Huai'an County, located at the junction of the three provinces of Jin, Mongolia and Hebei, in ancient times, undertook the burden of border defense and mule and horse mutual city, and its geographical location was extremely important, and it has always been a place where soldiers and families must fight. In the second year of Emperor Muzong's Changqing in the Tang Dynasty, he was called Huai'an because "the imperial court gave benevolent government, and the people were gracious and peaceful".
Today, Huai'an has traveled thousands of years, gushing out one historical celebrity after another. Today we focus on the historical figures of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, General Samurai Min.
General Samurai Min
Samurai Min (1892~1941)
Wu Shimin, also known as Mian Zhi, was born in 1892 in Huai'an County, Hebei Province.
At a young age, Wu Shimin was intelligent and studious, and was admitted to Xuanhua Middle School in 1908, and later studied at the Tianjin Beiyang Law and Politics School and the Baoding Martial Arts School. In 1915, he participated in the struggle to protect the Fa and fight against Yuan. In 1918, he went to Shaanxi to join the Jingguo Army, was sent south to Guangzhou by the Jingguo Army, met Sun Yat-sen, and was taught and praised by Sun Yat-sen. During the Great Revolution in 1924, he was appointed to contact the Nationalist Army's Feng Yuxiang, Hu Jingyi and other departments, and from then on he turned to Ji, Lu, and Yu, and fought against the Beiyang warlords many times. In 1925, he led the army to conquer Cangzhou, cut off the Jinpu Road, and enabled the Nationalist army to successfully capture Tianjin, showing excellent military command skills. After the defeat of the Nationalist Army, he and The Southern Han Chen went to the Soviet Union for an inspection, returned to China in 1927, and at the invitation of Yang Hucheng, successively served as the brigade commander, division commander, and commander of the Tongguan garrison of the Northwest Army. During the Xi'an Incident, he resolutely supported Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng's righteous deeds, opposed Chiang Kai-shek's pro-Japanese and anti-communist policies, and made positive contributions to realizing the second Kuomintang-Communist cooperation and unanimous unity against Japan.
After the "July 7" incident, With the determination to resist Japan and save the country, Wu Shimin led his troops out of Shaanxi, crossed the Yellow River, rushed to the front line of Niangziguan to block the Japanese invading army's southward advance into the west, and coordinated with the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army along the Zhengtai Road, and then circled with the Japanese in the Taihang and Taiyue mountains. In 1938, he coordinated with Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army, and Peng Dehuai, deputy commander-in-chief, to smash the "Nine-Way Siege" and "Eight Encirclement and Suppression" of the Japanese Kou, and open up the Nanyue Anti-Japanese Base Area. In particular, in the two ambush battles of Zihongkou and Tianshenshan, he cooperated with the generals of the Eighth Route Army and defeated the 109th Division of the Japanese Kou, which made the Japanese Kou feel frightened. At the same time, Samurai Min was promoted to commander of the Ninety-eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army.
In May 1941, the Japanese gathered 60,000 troops to attack Tiaoshan by separate routes, and the main force of the 200,000 defenders of the Kuomintang broke through across the Yellow River after suffering heavy casualties, and General Wu Shimin, in order to firmly resist the Japanese, led his troops resolutely north, entered the Taiyue Mountains, and shifted their garrisons around Duanshi and Dongyu in Qinshui County, waiting for the opportunity to attack the enemy. In mid-September 1941, the enemy army concentrated more than 25,000 people in the main force of Linfen, Jincheng, Pingyao, Jiexiu and other places, and the land and air coordinated to besiege the Taiyue Mountains. During the breakout, The samurai Min personally came to Matou Mountain to command the battle, fought hard with the enemy and rushed to kill, the position changed hands several times, and the casualties were extremely heavy. In the midst of the fierce battle, Samurai Min was unfortunately shot in the head and died for the country, at the age of 49.
Statue of General Samurai Min
At the last moment, General Wu Shimin wrote a letter to his wife who was far away in Xi'an: "On the 22nd, the 30,000 troops of the Japanese Kou surrounded Dongyu with an iron wall, and I am ready to sacrifice. Word by word, the heroic spirit of the general's country is difficult to take the lead and regard death as a homecoming is all touching!
(The above information comes from the Internet)
Our current good life is all bought by heroes with their lives! No matter when and where, we must remember that blood-stained history and strive to be strong. Now China is no longer the time to be slaughtered, we have the ability to protect our own homeland!