Chapter 291 Loyalty

(...Soldiers only agree with one kind of superior, that is, superiors who dare to appear on the front line when the war is raging, not the conspirator who only hides in the corner to plot; this is why the chairman can eventually make local troops surrender. The second Taierzhuang battle is only one of them... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

The first place of Ushima Manta!… The news spread on the fire, first of which was Tokutaro Sakai, then Ushima Manta, and the next one must be Tanisuo! The officers and soldiers on the position burst out with tears, and white marks were painted. I don’t know who led the head, but everyone suddenly shouted at the opposite position in unison: “Ushima Manta is dead! Brothers are worth it…”

This is the Dongzhuang of the Yunnan Army, Huoshibu Position, on the Taierzhuang battlefield. In order to complete the plan to annihilate the 6th Division on the southern front, the 60th Army has fought bloody battles day and night on the northern front for five days!

Just in the early morning of this day, the Sixty Army organized a counterattack, with the 182nd Division, 183rd Division and the 20th Corps. The 51st Army was blocked by the 51st Army encircled the enemy in front of them, intending to annihilate the enemies in Xingjialou, Wushengtang, Wuyaolu, Puwang and Xinzhuang areas. However, the firepower configuration of the two sides was too disparate. The 51st Army and the 20th Corps had long lost their fighting intention and failed to counterattack. One of the 183rd Division of the 60th Army, which acted as an arrow, was cut off by the enemy's artillery fire, and was trapped in the original Japanese offensive position two hundred meters away from the frontier of Huoshibu. Now the brothers there have been completely ammunition and support. They and the brothers on their positions can look at each other and smile, but they are destined to be in a life and death forever. They are under the three-way attack of the Japanese!

"Don't look back! The people who are in the *** will shed blood and not shed tears!" The squad leader's words recalled the last twenty or so soldiers looking behind him. Not far behind him was his own position, and the corpses of his brothers were lying in a short distance, and the bodies that were constantly blown up by the Japanese mortar fire!

Yes, there is no turning back, why do you have to say goodbye to your brothers with a tearful face? We are the Chinese people, the representatives of the Chinese people! More than 20 soldiers looked at the supreme commander on the position and their squad leader.

"Do you still remember Wuhan? Do you still remember the photo we took in Wuhan?" The squad leader glanced at everyone's face and saw pride gradually emerging on everyone's face... Yes, Wuhan left the highest honor of Yunnan's anti-Japanese soldiers. At that moment, they represented all the people and all the Chinese who insisted on the anti-Japanese war!

That was before the expedition, when the Sixty Army entered Wuhan, all the elite troops of the Central Army had lost all in the Battle of Shanghai and Nanjing. In order to show that China still had the ability to resist the war internationally, and to ensure that the international community did not stop supporting the Chinese government, the most powerful and mighty troops in the country were pulled out to show, and they were the Sixty Army! (To this day, the introduction of the Battle of Shanghai still said that Chiang Kai-shek took the opportunity to eliminate the troops of various factions. In fact, in the Battle of Shanghai and Nanjing, almost all the elite troops of the Central Army were destroyed, so when Wuhan showed the follow-up strength of China's War of Resistance to the international community, Chiang Kai-shek could only pull out the only Yunnan Army, which was still a regular army; the Yunnan Army also gloriously served as the image ambassador of the Chinese people in that special historical period...)

"I remember... that child is only four or five years old. When he looked at our photo, he pointed at us and said, 'China will not perish'..." A bloody soldier with a breath of breath and finished speaking, afraid that he would not have the chance to say...

"From the moment I saw Captain Yin ask Chen Mingliang to bring out the banner, I have been waiting for this day..." Another soldier who covered the bloody wound on his abdomen with his hands began to snatch the words...

"Brothers, the Japanese will come up later. We must fight with the Japanese in front of the brothers on the other side for a last breath and must not fall down easily; we are role models of the Chinese people, and we are the souls of the Chinese people!" The squad leader shook the bayonet: "Whoever has bullets? Just try it evenly, and we will charge forward after all the bullets in the gun are shot!"

"Yes, let's charge!" A group of disabled soldiers who couldn't even stand firmly were full of energy.

"Sir, what should I do?..." Suddenly a faint voice came. It was a soldier whose shoulders were covered in blood and one leg was blown off and tied with a straw rope. He couldn't charge with everyone.

"You..." the squad leader thought for a moment and said, "When we charge, you sing a war song for us. Can your hands still move?"

The soldier shook his head: "I can't move... Give me a bayonet before charging, don't stab me to death, let me continue singing; I can do a lot of songs, I was going to Butterfly Spring next month..."

Most of this group of officers and soldiers are Yi people, but this inactive soldier belongs to the Bai people. Every year, the 25th day of the April lunar calendar is the "Valentine's Day" of the Bai people. Young people who have never tasted the taste of love will come to the Butterfly Spring to start their first love together on the day when butterflies gather together...

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." Mortar shells kept falling on the position, and smoke filled the air, and soon the figures of the brothers on the position were no longer visible...

