Fan Zhuxian (1882-1938), whose original name was Jin Biao and whose courtesy name was Zhuxian, was born on December 12, 1881 in Nanyansi Village, Guantao County, Shandong Province (now belonging to Hebei Province). In 1904, he left his hometown to join the army due to a famine. After the Revolution of 1911, he served as the position of Beiyang Army Company, Battalion, Regiment, Brigade Commander, and later served as the Major General of the 13th Army of Feng Yuxiang's Ministry of Northwest Army. After 1931, he served as the Major General of the Third Route Army of Han Fuju's Ministry, the County Magistrate of Yishui County, Shandong Province and Linyi County Magistrate. He arrived in Liaocheng in November 1936 and became the Administrative Inspector and Security Commander of the Sixth District of Shandong Province, and the County Magistrate of Liaocheng County. On November 14, 1938, he died heroically in the battle to defend Liaocheng.

1. I'm willing to be such a fool in my life

In his early military career, Fan Zhuxian hated and hated the warlords' melee. He believed that the Chinese attack on themselves would not only damage their national strength and image, but also give foreign enemies an opportunity to take advantage of it. So he resolutely abandoned high officials and generous salaries, left the army and returned to his hometown to live in seclusion, and changed his name to "Bamboo Immortal", expressing his determination to maintain a noble character like bamboo. During his seclusion, he was still diligent in studying, determined to imitate the ancient people of kindness and ambition, and explore a bright path to save the country and the people.

In 1926, the National Revolutionary Army launched a Northern Expedition. They held high the banner of "defeating imperialism and its lackeys Beiyang warlords and eliminating feudal forces" and were invincible. They greatly shocked the people of the whole country and shook the ruling foundation of imperialism and feudalism in China. At the same time, General Feng Yuxiang also swore a swearing in Wuyuan, Suixi to respond to the Northern Expedition, heading south, going east to Tongguan, Shaanxi, and entering the Central Plains region, preparing to fight with the Beiyang warlords and carry out the National Revolution.

Faced with the in full swing of the national revolution, Fan Zhuxian was very excited. At the invitation of Zhang Weixi, the commander of the 13th Army under General Feng Yuxiang, he resolutely returned and joined the National Revolutionary Army in fighting against imperialism, feudalism and unifying China. He changed his name to Zhuxian (meaning the pioneer of road construction) to express his determination to revolution. Because he had many years of experience in military command, he was well-managed and made great achievements in the battle and was appointed as a senior senator by General Feng Yuxiang.

However, beyond Fan Zhuxian's imagination, the political situation in China was unpredictable and the civil war continued to continue. In 1930, the largest warlord melee in the history of the Republic of China, the Jiang, Feng, and Yan Zhongyuan War broke out. The two sides invested millions of troops, and Fan Zhuxian also participated in the melee with the troops. The war caused more than 300,000 casualties. Seeing this, Fan Zhuxian was very sad and determined not to hold a position in the army. He refused to invite him to Shaanxi, and was determined to do some work in the local area and seek benefits for the people. He then served as the senator under Han Fuju, the chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government. In early 1933, he was appointed as the county magistrate of Yishui County, Shandong Province, and later served as the director of the Military Law Department of the Third Route Army Command.

In October 1933, Fan Zhuxian was transferred to Linyi County County. During his tenure as the county magistrate, he visited privately to eliminate old ills, led county government officials to participate in physical exercise, crack down on corrupt officials, and often visited the people to understand the suffering of the people. He also strictly prohibited gambling and drug use, and advocated cutting braids and laying their feet, encouraging women to join the work. He also encouraged agricultural weaving and organize relief every year of famine. Because Fan Zhuxian took a series of measures, which not only benefited the local people, but also brought a fresh political atmosphere to the local area, which was welcomed and supported by the people.

Fan Zhuxian's life is extremely simple, but he generously invested or raised funds for major issues related to people's livelihood. During his tenure as Linyi County Magistrate, he built bridges and roads, repaired the city appearance, set up hospitals, and supported education, and did a lot of good things for the people. Because he was not greedy for money, he was ridiculed as a "fool" by some old bureaucrats. Fan Zhuxian said proudly: "I am willing to be such a fool in my life."

