On July 14, 1980, a Japanese woman, Mihoko, came from Japan to China with her three children, accompanied by Japanese diplomatic staff, to visit our founding father, Nie Rongzhen.
After more than thirty years of separation, Mihoko and Nie Rongzhen were able to meet in the Great Hall of the People, and both of them could not hide their excitement, and Mihoko deeply shouted "Father".
The Japanese woman, named Mihoko, was in her forties and had come to China to meet a long-lost relative.
Mihoko followed the relevant personnel into the Great Hall of the People and saw the old man sitting on the sofa in the Great Hall.
She looked at the old man with a familiar face, his words and deeds as in her memory, and Mihoko finally affirmed that this person was the amiable uncle in her memory, like her father.
Mihoko couldn't bear it any longer, watching the old man waving at her, she walked forward excitedly, with tears in her eyes, got down on her knees, called out to her father affectionately, and performed a solemn gift.
This old man was Marshal Nie Rongzhen. Looking at the figure of Mihoko, Marshal Nie Rongzhen lifted her up, relieved in her heart, the little girl of the past had grown up and lived a happy and satisfying life, and her worries and worries could be put down.
All this began in 1940, when Nie Rongzhen was the commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji army. At that time, the anti-Japanese armed forces led by the Communist Party of China were growing stronger and stronger in Japan's invasion of north China, and friction between the Kuomintang and the Communists was also constantly frequent.
In order to reduce and control the development of the anti-Japanese forces, since 1938, Japan has begun to carry out a policy of abduction of the Chinese Kuomintang, hoping to reach a negotiated peace result from the Kuomintang side.
At the same time, Japan gathered some troops on the Great Wall, Northeast China, and North China, and tried to carry out large-scale ambushes and sweeps of the Chinese army through the blockade of railways and highways, and through the construction of strongholds.
The Japanese army dug ditches and built pillboxes in the field, so that in the two years from 1938 to 1940, the Japanese army's strongholds continued to increase, and the Japanese army's army was constantly dispersed, which enabled the Eighth Route Army to concentrate on taking advantage of its advantages and launching a large-scale attack on the Japanese army in North China.
Under such a premise, the Eighth Route Army launched a large-scale counterattack against the Japanese army, and Nie Rongzhen and his troops were responsible for the attack from Shijiazhuang to Pingding section of Zhengtai Road, the most important of which was the attack from Niangziguan to jingxing coal mine.
Jingxing terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and has rich coal resources, not surprisingly, the Japanese army also established a base here.
As early as the beginning of the Japanese invasion, it had quickly occupied Jingxing, and had been mining the coal resources of Jingxing.
As an important base for future needs, the Japanese army not only built high walls in the old and new mining areas, but also pulled up power grids and built bunkers, which is enough to see the importance attached to this area.
Even feeling that it was not safe enough, he established a position on the northern slope and sent more than three hundred men to garrison it.
At that time, the three regiments of the Jin-Cha-Ji Central Column were responsible for attacking Jingxing, and the leaders of the three regiments decided to let one of the companies attack the Japanese positions on the hillside according to the situation on the ground and after analysis, at that time there were only more than one hundred people in a company of the Eighth Route Army, and there were more than three hundred garrisons on the hillside.
The battle was undoubtedly difficult, and even the Japanese themselves felt that the strongholds on the hillside were absolutely safe.
Under the cover of night, the four companies of the Eighth Route Army launched a fierce attack on the Japanese troops on the hillside, and after several hours of fighting, the four companies broke through the enemy's defensive line and captured the commanding heights of the hillside.
Our army was forced to retreat in order to preserve its strength, but on the way down, correspondent Yang Zhongshan found two little girls who were crying, sitting among the corpses, with frightened eyes in their eyes.
In order to protect the two children, Han Jinming, the commander of the fourth company, asked Yang Zhongshan to send them for treatment, and Yang Zhongshan took the two children to the battalion headquarters and handed them over to the battalion commander.
The two children, one was Mihoko, who was only four years old, and the other was Mihoko's sister, Ryumiko, who was only one year old at the time.
On the eve of the war, Mihoko's mother thought that the positions on the hillside were safe, so she brought them here, but she did not expect that the Japanese army was so crazy that they ignored their compatriots and blindly attacked with artillery fire.
Mihoko's family could only hide in the bunker next to the station, waiting for the exchange of fire to pass. However, Mihoko's mother was killed by the explosion to protect her two children, and her father was seriously injured.
Mihoko's father was the deputy station chief of the Jingxing Railway Station at the time, but the Eighth Route Army army still brought him back to the battalion headquarters for humanitarian reasons, but Mihoko's father was too badly injured and died soon after.
