1920 165438+ in October, Li Zhe was born in a peasant family in the fifth district of Yuncheng county (southwest of the ancient water margin). 1during the lugouqiao incident on July 7, 937, the Japanese army launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, and the Chinese nation was at a critical juncture of life and death. 65438+ On February 27th of the same year, Han Fuju, chairman of the Kuomintang Shandong Province, led 65438+ ten thousand troops fled without fighting, and Jinan, the provincial capital, fell. Since then, the Japanese bombed the main towns in southwest Shandong, and many shops, schools and houses were in ruins. Hundreds of people were killed and tens of thousands of people were homeless. Soon, the Japanese army occupied Jining, which is only 100 miles away from Yuncheng County. At that time, Li Zhe's Yuncheng Middle School was forced to suspend classes, and the school asked all students to go home. The dramatic changes in the situation make Li Zhe, who is 17 years old, worried. "I was very uncomfortable. When the country is in danger, what should we young people do, hide at home to take refuge, or stand up to resist Japan and save the country? " Li Zhe said.
After the school closed, Li Zhe didn't go home according to the requirements of the school, but found his friend branch when he was studying in Jinan No.1 Middle School, and had a heated discussion with several young students in Jiaodong on the current situation and the establishment of anti-Japanese organizations. Finally, it was decided to organize Yuncheng Youth Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Force, expand its membership, carry out anti-Japanese propaganda, and then gradually develop in the direction of establishing guerrillas and carrying out armed struggle.
Since then, under the leadership of local organizations, Yuncheng Youth Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Force has developed rapidly. 1938 just after the spring festival, the class organized by Yuncheng youth anti-Japanese self-defense group started. Most students are members of the self-defense group, and a few young students bring their own food and bedding. Study time is half a month. The content of study is the United front, guerrilla warfare and democratic movement. After the study, the students returned to the local area to publicize the anti-Japanese national United front policy put forward by * *, expand youth anti-Japanese self-defense organizations, collect folk guns and prepare for guerrilla warfare.
1938 Shortly after the fall of Yuncheng in April and May, the Central County Party Committee quickly organized an armed force of 100 with 50 or 60 guns based on the backbone of the Youth Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Corps, which was called the "Teaching Team". Its main task is to publicize the anti-Japanese war and disrupt enemy traffic, and it is active in the southwest of Yuncheng and on both sides of Yunhe Highway.
Spend the snowy New Year's Eve in the cypress forest.
After the establishment of the "Teaching Team", Li Zhe, who joined China, also grew up rapidly. 1940 in may, Li Zhe was transferred to shouzhang county as the organization department minister of the county party Committee. Shouzhang county spans the north and south banks of the Yellow River, and the third, fourth and sixth districts are not occupied by the enemy. At that time, the county party committee and government were stationed in four districts on the south bank of the Yellow River. 194 1 At the beginning of the year, the enemy launched the first "public security strengthening movement". 65438+1From mid-October to early February, more than 65438+ten thousand Japanese troops from 9 brigades and 7 mechanized regiments, under the cover of planes, launched a crazy mopping-up to the anti-Japanese base areas in southwest Shandong, and Shouzhang County was one of the key counties swept by the enemy. The enemy swept through more than 20 days, occupied a large area of villages and blocked the Shouzhang-Luancheng highway in an attempt to destroy the staff and armed forces of the party and government organs in the base area.
In this difficult situation, the county party committee and government decided to disperse their activities. Guo Shaochuan, the county magistrate, and Chen Yaqi, the deputy secretary of the county party committee, led some members of the county security team, county brigade and county organs to break through and move to the six western districts. Quang Hoa Le Li Zhe, secretary of the county party committee, led a small number of staff scattered in four districts to stick to their posts. From then on, Li Zhe and correspondent Xiao Yang went out at night, hid outside the village during the day, slept in the village at night and ate some dry food. Later, the enemy occupied most of the villages, so they had to stay in the wild all day and sleep in the Woods at night.
Li Zhe and correspondent Xiao Yang spent an unforgettable New Year's Eve on October 26th, 65438 (Lunar New Year's Eve). The two men hid in the cypress forest and stayed up until dawn, hungry and cold, looking forward to the arrival of the Lunar New Year. At this moment, an old man wearing a felt hat and carrying a basket came towards their cypress forest. When the two approached the old man, the old man was a little panicked. He is the "boss" and treats them as plain clothes of the enemy. When they learned the truth, the old people stopped being afraid and changed their names to "comrades".
Knowing the situation, Li Zhe asked the old man what was in the basket, and the old man said it was "steamed stuffed bun". Xiao Yang hurriedly said, "Grandpa, we haven't eaten for more than a day. Would you please sell us some steamed bread? " "My buns are not for sale, but I can give you some!" Hearing this, Li Zhe quickly said, "The Eighth Route Army and government workers cannot infringe upon the interests of the masses. We can't take it without collecting money! " Just then, the old man put down his basket and held out a big flower cake in his hand, which weighed two kilograms. He repeatedly said, "No money, no money!" "Although hungry, but Li See zhe didn't say, xiao Yang dare not accept. The old man said with tears in his eyes, "Are you fighting the Japanese traitors for our common people?"? ! We are a family, regardless of you and me. Comrade, take it! Seeing his sincerity, Li Zhe said "thank you" and motioned for Xiao Yang to accept it.
