I have long known that there is Xuzhou.There was a big company commander in our battalion who was from Xuzhou. He always talked about Xuzhou with me and recited poems: "In the ancient battlefield in front of Jiuli Mountain, the shepherd boy picked up old knives and guns." It is said that it has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.Unexpectedly, it really won!Compete with the Japanese.In March of the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China, the Supreme Command issued an order that five or six hundred thousand of us "hula" went up. First, we fought a battle in Taierzhuang on the outskirts of Xuzhou, beating out 20,000 to 30,000 Japanese soldiers and horses.Oh, this is the sensational "Taierzhuang Victory".Next, oops, surrounded by Japanese from nine divisions.The Xuzhou defense line collapsed, and tens of thousands of brothers became prisoners of the Japanese.The condition of most of these captives is unknown to me.I only know that thousands of them were taken by the Japanese to a coal mine to dig coal. That coal mine is at the junction of Sulu, maybe a hundred miles away from Xuzhou City?

That year, I was twenty-nine years old. When I was captured, I was the commander of the machine gun company of the 27th Division of the Second Army, and my prisoner number was "Xizi No. 1012"...