September 21. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Jeonju.

Wei Guoqing received a telegram from Master Lin. The telegram said that the Japanese troops occupying Jeonju were alone in depth, and the left and right flank troops were occupying various county towns and other large and small cities along the way, and the road was long and there was no follow-up. Lao Jiang has already shot Chen Munong. The Japanese 58th Division will attack and will be resisted by the 93rd Army. Your unit can take the opportunity to attack, destroy the Japanese army, and gain benefits.

During this period, the Kuomintang army fully retreated from Yongzhou, and the counties of Yongzhou gradually fell into the hands of the Japanese invading army. Qiyang County, Zixi Town, Dong'an County, Lingling County, and Dao County all fell. On the 17th, the 34th Wing of the Japanese Army invaded Jiangyong County, Jianghua County, and Ningyuan County fell one after another. Only Xintian County and Lanshan County were not yet under the occupation of the Japanese invading army.

As the area occupied by the Japanese army expanded, the military gradually dispersed in the process of stabilizing its rule.

At the same time, the Japanese army, with two divisions and one independent mixed brigade of the 23rd Army, attacked from Qingyuan, Guangdong and other places along the Xijiang River to Wuzhou, Guangxi on September 6, and another independent mixed brigade attacked from Suixi, Guangdong to Rongxian County, Guangxi. The intention of the Japanese army was obvious, they wanted to attack the north and south of Guangxi and occupy the entire territory of Guangxi.

On September 22, the Japanese 23rd Army captured Wuzhou, and by October 11, it had captured Pingnan, Danzhu, Guiping, and Mengwei. By November, the Japanese army was moving north along the Liujiang River and attacking Liuzhou. Liuzhou shook. Guilin's southward escape route was threatened, and the defenders of Guilin were shaken.

Also from 10 September, the sporadic casualties of the advancing Japanese army increased dramatically, and almost all the small forces attacking the county town and the towns along the railway were hit. Judging by the operational characteristics, the attackers were partisans.

According to the statistics of the General Staff of the 23 rd Army, the guerrillas fired for no more than 10 seconds each time, and each attack killed between one and twenty people, resulting in an average of 320 casualties per day, and about 15,000 people had been lost during this period.

There was no pattern in the attacks. The military department ordered that all units below the squad level should not act alone. As soon as the restraining order was issued, the casualties plummeted.

After receiving this knowledge point, Wei Guoqing's troops began the guerrilla war in northern Guangxi.

Small forces stopped sorties, and the destruction of railways and roads increased dramatically. The grain ships on the river were frequently attacked, and there was even an incident in which a group of newly recruited grain boats disappeared overnight near Guiping.

The armies of the north and south routes, two hundred kilometers away, looking at Guilin and Liuzhou in the distance, are difficult to advance. There is a shortage of grain and grass, so the only way to solve the problem is to pay off the local people and solve the grain on the spot. In the first few days, food was still found, but later, along the way, people fled from the villages, slaughtered several villages, and could not find food.

News of the massacre quickly spread throughout Guangxi, the southwest, and even the whole country.

After shooting Chen Munong, the 93rd Army resisted under the leadership of Acting Commander Hu Dongcheng. Zhang Fakui explicitly ordered the 93rd Army not to withdraw from the Rongjiang defense line before September 28. The 93 Army Super Plan completed the task and held on until the end of October.

Chen Munong's execution really shocked the 93 officers and soldiers. Another reason, I think, is that after the 93rd Army retreated south from the county, it got rid of the possibility of being surrounded and annihilated, so its morale increased.

On October 28, 1944, the Japanese army drove to Guilin. The Battle of Guilin began.

November 9, 1944. Guilin. Seven Star Rock.

Zhou Jianchu was a little desperate.

Zhou Jianchu was only 21 years old, because he was clever, brave in combat, and educated, he worked as a herald in the regiment headquarters. The 391st Regiment of the 131st Division to which he belonged was stationed in the area of Qixing Mountain, northeast of Guilin.

After the Japanese army arrived in Guilin on October 28, it launched small-scale tentative attacks on the 391st Regiment and other defenders' positions at night. There were many new recruits in the troops, and as soon as they heard the enemy's gunfire, they fired indiscriminately, and soon, the Japanese had a thorough understanding of the situation of the position and the situation of the defenders.

On the 7th, the Japanese army began a large-scale attack, and the fighting around Qixingyan was extremely fierce.

After several days of fierce fighting, the mountain position had already been surrounded by Japanese troops, and more and more wounded could not be evacuated, so they could only concentrate in the Seven Star Rock.

At this time, in addition to the headquarters of the 391st Regiment and the few remaining defenders in various positions, there were more than 300 wounded and members of field hospitals, medical teams, transport companies, special service platoons and other units, totaling nearly 1,000 people, most of whom were non-combatants.

At dawn on the 7th, the Japanese attacked Qixingyan with the cooperation of aircraft, and after two days and nights of fierce fighting, they were still unable to bring this team, which was mostly composed of wounded soldiers and non-combatants, to sits down. Subsequently, the Japanese army switched to using mountain artillery to shoot at the rock mouth, and the fortifications at the front rock, back rock, crescent rock, Chaotian rock and other cave entrances of Qixing Rock were all blown up. The defenders of the cave stubbornly resisted with the favorable terrain, but the Japanese still could not attack.

This afternoon, an hour ago, the Japanese army blocked all the entrances of the Seven Star Rock under the leadership of the traitors to intimidate and lure, although most of the wounded soldiers in the caves, no one surrendered. The traitor took the Japanese away, but Zhou Jianchu felt bad. Now, the commanders of the regiment headquarters are basically killed in battle, and although everyone wants to die in battle, they are also very unwilling.

