Guan Linzheng was wounded in five places by a grenade and became a bloody man, and more than 10 officers and soldiers around him were all killed, but he still did not waver, calmly commanded the troops to kill the enemy bravely, and finally repelled the enemy and occupied the high ground, and forcibly occupied the high ground on the north bank (dry ditch) of the tributary of the Chaohe River.

Led by the division commander, the 25th Division fought a bloody battle with the 8th Division of the Japanese Army in Nishiyichi for three days at Gubeikou, suffering more than 4,000 casualties. Guan Linzheng was awarded the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun for this. Zhang Jiluan, the chief writer of Ta Kung Pao, personally wrote an editorial entitled "Patriotic Boys, Blood Spilled on the Battlefield" to congratulate him on his achievements.

In May 1933, the 25th Division was ordered to go to the northern suburbs of Beiping to rest and recuperate, when Guan Linzheng left Miyun, he saw that the local people were afraid that the Japanese army would harass them again after the troops withdrew, and he was very frightened, and he couldn't help but sigh and cry and said: "The government ordered the withdrawal of the troops regardless of the safety of the people, and I am really sorry for the people!" ”

After the troops arrived in Beiping, because Guan Lin's troops bravely resisted Japan at Gubeikou, some students from universities and middle schools in Beiping came to visit him and asked him to give a speech to introduce the deeds of resisting Japan and killing the enemy.

Guan Linzheng saw that the anti-Japanese sentiment of the masses in the Pingjin area was high, and some college and middle school students asked to kill the enemy one after another, so it was another summer vacation, and he opened a military training class for 5,000 college and middle school students in the barracks of the 25 th Division in the suburbs of Beiping, sent staff officers to give lectures on military knowledge, and sent battalion and company commanders to conduct military drills for the students, thus preparing for the upcoming all-out war of resistance against Japan.

In July 1935, He Yingqin was forced to sign the He-Mei Agreement with the Japanese, which stipulated that the Kuomintang central troops and gendarmes were to withdraw from Beiping and Hebei Province. After Guan Linzheng learned the news, he personally went to Beiping to pay a visit to He Yingqin, acting chairman of the Beiping Military Branch, and made a sincere statement:

"If the troops withdraw from Beiping and Hebei Province without a fight, the party-state will lose the support of the people!" He also actively advised He Yingqin to strengthen his armaments to fight the Japanese army. At the same time, he also sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing, and ordered all the officers and men of the 25th Division to immediately build fortifications on the outskirts of Beiping and prepare for battle with the Japanese. Unfortunately, none of Guan Linzheng's positive suggestions were adopted by those in power in the Kuomintang at the time.

In 1937, Guan Linzheng was promoted to the commander of the 52nd Army, with the 2nd Division (Division Commander Zheng Dongguo) and the 25th Division (Division Commander Zhang Yaoming) under his jurisdiction, and participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan. In the autumn and winter of that year, he led his troops to engage in the anti-Japanese struggle on the Pinghan Railway. In September, he took part in the Battle of Baoding. In addition to commanding two divisions of the headquarters, he also commanded Zhao Shoushan's 17th Division and Zeng Wanzhong's Third Army 2 divisions.

In October, the 14th Division and the 6th and 16th Divisions of the Japanese Army invaded the Zhanghe River in Youfeixiang, Cheng'an, Linzhang and other counties in southern Hebei, and he led the 52nd Army to engage in a fierce offensive and defensive battle with the 14th Division of the Japanese Army on the south bank of the Zhanghe River.

The two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat, retreating and advancing several times, losing and regaining, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. Due to the courage of the Guan army to kill the enemy, the Japanese army was finally defeated and retreated to Handan and Wu'an on the north bank of the Zhanghe River. Guan Linzheng learned from the scout's report that the Japanese army had built an airfield and a gasoline depot outside Handan City, so he immediately transferred battalion commander Liang Zhiwei from the 25th Division and asked him to lead a battalion to attack the airfield at night, burning more than 10 Japanese planes and seizing a large number of firearms and ammunition.

