Li Lin (1915-1940), whose original name was Li Xiuruo, was from Longxi, Fujian. He was born in a family of overseas Chinese businessmen. He returned from Indonesia in 1930. He joined the Communist Party of China in December 1936. In July 1937, he went to Yanbei to participate in the War of Resistance. He served as a propaganda committee member of the Datong Central District of the Sacrifice League, a member of the Pinglu County Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, a propaganda minister, a political commissar of the Eighth Detachment of the Anti-Japanese Guerrillas, an instructor of the Cavalry Battalion of the 6th Independent Detachment of the 120th Division, a secretary-general of the 11th Special Office of Northwest Shanxi, and a member of the Administrative Office of Northwest Shanxi. He died in Hongtao Mountain, Shanxi on April 26, 1940.

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Li Lin was born in 1916 in a poor peasant family in Minhou County, Fujian Province. At the age of two or three, her parents sold her to an overseas Chinese surnamed Li. From then on, she lived with her adoptive parents in Sishui, Java Island, Indonesia, and grew up to a teenager. At the age of 14, because her adoptive father married another wife, her adoptive mother took her back to China and entered the Jimei School in Xiamen. She worked hard in the school and was determined to become a writer when she grew up. The September 18th Incident in 1931 awakened the patriotic enthusiasm of the Chinese nation. She resolutely gave up her literary dream and devoted herself to the movement to save the country. In the winter of 1934, Li Lin went to Shanghai Patriotic Girls' High School to study, and the nearest of the Patriotic Girls' High School was the soldiers of the Japanese invaders.

In the camp, the normal classes in the school are often interrupted by the sound of cannons in the Japanese barracks. Once, the students were studying quietly in the classroom. At this time, the rumbling cannons sounded again, deafening, and the students were unable to learn at all. Li Lin angrily slapped the table and said, "What kind of country is this?" "One day we will drive these robbers out of China!" She wrote the article "Thoughts on Reading" with full patriotic enthusiasm to express her patriotic feelings. After this patriotic manifesto was handed over, the teacher actually made an exception and gave it 105 points and published it on the school's wall poster, which caused a sensation among all teachers and students in the school. At this time, she began to read progressive publications such as "Reading Life", "World Knowledge", and "Popular Life".

During the summer vacation of 1935, Li Lin went to Peking to participate in the vanguard of national liberation and was admitted to the Department of Political Science and Economics of the Republic of China University and renamed Li Lin. At this time, the situation in North China further deteriorated, and the five pro-Japanese forces invaded the Japanese invaders to prepare for "independence". Japanese imperialism took the opportunity to send more troops to North China, and in military exercises aimed at Beiping, they actually carried heavy artillery and drove tanks through Beiping City. In response, Li Lin expressed his extreme anger, actively participated in the 129th Movement, and became an activist and backbone of the student movement. With the help of Lu Guang, an underground party member of the Republic of China University, Li Lin gradually realized that it is not possible to rely solely on the student movement to save the country and seek liberation. He must follow the path of combining with workers and peasants, and the whole nation unites to achieve victory in the fight against Japan.

In December 1936, a student in Peking held a large parade to rescue the leader of the National Rescue Congress who was arrested and detained by the Kuomintang authorities. Li Lin once again showed her courage and fearless spirit. She served as the flag bearer of the parade of the Republic of China University and was beaten to death by the reactionary police. She still endured the severe pain and held the flag to guide the parade forward.

Li Lin grew up rapidly in the fight against Japan and national salvation and joined the Communist Party of China in December 1936. After the Xi'an Incident, the underground party of Peking launched the youth to Taiyuan, and Li Lin decided to join the army and go to the front line of the anti-Japanese struggle. Immediately, a group of young students from Peking and Tianjin went to Taiyuan together to join the relationship with the Shanxi Working Committee of the Communist Party of China. She participated in the military and political training class run by the Shaanxi Sacrifice League Association. She was one of the heads of the Party Branch of the Girls' Company. During this period, the Sacrifice League Association decided to send special commissioners to Datong and Yanbei counties to do anti-Japanese and national salvation work. In order to realize her wish to go to the Anti-Japanese front line to fight with the army, Li Lin proposed to the Sacrifice League Association to go to Datong with the special commissioners, but it was not approved.

After the July 7 Incident, Li Lin arrived in Datong with the personnel from the Datong Central District of the Sacrifice League. At this time, the Japanese army was attacking Zhangjiakou and peeking at Chaigoubao, Tianzhen and Yanggao. The enemy planes continued to attack Yuheqiao and Datong. Li Lin ignored the bombing of the enemy planes and personally compiled and printed leaflets with his comrades to publicize the mobilization of the whole nation. Li Lin suggested to the Yanbei Working Committee of the Communist Party of China to organize the peasant self-defense force and go to the mountainous areas for training so that guerrilla warfare will be carried out when the enemy comes. The Datong Central District Committee of the Sacrifice League agreed with these opinions and went to nearby rural areas to mobilize young people to participate in the Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Force. By late August, the Self-Defense Force developed to 120

Many people. At this time, the 61st Army of the Kuomintang retreated on the Tianzhen line. The Japanese army was approaching Yanggao, and Datong was in a tight position. The Datong Central District of the Sacrifice Alliance decided that Li Lin was responsible for gathering the Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Force and moving to the mountainous areas in Huairen. In order to prevent enemy plane bombing, the central area and the Self-Defense Force marched at the evening of the 11th and arrived at the square in front of a large temple in Huairen County to rest at dawn. Because everyone was very tired, many people sat down and fell asleep. Suddenly, the enemy planes bombed, and the members of the Self-Defense Force who had not undergone strict military training ran away. Li Lin had to retreat to Yanmen Pass with the comrades in the central area and retreat to Taiyuan.

Just when Yan Xishan's army was defeated from Yanmen Pass, the Eighth Route Army led by the Communist Party of China was crossing the Yellow River and advancing to the front line. At this time, 30 cadres were led by Secretary Zhao Zhongchi of the Jinsui Border Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, carrying a radio station to advance from Taiyuan City to Yanbei, preparing to carry out anti-Japanese struggles in the Yanbei region and create an anti-Japanese guerrilla base. Li Lin happened to meet them in Yangmingbao, Dai County, so she strongly demanded to follow the team to rush to the front line. At first, Zhao Zhongchi considered that she was a lesbian, and it was inconvenient to go to the front line, so he advised her to return to Taiyuan. After her repeated begging, Zhao Zhongchi finally agreed to her and gave her a six-five rifle. In this way, Li Lin followed the special commission team out of Yanmen Pass and rushed to the anti-Japanese front line. Li Lin

He and Zhao Zhongchi, a party with the Jinsui Border Working Committee, left Yanmen Pass and quickly moved to Pianguan County. At that time, due to the tense situation, all the old government personnel had fled, and only a few Communists were organizing the masses. As soon as Li Lin and the Border Special Committee members arrived, they carried out mass propaganda work. When the masses gathered in the county government compound, Li Lin stood on a stool and delivered an inspiring speech: "Brothers and sisters, the Japanese are bullying our hometown! Escapeists have left us alone! What should we do? Become a slave to the country? No! Under the leadership of the Communist Party, we must organize, establish anti-Japanese guerrillas, carry out wars, and defeat Japanese imperialism." The masses were very encouraged to see this female Eighth Route Army saying this.

According to the instructions of the Working Committee, the anti-Japanese guerrilla team began to form here. Li Lin quickly devoted herself to work, and used her outstanding organizational skills to find cadres, find barracks, prepare food, and compile political and military textbooks. She also joined the local anti-Japanese group Women's National Rescue Association and Workers' National Rescue Association to mobilize youth in rural areas and factories and mines to participate in the anti-Japanese team. After selection, she gradually organized a guerrilla team of more than a dozen people. Under the care of the party organization, the superiors sent military cadres to the guerrilla team. Li Lin was appointed as the political director and Wang Lingyu was the chief of staff. Li Lin cooperated with the chief of staff and made great progress in his work. By December, the team expanded to more than 200 people.

In February 1938, the Jinsui Border Special Committee of the Communist Party of China (renamed from the former Jinsui Border Working Committee) advanced towards the Pinglu and Xishan areas of Youyu under the cover of the Eighth Detachment. On the first night of the march, he encountered a puppet army more than 20 kilometers east of Panguan. Wang Lingyu and Li Lin commanded the Eighth Detachment to defeat the enemy and covered the special committee's safe arrival at Pinglu County.

After a period of training in the western mountain of Pinglu, the Eighth Detachment immediately went to Youyu, north of Zuoyun, and moved inside and outside the Great Wall. One afternoon, the detachment personnel arrived near Tiancheng Village, Liangcheng County and learned that Li Shouxin's puppet army was stationed in Maihutu. Every afternoon, a few puppet troops took horses to the river beside the village to drink horses. Wang Lingyu, who had long wanted to build the Eighth Detachment into a cavalry, thought that the opportunity had come. He and Li Lin agreed to make a quick decision and trick the puppet horses. They immediately pulled out more than 30 capable soldiers to form a commando, put on plainclothes, and lurked in the grass and trees by the river. When the puppet army's horses came to the river, the commando launched a sudden attack on the enemy, caught the enemy off guard, and seized more than 50 horses and more than 10 guns. Then, the first squadron was changed to a cavalry squadron, making the Eighth Detachment a mixed infantry and cavalry detachment.

