In 2015, we found the remains of 347 fallen soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Myitkyina, Myanmar. DNA testing results showed that Sichuanese were the most numerous. At that time, the Chinese troops stationed in India had just sent their troops to Myanmar. This was an

In 2015, we found the remains of 347 fallen soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Myitkyina, Myanmar. DNA identification results showed that people from Sichuan had the most people. This is not an unexpected result, but I have been wondering, what kind of secrets are hidden in these life codes recovered from the depths of history?

Until June 24, 2022, when I saw the news of Mr. Zhang Sizhi’s death, when I was pursuing Mr. Zhang’s past, I finally found the answer.

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Things start back in 1943. On November 15 of that year, Xu Siping, chief of staff of the Sichuan Provincial Military Control Region, came to the playground of Northeastern University in Santai County, Santai County. In front of more than 3,000 students, he delivered a speech in the rain. gave a pep talk for more than an hour.

At that time, the Chinese troops stationed in India had just sent their troops to Myanmar . This was an anticipated counterattack since the Anti-Japanese War. Five divisions of Chinese soldiers, after more than a year of hard work in the Ramgarh camp in India, were provided with meals and meals by the United Kingdom and the United States. Weapons and coordinated operations, rush to the front line with confidence.

Recalling the hardships of the Anti-Japanese War and the bloodshed of the 100,000 soldiers who came out of Sichuan on the battlefield, Xu Siping not only shed tears, but also said, "When the country is in danger, every man has a responsibility! We men should charge into the battle and defend our country!"

Come to listen to the speech Most of the teachers and students are from Northeastern University and the 18th National Middle School. Both are schools in exile, and most of the students admitted are exile students. National No. 18 Middle School is a high school affiliated with Northeastern University, and most of them are from Northeastern China. The hatred between the family and the country filled the teachers and students with righteous indignation. "Everyone has a responsibility when the country is in danger!" the students' shouts resounded throughout the campus.

students signed up on site and asked to join the expeditionary force to go to the battlefield in Myanmar.

It is said that there were more than 30 girls who asked for military leave at that time, but they were politely declined. These girls burst into tears and asked: "Patriotism has no distinction between men and women, why can't women fight and kill the enemy?"

This should be the most heart-wrenching experience in the painful history of China's Anti-Japanese War. A passionate moment. In the National No. 18 Middle School alone, 76 students gave up their writing and joined the army. Among them, there was a high school sophomore named Zhang Erlong. When he recalled this experience in his 60s, he said, "At that time, it was very simple. We just wanted to resist Japan. We had no other considerations. We were really not afraid of sacrifice."

Zhang Erlong is China Zhang Sizhi, a leading figure in the legal profession.

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More than ten years ago, I was working as a reporter in Beijing. I met Mr. Zhang at a dinner party and immediately stood up to pay tribute. Mr. Zhang is known as the "conscience of the legal profession". He has been involved in many famous cases, such as Nie Shubin case , Li Zhuang case , etc. He has often suffered infringements on his private property. private enterprises have spoken out. These cases are the focus of media attention.

My tribute is also due to Mr. Zhang’s previous identity - he participated in the Chinese Expeditionary Force and went to India. That time, Mr. Zhang and I agreed to find time to talk about this history.

Later, I had a phone conversation with him. On the phone, I paid tribute to Mr. Zhang as a volunteer caring for the anti-war veterans. Mr. Zhang told me humbly that although he served as a soldier during the Anti-Japanese War, his time was short and he had never been on the battlefield. Compared with those heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country, he only felt ashamed.

I introduced to Mr. Zhang the veterans’ return home activity that I initiated. I mentioned that there are still many stranded veterans of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Southeast Asia and other places, living in poverty and unable to return home. Unexpectedly, when he later published the oral history "Walker's Thoughts", he specifically mentioned these veterans, saying that the rulers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should take measures to actively welcome back veterans stranded in foreign lands and allow them to spend their old age in peace.

originally thought that he would find time to visit Mr. Zhang and ask about that period of history in person. Unexpectedly, when we made another appointment later, we learned that he had suffered a stroke. After this delay, there will be no chance.

