Chapter 13: Breakthrough

With the issuance of He Zhizhong's departure order, the entire 613 regiment went around from the east wing of Jiangyin City to the south of the city in the shape of a product. Military orders are like mountains, even if they are sent to death, they must die on the way to charge, this is a soldier. Fight for China, for the Chinese nation, for the land on which we live.

The whole regiment slowly groped its way forward, as if the Japanese had not discovered the 103rd Division, until the 613th Regiment touched the south of the city.

"Tutu~"

When Zhang Ziwen was about to touch the Xicheng Canal, there was a machine gun sound in front of him, and then the gunfire rang out.

"All the combat readiness, the eighth company will let me go forward to see the situation. The rest of the divisions were ready for battle. ”

Hearing the sound of gunfire, Wei Zixuan hurriedly gave an order, and when the 613 regiment started here, there were also gunshots in the county, and Zhang Ziwen thought that the 112th Division had not withdrawn yet.

At the same time, inside the city of Jiangyin.

"Fight, we can't withdraw, and we have to let the brothers of the 103rd Division withdraw with our lives."

A certain unit of the 112th Division once again engaged in fierce street battles with the Japanese army in Jiangyin City, but later generations had no way to verify it, and could only listen to the local old people's description.

After a while, a round of shells smashed on the west bank of the Xicheng Canal, could it be that the Jiangyin Fort had not yet fallen? It was true that the Jiangyin Fort had not yet fallen, and the brothers who were left to destroy the artillery heard the sound of the 103rd Division's assault and immediately adjusted their artillery positions and used the remaining artillery to smash the shells on the Japanese position.

The Jiangyin fortress fought until the last moment, which is confirmed by the history of the Japanese army. According to the Japanese war history, although the 11th Sentai received a report from the army that it had conquered Jiangyin, it still heard fierce artillery fire in this area until the evening of the 2nd. It seems that some artillery members spontaneously shelled the Japanese after the retreat of the fortress, which shows the determination of the garrison troops of the Jiangyin fortress.

On December 13, 1937, Shanghai's "Declaration" made the following report on the fall of Jiangyin: "On November 30, the cannonballs in the city flew sideways, so the fire burned, black smoke rushed into the sky, and the sky was full of red candles, from the east gate to the area of the horse archway, surrounded by thick smoke and flames...... The city was forced to fall on the first day of this month.

However, the garrison of my fortress still relied on the danger of firing artillery and fighting to the death with the Japanese army. After two days and nights of bloody fighting, on the afternoon of the 3rd of this month, the support was finally cut off, and more than 10,000 lone troops fought their way out of the encirclement and retreated to Zhenjiang with tears, but still left a group of people to defend to the death. On the 8th of this month, he was still in the fortress of Huangshan, fighting against the Japanese army, preparing to shed this last drop of blood and demand a heavy price from the Japanese army. On the evening of the 8th, there were still occasional gunshots, but by the 9th it was silent, and I think that I had died a heroic death and died with this fortress. ”

Under Wei Zixuan's order, all three companies of the third battalion ran out to look for a boat, but the villagers had long been hiding and not a single boat was found.

"Waste, the seventh company and the eighth company will follow me, the guard platoon, and the ninth company will protect the regimental headquarters."

Wei Zixuan led the guards to the place where the battle was fierce, and at this time a battalion was seizing the canal bridge, and no one could walk without the bridge.

"Three rows of Lao Tzu" Wu Zijian's eyes were already red, as if he had applied a red potion.

"Yes"

With a word of agreement, a swarthy man rushed to the bridge with a dozen brothers, and before he could reach the bridge, all of them fell in a pool of blood and never got up again. Wu Zijian slapped his thigh hard behind a memorial arch, threw his hat, and was about to lead people to rush up, but fortunately he was pulled by Luo Yibin.

