No river, no army!
But it's not just a sentence, it's because
3.5 million
The Sichuan army fought desperately.
In the 8-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, 640,000 people were killed on the battlefield, of which 263991 were killed, 356267 wounded, and 26,025 were missing. In the Chinese anti-Japanese army,
One out of every 5 people is the Sichuan Army, which is the origin of the non-Sichuan army
。
Before the War of Resistance Against Japan
Before the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Sichuan Army was considered the worst army.
The War of Resistance was insufficient, and it was the Sichuan Army that disturbed the people
In the warlord melee that lasted for more than 20 years, although the number of various units of the Sichuan Army was large, the discipline was not very good, and the combat effectiveness was not very low, and the Sichuan Army was also called by the world
Smoking guns and rifles are both "two-gunners".
And it was such a team that was as weak as a chicken in the civil war, but it came out of the mountains like a fierce tiger during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
After the War of Resistance Against Japan
In 1937, the Japanese army plotted the Lugou Bridge Incident, and a full-scale invasion of China broke out.
Sichuan was the rear area of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and during the entire War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army never set foot in Sichuan. It was such a peach blossom source that could avoid war, but it stopped the civil war at the first time, and all the warlords united to the outside world.
Because they know: the world rises and falls, and the pirate is responsible!
Liu Xiang, chairman of Sichuan Province of the Republic of China, who was the first in the country to call the National Government, said:
The warlords of Sichuan were willing to abandon all previous suspicions and unite to resist the Japanese. Sichuan can also mobilize 300,000 troops and 5 million zhuangding to supply tens of millions of stones of grain to show its determination to resist Japan.
Then Liu Xiang called the whole country:
The Sichuan sons and daughters want to use the blood of the Japanese Kou to wash away the shame of the Sichuan Army's civil war!
Conscription then began, and those sons and daughters in Sichuan who were previously reluctant to participate in the warlord struggle signed up to join the army.
However, when Liu Xiang prepared everything, the Nationalist government actually told him: The government is not responsible for this operation!
Got it upon enquiry"
The province is self-financing
"Four cold words.
Despite this, Liu Xiang still expressed his resolute resistance to Japan. He took out all his assets himself, and all the generals helped him. Not only that, when I heard that someone took the lead in resisting Japan, the people of Sichuan had money to donate money and no money to the donors, countless enthusiastic sons and daughters joined the army at their own expense to resist Japan, and even beggars donated money for their own meals.
Liu Xiang saw what the power of the people was this time! He also saw the people's determination to resist Japan. The people all know that in order to resist Japan, why did the soldiers retreat?
The generals of the Sichuan Army were completely twisted into a rope, with only two purposes:
Anti-Japanese! Salvation!
Liu Xiang called the whole country again:
Today's battle is a war for the whole nation, and the war is still full of vitality, and the Chinese nation has reached the final juncture today, and the only way to survive is the War of Resistance.
On September 5, 1937, the battle flag of the people and the sea of people in Chengdu Shaocheng Park flew.
This trip is determined to shame the country and win glory for the nation, and if it is not successful, it will become a benevolent person, lose the land and never return, and vow not to return to Sichuan!
The boy is determined to go out of the pass, not to destroy the slave vows not to return, bury the bones of the mulberry land, life is full of green mountains!
Tens of thousands of people in Shaocheng Park burst into tears, this is the Sichuan Army!
At the age of 72, Gao Shangqi mobilized 3 of his 4 sons to join the army to resist Japan, leaving only the old third Takamitsu To do a small business at home to maintain the life of a family of six.
The scene when the "model father" Wang Zhicheng sent his son Wang Jiantang was even more tear-inducing, and what he gave to his son was actually a "death" flag! He wrote a big "dead" word in the middle of the white cloth flag, and on the left side of the flag he wrote: "
The country is in trouble, and the Japanese are vicious. The rise and fall of the country, the piaf has a share. I wanted to serve, but I was too old. Fortunately, I have it, and I consciously ask for help. Give a flag and carry it with you at all times. Wipe blood during injuries and wrap yourself after death. Go forward and don't forget your duty!
