In the end, the battle of the southeast corner of Shanhaiguan was finally lost due to the disparity in the strength of the enemy and us. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Immediately after breaking through the southeast corner, the Japanese army advanced along the city walls, posing a great threat to the Chinese defenders.

At the same time, the Japanese concentrated tanks to break through the South Gate, forcing the defenders of the Northeast Army to retreat into the city.

Liu Yuchen, the commander of the first battalion and the second company of the 626th Regiment who held the southeast corner of the city and the vicinity of Kuixing Tower, died heroically; Guan Jingquan, the commander of the third company who led the troops to try to recapture the south gate, was killed in battle; Wang Hongyuan, the commander of the fourth company, was martyred one after another...

The officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 626th Regiment were unwilling to lose the South Gate and engaged in a fierce street battle with the Japanese troops who rushed into the city.

Wielding broadswords, they engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy at every crossing of South Street, opening up fierce street battles.

Commander An Dexin took the lead and led two squads of soldiers to fight bravely to kill the enemy.

He was shot in the head and elbow many times, but he still fought more and more bravely until he died heroically near the Xiguan Mosque.

Battalion Commander An Dexin used the sound and brilliance of his life to fulfill the heroic oath he made in the battle to defend Shanhaiguan: "One day I will be in Shanhaiguan, and the Japanese will not be able to pass through it for a day." The Japanese want to pass, only on my corpse. ”

After Battalion Commander An Dexin bravely took up his righteousness, the officers and men of the first battalion continued to kill the enemy bloodily, and none of them surrendered.

When the battle for the south gate was extremely fierce, the Japanese troops in Erlidian and Mantou Mountain in the east of the city had also approached the city, and the northeast corner and the north gate and the west gate had also been lost after stubborn resistance.

He Zhuguo had only two battalions of troops in the city, but the resistance was very stubborn. The Japanese fire was fierce, the explosions continued, and the artillery fire razed the north and south city towers and merchant houses to the ground, and the defenders suffered more than half of the casualties.

In the evening of this day, the Japanese army, after paying a considerable price, finally took control of the entire city of Shanhaiguan.

The Chinese defenders also made tragic sacrifices to resist the attack of the Japanese invaders.

In the two-day battle at Shanhaiguan Pass, more than 400 officers and soldiers were killed and more than 300 were wounded. In addition to the sacrifice of the commander An Dexin of the first battalion, the commanders of the second, third, fourth, and fifth companies were all killed in battle.

In this battle, the Japanese suffered more than four or five hundred casualties.

The Chinese soldiers are not bloodless, nor do they lack the spirit of dedication to the country, and they spilled their blood on the head of Shanhaiguan City.

It's a pity that their blood did not awaken the sense of resistance in Zhang Xue's conscience.

Perhaps, Zhang Xueliang didn't want to fight with the Japanese army in Shanhaiguan at all, he didn't make such a determination. Shanhaiguan is such a narrow pass, and if the Northeast Army wants to hold on, it will be difficult for the Japanese army to cross it.

Of course, his Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army did not resist at all, and it seemed that it was unreasonable for the Japanese army to occupy Shanhaiguan without firing a shot, so he gave He Guozhu a strange order.

Fighting a war is to show others, I, Zhang Xueliang, am still anti-Japanese.

It is another matter to not be able to hold the Shanhai Pass, at least it shows that the Japanese army is too strong, and the Northeast Army is doing its best.

The entire Northeast Army remained still, and it seemed that only this army was left to resist at the Great Wall Pass.

After the fall of Yuguan, there was a fire inside and outside the city, burning for 3 days and nights, scorched the walls everywhere, and the dead bodies were in disarray.

After the Japanese army entered the city, they vigorously searched and arrested, killing those who wore Mao suits, those wearing military uniforms, those who wrote anti-Japanese slogans, and those who wore gray pants in civilian clothes.

Countless people have died, young women have been ravaged, and the belongings of the inhabitants have been looted.

The three policemen of the Bac Ninh Railway refused to surrender, and the Japanese army forced them to plant a "Welcome to Great Japan" flag on their backs, paraded around the city, and then escorted them to Nanguan to be shot.

Can Chinese soldiers fight, and do they have the heart to fight?

The battle of Shanhaiguan is enough to show the bravery of the Chinese soldiers, who are worthy of this nation.

He Zhuguo, who was on the front line, once said to the people: "The loss of Yuguan was that Japan first rushed into the south gate with tanks, and at that time, An Dexin's battalion was desperate with his body.

It is better to destroy one's body and defend the country, but to sing or cry, which only proves that the spirit of the Chinese nation is immortal.

The problem is not with the Chinese soldiers, but with the upper echelons that hold military power.

After the Northeast Army withdrew to Shanhaiguan, the Nanjing Nationalist Government handed over the defense of North China to Zhang Xueliang.

Chairman Chiang asked him to take charge of the defense of North China, and Zhang Xueliang should take on the responsibility of defending the territory.

Zhang Xueliang sat on pins and needles all day long. Patriots and young students from all walks of life in Peiping constantly sent representatives to meet him, demanding that he send troops to resist Japan and recover the lost territory in Northeast China, and persuaded him not to be a runaway general who left a legacy of infamy.

In the face of the people's condemnation, Zhang Xueliang had his words, and with tears in his eyes, he told his bitterness and shirked the responsibility of the committee: "I am wronged, since our Northeast Army has been under the leadership of the Nanjing Government, the army's major military operations, including combat training and other matters, must be reported to Chairman Jiang for approval. In this matter, I am at the mercy of the central government, and I can't help myself. ”

I can't help but say that Zhang Xueliang's excuse still makes some sense.

