Resistance heroes most characteristic of traditional cultural events

Ma Benzai, the general of the Hui People's Detachment, and his mother united to fight against the Japanese

By Marshal Zhu De was hailed as "a model for the Hui and Han ethnic groups, and a hero of two generations of mothers and children," the Hui anti-Japanese general is Ma Benzai.

In 1939, the Japanese invaders swept through North China, Ma Benzai led the Hui people detachment in the Hetian, Qingxian, Cangxian area, and to help the "Hui people's resistance to the war to build up the country" organization of the Islamic squad, to carry out the guerrilla war behind enemy lines. In the Japanese invasion of Jizhong base in the sweep, and the Eighth Route Army main column and He Long, Guan Xiangying led 120 Division, eliminating the bandits armed sixth road. Because of the Ma Benzai command, the results are remarkable, the Eighth Route Army Jizhong Military District awarded the Hui Min Detachment "invincible, invulnerable, hit not sat, dragged not rotten iron army" banner.

In order to surrender Ma Benzai and eliminate the Hui Min detachment, in the fall of 1941, the enemy surrounded Dongxinzhuang and captured Ma Benzai's mother. The enemy coerced Ma's mother to write a letter of persuasion to convince her son to "surrender to the Imperial Army" and enjoy "glory and wealth", but Ma's mother was steadfast, denouncing the crimes of the Japanese army, and exposed the enemy's conspiracy, and resisted by hunger strike, and finally died honorably. Learning of the news of his mother's sacrifice, Ma Benzai held back his grief and wrote: "The great mother is still alive in spite of her death, and the child will continue the struggle in accordance with his mother's will!" "The motherland is my home, the party is my mother, for them, I am determined to give my everything!"

Beginning in the spring of 1942, the enemy frequently "cleared the countryside" and "swept" in the area of Jianguo, Jiaoxie and Xianxian, where the Hui Min detachment was active, causing great difficulties for the Hui Min detachment. Ma Benzai led the team to ambush, attack strongholds, fighting bravely. 1942 May 1, the Japanese invaders gathered 50,000 troops in the North China Dispatch Army commander Okamura Ningji under the command of the Jizhong base on the unprecedented scale of the "sweep". Ma Benzai was ordered to lead the troops to poke through the iron wall of the pocket formation, skillfully jumped out of the enemy's encirclement, the victory transferred to the Jilu border area. early 1944, the Hui Min detachment was ordered to transfer to Yan'an. But the long war life, so that Ma Benzai overworked, accumulated fatigue into illness, can not go with the troops a piece. In the difficult environment at that time, Ma Benzai's condition worsened, February 7 in Xinxian County, Shandong Province, died at the age of 43 years old.