Today one day xiǎo devil is completely insane. The planes bombed non-stop. Bombs and incendiary bombs were put into battle, and the artillery seized the wind direction to release poison gas bombs when the time came, and the Yang Division was forced to withdraw from the station and airport. In the southern suburbs, establish a position centered on Liantang and confront the xiǎo devils.

Duan Langru put down the binoculars, the phone rang, picked it up and listened to it. It was Chen Anbao, commander of the 29th Army, who called. Chen Anbao turned out to be the commander of the 79th Division, and Duan Langru was the commander of the 235th Brigade at that time. The original 79th Division was the establishment of the second brigade and five regiments, and after the adjustment of the Nanyue Military Conference, the brigade-level structure was cancelled, Duan Langru became the commander of the 79th Division of the three-regiment system, and Chen Anbao became the commander of the three-division system.

The 29th Army was originally the number of Song Zheyuan's department of the Northwest Army. After the revival of the Anti-Japanese War, the Song Department was expanded into three armies, and the original 29th Army number was revoked. During the Battle of Songhu, the 79th Division performed well. The Central Military Commission expanded the new 29th Army on the basis of the 79th Division, with General Chen Anbao, commander of the 79th Division, as the commander. The 79th Division, the 26th Division, and the 1st and 6th Divisions under the jurisdiction of the 29th Army performed very well in the civil war. The 26th Division was an old Sichuan army in central China, which held on to the battle in Shanghai and annihilated the whole army, and performed particularly well. He was selected as one of the five divisions with the best performance in the Shanghai War. In January 1938, Chiang Kai-shek issued an edict to strengthen and rebuild this miscellaneous Sichuan army in Wuning, and then transferred to Jiujiang. July 1938. This newly trained unit held on to the mouth of the lake, suffering one-third casualties. Once again, it was seen as a formidable force for combat efforts. The 1st 02nd Division is the old Guizhou Army. Medium combat power. There is a record of disobedience and unauthorized retreat in southern Henan, and he was transferred to Nanchang in the early stage of the Nanchang battle. The performance is also not good. The 79th Division was the main division of the 29th Army, and Chen Anbao called to inquire about the casualties of the troops. Facing the old commander, Duan Langru of course told the truth: "Report to the military seat: The casualties of the 79th Division are too large. The devil is a bomb and a cannonball and a gas bomb, and the brothers can't bear it. If you continue to fight like this, the Yang Master will be finished. ”

Chen Anbao didn't want to listen to Duan Langru's complaints. Tell him that he must use the night to fight at night and organize death squads. Take the positions that were lost during the day

This Shangguan Yunxiang is a native of Xiǎo Jiezi Village, Shanghe, Shandong, and graduated from the sixth infantry section of the Baoding Army Military Academy. After graduation, he joined Sun Chuanfang's army and worked from platoon commander to division commander. After Sun Chuanfang's defeat against the Northern Expeditionary Army, Shangguan Yunxiang pulled the remnants to Dezhou, Shandong to replenish and took refuge in Cao.

During the period of the Republic of China, the reason why the warlords of China divided their territories and fought endlessly, "said that Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal of the grass order led to the incomplete Northern Expedition. If Chiang Kai-shek had not carried out the April 12 coup d'état, united the people to truly complete the Northern Expedition, and turned all the armies of China into a national defense force based on the Whampoa system, there would have been no warlord melee. Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal of the grass order led to the incomplete Northern Expedition. Warlord infighting was formed. In order to deal with ** and Yan Xishan, Feng Yùxiang, Li Zongren, etc., Chiang Kai-shek didn't care about the smell of incense. They all pulled into their arms. Warlord remnants like Shangguan Yunxiang. Yesterday it was still a straw object. Today, he has become the division commander and army commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army who shed blood and sacrificed, and his troops can unify military orders and government orders!

