Chapter 1 Soldiers and civilians made sacrifices during the Anti-Japanese War
On July 7, 1937 AD, the Shengyang Army launched a brazen attack on the Chinese garrison at Lugou Bridge in Peking. The 29th Army of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army rose up to fight back. Thus, the Chinese anti-Japanese army and people began an eight-year arduous struggle.
The war against the Japanese invaders.
In February 1940, the 129th Division of the 18th Group Army was encircled by the Shengyang Army in a certain area in central Shanxi. In order to cover the transfer of the division's offices and field hospitals, the 386th Brigade of the 18th Group Army and one column each of the 1st Column of Youth Fighting the Enemy to the Death were deployed in Cang
On the three hills of Yunling's main position, there was a fierce battle with more than 3,000 soldiers of the Shengyang Army. The 18th Group Army launched 13 consecutive attacks and launched a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the Shengyang Army... A new regiment of a division of the 18th Group
Under the command of the regiment leader Li Yunlong, he led the entire regiment to launch counterattacks against the Shengyang Army several times. The battle was extremely fierce. The main peak position changed hands repeatedly, and both the offensive and defensive sides suffered heavy casualties.
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The 3rd Regiment of the 4th Brigade of the First Army of North China of the Shengyang Army attacked the main peak position of Cangyun Ridge many times. After capturing the main peak position, they were unable to establish a firm foothold at the dangerous heights. They were repeatedly temporarily transferred to the new defensive regiment.
The defenders of the echelon position successfully counterattacked and regained the position.
In order to observe the battle situation closely, the headquarters of the 3rd Regiment moved forward to a cliff about two kilometers away from the offensive position. Regiment Captain Nobutetsu Sakata received a telegram from the staff officer Lieutenant Colonel Uratomo. The content of the telegram was that the brigade
The commander informed the military intelligence and conveyed the order to the North China Front Army Headquarters to the 3rd Regiment to capture the main peak position of Cangyun Ridge before 12 noon. The enemy defenders must be completely annihilated and no one of them will slip through the net.
The two frontline officers of the Rising Sun Invading Army analyzed the previous battles and concluded that the opponent was the main force. Then they issued a new round of attack orders, telling the attacking troops to capture the front positions and capture the opponent's military officers alive.<
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On the main peak position of Cangyun Ridge, a new regiment of defenders is reinforcing the position and replenishing bullets and wooden handle grenades from the rear.
The regiment leader Li Yunlong inspected the forward positions with a determined expression on his face. He looked at the reinforcements that had been added and thought about how to continue fighting with his soldiers.
He stepped aside and passed the soldiers carrying the supply boxes, and walked to Zhang Dabiao, the commander of the first battalion who was lying behind the trench parapet bunker to observe the enemy's movements. He called out to the commander of the battalion. When the commander heard the regiment commander calling him, he responded first.
He said "Yes." and then walked quickly to Li Yunlong.
Li Yunlong asked: "Zhang Dabiao, have the division headquarters and field hospital been moved?"
Zhang Dabiao replied: "Report to the head of the regiment that everyone has evacuated."
Li Yunlong groaned and said: "This time we can let go and fight the Japanese. Go and grab someone alive and ask which army the Japanese on the other side belong to?"
Zhang Dabiao answered confidently: "The Bantian Regiment of the 4th Brigade of the Shengyang Army."
Hearing this, Li Yunlong showed six white teeth and laughed. He was very satisfied with his subordinate's answer. He made a strange tune: "Sakata United! Why does it sound so familiar?"
When Zhang Dabiao saw the regiment leader smiling and asking questions, he also showed a smile and replied: "In the last Yunling counter-mopping operation, the 386th Brigade Independent Regiment had an encounter with this Bantian Regiment. The regiment leader Kong Jie was injured, and the political commissar
Li Wenying died.
"You said that he is our brigade's mortal enemy."
When Li Yunlong heard the prompt, he obviously thought of his fallen comrades. He pursed his lips and said bitterly: "Damn it, we bumped into each other today, so he's unlucky.
"I was just thinking about venting my anger on my two old comrades! He's here again. Sakata, that bastard, I have to smash him to pieces."
Zhang Dabiao looked at Li Yunlong and spoke calmly: "Commander, they are the elite of the Japanese. This time we will..."
Li Yunlong obviously got angry, and he yelled obscenities: "What the hell are they elites? Ah! I don't believe in this evil, I am beating elites.
"Pass my order: 'Everyone, fix your bayonets and prepare to attack!'"
