During the Cultural Revolution, Yu Haiquan, an ordinary worker at a factory in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, was criticized for allegedly harboring "traitors," referring to his wife, Luo Lin. Luo Lin, originally from Cangxi, Sichuan, at the age of 17, she has grown into a platoon leader of the Red Army, how did she marry far away to Lanzhou, and how was she considered a "traitor"?
The 17-year-old women's platoon leader of the Red Army was captured
Luo Lin, born in 1920 in the Sichuan Basin of the Country of Tianfu, when the Red Army passed through her hometown, she was still a teenage Mao child, resolutely joined the Red Army, and followed the team to climb snowy mountains and cross meadows to the Shaanxi-Gansu base area.
In order to open up the passage to Moscow through Gansu and Xinjiang, in 1936, the Red Army organized a western expedition to prepare to clear the obstacles. Luo Lin, a 16-year-old young Red Army soldier, was incorporated into the General Supply Department of the Western Route Army and accompanied the troops to conquer the Hexi Corridor. Due to the distance from the base areas, the difficulty of supply, and the insufficient prediction of the strong enemy of the Majia Army, the Red Army in the western expedition lost the battle and lost the border, and the troops suffered heavy losses.
In January 1937, the Fifth Red Army was defeated at the Battle of Gaotai and Rollin was captured.
At this time, Luo Lin of the Little Red Army was only 17 years old, and he was already a platoon leader of the third company of the General Supply Department of the Western Route Army. A 17-year-old girl, who was originally the age of the flower season, is now such a big child who is a treasure in the eyes of her parents, and an ignorant student who reads in the classroom.
Many captured Red Army soldiers were killed by Ma Jiajun, and the methods were extremely cruel, burying alive, beheading, and even some Red Army being nailed to trees, and the captured female Red Army could not escape the doom of being humiliated by bandits.
After being imprisoned in Wuwei for a period of time, many captured female Red Army soldiers of the Western Route Army were escorted to Ma Bufang's old lair, Xining, Qinghai. On the escort road of the long journey, there was a 12-year-old small Red Army, because of lack of physical strength, unable to walk, directly killed by horse bandits; a female Red Army was tied to a horse's tail by the enemy and dragged for miles; forced to march during the day, and when they rested at night, some female Red Army soldiers may also be humiliated by horse bandits.
The captured female Red Army always held the belief that on the day when she returned to the Red Army, she would pick up her gun and fight the enemy, so everyone hated the enemy and first saved their lives.
The fur factory worked as a coolie to protect female generals
After coming to Xining, Luo Lin was sent to xining fur factory as a coolie, which was the government-run factory of Ma Bufang, the leader of the Xining bandits. Nearly a hundred Female Red Army captives were held to work hard in fur factories.
Zhang Qinqiu, a female general of the Red Army, was also sent here to do labor, and Zhang Qinqiu assumed the pseudonym "Gou Xiuying" to hide her identity. Zhang Qinqiu, who was Chinese then the head of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Western Route Army, was the wife of Chen Changhao, chairman of the Military and Political Committee of the Western Route Army, and identified Zhang Qinqiu as the only female general of the Red Army in the "Chinese Military Encyclopedia".
Just when Zhang Qinqiu, alias "Gou Xiuying", was hiding in the fur factory to collect wool, Ma Bufang was busy posting notices everywhere to arrest Zhang Qinqiu. The enemy interrogated the captured female Red Army soldiers everywhere, hoping to get Zhang Qinqiu's clues and ask for merit and rewards. Ma Bufang couldn't have imagined that Zhang Qinqiu was hidden under his eyes.
Luo Lin, who worked as a coolie in the fur factory, and nearly a hundred female prisoners of the Red Army endured humiliation and burdens, and none of them leaked this secret to the enemy. Until a small female Red Army soldier who was transferred from the fur factory to the Xining "New Theater Troupe" quietly told the news to the Red Army Queen Dingguo, Huang Guangxiu, and others of the new troupe, they thought of a way to make "Gou Xiuying" a brother in the new troupe and secretly protected it.
How could 17-year-old female Red Army Lorraine become a "traitor"? If he was a traitor, Zhang Qinqiu's identity would have been exposed long ago. It was more than a hundred female prisoners of the Red Army, who were as ordinary as Luo Lin, who protected Zhang Qinqiu in the fur factory.
The tragic fate of being captured
At night, these hundred or so people slept together, covered with blankets from the Time of the Red Army, and some people threw away their blankets during the war, and everyone covered one with a few people.
During the day, they are held in workshops to tear wool and scrape their skins. The imprisoned Ma Jiabing walked around and found that anyone was unpleasant and immediately beat him. Wu Yulan, the former 30th Army Health Department, had swollen hands and could not work for several days.
These Red Army meals were all made by the Red Army female prisoners themselves. The enemy only gave a little raw miscellaneous noodles every day, but most of these Sichuan female Red Army soldiers could not make pasta, so they mixed it into batter and boiled it to eat, so they often did not have enough to eat. If you don't have the strength to work, you will be beaten again.
Three or four months later, Ma Jiajun successively picked them out and forcibly gave them away, some of them as servants, some as wives and concubines, and Ma Jiajun benefited from them. Unwilling female prisoners of the Red Army fought to the death.
In Xining Dongguan, a female prisoner of the Red Army was not willing to be a concubine to the enemy, so she stabbed the enemy to death and then committed suicide herself.
After the July 7 Incident and the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, some female Red Army soldiers survived and scattered throughout the Hexi Corridor. Luo Lin later went into exile in Lanzhou.
recall
In the summer of 1985, in the narrow bungalow dormitory of the Lanzhou Measuring Tool and Blade Factory, Dong Hanhe, author of "The Tale of the Female Soldiers of the Western Route Army", interviewed Luo Lin.
At this time, Lorraine was nearly old, but his body was fat, simple, talkative, and much like a retired woman. If it were not discussed in detail, no one would think that she had ever been a female prisoner of the Red Army.
Luo Lin talked about the suffering experience nearly half a century ago, and described how she was taken captive to Xining and Zhang Qinqiu were imprisoned in the Dongguan Fur Factory to do hard labor.
She also remembered that Zhang Qinqiu changed her name to Gou Xiuying at that time, and was rescued from the fur factory by Huang Guangxiu and others (as detailed in the previous article). She herself married a worker named Yu Haiquan. At that time, she had contacts with her comrades-in-arms Yang Wenju, Wang Dingguo, An Mingxiu and others who had been captured. Because she lived in a narrow home close to the train station, it seemed to be a liaison point for the surviving female prisoners of the Red Army.
During the mighty Cultural Revolution, her lover Yu Haiquan was criticized for harboring the wife of a "traitor."
On February 13, 1978, the Lanzhou Yellow River Gold Control Equipment Repair Factory Committee of the Communist Party of China made a decision to rehabilitate Yu Haiquan. However, after Yu Haiquan died of cancer in early April 1979, no funeral expenses were paid. After repeated requests from his children, the factory held a simple memorial service in front of his house.
Luo Lin, a female Red Army soldier in the Western Expedition, was captured at the age of 17, a former female platoon leader of the Red Army, was he a traitor? Or a hero? Welcome friends to leave a message to discuss, forward and share.
References: Dong Hanhe wrote "The Story of the Female Soldiers of the Western Route Army", and the heroic stories of the Western Route Army will be shared in the follow-up. Remember history and remember the martyrs!