Guanlin Primary School in Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, is somewhat different from other primary schools, not because of how good its teaching staff is, but because on August 8, 1942, China's heroine
Lin Xinping
It was in this school that she was brutally killed by the Japanese army, and what is even more infuriating is that after Lin Xinping's death, they also threw her body into the sulfuric acid tank, which is the real bones.
In order to commemorate this great man, our country built a tombstone in the small forest around this school, of course, because there are no bones under the tombstone, it is more like a monument, let us remember the heroine who cared for the people of the dawn even if she died. The monument reads in red pen:
"All the members of the Communist Party of China paid tribute to Comrade Lin Xinping, head of the former Cultural and Educational Section, for his heroic sacrifice here in 1942!"
Every time the heroine's death day comes, Guanlin Primary School and many surrounding units will spontaneously come to pay tribute to her.
Lin Xinping's story is widely spread in Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, and her character has inspired generations of local young people to make them more courageous, but in fact, those who are inspired may be older than Lin Xinping, because she was only 23 years old at the time of her sacrifice.
Lin Xinping was born in October 1919 to the son of a well-known Chinese medicine doctor in Shuitou Street, Beigang, Pingyang, Zhejiang.
"The Benevolence of the Healer"
These four words were vividly embodied in Lin Xinping's father, who was grateful for the hardships of the people, who not only often provided free medical treatment for the poor people, but also often risked his life to heal the wounded of the Red Army guerrillas stationed on nearby mountains. Her mother was also a kind woman and she supported her behind her back whenever her husband did these things. Under the influence of these two couples, Lin Xinping grew into an upright young man with good character and extreme empathy.
Because of her good family,Lin Xinping was sent to school by her parents from an early age, and in 1935, she was admitted to Wenzhou Normal University with excellent results.
At that time, the situation in China was already in danger, because the Japanese wanted to invade our territory, and the people's lives were even more miserable. Such a scene stimulated the empathetic Lin Xinping, who decided to contribute her own strength to the cause of anti-Japanese resistance.
Using his spare time, Lin Xinping began to actively participate in the anti-Japanese national salvation activities, and walked out of the campus with his classmates, marching and demonstrating. Walking among the crowd, Lin Xinping shouted out his slogan:
"I'd rather be a ghost of my country than a slave to a foreign country!"
The impassioned voice resounded in every street and alley, making everyone who heard it marvel.
To stop all this, the fainting government began uniting schools to pressure the helpless students to stop such activities. But the students were still unmoved, and they were mentally prepared before they did it. So I said it at the school
"If you do this again, we will fire you."
At that time, Lin Xinping said with a face full of indifference:
"We will never stop the anti-Japanese activities, you can be expelled if you want, it is a big deal to go home and ask for food!"
This attitude infuriated the school, so Lin Xinping was expelled from the school after only two years of studying at the school.
After being expelled and returning home, Lin Xinping did not give up continuing her anti-Japanese activities, and she began to secretly distribute leaflets to the guerrillas with his father, hoping that more people would join the anti-Japanese ranks. However, such behavior was not allowed by the puppet army after all, and after being discovered, Lin Xinping was arrested and imprisoned.
After being put in a dark prison, the puppet soldiers all thought that she would be afraid, but they did not expect that Lin Xinping was not only not afraid, but even reprimanded the puppet soldiers:
"What is the crime of propagating anti-Japanese propaganda in this situation now?" Are you willing to be slaves to other countries? ”
Such words made the puppet army a little embarrassed and angry, in order to make this
"Hard Bones"
Loosening their mouth, they began to lynch Lin Xinping. During that time, Lin Xinping was beaten to death, but even so, the young girl still did not explain to them the specific location of the Red Army guerrillas as the puppet army hoped, but kept talking hard
"The leaflet was picked up!"
Lin Xinping was imprisoned in that dark and damp prison for more than a month, and finally acquitted because there was no evidence. Looking at Lin Xinping, who was covered in scars, her parents were very distressed, but because they knew that it was their daughter's wish, they did not say much in the end.
