Chapter 17: Half a Step Back, Kill!
76 Regiment of the 152 Brigade of the Sichuan Army.
The regiment commander, Xie Guji, had forgotten that he had repelled the enemy's charge for the first time. The entire 152 regiment is almost empty.
As the head of a regiment, Xie Guji had already personally rushed forward with the last bit of reserves! The surrounding artillery fire was noisy, and the bombardment of the planes and artillery of the Japanese army had reached the point of almost madness.
For the 152nd Regiment, there was no longer any need for the encouragement of the commander, and defense, charge, and death became their most mechanical and numbing actions.
The dead are so forever asleep on the battlefield, and no one has time to shed even a single tear; Those who are not dead are still fighting there, using all the weapons they can use, desperately blocking every Oriental who rushes up!
Xie Guji's voice was already hoarse, and he couldn't shout a word anymore, but he still waved the pistol in his hand and used his body language to tell every brother:
Resist, even if they are all dead, they must resist!
"Tuanzao, our 7th company position has been lost!"
"Officers above the platoon level, don't be killed!" Xie Guji said coldly.
"Tuanza!" The person who reported the news almost cried: "From the company commander to the soldiers, all of them are dead, all of them are dead!" None of them survived, none of them! ”
Xie Guji was stunned for a moment, and then his fierce face was revealed: "What about you?" Why aren't you dead yet! Greedy for life and afraid of death, don't worry about killing! ”
The man was not afraid at all, and said loudly: "Report to the regimental seat, it was the company commander who asked me to come back and report to the regimental seat before he died, and the 7th company couldn't stand it!" Please organize your troops immediately and take back the position! ”
Xie Guji roared angrily: "What about the battalion commander? Why not report to the battalion commander! ”
"Report to the regiment, the battalion commander, the deputy battalion commander, all killed!" The man said loudly, and then the "horn" stood upright, and saluted a dignified military salute, perhaps, since he joined the army, he had never saluted such a standard military salute, and he said loudly:
"Tuanzuo, all the brothers of the 7th Company were killed, and only I survived, it was a shame for the 7th Company, a shame for the Sichuan people, as a Sichuan person, I will never allow me to live again! Please allow me to take the lead in the charge and kill myself! ”
"Brothers, organize me if you can still move! Take back the position of the 7th Company for me! Xie Guji's face was solemn, and he looked at the brothers who could still move gathered around him, pointed to the only survivor of the 7th Company and said loudly:
"You, hit the charge, give me the first charge, die, die! Die on the way to the charge! ”
The surviving brother saluted again, checked his weapon, and then without snorting, turned around and rushed in the direction of the 7th Company's position!
The planes in the sky and the cannons on the ground were shouting wildly, and the machine guns of the army were spewing out tongues of fire that almost drowned everything.
The survivor of the 7th Company, under such intense fire, fell
When Xie Guji saw him again, he found that the soldier was not angry, but his eyes were wide, and he tried his best to insist that he not die. When he saw Xie Guji, he said in a faint voice that was almost inaudible:
"Tuanza, please see if the bullet came from the front!"
Xie Guji Yongli nodded, he saw clearly, all the bullets were hit from the chest, and he died on the way to the charge!
The soldier took his last breath and asked, "Am I from Sichuan?" ”
"Yes!" Xie Guji replied loudly to his soldiers.
The soldier laughed, and then he took his last breath
"Brothers, follow me!" Xie Guji waved the pistol in his hand and shouted loudly with all his strength.
The artillery fire of the army rained down, and the shells continued to explode in all directions.
With a "boom", a shell exploded nearby, and the unsolidification base was covered in a cloud of smoke. In an instant, I saw that Jian Guji was covered in blood and rushed out of the smoke, his left arm was only half cut off, his right hand was waving a gun, and he still rushed forward with a shout of "charge" in his mouth.
After rushing through two more hurdles, he fell heavily to the ground
Then, countless shells exploded around him
The position was taken back by these desperate Sichuan brothers, and the smell of blood on the position seemed to be telling a bleakest elegy there.
"Tuanza, Tuanza!" The orderly of the Jieguji screamed like a frenzy, looking for it. The group seat is gone, the group seat is gone! But he must find the remains of the group, and he will go back with the group!
However, the positions that had been baptized by the artillery of the Chinese army could no longer be found. But the orderly still didn't give up, his hands were still on the ground, constantly picking and finding
Suddenly, the orderly went crazy and pulled out a steel helmet from the soil, he was too familiar with this steel helmet, it was the first day that the 26th Division had just entered the field, and a captured steel helmet was personally captured by the battalion commander Liu Zhouji, and then he gave this steel helmet to the regiment commander.
Now, the battalion commander Liu Zhouji is gone, and even the regiment commander is gone
The orderly carefully dusted off the steel helmet, and on it were the three words engraved by the regiment commander with a knife:
Unsolidify the base!
"Tuanza, you're just stingy, aren't you just a steel helmet? It's like you're still looking like something, you have to engrave your name, as if you're afraid that someone will rob you. The orderly said miserably while carefully wiping the steel helmet.
Then, his gaze fell on the dirt again, and soon, he took out a bloodstained badge inside, which was also the group's!
It's gone, there's nothing, there's just these two things left in the group, the bones are gone, the bones are gone!
The orderly stood up with these two things in his arms, and said softly: "Tuanzao, let's go home, go home, look, we have taken back the position, Tuanzao, you are tired, rest well, I'll take you home"
The planes of the army came again, and the bombs kept exploding everywhere, but the orderly had no intention of avoiding them, just moving forward step by step, moving.
Xie Guji, a native of Pixian County, Sichuan, is the colonel of the 152nd Regiment of the 26th Division of the 43rd Army of the National Revolutionary Army, the fourth phase of the higher education class of the Central Military Academy. Killed in the battle of Lihu Battlefield. He was forty-nine years old.
Before he died in battle, the most famous sentence left by Xie Guji was:
"Half a step back, shoot and kill!"