In early 2012, Chen Kailing, who lives in Tongshan County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, found a local newspaper. He took out a black-and-white photograph from 74 years ago and asked for help in his search.
The girl in the photo looks like an eighteen-year-old girl, a melon face, childish, she is Chen Kailing's grandmother met a female soldier during the Battle of Taierzhuang.
According to Chen Kailing's grandmother, the female soldier stoned a Japanese officer to death in order to save the company commander. Some Japanese people "shot black guns" at her back. On her deathbed, she left behind a black-and-white photograph, a family letter and two oceans. She said that she was a native of Hunan, carrying her parents out to join the army, and the suicide note was written early in the morning. When the family sees the letter, they can know life and death, and they feel very honored to fight and sacrifice for the country.
Chen Kailing's grandmother, tearfully accepted the suicide note and photo of the female warrior, and always wanted to find an opportunity to send it to her hometown. Unfortunately, due to traffic disruptions and changes in household registration, it has not been able to achieve its wishes. In 2012, Chen Kailing finally found the file of the female warrior with the help of relevant departments. That's when I knew,
This heroine in the Battle of Taierzhuang is really named Liu Shouwei.
Liu Shouwei was born in Hunan to a large family surnamed Liu. At the end of the 1920s, he was a senior in Hunan Daotian Middle School. Just after attending the "Nurse Training Course", the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out. So she withdrew from school without her parents and threw her pen into the pen. After 74 years, her family was visited, and her father was long gone. His brother died in Taiwan, with no descendants.
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My sister, whose whereabouts are also unknown in the 1970s.
Finally, at the strong request of the Liu clan, the relevant authorities agreed to move her remains back to her hometown for burial. And set up a monument for her, so that the heroine can sleep in her hometown!
First, the first year of high school women went to the battlefield
After Liu Shouwei's death in 1938, Chen Kailing's grandmother and villagers wanted to take her body to a safe place to bury. But the Japanese were nearby, and there was no way but to bury her bones in the barren mountains.
Later, too much time passed, and the handwriting on the suicide note became blurred and illegible. I don't know who her last name is, but it becomes almost impossible to find her hometown.
Before 2012, the Chen family did not think that Liu Shouwei was still a large family's thousands of gold.
Liu Shouwei was in the first year of high school in the local area.
There was no need to venture to the front-line battlefield. But
Not knowing why, she quietly withdrew from school without her family and classmates.
All the way to
In 2012, when a reporter from a newspaper found her classmates at Zhounan Girls' High School in Changsha, some people were surprised and said, "Why did she quit school?" ”
Later, some people said that at that time, Ding Ling organized a group of female middle school students in Changsha to work as nurses on the front line, and there were a total of twenty or thirty of them. At first, this group of medical personnel was incorporated into the 22nd Army and went to Shanghai to participate in the Battle of Songhu. Later, he returned to Hunan, transferred to Lunan, and went to Taierzhuang in 1938.
Liu Shouwei's unit was the 50th Division of the 22nd Army, and the last battle he participated in was extremely fierce. In the end of the bloody battle, sixty or seventy senior officers and medical personnel of the 22nd Army were killed, and only the commander and staff officer survived!
Most of them were recruits, and Liu Shouwei had only been in the Women's Service Corps for a year. Later, Taierzhuang won a great victory, but many soldiers buried their bones in the wilderness in the harsh combat environment, and it was too late to leave their names. If it were not for the insistence of Chen Kailing and his grandmother, Liu Shouwei would have become an unsung hero.
Second, the bloody battle in Songhu and Taierzhuang
In August 1937, during the Battle of Songhu, Liu Shouwei went to Shanghai with the Women's Service Corps, and the battle was particularly fierce. The Chinese army sent a total of more than 800,000 troops, and due to command mistakes and disparities in equipment strength, it finally lost 300,000 people directly! Bai Chongxi took the most elite unit of the Gui clan, the "Hundred Days March", and rushed to Shanghai to support. I don't want to spend only one day and be beaten to the point where the whole army was destroyed.
At that time, it was the critical juncture of the Chinese nation's critical survival, and the claim that the Chinese army could not withstand a blow from Japan was very popular. The capitulation faction headed by Wang Jingwei preached the "theory of national subjugation" in the newspapers every day, and the morale of all the members was seriously depressed. Chiang Kai-shek, fearing that the main force would be completely annihilated, hurriedly ordered a major retreat, leaving only the lone army fighting in the Sihang warehouse.
Later, the story of the "Eight Hundred Heroes" became popular throughout China, and the famous poet Gui Taosheng wrote the "Song of the Eight Hundred Heroes" and found a musician Xia Zhiqiu to compose a good song and sing it around, in order to inspire the determination of the military and the people of the whole country to resist Japan.
At the end of December of that year, the first version of the film "Eight Hundred Heroes" had been filmed and released, and Liu Shouwei must have known about this movie.
One detail of the film is that Xie Jinyuan asked the lone soldier to write a suicide note. Later, during the Battle of Taierzhuang, many soldiers wrote suicide notes early in the morning.
According to the veterans who survived that year, the equipment gap when fighting the Japanese was amazing, and they basically had four people to exchange for a Japanese life.
In the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Nationalist army sent 290,000 troops against 50,000 Japanese troops. In the end, it was only in the case of accurate espionage that the great victory was achieved.
Liu Shouwei was just an ordinary eighteen-year-old female high school student who had never been on the battlefield before. However, at the critical juncture of the country and the nation, in the face of the japanese war offensive of destruction and decay, he resolutely disregarded life and death and rushed to the front.
After the company commander was injured, Liu Shouwei was rescuing him. Unexpectedly, a Japanese officer suddenly raised his saber to the company commander and ordered the killer. Liu Shouwei couldn't bear it anymore, picked up a stone and smashed the Japanese officer into the brain plasma splash, and finally was killed by the little devil.
In 2012, when Chen Kailing found Liu Shouwei's hometown, he heard that there was no one in the Liu family.
Her brother went to Taiwan before liberation. speculate
The reason why Liu Shouwei chose to go to the front line in the first place was most likely because her brother also became a soldier in the morning. Unfortunately, his brother did not know it, and his sister had died at the age of eighteen.
Now Liu Shouwei's brother has passed away, and the whereabouts of his only sister are unknown. Seeing that the Liu family was gone, the villagers could not bear to let the heroine's bones be buried in the barren hills, and resolutely requested that her bones be moved back to Liu Family Village. And to create a statue for her, to educate future generations with her deeds.
epilogue
Liu Shouwei was loyal to the country, and the eighteen-year-old Fanghua's blood was sprinkled on the battlefield. After his death, he buried his bones and was an unsung hero for 74 years.
Chen Kailing and his grandmother are also sentient and righteous people, and it also took them 74 years to find Liu Shouwei's hometown.
What makes people sigh is that Liu Shouwei's brother died in Taiwan, his sister's whereabouts are unknown, and Liu Shi was actually extinct.
Don't forget the past, the teacher of the future.
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, let the blood and tears of these heroes educate our descendants. National shame can not be forgotten, the alarm bell is always ringing!