Zhang Dabiao asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Attack? Commander, the enemy is attacking now!"
Li Yunlong added to his favorite general: "Didn't you hear the order? Ah! Listen carefully, ah, for this reason, we will attack without knowing anything else."
When Zhang Dabiao heard what the regiment commander said, he immediately conveyed the attack order on the spot: "Everyone, fix your bayonets and prepare to attack!"
After hearing the order, the surrounding gunmen took out their military bayonets from their scabbards and installed them in the sleeves or latches under the muzzle; the grenadiers opened their supply boxes and placed wooden-handled grenades in the sandbags they had handy.
Above; the machine gun shooter opened the safety and pulled the receiver. The soldiers lying in the trench nearby were informed by the communications personnel and quickly made preparations for the battle.
Li Yunlong was lying on a crenel, holding a military telescope and looking at the opposite position.
Several Shengyang Army soldiers were carrying supply boxes, and two soldiers who were shaking the wheel and retreating caught Li Yunlong's attention. The camera zoomed out, and he saw three or five soldiers on a cliff setting up two poles about three people high.
, there is also a wooden shelf under the cliff.
Li Yunlong stood up, holding the telescope, and said with joy: "Haha, God help me, you little bastard can't escape."
With that said, he gave the order to the guard Huzi: Go and call Wang Chengzhu over.
Huzi took the order and turned around to leave.
After a while, Wang Chengzhu, whose face was covered with gray and gray, ran over and performed a military salute behind the bunker: "Report to the regimental commander, Wang Chengzhu is waiting for instructions."
Li Yunlong put down the military telescope, took a step back, gave way to the observation position at the crenel, and said: "Come here, have you seen the tent on the hillside?"
Wang Chengzhu stepped forward and took a look, saying he saw it.
Li Yunlong looked at Wang Chengzhu and asked: "Can your cannon be enough?"
Wang Chengzhu did not answer immediately, but stretched his right arm flat and raised his thumb towards the tent on the uphill slope. He closed his left eye and opened his right eye, then closed his right eye and opened his left eye, and used the thumb distance method to roughly estimate
He checked the distance between the target and himself. He answered Li Yunlong's question: "Captain, the distance is too far and it is beyond the range."
Li Yunlong said firmly: "The tent must be the headquarters of the little devil. This little devil is cunning enough to set up the tent outside our range.
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"How about it? Think of a way to fuck him!"
Wang Chengzhu thought for a moment about the distance he had just estimated using the eye jump method, and responded to Li Yunlong's request: "Commander, move forward five hundred meters. That's OK!"
Li Yunlong took the call: "Okay, I will send you to the position of 500 meters. Are you sure?"
Wang Chengzhu took a deep breath and turned his head to look at Li Yunlong and said yes, then lowered his eyes and whispered: "But, commander, we only have two shells left."
After Li Yunlong heard about the inventory of artillery shells, he put on a straight face and started to get angry: "What did you say? You are such a waste of money, why don't you use it sparingly?"
Wang Chengzhu was yelled at, his eyes wandered, and he replied tremblingly: "Regiment... Commander." After thinking for a moment, his voice became louder: "You have to speak with your conscience! When the Japanese attacked just now,
, then you shouted the loudest.
"Zhuzhu, kill that heavy machine gun for me; Zhuzhu, you are so blind that you blew up that grenade for me. Now you don't admit it, do you think I wasted it?"
Li Yunlong took on the posture of a regiment leader and reprimanded: "You kid still dare to complain, be careful and I will beat you up!"
Wang Chengzhu was frightened by the group leader's threatening words. He lowered his eyebrows and looked away, as if his body had collapsed by half an inch.
Li Yunlong used his big stick strategy, exposed his sixteen white teeth, smiled seductively and said: "When the battle is over, I will reward you... half a pound of sweet potatoes burned.
"Ah! But you have to think carefully about how to use two artillery shells to knock out the enemy's headquarters!
"Ah! I'm telling you the ugly story ahead. If you miss, let alone the sweet potatoes, I will shoot you. Do you hear me?"
Wang Chengzhu received Li Yunlong's wish and encouragement, his expression softened a lot, and he replied loudly: "Yes, I promise to complete the task."
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One side of the main peak position of Cangyun Ridge is the defense area of the 358th Regiment of the Shanxi-Sui Army.
Chu Yunfei, the leader of the 358th Regiment, stood at the observation post added on the top of the attic of the city wall, holding a military telescope and looking at the smoke-filled battlefield. Chief of Staff Fang Ligong boarded the post to report military intelligence to the regiment commander.
