readx; After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the highest-ranking governor who was executed by the national political axe was Han Fuqu, chairman of Shandong Province!

In January 1938, the army broke through the Yellow River and went straight to Jinan, Han Fuqu led more than 100,000 troops to flee without a fight, and Shandong fell into the hands of the enemy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 On January 24, 1938, Han Fuqu was shot for "non-resistance."

Han Fuqu dominated Shandong for 8 years, and then gave the Qilu mountains and rivers to Han Fuyu, a warlord of his own generation, and was finally eliminated by Chiang Kai-shek.

As a high-ranking general, he fears the enemy like a tiger and loses natural danger without a fight, which is really despised by the people and soldiers of the country. Fight for the country, shame on the cowardly! It's a pity that Han Fuyu, a rough man with white characters, couldn't really understand this.

The gunfire of Han Fuyu's execution in Wuhan shocked the Kuomintang army, and they arrogantly rushed to the north and south of the Central Plains.

On January 21, 1938, the South Route Army commanded by Tian Junliu to attack all the way north from Pukou, and soon after Chuzhou, it was stubbornly blocked by Wei Yunsong's 31st Army in the areas of Zhangbaling, Daishan, and Zhulongqiao Lotus Pond. Beginning on 25 January, the Japanese army used planes and artillery to cover and brave the snow to force the crossing of the Chihe River.

Wei Yunsong commanded the 31st Army to fight a bloody battle with the Yue army for 10 days, and then received an order from Li Zongren to get out of the way, occupy the mountains on both sides, and let the Yue army take a step forward.

From February 1 to 4, the army successively captured Bengbu, Dingyuan, Huaiyuan, Linhuaiguan, and Fengyang, and began to force the Huai River.

On the evening of February 8, more than 500 soldiers in Bengbu, under the cover of aircraft and artillery, crossed the river in rubber boats, canvas boats, and rafts, and were completely annihilated by Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army. On the 9th, more than 600 people of the Yue army forcibly crossed again, but the Chinese defenders could not stop it and retreated to the position north of Xiaobengbu. After a few more battles, Yu Xuezhong's department retreated. On the 13th, Zhang Zizhong led the 59th Army to take over the 51st Army to fight.

After Zhang Zizhong bid farewell to Li Zongren, he was idle in the 1st War Zone, and he devoted himself to training the troops. As soon as he received the order that he would be transferred to Li Zongren's 5th Theater, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. First, he held back his strength to have a bloody battle with Yue himself to wash away his shame; Second, it is time to defect to Chief Li's subordinates, and it is time to repay the kindness of the encounter.

Before leaving the station, he first called Xuzhou, reported to Li Zongren, and said that he was willing to go and drive, and would not retreat. The arrival of the 59th Army was undoubtedly an important force to prevent the Yue Army from moving north. Li Zongren and Zhang Zizhong were all overjoyed.

At the same time, Liao Lei's 21st Group Army reached the Hefei, Shucheng, Badouling, and Xiatang assembly lines, and the strength of the southern front of the 5th Theater was greatly increased, so that the northward advance of the four divisions of General Tian Junliu, commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, was blocked on both sides of the Huai River.

The North Road Army is in even greater trouble. Han Fuyu retreated without a fight, and the army went smoothly. But now it is called the defenders. Because Han Fuyu became a sacrifice of Chiang Kai-shek, his morale soared. As a result, the southward armies on both the left and right sides met with stubborn resistance. At that time, the left flank was Seishiro Itagaki's 5th Division.

After the main force of the army landed along Jiaozhou Bay along Jiaozhou Bay, it encountered almost no fierce resistance and swaggered all the way westward. After arriving in Weixian, he went south along the Taiwei Highway, trying to seize Linyi, an important place in southern Lunan, and outflanking Xuzhou from the East Road, but in Linyi, Banyuan never dreamed that he would taste defeat.

On February 21, the 5th Division's Banben Brigade 3 infantry wings, 1 artillery wing, 1 cavalry brigade, baggage, engineering units and Liu Guitang's puppet army, a total of about 20,000 people, rushed to Linyi, along the way by Pang Bingxun's 3rd Army, Shen Honglie Marine Corps and security team resistance, the army fell into Zhucheng, Qixian County, Yishui, on March 5 to reach the north of Linyi Tangtou White Tower, Youjiazhuang area, only more than 10 miles away from the city.

On the 10th, the army of about 1,000 people, under the cover of more than 20 combat vehicles, more than 30 cannons, and more than 10 aircraft, launched a fierce attack on Linyi.

In order to smash the enemy's strategic attempt to join Taierzhuang, Li Zongren, who was sitting in Xuzhou, deployed troops on the line of the Huai River on the south road and Tengxian on the north road to stop the enemy in the north and south of the Jinpu line. Linyi, which is located on the attack road of the enemy's Banyuan Division, is an important military town in southern Lunan and is 90 kilometers away from Taizhuang. Linyi is not guaranteed, and Taierzhuang is difficult to maintain. In order to thwart the plan of Itagaki and Isogu to join Taierzhuang and attack Xuzhou, it was necessary to intercept the Itagaki division in Linyi and inflict heavy losses.

Therefore, the First Battle of Linyi became the outpost battle of the Battle of Taierzhuang.

The defenders of Linyi were nominally a corps, but the actual strength was only 5 regiments, as well as the retreating marines from Qingdao. In the face of the wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the Yue army, Pang Bingxun's troops suffered heavy casualties, and even the telegram was urgent.

The battle has begun, and the smell of gunsmoke can be smelled in the air!

