The Battle of Taierzhuang was an indelible stroke in the fourteen-year history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. On March 16, 1938, the Japanese bombing planes that had been bombing for several days had not yet been withdrawn, and the artillery was ready. Soon after, the Japanese army and the Chinese defenders stationed in Tengzhou began a fierce exchange of fire.
The Japanese artillery fire was fierce, and the Chinese defenders fought bravely. The entire battle was fought for 1 month, and every day was a fierce battle, with 290,000 Chinese troops and 50,000 Japanese troops, and more than 70,000 casualties on both sides. In recorded history, the role of the Battle of Taierzhuang was of great significance in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, before the victory of the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Chinese people won not many victories and their scale was limited, but the Battle of Taierzhuang was different and had an extremely important position in the entire Battle of Xuzhou. Although both sides suffered heavy casualties, the Battle of Taierzhuang can definitely be said to be the biggest victory achieved since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression at that time.
Such battles are often accompanied by another word: tragic.
In the Battle of Taierzhuang, both the Nationalist army and the Japanese army had a considerable number of generals killed in battle, which are all historical records, true, but still lack temperature. What can explain the tragedy of a battle is often the story that is not recorded in the history books, but exists in the folk.
To the east of Chentang Village, Liuxin Town, Jiangsu Province, there is a mass burial post where many martyrs who died in the Battle of Taierzhuang are buried. Before the Battle of Taierzhuang was officially launched, the people of the troops were already making preparations on the front line, and as soon as the war broke out, the village chief had already made ideological preparations for the villagers.
As long as the war in Taierzhuang began, the village, as the rear, was bound to receive a large number of wounded who had retired from the front, so every family had to be prepared to resist the Japanese together. Of course, the wounded will also be sacrificed, and the mass burial post outside the village will naturally increase a lot of graves with the arrival of the wounded.
Soon after the fighting on the front line began, the village received wounded, many of whom were young, especially a female soldier in a new uniform, who looked at most sixteen or seventeen years old.
The female soldier is said to be a field ambulance worker. After the battle began, one of the company commanders of the Nationalist army was wounded, and the Japanese on the opposite side were getting closer and closer, and the female soldiers looked at the company commander and rushed up regardless of life and death, but before they could get close to the company commander, the Japanese rushed up and stabbed the company commander to death with bayonets.
After all, the female soldiers are only in their 10s, and their hearts are full of enthusiasm, coupled with various experiences in the battlefield, when they see this scene in front of them, they finally can no longer bear the anger in their hearts. She picked up a large stone large enough to kill people from the ground, and with all her strength, ran to the Japanese and smashed it hard.
The Japanese who was hit by the female soldiers was killed on the spot and fell to the ground. The other Japanese did not react yet, and when they saw the female soldier, they immediately shot her, and the female soldier was also injured and fell to the ground. The shot hit the female soldier in the left chest, and it was reasonable to say that there was almost no chance of survival, and the Japanese saw it and left.
When the female soldiers woke up again, they were already in the village where the wounded were being taken in.
At the time, she was dying. When she returned to the light, she took a letter, a photo, and two pieces of ocean to the compatriot who rescued her, and asked the villager to help send it back to her hometown. After speaking, the female soldier fell into a coma again. But this time, she closed her eyes forever.
The woman did not say her identity or name, and after being buried in the mass grave by the villagers, only an unnamed tombstone was left.
And the fellow who listened to her last words, an old man in the village, never forgot her. The old man had read the letter she left behind, and the letter did not mention the specific name and identity, but only wrote some simple experiences and regrets in the female soldier's heart.
The female soldier wrote in the letter that in the early years, she had secretly left her family to leave school and participate in the anti-Japanese resistance, which was an act of filial piety for her parents, and she was very sorry. However, since ancient loyalty and filial piety are difficult to complete, I hope that her family will believe in her, the War of Resistance will be victorious, and after victory, she will definitely return to her hometown, even if she has been sacrificed, she will return to her hometown.
This matter has also become a knot in the old man's heart. Until the victory of the War of Resistance, the victory of the War of Liberation, and the founding of New China, the old man has always remembered. Before the old man died, he wished his descendants a last word, and also talked about this matter, hoping that future generations could find the female soldier's family and help the female soldier's soul return to her hometown.
In 2004, with the help of various media, many people were involved in the search for the female soldier's family, but due to too little information, no progress was made. After several investigations, only to find that she had studied in middle school in Changsha, so the Hunan Revolutionary Cemetery moved her grave from the mass grave to the cemetery.
But even so, it is still an unnamed tombstone with no relatives.
It wasn't until 2005 that things took a new look. A man named Wang Xinghua contacted the team looking for the female soldier's family, saying that the female soldier resembled a student who entered the school in 1935 and was named Liu Shouwen. After some difficult investigation, people found the school materials that had been sealed for decades, and confirmed that the female soldier was indeed Liu Shouwen.
The last thing was to find the female soldier's family.
According to Liu Shouwen's enrollment information and the memories of her old classmates, it can basically be determined that it is a person in the Hanshou area. After some investigation again, there was finally a little eyebrow: the Locals of Hanshou said that once upon a time there was a large family surnamed Liu, and the daughter of the family had no news after going to Changsha to study.
All the clues point in the same direction. Sure enough, when the descendants of the Liu family were found, the descendants of the Liu family determined that Liu Shouwen was the person of their own family. He also turned out the family tree of the Liu family, although there is no name of Liu Shouwen on the family tree, but according to him, in the entire Liu surname of Hanshou, only their family has the character "Shou".
Soon after, the name of "Liu Shouwen" was finally engraved on the tombstone, and since then there have been descendants to pay tribute. From sacrifice to burial in Hunan, this nameless "lone soul wild ghost" wandered outside for 66 years before he was able to return to his hometown.
These stories are the real flesh and blood of the history of the Chinese revolution and the true flesh and blood of the Chinese nation's spirit.