In the first battle of Chunhua Town, the 51st Division finally had no choice but to retreat, but it also cost the Japanese army a heavy price. While the 51st Division fought with the Japanese army in Chunhua, the battle of Niushoushan also began.
Next we will enter the eighth episode of the "Blood and Tears in the Defense of Nanjing" series [Niu Shou Mountain Defense: " Mulan " in Nanjing Defense of Nanjing, died in the army for ten days to die]
Niu Shou Mountain is located 15 kilometers outside Zhonghuamen . Because the two peaks confront each other, they are like ox horns, they are then called Niu Shou Mountain.
For Nanjing, Niushou Mountain is an important channel to reach the Zhonghua Gate of Nanjing, which also makes Niushou Mountain a must-fight place for military strategists to attack Nanjing since ancient times.
When Yue Fei resisted the Jin Dynasty, he set up an ambush here, and then defeated the Jin soldiers, protecting Nanjing from being captured by the Jin soldiers.
When it was decided to fight the Nanjing defense war, Chiang Kai-shek and Tang Shengzhi inspected the defense areas outside Nanjing. They also took a fancy to Niushou Mountain, which had two mountains intersecting, as an important barrier to protecting the Zhonghua Gate. For this reason, Chiang Kai-shek also specially mobilized the 58th Division, which had very strong combat effectiveness in the 74 Army, as the garrison force here. The commander of the
58 Division is Feng Shengfa . He is a tiger general in Jiang Zhongzheng's group. Feng Shengfa was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. He has loved reading the stories of famous ancient generals since he was a child. He especially loves Yue Fei . When he was young, he would go to Yuewang Temple to worship Yue Fei. To him, Yue Fei is his idol, and he has also been determined to become a national hero like Yue Fei since he was a child.
So when he was in the second grade of high school, he learned that Whampoa Military Academy recruited students. He was very excited and dropped out of school and came to Guangdong alone to apply for the exam. At that time, the examiner of Whampoa Military Academy asked him why he wanted to apply for the military academy. Feng Shengfa replied: I applied for the Whampoa Military Academy to learn from Yue Fei and serve the country with loyalty!
After that, he did fulfill his vows as he said. During the Northern Expedition, Feng Shengfa made many military achievements, and was not afraid of charging, and always took the lead in rushing in front of the front. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Feng Shengfa also went back to Hangzhou and knelt in front of Yue Fei's statue, bit his finger and wrote in front of Yue Fei's statue: Learn from Yue Fei, serve the country with loyalty, and never go home until the Japanese army is defeated!
After that, The Battle of Songhu broke out. Before going to war, Feng Shengfa asked his officers to recite Yue Fei's "Manjianghong" with such ambitions.
Under the leadership of Feng Shengfa, the 58th Division fought a tenacious battle in Luodian, Shanghai. Feng Shengfa personally led the team to the high ground to fight against the Japanese army. With five swords, Feng Shengfa killed five Japanese troops and finally took down an important high ground in Luodian. He then received the first-class combat medal personally awarded by Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek handed over Niushou Mountain to Feng Shengfa, and he believed that he could defend this important position. On November 29, 1937, Feng Shengfa led his troops to Niushou Mountain. He first told the troops that Yue Fei defeated the Jin soldiers here, and then explained the terrain of Niushou Mountain, asking the regiments to hurry up and repair the fortifications, and promised to lead them here to resist the Japanese attack.
At the end of November, Nanjing had entered a cold and cold season, especially the north wind on the mountain. At that time, the 58th Division had just retreated from the Songhu battlefield and had not had time to change into winter clothes. Feng Shengfa saw his subordinates wearing single clothes to repair fortifications in the cold wind. He was very anxious and called Tang Shengzhi directly and asked for the winter clothes to be sent quickly. However, Tang Shengzhi agreed very quickly, but there was no following. Feng Shengfa had no choice but to let the soldiers cut down the trees on the mountain to make fire to keep warm.
On December 5, before the Japanese army arrived at Niushou Mountain, they came two brigades Takeshita and Okamoto under the 114th Division of the Japanese Army. The 144th Japanese Division had just fought the Battle of Songhu and won many battles. At this time, they believed that the Chinese army had become defeated, so after coming to Niushou Mountain, they believed that it would be impossible to seize Niushou Mountain. However, they did not expect that Feng Shengfa had already set up a Bagua formation for them based on the terrain of Niushou Mountain.
