It is best for a man to defeat Wan Li by the wind, and how can he become famous when he dies in the battlefield and his country is humiliated? He will go out with a treasure knife. This is the famous battle song "Pray for Death" of Sichuan Army at that time.
3 Wan Chuan army went out to fight against the enemy in Sichuan, 3 million able-bodied men went on wave after wave, and 5, people in Wan Chuan were United. This is the memory and message of a nation. Sichuan was the main battlefield of the anti-Japanese war at that time, and the Sichuan army made great contributions to the anti-Japanese war! All the soldiers failed their country and fought bravely to kill the enemy! Even if you run out of ammunition and food, you should bite the enemy with your teeth! Even today, 8 years later, the people are all in awe when they mention the Sichuan Army!
At the beginning of February p>1938, due to the warlord "Shandong King" Han Fuju's retreat without a fight, the 1th Division of Japanese invaders, Ryunosuke Ikuya, occupied Jinan, Tai 'an, Yanzhou, Zouxian and other places along the Jin-Pu Railway without any hindrance. The invaders' army approached Tengxian, and together with the 5th Division of Banyuanzheng Shiro who attacked Linyi, they planned to encircle Taierzhuang, occupy the strategic town of Xuzhou at that time, and finally open up the Jin-Pu and Longhai Railways.
Li Zongren, then commander of the Fifth Theater, dispatched the 22nd Army to Tengxian County to stop the Japanese troops going south. At this time, the 122nd Division of Wang Mingzhang was guarding Teng County. At that time, there were only three divisions and one brigade in Tengxian county, all of which were logistics and security personnel, and the main forces were clamped down by the Japanese army and could not be transferred, so the troops were very empty.
Wang Mingzhang urgently dispatched Zhang Xuanwu, the head of the 727th regiment, and a battalion of combat troops back to the city for defense, while calling the 266th brigade on the front line of Pingyi to help quickly, and at the same time asking the headquarters stationed in Lincheng for help. At this time, there were only more than 3, defenders in Tengxian city, of which less than 2, were able to participate in the war. Wang Mingzhang, in accordance with the requirements of his superiors, was determined to stand by for help and immediately told all the officers and men in the city: "I am with you, the city will survive and survive, and the city will die and die."
at 8 a.m. on March 16th, 1938, the Japanese army had arrived at the gate. More than 1 cannons concentrated on the east and the city, and more than a dozen planes also bombed and strafed the city crazily. After two hours of bombing, more than three thousand shells were fired inside and outside the city. The southeast corner of the Dongguan city wall was blasted with a gap one or two meters wide. Then, the Japanese army violently strafed the gap with dozens of light and heavy machine guns to cover the infantry impact. Under our army's vigorous counterattack, we beat off the enemy's attack many times until the fighting stopped at 8 pm.
at 6: a.m. on March 17th, the Japanese bombed indiscriminately with artillery planes, and the whole city was in flames and devastated. More than ten Japanese tanks took the opportunity to rush through the gap in the East City Wall, followed by rows of Japanese troops.
Our defenders destroyed two Japanese tanks with cluster grenades, waved broadswords, jumped into the enemy group and slashed, destroying all the Japanese soldiers who climbed the city wall. After the fierce war, only 14 people were disabled in our company.
at 2 p.m., the Japanese army pounded the south city wall with 12 heavy howitzers, and twenty or thirty enemy planes pounded the defenders in Nanguan. The wall of Nancheng was heavily shelled by the enemy to open a gap, and five or six hundred Japanese soldiers swooped down on Nancheng under the cover of more than ten tanks.
Lv Kang, brigade commander of the 37th Brigade of the 124th Division, and Wang Chaolian, deputy brigade commander, were seriously injured in the first-line battle, when the defenders suffered heavy losses. At 3: 3 in the afternoon, after the Japanese army occupied the south wall under fire, Lin Wang, head of the 74th regiment of the 124th Division, who was stationed in Dongguan, was martyred.
When the Japanese army rushed into Dongguan, Mr. Wang Mingzhang went to the crossroads in the center of the city to direct the operation. Unfortunately, they were swept by Japanese machine guns. Teachers Wang Mingzhang, chief of staff Zhao Weibin, deputy chief Luo Jiaxin, major staff Xie Dayong, chief of staff of the 124th Division Zou Mutao and more than ten people with them all died heroically.
At this time, Wang Zhiyuan, the brigade commander of the 364th brigade, and Zhang Xuanwu, the commander of the city defense, were shot and wounded, and the defenders in the city were left unguided, and fell into a state of fighting in their own way. At 9 o'clock in the evening, under the command of Hou Ziping, the deputy battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 727th Regiment, more than 2 officers and men guarding the north city wall jointly pulled open the sealed north gate and broke out in an organized way.
a small group of troops who lost contact in the city failed to break through, so they fought on their own and started street fighting with the Japanese army, and didn't stop shooting until all of them died heroically before noon on the 18th.
in the battle of Tengxian, the Sichuan army fought bloody battles and went down in history. It delayed the Japanese army from going south, and gained valuable time for China's troops to deploy in Taierzhuang.
Chinese leaders wrote elegiac couplets to mourn Wang Mingzhang: "It is the true nature of revolutionary soldiers to fight for the lonely city and die; Determined to wipe out the strong enemy, die for the country and win glory for the Chinese nation! "
Li Zongren later wrote in his memoirs: "Without Tengxian's persistence, there would be no triumph of Taierzhuang!" He also highly praised: "In the Tengxian World War I, the Sichuan Army was outnumbered, and at great sacrifice, it blocked the enemy from going south and completed the combat mission, writing the most glorious page in the history of the Sichuan Army's anti-Japanese war.
the wind rolls clouds, the rain wraps the wind, and the wind screams and the clouds dance and thunders. Give your life for your country, and your heroism will last forever in the world.
during the anti-Japanese war, Sichuan soldiers and civilians did their utmost and most important duty to the frontal battlefield. And Sichuan is also one of the regions with the largest number of participants and the most tragic sacrifices! The figure of the Sichuan Army spread all over the battlefields, large and small, and made great contributions to the war of resistance at that time.