Looking back at the humiliating modern history of a hundred years ago, I can't help but think of Yue Fei's ManjiangHong: "Zhuangzhi is hungry for meat, and you can laugh about the blood of the Xiongnu."
The Chinese nation has been able to get to where it is today, and how many dangers it has experienced, and the most humiliating and tragic thing is China's modern history.
When the West experienced the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution, our country was closed to the country and the information was blocked, it was like fish on the chopping board, allowing people to slaughter.
In the face of the invasion and division of Chinese soil by various countries, Li Hongzhang once said: "China's eternal enemy is also little Japan!" "Japan's living space and living resources are very tight, so whenever possible, it will show its fangs of expansion, which is determined by its survival instincts."
Turbid wine does not sell the tears of sorrow to the country, and when it is saved, it should be a group of talents
On July 7, 1938, Japanese Squadron Leader Shimizu Yoshiro led the army to conduct a military exercise in the area north of the Lugou Bridge, but during the exercise, he falsely claimed that a soldier had left the team and disappeared, and asked to enter the city to search.
The intention of the Japanese army is like the heart of Sima Zhao, passers-by are well known, after being rejected by Ji Xingwen, commander of the 219th Regiment of the 37th Division of the Chinese Garrison, the Japanese army quickly surrounded, and the deputy commander of the 29th Army, Tai Dechun, after consultation with the Japanese side, felt that at the same time the two sides sent personnel to investigate.
Song Zheyuan, the commander of the Twenty-ninth Army, miscalculated Japan's ambitions to invade China, and he always wanted to preserve his strength to deal with other things, so he always tolerated the Japanese army.
This also led to further oppression by Japan. It was not until the commander of the Japanese garrison issued an ultimatum on the night of July 26 calling for the withdrawal of all Chinese troops from Peiping that Song Zheyuan realized that the Japanese army was going to occupy North China.
At that time, the Chinese was facing great pain, the invasion and division of China by various countries, the major warlords were independent and the equipment was disparity, and in the face of this situation, our nation was faced with two possibilities, one was that the whole nation disintegrated, and the other possibility was to unite as one and rise up to fight. Turbid wine does not sell the tears of worrying about the country, when saving should be out of the crowd, just the pain, can not save the country, "turbid wine does not sell the tears of worry about the country", that muddy spirits can relieve my worries about state affairs, throwing tears of youth, "when saving should be out of the crowd", the country's salvation plan depends on the collective wisdom and collective strength of all benevolent people. Our nation is fortunate that at this time there have been batches of enthusiastic sons and daughters who are willing to dedicate themselves.
Because of the error in estimating the situation, the Twenty-ninth Army was in a disadvantage in the battle against the Japanese army, and in order to retain effective combat effectiveness, Song Zheyuan, commander of the Twenty-ninth Army, ordered a retreat, and ordered his close associate Zhang Zizhong to stay in Beiping to cover the retreat.
Zhang Zizhong was not the main war faction, in order to cover the retreat of the Northwest Army, in order to avoid direct conflict with the Japanese army, he successively became the mayor of Tianjin And Beiping City, and then as the mayor of Tianjin, he negotiated with the Japanese invading army to delay the time, and has been maintaining a difficult peace, preserving the living forces for the later anti-Japanese resistance, and also delaying the withdrawal of the 29th Army.
After the Japanese army entered the city, he negotiated with the Japanese army, delayed time, persuaded the Japanese army to choose not to bomb Peiping City, did not settle in the army's commitment, and arranged for progressive people and the masses to withdraw from Beiping, and did their best to protect the lives and property of the masses.
His approach prevented Beijing and Tianjin from being slaughtered, but in the eyes of the people at that time, because he did not fight hard, he became a "traitor," "traitor," and "pro-Japanese faction," and the Nanjing government even dismissed him from his post and investigated him, and wanted to send him to a military court.
North China students even launched several collective movements, and once General Zhang was forced to hide in the toilet. At this time, the only people who still trusted him were Chiang Kai-shek, Song Zheyuan and others.
It was not until he returned to Chiang Kai-shek and obtained the military power that he proved himself by striking the Japanese army, but the Chinese people did not eat this set, and although the masses admitted that he fought very well, they did not recognize him as a national hero.
