Text: Mu Mu Qinghua
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A writer in the former Soviet Union once said: "War makes women go away!" But this sentence is only a good wish, war is cruel and bloody, it will affect everyone in the enemy and our country, just like in the avalanche, no snowflake can stay out of it. Similarly, during the war, no one can "pick chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely see the South Mountain."
There is no war in the country, and there are sacrifices for soldiers. There are wars in the country, and the soldiers bear the brunt of it. The most tragic sino-foreign war in China's modern history was the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which began on September 18, 1931 and ended on August 15, 1945, for a total of 14 years.
It was a contest of great disparities in power, the barbaric conquest and ravages of an industrialized country over an agrarian country. The Chinese nation was once on the verge of extinction, but fortunately the people of the whole country united and stubbornly resisted the Japanese army's aggression from the frontal battlefield and the battlefield behind the enemy, and finally won victory.
There is no distinction between the north and the south, the old and the young, all have the responsibility of defending the land and resisting the war, and they should all have the determination to sacrifice everything. This is the anti-Japanese declaration issued by Chiang Kai-shek, and it is also a true portrayal of the cruelty of the anti-Japanese battlefield.
The Japanese army implemented the "three lights" policy against the Chinese people and committed countless crimes on the land of China. No one of the hundreds of millions of compatriots in China can stay out of the matter, and countless Sons and Daughters of China have gone forward to resist the artillery fire of the Japanese army with their flesh and blood, and composed a song of heroic sorrow that can be sung and wept.
In the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, we paid a tragic price of 35 million compatriots who suffered casualties, and countless compatriots were separated because of the destruction of their families and their wives and children. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were many female fighters in the Chinese army, such as Zhao Yiman, Fei Hua, Li Lin, and the "Eight Women Throwing Themselves into the River", but they also paid great sacrifices.
The war years are also an era of heroes, and famous generals on the anti-Japanese battlefield have emerged, such as Zhang Zhizhong, Zuo Quan, Xue Yue, etc., who are familiar to us, but more are the dead soldiers who have not been able to leave their names, and they are all worth remembering forever! As the inscription of the Monument to the People's Heroes reads:
In the past three years, the people's heroes who sacrificed themselves in the People's War of Liberation and the People's Revolution will never die!
Over the past thirty years, the people's heroes who sacrificed their lives in the People's Liberation War and the People's Revolution will never die!
From this point on, back to 1,840 years, in order to oppose internal and external enemies, to strive for national independence and the freedom and happiness of the people, the people's heroes who died in successive struggles will never die!
Today, I want to tell you a touching anti-Japanese story, the protagonist of the story is not well known to the Chinese people, if it were not for the Japanese army admiring her brave spirit to erect a monument for it, perhaps she is also an unsung hero of the anti-Japanese resistance!
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In July 1944, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, seemed to be calm and calm, but in fact, it was "the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings". The Japanese 15th Division, with a company strength, was preparing to take Yeosu. At this time, the defense of Lishui City was the 21st Division of the 88th Army of the National Revolutionary Army.
In the face of a strong enemy, the Nationalist army did not have the certainty of victory, and the command decided on a strategy of annihilating the enemy after studying: holding The city of Lishui with the strength of a regiment, attracting the enemy to attack, and hoping to achieve the purpose of luring the enemy to go deeper. When the enemy besieged Lishui and reinforced, the Nationalist army deployed the main force to annihilate the enemy in songyang and Yiping.
The strategy is established, and the next step is to deploy and implement the troops. Holding on to Lishui City was a difficult task and the key to the entire campaign, and in the end the command gave the entire task to the 63rd Regiment of the 21st Division, which was headed by Peng Xueru.
Peng Xueru did not hesitate to accept the task, so that the general graduated from the regular army university and was known for his "bravery and courage" in the army. Previously, he had led his troops in many bloody battles with the Japanese army and completed combat tasks brilliantly.
Black clouds crushed the city. Peng Xueru knew in his heart that this battle was fierce and unpredictable, and his life and death were unpredictable. After issuing a military order to the headquarters to "coexist and die with the city and resolutely create conditions for the annihilation of the enemy by large troops", he adopted the strategy of fighting a battle against the water, removed the pontoon bridges around Lishui City, and resolved to kill Chengren.
The only thing that reassured him was his wife Jiang Mei, who was stranded in the army, and after making all the preparations, he said to his wife with tears: "If you die in battle, please save yourself, don't worry about me." ”
Peng Xueru had planned to send his wife out of Lishui City, but the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly. The Japanese army marched very fast, and on August 23, 1944, when the Japanese soldiers approached Lishui City, Jiang Mei's way out of the city was blocked.
Jiang Mei followed her husband for a long time, and also learned to shoot guns, marksmanship was accurate, and also learned the fighting skills of bayonets, usually practicing, and the male soldiers against the opponents did not have the upper hand. Jiang Mei could not leave, she was also fearless, she said to her husband: "At the critical moment, I can still go into battle and kill the enemy." ”
The Japanese army has begun to siege the city, Peng Xueru can not take care of so much, he led the soldiers into the battlefield, the Nationalist army with favorable fortifications to repel the Japanese army attacked many times, fierce battle for a day, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, but did not move forward.
At about 7 o'clock that night, the Japanese army, led by the Traitors, climbed the wall from the west side of the weakly defended Baiyun Mountain into the city, and Zhao Chuhao, the commander of the second battalion guarding the place, fled without a fight and fled all the way to the back of the other defenders. The Japanese army broke through the city effortlessly, and at 9 p.m., a large number of Japanese troops, led by traitors, were killed to the regimental headquarters.
Peng Xueru saw the situation and led the members of the command to rush to the battle, but soon fell into a desperate situation. When he led his troops to break through to the City God Temple, he was swept by the Japanese machine guns and fell to the ground and died, and the Japanese army continued to attack the city.
As they advanced about a hundred meters, they suddenly encountered machine gun fire. They saw a beautiful woman carrying a machine gun while rushing forward, followed by more than a dozen wounded soldiers, they had a clear division of labor, someone covered, and someone snatched the regimental commander Peng Xueru back and carried it away.
This woman was Peng Xueru's wife, Jiang Mei, after she finished firing the bullets of the machine gun, she began to fight with the surrounded Japanese troops in close combat, and after she stabbed four Japanese soldiers to death, she was stabbed by three Japanese soldiers.
In this battle, except for the fleeing second battalion, the remnants of the 63rd Regiment were all heroically sacrificed. After the war, after the Japanese army cleared the battlefield, they were admired by Peng Xueru's military spirit of killing chengren, especially the bravery of the battlefield woman Jiang Mei, who deeply shocked the hearts of the Japanese army.
To this end, the Japanese army buried Jiang Mei and carved a monument for her, which was engraved in Japanese: "Chinese Goddess of War (Editor's Note: The text on the stele is Japanese)". For Jiang Mei's heroic deeds, the japanese war history "Minutes of the Japanese Army's Operations against China: Dispatched Troops Before Japan's Surrender" is recorded in detail in volume 1.
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There is a famous saying in the "Mencius Teng Wen Gongxia": "Rich and noble cannot be adulterous, poor and lowly cannot be moved, and mighty cannot be bent." The great husband of this. "Jiang Mei's bravery and martial performance is really a big husband. It is precisely because China has countless such great husbands who have sacrificed their lives for the country that we have continued to move from suffering to glory.
To borrow the words from the inscription of the Monument to the People's Heroes as an end: In order to oppose internal and external enemies, strive for national independence and the people's freedom and happiness, the people's heroes who have sacrificed themselves in successive struggles will never die!