Many people after being so seriously injured and seeing the tears of their parents' heartache, they can't help but wonder whether the path they chose is correct, but in the face of this, Lin Xinping has never wavered in her determination to resist Japan, and she has even strengthened her belief in wanting herself, but at the same time she also understands that she is no longer suitable to continue to live at home.
She herself was not afraid of the torture of the enemy, but she was worried that her parents would be hurt because of her, so on a dark and windy night, Lin Xinping sneaked out of the house and never went back!
It was also on that night that the anti-Japanese guerrillas really saw her determination to resist Japan, and they decided to give her a task.
The content of the mission is to send a confidential document to Shanghai, this task sounds easy, but it is really difficult to do, at that time Shanghai on the surface of the song and dance, magnificent, behind the scenes of various forces mixed with fish and dragons, very dark, if Lin Xinping accidentally exposed her identity, to meet her must be death.
Lin Xinping also knew this, but she also understood that this was the norm for the Red Army, and in order to drive the Japanese out of her homeland, even if it was to pay the price of blood, she did not hesitate to take on this task.
In order to protect her identity, she gave herself a new name after receiving the task -
Liang Yu
With the confidential documents handed to her by the Red Army guerrillas, Liang Yu set off.
After two months of arduous trekking, Lin Xinping successfully crossed the obstacles set by the enemy and delivered confidential documents to the hands of the Shanghai Red Army, and the success of this incident also began to make the upper echelons of the organization notice her talents.
In October 1936, Lin Xinping officially enlisted in the army and became a glorious Red Army, engaged in underground work in Shanghai.
In 1937, our party decided to train Lin Xinping, and she was sent to study at the Kang Da. Lin Xinping did not live up to the expectations of the organization, during the school, Lin Xinping has been studying hard, and soon graduated from this school with excellent results.
At the beginning of 1938, Lin Xinping, who had just graduated from the Kang University, was awarded a new position and served as the deputy head of the Cultural and Labor Corps in a detachment of the Jiangnan Headquarters of the New Fourth Army. During his tenure as deputy head of the Cultural and Labor Corps, Lin Xinping has been actively propagating our party's anti-Japanese ideology to the local people, cultivating outstanding progressive youth, and expanding the local influence of the Red Army guerrillas. It was during that time that the people realized the powerful power contained in the body of this seemingly weak woman, and her earnestness touched them, making them begin to admire her from the bottom of their hearts, and they called Lin Xinping "Chang Lu (
Tg
Female Jay".
In 1940, in order to suppress our Party forces, the Kuomintang stationed an army in the guerrilla area of our army, which had a serious impact on the guerrillas. Lin Xinping was ordered to solve the matter.
This matter may be a tricky thing to put on others, but it is not for Lin Xinping, who has long thought of a good way to deal with it.
According to his own image, Lin Xinping pretended to be an out-of-school young woman, voluntarily joined the Kuomintang and became a secret agent, because there were indeed many such people at that time, so the Kuomintang did not doubt this, and happily took her back, which laid the groundwork for their subsequent encounters.
In the special agent camp, Lin Xinping began to exude her own personal charm, she cordially taught the soldiers to read, sing, and take care of them like a big sister, so that she soon gained the trust of most of the Kuomintang members, and in the process she also figured out the strength of the team and the trajectory of the activities.
After knowing all this, Lin Xinping passed on the news to the New Fourth Army, and finally under the cooperation of the inside and the outside, our army effortlessly turned the people of this special service battalion into anti-Japanese guerrillas. This incident also passed into the ears of the Kuomintang members, and a rumor about it was circulating among them afterwards:
"Their people in southern Jiangsu were actually reddened by a yellow-haired man!"
It is precisely because of this incident that Lin Xinping also has a new nickname, called
"Daredevil Heroes"
。
On January 6, 1941, the "Anhui Southern Incident" occurred, and 7 divisions of the Kuomintang army were in Jing, Anhui (
jīng
The Maolin area of the county suddenly surrounded the Headquarters of the New Fourth Army and its subordinate units, and at that time, the total number of Kuomintang soldiers was more than 80,000, but our army was only more than 9,000 people, because of the disparity in the number of soldiers, our army was finally defeated by their men. This incident caused our army's strength in the northern Jiangsu region to be severely damaged, and it was urgent to revitalize the northern Jiangsu forces. In March of that year, the Kuomintang established an anti-Japanese democratic government in Jintan County, and Lin Xinping was transferred to the democratic government as the head of the cultural and educational section.
