Speaking of "Railway Guerrillas", I believe everyone will hum this song unconsciously -
"The sun in the west is about to set, and the Weishan Lake is quiet, playing my beloved earth pipa , singing that moving song";
"We climb the speed train and make machine gun , breaking the train and exploding bridge, like a steel knife inserted into the enemy's chest, killing the Japanese's soul and courage"
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This well-known song is the interlude in the movie "Railway Guerrillas". The heart-wrenching melody in the song and the heroic spirit of the soldiers to kill the enemy. Even if it has been more than half a century, it is still sung continuously.
Listening to this song, in the boat and the blue waves, looking at the large patches of reeds and lotus leaves on the lake, people seemed to be able to see the scene of the guerrillas raising their guns and swaying their swords to beat the Japanese. They were so passionate and brave, so determined and brave.
There is no doubt that, whether in the war or in the peaceful years today, whenever people talk about railway guerrillas, they will naturally feel admiration and gratitude in their hearts. Railway guerrillas have always remained in people's hearts.
However, in addition to admiration, many people have a question in their hearts, that is, where did the railway guerrillas that went to fight to kill the enemy and defend their country and went after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War?
In fact, this legendary team in the Anti-Japanese War has always been sticking to the border defense cause of the motherland, and there is still a member of the team alive today!
(Railway Guerrillas)
Next, let us go into the following article and introduce the story about the railway guerrillas in detail.
1. Railway guerrillas, always singing "moving songs"
During the Anti-Japanese War, there was such a team that attacked foreign crafts at night, drove machine guns, destroyed railways, and blew up bridges. While severely damaging the enemy, it also played an absolute cooperative role in the battle of our main force. This team is the famous railway guerrillas.
So, under what circumstances was such a guerrilla team that was respected and made outstanding contributions during the War of Resistance? This is to tell the story of the Japanese devils invading Zaozhuang .
As we all know, Zaozhuang has rich and high-quality coal resources. How could the Japanese invaders not salivate at this "big fat" piece of Japanese invaders?
Therefore, in March 1938, after the Japanese invaders invaded Zaozhuang, they began to mine coal in Zaozhuang. In order to be able to mine for a long time, they even sent heavy troops to surround Zaozhuang.
(using the Japanese army in the Zaozhuang coal mine in the distance with a telescope)
Not only that, this invaders also joined forces with the Japanese military police stationed in Zaozhuang to carry out a series of "clearance" and "sweeping" against the Japanese army. Under such circumstances, the anti-Japanese military and civilians in the mountainous areas face a huge threat.
In order to support the anti-Japanese team and obtain Japanese intelligence, Hong Zhenhai, Wang Zhisheng and others sneaked into Zaozhuang under the arrangement of the organization and successfully established an anti-Japanese intelligence station.
From then on, a series of intelligence acquisition and transmission work began. The establishment of this intelligence station also laid the foundation for the establishment of railway guerrillas.
(Hong Zhenhai)
In more than a year since the establishment of the intelligence station, Hong Zhenhai, Wang Zhisheng and others have made a lot of efforts in order to obtain and send intelligence.
They disguised unemployed workers, mobilized the masses secretly, and used various channels to obtain intelligence; or disguised as porters and marshalled into foreign commerce - a spy agency established by the Japanese army in Zaozhuang to intercept intelligence; or joined forces with railway workers to stage a "speed" drama, obtain Japanese guns and ammunition, etc. In short, it is precisely because of the establishment of this intelligence station that our army can promptly understand the enemy's next plan and carry out operations on this.
In the autumn of 1939, with the improvement of the anti-Japanese struggle in southern Shandong, Hong Zhenhai, Wang Zhisheng and others responded to the slogan of "building anti-Japanese armed forces on the basis of continuing to carry out anti-Japanese intelligence work."
secretly organized an anti-Japanese armed force with 11 people participating. This team, Hong Zhenhai, was the captain and Wang Zhisheng was the deputy captain, named Zaozhuang Railway Team.
