Qian Jianmin old man
The Japanese Army Great Seal appeared in the countryside of Wuxi, and it turned out that ordinary old people had an extraordinary past!
In the summer of 2016, in the countryside of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, something suddenly happened that shocked the local government. One ordinary afternoon, the old man Qian Jianmin was sitting at the entrance of the courtyard basking in the sun, and his daughter was helping him clean the house. Qian Jianmin is blind in both eyes and has limited mobility, so he rarely moves around. He had a deep scar on his chin, but he didn't feel afraid, but felt like a very kind old man.
While cleaning the house, Qian Jianmin's daughter suddenly found a cloth bag under her father's bed. The cloth bag looked very worn, but the contents were tightly wrapped. She had never seen anything like it before, and she was a little curious. She came out with the cloth bag and asked her father what was inside. Qian Jianmin couldn't see it, so he took it and touched it. He told his daughter that it was the Japanese military seal. The daughter was stunned for half a day, and she couldn't understand how the Japanese military seal could be in the hands of her father.
For his daughter's question, Qian Jianmin obviously did not want to answer, and he smiled and changed the subject. The daughter suddenly realized that her father might have been a soldier before! When he was young, he often pestered his father and asked him the reason for the eye injury, but his father always remained silent. Now that I think about it, the cause of the injury may be related to my father's experience as a soldier. Qian Jianmin's daughter looked at this old great seal and decided to find an opportunity to go to the government department to identify it.
Soon after, Qian Jianmin's daughter took the big seal to the relevant departments. The staff opened the cloth bag, and the large square seal read "The Seal of the Eighteenth Division Regiment Headquarters". Seeing this big seal, the staff was very surprised. After careful identification, this big seal is indeed real! The Japanese 18th Division was a notorious Japanese army unit during the War of Resistance Against Japan, how could its military seal appear here? Government workers hurriedly asked Qian Jianmin's daughter where the Great Seal came from.
After learning the origin of this big seal, the staff realized that if this military seal was captured by Qian Jianmin, then he was an anti-Japanese hero in anonymity! The government immediately sent someone to visit Qian Jianmin's home. Seeing the arrival of the staff, Qian Jianmin finally stopped hiding it and told his experience of joining the army and the origin of this big seal. Under Qian Jianmin's narration, everyone came to that period of war.
When Qian Jianmin was young, he did serve as a soldier. But he fought not at home, but in Burma. Although Qian Jianmin was born in Shuxiangmendi, he had the desire to join the army and serve the country from an early age. Witnessing the crimes committed by the invaders in China, Qian Jianmin was full of enthusiasm and only wanted to kill the enemy on the front line. At the age of 18, Qian Jianmin was admitted to the "Army Mechanization School" of the well-known military academy at that time without his parents, and has since thrown in his pen.
Xu Tingyao was the "father of the armored corps" of the Kuomintang, and he founded the Army Mechanization School. Qian Jianmin is very smart and learns things very quickly. He hadn't been exposed to anything military-related before, but he was the best of the bunch. Because of his outstanding performance during his school years, Qian Jianmin was selected by the instructor and became a tank driver.
Tanks were one of the most lethal weapons on the battlefield at the time, but most of the tanks at that time were captured by the enemy or aided by other countries. In China, the number of soldiers who can operate tanks is very small. Therefore, qian Jianmin feels very honored to be a tank driver. By the time he graduated in 1943, Qian Jianmin had been transferred to the Chinese Expeditionary Force and went to Burma to fight the Japanese. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, because the Chinese people rose up to resist, the pace of the Japanese army's invasion of China was blocked. In order to satisfy their ambitions, the Japanese invaders turned their attention to Southeast Asia. Not only can we invade and occupy other countries, but we can also carry out aggression against China from different directions.
Xu Tingyao
The Japanese troops stationed in Burma were the 18th Division, known as the ace of the Japanese army. The 18th Division was well-equipped and very effective, and neither the British nor the Burmese were its opponents. The Japanese 18th Division is notorious in China, and it also participated in the Nanjing Massacre, and is a Japanese army unit that the Chinese people hate very much. The opponent of the Chinese Expeditionary Force is this elite force.
Myanmar has a tropical monsoon climate, which is humid and sweltering, which is very different from the country. Moreover, the jungle is dense, and poisonous insects and beasts often appear and hurt people. When the Chinese Expeditionary Force arrived here, it fell half sick because of the water and soil. Qian Jianmin also vomited in the dark every day, and he survived by willpower. However, the Japanese 18th Division, with its equipment and logistics, was hardly affected.
When the 18th Division arrived in Burma, it was attacked by british and Burmese troops, but they were both defeated by the 18th Division. After defeating the British, the 18th Division was in no man's land in Burma and soon captured the burmese capital. There is a Burma road between Yunnan and Myanmar, through which aid supplies from the United States and other Western countries to China are transported to China. After the Japanese occupied Burma, they naturally cut off this transport line.
