Lingjiao Village, Paradise Town, Ningyuan County, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, is an ordinary small mountain village inhabited by an ordinary-looking old woman.
In 2012, the head of the government respectfully came to the door and sent the old man a subsidy that she finally could not refuse, this year, she was 100 years old.
Seven or eight great-grandchildren and great-grandchildren surrounded the old birthday star like chickens, watching the infinite love flowing from the eyes of the old ancestors, and what they did not know was that this happiness was exchanged for nearly 50 lives by history.
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The centenarian's name is Yan Jinhua, a Hunan daughter-in-law from Luohe, Henan. In the year she was born, the government of the late Qing Dynasty, which had brought deep disasters to the land of China, had just collapsed.
But fortunately, in the depths of the Luohe River, Chinese mainland, foreign forces have not yet set off too much wind and waves here, and Yan Jinhua can still have the childhood that a little girl should have.
The Yin family was originally from Shandong, starting from his grandfather, running to Luohe in the tide of fleeing the wilderness, and began to become a Henan native. Like all ordinary Chinese people, Old Lady Yin is hard-working and hardworking, and as long as she settles down, she will gradually take root and flourish.
By the time Yan Jinhua was born, there were already 42 people in the family, and the little Yan Jinhua even had juniors. In Luohe, the Yin family is also a decent family with more money and more money.
Old Lady Yin was strong because he had a strong martial art, and Yan Jinhua's greatest pleasure when he was a child was to learn martial arts with his grandfather.
One move and one style, all of them were taught by grandpa, from knives and guns and sticks to hand-to-hand combat, Yan Jinhua was a female streamer, playing with fists and feet without any weak eyebrows. If placed today, Yan Jinhua may have already made a name for himself on a certain field, and there is still a lot of glory behind him.
But it was the darkest and most backward in China at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, in the face of the foreign guns and cannons that ravaged Shandong, the martial arts of the silver old lady were useless; the people who lived a short and peaceful life in Luohe did not realize that Henan, which had been the land of four wars since ancient times, could not escape the fate of Shandong.
On the night of July 7, 1937, at lugou bridge in Hebei Province, no one here had the heart to enjoy the wonders of North China in "One Day and March", only a group of Chinese and Japanese soldiers who were angrily confronting each other. With the sound of a long-planned gunshot, Japan's all-out war of aggression against China broke out.
It didn't take long for Luohe, which is also located in the North China Plain, to experience the world's upheaval. On August 12, 1938, a large number of Japanese military aircraft coated with plaster suddenly appeared in the usually calm Luohe sky.
A total of 9 Japanese military planes came to the skies over the railway station where the soldiers were transported on the Luohe River, and they threw bombs at the homes of the luohe people who had never seen the plane and did not know what air defense was.
Panicked local residents hid in a white field west of the train station, who knew that the Japanese in the air could see clearly, so in front of everyone, they dropped two bombs into the crowd.
In this incident alone, which was later known as the Zibai Pit Massacre, more than two hundred people were killed, and the blurred pieces of flesh and blood were scattered and fell within a hundred meters radius, and some tragic images could not even be described.
In the early morning of the same day, the huge silver family was gathering in the hall house to discuss with the silver old lady whether to escape again.
When the uncles and uncles were expressing their opinions and could not make up their minds for a while, the explosion from the railway station forced people to choose, the meeting had to be temporarily interrupted, and the whole family picked up the soft and fled outside.
Yan Jinhua also helped grandpa to go outside the house, just at this moment, a plane came to their heads and dropped another bomb on a piece of house.
Under the iron hooves of modern killing technology, the so-called martial arts are so pale that Yan Jinhua was thrown to the wall by the air wave set off by the bomb and fell unconscious on the spot.
I don't know how long later, Yan Jinhua, who finally woke up in severe pain and bleeding, saw only the cold corpse of his grandfather in front of him--no, it was a human tragedy in which the entire Silver Family, young and old, except for himself, almost no one survived.
Is such a tragedy that only the Yan Jinhua family is there? In the Zibaikeng massacre alone, there was a man named Liu Erzhai, his mother and brother were killed on the spot, Liu Erzhai's aunt's family, 7 people were killed by the explosion of 6 people, leaving only a 2-year-old child.
Liu Erzhai's cousin's family was even more killed. There is also a family of 7 called Zhu Xiantang, who was blown up so that he was the only one left.
Many years later, Yan Jinhua, who was already the only survivor, recalled this national hatred and family vendetta, still unable to suppress the grief in his heart, his voice choked and kept trembling: "At that time, it was too tragic, the Japanese kept bombing, the ground was full of dead people, some were blown up to the trees, some were blown up and could not be clear!" "
Later, after several "sweeps", the Yin family, a large family that once had more than 40 people, was finally left alone with Yan Jinhua, repeating the mistakes of his grandfather in the past, empty of skills, but reduced to a displaced refugee beggar.
