In July 1945, the officers and soldiers of the teaching brigade of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army retreated into the Soviet Union under the command of Brigadier Zhou Baozhong. Awaken the underground and become a pioneer in the recovery of this black land.The battle was brutal. Lieutenant Wang Yizhi (female), political deputy battalion commander of the Teaching Brigade Radio Battalion, recorded in her diary these Chinese soldiers who had fought hard against the Japanese army for 14 years. In the last month, we lost more than half of our personnel." However, they finally called back.Those victorious veterans kissed madly this land, this was their motherland, this was their home.

The 13 martyrs were buried in the green grass of the Vyask camp on the other side of the Heilongjiang River.Under the heavy oppression of the enemy army, they would rather die than surrender. They crossed the river to rest, but they never went back.They died in preparation for the Battle of Homecoming and are buried here.The black inscription is like a sad and unwilling eye, looking at the not-too-distant motherland, making us seem to hear the cry of General Zhao Shangzhi before his sacrifice - "I am the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. If I die, I will die." In the Northeast!"

This is the epitome of the Northeast soldiers and civilians in the national resistance war. The idea of ​​writing such a book started a year ago.That day, I received a call from a Japanese second-hand bookseller.Because I often buy used books from him, he often contacted me first when he found old books related to China.This time, he told me that someone was willing to sell a collection of photos left by his ancestors, and asked me if I was interested. According to the description, the owner of this photo collection was originally a Japanese junior military officer named "Suzuki" during World War II.This person was conscripted into the army in 1937 and arrived in Northeast China. Therefore, he took many photos of the place at that time.After the person died, his photo collection was sent back to Japan as a memento.The survivor donated the collection to a veterans organization.Now, the Veteran Society has been disbanded due to the death of its personnel, and only the second-generation members cannot maintain it. This photo collection has been collected by the bookseller.He asked me if I went to his store to have a look.

Because I just came back from a field trip and was very tired, I hesitated.The bookseller probably felt it, and reminded me that there were many battle photos in this collection, and that I was interested in military history.He thought it might be something I wanted. fighting? In 1937, Northeast China should have been occupied for six years. Who was the Japanese army fighting there? I suddenly realized—that was the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces! Due to the harsh conditions, there are very few photos to support the fighting history of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. If this photo collection is related to them, its historical value is inestimable.I told him I would go right away.

I can't wait to see it, but I can't be too eager, so I serve tea, chat, and then look at the goods. Judging from the title page, this is a personal photo of Japanese military officer Suzuki in "Manchukuo", titled "Remembrance of Manchukuo".From a rough look, its content is quite rich, for example, there are comfort stations for the Japanese army and Manchurian comfort women (that is, Chinese women were forced to serve as comfort women). However, soon after, photos related to the battle were discovered. I think, there is nothing to say, I say you make a price. This bookseller has dealt with me for a long time, and he has a good personality. He set such a price-first, you must buy the whole book, and you can’t buy it separately; Inch and above) 100 yen per photo, 200 yen per medium size photo, 500 yen per large size photo, the album itself and Suzuki’s photo description are free.

Is the price fair?He asked me with a calculator. justice?I think his price is really fair.You know, this is not a printed matter, but a photograph, and the negative has probably been destroyed long ago, and has a unique quality. Old photos from 1938 cost 100 yen, which is 8 yuan a piece, which is really not expensive.However, I still can't accept the price.Because there are too many photos in this album, more than 800 in total, and many of them have nothing to do with the Anti-Japanese War. 80,000 yen, and there are medium and large sizes in it. The bookseller calculated that the total cost was more than 106,000 yen.In this way, it is equivalent to more than 8,000 yuan.

Sa is a salaried worker, and he still has to negotiate the price when he spends more than 8,000 yuan to buy a photo album.We talked, and the price dropped to 100,000 yen, but the bookseller refused to lower it, saying that there would be no profit if it was lowered any further.I said that you must have spent less money to collect this photo album.The bookseller smiled, but still disagreed with the price cut.Because it was too late, I decided to talk again in the evening of the next day. The price I offered was 60,000 yen, which is equivalent to 5,000 RMB. In my mind, if the price is 10,000 to 20,000 higher, it is acceptable.

