0406 The people of Sichuan have never lost the country, and now there are difficulties, and the people of Sichuan will not live up to Sichuan!

[List of Sichuan Army Establishments and Commanders during the Anti-Japanese War. 】

[Before the Sichuan army left Sichuan, a pledge meeting was held in Chengdu Shaocheng Park, and the whole people hated the enemy, and people from all walks of life went to encourage and bid farewell. Figure]

["Give me the hoe, you take the gun!" "Propaganda poster of the Anti-Japanese War in Sichuan Province that year. 】

[A ring made from the wreckage of a Japanese plane was given to those who donated money to save the country. 】

[The kimchi jar that every household in Sichuan can't live without is also fired with the oath of the Anti-Japanese War to the end, and the porcelain cockade of the anti-Japanese Sichuan army is arranged into a strong man. 】

[An ordinary father's edict to send his son to join the army: I don't want you to be filial to me before I am near, but I only want you to be loyal to the nation...... The son of the army was instructed to "wipe the blood when he was wounded, wrap himself after death, move forward bravely, and never forget his duty". 】

[Xinhua Ribao's editorial on October 8, 1945, thanked the Sichuan army and the Sichuan people for their great contributions on the frontal battlefield. 】

The collections in the exhibition hall evoke Wang Liang's memories of an era he was familiar with.

Many times, when he closes his eyes, he is always able to think of those people and events in the past.

Wang Liang really wants to go again.

Then share the same hatred with those good brothers and kill a few more Japanese devils.

For today's post-60s, post-70s, and even post-80s, there is always a special memory that they will miss for a lifetime.

The same is true of Wang Liang, who came from the war years.

The visit to the Sichuan Army Anti-Japanese War Museum has come to an end, and at the end, the performance of the Sichuan Army in the late stage of the Anti-Japanese War.

To sum it up in one sentence: In the later stage of the war, the Sichuan army considered itself a miscellaneous team and a supporting role, and its enthusiasm for the War of Resistance was exhausted.

Wang Liang knows that there are many reasons why the enthusiasm of the Sichuan army for the War of Resistance has been exhausted.

On January 20, 1938, Liu Xiang, the commander of the Sichuan Army, died of illness.

The Sichuan army then lost its backbone, then gradually split up, and then marginalized.

Whether it is weapons and equipment, logistics support, or rewards and punishments, they cannot be compared with the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army and other powerful factions.

In the middle and late stages of the Anti-Japanese War, the enthusiasm of the Sichuan army for the war of resistance was also exhausted by this injustice within the Chinese army, and negativity began to breed.

In the later large-scale battles, the performance of the Sichuan army was mediocre, far less than the initial one.

The most typical example is Li Jiayu, commander-in-chief of the 36th Group Army of the Sichuan Army.

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Jiayu's 47th Army was quite combat-effective, especially in the Battle of Dongyang Pass and the Battle of Changzhi City.

However, according to the chief of staff of the 36th Group Army, Zhang Zhonglei, recalled.

In the later stages of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Jiayu became very passive in the war.

During the Battle of Central Henan in the spring of 1944, Li Jiayu gathered the headquarters and officers of the 47th Army at or above the colonel level, and said: "This war depends on Tang Enbo's play. After the gong and drum are played, watch how he sings. He has a large army, many methods, and is easy to make contributions. We're just supporting characters in this play! ”

Wang Liang knew very well why Li Jiayu said this, and his heart was already broken.

The reason why Li Jiayu said this was because Chen Tie, a general of the Guizhou Army who had the same illness as the Sichuan army, completely understood him: "If Chairman Jiang's descendants, such as Tang Enbo and Hu Zongnan, ask for money and weapons, no matter what they want, they will give them to them." If it is a powerful motley team, like Yan Laoxi and the like, Chairman Jiang is afraid that they will make trouble, so he must give them some benefits. It's just us, and we're not a lineage, and we're not a motley team with power, so there's very little way to do it. ”

It didn't take long for Li Jiayu, the commander-in-chief of the group army, to talk to the army commanders and division commanders under his command with these words.