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The year after the Luohe Massacre was a year in which the Japanese army marched forward in triumph and the Chinese army was defeated and retreated, and it was also a year in which Yan Jinhua was precarious and his hatred was growing day by day. The people of the Central Plains were driven and squeezed by the Japanese army, crossed the Yangtze River, and came to Changsha, Hunan.
At this time, the culprit of the "Great Sweep" and "Three Lights" policy in North China, the Yan Jinhua family and the initiator of the Henan tragedy, the Japanese general Okamura Ningji, also led an army of 100,000 people to besiege Changsha from three sides, in an attempt to open the main road to the entire southwest China rear.
In the spring and summer of 1939, Okamura's Japanese 11th Army had already captured Nanchang and repelled the counterattack of the Kuomintang army through the Battle of Nanchang and the Battle of Xiangdong twice, gaining the southeast barrier of Wuhan and opening the passage to Changsha. Before the autumn, the situation in Changsha was already in danger, and the city gates were full of recruitment notices.
In August, when the war was imminent, a tall, thin, tall, and unassuming woman came to the table at a certain recruiting office in Changsha. The person in charge questioned her ability: "You are so thin and weak, and you are a woman, we do not recruit female soldiers!" "
Who knew that this 20-year-old girl directly retorted: "Is there still a distinction between men and women and children when they fight devils?" Don't you look down on me thin, do you dare to find someone to fight with me, and if I win, let me be a soldier. "
Hearing this sentence with such boldness, there was indeed a young man who proposed to play a game with her. To everyone's surprise, a tall and strong man could not even block a move under the hands of this girl's family, and was directly swept to the ground by one leg.
It turned out that this girl was yan jinhua who had passed down the martial arts with more than 40 lives of her family, and gave up her life to avenge the Japanese devils.
"Can I be a soldier now?" Yan Jinhua asked the head of the recruitment office.
Of course, not only can you be a soldier, but you are not an ordinary female soldier in charge of logistics. Yan Jinhua was "specially cared for" and assigned to prepare for the training camp of the front line with ordinary male soldiers. Here, Yan Jinhua got the weapons, practiced his marksmanship, and only waited for the day when the Japanese army confronted each other face to face.
On the ground of Changsha, there are poyang lake, Dongting lake, Xiangjiang river, Ganjiang river to attract various water systems, dense forests, uneven terrain, dense rivers, Japanese tanks and planes wreaking havoc on the North China Plain, here they are greatly restrained and difficult to carry out.
Presumably in order to stimulate the Chinese military and civilians, the Japanese Kou launched the First Battle of Changsha on September 18, 1939, in the main battlefield of northern Hunan Province.
Xue Yue, commander of the Kuomintang garrison in Changsha, held an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures and decided to lure the enemy to the outskirts of Changsha to carry out a counter-encirclement and decisive battle with the enemy, and then annihilate him.
According to the terrain of Hunan, leaning on Dongting Lake on the left and Mufu Mountain on the right, with the four rivers of the Xinqiang River, the Miluo River, the Laodao River, and the Liuhe River as the basis for delaying the Japanese army, the practice of "turning the road into a field and transporting grain up the mountain" was thoroughly implemented, dragging the Japanese army into the four rivers, and finally using the main force in Changsha City and the troops hidden in the mountains and forests on the periphery to encircle the Japanese army in the four rivers.
One of those troops in the mountains and forests was a combat squad led by Yan Jinhua, and this female squad leader led her men to ambush in the dense jungle around Changsha, carrying heavy machine guns, and carrying out guerrilla attacks on the Japanese troops day and night.
Inspired by bitter hatred, whether it is digging trenches, laying mines, or demolishing railways, Yan Jinhua is always the one who works hardest, the most unwilling to lose, and the one who rushes forward.
The First Battle of Changsha lasted more than 10 days, and Okamura Ningji, in the face of Yan Jinhua and others' strong anti-Japanese consciousness and fighting spirit, realized that his efforts to divide and disintegrate the Chinese army had failed, and had to collect the troops. Since then, the Chinese 9th Theater and the Japanese 11th Army have launched a two-year confrontation in the Xiangbei region across the Xinqiang River.
In 1941, inspired by the successful attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were once again agitated, and a large number of Japanese troops who were supposed to deal with the Soviet Union were sent south to prepare to completely "solve" the Chinese problem.
Beginning in August of that year, the 11th Army on the other side of the Xinqiang River began to assemble secretly, and this time the Japanese army accepted the lesson of the dispersion of troops during the First Battle of Changsha and placed the main force on the narrow front in order to make a deep breakthrough.
