Section 1 The Gaze of an American Journalist I

"The hot climate is not as good as the enthusiasm of the people of China, from the front line of Shanhaiguan to Funing Qian'an, I walked around the east of Hebei, and I can feel the fire-like enthusiasm everywhere, this is the newly recovered area, and it is also one of the areas that have been occupied for the longest time, QВ (5), cOm/net is rapidly updated

Since the first year of the roar in the official records of the "China" country called the Second Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, the "China" team has been banned from entering this area, and the people here have not seen the "China" team for ten years.

After the Lugou Bridge Incident, the local people rose up to riot, and the rebellion was a great success in the early stage, recovering most of the eastern part of Hebei, but it soon failed under the counteroffensive of the troops transferred from the front line by the Japanese themselves, and I interviewed those who participated in the riot and escaped by chance, and they introduced me to the riot seven years ago, so that this unknown riot was clearly displayed in front of us.

The process of the uprising was actually very simple, the "Japan" himself put the main forces into the attack on the "China" domestic land, the east of Hebei was empty, the local GC organization and the National Salvation Association took the opportunity to launch a riot aimed at driving out the "Japan" himself, this riot spread throughout the eight counties of eastern Hebei, and once cut off the railway from Beiping to Shanhaiguan.

In a hurry, he hurriedly transferred back two divisions from the front line to launch a frenzied attack on the rebel troops, who were outnumbered but lacked training and equipment, and most of them were scattered, and a small part was transferred to the pass, where they were quickly defeated by the Japanese army.

If it weren't for him, you wouldn't have thought that he had fought in this bloody battle, and that there was no difference between the ordinary villagers of his village, with a swarthy face and calloused hands with a local white turban on his head.

During the narration, he kept choking and tears flowing, his troops were scattered near the Great Wall, from Qian'an to the Great Wall, along the way were the corpses of the insurgents, and the Japanese himself kept chasing and killing, and when the troops retreated west, the corpses almost blocked the river.

Because of my relationship with the commander of the theater, General Zhuang Wenge, I was given a lot of interview opportunities, and these opportunities gave me access to a lot of things that other reporters had access to.

There are many reasons for the failure of this uprising, but in this uprising, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party behind enemy lines was created, but with the development of the uprising, the two parties inevitably had contradictions, and this contradiction had occurred in many places in the past seven years. The contradiction between them was seized by the "Japan" himself, and under the attack of the "Japan" himself, the armed forces of the two parties could not stand up, and finally the main forces fled into the pass, and only a very small number of people remained.

I once went to Tianjin after the war to cover the news, and I was very shocked by the huge damage to the city of Tianjin, but this kind of destruction seems to be rare in eastern Hebei, where the Japanese army almost withdrew from eastern Hebei, and other cities in eastern Hebei were hardly "devastated" by the war, except for Tangshan, at least it seems to be so. This made me secretly reassured, after all, the restoration and reconstruction of the Pingjin area had already exhausted the people's money bags.

But soon, I learned that I was wrong, and although the rebellion in eastern Hebei failed, the flames of rebellion were planted, and for the next six years, the rebels were active on both sides of the Great Wall, and they used the continuous mountains on both sides of the Great Wall to frequently attack the Japanese army, attacking the Japanese garrison and transports.

This kind of battle is said to be a guerrilla war behind enemy lines, and the battle here does not have the grand scene of the "Zhengfǔ" army, and there is no grandeur of ten thousand cannons, but its cruelty is not inferior to the arduous battle of northern Hubei, the battle of Songhu with amazing losses, and the battle here is often carried out for the fight for dozens of catties of grain or Dan guns.

"Survival here is the first place," said Lao Li, the commander of the local GCD base area, yes, survival is the first place, in order to exterminate the weak resistance team here, along the direction of the Great Wall, the area ten kilometers wide on both sides of the Great Wall became a no-man's land, all the residents of this area were moved, all the refusers were killed, and some villages, the entire village was killed by the Japanese army.

I watched several mass graves, where all the ordinary civilians who were shot by the Japanese army were buried, and the bodies in these mass graves, the youngest was about ** months old, and the oldest was about 70 years old.

The atrocities of the "Japanese" themselves were discovered in various areas of eastern Hebei, and the rapid advance of the "Middle" ** team captured a complete army "prostitutes", which were called comfort fu by the soldiers of the "Japan": I asked the comfort fu managers, these are not like soldiers, but businessmen, and answered our questions very honestly.

Comfort fu is a major feature of the Japanese army, out of a sense of honor, the Japanese officers are reluctant to serve in this kind of role, the same reason that the senior officers are also reluctant to include this kind of organization in the army establishment, so such an organization is given to merchants, but in the army establishment, these people are listed as consumables.

