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Author: Yi Pin Wen team a constant single step, no authorization to ban the transfer!
After entering 1938, the Japanese offensive against Shanxi began to reach its peak. Because, since the outbreak of the "Lugou Bridge Incident" in 1937, after the Japanese army occupied Hebei, it quickly attacked Shanxi, first, to obtain rich coal resources, and second, if the attack went smoothly, the losses of the troops were not large, and they marched toward Shaanxi, crossed the Qinling Mountains, and went straight to Sichuan to achieve the evil goal of destroying China.
[Lieutenant General who was martyred against Japan.]
Zhao Xizhang
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Based on the above operational settings, the Japanese army formulated the main forces that must be eliminated in Shanxi Province, that is, the commander's headquarters of the Second Theater. Of course, the Commander's Headquarters of the Second Theater of Operations will certainly not sit idly by, still less will it allow the Japanese army's criminal plan to succeed, and will always fight to the death with its flesh and blood, inferior weapons and equipment and equipment that are close to modernization and extremely high military attainment. In order to delay and block the Japanese army, all the troops stationed in the second theater of operations, in every town and every village, were fighting with the Japanese army, thus effectively slowing down the pace of the Japanese army's attack and constantly depleting the effective strength of the Japanese army.
It was precisely on the basis of the tenacious principle of frontal combat that every inch of land must be contended as a guide, when the Commander's Department of the Second Theater learned that the Japanese army was attacking The County of Jinxi and was ready to take the county in one fell swoop, it relieved its worries about crossing the Yellow River south to attack the Central Plains.
Zhao Xizhang, then the commander of the 215th Brigade, was ordered to lead his troops to garrison the area around Yuxian county and actively build fortifications to block the Japanese attack. On February 20 of that year, a japanese unit entered the forward town of Kawaguchi in Yu prefecture, and the 215th Brigade stationed here quickly opened fire on the Japanese. After encountering the obstruction of the 215th Brigade, the Japanese army quickly used aircraft and artillery to continuously carry out crazy bombing of the positions of the 216th Brigade, with the intention of destroying all the ground fortifications and bunkers of the 215th Brigade by means of indiscriminate bombardment, so as to facilitate the surprise attack of the Japanese ground troops.
In the brigade command post, Zhao Xizhang saw the Japanese planes swooping down with strange screams, blowing up the area around the position, and then the heavy artillery of the Japanese army followed the bombardment of the position of the 215th Brigade, and many positions were destroyed by the bombardment of Japanese aircraft and heavy artillery. Zhao Xizhang, who led his troops to participate in the "Battle of Xinkou", understood that after the Japanese aircraft bombing and heavy artillery bombardment, he was about to start launching a ground attack.
Zhao Xizhang immediately came out of the brigade command post and he was going to the front line to personally supervise the battle, and his subordinates advised him that the Japanese army was still shelling our army's position, and he was worried that Brigadier Zhao would go to the position at this time, in case of Japanese shells, there was a high probability of an accident. Zhao Xizhang said lightly that it was all right, and disappeared into the smoke of choking people's sniffles.
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Officers and men rushing to the front line
Here is one more thing to say. Zhao Xizhang had made such a wish from the day before he went to the anti-Japanese battlefield, and he had already put his life and death aside. Moreover, in order to express his determination and will to resist Japanese imperialism, Zuo Zongtang, whom he greatly admired, set the best example for him.
At that time, Zuo Zongtang, with his old body, worked tirelessly and resolutely embarked on a long journey to recover Xinjiang, in order to show his heart, Zuo Zongtang specially made a coffin, the coffin went with people, and held the persistent belief in serving the country.
Zhao Xizhang also learned from Zuo Zongtang's approach. However, he considered that fighting with the already mechanized Japanese army, bringing a coffin was not conducive to the rapid action of the troops, Zhao Xizhang thought for a long time, what method to use. Then let his wife make him a birthday dress in advance. Shou Yi was sent to the troops, and Zhao Xizhang also gave an explanation to his subordinates, if he died in battle one day, he would scrub him clean and put on the finished Shou yi, so as to show the iron will of the Chinese soldiers who resisted foreign insults and regarded death as a homecoming.
