Chapter 8 Seven Glory and Shame

Between the white mountains and the black waters, on a small hillside in Tonghua, a small northeast border town, there is a barren tomb.In the afterglow of the setting sun, the tomb looks more and more desolate and lonely. The owner of this tomb, General Wang Fengge, was once a fierce bandit leader, but later became a national hero who regards death as home.More than half a century later, not many folks and compatriots remember the epic story of Wang Fengge.In this fertile soil, he is just one of countless anti-Japanese martyrs who were born and died silently.Wang Fengge and Ma Zhanshan, Yang Jingyu,

Li Zhaolin and other martyrs are excellent sons and daughters of this land. After the "September 18th" Incident, Wang Fengge organized the people in the Hongtuya area of ​​Linjiang County, unfurled the banner of "People's Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Force", and was elected as the commander by the villagers.In April 1932, Wang Fengge served as the commander of the Nineteenth Route Army of the Liaoning People's Self-Defense Army.After the fall of Tonghua, he insisted on resisting Japan for six years. On March 27, 1937, Wang Fengge fought a decisive battle with the Japanese army at the "1434" highland in Daluoquangou. He ran out of ammunition and food, and was seriously injured and captured.On April 15th of the same year, Wang Fengge, his wife, and his son were killed by Japanese invaders at the gate of Liutiaogou at the foot of Yuhuang Mountain.According to local legend, the Japanese army slaughtered Wang Fengge's son and wife in front of him in an attempt to coerce him into surrendering.However, the three members of Wang Fengge's family cursed the Japanese invaders until their death.Inspired by a great national war, a former bandit was also sublimated into a national hero.

After the "July 7th" incident, while Western observers were amazed by the tenacious fighting will shown by the Chinese, they also predicted that the prospects for the Chinese in this disparity in strength would be bleak. Before the Sino-Japanese full-scale war broke out in 1937, the tonnage of the Japanese navy was 1.9 million tons, which was 20 to 30 times that of China.Japan has 2,700 combat aircraft, while China has only 600.At the beginning of the war, the military equipment of a Japanese division was equivalent to three times that of a Chinese division; in the middle and late stages of the war, it was already eight to nine times that of China.

Even the European and American powers dare not underestimate the Japanese army armed to the teeth, while China has only a weak central government and dozens of local governments that operate independently, and its economic structure, organizational form and technological level are still in a "pre-modern" state.Everyone knows what it means for a country that has not yet left the Middle Ages to go to war with a wolf-like modern army. Japanese politicians describe China as a big turtle that must be fought quickly in order to eat sashimi.However, the Chinese army did not completely collapse after only three months as imagined by the Japanese base camp.

However, Japan's calculations were wrong.Although the Japanese army quickly occupied the most affluent coastal areas of China, China did not collapse.Although the national government lost 95% of its industry, it still stubbornly organized various forms of resistance.The more Japan sent more troops to the Chinese battlefield, the more it realized that this was a bottomless pit.The Japanese military officer in charge of propaganda work, Abe Doriki, described the situation of the Japanese army in this way: "Both feet are stuck in the boundless swamp and there is no place to lean on. I want to pull out my right foot, but my left foot is deeply sunk. If I think about it again When the left foot was pulled out, the right foot sank again, and it was impossible to escape. This is the current status quo in Japan, and it is the actual situation of resolving the China Incident.” Wherever the Japanese army went, there was no welcome and support, Abedorichi I have to admit: "It can be seen in the interior that areas without Japanese troops are full of vitality, while places with Japanese troops are lifeless."

The arrogant Japanese army began to feel the grief and anger of the Chinese people.This wrath is like the erupting volcano, like a storm, like a thunderstorm, like a raging wave, like a torrent.Only then did the Japanese warlords realize what a serious mistake they had made. "Thirty thousand miles east of the river goes into the sea, and five thousand miles to the sky." In the great Anti-Japanese War, countless heroes and warriors stood up and defended the survival and dignity of the nation with their flesh and blood.Of the 25,000 young officers who graduated from the Central Military Academy from 1929 to 1933 alone, 10,000 died in the first four months of the outbreak of the all-out war. The proportion of casualties was as high as 40%. .

