Mr. Lu Xun once said: "Since ancient times, we have had people who have buried their heads in hard work, there are people who have worked hard, there are people who have asked for the people's lives, and there are people who have sacrificed their lives to seek the law..." Indeed, whenever China is in crisis, there are always countless famous or unsung heroes who stand up and fight to the end for their homeland and the nation, even if they are weak like women and children, they often have the courage not to lose to the prime-age men. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a woman wrote such a poem with her death against the enemy:
"Rotten flesh and white bones fill the battlefield, and the lonely city of ten thousand deaths has not been willing to surrender." Send a message to pedestrians to cover their noses, and the living are not as good as the dead. ”
Similarly, Xia Wanchun, born in 1631, is also such a heroic figure, he "knew the Five Classics at the age of five, and could write poetry at the age of seven", at the age of 14, he joined the anti-Qing team, heroically killed the enemy, and finally defeated and captured, only 17 years old, can be described as a young hero, not to lose the legacy of the ancients, especially before his death, he angrily rebuked the traitor Hong Chengzuo, which was praised by future generations. He once wrote countless poems expressing his patriotism:
"I want to ascend to the heavens and the clouds, and I want to resist the wind and featherless han." I want to muddy the mountains, I want to wade into the river and worry about the cold weather. Qiong BenYu Rui Pei Shan Shan, Hui Huan Gui Ling Ling Hui Lan. How red orchids are in The Middle of the River, and the heavenly wind and the sun are twilight. The grass is full of joy, and the beauty is in the blue clouds. Yi Xuanxiu wore a jade crown, and Ming Heng hung down and took the six luans. It is difficult to go to the road of obedience, and the tears of acacia are light. The delicacy and wine cannot be eaten, and the Yaoqin is played in the wind. The wind is sharp and the strings are desperate, and the moon stars are sparsely dried. ”
The righteous spirit of a woman and the loyalty of a child are the most angry cry in the hearts of a nation, and also the toughest thing in the blood of Chinese, which is more ferocious than the atomic bomb and more important than any advanced weapon, because only with this spirit of fighting a decisive battle can we maintain our national dignity and national heritage under the wave of aggression in history, and ensure that our Chinese nation will never fall.
This spirit is in the same vein, it was in the Song Dynasty, it was also in the Ming Dynasty, even after more than 200 years of rule by the Qing Dynasty, in the era of poverty and weakness in the Republic of China, our national spirit is still solidified in the blood of the nation. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was such a group of orphans in Nanjing, who killed more than 2,000 Japanese puppet troops, the average age at the time of their sacrifice was only 16 years old, and only a black and white photo survived, but it caused countless Chinese people to shed tears...
Japan's coveting of China did not begin during the Qing Dynasty, but had deep historical "roots". There have been four wars between China and Japan in history, namely: the Battle of Baijiangkou in August 663, when China was the Tang Dynasty; the First War from 1592 to 1593 and the Second War from 1597 to 1598, which was the Ming Dynasty; and then the Sino-Japanese War and the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Therefore, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, although the Republic of China nominally unified the whole country, in fact, it was a state of warlord chaos at that time, and the Japanese once again remembered their "historical tradition". In 1931, Japan began to encroach on China, but after all, in the four wars in history, they only won one Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, and the impression of "heavenly dynasty power" still remained in the hearts of the Japanese, so they were very stable and gradually encroached at the beginning.
After the Wicker Lake incident, the Japanese felt that China at that time did not seem to have a strong counterattack against its own aggression, so they immediately broke out of their "monkey and crown" personality and began to march south in a crazy and stride. However, at that time, China did not want to fight back against Japan, but the internal chaos was too chaotic to fight with Japan, and Japan's all-out offensive made the danger of national subjugation deeply stimulated all aspects of China's domestic forces at that time.
Thus, a full-scale revolt broke out. At first, the Japanese, relying on their advanced weapons and surprise attacks, broke through to the south very quickly. North China was quickly taken by them, and then came to East China, South China, where the famous "Nanjing Massacre" occurred in history. The Japanese hoped to completely suppress the spirit of resistance of the Chinese people with brutal massacres.
But can the spirit of resistance Chinese be suppressed by force? From another point of view, if the Japanese had not taken cruel measures in their own way, perhaps there would have been many fewer opponents in the future, because Chinese still believed in "courtesy and exchange". However, it was precisely because of the violent acts of the Japanese that the weak and unarmed Chinese began a resolute counterattack, and even a group of orphans rose up to fight back and killed more than 200 Japanese puppet troops.
Around December 13, Nanjing fell, the Nanjing Massacre began, and people's revolt began. The people of Nanjing did not surrender obediently like in the TV series, and the place where they lived was also the place where Xia Wanchun fought, how could they surrender so easily? Even if the government of the Republic of China abandoned them, even if the regular army was defeated by the Japanese army, they did not willingly become slaves to the country.
They formed a variety of anti-Japanese armed forces, the most special of which was a unit called the Jinling Orphan Volunteer Army. Listening to the name, everyone knows that this must be a team of orphans. Indeed, the vast majority of the members of this contingent were anti-Japanese detachments spontaneously organized by orphans taken in local shelters, and the older children also participated in the Battle of Songhu and the Defense of Nanjing, such as Zhong Hua, the leader of the Orphan Volunteer Army.
The 18-year-old Zhong Hua was once driven by the Japanese to the mass grave in Shimonoseki because he resisted the Japanese army with the Nationalist army, and if it were not for the cover of his other classmate named Lei Yue, perhaps his life would have ended up. However, after escaping from the mass grave, he did not leave, he saw his brothers and sisters and thousands of compatriots killed by the Japanese, and he remembered that when he left, his friends said to him: We must avenge us!
After Zhong Hua left, he organized other local orphans and some children who had lost their families in the war, and they all had a bitter hatred for the enemy and joined the team of the "child king" who had fought the Japanese with real swords and guns. At first, they had no weapons, but had to raid enemy cars, motorcycles, burn enemy food, and warehouses. Although they were small in number, they were alert, intelligent, flexible, and bold, and they also made the Japanese very popular.
The real rise of the Orphan Volunteer Army was in 1938, when the Japanese built a special military warehouse at the foot of Beigu Mountain for a larger war, and surrounded it with layers of barbed wire. Zhong Hua and the others discovered this, and they cleverly thought of a way to rob the enemy of materials through authentic methods, and in one fell swoop they obtained a large amount of ammunition and equipment, and thus began their glorious time of galloping on the battlefield as children.
This black-and-white photograph is the only photo left by the orphan volunteers, and it can be seen that their faces are still very young, at most they are teenagers, but their fortifications are done in a similar way, their looks are focused, although the clothes on their bodies are torn, but the whole person shows an extraordinary heroic temperament. They knelt down and aimed into the distance, their eyes narrowed, and it was obvious that they were all battle-hardened battlefield gods.
It was with this spirit and will that they shot and killed the Japanese puppet army again and again. In order to fight for a long time, they also found a bunker near jinchuan gate, which contained tunnels leading to the outside of the city, which was their "base area", which can be said to be offensive and retreatable. They used this method to kill more than 200 Japanese puppet troops, causing the later Japanese to organize the "Secret Agent Headquarters No. 76", a traitorous organization, to kill them. They have died, but their spirits are still alive:
The country is broken and the family is scattered and everyone is fighting,
The child is weak and timid.
The sharpshooter was terrified,
Know that Huaxia can not be committed!