Chapter 50: The Death of Father and Li Gan
Dapeng clearly knew that Yaqin intended to come home in the despair of survival, it seemed that she came in the name of a friend, but who could she go to in the Ninth Company or the Third Battalion, people's brains sometimes swell in loneliness, and the lonely environment will lead to excess, especially when she is only in her twenties and helpless, what will not necessarily happen?
"Yaqin, I have told you about my family history in the past, especially my grandfather was killed by the Kuomintang Yao Xijiu, but whether it was Yao Xijiu, the commander of the air force of the Nanjing government, or Yao Xijiu of Harbin? It is not known whether it was Wang Jingwei of the Nanjing government or Chiang Kai-shek of the Chongqing government. Not only did my grandfather and fourth grandmother die in Tokyo, but there was not much left of the Rui family, Jiang Peng, and Li Gan's families, and it was difficult to see each other from the north and the south, which was a tragedy of national and personal history.
Since Li Gan rescued my sixth grandmother and his son from Linfen and Ruicheng in Shanxi Province and sent them to Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province for refuge, of course, there are my aunt and uncle there, and it can be regarded as a refuge home for the time being. Why didn't Grandpa Li Gan take them to my parents' house in Qiqihar, it was too dangerous to be only more than 400 miles away from Yao Xijiu's house in Harbin.
In 1943, my mother gave birth to Daya, he was my third brother, my eldest brother Dayuan was five years old at that time, and my second sister Huiying was only three years old, I was not born yet, and all this family history was told to me by my mother and uncle before my death.
Suddenly, one day Grandpa Li Gan came to our house with his son, and introduced to my parents the process of washing the Rui family house in blood, and explained how he deceived Hou and Yao, when it was mentioned that the family of Ruicheng, Shanxi Province was washed in the blood of Yao Xijiu again, my grandfather and the fourth grandmother went to Tokyo, Japan to negotiate and were killed, and now my sixth grandmother has been placed in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, the whole family can only cry, only in the north home to pay tribute to the deceased relatives.
After Li Gan proposed to take revenge again, and took out gold bars as capital to pull out of the team, first of all, to Harbin's Yao Xijiu and the Japanese devils to recover the blood debt, my father was the director of the hospital at the time, for my grandfather's last letter asked my father not to join the army and participate in politics, in order to respect the will can not go with Li Gan, after analysis, temporarily hide in Qiqihar and Fularji, in case Yao Xijiu gets the information will cut the grass and eradicate the roots.
A few days later, Grandpa Li Gan and his son were in a hurry to leave, and before leaving, they forcibly left two gold bars, and discussed how to take revenge when the team was pulled up.
Since Li Gan took his son away, he did pull up a team in Baicheng, Jilin, although it was not a ** guerrilla, but the team of nearly 200 people concentrated included Zhang Xueliang and Zhang Zuoxiang's remnants of the Northeast Army, as well as the scattered troops of Yang Jingyu and Zhao Shangzhi's Northeast Coalition Army. Li Gan was called "Rui Commander", and expanded his troops to Ranghulu, Shuangcheng, Fangzheng and Maoershan, and the Japanese puppet government called them "bandits" for sweeping and killing.
Commander Rui led the deployment of the Fifth Route Army, each with its own responsibilities, and often operated on the railway transportation lines of West Manchuria and South Manchuria, specializing in sabotaging the supply of war materials for the Japanese army. Rui commander Li Gan sat in Baicheng, organized people and others not only to blow up the two airports of the Japanese army, but also sent people to Harbin to secretly visit Yao Xijiu's whereabouts in order to avenge the bloody revenge of Rui's house, and organized people to go to Daowai Beijiu Street to attack Yao Xijiu's house, although it did not hurt the ghost Yao Xijiu, this case shocked the Japanese puppet military and government in Harbin, and also provided a happy foundation for the citizens of Harbin to resist Japanese aggression and resist rape, and won the strong support of the citizens, and some even risked their lives to hide the wounded soldiers in their own homes, embodying the great spirit of patriotism and patriotism of the armyγ
Where there is war, there are casualties, and all activities, big and small, must be adequately supplied, and this excision comes from the spoils of war on the railway line, and the various medical supplies used by the troops can only be secretly supported by my father's hospital. In order to ensure the safety of my mother, my two brothers and one sister, together with my grandfather, mother and uncle, they were all placed in the small white building of Fularji in the southern urban area. Despite the guards outside, there were still spies who broke into the courtyard late that night, when the mother woke up, pulled out a pistol from under the pillow and shot twice out the window, and the guards finally caught one of the spies for interrogation, knowing that it was the conspiracy of Yao Xijiu in Harbin.