When the Japanese army entered the ambush ground of the 58th Division, Feng Shengfa decisively ordered the firing of artillery. Several mortars and began to bombard each other. Then a group of soldiers of the 58th Division who were ambushing began to charge. The Japanese army caught off guard and responded in a panic. However, Feng Shengfa did not give them the opportunity to organize defense and took the lead in pounceing towards the Japanese army. After the end of the World War, the Japanese army threw more than 200 bodies and fled.
vanguard troops were completely wiped out, which gave two Japanese captains of Takeshita and Okamoto a heavy blow. They knew that Niushou Mountain was not as easy as they thought. Early the next morning, Takeshita and Okamoto sent 25 planes to intensively bomb Niushou Mountain, and then used artillery regiments to bomb the Niushou Mountain fortifications. When the time was about the same, Takeshita and Okamoto sent more than 1,200 Japanese troops to attack the Niushou Mountain highland, but climbed halfway up the mountain and were attacked by artillery fire. The Japanese army wanted to rush to the top of the mountain, but the three armies of the 58th Division took their lives and finally repelled the Japanese army two hours later.
Although the 58th Division won the battle during the day, Feng Shengfa knew that the Japanese army had estimated the strength and position of Niushou Mountain, and there would definitely be a more cruel battle tomorrow.
Feng Shengfa thought for a while and thought that it would be better to take the initiative to attack while the Japanese army was fighting. After he told his thoughts to his subordinates, the officers of the 58th Division agreed, because it would be better to take the initiative to attack and destroy the Japanese army's offensive plan than to be beaten passively.
So each regiment of the 58th Division sent a reconnaissance company to prepare to attack the Japanese base camp in the second half of the night.
The locations where the Japanese 114th Division were stationed at Chenxu Village, Yanhu Village, Zhu Village, Taoxiang and other places at the foot of Niushou Mountain. After a day of fierce fighting, the Japanese army were very tired and the defense was very weak because they believed that the 58th Division on Niushou Mountain could not take the initiative to attack. When the three reconnaissance companies of
58 Division touched the Japanese camp, the Japanese army was sleeping soundly. After they cleanly dealt with the sentry, they lurked into the camp. While the Japanese were sleeping soundly, the soldiers of the 58th Division of the three companies first threw grenades , and then swept across the machine gun . The other awakened Japanese troops wanted to find weapons in panic, but at this time the camp was in a big fire. When the three reconnaissance companies of the 58th Division returned to the Niushoushan camp, the fire in the Japanese camp was still not extinguished.
This night attack won a complete victory, and the Japanese army was wiped out more than 800 people, which was even greater than a medium-sized battle.
The Japanese army had no movement the next morning. Feng Shengfa guessed that the Japanese army must be cleaning up the camp last night now, and the angry Japanese army would definitely launch a fierce attack in the afternoon.
As expected, at around 2 pm, 12 Japanese planes flew to the 58th Division of Niushou Mountain for low-altitude bombing and strafing, followed by another round of gunfire, and finally, just like before, more than a thousand Japanese troops began to charge towards the Niushou Mountain Highland after the plane bombing and gunfire. Feng Shengfa called various regiments and said: Brothers, the Japanese army is coming fiercely, and we must resist. We must learn from Yue Fei's resistance to the Jin Dynasty, so that the Japanese invaders know that it is easy to shake the mountain and difficult to shake the Chinese army. We must fight them bloody battles to the end and never retreat. After being inspired by Feng Shengfa, the commanders of the
58 Division all firmly expressed their determination to defend their positions and fight with the Japanese army to the end.
bloody battle lasted for two hours. The Japanese army rushed to the 58th Division's position with large numbers of people. At this time, the 58th Division's position suffered two rounds of bombardment and bombardment, and all the fortifications did not work. A Japanese squad was about to rush to the outpost of the 58th Division's direct guard company position. Zhou Fusheng, the commander of the division direct guard company, yelled: Brothers, rush! The glorious time for dedicating one's life to the country is here, come and fight with me!
Zhou Fusheng led the officers and soldiers of the guard company to jump out of the trenches and fight with the Japanese army. The two sides fought together. Zhou Fusheng first dealt with a small Japanese team leader with three swords, and then was stabbed in the thigh while fighting with a Japanese soldier. However, he still endured the severe pain and dealt with the vicious Japanese soldier. But soon a gunshot rang, and a bullet passed through Zhou Fusheng's back. His body was penetrated by bullets, and he died heroically in front of the Niushou Mountain position.
The battle situation on other positions in Niushou Mountain was also very tragic. When the Japanese army was about to rush to the high ground, the reserves of the 1st Brigade installed bayonets and rushed towards the Japanese army. The two sides fought for more than an hour. The positions were full of the corpses of the Japanese and the 58th Division officers and soldiers. In the end, the Japanese army gradually fell into a disadvantage and began to flee. Feng Shengfa seized the opportunity and let the trumpets blow the charge. The units of the 58th Division began to pursue the Japanese army with victory. The Japanese troops began to retreat in a hurry, looking like they were defeated.