"You follow the regimental deputy and the second company, the third company, and the seventh company and the eighth company, touch me to find a place where I can cross the river, touch him and beat him from behind, otherwise it will not be enough to fill it with the lives of the entire 613 regiment. Here I take the second battalion and the spy company to contain it, go quickly" The first company has already fought about the same as the sixth company, and the six machine guns on the opposite side are firmly blocking the bridge deck, and I don't know what the configuration is on the opposite side, and the shells are smashed from time to time.

"Hurry up and show me how deep it is." One of the brothers jumped down with a pop.

"Deputy regiment, the water is still very deep." Wei Zixuan searched for almost half an hour, and it was dawn in another hour, and the Japanese artillery fire would be even more at dawn.

"Anyone who can go into the water will stand up for me, swim over with a rope, and tie the rope to the opposite side. The uninjured ones stood up for me, and finally dozens of people stood up in a sparse manner, the first battalion and the third battalion all took out machine guns and grenades, the uninjured brothers all went into the water with me, and the swimmers sent me machine gun ammunition to the opposite side. Wu Zijian, you lead someone to find the bridge. After saying that, Wei Zixuan went into the water, pulled the fixed rope and went to the other side, and the brothers couldn't go into the water one by one to pull the rope and swim to the opposite side.

The water in December was cold and biting, jumping into the water as if ten thousand thorns were pierced in the bones, the brothers who jumped into the water couldn't help but shiver, and forcibly swam to the opposite side, fortunately, there was a rope, otherwise the dragon lord of the Xicheng Canal would have to swallow a few brothers again, Wu Zijian saw that his regiment deputy had already led people across the river and took people to touch downstream.

The river breeze was so cold that as soon as I landed on the shore, I almost couldn't even lift my gun.

"Brothers, I know everyone is freezing, but the upstream brothers are fighting hard with the Japanese army, and if we attack the Japanese army one minute earlier, we will die fewer brothers, please bear with us." Wei Zixuan was shocked when everyone was frozen and had no fighting spirit, so he had to make a small mobilization first.

"Regiment deputy, this is what we should do, and it is our duty for soldiers to obey orders." The commander of the fifth company responded, and shouted again

"Brothers, aren't you?"

"Yes," the brothers straightened their frozen bodies.

"The commander of the fifth company, assign the grenades, and the machine guns must ensure that there are main and secondary shooters." The deputy of the regiment said to the commander of the fifth company

"Departure" took dozens of brothers with them and ran towards the Japanese position.

"Fifth company commander, you take half of the people to go around the back of the devil, I will lead people to contain the devil on the side, hurry up" The devil's firepower still covered the bridge deck, and the brothers were not afraid of death to charge the devil's bridgehead, and the houses near the river on the east bank had been blown up.

Estimating that the commander of the fifth company had already arrived behind the devil, Wei chose to fight, and led people to attack the house occupied by the devil.

Hearing the gunfire on the opposite side, the devil's firepower began to weaken, Luo Yibin took the lead in the charge, grabbed the machine gun and rushed up, and the guards hurriedly guarded him in front. Seeing the remaining brothers in their regiment commander's charge, the group charged towards the bridge deck, and some brothers jumped directly into the canal and swam to the opposite side.

The Japanese army was difficult to support for a while, and after the hand-to-hand encounter, the brothers of the 613th Regiment found that the devils only had less than one squadron of troops, and with the strength of less than one squadron, the 613th Regiment could not advance an inch for an hour by relying on its position and firepower, and I don't know how many brothers sprinkled their blood in the canal and then flowed into the Yangtze River.

Wu Zijian and his brother didn't know where they came from, and with the advantage of numbers, they forced the devil to retreat in the direction of Jiangyin City.

Zhang Ziwen heard that the gunshots were far away, and immediately led the people of the regiment headquarters to the canal, and when he reached the bridgehead, he only saw the bodies of his brothers lying in a pool of blood.

"Ninth Company collects the corpses of the brothers" After saying that, Zhang Ziwen threw the gun to Xiaobao, and stepped forward to hug a brother, Zhang Ziwen saw his face clearly by the light of the torch, he was only sixteen years old, and he was exactly what he should study.

