The anti-Japanese rose blossoms with fertile blood: Liu Yaomei, the hero who was tortured by the Japanese invaders

In early December 1943, under the heroic resistance of the soldiers and civilians of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region against "mopping up", the Japanese Arai troops who had been entrenched in Pingyang Town, Fuping County for 32 days were forced to retreat. The soldiers and civilians fished out the body of 22-year-old Liu Yaomei, director of the Women's Rescue Association of Luoyu Village in the town, who was brutally killed by the Japanese army from a well. > Her eyes were slightly closed, and only a layer of skin was connected to her head and neck; her abdominal cavity was cut open, and her ribs were exposed in two large blood pits on her chest; her arms and thighs were cut to expose the bones... People shed tears on her side Turning over, Ye Manzhi, a photojournalist for the Eighth Route Army's Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Pictorial, took what became known as "The Death of Liu Yaomei." >This photo has become a witness to the heinous atrocities committed by the Japanese invaders. >This photo also leaves a heroine who endured pain and arrogance and had strong national integrity forever in the world. > That is a handsome girl who loves to sing. In the "Red Department" of the Japanese, she was still singing in the woodshed after being tortured. In the morning, the villagers saw that Feng Zhuzi (Liu Yaomei's maiden name), who had not shed a single tear in front of the brutal enemy, had two clear tear marks on her face. > 81-year-old Liu Kaifeng of Luoyu Village is 3 years younger than Liu Yaomei. In terms of seniority, Liu Yaomei wants to call him grandpa. In his impression, Feng Zhuzi was "slender, tall, melon-faced, double eyelids, fair, good-natured, and good-looking. He always went door-to-door to announce meetings, and even led the girls and wives to dance yangko." He remembered , Liu Yaomei always carries a self-made shoulder bag, "as if she always has to go to Pingyang for meetings." The old man still remembers that Feng Zhuzi sang very well and often taught songs he learned from the district to his sisters. > "Today's women want to cut their hair, and they save time on combing and shaving. > There is no messy hair. > Today's women are happy to walk around and can walk and run. > Look how good it is. > Today's women want to be free. > Hand in hand to find the pledge (husband), > "No one is shy" > "Driving the donkey up the hill, > Women in the border area deliver public food, > Comrades will be strong after eating, > Resolutely eliminate Xiaodongyang! " > Liu Yaomei ranked first at home. Boss, all seven siblings are no longer alive now. Liu Guanglong, director of Fuping County Science and Technology Bureau, is Liu Yaomei's nephew. Although he has never met this heroic aunt, he is no stranger to her. He has heard many things about her from his grandmother and father since he was a child. > Back then, a meeting was held in the village to call on women to cut their braids and put their feet. My aunt brought scissors to the meeting and was the first to cut her braids and put her feet at the meeting. She joined the party at the age of 18 and became the director of the Village Women's Rescue Association. When the Eighth Route Army expanded in 1941, my aunt and a dozen girls and boys from the village went to Pingyang District to sign up for the army. The district leaders repeatedly mobilized and said that the work in the rear was very heavy and lesbians were indispensable, so they returned to the village step by step. >Experience the Legend of the Anti-Japanese War Heroes (pk1937.china)> Due to Liu Yaomei’s tragic sacrifice, the older generations of the Liu family have always been reluctant to mention this old incident. Liu Guanglong remembered that when his grandmother was still alive, he only told him once about the time when his aunt died. "At that time, she was holding my hand and she was trembling all over." > On November 19, 1943, my aunt was in the company above Luoyu Village. After Jiagou was captured, he was taken to the "Red Department" of the Japanese stronghold in Shangpingyang, where Arai personally interrogated and tortured him. My aunt would either say nothing or call the Japanese "two-legged beasts" and refuse to tell me where the Eighth Route Army's weapons and food were hidden. > On an early winter night, the Japanese locked my aunt, who was covered with bruises and wearing only single clothes, in a woodshed to freeze. What no one expected was that singing came from the woodshed: > The stars are bright and the moon is bright, the stars are bright. My heart is sad, because the devil is running rampant in our country. > Everyone, please wake up and never dream again. Don’t live in a dream while drunk. When will the brutal Japanese soldiers be driven away?> According to the villagers who later escaped from the stronghold, someone saw it the next day. The aunt who never shed a tear when the enemy tortured her had two clear tear marks on her face...> She was a kind and kind girl. She and her husband Qi Shangshu died on the same day, achieving what she said during her lifetime "to be inseparable in life and death." In her husband's family, Wuzhangwan, loving couples still express their love with the words "Xiao Aizi" (Liu Yaomei's nickname in her husband's family). > On the morning of November 21, the third day after Liu Yaomei was arrested, the Japanese took her to the Shangpingyang temporary execution ground and tied her to a tree. > "The Chinese people must expand their armed forces and strengthen their efforts to eliminate traitors. With strong armed forces, you cannot be so crazy. If you eliminate the traitors, you will lose your eyesight." Chen Shourong, a farmer in Luoyu Village, and others heard Liu Yaomei's firm voice. > The Japanese traitors swarmed up and tore off Liu Yaomei's clothes. Arai cut off a piece of meat from Liu Yaomei's thigh with his own hands, stuck it in with a knife, roasted it on the nearby fire, and ate it in his mouth. Liu Yaomei endured the severe pain and cursed loudly. Several Japanese invaders came around again with knives and used bayonets to cut the flesh on her arms... Miss Yaomei bit her lip and endured the ravages again and again, falling into coma again and again.

