The Anti-Japanese War Story Telled by Xi Jinping

　　[Study in progress] The world is difficult, and the times make heroes.

The victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was the first complete victory of China's resistance to foreign invasion in modern times.

In the face of the invaders, the Chinese sons and daughters were indomitable and bloody fighting, defending the cause of human peace, and leaving behind many epic heroic stories.

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, the original brand column of Xinhua News Agency's "Study in Progress" column "Lectures" published an article to review the anti-Japanese story told by General Secretary Xi Jinping.

[Speech Original]

During the 14 years of resisting Japanese militarist aggression, especially the eight years of all-out war of resistance, all Chinese sons and daughters were united and united. They united the common will to resist foreign aggression and save the nation, and compose the magnificence of moving and magnificent. Epic, a group of anti-Japanese martyrs such as Yang Jingyu, Zhao Shangzhi, Zuo Quan, Peng Xuefeng, Tong Linge, Zhao Dengyu, Zhang Zizhong, Dai Anlan and the Eighth Route Army "Langya Mountain Five Heroes", the New Fourth Army "Liu Laozhuang Company", and eight Northeast Anti-Japanese War Numerous groups of heroes including female fighters and the "eight hundred soldiers" of the Kuomintang army.

　　——Speech at the commemorative medal ceremony of the "70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese War" on September 2, 2015

[Story extension] The story of the Eighth Route Army "Five Heroes in Langya Mountain"

　　In September 1941, about 3,500 Japanese puppet troops besieged the Langyashan area in the southwest of Yixian County in an attempt to annihilate the Eighth Route Army and local party and government agencies in the area.

The 7th company of a certain unit of the 1st Army Division of the Jinchaji Military Region was ordered to cover the transfer of party and government organs, troops and the masses.

When completing the task and evacuation, the 6th squad leader Ma Baoyu, deputy squad leader, Communist Party member Ge Zhenlin, and Song Xueyi, Hu Delin, and Hu Fucai were left as guards to cover the entire company's transfer.

They were firm and composed, took advantage of favorable terrain, fought back bravely, repelled multiple attacks by the Japanese and puppet troops, killing and wounding more than 90 people.

In order to prevent the Japanese and puppet troops from discovering the company's direction, they fought and withdrew, leading the Japanese and puppet troops to the top of Qipan Tuo Peak on Langya Mountain.

The Japanese and puppet troops mistakenly believed that they had bitten the main force of the Eighth Route Army and launched a fierce attack.

The five fighters were not afraid of danger and bravely blocked them. After the bullets were cleared, they fought back with stones and continued to fight until sunset.

Facing the approaching Japanese and puppet troops, they would rather die than surrender, destroy their guns, and not hesitate to jump off a cliff tens of feet deep.

Ma Baoyu, Hu Delin, and Hu Fucai were heroic martyrs; Ge Zhenlin and Song Xueyi were hung by branches on the mountainside and survived.

Five fighters including Ma Baoyu were praised by the masses as the "Five Heroes of Langya Mountain."

In order to commemorate and commend the five anti-Japanese heroes, the local revolutionary government built the "Three Martyrs on Langya Mountain" on the top of Qipantuo Peak.

It was rebuilt in May 1959 and renamed "Langya Mountain Five Warriors Memorial Tower".

[Story extension] The story of the

　　The 4th Company of the 19th Regiment of the 7th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army is an outstanding hero company.

In the spring of 1943, the Japanese invaders carried out a large-scale brutal "mopping up" of the Huaihai Anti-Japanese Base Area in northern Jiangsu.

On March 17th, more than 1,000 Japanese and puppet troops divided their troops to encircle the party and government leadership in Huaihai District on the north bank of the Liutang River.

The 4th company, under the leadership of company commander Bai Sicai and instructor Li Yunpeng, bravely blocked enemies from all walks of life and protected the safe transfer of party and government organs in Huaihai District.

The Japanese and puppet forces encircled for the second time, and the 4th company encountered the Japanese and puppet forces in the areas of North Laozhangji and Zhuduzhuang in Huaiyang.

After half a day of fierce fighting, he broke through again after dusk and moved to the Liulaozhuang area in the northwest of Laozhangji.

On the morning of the 18th, the Japanese and puppet troops carried out a third encirclement. The 4th company was ordered to organize a defense. The 82 people of the whole company bravely fought against the Japanese and puppet army's attacks by relying on the traffic ditches in front of the village. The main force and the party and government organs were transferred safely. The Japanese and puppet troops are surrounded.

Several breakouts were unsuccessful, and the 4th company was determined to stick to it.

