Chapter 26 Primer

The Chinese nation has reached the most critical moment, and everyone is forced to make a final roar. ——Excerpt from the national anthem of the People's Republic of China "March of the Volunteers" On the last day of 1931, after Huang Xiansheng commanded the police corps to fight the last battle outside Jinzhou, he blew up the Nuerhe Bridge to stop the enemy and withdrew into the pass.So far, the main force of the Northeast Army has completely withdrawn from the three northeastern provinces. However, a new military force is flourishing in the Northeast. This is the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, which has grown to hundreds of thousands of people.

The Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army is not a unified army. It includes the Liaonan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army organized by General Huang Xiansheng, the Jilin Self-Defense Army organized by Wang Delin, the Liaoning People's Self-Defense Army organized by Tang Juwu, and Ma Zhanshan. And the troops reorganized after being canceled by the Northeast Army even included the Green Forest Armed Forces that once roamed the mountains and forests.These armed forces do not have a unified command, nor a unified guiding ideology. The only thing they have in common is "resisting Japan and saving the nation."

Although they did not have enough training and were poorly equipped, the Volunteer Army reflected the spirit of ordinary Chinese who did not want their homeland to perish. Therefore, while paying great sacrifices, they dealt a greater blow to the Japanese army than the regular army.The first regiment captain and the first general killed by the Japanese army in this war of aggression against China were all the results of the Volunteer Army. In 1933, the main force of the Volunteer Army failed, and some senior generals withdrew to the Soviet Union, but some units persisted until the 1940s, and part of the Volunteer Army later became the predecessor of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces and continued to fight on this land.