This high-ranking general who committed suicide and martyrdom in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was born in the Baoding Military Academy, and his deeds can be sung and wept
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Many people are eager for success in a straight line, but remember that in our life, only the happiness of the curve forward, there is no success that goes straight to the clouds, and everyone can only cherish today to have a better tomorrow; only by grasping the present, we can create a more brilliant future.
I believe that everyone understands these truths, but there are very few who can really pay for practice, which is why success is in the hands of a small number of people.
What I want to share with you today is a hero of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, who chose to commit suicide and martyrdom in the War of Resistance, born in Baoding Military Academy, and his deeds can be sung and wept.
This revered hero named Xiao Shanling, he was born in Baoding Military Academy, originally had a very broad future, at the juncture of national life and death, he chose to shoulder the burden of saving the country, to protect the country as his responsibility, he and the Japanese army fought fiercely to the last moment of his life, when he was trapped in Nanjing, as the mayor of Nanjing and the commander of Nanjing, he knew that there was no hope for a breakthrough, and resolutely chose to martyr the country.
He used his life to write us a patriotic story that can be sung and wept
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Xiao Shan Ling threw pen from Rong for the sake of the country
Xiao Shanling's father was a talent at the end of the Qing Dynasty, so his father paid special attention to his cultural education since he was a child, and it was precisely because of this environment that he developed a personality of knowledgeable dali. He could have become a great talent, but at that time, the crisis facing our country, Xiao ShanLing resolutely decided to abandon wen congwu and throw pen into rong. In 1909, he bid farewell to his new wife and was admitted to the Hunan Army Primary School for military exercises. In August 1914, he was promoted to the 3rd Infantry Company of the 3rd Infantry Division of the Baoding Army Officer School.
After graduation, Xiao Shanling was sent to serve in the Hunan Army, where he became acquainted with his general Tang Shengzhi. On the battlefield, he proved himself through one battle after another, successively serving as a platoon leader, a company commander, a battalion commander and other positions.
He also acted as the county magistrate of Ruanjiang County in Hunan Province
Is gold always shining, wherever you are? After the tempering of the war, he has become a brave warrior, and the shadow of the original literati can no longer be seen in his body.
In January 1932, Xiao Shanling was promoted to colonel in general affairs of the Gendarmerie Command, deputy commander of the Kuomintang gendarmerie in 1936, and general in May 1937.
The pain brought to China by the Japanese in 1937 was heart-wrenching, and the July 7 Incident opened the prelude to an all-out invasion of China.
Because of the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Japanese army attacked Shanghai on a large scale, the enemy was menacing, after the Battle of Songhu, the Defeat of the Chinese army, the main force of the Japanese army followed the trend to the south, they extended their magic claws to the capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing.
Xiao Shan ordered Lin's death
At such a critical juncture, Army General Tang Shengzhi stepped forward at the operational meeting of the Ministry of National Defense, and he was willing to defend the city of Nanjing. After that, General Xiao Shanling, the deputy commander of the National Gendarmerie Department under Tang Shengzhi's old subordinate, was also ordered to guard Nanjing together
。 On November 26, 1937, the main force of the Japanese army gradually approached Nanjing, when the situation in Nanjing became more and more critical, in fact, Chiang Kai-shek already knew that the city of Nanjing could not be defended, but he could not fail to defend.
Because we cannot watch hundreds of thousands of compatriots in Nanjing suffer from the ravages of the Japanese army in this way, we cannot watch the Japanese army take the city of Nanjing without spending a single soldier.
If the Kuomintang had chosen not to defend Nanjing City at that time, it would have been condemned by the Chinese people, so General Tang Shengzhi could take over the hot potato of Nanjing City, and it could also be seen that this person was really very heroic.
In the absence of foreign aid and favorable terrain to rely on, the Chinese army and the Japanese army engaged in fierce battles, but in the end, because of the disparity in weapons and equipment, the Chinese army gradually lost.
Originally, according to the deployment of General Tang Shengzhi, they wanted to give the Japanese army a large number of casualties before leading the troops to retreat, so that they could first frustrate the Japanese army's front, and also win time for deployment for future battles, and secondly, to lead by example and fight the Japanese army in blood.
In this way, we will inspire the determination and courage of the Chinese people to resist Japan. But it happened completely differently than they imagined.
