In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in order to resist the atrocities of fascism, countless sons and daughters of China went out of their homeland, took up arms, and composed a magnificent poem.
Among these people, there was such a group of people, they were dressed in rudimentary clothes, and even the whole army wore straw shoes.
However, such a group of "straw shoe soldiers" did not fight a general fierce battle, and only 20,000 people dared to confront the 150,000 elites of the Japanese army, directly fighting the Japanese army.
In the end, with this fierce strength, they repeatedly made great achievements in the confrontation with the Japanese army, played a great name, and made great contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance. So, what kind of team are they? Where does this fierceness come from?
In 1937, the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression aroused the will of the entire Chinese people to resist, and the mood of people signing up for the army was unprecedentedly high. At this time, the people of Guangxi, who were located in the rear area, were also actively responding to the government's conscription.
After receiving the news of the government's conscription, the people of Guangxi enthusiastically signed up, although only 100,000 conscripts were recruited, but the number of applicants exceeded one million. In the face of such a warm enthusiasm of the people of Guangxi to join the army, the person in charge of conscription was very moved, but the regulations were stipulations, and the last million or so people who signed up could only decide the final candidates to join the army by drawing lots.
Because the conditions were more difficult, Gui Jun wore straw shoes wherever he went.
It is precisely because of the striking symbol of grass shoes that some people call them "grass shoe army".
However, wearing straw shoes did not affect the Gui army from galloping on various battlefields, because the battle was fierce, some people associated them with the wolf soldiers in ancient Guangxi, and also called them wolf soldiers.
The name Wolf Soldier originated in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming Dynasty had completed its unification at this time and the country was generally relatively stable, Guangxi, located in the border areas, was also invaded by war in the friction between feudal dynasties. Coupled with the fact that there are many toasts and disputes in Guangxi, in this case, it is natural to cultivate the fierce folk style of the people of Guangxi.
In order to survive in a harsh environment, most people in Guangxi have begun to learn martial arts from childhood, so the physical fitness of the people in Guangxi is generally strong. And recruiting wolf soldiers is to choose the strongest and most suitable people to join them, which is why wolf soldiers can recruit good battles.
In the ancient books that have been handed down, there is such a record of wolf soldiers
"Good at hunting the mountain and eating, the child can ride the dog, lead the bow to shoot the rabbit and dig the mouse, the young master learns to ride the army, and is recruited as a wolf soldier"
From this, we can also see the bravery of the wolf soldiers.
The confrontation between the brave and warlike wolf soldiers and the Japanese Kou began in the Ming Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, the Wokou ran rampant and caused a disaster. Since the Ming Dynasty imposed a sea ban, the navy has existed in name only, and it is difficult to resist the Wokou who crossed from the east.
After seeing the weak strength of the Ming Dynasty's navy, the Wokou became even more rampant, repeatedly invading China's coastal areas, bringing great disasters to the country and the people. Faced with the wolf-like Wukou, the Jiajing Emperor ordered the recruitment of wolf soldiers to resist the Wokou. In order to save the people from the water and fire, 6800 wolf soldiers rushed to the front line and began a journey against the Wokou.
In the initial battle, because they were not familiar with the way of fighting of the Wokou, the wolf soldiers suffered heavy casualties. However, the wolf soldiers quickly summed up their experience and formulated tactics, and finally annihilated more than 2,000 enemy troops in one engagement, severely damaging the Wokou.
Although due to the changes in the internal situation, the wolf soldiers failed to take advantage of the victory to pursue and eliminate the Wokou in one fell swoop, the bravery of the wolf soldiers spread throughout the north and south of the great river, and their exploits in fighting the Wokou have been circulating in the mouths of the local people.
Although the wolf soldiers gradually faded out of people's vision for various reasons, their tradition of courage and good war was not lost, and in this "grass shoe army" they could still faintly see the figure of the wolf soldiers fighting against the Wokou, and they did not insult the prestige played by their ancestors.
In 1937, the Japanese army launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, and a national united front was formed in the country. The ambitious Japanese planned an attack on Shanghai in an attempt to speed up the invasion of China, and the Chinese army fought a large-scale battle with the Japanese in Shanghai to protect the gateway to the capital, Nanjing.
In this battle, both China and Japan invested a lot of troops, which was the largest battle in the entire Sino-Japanese War. After two months of fighting, both sides suffered heavy losses and the battle was at one point in a stalemate.
