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Since the Lugou Bridge Incident, more than 3.5 million Sichuan troops have gone out to Fight the War of Resistance. They fought in the north and south of the great river, participating in almost all the major battles of the War of Resistance, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed on the battlefield. The Sichuan Army is an extremely important part of the history of the Mainland War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, especially the Sichuan Army's feelings of home and country, which have become an invisible force of encouragement, encouraging groups of Sichuan Army officers and soldiers to go out to Sichuan to resist the War. From top to bottom, the officers and men unanimously believed that to go out of Sichuan to resist Japan was to fight
National battles.
The origin of "no river, no army":
In the eight years from 1937 to 1945, nearly 3.5 million Sichuan officers and soldiers in Sichuan stepped forward, with a total of 260,000 killed, more than 30,000 missing, and 340,000 wounded. Both the total number of soldiers and the total number of casualties accounted for 1/5 of the country's soldiers. Therefore, the saying that "no river is no army" became a popular phrase that praised the military and civilians in Sichuan at that time.
ChuanJun:
The so-called Sichuan Army refers to the army with Sichuan officers and soldiers as the main body or belonging to the Sichuan Provincial Appeasement Office system, which are the 22nd Group Army (20th Army), the 28th Group Army (23rd Army), the 29th Group Army (44th Army, 67th Army), the 30th Group Army (72nd Army, 78th Army), the 36th Group Army (47th Army), the 43rd Army (26th Division), the 88th Army (New 21st Division), the Independent 13th Brigade, and the 24th Army and 95th Army that remained in Sichuan and did not go to the front.
The "desperate spirit" of the Sichuan Army - to see the strong combat strength of the Sichuan Army
Sichuan army in the Battle of Taierzhuang:
In the Battle of Taierzhuang, the 22nd Group Army was ordered to hold TengXian and the acting commander of the 41st Army
Wang Mingzhang
Led more than 5,000 soldiers to hold the county town, knowing that the city will be broken under the cannon, the city will be destroyed, and knowing that it cannot be done and desperately do it.
He led the whole army to make an oath: "Born in Sichuan, die in Shandong!" ”
Wang Mingzhang ordered the four gates to be blocked to coexist and die with the city. Three days later, he fought fiercely with the enemy in the city, and the acting commander Wang Mingzhang was killed.
Soldiers of the Sichuan Army who fought with their bare hands:
At the end of the Battle of Xuzhou, 500 unarmed recruits of our 22nd Group Army were ordered to retreat westward, surrounded by Japanese cavalry on the way. The leading officers and men ran out of ammunition, and the whole battalion was captured by the enemy. The devils drove the captives down the embankment of the Yellow River, set up machine guns and prepared for massacre, and hundreds of officers and soldiers shouted "Fight!" "Rushing together towards the river embankment.
Many of our officers and men overturned the embankment under machine gun fire, twisted the devils with their fists, stones, and teeth, and they actually grabbed a few guns and rushed out of a bloody road!
During the breakthrough, Luo Jun and a dozen other people braved the enemy's firepower to successfully break through, and the rest of the soldiers were all sacrificed.
Commander of the theater of the first person of the Sichuan Army's War of Resistance: Liu Xiang
Liu Xiang, born on July 1, 1888, was a Sichuan warlord of the Republic of China, a first-class general of the National Revolutionary Army and the chairman of Sichuan Province.
Liu Xiang suffers from severe stomach ulcers and diabetes, which not only endangers his health, but even his life. Liu Xiang himself knew it. However, after the Lugou Bridge incident, he ran day and night for the War of Resistance, appealed, spared no effort, and even desperately led the troops to the front.
Liu Xiang's typical deeds: At the Nanjing National Defense Conference on August 7, 1937, he made a generous statement: "In the War of Resistance, Sichuan can send 300,000 troops; with a two-year period, Sichuan can raise 5 million troops and supply more than 10 million quintals of grain." These loud words were uttered by sick bodies who were supported to attend the meeting.
Even Liu Xiang left a will before his death
"The War of Resistance to the End has always been unswerving, that is, the enemy army will not withdraw from the border for a day, and the Sichuan army will not return to its hometown for a day!" ”
The discipline of the Sichuan Army, the relationship between the Sichuan Army and the people
Officers and men went out of Sichuan to resist the war, far away from their homeland, and emphasized the discipline of the masses as an important task of all departments. Some also modeled on the three major disciplines and eight precautions of the Eighth Route Army, such as Yang Sen's "four major disciplines and fourteen precautions."
Four disciplines
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First, resolve to resist Japan heroically, second, obey the orders of the commanders, third, do not want the people's things, and fourth, strengthen the national army group;
Fourteen points to note:
First, every person propaganda, second, talk kindly, third, cherish weapons, fourth, improper scattered soldiers, fifth, tidy station, sixth, fair trade, seven, borrowed goods to return, eight, compensation for damaged property, nine, do not, ten, far away from the car, eleven, do not prostitute or gamble, twelve, their own laundry, thirteen, wounded discipline, fourteen, wounded and handed over guns.
With such discipline, the Sichuan Army formed a very harmonious military-civilian relationship with the people stationed in the local area.
According to the "Historical Records of the Achievements of the Sichuan Army in the National War" published in 1940:
(The people of southern Anhui) saw that the Sichuan army treated them like brothers, bought things for a price, had a lot of money, borrowed things and returned them, spoke peacefully, and the common people knew that the Sichuan army was amiable, so they served the Sichuan army one after another.
(Lunan people) The Sichuan Army is so serious about military discipline and rules everywhere, so it is especially loved by the people. There was an endless stream of food, firewood, frostbite medicine and gloves.
The historical experience of the Sichuan Army
A very important reason for the strong combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army is the accumulation of combat experience, and the Japanese army is undoubtedly a strong army, fierce, cruel, well-equipped and well-trained, and even more with the experience and strategy of a hundred years of international warfare. Compared with this group of enemies armed to the teeth, the Sichuan Army can only be a simple paramilitary organization.
However, after fourteen years of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression by all the Chinese military and civilians, the Japanese finally bowed their heads, and the Sichuan Army was always an important member of the anti-Japanese camp, whether in the Kuomintang army or in our party's army, the stronger the Sichuan army became in the War, the more powerful it became in the Vietnam War.
The soldiers of the Sichuan Army learned every experience from the war and learned from the martyrs the battlefield textbook written in blood. He learned tactics from the Japanese and used the enemy's tricks to fight the enemy; the people of the whole country were united in their hearts and finally won the great victory of this national war of resistance.