When the impatient Yoshio Uetsuki gave a morale-boosting speech in front of a newly arrived colonel captain, two major infantry captains and 10 captains of infantry squadrons, the 10 infantry squadrons exceeded 2,000 infantry.
In addition to 12 mountain guns, 12 field guns, nearly 20 infantry guns, and four heavy machine gun squadrons with 32 heavy machine guns, they were deployed to the front line to prepare for the final attack.
However, they were surprised to find that the Chinese, who had been holding on to their position without retreating for half a step, actually retreated.
Moreover, once you retreat, you retreat completely.
Including the mountain residents of Fululing Village, all escaped cleanly.
In the entire village, not even a chicken was seen, only chicken feathers were left everywhere.
Except for a few corpses of Chinese soldiers at the forefront of the position who had not yet had time to restrain themselves, not a single Chinese was seen in the entire Fulu Ridge.
The straight punch that Liangfu had last month, which he had exerted all his energy to punch, seemed to hit the air, and he dodged his waist.
After a single punch, Liangfu climbed to the highest peak of Fulu Ridge and had a panoramic view of the mountains. The positions that once caused more than a thousand casualties under his command were all in front of him.
But he didn't feel happy at all.
Did the Chinese know about his troop deployment? Or, the Chinese, who were already at the end of their game, had already planned to escape, but the timing of their escape coincided with the arrival of the main force of the 79th Infantry Regiment? Relatively speaking,
Concerning the former, Mr. Yue Yue is more inclined to the latter's judgment.
He finally understood why throughout the day, the Chinese tried their best to retrieve the remains of their dead soldiers at the front of the position. That was because they were about to retreat. In front of the empire's artillery fire and bombers, they could no longer defend themselves.
Without increasing the number of more than 2,000 troops, the Chinese will not be able to hold on.
In fact, what Liangfu thought last month was correct. He held on until four o'clock today, which was the time Liu Lang and Lieutenant General Zhao Shoushan discussed. Regardless of whether the main force of the 79th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army would come or not, it had been completed with huge sacrifices.
The 17th Division, which is tasked with blocking and luring the enemy, will retreat.
The main force of the Japanese 79th Infantry Regiment set off from Jingxing County, and the special team led by Niu Er used a field radio to report to the independent regiment headquarters. Liu Lang quickly forwarded the message to the 17th Division headquarters.
The lieutenant general of the army judged from this that the Japanese army, which had also been frightened, would not launch a larger-scale attack before the main force arrived. Therefore, the 17th Division held the position for another hour and a half longer than the agreed time.
That was to give the mountaineers who collected the remains of the martyrs a little more time, and to cover the evacuation of the supply troops, hospitals and wounded soldiers.
In the time and space of the past, the 17th Division, which fought with the Japanese invaders for 9 days with only more than 3,000 men left, had to retreat hastily after its defense line collapsed. The remains of thousands of soldiers were scattered all over the mountains and plains. Zhao Shoushan, who preferred to die rather than retreat, was forcibly carried away by his subordinates before leaving.
Seeing the remains all over the mountain, I burst into tears but couldn't do anything. I had to entrust the collection of the soldiers' remains to the local villagers, hoping that one day the 17th Division would fight back to Fululing and bury them again.
However, the cruel Japanese invaders did not allow the villagers of Fululing Village to collect the remains of the soldiers of the 17th Division. Several brave villagers quietly collected the remains of the soldiers but were brutally killed. Within a few days, 28 villagers were killed in a row.
Every family in Fululing Village wears filial piety.
It was not until the next spring, taking advantage of the opportunity of spring planting, that the mountain people collected the skeletal remains under the surveillance of the Japanese invaders and traitors.
"The first place is at the mouth of Baihuagou, where more than 500 remains are buried. They were seriously injured and sacrificed in this area after withdrawing from the main position. The second place is Maziliang, which the Japanese army called "Ichimonji Mountain"
"The remains of the heroes buried here were placed properly before Brigadier Geng Jinghui led his troops to retreat. The third place is Jijiayan Donggou, where villagers made three tombs and buried more than 500 remains.
, because the soil here is shallow, the villagers dismantled the stones that built the terraces, dug deep trenches, placed the remains in them, and then restored the terraces. The fourth place is Donggouzhang, which is the main burial place. The villagers built
Eight large tombs and many single tombs were built, and each large tomb was used to bury the remains of one, two hundred or more people. Those who could not be buried together were buried on the spot." This is the time when Liu Lang visited his wife Guan Fu.
Luling Village, the original text can be found in the village chronicle.
Compared with the more than 8,000 people he sacrificed, only half of the remains that have been recorded have been collected, but most of them have been integrated into the mountains and fields, integrating with the most magnificent rivers and mountains of the motherland.
That year, those few years, the azaleas on Fulu Ridge were as red as blood.
Since he has resurrected his life, Liu Lang will naturally not let the tragedy happen again. The most important thing for the Chinese people is to be buried in peace. The martyrs have sacrificed their lives, and their bodies cannot be left in the wild to be beaten by wind and rain. Therefore, during the morning battle,
Liu Lang and the Army Lieutenant General called up and specifically mentioned the issue of the regrets of the soldiers and the retreat of the villagers in Wululing Village.
This time, the Japanese invaders suffered more losses than ever before, and when their main force arrived but punched the air, would they turn their anger on the villagers? Liu Lang could not pin his hopes on the Japanese commander.
For real soldiers, they may have been soldiers before, but their fanatical lust and greed for China's beautiful mountains and rivers have turned most of them into devils.