It is precisely because of this negative attitude that Li Jiayu was unwilling to adopt the multiple strategies of his subordinates to take the initiative to block, and finally died in the process of fleeing west in defeat.

On May 21, 1944, Li Jiayu led the officers and soldiers of the group army headquarters to clash left and right, and fell into a Japanese ambush circle in Qinjiapo.

Under the intensive fire of the Japanese army, more than 200 officers and men of the headquarters were martyred.

Li Jiayu was hit in the forehead and left armpit by bullets and shrapnel grenades, and eventually died of excessive bleeding.

Wang Liang hugged and said: "Because it is not a descendant and does not have a certain strength, in the battle, the Sichuan army is always arranged to charge and the task of the palace, and is used as worthless cannon fodder......"

"During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in addition to the 22nd and 23rd Group Armies, the Sichuan Army also had two batches of Sichuan Army out of the Sichuan War of Resistance, namely: the 29th Group Army Commander-in-Chief Wang Zhuxu was under the jurisdiction of two armies, the 30th Group Army Commander-in-Chief Wang Lingji was under the jurisdiction of two armies, and the 36th Group Army Commander-in-Chief Li Jiayu was under the jurisdiction of two armies and the independent 35th Brigade of Brigade Commander Li Zongjian."

"During the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, more than 400,000 Sichuan troops went out of Sichuan to resist the war. This does not include subsequent self-replenishment of the troops. The third phase of the Sichuan Army sent troops to resist the war and participated in almost all the major battles on the frontal battlefield. According to incomplete statistics, more than 263,000 people sacrificed their lives for the country in the battle, more than 356,000 were wounded, and more than 26,000 were missing. ”

"In the Anti-Japanese War, Rao Guohua, Wang Mingzhang, Xu Guozhang, Li Jiayu and other senior generals of the Sichuan Army were martyred."

This is the eight-year War of Resistance in Wang Liang's eyes, and it was the Japanese who resisted it.

The 400,000 Sichuan troops were only a small part of the contribution of the Sichuan people to the War of Resistance Against Japan, and Sichuan's contribution to the War of Resistance was also the largest in the country.

Due to the serious loss of soldiers in the Anti-Japanese War, the task of recruiting soldiers in various places was increased.

"During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the total number of conscripts nationwide was more than 14 million, and 3.2 million were conscripted in Sichuan, accounting for one-fifth. Known as Bechuan does not form an army. ”

If Wang Liang is allowed to sit down and talk about it, he can talk about the anti-Japanese affairs of the Sichuan army alone, and he can talk about it for three days and three nights in a row.

Eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, where can I do it for three days and three nights?

How can we tell the story of the three million Sichuan army in three days and three nights?

has walked out of the Sichuan Army Anti-Japanese War Hall, but Wang Liang is still unwilling: "In addition, during the eight-year Anti-Japanese War, Sichuan also requisitioned a large number of migrant workers for national defense project construction and local construction. At that time, more than 2.5 million people were recruited from Sichuan to build the Sichuan-Shaanxi, Sichuan-Yunnan, Sichuan-Guizhou, Sichuan-Hunan, Yunnan-Burma and other transportation roads that were rushed to be repaired based in Sichuan. ”

"Thirty-three new air bases have been built in Sichuan, with a total of 900,000 people recruited before and after. The total number of workers recruited for the two items is more than 3.4 million. ”

"It's not just people, Sichuan also contributed the most money for the Anti-Japanese War. During the most difficult period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Sichuan bore 30 percent of the state's total financial expenditure. ”

Wang Liang continued: "During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the country spent a total of 1,464 billion legal currency, and Sichuan paid 440 billion yuan. ”

"Sichuan also produced the most grain, only in the four years from 1941 to 1945, Sichuan expropriated a total of 82.286 million stone of rice, accounting for 39 percent of the total amount of rice collected in the country."

Wang Liang will always remember these numbers, and remember them clearly.

"The people of Sichuan have fulfilled their greatest and heaviest responsibilities for the frontal battlefield. The people of Sichuan have never lost the country, and now there are difficulties, and the people of Sichuan will not live up to Sichuan! ”

The same was true on 12 May 2008.