In the 21st century, our great motherland is experiencing a prosperous era, and we must not forget history as we share prosperity and share the prosperity of grand events. This article will bring you an untold story, restore the history of many years ago for you, and experience the vicissitudes of life more than 70 years ago.
Speaking of Qiao Richeng, we are not very familiar with him, but his origin, each of us is not unfamiliar, although living in today's rule of law society, there is no bandit, but we can still understand this group in the stories told by the elders or in film and television works.
They are well known as the symbols of killing people, setting fires to people, robbing homes, and they can even be said to be innocent and do no evil, which makes ordinary people feel frightened and also makes the government in the past very headache. The protagonist of the story we want to know today, Qiao Richeng, is also, but he is not much different from the "bandit" we know.
Originally, although history recorded Qiao Richeng, it did not mention that he was embarrassed by the ordinary people, but instead recorded many stories of him fighting against the Japanese invaders and making the Japanese invaders feel frightened. The story to be introduced today is about Qiao Richeng leading the people to fight against the Japanese invaders.
First, let's turn the clock back seventy years:
It was an afternoon in Ying County, Shanxi, an afternoon full of blood. According to the records of the battle between the Yanbei detachment and the Japanese army: on the afternoon of January 28, 1941, five Japanese fighter jets covered the transport vehicles on the ground and ran south at the same time to pursue the anti-Japanese unit of the Yanbei detachment. On the way to the east of Shangzhai, the crowd stopped chasing, fearing an ambush. The Japanese, on the other hand, began firing machine guns with warplanes after the convoy stopped advancing.
After a frenzied strafing and bombing, the infantry of the Japanese army appeared in the eyes of the people, and when they came out, they began to set up machine guns on the moat dam and launched a fierce strafing and attack on the village. Suddenly, I saw that the sky was dark, there was chaos, and there were ordinary people running in all directions.
This purgatory massacre on earth lasted for two hours, and two hours later, another sweep began, and after some looting, the Japanese army was ready to withdraw, leaving a fire for the suffering village before leaving. At dusk, there was a lifeless silence, only a raging fire, sheep, goats, furniture, belongings, all burned.
At dawn on February 18, 1941, when the Japanese army had been pursuing the Yanbei detachment for 20 days, they may have lost patience, so they began to attack Qiao Richeng's troops who secretly resisted the Japanese army in private, in the name of resisting the puppet army.
A Japanese army of more than 3,000 people surrounded Xiaoshikou, which was the stronghold of Qiao Richeng's team when they fought against the Japanese army. This battle is still fierce, whether it is Qiao Richeng's troops or the Japanese army are fully prepared, this is a face-to-face hard and hard bloody battle, time seems to lose its concept, until eleven o'clock in the afternoon, the smoke and dust dissipate, leaving history with the tragic defeat of qiao army and the sacrifice of all members. The Japanese occupied their stronghold of Xiaoshikou.
Many times, we can't find a record of the specific number of Qiao Richeng's troops when we look through the historical data, but looking back at the relevant records of Qiao Richeng's troops and their battles at each Japanese attack, we can find that each time the troops he led reached thousands of troops, and they could fight against the Japanese army for a long time. This also proves that Qiao Richeng's troops are very strong in combat effectiveness, and the number is definitely quite large.
In addition to the strong combat effectiveness, the men led by Qiao Richeng are all brave warriors who dare to charge forward and are not afraid of death, which may also be an important factor in the victory of the troops he leads. The soldiers he led were generous and tragic, facing strong enemies and daring to resist, and almost all of them were sacrificed in the final battle, but they did not flinch. These are all worth learning and remembering.
Inevitably, however, their fierce resistance ignited the anger of the Japanese. After the battle, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties, so they once again extended their evil hands to the innocent village. Burning, killing, robbing, plundering, all evil, the blood of innocent people stained the sky red. According to later historical records, a villager named Feng Tianshan was slaughtered, the eldest son was brutally shot and killed by Japanese soldiers because he happened to be in the street, and the other five hid in the cellar and were not spared.
Touching the veins of history, what we feel is the blood of countless predecessors, the innocent people who died under the swords and guns of the Japanese army for no reason, the soldiers who died in the battle of Qiao Richeng's troops to protect the mountains and rivers, and the corpses of Xiaoshikou Village, which stained the country with blood.
Flipping through the books of the past and facing the moments of history, today, we restore a period of old things that few people know, and what flashes in those old things is an indomitable soul and a piece of touching heroic praise. A hero like Qiao Richeng should not be buried by the wind and sand, such a tragic past, should not be washed away by the time of flowing water, go to find those faded past events, feel the world, the century wind.