Zhao Yiman, a female general from Huangpu, was the first female senior officer to die in the War of Resistance Against Japan
She graduated from the Sixth Whampoa Military Academy and Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, and is an alumnus of famous generals such as Zuo Quan and Chen Geng. After the "" incident in 1931, he was sent to the northeast to carry out anti-Japanese national salvation work, and later served as the political commissar of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division of the 3rd Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, and was a female general who made the Japanese Kou feel frightened. On December 13, 1935, she was seriously wounded and captured in battle with the Japanese army, tortured but determined not to submit to the Japanese, and was captured again on the way out of prison, and finally died heroically. The first female senior officer to die in the War of Resistance Against Japan was Zhao Yiman.
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The Whampoa female trainees who do not allow their eyebrows to be shaved
Zhao Yiman, formerly known as Li Kuntai, also known as Li Yichao, is known as Sister Li. Born in October 1905 to a large landlord family in Sichuan Province. His father was uneasy about being a rich man in the countryside, and spent money to donate a "prisoner" and wanted to enter the career, but the sky did not go according to people's wishes, and finally did not achieve fame. After that, he had to teach himself Chinese medicine, help the townspeople to see the disease, and was a respectable squire.
Zhao Yiman, the seventh eldest among the 10 brothers and sisters, was very pleasing to his father, so at the age of 8, he was able to enter a private school and receive education like boys.
In 1918, Zhao Yiman's father died, and the eldest brother Li Xiru presided over the household affairs. According to the customs of rural Sichuan at that time, as long as zhao Yiman was married to a family with the right family, it was considered to have fulfilled the obligation of raising and educating. But Zhao Yiman is an intellectual woman with a modern education, who does not stick to this traditional custom and does not want to marry prematurely.
In 1924, he joined the Youth League under the introduction of his brother-in-law.
In February 1926, Zhao Yiman was admitted to the Girls' High School (now Yibin No. 2 Middle School) at the age of 21.
In October 1926, Zhao Yiman was admitted to the sixth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy (Zhao Yiman's husband Chen Dabang was also a cadet of the sixth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, but at this time the two were not in a company and did not know each other). Because of his outstanding performance during the military academy, he was selected to study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow in September 1927 and became an alumnus of Zuo Quan, Chen Geng and others.
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Flesh and bones separated and went to the northeast to resist Japan
In November 1928, Zhao Yiman, who was pregnant, was ordered to return to China (in April 1928, Zhao Yiman married Chen Dabang, a classmate of Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow), and gave birth to a son in Yichang in December of the same year, named "Ning'er", the big name Chen Yexian. In order to facilitate his work, in early 1930, Zhao Yiman handed over Xiao Ning'er, who was less than 2 years old, to his great uncle Chen Yueyun (Chen Dabang's eldest brother) to raise. After the September 18 Incident in 1931, Zhao Yiman was ordered to go to the northeast to carry out the work of resisting Japan and saving the country. From then until his sacrifice, he never saw his son Xiao Ning'er again.
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Order the Japanese army
Famous and fearful
Anti-Japanese female general
In 1932, Zhao Yiman was appointed secretary of the Manchurian Federation of Trade Unions, head of organization, and led the workers' movement in the Shenyang factory. In order to facilitate underground work, Zhao Yiman hid his original name and named zhao Yiman (Zhao Yiman later joined the anti-Japanese coalition army, was brave and good at fighting, and had a good reputation, so that many comrades of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League mistakenly thought that Zhao Yiman was the sister of Zhao Shangzhi, the commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese League. Because the two of them are close friends, both are from the Whampoa Military Academy.)
In 1933, Zhao Yiman was appointed acting secretary of the Harbin Federation of Trade Unions. In April of the same year, he participated in leading the anti-Japanese strike struggle of Harbin tram workers. In order to cover her identity, she once pretended to be husband and wife with Lao Cao, the head of the Manchurian Federation of Trade Unions.