There are three reasons why Shangguan Yunxiang was later reused by Chiang Kai-shek, the first is that he was stained with the light of the Baoding Military Academy, you must know that including Chiang Kai-shek, He Yingqin, and Chen Cheng, the top generals are basically from this school. They are classmates and alumni of one of the Big Four. The first one was stained with his father's light. His father, Shangguan Wei, was a man who had seen the world and broke into the Kanto region when he was young. Go to the north entrance, inside and outside the Great Wall, up and down the Yellow River, and break dàng everywhere. After reaching middle age, because of the tiredness of the family, he settled down at home, and often rushed to the store to work as a livestock broker to earn some commissions to supplement the family. Shangguan Wei has realized a truth after many years of breaking into the outside: only by being an official can he get rich and make a fortune. can enjoy glory and wealth, and people can afford it. How can I become an official? Although Shangguan Wei has not read the Four Books and Five Classics and the mediocrity of the university, he also knows that the saying "learning and excellence is a master" is indeed reasonable. So he tried everything he could to get the children to read, even the nv. So when his eldest son, Shangguan Yunxiang, became an officer and his family gradually improved, he sent all three of his sons to the provincial capital Jinan to study, and they all graduated from middle school or NV vocational school. In those days. The three middle school graduates of the Shangguan family, *nv are all foreign students, and they can also find a good in-law when looking for a mother-in-law. Yu Hanmou, the current deputy commander of the Fourth Theater and commander of the 12th Group Army, is Shangguan Yunxiang's brother-in-law. Above the officialdom. One loss and one glory. Shangguan Yunxiang's old father is equivalent to laying the groundwork for his son's in-law network. The third reason is that Shangguan Yunxiang acted as Chiang Kai-shek's thug to suppress the Communists, and led his subordinates to make a death move for Chiang Kai-shek in the encirclement and suppression of Hubei, Henan, Anhui and the Central Red Army, and the two brigades of the 47th Division under his command were successively wiped out by the Red Army.

Because of these three reasons, after Shangguan Yunxiang was dismissed from his post as commander of the No. 1 Appeasement Zone stationed in Guizhou for embezzlement of road repair funds, "he was actually sent to Europe to inspect the military, eat, drink, and have fun and sightseeing for more than a year, especially Shangguan Yunxiang said that he had disgraced the face of the Whampoa Military Academy and the Army University, which is simply nonsense." This is not yet a lost battle. Shangguan Yunxiang Lao Xiǎozi wants to find a scapegoat!

Duan Langru immediately and unceremoniously bumped into the phone: This is not how the "commander-in-chief" battle is fought. When the devil is a wing, you don't let seize the opportunity to assault. Now the Japanese army has strengthened. There was a whole brigade of devils across from me. The fire is fierce, and it constantly grabs the direction of the wind to release poison gas. Our army does not have heavy artillery. The brothers all relied on their bloody bodies to block the counterattack of the devils, and the 79th Division suffered great losses. You go to the front line to take a look, don't command blindly if you don't understand. Shangguan Yunxiang couldn't imagine that Duan Langru would dare to contradict him" and yelled on the phone, "What did you say? You are responsible for your words! …… As he spoke, he hung up the phone.

Putting down the phone, Duan Lang's hands and feet were cold, and he circled around the shelter like a sleepy beast. Well, I want to really fucking hold my breath, Lao Tzu is working hard on the front line, "I still have to suffer from the anger of Shangguan Yunxiang, the old horseman, how can I fight this battle?"

Duan Langru, who was extremely angry, was depressed for a long time, and finally ordered all regiments to eat, rest, and organize commandos. 10 o'clock at night. He personally led the assault and thought that the whole division would take the lead and counterattack on all fronts.

At 10 o'clock in the night, the wind blew gently, spreading the smell of gunpowder smoke from the battlefield to the depths of the boundless night. The scent of grass and earth in April blended together, slowly revealing the smell of gunsmoke. A strand floats to the tip of the person's nose.

Duan Langru couldn't help but take a few puffs greedily. I can't wait to suck the fragrance of the grass and earth in this world, and thoroughly clean the smell of gunpowder in my heart."

Duan Langru turned around, stood in front of the death squad, and shouted loudly, "Brothers, the front is Liantang Town. It is only 30 miles away from Nanchang City. Yesterday was our position, and today it was taken away by the xiǎo devils.

This is a disgrace to our 79th Division! Now, the master will take you to take the lotus pond back! Which one is sloppy and swings, get out of the commando as soon as possible".

