At the age of 37, she took her son to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy and became the only female cadet in Whampoa. She is a master of the fight and has won the Whampoa Bayonet Championship for three consecutive times. She once formed a company of female soldiers, and in the battle to defend the middle ferry port in Tsu City, the female soldier company fought the Japanese Suzuki Brigade in blood, killing the Japanese army.
Who is she? She is Zhou Yongnan.
Zhou Yongnan was a native of Qidong, Hunan, and in December 1938, Zhou Yongnan took his son to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy, and the act of serving the country with his son to the military academy touched Huangpu and became the only female cadet in Huangpu who was overaged(37 years old).
Although Zhou Yongnan is old, he is a master of stabbing, winning the championship of stabbing for 3 consecutive times, and his skills are overwhelming.
In the winter of 1943, the Japanese 166th Division invaded the city of Tsu. The gain or loss of Tsu City was related to the safety of Changde, and the Japanese army also knew the importance of Tsu City, so they set up their headquarters in Fuji-an and Gongdelin.
In the face of the menacing Japanese Kou, the Chinese 52nd Army organized forces to fight fiercely with the Japanese army in The city of Tianjin. Zhou Yongnan took the initiative to ask for help, and with the female soldier company he trained, he took over the task of defending the ferry port in Jinshi City.
The ferry port in Tsu City is an important pass, and the stakes are high. After Zhou Yongnan arrived at Zhongdu, he immediately organized a position to meet the approaching enemy.
Zhou Yongnan's female soldier company had 3 platoons and 9 squads, each with 15 people. Each squad had 6 men from the light machine gun group, 8 men from the rifle group, 1 hygienist, and 135 men in the whole company. All female soldiers are carefully taught by Zhou Yongnan's hand, female soldiers fight kung fu well, generally 1 or 2 men are close to the body, and the quality is quite excellent.
On November 15, fighting began. The Suzuki Brigade of the Japanese Cloth Wing, under the command of Commander Suzuki Yu, attacked Zhou Yongnan's position in three ways. The Japanese first bombarded with more than 10 cannons, and then a large number of infantry rushed into the position.
Zhou Yongnan calmly responded to the battle and commanded forcefully. After a dozen machine guns were fired, grenades waited, and after the Japanese dropped more than 10 corpses, the queen of the warehouse withdrew.
Suzuki became angry and pulled out his command knife and ordered the Japanese to attack. More Japanese troops rushed into the position, and the Japanese army quickly rushed into the position regardless of casualties.
At this moment, Zhou Yongnan shouted loudly and jumped out of the trench first, she rushed to kill left and right with one to ten, killing several Rikou in an instant.
All the female soldiers rushed out of the trenches and raised their rifles to engage the Japanese. The Japanese suffered heavy casualties, fighting from the early morning until dusk, and the Japanese army repeatedly rushed into the position and was killed and retreated.
The captain of the Japanese army Suzuki was angry and personally pulled out his command knife and rushed up, Zhou Yongnan struggled to fight with this Japanese, Suzuki Yu was shot several times in the body and back, and was stabbed into serious injuries.
Seeing this, the Japanese army shot Zhou Yongnan in the thigh. The Japanese dragged Suzuki back and saved the Japanese's life.
Zhou Yongnan was shot unconscious and was finally rescued by the support team.
In this battle, the female soldier company killed hundreds of Japanese soldiers, seriously injured the Japanese commander Suzuki Yu, and the Japanese army was killed in horror. The female soldier company suffered more than 40 casualties, a platoon leader Li Kehan was surrounded by Japanese troops and died heroically, and the third platoon leader Ginny died to cover her after Zhou Yongnan was shot.