What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Sima Qian once had a cloud: "Chang Sifen disregarded his body and martyred the country's urgency." In the face of national crisis, it is most emblematic of a person's blood and sense of responsibility, some people put personal interests first, and some people are willing to sacrifice their lives to protect our motherland.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was such a large family full of loyal martyrs, who originally lived a solid and peaceful life, but when facing the invaders, they had no nostalgia for wealth and nobility, bravely threw themselves into the battlefield, and made outstanding contributions to the struggle against the invaders.
This big son is the Dai clan of Jilin Dunhua, their family name is Dai Hongchang, the original name is Dai Wanling, born in 1871, the ancestral home of Shandong. During the Qianlong period, the Dai family fled to Dunhua, and then took root and developed here, and by the time Dai Hongchang became the head of the family, the Dai family had developed into the richest family in Dunhua at that time.
The Dai family has a total of more than 50 people, Dai Hongchang himself has 6 sons, and when the gunfire of the War of Resistance first began, he was already an old man over half a hundred years old. At that time, Dai Hongchang and the patriotic general Wang Delin were brothers, and in 1932, Wang Delin established the "Chinese National Salvation Army", Dai Hongchang did not hesitate, and his family joined Wang Delin's ranks, and donated a lot of money and materials.
Seeing that this large landlord had defected to Wang Delin, the young and middle-aged people in the village were even more aroused by a bloody nature, and under the mobilization of Dai Hongchang, more than 200 young and middle-aged people in the village joined the anti-Japanese team.
Although he had lived a good life in the past, Dai Hongchang, a fifty-year-old man, was not afraid on the battlefield and participated in several battles in Dongning, Ning'an and other places. His six sons, wives, grandchildren all contributed their strength to the War of Resistance, and even sacrificed their precious lives.
In 1937, Dai Hongchang was arrested by the enemy in Dunhua, and then heroically sacrificed, the third son Dai Keji also sacrificed his young life to rescue his father; the eldest son, Dai Keqin, died for the country in the Battle of Dongning; the second son, Dai Kejian, died in 1939; the fourth son, Dai Kezhi, was killed in battle in 1935; the fifth son, Dai Keyuan, was an intelligence officer, who was discovered by the Japanese army during the mission and unfortunately died in the line of duty.
The youngest son, Dai Kezheng, is the most famous, he went to the battlefield at the age of 16, and because of his outstanding military achievements, he served as the commander of the 9th Regiment of the 3rd Division of the 5th Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army. In 1938, the 23-year-old Dai Kezheng fought with the enemy while covering the retreat of the troops, and eventually died with 14 comrades-in-arms, and the troops successfully withdrew. His son was only 4 years old at the time.
In the War of Resistance Against Japan, almost all the adult men of the Dai family sacrificed their lives for the country, and the women of the Dai family were also awe-inspiring. Under the circumstances of the successive sacrifices of her husband and son, the Dai family's mother, Kou Shi, took up the heavy burden strongly, and as a logistician, led the female relatives of the family to sew military uniforms for the army, take care of the wounded, and prepare military supplies, they knew that they could not fall down at this time, nor could they let their relatives sacrifice in vain!
''Whoever lives since ancient times has not died, keep Dan in his heart.'' The spirit of the Dai Hongchang family in sacrificing their egos for the country and fighting bravely can be sung and wept, which shows that their loyal, upright, and excellent family style is awe-inspiring. Later, Dai Hongchang was posthumously regarded as a revolutionary martyr, and his son was also selected into the list of famous heroes and heroes, although the hero died, but the spirit will always exist, the story of the Dai family's loyal martyrs will always be worth remembering, and it will always be the most glorious page in the War of Resistance.