At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Sichuan army was not welcomed, its weapons were also made in the land, and it also loved to smoke large dry cigarettes, and its combat effectiveness was third-rate.
When he arrived out of Sichuan, he was defeated by the Japanese army, and he was so hungry that he grabbed things in Shanxi, and Yan Xishan was so angry that he said: The War of Resistance is insufficient, and there is more than enough to disturb the people. Go directly to the center of the letter and quickly transfer this third-rate unit away.
Chiang Kai-shek could not think of transferring to Zhengzhou, and Zhengzhou Cheng Qian immediately sent a circle of friends: Yan Laoxi does not want it, and I do not want such a rotten army.
This put Chiang Kai-shek angry!
Nanjing has just been lost, and this third-rate unit still makes me angry, so I should simply go back to Sichuan and stay.
Little Zhuge Bai Chongxi said: Ask Li Zongren of Xuzhou if he wants it?
Li Zongren smiled and promised to come down. Bai Chongxi gave Li Zongren a preventive injection - this is a third-rate unit!
Li Zongren said indifferently: Zhuge Liangzao is a suspicious soldier, they are always better than the straw people.
Look at the opponents of the Straw Man!
Akashiba Yaeka's 10th Wing, which had fought in almost all of Japan's modern wars, was a well-equipped military flag awarded by the Emperor himself, well-equipped and invincible in battle.
Our scarecrow straw man, a miscellaneous card among miscellaneous cards, is jokingly called the cannon fodder regiment, and it is almost impossible to imagine whether this third-rate unit can be defended in the face of japan's elite troops?
Wang Mingzhang's own soldiers plus the police and security forces, totaling 3,000 people; But the real fighting force was less than two thousand. Wang Mingzhang led the division under his command at Xiguan.
Wang Mingzhang knew very well in his heart: "With the weak strength and broken weapons of the Sichuan army, it is no longer enough to take on the important task of defending the first line of Xuzhou... We are soldiers. Sacrifice for duty...
Otherwise, there would be no way to deal with the country, let alone redeem the sins of the Sichuan Army in the twenty years of civil war!" (This buried the family's sad foreshadowing)
At dawn on the 16th, the Japanese concentrated artillery fire to bombard Dongguan and the city in Tengxian County.
More than a dozen planes repeatedly bombed and strafed at the same time
Wang Mingzhang either clings to the isolated city; Or go out of town to fight.
In fact, Li Zongren did not intend to let the Sichuan army die in vain, he sent the first-class troop Tang Enbo to attack Chichai Yaezao on the side, and it was difficult to defeat the four hands with two fists, after all, Tang Enbo was a first-class famous general.
Sun Zhen, commander-in-chief of the group army, said: "The chairman of the committee asked us to stick to Teng County and wait for Tang Enbo to come to relieve the siege, and his vanguard troops arrived in Lincheng yesterday..."
Wang Mingzhang told the officers and men of the whole city, "Stick to Tengcheng, the city will survive and survive, and the city will perish and die." He blocked the north and south gates, and the east and west gates were ready to be closed at any time.
At this time, the Japanese continued to shell for two hours, suspended for thirty minutes, and suddenly the artillery fire slammed into the Wall of Dongguan Village and exploded a gap more than ten meters wide, concentrating dozens of machine guns to strafe at the gap, and the devils began to attack.
The officers and men of the Scarecrow garrison were not afraid, and when about fifty or sixty enemy soldiers had just rushed into the gap, they threw grenades and annihilated most of the enemy... Three successive enemy charges were repelled, with nearly a hundred casualties, and were replaced by reserves.
These third-rate "scarecrows" didn't even have a few machine guns that were very useful, but only used large knives and grenades plus desperate efforts.
At 2 p.m., the Japanese attacked again;
At 5 o'clock, they attacked the East Gate again, but they were all repelled by the defending troops. The Japanese were heavily littered, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties.
Unbelievable things happened, the top elite Japanese army actually did not enter Teng County for two days, and on March 14 and 15, the Japanese army could not even break the city, and this stone did not break the egg.
Blossom twice, and look at the first-class troops of the Nationalist army on the other side
Reinforcements Tang Enbo, a regiment of the vanguard troops just got off the train, and was attacked by the Japanese army and immediately collapsed,
Tang Enbo learned that Tengxian was under siege, did not listen to Li Zongren's dispatches, refused to support, delayed the fighters, and withdrew to Liguoyi under the pretext of mobile operations, (Tang Enbo's nearest troops were 10 kilometers away from General Wang Mingzhang)
The first-class warlord Tang Enbo lost contact with the defenders of Teng County, causing Teng County to be completely surrounded by Japanese troops on all sides
After three days of bloody fighting, the troops of the Forty-fifth Army on the front of Tengxian County suffered more than half of the casualties.
