Shang Dejun
On April 1, 1943, at Xiangshan Temple in Quanzhou, Guangxi, where the Chinese Expeditionary Force departed, a grand state funeral was being held, with more than 10,000 participants, and the leaders of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, personally wrote elegy. Who can enjoy a state funeral and mourn with great sorrow? He was the highest general who died abroad during the War of Resistance Against Japan, General Dai Anlan.
General Dai Anlan
Blood sprinkled on exotic battlefields
Whampoa Military Academy
Dai Anlan was born in November 1904 in Wuwei County, Wuhu City. In 1924, he joined the army and later entered the 3rd Infantry Section of the Whampoa Military Academy to study, which can be described as "born into a famous family". After graduating in 1926, he participated in the Northern Expedition. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he went to the anti-Japanese front and participated in the Great Wall War of Resistance in 1933, fighting a bloody war against the Japanese army. Later, he participated in the Battle of Lunan, led his troops to fight the Japanese army for 4 days and nights, and was promoted to deputy commander of the 89th Division.
Chinese anti-Japanese soldiers
Heroes are born in the chaotic world, Dai Anlan is young and ambitious, and his military talent is fully displayed. In January 1939, he succeeded Du Yuming as the commander of the 200th Division of the 5th Army, China's first mechanized unit, at the age of 35, handsome and handsome, major general of the army, which is unimaginable in peacetime. The 200th Division is a very loud name, the main division of the Fifth Army, and is known as the first and only mechanized division of the Chinese Army. In December, he participated in the Battle of Kunlun Pass, and the 12th Brigade of the Japanese Army was seriously wounded in the line of fire, killing the Japanese brigade commander Major General Masao Nakamura and achieving a great victory at Kunlun Pass. The general became famous in World War I and became famous in China, and at that time the newspaper praised "the commander of the Dai Anlan Division has the demeanor of the Northern Song Dynasty general Di Qing".
General Dai Anlan and his family
In March 1942, Dai Anlan led the 200th Division as the vanguard of the Chinese Expeditionary Force to cross the national gate and go to Burma to participate in the war. Before the Defense of Tonggu, he wrote in a letter to his wife: "Yu was ordered to stick to Tonggu this time, because the above grand plan was undecided, the rear was too far in contact, the enemy moved fast, and now he is struggling alone, determined to sacrifice all of them to repay the country's nurturing." It is extremely glorious to die in battle for the country. Reciter, your mother and son will live more bitterly in the future. "Ruthlessness may not be true Haojie, a family letter shows General Dai's determination to sacrifice to serve the country and miss his relatives."
Letter from General Dai Anlan
In the defensive battle, in order to cover the retreat of the British army and face a strong enemy with 4 times the number of his own, he led his troops to fight with the enemy for 12 days, winning more than 5,000 enemy troops with fewer victories, and achieving the first victory of going abroad to participate in the war. Later, he was ordered to recover Tangji, and the whole country rejoiced.
However, the situation on the battlefield changed rapidly, and as the Japanese army invaded the rear of the Chinese army and formed a siege, Dai Anlan broke through and returned to China according to the order. On the way back to China, it was all deep mountains and dense forests, the conditions were extremely harsh, and the soldiers had no food or clothing, and could only fill their hunger with wild grasses and wild vegetables.
In May, the troops were suddenly ambushed by heavy Japanese troops, and in the rain of bullets, General Dai, who personally commanded, was unfortunately hit by enemy bullets and seriously wounded. Soldiers evacuated general Dai on stretchers, and the wounds were inflamed and festering due to the lack of medical treatment. On the 26th, when the troops marched to the Kachin cottage in Maobang, only thirty or forty miles away from the border, General Dai felt that the limit was approaching, ordered the guards to sort out their clothes and crowns, and then martyred the country, with a passion for blood and blood spilled in foreign countries, only 38 years old. Because of the hot weather and the decay of the remains, they had to be cremated, and all the officers and men had tears in their eyes and saluted and saluted. After cremation, officers and soldiers brought the ashes of the general back home. At the beginning, Dai Anlan led 9,000 soldiers of the 200th Division to Burma, only 4,000 people returned home alive, and he and 5,000 soldiers died in battle.