When Zhao Xizhang had just entered the position, the Japanese charge began. The ferocious Japanese thought that under the continuous bombardment of their aircraft and heavy artillery, there would be very few Chinese troops on the positions. However, since entering the Shanxi battlefield, this Japanese army has fought against the Chinese army many times, and has gradually mastered the basic common sense of some operations of the Chinese army. In a vain attempt to overwhelm the Chinese army that survived under the bombs in the form of heavy troops and group charges, it was possible to easily cross over the position of Kawaguchi Town defended by the Chinese army and quickly occupy Yuxian County.
The arrogant Japanese changed the usual method of playing the scattered lines used in the charge to reduce casualties, but instead lined up in a dense formation, all holding the three or eight large covers in their hands, the bayonets flashing cold, and howling towards the Kawaguchi town position. In the face of such a rampant attack by the Japanese army, the officers and men of the 215th Brigade, who did not sacrifice themselves under the bombardment of Japanese aircraft and heavy artillery, under the command of Zhao Xizhang, concentrated all their weapons to shoot at the Japanese army.
Because the fortifications of the positions defended by the officers and men of the 215th Brigade have been completely destroyed by the Japanese army, many officers and men have been sacrificed and cannot stop the crazy attack of the Japanese army. In particular, by the afternoon of the fierce fighting, the Japanese army had broken through the position of the north and south hills of Kawaguchi Town defended by the 215th Brigade, and was in a condescending position.
Zhao Xizhang quickly reported the news of the loss of the positions at the top of the north and south hills to Shangfeng, who knew that the positions of the north and south hills had fallen into the hands of the Japanese army, and the other positions defended by the 215th Brigade were immediately exposed to the eyes of the Japanese army, and if they insisted on holding the above positions, they would put the 215th Brigade in danger of being surrounded by the Japanese army. Only by immediately withdrawing to the positions, continuing to maneuver with the Japanese army, and firmly dragging this Japanese army. After receiving the order, Zhao Xizhang immediately withdrew his troops to the new positions on the line from Kongjiazhuang and Donggouli to Renjialing to continue stubbornly blocking the Japanese army.
Officers and men transporting supplies to the front line
Zhao Xizhang felt that the time for a decisive battle with the Japanese army was coming. There was a rare peace before the Great War came. Zhao Xizhang thought that his enemy was the Japanese army in front of him. Who knows, on this night, the main force of the Japanese army arrived, and soon came to the outskirts of the positions of Kongjiazhuang, Donggouli and Renjialing, where the 215th Brigade had arrived.
Zhao Xizhang's troops had just withdrawn to Kongjiazhuang and Donggouli to Renjialing, where fortifications were being constructed. The main Japanese forces, which had been fully rested, used artillery, cavalry and infantry to launch a joint attack on the above-mentioned positions of the 215th Brigade at dawn.
Zhao Xizhang led his troops to desperately resist, and the brutal battle was fought in one morning, and all the unbuilt surface positions of the 215th Brigade were destroyed by the Japanese army, the officers and men suffered huge casualties, and the positions gradually contracted. At 2:00 p.m., under the fierce attack of the Japanese army for a few moments, most of the positions held by the 215th Brigade were occupied by the Japanese, especially the 215th Brigade Headquarters in Yangcun Fort was also surrounded by the Japanese.
At this critical moment, Zhao Xizhang felt that only by breaking through could there be any hope of survival, and it was pointless to stay in the command post at this time and only wait for death. He took up his gun and personally led the reserve and other officers and men of the brigade headquarters to rush towards the Japanese troops who had already attacked the village, to eliminate the Japanese troops who had invaded the village, and wait for the opportunity to find a direction for the breakthrough.
Zhao Xizhang led this commando team in the battle with the Japanese army, his arm was unfortunately hit by the Japanese army, and his subordinates saw that the brigade commander was wounded, and they all advised him to return to the brigade command post and let them kill a bloody road. Zhao Xizhang said loudly: "My clothes have long been prepared, this is where I am buried, and there is no death or life today." After he simply bandaged it, he threw himself into battle with the Japanese army, and as the Japanese army gathered more and more, the firepower became more and more fierce, and the commandos led by Zhao Xizhang suffered most of the casualties and had to retreat to the area around the brigade headquarters.
Zhao Xizhang thought that today was the day of his martyrdom, he led the remaining officers and men of the 215th Brigade to use every house, every courtyard wall and the Japanese army to carry out street battles, just when Zhao Xizhang and the Japanese army aimed at each other, he was hit in the head by a stray bullet of the Japanese army, and he was martyred at the age of 37.
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