0405 Flesh and blood can really build a great wall of steel

After recalling the whole process of General Wang Mingzhang's martyrdom, Wang Liang didn't want to say a word.

He just wants to be quiet, finish reading the Sichuan Army Anti-Japanese War Museum, and don't leave a single detail behind.

It's a refresher on the old days.

Everyone has the right to forget, but Wang Liang cannot.

Because, the Sichuan army, with him, is connected by blood.

Before the Anti-Japanese War, the Sichuan warlords were famous for their notoriety in the civil war.

None of the generals of the Sichuan army were from famous families in Huangpu, and the Sichuan army was generally of low quality, with poor weapons and equipment, and was called a miscellaneous army among the miscellaneous armies.

Although the Sichuan army also participated in battles such as the defense of Yuan, they did not have many remarkable achievements in the battle.

The battle against the Red Army under the leadership of the Communist Party was even more defeated.

Such an army is not treated well by Chang Kaishen and the Central Army under his command.

But it is such a ragtag army that is disheveled, poorly equipped, and rarely paid for the army.

After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, they did not retreat when they were in the rear thousands of miles away from the Japanese invaders, but resolutely bid farewell to their relatives in their hometown. Dressed in rags and straw sandals, he traveled thousands of miles to the front line of resistance against Japan.

During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, 3 million children of Sichuan people joined the army to participate in the war, and the number of participants and the tragic sacrifices ranked first in the country.

The Sichuan army participated in almost all major battles, and one out of every ten anti-Japanese soldiers killed in the battle was a Sichuan soldier.

As a result, the country's perception of the Sichuan Army at that time was completely subverted.

In recent years, for some reason, Wang Liang has heard fewer and fewer mentions of the Sichuan army.

Sichuan Army, can't be forgotten!

No matter what time it is, the Sichuan army will never be forgotten.

Walking through the exhibition hall, Wang Liang flipped through a history book called "Wang Mingzhang's Martyrdom and the Sichuan Army's War of Resistance".

There is the most authentic record on it: "In September 1937, the 20th Army of the Sichuan Army went to Shanghai to participate in the war under the leadership of Yang Sen. The army was the poorest in the Sichuan army and the poorest equipped. ”

"The 20th Division of the 26th Army was equipped with a company, with only eighty or ninety soldiers, only one light machine gun and fifty or sixty rifles. Some of the guns have been used for too long and are too old, and there are no more double lines, and there are a few rifle handles tied with hemp rope to prevent loss, and the weapons are inferior, you can imagine ......"

"But with such equipment, Yang Sen's 20th Army and 26th Division became one of the five divisions with the best record in the Battle of Songhu, which is enough to show the bravery of the Sichuan army."

It is also enough to show the stupidity and incompetence of the Central Army.

"The officers and soldiers of the 20th Division of the 26th Army paid a heavy price in the Songhu battlefield, and two of the four regiment commanders of the division were killed. Fourteen battalion commanders suffered 13 casualties, and company and platoon commanders suffered more than 250 casualties. ”

"There are only three or five soldiers left in each company, and at most eight or nine...... There were more than 4,000 people in the division, and only more than 600 remained after this battle. ”

"The 80th Regiment of the 26th Division was ordered to recover the lost position, and the regiment commander Xiang Wenbin led his troops to fight fiercely that night and recaptured the position, but the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment, the battalion commander was only Peng Huanwen, the company platoon commander was either injured or killed, and none of them were spared, the platoon commander was left with four, and there were only more than 120 soldiers left! Within three hours of a day, Xiang Wenbin was promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel, and from colonel to major general. ”

That's the historical truth.

Wang Liang browsed word by word.

At the same time, I am relieved and a little sad.

It is gratifying that someone has not forgotten them and has made a record for them, so that when future generations want to know about this history, it will be well documented.

Wang Liang was sad that those ordinary soldiers who died in battle, not to mention the video materials, even their names could not be left.

Wang Liang remembered that in 1944, the Sichuan people established a monument to the soldiers of the Sichuan army in the Chengmen Cave of the East Gate of Chengdu, also known as the bronze statue of the unknown hero.

The bronze statue is of a young National Revolutionary soldier, wearing tattered straw sandals, shorts, an old-fashioned military uniform, leggings, two wooden-handled grenades on his chest, and a large knife and a bamboo hat on his back.

Holding an old rifle with a bayonet in his hand, he leaned forward, leaned forward and strode forward to charge, his form was mighty, and his resolute face was facing the east.

Outside the East Gate of Chengdu, it was from here that the soldiers of the Sichuan Army went out of Sichuan to participate in the Anti-Japanese War.

Many people never came back.

The ragged clothes and worn equipment of the young soldiers on the sculpture are a true portrayal of history.

The soldiers of the Sichuan Army back then had such ragged clothes and shabby equipment.

Most of their rifles are Sichuan-made singles, and their power can make do with a local chicken or rabbit, and even the grenades are Sichuan-made twist grenades, which are inferior equipment that cannot be used at all in the eyes of the world at that time.

But these soldiers, who were born in troubled times and many of whom could not even write their own names, were loyal to the country and the nation.

Wang Liang really didn't dare to think about it, didn't dare to think about it.

That statue, that young national revolutionary soldier, is the embodiment of three million Sichuan army soldiers.

It carries the thoughts and concerns of countless martyrs.

Every year during the Qingming Festival, there will be countless Sichuan people silently put flowers in front of the monument, and then leave silently.

In the sixties and seventies of the last century, the storm came as scheduled, and this landmark building in Chengdu, the bronze statue of countless Sichuan people who missed their relatives was smashed on the charge of being a ruffian of the Kuomintang.

Twenty years later, the statue was erected again.

But when Wang Liang walked to the bronze statue again, he felt different and changed.

"The 134th Division of the Sichuan Army in the Battle of Nanxiang"

Wang Liang recognized the author of this book, Hu Yichu, who was a second lieutenant trainee officer at the regimental headquarters of the 805th Regiment of the 124th Division of the 20th Army of the Sichuan Army.

There is a passage in the book that reads: "The casualties of our regiment were also very large. It is really appalling, the trench is about two meters deep, at the beginning of the war, people have to stand on the foot pit to see, and then the trench is gradually filled with the flesh and blood of the soldiers, at this time the pile of dead bodies is higher than the trench, and the living people use the flesh and blood of the martyrs as a cover to continue to fight the enemy...... In the end, only 150 officers and men remained in the whole regiment, many of whom were slightly wounded and did not leave the unit. ”

Wang Liang gently stroked every line and word in the book, and through the words, he could see the tragic situation at that time.

Get up! People who don't want to be slaves!

Build our flesh and blood into our new Great Wall!

The Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time, and everyone is forced to let out the last roar.

The national anthem, the national anthem that everyone sings.

Build our new Great Wall with flesh and blood.

Only these veterans who participated in the war know that this is not an exaggeration, and flesh and blood can really build a long city.