Chapter 59 The cornerstone of light and glory is strength

A crescent moon disappeared into the sorghum field, and several ghosts appeared on the Nanman Railway to the south of Wenguantun, walking towards Liutiao Lake.This is Lieutenant Kawamoto Moromaru of the Kawashima Squadron of the Shimamoto Battalion of the Fengtian Independent Defense Force, leading a few devils to "inspect the railway".On the east side of the road is the North Camp of the 7th Brigade of the Northeast Army. There is a section of more than 1 kilometer almost parallel to it, and the nearest point is less than 500 meters.These devils with ulterior motives immediately moved about 1 kilometer beyond Beidaying. Hemoto personally placed the explosives at the junction of the rails and ignited them.

It was past 10 o'clock on the night of September 18, 1931. At about 10:30 on the night of the 18th, in the north of Fengtian and west of Beidaying, the violent Chinese army destroyed the Manchurian railway line, attacked our garrison, and clashed with part of our garrison who was rushing.According to reports, the Second Battalion of the Fengtian Independent Garrison has moved towards Fengtian. This is the first telegram about the "September 18th" Incident. It was sent to the Japanese Army Headquarters at 11:18 p.m. on the 18th. Chief of the Secret Service Chief Kenji Doihara—this kid was quickly promoted to a general, and he was the first to fall from the gallows of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

And only 5 minutes after the explosion in Liutiao Lake, Seishiro Itagaki, who was the fifth to go to the gallows 17 years later, issued four orders to capture Beidaying and Fengtian City in the name of acting commander of the Kwantung Army. Three hours later, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Fan Zhuang, issued eight orders to capture various military locations in South Manchuria. Eight hours later, the Japanese Central Military Headquarters held a meeting and believed that the Kwantung Army's actions were completely appropriate. On September 24 and October 26, the Japanese government issued two statements, saying that "the imperial government has no territorial desires in Manchuria", "the Manchurian incident was entirely caused by the provocative actions of the Chinese military authorities", "respect China's territorial integrity".

On April 22, 2007, Japan's "Tokyo Shimbun" published an editorial "Lessons should be learned from history": Speaking at a meeting of newspaper commentators across Japan last month, writer Kazutoshi Hanto said: "The turning point in pre-war Japan was the period from the Manchurian Incident to around Showa 10 (1935). The country has since entered war. Time system. Is the current situation in Japan similar to that at that time?" Compared with Japan around the Showa decade and now, there are several points that are very similar. The first is "nationally coordinated education", the second is "unified management of information by the state", the third is "restriction of freedom of speech", and the fourth is "terrorism". The editorials specifically discuss how "very similar".

I read it several times, and I really can't understand some of the problems, but I know what some people in Japan are doing. At 00:00 on August 9, 1945, the 1.5 million soldiers of the Soviet Red Army divided into four groups and launched an attack on the Kwantung Army.The battle to attack Xunshan Fortress in Dongning County lasted for more than 10 days.It is said that this was the last battle in World War II, and the old man Zhang Fuzhong was the witness of the last scene of this last battle.When the author interviewed in 2001, the old man was eighty-two years old, and he and nine other family members were growing vegetables for the devils at the foot of the mountain.

The old man said that the Soviet army suffered a lot from a hard attack.I can speak a little Japanese, and an official asked me to go up and persuade me to surrender.I went up and shouted that your emperor made you surrender.Little Japan didn't believe it and said, "The imperial army of Japan will not surrender."The Soviet army brought a Japanese officer from Mudanjiang (Leugeant Kono Sadao, the logistics staff officer of the 3rd Army Headquarters), and I sent him up the mountain. This time, the Japanese came out of the cave, all of them looking like ghosts in rags.An official was not convinced, and shouted with his eyes wide open: "The Great Japanese Empire will not perish, and it will come back in 30 years!" Some also shouted, like howling ghosts and wolves.