Today, we can neither forget the crimes of our enemies nor our own heroes. Among those predecessors who fought bloody battles, there is a hero who is almost forgotten by people.His name is Yang Yunfeng, he is ninety-five years old, and he was an ordinary soldier in the 29th Army of the Nationalist Government during the Anti-Japanese War.Now, Yang Yunfeng lives in Daqianghou Township, Beixindu, Wuyang County, Henan Province.The old man has long lost the ability to work, has no children, and has no wife. He lives a difficult life and even begs everywhere. In January 1933, the Japanese army occupied Shanhaiguan Pass, Rehe in February, and Xifengkou of the Great Wall in March.A fierce battle broke out, and Brigadier Commander He Jifeng, the guard, gave an order: "Use a big sword! Attack at night! It is better to fight to the death than to be a subjugated slave!" : Annihilated more than 6,000 Japanese invaders, killed 53 officers above major rank, captured 11 tanks, 6 armored vehicles, 11 cannons, and 36 machine guns.

Guo Jiafang, Director of the Quartermaster Division of the 29th Army, recalled: "The battle lasted only three months, and there were many casualties among the middle and lower commanders of our army. During the battle, the battalion commander was killed and injured by the deputy battalion commander; It is common practice to change numbers in a day. When there is no one to represent the frontline combat troops, they will be transferred from division, brigade, and regiment headquarters." Yang Yunfeng was one of the survivors, covered in wounds. The teeth were all lost, and the ears were deafened by the cannon.

In 1940, Yang Yunfeng participated in the Yichang Campaign.In 1945, when the troops were stationed in Kaifeng, Henan, he applied to the chief to go home.He only brought back a big knife from the 29th Army, and spent all his money before he got home. As a veteran of the 29th Army, Old Man Yang saves money every year to visit Lugou Bridge, not for the sake of feeling, but for survival.He regards the battlefield of that year as a part of his life. More than 60 years ago, the 29th Army, with 100,000 officers and soldiers, guarded Beiping with majesty and majesty, and the sound shook all directions.From the Marco Polo Bridge Incident until the victory of the War of Resistance, officers and soldiers of the 29th Army fought bloody battles with the Japanese army at the forefront of the war of resistance against Japan. They were one of the Chinese troops who made the most sacrifices during the War of Resistance.

Today, there are less than two platoons of officers and soldiers of the 29th Army, and they are distributed in mainland China, Taiwan, the United States, Canada and other places.Veteran Yang Yunfeng is one of them. Ninety-five-year-old beggars do not define a person's shame, but only indicate the roughness of fate.People shunned him and hated him because he was a poor man and an old man.If he had been a general, people would have looked at him differently at once. In sharp contrast to Yang Yunfeng's tragic experience, it is the living conditions of Japanese veterans.For Japanese veterans who participated in the war of aggression, the government gave them monthly pensions of more than 100,000 yen, as well as a 50,000-yuan "engime" from the emperor.They can enjoy good medical conditions and live in a social atmosphere of respect and care.