Because Zhou Jianchu was in the regiment headquarters, he knew more news.

At the beginning, the Guilin garrison was originally the 31st Army of the Guangxi Gui Army, with the division commander He Weizhen, under the jurisdiction of the 131st Division and the 188th Division. Division Commander He is a native of Jiangxi, although he is a Guijun, but he was left behind to defend it. The 135th Division and some local garrisons remained to guard Guilin.

Before the start of the campaign, the upper echelons transferred the 188th Division and replaced it with the 170th Division of the 46th Army. Who doesn't know that Hai Jingqiang, the commander of the 188th Division, is the nephew of Commander Bai Chongxi?

At the same time, Feng Huang, deputy commander of the 31st Army, and the 391st Regiment of the 131st Division were also transferred out of Guilin, and later the 135th Division and local garrisons were also transferred, which made the Guilin defenders only have only one regiment left, and the 131st Division and the 170th Division lacked one regiment of the Guilin Army. The 170th Division is said to be a division, but in fact the strength is only equivalent to a regiment.

The defenders said that there were 20,000, but in fact there were only more than 10,000, and although there were several thousand militias from all over the country, the weapons were very old. However, in the past few days, the militia has fought very well, and they have fought tenaciously and flexibly. The militia groups have their own weapons, and they also take weapons on the dead bodies of Japanese ghosts. They played well.

The militias are not all in one group. These days there are street battles, and some militia groups have bombs strapped to their bodies to blow up tanks, but I heard that they have been stopped by other militia groups. Someone in the militia would open fire, and with the few guns they had, they destroyed several tanks.

Now, even the Americans are gone. People say that Americans have big noses. Well, I smelled something wrong and ran away.

The United States sent an army and air liaison group to be stationed in the defense headquarters, and the US military had already destroyed the Guilin air base, and the contents of the warehouse were set on fire. I heard that the Americans said: Stick to the city and wait for the enemy to besiege you, but we in the United States do not have this tactic.

Hope for support from the U.S. Air Force is again unreliable. We planted the national flag on the hilltops of the main positions so that the American planes would not be able to see the target and bomb the defending troops, and as a result, we did not see much of a role for the US Air Force.

Before the arrival of the Japanese army, because of the lack of food and grass, the people of Guilin were almost empty, and the commander asked the soldiers to go to the people's homes to collect food, and Zhou Jianchu also went.

In the past few years, Guilin has been the rear area, and many people have come to Guilin to flee, and people say that there are millions of people in the city of Guilin. Now it's all gone, and I'm not used to it. At that time, a lot of food was collected, and a few veterans who went with him also collected some good things and gave him a cigarette box, a very beautiful small box.

Zhou Jianchu took out the cigarette case and rubbed it in his hand, but thought in his heart: The devil is afraid that he is going to attack. The officers in the city are almost finished, and we should retreat.

Just thinking about it, he suddenly heard someone talking in the back cave, so he put away the cigarette case and walked to the back hole.

I saw a member of the militia speaking to dozens of people: "Brothers, please believe me, this time, there are 150,000 Oriental ghosts, and we only have 20,000. Our vigilante group reconnoitred and knew that they were preparing poison gas bombs, and nine times out of ten they were going to release poison gas tonight. Chief Wei Yunsong has already evacuated, and several other commanders are holding on, and we have also sent people to rescue him. Our plan is to help everyone break through. ”

Several wounded soldiers saw Zhou Jianchu coming, and motioned for him to speak. Zhou Jianchu understood and asked, "Do you militia have the ability to break through?" The brothers had intended to die in battle. ”

The militia said: "To be honest, the militia below is not an ordinary militia group, it is composed of veterans of a hundred battles and local young people. We have a well-thought-out breakout plan. ”

Zhou Jianchu said: "Your militia dared to risk death to come in and save people, we are naturally grateful." Again, can we break through to the problem? "To go out is to go out.

The militia said, "In an hour, when it is just dark, we will start shelling this Japanese position." At the same time, we will have people come in through the cave and carry the wounded away. In order to rescue everyone, we dispatched thousands of people, and as long as everyone obeyed the order, they would definitely be able to get out. ”

Zhou Jianchu said: "It would be great if the wounded soldiers also went out." "I still don't believe it in my heart: the militia has artillery?

At six o'clock in the evening, the sound of artillery fire was not heard, and suddenly the whistling of shells was heard, and then, a large number of shells fell on the Japanese positions near Qixingyan and exploded. I have never seen such a dense shelling, it is terrible.

Several Japanese positions in the city of Guilin were shelled.

The shelling lasted only a few minutes before it ended.

Sure enough, nearly 2,000 people went to the position, carrying people and covering them. The people are carried with local accents, but the veterans are the coverers. Several militia groups in the Seven Star Rock obviously knew them and guided them to carry people.

Zhou Jianchu could see that those people were veterans, and they were holding very strange weapons, with a long, curved magazine, which was automatic and fierce, like a machine gun. The Japanese troops on the road could not defeat them at all.

After running for more than an hour, the more than 3,000 people arrived at the outskirts and were already out of the battlefield.

Zhou Jianchu found a leader of the militia who spoke, and said, "Brother Qin, where are we going next?" ”

Brother Qin said: "Enter the mountain." You can only be safe if you leave the Oriental. Now take a break and leave when the next group of people comes. ”

After resting for more than ten minutes, Zhou Jianchu saw that there were thousands of people carrying the wounded. Brother Qin waved his hand, and the militia stood up and walked towards the mountain.

Zhou Jianchu felt that it was not simple, how could the militia have such good military discipline?

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1, Zhou Jianchu does have his own people.