The Mihoko sisters became orphans, and the fate of the two sisters became a problem. Some people believe that these two children are Japanese and must not take care of the children for the enemy; others feel that the children are innocent after all and should not be hated by them.
This dispute has not stopped for a long time, and the arrangements for the children have not been decided.
In desperation, the soldiers reported the matter to Nie Rongzhen, who also believed that although the Japanese army committed heinous crimes, the two children were innocent after all. Nie Rongzhen thought that the two children were in a foreign country, fatherless and motherless, and the current living environment was very unstable, if left unchecked, the two children were very likely to not survive.
Nie Rongzhen felt that we all treated the prisoners who laid down their weapons with courtesy, not to mention the two children who did not understand anything, so he praised the soldiers of the troops and asked the soldiers to bring the children to the command post.
The two little girls were sent to the base area by the warriors, and Nie Rongzhen also went to visit them.
Seeing that the one-year-old Ryumiko was crying with hunger, he immediately asked the warrior to find a nursing fellow, and saw that the four-year-old Mihoko's face was full of fear, and he squatted down to gently comfort her.
In order to appease Mihoko's emotions, Nie Rongzhen also washed pears for her to eat. Mihoko stayed here, no cannon fire, no disgust, just a kind Chinese uncle, she gradually let go of her guard, took the initiative to get close to this person who was good to her, and followed him without leaving for a moment.
Although life at the headquarters was warm, the two children also had a good life. But after all, the command headquarters is still a place to fight, not suitable for the growth of children, not to mention that the war is becoming more and more severe, and it is not necessarily safe here.
After some thought, Nie Rongzhen decided to send the two children back to the Japanese. Nie Rongzhen wrote a letter in which he denounced the atrocities committed by the Japanese army and explained the situation of the two children, hoping that they could find relatives for the two children.
Nie Rongzhen found a fellow villager, handed over the letter and the child to the fellow villager, and asked him to send the children to the Japanese garrison in JingxingCheng.
Nie Rongzhen hugged the two children and watched reluctantly as the fellow carried the children away with a basket, and Mihoko also looked back at him from afar.
The villagers eventually took the child safely to the Japanese garrison and handed it over to the Japanese army.
After that, her younger sister Ryumiko was too young and experienced so many changes that she unfortunately died. Her sister, Mihoko, was sent back to Japan and raised by her grandmother and uncle.
Although Mihoko is still young, she still remembers her experience in China very clearly, and in Japan, she often tells her grandmother about her experience, about her kind uncle, and the experience of "sitting on a basket".
In her heart, she had already regarded this kind uncle as her other father, and she had been looking forward to seeing him again and thanking him personally for his kindness.
It wasn't until 1980 that Mihoko's wish was finally fulfilled, so let's take a look.
In 1980, the People's Daily published an article titled "Little Girl in Japan, Where Are You?" In a warm tone, Marshal Nie Rongzhen recounts that during the Hundred Regiments War in 1940, in accordance with the principle of humanitarianism, marshal Nie Rongzhen rescued two Japanese girls and took good care of them, and then the war was severe, and they were sent back to the Japanese stronghold in Jingxing City.
When the overseas version of the People's Daily was published abroad, it also touched a large group of people, who were known to more and more people, and everyone spontaneously wanted to find this little girl named Mihoko.
With the joint efforts of China and Japan, people from all walks of life have contributed their own strength and finally found Mihoko.
At that time, Mihoko had grown up and became an ordinary woman, had three children with her husband, ran a shop together, and lived a happy life.
When she saw the article in the People's Daily, she was unable to speak excitedly, and immediately wrote a letter to Marshal Nie Rongzhen, in which she expressed her gratitude and thoughts affectionately, recalling that unforgettable experience, but the length of the letter was limited and she could not express her feelings.
Mihoko made up her mind to visit Marshal Nie Rongzhen in China. Therefore, on July 14, 1980, Mihoko and her three daughters crossed the ocean and came to the Great Hall of the People to meet Marshal Nie Rongzhen.
When the mood calmed down, Nie Rongzhen asked about the life of her "daughter" Mihoko over the years, and after many years, the two were still familiar as if they had never been separated, and the whole hall was full of strong warmth.
Mihoko took out a calligraphy and painting she had carefully prepared and gave it to Marshal Nie Rongzhen, and since the two met in 1980, Mihoko had come to China many times to visit Marshal Nie Rongzhen, and also participated in the activities with Nie Rongzhen's daughter Nie Li as a representative of Sino-Japanese friendship.
The fact that Marshal Nie Rongzhen saved the orphan girl was also written into educational books is not only a good story of Sino-Japanese exchanges, but also the embodiment of China's national integrity.
Those who can commit crimes against china externally, although they are far from being punished, can also be people-oriented and have profound benevolence, which is the courage that a big country should have.
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