The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 580
On July 14, [-], the Marco Polo Bridge incident broke out, and the eight-year anti-Japanese war began.If you count carefully, the War of Resistance Against Japan actually lasted [-] years, starting on September [-], [-], and ending on September [-], [-].

The Anti-Japanese War was the most difficult and great war against aggression in the history of the Chinese nation.

The Songhu Anti-Japanese War was the prelude to China's all-out anti-Japanese war.

Back to July [-], [-].

The location is Shanghai.

Shanghai was a well-known international metropolis in the Far East at that time, with a population of 300 million, and expatriates from more than 50 countries settled here. Among the settlers, the Japanese were the most, accounting for more than half of the foreigners in Shanghai. They mainly gathered It is located in the public concession and cross-border road construction area in the HK area of ​​Shanghai. Therefore, the Hongkou area is also known as "Little Tokyo".

This day is definitely a festive day for Shanghai, because this day is the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Shanghai listed government.

Then on this night, the Japanese army launched an incident at Marco Polo Bridge on the outskirts of Beiping, and then bombarded Wanping City, and the full-scale war of aggression against China began.

In July when the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" broke out, the Japanese Marine Corps increased its strength, built fortifications, and conducted exercises day and night at various transportation points in Hongkou, Shanghai, causing panic.The Japanese nationals along the Yangtze River began to evacuate, and the Chinese people living in the Chinese circles in Shanghai also entered the concession to escape.

The wind and rain are about to come in Shanghai.

Interestingly, since the September [-]th Incident, Japan has stationed a marine corps in Shanghai. They often provoke troubles for various reasons. In fact, since this time, Japan's wolfish ambitions have been exposed.

In [-], the Japanese Navy created the [-] Incident in Shanghai, and the troops were divided into three groups to raid the Zhabei area.At that time, there were national army troops in Shanghai, which was the [-]th Route Army. The [-]th Route Army rose up to resist and swore to defend Shanghai to the death.The Shanghai battlefield endangered the capital Jianye, so the bald head sent the Fifth Army of the Central Army to the Songhu battlefield to support the [-]th Route Army.

The January 87th Incident ended with the victory of the national army. At that time, the 88th and [-]th divisions of the [-]th Route Army and the [-]th Army were mainly used. The Japanese army increased its troops three times and changed its commander four times. The peak was [-] troops. Hundreds of planes were dispatched, and even an aircraft carrier was dispatched.

However, in the subsequent signing of the "Songhu Armistice Agreement", it was stipulated that Shanghai was designated as a demilitarized zone, and the Japanese army returned to the pre-war defense zone in Hongkou and other places, while the Chinese army had to withdraw from Shanghai and was not allowed to garrison in Shanghai.

With the beginning of the July [-]th Incident, Beiping and Tianjin fell one after another. The Japanese army invaded Nankou and the Great Wall passes along the route, intending to advance rapidly along the three lines of Jinpu, Pinghan, and Pingsui to attack the mainland of China on a large scale.

On the second day of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Communist Party of China issued a telegram to the whole country: Pingjin is in crisis, North China is in crisis, and the Chinese nation is in crisis.

It is proposed that only the implementation of the whole nation's war of resistance is the way out for China.The united front of the anti-Japanese nation has been the consistent position of the Red Party since the September [-]th Incident.

On July [-]th, the bald head gave a speech at Mount Lushan.

'If the war begins, there will be no distinction between north and south, no distinction between people, old or young, no matter who they are, they all have the responsibility to defend the land and resist the war, and they all have the determination to sacrifice everything.Only by sacrificing to the end, fighting to the end, and only with the determination to sacrifice can we win the final victory. '

In the Central Plains in August, the heat wave formed by the scorching sun splashed on the loess land, like a huge oven, and the heat wave formed distorted the line of sight.

In the ditch on the back of the mountain, more than a dozen skinny and ragged peasants were sitting on the ground, tied with a long rope. One of them was sitting on a rock, and suddenly fell to the ground, his eyes turned white. , chapped lips.

The team suddenly became a riot.

"Sir, give this kid some water to drink, or the ball will be dead."

Sitting next to the big one was a man in his 40s, with a skinny body covered with bones, dark skin, dirty and curly hair, a coarse vest covered with stitches and patches, and he spoke in a heavy tongue.

There were ten people in the team, all tied with ropes. They were escorted by the receiving unit of the national army. Five soldiers with sallow complexions and guns on their backs wore grass-green military uniforms. The leading officer wore a helmet and a white cloth strip on his chest. It's a chest badge with the rank written on it.

