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In the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea in the 1950s, although the Chinese People's Volunteer Army achieved the final victory, it also sacrificed more than 100,000 lives of the volunteer army. In addition, more than 300,000 people were injured and more than 20,000 were captured.
Among the more than 20,000 volunteer army prisoners, only one female volunteer army is Yang Yuhua from the 180th Division of the 60th Army.
As a young female soldier, Yang Yuhua's experience in the prisoner-of-war camp naturally attracted a lot of speculation and even slander.
So, what unknown experience did Yang Yuhua have in the prisoner-of-war camp? What kind of life does she live after she disappeared after returning to China?
Yang Yuhua
prisoner of war camp experience is doubtful
In May 1951, the 180th Division of the 60th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army was surrounded by three sides of the enemy on the Korean battlefield.
Division Commander Zheng Qigui led his troops to fight bloody battles for ten days, and he was struggling to break through successfully. However, many teams with weak equipment and low combat effectiveness lost contact with the large army during the breakout and eventually fell into the opponent. Yang Yuhua from the
180 Division Health Center is one of them, but what is special is that is a female soldier and the only female soldier captured by the volunteer army on the Korean battlefield.
At that time, she was treated by a US military field hospital and was imprisoned in a prisoner of war camp. This level took two years, and she was not able to return to China until the end of Korean War .
As the only female prisoner in the volunteer army, Yang Yuhua's next life is destined to be subject to different comments from the outside world.
The Japanese brought great disaster to the Chinese people back then, and countless women were tragically humiliated by the Japanese invaders.
The Chinese people's ugly faces and evil impressions of Japanese imperialism have long been deeply rooted, and American imperialism is not much better in the eyes of everyone.
Therefore, Yang Yuhua's experience in the prisoner-of-war camp has also become a topic of discussion among countless people after dinner. But after she returned to China, she disappeared and disappeared. Many media want to interview him, but they can't find anyone.
In order to attract the attention of the audience, some unscrupulous media fabricated the news that "Yang Yuhua was humiliated by the US military" in the report. The statement of
was quickly known to everyone, and the audience could not wait for Yang Yuhua to come forward to make an announcement. Over time, they naturally took this rumor as a fact.
In the 1980s, a documentary about the deeds of volunteer soldiers' prisoners of war were published, which tells a story about Yang Yuhua and his captured comrades.
According to records, all five volunteer prisoners of war were women and were bullied by American soldiers in prison camps.
One of them rose up to resist and grabbed a pistol. The angry and embarrassed US military immediately shot at several people when they saw this. In the end, only Yang Yuhua survived. Remarks like
seem to be "reasonable and well-founded". In this way, Yang Yuhua's experience in the prisoner-of-war camp seems to have been finalized.
Later, a collection of memoirs published by the Volunteer Army Art Troupe also recorded Yang Yuhua's experience. It is said that Hu Yishan, a member of the art troupe, participated in the reception of prisoners of war in , Panmendian, and this person had met Yang Yuhua.
book says:
"Yang Yuhua cried as soon as she saw her compatriots, saying that her other female comrades were killed one after another or could not bear the humiliation and commit suicide..."
's statement seems to confirm the records in documentary books.
Not long after these two books were published, news about Yang Yuhua was once again spread in society. But it is regrettable that the news is her divorce from her husband.
For a moment, everyone naturally believed that it was Yang Yuhua's husband who learned about her experience in the prisoner-of-war camp through these two books and chose to divorce her.
Up to this point, pieces of evidence seem to show that Yang Yuhua suffered humiliation from the US military in the prisoner-of-war camp. But is the truth really that? How did Yang Yuhua get captured at that time?
was unfortunately captured for helping comrades
Yang Yuhua is a young girl from the mountain city of Chongqing. When she was young, she lost her parents early and was raised by her grandmother as a child.
Yang Yuhua, who grew up in the revolutionary war years, set a long-term ambition to join the army and serve the country.
Korean battlefield female soldier
When she was 16 years old, the Korean War broke out, and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made the decision to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea. Yang Yuhua, who was studying in the Military Region Medical College at that time, secretly signed up for the military without telling her grandmother.
Yang Yuhua joined the 180th Division of the 60th Army of the People's Liberation Army and was assigned to work as a nurse in the division health center.