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Mr. Zhang, a prolific author, has a detailed record of his military experience in the book "Thoughts of a Traveler". I have read thousands of veterans’ oral accounts, and Mr. Zhang’s is the most authentic, with so many details and precious details.

At the end of July 1944, Zhang Sizhi took a plane to Ramgarh, India. Before leaving, a female classmate wrote a sentence in his memory book: It's a long way to go, don't you miss your mother? It was a touching sentence, but he was not tempted, "At that time, I was determined to go to the front line, just to fight the Japanese devils."

Before the expedition, Zhang Sizhi went home to say goodbye to his parents. His father wore a suit and took a family photo with the whole family. He originally thought His mother would tell him encouragement like "In order to kill the enemy, my son might as well shed his blood on the battlefield," but she didn't say a word.

Unfortunately, Zhang Sizhi was not able to go to the battlefield. He was assigned to the special service company of the fifth artillery regiment. It was said to be a special service company, but in fact its full name was a special service company. It was responsible for the communications, driving, security, etc. of the regiment headquarters. It was a non-combatant force. His company commander was the nephew of a good friend of his father's. Since he was only 16 years old at the time, the company commander took special care of him.

Mr. Zhang said that he had almost nothing to do at the regiment headquarters, like a "young soldier". Later, there were no actresses in the troupe, so he was asked to dress up as a man. As soon as he came on stage, the veterans in the audience were filled with joy. Mr. Zhang said humorously, "It is in accordance with the saying that after three years in the army, a sow becomes a Diao Chan."

During this period, the China-US Aviation Group was recruiting pilots. He signed up, but he had a slight problem with his right leg. The examiner said, He can only drive bomber , but not fighter . When Mr. Zhang thought about it, he originally wanted to fly a fighter jet and have sex with Little Japan in the sky, but this bomber was just going to drop a few bombs, and that was not the case.

Half a year later, the China-India Highway was opened, and the Fifth Artillery Regiment was ordered to return to China.

What I didn’t expect was that in those ridiculous years later, the word “secret agent” would cause Mr. Zhang to suffer a lot.

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The history of Zhang Sizhi joining the army is not worth mentioning in the magnificent history of China’s Anti-Japanese War, but it is a significant event in the national destiny.

Many people are already very familiar with the history of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. In 1942, the Burma Highway was cut off by the Japanese army. The Chinese Expeditionary Force went to Myanmar and ended in a disastrous defeat. About 50,000 soldiers died. Savage Mountain. More than a year later, the Chinese Army in India and the Western Yunnan Expeditionary Force launched counterattacks one after another, and finally achieved a comprehensive victory on the Myanmar battlefield.

Zhang Sizhi’s troops are affiliated with the Chinese Army in India. But before heading to India, there was another designation called the Chinese Student Volunteer Expeditionary Force. During training, they are divided into a teaching group and a teaching group. Zhang Sizhi is teaching the second regiment.

This is a number that has been ignored by historical researchers.

The formation of the Chinese Student Volunteer Expeditionary Force originated from a speech given by Xu Siping, Chief of Staff of the Sichuan Provincial Military Control Area, in Santai County in November 1943. At that time, most of the country was occupied and there were almost no troops to recruit. In desperation, the National Government revised the Military Service Law to encourage students to join the army and retain their student status.

Another background is that with the increasing intensity of US aid, some technical arms such as artillery and tank troops require a certain level of education to be competent.

Xu Siping’s speech made the students excited.

Subsequently, college and middle school students in Sichuan Province responded one after another and went to the national disaster together. Representatives of teachers and students from Northeastern University made a special trip to Chongqing to submit the "Declaration of Collective Military Enlistment of Northeastern University Teachers and Students" to the Nationalist Government.

On December 7 of that year, Santai County held a farewell meeting for tens of thousands of people, with a banner reading "Farewell to the soldiers who left the country and fought in Tokyo." The county magistrate personally sent the students to the granite bridge, carved a stone and erected a monument, and renamed the bridge "Expedition Bridge".

The patriotic passion of the students far exceeded Xu Siping's expectations. He immediately wrote a letter proposing to promote the youth military movement. Soon, a youth military movement swept the country and spread rapidly.