In the winter after the Battle of Zhanghe, the 52nd Army went to the Luohe area of Henan Province to rest and replenish. In the recuperation. Guan Linzheng summed up the lessons and lessons learned since the Gubeikou War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, strengthened the tactical education and shooting training of the troops, and conducted patriotic education for all officers and men of the army in resisting Japanese aggression and safeguarding the independence of the Chinese nation.

All military cadets also studied the strategy and tactics of commanding operations. Guan Linzheng himself also used his training leisure and evenings to study the army university textbooks "Battle Outline", "Tactical Operations" and "Sun Tzu's Art of War".

Guan Linzheng and his 52nd Army participated in the battle of the Pinghan Railway, and then moved to Henan and Shandong. In 1938, Chunguan led his troops to participate in the Battle of Taierzhuang. On March 24, Guan Linzheng commanded troops to launch an attack on the Seya Brigade of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, which was entrenched in the Taizao branch of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway.

Guan Linzheng found that the Japanese army was active in battle during the day and cowered at night, so he adopted the tactics of night battle and fire attack, and ordered the troops to go out day and night to destroy the enemy. On the afternoon of March 31, 4,000 men of the Yizhou Detachment of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army Seishiro Sakagaki, who was heading south from Linyi, suddenly attacked the headquarters of the 52nd Army.

At that time, Guan Linzheng had only one guard battalion with about 300 troops. Calm and calm, he ordered the guard company to launch a feint at a distance of a kilometer from the headquarters in order to confuse the enemy. At dusk, reinforcements arrived, and he immediately commanded his troops to suddenly implement a counter-encirclement of the Japanese army. The enemy responded to the battle in a hurry, suffered many casualties, and all its cavalry units were annihilated.

At the beginning of April, the customs department accelerated the attack on the Japanese army in Taierzhuang, bombarded with guns and artillery during the day, or fought hand-to-hand with hand-to-hand, climbed houses and set fire to them at night, and pursued and killed in chaos, so that the enemy was restless day and night, and completed the encirclement of the Japanese army from the north of Taierzhuang. In late April, the Guan Department was ordered to defend to the east of Yi County and north of Pi County, and surrounded the Japanese Kunisaki detachment in the Beishui Ditch west of Wharf Town, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, and the Japanese 41st and 42nd Wings alone suffered more than 1,400 casualties.

After the victory of Taierzhuang, Guan Linzheng was promoted to the commander of the 32nd Army Corps. Chiang Kai-shek declared: "If the Chinese army is as strong as the 52nd Army, it will not be a problem to defeat the Japanese army." The people of the time called Sun Lianzhong, who was in charge of defense in the Battle of Taierzhuang, and Guan Linzheng, who was in charge of attacking, "Sun Gangtou" and "Guan Tiequan".

After the Battle of Xuzhou, Guan Lin's 32nd Army Corps retreated to Guide (Shangqiu) north of Xuzhou. The Guan army marched to the junction of Henan and Anhui provinces, between Dangshan and Yangji, and encountered difficulties in trying to cross a bridge. Because the west side of the bridge had been occupied by the Japanese army, the enemy blocked the passage on the bridge with eight heavy machine guns.

The 52nd Army organized several troop charges, but failed to break through the enemy's blockade line. Guan Linzheng was furious, so he gathered 16 good horses from the Mongolian Dingyuan camp, and selected brave and witty soldiers to drive, he took the lead, led the war cavalry to the west of the bridgehead suddenly galloped away, the enemy's machine guns at the bridgehead had not yet fired, 16 war horses had already rushed to the machine gun, the machine gunners were in a panic, abandoned the guns and fled, the follow-up troops of the 52nd Army all rushed across the bridge, and arrived at Guide. The story of Guan Lin's brave battle spread throughout the Kuomintang military circles, and since then he has won the nickname of "Guan Meng".

