When the battle for the defense of Xihe Town began, in order to relieve the frontal pressure of the 26th Division, the 134th Division of the 23rd Group Army was also ordered to launch an active attack on Dangtu!

The Rong Zhaofeng Regiment of the 134th Division was the main attack on Dangtu. In order to concentrate troops, Yang Hanzhong, commander of the 134th Division, equipped Rong Zhaofeng with another battalion to form a reinforced regiment with a total of more than 2,000 people. Even the pistol company in the hands of the division headquarters was also handed over to Rong Zhaofeng's command.

Rong Zhaofeng, a native of Anyue County, Sichuan, is a member of Yang Hanzhong's favorite general, brave in battle, willing to use his brains, and Yang Hanzhong's classmate, friend and cousin, and a commander who is deeply valued by Yang Hanzhong. He found Rong Zhaofeng to study siege warfare together. Yang Hanzhong finally said to him earnestly: "Brother Zhaofeng, the army is afraid of night battles, and we are afraid of love wars. After the capture of the city, we must strictly guard against it, remember, remember. ”

The attack on Dangtu was the first siege of the 134th Division. If it is said that the method of surprise attack can capture Dangtu without the army being taken by surprise, what should be done after capturing the city? Can those crazy devils tolerate letting the 134th Division nail this nail in their own door?

Yang Hanzhong told Rong Zhaofeng to "guard against death", but can inferior equipment withstand the attack of aircraft and artillery in the plain dam? But Yang Hanzhong didn't think about it, and he probably couldn't think about it, because the capture of Dangtu was an order from the 23rd Group Army!

Yang Hanzhong first launched a feint attack on Jiashan Township, 30 kilometers north of Dangtu County, to contain the enemy in Jiashan Township. Company commander Lu Xinyi led two companies of troops, turned into the city of Jiashan Township by night, cooperated with a battalion of soldiers in ambush outside the city, stirred up the city of Jiashan Township, and beat the devils in the city to the end of each other, killed a squadron leader of the devils, more than 50 other officers and soldiers, captured several pistols, more than 10 rifles, and team flags, team seals, etc., until dawn began to withdraw from the city.

At this time, Rong Zhaofeng took advantage of the panic of the enemy in Jiashan Township to launch a surprise attack on Dangtu County that night.

This trick really worked, and when the Sakai detachment in Tu City had no time to react, it was already beaten to pieces, with many casualties, and the remaining devils only had time to send an emergency telegram to the enemy in Huashan to flee outside the city. Rong Zhaofeng was killed, and led his troops to chase after the fleeing devils, until he chased to the foot of Huashan City, and surrounded Huashan, and attacked it with fire for several hours before retreating to Dangtu to defend the city.

When Rong Zhaofeng led his troops to pursue the Yue army and besiege Huashan, the Yue army had already dispatched more than 1,000 people from Weiping, Jiashan Township and Yintang to counterattack Dangtu. At this time, Yang Hanzhong ordered Xie Fenchang's battalion to defend the city inside and outside the county seat of Dangtu.

Xie Fenchang, known as the one-armed battalion commander, who wounded him in the arm in Shanghai a few months earlier, ambushed part of his troops in a wheat field north of the city, and waited while destroying railways and roads. The other part of the team contracted part of the militia to defend the city on the north wall of the city.

When the counterattack arrived at the county seat, the army saw that the city gate was closed, and immediately found a ladder to climb the city. At this moment, the one-armed battalion commander with his seventeen-year-old orderly, seeing that the time had come, immediately ordered to open fire. In an instant, inside and outside the city, shouts of killing, mortars, grenades, machine guns and rifles rang out in unison. The enemy was strewn with corpses, dead and wounded, and fled in disarray.

After the enemy retreated, Rong Zhaofeng led his men and horses to take over from Xie Ying to defend the city. He built fortifications in the city and above the walls, and sealed the four gates with stone. Before his fortifications were ready, the enemy made a comeback, and more than 2,000 people from Huashan and Jiashan Township had surrounded Dangtu County.

On the 27th of January, the enemy began to attack the city. The frenzied revenge mentality drove the planes and artillery of the army to bombard violently, and soon destroyed the fortifications of the four city gates and blasted the city walls into the breaches. Immediately afterwards, the Japanese army swarmed in under the cover of firepower and engaged in street battles with the defenders in the city. When Rong Zhaofeng saw the enemy breaking through the city, he immediately led his troops to intercept it, and on the city wall and in the streets, he launched a tragic hand-to-hand encounter with the devils.

