One day in the summer of 2016, in a small mountain village in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, a middle-aged woman was helping her father clean up the house, she slowly put the old man's clothes, piece by piece, put it in place, this job she has been doing for decades, everything is familiar with the road, but today when she was halfway through, she found an item she had never seen before.
The thing was wrapped in a thick cloth, and it was not light to pick up, and the four sides were square, so she found it curiously, and her father, who was basking in the sun in the courtyard, said: "Dad, what is this, how come I have never seen it, is it yours?" ”
Qian Jianmin
The father, who was basking in the sun in the courtyard, heard his daughter's voice and replied, "Something, take it and let me touch it." ”
Why say touch? That's because the old man had been blind for decades, and something could only be discerned by touch.
During the conversation, the daughter in the house came out and handed the thing to her father, only to see her father touch it simply, ponder for a moment and then say, "This is a Japanese army seal."
The Great Seal of the Japanese Army
Hearing the four words of the Japanese Army Great Seal, the woman was full of shock and muttered in her mouth: "Japanese Army Great Seal, how can my father have this thing?" ”
So she continued to ask her father about the origin of this thing, but the old man did not answer her question and lay down in his chair without saying a word. Seeing that her father did not want to say that she did not continue to ask questions.
But this only aroused her curiosity, taking advantage of her father's lack of preparation, secretly took the big seal to the local government, hoping to help identify the authenticity of the big seal. I didn't expect the conclusion to be true, and it was the infamous japanese 18th Army Command at the time.
Japanese 18th Army
But this makes everyone even more confused.
What is the identity of this old man? Why is there a Japanese army seal in the family? What kind of simple and mysterious things are hidden in the middle?
All of this must start from which era of war.
The old man's name is Qian Jianmin, born in 1922 in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, in that turbulent era, the people do not have a good life, Qian Jianming's family is naturally no exception, his father in order to get rid of this life, he gave him the name of Jianmin, hoping that he can build the country and the nation when he grows up, it can be said that he has been given high hopes since he was a child.
Army Mechanization School
And Qian Jianmin also lived up to his father's trust, studied hard from an early age, step by step, and finally with excellent results, he was admitted to the "Army Mechanization School", when he was only 18 years old.
After entering the school, he continued to immerse himself in hard study, because he knew what he would do after learning, from warlord melee to anti-Japanese war, he had experienced too much. As long as the war does not stop for a moment, the lives of the common people will not be good for a day, and the only thing he hopes for now is to learn as soon as possible, join the troops, and fight the Japanese invaders back to their hometowns.
And this school is not an ordinary school, it has trained many famous anti-Japanese generals, and the principal Xu Tingyao is praised by posterity as the father of the armored army.
Time flew by, and at the end of his three-year study career, Qian Jianmin successfully passed the examination, was admitted by the armored unit, and became an excellent tank driver, but what he did not expect was that he did not join the domestic battle, but went to the border battlefield.
★ Qian Jianmin's expeditionary career
Because Japan's ambitions are not limited to China, their purpose is to occupy this Asia, and while the domestic battles are becoming white-hot, they set their sights on Southeast Asia, and due to Japan's advanced weapons and equipment, the troops in Southeast Asia are gradually retreating.
Burmese Japanese Army
The most serious was the Burmese region, and even the burmese capital, Yangon, was occupied by the Japanese, and this attacking force was the Japanese 18th Division, that is, the brigade of the Great Indian.
Why is this team notorious, because it participated in the Nanjing Massacre and caused unforgettable pain to our people.
Having said that, after occupying Rangoon, this team did not stop the pace of aggression, continued to attack other cities in Burma, and even wanted to blow up the Burma Road, which is an important supply and supply transportation road for our country, including Britain and the United States, and once occupied by the Japanese army, it will bring devastating disasters.
Chinese Expeditionary Force
Therefore, it was agreed by the three countries that the United States would send weapons and materials, and china would be responsible for transporting troops and jointly organizing the Japanese invasion, and since then, the Chinese Expeditionary Force has been established.
And Qian Jianmin was also selected to become a member of the expeditionary force, and Qian Jianmin was very happy to learn the news.
No matter where it is, as long as it can fight the Japanese devils, it is to avenge the Chinese people.
But when he came to the Burmese battlefield, Qian Jianmin found that this was completely different from the battlefield he imagined, because Myanmar was different from the country, there were no plains and slopes, and there was no dry air. There was only the countless jungles, and the incessant rain.
Junior Expeditionary Force
Fighting here made it difficult for him to survive, not only affecting their physical health, but also affecting their weapons and equipment, unable to exert their strongest combat effectiveness, and even his tanks were often entangled in vines and could not continue to move forward.
But he knew that the Japanese army would not leave them much time, and could only adjust their state as soon as possible to adapt themselves to this environment, so under the leadership of Qian Jianmin, many soldiers joined the field training.
After a few days of training, the soldiers gradually adapted to this environment, and Qian Jianmin's wisdom was also praised by the organization, and he was appointed as the leader of the lieutenant tactical team.
