"Hate not to resist Japan and die, leave it as a shame today." The country is still broken, I have no pity about this. --Ji Hongchang
Nowadays, when we look back at the history of the War of Resistance Against Japan, many people's eyes will be attracted by the Sichuan Army, at that time, Sichuan, as one of the few provinces in China that was not invaded by the Japanese army, the Sichuan people made outstanding contributions to China's anti-Japanese cause.
According to relevant data, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Sichuan dispatched a total of about 3.4 million people to join the army. In addition to the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army, known as the "Guangxi Wolf Soldier" at that time, also played an important role in the War of Resistance.
During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the generals of the Sichuan Army traveled throughout 13 provinces, participated in 28 battles of all sizes, and more than 600,000 people were shrouded in ma ge.
As the mainstay of china's anti-Japanese forces like the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army has also left a deep impression on many people with its bravery and toughness on the battlefield. So do you know how fierce the Guangxi wolf soldiers really are? Here we take a brief look.
The Sichuan army sacrificed a lot during the War of Resistance Against Japan
Guangxi Wolf Soldier
As early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty, people had begun to use the term "wolf soldiers" to describe those local armed forces that were very strong in combat. For example, the Records of Emperor Ming Yingzong, Volume 35, has a record: "Wolf soldiers are brave and brave, and they are feared by thieves." ”
At first, the Ming Dynasty would form wolf soldiers, mainly to facilitate the use of government officials in Guangxi and other regions when suppressing bandits. However, at that time, the local government would not manage it, which led to the discipline of the wolf soldiers being very loose, and the people were also deeply affected.
Later, during the Period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese aggressors' rampant tyranny made the domestic military and people indignant, and anti-Japanese armed forces of various sizes appeared throughout the country, stubbornly resisting the invaders in their respective regions.
After the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, Japan set off an all-out war of aggression against China, and then China entered the stage of all-round resistance against Japan, and all provinces of the country took action one after another, hoping to successfully drive the enemy out of China.
Straw shoe soldiers
At that time, Guangxi Province actively responded to the call of relevant organizations and directly or indirectly dispatched 4.5 million people to participate in the war. It should be emphasized here that at that time, the population of Guangxi Province was not large, only about 12 million people.
In a war of resistance against Japan, the smaller half of the Guangxi people embarked on a road of combat covered with blood and sacrifice. Like Sichuan at that time, the people of Guangxi were also enthusiastic about joining the army, and in the end people could only take the form of drawing lots to decide who really wanted to join the army.
Compared with other parts of the anti-Japanese armed forces in China, the equipment of the Gui Army is very backward, and when they bid farewell to their hometown fathers and elders and officially rushed to the battlefield, they all had straw shoes on their feet, and it is precisely because of this that the Gui Army is also called "grass shoe soldiers" by many people.
Influenced by historical factors, the name of the "wolf soldiers" of the Gui Army was widely circulated, and they killed the enemy in the entire anti-Japanese battlefield, and did not disappoint the expectations of their homeland in the slightest.
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Wolf Soldier Valiant - Shelling the Japanese General
The Gui army participated in many battles during the War of Resistance Against Japan, although the troops were short of equipment and the soldiers were not supplied with materials for a long time, but the Gui army repeatedly defended the strong enemy with flesh and blood in battle.
In 1942, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered a stage of strategic stalemate. Japanese Army General Tsukada prepares to fly from Nanjing to Hankou to launch the next battle plan against China. This Tsukada was a rather fanatical militant.
It has been learned that Tsukada, as the core figure in the expansion faction of the war against China, has been active on the Battlefield in China since the July 7 Incident, and the appalling Nanjing Massacre, which killed more than 300,000 Nanjing soldiers and civilians, has a great connection with Tsukada's attack.
Coupled with the fact that this person has access to some important documents of the Japanese command, none of the major anti-Japanese armed forces in our country can hope to kill this devil.
Tsukada attacked
At that time, the 21st Group of the Gui Army just got a batch of artillery weapons, and the elated anti-aircraft artillery team decided to test the cannon on the top of the hill. During this period, a Japanese aircraft was encountered approaching the test site.
The anti-aircraft artillery team saw that the Japanese aircraft was itching with hatred, and they resolutely aimed the muzzle of the gun at the gas tank of the aircraft, ready to bomb the aircraft down. The Gunners of the Gui Army stared at the flying Japanese planes, and as soon as they entered the attack range, the Gunners of the Gui Army pressed the launcher fiercely.
