Volume 1: Battle of Songhu Chapter 18: The Soul of the Sichuan Army
Outside the city of Guangde, the position of the 145th Division of the Sichuan Army.
On December 1, when the 58th Division stepped up the construction of fortifications in Niushou Mountain, General Rao Guohua, the commander of the 145th Division of the Sichuan Army, ushered in the swan song of Zuihou in his life.
One of the soldiers pulled the bolt of the gun, looked at the empty chamber and shouted, "Master, I don't have to bullet." ”
The remaining dozen or so soldiers also pulled the bolt one after another when they heard this, and as a result, the guns of nine people were empty, and a few people still had one bullet left, and only one person had two rounds left, and the spy company commander Li Shuanggun smiled miserably and shouted: "Turtle son, if you don't have a child, let's kill the devil anyway, and all of them will go to the big knife!" ”
More than a dozen Sichuan soldiers silently put down their rifles, and unloaded the ghost head knife from their backs, and when it came to this point, they had already put life and death out of the way, at this moment, they just wanted to pull a few more devils on their backs before they died in battle.
General Rao Guohua gasped for a moment, then suddenly turned around and ordered: "Li Shuanggun, take the brothers to withdraw." ”
"Master, what are you talking about?" Li Shuanggun didn't react at once, and looked at General Rao Guohua in a daze.
General Rao Guohua straightened up his military hat, buttoned up the discipline buckle again, and said solemnly: "I asked you to withdraw with the brothers, and while the Japanese army did not attack again, quickly withdraw with the brothers." ”
Li Shuanggun was a little confused, and the remaining dozen or so spy company soldiers were also a little confused
General Rao Guohua sighed: "Our 145th Division has shed enough blood, you and the remaining dozen brothers of the spy company can't die here, you should keep your useful body and continue to kill devils on the battlefield." ”
Li Shuanggun finally came back to his senses and shouted: "Master, forgive the humble position and it is difficult to obey the fate. ”
General Rao Guohua turned his head, his eyes were not angry and arrogant: "Li Shuanggun, you dare to disobey?" ”
Li Shuanggun's face suddenly changed greatly, and he said miserably: "Division, the military order given to us by the military seat of the L45th Division is here, Guangde is here, if Guangde is lost, even if he escapes back with his brothers, it is still a dead end, rather than die under the guns of his own people, it is better to die in battle here, so that he can still be famous behind a martyr." ”
Rao Guohua looked up at the sunset, and said lightly: "That's right, the military order given to us by the military seat for the 145th Division is here, and Guangde is here, so if Guangde City is lost, the 145th Division will be finished, and I, Rao Guohua, will also die, but the military order I gave you to the special service company is to break through, now, break through immediately!" ”
"Division, even if the military seat is not investigated, the deputy general seat will kill us."
"You are ordered to break through, even if it is the deputy general seat, you can't help you, let alone the general seat."
"Shizuo, no matter what you say, anyway, my Li Shuanggun will never leave you, even if I die, my Li Shuanggun will die with Shizuo." Li Shuanggun simply played a scoundrel, and the remaining dozen or so soldiers also expressed their hearts, vowing to live and die with General Rao Guohua, the general has always been sympathetic to his subordinates, and they really do not want to leave the general at such a time.
General Rao Guohua looked lonely and said gloomily: "Li Shuanggun, do you want me to die without turning a blind eye?" Do you want to let the more than 6,000 brothers of the 145th Division die blindly? I want you to go, I want you to live well, and in the future, on behalf of me, on behalf of all the brothers of the L45th Division who died on the battlefields of Guangde and Si'an, I will see with my own eyes that Xiao Ri is finished! ”
General Rao Guohua was in a lonely mood, he actually didn't say some words, because he was ashamed to say it, the Sichuan army has fought extremely bravely on various battlefields since it came out of Sichuan, but there are inevitably a few scum, the 145th Division could have fought more beautifully in Si'an and Guangde, and could have held longer, but Liu Ruzhai was the scum.
Liu Ruzhai led his troops to flee without a fight, so that General Rao Guohua could only lead a battalion to counterattack Guangde, and what is even more outrageous is that in order to get rid of his crimes, Liu Ruzhai actually shot a target, and falsely accused General Rao Guohua of blind command in front of Tang Shizun, deputy commander-in-chief of the 23rd Group Army, so that he lost his division and lost his ground, and Tang Shizun reprimanded the general without arguing right and wrong.
General Rao Guohua was deeply depressed, and Zuihou ordered Li Shuanggun to break through with the remaining dozen soldiers of the special service company, not to save the truth of the bloody war of resistance of the 145th Division in the battlefields of Si'an and Guangde, he only wanted to kill himself, and did not care about the name behind him, but he really did not want the blood of thousands of officers and soldiers of the 145th Division to be shed in vain.
The Sichuan army can shed blood and sacrifice, but it must not shed blood and tears, and the truth about the 145th Division's defense of Guangde must be made public.
"Divisional ......" Li Shuanggun fell to the ground, and more than a dozen soldiers behind him also knelt on the ground, and kowtowed respectfully to General Rao Guohua three times, General Rao Guohua said this, if they were not ordered to break through, the general and the more than 4,000 brothers of the 145th Division who died on the battlefield would really die without turning a blind eye.
