The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was a great war in the history of our nation, and the united Chinese waged a long struggle against the Japanese aggressors, and finally drove all these wolf-ambitious guys back to their hometowns. The thing we are going to talk about today happened during the War of Resistance.
Not long after the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese offensive was fierce, and its power extended to the Henan region. Since ancient times, the Central Plains have been an important grain producing area, and the people of Henan have sworn to resist to the death and engaged in fierce confrontations with the Japanese. However, in 1942, a severe famine fell on the land of Henan, and Henan was helplessly lost.
After 1945, the war situation was basically clear, the Japanese were not far from surrender, and the people of the whole country launched a rapid and fierce counterattack, and it was during this period that in a battle, a soldier of the Eighth Route Army captured a Japanese saber.
However, it is such a saber, many years later, someone is willing to pay 200,000 yuan to recover, the owner of the saber is not moved, no matter how much money, will not transfer the knife, what is the matter?
After the start of the counter-offensive stage, the Japanese army fell into a situation of successive defeats, and the Japanese army, which was about to run out of gas, still wanted to fight to the death, they wanted to hold the Henan region, and the Japanese army thought that as long as it held Henan, there was hope of turning the tide of the war. Therefore, the Japanese army in henan region launched many sweeps.
The abominable Japanese army went to the nearby villages to plunder in the name of sweeping. Everywhere they went, the villagers' food was all going to suffer, and many innocent villagers were brutally killed by the Japanese army. The common people really had no choice but to flee one after another and came to the base area in the north to avoid being harassed by the Japanese army.
Seeing that the Japanese were becoming more and more rampant, the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army in Henan decided to teach the Japanese army a lesson and let the Japanese army know that Chinese was not so easy to bully.
Hou Yongsheng was a soldier in the Eighth Route Army in Henan at that time, and his position at that time was captain. Hou Yongsheng was very familiar with the local terrain, so he led the team, repeatedly mediated with the Japanese army that came to sweep, constantly containing the strength of the Japanese army, and the guerrilla warfare made the Japanese army bitter.
The hateful Japanese became more and more fierce, and they killed local civilians even more brutally, and Hou Yongsheng decided to see the opportunity to give the Japanese a fierce blow.
On this day, the Japanese army began to launch a sweep again, Hou Yongsheng quickly conducted a thorough investigation, he figured out the Japanese plan and main leaders of the operation, and then he formulated a detailed plan to counterattack the Japanese.
The commander in charge of the Japanese sweep at that time had just joined the war and did not have much actual combat experience, but on the contrary, the commander was blindly arrogant and believed that the guerrillas were not worth paying attention to.
It was precisely by taking advantage of the enemy's light enemy mentality that Hou Yongsheng ambushed the Japanese army on the only road, and when the Japanese army came here, he led the troops to suddenly kill and beat the Japanese army to pieces. Hou Yongsheng was very accurate in his marksmanship, he personally killed the commander of the Japanese army and captured the guy's saber.
After Hou Yongsheng captured the saber, it caused quite a stir in the Japanese army. It turned out that the commander who was killed was named Sakata Yoshitaro, and his saber was given to him by the Emperor of Japan himself, which shows the special significance of this sword.
More than half a century later, Hou Yongsheng, a soldier of the Eighth Route Army, also became an old man, and a businessman from Japan specifically found him and expressed his willingness to pay 200,000 yuan just so that he could get back the saber. 200,000 was not a small amount at that time, but in the face of the temptation of money, the old man directly rejected the Japanese businessman.
Hou Yongsheng believes that this knife is the historical evidence of Japan's invasion of China in that year, and this knife should be well kept to remind future generations to remember history. Later, he chose to display the saber captured on the battlefield for public display, so that more people can remember that history.
As a veteran soldier, Hou Yongsheng's actions deserve the respect of each of us, and this saber also reminds us not to forget the national shame and strive to be strong.