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The Sichuan army came out of the river, pushing a wheelbarrow, wearing straw shoes and poor equipment
Stick to Teng County and write the most glorious page
On September 1, 1937, In Chengdu Shaocheng Park, the voices of the people were noisy and the flags were flying. The "Sichuan Provincial People from All Walks of Life Send out the Sichuan Anti-Enemy Soldiers Conference" is being held here. Liu Xiang, Deng Xihou, and Sun Zhen, senior generals of the Sichuan Army, were all present. At the farewell party, Sichuan University, Chengdu Chamber of Commerce, Chengdu Women's Association and other circles presented pennants such as "Pioneer of Resisting the Enemy" and "City for the Nation" to the Sichuan Army. Amid the shouts of "fighting for the nation's peril and not living up to the fathers and elders of the hometown", the Sichuan army marched to the anti-Japanese station!
The Sichuan army was divided into two routes: the 22nd Group Army led by Deng Xihou went all the way north and walked through Baoji and Xi'an in Shaanxi to the Shanxi front; Liu Xiang's 23rd Group Army passed out of Chongqing and took the waterway to the Nanjing front. In addition, Yang Sen's 20th Army, Guo Rudong's 43rd Army, and Li Jiayu's 47th Army set out from Guizhou and Xichang respectively.
At that time, the Sichuan Army had just been reorganized from the local warlord troops, and the equipment was very poor, and the security regiment was a little stronger. 20% of the rifles were made in Hanyang and 80% were made in Sichuan; the number of machine guns was pitiful, and some divisions were only one or twenty; the cannons were not at all, only a small number of mortars. The troops heading north wore straw shoes and carried buckets, large knives and rifles, and crossed the Qinling Mountains, which had been "difficult to shu road" since ancient times, before they could get on the train. Many soldiers carried cigarette sticks with them, so the Sichuan army was scornfully called "two-gun troops" and "straw shoe soldiers". However, the Sichuan army, which had worked so hard to go to Baoji and take the train to Xi'an, did not get the first promised supply.
The Sichuan army left the river in September, and shanxi in October was already the chill of early autumn, and the Sichuan army was still wearing a single coat! As soon as it reached the front line, the Sichuan army was unstable, Taiyuan was lost, and the battle was retreating, the troops were in tatters, with no equipment, and no food or clothing. Seeing that the Jin army had retreated and left an unguarded warehouse, the Sichuan army replenished itself. However, he was reported to the Central Military Commission by Yan Xishan, claiming that the Second Theater did not want the Sichuan Army. The Izukawa War of Resistance, the armament was not in order, the initial battle was lost, and he faced the humiliation of being driven back. The Sichuan Army is not convinced! After the transfer, the troops were taken in by Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater. Li Zongren not only did not discriminate against the Sichuan army, but also tried his best to replenish equipment and military supplies. This made the Sichuan army feel respected for the first time, vowing to fight a good battle to repay the kindness of Commander Li's knowledge, and also to fight for the sichuan father and elder.
In January 1938, the Battle of Xuzhou began, and the Japanese army planned to meet Taierzhuang and open the gate to Xuzhou. The Sichuan army stationed in Teng County was asked to prevent the Japanese army from going south and buy time for the nationalist army to mobilize troops to counterattack.
At that time, the 127th Division of the 45th Army of the 22nd Group Army of the Sichuan Army and a brigade of the 124th Division were in the north of Tengxian County, and Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division of the 41st Army, was the second line of the 41st Army. On March 14, more than 10,000 Japanese troops were equipped with more than 20 tanks, and with the cooperation of tanks and aircraft, they stormed the Sichuan army positions, and the 127th Division suffered heavy casualties. Beginning on March 16, the Japanese attacked the county seat of Tengxian with heavy artillery, while aircraft bombed indiscriminately. The Sichuan army fought fiercely with backward weapons against the Japanese army. By the 17th of the battle, the Japanese fired 15 shells per minute into the city, and the whole city was scorched. At that time, Wang Mingzhang's division commander was directing the battle at the intersection, and although he was exhausted, he was determined to die with the city, and was shot and killed in the fierce battle. After Wang Mingzhang's death, the officers and men defending the city continued to fight with the Japanese army until noon on the 18th, when TengXian completely fell into enemy hands. All the soldiers of the Sichuan Army who guarded the city died heroically.
The defense of Tengxian stopped a large number of Japanese troops from invading Xuzhou in the south, laying the foundation for victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang. Later, Li Zongren wrote in his memoirs: "If there is no stubbornness of Teng County, there will be a great victory in Taierzhuang!" And praised the Sichuan Army"The First World War of Tengxian wrote the most glorious page in the history of the Sichuan Army's War of Resistance! ”
Tengxian Battle sculpture in the Jianchuan Museum
Bloodshot, from miscellaneous cards to the main force
When the 22nd Group Army of the Sichuan Army started in the north, other units of the Sichuan Army also fought in Shanghai, Anhui, and Zhejiang.
