On the morning of August 2, 1936, when the sun had just risen, Zhao Yiman was escorted to a execution ground outside the Xiaobei Gate in Zhuhe County.
"Zhao Yiman, do you have anything else to say?" A Japanese warrant officer asked.
"I have nothing more to say, I have a seven-year-old son in Kannai, and everything I want to say is in this letter."
Then, gunshots rang out, and Zhao Yiman died heroically. Leave only a letter to your son:
Ning Er! My mother regrets that you have not fulfilled your educational responsibilities. Because of her resolute anti-Manchu resistance, my mother has reached the eve of sacrifice today.
Your mother and you will never see each other again. Hope you, Ning'er! Hurry up adults and come and comfort your underground mother! O my dearest child! Mother does not use a thousand words to educate you, but uses practical actions to educate you.
When you grow up, hopefully don't forget that your mother died for your country!
August 2, 1936
Your mother, Zhao Yiman, was in the car
But where is Zhao Yiman's son, Ning Er?
Join the Communist Party and study in Russia
On October 25, 1905, Zhao Yiman was born, her original name was Li Kuntai, and later changed her name to Li Yichao.
Since I remember, Zhao Yiman loved to listen to the stories of ancient heroines, and when she listened to them more, she often dressed herself as a hero and lived with her partners.
When Zhao Yiman was 13 years old, the "May Fourth Movement" broke out.
Under the influence of his brother-in-law Zheng Youzhi, Zhao Yiman began to care about social change. Later, under the introduction of his brother-in-law, he joined the Communist Party of China.
Then, Zhao Yiman entered the Whampoa Military Academy and received formal military training, although she only stayed for six months, but she was trained from a weak Sven girl to a determined female soldier.
In September 1927, the organization arranged for Zhao Yiman to go to Sun Yat-sen University in Russia for further study.
On the way, Zhao Yiman was seasick and vomited. When a man saw it, he rushed to help her pour water, clean up the vomit, and tell her jokes.
The man's name is Chen Dabang, and he is the leader of Zhao Yiman's group.
Wandering outside, Chen Dabang's care made Zhao Yiman warm.
Five or six days later, Zhao Yiman finally arrived at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow.
The atmosphere of Sun Yat-sen University deeply attracted Zhao Yiman, who thought that she must study hard and live up to the expectations of the organization.
However, unimaginable difficulties ensued.
Zhao Yiman is a southern woman with lung disease, and the cold here is very unfavorable to her, so she insists on walking outdoors every day.
She was also a picky eater from an early age, not eating pasta, not eating beef and mutton, not eating fishy...
On the first day of school, in order to pick up the wind for everyone, the canteen specially made goulash, bread and butter.
Zhao Yiman began to gagged as soon as she smelled it, seeing that everyone was eating with relish, she only took a piece of bread and a few pieces of pickled cucumber and quietly went to the corner to nibble.
Chen Dabang saw this and hurriedly brought his own beef and handed it to Zhao Yiman.
Under the temptation of Chen Dabang, Zhao Yiman held his breath and ate beef for the first time in his life. However, within a few minutes of eating, she threw up all of them again.
In the evening, Zhao Yiman began to reflect: "I want to be a revolutionary, I am not here to be a petite lady, how can I be sentimental?" ”
As soon as your thinking changes, your actions change immediately.
Soon, Zhao Yiman not only ate at the same table with everyone, but also found that the butter, beef and mutton were still very fragrant.
The problems of life are solved, and the learning is coming again.
Russian is Zhao Yiman's weakness, and almost all of her energy is spent on it, but in the first exam, she still got the penultimate first.
This hit Zhao Yiman so hard that she ran out into the woods every morning and read Russian aloud.
Chen Dabang saw Zhao Yiman's confusion and specially helped her formulate a reasonable study plan.
Chen Dabang is very talented in language, and always serves as a teacher's translator in the class, which is envied by the students.
In addition to studying according to Chen Dabang's method, Zhao Yiman also used Russian to talk and keep a diary every day, in addition to attending classes, eating and sleeping, and learning Russian for the rest of the time.
By the time of the second exam, Zhao Yiman's score had risen by a large margin, and she was overjoyed.
For Zhao Yiman, no matter where he is, every moment is a battle, and fighting requires firm faith. In the face of various problems in front of him, Zhao Yiman finally conquered them one by one under unremitting efforts.
Get married and have children, and abandon your husband and son
The improvement of his grades made Zhao Yiman fall in love with Chen Dabang.
One weekend evening, on the romantic banks of the Moscow River, Zhao Yiman could not wait to confess to Chen Dabang:
"Dabang, let's get married, I really can't stand it, it will affect my studies."