The military officer in charge of the defense exchanged details about the Shengyang Army troops and analyzed the friendly forces that were not as well equipped as his own. When faced with the encirclement of enemy forces that needed to avoid their sharp edges and might be surrounded and annihilated, Chu Yunfei deliberately provided help to his friendly neighbors who were caught in a fierce battle.
Some assistance from the troops was blocked by Fang Ligong, who was concerned about him, on the grounds of a written order from the theater commander.
It is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders, so Captain Chu, who was born in the fifth period of Huangpu Period, had to order to closely monitor the enemy's movements and cautiously sit on the sidelines.
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The commander of the new regiment led the guards to the forward position, looked at the commander of the first battalion who took off his military cap and asked: "How is it? Are the commandos ready?"
The first battalion commander replied: "Commander, just watch it! We are not as good as the little devils in wheel firearms, but when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, we Chinese are his ancestors.
"I told the brothers, let's teach the little devils how to behave today. It's okay to disrespect our ancestors!"
The regiment leader was very satisfied after hearing the words of his brave general to inspire the troops. He smiled and cooperated with the pre-war mobilization: "In today's battle, you have to show the momentum of the swordsman team back then, chop off a few more Japs' heads, and give me a long face.<
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"If you don't succeed in this battle," Kan Zuoyuan said in a low voice to Zhang Dabiao, "the brigade commander will have to send me to the Military Justice Department."
Zhang Dabiao showed a complacent look on his face stained with gray, and he lowered his voice and replied: "Commander, if we defeat the Bantian Alliance, will the brigade commander not make things difficult for you?"
Li Yunlong, the group leader, is well aware of his temperament in following an old leader: "It's not that simple.
"Hey, look! Five hundred meters ahead." He picked up the military telescope and motioned to Zhang Dabiao to pick up the military telescope as well. "The troops attack five hundred meters forward and hold it to buy time for the artillery.
"As long as I kill Sakata's headquarters with one shot, the brigade commander won't do anything to me. Hehe, if things go wrong, you'll have to buy me a drink!"
Zhang Dabiao saw that Li Yunlong was still thinking about making jokes about the brigade commander before attacking, and the corner of his mouth twisted: "Commander, you only attack 500 meters?
"Isn't this too satisfying? Just save the shells and we should go straight to his command post."
When Li Yunlong heard this, he immediately interrupted: "No, I can't fight like you in a tough battle. Ang, you can't just be dumb, you have to learn to use your brain.
"Don't let yourself get caught without hitting someone. We won't do a loss-making business." He picked up the military telescope and looked at the enemy position in the distance, and gave further orders to Zhang Dabiao, who looked frustrated on the side, "
Kill the enemy's headquarters first, and then charge."
The first battalion commander Zhang Dabiao reported yes, and then turned around to convey the attack order to the commandos.
Just as the commandos were gearing up to set off from the assembly area, a communications soldier found Li Yunlong and saluted him: "Report to the regiment commander! I just received an order from the brigade headquarters. The brigade commander ordered: The new regiment will retreat alternately from Yujialing to Yujialing."
direction to break through. The 771st and 772nd regiments are responsible for covering the new regiment."
When Li Yunlong heard the oral order, he had a rebellious mentality: "Retreat? The bayonets of the Sakata Regiment are on my nose. It's a shame they can think of retreating now.
"It's a breakout anyway, where will it be different when we exit?"
Zhang Dabiao, who was wiping his machete at the side, happened to see the command sent by the communications soldier and Li Yunlong's reaction, and analyzed: "Captain, the direction of Yujialing is the weak point of the Japanese encirclement. You will have greater confidence in breaking out from there."
Li Yunlong turned his face with an expression of hatred: "What do you know? Hey! As soon as we retreat, this bastard Sakata will definitely come forward.
"At that time we will be even more passive." After that, he turned to the correspondent who was waiting for a reply and said loudly: "Correspondent, report to the brigade headquarters: Just say that the new regiment is already engaged with the enemy in front, and there is nothing we can do.
Withdraw from the battle.
"In order to protect the brothers' troops from successfully breaking out of the encirclement, Li Yunlong, the leader of the new regiment, is determined to lead the entire regiment to attack the enemy, defeat the Bantian regiment, and break out of the encirclement from the front."
Zhang Dabiao saw Li Yunlong telling lies with his eyes open, and couldn't bear that he would be punished for disobeying orders on the battlefield, so he tried to persuade him: "Captain, what you said makes sense. But... this is disobeying the orders of your superiors."
