There is a big Liuzhuang in the southeast of Juye County, which is seventy miles away from the city. The elder brother of the ancestor of the Liu family, who moved from Kaifeng, has a long branch, and the place where the eldest brother settled is called Da Liu Zhuang.

In Liu Xili's life, there are more than 100 households in Daliuzhuang, with five or six hundred people. Dad will be famous, the family has 100 acres of land, and he saves money everywhere to buy land. More than ten people celebrate the New Year, so they cook two bowls of flat food (note: dumplings), he does not ask people to eat, for Grandpa Tian, Grandpa Stove. He told the family to drink flat food soup, first drink a full drink, and then divide a few flat foods for each person.

Da Liu Zhuang used to be not very peaceful, there was more land at home, more food was beaten, and the old people often came to rob it. Dad was ruthless, sold a few bags of food, bought two guns, and two baskets of bullets, in order to take care of the family and the hospital. a spear, called "Hubei Tiaozi"; A short gun, called a "foreign cannon box".

Xili is the eldest in the family, has learned martial arts, ** will be terrible in the future, often go to the field to hunt hares, and the more you practice, the better the marksmanship. The bird flew in the sky, and he told the people in the village to hit it on the head, and the gun rang out and the bird fell. The news spread all of a sudden, and outsiders nicknamed him "Sharpshooter". From here, Lao Que didn't dare to mess with his family again.

In 1940, the Eighth Route Army lived in Daliuzhuang, they were from the Third Regiment of the Yellow River Detachment of the 115th Division, all of them were young people about 20 years old, most of them were from Hebei, they were all recruits, and they were trained when they had nothing to do. Daliuzhuang established a militia self-defense force, and Xili was appointed as the captain of the militia self-defense force by the district working committee. When the Eighth Route Army and county armed forces were in action, they often took him as a sniper. He knew qigong, and he also learned some medical skills from his father, and saved a company commander of the Eighth Route Army.

These Eighth Route Army lived in Daliuzhuang for more than a month, and after a long time, the Japanese devils knew about it. At that time, Daliuzhuang belonged to Junan County, and the Japanese transferred more than 3,000 Japanese puppet troops from the five counties of Juye, Shanxian, Chengwu, Jinxiang, and Jiaxiang.

On the 24th day of October in the lunar calendar this year, the fog was heavy and the sky was still unknown, and the Eighth Route Army was doing morning exercises in the south of the village.

The sentry reported: "The Japanese devils have come from the Manfu River!" ”

The regiment commander Lu Di and the political commissar Zeng Zilu both thought it was a small force of the Japanese, so they did not move immediately, but only withdrew to Daliuzhuang.

Daliuzhuang has Haizi Wall, Haizi Trench, Haizi Gate, the Japanese use cannons to fight in the village, most of the shells that fall to Daliuzhuang do not sound; The Eighth Route Army and the county and district armed forces worked together to fight outside, but it was almost noon, and Daliuzhuang had not yet been opened.

The special service company and the militia self-defense force guarded the Dongzhai Gate, and there were only two crooked machine guns, one of which was not easy to use. The guns of the Eighth Route Army are all made by the Hanyang Arsenal, called "made in Hanyang", pull the big bolt and press a bullet to shoot a shot, which is not easy to use. Xili's "Hubei strips" are easy to use.

The headquarters of the Japanese was in Lizhuang, and someone in Lizhuang saw that the commander was crazy, took off his clothes and revealed his bare backbone, and there was a burst of Japanese with a burst of whiz, and the interpreter followed up and said: "How big is Da Liuzhuang?" It's a county seat, and it's time to open it! He hated so much that he used his command knife to chop two Japanese soldiers. He also said: "Open Da Liu Zhuang and kill it all!" Burn it out! Chickens and dogs don't stay! ”

This supreme commander is a young samurai, named Saburo Yamazaki.

This Yamazaki Saburo is not stupid, he grabbed the people of Li Zhuang and tied them with ropes, he and the Japanese soldiers were sandwiched between the common people, and walked to the grandmother temple of Da Liu Zhuang. Grandma Temple is forty or fifty meters away from the Dongzhai Gate of Daliuzhuang, and it is the front-line command post of the Japanese.

Xili could see that this Japanese was an official. He knows all these ordinary people in Li Zhuang, one is nicknamed Mule, and another is called Li Hongxiu. He secretly waved at them, trying to get them out of the way. They tied the rope, he couldn't dodge, he couldn't shoot, and he was sweating in a hurry.

More than 100 meters from Li Zhuang to Grandma Temple, and four or five meters to Grandma Temple, Yamazaki Saburo thought it was okay, he pushed the tied people aside, and walked a few steps quickly to enter the temple.

