Salute to all the martyrs who died for the country in resistance to foreign humiliation!
In 1944, the devils launched the "Operation No. 1" plan, and the northern Hunan defense line quickly collapsed, which also made Chiang Kai-shek panic.
He gave the tenth army commander Fang Xianjue in Hengyang City an order that the tenth army should hold on for two weeks, and he also promised that the siege of Hengyang would be lifted.
In the end, Chiang Kai-shek did not fulfill his promise, which is not surprising.
But to everyone's shock, Hengyang, a lonely city fighting to the death, held out for a full 47 days in the crazy four-sided siege of 100,000 Japanese Kou.
Six thousand soldiers of the Chinese army were killed, in a rare exchange for nearly 20,000 casualties of the devils.
On the slope of Hengyang City, the devils stepped on the countless corpses of the enemy and us
What is the force that has sustained this isolated city for 47 days?
What happened during those 47 days?
Use Me a Xiangzhuang River Mountain • Thirteenth Chapter: Lonely City Death Battle
Jiang Hongxi's "Blood and Tears Remember Hengyang"
The content I want to talk about today comes from a book called "Blood and Tears Remember Hengyang".
The book is a memoir written by an officer of the Tenth Army named Jiang Hongxi, who is believed to have died in the defense of Hengyang. In the post-war "Records of the Death of famous anti-Japanese generals of the Kuomintang", his name was also specially included.
Many people don't know that Jiang Hongxi actually survived. However, he did not stand up to explain all this after the war, but chose to live silently in Xinxiang, Henan, a peaceful mountain village.
He left behind a handwritten pamphlet.
In 2005, 16 years after Jiang Hongxi's death, his grandson discovered the book and published it.
Next, through this book, we will experience the real Battle of Hengyang in the eyes of those middle-level Chinese officers.
Jiang Hongxi rong dressed up
What should I write?
But who's to say I don't deserve memories?
Not to mention the following words, the bright red deeds that occupy an important page in the history of my life...
How can I say "all the things that used to be like yesterday's death"...
I'm thinking to myself, I'm writing myself, I'm reading it myself, I'm crying myself.
—— "Blood and Tears Remember Hengyang" Jiang Hongxi
Chinese soldiers in the War of Resistance
In early June 1944, the war in northern Hunan was rekindled, and the Tenth Army, which was resting at Hengshan, was transferred to Hengyang City for defense. The first thing Jiang Hongxi, the commander of the Fifth Company, did when he entered the city was to buy a few notebooks.
This senior student who graduated from the infantry section of the Whampoa Military Academy was very angry, and he had a premonition that the words that were about to be filled in this book would be a testimony to his fame in the First World War.
The five companies brought by Jiang Hongxi were also highly moraley, and everyone screamed, saying that at least they would call The commander of Jiang Company back as a major.
Jiang Hongxi, the company commander, was actually snatched by himself. Originally, as a guard staff officer, he could stay in the rear, but before the battle, Jiang Hongxi ran to find Fang Xianjue, the commander of the Tenth Army, and offered to go to the front.
Commander Fang Xianjue of the Tenth Army Taishan Army
On this day, Commander Fang, who was usually very crisp, hesitated for a long time before agreeing to assign him to the Pre-Tenth Division, and reminded him very wordily: Don't be hot-headed on the battlefield, and pay attention to saving yourself.
Before leaving, Fang Xian felt a low voice to himself, this battle is fought, the Tenth Army must have suffered heavy casualties, and it may be completely destroyed.
Years later, Commander Fang's last whisper was written in his memoirs by Jiang Hongxi in large characters.
Compared with the top brass of the Tenth Army, the young officers in the army were very confident in the upcoming battle.
Jiang Hongxi brought the notebook back that day, and two young officers joked with him that they wanted to requisition his diary materials and write them in their books.
Jiang Hongxi found that there were many officers who had the same heart as him, one of whom was the commander of the Third Battalion, Zhou Guoxiang, who said that he had already thought of the title of his book, called "Hengyang Has Me", a very crazy book.
The other was staff officer Li Chunhua, who took out a cover on the spot, and the title of the book was "Fifty Days of Hengyang".
Years later, when Jiang Hongxi remembered the name, he would still be amazed by Li Chunhua's almost intuitive "Fifty Days" prophecy!