Li Yunlong listened, but knowing the situation of the war, he decided to carry out the original plan. He turned his head, straightened his face and loudly called the name of the first battalion commander: "Zhang Dabiao!"
Zhang Dabiao subconsciously answered: "Yes."
Li Yunlong took on the posture of a regiment leader and gave the order: "Stand at attention."
Zhang Dabiao heard the command and stood up straight, waiting for further instructions from Li Yunlong.
Li Yunlong pursed his lips and said to the first battalion commander with a determined expression: "Let me ask you a question: 'Who is the leader of the new regiment?'"
When Zhang Dabiao heard this, he felt frustrated and understood that Li Yunlong had to bear the responsibility of disobeying his superiors' orders. He closed his eyes slightly and replied in a deep voice: "Li Yunlong."
Li Yunlong was dissatisfied with his subordinate's expression and reply. He stared at Zhang Dabiao and said sternly: "Louder!"
Zhang Dabiao looked at Li Yunlong and replied loudly: "Report! The leader of the new regiment is Li Yunlong! Zhang Dabiao, commander of the first battalion, has finished his answer."
Li Yunlong was satisfied now, and believed that his brave general understood what he meant, and said: "Execute the order!"
The commander of the first battalion claimed that he was continuing to carry out the offensive order of the regiment commander.
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At the command post of the 3rd Regiment of the Shengyang Army, Lieutenant Colonel Uratomo inspected the offensive position and suggested to the military commander that the 3rd Battalion should be dispatched to undertake the new round of offensive that was about to begin.
Captain Sakata paid attention to the military intelligence he had received previously, and combined with the progress of the previous battle, determined that the main force of the 129th Division was on the opposite side. When issuing the attack order, he pressed on the Fifth Group, which had suffered a lot in the previous attack, to provide support troops to cooperate with the attack.<
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The Shengyang Army began to attack, and the heavy machine guns with a longer range on the offensive position began to conduct fire tests on the opposite position. The captain of the third brigade sent two teams forward to conduct fire reconnaissance.
The invading troops formed groups of two, forming three or four skirmish lines, and walked out of the attack assembly area with rifles in hand.
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At the front of the new regiment's defensive position, the commandos, led by the first battalion commander Zhang Dabiao, were about to launch a counterattack.
The regiment leader Li Yunlong stood behind a sandbag parapet at the assembly area and was doing the final pre-war mobilization. He loudly said in an inflammatory tone: "Brothers! They say that a kid can only fight with a bayonet twice, but I don't believe this evil. p>
"We have two shoulders carrying one head, who is afraid of whom? Ah! We, the new group, were not frightened, not to mention a few little devils. Even if the Lord of Hell came, I would have to pull off some of his beards.
"As he spoke, he raised the machete in his hand, "I told you, we meet on a narrow road..."
"The brave wins!" The commandos were obviously aroused. They raised their machetes and shouted loudly to encourage themselves.
After Li Yunlong's mobilization was completed, his morale was high for a while, and he hurriedly shouted: "Brothers, charge!"
"Charge! Charge!" Zhang Dabiao, commander of the first battalion, commanded the commando to launch a countercharge against the enemy's attacking troops. The bugler blew the charge horn at the right time.
The soldiers who were responsible for pulling out landmines on the defensive position saw the invading soldiers rushing up the mountain road and quickly fired the pre-planted defensive mines to inflict certain damage on the enemy. When the commandos saw that the enemy soldiers were injured, they stepped forward as fast as two feet.
Three points, I want to pick up a soft persimmon and squeeze it.
Soldiers in blue-gray military uniforms and khaki-colored military uniforms rushed out of their positions to fight for their lives. I cut you with a knife, and you stabbed me with a gun. Every minute and every second, there were soldiers on both sides of the battlefield with red bayonets because they were stabbed in vital parts or
My hands and feet were cut and I lost mobility.
Soldiers with knives and ragged clothes and bloody swords became red-eyed when they saw people in uniforms with different colors from their own, holding rifles with bayonets, clenching the machete in their hands to greet the target, chopping or stabbing until the opponent stopped.
Until you move again.
Soldiers in blue and gray military uniforms worked in groups of three and five in back, killing skirmishers in groups of two in khaki military uniforms in their attack path. Taking advantage of the enemy's follow-up troops not following up, they broke into the offensive position in one fell swoop. p>
The commandos organized a defense on the spot and temporarily moved their position to the enemy's position. Seeing that the tactical goal was achieved, the regiment leader Li Yunlong quickly organized a mortar team that followed the commando's actions to find a location with suitable vision and range, and prepared to bombard the enemy.
