How big was the role of the Sichuan Army during the War of Resistance? Sixty years after the end of the war, look at what The Japanese veterans who visited China have to say
In 2001, a Japanese veteran came to Chengdu, his name was Shioya Baofang. Inside the Anti-Japanese War Memorial, veterans paid the highest level of guilt to those who died. Veteran Shioya Baofang is in his eighties, he is stumbling when he walks, but he insists on coming to China to repent. This move has made many Chinese feel relieved. However, some people also feel strange that the Japanese army did not invade Sichuan during the War of Resistance, so why did the veteran Shioya Baofang come to Chengdu, Sichuan?
In 1939, Shiotani was conscripted by the Japanese army, and as a high school student who had just graduated, he went to the battlefield. Shioya was soon brainwashed by the militaristic ideas of the Japanese army, and in order to repay the emperor, Shioya and japanese soldiers began to fight with Chinese soldiers. Two years later, Shioya Baofang was sent to the Shandong battlefield, and his enemy was the Chinese Sichuan Army. At that time, the Japanese officers were quite contemptuous of the Sichuan soldiers, believing that the Sichuan army was backward in equipment and particularly inferior in combat effectiveness.
However, when the two sides fought, the Japanese army felt the horror of the Sichuan army. The Sichuan army was numerous, and they were often entangled with the Japanese army in hundreds of thousands. Although the combat ability of the Sichuan Army is not high, the Sichuan Army has an extremely tenacious will to fight. On the battlefield, the Sichuan army often fought until the last soldier. In order to resist the advance of the Japanese army, they could even fight for several days and nights without eating or drinking. On the battlefield of Shandong, the Japanese suffered heavy losses, and most of the heavy troops were ambushed by the Sichuan army. After the frontal encounter, the Japanese did not take advantage.
Subsequently, with the help of the Chengdu Municipal Government, Shioya Baofang visited several surviving soldiers of the Anti-Japanese War Sichuan Army. Now that the war is over for 60 years, the veterans of the War of Resistance no longer think about the past, but Shioya Baofang insists on bowing and apologizing. Later, they recalled the fighting together. Many media heard about it, and they rushed to interview it. Facing the camera, Shiotani is full of tears, he said that he is a war criminal, and he has regretted his mistakes all his life. Although Chinese forgive him, his conscience still blames himself every day. In fact, Shioya Baofang also admired the Sichuan Army. He believes that the soldiers of the Sichuan Army are tenacious and indomitable, and the Sichuan Army has made great contributions to the Chinese War of Resistance. If it were not for the millions of Sichuan troops to participate in the resistance one after another, the Japanese army would not have been defeated.
Conclusion: During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Sichuan Army belonged to the miscellaneous troops, and they were not favored by Chiang Kai-shek. However, it is such a poorly equipped army that they have made their own name. On the contrary, Chiang Kai-shek was afraid of his head and tail, and he did not bring out his troops to participate in the war. This is the real coward. Today, many martyrs' cemeteries have been built throughout Sichuan, remembering the heroic deeds of their ancestors and deeply remembering the martyrs. The spirit of the Sichuan Army is immortal.