At noon on the 16th, the frontal position was breached. The first-class 45th Army retreated from both sides of Teng County.
Wang Mingzhang readjusted the deployment according to the changes in the "scarecrow". Construction of fortifications; Order the "scarecrows" hidden under the city walls to build a ladder every banzai, ready to enter the city and counterattack.
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"To the end of the War of Resistance, it has always been unswerving, that is, the enemy army will not withdraw from the country for a day, and the Sichuan army will not return to its hometown for a day!"
——Liu Xiang of the Sichuan Army
The Japanese army encountered hard nails, and that night the mobilization team, dozens of armored fighting vehicles and a large number of artillery, concentrated artillery fire, fiercely fired at the urban area of Tengxian County, and more than twenty planes frantically dropped bombs and strafed.
The whole tengxian county was filled with gun smoke, the house collapsed, and there was a sea of fire.
After 2 hours of bombardment, the Japanese army took more than ten tanks as the lead and covered the infantry charge from the gap in the east wall.
The Scarecrow reached the level of a terracotta warrior, braved enemy fire, and began close-quarters hand-to-hand combat with heavy casualties.
Another Japanese attacked the collapsed southeast corner of the city wall, and a company of "Scarecrows" blew up 2 tanks with cluster grenades, and the company suffered casualties under the intensive fire of the enemy. More than 40 devils rushed to the corner of the city,
Wang Mingzhang counterattacked another company, and after fierce hand-to-hand combat, the enemy who broke through was completely annihilated, and only fourteen officers and men of the company remained.
It is necessary to say that in the early days of the War of Resistance, the devils fought bayonets, and the battle loss ratio was 1:10! Three people besiege a devil, and the devil can also win!
Wang Mingzhang urgently telegraphed Sun Zhen: "... The enemy soldiers entered the city, and after we counterattacked, we killed countless enemies... If there is no news from the friendly forces late at night, the isolated city is in danger. "
At this time, the Japanese army bombarded the southern city with heavy artillery, while more than 20 enemy planes took turns to bomb.
Tengzhou (formerly Tengxian County) engaged in construction a few years ago, often digging out unexploded shells
Those Sichuan Hanzi, known as the two-gun generals, used grenades against tanks, used large knives against machine guns, and continued to play in a third-rate manner.
Don't they know to run? Don't they know that they don't have to care about the gains and losses of a city and a place?
Seeing that there was no hope for reinforcements, Wang Mingzhang sent another telegram to Sun Zhen, saying: "We are determined to fight to the death to repay the country."
On the afternoon of the 17th, the Japanese army concentrated its fire on the West Gate Tower, and under the cover of machine gun fire, the Japanese army finally entered the city, and the scarecrows began a brutal street battle.
The Scarecrow suffered heavy casualties, but still insisted on resisting and waiting for reinforcements.
Wang Mingzhang climbed the northwest city wall and personally commanded a platoon of guards to attack the West Gate City Tower... There was no cover on the walls, and the platoon was all killed.
Wang Mingzhang turned to command the battle at the intersection of the city center, unfortunately was shot through the abdomen by machine guns, and the accompanying deputy general Li Shaokun was busy pouring white medicine, but he could not swallow, the blood could not be stopped, and he was martyred. He was shot several times and killed on the spot. Heroic martyrdom.
Chief of Staff Zhao Weibin and Chief of Staff of the 124th Division Zou Shaomeng and others were martyred at the same time.
After the death of General Wang Mingzhang, the officers and men defending the city continued to fight, spilling the last drop of blood.
Three thousand scarecrows, except for a very small number of breakouts, were martyred en masse.
At the Battle of Tengxian County, General Wang Mingzhang defeated the enemy's fierce front and blocked the enemy's sharp advance, which won time for the Chinese army in Xuzhou, and the elite Tenth Division of the Japanese Army suffered heavy losses, and in order to follow taierzhuang's great victory, he raised a blood-red banner.
Remember the flying dead flag. 100,000 young people and 100,000 troops, strong soldiers out of the river to defend the Central Plains.
Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater, commented with tears in his eyes:
"If there is no Teng County's bitter defense, will there be a great victory in Tai'er Zhuang?" The results of the Battle of Taierzhuang were also caused by the martyrs of Shiteng County!"
Before Wang Mingzhang left Sichuan, he once told his family: Yahua is 5 months pregnant, I can't see the birth of a child, if you have a boy, you can name him Daozhong, let him grow up loyal to the country and the nation.
If I die on the battlefield, Yahua is still young, does not have to live alone, and can freely choose his future life.