Xili quickly opened his gun, and the first shot hit him in the leg, and he knelt on the ground and commanded; The second shot hit him in the head and Saburo Yamazaki died.

The head died, and the Japanese panicked for a while, and then continued to fight.

How can a village surrounded by earthen walls withstand long-term bombardment? The Dongzhai gate was opened, and the devils in the dark sky occupied half of the village. The head is dead, and the devil is also afraid, and he can't figure out the reality of the village, so he doesn't dare to fight westward again.

The Eighth Route Army and the county and district armies retreated to several courtyards in the west of Zhuangxi, and fought out from the northwest corner of Daliuzhuang in the middle of the night.

After this battle, the Japanese puppet army killed more than 300 people, they pulled the corpses away, piled them up at the east end of Li Zhuang, poured gasoline and burned them. The Eighth Route Army said that more than 80 people died, but more than 200 people actually died. Zeng Zilu, the political commissar of the Third Regiment, and Cheng Xianggui, the head of the district, both died. There were seven uncles and brothers from Hebei who were soldiers together, and the Japanese surrounded them in a courtyard and gassed them, and all seven of them died.

Saburo Yamazaki, who was killed by Xili, was the largest Japanese official killed during the Anti-Japanese War in Juye County. When he was just liberated, he took a primary school Chinese textbook.

Xili has a daughter, but no son. I heard that the district gave him a merit plaque, but I don't know why, the peasant president didn't give it to him. A few years later, someone found a plaque in the ditch not far from Xili's house, and the words on it were still recognizable, which read "Home of Anti-Japanese Heroes".

Sharpshooter Liu Xili. After the battle of Daliuzhuang, the commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army sent a special photojournalist to take pictures of Liu Xili and publish them in the newspaper. Provided by Liu Weilei.

In the most difficult years of life, Xili wanted to ask for a treatment from **, and went to the county personnel bureau to find it, thinking that the personnel bureau was in charge of people's affairs, but there was no result, so he didn't look for it again.

One summer, the people of Daliuzhuang saw a big night owl - owl lying on the 20-meter-high willow branch of Fuhe's house. The old family didn't like the night owl, saying that it was a mourning bird and it was uncommon. There is a saying that a night owl enters a house and kills; He also said: Don't be afraid of night owls barking, but afraid of night owls laughing. If a night owl laughs in a tree in the middle of the night, something big will happen in this place within three days.

Someone shouted, "Go and call Uncle Xili and let him shoot the night owl down with a gun." ”

Xili was over 60 years old at the time, and he had a clay gun at home, and his eyes were dazzled. When he went out, he saw that the trees were full of people, all waiting to see the excitement.

After the battle, Xili rarely touched the gun, he didn't know the bottom of his heart, and said to the people watching the excitement: "My mouth is dry, I'll go home and drink some water first, and then fight when I come back." ”

After returning home and drinking a few sips of water, he returned to the big willow tree, set up his shotgun and took aim, closing his right eye for a few seconds. There was a "bang" of gunshots, fluttering, and the night owl fell headlong.

When Xili was old, he gave the house and trees to the team and ate the five guarantees. In his seventies, he still gets up early and goes to bed late, and practices martial arts every day. As soon as I stomped my feet, the yard plopped and the ground moved.

Once, nephew Liu Weilei's daughter was sick, and it didn't look good, so others said: "Look for your uncle." ”

Wei Lei hugged the child over, Xili touched the child's head, drew a few circles on the ground, let the child stand in, he stomped his foot, aimed at the child's head and blew a breath, and said, "Okay, go back." ”

Yu Lei took the child home, and the child was really good.

In 1989, Xili died at the age of 80, which is considered a long life. The nephew said that Lei was wearing linen and filial piety, and sent him to the old forest in the northwest of Zhuang, and put him into the soil for peace.

After Yu Lei went to work in the county, he met Xie Jingjin.

Xie Jingjin asked Wei Lei: "Which village are you from?" ”

Yu Lei said: "Changyi Nanda Liu Zhuang." ”

"There is a sharpshooter in Da Liu Zhuang, named Liu Xili, do you know?"

"He's my uncle."

"Your uncle has contributed a lot to the Eighth Route Army, and I have been to his house for miles, how is he doing in this life?"

"Uncle I have been planting all my life and passed away."

"He's not treated?"

"Nope."

"It's a loss, why didn't you look for it before?"

"Uncle I have approached the Personnel Bureau, but it is useless."

"That's the wrong place. It is very easy for a person like him to make great contributions, as long as there are three parties to prove it, he can apply for it. At the minimum, ** also have to give some living allowance every year. ”