readx; This time, the casualties of all officers and men were very heavy, of which the 58th Division had less than 100 men left in each company; The command of the Ninth Theater Commander's Department was improper, and the 26th Army did not follow the orders of the Commander's Department to stop the Yue Army at the Laodao River, covering the 74th Army to enter the designated position, causing the commander of the Army to drive south. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The 74th Army Headquarters was in a hurry to advance, did not arrange air defense measures, did not have flank alert troops, did not directly contact the friendly forces in front, the enemy situation was unclear, and the flanks were completely exposed, which was also the reason for the fiasco.

On September 27, after the end of the battle with the 74th Army, the enemy attacked Changsha in coordination with the enemy army from Fulinpu Nan, and the other crossed the Liuyang River near Lili to attack Zhuzhou.

When the small vanguard of the Yue army approached the vicinity of Zhuzhou, the first part of the Yue army made a detour to the east and southeast of Changsha, and the main force attacked from the north, and more than 100 paratroopers were landed near Changsha. On September 28, at dusk, a devil broke into the city.

Xue Yue and others immediately withdrew from Changsha. When the news came, it shocked Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered reinforcements to rush to the battlefield to counter-encircle the Japanese army, and the 51st, 57th, and 58th divisions of the 74th Army also showed the strength of the ace army again, and immediately launched a fierce battle with the enemy. The armies of various routes, including the provisional Second Army and the 79th Army transferred from the Sixth Theater from Guangdong to the north, have completed the counter-encirclement of the periphery of Changsha and have begun to cooperate with the defenders of Changsha to flank the attack inside and outside.

On October 1, a phone call suddenly came from Changsha; The 79th Army's Zhao Jiping Division entered Changsha City, and the army was rapidly retreating.

Why did the army suddenly retreat?

It turned out that the purpose of this offensive by the new commander of the 11th Army, Anan Yugi, was to "sweep up" the [***] squadron and eliminate the living forces of our army. Generally speaking, if the army comes out to "sweep" without luggage, it can only fight for a day or two; If you come out to "sweep" with large and small luggage, you can only fight for three or five days; If a large army came out to "sweep" with strengthened baggage, it would only be able to fight for two or three weeks. Because the main purpose of this "sweep" was to eliminate the living forces of the [***] team, they attacked desperately all the way, and did not repair the road from the Xinqiang River to Changsha, nor did they set up a line of military stations along the way, except for the food and ammunition they carried, they all relied on airdrops, and the airdrops were limited after all, and after three weeks of fighting, the food and ammunition were almost consumed.

In addition, although the officers and men defeated the three armies of the Central [***] Brigade in the battles of the Xinqiang River, the Miluo River, and the northwest of Liuyang, they were exhausted to death, and their fatigue was extreme. But at this time, because the 74th Army was defeated, all kinds of armies came to Changsha City.

On September 30, the 72nd Army of the 30th Group Army of the [***] team had arrived near Tongshan City; A section of the 19th Army had passed the Tonggu and approached Dongmen City; The 79th Army entered the city of Changsha; The 20th and 58th armies threatened the rear of the Yue Army in the mountains east of the Nanjiang Bridge and Meixian. If the army did not retreat, it would have to continue fighting despite fatigue and lack of food and ammunition. As a result, Anami Yuki hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops overnight.

As soon as the army retreated, Xue Yue immediately ordered the armies to advance rapidly.

At this time, Wang Yaowu also showed the temper of a [***] fierce general, saying that the army retreated across the Laodao River, and the 74th Army also followed the Laodao River; The army retreated across the Miluo River, the 74th Army followed to the Miluo River, the Yue Army retreated across the Xinqiang River, the 4th Army and the 58th Army followed to the Xinqiang River, and recovered the Xinqiang River.

By 12 October, the two sides had fully returned to their pre-war status. After the battle, the 20th Army remained in charge of the defense of the Nanjiang Bridge; The 58th Army remained in charge of the defense of the New Wall River; After the 37th Army was contained, it still served as the defense of Xiangyin and repaired the defensive ground. The headquarters of the 27th Army was still stationed near Pingjiang, and the 20th, 58th, and 37th armies were still nominally under the command of the 27th Army. The 10th Army was still stationed in the Hengshan area, the 79th Army was stationed in Changsha, and the 4th Army was still stationed in the Xinqianghe position. The Governor's Department still returned to Changsha City.

The 74th Army went to Yichun, Jiangxi Province to assemble and carry out rectification.

On October 16, Chiang Kai-shek flew to Nanyue and presided over the Third Nanyue Military Conference, which was centered on reviewing the gains and losses of the battle.