It was difficult for them to fight guerrilla warfare like the first time, and they were bound to face a real hard-hitting duel of the Japanese army.
On September 18, in the early hours of the morning, under the cover of aircraft and artillery fire, the main force of the Japanese army divided its troops to cross the Xinqiang River and break through the defenders on the south bank, and the second Battle of Changsha began!
On September 28, the Japanese 4th Division and the Hayabuchi Detachment crossed the Laodao River northeast of Changsha and rapidly advanced south. Two days ago, the 98th Division of the Kuomintang 79th Army, reinforced by Western Hunan and the provisional 7th Division of the Provisional 2nd Army reinforced by Guangdong, were rushing to the Liuyang River southeast of Changsha to prepare to intercept the Japanese army.
This time, Yan Jinhua's troops were ordered to be deployed in positions near the Liuyang River, ready to buy valuable time for reinforcements.
The truth of the speed of soldiers and nobles is not only understood Chinese, but also understood by the enemy. When Yan Jinhua's company had just arrived at the position for defensive preparations, a Japanese brigade also arrived, and the two sides immediately engaged each other and launched a fierce exchange of fire.
The number of Japanese troops was too large, and Yan Jinhua's troops were rapidly reduced, but she still forcibly recaptured the machine guns of her comrades, and the machine guns were about to finish the last bullet after changing pistols.
Because the Japanese artillery destroyed our ammunition depot, Yan Jinhua had to follow the orders of his comrades and retreat to the next position after emptying a full 10 magazines.
Before Yan Jinhua could safely retreat along the rugged slopes of Hunan, a small group of Japanese troops surrounded them. These arrogant and arrogant Wokou saw that there was a rare woman in the Chinese army, and their eyes were suddenly straight. The Japanese devil, who did not know the height of the sky, was holding a muscle and wanted to capture Yan Jinhua alive and humiliate him.
Later, according to the old man's recollection: "At that time, there were 8 or 9 ghosts that besieged me, a very large Japanese ghost, he saw that I was a woman, fiercely pounced on me, taking advantage of the gap he pounced on, I kicked one side, and the ghosts rolled down the hill with their bones. "
This was only the first devil to suffer from Yan Jinhua. Yan Jinhua brandished his bayonet in a desperate situation, cast his fists and feet trained with blood hatred, and killed a total of 7 Japanese Kou on the position, until a mortar shell exploded around him and was knocked to the ground.
Fortunately, at this time, the reinforcements had arrived in time, and Yan Jinhua was saved from the battlefield and saved her precious life, but her arm was full of deep knife wounds and gunshot wounds, and she was seriously dislocated.
Yan Jinhua, who was able to wake up after three days and three nights of all-out rescue, naturally could not participate in the third Battle of Changsha, which was followed by the victorious counterattack of the Chinese army, but after the situation improved slightly, she once again threw herself into the front-line troops and looked around for every opportunity to kill the Japanese Kou.
The cruel war has long turned the little girl who practiced martial arts with her grandfather in Luohe Town into a female warrior who loves and hates and heroically kills the enemy.
During a march, her left arm was once again severely damaged in order to block the stones that had been blown off the mountain, but as long as the final victory was ushered in, none of this was a big deal.
On August 15, 1945, Yan Jinhua finally waited for this long-awaited day. Counting from the Luohe massacre, she has dedicated 7 years of women's most precious years to this day, and she can finally return to the life that an ordinary Chinese woman should have.
A Hunan warrior named Zhou Banghui became the choice of this contemporary Mulan after shedding her arms. Since Yan Jinhua had no other relatives, the couple "took off my wartime robes and put on my old makeup" and returned to Zhou Banghui's hometown, which is the Lingjiao Village mentioned at the beginning.
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Yan Jinhua, who has seen all the tragic phenomena in the world, in the decades of peace, is very satisfied with her husband and her husband in the countryside to live a plain life, and has never thought of using her identity to make a big publicity.
However, in the 80s, when she went to the hospital, the accumulated scars on her arms and body still aroused the suspicion of doctors.
In the face of the police who heard the news, Yan Jinhua had no choice but to show his treasured anti-war documents for many years, which surprised the other party to salute on the spot, and the heroine's deeds were re-spread throughout the ten miles and eight townships.
Local leaders and volunteers rushed to Yan Jinhua's home and offered to make up for her treatment as a veteran of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but she politely and firmly refused, saying: "I am buried in the neck of the people, why waste the state's money?" The country still needs to be built, and the money cannot be spent on my useless old woman. "
In 1939, the 27-year-old Yan Jinhua was the first anti-Japanese female soldier in Yongzhou to participate in the war, and in 2021, the 109-year-old Yan Jinhua was already the last anti-Japanese soldier in Yongzhou. However, it is gratifying to the elderly that Japan will never dare to invade China again.