In "Hundred Family Names", Zhao Qiansun Li and Zhou Wu Zheng Wang are certainly familiar to everyone, but there is a surname that most people are very unfamiliar with, that is, "inch", the ordinary "Hundred Family Names" is not even included, and the most complete one is also ranked more than 1,000.
Do you know what it reads? Some places read cùn, but the orthodox one should read cuàn, which is the word "爨". But because the word was too complicated, it was later changed to "inch".
In Tengchong, Yunnan, there was a settlement with the surname of inch, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was also a famous anti-war general, who is the general of the inch nature that today's historical inn will introduce.
Born in 1895, he graduated from the Yunnan DaowuTang and was Zhu De's disciple. During Sun Yat-sen's Northern Expedition, He was already a famous general in the Dian Army, who was deeply appreciated by Sun Yat-sen, and was appointed as a major general in the Presidential Palace to join the army.
When Chen Jiongming rebelled, Sun Yat-sen was in danger, and it was Chengshengqi who took a huge risk (his father-in-law and wife were taken hostage by Chen Jiongming) to bring Sun Yat-sen and Soong Qingling to Guangzhou safely. It can be said that Zhizhiqi was Sun Yat-sen's savior.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, Heliqi actively asked Chiang Kai-shek for war, and was appointed brigade commander of the 34th Brigade of the 12th Division of the 3rd Army, and later promoted to the commander of the 12th Division for meritorious service.
In May 1941, the Japanese army mobilized more than 100,000 people to attack Mount Nakajō. Zhongtiao Mountain is an important mountain range in the south of Shanxi, bordering Taihang in the northeast, Lüliang in the northwest, and the Yellow River in the south, which has been a place of contention for soldiers since ancient times. If the Japanese army took the Zhongtiao Mountains, it would be able to directly threaten the security of China's Great Northwest and Great Southwest.
On the line from Yuncheng to Jicheng in Shanxi, the elite independent mixed brigades of the Japanese army were assembled into the 16th Brigade, 36th, 37th, and 41st Divisions. The corresponding Chinese armies are the 3rd Army and the 80th Army.
As a famous general of the 3rd Army, Tsukiji had fought the Japanese army many times in Nakajō Mountain, and the devils had never taken advantage. Before the 14th Japanese offensive, Hinata killed the devils for 9 days at Nakajō Mountain, killing more than 2,000 devils.
Tang Zhunyuan, commander of the 3rd Army, personally led the team, with the 12th Division and the 27th Division as the main force, repelled the rampant attack of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army threw a large number of corpses and retreated. However, the Japanese army, which had slowed down, counterattacked in the dusk, and the 227th Wing of the Japanese chief Ueda Katsu attacked the 12th Division.
(Photo: Tang Zhunyuan and the statue of Inch Sex Qi)
Although the gap in weapons between the Chinese and Japanese armies was too great, the Chinese soldiers were not afraid of death, and it was a big deal to fight with the devils with bayonets. In the pouring rain, he led the brothers to disregard the wet and slippery mountain stones and picked up a large knife to slash and kill wildly.
Determined to die, he led the remnants of the 12th Division to retreat south step by step for the battalion while fighting with the devils. However, the Japanese army was too numerous, and the weapons were superior, once again cutting off all parts of the Chinese army.
The 12th Division, which had broken through to Fanjiagou, immediately returned to attack the Japanese army, only to encounter a large group of ghosts in the Zhangjiaping area, and the two sides fought hand-to-hand again. The soldiers of the 12th Division fought less and less, but their morale was getting higher and higher.
Qi Zhiqi expressed his attitude to Tang Huaiyuan's military commander: He already has the ambition to be martyred, but before he is martyred, he should kill as many devils as possible. And motivated his subordinates: "The gun is in the hand, the sword is in the waist, do not order the thief to obey also!" Ji zeal for the glory of the country, bad to die to succeed! ”
The 12th Division was all hot-blooded men, and no one was afraid of death. With dozens of officers and men of the special service company, he still attacked the high ground held by the Japanese army, knowing that there was no chance of victory. Japanese artillery fire attacked them, and he was shot in the chest, but he still gritted his teeth and insisted, allowing the blood to stain his clothes. Another shell struck, breaking inch's right leg and making it impossible to move.
The regimental commander Huang Xiangu and the others wanted to go down the mountain with their backs to qi, but he refused, saying: "My leg is broken, don't worry about me, I am determined to martyr the country, in order to protect the national character." After saying this, General Inch Qi pulled out his sword and committed suicide and martyrdom. The date was May 13, 1941.
All the soldiers present cried bitterly. The division commander was martyred, and the other brothers also made the last decision of their lives--to die in battle, not to fail the country, and not to fail the division commander. All the soldiers fought with red eyes and the Japanese devils to the last moment, dying without regrets!
After the martyrdom of General Inch Qi, Chiang Kai-shek personally wrote the elegy: "The merits of a hundred battles have honored the rivers and mountains, and the double loyalty has strengthened the Central Plains." "There are more than a thousand wreaths and ties sent by all walks of life.
It is also worth mentioning that During the Qing Dynasty, he served as a tengyue garrison and was also a famous general of a generation. Hearing that his son was martyred in a heroic way, the old man wept bitterly and lost his voice, but he had no regrets about his son's death, thinking that he died as he deserved it, as heavy as Tarzan. A year later, the Japanese army attacked Tengchong, and Mr. Inch was not willing to be a slave to the country, although he was unable to go into battle to kill the enemy, he was determined to protect himself. The 88-year-old gentleman sat under a tree, went on a hunger strike for 7 days and 7 nights, and was martyred.
It is said that after the martyrdom of Mr. Inch, his eyes were still closed, and there was still a cold light, and the Japanese army was shocked to see it.
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