Chapter Seventy-Nine: Brilliant Achievements
At seven o'clock in the evening of May 18, 1938, the sky had already darkened, all the soldiers of the 60th Army had been assembled at the foot of the mountain to standby, after the battle of Yuwang Mountain, the 184th Division had more than 3,000 soldiers killed, and there were thousands of wounded, plus the Qiu Bingchang regiment that had stayed in Taierzhuang before was now less than 6,000 people who could be put into battle. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Everyone looked at this small hill with tears, this moat that blocked the Japanese army for more than 20 days, and the last attention of Yuwang Mountain.
After a while, the whole army silently began to retreat, all the way were broken bricks and tiles, Xingjialou, Wushengtang, Chen Wafang, Dongzhuang, Huoshibu, those places where they fought had been reduced to ashes at this time, only the wheat in those wheat fields was still thriving...
Once upon a time, this was the place where Lu Han set up a heavy machine gun to supervise the battle, when the war first began, they wanted to be able to walk through here, no longer have to face the Japanese artillery hell, but when they have become the warriors of hell, they will be forced to retreat, many soldiers are bored and walk, refusing to speak, without the previous fighting enthusiasm.
At the end of the pontoon bridge, there is a way to live, a passage for them to live, there is a big stone on the opposite side of the pontoon, and there are big characters engraved by Mo Zhaoyu dipped in blood: "Ambition dies before paying"!
During the fierce battle in Huoshi Port, Mo Zhaoyu, the commander of the 1083 Regiment, was seriously injured when the soldiers crossed the Grand Canal, dipped in blood and left the word to die, and Zhang Chong's nose was also a little sour when he walked here, most of his good friends were lying here, Mo Zhaoyu, Chen Zhongshu, Chang Zihua, Yin Guohua, Yan Jiaxun, Dong Wenying... These Dian commanders could never go back.
Brigade Commander Chen Zhongshu said in his will that he hoped to be able to bury his body in his hometown after the death of the war, buried in the foothills of Yuantong Mountain in Kunming, but his body was still buried hastily on a barren slope after all, and the only one who could be buried in his hometown was Yan Jiaxun, so Long Yun specially ordered the demolition of the Kunming City Gate to welcome the general's body, 70 years later, the descendants of General Chen Zhongshu had been to Xuzhou, trying to find the body of General Chen Zhongshu to be buried in his hometown, and fulfilled his dream of the year, but the barren slope has been traceless, His descendants searched for it to no avail, so they had to take a handful of loess on this barren slope and bring it back.
There are 18844 heroic souls of the Yunnan army who slept with him, they can't go back, 70 years have passed, Taierzhuang has become a famous anti-Japanese city, but there is no shadow of them in the Taierzhuang War Memorial Hall, it seems that they have never been here, even the memories of Li Zongren, the supreme commander of the Xuzhou Battle at that time, did not have the slightest shadow of the Yunnan army, they fought hard for the country, but these heroes did not justify their names, and could only hide in the stories of the people of Xuzhou and those old men.
In order to let the 60th Army appear in the memorial hall, Luo Yuexian, a professor at Yunnan Normal University, ran for 17 years, and finally let the heroic soul of the hero have a home, and the 60th Army in the Yuwang Mountain Resistance Battle has always been a mystery how many Japanese soldiers were annihilated, the 60th Army itself reported the record is to annihilate more than 12,000 soldiers of the Japanese elite division, this result can be said to be comparable to the first Taierzhuang victory, many years later many posts say that this army has the most elite infantry weapons in China at that time, but the enemy is only a few thousand, The battle losses reached almost 1 to 19, in fact, there were scholars who specialized in the study of the Japanese army's battle losses, after many comparisons in addition to the Japanese army's false report of the record, the 60th Army frontal elimination of the enemy was indeed more than 12,000 people, and the subsequent breakthrough to the Japanese army caused more than 18,000 casualties and Japanese puppet army.
The result of the single army's annihilation of more than 18,000 Japanese troops can be said to be the most brilliant battle of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and in the second Battle of Xuzhou, the Chinese army suffered 60,000 casualties and annihilated more than 20,000 enemies. It is no exaggeration to say that the Yuwang Mountain Resistance Battle was a pinnacle duel between China and Japan, and the equipment of the 60th Army at that time almost represented the peak of the Chinese army at that time, and the Japanese army participated in the war was also the elite Banyuan Division, the Isogu Division, which killed and injured so many Japanese soldiers and also played the national prestige and the prestige of the people of all ethnic groups in Yunnan.
The most representative is the saber they captured, the saber in the hands of Itagaki Seishiro was given to Momokawa Yoshinori by the emperor to Itagaki Seishiro to insert this saber into the city wall of Xuzhou, but this knife was finally captured by the 60th Army. It is enough to make Itagaki Seishiro lose his old face and greatly boost the prestige of the Chinese military and civilians.
Seventy years have passed, and when I heard these stories by chance, and heard how they let the tanks run over and the Japanese tanks died together, I couldn't help but be moved by tears, and I decided to write this story. Even if the pen is insufficient, we must persevere, constantly improve, and write the story of this legendary powerhouse, a hidden story.
The book is back to business, Zhang Chong looked at this blood-stained boulder, his heart was also sad, he looked at it for a long time, but his body saluted hard, and the soldiers behind him followed the salute, and after a while, Zhang Chong said: "We will help you complete what you haven't done, and we all remember your blood feud, and we must let the Japanese army pay for the blood debt"!