The struggle between our army and the Kuomintang reactionaries and the Japanese puppet army has entered a white-hot stage, which has made the tasks of various departments begin to multiply, and Lin Xinping's department is no exception. Just when she was busy with work, bad news suddenly came from home.
At that time, because she was busy with work, she had not returned home to see her parents for several years, and she did not know their specific physical condition, so one day she suddenly learned that her father was dying.
The father always knew that his daughter could not come back because she was busy with work, and in the past he understood her very well and did not require her to go home, but at this time he knew that his life was not far away, and at the last moment of his life, he still hoped that his daughter could accompany him, and he wrote a letter for people to entrust to his daughter who was in the army.
Seeing her father's letter, Lin Xinping also wanted to rush back immediately at all costs, but she knew that this was not okay, the country still needed her, and in the face of thousands of people, she could not be so selfish. She tearfully wrote a reply to her father:
"I am very sad to know that my father is very ill, my letter was already wet with tears when I wrote this letter, and I don't know if my father was still alive when this letter was sent home. In order to liberate the people and for the great revolutionary cause, my daughter has been in the Communist Party for five years. For the past five years, I have been out and about, and I can't go back to serve my father and mother. Now I only hope that my father can hold on, we can definitely defeat the enemy, and how I hope that my father can live to see the fruits of our victory! ”
At this moment, Lin Xinping finally realized what is the "dilemma of loyalty and filial piety", for the sake of the country she has always been loyal to, she can only bear to reject her father's wish.
After doing these things, Lin Xinping did not have much time to continue to be sad, and for her ideals, she had to abandon all her troubles and devote herself to her work.
In this year, in addition to meeting her father before he was about to die and wanting her to go back, Lin Xinping also met a husband who wanted to be with him for the rest of his life.
Lin Xinping's husband was the commander of the 47th Regiment of the 16th Brigade of the 6th Division of the New Fourth Army at that time
Zhuge Shen
The two met at work, and also cultivated deep feelings in the work, the same ideal and the same belief made the two people feel sorry for each other, and agreed to spend a lifetime together. In the spring of 1941, they got married.
During the anti-Japanese period, the feelings must be less and more, and not long after getting married, Lin Xinping received a new task given to her by the organization.
At that time, the reactionary forces in the Guanlin area were rampant, and the puppet troops, under the protection of the Japanese, acted recklessly in the local area and oppressed the people frequently. When the New Fourth Army heard about this incident, it was very unbearable and immediately sent Lin Xinping to the rescue.
Before leaving, her husband gave Lin Xinping a short gun, and as a Communist, he would not stop his wife from carrying out the task, but he also knew that according to the dangers of the local area, their separation might be forever, and he only gave this gun in the hope that his wife would protect herself well.
Lin Xinping served as the head of the Guanlin District, and when she arrived there, she began to unite local cadres and the masses without fear of hardship, encouraging them to participate in the anti-Japanese activities and launch an offensive against the puppet military government. Such behavior made the puppet army traitors very angry, and they frantically wanted to find Lin Xinping and put her to death. Later, we found Lin Xinping's family letter her description of that period:
"Danger is every day."
In fact, the reason why Lin Xinping was so frightened at that time was not only that she had been hunted down by the puppet army traitors, but also because she was pregnant. Perhaps with a premonition of his own ending, Lin Xinping, who was pregnant, once wrote in his family letter:
"Now that the struggle between the parties is more intense, in the midst of this danger, I am likely to die for the party, and if one day you do not receive my letter, I hope you will not be too sad..."
In May 1942, Lin Xinping gave birth to her first child in Guanlin, which was a healthy boy, but because of her career and for the safety of her children, she could not keep him by her side, and after taking pictures of the children and adding them to the family letter, Lin Xinping cherished and kissed her son's head, and gave him to a local family for adoption.
