There was a famous hot spring pass battle in history. Relying on the superior terrain of this narrow pass, the Spartan army resisted for three days and blocked the Persian army, which was dozens of times its own. What most people don't know is that there is a similar battle in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Sichuan Army.
More than 70 years ago, in Licheng County, Shanxi Province, which is 0/300 kilometers away from Chengdu, Sichuan, there was such a Sichuan army team, wearing hats, sandals and carrying extremely simple equipment. Under the leadership of General Li Jiayu, the Japanese invasion of China was blocked in Dongyang Pass for several days, and more than 2,000 soldiers of the Sichuan Army were buried in the battlefield in wyndell dichinson, and the heroes lived in a foreign land forever. The cemetery is unknown.
At 8: 00 a.m. on September 27th, more than 0 descendants of the local Sichuan Army team/KLOC-0 gathered under the memorial of Sichuan Army killed in the Anti-Japanese War in People's Park, held a simple launching ceremony and drove to Licheng County, Shanxi Province. On September 30th, when the first national legal martyrs' memorial day is coming, they will participate in a large-scale commemorative activity of "Remembering Heroes and Realizing the Dream of Sichuan Army" in Dongyang Pass, Shanxi Province, looking for the footprints that their fathers once fought.
A battle
A bloody battle in Dongyang, Shanxi, 2000 Sichuan Army in a foreign land in wyndell dichinson.
1September, 937, in order to save the nation, Li Jiayu, commander of the 47th Army and a native of Pujiang, Sichuan, was ordered to lead the 47th Army to set off from Xichang, pass through Chengdu, and go north along Sichuan-Shaanxi Road to resist Japan. Tens of thousands of Sichuan army soldiers traveled long distances for more than 40 days and arrived at the anti-Japanese front line in Shanxi. At this time, it was already a cold winter in Shanxi, and the ammunition of the Sichuan Army was in short supply. 1937165438+1October, the 47th Army of Sichuan Army178th Division went to Licheng area to intercept the Japanese invasion of Dongyang Pass. 1938 In February, after the fall of Taiyuan, the Japanese army attacked Dongyang Pass through Handan, Wu 'an and Shexian, trying to expel the 47 troops stationed in Changzhi. The Japanese army attacked for three days and nights and failed to cross Dongyang Pass.
However, in the end, the Japanese army led the way to attack Licheng by traitors. 18 at 4: 00 am, the 47th Army, which had been caught in two attacks, was forced to withdraw from the Dongyangguan position.
In this campaign, the Japanese army suffered casualties 1000 people, and the 47th Army fought bravely against the enemy, and sacrificed more than 2,000 people heroically.
memorial hall
More than a dozen descendants of the Sichuan army traveled thousands of miles to find the footprints of their fathers' anti-Japanese war.
At about 7: 00 am on the 27th, more than a dozen descendants of Sichuan Army came to the monument of Sichuan Army martyrs early. After completing the ceremony, they trudged 1000 kilometers with greetings from the people of Sichuan to pay homage to the martyrs in Licheng County, Shanxi Province.
Liu Yunyong, the 72-year-old editor-in-chief of Chuanjun Anti-Japanese War Biography, told reporters, "I'm old, and my children at home won't let me go, so I'll' estimate' to come. I have always wanted to see it, which is also a wish. "
A list
107 sacrificed the 72-year-old man in Pujiang, Sichuan for 29 years.
Along the way, Longteng, a 72-year-old retired employee of Pujiang County Cultural Relics Management Office, kept looking at a five-page list in his hand. The list is full of Sichuan soldiers' names, totaling 107.
Longteng said that it took 29 years to sort out this list by looking through all the county records of Sichuan Province and Chongqing in Sichuan Provincial Archives, Chengdu Archives, Pujiang County Archives and Sichuan Provincial Library. In Sichuan Archives, Longteng got a pleasant surprise. He found the monument set by the people of Licheng for the soldiers who died in the Sichuan army. The monument records in detail all the soldiers killed by the 47th Army in this battle, including 34 soldiers from Sichuan.
Longteng's list is getting thicker every day, but it is still only a small part of more than 2,000 sacrificed soldiers. "I will use my life's energy to restore this history, and I think everyone can remember them." Longteng said.
A witness
The only surviving old Sichuan Army of the 47th Army "I dream of going back to Shanxi"
At that time, tens of thousands of Sichuan army soldiers fought bloody battles with the Japanese aggressors. However, after the tragic battlefield and the passage of time, there are very few Laochuan Army of the 47 th Army participating in the Anti-Japanese War in Shanxi. With the help of Sichuan Bashu Anti-Japanese War History Institute, the reporter of Huaxi Dushi Bao found Zheng Weibang, the only surviving veteran, in a yard in the eastern part of the Second Ring Road in Chengdu.
1937, Zheng Weibang participated in the 47th Army led by Li Jiayu in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Sichuan. 194 1 year, Zheng Weibang and his party were ordered to sneak attack the Yuncheng airport in Shanxi occupied by Japanese troops. "We ambushed outside the airport, ready to drill through the barbed wire when the enemy's defense was lax," Zheng Weibang recalled. Who knows that the seven or eight brothers who just climbed up have been silent, only to find that "the barbed wire is charged, and then the engineer cut off the power and just got them down, they were discovered." We ran to the field and most of those brothers died. "
"When I participated in the Battle of Zhongtiaoshan in Shanxi, I accidentally stepped on a mine, and four toes of my right foot were blown off, and my thighs and abdomen were also hit by shrapnel. At that time, medical conditions were limited, and there was no anesthetic, so just a few people pressed it. The doctor cut a hole with a knife and took out the shrapnel one by one with pliers. I fainted at that time. " Zheng Weibang took off his shoes and pointed to his toes. Later, he connected three, and his right ear was shocked. "I was not killed, which means I still have life to fight."
When I learned about the activity of "Remembering Heroes and Realizing Dreams" and invited him to Shanxi, "I dreamed of going back to Shanxi, seeing where I fought and burning some paper for my brothers who left first." Zheng Lao is very sorry, because it is a long way from Sichuan to Shanxi and he is in poor health, so he can't make it. "Maybe there will be no more opportunities in the future, and I can only meet the following comrades."
There is another item in the above questionnaire: "What do you think China will be like in ten years?" One of the answers, "the clear mother river in the metropolis", appeals to me very much. This answer is quite popular and should be said to be patriotic. This is an expected answer after really observing the state and citizens and reflecting on the relationship between obligations and rights. At the same time, the answer of "panda eating bamboo" is also an expression of patriotic feelings, which is not only vivid, but also reflects the changes of young people's feelings for the country with the changes of years.
The strength of the country is first and foremost the strength of everyone, which is a way for every citizen's personal rights and dignity to be gradually respected and stretched.
To be patriotic, we must first understand the meaning of the country and think about "what the country has done for me and what I have done for the country". Xiong Peiyun once had a wonderful metaphor for this country. He said that the country is like a jewel box, and citizens are the jewels in the box. In order to protect jewelry from damage, "jewelry box" is meaningful. Similarly, jewelry is safest only if the jewelry box is not damaged.