The Independent Regiment and the Guard Regiment suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Guangde. After the two regiments were merged into one, they continued to form part of the 23rd Army.
The illness of Liu Xiang, the top leader of the Sichuan Army, had already shown signs of being contained, but after all, because he was commanding fierce battles on the front line, he was heartbroken over the huge battle losses under his command, and the life or death of his most admired nephew was also uncertain. In addition, he served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the capital defense battle.
When he was in office, the capital fell. Only one month later, his condition took a turn for the worse and he died in Hankou Hospital in January.
Before his death, he left a famous saying to the generals of the Sichuan Army who came to see him off and to the tens of millions of Sichuan Army soldiers and civilians outside and inside Sichuan before his death: "The war of resistance will be unswerving to the end, that is, the enemy will not withdraw from the country for a day, and the Sichuan army will not retreat for a day."
I swear not to return home!"
For a long period of time thereafter, this sentence would be recited in unison whenever the Sichuan military formation raised the military flag.
Before he died of illness, Liu Xiang transferred the Independent Regiment from the 23rd Army to the 22nd Army under Deng Xihou.
Obviously, for the Sichuan hero whose life was on the line, he trusted Deng Xihou more, and he was more willing to hand over direct troops such as the Independent Regiment and the Guard Regiment to Deng Xihou. And Deng Xihou did not live up to Liu Xiang's expectations and returned from the front line.
The director of the Sichuan-Kanglan Appeasement Office in Sichuan Province made great contributions to stabilizing the situation in Sichuan Province and supporting the Anti-Japanese War.
The Independent Regiment Headquarters also participated in the famous Battle of Xuzhou, Battle of Suizao, Second Battle of Changsha, Battle of Changde, Battle of Western Henan and Northern Hubei, etc. along with the 22nd Army. The footprints of participating in the battles are all over the north and south of China.
Sacrifice and blood were also shed on this beloved land along with the long battle, and a series of names that Liu Lang was familiar with flashed before Liu Lang's eyes.
Zhou Dapeng died in the battle to defend Wuhan. His fighter plane caught fire due to engine failure. He had been fighting the Japanese invaders in the blue sky for more than 10 days without replacing the engine. The engine was already overwhelmed, but under the hard work of the maintenance engineer Heng Yu
Even though he begged not to fight anymore, he still chose to take to the sky again.
Before he chose to parachute and die together with the Japanese army in the blue sky of the motherland, his fighter plane had already been painted with sixteen red stars. He was one of the best Chinese air forces of that era. Because the Chinese air force as good as him had long been
To dye the blue sky blue, in his words, he was just following the footsteps of his predecessors, that's all.
After his death in battle, the Supreme Command and the Ministry of Military Affairs gave him the highest-level funeral and posthumously awarded him the title of Lieutenant Colonel of the Chinese Air Force.
Of the nearly 150 Air Volunteer Army pilots who came to China in the first batch, only eight survived the first three years of the war.
Several years later, when Hengyu, who had become the director of the most important fighter engine research institute under the Huashang Group, saw Liu Lang again, he cried before saying anything. An old man with gray hair burst into tears looking at another old man.
Yes, let a large number of PhDs and professors look at each other.
Then, is he still the sternest dean in their eyes, who doesn't allow even the slightest mistake? Then, he is like a child crying so much that his nose is full of bubbles.
They didn't know that their old dean had lost his dearest friend! He was strict because he didn't want any more soldiers to sacrifice themselves in the blue sky of the motherland because of engine failure. That was the eternal sorrow in his heart!
Zhao Changfeng, who returned to serve as the commander of the 3rd Battalion, died in the Suizao Battle in the third year of the war. The 3rd Infantry Battalion used one battalion to block the attack of two Japanese infantry brigades. When the battle was at its fiercest, Zhao Changfeng personally led the infantry
Engage in hand-to-hand combat with hundreds of Japanese troops who frantically attacked the front lines of their positions.
Zhao Changfeng, who had only one arm left, lost his last arm due to a hand-to-hand fight with the Japanese army. At the last moment of his life, he used his body as a shield to block the sharp samurai sword, and used his teeth as his own bayonet to pierce the Japanese attack force he led.
The throat of the commander of the battlefield, with his life, sounded the clarion call for counterattack.
In this battle, the 3rd Infantry Battalion, with a full strength of 650 men, had only 200 men, but killed nearly a thousand Japanese invaders. Although "Colonel Beast" was not here, his subordinates were still "wild beasts", and the Japanese invaders never heard of the Independence Regiment.