At this time, the puppet soldiers were still trying their best to find Lin Xinping's whereabouts, there was no way, she could only drag the body that had just given birth to transfer, but her weak body could not withstand the bumps on the road, and soon after she had a serious illness.
Because the disease was so serious, the people around her could only send her to a Traditional Chinese medicine hall called "ShuDe Tang" in Rulin Town, Jintan County, to recuperate, Lin Xinping wanted to adjust her body there and immediately put into work, but she did not expect the owner of the Chinese medicine hall
He Degui
He was a money-hungry man who told them about the high bounty promised by the puppet army.
When Lin Xinping discovered this situation, the puppet army had already led a large army to surround the Chinese medicine hall. In the face of such a crisis, Lin Xinping did not panic in the slightest, and she calmly burned the confidential documents around her. When the puppet soldiers rushed towards her, she also took out a gun and killed three puppet soldiers, but her two fists were not enough to defeat four hands, and it was not long before she was still caught by the puppet soldiers.
The leader of the puppet army is named
Wu Su
After capturing Lin Xinping, he thought he had the means to threaten the Communist Party. He walked up to Lin Xinping and told her that he hoped Lin Xinping could write a letter to her husband Zhuge Shen and ask him to let go of the puppet traitors he had caught before. Obviously, he was delusional, and Lin Xinping refused him without hesitation.
After being rejected, the traitors became even more angry and corrupt, and they used thousands of means to hope that Lin Xinping would ask for forgiveness, but from beginning to end, Lin Xinping was not moved. She told Wu Su in awe:
"I once broke into the tiger's den, I will not be afraid of the wolf's den, the Communists have never been afraid of difficulties, we are born as masters, died as ghosts, and now that I have been arrested by you, I will not try to survive, you also think about yourself, think about how long you can live!" 」
After hearing this, Wu Su became even more mad, and he actually ordered someone to take off Lin Xinping's shirt and use a wire through her chest, but she began to parade in the street with such a lead.
The sharp pain hit Lin Xinping's brain, her lips had become white due to excessive bleeding, but she still did not give in, Walking on the street Lin Xinping still did not forget to comfort the people, she hoarse voice shouted to the surrounding people:
"Don't give up, the New Fourth Army will definitely come to rescue you, and the War of Resistance will surely usher in victory!"
Such a scene makes everyone moved.
After the parade, Wu Su did not take Lin Xinping back to the cell where she had been held, but handed her over to the Japanese.
In order to get the clues that Lin Xinping knew about the Communist Party, the Japanese used more cruel means, and 30 kinds of torture took turns to make Lin Xinping loose. But no matter how much they tortured her, Lin Xinping never gave any clues related to our party, and the Japanese finally understood how hard the bones of the Communist Party really were. Knowing that this trick would not work, the Japanese decided to kill Lin Xinping.
On August 8, 1942, the Japanese Kou took Lin Xinping to Guanlin Elementary School, where he stabbed her to death with a bayonet, and after determining Lin Xinping's death, in order to destroy the body, the Japanese also threw her body into a sulfuric acid tank, when she was only 23 years old.
What she didn't know was that shortly after her death, her son died on the way to the transfer at such a young age, and he was only 11 months old at that moment. In the same year, Wu Su, the traitor who had harmed him, fled to Shanghai, and the person who ordered him to arrest him was her husband Zhuge Shen, and after catching him, the traitor was immediately shot. The story of the revolution continues, and in 1945, the Japanese army officially announced its surrender and left China, and she was right, we did win the war!
Now China has become more and more powerful! Now the people are no longer poor! Now we are not afraid of the Japanese at all! I don't know if Lin Xinping, who is far away in the sky, will smile contentedly when he sees all this? Her efforts have not been in vain, her dream has been realized, the light shines on the red earth, and the motherland no longer has the shadow of the Japanese army!
In order to commemorate this great man, in addition to being built as a monument to the Guanlin Primary School where she died, our country also built a bronze statue for her under a osmanthus tree in her hometown, a small campus in Shuitou, Wenzhou, with a total length of 2.3 meters, which also symbolizes her great 23-year-old age!