Such a situation is something that neither China nor the United States wants to see. Therefore, the United States sent weapons and China sent troops to form a "temporary tank group" to retake the Burma Highway. Qian Jianmin was in this unit. After some tossing, the soldiers finally eased up. After getting to know their opponents, they decided to start field training as soon as possible to cope with the battle. However, the soldiers did not expect that they would actually bump into this Japanese army unit during training.
The Chinese Expeditionary Force raided, the Japanese army was defenseless, and the infamous 18th Division suffered heavy losses!
Because qian Jianmin performed well during his school years, after joining the expeditionary force, he was promoted to the tactical team leader of the 3rd Battalion, responsible for commanding the operations of the 3rd Battalion and the training of the 1st Battalion. Because when they first arrived in Myanmar, the warriors were very uncomfortable with the climate and environment. The hot, humid and rainy climate not only makes them sick often, but also has a certain impact on armed equipment. Since the plants here grow very luxuriantly, vines often wrap around tank tracks. Moreover, fog often appears in the forest, obscuring the observation mirror and seriously affecting the combat.
In order to adapt to jungle combat as soon as possible, Qian Jianmin often took the warriors to the field for training. The training ground was not far from the station, and after Qian Jianmin and his soldiers arrived nearby, they found several small cabins in front of them. Because the house was very simple, at first, Qian Jianmin and others thought it was the house of the local indigenous people, so they did not care. However, getting closer and closer to the house, Qian Jianmin felt that something was wrong.
A few people drilled out of the house, dressed not like locals, but dressed in uniform. Qian Jianmin's heart suddenly became alert, these people looked like Japanese! Qian Jianmin immediately ordered the soldiers to hide, quietly touched the vicinity to check the situation, and determined that this was where the Japanese army was stationed.
Don't miss it! Qian Jianmin decided to make good use of this opportunity. He immediately ordered all the soldiers to return the same way. After returning to the station, Qian Jianmin told everyone about the situation, and everyone felt that they could hit each other by surprise. After a while, the soldiers were killed back, which was not the state of light training. Qian Jianmin took command of the expeditionary force, surrounded the Japanese garrison, and also pulled the tanks in the team over.
The Japanese heard the roar of the tanks and realized that they were already surrounded. Although the 18th Division was well trained, it was not prepared for battle at this time, like a fish on a chopping board. Seeing a row of tanks in front of them, the Japanese soldiers were so frightened that they even wanted to escape. The Japanese commander was furious and ordered his soldiers to start fighting back.
Qian Jianmin came quietly with his troops, the Japanese army was defenseless, and no fortifications were built on the position. The only two armored vehicles that could be put into battle had long since been destroyed by the tanks of the Expeditionary Force. Where the Japanese soldiers had the courage to fight hard with tanks, they saw such a behemoth and just wanted to escape. However, under the pressure of the commander, the Japanese soldiers had to raise their guns and attack the tanks.
In this battle, Qian Jianmin can be said to have the advantage. Even so, he did not take it lightly. In order to minimize the wear and tear and casualties of the team, Qian Jianmin's command should not get close, and first bombarded the enemy's positions with tanks. Qian Jianmin's tactics were very effective, the Japanese army did not have any defense, under the indiscriminate bombardment of tanks, the Japanese army held its head and scurried.
The position was in disarray, the house was razed to the ground, and the japanese troops were directly exposed to the tanks' attack range. Subsequently, the Japanese army saw that it was really invincible, so it had to order a retreat. Due to the large number of anti-tank devices set up in the jungle, the pursuit speed of the tanks was greatly reduced. Qian Jianmin led his soldiers through the rainforest to conduct a roundabout battle against the Japanese army.
This unexpected discovery made Qian Jianmin a great contribution and also encouraged the combat confidence of the expeditionary force. In this operation, the expeditionary force annihilated more than 500 enemy troops and captured a large amount of supplies, but did not suffer any casualties. After the battle, the warriors began to clear the battlefield. At this time, Qian Jianmin saw the soldiers gathered around and did not know what they were looking at. Curious, he walked over to take a look and found that the soldiers had found the great seal of the 18th Division.
This great seal was of great significance, and Qian Jianmin and others brought it back to the garrison as a trophy. The warriors were amazed and wanted to use this big seal as a souvenir. After that, Qian Jianmin handed the big seal to his superiors. In order to commend Qian Jianmin, the chief of staff of the US military gave the big seal to Qian Jianmin, and also gave an armored vehicle with "NO.1" printed on it to Qian Jianmin's company. Qian Jianmin carefully put away the big seal as a proof of his honor.
The defeat of the Japanese 18th Division was an outstanding achievement of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Because of this victory, Qian Jianmin's team has become more and more unstoppable on the Burmese battlefield and has achieved many outstanding achievements. With the achievements during the war in Burma, after returning to China, Qian Jianmin should be able to become an officer, which can be said to be a promising future. But unfortunately, life is impermanent.
In 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japan was coming to an end. After returning to China, Qian Jianmin was transferred to the logistics unit as a liaison officer for the head of the automobile training regiment. Once, Qian Jianmin went to Guizhou with his subordinates on a mission, but encountered bandits on the way. Enemy bullets hit him in the jaw, leaving a deep wound. Fragments of the window glass shattered by the shell splashed into his eyes. However, even though he was seriously injured, Qian Jianmin still insisted on resettling the refugees first. Because of missing the treatment time, Qian Jianmin lost the light forever from this day on.
