At noon, I, Commander Hao and Commander Zhuangfu, were halfway up the mountain to observe the enemy's situation. I was talking to the regimental commander when I suddenly felt something touch my left chest, and I didn't care at the time, so I climbed with them to the top of the mountain. Commander Hao found that there was blood on my back and said loudly, "Commander Li, you are injured!" ”
I said, "It's all right, it's like something touched me." "And said it was all right!" Bullets are coming through your back! Commander Hao said and gave me some white medicine, and I was still awake at this time. When bandaged, I was unconscious.
This is a passage from "The Jinsui War of Resistance -- A Personal Experience of the Former Kuomintang Generals in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression", which was written by Li Xianzhou. He was wounded during the Sino-Japanese Battle of Xinkou.
The Nanhuaihua Highland in Wangjiazhuang Township, Yuanping City, Shanxi Province, is a very inconspicuous place, and it is difficult to find this small highland even on the map, but in October 1937, the eyes of both the Chinese and Japanese armies looked at this place.
On October 10, 1937, the Japanese army captured the town of Yuanping and approached Xinkou, trying to break through from here, take Taiyuan directly, and then advance towards the Jinzhong Plain. Xinkou is located about 90 kilometers north of Taiyuan, is a pass in the two mountain gorges of Wutai Mountain and Yunzhong Mountain, and is the only passage from the Jin Dynasty to the south to Taiyuan, our army is heavily defended, the Japanese army is determined to win, and the battle is very cruel. On the 11th, the Japanese army began to attack the Xinkou Defense Line, and the nationalist and Communist armies jointly fought, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese army and achieving brilliant results in annihilating 10,000 enemy troops.
The front line of the Xinkou Campaign spanned 60 miles from east to west, and was divided into three combat areas: left, center and right, of which the middle area was the most intense, and the middle area was especially the 204 and 1300 highlands between Xinkou and Nanhuaihua. In the Battle of Xinkou, the Southern Huaihua Heights were the focus of contention between the enemy and us, and in the scramble, the positions were regained and lost, and the losses were regained, and in the gun battles and hand-to-hand combat, both armies paid a very high price.
The battle between the Chinese and Japanese armies for Southern Huaihua will directly affect the pattern of the campaign, and whoever occupies Southern Huaihua will have the initiative in the campaign, but in the face of the well-equipped Japanese army, the situation faced by the Chinese army is very unoptimistic, and Hao Mengling, then commander of the 9th Army, personally went to the front line to supervise the battle.
Li Xianzhou, then commander of the 21st Division, together with Hao Mengling, commander of the 9th Army, went to the front hill to observe the enemy situation, and all the positions of the Central Corps of the Chinese Army were under the uninterrupted ferocious attack of the Japanese army. On the forward position where shrapnel was flying, a bullet entered the left chest of Li Xianzhou, commander of the 21st Division.
Li Xianzhou was born on June 17, 1894 in Hexi County, Shandong Province, which is now Damatou Village, Zhao Guan Town, Qihe County, Dezhou City, Shandong Province, diligent and studious since childhood, studied at the Jinan Martial Arts Training Institute in his early years, had a good pair of fists and feet, so he was successfully admitted to the first phase of the Huangpu Military Academy, and in April 1928, he participated in the second "Northern Expedition", served as the commander of the First Army Teaching Regiment of the First Army, and served as Chiang Kai-shek's guard, because of his outstanding performance, he won Chiang Kai-shek's trust, and in 1934, he was promoted to the commander of the Twenty-first Division. He was later awarded the rank of Major General.
When the soldiers carried Li Xianzhou down the mountain, the military doctor believed that there was bruises in the chest cavity that did not flow out, and asked the unconscious Li Xianzhou to be lifted head down to let the blood flow out.
Then, Li Xianzhou was transferred to an American church hospital in Fenyang, and the president personally operated on him, and the director said: When the bullet entered from the left chest and came out of the back, Li Xianzhou was at the "moment of exhalation" - "the heart contracted back, and the bullet passed through the middle of the lung lobe." If it is the moment of exhalation, the bullet will penetrate the lungs, and it will be over. ”
It should be said that Li Xianzhou was really hard-fated, recovered well after surgery, and the news of being injured on the front line shocked him with great prestige, and the commander of the 9th Army was martyred a few days after Li Xianzhou was injured, and 2 months later, Li Xianzhou's wounds healed and returned to the team, at this time the Kuomintang formed the 92nd Army, and Li Xianzhou was appointed as the commander of the lieutenant general.
During the Liberation War, Li Xianzhou was captured during the Battle of Laiwu and was pardoned and released in November 1960 for his meritorious service in the War of Resistance. He died in Jinan on October 22, 1988, at the age of 94.
Although Li Xianzhou was later captured, he was pardoned for his meritorious service in the War of Resistance, which is also an affirmation of his coming forward at a time of national crisis.