introduction:
"With history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall; with people as a mirror, we can see the gains and losses." This was the sentiment of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin after Wei Zheng's death. History has always been interpreted and studied by many people. However, if we simply explain history, understand history, do not remember history, and turn it into a driving force for progress, then it may go against the original intention of historiography.
After 1840, countless great powers entered China by means of cruelty and disdain, only to gain benefits and benefits on the land of China. And if we say that in these wars against foreign aggression, it is the War of Resistance Against Japan that has left us with the greatest trauma and memory. Some of the buildings left behind during the War of Resistance Against Japan, such as the Artillery Tower, have now become the residence of a family in Qingdao. And because the walls were so thick, it took 20 years to get heating.
Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan's comprehensive national strength has undergone tremendous changes. In fact, the difference between The time when Japan's national gate and China's national gate was opened was only a dozen years, and Japan was also opened by some Western countries by violent means, and once faced the danger of becoming a colony. At this time, some aspirants in Japan traveled to Europe and the United States, and eventually contributed to the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
The Meiji Restoration was a great success for Japan, which could not help but transform from a backward feudal state to a capitalist country in a short period of time, and its comprehensive national strength was greatly strengthened, and its military strength was gradually increased. At this time, Japan was not satisfied with the rise of its own national strength, but also pursued the rise of its international status, in an attempt to break away from Asia and enter Europe.
At the same time, At this time, Japan had the ambition and purpose of conquering the world, and the Japanese emperor issued the "Imperial Letter" in 1868, which expressed Japan's aggressive ambitions and plans for mainland countries. The Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Naval Battle of 1894 was actually a sign of the maturity of the Japanese mainland's plan. Moreover, the Sino-Japanese War was also a product and symbol of Japan's militarism.
Finally, after waiting for decades, Japan finally had the opportunity to exercise its plan to invade China. In 1931, most of the capitalist countries in the world were busy rectifying their domestic economies, and when they came out of the economic crisis, the Japanese government transferred domestic contradictions, launched the 918 Incident, and began to invade northeast China locally.
Of course, then, the Chinese nation does not agree that foreign invaders invade China's land and enslave Chinese people on Chinese soil. As a result, under the organization of the CCP and some patriots, a small part of the anti-Japanese forces were formed in the northeast region. Among them, the more famous one is the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, and Yang Jingyu and Zhao Yiman, who are well known to everyone, are members of the Anti-Japanese Coalition.
However, at this time, the Kuomintang government in China adopted a policy of taking care of the outside world before the interior, and not only adopted an attitude of inaction toward the Japanese occupation of the three eastern provinces, but even continued to increase its troops and encircle and suppress the Red Army and the Communists. At this time, the Party Central Committee, which was far away in Ruijin, also had to start an epic long march because of the Kuomintang's wanton encirclement and suppression.
Chairman Mao once said: "The people of all nationalities of the Chinese nation oppose the oppression of foreign nations and must use the means of resistance to lift this oppression." ”
At a time when the nation's survival is in danger, all members of the bloody Chinese nation are willing to fight with the enemy and jointly resist the invasion of foreign invaders.
Under the strong voice of the Chinese Communist Party and patriots, Chiang Kai-shek was mutinied by his own subordinates, placed under house arrest in Xi'an, and asked to cooperate with the Communists in resisting Japan. The CPC Central Committee took the overall situation into consideration and needed Chiang Kai-shek's consent to resist Japan and go to Xi'an for negotiations; since then, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, Japan has invaded China in an all-round way, and the anti-Japanese national united front in China has begun to be established.
At this time, the Red Army was also reorganized into the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and went to the battlefield behind the enemy to cooperate with the frontal battlefield to resist Japan. Faced with the situation that the Japanese army's combat weapons were well-equipped and well-trained, the Eighth Route Army adopted flexible combat methods such as guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare, and tunnel warfare, which brought a lot of trouble to the Japanese army.
So these Japanese troops built artillery towers on Chinese soil, which were generally built near the main traffic routes or in the hub area, and the thickness of such artillery towers was now impossible for people to see, and it was said that cannons could not necessarily penetrate. And the turret is usually easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is a headache.
In Qingdao, Shandong, in an ordinary alley, there is a small artillery tower left by the Japanese during the War of Resistance Against Japan. This turret has a history of more than 80 years, and it has long since faded its war function and become the residence of an ordinary family. The owner of this house is the 72-year-old Sun Congxiao family.
It is said that Sun Congxiao was able to live in this artillery tower, or by chance. Sun Congxiao's father was a former employee of the State Electricity Bureau, and with the establishment of a family with Sun Congxiao and his siblings, the residence became a problem. His father applied to the unit, but because the housing was tight at that time, Sun eventually lived in the turret from the wrong yin and yang.
After the 1990s, Qingdao began to heat, but the thickness of the walls of the turret even reached 72cm, and ordinary drill bits could not open a hole in the wall, let alone heat it. Later, in 2012, with the help of the government, the construction workers finally opened a hole in the wall and turned on the heating through the traces of the bullet hole.
epilogue:
Compared with many netizens, they are also curious about the feeling of living in the turret, after all, such an experience is still rare. However, in addition to seeing the curiosity of this incident, we should also see that the turret is ironclad evidence left by the Japanese invasion of China. Our new generation of Chinese youth should not forget the national shame, remember history, and revitalize China!