In 1934, with the continuous encroachment of the Japanese army on China, the anti-Japanese work was no longer limited to propaganda, but was put into a real war. Zhao Yiman first mobilized the masses, established a peasant guerrilla group, and cooperated with the anti-Japanese troops to fight. Later, he also served as the political commissar of the 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army, and led his troops to the area east of Harbin, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese puppet army.
Zhao Yiman received professional military training at the university, had rich practical experience, had strong military command ability, and fought bravely, and was affectionately called "Thin Li" and "Sister Li" by the comrades of the Anti-Japanese Coalition. Due to the particularity of female commanders, Zhao Yiman's name soon spread in the northeast, and even the Japanese puppet army knew that there was such a majestic female general in the anti-Japanese coalition army. Japanese and pseudo-newspapers repeatedly reported that this female "bandit leader" with a red gun and a white horse was rewarded with a heavy reward for her arrest.
04. Seriously wounded and captured, heroic and righteous
In November 1935, Zhao Yiman's troops encountered the encircling and suppressing Japanese troops, and Zhao Yiman commanded the transfer of troops and personally went to the rear. As a result, he was shot in the leg during the retreat and fell unconscious, and was captured by the Japanese army. Friends who know Harbin know that in November, Harbin has begun to snow, the average temperature is minus 10 degrees, Zhao Yiman, as a female comrade, fought fiercely with the Japanese army in the wild in the extremely cold winter, which is how much courage and willpower it takes to persevere. This can also highlight the great contributions made by Zhao Yiman and other soldiers of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army to the victory of China's War of Resistance Against Japan.
The Japanese captured the famous female general Zhao Yiman, and ru was given the treasure.
Why?
Because as long as Zhao Yiman confessed, he could find out the specific situation and foothold of the entire Anti-Japanese Coalition 3rd Army, and Shunto could eliminate these anti-Japanese soldiers. Zhao Yiman, a senior military commander of the Japanese, knew everything in her heart, so no matter how the Japanese tortured, she clenched her teeth and did not open her mouth. From the historical materials that have survived to the present and the memories of Japanese soldiers who interrogated Zhao Yiman in those years, the heroine at least suffered from terrible torture such as horse whipping wounds, pepper water, sitting on a tiger stool, soldering iron, etc., during which she was repeatedly comatose due to excessive pain. In order to prevent Zhao Yiman from dying as a result of torture, the Japanese had to send her to the hospital for rescue.
On June 28, 1936, with the help of two policemen and female nurses, Zhao Yiman escaped from the Harbin Municipal Hospital, which was heavily guarded by the Japanese army, and hid in the uncle's uncle's house in the Jin family shack Dong Xianxun. However, because there were no comrades to answer, two days later, on June 30, 1936, Zhao Yiman was captured again by the Japanese army on the way to escape to the guerrilla zone. This time, although the Japanese understood that Zhao Yiman was unlikely to surrender as a traitor for their use, they still desperately used torture on Zhao Yiman in an attempt to get a little useful information from her. In the end, the Japanese were disappointed, and Zhao Yimanning died without confiding a word to the Japanese.
On August 2, 1936, the Japanese decided to shoot the "stubborn" anti-Japanese activist Zhao Yiman for public display. They tied the skinless Zhao Yiman to a carriage, dragged him around the County seat of Zhuhe County, and then dragged him to the grass outside the Small North Gate to be executed.
The executive officer asked Zhao Yiman what his last words were, and Zhao Yiman handed over a note to his son "Ning Er" and said, "Pass these words to my son in my hometown!" After that, he was heroic and righteous, at the age of 31.
This papier-mâché was preserved by the Japanese executive and reads:
"Mother is really sorry that you have not been able to fulfill your educational responsibilities. Because my mother resolutely waged the struggle against Manchuria and Japan, today she has reached the eve of sacrifice. Hope you, Ning'er! Hurry up adults and come and comfort your underground mother! When you grow up, hopefully don't forget that your mother died for your country! "