The Sichuan Army during the Anti-Japanese War. There was such an army during the Anti-Japanese War. They participated in almost all the large-scale anti-Japanese wars in the country, with footprints covering 13 provinces. They successively invested 3.5 million troops and finally sacrificed more than 650,000 people. It became the regiment with the largest number of people participating in the war and the largest number of sacrifices in the country-the Sichuan Legion.
If there is no river in the army, the Sichuan people live up to the country
The Sichuan army is also the most tragic army in history. They were once called the beggar army because of their backward equipment and barefoot sandals. But it was just such a corps, but in the entire Anti-Japanese War, it played . There is no river but no army, and the people of Sichuan live up to the reputation of the country . Today, let us return to history and learn about the Sichuan Army in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
After the 1937 July 7th Incident , the War of Resistance against Japan broke out in an all-round way. The chairman of Sichuan Province Liu Xiang took the initiative to fight the war, and also gave 300,000 troops and 5 million soldiers. The promise of a few tens of thousands of stones. On July 14, Liu Xiang called on the whole country to fight against the Japanese invaders to the end, and called on all troops in Sichuan to use the blood of the Japanese invaders to wash away China's century-old humiliation.
As for the conscription order, Kawauchi joined the army one after another. Wang Zhecheng, the "model father" in An County, Mianyang, Sichuan, immediately sent a banner when he learned that his son had taken the initiative to join the army. On both sides of the word "death" are written two lines of small characters: national disasters are at stake, and Japanese invaders are fierce; the rise and fall of the country, everyone has a share; give the flag one side, always carry it; wipe blood when wounded, and wrap the body after death. In just a few big characters, the Sichuan people's patriotic feelings are vividly reflected.
Not only that, but knowing that the Sichuan army is about to leave Sichuan to fight the war, the generals and Sichuan people all donated money to raise 500,000 ocean military expenses for the soldiers. After everything was ready, the first batch of 300,000 Sichuan troops rushed to the Anti-Japanese Front line in three ways, and the first battle of the Sichuan Army's departure from Sichuan encountered the largest and most tragic battle of the Songhu Battle in the Anti-Japanese War.
On the Songhu battlefield known as the human meat grinder, what sacrifice did the Sichuan Army make? The man is determined to leave Kuaiguan, and he will not pay back if he is immortal. Why do you need sangzi to bury your bones? There are green hills everywhere in life. This is a poem written by Tang Shizun , the deputy commander of the group army when the Sichuan Army left the Sichuan War of Resistance in 1937.
Tang Shizun
Wearing straw shoes to resist the big sword on the battlefield
And on the Songhu battlefield where the Sichuan army first met the enemy, the soldiers exerted the spirit of this poem to the extreme and were responsible for meeting the enemy on the Songhu battlefield. The Sichuan Army was the 20th Army led by Yang Sen. The army was originally stationed in Guizhou, but after the outbreak of the Songhu War of Resistance, the soldiers wore straw shoes and carried big swords on the front line.
On August 16, 1937, the 26th Division, the main force of the 20th Army, was ordered to defend its position. As a result, it was suddenly attacked by Japanese aircraft. The disparity on the ground, the 26th Division had lost more than 300 people before they even saw the shadow of the Japanese army, which made many soldiers very unwilling.
They are not afraid of death, but they don't want to be blown up alive without seeing the Japanese devils. So when they saw a Japanese army rushing up, they immediately jumped into the trenches, raised their guns and shot. The Japanese army rushed out to charge, and the 20th army behind jumped over the trenches desperately and gave the enemy a stab at the head. Shengsheng repulsed the Japanese assaults several times.
But under the strong Japanese artillery fire, the 26th Division of the Sichuan Army had suffered heavy casualties by the 7th day of the battle. However, in order to give the rear troops a complete position, all the 26th Division rushed to the battlefield together, and even the division guard company It was also incorporated into the battle sequence, and finally took the lost position with one effort.
By the time the 26th Division retreats, there will be 700 people left in this unit. All the division’s 4 commanders have 2 dead and 1 injured. 14 battalion commanders have sacrificed 13 of them, and the number of company and platoon commanders has reached more than 250 casualties. People, noncommissioned officer Xiang Wenbin was promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel and colonel to major general within three hours of the day.