It's been fighting for so long, and the casualties of the troops are so great. The brothers have long since lost their affection in their eyes, and they will no longer shout any more slogans. All of them kept their mouths shut.

That's the well!

Duan Langru was already very satisfied, and waved his hand forward, "Gave the order to go." Lead the way. Walking in front with a submachine gun, taking advantage of the cover of the night, he touched the devil's position.

In the plains, the only barrier is the village. Unfortunately, Liantang Town, where Duan Lang was about to attack head-on, was now in the hands of the Japanese army and became a barrier for the Japanese invaders.

When he touched 200 meters in front of Xiǎo's position, Xiǎo's military dog barked. Now the assault team was exposed, and the devil's flares flew into the sky, and light and heavy machine guns and rifles clicked and banged.

Duan Langru shouted, "Brothers, rush and kill the day!" He jumped up and rushed towards the lotus pond. The distance of 200 meters will not take long if you are racing on the moving field. But this is the battlefield. Every second can be the end of life. Duan Langru went to the Whampoa Military Academy after graduating from Anhui Normal School, and he was a smart person with high military quality. Use crater masking. Ran and jumped to a distance of many meters from the Japanese formation.

This distance is the best distance for throwing a bomb, and also the best distance for a submachine gun shè shot. Duan Langru threw three grenades in one breath towards the ghost yaro position, blowing up a machine gun bunker for the xiǎo devil. Then he swept with a submachine gun.

The commandos who followed up also began to approach the shè attack, and unexpectedly tore a gap in the defense line of the xiǎo devil.

As soon as Duan Langru saw the joy, he led the assault team into the gap, picked up a Xiǎo devil's Type 92 heavy machine gun, turned the muzzle and swept away.

As soon as the Xiǎo devil saw that the ** team broke through to the position, the machine guns on both sides turned around and swept towards the gap. Well, close the gap.

Duan Langru saw it clearly, the three xiǎo devils jumped out of the trench, raised their hands and were about to throw grenades, da, and hit them with a single edge, beating the three xiǎo devils into a sieve.

The devils actually guarded against the sneak attack of the ** team, and they were one-third of the soldiers on duty in the position. A third rested in the town and stood by. A third camped and slept. Seeing that the ** team began to attack at night, the terrible whistle sounded. Immediately after that, the xiǎo devil reinforcements pounced. The devil's artillery fire also began to hit the gap, intending to completely wipe out the [Middle] ** team that broke through the gap.

After rushing into the gap, Duan Langru ordered a shè signal to inform the troops to counterattack on all fronts. Soon, the main force of the knife division began to be launched, and mortars and heavy machine guns also roared out, "Cover the charge of the troops."

Suddenly. The first-line guns in Liantang shook the sky, and the shouting and killing shook the sky!

Duan Langru's assault team came out of three regiments, a total of 300 people, that is, the strength of one battalion. After approaching the devil's position just now, he lost a part of it, and at this time, he was missing. There are about 200 more than that. That's enough, as soon as the brothers saw that they had entered the gap, their morale came up at once, "Fight in the devil's position, shoot shè from afar, and greet xiǎo devils with grenades when they get close." In a few moments, the gap was widened several times.

At this moment, the cannonball of the xiǎo devil arrived. Hear the whistling of shells. Duan Langru knew that it was the Japanese army's mountain artillery that fired. Hurry up and call the brothers to rush into the town, and if you enter the town, you will not be afraid of the devil's cannons. Before the words fell, a swarm of cannonballs fell, and a dozen brothers were swept into the air.

According to common sense. It is impossible for the shells of the xiǎo devils to fall at the same point" The crater is the preferred shelter for hiding from the shelling on the battlefield. But this time, unlike the usual "raindrops of shells from the devils", there were not only mountain artillery, but also infantry cannons and grenadiers. Duan Langru's heart was shocked, xiǎo devil is about to raze the gap to the ground.

Duan Langru hurriedly dropped the devil's Type 92 heavy machine gun. One lunged forward, fell into a crater, replaced the magazine for the Beifeng gun, and was about to advance to the town again, when he saw a large army of devils pouring out of the town, and the machine guns on the tanks and armored vehicles rattled and screamed. The bullets made it impossible for the brothers to raise their heads.

