On the eve of the Huaihai Campaign in 1948, the Home Returning Group bloodbathed the village and violently retaliated against Wang Xiuying's family. In times of crisis, Yang Jifa stepped forward and rescued the villagers and Wang Xiuying's family. She is bright and charming, seventeen years old; he is tall and rough, thirty years old, with an ordinary appearance. In order to repay his life-saving grace, Wang's grandmother tearfully betrothed her granddaughter to him. A "flowers and cow dung" marriage attracted ridicule from the neighbors and no one was optimistic about it. But who would have thought that this marriage would quietly take root in the smoke of war.
Yang Jifa successively participated in the defense battles of Taierzhuang, Hengyang, and Luoyang, fighting the enemy with blood; he participated in the Shibali Campaign in his hometown and made many military exploits. During the war, he once risked his life to save his comrade Lin Yu and formed a life-and-death friendship. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the situation suddenly changed. Wang Xiuying was transferred to Nanjing with the army, and the couple was forced to separate.
The Battle of Huaihai ended and the troops were defeated. Yang Jifa took off his military uniform and decided to go south to find his wife. The journey from Xuzhou to Nanjing was supposed to take one month, but he went through bandits, freezing and hungry wilderness, identity checks, and was mistakenly imprisoned as a homeless person. He trekked for a whole year, narrowly escaped death, and walked as fast as iron.
Fortunately, Commander Lin Yu secretly helped them, and after many twists and turns, they finally met again in Nanjing.
Lin Yu showed up and handed over the pass to Taiwan: "You still have a choice." The couple looked at each other for a long time and silently threw the certificate into the river. "The roots are in this land."
This is a true story told by my mother. The protagonist Yang Jifa is my mother's biological uncle and the epitome of thousands of unsung heroes.
There is no system, no golden fingers, only a sincere heart, a relationship, and a loyalty measured with steps.
Purpose: On the eve of the Huaihai Campaign, the Kuomintang team Yang Jizhou rescued the Communist family Wang Xiuying's story