In 1940, a 19-year-old girl living in Nantian Village, Jin County, Hebei Province, was brutally stripped of her clothes by the Japanese who swept into the village, and then used special long iron nails to nail the little girl's limbs to the city wall to show, and finally tortured to death. What did he do to be tortured so inhumanly by the Japanese army?
Yang Lingmei, born in 1921 in Nantian Village, Jin County, Hebei Province, his father Yang Luowu is a teacher in the village, the pursuit of advanced thinking, while teaching while farming, to the village suffering widows and elderly do not hesitate to help, deeply loved and respected by the villagers.
Because she was influenced by her father's patriotism since childhood, Yang Lingmei was very assertive and had a free personality from an early age, and was a famous child king in the village.
In 1937, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan in full swing, the flames of war quickly spread throughout the country, and under the wise leadership of the Party organization of the Eighth Route Army, Nantian Village in Hebei Province also actively united the anti-Japanese front and secretly established an anti-Japanese democratic regime.
Yang Lingmei's father, Yang Luowu, opened a private school covering a large area, with complete classrooms, blackboards, desks, chairs, and books, so as soon as he heard that an anti-Japanese organization was to be set up in the village, he immediately donated the private school and became a gathering point and secret fortress for senior leading cadres of the Eighth Route Army to hold frequent meetings.
In 1938, Yang Lingmei, who had just turned 17, participated in a women's literacy class under the recommendation of the cadres of the Women's Rescue Association of the county party committee and was sent to the anti-Japanese training class for further study.
Because of her spicy and cute personality and her hard work, Yang Lingmei was assigned by her superiors to be the secretary of the Women's Rescue Association of the Sixth District after graduating from the training class, and she vigorously undertook the propaganda work of women's liberation and the patriotic ideas of anti-Japanese national salvation.
Under the unremitting publicity of Yanglingmei, the number of women in Hebei who send their husbands and sons to the front line to defend their families and defend the country has risen sharply.
In addition, Yang Lingmei also volunteered to mobilize women to spin thread and weave cloth, make military uniforms and shoes for the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, stand guard and send information.
Under her influence, her elder brother Yang University joined the anti-Japanese guerrillas, younger brother Yang Xiangbao also participated in the anti-Japanese propaganda group, and his father Yang Luowu also donated the family's old house to the Eighth Route Army and established a quilt factory.
All the members of the family joined forces to assist the Eighth Route Army in defending the country in the War of Resistance, so Yang Lingmei's home became a famous "fortress household" in the Anti-Japanese Base Area of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Jin.
Late one night at the end of April 1940, under the whistleblowing of the traitor Liu Huaiqing, the Japanese army brigade in the county town suddenly took advantage of the night to secretly surround Nantian Village, and continuous gunfire sounded, which immediately alarmed the men, women and children in the village who were already asleep.
Fortunately, the Japanese army was not familiar with the road conditions here, and the moment the gunshots rang out, the Eighth Route Army had already received the news, and more than a dozen district cadres and soldiers broke through from the path behind the village, but the confidential documents in the village were simply too late to transfer.
After Hearing the movement, Yang Lingmei got up and ran to the quilt factory to transfer and burn the confidential documents.
But it was too late, and the murderous Japanese army had already broken through the gate of the garment factory and escorted the Yanglingmei family and the entire village, men, women and children, to the open space west of the village.
At this time, the Japanese commander fired several shots at the sky, and under the illumination of the torches, his face looked extremely vicious, declaring that as long as the common people recognized the cadres of the Eighth Route Army, they could escape with their lives.
However, there was no timidity in the eyes of the common people, only a thick hatred, which made the Japanese commander very annoyed in his heart, and immediately ordered that the massacre of the village be created and killed.
In order to protect the villagers and the cadres of the Eighth Route Army, Yang Lingmei resolutely stepped forward and took the initiative to expose his identity: "I am the revolutionary party you are looking for, the cadres of the Eighth Route Army, and if you want to kill them, you must listen to them, but you cannot indiscriminately kill innocents of ordinary people in the village." ”
The Japanese army saw that their intimidation had worked, and sure enough, they found a female cadre of the Eighth Route Army, and they planned to take her away for slow interrogation, trying to get more valuable confidential information from Yang Lingmei's mouth.
Because Yang Lingmei reported herself as a cadre of the Eighth Route Army, she was also cruelly treated by the Japanese in prison, and after undergoing severe torture, she was imprisoned by the Japanese army in a water prison, without food or water, and her spirit and body were seriously destroyed and tortured.
But even so, Yang Lingmei always clenched her teeth and never mentioned any top-secret information about our party and our army.
Seeing that they could not find any breakthrough from her, the Japanese army imprisoned her and a group of suspected villagers on May 2, and killed everyone in front of her, hoping to break Yanglingmei's psychological defenses.
Yang Lingmei was not frightened, and began to scold yang Lingmei, denouncing the despicable and shameless behavior of the Japanese army in disregard of morality, which made the Japanese gendarmerie captain in charge of the torture very angry, and took a leather whip, a stick and a soldering iron, and tortured Yang Lingmei inhumanely.
A 19-year-old flower girl, her body is covered with scars at the moment, and she can't see a little good meat.
In the end, the helpless Japanese gendarmerie captain completely gave up, escorted Yang Lingmei to the execution ground in the east of the city, in front of all the people in the city, nailed Yang Lingmei's limbs to the city wall with special long iron nails to show the public, and finally was brutally tortured to death.
Poor Yang Lingmei's life had just begun, and she sacrificed her precious life for the cause of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and Revolution, at the age of 19.
By 1951, the traitor Liu Huaiqing was captured by the People's Liberation Army and sentenced to an immediate execution at the 10,000-person public trial meeting to comfort the heroic souls of the martyrs, and at this time, a full 11 years had passed since Yang Lingmei's resentment had finally passed.