Chen Dabang heard this and hugged Zhao Yiman tightly into his arms.
In April 1928, Zhao Yiman and Chen Dabang married.
After marriage, life is very happy, the two are quiet and moving, mutual respect and love, and arrange life and study in an orderly manner.
Soon, Zhao Yiman became pregnant.
A strong pregnancy reaction caused Zhao Yiman's lung disease to recur, and doctors advised her to stay in bed and strengthen nutrition.
However, at this juncture, the organization demanded that Zhao Yiman return to China immediately.
Chen Dabang proposed to apply to the organization whether it could postpone returning to China.
After Zhao Yiman listened, he vetoed it: "We must obey the party's decision, and we must not bargain with the party!" ”
In the end, Chen Dabang could only accept it helplessly.
On the day of the separation, Zhao Yiman's heart was like a knife, but he still pretended to be calm and said to her husband: "Of course, it is good to meet, it is better not to meet, Dabang, we must lose our children's love!" ”
After saying that, she turned around and stepped into the return train without turning her head.
In December 1928, after Zhao Yiman returned to China for a dozen days to rest, she received a difficult task, and she came to Yichang alone with a seven-month pregnancy, responsible for transferring documents and escorting cadres.
One day two months later, Zhao Yiman suddenly felt unwell, and the landlord saw that she was going to be in the basin, afraid of defiling her own gods, and drove her out.
It was the cold winter moon, in order to find a place to live, Zhao Yiman endured abdominal pain and walked several streets, but no one took her in.
In the end, a porter really couldn't see it, so he separated his very small room with a cabinet and put a bed board into it, and Zhao Yiman finally had a place to live.
That night, after experiencing pain, Zhao Yiman gave birth to a boy, named "Ning'er" (赵一馬字舜) according to the meaning chen Dabang had previously confessed.
But before the child was full moon, Zhao Yiman's identity was exposed. She had to flee to Shanghai with her son in her arms overnight.
After returning to Shanghai, Zhao Yiman recuperated for a period of time, and because it was convenient to take the child, he organized and arranged for her to work in the organ. When there is a task, she entrusts the child to the care of her comrades-in-arms.
In the autumn of 1929, Zhao Yiman was assigned to work in the Nanchang government office in Jiangxi.
One night, the comrade-in-arms suddenly ran to Zhao Yiman's residence, picked up the sleeping child, tucked it into Zhao Yiman's arms, and said, "Go fast!" Out of the traitors. ”
Zhao Yimanton felt bad, and quickly ripped off the bed blanket to hug the child and ran straight out.
It was freezing cold outside, and the wind and snow were mixed.
Zhao Yiman carried the child all the way to the outskirts and hid in the grass stacks for one night.
It wasn't until the sky gradually turned white that Zhao Yiman climbed out of the haystack, disguised himself as a robber, and walked into a nearby village.
Fortunately, after a full meal from the villagers, Zhao Yiman took his children all the way back to Shanghai begging.
This time in distress, she decided to send her son back to her hometown.
When Zhao Yiman entrusted his son to the Chen family, the feeling of unsupportability surged into his heart.
This time, I really don't know when we can meet again, Zhao Yiman thought of this and his eyes were blurred.
The son seemed to see her reluctance, and threw himself into his mother's arms with his small hand open, and he cried loudly.
Zhao Yiman held his son's small face and said: "Ning Er, a good baby does not cry, the mother does not cry, for the sake of future happiness, the mother must do this, maybe you don't understand it now, but you will understand it in the future." ”
The next day, Zhao Yiman took his son to the photo studio and took a picture of the mother and son.
Zhao Yiman's eyes in the photo are clean and determined, and Ning Er, who is one year old and three months old, looks at everything in front of him curiously.
A total of 3 photos were washed, and Zhao Yiman sent one to Chen Dabang and wrote: "Your son has been born, we are all fine, don't worry about it." ”
She didn't tell her husband about her suffering, she just wanted to bear it alone.
The other one, she entrusted someone to transfer to the second sister Li Kunjie.
The last one, she put next to herself, kept as a single souvenir.
A few days later, Zhao Yiman resolutely ran to Shanghai amid his son's heart-wrenching cries.
After Zhao Yiman left, his relatives in his hometown once recalled: "After Zhao Yiman left, Ning Er's small face of searching for a mother all day made people feel anxious. Zhao Yiman's heroic spirit of parting from his lover and children and fighting for the revolutionary cause wholeheartedly is always worth learning from the people of the motherland! ”
Oh, yes! How much courage does it take to leave a husband and send a son away?