Duan Langru's eyes were about to burst into flames. Turning his head, he shouted, "Fried yào bag!" ”。

I heard a voice behind me shouting, "Quickly withdraw from the division." The brethren are dying. Li Tuanfu has already run the ball! When Duan Langru heard this, he turned his head to see that his brother Li Tuan, a deputy of the fourth phase of Huangpu, who was leading dozens of commandos, had already withdrawn, and he didn't forget to turn his head and shoot at the Xiǎo devil position while running.

Seeing that the devil's tank and armored vehicles were escorting the large army and rushing up, and if they didn't retreat, the commandos would all die here, Duan Langru sighed secretly and ordered to retreat.

When Duan Langru withdrew from the position with the remaining commandos, the artillery fire of the Xiǎo devils began to block the artillery bombardment and intercept the follow-up troops of the 79th Division. Soon the xiǎo devils began to fight back, and the two sides fought hard outside Liantang Town.

Finally stabilized the defensive line, Duan Langru returned to the division's shelter department, and once again reported to Chen Anbao, commander of the 29th Army, and Shangguan Yunxiang, commander-in-chief of the 32nd Group Army, that the Japanese army on the front was huge and more than half of the troops had suffered casualties, and asked for permission to change the direction of the attack.

Before the call back from the commander-in-chief and the corps commander arrived, the law enforcement team arrived. It was announced that on the orders of General Shangguan Yunxiang, commander-in-chief of the 32nd Group Army, Duan Lang would be arrested if he was cowardly and cowering in the face of the enemy, lied about the military situation, and delayed the fighter plane.

Duan Lang didn't expect this to be the result, he looked up to the sky and laughed, and after laughing, he only said, "No need...... I left it to the law enforcement team.

The division commander was arrested, the officers and men of the 79th Division were chilled, and the offensive was completely stopped. Chen Anbao, the commander of the 29th Army, was loyal. After receiving the report of Duan Langru's arrest, he hurriedly sent a report to Shangguan Yunxiang, asking the commander-in-chief to release Duan Langru for the sake of the 79th Division's bloody battle for a few days. and so on to recapture Nanchang. and then dealt with military law. As a result, he was severely reprimanded by Shangguan Yunxiang, and Chen Anbao was instructed to directly command the 79th Division.

Chen Anbao did not give up, and asked Duan Langru to be removed from his post to "wear the crime and make meritorious service", but the result was still severely reprimanded.

When the staff officers of the General Staff Office of the General Headquarters of the 32nd Group Army learned that Duan Langru had been arrested, they went to Guan Yunxiang to explain it to Duan Langru and asked the commander-in-chief to deal with it impartially. Although Duan Langru led his troops to deviate from the direction of the main attack on the 25th, he reported to the General Headquarters. Not to flee, but to change the direction of the attack. This is also normal on the battlefield. What's more, Duan Langru still launched a frontal attack according to the battle plan? Besides, since Duan Langru joined the Northern Expeditionary Army, he has experienced a hundred battles, and he has never been afraid of the enemy, and he was also awarded a first-class meritorious service in the Battle of Lushan and promoted to lieutenant general. The commander-in-chief is requested to release the division commander.

Shangguan Yunxiang Lao Jiān was cunning, he had already seen that the counterattack on Nanchang was a losing battle, and he was eager to find a scapegoat to exonerate himself, Duan Langru still dared to contradict him, how could he establish the authority of his commander-in-chief if he didn't kill him? Therefore, Shangguan Yunxiang would never let Duan Langru go, and he said to the staff officers of the General Staff Office: "Duan Langru is like the enemy's timidity, cowering, and delaying the fighters, resulting in the unsmooth progress of the counterattack on Nanchang. It is necessary to make an example of a hundred. Deter the troops. Don't kill Duan Langru. I won't resist Japan! When he said this, he was purely an old rascal's face.

Shangguan Yunxiang did not have the authority to execute Duan Langru, so he immediately sent a report to Chiang Kai-shek, bitterly denouncing Duan Langru's crimes, and requesting approval to execute Duan Langru in order to boost morale and strictly enforce military discipline.