On the first day of the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek scolded the 10th Army for its incompetent command, ineffective fighting, and tense atmosphere. That night, Commander Li Yutang and others went to public relations together and reported the achievements of the 10th Reserve Division. Fortunately, before the battle, Chiang Kai-shek looked at the enemy battle map captured by friendly troops, and marked the numbers of three and a half divisions of the Japanese army in front of the position of the 10th Division. PR paid off.

At the meeting the next day, Chiang Kai-shek changed his tone: "It is now proved that the enemy in front of the position of the 10th Division in reserve of the 10th Army has the strength of three and a half divisions, and the reserve 10th Division is an impregnable wall, and it is difficult to stop the enemy's advance." The reserve 10th Division can resist for a day, which is not bad. ”

In this way, the commanders of the 10th Army and divisions were relieved.

However, the meeting had another peak-and-loop turn.

Chiang Kai-shek's descendant general, Liao Lingqi, commander of the 58th Division of the 74th Army of the Ace Army, caused the problem.

When the Nanyue Conference was in full swing, an important person still didn't know where to go, and that was Liao Lingqi. When Chiang Kai-shek was liquidating three defeated armies, a senior staff member of the Ninth War Zone quietly reported his whereabouts to Xue Yue.

It turned out that when Liao Lingqi returned to his hometown in Qiyang by train in Zhuzhou Jiangnan, he met the senior staff member of the Ninth War Zone on the car, and he bluntly told him that he was going home to visit relatives. Gao Shen returned to the theater headquarters to report the incident, and Xue Yue was very angry.

After Liao Lingqi fled back to Qiyang, he didn't dare to go back, and was ready to organize the militia to fight guerrillas, and asked the local county magistrate to give assistance. At this time, Wang Yaowu disappeared with his division commander Liao Lingqi, and he sent a telegram asking the commander's department to investigate his whereabouts. Xue Yue immediately telegraphed the Qiyang County Political Axe to arrest Liao Lingqi and escorted him to Nanyue.

This Liao Lingqi came to Nanyue and began to participate in military meetings.

Liao Lingqi was also a member of the war general.

He was born in the fourth phase of Whampoa, and in the famous Battle of Tingsi Bridge in the Northern Expedition, he was beaten and rushed violently, and was injured in the right arm by the enemy, so that his right hand was disabled, and he used his left hand to write for the rest of his life. In 1932, he participated in the "128" Shanghai Defense Battle and was promoted to regiment commander for his outstanding achievements. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the brigade commander Huang Meixing was unfortunately killed, and Liao Lingqi took over as the brigade commander in the artillery fire, commanding the whole brigade to fight with the devils on the front line of Nanxiang for more than 80 days. After retreating from Shanghai, Liao's department was responsible for guarding the area of Yuhuatai and Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing. When Kou attacked Nanjing, the brigade suffered heavy casualties, and two regiment commanders were killed one after another. He still insisted on supervising the battle on the front line, and it was not until December 12 that the garrison commander's department ordered a complete retreat, and then led his troops to withdraw across the Jiangbei. In the autumn of the following year, the division intercepted the Tufeiyuan Division of the Yue Army at the Neihuang Station in Henan, and the new division commander Long Muhan was in disarray, causing heavy casualties. Fortunately, Liao Lingqi led the officers and men of the whole brigade to fight bravely and stabilized their position. After the war, Liao Lingqi was promoted to deputy commander of the 58th Division of the 74th Army due to his merits, and was soon promoted to division commander.

The two chief officers of the 58th Division, both civil and military, can be said to be "able to kill thieves on the horse and compose essays when dismounted".

Liao Lingqi can play, play and sing everything, can also speak fluent English, and has hung colors on the battlefield seven times; Zhang Lingfu can write well, but he was also injured five times. Both were disabled by their injuries, and their colleagues in the 74th Army called them a "crutch" and a "cripple". Liao Lingqi and Zhang Lingfu have another thing in common, that is, they are both arrogant and conceited.

Zhang Lingfu's conceit is mainly "the pursuit of pleasure", disdain to be with that kind of vulgar people and things; And Liao Lingqi's conceit is completely soldier-like, arrogant and uninhibited, with no one in his eyes, and full of foul language; And to the boss, who thinks that he is inferior to himself, he often speaks disrespectfully and has an arrogant attitude. He "looks down on Wang Yaowu", a military commander and a senior of the third phase of Huangpu but has only studied in a private school for a few years, thinking that he just has a good opportunity and is not outstanding in his skills. Even to Xue Yue, the supreme commander of the war zone, his tone was still unfriendly. After he was widowed, Wu Yizhi, chief of staff of the theater, kindly drew the strings for him and introduced him to General Xue Yue's sister-in-law. Unexpectedly, he said: "I have never engaged in nepotism!" "Let Chief of Staff Wu's hot face stick to the cold ass, it's boring to talk to yourself.

