The Old Woman with Two Guns is a legendary character in the novel Red Rock.
There is an old woman with two guns in the novel Red Rock. That is a not in jail polish mountain guerrilla captain image. In fact, the real "old woman with two guns" is also a revolutionary martyr who was massacred by the enemy in the Jagged Cave, her name is Deng Huizhong.
In the spring of 1950, Chongqing was just liberated, and the citizens and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) were working together to carefully heal and rebuild the devastated city, which had been destroyed by the Kuomintang (KMT) reactionaries. On this day, a middle-aged man in a dignified military uniform came to the Jagged Cave, where he offered a bouquet of flowers to the prison cell, which still reeked of burnt ash, and then bowed three times in silence. ......
That a foot-bound, old-fashioned woman could become a member of the Chinese ****anese Communist Party is somewhat of a legend in and of itself, but Deng Huizhong was much more than that. She was also a "double-gun old woman" who used a sword and a gun to make the enemy tremble in fear. About Deng Huizhong's legend, there are many versions in the folklore, here to choose a few of her and the story of the gun.
"Fake gun for real": Deng Huizhong, already a mother of several children, joined the revolution and dreamed of getting a gun, but she just didn't have the chance. She then learned the children's way, made a fake gun with bamboo, learn to aim and shoot. Whenever the scouts drilled with a stick as a gun in the school, she followed suit and practiced with the gun on the shoulder, gun down, prone shooting, kneeling shooting, standing shooting and other actions. She also practiced in secret in the alleyway outside the back door of her home in order to become proficient in marksmanship.
"Getting a gun and learning to use it": After 1948, when the higher party committee sent her to guide the underground party branch in Yuexi, the branch gave her a pistol, which she was overjoyed and loved. Later, the higher leaders issued another pistol to her. She had two guns for a while, and that's how she got the title "Old Lady with Two Guns", but Deng Huizhong was not even 50 years old at that time.
Deng Huizhong herself did not mind, and later she used both guns to say in front of outsiders, "I'm an old woman with two guns," how so, "old woman with two guns" is so famous. Of course, what is more famous is the story of how she led the guerrillas to beat the enemy to death again and again.
"Designed to borrow guns": only four or five days after the war, the guerrillas directly under the detachment of the squad added more than a dozen fighters, still short of more than 10 guns, how to do it? Deng Huizhong to find the party secretary to discuss whether there is a way. The Party Secretary said, "The situation is pressing, there are a few wealthy people here who have guns at home, perhaps we can borrow guns from them? A few of them have guns, so maybe we can borrow them from them. One of the owners was very angry with the guerrillas for "borrowing" guns, and before Deng Huizhong "borrowed" a gun, he muttered behind him, saying that he would report to the township office tomorrow about the gun grabbing.
Deng Huizhong after listening to the old man laughed and said, tell you, this gun is your family, but now it has come to our hands, but we did not shoot at you, two did not break into the door, three did not hurt your family, you say we are robbing the gun, who can say it is clear? In my opinion, you do not report it, really want to report it, I'm afraid that instead of looking for trouble for yourself, the township office a few gentlemen do not take advantage of the opportunity to knock you a strange! The old man thought that Deng Huizhong had a point, and whispered, "You're better than the old woman with two guns!"
The enemy captured the "old woman with two guns" Deng Huizhong, simply as happy as crazy, because this is the same as they followed the "destruction" of the "Advancement Newspaper", and then "crushed" the "Huaying Mountain Guerrillas". Huayash guerrillas a major "victory". Therefore, as soon as Deng Huizhong was captured, all the enemy agencies took action and used all their power to try to make this legendary female guerrilla leader lose in front of them.
But they were wrong. In the first trial, Deng Huizhong admitted that she had taken the riot guerrillas to fight against the landlords and old tycoons, but admitted nothing else, especially not that she was a member of the ****anufacturing party. The second time Deng was arraigned again, when Deng Huizhong still did not admit that he was a member of the *** Party, the agents called a half-blind man named Chen Yongfu and a student surnamed He to come out to testify.
As soon as Deng Huizhong saw these two traitors, he cursed them. The enemy then commanded his men to torture Deng Huizhong. Later, when he saw that the hard way did not work, he arrested all of Deng Huizhong's sons and daughters, and told Deng Huizhong the conditions: if you hand over other **** production party members, the whole family can be released, if you do not give an account of the death of the whole family, you will kill your whole family.
Deng Huizhong simply do not eat this set, instead of cursing the enemy, said "I and my whole family are not afraid of death, afraid of death only you these reactionary dog officials! If you kill me, someone else will come to kill you, and the blood debt must be paid in blood." The enemy had to shake his head and give up, and said to his colleagues: so many years, never seen such a powerful woman! Soon, the Central Committee of the Kuomintang came to the order that all caught the real ****production party members, the local can not be detained, all sent to Chongqing Jagged Cave Prison, in this way, Deng Huizhong and her second son Deng Cheng was escorted to the Jagged Cave ......
To this "hell on earth" in Chongqing! However, according to the comrades who later escaped, when they met Deng Huizhong, they said: the original "old lady" is not old, and also looks like a very ordinary woman, just a little bit taller and bigger, because she wrapped small feet, walking posture is a bit unique.
In the massacre on the night of November 27, 1949, Deng Huizhong and her son, Deng Cheng, were machine-gunned by the brutal enemy at the same time and died. Deng Huizhong, the "old woman with two guns," was actually only 49 years old when she died.
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The Impact of Red Rock:
1. Upon its release, it immediately caused a sensation and has been adapted into the movie "Eternal Life in Flames" and the Yu opera "Sister Jiang", etc. From its publication in 1961 to the present, it has been reprinted 51 times and more than 8 million copies have been issued; at the same time, it has been translated and issued in many languages. The book was named one of the 100 patriotic textbooks by the Central Committee of the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Culture and the Youth League.
2. Li Yang, a professor at the Chinese Department of Peking University, wrote "Reinterpretation of Chinese Literary Classics of the 50s and 70s": In the deepest part of people's consciousness, it would be more accurate to say that Red Rock is a "novel" aiming at historical narrative, rather than saying that Red Rock is a revelation of people's faith. It is more accurate to say that Red Rock is a book of revelation about human faith. The novel Red Rock was created in strict accordance with the requirements and concepts of the ideological norms of the time and the existing norms of literary writing.
3. Wu Xiangyu, a professor at the College of Humanities, Zhejiang Normal University, discusses the revolutionary consciousness of the "body" in "Red Rock": "Red Rock" starts from the "body" and explains how the pain of the "body" becomes a part of the red orgy of the crucifixion.
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