The brutal Japanese cut off her breasts, tore off her hair, and finally chopped off her head...> After Liu Yaomei's death, the Pingyang District Committee called on all soldiers and civilians in the district to learn from Liu Yaomei's steadfast national integrity and fight against the Japanese aggressors. Never waver in your resolve, never betray your integrity, never sell out your national interests, and be a true Chinese!> Be tough on your enemies, but tender to your relatives. In Wuzhangwan Village, Fuping County, Liu Yaomei's sister-in-law, 71-year-old Qi Shangrong, told many little-known things about the hero before and after his death: > My sister-in-law and my brother are destined to be. They were not born on the same day in the same year and month, but they were born on the same day in the same year and month. die. In the morning, my sister-in-law was stabbed to death by an old foreigner in Shangpingyang. In the afternoon, my brother was found in the ravine of Wuzhangwan by the Japanese during a mountain search and his head was beheaded. The two of them didn't know each other, so they went as if they had agreed upon it. Die!> My sister-in-law is very handy and makes good shoes. She not only makes shoes for my brother, but also for me and my brother. At that time, my sister-in-law was busy with work and we couldn't see her for a while. When she came back, she would tie a string with a string of ready-made shoes for us. > In 1943, the Marriage Law of the Border Region was enacted, which stipulated that women could only get married when they were 18 and men were 20. My brother was 17 and my sister-in-law was 22. My brother said, otherwise we should get divorced. My sister-in-law said: we will live together forever. This sentence later spread throughout the village, and now many people of the younger generation also know it. > Some articles introducing Liu Yaomei's deeds wrote that Liu Yaomei returned to Luoyu Village from her husband's home in Wuzhangwan in response to the call of the border area police, and she and her husband had an "estranged marriage", that is, they temporarily separated from her husband without dissolving their marriage. In Qi Shangrong's recollection, his brother-in-law and his sister-in-law were nominally "married every other day." In fact, whenever she had time, her sister-in-law would quietly run home to stay with her brother for the night, and then leave very early. > In this great raid in 1943, three members of the Liu Yaomei and Qi Shangshu families each died tragically within a month. Liu Yaomei's father Liu Rongbang was bitten to death by Japanese wolf dogs, and his second brother Liu Yaoxing was beheaded; Qi Shangshu's father Qi Laomo was first burned with straw and then stabbed to death with a bayonet by the Japanese. His second sister was also shot in the head by the Japanese at her husband's house. Death...> In the list of victims of the Pingyang Massacre on the tombstone of the Thousand People Tomb in Shangpingyang, we found Liu Yaomei’s name. The names of Liu Yaomei’s father Liu Rongbang and younger brother Liu Yaoxing also appeared in this list of nearly a thousand people. There is no exact date of death for these people. What we can say clearly in our hearts is that these people all died tragically during the three-month raids by the Japanese army from August 21, 1943 to November 19, 1943. > Experience the Anti-Japanese War Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War (pk1937.china) > Li Jun who went to Pingyang was found in a field not far from the Tomb of Thousands of People > "The Japanese who were no better than beasts took Liu Yaomei from Lianjiagou to the "Red Department" in our village ", "Red Department" specializes in killing people. The Japanese cut off her flesh and made dumplings to eat. They also asked the Chinese who were eating it whether the dumplings tasted good. Did you eat them? ?This is Liu Yaomei's meat. All the people who ate it choked. "> "The people who captured the people were all traitors drawn from the artillery towers below, not Japanese. Everyone in Arai's army knew that even the secret agents only had more than three hundred people. People, the Japs couldn't get past dozens of people. They were all exposed by local people. Wasn't it someone who exposed Liu Yaomei? Later, many of them were locals. "> On the day when the Japs retreated, Li Jun secretly returned to Shang. Pingyang. "At this time, Shangpingyang has become a big cemetery. There are dead people on the road and in the courtyard." > "Liu Yaomei's body was thrown into a well in the north of Xiapingyang Village by the Japanese, and it floated to the bottom. , it was only fished out by the villagers who rushed back to the village that afternoon. Liu Rongfu was one of the four Luoyu people who went to Xiapingyang to collect Liu Yaomei's body. He said, "When we arrived, people had already dug a well to fish it out." It's been a whole winter, and my face hasn't changed. I can tell you when I see him. "> "I have escaped from the enemy's circle every time. If I can't escape, I will be killed by the enemy." Liu Rongfu said, " Liu Yaomei was even worse than Liu Hulan. Seeing how tragically she died, the four of us who carried her all cried... The Japanese had cut off the flesh on her legs, and her head was hanging down, with only a layer of skin attached to it. 》> The four Luoyu people were extremely grieved. They looked around and couldn't find better clothes, so they only gave Liu Yaomei a pair of torn cotton trousers to wear. They put her on a stretcher and set off on the road, heading not to Luoyu but to Wuzhangwan in the west. Liu Yaomei's husband's family said, "They didn't carry her back. They were married less than a year ago. That year her parents died, her father and her brother." She had three members of her family, her husband's father-in-law died, and her husband also had three members of her family..."> After Liu Yaomei's death, according to local customs, the body was sent to her husband's family in Wuzhangwan to be buried with Qi Shangshu. > Old man Qi Shangrong recalled: On the day of the burial, our family was orphaned and widowed. How miserable! My mother, who was already crazy, held my brother’s severed head and refused to let go. The 8-year-old me only held it for 4 months. The elder's younger brother followed the elder. My 5-year-old brother Qi Shangrui played flags for my brother and sister-in-law. My sister-in-law's body was rolled up in a mat on a stretcher. When she was buried, she couldn't put on her clothes, so they covered her with a blue coarse cloth. There was no coffin, just a few thin wooden boards erected in the soil...> In Liu Yaomei's hometown, lavender wattle flowers bloomed all over the mountains and plains. This flower blooms enthusiastically and refuses stubbornly. When it dries up, its trunk turns into a tough thorn.

Those are the flowers that the earth presents to Miss Yaomei for her invincibility...>