"Zhang Ziwen, don't delay the time, hurry up." Zhang Ziwen hugged his brother who had long since died, and Wu Yongqing yelled at him.

Zhang Ziwen touched the cold corpse, and his heart was cold when he heard Wu Yongqing's words.

"If you're afraid of death, you can retreat."

Zhang Ziwen dragged his little brother, who had been dead for a long time, to the outside of the village, and the old pole had already dragged the corpses of his brothers to the outside of the village.

"Fuck, brethren, think if it were us if we were lying down."

Without finishing his words, he inserted the gun into the gun box, and walked in the direction of the village entrance with the body of a brother in his arms. Then the brothers of the guard platoon also came up with guns to help, and the brothers of the engineer company went straight to their old jobs and ran out of the village to dig a pit.

Zhang Ziwen and others had just buried more than a dozen brothers in the 615th Regiment and came over with the division headquarters.

"The 613th regiment got out of the way, and I didn't see it blocking the way." A major of the 615th Regiment yelled that no one in the 613th Regiment was paying attention to him, still carrying the bodies of his brothers.

"Didn't you hear you?" As he spoke, he pulled out the gun from his waist and loaded it, and his subordinates behind him also loaded the gun.

"Dali, whoever dares to step on the bones of his brothers, then let him go down to accompany his brothers." Hearing Zhang Ziwen's words, he immediately put the machine gun on the road, and Zhang Ziwen was already in a rage.

The brothers of the guard platoon also asked the two machine gunners to set up the machine guns, and the major of the 615th regiment was also stunned, but he didn't expect the people of the 613th regiment to dare to do this. Seeing that they didn't move, the brothers continued to carry the bodies of their brothers, and Zhang Ziwen hoped that the brothers would still be alive but fainted.

"What's going on ahead, why don't you leave?"

The three horsemen ran up and asked, and only when they got closer did they see that it was Dai Zhiqi, and then the major of the 615th regiment told him that Zhang Ziwen was ready to be shot at this time, and what else was he afraid of.

With a snap, the brothers of the 613th regiment heard this sound from afar, and when they turned around, there were two more snaps, and they heard Dai Zhiqi roaring

"You don't have a baby and still want to step on your brother's corpse, I don't fucking shoot you." After speaking, he was about to pull out his gun, but the school officer on the side hurriedly grabbed it, and let go of Dai Zhi's wizard after a good pleading, and then the 615 regiment also ran over to help.

"It's you, young man, you're bloody, you're responsible, what's your name?" Dai Zhiqi came over and said to Zhang Ziwen.

"Report to the chief, Zhang Ziwen, the commander of the ninth company of the third battalion of the 613th regiment." Zhang Ziwen said his name, thinking that this was Deputy Division Commander Dai who remembered himself, and he was probably waiting for the opportunity to clean himself up.

Zhang Ziwen lived the belly of a gentleman completely with the heart of a villain, and Dai Zhiqi said a few words of encouragement to him and rode back. At this time, almost all the bodies of the brothers were buried, and more than 200 brothers were buried here, and when an old man came many years later, only one building did not know that the brothers were buried under that building, so he could only cry for the old man in the canal.

At six o'clock in the morning on December 1, the 103rd Division broke through the vicinity of Jiangyin City.

In the history books of later generations, it is written that on the day when the Japanese army invaded Jiangyin, the whole city searched and killed people when they saw it. At the coal wharf of Huangtian Port, hundreds of people were brutally killed and their bodies were dumped in the river. Subsequently, the Japanese army set fire to the fire for three days in a planned way, and inside and outside the city, thick smoke rose into the sky, and the flames lasted for half a month. The prosperous area of Beiwai Street and East Street in the city was reduced to ashes. Inside and outside the city, seven or eight out of ten large houses were burned down, and factories and schools were not spared.