After Yang Sen's troops left the river from Guizhou in September, they walked more than 100 miles of mountain roads every day. March during the day and wear straw shoes at night to wear the next day. I walked all the way to Chenxi, Hunan Province, got on a boat, went to Changsha by train, and worked hard to reach the Shanghai front on October 12. It took 41 days for a unit to reach the front line, which also shows that it was not easy for China, which was weak and weak at that time, to support the all-out war of resistance.
At that time, in the Songhu battlefield, the Japanese army had gathered more than 200,000 people, and China had also invested more than 700,000 people, including China's most elite German mechanic. This is a bloody showdown between the Chinese and Japanese armies. China is fighting this battle, on the one hand, to invigorate the hearts and minds of the whole country; on the other hand, it has also attracted international attention; and it has also won time for a large number of factories, schools, and so on to move inland. At its most intense, it takes almost a division a day!
It was in this context that the 20th Army, which had come from afar, could not take a break and quickly threw itself into the battle around the Qiaoting Mansion, Gu Wu Temple, Yunzaobang, and Chen Jiaxing. From the dusk of October 15 to the early morning of October 17, the poorly equipped Sichuan Army Xiang Wenbin Regiment repeatedly charged and killed and fought hand-to-hand with the Japanese army to retake the qiaoting house and gu wu temple positions! But the cost was also quite heavy, with only about 120 soldiers left in the regiment. At the same time, the Lin Xiang Waiting Regiment of the 20th Army also fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army at Yunzaobang (present-day Jiading District). Relying on the superiority of aircraft artillery, the Japanese army launched a fierce attack, and the regimental commander Lin Xianghou was shot and killed. The 20th Army fought fiercely with the Japanese army for 7 days and nights in the area of Qiaotingzhai and Chen Jiaxing in the Songhu Battlefield, with more than 7,000 casualties and only more than 5,000 troops left, and had to withdraw and reorganize. However, the bloody battle of the 20th Army was also impressive, And Yang Sen was promoted to the commander of the 27th Group Army, and the troops also replenished a large number of soldiers and ammunition, from a miscellaneous army to a main force.
Sichuan Army warrior statue
When the 20th Army withdrew, another unit of the Sichuan Army, the 43rd Army, was still fighting a bloody battle in the Songhu Battlefield. The 43rd Army had only one division of the 26th Division at that time. Relying on the superiority of land, sea and air and artillery, the Japanese army bombarded the positions of the 26th Division every day with hundreds of artillery and aircraft, and from time to time tanks were dispatched to attack. The corpses of soldiers around the Sichuan army position were piled up, and the sacrifices were enormous. The commander of the Xieguji regiment encouraged his subordinates: "At the age of 100 years, it is inevitable to die, to sacrifice one's life for the country, and to die spiritually." "The commander of the regiment was killed in a fierce battle. The soldiers found only his steel helmet and half-blooded coat on the battlefield, and were only recognized by the badge symbols on the blood-stained military uniform. The 43rd Army fought in Dachang for seven days and seven nights, killing two of the four regimental commanders, 13 of the 14 battalion commanders, and leaving only more than 600 troops. In the spring of 1938, at the National Defense Conference in Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek declared the 26th Division of the 43rd Army one of the five divisions with the best record. Even the Japanese army later called it "a powerful force next to the Kuomintang!" ”
After the defeat at the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army attempted to attack Nanjing from the west of Taihu Lake, and in November 1937, the 23rd Group Army of the Sichuan Army deployed in Guangde, Anhui and Si'an, Zhejiang. Guo Xunqi of the 144th Division was wounded in the leg, could not hold on to the line of fire, and sat on a stretcher to supervise the battle. Rao Guohua's 145th Division was caught in a bitter battle, and after fighting the troops, Rao's division commander committed suicide and martyred the country.
The Sichuan Army, in the most tender Jiangnan land, played the fiercest blood!
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Sichuan people rushed to repair the airport and bombed Japan
In the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were two commanders-in-chief of the group army who died on the battlefield, one was Zhang Zizhong and the other was Li Jiayu.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Li Jiayu, out of national indignation, sent a telegram asking him to kill the enemy. In early September, he led the 47th Army from Xichang, traveling more than 4,000 kilometers in a single-clothed and straw shoe, and arrived at the Shanxi front in December. At the beginning of 1938, Li Jiayu led his troops to fight with the well-equipped Japanese 108th Division in the area of Dongyang Pass and Changzhi for nine days and nine nights, sacrificing 7,000 people. On February 28, 1938, the "Xinhua Daily" called Li Jiayu's troops under the title of "Changzhi Our Army fought hard and made extremely heroic sacrifices." The bravery of the Sichuan army even attracted the Japanese army to pay tribute to the Sichuan army that died in battle.
