In the Battle of Songjiang, the newly established light infantry battalion of the Independent Regiment, the Police Reconnaissance Battalion, was already fighting fiercely. The battalion commander Zhao Changfeng himself was seriously injured and lost an arm. The first company commander and deputy battalion commander Yan Qiguan died in the battle. The deputy battalion commander Lei Xiong acted as the police reconnaissance battalion.
The battalion commander and police reconnaissance battalion suffered nearly one-third casualties; the Avenge Battalion also showed the bloody spirit of the avenge battalion. Battalion Commander Xie Changlong died in battle, and nearly one-half of the entire battalion suffered casualties; the Panshi Battalion had its own battalion commander Ling Hong and below.
, the entire battalion can return to the Guangde defense line, but only 32 people.
At that time, the war was in chaos and it was impossible to replenish any establishment. Therefore, the regiment deputy Zhang Ruhao, who was temporarily the supreme commander of the independent regiment, decided to temporarily merge the three battalions to form the second battalion before the Battle of Guangde, with Lei Xiong as the second battalion.
Battalion Commander.
The independent regiment was transformed from the pre-war six infantry battalions of the First Infantry Battalion, the Bayonet Battalion, the Death Battalion, the Rock Battalion, the Shame Battalion, and the Police Reconnaissance Battalion into four infantry battalions. Although the other units also suffered heavy losses, their establishment was not
The military strength has dropped sharply from more than 5,000 before the Songjiang War to more than 3,500, a reduction of nearly 2,000 people.
The casualties of the 23rd Army Guard Regiment were also considerable, reduced from 3,300 before the war to 2,300.
The two regiments joined forces together with the 144th Division, 145th Division, 146th Division, 147th Division, and the 13th Independent Brigade of the 23rd Group Army, and were ordered to guard the Changxing area in Guangde. More than 60,000 people in the entire army were required to defend the capital.
The most important lifeline.
That is the only way for the capital to evacuate from the interior, whether it is civilians or soldiers. If the Guangde defense line is lost, not only will the Japanese army reach the capital, but the people of the capital will have no way to escape.
As for the waterway, at the beginning of the battle to defend the capital, because of General Tang's "impassioned", ships of all sizes at the ferry had been burned, and the surging river had become a dead end for all soldiers and civilians in the capital.
Long before the war, Liu Lang had already discussed with Liu Xiang that if the Japanese invaders attacked the capital in three parts, the 23rd Army must guard the Guangde area. Liu Xiang, who was seriously ill, insisted on this decision, and he and the former time and space
Likewise, most of the elite members of the 23rd Army were dispatched.
The Japanese Tenth Army suffered heavy losses in Songjiang. Not only was the Sixth Division, the most powerful division on the surface, the "Strongest Division on the Surface," completely wiped out, but the 18th Division, which had just been rebuilt in September, once again proved that the Japanese invaders could not defeat them.
They are just paper tigers. Without the support of heavy artillery and aircraft, they are nothing more than scum.
Two divisions, two heavy artillery brigades, five light destroyers and dozens of bombers besieged the Chinese side, which numbered no more than 20,000 people. Although the Chinese army was severely damaged, they were actually beaten until they cried.
After they spent a whole day defeating the last line of defense of the Chinese soldiers, they found that they were no longer able to pursue the main force of the retreating Chinese army. The two divisions could still use less than 3 full infantry troops.
To form an infantry regiment, you must know that before the war, they had the strength of 8 infantry regiments.
After this battle, for Yanagawa Heisuke, he was like a bastard gnawing on bones. He didn't eat much meat, but his big teeth fell out and he shed a mouthful of blood.
The dignified 10th Army is basically a "death before departure" type. If it continues to "defeat the superior" as it did in the past time and space, it will undoubtedly be a death-seeking behavior. But the Japanese army not only has Yanagawa Heisuke and Tani Hisao
Such war maniacs, as well as Japanese royal princes like Kanin Gong Zaijin and Asaka Palace Hatohiko, who have a lot of say in the military, basically represent the attitude of the Japanese royal family towards this war.
Under the leadership of Kanin Gong Zaijin, King Asaka Kyuhiko was appointed as the commander of the Japanese Songhu dispatched army from a idle military counselor, and replaced Matsui Iwane as the supreme commander of all Japanese front lines in Songhu. The Japanese army suffered a brief setback.