Chinese Anti-Japanese War soldiers
Even the dishes and chopsticks for eating were buried in the ruins, only a military blanket and a cotton cloth, and I was wounded for the third time. It's the night of August 3rd, and the moon seems to be much dimmer than usual...
I've been fighting for nearly forty days, and I don't know if I can see Hengyang "Fiftieth Day"...
Lonely City Battle to the Death
On June 12, 11 days before the fighting began.
Today, several U.S. and Soviet allies came to inspect the defensive line, only to see some soldiers in shirts and shorts, bareheads and barefoot digging trenches, and they were very surprised and asked: "Is your army a work-making unit, all soldiers, not a single officer?" ”
The gathering whistle sounded, and the same bare-headed, barefoot, mud-covered men ran to the commander and stood in a whole column...
"These are the officers and commanders of our army." The commander laughed triumphantly...
The bunker left over from the Battle of Hengyang
An important support for the bloody battle in Hengyang at that time, and also a source of the officers' optimism and self-confidence before the war, was the design of the battlefield fortifications.
Xiao Pei, a native of Hengyang, inadvertently saw a brief account of the hengyang defense war in 1984, and he was amazed that the city where he lived had experienced such a battle.
After that, Xiao Pei began a search that lasted for more than 20 years.
"I visited American pilots, inspected some of the fortifications of the Hengyang Defense War, and also came into contact with many descendants of the Tenth Army, descendants of the United States, Taiwan, and the Tenth Army throughout the country, interviewed and corresponded with them, and collected thousands of books, including some books on the Hengyang Defense War in Taiwan."
Xiao Pei's living room, which is less than five square meters, is his simple study.
On the bookshelf nailed by several wooden strips, four layers of books were placed inside and out, all the way to the ceiling.
Hengyang fell
There were pictorial newspapers printed when the devils invaded China, there were military maps of devils, and there were everything that Xiao Pei could collect related to the defense of Hengyang.
There was a physical object in the physical evidence, a ghost's heavy machine gun bullet. The 12-centimeter-long bullet, inscribed with the words "Showa 13 years," was dug up by a sand digging boat in the Xiang River.
More military supplies dug up from the XiangJiang River were preserved at the Lujia Xinwu Anti-Japanese Memorial Hall on the outskirts of the city.
These shells, bayonets, and helmets, which have been soaked in the river for more than half a century and have rusted, vaguely tell the tragic story of that year.
Ruins of the Tianma Mountain Position
Xiao Pei often goes to Hengyang Yueping Square. Today, there is a row of supper stalls, with a remnant of the cliff behind it.
This is a place where the soldiers of the Tenth Army built fortifications on the mountain.
At that time, this kind of fortification that made the devils change color was called "Fang Xianjue Trench". They were in the southwest of the old Hengyang City, almost forming a circle of cliffs.
The officers and men believed that as long as the devils really attacked Hengyang City from the southwest according to the commander's prediction, they would definitely understand what was meant by "head-hugging rats."
Historically, this scene really played out.
A straight cliff, almost ninety degrees, a place where the bodies of more than four thousand Japanese soldiers had been piled up...
Hengyang Defensive Battle Army Tenth Army defense equipment and battle history map
This map of Hengyang, printed in the 13th year of Showa, that is, in 1938, drawn by Japanese agents, details the topography, distance, length and width of Hengyang City and its surroundings.
At the end of June 1944, the devils really placed the main direction of attack on the southwestern outskirts of Hengyang City, and as a result, after the attacking troops arrived, the devils were dumbfounded.
The small hills marked on the map, which are not more than a few tens of meters high, have become vertical cliffs of 90 degrees.
On June 27, 1944, Wuguiling, defended by Jiang Hongxi, was greeted by the enemy. That night, the devils launched more than a dozen crazy attacks in a row, without taking advantage of the slightest benefit.
Fang Xianjue trench construction drawings
Grenades were dropped like a torrential rain, with a frantic explosion, crimson shrapnel, flying in the air. One by one, we don't know if he died when he came or died when he went, and we saw so many corpses left the next day. ”
—— "Blood and Tears Remember Hengyang"
The ruins of bridge piers that were blown up during the Hengyang Defense War
The fortifications of Wuguiling are exactly the typical "Fang Xianjue Trench", which was designed by Fang Xianjue and the engineer battalion together.