Indeed, they are some consumables, and each comfort fu has to receive an average of hundreds of soldiers every day, and the high intensity and frequent work makes their bodies quickly become numb and tired, or they can contract FU diseases and become unable to work.

The middle-aged man in charge of this team of comfort fu is called Mu Cao, he has been in the country for six years, and has been active in the mountains and other places in Chahar, Henan, and other places, and he has handled thousands of comfort fu people, I asked about the source of the comfort fu, and the grass told me that there are three sources of comfort fu, the poor [Japanese] NV people, the NV people recruited from North Korea, and the [Chinese" NV people captured in the occupied areas.

For the majority of the Chinese and North Korean NVs, they did not come here voluntarily, and this behavior should be defined as organized coercion.

In this war, although the soldiers showed strong combat effectiveness, in most cases, they were outnumbered and could persist in fighting even in the most difficult situations, but on the other hand, the soldiers also showed their other side ~ beast xing.

I have never seen such an army full of beasts, and on many occasions, they have behaved beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, and almost every soldier can be considered a criminal.

They take pleasure in killing, whether it is an elderly man in his seventies or eighties or a child who is a few months old, they can swing a knife without frowning.

They take pleasure in having a strong nose, whether it is a seventy or eighty-year-old old Fu person or a seven or eight-year-old little NV child, they can scream and pounce on it, like a beast that has never seen an NV person.

I used to think, what is it that makes them like this? Is it war?

No, the war also came to China, and the people of China are not like this: the war also came to the United States, and the Americans are not like this: the Soviets, the British, they are also fighting wars, but even in the midst of difficulties, they still maintain the essence of goodness.

Before the war, I had traveled and worked in Japan, and it was clean, gentle, and everyone was so cultured, but what made them people I couldn't know?

With the head of the grass humbled, the heads of the people in kimonos meekly bowed, and the smooth black hair draped over the white neck, I couldn't help but think of Mr. Benedict, who once described the "day" himself, and the blood "liquid" of the "day" himself was full of the tenderness of the chrysanthemum and the coldness of the katana.

It is unimaginable that the chrysanthemum and the katana, two completely different specialties, two contradictory specialties, can appear so perfectly in the same body.

What has happened to this island nation in its long history that has made them so conflicted? This needs to be studied by historians, and this may be a problem for the world.

The seven-year war also made me understand another nation, the Chinese nation, yes, the Chinese nation, this nation with the dragon as its totem.

In the West, the dragon is a symbol of evil, but here, in this ancient country with a 3,000-year-old civilization, its people claim to be descendants of the dragon: but before this war, I was unimpressed.

The dragon, proud, arrogant, and powerful, is the most powerful creature in legend, the ruler of this world: but what about the Chinese? It's so humble, so weak, that for almost a hundred years, almost all powerful countries can take whatever they want from this country, weakness, becoming synonymous with this nation.

There is simply no way to associate them with the proud mighty dragon.

But in this war, we see a completely different China, they are weak and strong, they are full of sacrifice and have the courage to sacrifice. Whether it was in the Songhu battlefield, in the jungle of Burma, or in the North China Plain, in the mountains inside and outside the Great Wall, they all rushed into the fierce artillery fire without hesitation.

They endured unprecedented suffering, endured huge casualties, and from now incomplete statistics, more than four million soldiers were killed during the entire war, from generals to privates, in all ranks.

They lacked material things, from food umbrellas to cloth, but they gritted their teeth and endured it without regrets.

This is a tenacious people, and this tenacity becomes more evident when the suffering is greater, and at this time, it can be found that they are worthy of being the descendants of the dragon, with the perseverance of the dragon, and in the face of the enemy, they are as unattainable as the dragon!!

War, this unavoidable problem, continues, but victory is not far away!

This war will put an end to the 100 years of the "Luàn" of the Chinese country, and with the smooth progress of social reform, this ancient country is full of vitality! Full of hope! Webber pushed open the window, the sun shè came in, squinting at the sun, stretching vigorously to ease his tired waist, bowing his head and blowing out the still dancing oil lamp, putting it away and sealing it in an envelope.

Someone was talking in the courtyard, and Webb could hear it, it was the voices of Bai Xiude and Charles, and he pushed Mén out, and Charles looked at him with red eyes.

"Another all-nighter." Charles laughed.

"No way, the boss asked me to do a series of topics." There was a sense of satisfaction in Weber's expression, among Western journalists, he was the person who had been in China for the longest time, and he had almost never left the battlefield in China, and because of his relationship with Zhuang Jihua, he had access to a large number of first-hand information about the battlefield in China, so the editor-in-chief wanted him to make a series of special topics to give a comprehensive introduction to the war. Keep in mind the URL if you like the sometimes confused writing of "Republic of China Speculators"

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