The creative background of intellectual youth’s military songs

The creative background of this song is the movement of intellectual youth joining the army.

In March 1943, the Legislative Yuan of the National Government promulgated the new Military Service Law, which expanded the scope of military conscription and narrowed the scope of deferred service; it encouraged young students to join the army and stipulated that students should retain their student status during their military service, which made young students, especially College students eliminate worries about their student status.

On November 23, 1943, 28 teachers and students from Santai National Northeastern University in Sichuan Province, headed by Zhao Huizhong, and more than a hundred students from various middle schools requested the county government to join the expeditionary force to kill the enemy. On November 15, 1943, Xu Siping, Lieutenant General Chief of Staff of the Sichuan Provincial Military District, attended the "Prime Minister's Memorial Week" at Northeastern University and delivered a speech. He talked about the reasons for requiring intellectuals to participate in the military stationed in India, saying that this was to "strengthen the expeditionary force." , to open up the Yunnan-Burma Road”. On the spot, 15 boys and 4 girls applied to join the army. Xu Siping wrote to Chiang Kai-shek, suggesting that the youth military movement should be extended to the entire Kuomintang-controlled area.

In December 1943, the Military Service Administration of the Ministry of Military Affairs of the National Government promulgated the "Measures for Student Voluntary Service", which stipulates: "Any student from a secondary school or above who volunteers to serve should be limited to students who are over 18 years old."

In September 1944, Chiang Kai-shek called for "one hundred thousand educated youth to join the army" and promulgated many special preferential treatment regulations for educated youth to join the army, such as suspension of employment and salary retention; students retaining their school status; families affected by anti-Japanese soldiers Preferential treatment for family members, etc. The government made a big splash in society, and newspapers and slogans stepped up publicity.

Chiang Kai-shek said on October 12, 1944: "First, it is necessary to make ordinary citizens change their past psychology about military service, so as to actively apply for military service to enrich their combat strength. Second, it is necessary to make the general public Change the attitude towards the Chinese Kuomintang, understand the spirit of sacrifice of the Chinese Kuomintang, and therefore accept the leadership of the Kuomintang and work together to complete the revolutionary mission. The latter is more important than the former.

1944. On October 21, 2011, at a meeting of educated youth joining the army, Chiang Kai-shek issued a slogan that made young people excited: "One inch of mountains and rivers, one inch of blood, one hundred thousand young people, one hundred thousand troops." For a time, an upsurge of educated youth joining the army was formed in many places.

After that, the Youth Expeditionary Army went to the front one after another, and was demobilized in the autumn of 1946. According to the article "Memories of the Youth Army" by Huang Wei, who once served as the intellectual youth army and the deputy director of the Youth Army's training department, in 1944. In more than a year after the mobilization in September, nearly 100,000 educated young people were recruited to join the army.

The training period for the Youth Expeditionary Force is three months, and the training subjects range from weapons to tactics, disciplines, and techniques. The Youth Expeditionary Force is also divided into artillery, infantry, engineering, etc. After entering the camp, they will be organized and trained based on academic qualifications, physical fitness, volunteerism, etc. After a short period of training, each division will be formally incorporated into the regular army. Each division belongs to the 6th Army, 9th Army, and 31st Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force respectively. In addition, a considerable part was transferred to the New 1st Army, the New 6th Army, the 5th Army, the 14th and 15th Baggage Truck Regiment, and the Gendarmerie Training Corps. The 3rd, 4th, and 5th regiments, parachute corps, interpreter training class, radio training class, and naval and air force units sent to the United States for training totaled 18,770 people. Among them, more than 500 people from the 201st Division went to India for training; The 203rd Division sent more than 250 people to India for training, including 48 interpreters, and 4 people were sent to the aviation school for training; the 204th Division sent 1,074 people to India for training, and the 207th Division sent hundreds of people to India for training. The total number of young troops of the Burma Expeditionary Force is more than 10,000. After graduating from training in India, they were quickly sent to the front lines of India and Myanmar to work in technical arms such as transportation and tank soldiers. They participated in the counterattack in northern Myanmar, such as Myitkyina, The battles of Bhamo, Nankan and Lashio played a positive role in opening up the Sino-Indian highway.