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On December 13, 1937, Deng Longguang, commander of the 83rd Army, received an order from Tang Shengzhi, the commander-in-chief of the Battle of Nanjing, and immediately led his troops to break through. At this time, Deng Longguang was fighting a brutal and bloody battle between Guanghua Gate, Qilin Gate and the 6th Division of the Japanese Army's fiercest armor division, and never let the Japanese army advance half a step.
At this time, he received the order to break through, which made Deng Longguang feel that the city of Nanjing was already in danger, and he knew that the Japanese army had surrounded the city of Nanjing from all sides, how to break out.
[Lieutenant General Deng Longguang]
He quickly inquired ye Zhao, commander of the 66th Army, who was also in the Sequence of the Cantonese Army, and got the same answer, that he must break through with all his might. In the direction of the breakthrough, Tang Shengzhi gave a ferry port located outside the Rujiang Gate on the yangtze River, waiting for the ferry from Jiangbei to pick up, and then assemble in the direction of Chuzhou in Anhui, Jiangbei.
His subordinates told Deng Longguang that there were now hundreds of thousands of retreating defenders gathered at the ferry port outside the Rujiang Gate, and in the face of countless troops who wanted to cross the river, and because there was no one to organize and was chaotic, they all wanted to cross the river by boat, and there were many bloody incidents for this reason.
What to do? If you have to cross the Yangtze River from the ferry outside the Rujiang Gate, you don't know when it will be realized. Together, the two men decided to adopt the method of launching a frontal charge against the Japanese army, and the Japanese army was caught off guard, so it was decided. Therefore, Deng Longguang immediately made a decision, by the 66th Army to open the way, he led the 83rd Army to undertake a more dangerous task behind the palace, to Anhui Dangtu front breakthrough, perhaps the hope of survival is still relatively large.
Now that the method has been decided, put it into action immediately. The soldiers of the 66th Army raised their guns and rushed out of the trenches in a swift posture to pounce on the Japanese. This move by the Chinese army was completely unexpected by the Japanese army. Because the Japanese army has always been in a state of attack, it has never thought of building fortifications.
Both the enemy and us fought in a completely exposed manner, and the 66th Army and the 83rd Army fought more and more fiercely, making the breakthrough point bigger and bigger, and the remnants of these two armies actually managed to break through the heavily encircled Guanghua Gate.
Of course, the 83rd Army was able to break through the siege from Nanjing, but also paid a huge sacrifice, and only three officers of the general rank were killed, namely Luo Cequn, commander of the 159th Division, Situ Fei, chief of staff of major generals of the 160th Division, and Yao Zhongying, chief of staff of major generals of the 156th Division.
Among them, the most heroic was luo Cequn, commander of the 159th Division, who took the lead in rushing to the front position when breaking through the Japanese blockade line, which greatly encouraged the determination of his subordinates to swear to break through. Not only that, but he also shouted to his subordinates in his hometown dialect: "Brothers, come with me, don't be a decaying boy!" "That means must not be a coward, not long after he said this, he was hit by a bullet from the Japanese army, and he was martyred.
After highlighting the city of Nanjing, Deng Longguang insisted on his retreat plan and retreated to the anhui mountains of southern Anhui. Because he knew that the purpose of the Japanese army was mainly to occupy important cities and lines of communication. What he did not expect was that the soldiers who had collapsed along the way joined the ranks of the 83rd Army.
Although the 83rd Army at that time was facing a lack of medical treatment and medicine, and it was impossible to guarantee that it would be able to eat enough, at the time of national disaster, it was a friendly army, how could it not be saved. What's more, they all fought with the Japanese army with real knives and guns on the battlefield, and the troops were scattered before they fell here.
To this end, the 83rd Army marched all the way to containment, and also strengthened the ranks of the 83rd Army. From Deng Longguang's troops to the city of Nanjing, the 83rd Army had less than 3,000 troops, and by the outskirts of Wuhu, it had more than 5,000 troops.