However, Zhao Yiman is not an ordinary woman, she is a blood-soaked warrior who has been refined, and she is destined to give up her small family for everyone.
Rush to the battlefield, heroic and righteous
In July 1934, Zhao Yiman rushed to the anti-Japanese battlefield of the Pearl River in the northeast and led the guerrillas to carry out armed struggle, she was dressed in white horses, resourceful, and brave enough to kill the enemy.
The comrades-in-arms all marveled: "Zhao Yiman not only has the ability to coordinate, can unite all the forces that can be united, but also is resourceful, and has also fought a lot of beautiful battles, this southern woman should not be underestimated!" ”
In 1935, Zhao Yiman was injured while covering the retreat of his comrades and was unfortunately arrested.
Zhao Yiman's name, the Japanese army has long heard, they applauded the capture of her.
In order to get more communist intelligence, the Japanese army imposed various heavy punishments on Zhao Yiman, and they hit Zhao Yiman's leg wound with sticks.
The blood soaked her cotton pants, but she did not say a word, and resolutely replied: "You don't need to ask more, my doctrine is anti-Manchu anti-Japanese!" ”
Then, the Japanese army lashed her, electric, they stabbed her fingers with steel nails, twisted her wounds with iron bars, and filled her nasal cavity with millet spicy pepper water...
Zhao Yiman passed out again and again, but still gritted his teeth and shouted: "You robbers can chop people into meat sauce, but you can never eliminate Chinese determination to resist Japan!" ”
The officer who interrogated him, Taiji Ohno, once said: "Zhao Yiman is daunting, although the cloak is scattered and full of injuries, but her calmness still makes me can't help but take two or three steps backwards." ”
Taiji Ohno
Zhao Yiman stubbornly resisted for more than a year under such a heavy punishment, her whole body had festered, there were 24 broken bone pieces in her legs, and she was incontinent... But the enemy did not get a word out of her mouth.
The enemy had no hope, so he had to escort her back to Zhuhe County.
On the way, she knew that the limit had arrived, thinking of her son and husband, Zhao Yiman shed tears, and her heart was full of guilt.
She asked the guards for paper and pencil and wrote a suicide note to her son.
To her husband, Chen Dabang, he could not say anything.
On August 2, 1936, Zhao Yiman died heroically.
In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally and won the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Chen Dabang returned to China, he found Ning Er, looking at his son who was more than ten years old, he was full of sorrow and joy, and he could not cry.
However, he could not find his wife Li Yichao.
Chen Dabang and son
In 1950, the film "Zhao Yiman" was released. People can't help but sigh and admire after watching it, and at the same time, people want to know the hero's origin, place of origin and real name.
Zhao Yiman's second sister Li Kunjie, has also been looking for her sister Li Kuntai, she tossed and heard about Zhao Yiman's former comrades-in-arms, received the mother and son photo left for her that year, and heard about her sister's experience of begging alone with her child, and her sister was in tears of pain and cried bitterly.
Zhao Yiman's second sister Li Kunjie
After seeing the movie, the sister vaguely felt that Zhao Yiman and her sister Li Kuntai, who had been missing for many years, were too similar, and after inquiring, she learned that Zhao Yiman was originally surnamed Li.
This news was exciting, and then the sister sent the photo to the northeast for the former comrades to identify, and finally came to the result: Zhao Yiman was Li Yichao at that time, that is, Li Kuntai.
After Chen Dabang and Ning Er learned about it, in addition to being full of grief, they were more emotional and admired.
Ning Er also stabbed the three words "Zhao Yiman" on her arm to motivate herself and to remember her mother forever.
Childhood hero dreams come true
When she was a child, Zhao Yiman liked to lie in her father's arms the most, listening to her father tell the stories of Liang Hongyu beating the drum to retire from the Golden Soldiers, Mu Guiying's marching out, Qiu Jin's revolution and other heroes, and since then, she also wants to become such a hero.
Zhao Yiman Memorial Hall
After growing up, Zhao Yiman's heroic dream still burned in her chest, even if she became a wife and a mother, in her eyes, she was first and foremost the masses of the people.
Children are long-term, the family and the country are righteous, Zhao Yiman resolutely chose the latter.
In the end, she abandoned her husband and son in exchange for victory in the struggle; she gave up her home in exchange for the people's home, gave up her blood and life, and exchanged the mountains and rivers for safety.
Now, this prosperity has finally been as she wished.
Hats off to all the heroes of the War of Resistance!
. END .
【Text| Rain And Dust 】
Edit | Daniel Lee]
【Typography | Drizzle】
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