In May 1944, 1 1, the regrouped Chinese Expeditionary Force launched a big counterattack in western Yunnan.

With Wei as the commander-in-chief, more than 60,000 officers and men of the Kuomintang 1 1 and the 20th Army 14 Infantry Division 16 crossed the Nujiang River, pressing all the way to Gaoligongshan, Tengchong, Songshan, Longling and Pingjia, west of the Nujiang River, to fight to the death with the Japanese army.

1.6 million officers and men, there are young people who bravely faced ethnic hatred and family enmity and joined the army at the beginning of the battle, but most of them are able-bodied men recruited from all over the country.

Among them are veterans, such as 106-year-old military doctor Fu Yude. Most veterans have participated in the battles of Lugouqiao, Taierzhuang, Changsha, Wuhan, Kunlun Pass in Guangxi and Songhu, and have been shopping with Japanese soldiers on foot for almost half of China. Some even took part in warlord wars. The story of their joining the army is like one legend after another.

But more are recruits, rural youth recruited in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan in the early 1940s. At that time, most of China's northeast, north, east and south China had fallen, so we had to go to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the livestock farms in mountainous areas and Pingba, to collect young farmers' children and send them to the anti-Japanese battlefield.

When the country is in trouble, its national strength is weak. From the first day of becoming a able-bodied man, recruits from rural areas have embarked on a hard road, even a road of no return.

Zhang Yufu, 80 years old, originally from Dejiang County, Guizhou Province, is now a retired cadre of Longchuan Farm in Yunnan Province. 1943 joined the army on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. That year, Zhang Yufu 18 years old.

"The able-bodied man is tied with a rope, five people are tied together, hundreds of people are strung together, and the gun is on the road. Walk during the day and sleep at night. Don't run, if you run, grab it and hit the board, killing it. I walked for 7 days and arrived in Zunyi. "

Zhang Yufu still remembers the day when he left Zunyi, which was the 16th day of the first month of 1944. They walked in the direction of Yunnan, still tied with ropes, and walked for more than two months. They went to Wenshan and joined the army. Zhang Yufu was incorporated into Class 7, Row 3 of the 8th Military Camp.

At this time, the able-bodied man who came with him was already half dead. They died of hunger and fatigue. Every day, there are only two or two congees cooked by old brown rice, and the young Zhang Yufu is so hungry that his hair falls out. Wearing sandals, barefoot, trekking thousands of miles, climbing mountains and wading, Zhang Yufu claimed to have "lost two layers of skin" along the way.

The battlefield of the Eighth Army is in Songshan on the west bank of the Nujiang River. After Zhang Yufu put on his military uniform, he immediately rushed to western Yunnan, still marching during the day and playing sandals at night.

Zhang Yufu's engineering barracks later made great contributions to the famous Songshan Battle.

The whole campaign of western Yunnan was mainly carried out in three battlefields: Songshan, Tengchong and Longling, among which Songshan campaign was the most important.

Songshan guards the traffic throat of western Yunnan entering the east bank of Nujiang River. It is close to the Huitong Bridge in Nujiang River, "there are deep valleys in front and steep slopes in the back", surrounded by mountains on the left and right, and the China-Myanmar highway passes through the mountains. Its terrain is dangerous and should be called "Gibraltar of Yunnan-Myanmar Highway" by western journalists.

The Japanese army has been entrenched here for two years and has already built fortifications. Those bunkers covered with steel plates on the upper floor are "covered with slopes, such as turtle back lines, surrounded by barbed wire, and the inside and outside of the fort are woven with dense fire nets to support each other." Each fortress is "divided into three layers, the upper layer is used for shooting and observation, the middle layer is used for dormitory or shooting, and the lower layer is a bunker or ammunition depot". When these fortifications were built, the Japanese army had already tested them with plane bombs, unscathed. Therefore, Hideyoshi Matsui, captain of the Japanese 1 13 United Front, declared: "Songshan has built a strategic safe."

In addition, the Japanese positions have complete water supply, power supply and communication systems, and even a comfort station has been set up, showing the attitude of sticking to the end.

On June 4th, the 7 1 Army of the Expeditionary Force attacked Songshan, occupied Ramon, surrounded the Japanese army, fought hard for a month, killed more than 1000 people, and changed to the 8th Army with stronger attack power.

Another month later, the 8th Army reached the enemy's main position 150m, and could not attack any more. Li Mi, the deputy commander, ordered the engineering battalion to start from halfway up the mountain, dig tunnels upwards, dig under the Japanese bunker, and blow up the Japanese bunker together with the Japanese devils with explosives.

Zhang Yufu personally dug two tunnels to kill the enemy.

"First lie down and dig, then kneel down and dig, and finally stand up. Digging tunnels during the day and secretly transporting soil and explosives at night. After loading the explosives, the soil will be transported back from the mountain and the tunnel will be filled. "

10 days later, 150m tunnel was excavated, 3 tons of explosives were transported, 2 fuses were placed, and the tunnel was completely filled. On August 20th, China army feinted for a while and all retreated. Senior generals of the Expeditionary Force, including Wei and Song Xilian, attended the event.