Since the September 18 Incident, Chairman Chiang and the Nationalist Government have not mentioned the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but have instead asked the people and the army to be hasty and patient, and try to avoid war friction with the Japanese army and prevent the situation from further expanding.

Of course, it cannot be said that the Nationalist Government did not make any effort at all, and it actively sought the sympathy and support of the international community and demanded that the League of Nations put an end to the aggression of the Japanese army, and indeed did a lot of work.

The Nationalist Government is convinced that everything in the world cannot be reasoned with, and that the Chinese Government is reasonable and peace-loving.

It is indeed necessary to create some public opinion in the international community, but if we expect the international community to solve real problems, whether it is the League of Nations at that time or the United Nations later, it is wishful thinking and a bit weak-minded.

The international community does not have a legal police, and public opinion can play a weak role in restraining it, but in the end, it depends on the size of the fists of both sides.

Otherwise, if the international organizations had been able to solve the problem, there would have been no World War I and World War II, which would have caused catastrophic catastrophes.

In other words, whoever likes to be reasonable, it means that he is a weakling.

Only the weak will keep putting reason in the first place.

Therefore, in the international community, the more countries like to be reasonable, the more they are bullied. And the more unreasonable the country, the more arrogant it is, wantonly encroaching on other people's land.

The Japanese army launched the September 18 Incident, and the Nationalist Government sued the League of Nations, laying out the facts and reasoning, and it was useless.

The Japanese Kwantung Army occupied Jinzhou, but the Nationalist Government still refused to use force to solve the problem, and still relied on reasoning to talk about things. The Nationalist Government has made clear its attitude one after another, and it seems that it is very peace-loving and hopes for a peaceful solution.

However, in the eyes of the Japanese, this attitude can only show that the Nationalist Government is timid and does not dare to fight the Japanese army, nothing more.

Even if the Nationalist Government is sincere in its reasoning, it sincerely hopes that the two sides will resolve the problem through peace talks.

However, the Japanese will not believe it.

From the perspective of the Japanese, public opinion has always been an auxiliary means, and it cannot be taken seriously, and only war is the final means to solve the problem. The Japanese will interpret this method of the Nationalist Government as not having the confidence to fight with Japan, or not being able to go to war with the Japanese army.

After the Japanese army occupied Shanhaiguan, the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Association in Beiping issued an appeal: first, urging Zhang Xueliang to lead the Northeast Army out of the Great Wall for a counteroffensive; second, launch the Northeast Volunteer Army to cooperate with the **** counteroffensive; Third, he called on the people of the whole country to unite and unanimously urge the Nanjing government to resist the war.

Famous patriots Huang Yanpei, Du Chongyuan and others also went north from Shanghai and came to Beiping to agitate the Northeast Army to resist Japan, and further urged Zhang Xueliang to take active action to fight against the Japanese invaders.

Shanhaiguan is located in the traffic of North China and Northeast China, south of the Bohai Sea, north of Yanshan, the Great Wall is blocked, Xiongguan is tightly choked, known as "Yuguan natural risk", since ancient times for the soldiers to fight for the place.

Shanhaiguan, an important pass of the Great Wall, was lost, and public opinion reacted violently.

Because, Shanhaiguan is the most convenient pass to the Central Plains, and the loss of Shanhaiguan means that Hebei is open and will no longer be in danger of blocking the Japanese attack.

Public opinion unanimously held that this was a new stage in which Japanese imperialism was brutally killing the Chinese people and carving up China.

"If the country is not guaranteed, how can the job be guaranteed...... Shanhaiguan is the gateway to Northeast China. The first day of danger is actually the last duel of the Chinese nation's life."

Many newspapers rebuked Zhang Xueliang: Has the deputy commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and air force, who holds military power in North China, forgotten the lesson of "18 September" and the 30 million fathers and elders in Northeast China, why did he not vigorously resist the aggression of the Japanese invaders, and why did he let Japan occupy the land of China and the great rivers and mountains?

In that year, the Ming Dynasty lost the Shanhaiguan, and the traitor Wu Sangui offered the pass, introduced Qing soldiers, and then destroyed the country.

Today, Shanhaiguan has once again been lost, whether it is Chairman Jiang or Zhang Xueliang, can they not know the strategic value of Shanhaiguan?

Of course they do, at least they know more than the common people.

Shanhaiguan was lost, and the land of Hebei was exposed under the noses of the Japanese army, within reach.

Although it is now the era of hot weapons, Shanhaiguan is still an important strategic checkpoint.

However, they are not puffers!

They are politicians, they are powerful people in their hands, and they think differently than ordinary people, who may think that is the most important thing, but they don't think it is the most important thing.

Rights and the destiny of the nation, which is more important?

Undoubtedly, they have their own considerations in mind.

From the perspective of the danger of the nation, whether it is Chairman Chiang or Zhang Xueliang, they have a huge army in their hands, that is, they have the obligation and ability to resist foreign enemies, and they should fight back against the Japanese invasion.

But will they prioritize national interests?

No, they won't.

Because, they all have selfish intentions.

If they were to consider their own interests, I am afraid that neither of them would have made up their minds to fight back against the Japanese invasion.

From Zhang Xueliang's point of view, he will not let the Northeast Army alone provoke the banner of the War of Resistance, even if the Northeast nest is lost, he will not hesitate to do so.

(To be continued.) )