In order to avoid the bullets flying from the Japanese counterattack, Huang Zhigao knelt on the ground and burned himself to the death squad who followed him to destroy the enemy, solemnly saluted a final military salute, took out the fire and shouted loudly, "Brothers, there was a fire bull formation in the past, and now there is a fire man death squad of my 19th Route Army, in order to eliminate the little devils, light the fire." ”

Sixty daredevils resolutely lit the bodies of the bodies doused with cotton yarn explosives doused with kerosene, and the sixty burning men who suddenly burst into flames, holding large knives in their hands, under the cover of fire behind them, rushed towards the enemy with indomitable spirits.

The commander of the 121st Brigade, who was leading the troops to resist the encircled enemy, saw that the enemy's repeated breakthroughs were repulsed, but the 121st Brigade also suffered heavy casualties as a result, and the encirclement of the Japanese army slowly began to loosen.

If the enemy launches another round of breakthrough, I am afraid that the 121st Brigade will never have strong firepower to block the enemy's breakthrough.

Just when the battlefield situation was extremely dangerous, a group of burning men suddenly found a group of fire men rushing towards the surrounded Japanese army, which frightened the Japanese army into running for their lives without combat effectiveness, giving up resistance.

Sixty burning people ran back and forth among the enemy groups, as long as they were contaminated, they were one burning man, and in the end, they didn't know who these burning people were, who were the enemy and who were their brothers, and they couldn't even get close to rescue.

The commander of the 121st Brigade ordered loudly in grief: "Brothers of the 121st Brigade, you have all seen that the Burning Man Death Squad composed of a company of our special service battalion has completely disrupted the surrounding enemy positions——。 ”

"Kill devils——、 kill devils——、 kill."

The soldiers of the 121st Brigade, inspired by the heroic Burning Man Death Squad, and under the order of the brigade commander shouting 'Kill the devil', they were like crazy tigers and leopards at this time, holding guns and pounced on the little devils who were surrounded and had no combat effectiveness at this time.

In the battle of life and death, some enemies were burned and rolled on the ground, some were cut down to the ground by the soldiers who rushed up, and some soldiers were entangled by the enemy and burned the fire, and died with the enemy.

Sixty daredevils, under the leadership of Company Commander Huang Zhigao, rushed into the enemy group and detonated a fuse covered with explosives and doused with kerosene.

The tragic battle, the feat of the 19th Route Army death squad, which left a heavy mark in history, used their bodies, blood and lives to fight the enemy together, and completely defeated the Japanese attack of the Kurume mixed brigade that attacked Caojiaqiao.

The 19th Route Army pursued the victory, and more than 1,600 Japanese troops who attacked Caojiaqiao were almost annihilated.

And the 60 death squad members led by Huang Zhigao were like a kindling fire, burning their lives to destroy the enemy, and the troops died heroically.

Later, on May 28, 1935, in order to commemorate the heroic deeds of these 60 daredevils, at the memorial service for the fallen soldiers of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the inscription was written

"It is the pillar of the country, the vanguard of the nation, and the god is far away from the world. Sacrifice for justice, struggle for peace, blood splashed in Shanghai, loyal souls long around the south of the Yangtze River. ”

When the news reached Commander Kenkichi Ueda, the Kurume Mixed Brigade was hit hard at the Caojia Bridge in Fumohama and almost wiped out, and Kenkichi Ueda, who was furious, confronted the chief of staff, Ichiro Hatoyama, "Ueda-kun, is this the best attack plan you have proposed?" ”

Hatoyama Ichiro secretly cursed in his heart, "Bastard, I agreed to concentrate superior forces and launch the most fierce attack on Miaoxing, the middle junction of Jiangwan and Wusong, but Ueda stubbornly insisted on ordering Kurume to form a brigade at Caojiaqiao in Fumohama and suddenly launch an attack on the 19th Route Army to mobilize the main reinforcements of the 19th Route Army, and then launch an intermediate breakthrough on Miaoxing." Now this result has found my head. ”

Although he cursed in his heart, he still said respectfully, "Your Excellency the general has taught you very much, and I don't know how the general will move the troops next." ”

Ueda Kenkichi knew that the failure of ordering the Kurume Mixed Brigade to attack Caojiaqiao was his command error, but he was arrogant and domineering, and he must not take this responsibility on himself, so loudly reprimanding Hatoyama Ichiro was also a kind of venting.