It was in this atmosphere that in September 1944, Chiang Kai-shek proposed in an impromptu speech at the National Political Conference that "one inch of mountains and rivers, one inch of blood, one hundred thousand young people and one hundred thousand troops" mobilized students to join the army.

At that time, the Japanese army, which had repeatedly retreated in the Pacific battlefield, launched the "Operation No. 1" against China, gathering 500,000 troops to attack Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Changsha, Hengyang and other places. The National Government's life hangs on a thread.

Most of the young students recruited were from Sichuan, and some were sent to Ramgarh, India. After a brief training, they were quickly sent to the front line in Myanmar, suffering heavy casualties. When searching for information on the Chinese Expeditionary Force, I accidentally saw the identification report of the remains of 347 fallen soldiers we found in Myanmar in 2015. When I saw that Sichuan ranked first in the number of fallen soldiers, my eyes suddenly became hot.

The remains of the expeditionary force found in Burma.

"The green mountains and white bones, traveling thousands of miles across the country, I wonder where the hero's soul wanders?" Zhang Sizhi said in his memory article.

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In July 2015, the Santai Liaison Group of the Sichuan Huangpu Alumni Association and a team of private volunteers built the "Sichuan Army Anti-Japanese War Memorial Pavilion" in Santai County. 963 names were engraved on two huge granite curtain walls. List of fallen soldiers from Santai in the Anti-Japanese War.

In one county, nearly a thousand people died in the Anti-Japanese War, which is rare in the country.

Most of the eight Anti-Japanese War veterans who came to attend the worship ceremony were local Chinese Expeditionary Forces. One of the veterans, named Chen Nian, said excitedly that as long as he was still alive, he would worship his comrades here every year.

Chen Wei is Zhang Sizhi’s high school classmate and is 101 years old this year. Together they joined the army, flew over the Hump and headed to India for training.

Chen Yi is also an artilleryman and observation soldier, affiliated with the New First Army, Sun Liren's troops. Zhang Sizhi's Fifth Artillery Regiment is a unit directly under the Chinese Army in India. The garrison in India has 4 artillery regiments under its direct jurisdiction, and each division is equipped with multiple artillery battalions with powerful firepower.

While flying over the hump route , Chen Min wrote his own oath on the plane: to annihilate the Japanese invaders on the battlefield of Yunnan and Burma, and to return home in triumph to meet his fellow villagers!

The New First Army is one of the main forces in the counterattack against Myanmar and is equipped with all American equipment. This was also the first time in the entire Anti-Japanese War that the firepower of the Chinese troops was superior to that of the enemy. Modern equipment, coupled with the rigorous training of American instructors, and a steady stream of supplies, have made this unit unstoppable. By the time they capture the important town of Myitkyina in northern Myanmar, victory in the entire Myanmar battlefield is just around the corner.

The supplies of the Chinese army stationed in India are the best in the entire national army. Beef is allowed to be eaten, toilet paper is distributed, and each person is given three cigarettes per day. What's even more peculiar is that condoms are also distributed. Also, the soldiers' pay is distributed directly to the soldiers by American officers. They do not trust Chinese officers.

The entire history of the Anti-Japanese War is almost a history of defeat and escape, but the Chinese army in India is completely different. They took the initiative to launch an attack. The air force added heavy artillery and bombed it in turn. Then tanks opened the way, and the ground troops pressed forward. Follow.

Therefore, the casualty ratio can reach 1:1. In the Chinese battlefield, the ratio is as high as 7:1.

During the battle in Yubang, the 112th Regiment of the Chinese Army in India held on for more than a month despite being counter-surrounded by five enemy forces. It is said that at the end of the TV series "My Commander My Regiment", the expeditionary force was stationed under a big banyan tree and repelled multiple enemy attacks, which was adapted from this historical fact.

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html On June 28, Mr. Zhang Sizhi’s farewell party was held in Beijing. The number of people attending the farewell was requested not to exceed 20 people.