According to the puppet's confession, Yao Xijiu and the Japanese puppet army marched to Baicheng in an attempt to encircle and suppress Rui Tong's army, because the situation was urgent, and he had to go immediately to inform Li Gan's grandfather, although my mother was pregnant for more than seven months, I still rode to Baicheng, and my father and uncle immediately took the old and young to move to Qiqihar City for refuge. When everything was arranged, my father rode to Baicheng on horseback, and Li Gan's camp was nearly seventy miles away from the county seat, when my father arrived, just in time for the Japanese puppet army had already marched to the camp from the south, they had about 300 people, and Li Gan's camp was less than 100 people, what should I do if I was outnumbered?
My father discussed with Li Gan and asked four guards in civilian clothes to escort my mother back to Qiqihar's house, and of course she secretly fled from the north. My father and Li Gan's team left the barracks and waited for the enemy on the eastern slope, but they had been spotted by the Japanese army's telescope, and they immediately pursued the hillside. The father instructed Li Gan and his son Li Shun to separate the team, and only wait for the Japanese puppet army to approach before they could shoot, but the Japanese puppet army bombarded the hillside indiscriminately with small steel cannons, Li Shunren and others were unfortunately killed, but the team of the two slopes still fought back and resisted, and they stopped and stopped, and they had to withdraw from the position until the afternoon, and only nine people in the escort insisted on defending and covering, and Li Gan and my father only had thirteen people to break out of the encirclement, and Li Shun and more than 60 people were all killed.
Li Ganhe placed my father and another guard in Baicheng that day, and sent five guards to Qiqihar to move, considering that Qiqihar was not a safe place for my father and his family, and it was safer to move to Baicheng. Li Gan took the rest of the people to the Twin Castles and Xiaojiatun to gather with other teams to resist the Japanese.
I was born on August 6, 1945 in Baicheng, Jilin Province, which was also my mother's birthday, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb called "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan, which is said to have killed and injured more than 280,000 people. Three days later, the United States dropped another atomic bomb called "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, Japan, and the Soviet Union declared war on Japan.
On August 12, 1945, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs instructed the Japanese legations in Switzerland and Sweden to send a note to the Allies that the Empire of Japan would accept the Potsdam Proclamation. On August 15, 1945, the recording of the "Armistice Edict" announced by the Japanese Emperor Hirohito was broadcast. The Japanese base camp sent a surrender envoy to the Philippines. At the same time, the Kwantung Army, the Chinese Dispatch Army, the Southern Army and other strategic groups sent military envoys to China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom to surrender. On September 2, 1945, the representative of the Japanese government, Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Aoi, the representative of the Japanese army base camp, and the chief of staff Umezu Mijiro led a delegation to board the American battleship Missouri that broke through in Tokyo Bay and formally signed the instrument of surrender.
My father was the director of Baicheng Hospital at that time, because the Japanese army put bacteria in the rice warehouse, which caused my second and third brothers and the common people to get cholera, and only ten days later, the second sister and third brother fell seriously ill and died. Li Gan suddenly came to Baicheng, my father was working as an interpreter in the Red Cross, and the Soviet Red Army sent my father to Moscow to take a plane to pick up vaccines and medicines, and Li Gan accompanied me for my father's safety. Originally, I was supposed to go directly to the sixth airfield left behind in Japan, but because my father wanted to meet his family again, when I went to the airport from home and was boarding the plane with Li Gan and the Soviet liaison officer, the plane suddenly exploded, and Li Gan's grandfather and my father were all killed, and my father was only 33 years old at the time. My mother, who was only 32 years old at the time, lost her two children and her husband and three relatives in less than 20 days, how did she get through it, and found a grumpy husband for me, and my mother lived in mental depression and pain, and was only 46 years old when she died.
Yaqin, I have talked about this history in general terms in the past, and you know the family changes that happened later, so I will not narrate it. However, the destruction of my grandparents' family in that era can be said to be a tragic history. You are so young now, the situation of the country will gradually improve, and you must not innocently ruin your youth because of the current predicament. β
Speaking of this, Yaqin cried, Huaying cried, and Dapeng left them to hide in the kitchen and cried silently. Yaqin suddenly got up and left, this situation can only comfort each other, Hua Ying sent Yaqin out of the door, how would she know that this meeting would be the last goodbye, and it will be difficult to see each other again. See Chapter 51: Instructor Quarantine Review.