"Forget about the dead ball, I don't care about my business." The chief of the receiving unit stepped forward, kicked the big man lying on the ground, and said nonchalantly.

Their trip is for conscription. They say they are going to conscript, but in fact they are going to pick up young men.These strong men are all cannon fodder who are about to be sent to the battlefield to stop the Japanese army at the front line, so life and death have nothing to do with them.

The chief of the receiving unit touched the silver dollars in his pocket, and his mouth was crooked. These silver dollars are the food and clothing expenses of these strong men. If there is one less person, he will lose one point of clothing and food expenses, and he will earn one cent. Sub-clothing and food expenses.

Therefore, more than anyone else, he hoped that these strong men would die quickly, and if they were all dead, then some of these silver dollars would go into his pocket.

Why is it a part, because the food expenses and clothing expenses allocated to him for these strong men have been deducted layer by layer.

Since the end of the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation and the beginning of the white terror, the bald head destroyed the basic framework of the people that Mr. Sun worked so hard to build, and the bald head suddenly lost control of the grassroots. The final result is that the village is occupied by landlords and bullies. .

As the frontline battles began to tighten and the consumption of soldiers was huge, various localities began to organize conscription.

At that time, the national government's "Military Service Law" stipulated that the scope of exemption was too large. Public and educational personnel, intellectuals, school students, and industrial and mining technical employees, etc., as many as 23 types of people could refuse to accept or defer military service. It is possible to pay for military service instead, which directly violates the principle of equality for all in military service and seriously reduces the base of soldiers.

The pressure for conscription was suddenly concentrated in the countryside.

However, the national government has lost control of the grassroots, and the conscription can only be handed over to the localities, and the localities are handed over to the landlords and bullies in the village, and the squires are engaged in fraudulent activities. It fell entirely on the poor peasants.

Conscription was handled by the feudal Baozhang and Jiazhang. In the countryside at that time, the positions of Baozhang and Jiazhang were held and controlled by landlords and bullies. They usually lived in Yurou Township. Come on, district, township, security, and A officials at all levels took advantage of this opportunity to happily start a continuous exhaustion of fish.

Conscription directly became a catch.

Even in the process of drawing lots for conscription, various forces manipulated the lottery, making the conscription no longer fair.

The deduction of food expenses and clothing expenses made the strong men unable to get three meals a day, and even ate less than the starving soldiers, and sometimes they could not even drink a sip of water.

They are not given food, and they are forced to travel. Too many died of starvation and disease. The bodies of the dead young men can be left there for a few days. In many areas, the number of strong men who finally reached the front line is less than 20.00 of the total number of enlisted soldiers. %.

Zong Zong also often suffers from the poison of the escort platoon leader and the director of military service, and does not give medical treatment for injuries, allowing their wounds to inflame, rot, and eventually die.

This has led to the fact that the number of officers and soldiers needed on the front line is far below the standard.

For example, the Sixth War Zone of the direct line defending Chongqing has 4 divisions under its jurisdiction, yet the shortage of personnel is as high as [-]. Go abroad to fight.

The bald head still attaches great importance to the "Military Service Law", and has high expectations for the implementation of the Military Service Law. On the one hand, he hopes to expand the army through conscription, and on the other hand, he hopes to refresh the national spirit with militarized training.

However, things always backfired.

In response to the various tragedies that happened to the strong men, the bald head also issued various instructions many times to ensure and improve the treatment of the strong men, and even went to the point of fine detail.

He once stipulated: "The camp for recruits must have at least mats and straw mats, the thicker two inches, and quilts, etc., and three meals of rice and tea should be prepared every day. When marching, porridge should also be prepared on the way."

However, the appropriation of the money has been withheld by the officers of each class layer by layer, and the last silver dollar spent on the strong man will be further withheld by the people in the receiving unit that escorted the strong man.

In [-], Jiang Menglin, then president of the Red Cross Society of China, inspected the recruiting work in Nanyun, Nanhu, and Xiguang, and wrote a report:
"I saw outdated young men along the way, as thin as a stick, or lying on the side of the sick road and dying; or looking like a walking corpse, wandering the mountain road; or lying dead on the roadside, let the dogs chew on it. If you see and hear, if you hide it and don't say it, you are really guilty. Junzuo's acquaintance."

