In September 1938, in the southeast of Gushi County, Henan, billowing smoke filled the sky, and the nearby lush mountain forest had become bare.
A fierce battle had just ended here, and the Japanese were burning corpses piled up on the battlefield. Because there were so many corpses, Riko actually cut down all the trees on the nearby mountain. However, the wood was still insufficient, and the inhuman Japanese invaded more than a dozen nearby villages, demolishing all the houses where the villagers lived, and only then burning the piles of corpses.
Billowing smoke obscured the sky
This fierce battle was the Battle of Fujinshan, which shocked China and foreign countries, and was also the most important part of the Battle of Wuhan. In this battle, the brave and fearless Chinese soldiers blocked the Japanese for 10 days at the cost of 15,000 casualties, buying time for the deployment of the rear.
This campaign dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese Kou, aroused the patriotic feelings of the broad masses of Chinese soldiers and people, strengthened the determination of the whole people to resist the war, and wrote a great chapter of singing and weeping in the entire War of Resistance Against Japan.
Today, I will talk about this tragic and tragic battle, and I hope that everyone will not forget the national shame and will always cherish the martyrs!
First, Bai Chongxi's judgment was wrong, and rikou directly attacked the key point
In the early morning of August 29, 1938, Bai Chongxi, who was then the acting commander of the Fifth Theater, came to the headquarters with a tired face. At this time, Bai Chongxi's face was pale, and his tightly locked brows heralded the dangerous prospects of the future. Last night, he didn't close his eyes for a night, because an urgent telegram made him a little overwhelmed.
Bai Chongxi
Telegram Full Text:
On August 28, the Japanese North China Front, the 10th Division of the 2nd Army, Yoshio Shinozuka, captured Lu'an. The situation is urgent, please send reinforcements quickly.
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Lu'an is located in the northern foothills of Dabie Mountain, and Dabie Mountain is an important gateway to Wuhan, it can be said that after Dabie Mountain, it is a horse Pingchuan directly connected to Wuhan. At this time, the situation was so urgent, but Bai Chongxi was a little panicked, because he had made a fatal mistake.
Previously, Japan dispatched troops in central China, so that Bai Chongxi mistakenly believed that the Japanese would not send heavy troops to attack the northern foothills of the Dabie Mountains, but would attack the southern foothills, so that they could echo from beginning to end and form a trend of encirclement of Wuhan.
Therefore, the main forces of the Fifth Theater of Operations were almost all deployed by Bai Chongxi in the southern foothills of dabie Mountain, and now the northern foothills of Dabie Mountain can be said to be a small number of soldiers, and the strength of the Japanese Kou is simply a world away. Once Dabie Mountain is lost, then Wuhan is in danger.
Now that Ri Kou raised an army to attack Bai Chongxi's key point, how could he not let him panic?
Second, the Japanese Kou was menacing, and the 71st Army was in danger
The situation was critical, and Bai Chongxi, who had always been known as "Little Zhuge Ge", had no better way but to let the troops stationed at the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains forcibly engage.
At that time, Sun Lianzhong's Third Corps was resting there, they had just experienced the Battle of Xuzhou, the troops were killed nearly half, and they had received orders to block the Japanese Kou before they could replenish their troops.
Sun Lianzhong
On the Japanese side, two divisions led by Yoshio Shinozuka and Tachibana Hagisu, who were extremely strong in combat, attacked in two directions. The strength of these two divisions exceeded that of 10 companies, and generally a division of the Chinese army could barely match a Japanese company even if it was well-equipped and well-trained.
At this time, Sun Lianzhong's Third Corps only had about seven divisions, and had just experienced a major battle, and the difference in the face of the menacing Japanese Kou was too great.
Sun Lianzhong, who received the order, was a very bloody general, and he had just defended Taierzhuang with tenacious willpower in the Battle of Xuzhou, giving a devastating blow to the 10th Division of the Japanese Kou. Although the enemy was outnumbered, Sun Lianzhong did not hesitate, and immediately decided that the 71st Army would go forward to block the 13th Corps led by Dizhou Libing.
The 71st Army was one of the few remaining armies with German equipment, and arguably the last elite of the Third Corps, which had participated in the defense of Nanjing. The 13th Division of the Hagi Chau Li Army had just committed a crime of common indignation in Nanjing, and every Chinese people were eager to eat their flesh and sleep on their skins, and the sea of blood was deeply despised!
At this critical juncture of survival, Song Xilian, the commander of the 71st Army, was ordered to resolutely lead his troops to the forefront of the fight against the Japanese.
Song Xilian
Third, the bloody battle of Fujinshan, the Chinese soldiers fought with their lives
Song Xilian was tasked with blocking the Japanese for ten days and buying time for the deployment of the second and third lines of defense in the rear. As soon as he arrived at the front line, he kept exploring the terrain and finally finalized the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack Fujin Mountain as the final decisive battle site.
In the case of the enemy and the enemy, Song Xilian wanted to hold on to the almost impossible task of ten days. He immediately ordered the walls to be cleared, fortifications to be built, and strict formations to be waited for! Song Xilian's headquarters was set up in the myoko temple, a thousand-year-old temple just two kilometers away from Fujin Mountain, so close to the Japanese Kou that he could completely reach the command post, and everyone advised him to change places. But Song Xilian was not moved, because he knew that such a hard battle could only have a glimmer of life if he fought with his life. He was going to tell the warriors that their commander was fighting alongside them! At such times, only morale can make up for the lack of combat effectiveness.