"
The first batch of 150,000 Sichuan troops rushed to the anti-Japanese front, and the first battle they participated in was the fierce Battle of Songhu, a beggar army wearing straw shoes and thin clothes, with a passion for blood, rushed to the battlefield of the front line against Japan, and the Battle of Songhu was a hard-hitting battle.
In one sentence to describe the Battle of Songhu,
Going up to a division lasts for two days at most, and coming down is less than a regiment
。 With superior equipment, the Japanese army almost wiped out the elite troops of the Nationalist army.
The Sichuan army also suffered heavy losses, but it still fought to the death, and this team with poor equipment and low combat effectiveness impressed other units.
Yang Sen led the 20th Army and the Japanese army back and forth in Chen Jiaxing, the position repeatedly changed hands, the Equipment of the Sichuan Army was already poor, and when there was no ammunition in the back, it could only carry out a white-knife battle with the Japanese army, and it was hard to withstand the enemy's artillery fire, pick up a large knife and cut at the head of the devil, the main force of the 20th Army, the 26th Division. The whole division had 5,000 men, and only less than 600 were left at the last moment of the bloody battle, still stubbornly holding the position.
On the Battlefield of North China, Deng Xihou, a general of the Sichuan Army, led the 22nd Group Army over the Ba Mountains and crossed the Qin Mountains to the North China Battlefield. However, when Yan Xishan saw The Chuan Army in the thin shirt of the straw shoes, he said directly:
The War of Resistance is not enough to disturb the people!
He demanded that the Sichuan army withdraw from its defensive zone, and the Sichuan army endured humiliation and participated in the first large-scale battle between China and Japan in north China, the Battle of Taiyuan. In the subsequent battles of Niangziguan and Xinkou, there were also a large number of Sichuan troops.
However, the Battle of Taiyuan ended in China's defeat. At this time, the frontal battlefield of the Battle of Songhu was not the opponent of the Japanese army after all.
Nanjing Massacre
On November 8, 1937, Chiang Kai-shek ordered a full retreat, and four days later Shanghai was completely lost and occupied by the Japanese, and then they attacked Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China.
Rao Guohua led the 23rd Army to garrison the first line of Guangde Si'an, but the troops were insufficient, only the 145th Division of the 144th Division, the vanguard, arrived in time, and the commander of the 144th Division, Guo Xunqi, personally came to the front line to command the operation. The enemy of the 145th Division was an elite Japanese force of 5,000 men, with more than 30 tanks and armored vehicles and more than 20 aircraft. With such a disparity in equipment, the 145th Division's positions were destroyed and suffered heavy casualties. Three days later, the devils attacked the town, and the reinforcements could not organize a strong counterattack, Si'an finally fell, Rao Guohua was surrounded by the Japanese army in the cross shop stronghold, after writing a desperate letter to the commander General Liu Xiang, he raised his gun and killed himself, and died, and soon after Nanjing fell.
Tang Shengzhi issued the order to break through and retreat, Nanjing completely fell, the losses of the Japanese army in the Songhu battlefield were also very large, and the Japanese army created a terrible Nanjing Massacre, killing and racing, adultery and plunder.
During the Defense of Nanjing, Liu Xiang, the pillar of the Sichuan Army, fell and was taken to the hospital due to stomach diseases.
On January 21, 1938, Liu Xiang, the king of Sichuan, died of illness, and he left a will before his death:
The War of Resistance was unswerving until death, that is, the enemy army did not withdraw from the border for a day, and the Sichuan army vowed not to return to its hometown for a day!
The Sichuan army was more determined to resist the war and kill the enemy, but after Liu Xiang's death, the situation of the Sichuan army was even more difficult. After the main force of the Sichuan army left Sichuan, Chiang Kai-shek was already eager to move Sichuan, the country of Heavenly Capital, and at this time, the battlefield in North China was in a hurry, so he was not happy that the Sichuan army would return to Sichuan like this.
Can Yan Xishan a sentence:
Insufficient anti-Japanese resistance, more than enough to disturb the people!
