Iron Bone General Zhao Tiezhu

"As long as you are alive, you can kill the enemy!" Zhao Tiezhu, a fifteen-year-old boy from Hebei Province, joined the Red Army carrying a hatchet. On the Long March, he gnawed on a boiled leather belt, passed through the bloody formation of the Xiangjiang River, and walked through the snow of Jiajin Mountain. With these words, he crawled from the pile of dead to northern Shaanxi. When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, he bombed planes at Yangmingbao and fought with bayonets at Pingxingguan, becoming a warrior who made the Japanese fearful. During the tunnel battle, he almost died while holding a machine gun and shouting, "Come on me if you dare." Nurse Xiuqin gave him something to worry about other than killing the enemy with a bowl of paste and an instruction. After the Japanese surrendered, he longed for a peaceful life with Xiuqin, but was interrupted by the national army snatching food and arresting Ding. "Behind me are my parents and the newly divided land!" He fought from the Huaihai battlefield to the Yangtze River, and crossed the Yangtze River carrying cloth shoes made by Xiuqin. Just after we settled down, the smoke started rising in the Yalu River again. In the ice and snow, he led the soldiers to pass apples through the tunnels of Shangganling and resist artillery fire. The old leader yelled at him to "come back alive." Many years later, Zhao Tiezhu, who was already a general, was asked at the military academy whether he was afraid of death. He unbuttoned his collar to reveal his scar: "Afraid! But behind you are your family and the land..." His rough hands rubbed the old military uniform, "You can't take off this military uniform once you wear it!" From a hatchet boy to a general of the Republic, Zhao Tiezhu spent his life writing legends. His love for the land, protection of his relatives, and loyalty to the military uniform kept him strong and strong.