Under the huge gap in strength, the Chinese army was defeated like a mountain, and before General Tang Shengzhi's order to resolutely resist Japan had been delivered, the officers and men on the front line had already been defeated and began to flee, so by the time the command understood the battle situation and ordered the retreat order, the Japanese army had completely cut off the retreat of the Chinese defenders.
Because the speed of the Japanese attack was too fast, 150,000 officers and soldiers were besieged in the city of Nanjing, and finally massacred by the Japanese army.
Xiao Shan ling died for the country
General Xiao Shanling, as the mayor of Nanjing and deputy commander of the national gendarmerie, was unwilling to retreat in the face of this rout
。 Xiao Shan Ling did not know that he could no longer protect Nanjing, but he wanted to coexist and die with Nanjing. He felt that Nanjing could not defend itself, that he no longer had the face to face the disadvantages of the party-state in killing the enemy, that he could no longer face the people of Nanjing City, that he absolutely could not be greedy for fear of death and bow down to the Japanese as a slave, so that he would not have the face to see Jiangdong's father and elder in the future, and if he retreated, he would abandon hundreds of thousands of people in disregard, so he chose to stay in Nanjing City to fight the enemy to the death, even if he could not fight, he would exhaust his last breath.
On December 9, 1937, Chen Jichuan persuaded Xiao Shan ling to retreat, but Xiao Shan Ling's righteousness was awe-inspiring, indicating that the current form was so chaotic, if they only cared about fleeing for their lives, then the city was full of scattered troops and kept commanding, and the hearts and minds of the army and the people could not be stabilized.
Defending the family and defending the country itself is the natural responsibility of the soldiers, and they should do their best to serve the country, even if they laugh and lie on the battlefield. He had already decided to stay in Nanjing, and Xiao Shan's dignified spirit of seeing death as a homecoming made Chen Jichuan solemnly respected.
At 3 p.m. on December 12, 1937, Chiang Kai-shek issued a telegram ordering the entire line to break through and retreat. After the order to break through was issued, except for the 83rd Army and the 66th Army, which acted in accordance with the military order, all the other troops rushed to The Pass, and several 100,000 soldiers and civilians rushed to cross the river, and the whole situation was chaotic.
Seeing that the situation was so chaotic, Xiao Shan Ling calmed down and resolutely ordered the captain of the gendarmerie to take most of the gendarmes to Snake Mountain, where Longpan Mountain sniped at the Japanese army, while he covered the military and civilians to cross the river.
Throughout the night, Xiao Shanling was pushed to the raft several times by his subordinates, but several times he broke free from the shore and continued to command the army and the people to cross the river. By the early morning of December 13, two-thirds of the residents had no way to cross the river, and by this time the Japanese army had broken through to the south gate of Nanjing.
A large number of Japanese troops swarmed in, Xiaoshan Ling General in order to be able to rescue some more officers and soldiers and civilians, he led the troops to pad and stick to the ferry, but at this time there were not many ships on the riverside, a large number of retreating troops were crowded together, scrambling to rush to cross, seeing this situation, Xiao Shan, as the commander, made the liver and intestines cut off.
At 4:00 p.m. on December 13, 1937, Xiao Shan Ling led the gendarmes and the Japanese army to repeatedly fight fiercely for 5 hours, at the moment thousands of his men were all killed, seeing that there was no reinforcement, hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers in the city also had no boats to cross, all fell into the hands of the Japanese Kou, Xiao Shan Ling was awe-struck, raised his gun and martyred the country.
At the last moment of his life, he fulfilled his promise to coexist and die with Nanjing, and we saw a strong patriotic spirit in him. He was the first senior Kuomintang general to be martyred, and after his death, the Nationalist government posthumously honored him as a lieutenant general in the army, and in July 1984, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was posthumously recognized as a martyr of the anti-Japanese revolution.
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I believe everyone knows that after the destruction of Nanjing, the Japanese invaded our compatriots inhumanly, and they not only harmed the lives of our compatriots, but also trampled on their dignity.
The bestial acts they committed in the city of Nanjing were truly heart-wrenching. Time is passing, today's Nanjing City has reshaped the beauty of the past, and all this is given to us by these heroes and martyrs, it is they who have defended the peace of the country, and only then have we have the beauty of today, these heroes of the War of Resistance will also be admired by the world for sacrificing their lives for the country, do you have anything to say about them? Welcome to share the discussion in the message area, the progress of the times and the changes in history, I will be with you!