On the afternoon of the third day after the Battle of Niangziguan officially broke out, and the day after the fall of Xuehua Mountain, Liu Xueyuan published his second war diary in the country's most widely circulated newspaper "Declaration".

"For this interview, which took nearly 30 kilometers to finally reach the destination, Xue had already prepared a pen and paper and my handkerchief. It was really the 17th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, which retreated to the second line of defense, to report the casualties of the first battle of Xuehuashan to the Jindong Theater Command, which was shocking. A regiment was the main defender, but the casualty rate was as high as 70 percent. The two main infantry battalions are even more insignificant.

However, Xueyuan was unable to interview the person he needed to interview, and the commander of the 17th Division, Zhao Shoushan, was personally on the front line to command, and the remnants of the 102nd Regiment who had withdrawn from Xuehuashan actually went to the front line again, and the whole regiment took the initiative to ask for battle.

Xueyuan really wanted to go to the position that was under fire more than 1,000 meters away from me, and I wanted to hear their first-hand witnesses tell me about the 5th Infantry Company of the 102nd Regiment who guarded the No. 1 position, and the whole company bravely died for the country, even if it was a single person.

But I knew that I couldn't, they were fighting with a full wing of Japanese troops who had pounced on them fiercely, and the explosion of shells fired by the cannons of the two artillery brigades of the Japanese invaders was incessant, and the planes in the sky were also raging. My visit not only increased the burden on them, but also made it difficult for the commanders of the 17th Division Headquarters, and it was very costly to send supplies through the road blocked by Japanese artillery fire.

On that mountain road of less than 800 meters, the sacrificed baggage soldiers had even exceeded an infantry platoon.

Moreover, Xueyuan could no longer hear the heroic commander of the 102nd Regiment tell me personally how he led 2,500 officers and soldiers to fight the Japanese invaders in Xuehua Mountain, he had already led two infantry companies to die heroically for the whole regiment at noon yesterday, and the soldiers who died with him were as high as 179 people, in order to snatch out his body and not be found by the vicious Japanese invaders, the soldiers of the two infantry squads paid with their lives. In their report in the war report, the commander did not spare his life, so why should they spare their lives?

In the end, what I could leave was a bloody diary given to me by the headquarters of the 17th Division, which belonged to Commander Zhang.

Now, let's use Captain Zhang's diary as my interview record! In my opinion, although his writing is not so beautiful and passionate, it is far more moving to you and me than Xueyuan's writing. Even if, since the Battle of Songhu, Xueyuan feels that the tears of this life have dried up, but at this time, it has also wet the handkerchief I have prepared.

The tears of the snowfield, or blood, will always be shed only for the army and people of the Chinese nation.

On the 8th, the first battle was ushered in in the county seat of Jingcheng, and the friendly 101st Regiment blocked the enemy in the county town of Jingcheng and won time for our 102nd Regiment to build fortifications. Xuehua Mountain is very strong, and our army lacks tools, although it has been digging hard for several days, but the progress is slow. But the whole army did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and every minute and second of excavation carried the blood of my brothers in the 17th Division.

The Japanese invaders were so strong that our troops could hardly resist them, and they were forced to retreat after holding out for eight hours, and suffered heavy losses, and after retreating, they checked the losses, and the number of dead and missing in battle was as high as 440, and the number of light and serious wounded was nearly 500, and the battle losses of the first infantry company were as high as 70 percent, and there were only more than 20 people who could return to the troops. The aftermath is sad and terrifying.

On the 9th, the Japanese army had already attacked our Xuehuashan defense line for half a day, and the fierceness of its artillery fire was really the only one Yu Pingsheng had ever seen, there were bomb craters every 10 meters on the position, and there were also Japanese bombers raging in the air, and a bomb weighing 250 pounds could blow up the fortifications of our army of 10 meters, and the dead and wounded were not counted. Yesterday afternoon and early this morning alone, more than 300 people were killed in the battle of our 102nd regiment, and twice as many were wounded. As the soldiers under his command said, without him, the damned egg is facing up. ”

On the 10th, Xuehuashan had been fighting hard for a day and a night, the officers and soldiers suffered heavy losses, and the most elite infantry company under the command of Yu was trapped in the No. 1 main peak position. There was still one day left before the division headquarters ordered to hold on to Xuehua Mountain, but the 5th Company had been cut off for 20 hours, the ammunition was about to run out, and there was no food and water, so how could they hold on for another night. Looking at the position thousands of kilometers away, who can know the anxiety and pain in the rest of the heart?

In one day and one night, two infantry squadrons took turns attacking planes, artillery, and poison gas bombs, launching more than 10 attacks until late at night.

However, the gunfire never stopped.

On the 11th, the last gunshot rang out from the position of the fifth company, which was the red flare that I had negotiated with the company commander for retaliatory shelling, indicating that the company was no longer able to defend its position. Death with the enemy, that was their last request to me.

The soldiers under the command of Yu, six or seven out of ten died here, and the pain in my heart is really indescribable. The soldiers under my command can die, and the rest can also die, and only a few hundred soldiers in the whole regiment are about to retreat to Donkey Ridge, and I want to lead two companies of soldiers to guard the retreat road for my brothers.

Life or death doesn't matter. I hope that one day, my Chinese soldiers, will not have to retreat again and again, advance, advance, get rid of the Japanese and restore our rivers and mountains.

