I don't know if you have ever seen the TV series "Bright Sword"? As a widely circulated anti-Japanese drama, there is no so-called hand-torn devil god operation, which largely restores the real Anti-Japanese War in history.
And many of the anti-Japanese generals in history are mostly similar to Li Yunlong's temperament, with great affection and righteousness, cunning and roughness, brave and fearless, but there is such a general who is not taking the usual path and has a very arrogant personality. The most famous is Chifeng City, which has been dismissed nine times in a row for arrogance, and has led troops to fight in his life.
But it was a man like him who had even asked for a retreat, and although he had only once, he was rejected, and people could not help but wonder what kind of situation they had encountered that could make such an arrogant person request a retreat?
First of all, let's first introduce today's protagonist, Chi Fengcheng, which may be very unfamiliar to most people, but to say that this person is the general who commanded the Battle of Taierzhuang, everyone is more familiar.
Regarding the ability of Chi Fengcheng as a person, no matter how much he says, it is also the evaluation of posterity, and the most true and objective evaluation is still from his friend Fu Zuoyi.
First, because of his arrogance, he was dismissed nine times, and the gods and men in China's war history were also man
Who is this Fu Zuoyi? He was originally a small brigade commander, and the famous battle was the "Battle of Shou Zhuozhou", and when there was no supply from the inside and no reinforcements outside, he was stunned to stick to Zhuozhou for more than three months, so he was given the nickname "General Shanshou".
Since then, his status has been on a par with Yan Xishan, and at that time, Fu Zuoyi was quite conceited and dismissed many generals in the country, but in Fu Zuoyi's heart, Chifengcheng was an exception.
In fact, Chifeng City has many similarities with Fu Zuoyi, which may be one of the reasons why Fu Zuoyi appreciates Chifeng City.
Although the world only knows that Fu Zuoyi is conceited, but Chi Fengcheng was not inferior when he was young, when he was a battalion commander, he was very proud, angered his superiors and was dismissed, and after correction, he continued to be the battalion commander, but the arrogance came from the heart, and soon after he was dismissed, but he was helpless, and his superiors could not do anything, so he was reinstated and dismissed, repeated nine times.
However, this was not the whole reason why Fu Zuoyi admired Chi FengCheng, the most fundamental and direct reason was the most important battle in Chi FengCheng's life, the Battle of Taierzhuang.
People say that since Fu Zuoyi read the report of the Battle of Taierzhuang commanded by Chi Fengcheng, he never mentioned his merits in holding Zhuozhou City, and there are books that record that he once told his colleagues that the Battle of Chifeng Town Shoutaierzhuang was unprecedented, and praised Chifeng City as a god and a man in Chinese war history.
So in the end, in the end, what kind of difficult situation was the situation of Chi Feng City in the first battle of Taierzhuang?
2. Blood Battle Taierzhuang
The Battle of Taierzhuang was not easy from the beginning, and on March 23, 1938, Sun Lianzhong ordered Chi Fengcheng to garrison chi fengcheng with thousands of soldiers on the north bank of the canal near Taierzhuang, and the war was fierce at the beginning, and on that day they engaged in a fierce confrontation with the Isoya Division, inflicting a heavy blow on it, leaving it with only more than three hundred people.
That night, more than three hundred remnants of the army desperately rushed from the west of the city into the northwest corner, Chi Fengcheng led the army to counterattack with artillery fire, the big battle did not end until late at night, the result was that all the enemy troops were annihilated, and our army also killed and wounded more than five hundred people.
In this way, the fierce war lasted until March 29, when there were only seventy-two commandos left in Chifeng City, but they still had to counterattack the Japanese troops in Zhuangnei according to the orders, and under the cover of mortars, although all the Japanese troops entrenched in Wenchang Pavilion were annihilated, there were few commandos left.
This was not the most difficult, the most difficult thing was that in such a situation, Sun Lianzhong still asked Chi Fengcheng to lead the remaining dozens of people to hold their positions and wait for Tang Enbo's support.
Even if there were not enough manpower, Chi Fengcheng still chose to lead the generals to resist stubbornly, but no matter how strong the command ability, no matter how powerful the troops could not withstand the enemy's attack day and night, until April 3, Chi Fengcheng knew very well that if this continued, the troops would be in danger of being completely annihilated, and their pressure reached its peak.
Due to the small number of people, the enemy constantly attacked during the day, and the night was also constantly harassing, the soldiers did not rest well, but also to maintain energetic combat, Chi Fengcheng was like The commander-in-chief of Sun Lianzhong asked for instructions, hoping to shift the position and temporarily retreat from the north bank of the canal to the south bank.
This was the only time in his life that the arrogant Chi Fengcheng applied for retreat in the situation that the battle was not over, Sun Lianzhong knew that he was a man, he was not afraid of death, but he was very affectionate, watching the brothers who lived and died together one by one, and did not want to let the soldiers he brought with him be destroyed, Chi Fengcheng retreated, and asked for help from the headquarters.
