In the late autumn of 1937, hundreds of thousands of Sichuan troops, dressed in singlets, shorts, leggings, and straw sandals, carrying bamboo hats and broadswords, and armed with inferior rifles, quickly left Sichuan and rushed to battlefields across the country.

Tian Wenyi's "Bloody Battle - Sichuan Army's Expedition", published by China Literature and History Press in March 2019

7. The Japanese army's small steel cannon was mysteriously hoisted towards Yang Sen

Perhaps it was because of the dark night that the Japanese army did not launch a desperate counterattack. After the victory of the battle, Yang Sen called to ask how the Liu Yuqing 26 division was doing? Commander Liu reported that the losses were quite heavy. All officers below the regiment and battalion levels were killed in the battle, and there were not many troops left.

"Miscellaneous Notes on the Shameful House" by Liu Yuqing (pictures from the Internet)

It was dawn, and the rain that had been falling all night had stopped. The victory was hard-won, and Yang Sen was happy. No matter how his adjutant Yang Wu tried to dissuade him, he insisted on going to the front line to inspect the situation. Not only that, because the commander of the 88th Division Sun Yuanliang was about to bring people to take over the position from them. In order to hand over the position in a grand manner, he specially changed into a general's uniform and wore a glittering general star.

"Commander, you can't do this..." Yang Wu, who followed him with two soldiers, was persuading him all the way. His chatter really affected Yang Sen's good mood. In the early morning light, we walked forward along the muddy road. The scene before him was terrifying. There are ruins everywhere, and the ground is littered with corpses of both the enemy and ourselves. Some of the swaying pools were red, with blood floating on them and broken limbs. Some dilapidated buildings that were still there yesterday have all collapsed now. There is a collapsed church that is still burning. The smoking beams form a huge fire not far away. The black smoke column rises from there and slowly spreads towards the sky, turning the otherwise fine sky into a blaze. Pollution has become a gloomy mourning curtain.

After turning a corner, we arrived at the forward position guarded by my nephew, Commander Yang Hanzhong of the 134th Division. Several buildings that appeared on the left and right sides were knocked down by enemy artillery last night, and then were swept through by machine guns one by one. They were swept away like the remains of several standing skeletons, and the air was filled with a disgusting smell.

's eyes lit up. In front of him, across a fairly wide road, was the Japanese army that was driven out last night. Behind the Japanese troops, we can see the distant Huangpu River on the horizon and the array of high-rise buildings on the river bank. The sound of gunfire had ceased, and the enemy and we, who had been fighting fiercely all night, were like two boxing giants, both collapsed with bruises and bruises from exhaustion. The enemy-occupied area across the road was now calm and refreshing. Many officers and soldiers here are crouching in hastily built trenches or in fortresses, aiming guns at the opposite side. Many soldiers who were extremely tired fell asleep holding their guns.

Along the way, when they saw the military commander who suddenly appeared, the officers and soldiers quickly stood at attention and saluted the military commander. Only Yang Wu next to him was annoying and kept insisting on asking the commander to go back. Yang Sen felt angry, so he casually broke off a green willow branch from the willow tree on the roadside and was about to beat it to Yang Wu. At this time, something happened!

Hearing the sound of "Boom!", Yang Sen didn't know what happened. Yang Wu, who was accompanying him, jumped up like a frog and rushed toward him. Just when Yang Sen was thrown to the ground by Yang Wu, there was an explosion. It turned out that the Japanese who were huddled in a dilapidated building on the other side of the road noticed from a high position that a general was walking across the street.

(To be continued)

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Source: "Bloody Battle - Sichuan Army Expedition" (written by Tian Wenyi), published by China Literature and History Press in March 2019

Author: Tian Wenyi

Illustrations: Fang Zhi Sichuan

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