"Three hundred strong men came from Shaoguan, and there were only 27 left in Zhizhu. There were 800 people from Jiangxi, and only 150 people left in Zhizhu. 1000 people came from Longtan District, and only a hundred people remained in Zhizhu."

"I was on the road in Xiangxi and Xiguang, and I saw wild dogs fighting over the corpses of the young men who were thrown away due to death. In some places, the young men were buried, but the burial was too hasty, often showing a leg, or a One foot was on the ground, and some seemed to be still twitching there, probably not quite dead yet."

"...Outside of Yanggui City, there is a place where strong men pass by. Because there are too many abandoned corpses, the air is full of strong stench."

Those who make it to the camp feel safe, but the hell has just begun.

Many strong men survived to the training camp, and were tortured to death by officers or diseases without going to the battlefield.

A telegram from the Military Command of the National Army said, "According to a certain regiment commander of the National Army: 'Our soldiers are either fat or thin. The thin are definitely malnourished, and the fat...are not really fat, but edema. The whole regiment Deaths, sometimes up to twenty or so.'”

In the camp, the strong man was already sick... The chief was indifferent, but charged him to attend exercises as usual.Occasionally, those who are unable to operate due to illness will often be beaten with wooden sticks or poles. Every punishment will cause blood and flesh to fly all over the strong man, and he will either die or be scrapped.Some were even shot to death for trivial reasons, and some were beaten to death or thrown into rivers and rocks during the march due to illness and unable to move fast.

Zhou Jiantao was then the commander of the Lu (zhou) division of Xu (prefecture) in SC Province. He said: "The treatment of the strong men is not much better when they go to the division's area to supplement the regiment. In 1939, each strong man was required to have 22 taels of food per day, but the Kuomintang troops Many logistics officials are vicious exploiters. Rice is mixed with sand, which is weighed in by a large scale and weighed out by a small scale. The regiment-level cadres give a discount to the company, and the company-level cadres deduct it again. The strong men can only eat to a dozen taels of brown rice with sand."

During the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, 5808 million people were recruited, but only 1708 million people actually replenished the troops.According to the statistics of mainland scholars of later generations, the national army recruited a total of about 400 million strong men during the War of Resistance, but the frontline troops received only about 500 million supplementary soldiers, which means that 800 million people were recruited and escorted. died and disappeared in the process.

When Xia Yuan came to his senses, he realized his environment and smiled wryly.

He was still a platoon leader in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, but he became a strong man when he came here.

The officer receiving the soldiers saw Xia Yuan wake up, kicked him with his feet, and sneered: "You fucking pretend to be dead and beat me up."

Three or four soldiers came up with guns in their hands, and smashed Xia Yuan's body and forehead with the butt of the guns. His already weak body was even more unbearable. He took a breath, and silently remembered the appearance of these people, and waited. I have recovered a lot, and I must kill them.

The group of people were tired from beating, and they left cursing.

More than a dozen strong men squatted together, staring at Xia Yuan who was lying on the ground. When these officers and soldiers left, a strong man pushed the people around him: "Old man Wang, go and see, you idiot will not be beaten!" dead."

Old man Wang was the middle-aged man who first asked for water for Xia Yuan. He was 50 years old, but he looked like a 70-[-]-year-old man. His face was covered with wrinkles, black mud was wrapped in wrinkles, and loess was on his body.

"What a fool, what a fool."

Old man Wang yelled in a low voice, kicked Xia Yuan's leg with his foot, and looked back at the strong men behind him, seeing that they were unreliable, he squatted on the ground and groped forward, reaching out and grabbing Xia Yuan's foot.

Xia Yuan opened his eyes, looked down, and a memory came to mind.The original name of the predecessor was Xia Yuan, a villager in Xiajia Village, and he was a bit silly.

In [-], after the Marco Polo Bridge incident broke out, the Japanese army attempted to destroy China within three months, and the full-scale war of aggression against China broke out. The national army became the main force against the Japanese army, and the expansion of the army was imminent. The expansion of the army, but the process of expanding the army is quite rough.

This group of people is the strong men captured by the landlords of the three villages of Xiajia Village, Donglingou, and Liushulin together with Jiachang and Baochang. There are more than 100 people. They walked dozens of kilometers, and many people died along the way. At this point, there were only a dozen of them left. In order to prevent them from escaping, these soldiers tied them up with ropes, just like leading a herd of cattle and sheep.

The dead were buried casually by the side of the passing road, and some were not even buried, and were directly thrown into a piece of wild grass.

Dasha also died on the road, but he came back to life after crossing over.

(End of this chapter)