Sun Lianzhong is not an unreasonable, ruthless and unrighteous person, although Chi Fengcheng used to be arrogant and conceited, treating the commander-in-chief on an equal footing, but only Sun Lianzhong was very respectful, if Sun Lianzhong sat, he would definitely stand respectfully on the side.
Similarly, Sun Lianzhong also knew the difficulties of Chi Fengcheng, so he called Xu Zuyi, chief of staff of the chief of staff of the chief of staff, to ask for instructions, but such a big problem Xu Zuzhao could not pay attention to it, and then reported to the commander Li Zongren, but Li Zongren still insisted that Chi Fengcheng lead the troops to continue to hold out.
Sun Lianzhong was also distressed about his own men and his soldiers, and he did not hesitate to call Li Zongren to request withdrawal, his words were humble, and Li Zongren certainly understood their difficulties.
But this time is the counter-offensive node of the whole campaign, as long as you hold on to this base area, survive this hurdle, and wait for the arrival of reinforcements, everything can be solved.
Not only that, Li Zongren also ordered that Chi fengcheng not only be held until dawn the next day, but also sneaked up on the enemy at night, harassed, disrupted the enemy's work and rest, and made his plan to attack at dawn be in vain, so that tang Enbo would lead his army to sneak attack at noon the next day.
Seeing that Li Zongren had already laid out the overall situation in his heart, Sun Lianzhong could only obey the command of his superiors, but Chi Fengcheng's reserves had long been exhausted, it was easy to defend the river, and it was really difficult to attack at night. Li Zongren immediately ordered a reward of 100,000 yuan, and all the soldiers in the rear who could hold guns were gathered to form a death squad and carry out night raid tasks.
Success or failure in this move, Sun Lianzhong said that he would definitely swear to die to successfully complete the task, he personally oversaw the battle against Taierzhuang, and said to Chi Fengcheng, even if the whole army is destroyed, even if the whole regiment is left alone, you must go up, this is an order, as long as you dare to retreat from the canal, all of them will be dealt with by military law.
On this day, the Japanese army announced that it had completely occupied Taierzhuang, and two moves forced Chi Fengcheng to a dead end, and he made a move that surprised everyone.
Maybe everyone has guessed, yes, he used explosives to blow up the pontoon bridge on the canal, cut off all the back roads for himself and his brothers, all said "put to death and be born later", thinking that xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, was because there was a way to retreat, so he did not force himself into a desperate situation to resist, resulting in the tragic end of Wujiang's self-destruction, but Chi Fengcheng did not leave himself a trace of retreat, and the only way to survive was to desperately.
In this way, he sent one death squad after another, using his brothers to lure the enemy deeper. On that day, the enemy army fiercely attacked our army four times from one o'clock in the afternoon to five o'clock in the afternoon, fought more than ten times in hand-to-hand combat, and destroyed our army's houses with incendiary bombs, but all of them were repelled one by one.
It is difficult to imagine how fierce the battle situation was at that time, only to know that in the ancient city of Taierzhuang, which was beaten like a sieve by the Japanese army everywhere, Chifeng City and his brothers were like killing red eyes, almost three days and three nights without rest and fighting desperately with the Japanese army, the large knives in their hands were bent like the back of the knife, and some soldiers seemed to be able to fall asleep on horseback.
"Last night in the dream of the cannon rumble, towards the durian flowers full of red", this is a desperate poem, it sounds full of pomegranates and flowers are so beautiful, but this is all dyed with the blood of the soldiers, ah, and finally they guarded the north bank of the canal, waiting for reinforcements.
With Tang Enbo and the 20th Army attacking from the enemy's flank, the entire course of the Battle of Taierzhuang was completely reversed, and finally ended with the killing of 10,000 enemies and the death and wounding of our army of more than 30,000.
summary:
After the war, in the face of the reporter's interview, Chi Fengcheng talked, after the shooting, he took a rain cloth, covered the bodies of comrades-in-arms, many of which were incomplete, arms and legs were blown to the side, Chi Fengcheng picked up tears while shedding tears, before he felt that men's tears were "breeds", this time, he only wanted to be a "breed".
Although it was the result of wounding the enemy eight hundred and losing one thousand, this was already a very good result because the disparity in materials and equipment between China and Japan was too large, and the victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang greatly boosted the morale of the anti-Japanese resistance and the confidence of victory, and also occupied a very important position in China's War of Resistance Against Japan.
Writing here, I have to sigh and cherish the hard-won peace, and at the same time I feel admiration for these fighters who have worked hard for the country, and pay high respect, and I feel extremely honored to be born in this united country.
And the tenacity of these predecessors needs to be learned and passed on, especially teenagers, as the future pillars of the motherland, the most important thing is to care for the country, and strive to develop themselves in order to better serve the country!
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