If a nation cannot remember those heroic sons and daughters who shed their lives and shed blood for her, then this nation cannot have real cohesion and vitality.In this sense, the forgetting of old man Yang Yunfeng is another form of crime. What we owe is not one person, but a group of people. What we betray is not a person, but a belief. "Tao men are as determined as iron. Look at your hands and mend the sky." In war, there is no need to argue over who is a warrior and who is a coward.During the 15-year Anti-Japanese War, more than 100 generals of the Kuomintang army died honorably, and more than 20 generals of the Communist army gave their lives.In April 1938, Chiang Kai-shek asked the senior generals at the meeting of ministers on the eve of the Wuhan Battle to "be determined to die, and to live and die with the soldiers... Although the world is falling apart, this ambition will not change." The life creed of the generals who command the battle on the front line. Among the generals who died on the front line, there were nine senior generals who had the rank of general during their lifetime and were posthumously awarded the rank of general after their death. They are: General Tong Linge, General Zhao Dengyu, General Hao Mengling, General Wang Mingzhang, Feng Anbang Generals, General Tang Huaiyuan, General Rao Guohua, General Zhang Zizhong, General Li Jiayu. Among them, there are two commander-in-chiefs with the highest positions, namely: General Zhang Zizhong, commander-in-chief of the 33rd Army, who died in a pumpkin shop in Hubei in 1940; General Li Jiayu, commander-in-chief of the 36th Army, a Died in Qinjiapo, Henan on May 21, 1944. Among these heroes, Li Jiayu is the least known one. Li Jiayu, a general of the Sichuan Army, once served as the commander of the First Division of the Sichuan Army and the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Frontier Defense Force. In 1937, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Jiayu immediately called the central government to invite Yingying to fight against Japan, organized his troops into the 22nd Group Army, and led his troops to the front line in Shanxi. In 1938, tens of thousands of Japanese and puppet troops attacked Dongyang Pass and Changzhi City.Li Jiayu commanded the 47th Army to resist tenaciously by relying on the mountain fortifications. After three days and nights of fierce fighting, the Japanese army was repelled.In 1939, he was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the 36th Army and the commander of the 47th Army due to his military exploits. In April 1944, when the Japanese army launched the Battle of Central Henan, Li Jiayu was ordered to lead the main force of the 36th Army to participate in the battle, and served as the commander-in-chief of the rear guard in the theater to prevent the Japanese army from advancing westward.On May 21st, the headquarters of the group army was ambushed by the Japanese army on the Qinjiapo Highland in Shaanxi Province. Li Jiayu was shot several times in the body and died immediately at the age of fifty-two.In this battle, many Chinese generals fell here, and it was one of the battles in which Chinese generals sacrificed the most during the War of Resistance. After a bloody battle, Li Jiayu's soldiers took back the general's body and transported it back to his hometown of Chengdu.On June 22 of the same year, the National Government posthumously awarded Li Jiayu the title of Army General. In addition to these star-studded generals, it was ordinary soldiers who died for the country.Most of them were peasant boys who didn't know a word and had never touched a gun yesterday.They are honest, simple, silent and tough, just like the solid ground under their feet.It was for the sake of the land and loved ones that those hands who were accustomed to holding hoes picked up guns.They lack food, clothing, ammunition, medical care and organization, but never lack courage and confidence. Tang Guilin, a female machine gunner of the 52nd Division of the National Revolutionary Army, was hailed as "Modern Hua Mulan" because of her moving deeds of disguised as a man, serving in the army instead of her brother, and repeatedly making miraculous achievements. In 1942, Japanese troops invaded Changde, Hunan.In the defense of Changde, three division commanders died heroically, and the 57th Division of the National Army suffered more than 90% casualties. Among the 15,000 soldiers, only 300 survived. Facing the mighty Japanese army, Chinese soldiers left a deep impression on Western observers with their characteristic humorous and gentle character and modest and honest attitude in the brutal battle.They endured a hard life unbearable to soldiers of any country, and stood firm in the face of disease, hunger, cold, and advanced weapons of the enemy. American historian Yi Laoyi commented that China persisted for fifteen years from 1931 to 1945 in its war with an enemy army that had absolute superiority in