Text: Liu Shuliang **Liu Shuliang Channel
It was evening when we arrived in the town of Solon, and the mountain on the other side was still in the mist. If it weren't for "The Guns of the Sauron Valley", we wouldn't have stopped, we would have gone through the township.
Gunshots in the Solon Valley is a film, filmed in the ** decade of the last century, in the monotonous years of cultural life, all films will be popular.
I can't remember if I've seen it, I asked two friends of the Xing'an League who traveled with me, they thought about it, and they had heard it, and they couldn't tell if it was a movie. Later, I recalled that I hadn't watched this **, and all my memories came from a well-known cross talk actor who said the words gunfire in the Sauron Valley in his lines.
Soren is a town in the right wing of Inner Mongolia's Horqin Right Left Banner, the town is not large, even if it now has some modern urban elements, and it is not much different from the large inland villages.
But Sauron is a famous town, and it was a military stronghold during the Japanese invasion of Tohoku. My friend Batu told me that the Japanese had stationed an infantry regiment here to monitor the east-west passage. It is also a strategic location, a few hundred kilometers from here, is the Sino-Russian port of Manchuria.
After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese were full of confidence that they wanted to annex all of China, and they feared that the Soviets would send troops to interfere with Japan's aggression. At that time, the Soviet Union was a great power, and if the Soviets sent troops, they would have defeated the Japanese troops in Hei Province and Inner Mongolia in a few days.
The purpose of the garrison here was more to monitor the Soviets' every move in case of contingencies. Anti-Japanese films, large and small, all show the military aggression of the Japanese, but I think that the core of the armed aggression of the Japanese is economic possession. I have reiterated this view on many occasions.
Now, it has been more than 70 years since Japan raised its hands to surrender, but the turret built by the Japanese is still there.
Soren side is an important post house on the highway built by the Japanese in those years, not far away is the railway leading to Manchuria, and now the Solun railway station is still in use, although it is rebuilt and there is still a shadow of the old years.
Of course, the Japanese built roads and railways not for the benefit of the Chinese, and the timber and coal plundered from the Great and Small Khing'an Mountains were continuously transported to the mainland from this railway line, and we also called this highway the Japanese evil line.
Sauron was destined to become a punctuation point in the Sino-Japanese entanglement. Anyone who knows the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression will know that the Japanese launched 918 incident, there is an important excuse "Nakamura incident".
Nakamura, a Japanese soldier, entered the Hung Yen League's military restricted zone in disguise as a traveler to survey, and was captured and secretly shot by the Hung Yen Reclamation Army.
Originally, the Japanese people were poor, but they let the people at that time give an explanation, and the people were directly responsible for removing the cantonment army to settle down. 9.On the eve of the 18 incident, the Japanese brazenly launched a bandit act to occupy the three eastern provinces under the pretext of the "Nakamura Incident."
I was reminded of the story of the wolf in the upper reaches of the river and the lamb in the lower reaches of the river, and the hateful part of the robber's face was that he was looking for excuses everywhere.
After the surrender of the Japanese, Sauron did not change much, it was still a dusty dirt road, or a low yellow mud wall. After the reform and opening up, the Japanese who had been here in the past have come here again, and when they look at the place where they are stationed, their feelings are complicated, and they must remember the infinite scenery that was rampant and domineering in those years.
In the past 30 years, the Xing'an League has been the land of the Chinese, and people live happily in their own land. And the few dilapidated buildings left by the Japanese are more to remind people of the crimes of the Japanese people from time to time.
The Soviets came in August 1945, and as the Japanese feared, they entered Manchuria and began to kill the Japanese invading soldiers in the area of Sauron.
Now the Soviets come here in a very simple mood, to pay tribute to the Soviet soldiers who died in the war against Japan, they rebuilt the cemetery, surrounded by iron fences, so that the martyrs can rest in peace, people walk here, they will also light their steps, or stop, to pay tribute to the Soviet soldiers buried here.
Both sides of the rivalry had come to Sauron, and their intentions were different, and their moods were naturally different.
In the morning after the rain, the air is fresh and the mountains are green. We decided to go to the Sauron Valley to find other ruins left by the Japanese. The gunshots are no longer audible, and the filming site is said to still be there, but it has become a homestead for local villagers, and the homestead is surrounded by vigorous artemisia grass.
The author is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and a well-known reportage writer).