For a long time, we have been accustomed to calling the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression the "Eight-Year War of Resistance," from the July 7 Incident in 1937 to the announcement of Japan's surrender on August 15, 1945.
However, starting in 2017, the Ministry of Education clearly stipulated that the war of resistance against Chinese should begin with the September 18 Incident in 1931, which lasted for a total of 14 years.
In the six years from 1931 to 1937, the anti-war activities of the Chinese were mainly active in the northeast, and they endured the harsh living environment and persisted in the War of Resistance for 14 years under the unfavorable situation of almost no external support and lack of follow-up at home, reflecting the indomitable will of the Chinese.
Due to the continuous sweeping of the Japanese army, coupled with the extremely harsh living environment, the scale of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army continued to shrink, especially in the period when Germany launched the invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany constantly urged the Japanese army to launch an all-round attack on the Soviet Union, and the international community generally believed that Japan, which has always hated the Soviet Union, will certainly cooperate with the German army and attack the Soviet Union on both the east and the west.
Britain and the United States also believed the same thing, thus losing their vigilance against the possibility of Japan's invasion of the south, which was exactly in the hearts of the Japanese.
In order to further confuse the world, in 1940, Japan increased the number of Kwantung Army to 850,000, and constantly stepped up military exercises on the Sino-Soviet border, and at the same time, it also intensified the encirclement and suppression of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army.
In this situation, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army was facing the danger of total annihilation, in order to preserve the living forces, but also at the request of the Soviet Union, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army gathered the remnants, under the siege and interception of the Japanese army, crossed the Ussuri River in Heilongjiang on the Sino-Soviet border, retreated to the Territory of the Soviet Union, rested and stood by.
The Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, which retreated to the Soviet Union, had less than 1,200 people, and many of them were still female soldiers, who were originally the families and female dependents of the officers and men of the Anti-Japanese Coalition, and many of their husbands had died, and they resolutely dragged their weak bodies, took their husbands' guns, and continued to perform the duties of a soldier.
The Soviets attached great importance to this indomitable unit, knowing that the Japanese army had always been a formidable enemy to them, and that the struggle against this strong enemy, which was very foreign to the Soviet Army, necessitated the use of the Chinese Anti-Allied Forces, who were familiar with it and hated it, and who were eager to die with it.
With the help and arming of the Soviet Union, this anti-Japanese coalition army was incorporated into the Soviet military system in the Far East, known as the 88th Independent Brigade in the Far East, commonly known as the "Chinese Brigade", and the brigade commander was the famous Zhou Baozhong.
Although the number of independent brigades is small and there are many female soldiers, they are regarded by the Soviet Union as "special forces" that can take on special tasks, so they do not hesitate to make great efforts to train, and everyone in the team members must learn to master the use of various weapons and blasting, and they must also learn to swim and ski, and what can better reflect the magical mission of this team is that all team members must learn to parachute and send reports.
(Photo: Zhou Baozhong in the front row, third from right)
These skills are not only to be mastered by male soldiers, but also by female soldiers, and some surviving female soldiers can also show everyone their fierce killing skills in the past, such as the sentries who quietly approached the enemy from behind, raising daggers with both hands, and stabbing the neck vertebrae of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army did not even say a word, and fell to the ground and died.
The most important task of these team members is not to kill the enemy like ordinary soldiers, but to secretly infiltrate the northeast, disguise themselves as ordinary people of various identities, reconnoiter the deployment of the Japanese army in the northeast, city defense, fortresses and other military transportation facilities, and make intelligence preparations for the future great counteroffensive of the Soviet army.
At that time, the Japanese Kwantung Army was unable to defend against these people, often sneaked in, and even slept in nightmares, which showed the deterrent power of this special force against the Japanese army!
In 1945, when the Soviet Army launched a full-scale attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army, most of these people participated in the battle, and many of them died in honor in this land, merging with the northeast land and surviving forever.