The officers and soldiers on the Huoshibu position were crying and mourning for the brothers on the other side. At this time, they heard a shout from the opposite side covered by gunpowder: "The person in the ***! Charge!... Kill!~~"

"Cuiyin, this flower is heart-warming, peony and peony are not as good as the camellia, and camellia is ten. My sister is stinging her heart, like a wooden board nailed, and an ant stinging heron's feet, how can we separate! My brother misses my sister, and I think of one day the Erhai Lake where the bow fish loves, the tiger loves Diancang Mountain, the swallow loves the green tiled house, my sister loves the heart. My sister plays the Sanqin string sounds, and my sister plays the mouth strings to harmonize, and the Sanqin strings are connected, and the two of them have a heart..." Amid the hoarse shouts and killing, a melodious and crisp mountain song suddenly comes...

The sound of fighting dissipated with the smoke of gunpowder, but the love song was still echoing. It was the Bai soldiers on the position here who were singing in tears. No one could forget the beautiful Butterfly Spring, but they were going to bury their bones here today...

Under the thin dust, the Japanese on the opposite side were stabbing the bodies of the officers and soldiers underground with bayonets. The roar of the Japanese tanks that pressed on the frontier gradually crushed the melodious love songs. The Japanese began to attack Huoshibu...

Under the bombardment of artillery fire, Dongzhuang and Huoshibu were shaking. The officers and soldiers hiding in the artillery fortifications endured the nausea like rippling the rivers and seas in their chests, and silently waited for the moment when the Japanese charged. From time to time, soldiers who were dizzy and lost their balance were knocked down in the fortifications. The ground was full of filth spit out by the officers and soldiers, but none of them ran around or were crazy. This army had strong beliefs!

It's a tank! The tank is coming! The experienced veterans suddenly felt the huge shock disappear when they were shocked and they risked to press their ears against the wall of the fortifications, feeling the rhythmic rhythm... "Prepare for battle!" Almost at the same time as the messenger who rushed into the fortifications, the veterans had rushed to the fortifications...

The terrain is gentle, and there are not many defenses on the positions except for buildings and digging soil pits, so they must be stuck on them and entangled with the Japanese infantry at the beginning to avoid being attacked by tanks. The officers and soldiers endured the burning discomfort in their chests and sneaked among the bricks and tiles that were blackened by artillery fire. Soon the position was covered with officers and soldiers preparing to charge. The dust could not dissipate, but the Japanese could already vaguely see the Japanese figure through the blur. The charge suddenly rang, and thousands of troops suddenly jumped out of the position that looked like no sign of life!

"Come on the ***, charge!... Kill!" He shouted out the last shouts of the brothers on the other side before their death. The brave officers and soldiers rushed straight into the Japanese storm team. The battle was mixed with hand-to-hand combat from the beginning!

"Boom!" "Boom!"... The war defense cannons that had been hidden well have exploded. These artillery fires mounted on armored vehicles or trolleys suddenly emerged from the ruins everywhere, and they were shooting as soon as they appeared! Nine Japanese tanks covering infantry were caught off guard and three were knocked out...

After a round of face-to-face shooting, the sixty soldiers crushed the Japanese who rushed up. Seeing the Japanese who had left behind five tanks and were killed and injured, the officers and soldiers who had been rushing in front suddenly felt exhausted and could no longer hold on - each of them was shot at least three or four times, but they held on in the battle!

The officers and soldiers pressed up behind passed the fallen martyrs and continued to chase after them endlessly. They used bayonets to assassinate the injured Japanese, and shot accurately behind them with guns. A beautiful defensive counterattack made the open belt where the corpses of the Yunnan military were originally lying on the positions of the two armies, which were originally covered with the bodies of the Yunnan military soldiers, stacked a layer of earthy yellow!

"Captain..." A messenger rushed into the command center with a soldier carrying a load frame on his back: "The army supplies came to the headquarters... were brought by Chairman Jiang himself! Chairman Jiang personally arrived at the front line!"

One sentence made everyone in the entire command center burst into tears! Suddenly, waves of shouts rang out: "One party, one leader, one ideology! One party, one leader, one ideology!..." Over and over again... (This is the slogan to learn the Triune Spirit in Wuhan before the Yunnan Army set off. In later historical records, they criticized it as a means of dividing local troops' thoughts and dictatorship; but the veteran of the Yunnan Army mentioned in the previous article said that the officers and soldiers trained at that time accepted this arrangement and agreed that the weakness of the country was because of the division of the regime. The sixty armies trained supported Chiang Kai-shek very much, supported the central government very much, and were the highest loyalty to the central government among the local troops.)

In order to allow the 20th Army to retreat smoothly and to prevent the 60th Army from retreating, Chiang Kai-shek flew to the front line of Taierzhuang himself! (Historical facts, when the Second Taierzhuang War was retreating, Chiang Kai-shek personally visited the battlefield to command. This is an important spiritual pillar for the 60th Army to bear the bloody battles of multiple Japanese divisions for 27 days!)
Chapter completed!