Introduction: Hubei Expressway construction, after heavy rains, workers dug up 3,000 corpses, experts told a tragic history.
introduction
In the long river of history, soldiers have played an indispensable role in any country, they have calmed the chaos of war, defended the country, and saved the people from water and fire. But for them, winning a war does not bring them much reward, what they can always stick to is the belief when they are wearing war armor, that kind of sincere feelings for the country, Xu Xilin described this spirit in "Out of the Plug": "Only the battlefield is dead for the country, why should Ma Ge wrap the body back." ”
Anti-War soldiers
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In fact, if we talk about these histories that are far away from us, people may not have such deep feelings. When it comes to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression before the founding of New China, many people will actually feel a lot like me, and it is precisely because of the selfless dedication of those soldiers and soldiers that Chinese people can win this arduous war, just like Cao Song said in "Self-Hai Age": "By virtue of the words of the king, the marquis will be crowned with a thousand bones." "Every touching story tells us that without them, we would not be where we are today."
Piles of white bones
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In 2010, a section of the expressway in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei Province, was repaired and constructed, but a shocking thing happened to the ordinary construction work, after heavy rain, workers dug up 3,000 corpses, and experts told a tragic history after inspection.
It turned out that at that time in the construction section of the road actually excavated a large number of human bones, the department leader in charge of construction urgently contacted the local cultural relics department, after investigation and research, the truth also slowly surfaced, here is actually the burial place of the remains of anti-Japanese fighters, according to local literary and historical records, they belong to the Seventy-fifth Army of the Nationalist Army, and the remains of these soldiers have a total of 3,000 bodies, showing us that tragic history.
In 1940, the third year of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese began to use the advantages of the terrain in Jiangnan to block the Japanese offensive. However, due to the national conditions, there is a big gap between China and Japan in military equipment, and this is especially obvious in the navy, the Chinese side is completely unable to resist the attack of the Japanese combined warships, and most of the ports in the east have fallen, which also blocks the international military supply to China. Blocking sea transportation, the Japanese army aimed its spearhead at the land, the Japanese army bombed the Yunnan Burma Railway in China on the grounds that after the Guiyue Railway was abandoned, the Yunnan Burma Railway was overloaded, and at the same time, it pressed the British government to block the Burma Road, and for a time a large number of military reserves could not be transported to the first line of the war. Moreover, the Nationalist government at that time also faced another major problem: Yichang was captured by the Japanese army.
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This also starts from the important geographical location of Yichang, which is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the hub of the Three Gorges Waterway, located in the middle of Wuhan and Chongqing, and the breach of Yichang means that it is very easy for the Japanese army to attack both places, whether by water or from land. It can be said that Yichang has a very important strategic position, in order to block the japanese attack, the Nationalist army deployed a large number of military forces near Yichang at that time, and the fourth division of the Seventy-fifth Army mentioned above was also among them.
The predecessor of the Seventy-fifth Army was actually the Second Division of the Zhejiang Army among the five provinces of the United Army, in 1926, the Northern Expeditionary Army reorganized this unit, named the Twenty-sixth Army of the Nationalist Army, in 1928 it was renamed the Sixth Division, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, this unit increased the supply of personnel to form the Seventy-fifth Army, successively participated in the Battle of Luhu and the Battle of Taierzhuang, the fourth division at that time you were divided into the Seventy-fifth Army because of the Battle of Taierzhuang, in 1939 this unit ushered in another reorganization, Since then, its military prowess has been continuously demonstrated, and he can be seen in many famous battles.
In 1940, the Japanese army captured Yichang, in this battle the Japanese army also damaged most of the most, so they did not rush to the west, but chose to rectify in situ, but the fourth division stationed in the border defense line did not dare to slacken off, according to the "Yichang County Literature and History Data" record, the Japanese army after the capture of Yichang, and then launched an attack in its surrounding villages and towns, although the fourth division was stationed here, but failed to stop the pace of the Japanese attack, retreated to Xiaofeng Township according to the local easy to defend and difficult to attack the geographical location of the Japanese army. But then it was ultimately defeated, and the Fourth Division had to withdraw to Qili gorge.
In the winter of 1941, against the background of the defeat of the Second Battle of Changsha by the Japanese Army, the Fourth Division received orders from its superiors and launched a counterattack against the Japanese army, and this one also brought a lot of casualties to this unit, and even began hand-to-hand combat after the two sides ran out of ammunition, and more than 1,000 soldiers of the ten regiments of the Fourth Division were finally left with thirteen people, eight of whom were wounded.
Bones in a "mass grave"
Qili gorge has the advantages of being easy to defend and difficult to attack, but this has also become his fatal shortcoming, the Japanese army blocked the main road rear assistance is difficult to reach the hands of the soldiers, extremely lack of medicine. In order to resettle the dead soldiers, the division commander Fu Zhengmo bought thirty acres of land on the edge of the village to establish a field hospital, and at the same time, to resettle these remains, with the increasing number of casualties of soldiers, sometimes only dozens of people can be buried together, according to the recollections of surviving soldiers, at that time, the remains of the platoon leader above the level were equipped with a carved small stone plate, and the names of ordinary soldiers were written on the large stone stele. It was not until the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1945 that the Fourth Division withdrew, when there were already more than 3,000 names on the stele.
epilogue
If it were not for this high-speed construction, this history may never have been known. In fact, there are many more deeds like this, and it is difficult for us to imagine what kind of blood and tears these warriors have experienced for the entire Chinese nation, but we have felt the spirit of selfless dedication in them from the deeds of the whole country. Although their names are nowhere to be found, this painful history will be remembered by all of us forever.