The TV series "Railway Guerrilla" believes that everyone will not be unfamiliar, the theme song in the play: "The sun in the west is about to set, the weishan lake is quiet, play my beloved earth pipa, sing the moving song", the cheerful melody, also loved and widely sung by everyone. The Railway Guerrilla Force was an anti-Japanese detachment active in the Lunan area of Shandong during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, founded on January 25, 1940, with the full name of "Lunan Military Region Railway Brigade", also known as the "Flying Tiger Brigade".
In 1954, the famous writer Liu Zhixia created the novel "Railway Guerrilla" based on his life experience of going deep into the railway guerrillas many years ago, as well as some stories told by the guerrillas, and the character image of the novel was based on the real characters of the railway guerrillas, and the novel was well received by readers after publication. In 1956, the novel was adapted into a film, and in 2005, it was again adapted into a TELEVISION series, and after its release, the story of the railway guerrillas became a household name.
The TV drama depicts one story after another in which Liu Hong, leader of the railway guerrilla group, Li Zheng, political commissar Li Zheng, Wang Qiang, and others were resourceful and brave, led the railway guerrillas to adopt flexible and mobile guerrilla tactics, went out of their way, took the initiative to attack, climbed a flying car, broke the railroad tracks, blew up bridges, seized machine guns, and hit the Japanese army ghost with crying wolf howls, making the enemy daunted. The political commissar Li Zheng in the play, with a double gun, calm and calm, bold and heroic, left a deep impression, and his image was based on several political commissars of the railway guerrilla in reality.
In the TV series, the political commissar "Li Zheng" is the harmonic pronunciation of "Lizheng" in Wen Lizheng's name, Wen Lizheng's original name was Wen Lizheng (征), the character Guozhuang, born on April 14, 1911 in Tianzhu Village, Donghu Town, Hengshan County, Hunan Province. In July 1934, Wen Lizheng was admitted to Peking Furen University, during which time, Wen Lizheng actively participated in the anti-Japanese salvation movement, joined the Communist Party of China in 1938, and together with his classmates, was introduced by the Wuhan Office of the Eighth Route Army, from Xuzhou in northern Jiangsu Province, into the Lunan Anti-Japanese Base Area, as a political trainer, responsible for anti-Japanese propaganda and democracy movement work.
In July 1938, Wen Lizheng was assigned by his superiors as a member of the Communist Party to serve as a political instructor of the Fifth Brigade of the Second Branch of the Kuomintang Special Work Regiment, and Wen Lizheng, together with Shao Jianqiu, led the troops to ambush the Japanese troops at Shagou Station in Xiyangzhuang near the Jinpu Railway, annihilated 20 Japanese troops, burned one enemy car, and won the first victory in the Yixi War of Resistance.
In the autumn of 1939, Shao Jianqiu's unit was officially incorporated into the Eighth Route Army and reorganized into the Eighth Route Army Canal Detachment, and in January 1940, Luo Ronghuan, political commissar of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and Chen Guang, acting division commander, appointed Shao Jianqiu as deputy detachment leader, and soon became the detachment leader, Wen Lizheng was appointed as the director of the political office of the canal detachment, and at the end of the year, Wen Lizheng was appointed as the deputy political commissar and director of the political department of the detachment. Wen Lizheng later successively served as deputy political commissar and director of the political department of the Lunan Military Region, acting political commissar of the independent detachment of the Lunan Military Region and political commissar of the railway guerrillas, and participated in the work of opening up the Weishan Lake base area. Later, Wen Lizheng served as a member of the Lunan Second Prefectural Committee of the COMMUNIST Party of China and the director of propaganda.
While Wen Li was serving as the political commissar of the railway guerrillas, he used flexible guerrilla tactics and led the local military and civilians to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese. During wen lizheng's schooling, he liked to play the harmonica very much, during the battle, Wen Lizheng also carried the harmonica with him, whenever he fought, he gathered with the soldiers, while playing the harmonica, while teaching the soldiers to sing revolutionary songs, and sometimes taught the children of his fellow villagers to dance, these scenes were also written by Liu Zhixia into the novel "Railway Guerrilla", but he changed the "harmonica to "pipa".
On the afternoon of the tenth day of the first lunar month in 1945, Wen Lizheng went to the sixth district of Dingjiatang Village to teach party members to the party members of the training class, and after twelve o'clock in the night, Wen Lizheng returned to the location of the sixth sub-district organ of the station, and Wen Lizheng, who had just been lying down to rest, heard the sound of dense gunfire outside, he immediately rolled over and got out of bed, took out the pistol under the pillow, and rushed outside the door to check the situation. It turned out that Xu Yinan, deputy squad leader of the third squad of the district armed brigade, defected and seduced the traitor Shen Xianwu to suddenly attack with armed bandits.
Due to the large number of enemies and the premeditated attack, in a critical situation, Wen Lizheng and his comrades resisted while breaking through, and during the breakthrough, Wen Lizheng was shot in the head and died heroically, at the age of 34. After Wen Lizheng's sacrifice, the cadres and masses of the Sixth Subdistrict were very sad, and they found a fine cypress coffin and buried it together with his backpack and clothes, and Fan Yougong, the head of the sixth district of the Lincheng County CPC Committee, presided over a memorial service and buried Wen Lizheng's body on an earthen hill in Ganqiao Village.
