Chapter 19: Death in the Right Place
Battalion Commander Hao's face was black and red, his hat was gone, his hair was dusty, and his left sleeve was torn into a strip of rag, if it weren't for the rank of major on the collar, he could still see it clearly, and he looked like a beggar. There were only about two dozen people who followed Hao Ming to the Lugou Bridge position, and they all looked like they had just come out of the soil. It can be said that all that survived, and finally saved a machine gun.
"It's lost, Wanping City is lost! The devil's heavy weapons are so fierce that we can't parry them at all, but in just an hour, these brothers are left in two companies! Hao Ming stuck the knife on the ground, he must have thought at this time that if he fought hand-to-hand with the knife, even if he lost, he would not lose so badly.
Wanping City is lost, and it is only a matter of time before Lugou Bridge falls, and the spy company and the first company guarding here have fallen into a situation of complete isolation, what should they do?
The devil's squadron began to attack, dense bullets poured down on the defenders' positions, this attack was quite sharp, compared to the two rounds of attacks just now. This is the real strength of this group of Japanese troops. After taking Wanping City, these devils are going to attack Lugou Bridge with all their might...
"Changkong, you have sound arms and legs, and if you are lightly injured, go first! Brigade Commander He and Regiment Commander Ji have withdrawn into Beiping City with the third battalion, and I think the second battalion will also be withdrawn! Hurry up, I'll stay here to stop these devils!" A battalion has to have seeds left! Hao Ming climbed to the bunker and grabbed the submachine gun and shot fiercely, and said to the company commander of the spy company: "You guys also go!" ”
"No, I won't withdraw! We have all said that we will live and die together with Lugou Bridge! Changkong also set up a Czech machine gun, rushing at the devils, and the devils who were arrogant just now did not dare to be so fearless under the suppression of these two machine guns.
"You know what! Only by staying alive can we continue to fight devils! You are all the future forces of resistance against Japan! Death in the right place is called a well-deserved death! To die in the wrong place is to die in vain! I don't care where you die in the future, you can't die here today anyway! I'll die for you! Hao Ming threw two grenades, but the sound of these words still drowned out the explosion of the grenade, Hao Ming saw that Sima Changkong and the others were indifferent, so he could only tear his throat and shout: "This is an order!" If you are still soldiers, or gentlemen, you will live and avenge us! ”
Sima Changkong cried, he cried in his heart, he saluted the battalion commander, and retreated in the direction of Wanping City with a company of fifty people who could still advance at full speed.
The commander of the spy company said to Hao Ming: "In terms of military rank, I am one rank lower than you, but I am directly under the regiment headquarters, and you can't order me!" Can you just rely on your dozens of wounded soldiers to stop the devils of three squadrons? He turned his head to a second lieutenant beside him and said, "Third platoon commander, I order you to take the third platoon and Sima Changkong to withdraw to Beiping!" Can't give me a bargain! Go back and protect Captain Ji! ”
The third platoon commander also took people away, and now there are only about 100 people alive on the Lugou Bridge position...
The gunfire on the Lugou Bridge position became more and more sparse, the ammunition was exhausted, the Japanese began to charge, and the forces of two squadrons pounced on ...
Sima Changkong took a company and a spy company in three rows to make a detour to Wanping City, but was ambushed by the Japanese army. An infantry squadron and half a machine gun squadron of the Japanese army had been waiting here for a long time, and after they took Wanping City, they expected that the defenders of Lugou Bridge would not be able to support it, so they could only retreat to Beiping City, and intercepted and killed them halfway. After a death battle, all three platoons of the spy company were sacrificed, and more than 30 people were killed in the first company. Sima Changkong's left arm was grazed by a bullet, and the dozen or so people who survived were more or less wounded. Just go to Beiping City? More than 80 people who were evacuated from Lugou Bridge didn't work for half a day, and there were only a dozen left! Sima Changkong tasted the cruelty of war, and the cruelty in front of him was beyond his bearing...
More than a dozen people hid in a broken wall and wheezed, the fierce battle made everyone unbearable, there is still a distance from Beiping City, who knows if there will be an ambush of devils in front, people's mobility is so strong, I don't want us to rely on only two tired legs, or wait until the evening to act.
