Zhou, 1933, from Xingfu Village, Houhe Town, Jingjiang, Jiangsu Province. Poor family, mainly relying on parents to rent land for a living, life is precarious. Young Zhou had to help adults and sometimes dig wild vegetables to satisfy his hunger.
1940, the new fourth army moved eastward and Zhou's hometown was liberated, which gave him the opportunity to go to school and receive revolutionary education. 1943, the agricultural resistance association and the children's league were established in the township, and Zhou happily signed up and became a member of the children's league. Since then, he has attended classes during the day and stood guard at the village head and intersection at night, and he can complete the task well every time.
One evening, Zhou stood guard at the intersection with a red tassel gun, and suddenly a man came from outside the village. This man is wearing a robe, a hat and a small cloth bag under his arm, like a teacher. Zhou thought, "How come you've never seen this man?" So he raised the red tassel gun and stopped people from asking for directions. Seeing this situation, the man quickly took out a road sign and showed it to Zhou. At this time, President Wu of the rural peasant association happened to pass by here. They couldn't help laughing when they saw that the bearer was Minister Chen of the county party committee. Minister Chen saw Zhou's serious work, praised him, and encouraged him to study hard and work with the * * * production party for a lifetime. Since then, Zhou has performed better in the Children's League and soon became the head of the Children's League. Since then, he has often led children's league members to sing and do exercises in the village, stood guard at intersections, and cooperated with the militia to break roads and bridges many times, and was often praised by district and town cadres and villagers.
From 65438 to 0946, the land reform movement was launched in Zhou's hometown. There are eight big landlords, all famous vampires, and their intention to exploit farmers is cruel. During the movement, Zhou took members of the Youth League and cooperated with the militia to monitor the actions of the landlords. At an anti-landlord meeting, he led the children's group to shout slogans from time to time, which made the meeting very warm. This winter, Chiang Kai-shek tore up the Armistice Agreement and attacked the liberated areas on a large scale. The Kuomintang army carried out a key "clean-up" of Jingjiang. Because Jingjiang is the "gateway" to the south of the Soviet Liberated Area, Houhe District is the old liberated area of Jingjiang County, and Xiang Ying Township is the experimental township of land reform in Jingjiang, the Kuomintang reactionaries are determined to destroy party member and revolutionary cadres here.
1947 65438+1October 18 In the early morning, the 4th Division of the Kuomintang reorganized and "mopped up" Houhe area. After Zhou discovered the enemy's situation, he immediately informed the township cadres who were meeting in Zhuntian Primary School and asked them to act quickly. In order to cover the retreat of these township cadres, Zhou stepped forward to draw the enemy away, but he was bravely arrested.
The enemy brought Zhou into the regimental headquarters and forced him to give up who was the party cadre and his family. Zhou said firmly, "I don't know!" . The enemy battalion commander ordered the soldiers to press Zhou to the ground, while holding up the thick stick, asking Zhou to tell who was the * * * production party until Zhou fainted. The enemy scooped up another basin of cold water and threw it at Zhou. Zhou Song sighed and said word for word: "You dogs killed me, I don't know yet!" The enemy moved out of the tiger stool again, tied Zhou to the stool, stuffed a big brick under his heel, and went up with four. He fainted again. From morning till late at night, the enemy continued to torture the steely boy. Under the torture of the enemy, Zhou fainted again and again, but never gave in. .
The next day, the enemy gathered the villagers on the threshing floor and brought Zhou to the front of the crowd, asking him to identify the cadres of the Party and their families on the spot. Zhou looked around and shouted, "Folks, the People's Liberation Army will definitely defeat the reactionaries!" " Seeing that the enemy could do nothing, he let go of the German shepherd and bit Zhou's meat piece by piece ... Zhou never gave in. The enemy found nothing, so he dragged Zhou to the threshing floor and killed him. Zhou, who just turned 14 years old, died heroically!
After liberation, Jingjiang cultural and educational department once included the article "Tong Tou Zhou" in primary school Chinese textbooks, and used his glorious deeds to educate young people in the county.