Now the Wei Command of the Northwest Army, which has just crossed the Yellow River, was also pressed by the Japanese 108th Division under the siege of the army, and fell into a fierce battle with the enemy.

After the Northwest Army crossed the Yellow River, Commander Wei decided to deploy the 3rd Garrison Brigade in the vicinity of Yongji Town according to the topography of the Yongji defense line and after careful analysis, and its main task was to block the Japanese army attacking Yongji from the back.

Ordered the teaching regiment to deploy troops on the Yongji, Hanyang, and Fenglingdu defense lines. The 1st Regiment of the 1st Garrison Brigade was placed under the command of the 2nd Garrison Brigade, that is, the 46th Brigade, and was deployed at the Yongji Chengguan position.

Commander Wei stood on the hill of Yongji Liuguan Village, where the headquarters was located, and looked down condescendingly on the Yongji defense line, not only sighed: "The place has a strong enemy in front and a big river in the back, and the situation is very difficult and dangerous, but Zhongtiao Mountain is a flashing barrier, and the enemy must fight. ”

Faced with the treacherous environment of resisting the enemy, Commander Wei was excited, so he wrote a poem of seven laws; The scorching golden wind is swaying, and the middle is about to dawn. ….... Wait to see all the Loulan Ri, and drink Huanglong to play the great xun.

At this time, Leng Wa, the Northwest Army Guanzhong, who was deployed on the Yongji defense line, before setting out for the battle, faced with the farewell of her relatives to help the old and the young, the words she said with tears made people cry after listening to it.

The babies knelt on the ground and said to the old lady: "Mother, I want to go to the front line to kill the devil, I can't honor you at home, please take care, if the baby defeats the devil and can come back, I will always be by your side to honor you, and never leave again." ”

The mother stroked the baby's head, looked at the distance and said with tears in her eyes: "Baby, you leave your mother to Shanxi to kill devils for the country and your family, your mother doesn't blame you, you don't remember your mother, it is the duty of the soldier to fight and kill the enemy, the mother burns incense and kowtows for you every day at home, please bless you with safety, you must remember that your mother is waiting for you at home." ”

"Mother, I'm a soldier now, I did my duty to die on the battlefield, if one day I'm heroic and can't come back to fulfill my filial piety, don't be sad."

"Wow, country, country, no country has a home, if one day I receive my baby in the position of the battle to die on the front line in Shanxi, as long as my mother can still walk, every year I will go to Shanxi Jinnan to burn paper money for my baby.

Your baby has never left her mother to walk so far, remember to cover the quilt at night, don't freeze your body, remember my baby. ”

The old lady personally sent her baby to the army, who would have thought that the baby left Chaoyi and crossed the Yellow River with the troops stationed in Gaoshi Village, the first line of defense of Yongji, and the Japanese army started a battle for position, and died heroically on the fifth day of crossing the river.

The old lady, who was already blind, didn't even know where the baby died, and the baby died not long after the sacrifice, and she didn't have time to rush to the front line to burn a stick of incense for Wow.

When the troops were about to cross the Yellow River and march to Shanxi, the wife caught up after knowing it, grabbed her husband's clothes and cried: "My God, if you go this family will be scattered, if you die on the battlefield, how can you tell me to live, let's not go, okay?" ”

"You stinky mother-in-law who doesn't know the hatred of the country and the family, the little devils are about to hit our pass, if I don't go, he won't go, do you really want to ask the little devils to kill into the village and spoil your mother-in-law? Don't cry, wait for me at home, I will definitely kill more devils and bring you a big red flower for meritorious service. ”

Leng Wa shouted and shook off his wife, who grabbed him, and trotted all the way to keep up with the team, and when he walked, he actually sprinkled his blood on Jinnan, the land of resisting Japan and killing the enemy, and never came back, and he didn't even know where his bones were buried.

The Yongji Defense Battle was the deployment of some officers and soldiers led by Commander Wei of the Western Route Army in the first and second lines of defense, and the main task was to block the fire of the Japanese Army's Grade A Division of Ushijima Shichang, which was attacking from Luoyang to the west line of Zhongtiao Mountain, outside the Yongji defense line.

