The Backbone of the Sichuan Army

Three thousand Sichuan troops came out of Sichuan to fight against the Japanese. They wore straw sandals and carried swords on their backs and walked three thousand miles. In the autumn of 1937, when the Battle of Songhu was at its most brutal, Luo Peiquan led his Straw Shoes Corps to the front line. There are no cars or trains, just use your feet to cross the Qinling Mountains. There are no aircraft or artillery, so use machetes to fight against Japanese tanks. If there is no food or medicine, we must use our lives to fill it. The superior said: You are a beggar unit. If you go up there, you will die. Luo Peiquan said: We Sichuan people are used to committing suicide. Three thousand people set out and one person came back alive. No one remembers their names, but every inch of the land knows that there is a group of people, wearing straw sandals, walking from Sichuan to Shanghai, from Shanghai to Nanjing, and from Nanjing to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. No death, no return.