In October of the fourteenth year of the Republic of China, in the late autumn, inside the Whampoa Military Academy, several twenty-year-old students gathered together and shared a chicken called Hua chicken. One of them ate loudly, nibbling on a large chicken leg, and looked like a hungry person.
Instructor Chen Ji came out to inspect, and saw several people hiding behind a tree to steal, and hurriedly drank: "Fang Cannon! You're taking the lead again! As soon as he heard the instructor's voice, several students suddenly scattered in flocks, and the boy known as Fang Cannon ran the fastest, but Chen Inherit took three or two steps forward and grabbed it violently, and Fang Cannon could only obediently grab the collar.
Chen Ji said: "I said Fang Xianjue, you don't violate the school rules for a day to itch?" Do you still want to graduate? ”
The boy who was caught was the third-term student of the Whampoa Military Academy, Fang Xianjue, who was only nineteen years old at this time, and it was the time when the horse was freshly dressed. When he saw that he couldn't run away, he simply calmed down and replied, "Sir, this man can't eat enough, so naturally he will steal!" ”
"What nonsense?" Chen Ji was extremely disgusted: "The canteen has not yet fed you this shit!" ”
"Sir! How can you open your eyes and talk nonsense, if it were not for the crowd in the canteen who were full of private pockets and withheld the rations of students, we would have come out every day to steal food! ”
The top level of the military academy was greedy and vain, and took the students' food expenses to fill their own silver bags, which Chen Inherit had heard about earlier, and he was also weak-hearted, and let go of Fang Xianjue: "Wipe your mouth clean and train." Next time, I'll let you go! ”
"Gotcha! Thank you sir! Fang Xianjue took the order, retreated, and did not forget to lick the oil foam from the corner of his mouth before leaving.
Chen Ji looked at his distant figure and shook his head. He has been taking Fang Xianjue for a few years, naturally knowing his "cannon" personality, he can't tolerate sand in his eyes, his ears can't listen to the rules, tomorrow he will steal food, sooner or later he will suffer a big loss!
First, the iron bones of Zhengzheng appeared early, and a generation of famous generals first grew up
Chen inherited from the knowledge of Fang Xianjue, he was quite famous, and among the instructors, fang Xianjue was often discussed. Moreover, almost all the third-term students in Huangpu had heard Fang Xianjue's name, and when they came to ask about Fang Xianjue, their classmates exclaimed: "Fang Cannon!" There is nothing he does not dare to say, there is nothing that he does not dare to do. ”
Chen Ji also knew that sooner or later he would suffer a big loss because of his personality, but he did not expect that this day would come so quickly.
On this day, the students did not have enough to eat, and the whole flock of chickens waiting to be fed. So they looked for the upper premonition: "Fang Cannon! It is not the same thing that everyone is hungry every day, you are the bravest on weekdays, you go to find a food suggestion! ”
Fang Xianjue could no longer look down on the practices of the Huangpu high-level, and his classmates surrounded him, looking like a little hero, and he was also bold: "I have long wanted to go!" This is still reading, I can't eat enough! In the future, we will go to the battlefield, and we may not be sure how to get us! ”
One of the students also responded: "I heard that this time it was the procurement of military supplies that obstructed it!" A small procurement, also dare to do this nonsense! This kind of bureaucracy is really chilling! ”
Fang Xianjue listened, rolled up his sleeves and rushed forward. If the upper beam is not right, the lower beam will be crooked, and Fang Xianjue does not want to be crooked, so he must twist the upper beam to correct. This twist is like the twist of the food.
The first-order students dared to commit crimes, and Fang Xianjue was quickly removed from the school and did not even graduate from the Whampoa Military Academy. At this time, it was only a month before he got his graduation certificate, and the cold window of several years was invalid. Chen Inherit hated that iron was not steel, and ran to scold Fang Xianjue: "You boy does not let people worry! This is good, don't say meritorious plus body, you are not qualified to go to the battlefield to die! ”
Fang Xianjue also knew that Chen Inheritance was sorry for him, and his heart was also big: "Chief! I didn't do anything wrong today, and I don't feel sorry for it. Now they dare to withhold the rations of the students, and in the coming day they dare to withhold the food of the generals. What I am doing today is what is just. ”
Fang Xianjue turned around and went to comfort his classmates: "If you can't graduate, you can pull down, Lao Tzu is like a revolutionary, see you on the battlefield!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he did not hesitate to leave the Whampoa Military Academy.
Fang Xian felt that this iron bone could be seen from a young age, and later he became the first person in the same team to become a military commander, and at the Whampoa Military Academy in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it was rare to want, but it was more difficult than ascending to the sky. And Fang Xianjue was born to be the material for fighting.
Only one year after leaving the Whampoa Military Academy, Fang Xianjue met Wei Lihuang, the commander of the National Revolutionary Army, and Wei Lihuang greatly appreciated Fang Xianjue's character, so he recommended him to join the National Revolutionary Army and became a captain and company commander. Fang Xianjue had taken a small circle and was back on his right track.
