The War of Resistance Against Japan was not eight years, but fourteen years!
The national anthem we sing every day comes from this team - the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. These two things are put at the beginning to break the old impression. The Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces tied their lives to their belts since September 18th, and they did not let go until Japan surrendered. There was no one ceasefire in between!
First bring time back to the deep forest of the white mountains and black waters. The soldiers wore urla shoes, stuffed grass into their shoes, and the grass was worn out after walking for a while; their legs crossed the river and formed ice shells, and they couldn't take a step; they squeezed back to back beside the fire, their chests were roasted and their backs were frozen and numb, and then they turned over and continued to simmer.
Some people were tired and sank in the snow, and never woke up again as if they were asleep. The hunger was even more fierce. The bark was soaked and roasted, and it was pounded into a paste to satisfy the hunger, but the stomach was constipated and swollen; the horse was eaten up, and even the saddle could not be moved. The wolf pack came along the blood. The people who were unstable at the gun were only bones and a gun that had not let go.
Any military would collapse if it were any army, but they would hold on!
What supports them is not only will, but also the most straightforward hatred. Seeing the villages burned, the people slaughtered, children slaughtered, and relatives thrown away, people in Northeast China learned two words from textbooks, from ancestral halls, and from dining tables: Revenge!
Elementary school students joined the Children's League to inform the team; young men and women went up the mountain to fight guerrillas; female soldiers carried wounded and headed to the front line, and forced the saying "War is a man's business". Many people lost their household registration and names from the day they joined the team. After their sacrifice, they did not even have a monument. The comrades buried the person in the snow line, and the next day, a wind smeared the traces.
This team grew up in a mixture. In the early days, there were farmers, students, people who had collapsed from the old troops, and strong men who were forced to go up the mountain.
There are many names in various ways: Volunteer Army, Guerrilla Army, and People's Revolutionary Army. Later, it was reorganized by the Communist Party of China and officially called the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. It was organized into one army, with a maximum of more than 30,000 people. The tactics stood on the word "you": break it into pieces, go after you fight, hide on the ridge during the day and touch the enemy's nose at night. The opponents have a large number of people, strong equipment, and sufficient logistics. The Anti-Japanese Allied Forces do not have the qualifications to make a living by relying on the sky, and can only rely on the brain, legs, and discipline!
In the past fourteen years, many names disappeared before they could be written into history. The list of sacrifices that can be found is far less than the real numbers. Many ordinary soldiers cannot prove that they have fought until they are old.
The oral history team followed along Heilongjiang, Songhua River and Changbai Mountain, and only caught dozens of surviving old men. Some left behind a thick stack of notebooks, titled "The Martial Arts", with trembling but clear handwriting; some showed the wounds, and the entrance and exit of the bullets were like two black holes; some left only silent, and there was a red cloth strip "The 81st anniversary of the military service" hanging in the ward, but people couldn't say a complete sentence.
The more trivial the memory is, the more we can make up the long period of daily life. We fight seven battles a day, start fire when we pick up the bowl, and just swallow two mouthfuls, and then withdraw; the messenger urges us to go back to replenish supplies, and then turn back to take back the mountain after eating; the injured people froze the blood into ice and buckle the shoes, the strict discipline prevents the team from dispersing, and the simple belief that they are not hiding.
The Northeast Anti-Japanese United Nations fights the most difficult front. Without base, the forest and snow fields are used as bunkers; without sufficient supplies, the enemy's warehouses are used as markets; without backing to the big city, the villages are used as nodes.
It is not only the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese and puppet troops, but also the "net-pull-pull-type clearance, airdrop leaflet persuasion and supply chain of immigration pioneer regiments. The strategic significance of the Anti-Japanese United Nations is to keep the land in a state of resistance, forcing the enemy to tie a large amount of troops and resources to the rear, support the national war situation, and hold the invaders' legs.
The statistics are cold, but they show the problem. They used only tens of thousands of people to annihilate and restrain hundreds of thousands of Japanese and puppet troops in 14 years. This is the price and value consideration!
Many people don’t know that the creation of "The March of the Volunteers" was used to the image of the Northeast Volunteers. The gun is in the hands, the snow is in the boots, and the heart is horizontal: saving the nation and survival.
Later, this song became the national anthem of New China, but was not accidental, because it sang the hardest bones of that era. Looking further, the term "Eight Years of War of Resistance" has given way to "Four Years of War of Resistance". The textbook straightened the line from the source and wrote down the resistance of the Northeast from the beginning. This is also not rhetoric but historical facts.
Let's go back and put this story into today's context, without sensation or lyrics, just make the facts clear: in fourteen years, a group of the most ordinary people have been ground into steel; a coldest place has supported the hottest blood; a most difficult team has supported the Northeast and the East Gate of China.
Some people have become veterans, some are staying at the age of twenty, and some are not even leaving their names. We remember "Fourteen Years", not to extend the numbers, but to make up for their share. When singing the national anthem, think about the footsteps in the snow forest, and you will know why this song must start from there.