Xueyuan used the words left by the martyred Colonel Zhang as the conclusion, the blood of the soldiers will not be shed in vain, and one day, get rid of the Japanese and restore my rivers and mountains. ”

Liu Xueyuan's war diary is now like a gold-lettered signboard, and once the telegram was issued, major domestic newspapers reprinted it one after another.

In the fallen Beiping, although the Japanese army was extremely vicious with loaded guns and ammunition, in the campus and in the factory, students, teachers and workers gathered together to read the war diaries from the Shanxi battlefield.

Only in the fallen Shanghai Concession, the streets of Nanjing, and the streets of Wuhan, the common people surrounded the newsboy and "snatched" the freshly baked newspapers from his newspaper bag.

"Get rid of the Japanese and restore our rivers and mountains" was the only voice that resounded throughout the entire land of China that afternoon.

The commendation order was issued from the Nanjing Military and Political Department, transmitted to the 2nd Theater, to the Jindong Theater, to the Niangziguan Front Headquarters, and to the 17th Division Headquarters.

The 102nd Regiment of the 17th Division was awarded the title of "Snow Flower Mountain Iron and Steel Regiment", and the Fifth Infantry Company of the 102nd Regiment was awarded by the Ministry of Military Affairs by a general order of the whole army. The remaining four infantry companies that suffered heavy losses and did not retreat and the two infantry companies that were finally broken were also rewarded together, with a subsidy of 20 oceans each.

Zhang Shijun, the colonel who died in the war, was posthumously awarded the rank of major general of the National Revolutionary Army, and his parents, widows, and children were supported and raised by the state according to the treatment of major generals.

Although for the government, the sacrifices of the Jindong front are nothing compared to the more tragic Songhu battlefield, but at this extremely difficult moment, every unyielding resistance is a monument and must be vigorously praised, even if it is only a ragtag army, not the central army, not a descendant army.

Holding the battle report of the Ministry of Military Affairs ordering the whole army, Liu Lang sighed slightly, once in time and space, because of greed and recklessness in the loss of the Xuehua Mountain position, which eventually led to the almost annihilation of the 102nd Regiment and was personally ordered to be shot by Zhao Shoushan in tears, Colonel Zhang Shijun did not make that unforgivable mistake in his life under his reminder, but he still did not escape the end of his death, or died in the battlefield where he had shed blood.

It's just that in this life, he died much more heroically than he did in the time and space, at least, he died on the battlefield fighting the Japanese invaders, not because of a mistake and was killed by his own people's bullets on the execution ground.

This is undoubtedly a much better ending for him. Or rather, that's where the soldiers be.

The battle on the side of Xuehua Mountain is hard, and the main battlefield of Niangzi Pass is also full of flesh and blood, and the side battlefield of Jiuguan is not much better.

On the afternoon of the 9th, the Japanese army had set up a position and could not wait to launch an attack on Jiuguan.

It's not that the commander of the 77th Wing, Liden Xingdazuo, is not cautious enough, but the more than 200 corpses that were hung in the woods in front of the old pass like salted fish made him really unable to hold back the anger in his heart.

As the commander of the infantry wing, who had invaded China for three months and had hardly lost a battle, he had seen the Chinese who mercilessly shot and killed the wounded who did not have time to return to the position, and I also saw the Chinese troops who cut off the heads of their own soldiers and put them in front of the position as a morale booster, but it was the first time I had seen such an arrogant Chinese army.

They even hung the remains of the imperial warriors they could find on the trees, row by row, neatly and neatly, like salted fish hanging under the eaves of a seaside fishing village.

Even if the brigade commander and division commander repeatedly told him to be careful of the Chinese army on the other side, even he knew that this 3,000-strong Chinese army had defeated the Eighth Division.

However, this time he was not from the 8th Division, not only did he have 12 105mm howitzers to help, but he also had at least six bombers that could be called by him at any time to help, and he also had the assistance of the 20th Division's other big killer ----- tank brigade.

Yes, the infantry wing hurried in front of it, and the biggest killer of the 20th Division, a tank brigade consisting of 9 light tanks and 24 medium tanks.

In order to deal with the man who was called "Colonel Beast" by the Kwantung Army, Kawagishi Bunzaburo also turned over one of his biggest hole cards and sent this chariot brigade that he was usually reluctant to take out like a baby.

Even the Type 94 reconnaissance tank, with its thinnest steel plate of 6 mm, was actually nothing more than an armored vehicle equipped with tracks, but since entering China, it has exerted unparalleled combat effectiveness, and the poor artillery of the few Chinese can hardly threaten its existence.

The slope of the Jiuguan battlefield was only forty or fifty degrees, and it could not stop the advance of the 94 tank.

Not to mention, there were 24 Type 89 medium tanks with an average armor thickness of 17 mm.

With the three major killing weapons, the carp whose eyes were red was stimulated by Liu Lang Dengxing was patient, and when all the field fortifications were built, he began to attack.

Even, he didn't even use the most commonly used tactics of the Japanese army to feint attack and reconnoiter firing points, as soon as he came up, there was a burst of aircraft and artillery bombardment, and then, a full infantry brigade followed behind the tank, and marched towards the left and right flanks and the center.

From the very beginning, the battle entered the white heat.