Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 14th Hong Zhenhai, also known as Hong Yanxing, was born in 1910 in Teng County, Shandong Province. He worked with his father in Zaozhuang Road Mine since he was a child. Due to the pressure of life, he often interacted with trains and developed the ability to fly on trains. He was known as "Scud". During the Anti-Japanese War, under the leadership of the party, Hong Zhenhai mobilized the Zaozhuang Road mine workers to form a prestigious people's anti-Japanese armed force active in Zaozhuang, Lincheng and Weishan Lake in southern Shandong Province - the Lunan Railway Brigade, also known as the Railway Group. Guerrillas, he was the first captain.

On March 18, 1938, Zaozhuang was occupied by the Japanese army. Hong Zhenhai, Wang Zhisheng, and Liu Jingsong rushed to the tomb of the Yixian People's Anti-Japanese Armed Forces Station and formally joined the Sulu People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Corps under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. He was determined to resist Japan and fought bravely. He was soon promoted to squad leader and platoon leader, becoming the grassroots backbone of this people's anti-Japanese armed force. In October of the same year, dispatched by Captain Zhang Guangzhong, he and Wang Zhisheng sneaked back to Chenzhuang, west of Zaozhuang Railway Station, and established the Zaozhuang Anti-Japanese Intelligence Station, serving as the station chief to collect intelligence for the troops. In November of the same year, following the instructions from his superiors to "rapidly establish anti-Japanese armed forces," he mobilized road mine workers to establish a secret anti-Japanese armed force of dozens of people - the Zaozhuang Railway Team. This capable team continued to grow and develop during the most difficult war years of the Anti-Japanese War. By the first half of 1940, the Zaozhuang Railway Team had developed into an anti-Japanese guerrilla force of hundreds of people. With the approval of superiors, it was renamed the Eighth Route Army Lunan Railway Brigade. Hong Zhenhai He was appointed captain of the brigade, and at the same time his superiors sent political commissars to strengthen leadership.

Under the leadership of Hong Zhenhai and others, the Lunan Railway Brigade relied on the cover and help of road miners and people in the lake area to use flexible and maneuverable methods on the railway lines, Zaozhuang mining area and Weishan Lake area that were tightly controlled by the enemy. Tactics, active on thousands of miles of railway lines, attack the enemy mysteriously. They tear up railway tracks, blow up bridges, ram trains, intercept supplies, kill Japanese traitors, punish traitors, protect the masses and protect their hometown, like a sharp steel knife, inserting into the enemy His arteries and chest were beaten to such a degree that the Japanese and puppet soldiers were dizzy and unable to rest. The enemy hated and feared them. They offered heavy rewards for their capture and conducted numerous searches, raids and "sweeps", but all failed. The Lunan Railway Brigade became more courageous and stronger as they fought, becoming a famous anti-Japanese heroic force that frightened the enemy. Their heroic deeds were published many times in Dazhong Daily and Lunan Times in the anti-Japanese base areas. The famous novel "Railway Guerrillas" was created based on the heroic deeds of the Lunan Railway Brigade. Captain Liu Hong in the novel was modeled after Hong Zhenhai and his successor Liu Jinshan.

On a snowy night in December 1941, hundreds of Japanese and puppet troops carried out a sneak attack and "mopping up" the Lunan Railway Brigade. Hong Zhenhai led his troops in a fierce battle with the enemy. Unfortunately, he was shot and died heroically. At this time, the Party branch of the Lunan Railway Brigade of the Communist Party of China had approved Hong Zhenhai's application for party membership. After Hong Zhenhai's death, the Political Department of Lunan Military Region ratified Hong Zhenhai as an official member of the Communist Party of China.