Before writing the article: Kobayashi shared a piece of experience with everyone, why should I write history? In fact, my original intention of writing for me is to share the truth of what I know and the information I have consulted with you as much as possible, and more importantly, to let every son and daughter of China understand history and remember history.
In the Guangzhou Uprising in December 1927, You Xi led a squad of female soldiers, and after firing bullets, she fought with a bayonet, and was finally killed, and the enemy stripped her of her clothes and dismembered her body to show the public.
You Xi was born in 1908, in The Luzu Temple of Dayanggou, Ba County, Sichuan Province, a handicraft family, and his family was very poor.
His father weaved cloth for others, and his mother supplemented the family by doing needlework, so that the family could barely survive.
Until the age of 13, You Xi entered a low-cost vocational school for women, where she attended classes during the day and had to sew clothes and knit sweaters at night to earn tuition.
For hard-won learning opportunities, You Xi cherishes them, so in school, she always races against the clock to learn.
You Xi's studiousness impressed her good friend Tong Yuying's brother Tong Yongsheng, and when Tong Yongsheng saw You Xi, he asked her:
"Why are you studying so hard?"
"I want to change my destiny." You Xi didn't even think about it, so he blurted out.
Tong Yongsheng was an advanced Marxist-Leninist, and he admired You Xi's ambition and rebellious spirit, so he introduced You Xi to the Second Girls' Normal School.
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You Xi entered this advanced school and continued to study hard while pursuing the progress of thought.
At this time, You Xi read a lot of progressive publications, and also read many articles of xiao chu female teachers in their school.
Xiao Chu was a famous propaganda leader in the early days of the Communist Party in Wuhan and the editor-in-chief of various advanced newspapers and periodicals at that time.
While You Xi became interested in Marxism-Leninism, she also developed a good feeling for the versatile teacher Xiao Chu.
Once, Xiao Chunu had just finished class and was about to leave school, when You Xi caught up with him and asked him to analyze whether an article in a journal was credible.
Xiao Chunu analyzed the social environment at that time and the essence of the nationalist faction to You Xi.
It was at this time that Xiao Chunu also noticed You Xi, a girl with ordinary looks but a persistent spirit of inquiry into the problem.
From reading Xiao Chunu's articles, to listening to his lectures, to listening to his private teachings, You Xi gradually established his Marxist belief and embarked on the road of revolution.
And this pair of young men and women who have a good feeling for each other also gradually developed into a pair of revolutionary lovers.
At the beginning of 1924, Xiao Chunu was transferred to Shanghai to work, and You Xi and her lovers could only communicate by writing letters, telling about revolutionary ideals, as well as the sweetness and pain of missing.
Because they could not meet each other, You Xi often looked for articles written by Xiao Chunu in the press, as if the lover was still around, gaining knowledge and teachings from them.
In the autumn of the same year, You Xi joined the "Civilian Society", a peripheral organization of the Youth League, and began to actively participate in revolutionary activities.
Soon, in the struggle against the reactionary principal of the school, she showed a tenacious revolutionary personality and leadership style.
At this time, You Xi grew into a member of the Communist Youth League.
However, this campaign against the principal led to You Xi being expelled from the school.
The Communist Youth League organized you Xi to enter Chongqing Sino-French University to continue her studies.
And the brother of You Xi's good friend Tong Yuying, tong Yongsheng, who once introduced her to the Second Girls' Normal School, also worked as a teacher in this school, as well as Yang Mingong, and many other famous Communist Party members were in this school.
In this advanced atmosphere, You Xi grew up very quickly, and she quickly became a communist party member and served as the secretary of the school's youth league.
By the beginning of 1926, You Xi participated in the preparatory work of the Chongqing Women's Federation and was also elected as the director of the Propaganda Department of the Chongqing Women's Federation.
At only 18 years old, You Xi is already a female revolutionary on her own.
Her lover, Xiao Chunu, carried out revolutionary propaganda work in Shanghai, Henan, and Guangzhou.
In November 1926, Xiao Chunu went to the Whampoa Military Academy as a political instructor and political adviser.
Coincidentally, in December of the same year, the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy enrolled students in the Sichuan region, and You Xi, who learned of this news, immediately participated in the registration and was successfully admitted.
At that time, her family and relatives did not agree to You Xi's becoming a soldier, believing that the most important thing for a girl was to marry a good husband, not to become a soldier.
You Xi comforted her mother and said, "I went to be a soldier so that the poor could live a good life and so that women would no longer be oppressed." ”
This time, You Xi once again followed xiao Chunu's revolutionary footsteps, and once again stood by his side as a lover and a student.
However, at that time, Chiang Kai-shek created counter-revolutionary massacres in various places, and the revolutionary propagandist Xiao Chunu wrote articles day and night in order to expose their crimes.
Due to overwork, his lung disease worsened, so he had to leave Wuhan and be admitted to Guangzhou Dongshan Hospital for treatment.
On April 15, the Guangzhou reactionaries carried out a massacre of the Qing Party, and Xiao Chunu was forcibly taken away from the ward by the reactionary military police and imprisoned.
On April 22, Xiao Chunu was executed and her body was thrown into the Pearl River. Writing here, at this moment, I remember the war stories that my grandfather told me when I was a child, and it is more for us young descendants to remember the martyrs and pay tribute to the martyrs!
When You Xi learned of the murder of her lover, she was deeply saddened.
On July 15 of the same year, the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy was disbanded, and You Xi and other students were incorporated into the Second Front Officer Teaching Corps, following the regimental commander Ye Jianying to the south of Guangzhou.
The next day in Guangzhou, You Xi walked to the pearl river, looked at the waves of the river, thinking about the tragic death of her lover, and couldn't help but have tears rolling down, and the national sorrow and hatred made her clench her fists.
In the early morning of December 11, 1927, the Guangzhou Uprising broke out, and the officer training regiment led by Ye Jianying was the main force of the uprising, and You Xi served as the squad leader of a female soldier squad of the teaching regiment.
During the battle, the female soldier squad was ordered to block the enemy on the long causeway on the north bank of the Pearl River.
On the 13th, the female soldier squad lost contact with the general headquarters of the rebel army and did not receive the order to retreat at that time.
For two days and two nights, they didn't have anything to eat or drink, and there were very few bullets left, but You Xi led the female soldiers and vowed to coexist with the position!
Soon, 10 times more enemies than them pounced, and after the bullets were finished, You Xi was the first to rush up to fight for the bayonet, and more than a dozen female soldiers also followed, and finally they all died heroically.
You Xi was only 19 years old when she was killed, and the ferocious enemy stripped her of her clothes, dismembered her body, and showed her on the docks.
Then, the corpse was thrown into the rolling Pearl River. It seems like a kind of destiny, this revolutionary couple, when they were alive, gathered less and more, but in the Pearl River, turned into two white dangling waves, and met for a long time.
Kobayashi's message: Compared with our martyrs, we are now born in this peaceful era, especially couples who are in love, they should cherish each other, give each other a tolerance, but also a tolerance for themselves!
References: (Guangzhou Uprising Record)