(Wang Zhisheng)
In February of 1940, the Zaozhuang Railway Team was approved to be renamed as the Lunan Railway Team.
This is the process of establishing the railway guerrillas. After the establishment of the guerrillas, they gradually expanded from the original 11 people. Under the leadership of captain Hong Zhenhai and deputy captain Wang Zhisheng, they destroyed the railway along the Lunan Railway, pulled out the enemy's communication lines, and intercepted trucks, which terrified the enemy.
Not only that, the guerrillas have also made outstanding contributions to protecting the passing safety of our military cadres. Although a team like
has a small number of people, it has made outstanding contributions to our country's victory in the War of Resistance. And patriotic deeds will never be silent in the years of history, and their spirit of war of resistance will always be passed down.
Railway guerrillas will sing those moving songs forever.
(Railway Guerrillas)
2. History of the growth and development of railway guerrillas
In July 1940, at this time, the railway guerrillas made the Japanese army so angry. In this year, in order to increase the efforts to "clear" the anti-Japanese military and civilians, the Japanese army has made the anti-Japanese base stationed in southern Shandong and has faced a shortage of materials and is in a very difficult situation.
When the railway guerrillas learned about this situation, Hong Zhenhai, Wang Zhisheng and others summoned their brothers to discuss how to get more supplies.
Although most of the members of the railway guerrillas are railway workers, small vendors, etc., under their careful planning and the meticulous cooperation of each team member, they really snatched dozens of guns from the Japanese army.
After this operation, not only solved the urgent needs of the base area, but its captain Hong Zhenhai and deputy captain Wang Zhisheng were also famous in southern Shandong.
(image of railway guerrillas)
In this way, more and more people join the ranks of guerrillas.
In the second half of 1940, the scale of railway guerrillas expanded to 150 people.
At the end of the year, these invading Japanese troops destroyed the clothing factory in southern Shandong, so many people would not be able to wear winter clothes.
Under such difficult circumstances, the railway guerrillas stood up again. With the assistance of railway workers, the team members successfully grabbed more than a thousand pieces of muslin and blankets and several blankets from the Japanese army, alleviating the lack of winter clothes in the army.
Since its establishment, its main task is to intercept Japanese military intelligence, interfere with Japanese military actions, and cooperate with the main forces to fight. The southern Shandong area where this team is active is a key area for our army to fight.
(Anti-Japanese military and civilians are destroying the Japanese railway)
From a geographical point of view, southern Shandong is located in Shandong, and Shandong is the hub connecting the two major bases of North China and Central China.
Lunnan is the hub among this hub.
This means that once southern Shandong is lost and the hub is broken, the strategic goal of "developing Central China and consolidating North China" set by the Party Central Committee will be difficult to achieve, and it will also be an important blow to our army's morale.
The importance of defending southern Shandong is self-evident.
It is precisely because of the interests that even if the members of the railway guerrillas sacrifice their lives, they must break through the enemy's encirclement and complete the tasks assigned by their superiors.
In April 1942, the Japanese army had a total of 3,000 people surrounded the railway guerrillas' garrison. With the enemy's number and we were few, Wang Zhisheng led his troops to successfully break through the siege, and then mobilized the masses to establish an intelligence network, opening up the situation along the Pujin Railway and Weishan Lake.
(Anti-Japanese War)
In order to successfully escort cadres by the way at night, the guerrillas established an intelligence network while actively carrying out activities to dismantle the enemy. During the more than two years of carrying out the task of escorting cadres, the railway guerrillas escorted more than a thousand cadres in total, and the task was completed very well.
It can be said that it is precisely because of the cooperation of the railway guerrillas in the rear that our army's main force can better fight the enemy on the battlefield, and China can usher in the victory of the fourteen-year war of resistance.
The railway guerrillas have made great contributions to this.
And this team, from the beginning to the end, had only more than a hundred people at the largest scale.
It is like a shining star, even if more than half a century has passed, it is still constantly shining and hot.
