I am afraid that when Yan Haiwen died, he had regrets in his heart. On the one hand, his hometown in Northeast China fell, and he "sored for it and cried for it", but until his death he failed to fight back to his hometown and expel the Japanese invaders from China. It is true that "dying before leaving the army will make the hero burst into tears." ①Moreover, a promising bud of love withers and dies. Yan Hai is full of love and hatred. But he fulfilled his ambition to serve the country, and he has no regrets.
The Chinese military and civilians deeply deplore Yan Haiwen's sacrifice, and at the same time they also deeply respect him. Yan Haiwen's spirit of sacrifice for the country became an example for the country's military and civilians to fight against the war.
Yan Haiwen’s heroic and heroic sacrifice also awe-stricken Japanese militarists. Japanese imperialism originally believed that the Chinese were weak and could be bullied. They once boasted that it would take less than three months to defeat China and make China surrender. However, after the "Marco Bridge Incident", the whole country rose up to resist Japan. Especially after the "Songhu Anti-Japanese War" began, the fact that Chinese soldiers and civilians shared the same hatred of the enemy, were not afraid of sacrifice, and fought bloody battles made the Japanese see that the "March theory of subjugation to China" clamored by militarist war maniacs was doomed to fail. Yan Haiwen's heroic sacrifice for his country is another living teaching material. It made the Japanese invaders feel that the Chinese people's will to resist the war is unshakable and they would rather die than surrender.
① The verse is quoted from the poem "The Prime Minister of Shu" by Du Fu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, which was written in praise of Zhuge Liang.