Command post.
The 11th-year-old direct-fire infantry gun is a light mortar with a caliber of 70 mm, a projectile of 2.5 kilograms, and a maximum range of 1,550 meters. Because the gun weighs only 63 kilograms, it is easy to carry and deploy.
One of the main firepower of infantry.
The artillery squad quickly lifted the mortar floor to the temporary flattened artillery position. After adjusting the shooting elevation, the main shooter Wang Chengzhu raised his right arm and used the eye-jumping method to confirm the range before launching at the target command post.
Li Yunlong was anxious, fearing that the enemy commander would see through his attack target and leave the command post to escape danger. He couldn't help but urge: "Hurry up!"
Wang Chengzhu did not dare to neglect, so he quickly took the cannonball and put it into the mouth of the barrel, let go, and then leaned down and lowered his head to avoid accidental injury.
With a bang, the smoke from the mortar muzzle dispersed. With a bang, two radio antenna poles about three people high on the cliff in the distance were blown up.
When Li Yunlong saw that he had not hit his original target, he couldn't help but became anxious and yelled: "Zhuli, you hit it crookedly, the headquarters is below."
Wang Chengzhu pushed the mortar back to the firing position, took a deep breath and re-aimed, and once again used the eye-tap method to confirm the target distance. After fine-tuning the firing angle, he took the last grenade from the deputy shooter and put it into the mortar barrel.
Let go and take a step back, for fear of affecting accuracy.
With a bang, gunpowder smoke rose, and the cold wind of late winter and early spring in Jinzhong blew the smoke curling from the mouth of the gun barrel. With a bang, the tent near the command post was bombed. Lieutenant Colonel Uratomo threw himself at the regiment leader, trying to use his body to block the fatal blow from his superiors.
Shrapnel flying.
Seeing the collapse of the tent in the distance, Li Yunlong couldn't help but praise: "The pillars are well built!"
Wang Chengzhu saw a burst of smoke and dust at the target, his eyes widened, and he exclaimed: "Did you hit it?"
When I heard the leader's praise, I was excited for a moment and stood up and shouted: "It's a hit!"
At this moment, the enemy's heavy machine gun suppressive fire swept across, and Wang Chengzhu, who was standing up, was shot several times in the chest and fell backwards.
Li Yunlong turned from joy to surprise, and cried out sadly: "Zilla!" He wanted to check the injuries of his subordinates, but at this time, the bombardment of the enemy's headquarters had been successful, the enemy's command failed, and the fighter plane was fleeting.
He couldn't help but call the health workers to investigate Wang Chengzhu's injuries. He left the artillery squad to collect the weapons and wounded, and called on the commandos and other breakout soldiers who came out of the defensive position to continue the frontal breakout: "Brothers, charge!"
Rush through the enemy's echelon positions and arrive at the bombed command post.
Looking at the corpses on the ground that were killed by the bombing, Li Yunlong asked Zhang Dabiao: "Dabiao, look, how many big fish have been caught in this net?"
Zhang Dabiao looked at the shoulder insignia on the corpse's khaki military uniform and replied: "The regiment leader really caught a big fish. There is a colonel, two lieutenants, and a major. This must be Sakata's headquarters."
Li Yunlong burst out laughing: "That's great, I killed the headquarters of a regiment with one shot. Go back, brigade commander, don't even think of shooting me.
"Besides, why would he want to shoot me? He has to buy me a drink!"
While Zhang Dabiao organized soldiers to clean up the loot in the bombed command post, he persuaded Li Yunlong: "Commander, how about a breakout?"
Li Yunlong heard this and issued an attack order on the spot: "Continue to attack and fight out!"
The New Regiment rushed forward and formed an encirclement, covering the division headquarters and the field hospital and moving to defend on the spot. During this period, there were many casualties. In the frontal breakout, there were countless injuries and sacrifices. The guard of the New Regiment leader used cluster grenades and
His young life opened up the enemy's heavy machine gun positions that blocked the way for his comrades-in-arms, and he lay forever in the bleak cold wind of February.
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This plot is from the first 22 minutes of the first episode of the 2005 TV series Sword. Some dialogues have been shortened and omitted. Thanks to the screenwriter, actors and crew.
Note: Duliang's novel begins with the battle of Li Jiapo, the content is relatively dry, around the third episode of the TV series in 2005.