Qian Jianmin was forced to retire from the army, but he could still contact the troops. What he did not expect, however, was that the Japanese invaders had fought away, but Chiang Kai-shek had provoked a civil war. The peace that had been hard to come by was ruined by their own people. Although Qian Jianmin was angry in his heart, it did not help. After thinking about it again, he decided to go back to his hometown and live in seclusion, never to ask about the outside world.
When he left the army, Qian Jianmin took nothing with him. Although he can no longer serve the country, how can Qian Jianmin forget the glory days when he once fought on the battlefield. He thought left and right, and took away the Great Seal of the Japanese Army that had been accompanying him. This is also his last remembrance of his military career, but he did not expect that many years later, this big seal proved his experience of joining the army.
Single-mindedly for the country, do not seek fame and fortune, the only wish is to touch the domestic tank!
Qian Jianmin joined the army to defend the country and seek peace for the people. Unexpectedly, the peaceful life was so fainted by the Kuomintang. Qian Jianmin was angry in his heart, but he was not willing to fight with his compatriots. Coupled with the eye injury, Qian Jianmin left the army in this way. After returning to his hometown, Qian Jianmin lived a life of seclusion in anonymity.
He hid all the evidence of his joining the army and never mentioned the courage of that year. Neighbors asked him where his scars came from, and he always laughed it off, never showing off his experience in the military. It was not until 2016, when his daughter was cleaning up the house, that she found this big seal of the Japanese army, and Qian Jianmin's glorious deeds were displayed in front of everyone.
After learning about Qian Jianmin's deeds, the local government was very touched and sent someone to visit him and send him some gifts. After the deeds of the old man were told, there were many media reports, which caused an uproar on the Internet. Many people came to visit him from thousands of miles, hoping to see the true face of the anti-Japanese hero. Finally, everyone asked Qian Jianmin if he still needed help.
Qian Jianmin replied that he did not lack anything now, but he had always had a wish that had not been realized. The old man said that the tanks in the team were all made in the United States, and he was a Chinese tank soldier, but he had never seen a tank made by the motherland in his life. So now, my only hope is to touch the domestic tanks in the army.
After hearing this wish of the old man, the local government immediately communicated with the military district to apply. After learning the old man's story, an armored unit in Suzhou made an exception and agreed to such a request. At the end of 2016, at the invitation of the troops, the elderly Qian Jianmin came to the armored unit. In order to greet the elderly, the troops also sent 6 tanks at the gate in advance to greet them.
With the support of his daughter, Qian Jianmin, who is more than 90 years old, got out of the car. Although he couldn't see it, his heart was very excited. For this visit, Qian Jianmin also specially put on his own anti-war commemorative clothes. Even if the old man couldn't see it, there were still many soldiers who went out to greet them. When the old man came to the door, he fired a cannon. Under the salute of the soldiers and the sound of gunfire, the old man walked into the gate of the troops.
Later, under the guidance of the soldiers, the old man finally touched the domestic tank with his own hands, and his heart was full of mixed feelings. He seemed to return to the battlefield, as if he saw himself fighting with the enemy. Today, the country is far from war, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Stroking the hard shell of the tank. The old man couldn't help but burst into tears. What he felt was not only the tank, but also the strength of the motherland! Qian Jianmin is not a very famous hero, but it is precisely the efforts of him and his comrades-in-arms that have led to today's peace!
Two years after his wish was granted, Qian Jianmin died of illness at the age of 96. In his hospital bed, he always remembered China's military career. He knew he wouldn't last long, and the only thing he left for his daughter was for her to keep an eye on the armored cause of her country. When there is any new development in the country, be sure to go to the grave and tell him! This sentence can't help but remind people of Lu You's poem. Wang Shi Bei Ding Zhongyuan Day, the family sacrifice has not forgotten to tell Nai Weng! Although Qian Jianmin and Lu You are concerned about different things, they are all related to their own countries. Isn't such a spirit worthy of praise?
Qian Jianmin was born in 1922 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. In those days, warlords were at war, social unrest, foreign enemies were eyeing each other, and the people were living in the aftermath of the waters. Qian Jianmin, who witnessed the tragic life of the people, has had the ambition to serve the country from the military since he was a child. At the age of 18, he was admitted to military school. For the stability of the country, at the age of 21, he went to the battlefield and fought in blood. In an interview with reporters, he once said that his only wish is to maintain peace and build China better.
As the saying goes, the predecessors planted trees, and the posterity cooled down. Today's hard-won peaceful life is precisely what countless revolutionary martyrs have bought with their lives. We enjoy the peace brought by our ancestors and should contribute our own strength to the development and construction of the motherland. We should remember history and respect heroes!
In fact, there are many veterans like Qian Jianmin. They fought bloody battles on the battlefield, but after the war was over, they chose to go into hiding. They never flaunt their exploits, but their contributions to the people and the country will never disappear. The country will not forget, and the people will not forget! Hats off to veterans!
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