The company correspondent wrote in the application for joining the party at FireWire: "When the party needs it most, I will dedicate my life to the party and the people, and I will never shame our party or the Chinese nation!" The concentrated artillery fired devastating bombardment on the positions of the 4th company, and the cavalry unit carried out an impact.

In front of the powerful enemy, the officers and soldiers of the 4th company were firm and composed and fought bloody battles. They repelled the Japanese and puppet troops for 5 consecutive attacks, killed and injured more than 100 Japanese and puppet troops. They fought hard until dusk, but they were outnumbered. sacrifice.

The 7th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army in recognition of the heroic deeds of the 4th Company, named the 4th Company "Liu Laozhuang Company".

[Story extension]

　　They are Leng Yun, political instructor of the Women's Corps of the 5th Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, squad leaders Hu Xiuzhi and Yang Guizhen, soldiers Guo Guiqin, Huang Guiqing, Wang Huimin, Li Fengshan, and An Shunfu, director of the clothing factory.

In October 1938, the ministry encountered more than 1,000 Japanese and puppet troops at the Wusihun River ferry in the Mudanjiang area.

The 8 members of the women's regiment who had already reached the river and were preparing to cross the river resolutely gave up crossing the river in order to cover the breakthrough of the large force. Under the leadership of Leng Yun, they were divided into three combat teams and fought fierce battles with the Japanese and puppet troops.

They took the initiative to attract the firepower of the Japanese and puppet troops, so that the main force of the troops could quickly get rid of the enemy's attack, but they were besieged by the enemy by the river.

With their backwaters fighting to the end of their ammunition, the female soldiers were unyielding to the death of the Japanese and puppet troops.

They destroyed their guns, wade into the Ushun River arm in arm, sang the "Internationale", collectively Shen Jiang, and martyred their country heroically.

At the time of the sacrifice, their oldest Leng Yun was 23 years old, and their youngest Wang Huimin was 13 years old.

[Story extension]

　　On August 13, 1937, the Battle of Songhu broke out in Shanghai where the Chinese army stubbornly fought against the Japanese invaders.

In the final stage of the battle, on the evening of October 26th, more than 400 people from the 2nd Battalion of the 524th Regiment of the 88th Division of the Chinese Army guarding the Dachang line of defense (known as "eight hundred soldiers" in the press) Under the command of Chang Yang Ruifu, he was ordered to guard the four-row warehouse on the north bank of Suzhou River to cover the main force withdrawing westward overnight.

Surrounded by the Japanese army, the Chinese army guarding the four-row warehouse fought alone and insisted on fighting for 4 days and nights, repelling dozens of enemy attacks under the cover of aircraft, tanks, and artillery.

At the same time, the people of Shanghai risked their lives to continuously send condolences and medicines to the four-line warehouse to support the strong men in fighting the Japanese army.

On the 30th, the defenders received an order to retreat, and the Chinese defenders broke through the encirclement and retreated into the British concession.

In this brave battle, the Chinese army killed more than 200 Japanese soldiers with outnumbered enemies, which was praised as a miracle by the international community.

[Speech Original]

In this great struggle to save the nation from the dead, the Chinese sons and daughters shed their heads and blood for the independence and freedom of the Chinese nation, their mothers sent their children to fight against Japanese invaders, their wives sent their men to the battlefield, men, women and children all mobilized.

A mother named Deng Yufen in Miyun County, Beijing, sent her husband and five children to the front line, and they all died in battle.

A villager on the North China Plain wrote such a couplet: "All people are united to guarantee the independence of the country, and persevere in fighting for national liberation"; the horizontal comment is: "The war to the end".

This is the roar of the bloody battle between the Chinese sons and daughters and the Japanese invaders, and a declaration that the Chinese nation will win the war.

　　—— Speech at a ceremony to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War of the whole nation on July 7, 2014

[Story extension]

　　In 1933, the Great Wall at Gubeikou was defeated in the War of Resistance, and the area outside the Great Wall of Miyun was included in the Puppet Manchukuo, and the village where Deng Yufen was located was also in it.

The invaders tried to create a large area of ​​"no man's land" by burning, killing, robbing, and slicing (green crops).

In order to drive away the invaders, Deng Yufen resolutely sent Da'er, Er'er, and San'er into the guerrillas, and let Si'er and Wuer join the model team of the Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Force in the village.

She and her husband opened up wasteland for farming while transporting rations, carrying bullets and running traffic for the Eighth Route Army.

She entrusted someone to send a message to her son on the front line: "Don't worry about home, and beat the devils." In the autumn of 1941, the invaders launched a "mopping up" on the Feng (Ning) Luan (Ping) Mi (Yun) Anti-Japanese Base Area.

In order to support the resistance against Japan, Deng Yufen decided to return to the "no man's land" to engage in spring farming. She asked her husband to go back to the mountain to set up a shack, and then she would arrive later.

Unexpectedly, her husband, Si'er and Wu'er were attacked by Japanese soldiers while they were farming. The husband and Wu'er were killed at the same time, and Si'er was also taken away.

Unfortunately, the eldest son died heroically in a battle to defend the Panshan base area; the fourth son who was captured died tragically in Anshan Prison; the second son went home to recuperate due to his injuries during the battle, but his condition deteriorated without medicine. Passed away; the seventh son also passed away unfortunately while avoiding the raid.

In 1945, the Chinese people defeated the Japanese aggressors, and Deng Yufen witnessed the day of victory with his own eyes.

[Speech Original]

We will never forget that countless French friends have made important contributions to the development of various undertakings in China.

Among them were the French doctor Beheer, who risked his life to open up a bicycle "hump route" and transported precious medicines to China's anti-Japanese base, and China, who was not afraid of danger during the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, and sacrificed himself to guard the trapped elevator during the strong aftershocks. The little girl’s French military doctor Huel, the French charity Fang Fang, who supported the Chinese out-of-school children to go to school, the coach Bower who trained many Chinese saber world champions, and the head coach of the Chinese national men’s football team. Mr. Alan Perrin.

　　—— Speech at the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France on March 27, 2014

[Story extension] The story of French doctor Beheyye

　　In 1913, the 41-year-old Bei Xiye came to China and served successively as doctor of the French Embassy in Beijing, doctor of Saint-Michel's Hospital, Yenching University doctor, and dean of Beitang Hospital.

Regardless of whether the patient is a distinguished man, a scholarly Liyuan, or a citizen, or a helpless person, Bei Xiye treats him equally, and was hailed as the "medicine of the world" by the celebrity Li Shizeng and his wife at the time.

After the Lugouqiao Incident broke out in 1937, Bei Xiye immediately stepped forward and wrote to the Chinese Red Cross on behalf of the foreign medical officer in Beijing, expressing his willingness to serve the Red Cross and support the Chinese people's anti-fascist war.

From his residence in Dongcheng District to Bei'an Hebei’s Garden, Bei Xiye rode more than 30 kilometers across Beiping City to deliver medicines for underground members of the Communist Party of China.

He also treated the wounded and villagers of the Eighth Route Army free of charge, and his residence "Beijia Garden" in the west of Beijing became a communication station for the Eighth Route Army at that time.

[Speech Original]

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Soviet flying captain Kurishenko came to China to fight side by side with the Chinese people. He said emotionally: "I am experiencing the disasters that the Chinese working people are suffering like the disasters of my motherland. "He died heroically on the land of China.

The Chinese people have not forgotten this hero. A pair of ordinary Chinese mother and son have guarded the mausoleum for him for more than half a century.

　　——Lecture at the Moscow Institute of International Relations on March 23, 2013

[Story extension] The story of Kurishenko, captain of the Soviet flight group

　　Grigory Kurishenko, born in Ukraine in 1903, was a flying captain of the Soviet Air Force.

In 1939, he and his comrades were ordered to lead two "Dasha-type" bomber brigades to China to assist in the resistance against Japan.

Kurishenko often said to his friends in Chengdu: "I experience the disasters of the Chinese people as if I experienced the disasters of my own country. When I saw the Japanese invaders bombarding China's land, I was very angry and sad." Rishenko and his comrades fought side by side with the Chinese people, regarded themselves as combat members of the Chinese Air Force, and strictly required them to observe military disciplines exemplary.

On October 14, 1939, Kurishenko led a team to attack a certain Japanese military base, fought fierce battles with the Japanese Air Force over Wuhan, and shot down 6 enemy planes.

During the battle, his plane was also hit hard.

On the return flight to the sky over Wanzhou, the fuselage lost its balance and forcibly landed on the surface of the Yangtze River.

The exhausted Kurishenko was no longer able to jump out of the cabin and gave a young life.

On the eve of the National Day in 1958, Premier Zhou Enlai told the family of Kurishenko who had been specially invited to participate in the National Day activities, saying that the Chinese people will never forget Kurishenko.

According to insiders, after Kurishenko's body was salvaged, an old local named Liu Haitian and others buried the hero by themselves.

The elderly and folks volunteered to guard the spirits of the martyrs.