This sentence is sad! Wang Mingzhang's wife, Ms. Ye Yahua, never remarried in her life.
What is even more tragic is Ye Yahua's subsequent life, which makes people sigh (later said).
The National Government posthumously awarded Wang Mingzhang as a general of the army and spoke highly of him: Peerless Chuan Division, Zhuang Guowei, Leisurely Heaven, Pure Son Feelings, General Wang is really the dead soldier of the country
Lingshu passes through Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu... Solemn tributes were made everywhere along the way.
At the Ceremony of the Wuhan Public Festival, Wu Yuzhang and Dong Biwu, representatives of the CPC Central Committee, Luo Binghui and Qi Guang, representatives of the Eighth Route Army, and Wu Kejian, representative of Xinhua Daily, attended the ceremony.
Mao Zedong, Qin Bangxian, Wu Yuzhang, and Dong Biwu jointly wrote the gift of the Union:
"Fighting to defend an isolated city and seeing death as a homecoming is the true color of a revolutionary soldier;
We are determined to annihilate the enemy, martyr the country with our lives, and add glory to the Chinese nation. "
On the eve of his rush to the anti-Japanese battlefield, General Wang Mingzhang once said: "Swear to repay the country with death, and to keep the income from the accumulation of annual salaries for the purpose of supporting the family and the education of their children.
"I am very determined to open a school in the new capital and seek the benefit of my parents" long-cherished wish,
Here is a supplement: Chiang Kai-shek did not pay the army at the beginning, and General Wang sold most of his family property and led the troops to the front.
You can see that the prototype of Chen Baoguo's "Invincible" is General Wang Mingzhang.
In order to uphold General Wang's legacy, General Wang's wife used the rent she collected and the pension of 12,000 yuan as the school fund.
More than 40 mu (later 20 mu) of General Wang Mingzhang's cemetery was allocated as the school site, and the private Mingzhang Middle School was established in September 1941
After liberation, it was renamed "Sichuan Xindu Middle School", and later changed to "Chengdu Xindu First Middle School of Sichuan Province" and is still in use today.
In 2009, on the 71st anniversary of the Tengxian Defense War, Wang Mingzhang's descendants and daughter-in-law, 14 people, on behalf of Wang Mingzhang's 98-year-old widow Ye Yahua, donated 7 word plaques that had just been brought back from Taiwan to the museum.
Three of them are Chiang Kai-shek's autographed inscriptions - "National Glory", "Death Heavy Taishan", "Liebi Suiyang".
Yes, General Wang's wife went to Taiwan, but why?
As mentioned earlier, Wang expressed shame about the 20 years of civil war, such as Baizhangguan against the multi-four fronts, and the results can be searched.
In 1951, someone used various reasons ... General Wang's things are somewhat damaged... Ye Yahua couldn't hold back any longer, tears came out of his eyes...
Ye Yahua is not very good, for too many reasons: ... Little wife, daughter of a large landlord, department of Chinese of Sichuan University... intelligentsia...... Remnants of 、...... Lurking Agents. You can just pull it out and shoot it...
Ye Yahua took Wang Daogang, the son of General Wang Mingzhang, to leave his hometown, and along the way, he tossed and turned, endured the hardships of the human world, and tasted the white eyes of the human world.
When Ye Yahua arrived at the boundary of Macau, the coils were exhausted, and the children were hungry and crying...
Ye Yahua had no choice but to write a card asking for a meal: "I am the widow of General Wang Mingzhang, a famous general of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression..."
Major newspapers are vying for interviews and publications....
Chiang Kai-shek quickly sent people to bring the mother and son of the widow of the famous anti-Japanese war general to Taiwan.
Wang Mingzhang's second wife, the eldest wife Zhou Huayu, the second wife Ye Yahua, three sons and one daughter.
The eldest lady and 2 sons and 1 daughter stayed on the mainland and experienced many tribulations...
postscript:
On September 14, 1984, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China issued a martyr's certificate.
In 2003, the tomb of General Wang was repaired, and a bronze statue of Wang Mingzhang standing on a horse was erected.
In 2005, 95-year-old Ye Yahua and his son Wang Daogang (Whampoa Military Academy Phase 25) settled in Chengdu, Sichuan.
In 2013, the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee and the Zaozhuang Municipal Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee donated funds for the statue of General Wang Mingzhang in Shandong.
"The Righteous Invincible" was released on various David TV, and the prototype in the movie "Blood Battle Taierzhuang" TV series "Heroes Out of the River" is General Wang Mingzhang.
Sichuan people have never failed the country, and the Chinese people will never fail Sichuan.
All the soldiers of the War of Resistance, including the Sichuan Army, paid their blood and lives for the survival of the nation, and they will never die!