Fan Zhuxian served in the old military and political circles for more than 30 years, but he has always adhered to the personality cultivation of a traditional gentry, keeping himself clean, sympathetic to the people, and having lofty patriotic sentiments. He dissatisfied with the Kuomintang government's strategy of not resisting the Japanese army, and agreed with the Chinese Communist Party's proposal to stop the civil war and resist Japan. He often said: "Whoever patriotism loves the country and the people, I will fight against whom I will not be afraid of taking responsibility."

In July 1936, Fan Zhuxian was transferred from Linyi County under the order. People across the city shared a road and gave County Mayor Fan Zhuxian a bowl of clear water, a mirror, a piece of tofu, and two green onions to commend Fan Zhuxian's style of holding the county government in a bright mirror and clear manner. In the winter of 1936, Fan Zhuxian was promoted to the Sixth Administrative Inspector of Shandong Province, and the Security Commander also served as County Mayor of Liaocheng County.

In May 1937, Peng Xuefeng, secretary of the Liaison Bureau of the Northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, went to Liaocheng under the name of visiting classmates, and had several contacts with Fan Zhuxian, so that Fan Zhuxian learned more about the Communist Party’s proposals on establishing an anti-Japanese national united front and the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. This caused a huge change in Fan Zhuxian’s thoughts. Therefore, he invited Communist Party members to Liaocheng to assist in the War of Resistance. Fan Zhuxian also appointed Communist Party member Yao Dihong as the secretary of the special agency. In October, the Shandong Provincial Party Committee passed Yu Xinqing to select 12 majors Yu Shishi and 240 captain waiters from the Third Group Military Political Training Class to go to Liaocheng. Then, Zhang Linzhi, the Minister of the Organization of the Provincial Party Committee, went to Liaocheng to unifiedly lead the work and united front work of the Northwest Shandong Party as the representative of the Provincial Party Committee. All of these were approved by Fan Zhuxian.

In order to better publicize the proposal of anti-Japanese war, Fan Zhuxian founded several anti-Japanese cadre training schools in Liaocheng and invited Communist Party members to be teachers. He also mobilized the masses to organize anti-Japanese mass groups, such as the Women's National Saving Association, the Battlefield Service Group, the Youth National Saving Association, the Children's National Saving Association and other organizations. He also presided over and published publications such as Shandong People, the Anti-Japanese War Daily, the Pioneer Monthly, the Battlefield News, the Battlefield Culture, and the Front, making the anti-Japanese situation in northwestern Shandong lively and vigorously.

In the autumn and winter of 1937, when the Japanese army invaded south and North China was facing danger, hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops and government officials fled across Henan. However, Fan Zhuxian, the administrative inspector of the Sixth District of Shandong Province, resolutely rejected Han Fuju's order to cross Henan to retreat. On November 19, he sent a telegram to the whole country: "It was because the Japanese slaves invaded and captured my North China. The territory was changed. Our army crossed south, north of the Yellow River, waiting to sink. We mourned our people, we were trapped in water and fire, wandering at midnight, we wept and weeping. The vocational supervisor is a district, and he is responsible for defending the territory, looking north, and never crossing south. We swear to lead our guerrilla athletes and armed people to deal with the Japanese slaves. Success and failure are not the only ones.

He devoted all his efforts and did not hesitate to do so. He only hoped that the military supplies and weapons would be used to help him. He could fight to the end and be loyal to him. He looked south and could not defeat him." This telegram with a weak and righteousness could shock the world and make ghosts cry. It greatly inspired the enthusiasm of the people of northwestern Shandong to participate in the war of resistance. When Han Fuju, who led hundreds of thousands of troops, fled without a fight, Fan Zhuxian had a mere local specialist, without a regular army, and only relied on the support of local armed forces and the people. He had been fighting with the Japanese army for more than a year, and had more than 80 battles of all sizes and sizes, annihilated more than 5,000 enemies, defended 36 county towns, and finally, he was wrapped in horses and corpses on the battlefield of the war of resistance, becoming a national hero!

After the Haodian was issued, Fan Zhuxian sent people to Wuhan and Xi'an to seek help from the Kuomintang Central Government and the Eighth Route Army headquarters. He did not want to be coldly treated by the Kuomintang Central Government, but received warm reception and strong support from the Eighth Route Army stationed in Wuhan and Xi'an Office, and selected dozens of cadres and outstanding young intellectuals to work in northwest Shandong. At the same time, the Eighth Route Army headquarters also sent Xu Xiangqian, deputy commander of the 129th Division, to lead his troops to southern Hebei to open up an anti-Japanese base.

