Li Xiuying's daughter Lu Ling recounted what happened to her mother that year
At the time of the Nanjing Massacre, 19-year-old Li Xiuying was 7 months pregnant, and her deeds of rising up against the Japanese army's rape and fighting Japanese devils became well-known at the time. With the passage of time, many people may not know the story of Li Xiuying, and the story is like this.
One morning at about 9 o'clock in the morning, six Japanese soldiers suddenly broke into a basement where Li Xiuying was hiding. They held weapons in their hands, and their eyes radiated beastly eyes, and their mouths kept shouting "Flower Girl, Flower Girl." There were many women hiding in the basement, and the Japanese devils arrested more than 10 young and beautiful women at once. Li Xiuying, 19, was also among those arrested.
From the impatient looks of the Japanese beast soldiers, Li Xiuying concluded that they would be invaded by wild beasts without going out of the basement. "No, I'd rather die than let the beast succeed!" Li Xiuying secretly made up her mind. She gritted her teeth and slammed her head into the wall. She only felt a piece of Venus appear in her eyes, and the memory was interrupted.
Li Xiuying hit her head and bled, and she fainted on the ground. The Japanese soldiers were too busy ruining other things to care about Li Xiuying, who was seriously injured and fainted. When Li Xiuying reopened her eyes, her head had been bandaged by her father with gauze, and the injured part was painfully drilled into the heart.
Li Xiuying, who has suffered from terror and pain, feels that in the face of the atrocities of wild beasts, suicide is a manifestation of the weak; he has learned martial arts with his father since he was a child, and his fighting is no worse than manhood, so he should fight with the beast soldiers. The aggressors make the bullied people strong and brave. There is no other way out but to rise up and fight.
At noon, Li Xiuying, who had just woken up, had bad luck again. Three Japanese soldiers broke into the basement again. "Get out of the way of the man!" "The flower girl is very good!" Some of the Japanese troops were fierce, some were sneering and shouting. A Japanese soldier viciously drove all the men away, leaving Li Xiuying and two other women behind.
Photograph of Japanese atrocities
This Japanese soldier was their leader, and under his command two Japanese soldiers escorted the two women to the next room.... And he kept Li Xiuying, who had a head injury but was handsome and beautiful, to himself. "Haha, flower girl, don't be afraid!" The Japanese made a beastly sound.
At this time, Li Xiuying is very different from a few hours ago. She no longer wants to die in vain, let alone let the enemy easily succeed, but make the enemy pay a corresponding price. She was cold, holding the bayonet handle hanging from the waist of the Japanese soldier, the Japanese army was surprised, almost instinctively let her go, one hand grasped Li Xiuying's wrist holding the knife.
Li Xiuying was not willing to show weakness, and shunshi bowed his head and bit the arm of the Japanese army. The mouth army screamed in pain, and once again let out a beastly howl. The two Japanese soldiers next door ran over and raised their bayonets to poke Li Xiuying at her. Li Xiuying still tightly grasped the handle of the Japanese soldier's sword.
Li Xiuying and the Japanese soldier twisted into a circle and rolled around on the ground. The Japanese army was stout, Li Xiuying had a foundation in martial arts, and there were several moves, and the Japanese soldiers did not have the upper hand. However, a woman with her bare hands could not withstand the simultaneous attacks of two other knife-wielding robbers.
Soon, her face, legs, and back were poked with bruises and blood. Li Xiuying knew that he was bound to die in this fight. But also let the invading robbers taste the power of Chinese. After she took a favorable position, she desperately used her hands to jam the neck of the Japanese soldier. Before she dies, she strangles an enemy with her own hands.
Lee Soo Young after the injury
However, just as she was in the most advantageous position and was holding the enemy to death, she was stabbed in the stomach by the Japanese soldiers who were assisting in the battle. Li Xiuying let go of her hands and lost consciousness. The fierce Japanese army poked at her again and flew away in a daze.
Afterwards, Li Xiuying's father, an honest and kind middle-aged man, looked at his bloody daughter and thought that she had been so devastated twice a day, and she burst into tears and was in pain. He and his neighbors, facing Li Xiuying, who was lying frozen in a pool of blood, shook his head and sighed: "There is no hope, buried... It's already.... Li Xiuying's father shook his daughter's body desperately, intermittently telling neighbors.
They hastily dug a dirt pit next to Mount Wutai and carried Li Xiuying with a door panel. Li Xiuying was carried up and covered with a bed of sheets. After being lifted out of the basement, a cool breeze blew through and a faint groan came from under the sheets. Xiuying, Xiuying, Xiuying is still alive! Father was surprised and delighted and cried out.
Li Xiuying in his later years
Li Xiuying did not die, she was sent to the Drum Tower Hospital, after the doctor's examination, she was stabbed more than 30 times. The next day, she miscarried and the fetus was 7 months pregnant. This brave woman, who died nine times in her life, survived more than 200 days of healing. However, on her body, she was permanently left with a lot of scars. This wound preserves the evidence of the aggressor's guilt. Li Xiuying, also known as the "Odd Woman", was one of the survivors of the massacre inflicted by the Japanese army in Nanjing.