In articles commemorating Mr. Zhang, most of them talk about his huge contribution to China's rule of law process, while his short military experience is often mentioned briefly.But this neglected experience is no less important than the latter. Mr. Zhang Sizhi and that generation of young students became the pioneers in reversing the fate of the country during the Anti-Japanese War.

Sichuan volunteer He Yulin helped me find the list of students from the 18th National Middle School who enlisted in the army in November 1943 in the Santai County Archives. There were 76 names in total, including the names of Zhang Erlong and Chen Min.

And dignitaries are also active participants in this patriotic action. Santai County Senate Chairman Huo Xinwu and Northeastern University College of Liberal Arts Dean Xiao Yishan both asked their children to join the army. When the country faces a crisis, everyone is responsible.

I have interviewed hundreds of veterans of the Anti-Japanese War, and found out that the original intention of joining the army was mostly because they were drafted or to beg for food, but the young students who took the initiative to go to the battlefield were dedicated to protecting their families and the country.

Zhou Dongliang is from Meishan, Sichuan. He is the only son in the family and is exempt from military service according to regulations. One day at the end of 1943, on the streets of Chengdu, tens of thousands of people bid farewell to the student army from Chongqing, who were bound for India from the airport in Xinjin County.

These students were full of energy and sang anti-Japanese songs. Seeing the handsome appearance of these big brothers, Zhou Dongliang and his classmates were both envious and admired. At this time, a classmate suddenly shouted: Classmates, what's the use of just talking? If you have the guts, go join the expeditionary force and go to the front line to fight the Japanese. ! 17-year-old Zhou Dongliang was relatively tall among his classmates. He felt that everyone was looking at him, and a rush of blood rushed to his forehead. He said, "I have the guts, I will go."

Zhou Dongliang thought, if he goes back and The parents said that they definitely disagreed and would simply kill him first and then explain it later. He actually went directly to Xinjin Airport to catch up with this student army. After arriving at the battlefield, he wrote a letter to his mother. Later he learned that his mother thought he was missing and cried her eyes out.

That year, Xia Liangzhe, a Hunanese who was studying in Chongqing, saw slogans all over the street, "Abandon my old pen, keep my pride in war", "One call for more than 100,000 comrades, sing war songs and join the army together", He decided to go on an expedition and became a tank soldier. At Chengdu Airport , when the plane bound for India was about to take off, he suddenly saw parents kneeling on the tarmac. It was the most shocking scene he had ever seen.

Parents who send their children to the battlefield use this seemingly unqualified gift to pray for the safe return of their own flesh and blood.

At a time when the country was on the verge of life and death, with a large area of ​​territory occupied, the National Government retreated to the southwest and had almost no recruits to conquer. These children who originally sat in school became the pride of the times in the torrent of patriotism.

In the American Archives , there are many photos of the Chinese troops stationed in India, including many child soldiers, whose young faces are full of confidence and sunshine.

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abandon my pen of the year

stay with me during the war

call out more than one hundred thousand comrades

sing the war hymn and join the army together

Clean up the dust

Vow to sweep away the Japanese slaves regardless of their own safety

...

This song was written in 1944. The youth military song was once again well-known to the public in 2009 when the TV series "My Commander, My Regiment" became a hit. The remnants of the expeditionary force led by Long Wenwen retreated to the border, but were intercepted by friendly forces because they did not have a number. Major Ayi came to his senses and sang this song with everyone. The song

is the code word of an era.

Xia Liangzhe, a Hunanese who studied in college in Chongqing, returned to Chongqing to continue his studies after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. This was also the government's promise to the student soldiers during the recruitment process. During his college years, he still had passion in his chest and participated in the student movement, opposed the civil war , and joined the Communist Party of China. Therefore, he changed his name to Xia Muyu. The name change was for work needs, but also to separate from a piece of history.

Until more than 60 years later, in 2012, after many years of retirement, he suddenly received a strange phone call asking if his name was Xia Liangzhe. Xia Muyu was shocked, not many people knew this name. The other party said that an old man named Zhang Tingpeng was looking for him. The name

made Xia Muyu burst into tears. That was his close comrade-in-arms.