At the same time, the 114th Division of the 51st Army, which had come to support, also arrived. Song Xilian deployed his 36th Division on the front, the 88th Division on the right, and the 114th Division on the left. In a triangular formation, clinging to the Rich Golden Mountain.
On September 1, 1938, the 13th Division of hagishu Libing came down the mountain, and he decided to attack the mountain head-on, and the big battle was about to break out!
The Japanese first used heavy artillery to bombard the fortifications on the mountain, and then the large army rushed up the mountain. In order to be able to repel the enemy in one fell swoop, the warriors clutched the machine guns in their hands and waited calmly. It was not until the Japanese rushed to a distance of about 50 meters that they fired all kinds of bombs, such a close distance that the Japanese army did not expect at all. With the sound of machine guns, the first row of Japanese kos were all beaten into a sieve, and they immediately chose to retreat.
The defeat of the first wave of attack did not destroy the elite of the Japanese Kou, and in the next two days, the Japanese Kou launched countless charges against the frontal positions, but they never broke through our defenses.
Hagi-chau's soldiers went on this trip to compete for the head, and before they set out, he put down his wild words and wanted to be the first to enter Wuhan City. Now, before arriving in Wuhan City, it was blocked in this small Fujin Mountain, and the Dizhou Li soldiers were ashamed and angry, and directly transferred 24 planes to start high-altitude bombing.
The area around Fujin Mountain was bombarded for 4 days, especially Song Xilian's headquarters, and the Myoko Temple, which had stood for a thousand years, was directly razed to the ground, only the gate facing the front line was still proudly independent!
On the front of Fujin Hill, none of the fortifications of the 36th Division were spared from the bombardment and were completely destroyed. But none of the brave and fearless warriors were afraid, and they used craters, mud, and even the remains of their comrades as cover to continue fighting the Japanese.
Fourth, in the poison gas war, the Chinese soldiers who stood firm
On the 7th day of fierce fighting between the two sides, the whole Fujin Mountain was filled with the smell of blood and gunpowder. The 71st Army suffered heavy losses, but the position remained in their hands and was not taken an inch by the Japanese. The blood shed by the warriors stained the dirt red, which really explains what it means:
An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood
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On the side of the Japanese Kou, Hagi Chau Libing had never suffered such a blow, and the wild talk he had once taken the lead in entering Wuhan City had become a bubble. If you don't want to think of a way, don't mention Wuhan City, even Fujinshan may not be able to get by.
Therefore, he urgently requested support and expanded the number of troops besieging FujinShan to more than 20,000 people. Instead of attacking the front, he came to the left flank and attacked the 114th Division of the 51st Army. Hagishu Libing also adopted the most shameless method of warfare:
Gas warfare
Before the attack, the Japanese threw a large number of poison gas bombs at the Chinese positions, and when there was no movement in the positions, they rushed over wearing gas masks. However, when the Japanese Kou rushed to the position, they were dumbfounded, and the soldiers of the 114th Division directly came out of the trenches and engaged in a white-knife battle with the Japanese Kou.
It turned out that the commander of the 114th Division had suffered the loss of poison gas bombs in the battle with the Japanese Kou before, and he had long been prepared for each soldier, and he prepared a towel for each soldier, and then equipped each squad with a bucket of water, and covered his mouth and nose with a wet towel at the critical moment to prevent accidents.
Under the poison gas, the white-knife battle between the two sides was extremely fierce, and the 114th Division blocked the Japanese attack at the cost of sacrificing most of the half.
Frightened by the battle of the Chinese soldiers who were still fighting heroically in the poison gas, the Japanese Kou immediately chose to shift the target and go to the rear to sneak attack, but in the end he did not succeed.
V. "The 36th Division will always stand!" ”
On the 8th day of the battle, japanese reinforcements had replenished the Shinozu ritsu five times. At this time, the strength of hagi-chau's army had greatly increased, and he mobilized all the main forces to launch a general attack on the front again!
In the fierce battles of the past few days, the elite of the 36th Division has been exhausted, and only 1,000 people are left counting all the wounded. Faced with the iron horses of the Japanese army, they were no longer able to resist. Positions were lost one after another, and the battle was about to fail.
At this moment, a brave figure stood on the position, that is, Song Xilian, the commander of the 71st Army. He looked at the scarred warriors and the corpses scattered around the field and said, "
The 36th Division will always stand! Never lie down! Hit hard, and only then will the brethren die without regrets!
At this moment, the commander personally went to the front line, and the remaining soldiers of the 36th Division regarded death one by one! The all-out attack of the 20,000 Japanese Kou was actually slammed to the ground by these 1,000 soldiers!
Of course, the Japanese Kou would not stop here and attack day and night, but none of the soldiers of the 36th Division lay down, and they stood forever as Song Xilian said!
In the early morning of September 11, hagi again ordered an all-out attack, and the 36th Division held out until 9 a.m. At this time, the defenders of Fujin Mountain were left with only the last position on the main peak, and all the 36th Division, which had run out of ammunition, put on bayonets and engaged in a white-knife battle with the Japanese Kou!
In the end, the 36th Division completed the task of blocking the Japanese Kou for 10 days! Commander Song Xilian commanded the troops to withdraw from Fujin Mountain.
In this battle, the 71st Army suffered more than 15,000 casualties, and the Japanese and Kosovars suffered more than 10,000 casualties, leaving a shocking "mass grave" in the local area after the war.
The main force of the blockade battle, the 36th Division, only had more than 800 people left, and they defended the dignity of the Chinese at the cost of almost total annihilation, and cast the glory of chinese soldiers! They are forever on the position of Fujin Mountain!