In the summer of 1975, li Jiye, a farmer, was preparing to go home along a mountain road in Gele Mountain in Chongqing, only to pass by a long-abandoned bunker when he went in and saw the corpse of a woman in handcuffs.
According to a pair of rusty handcuffs on the white bones, the relevant departments confirmed after appraisal that this was the remains of martyr Yang Hanxiu.
In 1913, Yang Hanxiu was born in the famous landlord's manor "Yang's Zelu" in Longtai Township, Guang'an, Sichuan. Her father was Yang Maoxiu, the second brother of the Great Sichuan warlord Yang Sen, who had served as a supply commander and division commander under Yang Sen. Yang Hanxiu is the only daughter of Yang Maoxiu's family, and she is slightly older in the family, her clever and sensible personality is pleasing, and she is loved by the elders of the Yang family. Locals call her "Miss Yang".
Due to his family's wealth, he received a good education from an early age.
When Yang Hanxiu was 11 years old, his father was shot several times in battle, and entrusted her to his uncle Yang Sen when he died, and since then the young Yang Hanxiu has begun to live with Yang Sen.
Being in the home of the warlord Yang Sen made Yang Hanxiu extremely uncomfortable, especially after witnessing her uncle's evil act of exploiting the working people and colluding with imperialism.
In 1926, British warships often provoked disputes in the Long River Valley, and on September 5 of the same year, they opened fire on Chinese troops. British warships carried out a fierce shell attack on Wanxian County, causing thousands of innocent civilian casualties, known as the Wanxian Massacre.
His father took up a job in Wanxian County, and 13-year-old Yang Hanxiu studied with his father. Experiencing such a thing first-hand made her heart burn a fire, a fire of hatred for the invaders, and she wanted to save countless innocent people who suffered.
On the occasion of the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Mr. Zhu was sent by the party organization to carry out work in Wanxian County. Over time, Yang Hanxiu was deeply influenced by his revolution.
Zhu De exposed her to the revolution, but it was her tutor Zhu Yifan who really put her on the road of revolution. Under the guidance of her teacher, she not only got to know many Communist Party members, but also worked as a proofreader for the Communist Party-led Xingmang Newspaper.
Since then, she has never retreated on the road of revolution.
Later, Yang Hanxiu fell in love with a poor scholar, Zhao Zhihe, but was strongly opposed by his father, and even locked her up. Yang Hanxiu insisted on freedom of marriage, telling his father: "The emperor has been overthrown, and the era of arranged marriages by parents has passed." ”
Father Yang Maoxiu did not believe in that set, but hurriedly found her a person who was the right person. Yang Hanxiu resisted with death, refused to eat for several days, and declared: "The day you dare to force me to get on the car, it is my death date." ”
After more than ten days of being locked up like this, Yang Hanxiu was already skinny and bedridden. Yang Mao sighed, "It is really worthy of being a descendant of the Yang family, and it is a sharp breed." She then agreed to her marriage to Zhao Zhihe and took a large amount of land and gold and silver treasures as a dowry.
Yang Hanxiu did not rarely have these possessions, but went to Shanghai with her husband to study. At that time, Zhao Zhihe was admitted to Hosei University, and Yang Hanxiu was also studying English, and they were preparing to study abroad. In 1934, he gave birth to his eldest son, Zhao Zaimin.
In 1937, Yang Hanxiu became pregnant and returned to his hometown to give birth to his daughter Zhao Zaiguo. Unfortunately, soon after, her husband died of illness, leaving behind a pair of children waiting to be fed. At this time, Yang Hanxiu saw the news of Zhu De's appointment as the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army in the newspaper, and after careful consideration, Yang Hanxiu decided to look for Zhu De in Yan'an, Beishan Mountain.
She gave the baby to her mother-in-law to raise, then went to Chongqing, found a former tutor Zhu Ruqing (a communist party member), asked the teacher to write a letter of recommendation to herself, and then rushed to Yan'an.
When the truck she was riding in was difficult to reach Baoji, she could not reach Yan'an because of Hu Zongnan's blockade, so she had to turn back to Qinling and teach at the local primary school.
Finally, in the winter of 1940, Yang Hanxiu successfully arrived at the Eighth Route Army's office in Xi'an, Qixianzhuang, and met "Uncle Zhu" who had been away for more than ten years.
The excitement was incomparable, and she immediately decided to say to "Uncle Zhu":
"I am determined to be a rebel in the families of warlords and landlords, to resolutely and thoroughly reform, to change my name and surname, and to follow the Communist Revolution to the end, even if I have no name and no surname, and I will never be surnamed Yang."
Zhu De was deeply moved to hear Yang Hanxiu's deeds of perseverance and perseverance in Yan'an, and considering her special family situation, Zhu De suggested that she be renamed Wu Ming and take her to the Yan'an Kang Da and Lu Xun Art Institute that many young people dreamed of at that time for further study.
In Yan'an, few people know that she was once Miss Yang of the Yang family of the Warlord of Sichuan, and everyone treated Yang Hanxiu as a comrade-in-arms who could fight side by side.