"Flatten the shame of the snow country on the three islands, kill the Japanese slaves and restore the hearts of the people, and pay the blood debt with blood"! Zhang Chong shouted violently.
"Flatten the shame of the snow country on the three islands, kill the Japanese slaves and restore the hearts of the people, and pay the blood debt with blood"!
"Blood debt and blood payment"!
"Blood debt and blood payment"!
All the officers and soldiers roared at this moment, and the sound full of murderous intent fluttered throughout the Grand Canal for a long time...
After the 184th Division was withdrawn, it merged with the 183rd and 182nd Divisions and began to reorganize, the 182nd and 183rd Divisions plus the lightly wounded men who were replenished in the later period could barely be compressed into two regiments, while Zhang Chong and Qiu Bingchang's regiment still had three regiments. They can barely form five regiments, but they didn't know that they had 12 regiments when they came!
At this time, Zhang Chong, Gao Yinhuai, An Enfu, and Xue Zizheng, including some senior officers, had already arrived. Lu Han opened his mouth and said: "Li Zongren asked us to cover the retreat of the large army, but now the large army is basically about to be withdrawn, just let us garrison the 60th Army here without me saying anything, I am going to wait for them to withdraw from Xuzhou and then send a message to question Sun Lianzhong and Li Zongren, if they don't reply to me, I will send a telegram to the chairman of the committee, and then start to break through, and I came to you to discuss the breakout"!
Zhang Chong frowned and said: "When do you still remember the old things of the civil war back then, I still admired him a little in my heart before the great victory of Taierzhuang, and now it seems that it is nothing more than that, villain's behavior"!
"Now our remnants of the army are compressed into five regiments, I suggest that three regiments be commanded by Wan Baobang as the avant-garde, the military headquarters and artillery staff officers take the lead in breaking through, and I will take Wang Kaiyu's regiment and Zeng Zesheng's regiment as the rearguard to cover your retreat"! Zhang Chong said.
"Okay, I'm relieved that you come to be a guard, but you must remember not to be bitten by the Japanese army, you must break out"! Luján said.
"Don't worry, division commander, but I have a request, the heavy artillery must be left for us"! Zhang Chong said.
"How can this be done, there are not many heavy artillery, if you can't retreat in time, wouldn't it be a tiger to fall into the hands of the Japanese"? Gao Yinhuai said.
"I can bring you a lot of heavy artillery, and I can also give them some powerful ones when the Japanese army pursues these heavy artillery, so that it will be conducive to your retreat, and it will also be conducive to our retreat while killing and wounding a large number of Japanese troops"! Zhang Chong said.
"Okay, I believe you, you all go back and prepare, prepare enough ammunition and dry food, and we will go to Xuzhou early tomorrow morning"! Luján said.
After the meeting, Zhang Chong returned to the garrison and passed down the order, the whole army began to prepare, until five o'clock in the morning, the whole army began to set off towards Xuzhou, after arriving in Xuzhou, the whole army hurriedly laid down the defensive line, Lu Han personally rode a horse in Xuzhou City to inspect it, and found that the governor's department was empty, all the troops except the 60th Army had been withdrawn, and Xuzhou had completely become an empty city except for them.
Lu Han urged Ma to return to the military headquarters and sent a telegram to Sun Lianzhong to ask: "Now that the large troops of Lunan have been automatically withdrawn, there is no need for cover, why is the intention as long as the Dian army is on standby here?"
After receiving the telegram, Sun Lianzhong was asked by Lu Han and had nothing to say, so he had to forward the telegram to Li Zongren, at this time Li Zongren had already withdrawn from the distance, and when he saw the telegram forwarded by Sun Lianzhong, he immediately frowned, and Bai Chongxi on the side said: "It seems that they already know our intentions"!
"It is extremely disadvantageous for us not to let them withdraw their power generation to the chairman of the committee now, so let them retreat"! Li Zongren said.
"It's okay, now they have fallen into the encirclement of the Japanese army, and it is already difficult to come out, even if they can come out, it will be a big loss of vitality, let them withdraw" Bai Chongxi sneered.
After Sun Lianzhong got Li Zongren's secret telegram, he sent a telegram back to agree to the retreat of the 60th Army, and after receiving the order, Lu Han immediately ordered the whole army to retreat, and at this time the Japanese army had completed a strategic detour and surrounded the entire Xuzhou theater, but this time there was no 700,000 troops they expected, only more than 10,000 people of the 60th Army.
On the second day after the retreat of the 60th Army from Xuzhou, the Japanese army occupied Xuzhou, and then the Japanese army began to pursue, at this time Zhang Chong led two regiments to retreat south along the Xusu Highway, and after a day's walking, the soldiers were very tired and hid in a forest to rest. And they took out the dry food and ate it.
At this moment, the sound of Japanese planes suddenly sounded in the sky, and the whole army hurriedly hidden, and after the Japanese troops flew by, Zhang Chong said: "Get up and hurry, the Japanese army's pursuing force should not be far away, we must arrive at Yongcheng as soon as possible"!
All the soldiers quickly retreated again, and after walking for a while, Zhang Chong looked at the two mountains in front of him: "Collect all the hats and tell the whole army to hide on both sides of the valley in front"!