Chapter 3: The Devil Comes

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It was December 1942. The occurrence of a major event this month shocked China and foreign countries, and at the same time accelerated the variables of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and also prompted the Japanese devils to covet Jiangnan and make the change of speed a reality, but the people in northern Hunan did not know that they would face an unprecedented disaster in May after the coming year.

At noon on December 18, 1942, a Japanese plane flew over the Dabie Mountains and entered the sky above Mituo Temple in Taihu County, Anhui Province, when it was being discovered by the anti-aircraft artillery group of the 3rd Battalion and 9th Company of the 412th Regiment of the 138th Division of the 48th Army on the position. Rows of shells flew out of the barrel with a whistling sound, and I saw the fuselage raise billowing black smoke, and cut its head diagonally into a deep mountain forest in the distance, and at the moment of hitting the ground, a piercing explosion sounded, and a ball of fire was particularly dazzling.

Even the Japanese base camp did not expect it, and even the Chinese army did not expect that the plane that was shot down this time would be the commander of the Japanese 11th Army, Tsukada Tsukashi, who had only been in office for five months. Coincidentally, on the same day, the Japanese Ministry of War had just issued an order to promote Tsukada to the rank of army general, perhaps in response to what the Chinese predecessors said: There are gains and losses.

2 Soon, this sudden incident reached Tian Junliu's headquarters in the first time, and he was ashamed and angry, like an enraged wolf, he immediately ordered the Central China Dispatch Army to mobilize more than 10,000 troops, set off from Wuhan, Hefei, and Anqing in five directions, all the way to the destination, searching for the wreckage of the Tsukada attacker's plane, and taking the opportunity to sweep the Dabie Mountains where the Xingui army was entrenched, and carry out frenzied armed retaliation.

The Nationalist Army did not know the seriousness of the situation, because they did not know that it was the commander of the 11th Army who was shot down, so they did not take specific precautions, and the Japanese army frantically killed people along the way, and burned down the houses when they saw them, and some of the Nationalist garrison positions were hit by the devil's mountain artillery after a period of resistance, and in addition to the gravel, there were also the thighs, arms, and fragments of military uniforms of the Nationalist soldiers and the parts of the machine guns that were blown apart.

The Japanese army led by Nishijima Shaoza and the national army on the hill officially exchanged fire, and the battle was extremely fierce and cruel after a night of fierce fighting, staining Dabie Mountain with blood. In the brutal battle, the national army showed an extraordinary bravery and tenacity, and composed a tragic battle song against the Japanese invaders.

The battle was extremely fierce, the Japanese planes and mountain artillery frantically bombed and shot at the defenders of Dabie Mountain in turn, after destroying several pillboxes of the defenders, the position of the national army was occupied by the Japanese army, and a young soldier in the trench with a bandage on his head was dying, holding one hand in his arms, staring at the Japanese army around him with angry eyes, and used all his strength to pull the grenade in his arms, only to hear an explosion sound, and several devils were blown to pieces.

The defenders and the enemy unfurled fierce and wild stabs, blood and water flying, shouting, swords and guns clashing, and the sound of fighting resounded on the top of the mountain.

There were more and more devils, and the defenders lost resistance, some were stabbed with knives, and some were pushed to the ground by a few devils and could not move.

When the battle was over, a group of brutal Japanese devils, led by Nishijima, gathered a dozen or so captured Kuomintang soldiers, along with dozens of villagers from the village, to a threshing field at the bottom of the mountain, forced the men to strip naked with bright guns, and blasted them into a thatched hut, burning them all to death. The victims were screaming in pain as they were burned inside, and some Japanese soldiers outside the house laughed lewdly and put down their weapons and pounced on the women on the threshing floor like wolves......