At that time, it was the period of the Northern Expedition War, and it was also a hero created by the times, and Fang Xianjue began his journey to fight monsters and upgrade and wash the battlefield in blood. In the Battle of Sanheba in the Nanchang Uprising, the 1st Regiment led by him took advantage of the thick fog at night to forcibly cross the Han River, and launched a fierce attack on the enemy army, occupying Sanheba and making a great achievement.
Then the Jiang-Gui War broke out, and Fang Xianjue led his army to Sanshui in Guangdong to fight with friendly forces, and returned with a full load. Wei Lihuang was overjoyed and promoted him to major battalion commander. Wei Lihuang praised, "Good boy, I really didn't look at the wrong person!" If you practice for a few more years, it must be the light of the bang family! ”
Fang Xianjue said, "The light of the Bang family can't bear it, I just hope that I can do my best for the country and the family!" ”
At this time, more than three years have passed since he joined the army, and whether it is military theory or actual combat experience, it has been greatly improved, and there has been a generation of famous generals.
Second, the bloody battle in Changsha is bumpy, and one can kill one
At that time, the students of the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy were the concubines of the old Chiang Kai-shek, which opened a great era of shining stars. But in the second and third periods, its military status, as well as its position in the heart of old Chiang Kai-shek, were all inferior. But Fang Xianjue still stood out from it and let Old Jiang see him.
In 1939, Japan had long been empty, desperately trying to open the Xianggui Line, squeezing into Singapore from Vietnam, and Changsha became the "fat meat" that they had to tear from the mouth of the tiger.
Japan's heavy military pressure on the territory is inevitable for Changsha, and all high-tech weapons are thrown to Changsha, which also leads to the leakage of intelligence of the Kuomintang troops in the Changsha defense war, and the Kuomintang did not fight smoothly in these several Changsha defense battles, but Fang Xianjue did not retreat once.
In the first defense of Changsha, Xue Yue mobilized more than 30 divisions, as well as 3 advancing columns, and a total of 240,000 people were ready to go, vowing to coexist and die with Changsha.
At the time of the winter offensive, the Pre-Tenth Division confronted the Japanese Kou at ChenJia Dashan, and the division commander Jiang Chaoxiong directly divided the team into two, one team led by himself, and the other team was handed over to Fang Xianjue. After Fang Xianjue took his order, he buried his head and rushed to the right peak of the Chen Family Mountain.
However, after Fang Xianjue killed the position, he found that Jiang Chaoxiong did not keep up at all, but lost when he attacked on the left side. Fang Xianjue was severely pit by Jiang Chaoxiong, and his team was under great threat from the Japanese army. Before Fang Xianjue could catch his breath, he was facing the disaster of annihilation, cursed a rude word, and then put on the bolt to continue killing the enemy.
Fang Xianjue killed for five days and five nights, until he fell out of strength and fell, only to be powerless: "Withdraw!" Return to the whole thing! ”
Originally an inevitable offensive and defensive battle, it was lost. Jiang Chaoxiong was directly dismissed from his post and investigated, while the deputy division commander Fang Xianjue was promoted to division commander because of his great merits.
This can also be regarded as a turning point in Fang Xianjue's fate, and he began to carry out a major rectification of the Tenth Division: "Command on the battlefield represents everything, the commander must be fully responsible for the battle, and all the soldiers above the company will be replaced by students of the Whampoa Military Academy!" ”
Fang Xianjue's move was actually afraid of the existence of a pit daddy like Jiang Chaoxiong in the team, after all, if Jiang Chaoxiong did not drop the chain, the battle of chen family Dashan would definitely be won.
By the Second Battle of Changsha, according to the order, Fang Xianjue led the Tenth Army to deploy at Jinjing, north of Changsha. However, the Japanese artillery fire was too fierce, and in less than a day, Fang Xianjue's troops directly killed half of them, and the 30th Regiment had no return.
Changsha must not be lost, and old Chiang Kai-shek's military orders have been repeatedly conveyed: "Face the Japanese and the Kosovars head-on." However, the position of the Tenth Army led by Fang Xianjue at this time had been broken, and Fang Xianjue was "being attacked head-on by the Japanese Kou", and the military order of Chairman Jiang was like a piece of waste paper.
In the army led by Fang Xianjue, the corpses were piled up as high as half a hill, and the blood that flowed out directly soaked the land red, and as soon as he stepped on it, he would sink a footprint. As far as Fang Xian's eyes could see, it was all scorched earth and corpses. Fang Xianjue roared, "But if Jinjing is lost, Changsha is in danger." Today can only win, who dares to lose! ”
Fang Xianjue did not accept defeat, nor did he admit defeat, still making tenacious resistance, and his shadow on the battlefield still bravely killed the enemy. He had courage and dared, desperately rushed forward, and slowly killed a bloody road. However, the Japanese Kou were menacing, and the friendly forces were not strong, so the commander Li Yutang directly ordered a retreat, all the way back to the city of Ryoli, and the remnants were assembled.