I haven't come back for more than 60 years, but can you say that the "Great Japanese Empire" has lost its breath?Every year on the "End of War Day", those "imperial troops" who lined up in front of the Yasukuni Shrine, and those publicity vehicles outside playing wartime military music, what are they calling out and not calling out?There are also endless "textbook incidents", as well as the continuous "gaffes" of Japanese politicians, and at the beginning of the new century, why did that man named Junichiro Koizumi become the Prime Minister of Japan?

The Tokyo Shimbun's editorial concludes: Where will the "tide of the times" turn?Is it unreasonable to be wary of going back to the road of war? In the Wenchuan Earthquake, the Japanese search and rescue team was the first foreign rescue team to arrive in the earthquake zone, and it was also the first international rescue team ushered in in the history of New China.On those days when it was particularly easy to choke and cry, I was moved when I saw the Japanese rescue team lined up in two lines on the screen, mourning silently for the bodies of a mother and daughter they dug up from the rubble.

It was a 27-year-old mother and her daughter who had only been in this world for 75 days.But what about the victims of the Pingdingshan tragedy?What about the child who was crawling and sucking on the mother's gradually cooling chest, picked up by the thing called "devil" with a bayonet, and drew a parabola in the air? I don't know how Chinese people of all ages will feel when they see this TV scene.For those who are revising this book, it is so natural and common to suddenly think of Pingdingshan's "photographing", Laoheigou's "killing the ditch", and Huanren's "filling up the river".

The Chinese cannot forget the modern and modern history of more than a hundred years before 1945, especially the history of being in blood with this neighbor.Some people say "remember history, don't remember hatred".I really want to remember love when I remember history, but what about the truth?Who can say that Americans can forget hatred when they remember "9.11" and Jews remember Nazi Germany?And for us, the essence of the problem lies in the clamor of those "right-wing" Japanese, what are they warning? The "Tokyo Shimbun" noticed that since the Japanese rescue team appeared on the ruins of Wenchuan, the two countries, which usually attack each other fiercely, also showed sympathy for China and gratitude to Japan on the Internet.A newspaper commented: "The feelings between the Chinese and Japanese people are gradually warming up."

Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and of course the same is true for ice melting.For example, military planes from several countries have brought in relief supplies for the earthquake. Why didn't the planes from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force come?Because Japan is different.History is a hurdle. The problem lies in the signs of development, just like a patient, the condition is very serious, but it is improving, and it is being taken care of carefully, so there is hope. Then borrow the name of Yasuo Fukuda, who has been the Prime Minister of Japan for less than a year, and wish the healthy and happy development of the relationship between China and Japan. However, who can guarantee that when there will be no "Oizumi Junjiro" or something? The author has never been abroad. If there is such an opportunity, Japan should be the first choice to experience it and listen to what the Japanese say about yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And here, I would like to ask the Japanese right wing: China, North Korea, and South Korea are the countries most affected by Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and other countries have also suffered greatly, and Japan itself has lost more than 3 million people. Is this not the case? Facts, isn't that enough?The "little boy" and "fat man" who rushed towards Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are they some UFOs?It was the first time for human beings, shouldn't it be the last time? Peace is happiness and beauty for everyone. finished?Maru? Japan, let's go! The International Military Tribunal for the Far East believes that the starting point of the Pacific War should be traced back to the "September 18th" Incident. Pearl Harbor is an "incident", Nuomenhan is an "incident", and Zhang Gufeng is an "incident". How come "September 18" became an "incident" and created a "Manchukuo"? Pearl Harbor resisted, Nuomenhan and Zhang Gufeng resisted, why didn't "September 18" resist?Because the strength is weak.why weak?From population to land area, China has always been one of the few big countries in the world. What is it about being "weak" and "big"?Can you even make it? Really, in ancient and modern China and abroad, is there such a word as "weak and big"? But wasn’t China weak and powerful at that time? Without the rise of the Western powers, I don't know how far China's feudal society can go.After the defeat of the Opium War in 1842, no matter how much China's GDP accounted for in the world's total, it began to sign endless shameful treaties. In 1853, the same fate befell Japan.The United States used a quarter of its sea power to march into Japan under the leadership of Brigadier General Perry, forcing Japan to bow its head.The problem is that for Japan, which is weak compared to China, this is not the result.Faced with the challenge of Western economic and military technological advantages, Japan became the best student in the human university, quickly became stronger, and then began a history of blood and blood with neighboring countries. At this point in the book, my wife who was watching TV suddenly called out "Oshin" - the Japanese TV series "Oshin" that Chinese people have been familiar with more than 20 years ago appeared on the screen. From being beaten and humiliated to reaping the consequences, Japan rose rapidly both times. Compared with the anger and vigilance of some Asian countries, Russia and the United States do not seem to take the bad behavior of the Japanese right wing very seriously.In addition to the different degrees of victimization and the special relationship between the United States and Japan, what are the reasons?Why does Japan care so much about what the United States says? Nuomenhan means "peace" in Mongolian.The Soviet Union knew that the Eastern Front needed peace and was able to make it peaceful.The open-air firepower of the Soviet army, especially the rolling tanks on the prairie, the destructive power of steel and technology, horrified the warriors who advocated "White Soldierism".Since the Russo-Japanese War, the devils who have looked at the north with the victor's posture, not to mention not getting cheap, were beaten crookedly.When the war officially starts, it will be full of teeth. What about America?You little Japan dares to make another Pearl Harbor or something, and beat you out of shit. "Fight to the end!" "Drive away the Japanese and overthrow Manchukuo!" "Down with Japanese imperialism!" In the mountains in the northeast, there is a "slogan tree", which is a slogan carved on a big tree.Some are formed by cutting off the bark one by one, exposing the white cadres inside.Some were carved on the white cadres after scraping off the bark. In the primeval forest near Tianchi Hot Spring in Changbai Mountain, a "slogan tree" is engraved: "The Anti-Japanese War has passed since then, and the descendants will never stop!" Ragged clothes, unkempt face, the only difference between genders is a beard, and the maintenance of breathing movement is almost entirely by will.Everything is inhuman and unconventional, just like the "slogan tree" in the deep mountains and old forests where wild animals haunt and the advertisements in crowded places back then and today.Blue flames, roaring smoke bubbles, and bullets whistling in the mountains.As if falling asleep on a hot kang, the last trace of heat is about to be robbed by the wind and snow, still panting forward, letting the wound bleed and just focus on aiming.The red snow, the hot snow, the ancestors made of ice and snow, the endless national soul. When human beings have entered the fast lane of technological civilization in the middle of the 20th century, the ancestors who did not want to be slaves in this black land where they were born and raised, seem to have returned to the primitive society that lasted for tens of thousands of years.The physical and mental endurance has already surpassed the limit.Many people collapsed, and more people still marched forward bravely, dying in battle, freezing to death, and starving to death in batches. In this situation, the Anti-Japanese Alliance is of course still destroying and containing the enemy, and naturally it is even more impossible to win this war-but is such a proposition really important? While the author was writing these more than one million Chinese characters, several old men from the Anti-Japanese War passed away.Some used to be high-ranking officials, some even went to the street to sell eggs after the interview, and some have already been mentioned before. The living and the dead, whether they belonged to the law of nature, or their youthful lives came to an abrupt end, are all golden national heroes when "the Chinese nation is at its most dangerous time."Even Hu Zi, who once robbed his family, is a fierce and bloody ancestor in this black land. Apart from the circumstances of that time and space, they are the same as the people on the streets and in the windows of thousands of lights today, made up of flesh and blood and minds that are basically no better than anyone else.But they are indeed different, because they once built our new Great Wall with flesh and blood and heads. The Anti-Japanese League did not leave a single formed unit, but she left us and our descendants a spirit, a spirit that shines on history and the future, and that no enemy can conquer. This is a heroic story of the indomitable and strong, and it is a huge intangible asset of the largest group of people who share a common history and culture on this planet. We must carefully cultivate, care for, and strengthen our spirit and body, because any comprehensive national strength cannot ignore the strength of the spirit. Without strong spiritual power, no matter how strong material power is, it will be difficult to last and lack cohesion. When we strive to create a harmonious and peaceful internal and external environment for national rejuvenation, we especially need a strong spiritual force.