During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Sichuan Army was the most admirable army in the anti-Japanese army. 3 million Sichuan troops went out to resist The Japanese, less than one-tenth of the final returnees, and more than 2 million Sichuan troops died on the front line of anti-Japanese resistance.
Today, more than 70 years after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, very few sichuan troops have survived and survived to this day, so the state and all sectors of society have taken care of these veterans who have made outstanding contributions to the anti-Japanese resistance.
But in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, there is such a hundred-year-old old Sichuan Army, who participated in many famous battles on the anti-Japanese battlefield, and finally injured and retired from the army. However, on the day of the centenary birthday, it received countless debt collections from online lending platforms, and even some online lending platforms even threatened to come to the door to force debts.
A centenarian with limited food and clothing will certainly not owe this huge debt, and the son of the old man who owes the huge debt to the online lending platform is the old man. Thinking of his son, who had disappeared without a trace in order to avoid debts, the old man's tears could no longer stop falling. The old man lived a frank and frank life all his life, and he also resolutely stepped onto the front line of the anti-Japanese resistance at the most difficult time in China, and only retreated to the rear after being seriously injured. I didn't expect to end up so miserable all my life.
The tearful photos of the hundred-year-old veteran facing the camera quickly attracted the attention of all walks of life, and the People's Daily also published an article criticizing these online lending platforms by name. What is the identity of this centenarian named Su Guozhang? Why did his son owe hundreds of thousands of dollars on the online platform? What is the final outcome of the matter? Today, Xiaobian will take you to detail the beginning and end of this event.
No river, no army
In the battlefield of the War of Resistance Against Japan, there is a saying circulating among the Kuomintang troops that there is no Sichuan army without Sichuan, which means that there are Sichuan soldiers in basically every unit. According to unofficial statistics, in the eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Sichuan had a total of more than 3 million soldiers, and less than one-tenth survived after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
The Sichuan Army was despised by the Japanese Army as a miscellaneous army, and it was not a military unit in the Kuomintang system, but the combat effectiveness and sacrifice displayed by the Sichuan Army in the anti-Japanese battlefield made all the anti-Japanese troops admire it. They were armed with the most backward equipment, but they were blocking the well-equipped Japanese army. The 26th Division of the 43rd Army of the Sichuan Army fought for seven days and seven nights at the Battle of Songhu to repel countless Japanese attacks, and the entire division finally fought less than 600 people with 4,000 men, and the casualty rate reached one-eighth.
The Chinese Expeditionary Force fought in Sichuan with more than 400,000 men, of which the Sichuan army occupied nearly 40%, and in the end less than 200,000 returned home, and a large part of the casualties were Sichuan troops. In addition, in the Battle of Nanjing, the Sichuan Army was present in the Battle of Yuzhong, and they have always been the main troops active in the front line of the War of Resistance.
Part of the reason why the Sichuan Army had so many people participating in the War of Resistance Against Japan was because Sichuan, located in the southwest rear of China, had not been disturbed by the war, and a large number of refugees who were disturbed by the war had fled here, providing the Sichuan Army with enough troops. In addition, there are many patriotic generals in the Sichuan Army, when Liu Xiang, the top general of the Sichuan Army, once shouted out the heroic slogan that the enemy army will not retreat for a day, and the Sichuan army will not return to Sichuan for a day, although his purpose is not so simple, but he has indeed made his own contribution to the anti-Japanese front.
Su Guozhang's family was full of loyal martyrs
Su Guozhang was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, a relatively wealthy family, Su Guozhang's six brothers and sisters he is the youngest, he has three older brothers and two older sisters. Originally, the family lived a relatively happy life, and the family did some small business in Chengdu and did not worry about eating and wearing. But with the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, all this changed.
The three older brothers followed the Sichuan army to the battlefield, while Su Guozhang stayed because he was too young. When the brothers were leaving, they took Su Guozhang's hand and said, "Fourth brother, we are all gone, you must take good care of your parents." At that time, Su Guozhang was only 17 years old and looked at his three brothers who walked out of Chengdu with the torrent of troops, and he did not know that this difference might be forever.
The battlefield is cruel, the three brothers went to the battlefield not long before bad news came, the eldest brother followed the Sichuan army to resist the Japanese army in the Battle of Songhu, and finally died without retreating and heroically sacrificed. Subsequently, as the pace of Japanese aggression continued to move south, Chengdu became no longer safe, and in 1938, Japanese aircraft bombed Chengdu, in which Su Guozhang's home and home sales were all huge losses. Su Guozhang's parents died one after another due to mental exhaustion, and Su Guozhang's two sisters also married into wives.
