On November 7, 1941, the Japanese devils launched a sweep of the base area in the Yimeng Mountains, and General Zhu Rui's wife, Chen Ruoke, was unfortunately arrested because she was 8 months pregnant and had limited mobility.
That night, the Japanese army tortured Chen Ruoke, but Chen Ruoke still refused to reveal a word.
The next day, Chen Ruoke gave birth to a daughter prematurely. The Japanese sent her a bottle of milk to blackmail her. Chen Ruoke refused. To feed the baby, she bit her finger and fed her bloodied hand into the baby's mouth.
On November 26, 1941, the Japanese army killed the mother and daughter, and after killing them, they brutally slashed 27 knives on their bodies.
Chen Ruoke was born in Shanghai in 1919, and his original name was Chen Yulan. His father was a small clerk in a newspaper office, and his mother was a housewife from a maid's background, and her family was poor. Chen Ruoke has been reticent since childhood, so she is often bullied by school children, and even teachers call her "little dumb" with her classmates.
After dropping out of school due to family difficulties, she followed her mother to a textile factory in Shanghai to become a textile worker. But most of the money could not be retained, and it was used to pay off debts, and she began to work as a night worker when she turned 11, because the night shift was paid more than the day shift.
In those days, there was no legal constraint, and factory owners oppressed workers, especially child laborers.
Chen Ruoke was often abused and beaten, and in the years of the factory, her body became weaker and even fell ill.
In 1925, the situation of struggle in the country deteriorated again and again, and the situation intensified, and many people with lofty ideals in the country rose up to call for workers to strike and hold demonstrations.
In order to change herself and most of the oppressed people, 16-year-old Chen Ruoke resolutely joined the march, picked up a banner, walked tenaciously to the front, and shouted the slogan "Down with imperialism, down with feudal thought" slogan. She also took out the money she had accumulated for many years and signed up for a night school to learn.
Since joining the workers' movement, Chen Ruoke's social activities have become more extensive, and she can be seen in various patriotic activities, and with the passage of time, Chen Ruoke's thinking has become more and more mature, and his sense of revolutionary struggle has also been improved by leaps and bounds. Her nickname, "Little Guangdong," was widely praised among workers, and in 1936, Chen Joined the Party.
Chen Ruoke, who became a member of the Communist Party, followed the organization and leaders, traveled to Hubei, Shanxi and other places many times, constantly absorbed the nutrients of advanced ideas, actively participated in the anti-Japanese rescue activities, and entered the North China Military and Political Cadre School in 1937 to study.
Chen Ruoke has a strong party spirit, has a strong sense of identification with the communist cause, and often spontaneously reads party articles and newspapers in his leisure time, and can have his own profound insights.
After the outbreak of the war of aggression against China, Shanghai fell, she followed the factory to move to Wuhan, because of the wrong joint, she lost contact with the organization, for this reason, she planned to go to Yan'an to find the organization, unfortunately, when she went to Linfen, Shanxi, because of the war, she had no choice but to return.
Soon, she left for Yan'an again, passing through Jincheng, Shanxi, and decided to sign up after seeing the advertisement "North China Military and Political Cadre School, Recruiting Progressive Youth" posted on the city wall.
That day coincided with the principal Zhu Rui personally interviewing the admissions. Chen Ruoke became a cadet at the North China Military and Political Cadre School. Zhu Rui personally taught the students, he was kind and talented, and left a deep impression on Chen Ruoke. And Chen Ruoke's pungent, generous, brave, and her firm revolutionary ideals also made Zhu Rui shudder.
Although it took only a few months from acquaintance to love, because of their similar ambitions, it was as if they were born as a couple.
On July 1, 1938, Zhu Rui mentioned the marriage to Chen Ruoke. On July 7, the two became engaged. On August 1, the two were officially married. Juri gave his beautiful wife a belt he had been reluctant to peza, which he had bought in 1927 while studying at the Klasin Artillery Academy in Moscow, Soviet Union, as a wedding gift. The gentle and virtuous Chen Ruoke personally made a pair of cloth shoes for her husband.
Chen Ruoke's husband, Zhu Rui, was also not an ordinary person, and Mao Zedong gave Zhu Rui a very high evaluation: "China's artillery marshal" and was known as the "father of artillery".
These days are very special and are not chosen arbitrarily. For they know that future life, work, struggle and revolution should always be linked to the revolutionary struggle and the victory of the Chinese nation.
In June 1939, Chen Ruoke was sent to the Shandong Branch Bureau as a women's committee member, a member of the Standing Committee of the Shandong Provincial Women's National Salvation Federation, and the chief of the Organization Department of the Shandong Branch.
During his stay in Shandong, Chen Ruoke mobilized women to participate in the Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress, made military uniforms, shoes, hats, and other daily necessities for frontline anti-Japanese soldiers, and also organized young women to set up young women's associations and sister troupes, rehearsed dramas, dances, and other dances, and publicized anti-Japanese resistance and women's equal rights. Chen Ruoke also edited the "Shandong Women" magazine and compiled the "Women's Handbook" and the literacy textbook, which greatly promoted the women's work in Shandong and made Shandong a benchmark for women's work in the country.
