At the 1955 conferment ceremony, Chairman Mao walked up to a small general, patted him on the shoulder, and he smiled and said, "I know you, you are the cripple who robbed the law!" The general saluted, "Chairman, I am Liu Zhijian."
Liu Zhijian was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, so what happened to the chairman's talk about robbing the law field? That was what happened in 1942.
Since taking office, Okamura Ningji, commander-in-chief of the Japanese invasion of China, has intensified his efforts to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army, and he also put forward the "Three Lights Policy" For the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei, this year has become the most difficult day for our army.
On October 16, Liu Zhijian, then director of the political department of the Ji'nan Military Region, went to the Sixth Sub-district to convey the instructions of the Ji'nan Military Region according to the arrangements of the party organization, and he took a cavalry platoon on the road, and in the evening, they decided to spend the night in Yangxing Village in Zaonan County.
I don't know if it was a coincidence or an intelligence leak, the Japanese puppet army in the early morning of the next day, suddenly encircled and suppressed Yangxing Village, because the enemy was outnumbered, the battle situation was not good, Liu Zhijian tore all the paper documents, chewed and swallowed, and then, when he led the troops to break through, unfortunately, he was hit in the right leg by a Bullet of the Japanese Army, and the Japanese army pounced on him and arrested him.
The Japanese army imprisoned him in the town of Daying in Zaonan County, when the Japanese army did not know anything about Liu Zhijian's identity, but intuition told them that this was not an ordinary soldier, and Liu Zhijian also knew what the Japanese army thought, so he decided to take a risk.
Liu Zhijian took the initiative to say to the Japanese army, "I said it was a company commander, you will not believe it, say it is a battalion commander, you probably will not believe it, to tell you the truth, I am a regiment commander, or a deputy." For Liu Zhijian's initiative, the Japanese army seemed very happy, they no longer asked, decided to send Liu Zhijian to the county's own intelligence department to strictly guard, Liu Zhijian so cleverly hid his identity.
At that time, when our Eighth Route Army learned the news that Liu Zhijian had been captured by the Japanese army, they were very shocked, and when Liu Deng and Deng learned of this, they immediately ordered: At all costs, Liu Zhijian will be snatched back, and even if he cannot snatch the living, he will also snatch out the dead.
The brigade headquarters quickly issued orders to the local Nineteenth Regiment and the Twenty regiment, and the deputy commander of the Twenty Regiment at that time was Chen Geng's first fierce general, Chu Daming, who learned of it and discussed with others to decide to rescue Liu Zhijian on the way to the county by the Japanese army.
Through internal relations, Chu Daming was escorted by the Japanese army on October 18.
In the morning, Chu Daming took two companies to the Japanese army's inevitable road to ambush, when the Japanese army entered the designated ambush circle, the Eighth Route Army quickly attacked, the Japanese army fled in a hurry, Liu Zhijian was also saved, and the soldier Ji Zhiming ran on his back until he ran to a safe place.
This battle can be said to have been fought very well, not only saving Liu Zhijian, but also annihilating dozens of Japanese troops, as well as capturing more than 70 guns and more than 2,000 bullets.
The news of Liu Zhijian's rescue soon spread to the brigade headquarters, the division headquarters, and even the Central Military Commission, and the hearts of the leaders were also relaxed, so at the award ceremony more than 10 years later, there was a beginning, and Chairman Mao also heard a little about Liu Zhijian.