In October 1926, when the Northern Expeditionary Army returned to Wuhan, Deng Yanda went to Wuchang at the behest of Chiang Kai-shek to establish the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy and recruit new students throughout the country. In this admissions, the recruitment committee made a surprising decision - to recruit female students, after the news came out, this decision immediately caused a strong response from the whole society, because in the long feudal society, the status of women in the old era was very low, and women were not only bound to the high walls and deep courtyards, but also not allowed to show their faces. After the founding of the Republic of China, although the slogan of equality between men and women was put forward, but the living conditions of women did not produce substantial changes, the Whampoa Military Academy was just established, in order to break through the shackles of feudal thinking, "Chinese Soldiers" magazine (edited by Wang Yifei, contributors jiang Xianyun, Zhou Yiqun, etc.) put forward the problem of women joining the military, but because the military academy was just established at that time, this idea was initially a bit unrealistic, until the establishment of the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy, the idea was finally applied to practice.
At the end of 1926, with the victory of the Northern Expedition, the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang also announced that he would be the commander of the 21st Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and in order to show his support for the enrollment of the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy, he even chartered a steamer to send sichuan middle school students to Wuhan to participate in the re-examination, including Hu Lanqi, You Xi, Zhao Yiman and many other sichuan female students. In the few days of the re-examination of enrollment, the cold in Wuchang City was bone-chilling, but nearly 10,000 young talents from all over the country still made a "steaming hot" here, and the final admission result was 986 boys and 195 girls (only the number of first admissions, and then a number of boys and girls were recruited successively, collectively known as the sixth batch of students of the Whampoa Military Academy), Hu Lanqi, You Xi, Zhao Yiman and others were also on the admission list.
After the admission, the first big thing the female soldiers face is to "cut the braids", which is tantamount to "cutting meat" for the girls who love beauty, but for their own ideals, they still cut their hair with red circles. After cutting off the braids, the girls who were originally dressed in different clothes also put on uniform uniforms like the male soldiers, and these young girls also changed from the original identities of wives, ladies and students to the heroic female soldiers now at this moment. And this group of girls who dare to be the first in the world is destined to become the focus of people's attention from now on, because they are the first to write the legend of women's military service after Hua Mulan, Mu Guiying and other female generals.
After the opening of the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy, a group of female soldiers with short haircuts, military uniforms, belts around their waists, and leggings could often be seen on the streets of Wuchang in that year, marching heroically and calmly. In addition, the performance of female soldiers on the training ground is not weaker than that of male soldiers, still with them to stumble and roll, dare to "bayonet red", but even so, female soldiers still have a special situation, that is, to come to the menstrual holiday, at the beginning, they are still embarrassed to talk, but the instructors still noticed this problem, so they came up with a "win-win" method - each female soldier is given a red belt, and when the menstrual holiday comes, it is tied to the hand, so that this kind of " Don't speak up" way to let the instructor know his "special situation". At the beginning of the training, due to the concern about the physical fitness of the girls, they generally did not shoot at each member of the girls' team, but in the end they "compromised" under the "protest" of the female soldiers who did not accept defeat, and in this way, the female soldiers also carried guns with the male soldiers.
Although the guns at that time were all "made in Hanyang", they could not stop their "enthusiasm", and the training was still in full swing, but shortly after this, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly launched the "April 12 counter-revolutionary coup" in Shanghai, and Wang Jingwei was also foolish, and finally dared to openly disband the Wuhan Central Military Academy (the former name of the Wuhan Branch). As a result of the defections of Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei, the cadets of the military academy were also treated unfairly, not only forced to graduate early, but also paid a "severance pay" of ten yuan and were forced to "buy new clothes" because they were not allowed to wear military uniforms. After graduation, although the girls' team only had a short-lived brilliance, their story did not end because of it, and in the years that followed, many female soldiers threw their lives and blood into the torrent of women's liberation and national liberation.
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