This is a unit with fine traditions and rich combat experience. is an iron-blooded army promoted by Marshal Zhu De back then.
After the founding of New China, the 60th Army entered the southwest boundary and, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Military Commission and the Southwest Military Region, recruited young intellectuals to enrich the troops from the local Southwest Military Region Military and Political University, local military academies, etc.
It was at this time that Yang Yuhua joined the 180th Division with 73 other aspiring young women.
In March 1951, the 60th Army went to North Korea to fight as the second batch of troops to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea.
Because they participated in the war in the form of volunteers, the soldiers were not forced to enter the battlefield, but as long as the troops who received orders to enter North Korea, no one withdrew, and the female soldiers were no exception.
According to the "Sixty Army Who Makes Miracles" by the Sixty Army soldiers, there were female soldiers at that time in each division, art troupe, and departments of the directly affiliated organs.
combined with the female soldiers who had previously joined the army in North China. Each division has about 70 female soldiers, and nearly 400 female soldiers from all over the army entered North Korea to fight.
They work actively in their respective positions and have become a beautiful landscape on the Korean battlefield. And Yang Yuhua is one of these hundreds of female soldiers.
She has ambitions for a long time. Yang Yuhua resolutely bid farewell to her elderly grandmother and followed the 180th Division on her journey to the Korean Peninsula.
, as an elite unit of our army, the 180th Division naturally has to undertake the key combat tasks of overcoming difficulties on the battlefield, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of work and personal danger for Yang Yuhua and other logistics personnel working in the health center.
Yang Yuhua had no complaints about this. She is less than 20 years old and has a lofty ideological awareness and a fighting spirit of courage and hard work.
In the early days of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the supply of logistics supplies has always been a big problem, and front-line soldiers often lack food and ammunition. , especially the lack of rations and thin clothing, has brought huge trouble to the vast number of volunteer soldiers on the front line.
Ordinary soldiers are still a little unbearable, and the number of wounded patients in the health center is even more difficult to resist. In order to help ensure nutritional supplements for these wounded people, comrades in the health center often give them their food rations.
Yang Yuhua has done this more than once, but it was such a kind act that directly changed her destiny on the Korean battlefield.
Once, Yang Yuhua once again distributed the little fried noodles he had saved to the wounded. She was so hungry that she had no choice but to dig wild vegetables in the snow and ice, but she accidentally ate the poisonous wild vegetables.
That night, Yang Yuhua vomited and had diarrhea, and she didn't have any strength on her body. It was obvious that food poisoning was caused by .
would be fine if she was in the army, but when she was ill in bed, the 180th Division was surrounded by the enemy.
The 180th Division, which entered the front line, was trapped in the three sides of the enemy's army. Under the order of the military headquarters, the division commander Zheng Qigui led his troops to break through.
The Division Health Center was close to the direct security forces of the division headquarters, and in the breakout operation, it followed the magistrates to the north of Hanjiang early.
But Yang Yuhua was not among them, because she was still lying on the hospital bed at that time, and could only be carried by her comrades and followed the retreat of the large troops behind her.
, but the enemy's number is too large and the firepower is too strong. Yang Yuhua and his group of wounded soldiers were blocked by the enemy when they broke through.
Everyone hid in an abandoned tunnel, but were unexpectedly discovered by the enemy. The inhumane US military sent several bazooka in the tunnel.
For a moment, most of the remaining more than a dozen wounded were injured again. In the end, only the five wounded people hiding in the deepest part of the tunnel survived, and Yang Yuhua was one of the survivors. But she was also captured because of this, and began her two-year, dark prisoner of war time.
Real experience in prison camp
It is reported that the US military did not realize that Yang Yuhua was a female soldier at the beginning. Yang Yuhua already has cool short hair and looks very heroic.
struggled around the war, and her body was covered with mud and dirt, and she couldn't see her appearance clearly. The US military naturally regarded her as a male prisoner of war.
Power of War Camp Model (Photo source online)
Yang Yuhua himself did not reveal his identity. After recovering his injuries, he joined the work of treating prisoners of war. He did his work cleanly and neatly, not like a daughter's home at all.
It was not until Yang Yuhua once had a period of menstruation that the enemy realized that Yang Yuhua was a female soldier.
