On September 1944 and 16, Chiang Kai-shek delivered an impromptu speech at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference meeting, saying that "at this critical juncture, the state should make educated youth serve the battlefield first, because educated youth have knowledge and the ability to judge automatically. If an educated youth is added to the team, there will be no fewer than ten ordinary soldiers. "

He called on young intellectuals all over the country to actively join the army and put forward the slogan of "one inch of mountains and rivers and one inch of blood, 100 thousand young people and 100 thousand troops" Subsequently, the Kuomintang Central Committee decided to widely mobilize young intellectuals to join the army, recruit young intellectuals100000 people, and form an expeditionary force.

An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood.

"An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood" is the sigh of Huang Wei, the chief strategist of the Kuomintang who led the army to participate in the "August 13" Sino-Japanese War. After a lapse of 68 years, it's a pity that we can only record such a magnificent and tragic period through words.

These two sentences came from the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, which reflected the Chinese nation's determination to fight foreign aggression to the death.

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War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory promoted the awakening and unity of the Chinese nation and carried forward the great national spirit with patriotism as the core. Patriotism has become the strongest voice and theme of the Anti-Japanese War: the interests of the country and the nation are paramount, and conquered people will swear allegiance to the death. We are United as one, hardworking and brave, not afraid of violence, fighting bloody battles, striving for self-improvement and pioneering and innovating.

War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and China are important parts of the world anti-fascist war and the main battlefields in the East. In the world anti-fascist war, China and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression started the earliest, lasted the longest, fought the Japanese the most and paid the highest price, which played an irreplaceable role.

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