Su Guozhang's family, which suddenly lost its happiness, became alone. Although Su Guozhang's parents did not die in the Japanese bombing, they had an inseparable relationship with the Japanese, and Su Guozhang's brother died on the battlefield, so he was full of hatred for the Japanese invaders, and in the case of homelessness, Su Guozhang signed up to join the army and wanted to avenge his parents and brother on the battlefield.
The sichuan army's poor equipment is called the miscellaneous army, mainly because most of the Sichuan army has only undergone a short training and went to the battlefield with a rifle and a pair of straw shoes, but there is no breed in the Sichuan army, and everyone is highly motivated before going to the battlefield, and they are willing to sacrifice for their homeland.
But before Su Guozhang could finish his recruit training, bad news came from home again, and Su Guozhang's third brother was sacrificed on the battlefield in Shandong. By this time, two of the four boys in Su Guozhang's family had sacrificed their lives for the country, and his third brother was also on the front line of the anti-Japanese resistance at this time, and Su Guozhang, as the youngest boy in the family, was also about to go to the front line.
This may be the portrayal of an ordinary family in Sichuan during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and it is also a portrayal of countless families throughout China, and the sons and daughters of countless families went to the battlefield to throw their heads and spill their blood, just to sacrifice their own small families to save the motherland.
He was seriously injured in the Battle of Hengyang and hospitalized, becoming the only seedling in the family
After Su Guozhang became the Sichuan Army, a battle was fought that caught up with the defense of Changsha, and the Chinese and Japanese armies fought a protracted battle on the battlefield of Changsha. The war lasted for two years and four months, although changsha eventually fell into the hands of the enemy, but it provided time for the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Changsha Guards dragged the main force of the Japanese army on the battlefield, and annihilated a large number of Japanese troops, laying the foundation for the final victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
The fierceness of the Changsha campaign is also obvious to all, Su Guozhang in the Changsha defense war from a veteran who just went to the battlefield, slowly grew into a soldier who has experienced hundreds of battles, on the battlefield he watched one comrade after another die in front of him, full of confusion about the future of the war.
In his leisure time, Su Guozhang often missed his second brother, he was the only one of the three brothers who was still alive, and he did not know whether in such a tragic battlefield, there would be bad news one day. Changsha eventually fell, and Su Guozhang retreated to the rear with a large army, and the time came to 1944, when the Hengyang Campaign, the most important battle in the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, broke out.
The Battle of Hengyang was one of the few battles in the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in which the Chinese army fought less and fought more, and it was also a battle in which the Japanese army fought against the Chinese army with several times the strength of the japanese army on the anti-Japanese battlefield, and the number of casualties was much higher than that of the Chinese army. But it also has to be said that the Battle of Hengyang was a fierce battle, when the Tenth Army guarding Hengyang had only 16,000 people, but in Hengyang, a land of bullets, it dragged down the Japanese army of 110,000 troops, and caused more than 80,000 casualties to the Japanese army, and the lone army guarded Hengyang for 47 days, creating a miracle in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
At that time, the Hengyang defenders of Hengyang had been holding firm and had not seen the arrival of reinforcements, and all sectors of society were also indignant about Chiang Kai-shek's refusal to support. In fact, at that time, the Nationalist Army sent support troops, but at that time, Hengyang was all surrounded by Japanese troops, and the Japanese army was well-equipped and had air support from the air force, and it was difficult for the defenders to break through the Japanese encirclement and support the city of Hengyang.
At that time, Su Guozhang was among the support troops, and the support army was frantically blocked when it attacked the Japanese position, and finally could only rely on the charge to break through the enemy's defense line, Su Guozhang was in the charging team at that time, and when he approached the Japanese position, in the white blade battle of the bayonet, Su Guozhang was stabbed in the abdomen by the enemy and fainted.
Later, it was his comrades-in-arms who carried him back to the rear hospital, and because of the timely treatment, Su Guozhang did not worry about his life. However, the defense of Hengyang ended in failure, and the city's 16,000 defenders were captured without waiting for the rescue bombs to run out, leaving fewer than 1,000 people in the city.
Later, Su Guozhang learned that his second brother also participated in the Battle of Hengyang, but the second brother was not as lucky as he was, and he died in this fierce defense battle. At this point, only he was the only one of the four sons of Su Guozhang's family to survive, and at this time, Su Guozhang was seriously injured and transported to Chongqing with the wounded, and later forced to leave the army because of his wounds.