organization, training, and preparation. Compared with France, which collapsed after only six weeks of resisting Germany, and Britain, which had been receiving massive aid from the United States, the resistance of the Chinese army was a miracle of determination and self-reliance. The Nationalist forces fought aggressively in Shanghai, Nanking, and the North and Central China Plains, thoroughly defeating the Japanese hopes for a quick victory and suffering terrible losses themselves.Then, the Chinese army retreated from the coast, and they turned to a strategy of attrition, thus leaving the Japanese army trapped in the vastness of China.This tenacious resistance made a significant contribution to the war effort of the entire Allies against the Axis powers.China held back about a million Japanese troops on the Asian continent that would otherwise have been used in the Pacific to fight Western allied island-crossing forces. On January 6, 1942, US President Roosevelt pointed out in his "State of the Union Address to Congress": "Millions of Chinese people have withstood bombing and famine for four and a half long years. Despite the superiority of the situation, we still hit the invading army time and time again." In a fireside chat on February 23 of the same year, Roosevelt said: "We must help China carry out the outstanding resistance now and the inevitable future. Counter-offensive - because that was an important factor in defeating Japan." China is closely related to the fate of the United States.Roosevelt once imagined a terrible ending: "If there is no China, if China is defeated, how many divisions of Japanese soldiers can be transferred to fight in other areas? They can take down Australia, take down India-they can do nothing They worked hard to knock down these places. They can also rush to the Middle East, cooperate with Germany, launch a large-scale offensive, join forces in the Near East, completely isolate Russia, merge Egypt, and cut off all communication lines leading to the Mediterranean... "Fortunately, China did not collapse and this tragedy did not happen.Otherwise, human history may be rewritten accordingly. When the Anti-Japanese War was in full swing, the front-line commanders saw the troops wearing various uniforms, and also saw the various weapons prepared by the soldiers. Putting their weapons and equipment together was like holding a war. An exposition of large, obsolete weapons spanning more than half a century. In the Battle of Songhu, China's most elite troops gathered.The 88th Division, 87th Division, and 36th Division under Admiral Zhang Zhizhong were equipped with advanced German weapons, and he could command the tankers to attack the Japanese soldiers who were driven to the sea.On the Taierzhuang battlefield, the soldiers of the Sichuan army under the commander Wang Mingzhang from Sichuan wore straw sandals, and they had never even seen what a tank looked like.Similarly, the basic equipment of the Eighth Route Army soldiers in the Hundred Regiments War was millet plus rifles. After suffering the protracted abuse, oppression and aggression by Japan, the Chinese finally decided to fight the Japanese army with blood and courage.The failures one after another have been expected, the fall of a large piece of rich land has been expected, and the disappearance of a large number of young lives has been expected.However, the Chinese people will still fight to the last inch of land, to the last soldier. The power gap between the Chinese Air Force and the Japanese Air Force is the greatest, but the Chinese Air Force fighters still wrote magnificent movements of defending the country with their blood in the blue sky. Gao Zhihang is the first generation of outstanding Chinese air force generals. He once studied at the French East Army Aviation School and was a trainee in the 23rd Regiment of the French Air Force.After returning to China, he successively served as the captain of the Flying Eagle Team of the Northeast Aviation Department and the captain of the Fourth Brigade of the Central Air Force. On August 14, 1937, the Japanese army attacked our military base.Gao Zhihang was ordered to take off and started a fierce battle with the Japanese plane.In this battle, Gao Zhihang became the first Chinese Air Force hero to shoot down a Japanese plane.In November 1937, Gao Zhihang died a heroic death in the battle with the Japanese army and was posthumously awarded the rank of Major General of the Air Force.In 1939, the national government designated August 14, the day when Gao Zhihang shot down a Japanese plane, as "Air Force Day." On the important battlefield in Burma, an officer of the U.S. Marine Corps, Carlson, commented on the Chinese youth who fought alongside him: "After giving Chinese soldiers spiritual encouragement and enough food, there is no difficulty that they cannot overcome. They Their stamina is unsurpassed, and their endurance is unparalleled." Even General Stilwell, a four-star general in