Chengdu people are gentle, graceful, peaceful and good at enjoying themselves, but at the important historical juncture of life and death, they show a completely different spirit. After the Lugouqiao Incident, officers and men of Sichuan Army volunteered to fight against Japan. When the Sichuan army left Sichuan, it lacked equipment and ammunition, and basically had no medical equipment. However, it is such an army that has experienced countless hardest and most tragic sacrifices in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and made great contributions to the national independence of the Chinese nation.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Sichuan soldiers and civilians, including Chengdu soldiers, wrote a magnificent and generous elegy with their blood and life and their indomitable heroism. The memorial to the soldiers killed in the Sichuan Army's anti-Japanese war stands at the intersection of Wanningba, which is a vivid portrayal of Chengdu people's perseverance regardless of life and death.
Jiao Rujing, male, aged 87, is a counselor appointed by Chengdu Municipal Government. Although decades have passed since the war, the old man still remembers that unforgettable history.
Jiao Rujing told reporters that at the age of 2 1938, he just graduated from Huangpu Military Academy and came to Chengdu. At that time, dozens of troops stationed in Sichuan, except his 95th and 56th troops, almost all left Sichuan to participate in the war, and many people stayed on the battlefield during the eight-year anti-Japanese war and never returned home. For example, Li Jiayu, commander-in-chief of the 36th Army, was the highest commander who died on the battlefield in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. "Until the time of his death, he didn't even have a chance to live in his newly-built house in Pujiang"; Chen is Jiao Rujing's eldest brother when he first arrived in Chengdu. He met again after 1949 when he left Sichuan with Fan Shaozeng of the 88th Army in 1939.
Not only the officers and men in Sichuan took it as their duty to resist Japan and save the country, but also the people in Sichuan showed great enthusiasm for the war of resistance. Many people donated money and materials to support the front line, and young people actively signed up for the army. Once, in an anti-Japanese war speech held in the People's Park, he saw with his own eyes that at the end of the speech, the big basket placed under the stage was full of money and goods donated by ordinary citizens spontaneously, and no one left a name.
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1On July 7, 937, after the "Lugouqiao Incident" broke out, all parts of the country fought against Japan. From the Battle of Songhu, Xuzhou and Wuhan at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War to the Battle of Changsha, Nanchang, Sui-Zao, Zhejiang-Jiangxi, Changde, Heng Chang and Guiliu at the stalemate stage of the Anti-Japanese War, the Sichuan Army has successively participated in more than 3 million wars. For this period of history, General Li Zongren once said, "The Sichuan Army played an important role in the eight-year war of resistance." .