Nature has always had the elderly sacrifice for the younger generations, preserving the strength of the younger generation and continuing the tradition of population development.
For example, in the novel "Impala Flying Crossing" by writer Shen Shixi, the old impala relies on his own sacrifice, jumps over the abyss and supports the young impala with his back, so that the young impala jumps over the mountain stream to continue the race, and he falls into the abyss, the old impala uses his sacrifice in exchange for the survival of the young descendants, and human society actually has such a precedent.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, such an army composed of elderly people and recruiting only the elderly was quietly established in southern China.
Their purpose is to sacrifice instead of young people, to save China that is on the verge of extinction in their cloudy eyes, to contribute to the strength of the elderly, they are the legendary "Lao Tzu Army".
Zhang Yilu
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Mention the legendary "Lao Tzu Army" and have to mention its more legendary founder, Zhang Yilu, who is not a great general who has been fighting horses all his life and traversing the battlefield, but a very famous and talented literati, but also a famous patriot and gourmet.
Born in Wu County, Suzhou, Zhang Yilu is an authentic southerner, and his life has gone through three historical periods of the former Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and modern times, and he is accustomed to seeing the rise and fall of the world and the changes in the world.
Zhang Yilu was extremely talented, known as a prodigy when he was a teenager, and he won the Xiucai examination at the age of twelve, and the examination at the age of eighteen.
This was extremely rare at that time, the imperial examination in the Ming and Qing dynasties was extremely rigid, the degree of difficulty was like the hell mode of the college entrance examination, the eight strands of the examination required for the examination needed a fixed format, such as breaking the question, undertaking the question, starting to speak, entering the question, starting the stock, the middle stock, the back stock, the bundle stock, the format was rigid, the question came from the Confucian classics, and also required the candidates to say something, and those who only got the middle soldier at the age of seventy or eighty abounded.
Zhang Yilu's article
Zhang Yilu was able to pass the entrance examination at such a young age, which shows that his learning ability is very powerful, worthy of the name of a prodigy.
However, Zhang Yilu's official fortunes do not seem to be very good, he was the Guangxu Emperor of the Qing Dynasty when he was admitted to the examination, Cixi Lafayette bowed to the government and controlled the program, and the Qing Dynasty had actually reached a situation of internal and external troubles and turbulence.
The Sino-Japanese War caused China to open its doors and further degenerate into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and some Intellectuals in China began to "open their eyes to the world" and try to learn Western technology and systems to change the situation in China.
Kang Youwei waited for the bus to go to the book, opened the upper reform movement in China, Zhang Yilu actively responded to Kang Youwei's reforms, and founded the society in his hometown of Suzhou, but Kang Youwei's reform movement soon failed under the joint strangulation of the great powers and the imperial court, and patriots like Zhang Yilu could be said to have the heart to save the country and were unable to return to heaven.
Yuan Shikai
Zhang Yilu became An aide to Yuan Shikai from the time he was assigned to Yuan Shikai, who was still directly subordinate to the governor during the Guangxu years, and continued to work under Yuan Shikai several times, until he became the education chief of the Beiyang government, and in 1915, Yuan Shikai restored himself as emperor, stole the fruits of the Revolution in Xinhai, and was called a thief of the country.
Zhang Yilu resigned in anger and returned to his hometown, trying to organize a peace conference in his hometown, but the peace conference he conceived ultimately failed, so Zhang Yilu stayed away from politics and concentrated on improving agriculture, protecting cultural sites, and establishing education, which was regarded as saving the country in his own way.
Zhang Yilu is an absolute literati, he is not only quick thinking, but also very full of interest in life, he recorded in his later years of memories of the origin of famous dishes such as boiled chicken offal, Su made meat, etc., adding bricks and tiles to Chinese food culture, he also loved to write poetry, leaving behind "Heart Taiping Room Poetry Notes", "Guhong Meige Collection" and other poetry collections, literary attainment is very high.
However, it is such a Confucian student who has the extraordinary courage to create the "Lao Tzu Army" and sacrifice for young people.
Lao Tzu Jun
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In 1937, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, Japanese imperialism invaded the land of China on a large scale, and in mid-August it had reached Suzhou, a water town in Jiangnan, China, which was Zhang Yilu's hometown.
Zhang Yilu inquired that he naturally could not sit in the study and wait for China to fall, and a very rebellious idea suddenly emerged from his shrewd mind all his life: to form an army of the elderly, charge into the front, and reduce the unnecessary sacrifices of young people.
Most of the reasons for coming up with such an idea were also because Zhang Yilu had reached an ancient age at that time, and he often published articles in the "Dou Bao Weekly" he founded, pointing out the weak and compromised government officials of the Republic of China and vowing to fight to the death against the Japanese invaders.
Japanese Invaders
However, as a literati, Zhang Yilu has never had the opportunity to go to the battlefield as he thought, he has the wind and backbone of a Chinese literati, but he is also like countless Chinese literati who have no way to serve the country and have no talent to show, and in the face of Xin Abandoning Disease and Lu You, he can only dream of entering the military camp and charging into the battlefield.
After a lifetime of silence, Zhang Yilu did not want to fight with the pen as a literati in the rear, but wanted to fight with the Japanese invaders with real swords and guns. At that time, Zhang Yilu had a deep friendship with Li Gengen, a veteran of the Kuomintang: a general who had entered a military academy and had really been on the battlefield.
