Chapter 17 Chapter Three

7 I had the honor to interview Mr. Lu entirely because of the recommendation of my friend Qing Guangya. Qing Guangya's father, the old general Qing Yuncan, graduated from Whampoa Phase V, and became a lieutenant general of the Kuomintang. He was a counselor in the Chongqing Counselor's Office before his death.Qing Guangya learned that I was writing a full-length work about the War of Resistance in Eastern Henan. He said to me, go and interview Mr. Lu, he is exactly the person you need. On a sunny early spring day, I knocked on the door of Mr. Lu's house in Chongqing. Boss Lu's name is Lu Jidong, a native of Deng County, Henan Province, and a counselor in the Chongqing Counselor's Office.The ninety-two-year-old man in front of me is a standard professional soldier. He has a strong body, a straight back, a straightforward personality, and an amazing memory.Mr. Lu told me that he graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy and the staff class of Nanjing Army University in his early years. During the Anti-Japanese War, he moved to the North China battlefield and the Central Plains battlefield. ) Chief of the Operations Section of the Min (Township) River Defense Command, Huayuankou and Zhongmu Zhaokou where the Yellow River broke its embankment are all within the scope of his jurisdiction.Lu Lao participated in the uprising in 1949 and served as an instructor at the Nanjing Military Academy of the People's Liberation Army.

Mr. Lu said that before the Anti-Japanese War, the government implemented a compulsory military system, but after the Anti-Japanese War it changed to a recruitment system.When the army puts up recruiting signs, there are patriotic young people and poor people who don’t have enough to eat to serve as soldiers. Of course, there are also young men who are captured.At that time, some teams stipulated that recruits were not allowed to wear pants to sleep at night. Of course, it was not for hygiene, but to prevent recruits from escaping. There are still plenty of bullets during the war. Each soldier has a hundred or ten rounds, and if he is strong, he can carry a little more.But there are very few shells, and there are basically no other heavy weapons.Soldiers only eat two meals a day, and sometimes they often have to drink porridge, not enough to eat, and poorly dressed, so the military discipline is relatively poor.In some places, the guns of the troops crossing the border were confiscated and returned to the troops after crossing the border. Such embarrassing things have happened everywhere.

I asked: How are soldiers treated when they die in battle? Mr. Lu replied: Soldiers are the most pitiful. Once they die in battle, there is neither pension nor death notice, and of course there is no such thing as martyr treatment. Some officers even don’t know the name and age of soldiers. clear.If the end is better, find migrant workers to bury it, and it will be safe in the ground. If you lose the battle, all the corpses will be thrown away, and you will let fate.On the contrary, officials at all levels have to collect money, and the method is to eat vacancies. For example, a company has 120 people in the establishment, but there are actually 80 people, and the vacancies of forty people are put into the pockets of the company and platoon leaders.

During the "July 7th Incident", Mr. Lu was stationed in Beiping. He said that it was the first time he encountered an air raid by Japanese planes.The Japanese planes flew as high as the utility poles, chasing and shooting at the crowd, and even the pilot's face could be seen clearly. On the ground, the Japanese tanks were rampant and showing off their might. Rifles and machine guns had no effect on them at all. On the contrary, the tank fire was very fierce.At that time, the Chinese army did not have flat-firing guns (tank defense guns), and they were helpless against enemy tanks, so they had to run away desperately when they saw tanks.Mr. Lu said that it was not until 1944 in the late period of the Anti-Japanese War that he saw flat-firing guns for the first time, and the Central Army was only equipped with four guns.

Another artillery expert, Liao Jiwei, told me that the Chiang Kai-shek government had established a combat artillery regiment in Hunan in 1938, but because the number was too small, it was difficult to deal with enemy tanks. I think of a question. During World War II, there are statistics on the soldiers who died in battle in various countries, with names and surnames, and there are files to check.Those who became prisoners of war also had a list of prisoners of war.Six million Jews were murdered, and 90 percent of the victims are documented for future generations to remember.But how many soldiers and people died in the war in China?How many officers and soldiers have become enemy prisoners of war?How many of them were brutally killed by the Japanese, and how many survived?There are also a large number of prisoners of war who were transported to Japan to work as laborers, but their whereabouts are unknown. How many of them were there in total?Why is China so confused that it is even more difficult to prosecute Japan for war crimes today?

Old Lu shook his head and sighed, smiled wryly and didn't answer. Time flies, and the Anti-Japanese War that took place in the last century has become a distant history. Due to various reasons, most of the witnesses and parties involved in the war went to another world without telling the truth, leaving many regrets and mysteries to future generations .Fortunately, in 1938, Lu Jidong, an anti-Japanese military officer, personally participated in and witnessed the Yellow River flood incident that shocked the world at that time. A prominent signpost.