the United States known for his strictness and harshness, rarely gave these Chinese youths his smile.Stilwell highly praised these hard-working Chinese soldiers and said: "They are the best soldiers in the world, and I feel honored to be able to fight with them." Chinese peasants not only serve as fighters, but also migrant workers who never know fatigue.Chennault, the commander of the American Flying Tigers who fought against the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield for many years, sighed: "Those thin and strong Chinese migrant workers are one of the most effective weapons of the Fourteenth Air Force. No matter how many airports the Japanese army captured, the US military Still able to go on. The Chinese were able to build airfields almost everywhere quickly. For every airfield destroyed by the Japanese, two airfields were created." Such a nation cannot be conquered by force, and such a people cannot be crushed by terror. These soldiers from the bottom of society are determined to defend the motherland that doesn't care about them. The war did not change the life of the rich and the rich.In the misty capital of Chongqing, bureaucrats and profiteers continue to enjoy the luxury they enjoyed in Shanghai, Nanjing and Peiping in the past.The privileged classes spend billions of dollars in ballrooms and restaurants, but refuse to donate a penny to the equipment and medical treatment of the soldiers who die to defend their property. Those with privileges also took the opportunity to make a lot of "national wealth".A U.S. intelligence officer discovered a huge underground black market in Chongqing, Kunming and other places, and a large amount of U.S. military aid to China was actually circulating on the black market.Who has the right to transfer and buy and sell these materials?Until the moment of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, this shameful phenomenon has not been effectively curbed. In the War of Resistance Against Japan, there were heroes who sang "everyone in life has died since ancient times, keep his heart to reflect history", and there were traitors who claimed to "save the country with curves and fight peacefully".Heroes make us feel glorious and proud, but traitors make us feel ashamed and ashamed. The Japanese army implemented the grand strategy of "using China to control China" in the occupied area.In 1937, the Japanese cabinet meeting formulated the "Outline for Handling the Incident in China", which specifically proposed that the establishment of a puppet regime should "recruit talented people with credibility throughout China" and "have doctrines and programs that can appeal to the whole country." The Japanese army successively fostered five larger puppet regimes in the occupied areas, namely: the puppet Manchukuo, the puppet Jidong Yin Rugeng regime, the puppet North China Wang Kemin regime, the puppet Dewang Mengjiang regime and the puppet Wang Jingwei regime.Japan has successively printed and issued documents such as "A List of the New Central Government of China" and "The Staff List of the National Government Organization System", which recorded and introduced in detail the team members of the traitor regime, from the chairman, vice-chairman, minister, director to director at all levels There are so many official titles of traitors, which can be called "Genealogy of Traitors". The Puppet Manchukuo regime had more than 50 high-ranking officials from Puyi, mainly the former Fengshi bureaucrats and Manchu nobles; the puppet North China government had more than 20 senior officials from Wang Kemin, mainly the old warlords and old bureaucrats of the Beiyang government; Half of the more than 40 senior officials of the puppet government from Wang Jingwei were born out of the KMT. China's "traitor culture" is magnificent and has become a phenomenon worthy of research and deep thinking by future generations. The army should be the Great Wall of Steel of a country. As the saying goes, "You can raise a soldier for a thousand days, and use it for a while."However, on the battlefield, there have been endless incidents of senior Chinese generals leading troops to surrender to the enemy. Among them, the more representative rebel generals are: Li Shouxin, commander of the 17th Cavalry Brigade of the Northeast Army; Wang Ying, commander of the Suiyuan Volunteer Army; Liu Changyi, Commander of the 69th Army Bi Zeyu, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Hebei-Chahar Theater and Commander-in-Chief of the Guerrilla Army, Sun Liangcheng, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the 39th Group Army, and the new No. Sun Dianying, Commander of the Five Armies, Pang Bingxun, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Hebei-Chahar War Zone, Commander-in-Chief of the 24th Group Army, and Commander-in-Chief of the Taihang Mountain Guerrilla Army... The list could go on and on.During the Anti-Japanese War, there were as many as a thousand senior generals