1February 8, 904, the Japanese suddenly attacked the Russian fleet in Lushunkou, China. 10, Japan and Russia declared war. 1905 65438+ 10, the Japanese army captured Lushunkou. The Russian army was defeated in the north and the Japanese army pursued it with victory. It was chased to the Shahe area in Fengtian in late February. The two sides are at war again. The Battle of Fengtian was the last decisive stage of the Japanese-Russian land war. At that time, the corrupt Qing government shamelessly declared "neutrality outside the bureau" and designated a large territory east of Liaohe as a battlefield. The main battlefield is located in Weijialouzi Village and Yanlongshan in Sujiatun District. Previously, the Russian army lost in various battlefields, and the Russian government hoped to turn the tide in the Battle of Fengtian. Russia deployed a large number of troops from the Far East, Central Asia and even Europe to the front line, with Shahe as a barrier, and arranged troops on the bank of Hebei, defending first and then attacking. 250,000 Japanese troops and 300,000 Russian troops led by General Li fought bloody battles in the Fourth Army (with the 10th Division, Okubo Detachment and 6th Division as the main force) for 7 days and nights (known as Shahe Battle in history), with 70,000 casualties on both sides. On March 10, the Japanese army defeated the main Russian army. In May, Russian reinforcements from the Baltic Sea were also defeated by the Japanese in Ma Haixia. 1On September 5th, 905, the two countries signed the Portsmouth Peace Treaty under the mediation of the United States. 1905 and 12 years, Japan forced the Qing government to sign the Treaty on the Meeting of the Three Eastern Provinces of China and Japan, thus replacing Russia and making Liaodong Peninsula a veritable Japanese colony. After the Russo-Japanese War, Japan replaced Russia's dominant position in northeast China.
Thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fengtian, the Japanese fascist thinker Zhou Ming Dachuan described the Russo-Japanese War as a solemn prelude to "reviving Asia" in his letter to the Asian nation on June 24, 1942: "Japan, with the belief of King Kong, wielded a sword to subdue the devil, and dealt an initial heavy blow to the white people who had never been humiliated by one person for 400 years." The name Japan, like the liquid of life that revives dead trees, has been boiling the souls of all those who have been abused and humiliated for a long time. "
The Japanese regard their victory in the Russo-Japanese War as the real rise of the Yamato nation. 19 1 1 year, Japan built this monument to commemorate the largest land war.
19 12 years, with the consent of the Japanese government, Russia established the Orthodox cruciform granite monument 500 meters away from this monument. This monument is 6 meters high and 0.7 meters wide. It is made of gray granite. The top of the monument is inlaid with the circular color head of the Virgin Mary, and the Russian inscription is engraved below: "Commemorating the Russo-Japanese War 1904 Shahe Battle.
The Russo-Japanese War recorded the influence of the fighting between the two great empires on the real owners of this land at that time-wherever Japan and Russia went, "things were taken away and money was robbed" and "tens of thousands of lives died in the artillery Lin Lei array, with bloody pieces and broken homes".
The battle of Shahe turned the village near Weijialouzi into ruins. Local people left their homes, and innocent people in China were killed. Old Mr. He Dianjia, who has been handed down from the local people, once wrote such a poem sadly: Two soldiers galloped at night, and Wanshan would help, and countless villagers balked and cried bitterly.
As the prosperous capital of Qing Dynasty, Fengtian is transforming into a modern city. The final result of the Russo-Japanese War was to completely destroy the ancient city of Fengtian, which had been in operation for more than 200 years.
Young Zhou Enlai and Weijialouzi
19 10 Spring, 12-year-old Zhou Enlai went to Fengtian with his uncle on Monday to study, first at Yin Gang College in Tieling, and then transferred to Fengtian Dongguan Model Primary School in the autumn of the same year, where he spent three years of study life that had a profound impact on his life. While studying in Dongguan Model Primary School, Zhou Enlai met his classmates He Zhangtian and He Luzhen. He lives in Weijialouzi, the southern suburb of Fengtian City (now Shenyang City). This village is the old battlefield of the Russo-Japanese War. 1 904, two imperialist countries fought a great war on the territory of China for the rights and interests of northeast China, while the corrupt and incompetent Qing government declared "neutrality outside the bureau". In order to show their "glorious achievements" in plundering China, Japan and Russia built a stone tablet on Yanlongshan in the east of Weijialouzi village.