2. The movie "Private Zhang Ga" is based on the real "Gazi". Yan Xiufeng, a first-class fighting hero in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, now works in Ningbo Road Middle School in Tianjin.
1924, born in a peasant family in Houwangyue Village, Renqiu County, Hebei Province. My father died because the landlord was angry, and my mother died one after another. At that time, he was only three years old The misfortune of his family and the influence of the environment have formed his alert, fearless and naughty character. People call him "Yan Gazi".
At the age of thirteen, Japanese devils invaded his hometown, and he joined the anti-Japanese guerrillas led by the Party at that time. With amazing wit and courage, he went into the tiger's den, broke the hole in the class, killed the devil, uprooted the traitors, fought and died, and repeatedly made meritorious military service! Become a famous fighting hero in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region.
Only a few years after the Anti-Japanese War, he and others seized machine guns 1 T, 2 grenade launchers, 2 small guns, 59 rifles and 40 pistols, killed 5 devils, killed more than 50 traitors, bandits and spies1T, and captured more than 220 puppet troops. The prestige of "Gazi" frightened the enemy's soul, so that the puppet troops often used such words as "go out and meet Gazi" to call names.
3. 1944, Yan Xiufeng was awarded the title of "first-class combat hero" for his outstanding military exploits, and a report by a war correspondent at that time, "The Legend of Yan Xiufeng", made Yan Gazi famous in the Central Plains. Yan Xiufeng was later expelled from the army because he insisted on falling in love with the daughter of a local landlord, which made him unknown for the rest of his life.
4.87-year-old Yan Xiufeng's memories in newspapers and periodicals:
Now, I work as an off-campus counselor in many primary and secondary schools to educate students on revolutionary traditions. Nowadays, teenagers are happy, but many people don't understand that this kind of happiness is hard to come by. We old comrades have the responsibility to make up this lesson for them. Children often ask me, "Grandpa Yan, have you done everything Zhang Gazi did?" I smiled and replied: "Some have done it, some have not. I hid a gun in a crow's nest in a tree, sold watermelons, made a gun, and blocked the chimney of a fellow villager. This is not the case. "
May the old hero Yan Xiufeng-Yan Gazi live a long and healthy life.