A shell flew out of the gun chamber, directly destroying the fuel tank of the Japanese aircraft. All nine Japanese officers who were sitting on the plane died, including Tsukada, a Japanese general carrying important documents.
It is worth mentioning that the Gui army also obtained some broken documents from the wreckage of the aircraft at that time. These materials record in relative detail the japanese army's battle plan to send troops from Wuhan and Xi'an to besiege Chongqing.
A soldier on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War
And the Chinese military also learned from these documents that the Japanese army will dispatch 400,000 army and air force to implement the battle plan, and one of the main tasks they are currently performing is to mobilize more than 230,000 new soldiers into a state of emergency training.
This is to ensure that there will be enough troops available in the next battle plan. At that time, the Katsura Army did not expect that its anti-aircraft artillery bombarded and killed the Japanese general Tsukada Attack, and at the same time obtained such an important document.
After that, the Chinese army also carried out targeted deployment according to the battle plan against China recorded in the documents, and the key roads in Sichuan and Shaanxi were controlled in an all-round way.
Since the entire plan had been leaked, the Japanese army really had no way to engage in frontal combat with the Prepared Chinese Army, so it had to abandon the battle plan in the end. In fact, it was also because of this "artillery bombardment" operation that the situation of the War of Resistance was able to undergo significant changes.
A Gui jun is repairing straw shoes
Wolf soldiers are heroic - the defense of Guilin
In addition to daring to shell the Japanese generals, the Guangxi Wolf Soldiers also fought against 150,000 Japanese troops with 20,000 people, which is the famous Guilin Defense War. It was October 1944, and Japan was no longer able to maintain its superiority in the Pacific.
This led to the complete interruption of many supply lines for the invading Japanese army. If the Japanese did not open up new supply transport routes in a short period of time, they would face failure more quickly.
In order to capture Guilin, the Japanese army gathered 150,000 troops, more than 300 tanks and more than 30 aircraft in the surrounding areas of Guilin and launched a fierce attack on Guilin.
At that time, the garrison stationed in Guilin was only about 20,000 people, and many of them were recruits or people who spontaneously came to defend Guilin, so it is conceivable how big the gap between the strength of the two sides was at that time. In the face of a menacing enemy, the wolf soldiers insisted on a consistent attitude - vowing to fight to the death to the end.
A corner of the Defense of Guilin
From November 1, the Gui army at various points on the outskirts of Guilin fought fiercely with the enemy, but because the Japanese army dispatched tank troops at that time and concentrated as much firepower as possible, the defenders of each point suffered extremely serious casualties.
Some of the defenders on some points had even died long ago. At dawn on November 9, the Japanese army officially launched a general offensive against Guilin.
On the 10th of the same month, General Que Weiyong, commander of the 131st Division, commanded the Guilin defenders to engage in street battles with the Japanese army in the city, and in order to allow as many people as possible to withdraw safely from the city, the casualty data of the Gui army defenders has been rising rapidly. It was not until the 170th Division of the southern part of the city retreated that the Gui defenders began to be ordered to break through.
At that time, the defenders of the Gui Army were surrounded by layers of enemies, and although the headquarters balanced the weapons and equipment of the breakthrough groups as much as possible, only a small number of soldiers led by He Weizhen, the commander of the 31st Army, were really successful in the final breakthrough.
The Gui army in the defense of Guilin
Commander Que Weiyong looked at the devastated Guilin, looked at the smoke and flames of war everywhere, he decided to coexist with Guilin, after all the soldiers of the troops he led fell, Commander Que Weiyong raised his pistol and left the last bullet to himself.
By November 7, the Japanese army, under the strong resistance of the Gui army, the casualties had exceeded expectations, and they hurriedly dropped a large number of poison gas bombs into the defenders' positions throughout Guilin.
The defenders had never seen a gas bomb, they did not dodge it when it exploded, and many died in pain on their positions because of the gas bomb. As they lay dying, the Gui soldiers struggled to open their eyes, their fingers pressed tightly on the trigger, ready to use their last bit of strength to kill a few more enemies.
After the fall of Guilin, the surviving defenders and the spontaneously organized people tied bombs on their bodies and fought to the death with the Japanese troops on land and the Japanese on surface landing ships.
Ordinary and great straw shoe soldiers
In response to the battle, a Japanese officer once recalled that the defense of Guilin was their "fiercest resistance since the war", and that the more than 900 people he led were only about 70 people left after the battle.
This shows how fierce the Gui army is on the battlefield. It is precisely because of the existence of the Gui Army and other anti-Japanese armed forces that dare to struggle that China was able to smoothly drive all the aggressors out of China.