In view of the development of several guerrilla detachments in the Yanbei region during the struggle, the commander of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army instructed to reorganize these guerrilla detachments into the independent 6th Detachment of the 120th Division. The 8th Detachment and the 5th Detachment formed by Youyu County, and the 6th Detachment formed by Pinglu County were combined into the 6th Cavalry Battalion. At this time, He Long, Guan Xiangying and other leaders were very concerned about Li Lin, thinking that a lesbian marching and fighting on the troops was not convenient, so he considered transferring her to the place to work. Li Lin was very grateful to the leaders for their care and repeatedly expressed sincerely that he was willing to stay in the army to fight directly with the Japanese invaders. After research by the special committee of the border area, she praised her ambition, agreed to her request, and assigned her to serve as the instructor of the cavalry battalion, and Wang Lingyu was the battalion commander of the cavalry battalion.

Li Lin and Wang Lingyu led this team to fight in various parts of Yanbei and achieved many successive victories. In July of the same year, due to the concern and work needs of the first and second divisions, Li Lin was transferred to the newly established Sacrifice Alliance Association Jinsui Border Work Committee to be a propaganda committee member, and also in charge of local armed forces. During the work, Li Lin found that the local civil movement work was very complicated, the tasks were very heavy, and there were very few cadres. So Li Lin suggested that with the approval of the superior, he decided to hold a cadre training class immediately and solve it on the spot.

Regarding the issue of cadres, Li Lin was appointed as the head of the training class. From 1938 to early 1940, the cadre training class held a total of six sessions, training more than 260 cadres. These cadres were assigned to various counties and districts, becoming backbone and leader of the Sacrifice Alliance, and played an outstanding role in the anti-Japanese guerrilla war. He did mass work, recognized many "godmothers", united many "god sisters", promoted revolutionary principles to them, helped them learn culture, and was deeply loved by the masses.

On October 25, 1939, facing the fierce attack of more than 2,000 Japanese and puppet troops on the base, Li Lin led a machine gun platoon to find the gate of the enemy's rear barracks, launched a surprise attack on the enemy, killed one enemy sentry on the spot, and seized a war horse. In this way, the enemy forced the enemy to retreat a large number of troops besieged the anti-Japanese base, thus victoriously shattering the enemy's aggressive "sweeping".

While fighting against the Japanese invaders, Li Lin also fought against the reactionary stance and behavior of the Kuomintang diehards. In the spring of 1939, she went to Yichuan, Shaanxi to attend the "Qiulin Conference" held by Yan Xishan. At the meeting, she personally experienced the deeds of our army's resistance in Yanbei, and strongly refuted the lies that the diehards slandered our army for "going without attacking". At the end of this year to the spring of the following year, Yan Xishan launched the December Incident and attacked the party, government and military organs of our Jinsui border. Faced with the provocation of the diehards, the Jinsui Border Prefecture Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to resolutely fight back against the diehards in Yanbei region according to the instructions of the Party Committee of the Northwest Jin District of Shanxi. Li Lin unified the command of the Second Battalion of the 18th Regiment, and the Political and Military Company and the Border Committee were assigned to come.

The sixth detachment cavalry battalion, the second battalion and other armed forces that supported the army took action on the evening of the 26th, eradicating the stubborn governments of three counties and one district in the Hongtaoshan base area, and seizing more than 100 guns and some ammunition. After review, most of the 200 stubborn government personnel were released, and a few more progressive people arranged work. 15 stubborn members with serious crimes were suppressed when they held an anti-stubborn struggle meeting in mid-January 1940. The stubborn power of the Kuomintang in Yanbei was destroyed. Thus, the situation where two regimes and two armies coexisted in the base area were ended. The anti-Japanese war work in Yanbei was vigorously carried out under the leadership of the Communist Party.