On the first day, when Deng Longguang was resting, a staff officer sent out to reconnoiter reported to him,
It is said that a large number of Japanese troops stationed in Wuhu are moving north along the Ningwu railway line. This made Deng Longguang feel shocked, the Japanese troops went north, then there were certainly not many Japanese troops defending Wuhu City, whether to pull the troops out and take Down Wuhu City, if they did not participate in the defense of Nanjing, if they could still maintain a complete structure, if the weapons and equipment were still like when they had just left Guangdong and rushed to the Battle of Songhu, it was still said that they could immediately be put into battle.
[Anti-aircraft machine gun positions on the outskirts of the Nanjing Defensive Battle]
However, the situation has completely changed, and although the 83rd Army still maintains its military rank, its total strength is only 5,000 people. Moreover, many of these 5,000 people are not the 83rd Army, not to mention the weapons and equipment, especially the soldiers who are gathered along the way, many of them have no weapons, how to fight.
But if you don't fight, is that still called anti-Japanese resistance? However, Deng Longguang did not rush into battle, he had to find out the truth before he could formulate a battle plan. He thought that the main Guangdong troops could not go deep into the city of Wuhu for reconnaissance, because the accent was different, and they would immediately be captured and killed by the Japanese army.
He asked the staff officers to invite the local people and ask them to help go to Wuhu City to investigate the situation. The local people were very happy and willing to go to Wuhu City for the 83rd Army. When the compatriots came back and told Deng Longguang that there was not much news about the Japanese army in Wuhu City at the moment, Deng Longguang decided not to look at us as remnants, but the morale was still very high, as long as there was still a breath, we would fight the Japanese army to the end.
When Deng Longguang gathered his subordinates together and said his idea of attacking Wuhu City, he was almost unexpected, and they all looked at their commander in amazement, which meant, isn't this just touching the stone with an egg.
Deng Longguang began to say to his subordinates, your suspicions are justified, now we only have this bit of manpower, and we do not have the capital to fight with the Japanese army. At present, there are only a small number of Japanese troops stationed in Wuhu City, and as long as we use the law well, command effectively, and use the lives of soldiers, it should be very likely that We will recover Wuhu.
When the subordinates saw that Commander Deng was determined to fight Wuhu City, naturally there was nothing to say, because as a soldier serving the country, dying on the battlefield was undoubtedly the greatest honor.
Deng Longguang immediately issued a battle order, and the various departments quietly pressed towards Wuhu City under the leadership of the local guide according to the plan, using the cover of night.
【Officers and men holding their positions】
When approaching the Japanese position, the 83rd Army immediately launched an attack on the Japanese army, and the Japanese troops stationed in Wuhu City did not expect that at this time there would be Chinese troops who would dare to fight with them, without any defense, and even more hastily counterattacked. Deng Longguang knew that the best way to boost the morale of the troops at this time was to personally go to the front line and let the soldiers see that deng Longguang was by no means a greedy person who was afraid of death.
The officers and men of the 83rd Army, including those scattered soldiers temporarily incorporated into the 83rd Army, took the grief after the loss of Nanjing City as a driving force to avenge the Japanese army, and the more fiercely they fought, the more they gradually overwhelmed the Japanese army and withdrew from Wuhu City.
When the 83rd Army was able to recover Wuhu, a major town in jiangnan, after the Chinese army defended nanjing, especially after the defeat of Shanghai, morale was in a state of sluggishness and pessimism everywhere. When this good news reached wuhan and was learned by the Military Commission of the National Government, it was extremely excited, not only encouraging all the officers and men of the 83rd Army to play the indomitable will of the Chinese soldiers, but also letting the Chinese army, which has always adhered to the frontal battlefield of the whole country, see that as long as they have confidence, faith, and actively seek opportunities, they will certainly be able to eliminate the arrogant Japanese army unexpectedly. If you have any comments, welcome to leave a message below to discuss! (Please support a variety of original articles and physical books of the Yi Pin Wen team, independent professionals have a kind of material)