Private Zhu Sanshui, a native of Meishan, Sichuan, is tall and tall, broad-waisted, stupid, usually loves to do heavy work, and when marching, he specializes in finding heavy machine guns to carry or carry artillery plates for mortars, often grinning at people, and everyone calls him "Zhu Guaer".

When the enemy rushed over, he was as agile as a monkey, and the bullets in the gun had already been exhausted, and before he had time to load the bullets, he jumped out of the fortification, picked up the butt of the gun and shot at a devil in front of him. The devil fell to the ground with both hands, and the steel helmet was beaten and flew far away. Zhu Sanshui added another rifle butt, and the devil's brain burst on the spot. The second ghost rushed up again, raised the gun and stabbed it in the chest, his body was sideways, the bayonet slid through his chest, when the enemy had no time to withdraw the gun, Zhu Sanshui threw the rifle in his hand, and grabbed the 38 guns in his chest, and the other hand quickly folded the bayonet on the gun, and stabbed into the enemy's abdomen with a "porphyr" sound, and when the enemy had not yet fallen, he stabbed two knives in succession, and then flew up and kicked to the ground!

At this moment, a shuttle machine gun bullet swept over, and Zhu Sanshui was shot in the head and died honorably.

The enemy relied on the superiority of firepower to suppress us, and the light and heavy machine guns strafed like a storm and rain, and our defenders suffered heavy casualties in the street fighting. Most of the Rong Regiment died, battalion commander Zhao Qianyu, deputy battalion commander Jia Guohua, company commander Chen Shaoyu, lieutenant adjutant Li Yandong and others died heroically in the street battle, and the pistol soldiers of the pistol company were also killed and wounded. After dark, only some of the soldiers and officers rushed out of the city, and the remaining small part was hidden in the homes of the common people, protected by the common people in disguise, and sent out of the city in the dark night.

Rong Zhaofeng was shot three times, seriously wounded, covered in blood, and stumbled back to the division headquarters to report. As soon as Yang Hanzhong saw that Rong Zhaofeng had lost his troops and had left the battlefield without waiting for all the soldiers to evacuate, he was immediately furious and took Rong Zhaofeng under his custody for the crime of losing his division and losing his land and escaping from the battle.

At that time, in the 23rd Group Army, there was the "joint sitting law" formulated by Tang Shizun himself.

Everyone knows that in battle, soldiers are impermanent and victorious, but if officers and men are killed or captured in battle, the commander in charge of the troops who leads the troops will be punished by the "joint sitting law" or sentenced to death if they flee from the battlefield first. Rong Zhaobong clearly violated this law and faced the sanction of life and death.

At this time, after Rong Zhaofeng fled back, some officers and soldiers who broke out of the encirclement were taken back one after another. One of the light machine gunners who was holding the north gate was shot in the right shoulder socket, bleeding profusely, and the machine gun still holding him protruded along with a lightly wounded man.

They fought hard along the way, and when the pursuers approached, they opened fire with machine guns, and the enemy was pinned down and immediately retreated. Later, the lightly wounded man was shot and died, and the machine gunner ran more than 30 miles with the light machine gun that had already been fired, and then ran back to his unit. When he ran back to his own people, he only had time to shout "report" before he fainted and fell to the ground.

Seeing the heroic deeds of these ordinary soldiers, Yang Hanzhong hated Rong Zhaofeng's reckless behavior at the last moment.

He called Luo Zezhou, chief of staff and deputy division commander, to discuss the treatment of Rong Zhaofeng. Rong Zhaofeng is Yang Hanzhong's favorite general, how can he not be the favorite general of these leaders with troops!

Yang Hanzhong asked everyone to discuss, and everyone knew in their hearts that he couldn't kill the killer! If someone at the meeting stepped forward and did their best to protect it, maybe Yang Hanzhong would take the opportunity to step down and let Rong Zhaofeng go. However, the "law of joint sitting" is the supreme law in the army, and the army advocates that 'military orders are like mountains, and military laws are ruthless', and no one dares to break them. Everyone also wished that Yang Hanzhong, the head of the whole army, would put forward the idea of being lenient, so that he could push the boat down the river and leave Rong Zhaofeng with a head.