Liu Lang, a little butterfly from the future, has seen too much of the devil's ferocity from between the lines of the information. Since the September 18th Incident in 1931, countless villages in China have been slaughtered, and even the capital has experienced dozens of massacres that shocked China and foreign countries.
A massacre of tens of thousands of people, with more than 30 million Chinese civilian casualties. It was one of the most horrific records of civilian casualties in the entire history of Chinese civilization. Even the brutal Manchu rule, which slaughtered entire cities at every turn,
The latter can only take advantage of it.
Therefore, starting from the morning, the 17th Division began to collect the remains of soldiers in a planned way, and handed them to Qingzhuang from behind to hide them in mountain caves and blast them for burial to prevent the Japanese army from digging graves to vent their anger. Maps of the burial places were drawn and handed over to the
The archives office of the division headquarters is under unified management to facilitate the reconstruction of the martyrs' tombs after the war.
The old, weak, women and children of Fululing Village went first to gather supplies and camp, while the field hospital retreated towards Niangziguan.
The 2nd Theater Command has agreed to temporarily withdraw the 17th Division from the battlefield for repairs. In addition to the heavy casualties of the 17th Division, of course Liu Lang's contribution is of course. Otherwise, a miscellaneous army will be placed at the most important Fululing Pass, and
However, the Central Army's strategic deployment on both wings can wipe out the entire 17th Division, just like it did in time and space.
The future general located in Qigen Village requested another battle from the Eastern Jin Dynasty Theater Command. The 386th Brigade, which had not yet had a specific combat mission, would replace the 17th Division and set up defenses in the mountains on the right side of Niangziguan to avoid breaking through the heavy Japanese troops in the important area of Wululing.
Make a roundabout attack towards Chaiyu Town and attack the rear of Niangziguan.
The Jindong Theater Command has received the casualty report from the 17th Division. Seeing that most of the 17th Division has indeed suffered casualties and is no longer able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of blocking the enemy, and that the 18th Group Army has taken the initiative to assume the heavy responsibility of defense, it sent a telegram to the 17th Division in the afternoon.
The Ministry agreed to withdraw it to the Niangziguan area for repairs.
At dusk, just before the main force of the Japanese invaders arrived, the remaining two regiments of the 17th Division, with more than 4,000 men, except for a small number of blocking troops, and young and strong villagers who helped collect the remains of the soldiers, all followed the mountain path.
Evacuate to Niangziguan area.
When the Japanese army captured the blood-stained position, the two companies left behind to stop the enemy withdrew into the mountains 20 minutes early. The dense woods blocked the sight of the Japanese reconnaissance planes, and there was nothing they could do even if Yoshio was furious.
That night, the sky above Wululing was full of flames. The Japanese army who had nowhere to vent their anger burned Wululing Village to ashes.
On the distant hilltop, the villagers driving pigs, sheep, and chickens and ducks looked at the location of their homes, and all of them burst into tears. Their homes were gone.
But no one dared to cry loudly, because this was still the front line, and there were thousands of Japanese invaders in front and behind them. However, there were only 6,000 of the tens of thousands of people in the 17th Division, and more than 1,000 were lying on oxcarts and stretchers.
, and they have also exhausted their ammunition.
Even the old trick of burying grenade and explosive packets on the position before leaving has been forced to give up, which shows how desperate the 17th Division has reached at this moment.
Fortunately, less than 20 miles away from the main defense area of Niangziguan, the 17th Division was waiting for the supporting troops.
Liu Lang, the leader of the Independent Regiment, personally led the 3rd Battalion of the 772nd Regiment, and the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment came to greet them.
"Salute!" Following Liu Lang's low roar, all the officers and soldiers of the two teams belonging to different sequences, including Liu Lang, lined up on both sides of the mountain road, expressing their sincere respect for the remnant soldiers who had been withdrawn from the front line.
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The officers and soldiers of the 17th Division burst into tears, but they did not stop and moved forward with their heads held high.
They have reason to hold their heads high. One of their divisions undertook the attacks of an infantry regiment, two artillery brigades and dozens of Japanese aircraft. They completed the task of blocking the enemy for five days. Although they temporarily retreated, the division commander said that they would always
One day they will come back to take the brothers back to Huihu County, Shaanxi Province.
Naturally, they will cry. In fact, they do not want this honor. Because, in exchange for all this, the sacrifice of 6,000 brothers, almost three infantry regiments were wiped out! Not to mention those who died on the front line, only those who were seriously injured were transported back
More than 500 wounded soldiers in the hospital died in two days, and the director of the field hospital almost committed suicide because of this.
It's not that he doesn't want to save! It's just that he can't save them alive. There are too many wounded, and the stored medicines are no longer enough. The 50 boxes of anti-inflammatory medicines Liu Lang sent earlier seemed like a lot, but when they got to the battlefield, they realized that they were really a drop in the bucket.
Moreover, most of the injuries suffered by many soldiers were shell shock injuries. On the outside, there was no trace of blood at all, but in fact, there was almost no chance of surgery. They died silently a few hours later under the helpless eyes of doctors.
"Brother Liu, I can't help you." When he saw Liu Lang for the first time, the Army Lieutenant General had tears in his eyes, but he looked guilty.
His 17th Division has completed the task of blocking the enemy discussed before the war, and even completed it beyond the ordinary. The 40th Infantry Brigade suffered heavy casualties, and at least one infantry brigade of Japanese troops will be removed from the 20th Division. Where did he come from?