In the ensuing battles, Qian Jianmin rushed to the forefront every time, commanding the entire battalion of chariots, and it was not an exaggeration to describe it as not having any grass in the place where he passed.
In March 1944, Qian Jianmin successfully dismantled the headquarters of the 18th Division, it was early one morning, Qian Jianmin led several soldiers to explore a forest, just when they reached a small hillside, found that there were many thatched huts at the edge of the forest, and the crowds were surging, at first Qian Jianmin thought it was the villagers here, but after careful observation, they found that they were all yellow-skinned, not at all like the locals.
Expeditionary Force ambush
Qian Jianmin did not dare to be sloppy, and moved forward a little closer, which determined that they were Japanese. And there were a lot of them, it seemed that they had just gotten up, and Qian Jianmin immediately returned to the garrison with several comrades-in-arms around him.
Qian Jianmin did not stop for a moment, and immediately ordered: "Comrades, the enemy forces have been discovered in the front and are ready for battle!" ”
Then tanks drove in a mighty way toward the place they had just been.
At this time, the Japanese troops, who were preparing to eat, saw hordes of tank troops fleeing in all directions. But this unit was, after all, the ace of the Japanese army, and the leading commander immediately reacted and ordered an attack on the tank troops.
★ The heroic life of armored soldier Qian Jianmin
How strong the tanks were, and it was in the case that the Japanese army was unprepared, Qian Jianmin saw that the Japanese army was ready to resist, and immediately ordered all the tanks to bomb the enemy camp, and the commander of the Japanese army also wanted to use armored vehicles to face the tanks, but before it was started, it was blown up, and the angry commander had to order his men to shoot back.
But to hit the tank with a rifle was to hit the stone with a pebble, and soon the Japanese army was defeated, and many thatched huts were destroyed, and even the commander died under the bombardment of the artillery.
The expeditionary force inside the house
After the battle, Qian Jianmin and others annihilated the enemy with very few casualties, and when cleaning up the battlefield, Qian Jianmin discovered that it was the enemy's headquarters, which contained a large number of documents and equipment, as well as countless weapons and equipment, and this surprise battle brought great gains to the expeditionary force.
Not only this, in a drawer, a soldier found an unprecedented trophy, this is the big seal, it is well known that in ancient China only the emperor had this kind of big seal, the soldiers stared at this big seal to see the past, soon Qian Jianmin also found this situation, after learning that it was the big seal he was also very happy, because it meant that the 18th Division was completely annihilated.
Later, in order to commend Qian Jianmin's outstanding contributions in the battle, the chief of the us general staff decided to give this big seal to Qian Jianmin as a souvenir, which is also the origin of the big seal in the article.
In 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was nearing its end, and Qian Jianmin was also transferred from the tank corps to the logistics unit, responsible for driving to rescue refugees in Guizhou, but unfortunately encountered bandit attacks on the way.
Due to the suddenness of the incident, a bullet instantly shattered the glass next to him, and all the debris generated by the glass entered his eyes, and the severe pain made him almost faint, but he persevered with his tenacious will and escorted the refugees in the car safely to the designated place.
The warrior was wounded
However, because of the interval between this time, his eyes missed the best treatment time, and after the doctor's efforts to rescue, he still failed to save his eyes and lost the light forever. In order not to drag down the organization he chose to retire.
Returning to his long-lost hometown, living the life of an ordinary person, through the introduction of the villagers, marrying a woman with the same physical defects, the two depended on each other, although the days were hard, but the two lived happily, and he did not tell anyone about that experience, including his wife and children, and the Japanese army seal was also hidden by him.
Qian Jianmin and his daughter
Until more than 70 years later, the daughter unintentionally turned over the long-hidden Japanese army seal, his identity has to be exposed, the local government learned of the deeds of the elderly, have come to comfort, and proposed to the elderly to apply for subsidies, but all rejected by the elderly.
After refusing, the old man seemed to remember something, and said: "I do have a small wish, that is, I hope to touch our country's tanks, although I have seen them on the battlefield in the past, but they are Americans, and now our country is strong and has its own tanks, I really want to touch it with my own hands." ”
After listening to the old hero's words, the government personnel immediately began to contact. Soon, an armored unit in Suzhou agreed to this, and at the end of 2016, it personally invited the old hero to visit the military region, and arranged for six tanks to greet him at the door.
Although he knew that Qian Lao was blind in both eyes, the etiquette naturally could not be less, and hundreds of soldiers stood neatly and saluted the old hero with a standard military salute.
Qian Jianmin touched the tank
Next, a captain supported Elder Qian, touched six tanks in turn, and at that moment, it seemed to go back to decades ago, and that period of glory once again poured into Elder Qian's mind.
On February 9, 2018, the old hero Qian Jianmin passed away at the age of 96.
He used his life's experience to tell us about the great spirit of communism. Without their efforts, we would not have had a good life now.
Qian Jianmin's old hero died
With this article, I would like to pay tribute to the old hero of Qian Jianmin! Salute to all the martyrs who shed blood and sacrificed for new China!