The land was in military support and supported Fan Zhuxian to insist on the war of resistance in northwest Shandong.* Chairman and Commander-in-Chief Zhu De once wrote to Fan Zhuxian, evaluating his patriotic feats and contributions. Fan Zhuxian was deeply inspired and couldn't help but say with emotion: "In today's world, if you want to save China and not be a slave to the destruction of the country, you can only listen to the Communist Party and cooperate with the Communist Party to fight against the war to the end!" From then on, on the anti-Japanese line, Fan Zhuxian stood with the Communist Party of China.

Fan Zhuxian adopted the suggestions of the Communist Party of China's Lucite Committee, and with the assistance of the Communist Party, quickly restored and established 27 county governments in the northwest Shandong region, of which the county magistrates of 13 counties were Communist Party members and progressive people. To persist in the war of resistance in northwest Shandong, it is necessary to establish and expand the anti-Japanese armed forces. On the one hand, the Lucite Committee of the Communist Party of China assisted Fan Zhuxian in the collection of various traveling armed forces throughout northwest Shandong and sent political workers to transform them; on the other hand, the creation of the Communist Party of China.

The anti-Japanese armed forces directly led by the Party were the backbone forces supporting Fan Zhuxian to adhere to the anti-Japanese war in northwest Shandong. In less than a year, the troops under Fan Zhuxian's command quickly grew from a security battalion with less than 1,000 people to 35 detachments and 3 civilian troops, totaling about 60,000. Although this unit, which was combined under the banner of the Anti-Japanese National United Front, was complex in composition and poorly equipped, under the leadership of Fan Zhuxian, was able to fight together and go to the national crisis together.

On November 22, 1937, the Japanese Gaoqiao Fleet stationed in Linqing sent a cavalry team of more than 30 people to Liaocheng to reconnaissance and harassment. They were attacked by our defenders and fled northwards. At this time, Fan Zhuxian was in Qingping. After hearing the news, he immediately led the guards and political training teams to Liangshui Town north of Liaocheng to intercept the enemy, killed several enemy captains and seized 4 war horses. This was the first battle in northwestern Shandong to fight against the Japanese army. Although it was a small battle, when hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops retreated southward, the Japanese army with the arrogance weapon Zhang hit the head-on, greatly encouraging the anti-Japanese military and civilians in northwestern Shandong.

The captain of the Japanese corps, Takahashi, was so angry that he personally led more than 300 infantry, artillery and cavalrymen from Linqing to invade Liaocheng on the 27th, attempting to retaliate. Fan Zhuxian was not afraid of the strong enemy, but personally led the guards and political training teams. The third battalion went up to the enemy. He fought fiercely with the enemy for four or five hours in Liulin Town, Tangyi, and defeated the enemy and killed and wounded more than 80 enemies. The Linqing enemy was defeated twice and dared not to move easily. This battle brought heavy blows to the enemy, and our army was greatly boosted and our morale was high. Fan Zhuxian led his troops back in triumphantly, and the people of Liaocheng City sounded gongs and set off firecrackers to welcome him.

On December 16, more than 600 Japanese troops were invaded by Gaotang's southern invasion and occupied Nanzhen, attempting to cross the Yellow River from Huakou, attack Tai'an, and attack Jinan. Fan Zhuxian immediately ordered Boping and the Chiping militia to block the Japanese army in Nanzhen. He himself led hundreds of people to help. After hand-to-hand combat, more than 100 enemies were killed and injured. The enemy was defeated and retreated, shattering the enemy's plan to cross the river and go south.

In early March 1938, the Japanese Tufeiyuan Division, which occupied the northern section of Pinghan Road, in order to seize the Yellow River Ferry to cross the river to the south and cut off the retreat of the Chinese defenders in Xuzhou to the west, sent the commander of the Dawu coalition army to lead i,000 people to occupy Pu County, killing nearly 1,000 innocent people, creating the horrifying "Pu County Massacre". On the 19th, more than 300 Japanese and puppet troops were sent to occupy Fan County, burning and killing and looting. Fan Zhuxian was in a grief and angry manner, and on the 21st, he led his troops to fight bravely and recover Fan County in one fell swoop, and then led his troops to chase and kill the fugitive enemy. The Japanese and puppet troops in Yuncheng took advantage of the opportunity of Fan Zhu's main force leaving the city and again occupied Fan County on the 24th. Fan Zhuxian heard the news, regardless of the hard work of fighting overnight, led his troops to return immediately, fight fiercely for a day, and finally recovered Fan County for the second time.

