After the Spring Festival of the 26th year of the Republic of China, Liu Lang personally signed the war preparation order for the Independence Regiment.
All members of the Independent Regiment canceled their family leave and were not allowed to leave the military camp without permission. All officers who lived in the newly built Shuguang Town had a one-day leave every half month instead of a one-day leave every forty-five days. The Munitions Department began to reserve the ammunition required by each service and provided supplies to the company.
The pre-war establishment with a full strength of 81 people became a wartime establishment of 481 people. The 400 strong men of the baggage company who were trained once every half month were all transferred to active service. Training was strengthened in subjects such as military training, material handling and sorting, vehicle driving, and mules and horses feeding.
All 2,000 officers and soldiers in the base garrison battalion are fully staffed. All vacancies will be transferred from the new barracks within half a month. At the same time, the new barracks system will be cancelled. All recruits will be replenished to all branches of the independent regiment. The establishment of the training team will be cancelled. All training officers and soldiers in the training team will return to their respective departments.
The instructors of the training team returned to their original positions, and the instructors seconded from the 61st Brigade returned to the original army. However, Liu Lang had already arranged the positions of the ten red instructors.
The base garrison battalion has one vacant infantry company commander, one infantry company deputy, one artillery company deputy, and one baggage company commander. The four of them went to report to Chi Dakui.
There are four infantry battalions in the independent regiment combat force. The commander of the first battalion is still concurrently served by Liu Lang himself. The battalion deputy was transferred to the base garrison battalion as the major deputy battalion commander, which is considered a high promotion. Liu Lang appointed the vacant battalion deputy position to the tenth battalion.
Among the red instructors, Ye Zihua was the most outstanding. This outstanding red company-level officer who had studied and fought many battles and studied in the Red Army Military Academy for more than a year was awarded the rank of captain.
The remaining five red instructors went to three other infantry battalions to serve as company deputies. Like their colleagues in the guard battalion, they were all awarded the rank of lieutenant. The original personnel were not transferred to the security regiment to serve as company-level officers.
Even being transferred to a base garrison battalion company-level combat unit as chief officer is considered a promotion.
The ten red instructors have spent more than a year in vain. During the day, they worked hard with the veteran sergeants on the training ground, and at night, they taught them tactics and culture. It can be said that they are the backbone sergeants of each company.
students, and they have a natural concept of integrating officers and soldiers. When they arrived at this grassroots combat unit, they were like a fish in water. It took less than a month to quickly integrate into it. Even several companies that were previously dissatisfied with the replacement of their deputies because of the upcoming war.
The superior officers also began to praise them profusely.
It can be said that the independent regiment has made preparations for all wars in terms of personnel deployment, material preparation, and troop equipment training.
The dark clouds about the coming war are not only felt in the Independent Regiment, nor in Guangyuan, nor can they be felt throughout Sichuan, where the entire army is redressing and reorganizing its military establishment. In fact, throughout China, wherever you look, you can see the dark clouds.
The Japanese troops that had surrounded Peiping on three sides gradually revealed their ferocity.
The whole of China understands that war is not inevitable, but is about to begin.
In June 1937, the Japanese army, which occupied Fengtai with despicable means, began to conduct frequent exercises.
On July 7, 1937, the Japanese garrison at Marco Polo Bridge held a so-called military exercise near the Chinese garrison position without notifying the Chinese local authorities.
On the evening of July 7, 1937, the singing of soldiers of the 29th Army came from Wanping City on the bank of the Yongding River: "Japanese warlords, enemies of the people, serving the country and the people, it is our bounden duty..." This is what the soldiers of the 29th Army said before eating.
The "Eating Song" was sung. The soldiers who sang all looked sad and angry. Outside Wanping City, there were Japanese soldiers watching eagerly.
Hundreds of heavily armed Japanese troops stormed toward the Marco Polo Bridge in an aggressive manner. They told the Chinese soldiers stationed at the Marco Polo Bridge that a Japanese soldier had gone missing during the exercise and demanded to enter Wanping County, southwest of Peiping, for a search. The Chinese defenders rejected this rude request. The Japanese troops then
Fired at the Marco Polo Bridge area, attacked the Chinese defenders in the city, and shelled Wanping City. The 219th Regiment of the 37th Division of the 29th Army of the Chinese defenders returned fire.
At 5 o'clock in the morning on July 8, most of a company of the 219th Regiment of the 29th Army that was defending north of Marco Polo Bridge shed blood on Marco Polo Bridge. Only four people survived, and the railway bridge and Huilong Temple were lost.
The headquarters of China's 29th Army immediately ordered the frontline officers and soldiers: "Secure the Marco Polo Bridge and Wanping City. The Marco Polo Bridge is your grave. You should live and die with the bridge and not retreat."
He Jifeng, commander of the 110th Brigade of the 37th Division. The troops guarding the Marco Polo Bridge were the 219th Regiment under He Jifeng. Hearing the sound of artillery fire at the Marco Polo Bridge, he immediately led the 220th Regiment to come to the rescue and organized a suicide squad with grenades and swords to launch a surprise attack after dark.
Japanese troops recaptured their lost positions.