who defected to the enemy or served as pseudo-posts. After the "July 7th" Incident, the Japanese army began to use a large number of puppet troops in the "Public Security and Rectification" campaign in the occupied areas, and the number of puppet troops increased rapidly. In the occupied areas, the main puppet troops are: the "Public Security Army" of the North China Puppet "Republic of China Provisional Government"; The "Appeasement Army" of the "Reformation Government"; the "Imperial Association Army" of northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui.In central and southern China, there were also "Imperial Association Army" and "Peaceful Nation Salvation Army", and later the "Guangdong Peaceful National Army" was established. After the establishment of the Wang puppet government, it formed the largest puppet army-"Peaceful National Founding Army".In 1942, its regular army consisted of three front armies, three group armies, a total of 67 divisions and more than 20 brigades, totaling 620,000 men.The command of the puppet army was controlled by the highest military advisory department set up by Japan, and the military training, officer education, weapon preparation and equipment technology were all controlled by the Japanese. In addition to soldiers, many civilian officials, scholars and celebrities fell into the water and became traitors who betrayed the interests of the country and the people. Wang Jingwei, a young hero appreciated by Sun Yat-sen in the League, was the leftist leader of the Kuomintang in the 1920s, and the vice president of the Kuomintang in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War; Zhou Zuoren was as famous as his elder brother Lu Xun during the May 4th Movement A pioneer of the Enlightenment, he was the best essayist and scholar in China in the 1920s.However, Wang Jingwei and Zhou Zuoren, two highly respected figures who can be called "great men", both failed at the end of their lives and degenerated into traitors who have been infamous for thousands of years.There is also Hu Lancheng, who served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Wang puppet government. Today people only pay attention to the tortuous love story between him and Zhang Ailing, but forget his ugly behavior of betraying the country and the nation. Among the traitors, there are also "lonely ministers and evil sons" of the old era, such as Puyi of the puppet Manchukuo and King De of the puppet Mongolian regime.They attempted to use the power of the Japanese to restore their yesterday's dynasty that had been thrown into the dustbin of history.In his memoirs in his later years, what Pu Yi wanted to express was nothing more than this sentence: "One mistake will cause eternal hatred". From an early member of the Communist Party of China to a senior member of the Kuomintang, to the head of the Japanese puppet regime, and finally to become the "Tianzi No. 1 traitor" sentenced to death by the Nationalist government, Chen Gongbo's life was full of ups and downs, great joys and sorrows. On December 19, 1944, one day before Wang Jingwei's coffin was buried in Meihua Mountain in Nanjing, Chen Gongbo became the "acting chairman" of the pseudo-Nanjing Nationalist Government.Chen Gongbo once confided his inner thoughts to the left and right: "I don't call the chairman but the acting chairman to express my attitude towards Chongqing. The drama staged by Mr. Wang is coming to an end. The so-called death of the government should end. I inherit this mess, They are here to close the show, not to continue the show." In court, Chen Gongbo read out a 30,000-word confession "Memories of Eight Years", defending himself by following Wang Jingwei and organizing the puppet Nanjing government.For some former senior KMT officials like Wang Jingwei, Chen Gongbo, and Zhou Fohai, choosing to cooperate with the Japanese certainly had power considerations, but it was more of a mistake in understanding, pessimism about their own nation and country, and a lack of respect for the Japanese. Miscalculation of the international situation. For the lower classes, choosing to be a traitor can immediately exchange for power and money.The Shiren Xuelei Mountain in the northeast is named after the history of blood and tears: in 1938, the Japanese established the "Dongbian Road Development Co., Ltd. Shiren Charcoal Plant" here to plunder the coal resources in the Shiren mining area. The bodies of miners who were tortured to death were thrown on the mountain.Since then, this beautiful mountain has become a mountain of blood and tears full of bones. In this coal mine opened by the Japanese, the three traitors Liu Tangling, Yang Xiukun, and Shi Xiuchen actively participated in the enslavement and abuse of compatriots under the command of the Japanese.Their statues are placed here, just like the statues of Qin Hui and others by the West Lake, they will be cast aside by generations of people.It is said that a descendant of one of the