1939年夏秋之交,日寇铁蹄第二次踏入晋东南重镇长治城,随之侵占了长治周围的几个县,开始了灭绝人性的大扫荡。我的家乡,长治东郊太行山脚下的嶂头村,也在日寇的蹂躏下呻吟,全村一百多户人家处在水深火热之中。当时我只有12岁,由于父母早亡,留下大我几岁的两个哥哥和我。二哥于1937年参加八路后,剩下我和大哥在困苦中度日。 At the turn of summer and fall of 1939, the Japanese footballer stepped into the Changzhi City, a major town in the southeast of Shanxi Province, and subsequently invaded several counties around Changzhi and began to carry out the mass raid of exterminating human nature. My hometown, Jiatou Village at the foot of the Taihang Mountain in the eastern outskirts of Changzhi, also moaned under the devastation of the Japanese invaders. More than 100 families in the village were in dire straits. At that time, I was only 12 years old. As my parents died early, I left with my two older brothers and I. Brother joined the Eighth Route in 1937, leaving me and my brother in troubled times.