a national funeral
When the officers and men of the 200th Division retreated to the border of Yunnan and Burma, an old overseas Chinese, touched by General Dai's heroic deeds, took the initiative to sacrifice a nanmu coffin of his own and buried the remains of the general. From Yunnan to Guizhou to Guangxi, every time Dai Anlan's coffin arrived, the people spontaneously joined the ranks of greeting and paying homage to the anti-Japanese heroes.
In July, in Quanzhou, Guangxi, the funeral and mourning ceremony of anti-Japanese hero Dai Anlan was solemnly held, with tens of thousands of people participating, when the mountains and rivers whimpered, and the sun and moon were dark. In October, the Nationalist government posthumously awarded Dai Anlan the rank of lieutenant general and approved Dai Anlan's English name to be enshrined in the Nanjing Martyrs' Shrine. Later, the U.S. government awarded him a medal of merit, and General Dai Anlan became the first Chinese soldier to receive the American Medal in the anti-fascist war of World War II.
On April 1, 1943, the Nationalist government held a solemn state funeral for Dai Anlan at xiangshan Temple in Quanzhou, Guangxi, where the expeditionary force departed, with the elegy of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong hanging from the funeral.
Chairman Mao's Union
Mao Zedong's link was: "Foreign insults need to be emperors, and generals are given to Cewei." The division is called mechanization, and it is brave to conquer the tiger. Bloody East Gua Shou, drive Out Tang Ji Gui. The battlefield was killed, and the ambition was not violated. In his lifetime, Mao Zedong only wrote elegy for two generals, one was Marshal Luo Ronghuan and the other was Dai Anlan, which shows the status of General Dai Anlan in Chairman Mao's heart.
Chiang Kai-shek's tie was: "The tiger's head eats meat and bears the burden of heroic capital, looks at the long march, and does not hesitate to fight with the enemy; Ma Ge is wrapped in a corpse and has great ambitions, and it is painful to give false expectations." "
Zhou Enlai's Union
Hearing of Dai Anlan's martyrdom, Zhou Enlai was extremely sorry and wrote down the "Hero of Huangpu, the Hero of the Nation." Dai Anlan, who called himself a seagull before his death, was influenced by Zhou Enlai. It is a pity that he died young and never saw the ocean in his life.
On September 21, 1956, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the New Chinese Government posthumously recognized General Dai Anlan as a revolutionary martyr, and on October 3, Chairman Mao Zedong issued a "Glorious Commemorative Certificate for the Families of Revolutionary Martyrs" to Dai Anlan's bereaved family. General Dai Anlan is also one of the few martyrs recognized by both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and he is already a typical figure who transcends the scope of political ideology.
Tomb of General Dai Anlan
On September 10, 2009, in the selection activity of "100 Heroic Model Figures Who Made Outstanding Contributions to the Founding of New China and 100 Chinese Objects That Touched since the Founding of New China", Dai Anlan was named "100 Heroic Model Figures Who Made Outstanding Contributions to the Founding of New China".
Statue of General Dai Anlan
Dai Anlan was a born soldier, although he was born in a chaotic world, he showed his talents in the war, and he became a major general at the age of 35, full of ambition. When the Wokou invaded, he led his troops in a bloody battle and made great achievements in battle, but unfortunately died in the battle of a foreign country, wrapped in ma ge, and died young. After all, he sacrificed for the country, he was loyal to the nation, his blood stained his robes were red, and ma ge's body was wrapped. He died tragically, he died where he deserved, and he died without complaint. In the 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation, whenever it falls into national peril, it is precisely because of the tens of millions of Dai Anlan-like heroes who have stepped forward and made heroic sacrifices that the Chinese nation has been able to continue to this day, and the blood line has continued.
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