However, the next morning, I was always a little distracted in the company.It always feels like those photos are calling, especially this one I saw below: I can imagine that in the encirclement of a hundred times the enemy troops, this Anti-Union fighter fought and retreated until he was hit by enemy bullets in this pine forest. He lay down, continued to resist with a pistol, was hit one after another, and finally died. .But until he died in battle, he still maintained his shooting posture.The Japanese soldiers approached cautiously, and a Japanese soldier kicked his gun away with his feet, turning the anti-Japanese soldier’s face over, proving that he was indeed dead (his legs were still in the soldier’s shooting posture, but his face was tilted back, and his right hand was thrown away. on one side, so I speculate).At this time, Suzuki, who was carrying a camera, came over and took this photo.

In 1938, it has been seven years since the fall of the Northeast. How did they fight?Do they know that in the south, the entire Chinese nation's war of resistance has begun?I don't know how much history is behind these photos.This makes me restless all day.If this album is bought by someone else, how will I regret it?Forget it, go again tonight, even if he refuses to give up the price, I will buy it.Hope, not too late. In this way, while I was doing my work restlessly, I mentioned it in my blog. Unexpectedly, in just a few hours, nearly two hundred comments from netizens followed my blog like a snowflake.

Most of them are compatriots from the Northeast, and there are also those from Yunnan, Shandong, and Northwest. They are all ordinary Chinese like me. Almost all the posts are in one voice—— Take it home now! You know, there are only 17 photos of the Anti-Japanese War. There are no photos of the martyrs who died in Baishan Heishui, including senior commanders at the level of army commanders and division commanders.Bring them back, bring back the heroes who fought to the last moment - even in enemy pictures. You don't need to pay for the money, you just need to give an account. You go and get it back, just post a sentence on the Internet - "It is ours", we are waiting online...

