"Who has not died since ancient times?" Leave Dan Qing to take the sweat green. --Wen Tianxiang
Since we were young, we have read the story of "Five Heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain" in textbooks, which tells the story of five anti-Japanese fighters who were forced to go to the top of Wolf's Tooth Mountain in order to escape the pursuit of the Japanese army during the War of Resistance Against Japan. The warriors, who did not want to expose the position of the large troops and did not want to fall into the hands of the enemy, fought until the last moment when facing the defeat of the Japanese soldiers, and they jumped off the cliff.
The Japanese army was also surprised by the suicide of five Chinese soldiers by jumping off a cliff, and they were deeply impressed by the lofty national integrity and unswerving revolutionary spirit of the Chinese soldiers.
Of course, the heroism of our anti-Japanese fighters shocked all the Chinese, and their great spirit of sacrificing their lives for righteousness moved countless Chinese people. These five heroes were also known as the "Five Heroes of Wolf Tooth Mountain" by later generations.
However, fifty-six years after the story of the Five Heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain, another version has been reported, and it is said that the Five Heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain may not have jumped off a cliff under the forced situation, but accidentally fell.
As soon as this statement came out, it caused a lot of discussion among the public opinion. So is the storyline really not what is written in textbooks, and what is the truth of history?
In fact, it is not difficult to reveal the truth of the story. After all, two of the five brave men of Wolf's Tooth Mountain were later rescued and are still alive. The 2 survivors will review the scene of the whole story.
In addition, the Japanese veteran Kayoda Kosuke, who witnessed the whole incident, also came to China 56 years later, while paying homage to the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain, while atonement for the crimes he committed in China that year. In a later interview, he also recounted what he had witnessed, once again turning the clock in history back to the Wolf's Tooth Mountain in 1941.
In the face of a surprise attack by the Japanese army, the five brave men were sent to lead the enemy
In September 1941, the Japanese army began a large-scale sweep around the Wolf's Tooth Mountain in Hebei Province. In order to block the Red Army and the common people on the mountain, they blocked the lower pass of Wolf's Tooth Mountain, and the soldiers began to search step by step in nine ways.
At that time, the Red Army troops stationed in the mountains had only one company plus 4 guerrilla troops, and they could not compete with them. Coupled with the fact that there are still more than 20,000 local people left in the mountains, the current situation is quite unfavorable for our side.
In the absence of time to call for the support of large troops, Yang Chengwu, who was the commander-in-chief at the time, thought about it again and again and thought of a comprehensive plan.
First of all, he led the army to directly raid the Japanese army from the mountain, pinning down the main force of the Japanese army and disrupting the pace of the Japanese army. Then another regiment was sent to lead the masses down the hill to evacuate while the Japanese army was contained. In the end, a small company remained at the top of the hill to restrain the Japanese troops on the mountain from coming to the rescue, and dragged them until noon the next day to withdraw secretly.
With the advantage of being familiar with the terrain of Wolf's Tooth Mountain, Yang Chengwu's plan was implemented effectively and quickly. The task of staying behind early the next morning to hold the Japanese army was given to the 6th squad of the company, which had a total of 9 soldiers, but in order to better cover, the squad leader left only 5 fighters on the mountain to contain the Japanese army.
The five warriors were 21-year-old Ma Baoyu, 24 Ge Zhenlin, 18-year-old Hu Fucai, 24-year-old Hu Delin and 23 Song Xueyi, which later became known as the "Five Heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain".
Before leaving, the company commander repeatedly instructed the squad leader Ma Baoyu: "If you try your best, you must hold out until noon, and it is best to lead the enemy to the chessboard." Ma Baoyu gladly accepted the task, but no one thought that this parting was actually a farewell in this life.
The enemy was successfully lured deeper, and there was no way back after being encircled
At first, the soldiers led by Ma Baoyu proceeded smoothly according to the original plan, and the Japanese army was lured by them to the deep mountains and forests in the opposite direction of the withdrawal of the Red Army's large troops. Then several soldiers also began to quietly cover the retreat, leaving the enemy troops to faint in the deep mountains and old forests.
As soon as the five men were assembled, they hurried to the confluence in the direction of the large army, when they had not eaten for a day and a night, and when they were hungry, they encountered a turnip field grown by the locals.