Standing in front of his 150-man death squad, the brigade commander, a major general with a sword on his back, said in a deafening voice: "We are patriotic soldiers, raised by the people, and we should die to serve the country. Marco Polo Bridge is the grave of our 29th Army!"
The future Minister of Agriculture of the Republic, who received the first-class Liberation Medal, fulfilled his promise. After his death, his ashes were scattered beside the Marco Polo Bridge, and he continued to guard the sun and moon of the motherland with his subordinates who had shed blood on the battlefield.
and stars.
After the July 7th Incident was provoked by the Japanese army, it aroused strong repercussions across the country. On the second day of the July 7th Incident, the Central Committee of the Red Party sent a telegram to the whole country, calling: "Compatriots across China, Beijing and Tianjin are in danger! North China is in danger! The Chinese nation is in danger!
Only the whole nation's resistance war is our way out!" He also put forward the loud slogans of "Don't let Japanese imperialism occupy an inch of China's land!" "Shed the last drop of blood to defend the country!".
The bald principal still had luck, and put forward the policy of "no surrender, no expansion" and "not asking for war, but resisting war." He called Song Zheyuan, Qin Dechun and others, "Wanping City should stand firm and not retreat", "Lugou Bridge, Changxindian Wan
It cannot be lost."
Seeing that it was impossible to attack the Marco Polo Bridge, the Japanese army resorted to the trick of "negotiating on the ground", using negotiations to paralyze the Chinese side while actively deploying troops and generals.
On July 9, 11, and 19, the agreements reached three times between the Japanese garrison in North China and the Hebei-Cha government were proved to be a dead letter by the intermittent gunfire from Marco Polo Bridge.
On July 26, the North China Garrison issued an ultimatum to the 29th Army, requiring all Chinese defenders to withdraw from the Pingjin area before the 28th, otherwise action would be taken. Song Zheyuan sternly refused, and on the 27th, he issued a message to the whole country to defend the territory in self-defense and resolutely defend the territory.
War of Resistance.
On July 28, the Japanese army launched a general attack on Peiping as planned. Xiang Yueqingsi commanded the 20th Division of the Korean Army that had gathered around Peiping, the Kwantung Army's independent mixed 1st and 11th Brigade, and the Chinese Garrison Army Infantry Brigade.
Sixty thousand people, supported by more than 100 artillery pieces and armored vehicles, and under the cover of dozens of aircraft, launched a comprehensive attack on the 132nd, 37th, and 38th Divisions of the Chinese 29th Army stationed in Nanyuan, Beiyuan, and Xiyuan on the outskirts of Peiping.
Nanyuan was the focus of the Japanese attack. About 8,000 troops of the 29th Army stationed in Nanyuan resisted with blood. General Tong Linge, deputy commander of the 29th Army, died for his country. Lieutenant General Zhao Dengyu, commander of the 132nd Division, died for his country. 1,300 people from the military training group carried their pens as soon as they dropped their pens.
The students who took up the gun fought back with blood, and only 300 remained after the war.
On July 29, the 29th Army was forced to withdraw from Peiping and retreat to Baoding.
Liu Lang stood in front of all the officers and soldiers of the regiment, holding the battle report in his hand, facing north China, and couldn't help but burst into tears.
Thousands of veterans who originally belonged to the 29th Army were all in tears.
Liu Lang has worked hard to make a good relationship with the 29th Army at the Great Wall. In the past three years, he has sent a lot of mountain artillery, mortars, and light and heavy machine guns to the 29th Army through underground channels, and often took the opportunity to remind Song.
The general was wary of the villainous intentions of the Japanese invaders, but the stubborn wheel of history crushed his efforts to pieces, and what was supposed to happen eventually happened.
A general and a lieutenant general were martyred, the brigade and battalion commanders suffered many casualties, and the 29th Army suffered heavy losses. It was forced to retreat under the threat of Japanese aircraft, artillery and tanks. The important areas of Pingjin and Tianjin were finally lost.
However, Liu Lang also knew that the fall of the northern gateway was not the biggest threat China was currently facing. The most threatening battle had not yet begun. That was in the southeast of China, where there was China's economic center - Shanghai, and the capital -
--Nanjing.
"Beijing and Tianjin have been lost, and the enemy invaders in the southeast have gathered heavily. Our independent regiment will definitely fight the Japanese invaders. All the officers and soldiers of our independent regiment will fight to the last soldier. Do you dare to die with me?" Very few shed tears at this moment.
But with tears streaming down his face, Liu Lang faced his subordinates again and roared hoarsely.
"Yes, we can." The officers and soldiers raised their arms, raised their guns, and roared like their commander.
In this midsummer, the roar of thousands of people echoing through the Qinling Mountains also started the independent regiment's journey to the anti-Japanese front line.
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PS: Yesterday, I was in a bad mood and chatted a lot. I would like to thank the book friends for their comfort, and also thank the "long-timer" book friends for their seriousness. It was Feng Yue who thought too simply. She only thought of changing the machine gun and rifle to the same caliber, but did not
Considering the flange issues of bullets of various calibers, thank you for your professional guidance. I will try to be more rigorous in the future.