Nishijima didn't get involved, just looked at this scene with an expressionless face on the side, and then, walked away, turned his eyes to the quiet village in the distance, and looked at the mountains in the distance, at this time, a boy appeared in his field of vision, his eyes suddenly lit up, he took the gun from the hand of the devil next to him, raised the 38 big cover to aim at the target, pulled the trigger, the bullet flew out of the chamber with a guilty whistling, the boy staggered forward and fell down the hillside, and a young life was strangled by Nishijima.

The boy's red blood spread on the hillside like a rhododendron blooming in spring, and the blood soaked the dry weeds around it, making it particularly dazzling in the sun.

The village was a sea of fire, thick smoke, red fire, black sky, and sad heart.

Finally, the Japanese army led by Nishijima found the wreckage of Tsukada's plane and the body of the Japanese soldier who had been blown up or burned to charcoal in the Kazukuchongri near the Mituo Temple in the Dabie Mountains, and the broken body of Tsukada was transported to Anqing for burial, and then transported back to Japan for burial.

3 The death of Tsukada was a blow to Japan. And for the Chinese, it is an unexpected gain.

The death of Tsukada at least reduced the threat to Chongqing's capital, because he was the main Japanese general in charge of the "No. 5 combat mission", and his death forced Tian Junliu to postpone the implementation of this plan, so as to gain time for Chongqing to make strategic arrangements. It is said that Chiang Kai-shek was really happy for a long time when this incident happened, and not only sent a congratulatory telegram but also sent people to reward all the officers and men of the 138th Division. Although the Japanese base camp was still eyeing the Chiang family's official residence in Chongqing, it did not dare to act rashly to a certain extent, which not only eased the pressure on Chongqing, but also delayed or even prevented the normal implementation of the Japanese army's "No. 5 Operational Plan," and at the same time caused them to attack the southwest and force Chiang Kai-shek to surrender. Therefore, this made the Japanese base camp a little annoyed, but they had to reconsider the choice of the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army and the new commander of the 11th Army. Due to the outbreak of the Pacific War, the country's high-level military personnel have focused their energies on this area, and no one can replace the new commander, and they can only send generals from the occupied areas, so the notorious General Okamura Ninji became the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, and Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama was transferred from the northeast battlefield to serve as the commander of the 11th Army.

4A jackal died, and a wolf came. It is undeniable that the war has become unusually cruel and bloody due to the presence of these jackals. Since then, there has been no peace in the beautiful homeland, and pain and calamity have been overwhelming over people's heads and even hearts like locusts. The pain and disaster brought by Little Japan will never be forgotten by the kind and strong Chinese.

However, people all over the world will not sit idly by, where there is oppression, there will be resistance, and for the sake of freedom, people will not be silent, let alone depressed.

For the sake of a beautiful homeland, our martyrs had to make sacrifices, shed their blood, and use their lives to defend the dignity of the country.

Once the world is due to the appearance of a handful of war perverts, and it is precisely because of the arrival of these jackals, no matter where they are, the hunters will pick up the shotguns in their hands and aim at their black chests, pull the trigger, and wipe them out in the rampant season, so that victory fills every corner of the earth, the pursuit of freedom, the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of a better human life, and the moving songs that the doves of peace sing every day, Please remember this history of pain and disaster, and use our hearts, our love, our feelings, our tears, our pens, and our blood to write the bloody and painful memories that cannot and should not be forgotten by future generations of Chinese.

In the era of peace, what we need is peace, in the era of war, what we need is the pursuit of peace, we can spare no blood and not hesitate to do the flesh, history in the long river of years constantly changing its footprints, it seems to indicate that history is not smooth sailing, changes in nature, but also shows that all cause and effect must follow nature.

Let us remember the tragic history of the past in order to better write the history of a better future.

The difficult era of the anti-Japanese beacon fire has verified the soul and faith of many Chinese, and the young people are the indispensable main force for the liberation of the Chinese nation, and it is they who have formed a new Great Wall with their own flesh and blood, famous or unknown, they are all undergoing a severe test and baptism of blood and fire.

Bloody teenagers, Chinese teenagers.