That year, Zhang Tingpeng was seriously ill and hoped to find his comrades who drove the same tank that year, namely co-pilot Zhang Lianzhai, gunner Xia Liangzhe, loader Wang Huichao and correspondent Zeng Chengce. The volunteers sounded the rallying call, and news came one after another about their comrades. The only survivor was Xia Liangzhe.

Loader Wang Huiqi passed away as early as 1995. He graduated from Tsinghua University and later became an English teacher in Shuangfeng County, Hunan.

Correspondent Zeng Chengce went to Taiwan in 1949 and later settled in the United States. He died in 2009.

The memoirs left by co-pilot Zhang Lianzhai recorded in detail his experience on the Myanmar battlefield. His son said that his father was imprisoned for five years after 1949. He later worked as a substitute teacher and was admitted to a leprosy hospital. After he was discharged, he wandered around and once hunted snakes for a living. The cover of the memoir is made from an old calendar, with a line written on it: All my descendants must read it.

Back then, they drove American-made M4 tanks across northern Myanmar, terrifying the enemy. After the victory of the war, they met again. Unexpectedly, when they reunited, only two octogenarians remained among the five passionate young people.

Zhang Sizhi’s experience was the same as Xia Liangzhe’s. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he continued to go to school. While in school, he joined the underground party and changed his original name from Zhang Erlong to Zhang Sizhi.

When the national crisis hit, the educated youth did not forget their responsibilities as common men. After the victory of the war, they still continued to fight against the corrupt National Government.

Also experienced was Chen Wei, who went to India with Zhang Sizhi from the 18th National Middle School, and entered Changchun University in the autumn of 1946. During his studies, he accepted progressive ideas. Two years later, Chen Nian tried to escape from Changchun City and headed for the liberated areas. At the checkpoint guarded by the national army, Chen Nian was stopped. Fortunately, the platoon leader guarding the block turned out to be the platoon leader who went on the expedition to India and Myanmar, and Chen Nian was able to escape.

After leaving Changchun, Chen Niao joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army and participated in the Liaoshen Campaign, where he met his comrades in arms. The Chinese garrison in India, with the New First Army and the New Sixth Army as the core, was later completely wiped out in the Liaoshen Campaign.

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Northeastern University, which was in exile in the customs, settled in Santai County, thanks to the county magistrate Zheng Xianzheng.

After 1918, Northeastern University went into exile in Beiping, Xi'an, Kaifeng and other places, and then was forced to move from Shaanxi to Sichuan. At that time, the "Land of Abundance" was at the end of its rope. Nearly half of the hundreds of colleges and universities across the country had moved here. Moreover, Sichuan also sent 3 million strong men to fight in Sichuan. It was really difficult to support another university.

At this moment, County Magistrate Zheng Xiangzheng, who graduated from Peking University , said that these are the seeds of the country. If we tighten our belts, we can feed them.

In 1942, in order to accommodate exiled students, the National No. 18 Middle School was established in Santai County and became the High School Affiliated to Northeastern University. This year, Zhang Sizhi entered the first year of high school at the National No. 18 Middle School. His hometown was Zhengzhou. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhengzhou was often bombed by the Japanese army. His family took Zhang Sizhi and fled to Mianyang, Sichuan.

The Eighteenth National Middle School during the Anti-Japanese War.

The arrival of Northeastern University suddenly gave Santai County, a remote and remote country, vitality and brought advanced democratic ideas. These students who accepted new ideas remained the core force in spreading democracy after their expedition to India and Myanmar.

Mr. Zhang Sizhi said in his memoirs that in the school, there was the Three Youth League and underground party organizations. The left and right factions each had posters, the left one was called "Wild Fire" and the right one was called "Sprouting".Although the leftist forces are weak, they have a clear-cut banner. They will even sing "Ode to the Motherland" with empty red shirts at parties, "Our motherland is so vast... you can breathe freely."

Therefore, the India-Myanmar battlefield where there are many student soldiers, It is also a battlefield for the secret war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Many youth expeditionary force were influenced by progressive ideas and joined the Communist Party of China while fighting the Japanese army. More than one veteran told me that on the Indo-Burmese battlefield, they were clearly divided into two groups. They often quarreled, but during the war, they were unanimous in speaking out.