, especially the officers and soldiers of the 3rd squad of the 5th Company of the 2nd Regiment, chased them for more than ten miles in one breath. When they came to their senses, they found that there were Japanese troops around. When the officers and soldiers of the 3rd squad saw that their people were not following, and the Japanese army was only rushing to retreat and did not notice them. So they wanted to slow down quietly and distance themselves from the Japanese army. After all, the troops of one squad must not be able to defeat so many Japanese troops, but they were discovered by the Japanese army when they wanted to retreat. Zhao Wanshu, the squad leader of the 3rd squad, was caught off guard and was stabbed by the Japanese army. Both sides immediately pulled out their swords to engage in a hand-to-hand combat. . When the Japanese army wanted to stab Zhao Wanshu again, Yu Peiyi, a newly enlisted soldier from the 3rd squad, rushed over and stabbed Zhao Wanshu in the back to save Zhao Wanshu. But then another Japanese army rushed over and stabbed Yu Peiyi in the chest with a knife. Yu Peiyi was bleeding on the spot. Fortunately, another soldier from the 3rd squad, Zhang Qinghua, came to deal with the Japanese army that was about to stab the second sword. Zhang Qinghua then hid and hid back to the company with Yu Peiyi on his back and helped Zhao Wanshu all the way back. However, at this time, Yu Peiyi fainted due to excessive blood loss, and finally died of ineffective rescue.
. When the company's military doctor was rescued, he was surprised to find an unexpected situation. Yu Peiyi was not a boy, but a girl!
Later, after investigation, I found out that when the 58th Division retreated from the Songhu battlefield to Changzhou , the 5th Company headquarters lived at Yu Peiyi's home. Yu Peiyi's father was a Peking Opera fan and often took Yu Peiyi to watch Peking Opera. Yu Peiyi especially liked the story of Mulan joining the army for her father, so she was determined to join the army one day to defend the country.
When the Japanese army began to invade Shanghai, Suzhou , Wuxi , Yu Peiyi's father took the family and prepared to flee. However, Yu Peiyi, who had already followed his family to Wujiang , saw that her hometown was occupied by the Japanese army. She remembered the story of Mulan joining the army, so she quietly returned to her home in Changzhou, cut off her braids, found a set of clothes her father did not take away, and wrapped her female characteristics, wanting to join the army to fight the Japanese army.
, but it happened that Zhou Daoshen, the company commander of the 5th Company of the 58th Division, came to visit the company. Yu Peiyi agreed on the spot, but she made a request. Zhou Daoshen originally thought that Yu Peiyi wanted money, so he took out two silver dollars and asked him if it was enough, but Yu Peiyi replied with a smile: I don’t want your money, I want to join the army!
58 Division belongs to the direct unit of the Central Army, and recruiting new recruits is still very strict. However, due to the serious losses of the 58th Division in the Battle of Shanghai, it is urgent to replenish troops, Zhou Daoshen is naturally willing to accept him, so he said happily: I think it is OK, but I have to ask the regiment headquarters to reply to you.
Zhou Daoshen then asked: Now that the country is dead, there are battlefields everywhere, and the army needs young people with ambition to join in to defend their country, but now many people are afraid of joining the army, and those who have joined the army are also afraid of all those who have escaped. Are you afraid? Still rushing to join the army?
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Zhou Daoshen was moved by Yu Peiyi's words and promised her that he would definitely let him achieve his ideal.
After Yu Peiyi's daughter was discovered by a military doctor, the army admired this "Mulan", and this incident also reached Feng Shengfa. Feng Shengfa personally went to the camp of the fifth company to see the female hero, but by the time he arrived, Yu Peiyi had already sacrificed due to excessive blood loss.
Yu Peiyi only joined the army for ten days and died for the country, but she fulfilled her ideals, went to the battlefield to kill the Japanese and defend the country, and her deeds also inspired all the officers and soldiers of the 58th Division, who were all moved by Yu Peiyi's patriotism.
In the three-day contact battle, the 58th Division wiped out many Japanese troops, but the losses were also quite large. The total number of casualties of each regiment exceeded 500, but they had decided to live and die with the Niushoushan position.
Can On December 9, Tang Shengzhi received information that the Japanese army had captured Banqiao on the right wing of Niushou Mountain and Fangshan on the left wing of Niushou Mountain, which made the 58th Division in Niushou Mountain be an isolated army. Once the Japanese army encircled, the 58th Division would be at risk of being surrounded and annihilated, so he called Feng Shengfa to retreat immediately.
Originally, Feng Shengfa had already formulated a set of tactics to lure the enemy into depth, but due to Tang Shengzhi's order, Feng Shengfa had to lead his troops away from Niushou Mountain overnight. The battle of the
58 division in Niushou Mountain ended with a complete victory, but in the end they had to give up Niushou Mountain because they knew that the war was not over yet, and they just gave up here temporarily, and they had more important positions to guard.
Next we will enter the tenth episode of the "Blood and Tears in the Defense of Nanjing" series [Guanghuamen Defense: The military police force fought to the death, the Japanese army finally suffered a lot] Subscribe to Buer, see you next time.