Wooden fences and barbed wire formed the first line of defense of the "Fang Xian jue trench", in which mines were laid.
The second line of defense was a two-meter-wide, water-filled trench with bamboo nails.
The third line of defense was a crossfire of fire made up of machine gun bastions on both sides.
The last line of defense was the cliff fortifications, where the defenders straightened the hill into a steep cliff, and the devils had to build ladders, at which point a large bundle of grenades would fall from the sky.
When the Japanese army passed through such a continuous blockade area, the casualties could be imagined
The first wave of attack lasted for three days, and Wuguiling endured dozens of crazy charges in a row, and the corpses in front of the position were piled up, but the devils could never take a step forward.
In fact, when choosing the focus of defense, Fang Xianjue and the US military staff officer had differences. Because the Xiang River runs around the city in the east of Hengyang, everyone's attention is focused on the northwest and southwest directions.
The US staff officer believed that the devils came down from the north, and the northwest direction was just a flat paddy field, which was conducive to attack and should focus on defense; the southwest direction was a hilly area that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, which could be used as a retreat for the defenders.
Fang Xianjue, commander of the Tenth Army, believed that the southwest was the commanding height of the whole city, and the devils definitely hoped to start from here, on the one hand, they could eliminate the retreat of the defenders, on the other hand, once the condescending situation was formed, the artillery fire alone would be enough to break the city. On the contrary, the paddy field area in the northwest direction was dug into a surface by the defenders, and the heavily armored devils would certainly not choose this place.
The method of taking down the fang xian jue trench
The Japanese could only rely on artillery fire to blow up the cliffs and then attack
It turned out that Fang Xianjue was right. As a result, the devil fell into the envisaged first round of attack, which only made the morale of the officers and men of the Tenth Army even higher.
Thinking again of Chiang Kai-shek's promise to the Tenth Army to break the siege for two weeks, no one thought about the question of retreat.
Before the defense of Hengyang, the American Flying Tigers evacuated Hengyang Airport
This kilometer-long cement road, surrounded by wild grass, is used by children in the surrounding area to fly kites. Few people know that this place was once Hengyang Airport.
The airport was built in 1934 as a forward base for the Flying Tigers.
On June 26, 1944, Bajialing Airport fell, and the air force withdrew to Zhijiang.
In the first and second stages of the Hengyang Defense War, the Chinese and US air forces insisted on flying to Hengyang to fight.
A bloody battle, the main defense of the city south of Zhangjia Mountain, WuguiLing
Today's Fang Xian Jue Trench roughly area.
After three days of defending Wuguiling, the five companies led by Jiang Hongxi suffered little casualties, and the positions of the entire Pre-Tenth Division were also complete.
On the third night, the officers and men burrowed into the bunker early and raised their spirits to deal with the night attack. However, I only saw that the devil's position was full of people coming and going, and it was very busy, but it was delayed in seeing the attack.
At about ten o'clock in the evening, several flares were suddenly fired from the opposite position, and a fierce burst of artillery fire struck, this time with incendiary bombs and poison gas bombs.
The soldiers of the Pre-Tenth Division suffered the most brutal night.
The Japanese launched the poison gas warfare they were best at
Those who could not stand the rush out of the bunker were immediately strafed by the machine guns of the devils, and the position fell into chaos.
The Japanese incendiary bombs ignited the trees and grass around the position, the sleepers of the fortress and the bunkers, and the raging fire instantly engulfed the lives of countless Chinese anti-war soldiers.
The gas bomb was very powerful, and where the smoke passed, the eyes of the Chinese anti-war soldiers were like chili water, and the tears could not open their eyes at all. The skin exposed to the outside of the clothes was corroded by poisonous gas, and huge blisters appeared and swollen, and many soldiers' hands were so swollen that they could not even hold their guns. The soldiers who died on the position were corroded by poisonous gas, and their faces were even distorted.
Jiang Hongxi shook the phone to the 7 companies on the flank, but they couldn't shake it, so they sent people to look over and see that the 7 companies had all been poisoned and killed due to the low-lying fortifications.
Then, the devils rushed up in groups of thirty or forty people, shirtless, and took turns rushing up.