Hatoyama Ichiro did not make any rebuttal, but respectfully asked about the next step of action, Ueda Kenkichi not only said with a relaxed attitude, "Please Hatoyama-kun put forward your opinion, mine will definitely consider it." ”

"Your Excellency General, the 19th Route Army has not yet carried out a large army deployment in Miaoxing, and now it is concentrating its superior forces to adopt the tactics of breaking through the two wings of the center and attacking it, and the results will definitely be very good."

"Yaxi, according to Hatoyama-kun's plan, deploy it immediately."

Ueda Kenkichi made the following specific arrangements: more than 30,000 troops were concentrated, 73 artillery pieces were organized, 67 capital ships were brought close to Wusongkou, 66 planes were mobilized from the surrounding area, and the Special Marine Corps was deployed on the secondary front.

It took the central part to break through the two flanks and attack the 9th Division as the main force to attack Miaoxing at the junction of Jiangwan and Wusong, in an attempt to besiege Wusong with the 24th Brigade in the north and the Special Marine Corps in the south to encircle Zhabei in the south.

The 'Kaga' and 'Fengxiang' aircraft carriers, as well as the carrier-based Type 13 attack fighters and Type 3 fighters at the ground air base, took off in groups at almost the same time and dropped bombs on a large area against the Chinese positions and important facilities behind the positions.

All field artillery and battle artillery were ordered to concentrate on the positions around Wusong and Miaohang to carry out powerful artillery bombardment.

Under the cover of aircraft and artillery fire, the Japanese infantry launched an attack on the Chinese position, and a fierce battle began.

Before the Japanese army launched a large-scale offensive, General Zhang Zhizhong, commander of the Fifth Army, in accordance with the order of the commander-in-chief Jiang Guangding, ordered the main defense line of Sun Yuanliang's 259th Brigade and Song Xilian's 261st Brigade of the 87th Division to be set up in Hujiazhuang along the north bank of Fuzaobang through Caojiaqiao to the west of Wusong.

The 262nd Brigade of the 88th Division under Yu Jishi's Qianlun Brigade and Yang Bufei's 264th Brigade were ordered to lay out the main defensive line from the north end of Jiangwan through Miaohang and Zhouxiang to the south bank of Fuzaobang.

Ordered to teach a part of Tang Guangji to defend the north and south gates of the Lion Forest, Chuanshakou, Yanglinkou, Qiyakou, and Liuhekou along the river.

Sticking to the forward position of Miaohang is the 88th Division, the 262nd Brigade, the 528th Regiment and the engineer battalion and other troops, and the troops in the forward position have been deployed in place.

At this time, Wang Feng and Gu Ming, who had already driven a car to the Miaohang position, saw that the front-line troops of the position had entered a state of intense preparation.

Wang Feng jumped out of the car, first reported to the brigade command post, and stood in front of the front-line improvised command post, the sentry blocked Wang Feng and interrogated, "Which unit are you, what do you want to report to the brigade commander?" ”

"Brother, I am Wang Feng, a military instructor at the Central Army Military Academy and colonel of the Third Regiment of the Teaching Corps, and I have come to report to the brigade."

The sentry looked at the white-faced scholar standing in front of him, who was young and did not have the momentum of a commander, and not only stopped him with a horizontal gun and said, "Please show your ID." ”

When Wang Feng received the letter of appointment, he took the four members of the iron-blooded special combat team around him to board the Beijing-Shanghai train, how could he still have time to get any unnecessary 'third regiment' documents at this time? Not only did he say, "Brother, come and go in a hurry, I don't know where the documents are thrown, as long as you report to the brigade, I guarantee that the brigade will call me in." ”

"No, it's a wartime emergency, and in order to ensure the safety of the brigade commander, no one can enter without documents."

"Are you really going to make it difficult for me to go in? Can't you go in and tell a single person? ”

"No, at first glance, you are not a serious commander, you don't even have an identity certificate, and you are pretending to be the colonel of the 'Third Regiment', if you are the regiment commander, Lao Tzu is the division commander, army commander, and commander, hurry up and get out, be careful that the gun will kill you."