"Dead people can never sleep, and living people need courage even more." Endless valleys, endless mountains, ragged clothes, they are tired, they know what despair is, and they know what hope is. Go on, live! It is the desire of their hearts. ”
This is a true depiction of the Chinese Expeditionary Force that retreated into Savage Mountain in 1942. So what really happened in 1942?
Why did the Chinese expeditionary force enter Savage Mountain?
Today we will follow Liu Guiying, the only surviving female soldier in the Savage Mountain, along the expedition road covered with white bones, into the iron-blooded life of the fallen expeditionary soldiers.
1. Go to Burma to support the Allied Forces in the Battle of Yunnan and Burma
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army not only implemented a policy of burning and looting on the mainland, but also made use of their powerful land, sea and air strength.
The communication fortresses leading from the mainland to the outside were blocked, so the mainland could not receive allied relief supplies for us, and could only work at the border.
In order to improve this situation, the Nationalist government mobilized more than 200,000 migrant workers and built the Yunnan Burma Highway in a hurry of nine months, which gave foreign military aid a way to enter China.
Burma Highway
However, such a situation can only be said to be short-lived.
In 1941, in order to seize air supremacy in the Pacific And demoralize the United States, Japan planned a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
After the success of the sneak attack, japan began to invade Southeast Asia on a large scale. Same
The Japanese invaded Burma, starting with the Burma Road the following year, all the way to the Burmese capital, and the newly built lifeline of China was cut off.
In order to ensure the timely transmission of materials and retake the Burma Road from the Japanese army, the Nationalist government selected 100,000 elite soldiers to form the Chinese Expeditionary Force and went to Burma to fight, in addition to the United Kingdom and the United States and other allied countries also invested a lot of troops.
Liu Guiying
It was one of the 100,000 expeditionary troops. She was born at a time of war and chaos,
Her parents were unable to raise her parents, and her adoptive parents died one after another, and she could be said to have grown up in a poor female dean since she was a child.
Although many misfortunes have happened to Xiao Guiying, she has not been afraid, has not flinched, and has worked hard to study in the poor women's home.
Later, he was admitted to the famous Xiangya Hospital at that time with the first place and studied nursing.
When Liu Guiying graduated, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had already broken out in an all-round way, and the struggle between the whole country and Japan was in full swing and in full swing. Seeing that the country was so badly abused by the Japanese,
Liu Guiying resolutely signed up for the army and became a field nurse. When the expeditionary force was formed, she followed as a field nurse.
When it first arrived in Burma, the expeditionary force performed well, resisting the pressure of the Japanese divisions and regiments, and eliminating thousands of Japanese troops in one go, successfully suppressing the arrogance of the Japanese army.
But later, because there was no tacit understanding with the Allies, there were also obstacles to communication.
The Fifth Army led by Du Yuming and Liao Yaoxiang's newly formed 22nd Division failed one after another, and hundreds of thousands of expeditionary troops suffered heavy casualties.
Du Yuming
In desperation, Du Yuming could only choose to retreat, but in order to eliminate all the expeditionary forces, the Japanese army blew up the route back to China, and now there were only two roads in front of Du Yuming's eyes:
Travel to India or cross the Savage Mountains.
Just when Du Yuming was wavering, Chiang Kai-shek sent an order not to go to India, and Du Yuming, as a sign of loyalty, led the remaining 30,000 people to retreat into the Savage Mountain.
Second, forced to retreat and enter the Savage Mountain
In this way, with many seriously injured soldiers and five female soldiers including Liu Guiying, the nurse squad,
Break into this "man-eating" cave.
Located at the junction of China and Myanmar, in the far north of Myanmar, Savage Mountain is a primeval forest that has never been developed. The whole mountain is densely packed with woods, and there are countless swamps under the woods, in addition to the rampant beasts of prey, mosquitoes, and miasma.
Born in the south, Liu Guiying had seen many, many lush forests, and she didn't think at first how terrible the Savage Mountain was. But everything that happened afterwards shocked her. Later, she recalled,
Entering Savage Mountain, the most terrifying thing is not the pursuit of the Japanese army, but the unknown terror in the trees.
Liu Guiying and four other female soldiers who entered the Savage Mountain took on the task of treating the wounded and walked at the end of the line. However, due to the fear and high mental tension all day, he rushed for several days in a row, and the old wounds did not heal and added new wounds.
The soldiers who had been rushing for a long time had blisters on their feet, Liu Guiying and four other nurses
He Shan, Sun Yuexia, Wang Ping, Xiao Chun
Along the way, they supported each other, encouraged each other, endured foot pain along the way, helped treat the wounded, and kept up with the large troops.
But the forest environment is humid, the feet have been in such an environment for a long time, there is no anti-inflammatory, can not be treated in time, grinding blisters will often be scratched by the branches and stones on the ground. Blisters fester as soon as they are broken.
Their medical squad, because they had to take care of many wounded, saw that they were getting farther and farther away from the large troops, and some people proposed to leave the wounded to follow the large troops. But Liu Guiying refused to do so, and finally left in the midst of the others' hard pulling.
Third, the mountain of savages in crisis
The warriors crossed the swamp in the jungle and waded through the river, which was very difficult. What's more difficult is that although they have a map, they are still blinded by the lush trees and lost in the jungle.
After a month, their grain reserves were gone, and Du Yuming could only use the horses he had pulled to fill his hunger. However, this was also a palliative rather than a cure, and after a few days, they had no food to eat. The warriors could only feed themselves with belts and tree roots.
Hungry, the warriors will also look for food in the jungle, but because they don't know what to eat and what not to eat,
There are also many people who have lost their lives due to food poisoning along the way.
