Chapter 690: The King of Yunnan
After the encirclement and suppression campaign at the Lishui base, the First Army has been resting in the Quzhou area, and Qin Feng has also been to the defense area of the First Army many times, sent other people's trophies, and also sent weapons produced by himself.
In August 1937, the main force of the Yunnan Army was organized into the 60th Army, with Lu Han as the commander, and 3 divisions (182, 183, and 184 divisions) under its jurisdiction, with An Enpu, Gao Yinhuai, and Zhang Chong as the division commanders, about 40,000 people. At the beginning of October, the 60th Army held a swearing-in meeting in Wujiaba, Kunming, and people of all ethnic groups and all walks of life presented flags to bid farewell, which was extremely warm. At the meeting, the crowd chanted "Captain Lu, fight!" Third division commander, kill, kill, kill! Pledge to destroy the Japanese and defend the motherland". The troops then set out, passing through Qujing, Pingyi, Panxian, Anshun, Guiyang, Zhenyuan, Yuping, Huangxian, Yuanling, and Changde, and the officers and men traveled more than 4,000 miles and walked for more than 40 days to reach Changsha, Hunan, and then were ordered to go to the front line to defend Nanjing.
Unexpectedly, while the troops were still on the way, Nanjing fell, so they returned to Wuhan to stand by. The Yunnan army was neat and tidy, and its military discipline was also relatively good, which was relatively prominent among the Kuomintang troops at that time. Du Yuming once said: "During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, I encountered the Yunnan troops, and I felt that the Central Army seemed to be inferior in appearance compared with this Yunnan army. ”
When the 60 th Army arrived in Wuhan, the chairman ordered this neat and well-groomed army with high morale to go around the city for a week, so as to show that there was still such a well-trained army ready to fight and to calm the people's minds. At this time, "the quality of the Yunnan army has become the highest in the country." When the Dian army marched in Wuhan, the German advisers watched it and said to the chairman of the committee in amazement: "The Dian army led by Lu Han is the pride of your China and the most powerful army. ”
The 5th Division of Sakagaki and the 10th Division of Isoya of the Japanese invading army launched an attack on Lunan in early April 1938, directly threatening the rear of Xuzhou, and the situation was critical. This was the second phase of the Tai'er Murong Campaign. The 60th Army, which was ordered to concentrate in Lunan and under the command of the commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, General Li, was ready to enter the battle. General Li also ordered the 60th Army to be placed under the command of Sun Lianzhong, commander-in-chief of the 26th Group Army. At that time, General Li and Sun Lianzhong's troops were exhausted and retreated one after another, and only Tang Enbo's troops remained near Shaoxian. When the vanguard of the 60th Army arrived at Guide Station, General Li immediately ordered the 60th Army to take over Tai'er Murong.
At dawn on April 22, when the 60th Army crossed the canal and was assembling at the designated location, the Japanese army took advantage of this opportunity to quickly break through the gap with four or five thousand infantry of two wings, more than 30 artillery pieces, and more than 20 tanks, and launched an attack on the forward troops of the 60th Army. The Yin Guohua Battalion of the 183rd Division, the vanguard of the 60th Army, hurriedly responded to the battle and fought fiercely with the enemy in the vicinity of Geng Murong and Chenjiafang for three days and nights, buying time for the follow-up troops, allowing them to start operations and repel the enemy's repeated attacks. Of the more than 500 people in the Yin battalion, except for one soldier who survived, all the rest of the battalion commander and below died heroically.
Since most of the positions of the 60 th Army were destroyed by enemy artillery and tanks, the officers and men suffered heavy casualties. In order to ensure Tai'er Murong, Lu Han readjusted his deployment and moved the main force to the Yuwang Mountain area. Yuwang Mountain is the commanding height of Taier Murong area, is an elbow-shaped mountain, is the only strategic place in this area that can be held by evidence, the Grand Canal is only about 400 meters away from Yuwang Mountain. Therefore, the whole army focused on securing Yuwang Mountain, with the purpose of preventing the enemy from crossing the canal, and cooperated with friendly forces in the battle. In the battle centered on Yuwang Mountain, the units of the 60th Army persisted in positional warfare for more than 20 days, smashing the enemy's attempt to cross the canal and threaten Xuzhou, causing heavy losses to the Isogu Division. The Dian army also suffered more than half of the casualties. The 60th Army had 38,242 people, 13,869 killed, 4,545 wounded, and 430 missing. Officers at all levels suffered 177 casualties and 380 wounded, including 1 brigade commander killed and 1 wounded, regiment commander 5 killed and 4 wounded, and battalion and company platoon commanders suffered more than half casualties. The battle of Yuwang Mountain is a monument to the heroic resistance of the Dian army during the Anti-Japanese War. Chairman of the National Committee and Sun Lianzhong called Lu Han many times to commend the Dian army for its bravery, which also made Lu Han famous in the first battle.
In less than two hours, Lu Han took two guards, led by the soldiers of the base, and hurriedly walked into Qin Feng's temporary airport at the base.
"Hehe, Brother Eternal (Lu Hanzi) has arrived!" Qin Feng grinned as he threw his hands away.
"Haha, it's all blame on Brother Ziyi, you didn't notice such a big thing early, you have been waiting for a long time, right? You deserve it! Hey, brother, don't you bring a few bodyguards? Isn't it my arrival that squeezed your guard's position? "While Lu Han was harming Qin Feng, he said strangely.
Because he only saw a few wives of him by Qin Feng's side, and there were no other guards, Qin Feng usually went out with the special combat team to hug and pull the wind, so there was Lu Han's question.
Qin Feng said with a smile: "This is the territory of the Eternal Brother and there are still guards, isn't this a slap in the face, Brother?" ”
"Hehe, brother, you can talk with this mouth, but our Yunnan is really a barbarian land, and your wives are so beautiful and eye-catching, in order not to be robbed, it seems that our guard level should be set higher"
The two joked with each other and got on the plane, Murong Qingqing's eyes unconsciously aimed at the cockpit at the nose of the plane as soon as they came up, it seemed that they were still a little reluctant to fly the plane, but seeing Qin Feng beside her, she didn't dare to move no matter how much she had an idea.
Soon, the plane taxied off the runway and flew into the blue sky. Two hours later, the plane landed steadily at Kunming Airport.
Because of the news that Qin Feng was coming to Yunnan, Lu Han had already informed Yunnan Provincial Chairman Long Yun, so as soon as Qin Feng got off the plane, he saw a group of officials dressed as government officials, who were lining up to greet him, but Qin Feng didn't expect that Wang Longyun of Yunnan was actually in the queue to greet him.
Lu Han walked quickly to the ranks of officials and shouted excitedly to an official in his fifties and wearing a Mao suit: "Big brother, I'm back!" ”
"Good, good, it's good that eternity is back! Yo, they've lost weight to this point, isn't the food in the army good? The official replied with concern.
"Where have I lost weight, my eldest brother hasn't seen me for a long time, I thought I was thin, but in fact it was almost the same as before, by the way, big brother! Let me introduce to you, this is the famous Ziyi righteous general who annihilated the Japanese army - General Qin Feng. As he spoke, Lu Han pushed Qin Feng in front of Long Yun.
Although Qin Feng had long known that the person in front of him was Yunnan Wang Longyun, he was still taken aback. This Long Yun is not as tall and burly as he imagined, but a little unimpressive, but a pair of eyes are extremely sharp, Qin Feng has heard that he defeated the ring set by the French with his good martial arts, and since then he has been appreciated by the above and started his legendary life, but he never thought that he would be a half-old man who is not amazing.