For the sake of the country, he endured humiliation and burden to make friends with the Japanese, but as a result, he was scolded as a traitor by the students. As a result, after Mr. Zhang Zizhong's death, the gang that had scolded him for being a traitor jumped out and said that he was a national hero.
Fight for 100,000 heads of blood, and you must save qiankun.
Many people believe that the reason why he struggled against the Japanese army was only to clear his name as a traitor.
He had to make a suicide charge in Linyi and northern Hubei again and again, until the battle of Xiangfan, General Zhang was given the opportunity, General Zhang could obviously retreat during the confrontation, or wait for reinforcements, but he took only two regiments to meet the heavy troops of the Japanese army.
He could also retreat when the situation was unfavorable, but he wanted to stay, and his purpose was to use his own death to clear the suspicions, fight for 100,000 heads of blood, and save Qiankun.
At the funeral of General Zhang, Chiang Kai-shek posthumously awarded him the rank of general of the army, only Zhang Zizhong was a lieutenant general plus the rank of general before his death, and was officially posthumously awarded the second rank of general, so general Zhang was the highest rank general sacrificed during the Chinese War of Resistance.
Zhang Zizhong was also the highest-ranking general in China who died. The Japanese army also said that for such a respectable person, his body should also be respected.
More Japanese soldiers and civilians recalled: "In the atmosphere at that time, it seemed that everyone was full of respect for the Chinese officer, I think it was probably the kind of spirit and courage he showed, and he died for his own country." ”
After the martyrdom of General Zhang Zizhong (1940.16.5), his body was under the control of the Japanese army (the Japanese army also wanted to hold the highest funeral for this opponent, calling him "the backbone of the Chinese nation"!). Huang Weigang of the 38th Division personally led the death squad with light machine guns to raid the pumpkin shop on the night of the 16th, the Japanese army stopped using aircraft bombing in order to prevent the damage to the body, and repeatedly sent a surprise death squad to snatch the body but did not succeed, the body was transported to the capital Chongqing at that time for burial, the Japanese aircraft flew over the sky 3 times, did not drop a bomb, but dropped white flowers.
After Zhang Zizhong's bones were transported back to the rear, after examination, he found eight wounds on his body, including five gunshot wounds, two shell wounds, and one bayonet wound.
This can't help but remind me of Li Yi'an's summer sentence: "Born as a master, dead as a ghost." "Zhang Zizhong really deserves to be called a human master and a ghost male." On November 16, 1940, General Zhang Zizhong was buried in Yutai Mountain, Chongqing, as a state funeral, and later, Feng Yuxiang planted plum blossoms next to Zhang Zizhong's tomb, and later renamed the mountain Plum Blossom Mountain.
For the sake of Yichang, the last country of China, the body was wrapped between the rivers and forests of Hubei Province. Endure humiliation and burdens all your life, and only seek one death. I believe that if he had lived a few more years, the Japanese might have gone back a few years earlier, and so would everyone in the country.
The Chinese people are demanding of heroes
Yuan Chonghuan was bitten to death by the people, Zhang Zizhong was forced to seek death by himself, and the people of the country could only look at him equally! In the face of the results of failure, there are always people who need to carry the pot.
The Chinese people like to follow the victors, and the losers all have to step on a foot to draw a clear line, just like Li Hongzhang, who actually wants a person to carry the humiliation of a country on his back, and in the context, the "Tianjin Treaty", "Maguan Treaty", "Xinugu Treaty" and so on that he signed seem to be caused by him, and it is because of him that China has fallen to this place.
In this impetuous age, those who question the sages of the previous generations without examination seem to be so innovative.
What I see is a person who has been working for the country to defend the country from beginning to end, and people who have worked hard for the country have ended up with such a verbal and pen-written end, hoping that when the country needs it, we can stand up, rather than hiding behind schadenfreude, we can't see and hear, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, today's years are quiet, all because they are carrying the weight forward in front of them and fighting in blood.
brief summary:
When we are constantly denying the sacrifices made for us by the martyrs before us without examining and studying carefully, can we still remember the painful understanding of the predecessors today?
The kind people and compatriots hope not to forget the pain and blood and tears of the predecessors, and it is precisely because of their weight that we can exchange for our current years.