Xiushui, a small city that has been through a thousand holes, contains rich historical memories.
During that war years, Xiushui became a strategic key point for the Japanese army to press forward step by step, aiming to cut off communication with China's major theaters.
The Battle of Xiushui broke out against this cruel background, and in the tragedy of the war, a ray of humanity also flickered in the long river of history.
Ninety-one-eight"After the incident, Xiushui became a city full of holes.
The Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee established a grand alliance against imperialism in Xiushuishan and actively organized the anti-Japanese salvation movement. After the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and the Kuomintang carried out many negotiations, and finally established the anti-Japanese national united front.
After the cooperation was reached, Xiushui became a place of mutual importance for both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and Japanese spies infiltrated Xiushui many times as early as 1933 to spy on intelligence.
Xiushui is not only the front line, but also the rear, and it is also the "front line in the rear" in that period of history.
In the First Battle of Changsha, Xiushui was one of the main battlefields in the three directions of northern Jiangxi, northern Hunan and southern Hunan.
Faced with the superior equipment of the Japanese army, Chiang Kai-shek was well aware of the danger in Nanchang. He urgently asked to keep Nanchang, and said to Xue Yue: "Nanchang must be defended no matter what, and you can't be lazy."
However, there are many problems with implementation. The defense line is wide, it is difficult to concentrate troops, and the lack of equipment makes intelligence reconnaissance difficult.
The Japanese army had a high degree of mechanization, and the tank shock stunned the soldiers. In the end, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanchang in only a few days.
Xiushui still played an important role in the Second and Third Battle of Changsha.
At the beginning of October 1939, the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army entered Xiushui and engaged in fierce fighting.
The squadron resisted and protected the safe evacuation of most of the residents in Xiushui. However, by October 5, the county seat of Xiushui was still occupied by the Japanese army, and the actions of the Japanese army were aimed at rescuing the trapped Japanese troops and eliminating the squadron in the county and suburbs of Xiushui.
In this brutal war, the Japanese army showed ruthless bestiality. According to the investigation of Nanchang University, during the occupation of Nanchang City by the Japanese army, 64,420 Nanchang residents were disabled, resulting in 9,762 disabled people and property losses of more than 300 billion.
The brutal treatment of prisoners of war is even more appalling and violates the Geneva Conventions.
The destruction of Nanchang City by the Japanese army was even more complete, and the flames engulfed almost all the buildings, and the scene was appalling.
These crimes are mentioned in the memoirs of some Japanese veterans, and history cannot forgive them.
In this war, there were some unexpected hiccups between the Japanese soldiers and the Chinese soldiers.
A Japanese soldier washes apples during the Battle of Xiushui when he has a conversation with a Chinese soldier. Despite the hostility, the splendor of humanity was still evident in that moment.
This story was included in "The Broken Mountains and Rivers of the Country: Revealing the Secrets of China's War of Resistance from Japanese Historical Materials", and the exam questions were designed to emphasize the dependence of human nature under the brutal war.