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33.
Lü Gongliang's conspicuous attire has always attracted the attention of the Japanese army, and they frantically attack Lü Gongliang.
At 11:00 a.m., division commander Lü Gongliang was shot again in the stomach, and blood flowed.
Battalion commander Li Shusen, while leading the remaining more than a hundred soldiers to snipe the Japanese army, ordered two guards to protect the division seat and retreat in the direction of Gangwang Village.
Because Lü Gongliang was shot several times in a row, bleeding non-stop, he had not yet reached Gangwang Village, and he could no longer walk.
Lü Gongliang fell into the wheat field and said to the two guards:
"I can't do it, you two hurry up." The three of us can't all die here. Get out alive, there's a messenger too, go fast! ”
Commander Lü Gongliang urged several times in a row, and the two guards left the division commander with tears in their eyes.
With the last bit of strength, Lü Gongliang climbed to the corpse of a nationalist soldier, and he gently lifted the soldier's head and placed it on himself.
Then with his hand, he wiped the soldier's face a few times.
He lay quietly in the wheat field with his eyes idle, listening to the rustling sound of the wind blowing the wheat field.
At this moment, the meaning of life slowly became clear in Lu Gongliang's mind.
The noonday sun, in Lu Gongliang's tightly closed eyes, turned into a blood-red ocean, surging forward.
In that blood-colored ocean, from time to time, young faces, familiar faces, cute faces, mischievous faces were revealed.
The red was flowing, changing, spraying. From bright red to brownish red. Varies from brownish red to black red.
Finally, it was pitch black ...
In the afternoon of May 1, after Lü Gongliang was discovered by the villagers of Gangwang Village, he quietly looked for someone and carried Lü Gongliang back to the village to hide.
However, at this time, Lü Gongliang was already too badly injured, bleeding too much, and dying.
At midnight in the night, Lu Gongliang stopped breathing, only 41 years old.
34.
At about two o'clock in the morning, when the Japanese troops inside and outside the city arrived at the north gate of Xuchang, they did not even see the figure of a defender.
The Japanese attack team at the North Gate immediately reported to Yuichiro Nagano, commander of the 37th Division:
"Your Excellency, Commander of the Division, we have occupied the North Gate, and the Chongqing Army has fled, please instruct."
Therefore, the commander of the Nagano Division gave an order to the Japanese troops who entered the city:
"Order the ministries to survey the houses and other buildings of the people in the city, search for the resistance forces, and arrest them." In case of resistance, death is imposed. If wounded soldiers are wounded, they are executed. If you escape, you will be executed. ”
After that, until dawn, the Japanese army carried out a large-scale inventory of Xuchang City and a large-scale search.
Ge Tielin and Ouyang Bu, with the remaining 50 or so Changge anti-Japanese guerrillas and more than 40 Nationalist soldiers, broke through to the west along the inner side of xuchang city walls.
I didn't go far before I encountered a squad of ghosts coming from the south gate.
Ge Tielin said to Ouyang Bu, "Leave me with a dozen people and two machine guns." Come and stop the devil, and you take the brethren away. ”
"Brother Miao, if you can make you snipe for us, several of your captains have been sacrificed." You can't do anything more. ”
Listening to Ouyang Bu's words, a platoon leader surnamed Zhang immediately came over, snatched the machine gun from Ge Tielin's hand, and said loudly:
"Captain Ge, this good thing can't be given to you, and Old Zhang."
"Well, the grenade is left for you too." Ouyang Bu ordered, "Captain Zhang Platoon, you will bring someone to block the ghosts and cover the retreat of the brothers." ”
"Yes, company commander." The platoon leader said, shouting to several soldiers in three rows, "Look for sniper points and get ready for battle!" ”
Ge Tielin could only command, "You all have to live for me." ”
After saying that, I took the people and continued to the west.
Ouyang Bu suddenly pulled on Ge Tielin's clothes and said:
"Captain Ge, go further west and meet the devils of Ximen." At that time, we will not be able to go out. I know that there is a place where the devils will not search there, you can try. ”
"It's all time, Ouyang Company Commander, you're not quick to say." Ge Tielin said with a reproachful tone, "Where, where?" ”
"Right under our feet, the underground waterway of Xuchang City leads directly to the moat outside the city."
Ouyang Bu said triumphantly, "A few days ago, I accidentally found it, so I made a mark, just in case." ”
After speaking, Ouyang Bu called his men, removed a few pieces of messy wood around him, opened a cement lid, and then ordered:
"Go down and go to the right!"
Ge Tielin said incomprehensibly: "Since there is a sewer, why didn't you say it earlier?" I'm going to call out to the platoon leader and let's go together!"
"No, Captain Ge, it's too late. They've already gotten to work with the devils. ”
Just then, not far from the sewers, there was the sound of fierce gunfire and grenade explosions.
Ouyang Bu hurriedly destroyed Ge Tielin down and went down on his own.
After that, I carefully put the cement cover in place, so that I could go forward in the sewer blindly under the black light.
Hearing the fierce sound of gunfire in the north, the Japanese army quickly encircled them from the three directions of east, south and west, and surrounded Zhang Platoon Commander and his regiment.
The soldiers of the Nationalist army who were on sniper duty had to stop shooting until they ran out of ammunition.
The devils on three sides came up, and Zhang Pai shouted, "Brothers, get on the bayonet!" ”
But before they could rush out, they were killed or injured by the grenades thrown by the devils.
Then the devils used machine guns again and strafed at the platoon leader.
The soldiers of the National Army who were on the sniper mission were all killed.
35.
After the death of Lü Gongliang's division commander, the nationalist troops retreating from the East Gate, under the leadership of Battalion Commander Li Shusen, cleverly evaded the pursuit of the Japanese army and passed through The Town of Shiqiao and Linying to reach the Black Dragon Pond in Haocheng.
When the 29th Division of the Nationalist Army broke out of the East Road, when it reached Black Dragon Pond, there were only more than 130 people left.
The commander of the Second Battalion of the 87th Regiment, who guarded the north gate, with the remaining officers and men, broke through from the northeast corner and was missing.
When Chief of Staff Huang Chongxiang did not receive the order to retreat, at 19:00 on the afternoon of the 30th, he privately took a company (the company commander was Huang Chongxiang's compatriot) to retreat from the East Gate and when he walked to Dengzhuang Village, he was besieged by a company of the Japanese 27th Division.
Huang Chongxiang ordered the soldiers not to shoot, and finally, the whole company surrendered its weapons and surrendered.
By 3:00 a.m. on May 1, Xuchang City had completely fallen into the hands of the Japanese army.
The newly formed Twenty-ninth Division, from the division commander down to the squad leader, was mostly killed.
At dawn, the gunfire in Xuchang City gradually stopped, and the Japanese army captured the whole city.
The fall of Xuchang City not only caused the Chinese theater to lose the center of the Central Henan Plain and the hub of land and water transportation, but more importantly, completely broke Tang Enbo's plan to flank the Japanese army.
In the Battle of Xuchang, the Chinese army killed 2453 people and captured 858 people. The Japanese killed 149 people, including 17 officers and 211 wounded, including 12 officers.
The Changge anti-Japanese guerrillas killed 107 people, and 4 captains, Jing Ziyu, Wang Jinchang, Zheng Youcai and Song Xianbin, were killed.
Later generations have poems to go to:
The anti-Japanese hero shou Xuchang, the famous city vowed to coexist and die. One day of bloody battle casualties, left the British name Wangufang.