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Since I was a child, I have listened to my grandparents and fathers tell me about the cruelty of the Japanese people they experienced, and when I grew up, I also learned a lot of historical materials about the Japanese invasion of China, such as beheading, dissecting, picking babies with bayonets, and dissecting living people. Perhaps from that moment on, the Lugou Bridge became a sacred place in my heart, and in my dreams and in my mind, I imagined its appearance a thousand times, but I never saw it.
It wasn't until the late winter of 2014, when I traveled to Beijing on a business trip and had a morning of leisure, that I got my long-cherished wish. On the way from downtown Beijing to Lugou Bridge, I was a little nervous in my heart, but there was also a longing, a kind of expectation that my dream was about to come true.
The car sped southwest of Beijing, and after more than 40 minutes of driving, turned right at the edge of the Jingshi Expressway, and suddenly appeared in front of a green brick fortress - oh, is this Wanping City? Yes, this is Wanping City! After getting out of the car, the east gate of Wanping City was in front of us. The high city gates, the heavy green bricks, everything reveals the coldness and majesty. Entering the city gate, we reached the urn city. Urn City belongs to the narrow space between the outer city gate and the second city gate, in the era of cold weapons, the enemy broke through the first gate, blocked by the second gate, due to the narrow place, the enemy entering the urn city can not accommodate too much, the defenders can be condescending, concentrated troops, random arrows, there is the meaning of catching turtles in the urn. Because Wanping City is a military town, the city is not large, and it is different from the general city, it only has two gates in the east and west, there are no alleys, and a street connects the two gates.
Walking in Wanping City, in the small shops on both sides of the street, there are not many people, it seems to be a little deserted, it seems that only I, stepping on the ancient stone road, silently tasting the vicissitudes of history. In the south of the middle street road, there is a large modern building, the Chinese Min Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall. Since it was being overhauled, the memorial was not open, and I could only regret to take photos outside the door. The street in the city is not long, only 640 meters, out of the west gate of Wanping City, in front of the Lugou Bridge!
On that day, the air was surprisingly good, and the sky was blue and blue, like an ethereal blue crystal, with a small amount of white clouds. Tiangong is so beautiful, it is really intoxicating and exciting! Lugou Bridge was built in the 29th year of Jin Dading (1189), which is both a key point in the south and a throat of Beijing, and has been an important transportation hub and cargo distribution center since ancient times.
Historical records record that since the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the hinterland of the Central Plains into Beijing has to stop at the Lugou Bridge, which is the only way for the Beijing division to enter and exit the hinterland of the Central Plains. Lugou Bridge, together with Zhaozhou Bridge in Hebei, Luoyang Bridge in Fujian and Guangji Bridge in Guangdong, is called the "Four Famous Bridges of Ancient China". The total length of the bridge is 266.5 meters, the width is 7.5 meters, and it is divided into eleven culverts. There are more than 100 pillars on each side of the bridge, and there are hundreds of large and small stone lions carved on the pillar heads, and since ancient times, there is a proverb of "lions on the Lugou Bridge - countless". I did not come for the exquisite lugou bridge, I came for the first shot of the all-out war of resistance, for the bloodiness of the nation.
The center of the bridge deck of Lugou Bridge still retains the original bridge deck of ancient times, and the huge bluestone slab has been smooth and deeply wavy due to the crushing of years of cars and people walking, which shows the busy and important traffic of Lugou Bridge in that year. Today, the sides of the bridge deck have been replaced with flat bluestone slabs to facilitate people's walking, and the stone lions on both sides have survived the wind and frost and still stand there silently. Standing on the Lugou Bridge, the cold north wind blows, the river under the Lugou Bridge has formed a thin layer of ice, and the water at the pier is still rippling. Back to the west gate of Wanping City. Just now I went straight to the Lugou Bridge, did not carefully look at its true appearance, and now face it directly, I feel shocked again.
I saw that at the top of the tall city gate there were three big characters of Wanping City, exactly the same as in the blurry old photo: three rows of soldiers were sprinting with guns and bows, and they were rushing through the West Gate to aid the battle on the Lugou Bridge. Running here are real warriors and real heroes who stand up at the most critical moment of the nation's life and death, and what is running here is the bloodiness of the Chinese nation! In awe, I can't help but stand at the west gate of Wanping City, paying tribute to the heroes who have stepped forward at the time of the survival of the nation!
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