In 1941, Chen Ruoke and Zhu Rui and their husband and wife ushered in a good news, that is, Chen Ruoke was pregnant.
Previously, Chen Ruoke and Zhu Rui had also had a child, but the child was swept away by the Japanese army shortly after his death.
The newborn baby's resistance was extremely weak, and soon he fell seriously ill and could not find a doctor for treatment, and eventually died.
In the late autumn of 1941, the Japanese army came to the Yimeng Mountains in Shandong Province and brutally swept them in an attempt to eliminate the local Chinese troops. At that time, Chen Ruoke was 8 months pregnant and had a big belly. He lived in the home of Wang Changyu, known locally as "Yimeng Mother", and then Chen Ruoke, with the help of Wang Changyu, disguised himself as a village woman and moved out of the village.
Chen Ruoke and his comrades hid in a cave in The Great Gu Mountain, which was a natural condition of dangerous terrain and easy to defend and difficult to attack. This led the Japanese to conclude that this must have a base for our party, so they bombed the entire mountain.
However, on the same night, the Japanese army relied on the ladder to touch the back mountain, and when the scouts got the news, they immediately informed the staff in the cave to move overnight.
After taking a few steps, a pain came from the stomach, and it seemed that the child was going to be born at this time!
The guards who followed him hurried down the hill to find someone to help deliver the baby. After the guards left, Chen Ruoke, who could not walk, was unfortunately encountered by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army saw that Chen Ruoke's clothes were different from the local women, and decided that this pregnant woman was not an ordinary person.
Chen Ruoke was taken back for interrogation, and when the Japanese army learned that Chen Ruoke was the Eighth Route Army, they intended to get information from her mouth.
Two days later, she gave birth to a baby in prison. The Japanese knew that Chen Ruoke was weak and unable to feed the child, so they sent a bottle of milk to the cell in an attempt to seduce her: "We already know that you are the eighth way, you are very strong." But you are also the mother of your children, don't you love your children at all?"
Chen Ruoke did not give in, she knocked the bottle sent by the Japanese army to the ground, knowing that time was running out, she bit her finger and fed the blood into the child's mouth. "Child, you came into the world, you didn't eat a mouthful of your mother's milk, you are going to leave this world with your mother, you will suck your mother's blood..."
The Japanese were overjoyed and said to her, "As a mother, you can't bear to watch your children suffer?" Chen Ruoke was angry, "If you want to kill, do as you please, come less to this set"
The enemy pressed the red soldering iron on Chen Ruoke's body over and over again, the air was full of burnt smell, Chen Ruoke passed out again and again, and was woken up by the enemy with water over and over again, but still did not spit out a word.
On November 26, 1941, Chen Ruoke held the 18-day-old child in his arms, took a few steps to look down at her, walked a few steps and kissed her, waddled, and walked step by step to the execution ground. After stopping, she looked at the child affectionately and shouted: "Down with Japanese imperialism!" Long live the Communist Party of China! ”
On the way to the execution site, several ordinary people looked at the child too young, which was really pitiful, and begged the enemy to let the child go, but Chen Ruoke did not agree.
She said firmly, "If the child falls into the hands of the enemy, it will become a hostage, which will distract the child's father, not to mention that the whole nation is in suffering, what is the child's life, and put together this piece of flesh and blood to let the enemy know that the strong Chinese nation is invincible." ”
The cruel Japanese army stabbed her and the child 27 times, and the great female warrior who was only 22 years old, with the child, died heroically.
After Chen Ruoke's sacrifice, the body was quietly collected by the local people, and her dry wife sold a few acres of land before buying a coffin to bury it. General Zhu Rui was grief-stricken when he heard the news, and under the escort of 300 people, he went to the Ganniang King to change his home to see his wife for the last time, and ganniang said that she would not let her see anything, it was too tragic.
Chen Ruoke's head was cut off by the enemy, and his body was completely skinless, as were his clothes. Only the belt that Zhu Rui gave her was still tied around her waist, which was a testimony of their love, and the only one who let the people who sent her on the last journey know that the deceased was Chen Ruoke's evidence!
On July 7, 1942, the fifth anniversary of the July 7 Incident, General Zhu Rui wrote in his article "Tribute to Comrade Chen Ruoke": She died too early, it is a loss of the revolution! It is the loss of women! It's my loss! ...... Fight tooth for tat, blood for blood, fight to the end of the victory!
Later, he also fulfilled this oath with practical actions, successfully repelled the sweep of the Japanese Kou, and comforted Chen Ruoke's spirit in heaven.
In 1953, the people of Yimeng, Shandong Province, spontaneously erected a monument to Chen Ruoke to commemorate this anti-Japanese heroine who sacrificed her life and forgot her death.
In China, there are countless heroic sons and daughters like Chen Ruoke who are as indomitable and regard death as a homecoming. Looking back on this period of history, we should not forget the lives and blood they paid, but we must remember the pain of history and the pace of firmly forging ahead