During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was once a saying that there was no river or no army. Indeed, the Sichuan Army contributed greatly to the victory of the War of Resistance, and in the entire period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Sichuan Army suffered the largest number of casualties. It can be said that without the Sichuan Army, there would be no victory in the final War of Resistance.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Nationalist Government called on young people to join the army, and under the call of slogans such as "one inch of mountains and rivers and one inch of blood, one hundred thousand young people and one hundred thousand troops," a group of enthusiastic young people went to the battlefield one after another, and under the leadership of the National Government, they launched a fierce battle with the Japanese. At that time, student enlistment in the military also became mainstream.
Throughout the period of the War of Resistance, countless young people have gone to the battlefield, and they have created one glorious deed after another that can be sung and wept, leaving too much pride for future generations.
Throughout the war of resistance against Japan, the Sichuan army made much greater efforts than the armies of other provinces, and although it was a local miscellaneous army unit, it was the local army that suffered the most casualties during the War of Resistance.
According to statistics, during the entire period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the death toll of the Sichuan Army reached 600,000 people, which shows its contribution. On the occasion of the Battle of Changsha, there was an incident in which a juvenile Sichuan soldier was captured by the Japanese army, and his last words at that time deeply touched every Japanese soldier present, and even the Japanese commander could not help but be moved.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Xiang, chairman of Sichuan Province, called on the Sichuan army to defend the country, and he personally commanded the Sichuan army to fight in other provinces under the orders of the Nationalist government. Liu Xiang put forward the determination to resist the war to the end, and called on the Sichuan army to unanimously resist Japan, not to destroy the Japanese, and to vow not to return to their hometown.
At that time, out of national indignation, the Sichuan military and people threw themselves into the anti-Japanese front, and many Sichuan army generals even fought on the battlefield, such as the famous generals of the Sichuan army, Such as Wang Mingzhang and Li Jiayu.
The Sichuan army has fought in various battlefields, whether in the famous Battle of Taierzhuang, or later the Battle of Wuhan and Changsha, there is a shadow of the Sichuan army.
In the thirtieth year of the Republic of China, the Second Battle of Changsha broke out, this time, Chen Cheng, commander of the Sixth Theater of operations of the Nationalist Government, mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, planning to retake Yichang in one fell swoop. Because Yichang was a barrier to Changsha at that time, the strategic position was very important, Yichang was lost, Jiangxi was in danger, and Hunan would not be protected, so Yichang also became the focus of Sino-Japanese contention.
The 94th Army of the Sixth Theater was ordered to attack Yichang, and the 94th Army had already dealt with the Japanese army many times during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and was very clear about the combat situation of the Japanese army. After the outbreak of the Battle of Yichang, the 94th Army engaged in a fierce confrontation with the Japanese army, and the two sides launched a white-knife battle on Mantou Mountain, but because the Japanese army relied on the advantages of terrain and equipment, our army suffered heavy casualties.
In the 11-day tug-of-war, both the enemy and us were exhausted, and soon the Nationalist government, in order to preserve its strength, had to order the Ninety-fourth Army to withdraw from the defensive line. However, it was in this war that a shocking event occurred.
Shortly after the Battle of Mantou Mountain, the Japanese army began to clean up the battlefield, and they found a dying Sichuan army warrior on the outskirts of the Mantou Mountain position, whose comrades had all been killed and who had been shot several times.
Japanese Lieutenant Shigezo Nara asked the Sichuan warrior in Chinese why he chose to go to the battlefield to take a gun against the imperial army troops. The teenager was shocked in the face of danger, and he did not show a trace of fear, and replied directly and calmly: "In order to defend the family and defend the country." The simple six words were the collective voice of thousands of Chinese at that time.
Nara Shigezo admired the Chinese soldier, and soon the other Japanese soldiers gathered around, and instead of shooting at the Sichuan soldier, they watched the soldier quietly.
Nara Shigezo continued to question the soldier at this time, and the Sichuan soldier said his age and identity in turn. It turned out that this was a seventeen-year-old boy who had voluntarily joined the army before he was a minor, which had to move the Japanese soldiers present.
To go to the battlefield at such a young age with a gun is indeed incredible to the Japanese soldiers. Soon after Hisa's questioning, he found the Sichuan soldier wearing a pair of straw shoes, which had long been in tatters after the battle, but to Nara's delight, he found a new pair of shoes from the soldier's arms, which aroused his curiosity.
The Japanese lieutenant calmly asked the Sichuan soldiers why they didn't wear new shoes to fight instead of worn out old shoes. I saw the soldier say with his last strength that these old shoes were worn after the victory of the War of Resistance.
Just one sentence caused a huge shock to all the Japanese soldiers present. The War of Resistance was still in a state of stalemate, and it was still unknown whether it would win or lose, and this Sichuan soldier was so optimistic, which greatly touched The Japanese soldiers such as Nara Shigezo.
Just imagine, such an optimistic and heroic soldier, which commander was not moved, Nara Shigezo finally shed tears, and then he ordered the Japanese soldiers to bury the Sichuan warrior and his comrades-
[Reference: Sichuan Army in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression]