1. Caption: 70 years later, veterans who participated in the Songhu War of Resistance Against Japan and the Battle of Sidian revisited Sidian.

The Battle of Songhu was a battle of China's army against Japanese invaders from August 1937 to October12 10.

Songhu area is located at the intersection of Huangpu River and Wusong River in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and it is the gateway of the Yangtze River. Because 1932 "one? Due to the limitation of the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" after the February 28th Incident, China's army was unable to enter Shanghai and its surrounding areas, and only two regiments, the Shanghai Guard and the Jiangsu Security Guard, which were under the jurisdiction of the Songhu Garrison Commander yang hu, entered the urban area, with weak forces. However, Japan is "one? After the February 28th Incident, heavy troops were stationed in Hongkou and Yangshupu, Shanghai, and the Japanese Marine Corps Command was established in Shanghai. There are more than 3,000 marines stationed in Shanghai, and a large number of Japanese ships patrol the Yangtze River and Huangpu River all the year round.

1After the Lugouqiao Incident on July 7, 937, the Japanese army actively planned to occupy Shanghai while expanding the war situation in North China. On August 9th, the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai started a war, and the captain of the Japanese Marine Corps was driven into the Hongqiao military airport by Hatoyama and soldier Saito, and was killed by China soldiers. The Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai used this as an excuse to coerce the China government to withdraw the Shanghai security forces and dismantle all fortifications. After Japan's unreasonable request was rejected by China, more than 4,000 marines and landing ship personnel in Shanghai and "Japanese Overseas Chinese Volunteers" 1 10,000 people were mobilized to make emergency preparations.

At this point, the battle of Shanghai and Shanghai broke out.

The battle of two battles in Shanghai lasted for three months. Although there are many troops in China, they are scattered in their respective defense zones, paying attention to frontal defense and neglecting flank security. The Japanese army was well-equipped, attacked from the front and suffered repeated defeats. Instead, I landed on the side and successfully detoured. The Japanese army participated in the war with more than 220,000 people in 9 divisions, with more than 90,000 casualties; China's army participated in the war with about 70 divisions of 6 group armies, with more than 700,000 people and more than 250,000 casualties. The defenders in Songhu fought bloody battles, which forced the Japanese army to shift its main strategic direction, broke the dream of destroying China for three months, bought time for the inland relocation of coastal industries in China, and stimulated the enthusiasm of China soldiers and civilians for the war of resistance against Japan. The battle of defending the fourth warehouse is a branch of the battle of Songhu.

Homesickness Warehouse is located in the north bank of Suzhou River in the south of Zhabei District, Shanghai, at the northwest corner of Tibet Road and Bridge, with the address of Guangfu Road 1 17. It is a six-story reinforced concrete structure building, covering an area of 0.3 hectares, with a building area of 20,000 square meters, 64 meters wide, 54 meters deep and 25 meters high. Founded in 193 1, it was originally a warehouse invested by four banks, namely Jincheng, Zhongnan, Mainland and Salt Industry, so it was called "Four Banks".

During the Battle of Songhu, Lieutenant Colonel Xie Jinyuan of the 524th Regiment of the 88th Division of the Third Theater of the Kuomintang National Revolutionary Army of China led hundreds of soldiers to resist the Japanese attack for four consecutive days from the afternoon of June 27th 1937 to June 3rd1,covering the 88th Division's retreat to the suburbs of Shanghai. More than a dozen soldiers died and more than 30 were injured. Four days later, because the Kuomintang army had achieved the purpose of delaying the Japanese army, it accepted the mediation of Britain. 65438+1October 3 1 At two o'clock in the morning, Xie Jinyuan and Kuomintang soldiers retreated to the British Concession after Song Ziwen telephoned Chiang Kai-shek's retreat order. In the British Concession, all officers and men were under house arrest for four years. Xie Jinyuan, the head of the regiment, was assassinated on April 24th. 194 1.

2. Caption: Lieutenant Colonel Xie Jinyuan of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Middle School.

On the one hand, Xie Jinyuan's defense was witnessed by a large number of civilians and foreigners who fled to the concession at that time because the four-row warehouse was close to the South Bank concession. Among them, Yang Huimin, a Girl Scout of Shanghai War Service Corps, sent a red flag to the soldiers who were guarding the warehouse at midnight on June 28th, 5438+00.

When Xie Jinyuan entered the warehouse that night, a British soldier asked how many people were stationed in the warehouse. Xie Jinyuan answered 800 people for publicity, which led to 800 heroic deeds of defending the fourth-line warehouse. In fact, there are only more than 400 soldiers defending.

At present, Sihang Warehouse belongs to Shanghai An Baili Group and is still used for warehousing purposes.

Second, Yang, Guo Xingfa and Guo Xingfa are the last survivors of the fourth-line warehouse defense war.

2007 "8? Yang, a 93-year-old veteran, Guo Xingfa, a 92-year-old veteran, and a 90-year-old veteran are the last three survivors of the 70-year-old battle for the fourth-line warehouse in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Songhu.

It's rare. Two years ago, chongqing morning post's Xia reporter and Gan Chivalrous reporter took me to interview veteran Yang. At that time, he was 92 years old. This time, I met 92-year-old veteran Guo Xingfa in Shanghai. At that time, I didn't know there were survivors of anti-Japanese war veterans in Shanghai. In February this year, Shen Jianzhong, deputy director of Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, came to Beijing and told me that he went to the home of a 90-year-old Wang Wenchuan veteran and awarded him the certificate of "Honorary Librarian of Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall".

Wang Wenchuan's wife, who was 90 years old, died in February this year. When the family was collecting Mrs. Wang's relics, they found a photo of Wang Wenchuan 70 years ago. Wang Wenchuan was radiant in the uniform of a Kuomintang soldier. After the liberation, the three anti-five evils, the suppression of counter-revolution, the Cultural Revolution and so on, Mrs. Wang was worried that history would be in trouble, so she cut the photo of wearing a military uniform under the "neck-length". This time, the collar and epaulettes of the Kuomintang army are gone! There is no evidence of counter-revolution. It happened more than 50 years ago in the blink of an eye.

The children in Wang Wenchuan didn't know what happened 70 years ago until they took this photo.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Songhu Anti-Japanese War, so children call it Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall. Deputy curator Shen is the curator of "seeking politics in his place" in many War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression memorial halls in China; Dedicated! He arrived in Beijing the next day.

-The reason is simple. Songhu Sino-Japanese War Memorial Hall not only has the name of heavy machine gunner Wang Wenchuan, but also keeps his photos!

Deputy director Shen mobilized me to go home for an interview as soon as possible.

Deputy Director Shen Jianzhong's logic is unique:

"From 193 1 year' 9? It has been 76 years since the 18 incident, and the research on the history of confrontation war has been in-depth in academic circles. So far, only the veterans who have experienced War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression are the final research objects. If you still hold the old research topic, I'll copy you and you copy me. I wonder if the researchers are blushing? "

Deputy director Shen has other views:

"What else can we do if we publish a new book every year, similar to Battle of Shanghai and Battle of Shanghai, which was finalized 70 years ago? The responsibility of the War Museum is to remove the old exhibitions, dig new ones and make history coherent. "

There are other quotations from Deputy Director Shen Jianzhong:

"Yesterday, our predecessors left history to us today. We should leave today's history to tomorrow's people! "

Tang Mingde, deputy director of Shen Jianzhong, also said:

"Witness, material evidence and oral history are the three pillars of the War Museum. We must catch them one by one! "

Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall published the first, second and third episodes of Oral Songhu Anti-Japanese War. Shen Jianzhong said that in recent years, veterans who participated in the Sino-Japanese War in Songhu will die one after another, because the Sino-Japanese War in Songhu was a war more than 70 years ago. Therefore, it is urgent to interview the veterans of the war of resistance against Japan in Songhu and Shanghai scattered all over the country! It is estimated that a series of "Shanghai Oral Anti-Japanese War" will be terminated when it is published to eight episodes.

I know the implication of Deputy Director Shen: "Human life is limited, but the warning of war is different."

After the veterans who participated in the 70-year War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and Songhu Fourth Line Defence War gathered on August 13, Deputy Director Shen invited reporters from Shanghai TV Station, Wenhui Daily, Shanghai Radio Station and Shanghai Baoshan TV Station to follow up the report. Undoubtedly, these materials will be the last precious film and television materials in the history of China people's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. The value of these video materials will show its unique value to the public in just a few years.

I respect the leaders of Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall. I think they have a clear conscience before history.

I think the Central Propaganda Department should praise such a war museum. Because patriotism needs to be passed down from generation to generation; "Spiritual food" is accomplished through countless concrete, complex and arduous group labor. The staff of Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall are doing these labors; The fruits they planted will bloom new flowers and bear real fruits in the splendid culture of our Chinese nation!

"8? 13 "On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Sino-Japanese War between Songhu and Shanghai, I called Yang, who was far away in Chongqing, before boarding the train for Shanghai with my family. 93-year-old Yang speaks clearly and thinks clearly. He said that he was in good health and hoped to participate in various commemorative activities to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Sino-Japanese War in Songhu. I said:

"I have called a curator of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Museum, hoping that he will visit your family in Chongqing. His War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Memorial Hall has numerous physical evidence, but it lacks witness and oral history! It's just that there is no photo of the curator and your veteran Yang! He can spend a lot of money on cultural relics. Why can't he interview you? Besides, why don't you put your photos today and eight hundred heroes's photos in the lonely barracks together? Four rows of warehouse soldiers 70 years ago! Not just a miracle in the history of human war! Moreover, it is a witness to the history of human war! It is the epitome of the vicissitudes of human war history! "

4, photo description: comrades reunited after 70 years, only a thousand tears.

Yang, 93, said, "You told me several times that I have been waiting for the curator of the Anti-Japanese War Museum."

It also witnessed the meeting of 92-year-old Guo Xingfa, 90-year-old Wang Wenchuan, 103-year-old Zhang Baochen and 90-year-old Qiyuan Zhang at the Shanghai War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Memorial Hall. This scene really made the witnesses have mixed feelings and touched the onlookers!

Especially the encounter between Guo Xingfa and Wang Wenchuan, two old comrades-in-arms, was even more shocking.

At that time, all the onlookers were silent.

I saw two people clasping hands, speechless for a long time, only a thousand lines of tears!

Third, a life of wandering between glory and shame.

I am a person who studies the history of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. I am a writer of contemporary anti-Japanese literature in China. I'm the one who recorded the last page of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's historical masterpiece. If I say, "90-year-old Wang Wenchuan is a man who has been wandering between glory and shame all his life", you may not believe me. In a word, in the sea of truth, when you first hear the sound of stormy waves composed of truth, you may still hesitate. I have many real examples to prove my point; Our point of view is actually to tell us the true history of future generations. For generations, we in China have learned lessons from our long history of civilization.

Wang Wenchuan will recite the quotations from Chairman Mao: "800 heroes are national models". Chairman Mao's remarks were made at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the China * * * Production Party in 1938. Wang Wenchuan is one of the 800 heroes. Isn't that glorious?

Wang Wenchuan never told his children that he was the hero of the "fourth-line warehouse defense war".

Is it a shame that Wang Wenchuan destroyed almost all the materials in the anti-Japanese army? Or glory?

Wang Wenchuan never won a medal to commemorate War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory.

Wang Wenchuan lives in a dark and old house. All the furniture was half a century ago, except the TV.

Wang Wenchuan's monthly income is around 900 yuan, and he can reimburse 80% of medical expenses. Really: a corrupt official, a year's food.

Children in Wang Wenchuan have made numerous calls to relevant units, hoping to improve their treatment. The result can be imagined.

During the Cultural Revolution, Wang Wenchuan not only suffered a shock himself, but also affected the lives of his children.

When Wang Wenchuan and his family went to Shanghai this time, they initially planned to pay for themselves. This is glory? Or shame?

When Wang Wenchuan came back from Shanghai this time, the Songhu Anti-Japanese War Museum and Shanghai residents reimbursed him and his family all the fares and accommodation expenses respectively. This is glory? Or shame?

Seventy years ago, Wang Wenchuan fought for Shanghai. How does he compare with Chen Liangyu, the former party secretary? It's like, a completely different world.

"8? 13 "The Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Day has passed. Wang Wenchuan is over 90 years old, and no one will remember him except War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Memorial Day. He will live quietly in that old room. Until nature disappears.

You said he was a disgrace, right? He feels very "glorious" himself.

You call him "glory", right? He felt "humiliated" himself.

-the reality is so contradictory!

Besides, if Wang Wenchuan, 90, doesn't "cheer up", he is likely to be drowned in the ocean of "shame".

So he called me in July, hoping to go to Shanghai in August. In "8? 13 "On the 70th anniversary of the Sino-Japanese War in Songhu, he wanted to visit the Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall and the 70th Four-Row Warehouse in Shanghai. He said, "I'm practicing walking. Although I have been paralyzed for 37 years, I will stand in front of the sculpture of Colonel Xie Jinyuan in the four-row warehouse and salute! "

There is no doubt that Wang Wenchuan is a soldier of the Kuomintang. It is also inevitable that Kuomintang soldiers were treated in various ways in those historical stages in China's past social state! -the Kuomintang was invited out of the historical stage by the people because of corruption! In 2005, the commemorative medallion for the 60th anniversary of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory was only awarded to the rank of Major General of the former Kuomintang anti-Japanese soldiers, which is also a historical fact. This time when I accompanied Wang Wenchuan to visit the Fourth Line Warehouse Museum, the museum leader told me personally:

"Xie Jinyuan's wife has also been discriminated against. Xie Jinyuan's son is still a worker pulling coal carts. "

-I'd be skeptical. I saw a little thing: a reporter wanted to exchange business cards with him, and he looked contemptuous. Where did he transport the coal? Workers who have delivered coal should be great, modest, friendly, friendly and kind all their lives.

The past is the past. People's Republic of China (PRC) has been established for 58 years. How many ups and downs!

-the key question is here: "8? 13 "70 years after the Songhu War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression outbreak! He Wang Wenchuan this time, if he doesn't go to the Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall and the Four Lines Warehouse, this last "glorious" opportunity will be lost forever.

"8? 13 ",in the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, both Director Tang and Deputy Director Shen of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War Museum hoped that the remaining three veterans would visit the Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall. However, all three old people are over 90 years old. Who will bear the social responsibility, historical responsibility and moral responsibility after the accident? Therefore, we need a modern anti-Japanese writer to go with us. So, I not only had the honor to witness Wang Wenchuan, a veteran of Sidian, fulfill his last long-cherished wish, but also witnessed the rare glorious moments of former Kuomintang soldiers such as Wang Wenchuan, Zhang Baochen, Qiyuan Zhang and Guo Xingfa.

In Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, they are indeed glorious in defending the former site of the fourth-line warehouse; There are cameras, video cameras and tape recorders in front, as well as a group of beautiful female journalists and handsome and tall male journalists. For nearly a few hours, reporters were interviewing them; Wheel tactics, take turns bombing. Flowers, applause, smile, praise, help, respect, sigh, awe, sigh, concern, call, praise, food, wine-completely immersed in the beautiful ocean.

In short, several anti-Japanese war veterans have tasted the daily life of corrupt elements for several days!

5. Caption: Wang Wenchuan practices walking at home. He said he would stand up and pay tribute to Colonel Xie Jinyuan.

I always hope that heroes will always be brilliant.

Although the present society is an era of "leading the way" for two or three days.

I think so now: even a few days of glory is not bad. It is also the progress of the times.

I even hope that China people can learn from Americans. After their civil war, the humiliation of one side did not last long.

In the 60 years since the victory of the anti-fascist war, the heads of many countries have treated the veterans who died for their country, not only materially, but also spiritually. I have never heard of the report that soldiers who participated in the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Normandy and the Defence of London were treated differently.

I interviewed Japanese veterans who invaded China from 199 1 in Japan.

I have been studying why the former Japanese invaders (at the beginning of the war of aggression against China) were more effective than the Japanese.

I have been studying less than 2 million Japanese troops, occupying half of the country and enslaving hundreds of millions of compatriots!

I have been studying how the Japanese invaders occupied China in 15. From 193 1 year to 1945.

Fourth, Wang Wenchuan, the machine gunner who defended the fourth-line warehouse in the Sino-Japanese War, passed by in Shanghai.

6. Caption: After 70 years, veteran Wang Wenchuan was welcomed by Shanghai residents as soon as he got off the train.

The welcoming ceremony in Shanghai is very affordable. Although there are fewer people, it is more meaningful. Shen Jianzhong, deputy director of Shanghai Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, shook hands with Wang Wenchuan on behalf of the government and historical moment. Shanghai Pupils' Band played the orchestral "Homesickness", which represented Shanghai people's thoughts and respect for the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to defend Shanghai. Two teachers in Shanghai, holding banners of "Welcome the veterans of the Anti-Japanese War to Go Home", made Wang Wenchuan cry. Shanghai reporters went to several people, including Shanghai TV Station, Shanghai Baoshan TV Station, Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station, Wen Wei Po and other media.

7. Caption: Wang Wenchuan was welcomed at the entrance of Songhu Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall.

8. Caption: Veterans who participated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 salute at the entrance of the homesick warehouse showroom.

The 90-year-old statue of Xie Jinyuan, the old head of stroke in Wang Wenchuan, burst into tears