Although he needed to constantly fight against the Japanese Kou every day, the attitude of his comrades-in-arms always made Yang Hanxiu feel very comfortable.
In the sixth year of Yang Hanxiu's participation in the revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was won by the continuous efforts of the entire Chinese nation. In these six years, Yang Hanxiu has gained growth, joined the party, and become a more qualified party-state fighter.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Yang Hanxiu was transferred back to Sichuan by the Party Central Committee to do Yang Sen's ideological work.
In 1946, Yang Hanxiu followed Zhou Enlai to Sichuan, and Yang Hanxiu was targeted by agents as soon as he got off the plane. She first contacted Wang Pu, the secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, and then returned to her hometown of Quxian County to get rid of surveillance.
After going to the countryside, Yang Hanxiu was transferred to a rural area in Qu County to engage in underground work.
In order to cultivate underground armed forces for the Party Central Committee in case of emergency, Yang Hanxiu carried out revolutionary education for young and middle-aged men in the village while training underground armed forces in the name of playing tai chi.
Because the money was not in place, Yang Hanxiu even directly broke into the homes of his two brothers, snatched back the dowry that the Yang family had prepared for her earlier, three thousand pieces of land, and sold them for the purchase of guns and ammunition, to support the training of comrades-in-arms, or to use them as funds for revolutionary struggle activities.
During this period, Yang Hanxiu was once suspected of "private training", which aroused the suspicion of the local county magistrate.
Because of the special relationship between Yang Hanxiu and Yang Sen, she was only imprisoned in the detention room of the Chongqing Garrison Headquarters and treated differently from ordinary prisoners.
Later, Yang Hanxiu often told everyone about the form of the revolution and the current situation in Yan'an, not only encouraging and supporting everyone from the spiritual point of life, leading everyone to maintain an optimistic attitude in prison, but also leading female comrades to dance together in prison.
Kuomintang officials in Quxian County disagreed internally on how to deal with Yang Hanxiu, and debated endlessly; the underground party was also actively rescuing Yang Hanxiu.
The agent could not grasp the conclusive evidence, and could only warn and threaten Yang Hanxiu with sadness, and then opened the iron door of the prison and released Miss Yang.
Yang Hanxiu regained his freedom and once again used his identity to extensively unite patriotic generals within the Sichuan Army and establish a united front.
In early April 1949, the Huaying [yíng] Mountain guerrillas were arrested and defected on the side of the traffic, revealing many situations in which the guerrillas came to the outside world to help. The leader of the secret service of the military command, who had long been suspicious of Yang Hanxiu, sent people to surround her in large numbers.
Yang Hanxiu was initially imprisoned in Chongqing's Laojie Prison because of her special status as Yang Sen's niece, where she received a different preferential treatment from others. But after a few days, the Military Command Office obtained the acquiescence of Janssen before putting him in the Zha Di Cave Women's Prison.
Forced by the intercession of his relatives in the clan, Yang Sen released Yang Hanxiu on bail.
Later, a family near Shaanxi Road in Chongqing, because the husband and wife went out for medical treatment, the three children left behind in the family accidentally overturned the oil in the pot on the stove, resulting in the largest fire in the history of Chongqing. It was supposed to be a civil fire, but the Kuomintang smeared it as the work of the Communist Party.
Yang Hanxiu was furious when she learned of this, believing that this was deliberately set on fire by the Kuomintang and blamed on the Communists.
Therefore, Yang Hanxiu disregarded his personal safety and denounced Yang Sen as Hitler: a reenactment of the "Reichstag arson case" in The Mountain City of Chongqing.
Yang Sen was furious and ordered Yang Hanxiu to be arrested and detained late at night, and sent someone to torture her severely. But Yang Hanxiu showed no sign of giving in, but instead angrily scolded Yang Sen as a hopeless reactionary scum.
On November 23, the secret service reported Yang Hanxiu's situation to Yang Sen. Yang Sen was ashamed and angry, slapped the table, and ordered Yang Hanxiu to be executed!
On that day, Yang Hanxiu was handcuffed and stuffed into a car, and several big men in the car strangled her alive and threw her body at the Gangangpo Bunker on Gele Mountain.
For the murder of Yang Hanxiu, there is such a record in the martyrs' archives of the Gele Mountain Martyrs Cemetery in Chongqing. When interrogating agent Song Shijie, he said this: More than a week after the Chongqing fire, I received an order from Yang Sen to execute his niece Yang Hanxiu.
Because she has not been able to find her body, Yang Hanxiu's death has become a mystery in everyone's mind.
In the first list of martyrs in 1950, Yang Hanxiu was among them, but because the whereabouts of the body were unknown, her name was not added to the martyrs' cemetery. There is also a saying that yang Hanxiu is afraid that Yang Hanxiu is actually not dead, but has defected, so he has not dared to add.
It was not until 1975, because of the beginning, that the remains of the revolutionary martyr Yang Hanxiu were found.
On November 25, 1980, the Chongqing Civil Affairs Bureau and the Chongqing "Meijiang Crime Exhibition Hall" moved his remains to the Chongqing "1127" Martyrs Cemetery. The female fighter, who gave her young life for the revolution, finally went to the ground.