Liao Lingqi didn't want Xue Yue's sister-in-law, but married someone else. When this battle began, he was taking leave to get married in Ji'an, and then he was transferred back to his hometown of Qiyang Province. When Zhang Lingfu, deputy division commander, received the order to leave for Hunan, he immediately rushed to Changsha on foot for 10,000 years, and on the way he heard that the army had forcibly crossed the Xinqiang River on 17 September, and because he was worried about the troops of the 58th Division, he rented a car at his own expense, drove from Qiyang to catch up with the troops, and led his troops to Changsha in a hurry. So there was an incident of being attacked and fleeing without even saying hello.

This time, he Liao Lingqi finally let people grab the handle.

In the past, he made the little surname confront Wang Yaowu many times, and Wang Yaowu remembered that he was a rare general, and he was his subordinate, so he calmed things down and didn't care about anything with him. This time, he didn't say that he lost the battle, but also escaped from the battle, which was completely "an act of running away in fear of war", so Wang Yaowu and others did business.

At the military meeting, Xue Yue, Wang Yaowu and others made speeches, accusing some generals of being arrogant and disobeying commands, and taking Liao Lingqi as a typical example and wantonly attacking.

As for Liao Lingqi, he thought that Xue Yue, Wang Yaowu and others were trying to shirk their responsibility for abandoning the city and fleeing, covering up the fact that Changsha had fallen again, and felt very "wronged", thinking that they were Chiang Kai-shek's descendants, and went straight to see the principal Chiang Kai-shek.

This time, the 74th Army of the Ace Army was defeated, and a fully manned and high-morale Ace Attack Army could not support it for a day, and the defeat was so serious that everyone from the Theater Commander's Department to the Supreme Command was extremely shocked. Chiang Kai-shek thought that he had dismantled his platform and lost Whampoa's face, and he was already extremely angry, and when he saw that the defeated general Liao Lingqi came to see him, he immediately ordered him to "get out", refused to talk, and continued to read his documents. Who knew that this Liao defeated general actually stood and did not leave, repeatedly shouted the report, asked for a statement, Chiang Kai-shek ignored it, got up and prepared to go to the meeting, Liao still chased and shouted "report", and said: "Report to the president, I want to ask you to send me to study at Lu University." ”

"I told you to lead the troops, and you won't go!" When Chiang Kai-shek heard that he "had to flee from the front line", he became even more angry, and shouted to the military police: "Escort him up!" ”

This time, Liao Lingqi can kill himself.

When this news reached the venue, Liao Lingqi became the target of public criticism. Some took advantage of this to attack Chiang Kai-shek's descendants, and some fabricated facts to exonerate themselves; In view of the ineffective resistance of the generals, some shouted that one or two deserters must be killed, otherwise it will not be enough to punish one hundred soldiers. Xue Yue then suggested shooting Xiao Zhichu, the commander of the 26th Army, who had repeatedly deserted. This time, it was this Xiao Zhichu who was the first to stop the Yue Army, and then caused the 74th Army to lose flank cover. But Xiao Zhichu did not leave the army behind after all, and he was born in the former Northwest Army, so Chiang Kai-shek was determined to use his descendants to make everyone have nothing to say. Thus, Chiang Kai-shek's precepts began to turn.

At the meeting held the next day, in his speech, he conducted profound introspection on the various shortcomings exposed by the Kuomintang army in recent years, the application of strategy and tactics, the cowardice and incompetence of senior generals, and the management and training within the army, and demanded that all officers and men carry forward the healthy spirit of the nation and achieve the goal of building the country in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression by overcoming the fear of the enemy, conscientiously building fortifications, concentrating the use of troops, strengthening the defensive force, blocking small roads and key passes, preventing the Han from annihilating the enemy, studying cavalry tactics, and strengthening actual combat training. In a series of speeches, what he repeatedly emphasized, and what he said most sharply and emotionally, was nothing more than criticizing the arrogance and arrogance of generals at all levels and the lax discipline of the generals, saying: "We revolutionary officers have become officers today, and we will be able to be soldiers tomorrow." Officers and soldiers are only different in their positions, and when it comes to the spirit and life of the army, they are exactly the same, and they must not be separated from each other from top to bottom! And we have the words vanity, greed, and cowardice, how can we not fail and not perish? For these few points alone, our shame is great, and the danger is deep! We must reflect earnestly, repent thoroughly, supervise our subordinates, and make strict corrections; Officials at all levels must be united in their hearts, share their lives, have mutual rules, and persuade each other with kindness, and only by working with one heart and one mind and giving full play to their strength to fulfill their responsibilities can they be worthy of the compatriots of the whole country, otherwise, the future of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression will be unimaginable! ”

On the last day of the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek, in his speech entitled "The Special Surname of Modern Warfare and the Essence of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the Future," personally commended Li Hanqing, commander of the infantry of the 57th Division, Lai Fuxiang, deputy commander of the 190th Division, Liu Yuqing, commander of the 590th Regiment of the 197th Division, Huang Zhiguo, platoon commander, and Cao Keren, commander of the 295th Regiment of the 99th Division. ”

The audience was shaken.