After Wen Lizheng's death, due to the war-torn era, Lunan and Wen Lizheng's hometown of Hunan were thousands of miles away, Wen Lizheng's family did not get the news of Wen Lizheng's sacrifice, and Wen Lizheng was in the canal detachment, everyone thought that his name "sign" was too difficult to write, in order to save trouble, it was changed to "zheng", which also caused difficulties for his family to find him later. After the founding of New China, Wen Lizheng's father repeatedly published the "Search Notice" in the newspaper in order to find his son, but there was no whereabouts of Wen Lizheng.
Because Wen Lizheng's family had no news of him, and his younger brother Wen Lihui was a Former Kuomintang officer, his father Wen Jiude graduated from the Baoding Officers' School, was in the same class as Bai Chongxi, and had served as a colonel in the Kuomintang army and as the chief of the student corps of the Whampoa Army's Principal Sha No. 3 Branch, Wen Lizheng was also suspected of being a "pseudo-officer" and did not know his martyr status, and his family and relatives were also treated as "pseudo-officers" at that time.
Wen Lizheng's cousin Chen Tieru never believed that Wen Li was a "pseudo-officer", and he began to run to find out the true identity of his cousin, but because Wen Lizheng's family knew very little about what happened after he joined the revolution, Chen Tieru never found anyone and materials that could prove Wen Lizheng's identity, until May 1974, when Chen Tie found Zhu Daonan, the first political commissar of the former canal detachment, through Han Zhifei, the political commissar of the Lunan Third Military Subdistrict.
Zhu Daonan and Wen Lizheng have a special relationship, he was a student of Wen Lizheng's father, Wen Jiude, when he studied at the Shasan Branch, the principal of the Whampoa Army. In 1938, when Zhu Daonan was the director of the Political Training Department of the Lunan People's Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Army, Wen Li was the deputy director, and in September 1939, when the Canal Detachment was established, Zhu Daonan was the political commissar, and Wen Li was the director of the Political Department, so Zhu Daonan was the person who knew Wen Lizheng the most, and this time Chen Tieru found the right person.
Zhu Daonan, who was already the secretary of the party committee of the Shanghai Municipal Real Estate Bureau at that time, wrote a detailed certification material for Chen Tieru about Wen Lizheng, introduced the situation of Wen Lizheng from 1938 to Lunan until his death, and gave a detailed introduction to the situation of Wen Lizheng leading the troops to fight against the Japanese puppet army. Zhu Daonan wrote in his letter:
Comrade Wen Lizheng came to the Lunan area in early 1938, did a lot of work for the party, fought heroically, was diligent and earnest, immersed in hard work, made good achievements in the extremely difficult, difficult, complicated and sharp struggle, and finally sacrificed his life for the cause of the party.
After reading Zhu Daonan's proof materials, Chen Tieru knew that his cousin Wen Li was a martyr of the War of Resistance who sacrificed his life for the country, and he was very emotional and determined to make his cousin's experience clear. With Zhu Daonan's introduction, Chen Tieru successively met several of Wen Lizheng's old comrades-in-arms before his death, such as Du Jiwei, the first political commissar of the railway guerrillas, who was also one of the prototypes of the political commissar in "Railway Guerrillas".
Chen Tieru also met Shao Jianqiu, the second commander of the former Canal Detachment, who was the first old comrade-in-arms to partner with Wen Lizheng, and when Shao Jianqiu was still in the Kuomintang army, Wen Lizheng was sent to him as a political instructor as a member of the Communist Party, and he also wrote detailed proof materials for Wen Lizheng. However, because the proof materials written by these old comrades-in-arms of Wen Lizheng were all written in the name of individuals, the relevant departments believed that the official seal was not affixed, and what they wrote in their certificates was that "Wen Lizheng" and "Wen Lizheng" did not match. To this end, Shao Jianqiu and others specially wrote a certificate saying that Wen Li changed "Wen Lizheng" to "Wen Lizheng" when he was in the canal detachment, because he felt that the strokes of the "zheng" character were troublesome and changed it to the word "zheng" to save trouble.
In 1978, the relevant departments demanded that Wen Lizheng be found to be introduced to the party, and after thoroughly understanding Wen Lizheng's situation, he would declare a martyr to Wen Lizheng. However, due to the passage of time and the lack of relevant archives, Chen Tieru was very embarrassed, but fortunately, after inquiring from many sources, he learned that Wen Lizheng's introducer to joining the party was Li Rui, a classmate of his classmates when he was studying at the private Yueyun Middle School in Changsha, Hunan Province, and in 1938, Wen Lizheng was introduced to Lunan to participate in the revolution with Li Rui and other classmates through the Wuhan office of the Eighth Route Army.
However, since no one knew about Li Rui's situation, it was difficult for Chen Tieru to find Li Rui where to go, and later, under Shao Jianqiu's many searches, he learned that Li Rui had served as executive deputy director of the Central Organization Department. After learning of Wen Lizheng's death, Li Rui immediately wrote a very detailed proof material, introducing the process of Wen Lizheng joining the party organization and some revolutionary deeds. Not only that, Li Rui also wrote special memories of "Missing You, Wen Lizheng" and other reminiscence articles.
On August 20, 1980, 36 years after Wen Lizheng's sacrifice, the relevant departments approved Wen Lizheng's identity: "Regarding the issue of posthumously recognizing Comrade Wen Lizheng as a revolutionary martyr, according to the investigation materials, Comrade Wen Lizheng is a revolutionary martyr, and Lunan has long determined that the Linyi County Martyrs Cemetery has his list and historical materials, and there is no need to go through the approval procedures." The certificate of martyrdom will be reissued when the certificate is renewed in 1981. At the end of 1983, after 38 years of Wen Lizheng's sacrifice, Wen Lizheng's relatives finally got the "Wen Lizheng Martyrs' Certificate".