Then began a large-scale attack on the Chinese capital.
The Japanese army with more than 120,000 troops was encircling the Chinese capital from three directions. The Japanese army attacking Guangde was an old opponent of the Independent Regiment. The remaining one and a half divisions of the decimated Tenth Army, but they still had
The Kunisaki detachment of the Fifth Division was urgently transferred from the North China battlefield.
The Japanese independent detachment was actually a mixed brigade composed of an infantry brigade as the main body, supplemented by cavalry, artillery, engineers, and supplies. Its combat capability was stronger than that of an infantry brigade, with a strength of more than 8,000 people.
Although the Tenth Army was completely beaten in the Battle of Songjiang, with less than half of the three infantry divisions remaining, there is still one heavy artillery brigade, and its combat effectiveness is still fierce. Together with the newly entered Kunisaki Detachment, the total strength is as high as 50,000.
people.
For the 60,000 Chinese defenders, the Battle of Guangde was still a bloody battle, and it was a bloody battle from which one could not retreat even half a step.
Although Liu Lang had no personal experience, the battle reports sent from the independent regiment headquarters showed the mountains of corpses and seas of blood that week before Liu Lang's eyes.
On December 1, the 145th Division stationed in Si'an County took the lead in engaging the Japanese invaders. In the middle of the night for three days, Si'an County was bombarded by Japanese heavy artillery with nearly 10,000 shells. The county town changed hands five times and finally fell. The position fell, and the remaining strength of the 145th Division was only
With only one infantry battalion to survive, the commander of the 145th Division, Lieutenant General Rao, committed suicide on the front line and became a benevolent man. The whole world is saddened.
On December 4, the 144th Division fought bloody battles with the Japanese invaders for two days and nights, losing more than half of its troops and losing the strategic location of the Celestial Hill. Lieutenant General Guo, the commander of the 144th Division, was seriously injured.
On December 2, our Independent Regiment and Guard Regiment faced off against the Japanese Kokusaki Detachment and the 128th Infantry Brigade of the 114th Division at the defense line from the boundary monument to Guangde City.
The Japanese army had more than 13,000 troops, with aircraft and heavy artillery to assist them. Although after the Battle of Songjiang, our two regiments only had less than 6,000 people left, but no one was afraid of fighting. From the day they separated from the regiment, the whole army
Everyone in the army is determined to fight to the death with the invaders who invade our capital. In this battle, I am invincible.
On the night of December 2nd, during the day, our bayonet battalion repelled eight consecutive attacks by an infantry regiment of the Japanese invaders, killing and wounding more than a thousand Japanese invaders. However, our bayonet battalion also suffered more than 500 casualties, and the bayonet battalion was forced to abandon the first line of defense.
Defense line, retreat to the second line of defense in the city.
From the morning of December 3 to the evening of December 7, our unit fought in the streets with the Japanese invaders who entered the city. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. Unfortunately, Lieutenant Colonel Zihua, the commander of the first battalion of our unit, died in the line of duty. Major Zhang Tianyou, deputy commander of the death battalion,
Seriously injured, Lieutenant Colonel Cheng Yuanshan, deputy of the guard regiment, died in the line of duty, Major Zhang Hongzhen, commander of the artillery battalion, died in the line of duty. Both the new infantry battalion commanders also died. The company and platoon-level officers of our two regiments suffered particularly heavy casualties.
On the night of December 7, according to the order of the Army Group Headquarters, our unit was ordered to withdraw from the empty city and retreat to the boundary marker.
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Seeing this, Liu Lang was already filled with tears. Although he already knew that the battle happened seven years ago, Liu Lang was still heartbroken. The deputy commander of the lieutenant colonel of the company guard regiment and the main battalion commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion Ye Zihua
They all need to personally participate in the frontline battles and die in battle. You can imagine the intensity of the fighting on that battlefield.
The reason why company and platoon-level officers suffered heavy casualties has a lot to do with the fighting style of the Independent Regiment. Under the personal leadership of Liu Lang, who has red genes in his bones, the mantra of the officers of the Independent Regiment on the battlefield has always been "
Brothers, follow me!" The lower-level officers took the lead. The combat effectiveness and morale of the officers and soldiers of the independent regiment were not to mention, but the casualty ratio of the officers was naturally much higher than that of other units.