In late March, after crossing the Yellow River from Dongkou and Penglou, the Japanese army's Doiyuan Division crossed the Yellow River from Dongkou and Penglou in Pu County, it left a corps force to protect the transportation line from Pu County to Puyang and the Yellow River Ferry. Fan Zhuxian mobilized 6,000 troops to launch a siege against the enemies in Pu County for more than 70 days. On May 9, Fan Zhuxian led more than 200 troops to inspect Qiliying, northeast of Pu County, and was suddenly attacked by 300 Japanese troops. Fan Zhuxian was not afraid of the danger and commanded the troops to use the earthen encirclement to calmly respond to the battle.

.The three nearby detachments rushed to reinforce, and cooperated inside and outside, and the enemy left behind more than 50 bodies and fled in a hurry. On June 8, Fan Zhuxian and others commanded their troops to ambush the Japanese car team again at the stone tomb 15 miles southwest of Pu County, killing more than 20 enemies, destroying several cars, and seizing a batch of military supplies. The Japanese army in Pu County was attacked continuously by us, and their replenishment transportation lines were cut off by us. They were forced to withdraw all of them back to Daming on June 13. Fan Zhuxian led his troops to recover Pu County immediately.

In mid-August, in order to support and defend Wuhan, Fan Zhuxian dispatched 14 detachments to mobilize tens of thousands of migrant workers to launch the Jinan Battle. The 10th vanguard unit and others approached the Zhangzhuang Aircraft Factory and Weisi Road in the northwest of Jinan City, burning several enemy aircraft and killing one enemy. Under the cover of the machine gun battalion of the 10th detachment, the railway destruction team overturned a Japanese military vehicle, causing more than 100 Japanese casualties. The other two detachments and migrant workers destroyed the railway from Dezhou to Jinan section.

, which caused the enemy's traffic to be paralyzed for a while. This battle caused great momentum, but when the enemy counterattacked, they suffered some losses, such as the captain of the Anti-Japanese Youth Advance Brigade, Fan Zhuxian's second son Fan Shumin, and others who died heroically. Fan Zhuxian comforted his wife: "The people's son died for the country and died as a place. Why do I regret it? Why do I feel sad?" He also ordered the second daughter to be the captain and continued to lead the crowd to kill the enemy. He also sent the eldest son, eldest daughter, and three daughters into the revolutionary ranks to participate in the anti-Japanese war.

On November 14, the Japanese Chiba Army's infantry, artillery soldiers, and more than 1,000 were equipped with 3 aircraft, cars and tanks. They launched a crazy attack on Liaocheng. Fan Zhuxian and others led a few defending troops to fight with the enemy for a day and night, killing and wounding more than 170 enemies. Finally, because they were outnumbered, more than 700 soldiers including Fan Zhuxian and others died heroically, and Liaocheng fell.

The bad news came out, and the whole country was sad. The National Government ordered a special commendation. Chongqing Xinhua Daily and Yan'an Liberation magazines published memorial articles, praising him for his noble character and loyalty, praising him as a national hero who was loyal to the country, and commending him as a model for his cooperation with the Communist Party to fight against the war. Chongqing, Luoyang, and Guan County, northwest Shandong Province held a grand memorial service. The Communist Party of China held a grand memorial service in Yan'an. Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Wu Yuzhang, and Dong Biwu all wrote elegiac couplets:

The war is in full swing, and I will be willing to see the death of the butcher, and show his loyalty and courage;

We are still here, and we will swear to resist for a long time and return our country to our country.

Zhu De, Peng Dehuai

The three friends saw the spirit, the pine body was vigorous, the bamboo body was straight, and the plum blossoms were also noble, and the temperament was old and elegant until the cold and the evening festival was in the cold;

A family is loyal and righteous, a husband dies in the line of duty, a wife defends the people, and a children are all called brave and brave, honest and cowardly, and the Communist Party of China is unable to help the country and leads the legacy.
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