There is a veteran in Henan named Jia Quansheng, the sergeant squad leader of the Sixth Automobile Regiment of the Chinese Army in India. In 2019, after Cao Jingdian, the daughter of Cao Yi, the leader of the Sixth Automobile Regiment, learned about the veteran, she immediately went to Henan to visit the veteran.

Jia Quansheng was very excited when he learned that it was the group leader’s daughter who came to see him. After the conversation, he suddenly asked: Was your father an underground party back then?

Cao Jingdian smiled, which was regarded as acquiescence. Jia Quansheng said that he had noticed it a long time ago, and there was also a battalion commander named Hou Canzhang, who must also be an underground party, and the two of them had a good relationship.

The battalion commander Hou Canzhang mentioned by Jia Quansheng told his children in 1949 that it might take several years before he went out on a mission. Who would have thought that once he left, he would never come back. It was not until 2011 that his son learned from the media that his father was sent to Taiwan that year, continued to lurk, and worked in the Secrecy Bureau. A few years later, his identity was exposed and he was sentenced to death.

When looking through Hou Canzhang's files, I discovered another sad thing. Hou Canzhang's arrest warrant was issued by Sun Liren, the "Commander-in-Chief of the Army" at the time. Sun Liren was the commander of the New First Army of the Chinese Army in India.

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The student military movement in Santai County, Sichuan, surprised the government and immediately launched a propaganda machine to call on more students to join the army.

This is the most glorious moment in the eight years of hard work. More and more people understand the responsibility of individuals to the country.

Speaking of the Anti-Japanese War, there is a group worthy of our study, that is, the traitors. If you carefully study the political structure and social ecology of China at that time, you will find that the birth of traitors is inevitable. Under the circumstances of warlord separatism and government corruption, the people will think, why should I defend this country with my life?

Until 1944, the Japanese army launched the Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, and the Nationalist army suffered successive defeats. The Nationalist government was ready to move to Xichang or even go into exile in India. The exiled students who felt the same way finally took up the banner of reversing the fate of the country.

Zhang Sizhi and the college and middle school students in Santai County, this "Chinese Student Volunteer Expeditionary Force" forgotten by history, became the fire that ignited the passion of educated youth across the country. In the end, the educated youth of that generation used their actions to popularize for a generation of numb Chinese people what an individual's responsibility is to the country.

Therefore, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, countless young students who joined the army retired one after another. They went to the battlefield for the independence and liberation of the nation and to build a democratic and free new China. They were not fighting a civil war or protecting the Chiang family. The dynasty, and even many people, defected one after another under the influence of the Communist Party's advanced ideas.

Today, when Communists receive the education of never forget their original aspirations , they need to understand, what is their original intention? What are the progressive ideas they espouse?

Understanding their original intention, it is not difficult to understand why the corrupt National Government was so vulnerable during the civil war. A government that does not love its people is not qualified to be supported by the people.

Over the years, I have contacted thousands of veterans and been to countless battlefields. I have been trying to find an answer. I want to write the process of finding the answer into a book, "Why They Sacrifice."What is the value and significance of the sacrifice of millions of people at this time of national crisis?

Until one day, I was at the Xiangbei battlefield in Pingjiang, Hunan, and saw a monument lying in the grass. I suddenly understood the original intention of Zhang Sizhi and more Chinese young people to go to the battlefield without hesitation. That tablet reads: The blood of martyrs, the flower of freedom.

On September 16, 1944, Chiang Kai-shek issued the order "One inch of mountains and rivers, one inch of blood, one hundred thousand young people, one hundred thousand troops." After recruitment and training, a total of nine divisions from the 201st to the 209th Division were formed. Regrettably, by the time this force was formed, the Anti-Japanese War had reached its final stage. Except for a small number that were sent to the battlefield in Burma and participated in the Battle of Western Hunan , the last battle against Japan, most of them were thrown into the battlefield of the civil war. Hot-blooded, but turned into cannon fodder.

Zhang Sizhi left the army on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. He returned to Santai County to continue his unfinished studies. Two years later, his original unit, the Fifth Artillery Regiment of the Chinese Army in India, became a prisoner of the People's Liberation Army on the battlefield in Shandong.