In this materialistic world, I was deeply moved by my fellow man. On that day, I left work early and bought this photo album without negotiating the price.The Japanese bookseller was surprised to hear what I said, and after a moment of silence, he gave me a pretty good discount. Then, at the nearest Internet cafe, I immediately sent a brief message—— Suzuki's "Zaiman Memorial" has arrived. It was at this time that I discovered that this day is the Mid-Autumn Festival. There is no Mid-Autumn Festival in Japan, and I have basically forgotten the feeling of Mid-Autumn Festival.But I don’t really care too much. A few days ago, Shanghai Media and Broadcasting Station asked me to be a guest when they filmed the Mid-Autumn Festival album.When asked how I feel about the Mid-Autumn Festival, my answer is: Mid-Autumn Festival is only in my heart, not on the calendar card, so we can regard every day as Mid-Autumn Festival, the date is not important. Today, the world is getting smaller and smaller, so small that within 48 hours, you can go home from any corner of the earth; our home is getting bigger and bigger, so big that our family may be in any corner of the world. Therefore, it doesn't matter which day the Mid-Autumn Festival is.Coming out of the booksellers, I just thought it was a day of gratitude. Thanks for the generosity of the book seller.Thank you family for your understanding.Thank you for your support.Thank you to the heroes of the Anti-Japanese War for letting this unique photo collection with our history fall into the hands of our own people by coincidence. 821 photos, it's already ours. After a cursory review, the included photos mainly reflect the combat activities of the Japanese army in Tanghe, Yilan, Huachuan, Luobei, Linkou and other places around 1938. The photographer Suzuki was also transferred to Baoqing and Gongzhuling for training. Combat against the Alliance.During this period, he "practiced" with other troops and fought against the Anti-Japanese troops in Changbai Mountain. Suzuki's garrison was in Yangrongweizi, which was an advanced stronghold for the Japanese army to fight against the Anti-Japanese War in the eastern part of Heilongjiang Province.The name "Zhao Shangzhi" has been found in the annotations. This photo collection may provide new references for the study of the history of the Anti-Japanese War and the Anti-Japanese War in Northeast China. Therefore, this Mid-Autumn Festival is no longer normal.Coming out of the Internet cafe, I looked up and saw a bright moon passing through the clouds, and I felt infinite emotion.It's dark, but I know I'm not alone. It was at this time that I had the idea of ​​writing a book. We fought the Anti-Japanese War throughout the country for eight years, only in the Northeast. From the day of "September 18" in 1931, the sacrifice of Gao Shuguang, a policeman from the South Market Branch of the Commercial Port No. 1 Branch of the Shenyang Public Security Bureau, until August 15, 1945, when the Anti-Japanese War Li Yuchi, a coalition soldier, stubbornly climbed out of his cell from the massacre by the Japanese Army's 731 Unit. We fought for 14 years. During these 14 years, there were the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces who would rather die than surrender, the Northeast Army's regular army who could not bear to resist, the Volunteer Army who rose up, and the Green Forest Armed Forces who dared not forget to worry about the country.Between the white mountains and the black waters, there are everywhere resisting figures of Chinese people who are not willing to be slaves to subjugation. The Northeast is the worst natural environment in the history of the Anti-Japanese War in our country, the most disparity between the enemy and our forces, and the most tragic battlefield. Even the two commanders-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese War died on the battlefield. Therefore, our country’s records of this period of history seem fragmented and incomplete. , especially some oral memories, are often not confirmed by historical materials. However, the Japanese military and police at that time retained a large amount of relevant information.For example, the newly discovered combat records of the police force of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Northeast China contain more than 4,000 pages of information on the battles against the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the Yanbian area alone.Ordinary officers and soldiers of the Japanese army often left photos in battle.Most of these photos have the meaning of the Japanese army's propaganda of force and showing off their military exploits. However, if these information are excluded, the image of our ancestors who fought bravely on the black soil and would rather die than surrender will be readily apparent. Even, in some photos and documents, we can also see the enemy's admiration for our resistance fighters. For example, in Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" report on General Yang Jingyu's martyrdom, it was mentioned that the Japanese army crusade team could not help but cry "men's tears" when facing General Yang's body.And the stubborn samurai Taoist, the Japanese chief Ryuichiro Kishitani, who failed to persuade General Yang to surrender at the last moment, also lamented in the interview: "If I were in the same position as him, I would have to make the same choice as him." Why not interpret our war of resistance from the lens of the enemy at that time? And so, after nearly a year of work, here is this book. This is not a book that comprehensively interprets the Anti-Japanese War in Northeast China, so some very important events are not included in this book, and many very important figures are not mentioned or highlighted.The intention of this book is to reflect the difficult and unyielding history three-dimensionally through the fragments reflected in the enemy's materials by each Chinese resister and each battlefield of resistance, like a polygonal prism. This is an epic war of resistance. For 14 years, the soldiers who have temporarily left have been looking at this land, like wounded tigers, licking their wounds and waiting for the day when they will come back. The resisters who have not left continue to guard the land. the land.Yang Jingyu and Zhao Shangzhi, the two commander-in-chiefs of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, died in battle one after another.But the Chinese fight continues on this land.The first part of the Tenth Army of the Anti-Japanese War guarded the Jiuwudingzishan base area until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.The Japanese army always marked them as "the remnants of Ssangyong (that is, the report number of the Tenth Army Commander Wang Yachen)" on the combat map.Due to their isolation from the outside world, they remained on the spot after Japan surrendered until they were escorted out of the mountain by Zhou Baozhong's traffic officer Tian Zhongqiao (later the librarian of the Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall). In 1935, the Anti-Japanese Alliance became a lone army. In 1941, Wang Yachen, the commander of the Tenth Army, died in battle. These soldiers of the Tenth Army became the lone army in the lone army, but they persisted for five years.There were about 200 people in this army, and for five years, it was exactly a thousand years of resistance. After leaving the mountains, most of them chose to retire and return to the fields. None of them became senior cadres, so their achievements were not remembered by people.However, they used these fourteen years of resistance to declare that China's Northeast had never been completely occupied in that war. sasu March 2012