3. Railway guerrillas adhere to their original intentions and follow the party forever
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, this team that once could go on a speeding car and get off the road to explode collectively "transferred".
In 1946, the number of the Lunan Railway Brigade was revoked, and the "Lunnan Railway Bureau" was established on the basis of the original brigade.
Although the name has changed, the team members' hearts forever following the party have not changed. They re-engaged and still cooperated with the main force, attacking the enemy again and again, making great contributions to our army's battle.
Later, this brigade was adapted again. With the implementation of this adaptation, this railway guerrillas became a field army.
In the days that followed, this team participated in a series of historically famous battles such as Huaihai Battle , Crossing the River Battle , and all had considerable results.
(image of railway guerrillas)
With the victory of the War of Liberation, the founding of New China. The railway guerrillas still perform their duties in their posts and never slacken.
In 1953, in order to eliminate the pirates in the four mountains, including Jiguanshan and Xiaolushan, the railway guerrillas that had been adapted into the 17th Public Security Division cooperated with their brothers and wiped out the defending enemy in just three hours.
In the days that followed, the railway guerrillas, that is, the 17th Public Security Division, had undergone several adaptations.
In 1993, some guerrilla members communicated to the 3rd Regiment of the Coastal Defense of Nanjing Military Region. To this day, this legendary army is still standing guard on the coastal defense line.
Time flies, and time passes. Today, it has been more than 70 years since the founding of New China in 1949. The railway guerrillas that were active along the Shandong-nan Railway have a history of more than half a century.
So many years have passed. The team of hundreds of people back then is only the last one left. He is Li Hongjie, the smallest guerrilla player in the team.
According to Li Hongjie's recollection, he joined the railway guerrillas at the age of twelve. During those years of war, he followed his troops through battles of all sizes, escorting one important figure after another. One battle after another, the escort story made people frightened. But the old man Li Hongjie said, "Hometimes were hard at that time, but they were very optimistic. I felt that the enemy was coming, and I was not afraid of it! "
(Li Hongjie)
Nowadays, Li Hongjie is an octogenarian, but he is still energetic and can still recall the details of the war that year more clearly.
2015, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Hongjie was invited to attend the military parade ceremony as a veteran of the Anti-Japanese War.
Looking at the motherland's increasingly sophisticated weapons and listening to the loud slogans, the old man sighed a lot, as if he saw himself who had been driving with his comrades to kill the Japanese again. He was so passionate.
The war years of the past have been replaced by today's peace and stability, and the country's prosperity and strength. China will definitely become stronger and stronger!
(Li Hongjie)
4. Railway guerrillas, the red spirit is always passed down
Railway guerrillas This legendary team not only made great contributions during the War of Resistance Against Japan, but the red spirit passed down has been constantly influencing generations of people today.
Behind the stories after stories of the railway guerrillas "speeding machine guns" and "blood-staining foreign commerce", the strong patriotism between the guerrillas and the railway workers is condensed. They have no need to live or die, just to earn a better tomorrow for China.
stick to the original aspiration, dare to draw the sword, overcome difficulties, be smart, brave, and dare to be the first...all are the red spirit connotations of the railway guerrillas.
Such a spirit with rich connotations will not be eliminated no matter how many centuries it has gone through, and will always have an inspirational effect on people.
Nowadays, whether it is the release of the movie, the circulation of the movie theme song, or the study of textbooks, people seem to be able to see the heroic posture of the railway guerrillas from one frame, one stroke, one word, one sentence, which shocks people's hearts and inspires fighting spirit.
(Zaozhuang, Shandong - the former battlefield of the railway guerrillas)
When the number was revoked and the guerrillas took office as the coastal defense, the historical mission of the railway guerrillas had been completed.
Now, under the leadership of one leader after another, China has gone from standing up and becoming rich, and finally becoming stronger now.
Martyr Chen Qiaonian once said: "Let our descendants enjoy the happiness of our predecessors overcoming obstacles."
Today's Chinese people no longer have to be invaded by war and do not have to live under the gun every day.
Editor: Maqiu
Editor: Lin Hua