traitors later became a wealthy man and wanted to spend a lot of money to buy the statue, but was flatly rejected by the local people.Money cannot rewrite history, nor can money cover up shame. Unlike civil and military officials, ordinary people choose to be traitors, mostly out of considerations of livelihood, money, and interests.In his masterpiece, Lao She portrayed the painful life of Beijingers in the period of loss, and also portrayed some sad and shameful images of traitors. There is no concept of a modern country, no concept of individual rights, and no firm and lasting beliefs, which has led to the deep-rooted servility that Chinese people are accustomed to.Therefore, when the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War was rumbling in the north, the bureaucrats and generals in the southern provinces of China believed that this was a battle between Japan and the northerners and Li Hongzhang's fleet, and it had nothing to do with us; When thousands of Nanjing soldiers and civilians were escorted to the place of massacre, no one stood up and resisted. In fact, the Japanese soldiers were full of fear at that time. Resistance might have the possibility of saving lives, but no one dared to seize this opportunity. Akahoshi Akahoshi, a Japanese army reporter, wrote in a report: "The Chinese people are like alluring beauties. They please the guests of the Mina family who come in the morning, and the guests of the Heike family who come in the evening. Since they welcome the Japanese army, they also welcome the Kuomintang army. They are such a nation, and develop this wonderful national character according to the sense of life." Hashimoto Goroji, the leader of the Japanese diaspora in Shanghai, pointed out in an interview: "I used to go to Haimen as the squad leader of the Jiangbei organization to perform tasks. When the local people saw me, they kept calling me 'Mr. Dongyang, Mr. Dongyang'. To us Bow to welcome. When we visited Haimen City, the streets and alleys were full of sun flags to welcome us, making us feel like a prince. However, at night, once the night covered the eyes of the sentinels, those sun flags changed again at some point. It became the flag of the blue sky and white sun. After investigation, it was found that guerrillas came in and moved around at night. And once the sky became bright, the flag of blue sky and white sun was replaced with the sun flag. Those Chinese people seemed to have nothing happened. Everyone It's all a kind of complacent and nonchalant His expression is really interesting. " These records are not the intentional smearing of China by the invaders.We need to start from this painful and deep self-examination.When Lu Xun summed up China's history, he said that the Chinese have never fought for their freedom and dignity as human beings.For thousands of years, the living conditions of the Chinese people have been nothing more than two kinds, one is the era when the slaves were firmly established, and the other is the era when the slaves were not secured.In a sense, the common people in China can endure the rule of their own dictatorship, why can't they endure the rule of foreign occupying forces?This long-standing and deep-rooted national inferiority is the evil result of the authoritarian system for thousands of years, and it is also the biggest obstacle to China's modernization and democratization. Today, when we look back on this history of the War of Resistance, which is full of glory and also soaked in shame, we should face up to the servility and inferiority of the nation, and call for the self-esteem and self-confidence of the nation. A Western philosopher once said that war is a process of self-elimination of a nation.No nation likes war, but when every nation encounters war, it takes it as a test and challenge for itself.In the long history of mankind, some nations were unable to cope with cruel wars and perished under the pressure of alien invasion; some nations washed off their own dirt in the blood and fire of war, and were reborn like a phoenix. The Chinese nation in the Anti-Japanese War belongs to the latter.Compared with the brilliance of the Anti-Japanese War, the thousands of large and small civil wars since the Republic of China either seem absurd or pale in comparison.US President Roosevelt wrote in a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek: "The heroic resistance of the Chinese army to your country's barbaric aggression has won the highest praise from the United States and all freedom-loving nations." This honor has gone through blood and fire. It was only obtained after the test. This honor was exchanged for millions of anti-Japanese soldiers with their lives. Like a phoenix reborn from the ashes, the Chinese nation has washed away a hundred years of humiliation, broke free from a hundred years of chains, won a glorious victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and won the sincere respect of the people of the world.