Seeing this situation, Chiang Kai-shek hurriedly dispatched troops to reinforce Shanghai, and 60,000 wolf soldiers traveled day and night, and finally arrived in Shanghai at the designated time. The 60,000 lively reinforcements made the commander happy, and when they were resting, they hurriedly sent them to the front line battlefield to support. Who knows, what awaits them in the front is not a meritorious achievement, but a disaster.
In the face of Shanghai, which could not be attacked for a long time, the angry and corrupt Japanese army transferred a large number of troops, including the heavily armed Japanese mechanized troops, and the wolf soldiers had to face the Japanese heavy artillery team that had just arrived on the battlefield.
At this time, the wolf soldiers were marching rapidly to support the front line, when suddenly a shell exploded in front of them, and before they could react, countless shells appeared above their heads, and with a loud noise, a corpse was left on the ground.
At this time the wolf soldiers suddenly realized that they had encountered the enemy artillery unit. Under such circumstances, the poorly equipped wolf soldiers still chose to take the initiative to launch attacks on the enemy army.
In the face of such a huge weapon gap, many wolf soldiers fell under the enemy's artillery fire before they could touch the enemy, but the sacrifice of their companions aroused the fierceness of the remaining wolf soldiers, and they rushed forward against the enemy's artillery fire. Under the pouring of enemy fire, one wolf soldier after another fell, but immediately someone would take their place and continue to rush forward.
After the war, the battlefield was full of wolf soldiers' corpses, blood stained the earth red, and sixty thousand wolf soldiers were almost completely annihilated
。 In this battle of great disparity in strength, 60,000 wolf soldiers were not afraid of death, and launched a fierce attack on the elite of the Japanese army, although the casualties were exhausted in the end, but they also played out the momentum of the Chinese people, and conveyed to the Japanese army our determination to defend our homeland to the death.
In early 1938, the 7th and 48th Armies of the Gui Clan fought a fierce battle with the Japanese 13th Division moving north in the area of Hefei and Chuxian County. In the face of the fierce offensive of the Gui army, the 13th Division could only fight and retreat at the same time, and there was no chance to fight back, and the Gui army took this opportunity to briefly recover Jiangpu County, the nanjing barrier occupied by the Japanese army.
In August of the same year, the 11th and 21st Corps of the Gui clan were ordered to block the Japanese 6th Division, and under the fierce impact of the Gui Army, the 6th Division resisted hard but could not escape the fate of defeat, and finally the 6th Division regiment, which was forced to helplessly use poison gas bombs, was able to defend the offensive of the Gui Army.
However, even in the face of poison gas bombs, the Gui army insisted on fighting the Japanese army with a fierce force, and did not stop the attack on the Japanese army until the reserves were exhausted
。
Guangxi is not only fierce, but the wolves selected from among them will be even more fierce. After the fall of Wuhan, the Japanese army launched three attacks on Zaozhuang, and the troops guarding the first line of Zaozhuang were the 84th Army of the Gui Army.
Under the fierce offensive of the Japanese army, the commander of the 84th Army, Mo Shude, in order to ensure that the position was not lost, issued the following order:
Unless there is an order, even if it is the last person, it is not possible to withdraw from the position without authorization.
Under such orders, the 84th Army did not retreat from the battle, and when the ammunition was finished, it fought with the Japanese army.
The commander of the army, Mo Shude, also took the lead and personally went to the front to direct the battle, and under his encouragement, although the Gui army suffered heavy casualties, no one had the idea of retreating.
In order to cover them, the 173rd Division of the Gui Army did its best, and in the end, the whole division was gloriously sacrificed.
In the War of Resistance Against Japan, the wolf soldiers made many contributions to their combat bravery,
But to say that their greatest credit is the shelling of the Japanese general Tsukada attacked.
In December 1942, the 21st Army of the Gui Army was trying out a newly acquired cannon on a hill, and when the artillery was happy about the newly acquired artillery, they saw a black dot flying towards them in the distance.
The artillerymen looked at it, and the plane was just within their range. Seeing that the other side had not noticed them, the artillery quickly aimed at the plane and fired a shot.
With a loud bang, the plane fell down in thick black smoke.
After seeing the plane crash, the crowd rushed over to check on their achievements. In a pile of corpses that had been burned into black charcoal, the crowd found some scattered documents, and after putting them together, they found that it was the japanese army that formulated a combat plan for the anti-Japanese base area in China.