After knocking on his head, Li Shuanggun took more than a dozen warriors and left without looking back.
Seeing Li Shuanggun disappear at the end of the field of vision with more than a dozen soldiers, General Rao Guohua smiled lonely, and then took out a pack of crumpled old knives from his trouser pocket, and there was still a cigarette left in the cigarette box.
Ten minutes later, black steel helmets appeared again on the road ahead, and the Japanese troops came up again.
This time it was no longer the puppet Manchukuo army that came up, but the Japanese soldiers who were in full swing, and there was enough of a squadron, obviously, the Japanese army was impatient and planned to take Guangde County in one go.
Finding that there was only one national soldier sitting on the outer edge of the trench smoking on the opposite position, the Japanese soldiers were bold, so they did not start a straggler formation again, but pressed up in a daze with bayonets, and the distance was getting closer and closer, and the Japanese soldiers found that the silence above the national army position was terrifying, except for the officer who was sitting and smoking, there was no one alive.
A Japanese second lieutenant instinctively raised the Wang Ba box in his hand, but was stopped by the captain who led the team.
The captain of the Japanese army who led the team knew a little Chinese, and he admired this army of "called Huazi" who was defending Si'an and Guangde very much, this army was obviously not the central army, not only was the equipment amazingly poor, but most of the officers and soldiers were still wearing tattered single clothes and straw sandals in the winter, but their will to fight was not under the Japanese army.
"Surrender, Chinese people, as long as you lay down your arms, the imperial army will definitely guarantee the safety of your life."
General Rao Guohua raised his head, glanced at the Japanese captain who was shrinking behind a dozen Japanese soldiers with some contempt, and then slowly extinguished the cigarette butt, and then pulled out the "snow shame knife" inserted in his side, and a touch of residual sun shone on the blade of the snow, and suddenly reflected a poignant blood.
Holding the Snow Shame Sword in his right hand, the general stretched out his left hand and made a defiant gesture to the Japanese captain opposite.
In his eyes, General Rao Guohua was a respectable samurai, and since he was a samurai, he should duel in the way of a samurai, and immediately ordered the Japanese ensign: "Akiyama-san, solve him in a samurai way." ”
"Hello." The Japanese second lieutenant bowed his head heavily, and then drew out his saber sonorously, and the hundred and ten Japanese soldiers who surrounded Rao Guohua's legion also retreated, giving way to an open space with a radius of more than ten meters.
General Rao Guohua lightly blocked it with a snow shame knife, and the saber of the Japanese second lieutenant slid against the general's right shoulder, splitting into the air, but the Japanese second lieutenant reacted very quickly and changed his moves quickly.
Listening to the sound of "poof", the Japanese second lieutenant's saber had already been cut into the crook of the general's leg, and the sharp blade cut into it several inches deep, almost cutting off the general's calf from the crook of the leg, but before the Japanese ensign's face could show a trace of pride, he felt a sudden stabbing pain in his left neck.
General Rao Guohua didn't hide at all, but desperately sacrificed ~ a leg in exchange for a chance to get close.
The Japanese second lieutenant realized that something was wrong, and when he was about to retreat, it was too late, only to hear a loud roar from General Rao Guohua, and the sharp snow shame knife had been stabbed diagonally, and the left neck of the Japanese second lieutenant bloomed like a goldfish's mouth in an instant, and streams of hot blood splashed out like a fountain, splashing out seven or eight meters away.
With the loss of blood, the eyes of the Japanese lieutenant quickly dimmed, and finally fell to the ground.
General Rao Guohua wiped the blood splashed on his face, his body suddenly shook, and he was about to kneel to the ground, and he hurriedly stabbed his staggering body to the ground, and when he looked up and looked around, he saw that there was a dead silence all around, and all the soldiers were looking at him quietly, with indifferent and respectful eyes.
General Rao Guohua smiled and once again freed his left hand to hook his hand at the Japanese captain opposite
The Japanese captain was not furious because of General Rao Guohua's provocation again, but walked out from behind a dozen Japanese soldiers very seriously, and slowly pulled out a long-handled sword decorated with golden tassels, and then pointed at General Rao Guohua with the tip of the knife and said: "You are a real samurai, please give me your name." ”
"Lieutenant General and Division Commander of the 23rd Division of the 145th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, Rao Guohua.
"Higashikure Palace Sheng hòu, please advise." The Japanese captain waved the snow bright saber and stepped forward, and General Rao Guohua waved his knife to meet him, but because of excessive blood loss, he was slow to move, and he failed to block the Japanese captain from stabbing him directly, and the sharp tip of the knife pierced the general's chest with a pop, penetrating the heart.
The general stared at the Japanese captain deadly, trying his best to raise the snow shame knife to fight again, but he failed to do so, a few seconds later, the general sighed faintly, and passed away, the Japanese captain withdrew the saber, and took out a white towel from his pocket to carefully wipe the blood on the blade, and said in a deep voice: "Hòu bury this person, he is ~ a respected samurai." ”