At this time, when it comes to Yongji County, it is impossible not to mention a historical literati Wang Zhilian, who once climbed the Stork Bird Tower and wrote the eternal quatrain "Stork Bird Tower" on the city wall.

At the end of the day, the Yellow River flows into the sea, and you want to be poor for thousands of miles and go to the next level.

According to historical records, the stork tower was built in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, after more than 700 years of Sui, Tang, five dynasties, Song and Jin, to the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Genghis Khan Jin Ge Iron Horse attacked Taiyuan, passing through here, so the stork tower was destroyed in the war, and the stork tower was destroyed only the original site.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the site can still be found, but later due to the flooding of the Yellow River for many years, the river channel was repeatedly washed away by the fierce Yellow River water and collapsed and diverted, and the site of the stork tower was difficult to find again.

At this time, the Yongji City garrisoned by the Western Route Army led by Commander Wei was not the Yongji of Wang Zhilian's time, but was built later.

In order to defend Yongji, a dead strategic road backed by the Yellow River, Commander Wei ordered the troops to suspend rest and immediately build fortifications, and in order to block the attacking enemy from the city, he mobilized the soldiers and civilians defending the city of Yongji to dig a trench about one zhang deep and three zhang wide outside the city. An aqueduct was dug to divert water from the Yellow River into the trenches.

In order to defend Yongji City and block the attacking enemy from breaking through the city, the Western Route Army received an order from the commander of Yongji to seal the four gates of Yongji, so that it was difficult for the enemy to break through the city gate and rush in, and the officers and soldiers defending the city could not get out after a battle.

Yongji City, at this time, is the grave of the defending troops, only to die in the city, there is no way back.

In order to mobilize these Guanzhong Lengwa, who had never fought against the Japanese army, to fight bloody battles with the enemy, Commander Wei concentrated the officers above the company level of the defending troops in the wheat field of the nearby village.

Standing on a large stone mill, Commander Wei waved his arms and asked loudly: "We are all Guanzhong Leng Wa, the first time we went to the battlefield to kill devils, are you afraid?" ”

"I'm afraid of a ball, Yongji is here, Yongji is broken and we die, whoever dares to be a deserter will kill him." The officers at and above the company level who attended the meeting were enthusiastic about the mobilization, and Commander Wei, who was moved by the scene of this high atmosphere, burst into tears.

The Japanese army successively invested two wings to attack the Yongji defense line, and Yongji City was lost and recaptured many times.

After nearly two months of Yongji defense, the troops suffered heavy casualties, at this time, the commander of the 46th Brigade, who was the supreme commander of the city, took the risk to rush to the forefront, and the battle was very fierce, and finally repelled the most ferocious attack of the Japanese army.

Brigade Commander Kong stood on the high slope of the position shrouded in gunsmoke and flames, waved his arms and shouted loudly to the officers and soldiers on the front line: "We are all Shaanxi Lengwa, you see that the other side of the Yellow River is the hometown where we were born and raised, and now the fathers and villagers on the other side of the Yellow River are looking at us, are you determined to live and die with Yongji City?" ”

The front-line officers and soldiers waved their fists excitedly and shouted: "I am in the position, I am invincible, swear to defend Yongji, defend the Yellow River, defend the hometown on the other side of the Yellow River, let the little devils come more violently, and see who is the master of Yongji City." ”

"Okay, the time has come to test us, and it is also the time for all our officers and soldiers to bravely kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and we must live and die together with Yongji City."

Under the cover of aircraft, artillery and tanks, the Japanese Takeda Soldier Brigade launched the most ferocious attack on the Yongji defensive line, and the positions in Shanghanggaoshi were lost one after another, and almost all the officers and men who held the first line of defense were killed.

Zhang Heilong is a soldier of the 3rd platoon of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Battalion of the Teaching Regiment, and the 3rd Platoon was ordered to stick to the position of Puzhen Bridge.