Modern China has always been associated with wars, but as long as a country has wars, then there must be heroes. Along the way, China has experienced many wars of resistance, and the names of some heroes have been deeply remembered for their contributions. For example, Lin Zexu in the Opium War, Deng Shichang in the Sino-Japanese War, and the martyrs of the Mid-Autumn Jin of the Xinhai Revolution.
These people were given the name of heroes, but one of the many heroes was often forgotten and did not become known until 58 years after his death. This person is Zhang Jinglin, a hero in the War of Resistance Against Japan, although he is only 15 years old, he made extraordinary contributions in China's War of Resistance Against Japan.
01 Zhang Jinglin first entered the human world
1926 was not a peaceful year for China, which was the year of the Northern Expedition. In Rongcheng County, Shandong Province, it is also not an ordinary year, this year, Zhang Jinglin, known as "Jiaodong Liu Hulan", was born.
Zhang Jinglin's life was not easy, she lost her father when she was two months old, and her family was so poor that she could not even afford to buy his father's coffin. Perhaps it is in response to the older generation's saying that "the children of the poor have long been home", Zhang Jinglin is very sensible, and her personality is also very strong, and it is precisely this kind of personality that makes her make extraordinary feats in an extraordinary era.
In 1936, Zhang Jinglin was ten years old, and often helped her mother to do farm work in the field, feed pigs and raise chickens. However, under the exploitation of the landlords at that time, no matter how hard the peasants worked, most of the grain they harvested had to be handed over to the landlords, and the rest could not meet their needs for survival for a year. And even in this case, Zhang Jinglin's mother spent all her savings to let her go to school.
Zhang Jinglin learned about Marx in the academy. He also learned about a new ideal social structure from the newspapers of the time, about Bolshevism. The above-mentioned concept of equality and prosperity for all in society made Zhang Jinglin fascinated.
02 Zhang Jinglin and the Anti-Japanese Salvation Organization
On July 7, 1937, the July 7 Incident broke out, and the all-out War of Resistance began. After the fall of Nanjing, Japan caused the tragic Nanjing Massacre, and the Chinese people at this time also took up arms and decided to rebel against the brutal Japanese.
The following year, under the organization and leadership of Zhang Huaxing, an underground liaison station was established in Zhang Jinglin's village, as well as some rescue societies, such as the Youth Resistance Pioneers, the Women's Rescue Association, and the Children's Regiment Sentry. The vigorous anti-Japanese salvation movement was launched in this village.
In 1940, Zhang Jinglin, who had learned about Bolshevism and the new ideal social structure in schools and newspapers in his early years, also actively joined the anti-Japanese salvation organization in the village. In this organization, she gained a deeper understanding of the CCP and the new ideal social structure, and became more enamored of the social structure that the Party spoke of.
This year, Zhang Jinglin was only 14 years old. The village next door was occupied by the Japanese, and it was morning, and most of the people in the village were still sleeping except for some people who got up early to collect dung. When the Japanese army reached the mouth of the village, it was found by some villagers who got up early to pick up the dung, and these villagers rushed up the mountain and shouted, "The Japanese devils are coming, let's run quickly."
The villagers were overheard by the Japanese as they shouted, and the Japanese took a gun and shot at the villagers. At that time, Zhang Jinglin was a member of the Chinese Youth Sentinel Organization, a subordinate department of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Organization.
Although she was only 14 years old, she was not frightened by it, but strengthened her determination to resist the Japanese, and she found Zhang Zhicheng, the leader of the anti-Japanese rescue organization at that time, and asked to join the village women's rescue association. He also actively promoted the anti-Japanese struggle to save the country in the village women's rescue association, and occasionally taught women and children to read.
Zhang Jinglin completed his tasks many times, was highly affirmed by the party and the organization, and later joined the CCP under the recommendation of Zhang Zhicheng and became a proletarian fighter. She devoted all her energy to serving the organization for the people and the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese Resistance.
Soon after joining the CCP organization, the Japanese Kou focused on the Eshi Township Party organization and carried out successive sweeps to the base points of Eshi Township in an attempt to garrison the Huji Temple in Eshi Village. However, The Tiger Foundation Temple was located in a key area and was an important transportation hub at that time.
The party organization is well aware of the importance of the Huji Temple to the base area, and as a crossroads, once it is attacked, it is very unfavorable to the development of the party organization, but it is also very difficult to dismantle. Zhang Jinglin took the initiative to accept the task of demolishing the Tiger Foundation Temple after learning about it, when she was only 15 years old.
After Zhang Jinglin finished the task on the same day, he organized more than thirty people to take advantage of the night to demolish the Huji Temple, but because the demolition workload of the Huji Temple was too large, it was not demolished in one night. Discovered by traitors on the way to demolition and reported to Nichiko, Riko immediately sent troops to The Tiger Foundation Temple.
Zhang Jinglin and the comrades of the organization found that the action was exposed, so they chose to retreat. During the retreat, he was stopped by Rikou who came on horseback, and after being stopped, Zhang Jinglin ran in the opposite direction, shouting "I am the captain, I am the captain!" ”
So Rikou chased in the direction of Zhang Jinglin's run, and Zhang Jinglin was arrested by Rikou, but she bought enough time for the others to retreat. In the end, except for Zhang Jinglin, all the others retreated safely.
03 Countdown to life after arrest
After her arrest, the Japanese Ono Mafumi seduced her and tried to know from her the base of the party organization and its actions, but Zhang Jinglin was not moved, and also scolded the traitor pig dog as inferior, and called the Japanese inhuman.
In this case, Nichiko knew that inducement was not feasible, so he punished him. He whipped her body with a leather whip and pulled out her nails with pliers, but in the face of these punishments, Zhang Jinglin still did not change his face, and the only words he said were "I don't know."
Riko tried everything to get her to speak, so he gave up the idea of getting information about the party organization from her mouth. In the end, they decided to cut off Zhang Jinglin's head, and in the moments before the execution, Zhang Jinglin still shouted "Down with imperialism!" Long live the CCP! Long live the Chinese people! ”。
Although Zhang Jinglin had been killed by the Japanese, the Japanese did not stop their cruelty to her. Rikou hung his head in Rongcheng County for ten days and ten nights, this year was 1941, when Zhang Jinglin was only 15 years old.
04 Summary
Zhang Jinglin was only 15 years old, but even in the face of the severe torture of the Japanese Kou, he never revealed any actions about the party, and still shouted long live the CCP in front of the Japanese Koso. Her bravery has awakened thousands of Chinese.
Although Zhang Jinglin was only known 58 years later, she was also a representative of that era. Countless histories also show everyone that if Zhang Jinglin falls, thousands of Zhang Jinglin will stand up, and she will become a kind of spiritual vigilance for the living and the future generations of the new era.