In November 1940, Li Lin attended the Military and Civilian Congress of Northwest Shanxi and was elected as a member of the Administrative Office of Northwest Shanxi and was responsible for the work of mass groups such as workers, youth, and women. Due to her outstanding performance, before the committee meeting, Commander He Long had a cordial conversation with Li Lin, praising her heroic performance and leadership in the struggle behind enemy lines. He Long said to her: "A lesbian, a college student from a big city, can lead cavalry and fight against Japanese devils inside and outside the Great Wall, and has shown his prestige. It is not simple!" When the Administrative Commission held a meeting, He Long also introduced Li Lin to all members. He said: "This is our anti-Japanese heroine. An overseas Chinese college student can lead troops to fight behind enemy lines, which deserves everyone's praise! "Hongtaoshan anti-Japanese guerrilla attack

The base area directly threatened the enemy's strategic location, Datong and the northern section of Tongpu Road, becoming the enemy's confidant. Therefore, since December 1937, the Japanese army conducted large-scale "sweeping" eight times in an attempt to destroy it. On April 25, 1940, when night had just fallen, an emergency intelligence letter was sent to Wuxinzhai Village. Zhao Zhongchi, secretary of the Jinsui Border Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, who was in a meeting, read the letter and said frowned: "The enemy has started the ninth 'sweeping' again. The intelligence said that the enemy's 'sweeping' this time was different from usual. It used many troops to surround and attack tactics, and it seemed that it was trying to attack us in one go." This time, the Japanese army dispatched more than 10,000 troops to concentrate on encirclement and suppress the Yanbei base area, and the situation was very serious.

Wu Xinzhai is located in the hinterland of Hongtao Mountain. Since the local Communist Party cadres and the Eighth Route Army Yanbei Detachment jointly established the anti-Japanese base in the spring of 1938, the Japanese invaders have rarely rushed here to harass them. In addition to the party and government leadership organs and mass groups in the border areas of the Jinsui border, there are also the government and security companies, the security companies, and a large number of training classes, with a total of six or seven hundred people. Zhao Zhongchi made a brief exchange of opinions with Military Minister Jiang Sheng, Organization Minister Zheng Lin, and Li Lin, Secretary-General of the Special Office, and others.

Jiang Sheng, Zheng Lin, Li Lin and other responsible comrades immediately split into emergency gathering teams. In order to avoid the enemy's edge, they decided to move towards Pinglu City, where the enemy's heavy troops were advanced from Shuo County, and met with the Third Battalion of the Infantry of the Sixth Independent Detachment of the 120th Division, and rushed through the enemy's blockade line and arrived at the western mountainous area of ​​Pinglu (county) in Shuo (county) because most of the trainees were comrades who had just started working. Without the sudden emergence of emergency, they became confused when they heard about the enemy's situation. As a result, it took more than two hours to assemble and sort the team. At around midnight, when the team reached the outside of Luandaogou Village, Pinglu County, and met with the Third Battalion, the special leader immediately made the arrangement to cross the blockade line, that is, the Third Battalion opened the way for the vanguard.

The guard cadres and the training class followed closely, with Jiang Sheng and Li Lin leading the political guards company, the guard platoon and a newly transferred cavalry company as the rear guard. At this time, the enemy had blocked the road ahead. When a team like a snake was walking to Tao Xiaofeng Mountain in Pinglu County, the third battalion of the vanguard caught fire with the enemy. After a close fight, the third battalion rushed through the blockade line. A large number of officers and training class students following the third battalion fell behind due to a temporary chaos and failed to rush over, but was blocked by the reinforced enemy. In this extremely urgent situation, the leaders of the prefectural committee decided that Jiang Sheng and Li Lin commanded the rear guards to launch a new charge and cover the team to continue to break through. However, due to the fierce firepower of the enemy and the unfavorable terrain, the breakthrough failed. Therefore, the team was ordered to turn around and retreat to Dongping Tai Village.

The team only had a short rest in Dongping Tai Village, and the night was retreating and it was dawn. At this time, the enemy had surrounded Dongping Tai Village from all sides. Jiang Sheng and Zheng Lin led some troops to try to break through from the north and south, but were all pushed back by the enemy. Then, the enemy launched an attack, and the dense sound of guns and cannons rang out into the sky, and the rolling dust and smoke spread across the entire Dongping Tai Village. At this extremely critical moment, the calm and calm Li Lin shouted: "Minister Jiang, you lead the way."

The Zhengwei Company and the guard platoon cover the ground, the special leader prepares for breaking south or westward. I lead the cavalry company to rush eastward and lead the enemy eastward!" Jiang Sheng said: 'Then you are too dangerous!' "The situation is critical, and there is no dispute." Li Lin said as he jumped onto the horse, raised his shell gun, and ordered the cavalry company soldiers: "Comrades! Come with me!" Nearly a hundred cavalry soldiers followed Li Lin, jumped out of the village, bravely rushed to Dongdagou, Dongpingtai Village, in Dongpingtai Village, in the enemy's artillery fire.