During his time in Shanxi, Li Jiayu had a good relationship with the Eighth Route Army and learned guerrilla tactics. The 47th Army fought in Shanxi for more than two years, repeatedly made military achievements, and killed and wounded nearly 10,000 enemy people. In the winter of 1939, Li Jiayu was promoted to commander-in-chief of the 36th Group Army, and then led his troops to garrison Shaanxi County and The area around Shichi in Henan. What is valuable is that after leaving Sichuan, Li Jiayu's military discipline was strict, stipulating that the troops should not disturb the people, and often played movies for the common people to see. According to Huang Kairen, a surviving interpreter at the headquarters, in 1942, when there was a locust plague in Xin'angu Village in Henan Province, Li Jiayu, who was stationed here, ordered all the officers and men of the army to save rations and help the people tide over the difficulties.
In April 1944, the Japanese army launched the "Battle of Yuzhong". The Japanese army first broke Tang Enbo's 4 army groups, and Jiang Dingwen, commander of the First Theater, took the lead in abandoning Luoyang and fleeing. Hundreds of thousands of troops suddenly lost command and retreated one after another. In order to cover the retreat of friendly troops, Li Jiayu immediately used the Wu Changlin Regiment of the 104th Division at Yunmeng Mountain, and the 532nd Peng Shifu Regiment of the 178th Division to block the Japanese army south of the Iron Gate, buying time for the retreating troops. After blocking the enemy for a day and a night, the two main regiments suffered heavy casualties. On 17 May, several retreating armies arrived at the small town of Zhai Ya and fell into chaos. At the extraordinary meeting, the generals unanimously elected Li Jiayu as the commander-in-chief and commanded the orderly retreat. Li Jiayu angrily promised to take on the most dangerous duties of the queen of the palace.
When Li Jiayu's forces withdrew to the south of Xin'an, they were already attacked on all sides. At noon on May 21, 1944, Li Jiayu fell into an ambush circle of japanese troops in Qinjiapo, Shaanxi County. At the time, there was only one guard company by his side. Enemy bullets flew like raindrops, Li Jiayu was hit in the head, he turned and sat on the wheat field and gave an urgent order, calling the 104th Division to run and fight. He drew out his pen to write "rapid reinforcements", and several bullets were fired in his head and chest, and the pen slipped from his hand, and blood gushed out like a spring, soaking through the military uniform. At this point, the stars will fall! Almost all of his 200 officers and men, including Major General Xiao Xiaoze and Major General Chen Shaotang, were martyred.
In February 1941, when the Consolation Group from all walks of life in Sichuan Province went to Lingbao County, where Li Jiayu's department was stationed, Li Jiayu wrote: "The boy wants to repay the favor of the country, and dying on the battlefield is a good end" Fourteen words, with the heart of Serving the country.
Unexpectedly, this is a slur.
General Li Jiayu
Give me a flag of death, I will die and live!
In the Jianchuan Museum in Dayi County, Chengdu, Sichuan, there is a huge flag on display, and on the flag on a white background is a big "dead word". There are also small words next to it: "I don't want you to do filial piety in front of me, only that you are loyal in the national division." "The one who made this flag was an old man in An County, Sichuan Province. It was the winter of 1937, and Wang Jiantang and more than 100 young people asked to go into battle and kill the enemy. When he went out on the expedition, the elderly Wang Zhicheng could not walk dozens of miles to the county seat to bid farewell to his son, and the trustee sent such a flag. At that time, due to the weakness of the country and the backwardness of weapons, going to the battlefield meant death. Wang Zhicheng sent this banner to his son, that is, he wanted his son not to be afraid of sacrifice, to do a Chinese of strength, to save the nation in danger. This great righteousness, now that I think about it, is also touching!
Behind the Sichuan Army, there are countless Sichuan people like Wang Zhicheng and Wang Jiantang's father and son!
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, how many soldiers and how many people were sent out in Sichuan? There are six group armies belonging to the Sichuan Army, including 22, 23, 27, 29, 30, and 36. Nor did it include units such as the 43rd Army, the 88th Army and the Independent 35th Brigade. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the war was fierce, and Sichuan added 100,000-300,000 personnel to the army every year.
He Yingqin, a former minister of military affairs, wrote "The History of Eight Years of Resistance Against Japan", which detailed the total number of Zhuang Ding in Sichuan in the past 8 years, 25788810, plus more than 30,000 people in special forces and Xikang (now Ganzi, Liangshan, and Ya'an, Sichuan), totaling 3 million. That is to say, one in every fifteen or sixteen Sichuanese went to the front line, and one Sichuanese in every five or six on the anti-enemy front.
Speaking the Sichuan dialect, they used backward equipment to fight in major battlefields such as the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Changsha, and the Battle of Yuzhong. With as many as 640,000 casualties, it contributed great strength to the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and won the praise of "no river and no army".
The Monument to the Anti-Japanese Soldiers of the Sichuan Army in People's Park
Oil painting "Nanjing, September 9, 1945 A.D.", author/Chen Jian. The picture reflects the solemn scene of Japan's surrender after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.