Zhang Jinglin was born in 1926 in Rongcheng, Shandong Province, to a very poor family, her father died when she was very young, and her neighbors helped bury her father. Although the whole society of that era was permeated with a patriarchal mentality, Zhang Jinglin's mother did not do so, but did her best to make Zhang Jinglin able to receive an education. In the eyes of mothers, children can grow up on the right path, in order to be worthy of their dead husbands, is the greatest wish of parents. Zhang Jinglin also lived up to her mother's expectations and had good moral character at a young age. With the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the young Zhang Jinglin was determined to do everything in his power to serve the country.
In 1941, Zhang Jinglin, who was of high moral character and excellent popularity, joined the township women's self-defense regiment and became an officer, leading women and children in several nearby villages. Women made shoes and clothes for the anti-Japanese fighters, and children watched the movements of the Japanese army during the play. Everyone united and helped each other to contribute to the anti-Japanese activities. In July of that year, Zhang Jinglin, who was leading the Women's Self-Defense Regiment on a mission, was found by the Japanese army, and in order to protect them, Zhang Jinglin deliberately dispersed with them and ran in the opposite direction. On the way, they also tried their best to attract the attention of the Japanese army and buy time for the rest of the women's self-defense regiment to retreat. In the end, they successfully withdrew, but Zhang Jinglin was surrounded by this group of Japanese puppet troops.
Seeing that such a little girl had been captured, the Japanese took out money and candy and coaxed her to say that as long as she told the base of the army and said the names of a few comrades-in-arms, she could give her all these things and send her home. In the face of the Japanese army's extremely tempting rhetoric, Zhang Jinglin only said one sentence: You dream. Annoyed and angry, the Japanese army immediately arrested her and began three days and three nights of torture. The 15-year-old girl endured endless torture and whipping in her dark cell. Blood ran down his eyes, and his ears were filled with insults, becoming more and more blurred. She had just closed her eyes when she was awakened by a basin of cold water.
There was no consciousness in his body, and his consciousness was gradually blurred, but Zhang Jinglin still had a thought in his mind: I can't open my mouth, and I must not let other comrades bear what I have endured. The thugs changed from wave to wave, but Zhang Jinglin still gritted his teeth and did not say a word, and did not disclose any information about our army. Although our army has organized people to go to the rescue several times, the Japanese army is very cunning and constantly transfers the place of detention. The Japanese army, who really had no information, eventually escorted Zhang Jinglin, who was only 15 years old, to the Huji Temple and brutally killed him. 58 years later, Wang Zhengwen, who once fought alongside Zhang Jinglin, is dying of old age, and when she sees the story of the heroine Liu Hulan, she remembers Zhang Jinglin, who once saved herself with her life.
People only know that Zhang Jinglin brutally killed the Japanese army, but they do not know that Zhang Jinglin was tortured by the Japanese army for three days and three nights without revealing a single bit of information. With tears in his eyes, the elderly Wang Wenzheng picked up a pen and wrote out the story of "young heroine" Zhang Jinglin. After this memoir came out, it attracted the attention of countless people, and people learned that Zhang Jinglin had fought against such a brutal enemy. In today's China, the country is rich and the people are safe, and no country dares to invade us anymore. Just as Zhang Jinglin thought, what she endured will no longer be borne by comrades in the future. It is these countless heroes who have thrown their heads and spilled their blood, known or unknown, that have stood up the backbone of China.