After the meeting was dismissed, everyone left, and Chiang Kai-shek was about to return to Chongqing. Before leaving, he and Xue Yue took a walk and explained their work, followed by the commander of the 16th Regiment of the Military Police and guards. Suddenly, Chiang Kai-shek said to the regiment commander behind him: "I have one more thing to do. Immediately, a note was found in his pocket, which read, "Liao Lingqi, commander of the 58th Division, escaped from the battle and was shot." Jiang Zhongzheng, a certain month, said", handed over to the head of the regiment to do it, and said: "I am on this dirt slope, waiting for your reply." ”

The head of the regiment immediately went to mention Liao Lingqi, and Liao asked, "Where are you going?" ”

The head of the regiment said: "Go to Changsha." ”

Immediately, Liao Lingqi was taken into the car. On the way, the commander of the gendarmerie asked about Liao's detention. When the car drove to a flat ground, the regiment commander asked him to get down, Liao Lingqi felt bad, so he asked, "Why?" ”

The regiment commander showed him the note written by Chiang Kai-shek and said: "The principal wants me to execute it immediately, what else do you have to say?" ”

Liao Lingqi said: "Since I joined the revolution, I served on the battlefield and was wounded seven times before I was promoted to major general and division commander. Even if I commit the crime of escaping from the battle, I am a division commander, and I should be tried by the military court. Today, I listened to the untruths of a few people and executed them rashly, and I was unwilling to do so. ”

The two talked as they walked, and the head of the regiment said that he had no choice. Liao Lingqi wrote a note to his newly married wife: "As soon as you die, you don't grieve, you can remarry." ”

After walking a few steps, Liao Lingqi said to the head of the regiment: "It's in this place, you can do it." ”

The regimental commander shot him in the back of the head and immediately went to recover his life. Chiang Kai-shek asked, "Did he say anything?" ”

The regiment commander truthfully reported to Chiang, and Chiang Kai-shek said to the regiment commander: "You stay, and take care of his funeral." And he left.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Lao Jiang shot three Whampoa students, one of whom was Liao Lingqi. He Yaozu, the secretary general of the conference, is also from Hunan and intends to save Liao, but the next day he learned that Liao Lingqi had been shot, and sighed and said: "Alas, it is said that Hunan people killed a cow, this Liao Lingqi's temper just can't be changed, what to report to the principal, isn't he looking for death!" ”

After Liao Lingqi's execution, the meeting also broke up. The 10th Army conducted training at the foot of Yuelu Mountain, summed up experience, held a review meeting, presided over by Li Yutang, and punished the guilty: the commander of the military engineer battalion was shot; Tian Lin, commander of the 30th Regiment of the 10th Reserve Division, was dismissed, and Zhu Bingqiu, commander of the 3rd Division, was dismissed. And he and Fang Xianjue, the commander of the 10th Pre-Division, were very fortunate that they successfully escaped this time.

Zhu Yue, commander of the 190th Division, briefed the commanders of his regiments on the experience of army commander Li Yutang in breaking through at Sunjiaqiao, saying: "The army commander was surrounded by devils at Sunjiaqiao, and the chief of staff wanted to break through to the south. Even if they stand out, the enemy will not be able to escape if they follow and pursue. Our front, that is, the enemy's rear, is the direction in which the enemy estimates that we will not break through, and the forces must be relatively thin, and it is easy to protrude, and it is easier to escape if we do. We decided to break through to the northwest. So the army commander and the chief of staff took the special battalion to break through to the enemy's rear in the northwest, and as a result, they rushed out without encountering the enemy's resistance. After breaking through, he turned in a direction and ran to Qingshanpu on a detour, but he did not encounter the enemy and left the battlefield safely. ”

This imminent escape was taught in the whole army as an experience!

Executing Liao Lingqi and punishing Li Yutang, Chiang Kai-shek and Xue Yue strictly enforced military discipline with iron and blood, shocked the morale of the army, and the commanders at all levels did not restrain themselves for a while, and no one dared to cross the thunder pool half a step!

(To be continued)