The two cherished each other for the same patriotic enthusiasm, and at first sight, Zhang Yilu was good at literature and Li Gen was good at martial arts, and the two cooperated seamlessly, and called "the second elder of WuZhong", which had a high prestige in the Suzhou area.
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When the Japanese invaded the Wuzhong region, two elderly people who added up to more than a hundred years old were indignant and set up the "Anti-Japanese Security Council" in the local area, and really put Zhang Yilu's idea on the agenda, wanting to create an army of elderly people like them as the main force.
Let the elderly also play their part in the War of Resistance Against Japan, let the elderly in the world see that not only young people can go to the battlefield, the elderly are also martyrs in their twilight years, and they are full of courage. The name "Lao Tzu Jun" seems to be vulgar, but it is actually taken from the self-proclaimed "Little Fan Laozi" of Fan Zhongyan, a famous politician and writer of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Fan Zhongyan was a native of Wuzhong, and in history, Fan Zhongyan once advocated the reform of the official rule to implement the New Deal of celebrating the calendar, and had defended the northwest for many years, forcing the Western Xia to negotiate peace, and winning the Taiping for the Northern Song Dynasty for several years.
Zhang Yilu and Li Gen took this name, which in a sense also pinned their revolutionary aspirations: to drive out insults, restore China, clarify Yuyu, and restore Heshan.
The "Lao Tzu Army" has its own strict discipline and rules and regulations, it stipulates that only the elderly men in China must be over sixty years old to join, and below sixty years old is considered a reserve army, and the "Lao Tzu Army" is to dare to die as the ultimate goal, and the meaning and purpose of establishing the "Lao Tzu Army" is to replace the young people to die, reduce the sacrifice of young people, and preserve the flame of the young and middle-aged people in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
"The young and the strong have a long future, and the coming to Japan is long... It is the duty of the old man to be with his father and brother, and to regard death as a homecoming."
The purpose of the "Lao Tzu Army" still sounds like a song and a tear in the days and months of the Taiping Dynasty, and this fearless courage belonging to the elderly has inspired countless people on the land of China.
The "Lao Tzu Army" invited the ninety-eight-year-old Ma Xiangbo as the commander, and Ma Xiangbo was one of the founders of the well-known modern universities such as Fudan University and Aurora University, and was a well-known educator in modern China.
The "Lao Tzu Army" also took the elderly Li Hengsheng, who had generously donated to the War of Resistance Against Japan, as the quartermaster.
At that time, Li Hengsheng was also seventy years old, and this white-haired team showed a straight shape in the fires of the war when China was about to be destroyed.
Their military rules are strict and orderly, and their banner is clear, as if they are an army that really wants to resist Japan.
Zhang Yilu, Li Gen, Ma Xiangbo and other elderly people were originally celebrities, and as soon as the "Lao Tzu Army" was established, its reputation trembled north and south, and countless elderly people who were similar in age to them but had no way to serve the country responded positively, and even women and children who had been locked down for many years in feudal society also wanted to participate, and although young people could not join the "Lao Tzu Army," they were also deeply inspired by their revolutionary spirit.
The elderly still have the determination and courage to fight to the death with Japanese imperialism, and the young people should strive to be the first to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions.
Ma Xiangbo
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During the Southern Song Dynasty's resistance to Jin, the veteran general Zong Ze spent his life fighting horses and making great achievements in battle, and before he died, he thought of crossing the Yellow River to fight against Jin and welcome back the Second Emperor Hui Qin, who was taken captive by the Jin people, so that when he died, he still shouted "Cross the river!" Crossing! Crossing! ”
The "Lao Tzu Army" established by Zhang Yilu and others also has the courage of Zong Ze to resist gold, and there is also the regret that Zong Ze's ambition has not been rewarded.
The "Lao Tzu Army" was lively for a long time during the Republic of China period, and the whole country responded positively, but they never really went to the battlefield.
In September 1937, Chiang Kai-shek personally telephoned Zhang Yilu and commended Zhang Yilu and others for their patriotic enthusiasm and courage in founding the "Lao Tzu Army", but at the same time said that the military organization should be strictly organized.
The "Lao Tzu Army" belongs to a non-governmental organization, not a regular army of the Republic of China government, and "the military name cannot be used lightly", thus preventing the real establishment of the "Lao Tzu Army".
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Although the "Lao Tzu Army" plan was aborted, the road of Anti-Japanese Salvation by Zhang Yilu and others never ended here.
The incident of the "Lao Tzu Army" allowed the good name of Zhang Yilu and others to spread throughout China in distress at that time, and although the "Lao Tzu Army" did not personally visit the battlefield, it had already inspired the courage of the Chinese nation to fight to the end at the spiritual level.
The Battle of Songhu caused the Chinese army to suffer heavy casualties and won the final victory at the cost of blood, Zhang Yilu, together with his good friend Li Gen, who created the "Lao Tzu Army" with him, collected the remains of the martyrs on the battlefield and buried them in Suzhou Shanren Bridge.
Zhang Yilu fought in the struggle of patriotic revolution with the body of a scholar all his life, and most of his struggles ended in failure, but he ran around for the great national righteousness, did his best, and his deeds can still be passed down through the ages.
Although the "Lao Tzu Army" was full of sorrow, this army, which had never been on the battlefield, inspired countless future generations with the spirit of the old Chinese people in the face of foreign enemies.