Li Lin's breakthrough action disrupted the enemy's deployment. The enemy guarding the north and south mountains of Dongping Tai Village saw the Eighth Route Army cavalry units rushing eastward, so they swarmed to chase eastward. Zhao Zhongchi, Zheng Lin, Jiang Sheng and other places, saw that the enemy's heavy troops moved eastward and the blockade deployment was in chaos. He immediately commanded the political security company and guard platoon to cover some of the comrades in the organs, and unexpectedly launched a breaking southward to fight. Although dozens of comrades were sacrificed in these two routes, the special leaders of the area broke through the siege and escaped from danger.

At this time, the cavalry team led by Li Lin fought bravely and stepped on a bloody road and rushed out of the first encirclement of the enemy in Dongdagou. However, the cavalry soldiers suffered serious casualties. The two guards around Li Lin, one of whom was shot and fell to the ground due to a war horse, could not continue fighting with Li Lin, and accepted the task of burying documents, and hid in the valley; the other was injured in the body and horse, lying in a pool of blood. Li Lin led the remaining thirty or forty cavalry soldiers to continue to rush eastward, and suddenly, they were faced with Majiahe again.

The fierce blocking of the enemy in the Yulin side. The brave and fearless Li Lin and the cavalry soldiers put the flying guns and shells behind their heads, jumped into the enemy's formation at a glance, slashing left and right, and fighting with the enemies. When she saw the two enemy machine gunners still shooting continuously, she used the rolling smoke as a cover and quickly walked around the enemy behind, "Bang!" Two shots killed and killed and injured the enemy. After a melee, the enemy killed and injured more than a dozen people, and Li Lin and the others successfully rushed out of the enemy's third encirclement.

Li Lin fought bloody battles with the cavalry soldiers, and left the encircled and intercepted enemies, and arrived at a relatively flat open area. If you continue to rush to the southeast, Daping Village will be able to escape from danger and transfer safely. However, Li Lin heard the sound of gunfire from Dongping Tai Village, and was worried that Zhao Zhongchi, Zheng Lin, Jiang Shenghe, and the special agency personnel had not yet broken through. Therefore, she ordered the cavalry soldiers to stop traveling south and said loudly: "Comrades! A large number of our comrades are still surrounded by the enemy, and we have the responsibility to rescue them!" Then, Li Lin and the cavalry soldiers turned their horses and rushed back to the northwest like tigers.

Li Lin's retaliation was completely beyond the enemy's expectations, and caught the Japanese and puppet army off guard. The Japanese and puppet troops who had been scattered on the mountain were preparing to shrink the encirclement to Dongpingtai Village to solve the surrounding personnel of our area. Unexpectedly, the Eighth Route Army cavalry units that rushed out came back. Therefore, the enemy had to reorganize their troops and focus on dealing with this cavalry like a tiger.

After several rounds of fighting on the hills guarded by the enemy, Li Lin and the cavalry soldiers rushed left and right and fought back on various hills that the enemy was defending, they heard the gunshots from the Dongping Tai Village gradually became sparse. It is estimated that the special leaders and the officers had broken through and moved, so they commanded the cavalry soldiers to break through and move eastward to continue to disperse the enemy's troops and create conditions for the officers of the Dongping Tai Village to break through and move. However, the enemy had formed a new encirclement for them. At the attachment of Xiao Guojiayao, an enemy grenade exploded beside Li Lin and the war horse was killed.

He was dropped off his horse. A soldier saw her lying on the ground and was about to dismount and help her, but she stopped shouting: "What are you doing? Go forward!" The two soldiers who followed Li Lin were also shot and died, leaving Li Lin. Li Lin seized a small temple on the mountain. Li Lin gritted his teeth and crawled to a place, pretending to faint and lie down. When the enemy rushed up, she suddenly sat up, holding a shell gun in one hand and a small Bayin gun in the other hand, and 6 enemies fell to the ground, and the other enemies retreated in a hurry.

At this time, Li Lin was injured in many places, all the bullets of the mullet gun had been exhausted, and only one bullet was left of the Xiaobayin pistol. Faced with many enemies getting closer and closer, Li Lin knew that he was unable to break through the siege, so he resolutely pulled the Xiaobayin pistol and shot the last bullet into his throat, and sacrificed heroically. The enemy did not believe that the female Eighth Route Army was fighting so hard. Finally, when cleaning the battlefield, the enemy discovered that the female Eighth Route Army was scared. The Japanese invaders had to say: "The female Eighth Route Army is so powerful!"
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