Several soldiers went down to the ground and plucked turnips to fill their hunger, and left some coils and a note that read, "Fellow, eat your turnips without permission, leave this bit of marginal money for checking", and also pressed the stones neatly stacked on the crop ground. Wherever they were and under whatever circumstances, these warriors kept in mind the highest directive of the soldiers of the Red Army not to take a needle from the masses.
When a few people were eating a turnip to fill their hunger and resting their feet, and still discussing their dream of joining the Communist Party in the future, they saw a fellow villager rushing in the distance, but the problem was that behind him was a large number of Japanese troops.
It turned out that during the evacuation of the compatriots, they were found by the Japanese army. The fellow was in a hurry to rush to the road and did not even find any trace of the Japanese army behind him, and the Japanese army with a ghost fetus quietly followed him down the mountain without a sound, and began to prepare to directly attack the base camp of the withdrawing troops.
Several brave men quickly hid their compatriots first, and then they sniped at the Japanese army in the rear while attracting the attention of the enemy troops. When he came to the four forks of the road, Ma Baoyu decided to lead a few soldiers to the direction of the chessboard, so as to attract the enemy troops to chase them and run in their direction. But in fact, a few of them were getting farther and farther away from the direction of the large troops.
The mountain road of Qipantuo is steep and the cave peaks are quite difficult, and several soldiers shoot at each other with the Japanese army while leading them to the summit. Originally, he wanted to avoid the enemy's pursuit in the negotiations with the Japanese army, but when he reached the top of the chessboard, he found that there was a cliff here, and several fighters had nowhere to hide, and could only stand on the edge of the cliff and hesitate.
The Japanese quickly caught up, but in the face of the confrontation with the enemy, several soldiers always preferred to die. When they finished their bullets, they picked up stones on the ground and threw them at the Japanese.
However, the Japanese army's steps were tight and could not be overwhelmed, and several brave men did not want to be prisoners of the Japanese army, and the 5 of them jumped off the cliff side by side shouting the slogan of brushing together, and did not hesitate for half a minute.
The Japanese were stunned to see what they saw. Shocked by the morale of the Chinese soldiers, the then japanese captain, Yukisuke Maoda, ordered the soldiers to fire their guns at the sky and bowed three times in a row to the cliff jump of 5 people. Our Soldiers of the Red Army tell the Japanese Army what is the military soul of the Chinese soldiers and what is the determination of the Chinese soldiers to resist the war with the humiliating integrity of the soldiers.
Two survived and were rescued, and the five heroes were worthy of heroes
After the Japanese army withdrew, the large troops hurried to the peak of the Wolf's Tooth Mountain to find Ge Zhenlin and Song Xueyi, who were hung by branches, and they luckily saved their lives. However, the other three people, Ma Baoyu, Hu Delin, and Hu Fucai, had already died heroically. These five brave men did their best to cover the evacuation of the large troops and the masses, and they were willing to exchange their lives for the smooth transfer of others.
The memories of Ge Zhenlin and Song Xueyi are no different from the stories told by Yusuke Maotian, who later visited China to apologize for his sins, so it can be determined that the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain spontaneously jumped off the cliff for the safety of the troops and the masses, and at that moment they had long ago put their lives and deaths aside, and their spirit of sacrificing their small homes and protecting everyone also represented the spirit of chinese soldiers.
Of course, their spirit touched not only the Chinese people, but also the respect from the Japanese soldiers. Later, Kayota Kosuke rushed to the Wolf's Tooth Mountain again to worship the five heroes, not only kneeling and nine kowtowing, but also tearfully telling the grievances between them.
War is always cruel, and perhaps Kosuke Maeda was also seduced by the Japanese "right wing" to pursue and kill our army. But in his old age, he suddenly became enlightened, confessing that he had been a war criminal and a shameful thing to history. For the five heroes of wolf-tooth mountain, he deeply felt that his sins were deep, and at the same time, he was also impressed by their courage and spirit.
brief summary:
This is the spirit of our soldiers, who can sacrifice their lives for the sake of the country and the people. Whether it is a critical moment of life and death, or an urgent moment, they can leave the hope of life to the people.
The military soul of Chinese soldiers is to dedicate themselves unreservedly at any time. The same is true of these five soldiers, who are not ashamed of their hearts, worthy of the Red Army, and even more worthy of the title of "Five Heroes of Wolf Tooth Mountain".
In this way, their stories are preserved intact, and they are sung from generation to generation. Their deeds are not disputed, and their spirit will never end. They will always be the heroes of the Chinese people, and they will always be worth remembering and celebrating.