Zhang Yufu saw Shang, the battalion commander of the engineering battalion. "I shook my hand, smoked two cigarettes, threw away the cigarette butts, and shook the detonator modified by that phone." A few seconds later, in the dull explosion, the largest Japanese bunker on the main peak of Songshan collapsed into two big pits, and more than 70 Japanese troops were buried alive.

Zhang Yufu and his comrades-in-arms forgot to hide, jumped out of the trench and cheered loudly, while the honor 3 regiment rushed up without firing a shot.

Since then, China's army has launched a tug-of-war with the Japanese army on the main peak. 1 in September, Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Chongqing, ordered that Songshan must be captured before September 18, the day of national humiliation, or the commander and deputy commander would be dealt with according to military law. Li Mihong, the deputy commander, grabbed a helmet and buckled it on his head, picked up a submachine gun and took the spy camp to the main peak. On the 6th, Zhang Yufu saw Li Mi coming down the mountain with the help of the guards. Li Mi's eyes were bloodshot and his beard was unshaven, and his military uniform was in tatters. He was barefoot, injured in two places and deformed. "

On September 7, Songshan was finally recovered.

At that time, Zhang Yufu remembered the scene very clearly: "At about four or five in the afternoon, news came from the mountain that victory had been won. I clearly saw that Li Mi was sitting on a stone outside the headquarters, and the staff officer ran forward to report to him. He sat motionless, and then tears rolled out immediately ... "

In the battle of Songshan, more than 3,000 Japanese aggressors 1 13 United front troops were completely annihilated, but the expeditionary force also paid the price of 6,000 people killed (including 8 Zhang Yufu's hometown), and all the new 28th division of 7 1 Army, 82nd division of 8 Army and 102 division suffered casualties.

6 1 year has passed, and Zhang Yufu still can't forget the bodies of his comrades lying in front of the position on the hillside, and he can't forget his familiar honor three regiments. "Honor three groups are wounded veterans who fought with the Japanese. After recovering from injuries in Chongqing and Kunming, they were reintegrated into the army. They fought the bravest, but in the end they were all wiped out, and the head of the team, Zhao Fabing, cried in pain. "

The battle of Songshan lasted from June to September, when the weather was the hottest and the rain was the most. The bodies all over the mountains soon rotted. "When soldiers stand guard, maggots crawl on their legs; The trees and weeds on the mountain were soaked by the bodies. " Zhang Yufu said that he couldn't eat at all when he first went to the position. Later, even if it rained heavily, officers above platoon leader had raincoats, and ordinary soldiers could only hide in the trenches and let the rain pour down from their heads.

1in March, 945, the 8th Army used American equipment, and Zhang Yufu received the first pair of rubber shoes since he joined the army. At this time, he has been evacuated from the battlefield in western Yunnan to Dali.

Later, Zhang Yufu followed the army almost along the same route as when he joined the army, from Yunnan to Guizhou, then to Guangxi, then to Guangdong, and then to Kowloon, Hong Kong. Then the civil war went north to Jinzhou, Weifang and Xuzhou, and finally the whole army uprising in Sanshui, Guangdong. Then along the original route, I walked through Guangxi and Guizhou step by step and returned to Yunnan.

1949 to 1955, Zhang Yufu and his family took Dali as their resident and built mountains and roads everywhere, with Lincang in the south and Deqin in the north. Finally, he responded to the call and returned to the farm in Longchuan county, the battlefield in western Yunnan, to open up wasteland and farm, and settled in the frontier until he retired.

Zhang Yufu has a gentle temper, is honest all his life and works hard. As early as 1953, he made many contributions to the road construction site and joined the party. Since then, he has also served as a middle-level cadre in Longchuan Farm. Because of his busy work and long journey, it was not until 1965 that he took advantage of the "four clean-ups" in Xishuangbanna and returned to Guizhou to visit his old mother. He has been arrested as a "able-bodied man" for 22 years.

At that time, 40-year-old Zhang Yufu was still single, and his young marriage was settled when he left home in the early years, and he has become a sister-in-law. During the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Yufu was shocked. He feared that he would be sent back to his hometown. If he is still single and has no face, he will entrust his old mother to find his present wife in his hometown.

Today, Zhang Yufu's daughter works in Longchuan County, and her son resigned and went to work in Shenzhen Huawei. He and his wife live in a bungalow on the farm. His retirement salary was adjusted last year, and he can get more than 800 yuan a month.

A few years ago, Zhang Yufu bought a cemetery on a mountain, where many comrades who left before him were buried, some of them were the Eighth Route Army going south, and some were the same national army as Zhang Yufu. As anti-Japanese veterans, they have completely integrated into this bloody land.