Two men left the cypress forest with big flower cakes. They walked under a big poplar tree and chewed the flower cake. After eating a few small pieces, I felt thirsty and couldn't find water, so I grabbed a handful of snow and stuffed it in my mouth. In this way, the two spent the most unforgettable Spring Festival in their lives.
Rush out of the cracks of the Japanese army and surround the iron wall.
1942 On September 26th (the second day after the Mid-Autumn Festival), Shouzhang County Committee held a meeting in Shiyuan Village near Qingshui River in District Seven to discuss the deployment of autumn work. Late that night, the patrol whistle sent by the county brigade came back to report that there was gunfire in the direction of the south bank of the Yellow River. After further reconnaissance, it was learned that the enemy had sent a sweeping team. At this time, the county party Committee made a decisive decision, and the county brigade quickly informed the company and county cadres to prepare for the battle immediately. At dawn, another scout reported that gunshots were also heard in the direction of the north bank of the Yellow River. The county brigade ordered all companies and county security teams to prepare for the battle and cover the transfer of county cadres to a village in the west.
At this point, it was already dawn, and the gunfire was getting closer and closer. After walking about 10, six district teams, the district government and the people on the south bank rushed to the north bank of the Yellow River with their cattle and sheep on their backs. The analysis believes that the enemy's deployment is large and the situation is urgent. Therefore, the county party Committee decided to continue westward and walked about 10. At the junction of Shouzhang and Fanxian, a village in the east of the old city just stopped. People running from north to south said that there was an enemy attack in the north, and gunshots could be faintly heard. People running from the west said that the military sub-division led a regiment of the Eighth Route Army to concentrate in the old city.
After hearing this message, the head of the county brigade immediately rode to the old city and demanded action. According to the report of the head of the county brigade, the enemy's sweeping was "surrounded by iron walls", surrounded by enemies on all sides, and the enemy was advancing in the direction of the old city. The situation is critical, the military sub-division is organizing a breakthrough to the south, and the county brigade must immediately organize a breakthrough. The county party committee decided that the county brigade and the county government staff would break through from the old city to the south, and the county party committee secretary Li Guang, the county magistrate Guo Shaochuan and Li Zhe led the county public security team and the district teams of the second and seventh districts to break through in the direction of the Qingshui River to the east.
At this point, the encirclement of the enemy gradually narrowed, and the sun flag could be seen on all sides. A few miles away in Fiona Fang, the county cadres, armed men and the masses of Shouzhang, Yuncheng, Juancheng, Fanxian and yanggu county gathered together. The enemy's machine guns and rifles fired wildly and bullets flew everywhere. From time to time, people were shot down ... The Eighth Route Army soldiers, under the command of Ceng Siyu, commander of the military region, and Wan Li, political commissar, were brave and tenacious, causing great losses to the enemy, and finally fought their way out and succeeded in breaking through.
Li Zhe and Quang Hoa Le, leading the county security team, used cornfields to advance invisibly. Concentrate fire when you meet a small enemy, and the machine guns and rifles are swept away. The enemy's main target is the old city, so we can't consider searching carefully. Quang Hoa Le Li Zhe led the county security team to use the favorable conditions such as being familiar with topography and geography, and finally killed them from the gap between the enemy encirclement. This breakthrough, the county brigade and the county security team also had several casualties, and Liu Yuqing, the stationmaster of the county traffic station, was seriously injured in the leg. Afterwards, it was learned that the tactics of "surrounded by iron walls" were adopted by the enemy's long-distance attack, and the infantry, cavalry and air force jointly fought and cooperated in depth. More than 0/000 Japanese troops and 30,000 puppet troops were dispatched, totaling more than 40,000.
The number of enemy troops deployed, the scope of sweeping and the cruelty of burning, killing and looting are unprecedented in Hebei, Shandong and Henan provinces. According to incomplete statistics, thousands of women, children and teenagers were killed by enemy guns in this "iron wall encirclement".
I spent most of my life fighting with the army in the south.
The Japanese committed unforgivable heinous crimes by burning, killing and looting in China. Li Zhe's hometown, southwest Shandong, was the hardest hit by Japanese aggression. The invaders committed countless crimes in Li Zhe's hometown, and the story of the people in southwestern Shandong who rose up against Japan was touching. 1949 Shortly after the Spring Festival, Li Zhe went south with the troops. In August of that year, he entered Yuanjiang County, Hunan Province and served as the first county party secretary. In an instant, 56 years have passed. Li Zhe lived and worked in Sanxiang for most of his life, and Hunan became his second hometown.