At the turn of the summer and autumn of 1938, the 32nd Army Corps participated in the defense of Wuhan. At that time, the 9th Division of the 11th Army of the Japanese Okamura Ninji attacked northern Jiangxi and southeastern Hubei. In August, Guan Linzheng led his troops to block the Japanese army in the area of Ruichang and Yangxin. He ordered his troops to build fortifications on each hill according to the situation of the mountain, and form several hills into a chessboard position, one hill was attacked by the enemy, and the other hills could immediately cooperate with the attack and annihilate the enemy.

Therefore, the Japanese army attacked for more than ten days, but did not gain an inch of land, was full of corpses, and demoralization was low. Tokyo Broadcasting said: "Our imperial army has encountered the strongest enemy near Ruichang." When Wuhan retreated, he commanded the troops behind the palace, widely spread scattered lines, and carried out movement defense. Security covers the withdrawal of large forces.

In the autumn of 1939, Guan Linzheng was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the 15th Group Army, acting as commander-in-chief, commanding three armies to sit in northern Hunan and participate in the first Battle of Changsha.

The front line from Yingtian to the Xinqiang River is less than 50 kilometers, and it is a blink of an eye to drive a helicopter. It was in the town of Xinqiang, north of the Xinqiang River, where the front-line headquarters of the 15th Army was built. At this time, it was already more than 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

Despite the fact that it was daytime, Guan Linzheng ordered a large circle to be drawn in lime to indicate the landing of the helicopter.

Although Guan Linzheng has fought countless battles in his life, and he has seen a lot of new weapons, he was still stunned when he saw such a helicopter way of transporting troops. He wanted to move forward, but the wind from the huge helicopter blew his military hat away.

The guards quickly picked up his hat and helped him put it on.

In the big circle, 12 helicopters fell one by one, and the huge propellers of the helicopters stopped turning.

Han Xing got off the plane under the hug of the guard company. He had already known Guan Linzheng from the photo, and when he saw that Guan Linzheng was also walking towards him, he hurriedly took a few steps to meet him, and when he stopped two steps ahead, Han Xing gave him a salute: "Report to Commander Guan, Han Xing of the Southern Expeditionary Army is here to report." ”

Guan Linzheng also hurriedly gave Han Xing a military salute, and said with a smile: "Looking forward to the stars, looking forward to the moon, I finally have you here!" ”

Then the two big hands clasped tightly together.

Han Xing glanced at Guan Linzheng and saw that he was thirty-four or five years old, tall, square-faced, thick eyebrows and phoenix eyes, big nose and big mouth, a soldier's rough face, and his face was full of wind and frost.

Before Han Xing could speak, Guan Linzheng said first: "You are really a divine soldier, yesterday you were still in the rich area on the eastern front, encircling and annihilating the 106th and 101st divisions, and this morning you arrived at Yingtian, and attacked the 11th Brigade and the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division, and in the afternoon you went to the front line of the Xinqiang River." I'm still wondering, no matter how fast your legs are, they won't be Scuds! When I saw your 'mount', it dawned on me that it was not just a Scud, it was much faster than a Scud. What kind of plane is this, why don't you use an airfield? ”

Han Xing had no choice but to say, "Report to Commander Guan, this is called a helicopter." ”

"Helicopters?" Guan Linzheng nodded and said, "This name is good, it means that you don't need an airport, you can take off straight." I don't know when our 15th Army will be equipped with such aircraft......"

After a brief greeting, Han Xing asked, "May I ask Commander Guan, how can our Southern Expeditionary Army cooperate with you in the war?" ”

Guan Linzheng said: "To tell the truth, we are not afraid of the large number of Japanese soldiers, but we are afraid of their planes, artillery and combat vehicles. Just as you are coming, please control their planes and destroy their cannons and chariots. Specific infantry charges, bayonet fighting, you don't need it. ”

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