Dou Da's tears rolled out from Sima Changkong's tears, although it was a July day, he could also see the tears steaming, and his mouth kept muttering, "Battalion commander, I'm sorry for you!" Company commander, I'm sorry for you.."
Yang Rong leaned the broken red tassel gun against the broken wall and sat next to Sima Changkong, he could only say a few words of comfort and comfort at this time. Chen Dabiao was the most tired, lying on the ground panting vigorously. Deng Zhi didn't give up his feet when he broke through, and Chen Dabiao desperately carried him out.
The sound of gunfire around Beiping City can be counted gradually, but the night will not slowly calm down, and the enemy will set off more waves.
"In my opinion, we still don't want to enter Beiping!" Yang Rong looked at the sky, and the smoke was still not clear, like a white veil covering the night.
"Don't go to Beiping? What do you mean.." Changkong asked.
Yang Rong explained: "Wanping City is lost, but there is another place that is very important, if it is also lost, Beiping will really be hopeless!" ”
"Where?" Deng Zhi asked.
"Nanyuan!" Changkong and Yang Rong said this place almost at the same time, and the two looked at each other, it turned out that there was such a tacit understanding.
Nanyuan is the southern passage of Beiping and is garrisoned by the 37th Division, as long as Nanyuan is not lost, Beiping City will not fall easily, and the 29th Army will have the opportunity to mobilize forces to organize a counterattack. The strategic location of Nanyuan is important, and the Japanese army is also very aware of this, and will definitely attack with all their might. Sima Changkong decided to go to Nanyuan to stop the Japanese army, but how much effect could these dozen people play in Nanyuan? But the military can't think like that, because now is the time to fight hard.
"To Nanyuan? Why don't we go and assassinate the devil commander at night! Capture the thief and capture the king first! Anyway, we have few people, small goals, and good action! Just our kung fu ......" Deng Zhi was full of confidence, thinking that his high theory would definitely make Changkong praise them, and thinking about the scene of his meritorious service to the enemy commander, he couldn't help laughing. But he was knocked on the skull by Yang Rong's punch, of course, he didn't hit it too hard, but this blow woke Deng Zhi up.
Changkong spoke to Deng Zhi seriously, and said: "It's a good way to use surprise attacks with fewer people, but do you know where the Japanese command is?" How many defensive forces are there? I don't know anything, rashly enter the range of devil firepower, and then you just want to run and have nowhere to run! ”
"I ...... Company commander, you see that the gap between us and the devil is so big, even if we go to Nanyuan, I'm afraid it will be ...... I...... Let's go! Said a skinny soldier with gauze wrapped around his head and arms, and blood stains coming out.
"You're fucking scared! Want to escape? I cut you! Chen Dabiao recovered his spirit at this time, and picked up the knife and gestured.
Sima Changkong stopped Chen Dabiao, looked at the soldier's wound, and said, "I know that you are not a person who is afraid of death, otherwise you would not have been injured and have been fighting until now!" You may have your own struggles! Yes, a dozen of us went to Nanyuan to die, but this is a soldier! The company commander, the battalion commander, and the brothers who died in battle are the same! Everyone's life is only once, and it's precious! ”
Changkong said to these dozen people again: "Who else wants to leave?" If you want to go, you can go, I will never stop you! I have something I want to go, brothers, tomorrow I will die in battle, don't forget to burn me a piece of paper later! ”
"Burn it for me!" Yang Rong put the half-intercepted gun on his shoulder.
"Tired, bring my share again!"
"I can't burn it for me!"
Deng Zhi and Chen Dabiao also followed.
"And me!"
"And me!"
"I'm not leaving!"
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The brothers are determined to go to Nanyuan to shed their last drop of blood for the nation.
"I'm not a bad breed either! Good! I'll go with you, since I'm going to die, I'll die a piece, and I'm not lonely on the Huangquan Road! The soldier who wanted to leave saw that his comrades-in-arms were so resolute, and he was not willing to be a coward, he was a Chinese man who stood up to the sky.