Hometown things are not human, Su Guozhang became a doctor in anonymity
In 1945, the Anti-Japanese War was completely victorious, and Su Guozhang, as the Sichuan army that had once left Sichuan, also fulfilled the sentence that the enemy would not retreat and would not return to Sichuan, and after the Japanese army signed the surrender instrument, Su Guozhang returned to his hometown of Chengdu. However, after this, it was found that the hometown was no longer the original appearance, and the Japanese army had sent fighter planes to bomb Chengdu many times during the six years from 1938 to 1944, and now Chengdu is full of ruins and walls, and his two sisters have not been heard from since.
After that, Su Guozhang finally stopped in Liangshan Leibo County, Su Guozhang's parents were in the medical business, and the family could be said to have been practicing medicine for generations, so Su Guozhang learned medical skills at home and also had a unique job of acupuncture. At this time, Liangshan was very poor and the entire county basically had no doctors, so Su Guozhang stayed here and opened a clinic to relieve the pain of the local people.
It didn't take long for Su Guozhang to become a well-known doctor here, and countless incurable diseases were treated from his hands, but because he had retired from the battlefield and had not found his relatives in Chengdu, he could only live in anonymity.
In this way, Su Guozhang lived in Liangshan for decades, relying on his own medical skills to mix with food and clothing, but for so many years Su Guozhang came alone, until 1980, when he met a doctor in the clinic, he met a woman named Hu Peishi. Hu Peishi alone with five children to live a difficult life, Su Guozhang did not abandon the child drag very firmly with Hu Peishi came together, after marriage the two gave birth to a child, that is, the beginning of the story borrowed usury son Su Yong.
Su Guozhang had not felt the warmth of home for half his life until he met Hu Peishi, and now sixty-year-old Su Guozhang was even more pleased with his old age.
The son owed a huge amount of money but disappeared
After Su Guozhang married his wife, the two went to his wife's hometown of Deyang, where Su Guozhang reopened a clinic, at this time Su Guozhang has been practicing medicine for more than forty years to treat countless diseases, even if they change places, they quickly made their own reputations, and the patients came to see an endless stream.
Later, after his son grew up slowly, Su Guozhang would take his son with him every time he went to the clinic, hoping that after his son learned his own medical skills, he would not say that he could at least mix food and clothing without worry. Originally, Su Guozhang thought that he might spend this life in obscurity, but the visit of a strange patient in 2012 shattered this tranquility. The patient is a staff member of the Sichuan Army Support Regiment, a veteran of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which is an unofficial public welfare organization.
This organization was spontaneously formed by some patriots, these years helped a lot of old Sichuan army soldiers who had shed blood on the anti-Japanese battlefield, when this staff member learned the identity of Su Guozhang, immediately through the organization to run around and finally let the old man hang for many years of identity problems to be solved, not only for the old man to leave the hukou but also to get an ID card, with the help of volunteers Su Guozhang also found the once lost relatives. The deeds of the four brothers and three brothers of the Su Guozhang family who died one of them in the anti-Japanese battlefield and retired from the army have also attracted the attention of the public.
After confessing his ancestors and returning to the sect, Su Guozhang was bent on returning to his hometown, so the old man sold the house and took Su Yong back to success, and used the money in his hand to marry his son and have children. Originally, the old man Su Guozhang should have come here to raise his life, but he did not expect his son to make this usury incident. The old man had no idea how his son owed a loan shark, and there was no sign of it before his son ran away.
The son was very calm before going out, and he also took out 100 yuan to pay the gas bill to the nanny at home, and he couldn't see anything unusual. So how did Su Yong owe this huge amount of nearly 300,000 yuan? According to Su Yong's wife, Su Yong owed so much money because his friend borrowed money from him, when the other party promised to return the money within two months, Su Yong lent his 200,000 savings plus 300,000 from the online loan platform to this friend.
But after borrowing money, this friend disappeared, and Su Yong has been trying to return the 300,000 platform loans for nearly a year, but finally he is overwhelmed and runs away from home. Su Yong is gone, but the remaining wife and nearly 100-year-old father cope with the debt collection of this online loan platform, and the wife washes her face with tears all day.
Later, the staff of the Sichuan Army Support Regiment, a veteran of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, learned of Su Guozhang's difficulties, and they raised some donations for the old man's living expenses, and also published a search notice in the newspaper, hoping that the old man's son could go home after seeing the newspaper.
Later, this matter gradually attracted widespread attention from all walks of life, and the People's Daily also issued a special article criticizing these online lending platforms. Although the incident has been well known, the old man's son has not returned home, and no one knows where he is now.
The hundred-year-old anti-Japanese veteran encountered such a rugged situation in his later years has also made countless people sigh, hoping that the old man's son will return home as soon as possible, and also hope that this matter can be calmed down as soon as possible.