After the Third Army stationed in Linyi completed the deployment, Li Zongdai of the Field Supplementary Regiment of the 40th Army took up a pen and wrote a suicide note, but after the suicide note was written, he did not mail it home, but burned it casually, Li Zongdai said to his brothers:

"In the place occupied by the devils, there are many people slaughtered, and our family has not been evacuated, and our hometown is occupied by the devils, and we don't know if our own old people are still there."

Since the Anti-Japanese War, Li Zongdai has lost contact with his family, so he hates the army very much. He erected two wooden staked dummies in the clearing, one marked Seishiro Itagaki and the other Ryosuke Isoya, and then stabbed with his comrades, often chopping pieces of wood into the air.

At that time, the soldiers of the Third Legion, in addition to grenades, each had a large knife in their hands, and the reason for this was that they had very few guns in their hands.

The Third Army Corps was originally the Northwest Army, and compared to the Central Army of the National Axe, they were nothing more than a motley army, so it was simply impossible for the National Axe to equip them with advanced weapons. The military in the northwest is all old-fashioned Hanyang-made, and there are only one or two machine guns in a platoon. Although the weapons are a little worse, but in the past, warlords fought melees, but now they can fight devils, and none of the soldiers care about the weapons.

In late February, the Fifth Theater Commander's Headquarters received an urgent telegram from Linyi: The army had begun to attack Linyi, and the battle would first start in the villages and towns north of Linyi.

The first to rush up was the cavalry of the Yue Army, and Li Zongdai and his comrades-in-arms were not in a hurry to attack, but were waiting for the right time. When they got close to the horse, and when they hit the horse, and the man fell, the horse rushed forward, and the people behind him became panicked and began to shoot or run around.

In this way, the first charge of the Yue army was dispersed, but under the cover of aircraft artillery, the Yue army quickly reorganized the attack. With the indiscriminate bombardment of the army, the Gegou position where Li Zongdai's company was stationed was already full of craters, and the company commander died in the battle, and Li Zongdai, who was brave in battle, took over his position.

The Yue army, which attempted to advance south, was crucified in Gegou for three days.

In the early morning, more than 200 soldiers, under the cover of artillery and tanks, launched the ninth attack on Li Zongdai's company. The brothers were already red-eyed, and the servants and men all picked up their broadswords, and the army was once again repulsed. Li Zongdai looked at the side, it turned out that there were more than 100 brothers who were alive and well, and there were only a handful of left. He ordered the remaining brothers to smash their guns, and if the army came up, they would pull the grenade and die with the army, and resolutely not be taken prisoner.

There were only a few dozen soldiers, and one by one they wrote the names and addresses of their family members to Li Zongdai.

The brothers have long put life and death on the line: "If I am killed, help me carry a letter to my family and tell them how I died." ”

Li Zongdai also thinks about his mother, but at this time, he can only leave everything behind. There are all kinds of indications that the Gegou Blockade Battle has reached the most critical moment. At this time, Li Zongdai had very few troops at hand, and the men and horsemen were replenishing, and he kept thinking that the reinforcements must have arrived, they must have arrived

Just when Li Zongdai and his comrades-in-arms were already holding on to Gegou with the determination to die, Pang Bingxun, the commander of the Third Army, urgently telegraphed Li Zongren and asked for support. However, at this time, the only troops that could be deployed in the Fifth Theater were Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army. Coincidentally, Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun have had a grudge for a long time.

From the day he was stationed in the Fifth War Zone, Zhang Zizhong privately told the chief of staff of the Fifth War Zone: He can fight to the death on any battlefield, but he does not want to be on the same battlefield as Pang Bingxun.

In the case of such an urgent war, Li Zongren had to invite Zhang Zizhong and said to him sincerely: "Pang Bingxun is now fighting a bloody war in front of him, and I hope that you will put the country first, suffer a little grievance, and urgently lead your troops to Linyi to fight." ”

After listening to Li Zongren's words, Zhang Zizhong did not hesitate and replied: "Absolutely obey the order!" ”

Subsequently, he personally led the 59th Army to the outskirts of Linyi City at a speed of 180 miles in one day and night. When he saw Pang Bingxun, Pang Bingxun, who was originally nervous, finally breathed a sigh of relief, he was already over the age of six, he held Zhang Zizhong's hand tightly, choked up and said: "Brother Xinchen, thank you, foolish brother!" ”

Zhang Pang and the two abandoned their previous suspicions and went to the national disaster together, and the morale of the Linyi defenders was greatly boosted. Subsequently, the two armies launched a counterattack against the Yue army from inside and outside!

A large number of grenades were brought up, and the grenades worked, and the brothers threw them down with great force, with as much force as they did.

One company of the 38th Division had only fourteen people, and one company changed three company commanders in one night

At this time, Li Zongdai, who had been trapped in Gegou for three days and three nights, finally looked forward to reinforcements, and he also led the remaining soldiers to rush out. In that battle, both Li Zongdai and the bottom of the people were painted, but even so, they still insisted on fighting the enemy

They retreated, but the planes were still dropping bombs on them.

Li Zongdai and one of the brothers were looking back at the door, and the bomb blew them down like a gust of wind, and both of them fainted.

Li Zongdai, who gradually regained consciousness, felt his ears chirping, and he opened his eyes and saw the sun.

He knew that he was not dead, and he did not feel any discomfort, and when he got up and saw the comrade who was sitting back to back with him, his head had been cut off in half, and the person had been sacrificed.

After the battle here was over, when Li Zongdai counted the number of people, he found that the company he led was only 29 people!

(To be continued)