"Hey, if you go too, then we'll all die, who will burn the paper for us?" Deng Zhi's words are quite ridiculous and ironic.
The soldier's face turned red, Changkong smiled, and said: "Deng Zhi, don't make trouble, if we all die, I believe that 40,000 compatriots will burn paper for us!" ”
More than a dozen people quietly marched towards Nanyuan in the night, and there were only a dozen people, so it was extremely convenient to act. They are all ordinary flesh and blood, but they can always fight tenaciously, maybe the hot-blooded men at that time were like this!
If it is said that no matter what era the men are not all hot-blooded, there are always some disdainful outliers who come out to stir up the situation, perhaps China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression would not have lasted for eight years without the negative effect of these people.
Pan Yugui is known as a "chic and self-controlled, countryman style" traitor who votes for Japan. On the night when they went to Nanyuan to defend the sky, Mr. Pan, as the director of the administrative office, quietly ran to the Japanese camp in the middle of the night and told the Japanese all the deployment and plan made by Song Zheyuan that day, so that the two regiments of the 132nd Division transferred by General Zhao Dengyu to support Nanyuan were ambushed by the Japanese army in the Tuanhe River and the whole army was annihilated, which directly led to the defeat of the 29th Army in the Nanyuan defense battle......
Later, Pan Yugui also defended himself: "I sincerely seek a way out for North China." The Nationalist Government was beyond the reach of North China, Yan Xishan was feudal and backward, and he was not the backer of the 29th Army and the people of North China, and the only way out for North China was to cooperate with the Japanese, so as to avoid the misery of life. The so-called betrayal of the country is patriotism. ”
Pan Yugui is really a genius, and his sophistry is really rare in the world, and such a traitor's behavior is described as patriotic, and his face is really as thick as two city walls. What's even more hateful is that it has resonated with many people, which is really "startling a shoal of gulls and herons".
In the early morning of the 28th, the Japanese army began to shell Nanyuan, and the 40 heavy guns of the Kawagishi Division arrogantly bullied the position of the student corps in the south of Nanyuan. There is a saying that "the old lady picks persimmons - she picks soft ones." "There are a lot of Chinese experts among the devils, and they understand this truth very well, and the defensive force of the student corps' position is of course the weakest link in Nanyuan, but the devils can get such information, all thanks to Pan Yugui.
The Japanese army Ichiki Kiyonao's headquarters then rushed to the position of the student corps under the cover of fierce shelling, but unexpectedly stepped on the mines one after another, and the charging Japanese soldiers were all blown up one by one, screaming and screaming, and the Japanese artillery coordinator saw such a hot scene and shouted at the artillery troops: "It's too close!" It's too close! It turned out that he took the explosion of the mine as the artillery fire of his own people.
However, after all, the Japanese army was well-trained, and although the mines caused the Ichiki Kiyonao team to suffer losses, the losses were not large, and they soon regrouped and continued to attack the positions of the student corps.
The student corps in Nanyuan were all college students and middle school students in Beiping, and most of them were activists of the "129" Movement. Not to mention the young age, these 1,700 people have just gotten the gun, and they still don't know how to fight, and those who can fire the gun don't know how to find cover to shoot, so they just stand straight and let people fight! How can this fight with the bloodthirsty Japanese army? But they were all very brave, no one fled, no one flinched, and they fought the enemy without firing.
Sima Changkong, the dozen or so people had just arrived near the battlefield. Why are they only here now? Last night they redressed their wounds at the medical team in Nanyuan and ran into a regimental commander of the 132nd Division. The regiment commander saw that there were few of them and they were all injured, so he couldn't bear to let Changkong and the others fight in Nanyuan, so he asked them to go to the position of the student corps, after all, it was the southernmost point of Nanyuan, and once Nanyuan was lost, it would be better to retreat south with the student soldiers. Judging from the current situation, this is precisely pushing them to their death, but this cannot be blamed on the regimental commander, at that time the 29th Army thought that the Japanese army would not be the first to attack there...... Everything is the fault of the intelligence leak......
The 1,700 student soldiers and the Ichiki Kiyonao squadron were in a melee, and they were really wielding white blades and rushing with blood.