The July 7 Incident opened the prelude to the nationwide War of Resistance on the mainland, which is known to everyone, but few people know about the person who led the Chinese army to fire the first shot of the national war of resistance during the July 7 Incident.
He was a famous anti-Japanese general, and it was he who gave the order at the time of the July 7 Incident: "Hold your position, resolutely fight back, and persist in resisting the war to the end!" "He led the army to fire the first shot of the national war of resistance, and he was Ji Xingwen.
In 1908, Ji Xingwen was born in Fugou, Henan, he was the nephew of the anti-Japanese hero Ji Hongchang, and to say why Ji Xingwen joined the army, we must start with Ji Hongchang.
In that year, Ji Hongchang entered Feng Yuxiang's army and gradually rose to the rank of commander with his excellent performance. Ji Hongchang, who became a military commander, did not forget his hometown, saved money and used money to build schools and water conservancy projects for the localities, which won the love of the people of his hometown. Ji Xingwen was influenced by such an uncle and decided to follow his uncle to become a good soldier.
In 1922, Ji Xingwen joined the army and entered Feng Yuxiang's army. At first, he was only a small soldier, but Ji Xingwen practiced martial arts from an early age, and he was quickly appreciated by the commander of the army and promoted to company commander.
In 1933, he participated in the war against Japan in the great wall fortress area. At that time, the Japanese army was entrenched in the Villages of Wangjia and Wafang, and in order to eliminate the Japanese army, the superior ordered Ji Xingwen to raid the Japanese army from the rear and cooperate with the front troops to surround the Japanese troops in the village. After receiving the task, Ji Xingwen immediately analyzed the situation, led the army to bypass the Japanese flank, and launched a fierce attack on the Rear Position of the Japanese Army, the Japanese Army was caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties. After several hours of hard fighting, Ji Xingwen cooperated with the large troops to finally wipe out all the Japanese troops entrenched in the village, and Ji Xingwen was promoted to regimental commander.
In June 1937, his superior Order Ji Xingwen led the 219th Regiment to lugou bridge to guard the town. Lugou Bridge is an important passage from Beiping to the interior, and the strategic location is very important, so the superior also issued a death order to Ji Xingwen, and must protect the Lugou Bridge.
Ji Xingwen led the officers and men of the 219th Regiment to the Lugou Bridge and actively established fortifications, Ji Xingwen did not have a commander's shelf at all, he and the soldiers ate and lived together, ate the same steamed pickles, and wore the same broken grass shoes. He also often talked with the soldiers, so the officers and men of 219 were very trusting and loving to Ji Xingwen.
On July 7, 1937, the Japanese army claimed that a soldier was missing during a military exercise, falsely accused the Chinese army of detaining him, asked Ji Xingwen for someone, and asked to enter Wanping County to search. In the face of this unreasonable demand, Ji Xingwen sternly refused. After being rejected, the Japanese shelled the positions of the 219th Regiment that night, and Ji Xingwen immediately asked feng Zhi'an, the commander of the 37th Division, for instructions and immediately counterattacked. Feng Zhi'an immediately said: "In order to safeguard national sovereignty, we cannot give up any land, and we can use force to defend ourselves." ”
Ji Xingwen immediately ordered the officers and men of the 219th Regiment: "Hold the position, resolutely fight back, and persist in the war to the end." Then he led all the officers and men to counterattack the Japanese army. Under the command of Ji Xingwen, the 219th Regiment repelled many Japanese attacks.
The japanese army, which attacked fruitlessly, became angry and immediately sent troops to kill the officers and men on duty at the bridgehead and occupied the bridgehead. As an important passage from Beiping to the interior, the Lugou Bridge will be unimaginable if it is lost. In this regard, he expressed to his officers and men that he would fight the Japanese army to the death, and all the soldiers of the 219th Regiment responded positively.
On the evening of July 8, Ji Xingwen led more than 300 members of the death squad to rush to the Japanese army at the bridgehead, and in only 20 minutes, he wiped out all the Japanese troops guarding the bridgehead area and recaptured the bridgehead in one fell swoop.
Under the desperate resistance of Ji Xingwen, the Japanese army was unable to take the Lugou Bridge for a long time, and when it proposed an armistice agreement, it asked the Nationalist government in Nanjing to transfer the 219th Regiment led by Ji Xingwen out of the Lugou Bridge. After learning of this, Ji Xingwen wrote a letter to He Yingqin, the military minister at the time, saying that he would also defend the territory of the country and defend the Lugou Bridge in his death. However, because of the compromise of the Nationalist government in Nanjing, on July 26, Ji Xingwen and the 219th Regiment led by him were transferred away from the Lugou Bridge, and on this day, the Lugou Bridge was occupied by the Japanese army.
After Ji Xingwen was transferred away, he continued to actively resist the Japanese invaders on the front line and made great achievements. During the Liberation War, Ji Xingwen did not want to clash with our army, so he chose to go to Taiwan.
In 1955, Ji Xingwen was appointed deputy commander of penghu defense. Unfortunately, Ji Xingwen was tragically killed in the 1958 Golden Gate Gun Battle at the age of 51.