Although the death of an officer on the battlefield will have a certain impact on the command of the army, the Independent Regiment has also developed a complete command succession system. From him onwards, the chief officer of each department dies in battle, and his deputy takes over. If the deputy dies in battle, the first sequence of the next level
The chief officer takes over.
In the Battle of Guangde, 60,000 Sichuan troops resisted the heavy Japanese troops for 10 days at the cost of more than three-fifths of the battle losses. More than 300,000 soldiers and civilians of the capital were evacuated through this land passage. In this battle, 30,000 were exchanged for 30
The Battle of Wan is known as the most heroic battle of the 23rd Army of the Sichuan Army.
But the capital was inevitably lost.
The two regiments, the Independent Regiment and the Guard Regiment, fought two consecutive battles. However, the strength of the first regiment could not be replenished due to the unfinished war. With Liu Xiang's consent, the two regiments were temporarily combined into one regiment to continue to deal with the next battle, and the guard regiment was retained.
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During the evacuation of the capital, four people including Zeng Shui and Shan Ying rushed to the capital to assist Liu Xueyuan and a group of newspaper reporters as they retreated to the rear. However, Zeng Shui chose to return to the capital alone and never returned to the team again.
In the next two months, there were rumors that a lurking gunman was ambushing the Japanese invaders in the capital. The Japanese invaders suffered heavy casualties. Ten thousand people were mobilized to search the city several times, but in the end, the last gunshots in the capital ended in the spring and summer of the following year.
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Liu Lang could only look up to the sky and sigh. Of course he knew why Zeng Shui made such a choice. All four gunboats under Comet's command were damaged that day, and Comet did not return, but no one expected that this man who usually seemed wretched and heartless would actually use
Deep love.
I'm afraid that by the Huangpu River, he had a desire to die. However, before he died, this super sniper trained by Liu Lang would definitely take away more Japanese soldiers to bury him with his comet. And he was completely killed by the Japanese army.
The captured capital is his best battlefield.
Liu Lang even knew that the real reason that prompted him to fight to the death in the capital and refuse to retreat was perhaps not the loss of the person he loved most, but the grief that he could not face in the capital.
That is also the tragedy of the whole of China.
If Liu Lang was there, he would never leave. Blood debt can only be washed away by the blood of the enemy.
For this reason, I do not hesitate to sacrifice myself.
However, Comet was not dead. This was the only one among the subsequent battle reports that made Liu Lang feel slightly relieved.
Two years later, Huixing returned to his base in Sichuan Province with a baby girl.
It turned out that during the battle on the Huangpu River, Comet commanded the gunboat under him to collide with the enemy ship. Twenty meters before the impact, Comet was pushed into the river by a fellow racer next to him while he was not prepared. There was a terrible explosion.
Although it did not take away her life, she suffered a heavy blow to the head and temporarily lost her memory. Comet, who was rescued by fishermen, lived on the edge of Taihu Lake until she gave birth to a daughter. The huge pain of childbirth stimulated her warrior instinct.
After recovering his memory, he returned to Sichuan Province with his young daughter after a lot of hardships.
However, the water was no longer there.
Whether it was a lover or a comrade-in-arms, they were all gone.
"Lieutenant Huixing arrived in Guangyuan in October 1939. In December of that year, he placed his young daughter in a nursery and followed Captain Chi to swear an oath to fight." Through this digital report, Liu Lang could also get a glimpse of the grief in this woman's heart.
Liu Lang was in mourning!
What the battle reports tell is never about achievements, but about the departure of brothers and the unyielding spirit of a nation.
Without sacrifice, there is victory!
However, seeing with my own eyes the familiar names engraved on the sky of history, Liu Lang, as iron-blooded as he was, burst into tears.
At that moment, he finally understood why the old man rarely told his stories on the battlefield. No matter whether it was victory or defeat, familiar people would always leave. No matter how long it was, as long as he was still alive, the names and faces of those people would remain.
It will always be placed in his heart. Every time he touches it, it is heartbreaking grief!
If you have never been in the military or on the battlefield, you will never understand what it means to be a comrade-in-arms and a brother! They are people who can accompany you on the battlefield until the end of your life, and they are also people who can accompany you to the end of your life.