The Chinese nation is a nation that has suffered a lot, suffering from 14 years of Japanese aggression in modern times, during which countless patriotic heroes have emerged, who have defended their homeland in their own way, and now these veterans of the War of Resistance are gradually withering away.
Today I introduce a veteran of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but what happened to him makes people feel deeply helpless, this veteran is called Hao Zhiquan, he is a native of Taoyang Village, Yushe County, Jinzhong County, Shanxi, he was 90 years old when the incident happened, but he still thinks clearly and has clear ears and eyes.
Hao Zhiquan's memory is also very good, he still remembers the past events of more than 70 years ago, according to Hao Zhiquan, he joined the Eighth Route Army in 1944, when he was only 16 years old, in the face of the burning and looting of the Japanese, he was determined to resist and resolutely chose to join the Eighth Route Army to resist Japan.
He was assigned to the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division, and he always kept the unit number in mind, and then he was transferred to the independent battalion in Yushe County, and the so-called "independent battalion" was actually an expanded unit, which was different from the regular unit, Hao Zhiquan said, and the commander of the independent battalion at that time was called Hao Sancheng.
In Hao Zhiquan's memory, they followed the battalion commander to fight the devils, the battalion commander had a very good set of fighting devils, the troops continued to grow and develop, and later their battalion also participated in the Shangdang Campaign at the beginning of the Liberation War, which was a counterattack against the Kuomintang at the beginning of the victory of the War of Resistance.
At that time, Yan Xishan in Shanxi was not at ease with the Eighth Route Army, and suddenly launched an attack on the Eighth Route Army, and our army annihilated the troops of 11 divisions of the Jin Sui Army in the Shangdang Campaign, which was a great victory, and after that, Hao Zhiquan also participated in the Battle of Taiyuan, and he was lucky that he survived both major battles.
After the founding of New China, Hao Zhiquan chose to retire and return to his hometown, and in 1955, he was assigned to work in a timber company in Yuci, where he worked for 5 years, and then chose to return to his hometown to cultivate land, and since then he has planted land for a lifetime, until he can't move.
Locals know that he is a veteran of the anti-Japanese war, once the staff of the county museum found him and asked him to help provide some anti-war materials, Hao Zhiquan donated his photo with Hao Sancheng battalion commander to the museum free of charge, Hao Sancheng battalion commander is a well-known hero of the anti-war war in the local area.
The photograph that Hao Zhiquan handed over to the museum was a photo of him with the battalion commander Hao Sancheng when he was a guard for the battalion commander, and this photo is now well preserved in the museum, but his identity documents, especially those that prove that he is a veteran of the War of Resistance, have been lost.
It was because he moved many times during the period, these paper documents were lost, in this case, the local civil affairs bureau could not verify that he had been a soldier, Hao Zhiquan said that he did not want to cause trouble to the country in his later years, but hoped to prove that he was a soldier in his lifetime.