The historical prototype of the soldier Zhang Ga, who pretended to mow the grass next to the artillery building, captured the six puppets alive in less than two hours

北湾

There is an anti-Japanese film called "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", which has been popular all over the country. The wonderful scenes of the naughty and cute "Zhang Ga" playing tricks on traitors and fighting puppet soldiers are still fresh in the memory. So, in real history, is there such a "Zhang Ga"? The answer is yes. Moreover, he also made a lot of military exploits! The prototype of this "Zhang Ga" is Yan Xiufeng, a pistol squad soldier of the Qiu 5th District Team in the Jizhong Military Division. Because of his cleverness, liveliness, and a lot of ideas in fighting devils, over time, people directly call him "Yan Gazi".

▲The drama "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" starring Xie Mengwei is still a childhood classic for many people.

The artistic prototype of "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", a former first-class battle hero-Yan Xiufeng (1924-2010)

On the artillery tower of Da Village near Baiyangdian, there is a pseudo-squad leader named Yu. On weekdays, he colluded with the Japanese army and spies, and from time to time sent his underlings to the countryside to collect food and "mop up". Do all the bad things of the common people. The Eighth Route Military Region team wrote to him to correct his evil, but he turned a deaf ear to it. Faced with such an "hardcore traitor", Yan Xiufeng, full of blood, decided to capture him alive. At dawn one day, Yan Xiufeng brought the soldiers to the surroundings of the artillery. In order to prevent the puppet army from escaping, he asked the three people to go to the village office to lie in wait, while he carried his baskets, holding a sickle, and leisurely ran down to the gun building to mow the grass. After a while, seeing the two puppet soldiers stepping out of the suspension bridge and going down to Wangcun for food, he quietly followed them behind. When he was some distance away from the artillery, he drew the "box cannon" behind him and said to the two of them: "Don't move, come with me, find a house for a while!" Where are the two puppet soldiers? Dare to neglect. After handing over the puppet army to his comrades in arms, Yan Xiufeng ran back to the bottom of the cannon to mow the grass. After a meeting, another puppet army came out. He repeated the same tricks, captured him alive, and then went back downstairs to mow the grass...In less than two hours, six puppet soldiers were captured by "Yan Gazi" and his companions, obediently captured.

▲ Caught the "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" of the Japanese and puppet agents.

Later, Yan Xiufeng changed his clothes and went back to mow the grass under the turret. The puppet army, who found something wrong, became suspicious of this young man who frequently came downstairs to mow the grass. With a sound from the turret: "Hit, this baby is definitely an eight-way", the gunshot of "Papa" suddenly sounded. Yan Xiufeng calmly changed the terrain, knocked out, and found the puppet army on the gun tower looking around. He deliberately used the "box cannon" in one fell swoop. At this time, the puppet army upstairs suddenly became a "tortoise with a shrunken head". Although six puppet troops were arrested, the gang leader Jia who had committed crimes was still not caught. Ever since, he held the gun in his hand and shouted: "I'm Yan Gazi, is Squad Leader Jia upstairs?" "Yes!" "Listen well in the artillery, everyone from our team is here today! Squad Captain Jia, if you don't come down, I will tell the Captain to give you a fire to make you "roasted kings"!" Surrounded by the Eight Routes, the surviving puppet army immediately became confused. After the meeting, squad leader Jia brought a group of puppet troops downstairs empty-handed and obediently became a prisoner.