At that time, there were very few female soldiers in the Korean battlefield. The Americans had never captured female soldiers of our army before, so they did not specially build a female prisoner of war camp.
So Yang Yuhua was sent to the Busan female prisoner shelter, which was the detention place for North Korean female prisoners of war.
accompanied Yang Yuhua to Busan , and Zhang Zeshi, a prisoner of war who was a translator in the US prisoner of war camp. According to his recollection,
"I went to look for Yang Yuhua after receiving the news and saw her at the door of an office. This little girl was only sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a men's military uniform, and her face was very firm.
It is hard to imagine how a dark and dangerous life such a young girl would spend in the prisoner of war camp."
From this we can see that there was indeed only Yang Yuhua, the female soldier of the volunteer army captured by the US military that year, rather than the five recorded in the relevant books.
In fact, Yang Yuhua was quite lucky. Although he was taken to Busan alone, fortunately, there were many North Korean female prisoners from the Northeast Joint Army of the Fourth Field Army at that time.
Zhang Zeshi recalled: "As soon as Xiao Yang entered the prisoner-of-war camp, he was surrounded by the female North Korean soldiers around him. Everyone greeted her with lingering greetings, and many of them could speak Chinese."
learned that Yang Yuhua was from the 180th Division of the Volunteer Army in , and the North Korean female soldiers immediately said kindly: "From the future, you will follow us, everyone is comrades-in-arms, and they are a family."
Just like that, Yang Yuhua officially settled in the female North Korean female soldiers, and during this period, he also formed a deep comrade-in-arms with the female North Korean soldiers.
Since early 1952, Americans have realized that the war cannot continue for a long time, and these prisoners will be released sooner or later.
So the Americans with ulterior motives joined forces with the Kuomintang government in Taiwan, China to prepare to instigate these volunteer soldiers and send them to Taiwan after the war.
In order to send these prisoners of war to Taiwan, the US military began to force the volunteer army to control the volunteer army, and even forced them to surrender through tattooing, beating, and torture.
In order to resist the US military, Yang Yuhua and others established a secret organization in various prisoner-of-war camps in Busan, the Tongmenghui, to fight against the persecution and rebellion of the US military.
Later, in order to kill the chicken to war, the American soldiers publicly killed a volunteer prisoner of war who insisted on returning to the motherland and would rather die than surrender.
Hearing the news, the volunteers resisted it on a hunger strike.
In order to support everyone's actions, Yang Yuhua stood on a high platform despite the danger, shouted loudly to the volunteer soldiers, praised their protest measures, and sang to cheer them on.
"Unity is Strength" and "The Sky in the Liberated Area", inspiring songs came from Yang Yuhua's mouth. Her behavior infected the soldiers in the prisoner-of-war camp, and everyone joined in the singing.
Those abused prisoners shouted to Yang Yuhua excitedly: "Thank you Xiao Yang! We will definitely be able to return to the motherland!"
Volunteer troops went on a hunger strike to protest
After the unremitting struggle of Yang Yuhua and others, most prisoners of war still firmly chose to return to the country. Until she and the North Korean female soldiers boarded the train to Panmunjom, Yang Yuhua's singing did not stop.
Before leaving, everyone sang happily to celebrate the freedom that was about to come. The Americans threw a few tear gas into the carriage.
For a moment, the small and crowded carriage was filled with pungent smoke.
Considering that there were some babies born by female soldiers in the carriage, Yang Yuhua suddenly rushed towards the tear gas, and threw the tear gas out of the carriage despite the burns of heat and burns .
Armistice Agreement was signed
Until August 9, 1953, the train from the Busan prisoner-of-war camp finally slowly stopped at the Panmunjom platform, and the prisoners of war finally regained their freedom.
Yang Yuhua took out the five-star red flag he made from his pocket and raised it high. The moment he walked out of the car, Yang Yuhua was extremely excited.
The Political Department of the Volunteer Army Du Ping saw the bright red in the crowd from afar and ran towards Yang Yuhua.
He excitedly held Yang Yuhua's hand and said: "The motherland is waiting for you to come home!" Hearing this, Yang Yuhua could no longer hold back the excitement and excitement in his heart, and tears were pouring like a spring.