Directly rejected the Sichuan Army.
And Cheng Qian's pressure at this time was very small, and he said directly: The team that even Yan Xishan did not want must be very bad.
The Sichuan army, which was full of enthusiasm to fight the war, was met with such a cold reception, and the Sichuan army was already a little disheartened.
At this time, Li Zongren appeared, who said:
As long as you can fight the small Japanese troops, even the worst ones are good troops!
Li Zongren not only accepted the Sichuan army, but also distributed weapons to the Sichuan army that they had never wanted, and since the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese invaders tried to open the Jinpu Railway, so the attack focused on Xuzhou, and Fuji County was a gate of Xuzhou.
Li Zongren gave this task to his subordinate Sichuan army, and Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division, went to Fujian County, and before the 122nd Division set off, the military and the people sent each other by the road, which was something that the Sichuan army never expected, and Li Zongren was also in the team of sending them, this scene made the Sichuan army have high morale, and the Sichuan army drove to Fuji County to block the Japanese army.
The Battle of Fujin County was the Battle of Nirvana for the Sichuan Army. After arriving in Fuji County, the Sichuan army took the lead in launching a surprise attack on the Japanese army while deploying defenses, and braved the snowy night to launch an offensive against Japan.
However, when the elite of the Japanese army launched a general attack on Fujian County under the cover of tanks and aircraft, the sichuan army's defense line was lost, this was the first large-scale battle since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the number of Japanese troops exceeded the Number of Chinese troops, division commander Wang Mingzhang ordered that the last drop of blood be shed at the end of the vine county, the sichuan army outside the city position began to fight with the Japanese army, the Sichuan army's stubborn will to resist, the glue of the battle, let the Japanese army for the first time began to throw rat traps, but in the face of the Japanese army several times stronger than their own side, the battle lasted for three days and three nights The 122nd Division suffered heavy losses and reinforcements have not been heard from so far.
Then the remaining fighters began to fight for their own battles, fighting with the Japanese army until the last drop of blood, until the afternoon of the 18th, the commander of the 122nd Division, Wang Mingzhang, left the last bullet to himself, since Wang Mingzhang and more than 3,000 officers and soldiers all died, the gunfire stopped, and the entire division of the 122nd Division was martyred.
Tengxian defense war without a prisoner, the entire Tengxian county was a scorched earth, the number of Japanese casualties was as high as 2,000 people, although the Tengxian defense battle failed, but the Chinese soldiers' backbone and blood, but also for the great victory of Taierzhuang to create favorable conditions.
After the war, Li Zongren tearfully commented on the Sichuan Army:
If there is no hardship of Teng County, there will be a great victory in Taierzhuang, the result of the Battle of Taierzhuang, and the cause of the martyrs of Shiteng County!
Chairman Mao, who was far away in Yan'an, also commented:
Fighting to defend an isolated city and treating death as a homecoming is the true color of a revolutionary soldier, determined to annihilate a strong enemy, martyr the country with his body, and win glory for the Chinese nation!
Although Wang Mingzhang's Sichuan army died, the entire Sichuan army was like a rebirth from the fire, the rotten troops became iron-blooded divisions, and countless warm-blooded men and sons in Sichuan were held, and this time they were ordered to go out of Sichuan to resist Japan, determined to go to the former enemy to fight for the survival of the nation, and to fight for the glorious war of resistance for Sichuan, that is, the enemy army did not withdraw from the border for a day, and the Sichuan army vowed not to return to its hometown for a day, and joined the battlefield one after another, and more and more Sichuan troops on the anti-Japanese battlefield were involved in the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Zaoyi, and the Three Battles of Changsha, and every major battle had the participation of at least one group army of the Sichuan Army.
By August 15, 1945, when Japan surrendered unconditionally, during the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Sichuan, which the Japanese army had never set foot in, had 6 group armies, 2 armies and 1 independent brigade, a total of 3.5 million Sichuan troops out of Sichuan to resist the war, accounting for about one-fifth of the total number of troops sent out of the country to resist the war, and the casualties were as high as 640,000.