In order to be frightened, they would not dare to attack the defense line of the independent regiment without having more than three times the force.
My partner, I have lost another one! Liu Lang was filled with tears in his heart, but he was strong enough to read the battle reports one after another.
In the silent night, read on.
Because that is his brother and his country.
Liu Dazhu, commander of the Bayonet Battalion, died in the battle to defend Changde in the sixth year of the war. The most elite infantry battalion of the Independent Regiment cooperated with the 57th Division to defend Changde, but was besieged by tens of thousands of Japanese troops from two divisions, while tens of thousands of surrounding reinforcements could not move an inch.
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After holding on to Changde for nearly a month, the defenders ran out of ammunition and food and were forced to break out. The entire 57th Division successfully broke through with only 83 men. The remaining soldiers of the Bayonet Battalion held on to the Central Bank of Changde City for another day, and the position was finally lost.
At the last moment, Liu Dazhu personally pressed the blast button and buried the Central Bank Building together with the nearly 200 Japanese troops who had invaded the building, including himself and 60 wounded soldiers who had only bayonets left.
The Bayonet Battalion was not completely wiped out, but used the old trick to hide underground. Two days later, when reinforcements finally arrived, the 300 officers and soldiers who had been forced into underground bunkers by Liu Dazhu's military orders walked out of the ruins again.
Since then, three of the six remnants who followed Liu Lang out of the bloody battlefield of Songhu Anti-Japanese War in 1932 have been eliminated. Only Xiao Fenghua, Zhao Ergou and Chi Dakui, who were in charge of the security work, are still alive. The other three are all lieutenant colonels.
He died in battle as a battalion commander.
The following year, Chi Dakui was appointed as the head of the Guangyuan garrison by Deng Xihou, the newly appointed director of the Sichuan-Kangkang Appeasement Office. In December of the following year, Chi Dakui took the oath to fight in Guangyuan.
However, the regiment did not participate in the battle on the southern battlefield. Instead, it left Shaanxi from Guangyuan and entered Shanxi to participate in the battle on the northern battlefield. Because of Liu Lang's relationship, Chi Dakui and the future general in the northern battlefield cooperated tacitly, and fought in the Taihang Mountains and other places
He conducted guerrilla warfare against the Japanese invaders and achieved remarkable results.
In six years, the Guangyuan garrison was transformed into a garrison brigade, and Chi Dakui was promoted from colonel to major general, becoming the highest-ranking officer under Liu Lang.
On the contrary, Tang Yongming and Zhang Ruhao have never been promoted, and the Independent Regiment has always been the Independent Regiment. Liu Lang knows that this is the result of their unwillingness to leave the Independent Regiment. If they are willing to leave and serve in other troops,
Now the gold star is shining on the collar badge.
It's just that the two of them have refused at least five transfer orders, and at the same time resisted at least five attempts to infiltrate the Independent Regiment from the Ministry of Military Affairs. Liu Lang was not mistaken, otherwise, the Independent Regiment would have been torn apart long ago.
Of course, this was also the result of the support from Liu Xiang's successor Deng Xihou. Otherwise, the two colonels would not be able to withstand the pressure from the Military and Political Department.
However, this also made it difficult for officers of the independent regiment to be promoted. However, few people took this seriously in the battle reports compiled by the regiment headquarters.
In the battle to defend the country, is it only to protect the hometown, protect the mother, and protect the relatives? Is it important to have glory and wealth, or to leave a name in history?
unimportant!
The important thing is that you, and you, my brothers, are always by my side and behind me, even if you are still asleep.
Colonel Liang Wenzhong died in the winter of 1942. He did not die in battle, but died from exhaustion. In order to raise logistics supplies for the independent regiment, as the logistics leader, he did not sleep a wink for four days and nights. This man was only forty.
Middle-aged people rise and fall and die.
The place where he finally fell was a pile of newly ground rice...
Zhao Ergou's son lost his mother. Nurse Cui'er stayed awake to take care of the injured. Because the wounds on her hands were infected by bacteria and turned into septicemia. Due to overwork and low immunity, the disease developed too quickly.
Even the newest drug, penicillin, had lost its effectiveness, and he died on the battlefield a year ago.
"Sir, my Cui'er is gone!" This was the telegram written by Zhao Ergou himself to Liu Lang.
In just a few words, Liu Lang could read the heartache of this Northeastern man who usually had a playful smile.
At this time, Liu Lang didn't know that this energetic man who liked to drag his wife to climb old forests and do bad things would raise his young son alone after the war and never married again for the rest of his life.
Liu Lang was ashamed of himself for his deep affection.