In the second defense of Changsha, Jinjing was directly lost, and Fang Xianjue was punished for this. The massacre of the Japanese army left too deep a shadow in his mind, and he once said to his subordinates: "Kill! Can kill one is one! Killing two is a return! If Changsha can't be kept, this life will be in vain! ”
Third, calmly go to death as a true hero, and the tears of the desperate family book flow first
By the third defense of Changsha, Fang Xianjue's Tenth Army had directly become the defenders of Changsha City, which was a chance for Heaven to give him a chance to kill back. He immediately began to formulate a battle plan and personally went to the south of Changsha to build a fortification. Subsequently, the 29th Regiment was ordered to bear the first line of defense, the 30th Regiment was the second-line reserve, and the 28th Regiment was responsible for the defense of the southern city wall of Changsha. The undead of the nationalist army under the Japanese Kou, he all had to come back.
At this time, Xue Yue created a heavenly furnace tactic of operation, first luring the enemy to go deeper, and then encircling and annihilating it, specifically ambushing, trapping, flanking and other methods, which was essentially a phased, and the japanese troops and morale were exhausted in stages. Finally, the net is collected in the decisive battle place, and the enemy army is strangled.
However, the success or failure of this method of warfare is all pinned on the top of the furnace, that is, the Changsha that Fang Xianjue defended. If Fang Xianjue could hold Changsha, the Battle of Changsha would surely be a great victory. If Fang Xianjue couldn't hold on, Xue Yue's Heavenly Furnace Battle Technique would just be a broken furnace.
Xue Yue, as the supreme commander, guarded Changsha, which also gave Fang Xianjue a vigilance: "Once Changsha is lost, you and I will leave our lives behind." Fang Xianjue should also: "The office has the determination to die!" ”
Fang Xianjue's expression was serious, and zhang Guangkuan was frightened that the city of Changsha had been destroyed before the war, so he opened the letter and read it carefully. At that time, the sun was shining, and zhang Guangkuan's seven-foot boy actually had tears in his eyes. The cannon fire arose in front of him, and he hurriedly collected the letter.
The Third Battle of Changsha began, the Japanese fire was fierce, and the Nationalist positions were lost one after another. It was a cold winter moon, and the weather was maddening, and the cold went straight into the bones of the soldiers. Cotton clothes are far from enough, relying on thin military uniforms, the soldiers survived a day, two days, three days, and if they could not survive, they were directly buried in the trenches.
Fang Xianjue ordered to die, he killed the red eye on the battlefield, and put himself out of the way several times, just thinking about returning to the original. When the Japanese killed the highlands, he killed them back. Between you and me, whoever dares to retreat, who dies first.
Fang Xianjue's goal at that time was very clear, that is, to die with the Japanese army and consume reinforcements. It was with this perseverance that the reinforcements for the bloody battle were coming, and the roof of the Heavenly Furnace Tactics was done, Xue Yue immediately closed the net, and the various group armies converged on the outskirts of Changsha to encircle and suppress the Japanese and Kou in one side of the world, and the difficulties of Changsha were solved.
At that time, Fang Xianjue's 29 regiments lost more than half, and the 30 regiments fought to the end, leaving only 58 men. Subsequently, the battlefield was cleared and found that there were almost no complete corpses on the ground.
In the three battles of Changsha, 93,944 nationalist soldiers were killed, wounded and missing, but more than 110,000 Japanese troops were annihilated. Hearing these data, Fang Xianjue's heart calmed down a bit, and he said to Zhang Guangkuan: "It is a return to the original." Zhang Guangkuan also looked at him and smiled: "There is no need to let the fifth son inherit your legacy early." Fang Xianju listened to it and was only surprised.
It turned out that what he asked Zhang Guangkuan to send to his family was his will. Zhang Guangkuan opened the letter, and it read impressively:
Yunhua Ezuma: This time our army was ordered to hold changsha, the task is heavy, the survival of Changsha is related to the success or failure of the overall situation of the War of Resistance, I am determined to martyr the country, if you die in battle, the life of you and your fifth son, the government itself takes care of it. Make sure that all five sons can graduate from college, be a good person, inherit my legacy, and serve the party-state, then I will smile and smile. Don't be sad!
Who can see it without shedding tears?
After this battle, as soon as Rikou heard the names of Fang Xianjue and Xue Yue, he was afraid, and for the next two years, he did not dare to touch Changsha for half a minute.
Moreover, as soon as the United States heard of the great victory in Changsha, it immediately approved a loan of 500 million US dollars to Lao Jiang, which solved lao Jiang's urgent need. Even the United States and Britain also abrogated many of the unequal treaties against China, and the Third Battle of Changsha was full of afterglow.
Relying on this battle, Fang Xianjue completely made a name for himself at home and abroad, and made a name for himself. At this time, he had been traversing the battlefield for more than ten years, and he thought that this was his last brilliant moment, but he did not expect that the Battle of Changsha was just a small test of fate against him.
His "blessing" is still to come.
Text/Lamb
Resources:
1. "Review of the Archives of the Third Battle of Changsha in the Collection of Japan", Peng Cheng
2. "The Third Battle of Changsha, the Battle of Snow Washing the Shame of the Country", Wu Mingfu