Of course, the most terrifying thing they face is the poisonous insects in the jungle. According to Liu Guiying's recollection,
The ants on the Burmese side grow so big that they can suck up a lot of blood from people at once. Not only that, there are many large mosquitoes in the rainforest, but the big mosquitoes themselves are not terrible, the terrible thing is that they are very toxic, they can not get good treatment after being bitten, and they can only die regrettably in the end.
The reckless mountains of Savage Mountain looked beautiful and peaceful in the moonlight, but he devoured the lives of all the few Chinese expeditionary forces, how many unfulfilled wishes, how many resentful souls, forever remained in this exotic jungle, and it continued.
On this day, everyone hurried forward in the woods, because the light was very dark, and in order to prevent accidents, everyone was close together. But even so, it is still invincible
。 Xiao Chun, who was walking in front, suddenly shouted, and Liu Guiying's heart mentioned the throat eye in an instant.
She hurriedly stepped forward to check, it turned out that she had been bitten by a poisonous snake, and the drugs in the medicine box had been used up long ago, liu Guiying did not delay the time, and directly sucked out the snake venom with her mouth. Another nurse, He Shan, from a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, found herbs to apply to Xiao Chun's wounds.
Although he saved his life under the help of everyone, Xiao Chun still did not escape the doom of death. A few days after being bitten by a snake, Xiao Chun was once again bitten by a hungry wolf. In the end, although the hungry wolf was beaten away, Xiao Chun's life also remained in this "green devil's cave".
The deeper you go into the jungle, the worse the environment becomes, and from time to time you will encounter miasma, which also makes the already weak warriors fall down a large piece, and even Du Yuming is infected.
One night, another nurse, Sun Yuexia, had a high fever, a constant cough, and diarrhea for the next few days. Liu Guiying knew that she was suffering from malaria, so he would take the initiative to take care of her.
But Sun Yuexia knew her own situation and knew the current situation, so in order not to drag her comrades-in-arms, she sneaked out one morning to find a cliff and jumped down when everyone was not paying attention. By the time everyone found out, it was too late.
Not long after Sun Yuexia's accident, Wang Ping, who had always been active, also contracted malaria
In order not to delay everyone's trip, she let her comrades go first, and then she arrived. But no one is assured, Wang Ping's boyfriend Qian Yiping must be with her.
Liu Guiying was also helpless when he saw the situation, so he let Qian Yiping stay and take care of Wang Ping, and he followed his comrades-in-arms first. But she has been waiting for Wang Ping, and she has not seen the two return to the team for a long time, and her heart is very uneasy.
Finally, after many inquiries, it was learned that the two people had died.
All the way to the present, the original 30,000 troops are now less than 10,000 left, and only Liu Guiying and He Shan are left in the nurse class.
The two female soldiers can only take care of each other now, Liu Guiying knew that she was not in good health when she first met He Shan, but she hoped to take He Shan out of this mountain together.
Later, Liu Guiying met her boyfriend who was left behind, and the two took turns to take care of He Shan. But misfortune happened to this young girl.
In the process of descending the mountain, He Shan accidentally rolled down the hillside, and his body was blurred with blood and flesh, and he could no longer move forward.
But none of this shook Liu Guiying's determination to take her out, and she and her boyfriend helped He Shan to go forward.
However, He Shan could not escape death in the end, and ate poisonous weeds in an accident and died.
Fourth, Liu Guiying, who escaped by chance
Now there is only one female soldier left, Liu Guiying, and the successive deaths of her friends make her very sad, but it also strengthens her determination to go out, and she wants to live with the hope of her friends.
So she and her boyfriend went on.
Everywhere along the way were the bodies of comrades who had lost their temperature. They walked along the corpses on the road
If you are hungry, you will find wild fruits and wild vegetables, if you have no wild fruits and wild vegetables, you will nibble on moss, and when you are thirsty, you will drink rain and dew.
Finally, one day, they saw the tent tied up on the side of the road, and asked others to know that this was the supply station of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
It turned out that the Chinese Allies learned that the expeditionary force was trapped in Savage Mountain, and sent planes to airdrop a lot of supplies, such as water, cans, medicines, maps, etc., as long as they found this place, it meant being saved.
Liu Guiying and her boyfriend, led by the camp guards, took a shower and changed their clothes, and then ate a fragrant meal, which was too precious for them.
After a few days of rest, Liu Guiying flew with her boyfriend and the remaining surviving soldiers to the far-reaching training base in Ramga.
As the only female soldier who came out of Savage Mountain, Liu Guiying was widely concerned.
In 1945, the Chinese Expeditionary Force defeated the Japanese army in Burma, and Liu Guiying was able to return to his long-lost homeland.
After returning to China, the War of Resistance Against Japan was also over, and Liu Guiying also thought that he could live a happy life.
But what she didn't expect was that her boyfriend, who had experienced life and death with her, would abandon her.
Liu Guiying, who first learned of this news, was like a walking dead every day, and even thought about suicide, but thinking of the experiences of Savage Mountain, she got back on her feet.
Today, Liu Guiying has been retired for many years, and she will use the money she has saved to support poor students, and she will also contribute her strength to society and the motherland. In 2005, the old man also received a government medal.
The spirit of the elderly Liu Guiying is also worthy of our eternal learning, we must maintain a positive and upward mental state, perseverance, self-improvement, after being hit by difficulties, we must bravely stand up and continue to move forward, to be an undefeated "small strong".
It can be said that the war brought many disasters to people, and the Second World War was a reflection of the sins of mankind itself, although in the end mankind defeated its own sins, but it also paid an extremely heavy price, and also left posterity with a bitterness and experience that must always be remembered.