This is Yang Yuhua’s real experience in the prisoner-of-war camp. For two years, Yang Yuhua has been fighting against the Americans and has always adhered to his loyalty to the Party and the country in his heart. The humiliation she suffered in
The rumored thing did not exist at all. It was just a story plot fabricated by some media and publishers who did not understand the inside story and historical facts.
However, since Yang Yuhua has not been humiliated as rumored, why didn’t she stand up and show her innocence? She disappeared after returning to China. What have she been doing over the years?
Life after returning to China
In fact, Yang Yuhua chose to retire after returning to China. She first worked in Neijiang, Sichuan for a period of time, and then returned to her hometown in Chongqing to settle down.
Since then, Yang Yuhua has been teaching at the Experimental Primary School in Wansheng District, Chongqing until he retires.
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After the media fabricated that she was bullied by American soldiers, she was also angry for a while.
But she soon figured it out:
"I think it's troublesome to explain, and even if I say it, others may not believe it. There are not many people who know that history back then, so just forget it. As long as you have a clear conscience, it's enough."
is like this, Yang Yuhua ignored the comments from the outside world and focused on the cause of education.
On weekdays, she often communicated with several friends in the prisoner-of-war camp that year. In the world where pens and letters were spread out, they enjoyed their own war-torn past.
Shortly after returning to China, Yang Yuhua married for a wife. Her husband is also a volunteer soldier named Liu Yinghu.
Liu Yinghu is handsome and very talented. The two sides formed a deep friendship in the prisoner-of-war camp. They could understand each other and naturally got together.
In fact, Yang Yuhua’s favorite was not Liu Yinghu at the beginning, but Zhang Zeshi, who sent him to Busan back then.
In those years when I had no relatives, it was Zhang Zeshi who gave Yang Yuhua the strength to live hard.He told Yang Yuhua: "Don't give up, as long as you survive, you will have the chance to return to your motherland!"
Zhang Zeshi has many opportunities to shuttle behind the US military because of his translator. Whenever he has the chance, he will go to Busan to visit this little sister.
Liu Yinghu
Over time, Yang Yuhua developed a vague emotion towards Zhang Zeshi and asked someone to bring him a letter to express his love.
However, Zhang Zeshi had already made a marriage in China, and he treated Yang Yuhua just like a brother.
Therefore, this is destined to be a unrequited love. After marrying Liu Yinghu, Yang Yuhua entered primary school and Liu Yinghu was assigned to work in Supply and Marketing Cooperative .
The two are quite compatible and have a sweet marriage after marriage. But unexpectedly, as life gradually got better, Liu Yinghu was full of colorful things behind his back.
Because of her good looks, Liu Yinghu has never lacked people who pursue her. After several times, Liu Yinghu fell into trouble and cheated on her when she already had two children with Yang Yuhua.
Later, this incident was discovered by the organization. Liu Yinghu was sentenced to 420 years in prison for due to his lifestyle.
This divorce has a big blow to Yang Yuhua. She locked herself at home all day and did not go out. Even her comrades who had been in contact with her before had cut off contact.
It was only after many years that Yang Yuhua slowly walked out of the shadow. Since then, she has devoted all her energy to education and her children.
After retiring from school in his later years, Yang Yuhua thought he could enjoy his old age alone. Unexpectedly, she ushered in a sunset love in the second half of her life.
Yang Yuhua came together with a garrison cadre in Chongqing. The old couple supported and took care of each other and spent a rare and happy life.
Later years, Yang Yuhua
In 2013, some media conducted an exclusive interview with Yang Yuhua. Yang Yuhua, who is 77 years old, has already had white hair and a slightly bloated figure.
However, she still has a kind smile, kind treatment, and is dressed very refreshingly, which shows that she is living a smooth life.
She now lives with her son and daughter-in-law. Like most elderly people, she will help her family do some simple housework on weekdays. She will go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables and take a walk in the park. She lives a very comfortable and comfortable life.
In the future, I also hope that she can maintain her life as always and live happily.
Conclusion
As the only female prisoner in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, this seems to destiny that Yang Yuhua will suffer more than others.
But whether it is facing the oppression of Americans, the judgment of the outside world, the betrayal of her husband, and the breakdown of her marriage, Yang Yuhua finally overcomes them one by one and returns to the right track of her life.
She deserves the title of the People's Volunteer Army and the oath made since childhood.
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