Subsequently, after the determination of the intelligence department, it is certain that one of these officers who was killed by the artillery of the Katsura Army was Atsukada, a senior Japanese general.
Tsukada is a notorious figure in China, he was the main figure of the Japanese army's war against China, he participated in a series of events such as the July 7 Incident and the Nanjing Massacre, and his death can be described as a great joy.
Later, Tsukada was posthumously awarded the rank of grand general, and he became the only general killed by the Chinese army in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
The intercepted Japanese military battle plan was the information that Tsukada had brought out after attending the high-level military conference of the Japanese army. The plan shows that in order to withdraw from the war of aggression against China as soon as possible, the Japanese army planned to launch an attack on the Chinese army in two ways, and finally surrounded Chongqing, crushing the will of the Chinese people to resist in one fell swoop.
For this plan, the Japanese army is full of confidence. At this time, the Japanese army won successive victories in the Pacific Theater and the Southeast Asian Theater, and dissatisfied with the Chinese battlefield, they decided to increase their strength in the Chinese battlefield and fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army. For this plan, the Japanese army made a lot of preliminary preparations, and also sent special people to explore the terrain of the southwest and formulated a detailed topographic map.
According to the Japanese plan, the Japanese army at this time should be making intensive preparations, but in the near future, the fierce offensive of the Japanese army will sweep through half of China. However, the Chinese army, which knew of this battle plan, immediately moved, setting up many checkpoints on the necessary road of the Japanese army and sending heavy troops to guard it.
Seeing that the Chinese army was so targeted and defensive, the Japanese army also knew that their battle plan was leaked, so they had to dispel the idea of ending the battle in China as soon as possible.
This time, the Gui army can be described as a great achievement, not only killing the Japanese general Tsukada attacking full of crimes, sacrificing a bad breath for the soldiers and civilians in the War of Resistance Against Japan, but also intercepting such an important battle plan of the Japanese army, smashing the conspiracy of the Japanese army, and making great contributions to the reversal of the situation in the subsequent War of Resistance Against Japan.
If it is said that killing Tsukada and intercepting Japanese intelligence is the "battle" that the wolf soldiers have done the most,
Then, the defense of Guilin was the most fierce battle they fought.
In 1944, with the entry of the United States into the war, the Japanese army lost one after another in the Pacific Theater, and the sea lines of communication were always at risk of being cut off by the American army. Under such circumstances, the Japanese launched an all-out attack on the Chinese army in an attempt to open up the mainland lines of communication to ease their increasingly tense supply pressure.
In October of the same year, with the successive fall of many important cities in Henan and Hunan, the menacing Japanese army had already descended on guilin. At this time, there were less than 20,000 wolf soldiers in the city, and the vast majority of them were still recruits.
Their enemy was 150,000 Japanese elites, not only several times their strength, but also equipped with more than 30 aircraft and more than 300 tanks.
Under such circumstances, it is conceivable how much pressure the wolf soldiers are under to defend the city, but the twenty thousand wolf soldiers have not flinched in the slightest. In the face of the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army, the wolf soldiers did not retreat, and they blocked wave after wave of enemy attacks.
In the fierce siege battle, although the wolf soldiers suffered heavy casualties, the Japanese army also paid a terrible price. After an unsuccessful attack, the Japanese frantically used poison gas bombs, but the wolf soldiers were not deterred and were still fighting the Japanese to the death. However, the gap in strength was too great, and with the sacrifice of many Lang generals, Guilin still fell.
However, the remaining wolf soldiers and the people in the city did not give up resistance, but used the buildings lined up in the city to carry out guerrilla warfare with the Japanese army, and some people formed a death squad and launched a suicide attack on the Japanese army with the belief that they must die, just to eliminate the living force of the Japanese army to the greatest extent.
This caused great trouble to the Japanese army, making it impossible for the Japanese army to take over the city of Guilin smoothly.
Although in the end the wolf soldiers failed to defend Guilin, under such circumstances, it was not easy for them to hold Guilin for 13 days. In this battle, the wolf soldiers once again let the Japanese army see their fierceness and dealt a fierce blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army. In this battle, although they lost, they were glorious!
Looking at the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in many battles, it is not difficult for us to find the heroic posture of the Gui Army in resisting the Japanese Kou. This team that is brave and good at war in the special era will also pass away with time. However, in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the wolf nature and bravery shown in the fight against the Japanese Kou, as well as the thousands of Guangxi wolf soldiers who fell in the War of Resistance, will be remembered by every Chinese!