Japanese troops ambushed at the city gate
"The corpses of the dead devils are piled up into mountains, and the firing ports of our guns are blocked, and we have to push the corpses away before we can fight, and the devils climb up from these corpses..."
"The Japanese don't wear clothes and rush up shirtless and wear pants. Our machine guns swept down one piece, and the rows of our back rushed up again. If you don't kill him, he will kill you, and the eyes will be red and blood-red, and no one can see clearly. What is the only way to recognize the enemy? Recognize the clothes. The Japanese are khaki clothes, Chinese are coarse cloth military uniforms, as long as they are khaki, kill! ”
Immediately after that, the machine gun of the first fort sounded, the outer trench fortress gun roared, and the whole position boiled up.
Chinese soldiers who fought in bloody battles
Has the enemy entered the assault position? So many enemies?
One after another, the reports squeezed into the command post like snowflakes, "A large number of enemies have generally infiltrated the positions, in a desperate fight!" ”
The last blocking position in front of the regimental headquarters command post also sounded gunfire.
In the confusion, the regimental commander asked Jiang Hongxi to bring three signal soldiers up.
The position had entered a hand-to-hand combat, and the sudden sound of killing gunshots behind them made both sides think that reinforcements from the Tenth Army were coming, and the morale of the defenders was greatly boosted, and the ghosts were repelled with a single blow.
The fighting stopped temporarily after this night.
The Japanese army is best at poison gas warfare
Exhausted, Jiang Hongxi retired with the fifth company, who had just entered the battle like him, to rest.
In just three nights, the sixty or so brothers who had screamed before the war could never return.
This night, Jiang Hongxi was silent for a long time and did not say a word.
The man who has experienced blood and fire, silently shed tears...
The graduation medal of the Taishan Army Special Agent Training Course
The special agent commander personally sent the order of the division commander: the company's three-day record was the championship of the whole army... Company Commander Jiang Hongxi commanded well, did not retreat from the wounded, was particularly commendable, immediately promoted to major, and awarded 5,000 yuan to encourage ...
Really hit a major. It is really good to be promoted and rich again. I cried...
The Japanese army drove endlessly to positions outside Hengyang City
Soon, the devil's second round of attacks began.
The brother-in-law had just delivered the meal to the company headquarters, and before he could eat, Jiang Hongxi received a new order, and the enemy raided the top of Zhangjiashan Mountain, and the regimental headquarters was already in hand-to-hand combat.
Jiang Hongxi gave an order to the Wulian brothers, asking them to tie their clothes around their waists and shirtless, wrap their heads in towels, and swear to retake the position to the death.
This easy method of attracting shots startled the devils at first.
The defense of Hengyang is like a meat grinder
The traffic trenches were littered with dead bodies, at least knee-deep sludge and blood. No gunshots could be heard, no gunshots could be heard, and all I could see was a tuft of mud spraying around, shrapnel and grenade handles flying all over the sky.
In the Japanese Kou Hengyang War Report, the encounter of this night's hand-to-hand combat is recorded:
At 2:30 a.m., a Chinese soldier mixed with the two captains of the battle side by side, and when Captain Adachi realized that he had just shouted "This is the enemy", the grenade thrown by the Chinese soldier exploded, and Captain Osuga gong was killed, and Lieutenant Ashita Hatsu was seriously wounded in the knee and fell.
--Japanese war history materials
Chinese soldiers who did not retreat from the bloody battle
Zhangjiashan was defended.
After this battle, the Fifth Company had only more than a dozen people left.
Late at night, Jiang Hongxi received news from the division headquarters that he had been appointed deputy battalion commander of the third battalion, responsible for the defense of Zhangjiashan Mountain. Soon, in another attack by the devils, the shells hit the command post, and Jiang Hongxi was carried down.
In the hospital, Jiang Hongxi got the news that the commander of the third battalion, Zhou Guoxiang, had died.
When writing his diary at night, Jiang Hongxi thought about it for a long time and could not write it. The cruelty of the war made him reluctant to think about the names of those people.
Suddenly, a barrage of shelling struck.
Looking at the red night outside, listening to the faint shouts of killing, a stream of hot tears surged irrepressibly from Jiang Hongxi's eyes.