On the meat grinder at the Songhu battlefield, thousands of Sichuan soldiers, with their own blood and lives, fired the first shot of the eight-year war of resistance. If the Sichuan army in the Songhu battle shot If the soldiers are proud and proud, then the Sichuan army in the Tengxian defense battle has erected the backbone of the entire nation's resistance.
As the first victory of the Chinese army on the frontal battlefield, the battle of and Taierzhuang in the Battle of Xuzhou was known to everyone, but as the prologue of the battle of Teng County, few people knew about it. . Li Zongren, the commander of the Battle of Xuzhou, once said: "If there is no such thing as the current Taierzhuang victory without the efforts of the Three Thousand Sichuan Army in Teng County?" The county is approaching, and it is Sichuan Army 122 Division, commander Wang Mingzhang, who is responsible for guarding Teng County. This unit had just fought with the Japanese in Shanxi for more than 40 days and suffered heavy casualties. When it arrived in Teng County, the total number of lightly wounded soldiers was less than 6,000, and its main weapons were old-fashioned weapons such as 79 rifles and grenades. , The equipment is far behind the Japanese army.
At 10 o'clock in the morning on March 16, 1938, the Japanese army began to bomb the county seat of Teng County. In just two hours, more than 3,000 shells were dropped from the town of Teng County and the entire county was filled with smoke. At 11:15, a gap was blasted by the Japanese in the southeast corner of Teng County. Under the cover of dozens of light and heavy machine guns, more than 60 Japanese infantrymen began to charge, but they were quickly killed by the defensive 371th regiment with hand grenades. After that, the Japanese army organized two more offensives, but they were both repelled by our army.
At six o'clock the next morning, the unwilling Japanese army once again bombed Teng County with more than 60 cannons and more than 20 aircraft, almost turning the entire Teng County into a sea of flames, but the defenders did not. Because there were no artillery and anti-aircraft weapons, they could only be passively beaten. The Japanese army saw our heavy casualties but still persevered, so they continued to send more than ten tanks to attack the city from the gap. Our defenders engaged in close combat with the Japanese army.There were even soldiers who simply rushed towards the Japanese tank with a bundle of grenades, and the Japanese army was eventually repelled.
Crag and iron bones, practice generosity to die
However, the Sichuan army sacrificed a whole company for this, and the Japanese army had already rushed into the city of Tengxian in the late stage of the war. Seeing the little devil close at hand, the children of Chuan did not flinch, and they fought head-on with a knife. They have no heavy machine guns, no military pay, and no reinforcements, but no one admits it. They use their own clank and iron bones to practice the vow of generosity to death. At the end of the battle, there were only a dozen people left by the division commander Wang Mingzhang. When he retreated to the vicinity of the Xiguan Electric Light Factory, he was unfortunately discovered by the Japanese soldiers above the Xicheng Gate.
After a burst of intensive fires, Commander Wang Mingzhang, his chief of staff Zhao Weixian, Deputy Chief Luo Jiaxin and more than a dozen people died for the country at the same time. After Wang Mingzhang's death, it means that Teng County has fallen. But until noon, there were sporadic gunshots in the town of Teng County, and many of the dispersed Sichuan army skirmishers still insisted on resisting the Japanese army.
Behind the Japanese military city slope, the more than 300 severely wounded people in Teng County were unable to move around. Each of them was given a grenade or bullet. From beginning to end, none of them surrendered. During the entire defense battle of Teng County, the fighting will shown by the Sichuan Army even shocked the entire Western press corps.
After the defense of Teng County, all the more than 5,000 people who defended the Sichuan Army died in the battle. They wrote themselves with their lives and blood: the Japanese pirates will not be eliminated, and the oath of not returning home. In the entire Anti-Japanese War, Sichuan was one of the few nationalities that were not occupied by the Japanese. Not only did it bear one-third of the country’s military expenditures, but it also recruited more than three million soldiers. On average, one out of every five soldiers was Sichuan. People, they exchanged their blood for today's peace.
Tribute to the Sichuan Army! Tribute to all anti-Japanese heroes!
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