In essence, history is the stage for men, but in those turbulent years, there are also many brave and outstanding women who stand up in times of national crisis and shoulder a national responsibility with delicate shoulders.
For example, Zhao Hongwenguo, is such a legendary woman, she was heroically fighting against the enemy in the war years,
He is an anti-Japanese hero in the eyes of the masses and is known as the "old lady with two guns".
Unfortunately, she did not always become a hero of the people, and later became a bandit, turned the tip of the knife to the innocent people, and embarked on the road of no return. Why did she make such a huge shift, and what happened in the process?
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In 1881, Zhao Hongwenguo was born in Liaoning, she was a Manchu, her original name was Hong Wenguo, the reason why she was called "Zhao Hongwenguo" was because her husband's surname was "Zhao". She was originally an ordinary woman, but because her ancestors left a large amount of property from the Qing Dynasty,
She was living in good condition and had a good life.
Although her family lineage was good, she still had the heart of worrying about the country and the people, so after the September 18 Incident, she did not hesitate to participate in the struggle and tried to use her own strength to resist the Japanese army.
At that time, the devils wanted to implement slave education in northeast China, so they asked the school to teach Japanese, and Chinese were not allowed to teach Chinese.
Under the oppression of the devil, she did not give in, used her savings, founded a primary school, taught the Chinese to the children, and firmly told the children not to forget that she was a Chinese, and not to be a slave to the country.
Not only that, in order to resist the Japanese army and prepare funds for the resistance to the enemy, she also sold her family property.
And mobilize the whole family to fight against the devil.
At her call, her second son joined the fighting team with her and formed a "Young Iron Blood Army" to fight against the Kwantung Army.
Her third son was also very contentious and very backbone, and in the face of the rampant enemy, he was not afraid of sacrifice, in order to awaken the patriotic consciousness of more people, he gave anti-Japanese speeches everywhere, and used his home as an anti-Japanese base to establish the Northeast People's Self-Defense Army to defend the motherland.
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In this process, Zhao Hongwenguo collected all kinds of intelligence and procured a large number of weapons to preserve in preparation for fighting the devils. Heroic and enthusiastic, under the influence of a lot of deeds,
Inevitably, it becomes the key target that the devil wants to get rid of,
In 1934, the devils brutally plundered her family property, set fire to 16 of her family's houses, and arrested and imprisoned her and tortured her. In the face of the fierce and cruel enemy, she did not give in,
He was almost executed by the Kwantung Army, but fortunately he was rescued by anti-Japanese people and escaped from danger.
In 1937, when the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out in full swing, she also participated in the battle and performed very well, in an ambush battle, she killed a Japanese squad leader with two guns, and after people heard about her heroic deeds,
Praised her as a "two-gun old lady".
At that time, she was one of the heroes of the Towel, deeply respected and admired by everyone, and then she also led the "North China National Anti-Japanese Army", with about 20,000 troops, to fight against the enemy. After Peng Dehuai and others heard about her heroic deeds of resisting the enemy,
He admired her and personally wrote to her inviting her to join the Eighth Route Army.
On the other hand, as a famous anti-Japanese hero, she was also received by Chiang Kai-shek. In order to win her over to serve himself, Chiang Kai-shek gave her a lot of glorious titles, praised her as the "mother of guerrillas", and married her to Jinlan and threw out various benefits.
Under all kinds of temptations, the once indomitable anti-Japanese heroine gradually fell into the camp of the national army and served the national army.
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Chiang Kai-shek's goal was achieved, but then she lost her use value, because after the Liaoshen Campaign, her armed forces were destroyed, and she had to flee to Chongqing with her family, and then to Beiping to do small business.
In 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek saw that the situation of national liberation was a foregone conclusion, he remembered her again and used the same means to give her the title of knight.
Lured her to work for herself.
At this time, she was 68 years old, still obsessed, recruiting for the nationalist army, standing on the opposite side of the Communist Party, and finally becoming a bandit who killed innocents indiscriminately, and did many evil things that destroyed humanity.
Once determined to save the country and save the people, for her own interests, she brutally killed more than 200 peasants who cooperated with the People's Liberation Army, one of whom was a farmer named Zhang Baoming who refused to give in, and she not only killed Zhang Baoming without blinking her eyes.
He also let the bandits take turns defiling his daughter.
He Long, who had fought alongside her, and Premier Zhou, who admired her very much, could not believe that she would become an insensitive bandit, but they could only order the People's Liberation Army to arrest her in shock. After finally capturing her, Premier Zhou believed that she was confused by the Nationalist army, plus she had heroically resisted the Japanese army.
I have made a lot of merit, hoping to keep someone under her knife.
But she had committed too many killings, and it was difficult for the people to be indignant without killing her, so Chairman Mao decided to shoot her, and on July 16, 1950, she was put on the execution ground.
"One thought becomes a Buddha, one thought becomes a demon", because of the failure to resist the temptation of interests, the former anti-Japanese heroine eventually became a bandit, did evil deeds, and left a name for insults, which is really lamentable.