In Zhang Sizhi's memoirs, he mentioned that when he was training in Chengdu, there was a company commander named Yuan Yufeng, who "was very kind to us and very strict. He must be over ninety years old now. I don't know where he is." "

I checked the information and found that a Huangpu Military Academy student named Chen Bailing mentioned Yuan Yufeng. He said that in December 1949, Chiang Kai-shek evacuated from Chengdu Airport under the cover of armored vehicles . , Chengdu Huangpu Military Academy began to retreat. On the way, it encountered a blockade by the People's Liberation Army. Yuan Yufeng was shot and killed.

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In the month when Zhang Sizhi joined the army, Chiang Kai-shek went to Cairo to attend the Cairo Conference. At this meeting, the plan for a joint Sino-British and American counterattack on Burma was determined. By then, Italy had surrendered and Allied victory was in sight. This is the first international conference that China has participated in as a world power, laying the foundation for eventually becoming one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

On his way back to China, Chiang Kai-shek went to Ramgarh, India, to inspect the Chinese troops stationed in India who were being trained here. Among the photos taken by the accompanying reporters, there was one of Chiang Kai-shek and a group of senior officials standing in front of a trench. In the trench, there were two communications soldiers, one named Yu Yunping, and the other was his squad leader.

Being able to be in the same frame as the Chairman is the proudest moment for soldier Yu Yunping. To his regret, he and the monitor were cut when the photo was published. Chinese history often records the great achievements of emperors and generals. The joys and sorrows of those little people are the real history.

Yu Yunping is from Zhejiang. He became a soldier on the way to escape and was sent to India.

In 2005, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, CCTV broadcast a documentary about the Burma Highway, which included an interview with Yu Yunping. Watching TV, Yu Yunping became emotional. Slowly, his breathing became weaker and weaker, and he passed away that night.

When he was dying, he told his family that if he died, don't blame the reporters who interviewed him. He was happy to be on CCTV and recognized by the country.

In the autobiography he left behind, I found this passage:

When I was young, I often watched snails that were afraid of heights, and I liked to sprinkle salt where the snails would pass. The snail feels pain when it climbs there, so it falls off, and we cheer. The snail crawls again, and we add salt again, and so on. This memory has stayed with me for more than seventy years, and it still pops up from time to time, as if I am that snail.

After 1949, the 100,000 Youth Expeditionary Force, the darlings of the old government, became the key target of transformation in New China.

Zhang Sizhi is also that snail. Although he did not participate in the civil war and had joined the underground party in 1948, his history of participating in the "Chinese Student Volunteer Expeditionary Force" was uncovered during the "Suppression of Counterrevolutionary Movement". He was in the spy company and was considered a spy. This was a major historical issue. His home was ransacked and he was criticized.Although he was ultimately determined not to be a counterrevolutionary, he was not spared in the ensuing "anti-rightist" movement and was sent to a farm for 15 years of forced labor.

Santai County Magistrate Zheng Xianzheng, who accepted Northeastern University in a crisis, was imprisoned for 7 years, attempted suicide many times, and died in depression during the Cultural Revolution.

What is gratifying is that Hou Canzhang (first from the right in the front row of the picture below), an underground party member who died in Taiwan, finally received the honor of a martyr of the Communist Party of China in 2015, nearly 60 years after his sacrifice.

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The truth of history will eventually be discovered by someone.

In 1991, Sichuan writer Deng Xian published the documentary literature "The Soul of a Great Country", which brought this period of history of the Chinese Expeditionary Force to light again. His father, Deng Shuyi, was once a member of the Chinese Student Volunteer Expeditionary Force;

On August 15, 2005, Sichuan businessman Fan Jianchuan built the Jianchuan Museum in Dayi that reflected the frontal battlefield ;

In early 2009, the TV series "I "Captain of My Regiment" is a hit. Director Kang Honglei said that he and screenwriter Lan Xiaolong both burst into tears after returning to the hotel after interviewing veterans of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. What they cried was their own ignorance; China The younger generation started to know this period of history from this nonsensical TV series;

On August 15, 2013, the Western Yunnan Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall funded by the central government was opened. The more than 100,000 cultural relics on display are Civilian Duan Shengkui spent his entire life collecting;

Currently, there are only about 600 surviving Chinese Expeditionary Force veterans across the country, and they are leaving at a rate of 30% every year.

