Founding Lieutenant General Liu Zhijian, comrades-in-arms said that he was a general who was snatched back from the Japanese army's "legal field".
Since 1941, the Japanese army has been indignant and angry at the anti-Japanese guerrilla war in the plains that our Eighth Route Army insisted on carrying out, and has implemented a frenzied "cage policy" in our anti-Japanese base areas; in the enemy-occupied areas, the Japanese army mainly "clears the countryside" and emphasizes "strengthening the self-defense of the countryside"; in the guerrilla areas, the Japanese army mainly uses "encroachment" and uses both armed attack and political deception; in the liberated areas, the Japanese army completely adopts a destructive policy and frequently and continuously carries out large-scale "sweeps."
Our anti-Japanese base areas suffered serious damage, and the situation of the War of Resistance in southern Hebei became increasingly severe. To this end, the leaders of the party and the army in the anti-Japanese base areas in southern Hebei held a meeting and put forward the idea of "swearing to fight to the death to the end" and "griting our teeth and persisting in the struggle, and surviving this winter and next spring is victory!" ”
On October 15, 1942, Liu Zhijian, then director of the Political Department of the Ji'nan Military Region, took the instructions of the head of the military region to the 6th Sub-district to convey the spirit of the meeting and arrange the next step.
Early the next morning, when Liu Zhijian and the cavalry squad escorting him arrived at the village of Master You, east of the Daying Road in Zaoqiang County, where the 6th Sub-District was stationed, they had not yet put down their luggage and fell into the encirclement of the Japanese army, and gunshots were fired from all directions. As soon as Liu Zhijian saw that the situation was urgent, he immediately ordered the guard troops to immediately cover the cadres and break through the village. When Liu Zhijian rode on his war horse to break out, the centaurs were shot at the same time, and his right thigh was hit by a bullet and fell into a ditch by the side of the road.
Liu Zhijian, who had been heavily entrusted with a heavy responsibility, felt that this time it was more fierce and less auspicious, and his legs could not move, so he immediately disposed of the secret documents he was carrying, and then waited for a final battle with the Japanese army, but in the end he was captured by the Japanese army because he was outnumbered.
Because Liu Zhijian wore a cotton robe on the outside, a military uniform on the inside, clean black cloth cotton shoes on his feet, and a small pistol on his waist, he fell from his horse again. The enemy concluded that he was a "high official" of the communist army, so he asked the military doctor to medicate his wounds, wrap them in bandages, and carefully lift him up from the ditch and imprison him in the camp stronghold, guarded by the Japanese puppet army.
After Liu Zhijian was captured, he thought about how to spread the news of his capture and let the head of the military region know the situation. Liu Zhijian took advantage of his good at doing ideological and political work to impress a poor boy in the puppet army who was unwilling to work for the Japanese with his words, and asked him to quietly send out a black cloth cotton shoe on his feet and then transfer it to the hands of the district leader. The leaders of the sub-district reported the news of Liu Zhijian's injury and capture to the head of the Ji'nan Military Region, who immediately reported it to the 129th Division, up to the General Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
After receiving the news, Zhu Laozong and Peng Lao, commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, demanded that the 129th Division immediately find out the situation and organize rescue; the commander of the 129th Division even issued a death order to the Ji'nan Military Region: "If you live, you must see people, you must see corpses when you die, you must ignore all casualties, and if you can't get them back alive, even if you kill the corpses, you must also snatch them out." In short, we must snatch Liu Zhijian back. ”
On October 19, after the Ji'nan Military Region received information that Liu Zhijian would be escorted by the Japanese army to Zaoqiang on the 20th, Commander Chen Zaidao and Song Renqiang's political commissar immediately made a meticulous arrangement, dispatched the 18th Regiment, the 19th Regiment, and the 20th Regiment, a total of 3 main regiments, and laid out 6 blockade lines in a row on the 30-mile road from the camp to Zaoqiang, determined to snatch Liu Zhijian back no matter what.
The key moments have come:
Liu Zhijian, who was seriously wounded, was carried to an ox cart by the Japanese devils, and the Japanese squadron leader Nomura Nagatoshi personally took 4 Japanese soldiers to escort him. The ox cart slowly came out of the camp, lying on the ox cart Liu Zhijian, vigilantly paying attention to the movements on both sides of the highway, he saw that there were bicycles on the road west of the highway, and Liu Zhijian, who had rich combat experience, saw at a glance that this was the reconnaissance of the Eighth Route Army, and Liu Zhijian also took the opportunity to publicize to the puppet army, "If you encounter the Eighth Road, you should not shoot, or shoot in the air, Chinese do not hit the Chinese." ”
Suddenly, a dense burst of gunfire sounded, the machine guns rained down like rain, and the grenades fell like hailstones, and the killing sound was tremendous. The Japanese army never dreamed that they would be beaten shortly after they went out, and they would be beaten up at once, and they would be confused and confused. Seeing this scene, Liu Zhijian hurriedly got up and asked the people who had driven the big car to turn around and run south and quickly leave the enemy. The big car turned around and ran out of the way for more than a mile at once. At this time, a squad of the rescue troops rushed up, and the big platoon leader Ji Zhiming carried Liu Zhijian on his back and ran, running out of the land for more than a mile in one breath, and then put Liu Zhijian on a stretcher and carried him to the safety zone.
The battle to rescue Liu Zhijian was over in a few minutes, and the Eighth Route Army had no casualties, and the mission was completed perfectly.
The good news of Liu Zhijian's successful rescue soon reached the military region and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and Ning Ci, the village of The Japanese chieftain, also received the news that it was actually a senior general of the Ji'nan Military Region who had been snatched away by the Eighth Route in the camp.
On September 27, 1955, when Liu Zhijian, who was wearing the rank of lieutenant general, walked up to the podium, the chairman shook his hand, patted him on the shoulder, and habitually quipped: "You are the crippled Liu who robbed the law field!" ”
The general "snapped" a salute and replied, "I am Liu Zhijian." ”
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