At the meeting, everyone was silent with a heavy heart. After waiting for a while, the deputy division commander spoke: "In my opinion, it is better to report the 'sacrifice of the whole regiment and the death of the regiment commander' to the chairman of the committee." ”

The deputy division commander was Rong Zhaofeng's chief officer, so he had to speak first, so he came up with a way to get the best of both worlds.

The chief of staff touched his chin, stood up, paced a few steps, sat down again, and then said: "I have heard many officers and soldiers below say that Rong Zhaofeng is brave in fighting in Dangtu, and he fought with the enemy. I can't blame him when Tu is lost, it's just that he shouldn't have run back first. According to me, this method is worth considering, not only to give an account to Commander-in-Chief Tang, but also to let Rong Zhaofeng live up to his family. As he spoke, he looked at Yang Hanzhong again: "What does the master think?" ”

One of the officers at the bottom agreed with this approach: "I think we should do it according to this opinion." Zhuge Liang waved tears and wanted to cut Ma Ji! ”

Yang Hanzhong waved his hand: "It's difficult, it's difficult." ”

Everyone also didn't know whether he was talking about the difficulty of dealing with Rong Zhaofeng or the difficulty of handling the advice put forward by the chief of staff.

These people are all people who have lived their lives, and they have all experienced the palpitations and fearful moments between bullets and life and death many times. Some people are shot and killed while fleeing, and they are also easily considered heroes. But true heroes never run away in the face of their enemies!

Although heroes are also human beings, there are times when they are lovers and cowardice. Sometimes, being a hero or a coward is only a matter of moments, just a thought. Some people have to go through a long period of experience to become real heroes, while others are born with a heroic temperament.

Rong Zhaofeng, Rong Zhaofeng, a hero's life, why did he leave a lifelong defeat with hatred at this critical moment!

In the end, Yang Hanzhong finally made up his mind.

The next day, Yang Hanzhong prepared a table of banquets and asked someone to call Rong Zhaofeng. Yang Hanzhong picked up the wine glass in his hand and smiled bitterly: "Brother Zhaofeng, come!" Done! ”

Rong Zhaofeng knelt on the ground with a "bang": "Master, kill me!" He regretted his mistakes.

"Get up, get up, Brother Zhaofeng, there are planes in the sky and cannons on the ground, it's strange to be undefeated. I don't blame you. Yang Hanzhong said against his will, his voice extremely unnatural.

Rong Zhaofeng got up from the ground, and the "horn" stood upright: "Master's seat, lose the teacher's land, and the sin is unforgivable!" You're going to let me lay my life on the battlefield. ”

Rong Zhaofeng seemed to hear a glimmer of hope in the commander's voice, so he said this. If the commander can leave himself a chance this time, then he will not hesitate to rush back to the battlefield and pour out his blood on the land of the motherland.

Yang Hanzhong asked the guards to send five hundred oceans and handed them to him with his own hands: "Let's go back to Anyue and have a look, huh?" ”

"What else do I have to go back to Anyue, more than 2,000 life debts will drive me crazy." Rong Zhaofeng looked self-reproachful, sincere and honest.

Yang Hanzhong was in great difficulty, and Rong Zhaofeng's image of a dragon and tiger on the battlefield jumped in front of him, and his heart seemed to be bitten by invisible claws. He couldn't bear to face the man who was about to be executed by himself again, so he turned around and ordered the guards fiercely: "Bring my horse and send Commander Rong on the road!" ”

After bidding farewell to the army commander, Rong Zhaofeng was in a trance on the back of the bumpy horse, and muttered: "I have no face to see Jiangdong's father, I have no face to see Jiangdong's father."

At this time, the sun was about to set, and the rays of the setting sun were draped on Rong Zhaofeng and several guards who escorted him, and the green gauze tents all over the mountains and the loess hills in the distance were reflected in golden gold. Rong Zhaofeng didn't seem to care about everything in front of him, his eyes were blank, and his expression was in a trance. The guards who were ordered to act could not bear to do anything, and let the horses roam.

The horse's hooves slowly hit the ground, step by step, seeing that they were almost at Rong Zhaofeng's residence, and they couldn't wait any longer, the guard quietly drew his pistol behind him, aimed at Rong Zhaofeng's heart, and pulled the trigger. With the sound of "horn", Rong Zhaofeng trembled and fell heavily from the horse.

Rong Zhaofeng, who fell to the ground, turned his head with difficulty, looked at the guards behind him who were carrying guns to see him off, smiled miserably, and fell to the ground without moving.

Blood, flowing out of the body, soaked into the ground beneath the body!

(To be continued)