The generation of intellectual youths who returned from the battlefield alive are still the pillars of this country after surviving the storms of history. Because of Zhang Erlong, who is full of feelings for his family and country, there is Zhang Sizhi who has been fighting for the fate of the country for half his life.

The conscience and responsibility they awakened due to the national crisis have been deeply rooted in the DNA of the Chinese people.

More than ten years ago, World War II history research expert Goshua and a group of civilians went to Ramgarh, India, and discovered a cemetery of the Indian troops near the camp where the Chinese troops stationed in India were trained. This cemetery There are 253 tombs inside, and only a few have tombstones. The information on the tombstones shows that most of them were artillery, communications, tank, translators and other technical arms.

Most of those who are qualified to serve in these arms are young intellectuals.

This is the first time since the end of World War II that a team from mainland China has made a special trip here to worship. In front of the cemetery, these civilians sang a song for the Chinese soldiers who died here:

abandon me in the past

stay with me in the war

call out more than 100,000 comrades

sing the war song and join the army together

Jinghu Dust

Vow to wipe out Japanese slaves regardless of safety

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List of officers and soldiers who died in Ramgarh Cemetery in India. If you know the news about their relatives, please contact us privately Trust me.

Wireless Section Sergeant, 2nd Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Artillery Regiment, Pan Yiqiu, Xiuren County, Guangxi;

Ministerial Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Artillery Regiment, Xu Weiye;

Wang Xuchang, 4th Artillery Regiment, Chinese Army Garrison in India;

Translator, Foreign Affairs Bureau, Military Commission , Hu Jiashao;

Adjutant's Office of the General Headquarters of the Chinese Army in India, Li Yingbai;

Staff sergeant of the second supply company of the fifth artillery regiment, Huang Liuxi;

Fourth company of the third artillery regiment, 50,000 rounds;

Corporal of the first battalion of the fifth artillery regiment , Liang Zhangju, Hu Chao;

Communications Sergeant of the Chinese Army in India, Feng Yinde;

Major of the Army Chariot Corps, Yang Jinru;

Deputy Director of the Chariot Training Course of the Garrison in India, Major General Tang Tiecheng (relatives have been found);

The Army's new third officer Major commander of the First Company of the 1st Battalion of the Tenth Division Mountain Artillery, Wang Kaisheng;

Warrant Officer Secretary of the New First Army Headquarters of the Army, Jiao Hanqiang;

Second Lieutenant Secretary of the Staff Office of the General Headquarters of the Chinese Army in India, Shi Rongyuan;

Sixth Baggage Truck Regiment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force Engineering Company, Jiang Mingrong;

Staff Sergeant of the Second Company of Chariot Maintenance of the Chinese Garrison in India, Chen Cai;

Corporal of the Second Company of Chariot Maintenance of the Chinese Garrison in India, Huang Guangming;

Second Company of Chariot Maintenance of the Chinese Garrison in India Soldier, Zhou Xingmin;

Xu Quanming, Xiangtan, Hunan;

Lieutenant of the Army Chariot Corps, Zhou Jianzhong;

First Class Private of the Special Agent Company of the 12th Heavy Artillery Regiment, Li Chuncai;

Captain of the Artillery Corps of the First Corps of the 14th Phase of the Central Military Academy, Feng Zhaoyuan;

Army of the Republic of China Garrison in India Colonel and Chief of Staff of the New 38th Division, Yang Liting

Driving Sergeant of the New 38th Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, Liu Bin;

Hu Qingshan, Shehong, Sichuan;

Ni Junde, the 89th Regiment of the 38th Division of the Chinese Army Garrison in India ;

Li Dianchen, Pingdu County, Shandong;

Jian Binkui, Army Captain of the New 38th Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force;

Zhu Yaolin, Army Medical Doctor;

Su Zhaokong, Dong Zhangjia Village, Xinhe Town, Pingdu County, Shandong.

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