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In 1932, Lei Zhen was the colonel of the Cai Tingkai Division of the Nineteenth Route Army. He once led the soldiers in a fierce battle against the Japanese in the 1928 Songhu War of Resistance, and dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese. In 1936, the 78th Division was assigned to the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, and soon after, Lei Zhen served as the commander of the first battalion of the 2nd Regiment.
After the July 7 Incident, the Japanese invaded Shanghai on August 13, 1937, and the Battle of Songhu broke out. On August 19 of the same year, the second regiment of Lei Zhen's teaching corps was ordered to go to Wulong Mountain to deploy. After a 4-hour rapid march, the Second Regiment suddenly received an urgent order from the headquarters: rush to Longtan Railway Station before 6 o'clock, take a train to Shanghai, and listen to the command of General Zhang Zhizhong.
(Battlefield filled with smoke)
On the 21st, the second regiment arrived at the new municipal government in Jiangwan, Shanghai, and was on standby at any time. At this time, the Japanese Kou landed many times in the Jiangwan area, and the situation was very tense. Defending this area was the Eighteenth Army, which suffered heavy casualties. The next day, the second regiment of Zhang Zhi's squadron issued an order: "On the line of Zhangjiabang, Yinjiabang, and South Xujiawan, strike at the landing of the Japanese Kou." ”
At about two o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese warships on the Huangpu River launched a fierce shelling of the Second Regiment. The warriors braved the Japanese artillery fire and entered the banks of the Sitang River. Lei Zhen, commander of the first battalion, immediately deployed: the second and third companies formed the first line of defense, and the first company served as a reserve.
Immediately afterward, our side and the Japanese Kou launched repeated battles and battles at the Jiang'an Causeway. Liu Yongcheng, commander of the Third Platoon, once recalled: "There were all kinds of cannons on the Japanese warships, enemy aircraft in the air and a small number of Japanese Kou occupying bridgeheads on the riverbank, shells as dense as heavy rain, as well as machine guns and rifle bullets constantly pouring in, mud rushing into the sky, smoke filled the air, and became like dusk." ”
(Nichiko in ruins)
In Zhang Huabang's blockade campaign, the casualties of the soldiers of our second regiment were almost half. On November 11, rikou then broke through Jinshanwei and instructed the corps to return to Nanjing. Subsequently, the teaching corps was expanded into the 3rd Brigade and 6th Regiment, and Lei Zhen became the deputy brigade commander of the 3rd Brigade Colonel.
On December 1, the Japanese Kou issued the "Order No. 8 of the Mainland Order": "The commander of the Central China Front should coordinate with the navy to capture the enemy country of Nanjing." At the same time, the command issued a combat order to the teaching corps: "For the purpose of coordinating with friendly troops to defend Nanjing, occupy positions in the engineering school, Xishan and other areas, strengthen defenses, and block the enemy who attacks along the Beijing-Hangzhou Highway." ”
On the night of December 7, Wearing the uniform of the 87th Division, the Japanese attacked the position of the first battalion of the cavalry regiment of the Teaching Corps, and then quickly occupied the Tangshan area. Our command immediately commanded the cavalry regiments around Yongsan to block the Japanese, and explicitly forbade the soldiers of the Eighty-seventh Division to pass through the positions in order to prevent the Japanese from camouflaged a sneak attack.
(Captured Warrior)
At dawn the next day, the Japanese Kou dispatched a large number of fighters to bombard the Purple Mountain position, the enemy artillery bombarded the Qilin Gate position, the enemy armored troops broke through to the vicinity of Hongmao Mountain, and the enemy infantry attacked the position of the Teaching Corps. At dawn on the 10th, the Japanese Kou concentrated their forces to attack the second peak of the Purple Mountain and the main position of the West Mountain of XiaolingWei.
In the repeated battles for positions, our side suffered heavy casualties, but also killed and wounded a large number of Japanese, and always held the position in its own hands. On the afternoon of the 12th, the headquarters issued the first order: "The teaching corps broke through to the enemy from the northern foothills of the Purple Mountain, the Qilin Gate, and the area south of the Tianwang Temple, and assembled near Changhua." ”
At about 10:00 p.m., the Yuhuashi position defended by the Eighty-eighth Division was lost, deng Longguang's troops withdrew from the Taiping Gate, and the officers and men of the front-line positions of the teaching corps lost contact with the commander-in-chief. After deliberation, some officers and men decided: the Third Brigade and Deng Longguang's troops broke through together, the engineer regiment went to the coal port to prepare the equipment for crossing the river, the cavalry regiment covered the retreat, and the first regiment of the first brigade was responsible for the rear of the palace.
(Battleship Lock River)
At 12:00 p.m., the Teaching Corps gradually retreated from the position, leaving only a part of the people to occupy the Heavenly Fortress City on the Purple Mountain as a cover position. At noon on the 13th, the warships of the Japanese Kou broke through the blockade line of the Yangtze River in Wulong Mountain and controlled the surface of the Xiaguan River. Lei Zhen led his warriors across the river, but was blocked by Japanese warships, and he immediately decided to take a train to break through at Shimonoseki Railway Station.
When the soldiers and civilians got on the train, Lei Zhen and company commander Lei Tianyi, as well as some officers and men, boarded the last carriage. Shortly thereafter, the train was blown up by enemy aircraft, and the locomotive pulled the carriage in front of it and drove away. Lei Zhen and the warriors could only choose to engage in a bloody battle with the swarming Japanese Guards Division. In the fierce battle, Lei Zhen died heroically at the age of 35.
On September 13, 1938, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government posthumously awarded Lei Zhen the title of Major General. In November of the same year, the Nationalist government issued a pension order to Lei Zhen's father, Rederson, his mother Wang, his wife, and a son and two daughters, with a one-time pension of 1,500 yuan and an annual pension of 600 yuan.
On November 25, 1986, the relevant departments of Sichuan Province named Lei Zhen a revolutionary martyr. In today's Lugou Bridge Chinese min Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, General Lei Zhen's name will always be remembered on the historical inscription of the Chinese nation's resistance to aggression.
From the beginning of the "1* 28" Songhu War of Resistance in 1932 to the end of the Battle of Songhu and the Defense of Nanjing in 1937, General Lei Zhen has been dedicated to the forefront of the bloody war with the Japanese and Kosovo. He continued to move forward, did not fear life and death, and fought to the last moment of his life for the great cause of national liberation, which is a well-deserved national hero. Reference: The Mill of Flesh and Blood: The Battle of Songhu
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