, and colluded with Japanese armed settlers to intensify the destruction of the anti-Japanese base areas in South Manchuria. The situation of the anti-Japanese coalition forces became even more difficult. Yang Jingyu led more than 1,400 people from the First Route Army into the dense forests of Changbai Mountain. The following year, he suffered heavy losses in a battle with the enemy in Mengjiang County, leaving more than 400 people in his team. In January 1940, in order to solve the problem of army supplies, he ordered the main force of the army to go north and led a small force to march eastward. In the end, there were only 7 soldiers around him, and 4 were wounded. So Yang Jingyu ordered the four people to be transferred. Later, he sent the remaining two soldiers to find some food in the village. After coming down the mountain, the two soldiers were killed by the Japanese and puppet troops. Yang Jingyu understood everything. On February 22, I spent the last night of my life in a small shabby house in the snow. On February 23, Yang Jingyu, alone, met four Chinese people in front of Sandao Weizi, Baoan Village, Mengjiang County, Jilin Province (now Jingyu County). Yang Jingyu abided by the party's iron discipline and did not take any benefit from the masses, so he gave After getting the money, he asked one of them to help him buy some food and cotton shoes. That man returned to Datun and leaked the secret to the Japanese and puppet authorities; the Kwantung Army's crusade team surrounded the general and urgently summoned a puppet Manchukuo special agent team composed of anti-union traitors to join the battle; after several hours of fierce fighting, the general was shot in the vital part by a traitor's machine gun and died heroically. After an autopsy by the Japanese army, it was found that he actually fed on the cotton in the military coat, the bark on the trees, and the roots of grass under the snow. The brutal invaders were also shocked and impressed. Ryuichiro Kishitani, who killed the general back then, held a "special ceremony" for Yang Jingyu. "Solace Festival" and committed suicide on the eve of Japan's surrender in 1945. Cheng Bin, the traitor leader of the special agent team and former commander of the 1st Division of the 1st Anti-Japanese Allied Army, infiltrated the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi Province after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and was discovered and suppressed in the early 1950s.