Japanese shells fell into hengyang city day and night
Write it down, let me take the part of The Commander Of the Zhou Camp with me and write it down together...
The defensive circle was shrinking day by day, the enemy was gradually approaching the city, and machine guns swept into the pillar tiles of the hospital from time to time. Nervous, anxious, has caught the heart...
Chinese War Soldiers
Lying in the rear, Jiang Hongxi's heart was very anxious, and it was difficult to sleep in the sound of the heaven-shaking cannon. At this time, the news came from the military headquarters, reinforcements came, and it was said that the nearest troop was only more than ten miles away from Hengyang.
This night was the most peaceful sleep jiang Hongxi had in the battlefield.
In his dream, he cried again.
The invincible Tarzan Army
"I dreamed of throwing hats and shouting and dancing revelry when I met with the friendly troops on the periphery; I also dreamed of helping the old and the young people to return to the ruins of the city, and how they wept bitterly; when they met with me, they asked long questions and short questions, and wept with gratitude. When I woke up, tears were still flowing from the corners of my eyes. ”
However, this day has never come.
At the end of July, the military commander issued an order to sacrifice everything, enrich the line of fire, and those who were slightly injured and able to move were once again on the battlefield.
A popular phrase in the Tenth Army began to rhyme, called "Less than three wounded, eating money and grain in vain is a traitor."
The city wall has been blown down by Japanese shells, and the Chinese soldiers are still fighting to the death
August 3, 1944, the last position.
The devil's shells made everyone unable to lift their heads, and the few grenades they had left to work.
Jiang Hongxi, who was wounded and went to the battlefield again, decided to rush up. This was his last charge.
In this unit that has come together, there are not many officers.
One of them, a company commander surnamed Zhu, promised to cooperate with Jiang Hongxi, and the two planned to lead people to launch a counterattack from both wings.
Jiang Hongxi luckily rushed to the position, but found that there was no movement at all on the other side, and Zhu Lianchang was missing.
On this day, Jiang Hongxi was shot again, and this time his leg was so badly injured that he could not move.
Company commander Jiang Hongxi was shot in the head and insisted on fighting
Being carried to an air raid shelter, Jiang Hongxi was surprised to see the Zhu Company Commander. It turned out that at the last moment of the battle, Zhu Company Commander collapsed, and he ran back alone and hid in the hole, and all the soldiers were lost.
The red-eyed Jiang Hongxi took out a shell gun and gave him a shot, only to be dragged by several fighters and deflected.
In the midst of a hissing and shouting, Zhu Lianchang ran away crying.
This was the last time everyone saw Commander Zhu before the end of the battle.
The city of Hengyang was destroyed, and China and Japan fell into brutal street fighting
On August 8, 1944, Hengyang City was destroyed.
Staff officer Li Chunhua, whose life and death were uncertain after being captured, never heard the news of "Fifty Days of Hengyang" again.
Unable to walk, Jiang Hongxi was captured.
After the city was destroyed, the devils basically shot at the prisoners of war who could not move. Therefore, Jiang Hongxi was identified as a sacrifice.
Jiang Hongxi recounted the bloody battle of Hengyang that he had witnessed with his own eyes
In a handwritten pamphlet, Jiang Hongxi recounts his experience.
On August 8, the devil came in and followed a group of Chinese-speaking translators.
At that time, Jiang Hongxi, who knew that he would die, sat down on the edge of the broken wall, but a person suddenly came to the translator, and whispered to him in a hoarse voice: "Commander Jiang! He looked up and recognized the man and blurted out, "Traitor! ”
That person was zhu company commander who had escaped from the battle.
The company commander, who had even taken off his military uniform, had tears in his eyes and gently knelt down in front of Jiang Hongxi on one knee.
An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood
I don't know what Commander Zhu said, but in the end the devil agreed to let the man who had injured his leg survive.
Half a year later, Jiang Hongxi managed to escape from the prisoner-of-war camp, and he did not mention the fate of the traitor again, nor did he return to the troops.
The war diary, which he had planned to make him famous in one fell swoop, was also kept in the memory of the old man until he was discovered by his grandson sixteen years after his death.
Yes, war is not about fame, it's just about refusing to perish and sending out the last roar of life.
He had fought before, and he did not regret it.
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