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After the outbreak of the "Battle of Songhu" in 1937, the 26th Division, under the leadership of division commander Liu Yuqing, rushed from Guizhou to Shanghai to support the War of Resistance. Guizhou and Shanghai are nearly 2,000 kilometers apart, in order to rush to the fiercely fought Songhu battlefield as soon as possible, Liu Yuqing only led 4 infantry regiments used for direct combat, 1 engineer company for fortifications and 1 communication company, a total of more than 5,000 officers and men rushed to the destination.
[Lieutenant General Liu Yuqing]
Since the 26th Division is not a concubine, the Sichuan army sequence belonging to the local troops is not only insufficient military training, especially in terms of weapons and equipment, it can be described as very simple, most of the soldiers are equipped with old Hanyang-made, each company only has three or four machine guns, and a regiment does not have a few mortars. The officers and men of the 26th Division carried these dilapidated weapons and equipment to the front line of the Battle of Songhu to fight against the well-equipped Japanese army, which was covered by aircraft, tanks, and artillery, and the strength was very different.
At that time, the 26th Division was like this, and many local troops transferred to the Shanghai front were also facing this situation. But at a time when the country is facing life and death, as a soldier, you can only go all out to defend the dignity of the nation with blood and fire. Although the 26th Division was poorly weaponized, its actual combat experience was limited. Since most of the officers and men of this division come from the great southwest mountainous area, they have liked to play with guns and sticks since they were young, and many officers and men have trained a good martial art.
[The Poorly Armed Sichuan Army]
For this reason, Liu Yuqing felt that when we go to the battlefield, we must remember not to resist the Japanese army to the death, and we must adopt a flexible and changeable way of playing in order to inflict relatively large casualties on the Japanese army and complete the arduous combat tasks entrusted by Shangfeng.
The 26th Division arrived at the battlefield of the Battle of Songhu on October 17 and was ordered to enter the first-line positions of Yu Jiazhai, Zhu Jiazhai, and Li Jiazhai to take on the task of blocking the Japanese attack. Just as the 26th Division and its brother troops had just completed the change of defense, the Japanese aircraft and heavy artillery began to carry out heavy bombardment and high-intensity shelling of the 26th Division's forward positions, and Liu Yuqing ordered the troops not to fight hard with the Japanese army and resolutely not to resist the Japanese frontally. If our army wants to stop the Japanese army's attack by relying on firepower strikes, it is undoubtedly a pebble to hit the stone, and if we want to stop the fierce offensive of the Japanese army and delay the offensive arrogance of the Japanese army, we must skillfully make good use of the terrain and landforms of their respective areas to attack the Japanese army. In a word, fighting with the Japanese army, which has entered mechanized equipment, absolutely cannot fight hard, and can only rely on wisdom to win.
The officers and men of the whole division carried out Liu Yuqing's orders to the letter in specific battles. Once the Japanese ground forces were repulsed, they were followed by japanese aircraft and artillery bombardment. Because the officers and men of the whole division firmly remembered the operational essentials issued by Liu Yuqing, they used the complicated terrain to avoid the bombardment of the devils, and then quickly entered the position to meet the Japanese troops who came to attack. Since the Japanese army almost always attacked the positions held by the 26th Division under the cover of tanks, this made Liu Yuqing immediately adjust the combat plan in time according to the battlefield situation, and since the Japanese tanks could not be completely eliminated, they simply let go of them, only hit the Japanese ground troops that attacked with the tanks, and made full use of the excellent martial arts kung fu of the officers and men to carry out hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army and eliminate the Japanese army. After Liu Yuqing's order was issued, the officers and men of the 26th Division, without being able to completely blow up the Japanese tanks, quickly organized the officers and men with superb martial skills to form a death squad to exert the advantage of the large knife in their hands and the Japanese army's melee combat, thus repelling the Japanese army's charge against the positions of the 26th Division again and again.
Although, from October 17, when this division entered the first-line positions of Yu Jiazhai, Zhu Jiazhai, and Li Jiazhai, and received the order to withdraw its positions on the 24th, under the combined offensive of the Japanese army's powerful air and ground artillery, and in the face of the crazy attack of the Japanese ground troops, although the positions changed hands several times, they were finally taken back by the death squads organized by the 26th Division, and they were always firmly in the hands of the officers and men of this division.
[Artillery in Training]
Of course, the 26th Division also paid an extremely heavy price, the two regimental commanders Xie Guji and Xie Boting were killed in battle, 12 battalion commanders and more than 300 company platoon commanders were killed, and the whole division also went from more than 5,000 people at the time of departure to more than 600 officers and men left on the battlefield. The battle losses were as high as nine-tenths. However, after this battle, the 26th Division played the prestige of the Sichuan Army and was praised as one of the five divisions with the best record in the Battle of Songhu. It can be said that any unit that wins the fear of its opponents and the respect of its countrymen must be cultivated by extremely cruel war to enjoy this honor.
In April 1939, Liu Yuqing led his troops to participate in the Battle of Nanchang, which was a limited active offensive battle taken by the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government in Nanchang to resist the continued aggression of the Japanese army. The ultimate goal of the Military Commission of the National Government is to achieve a local counteroffensive and ultimately to achieve the goal of recovering Nanchang.
At the beginning of the Battle of Nanchang, the 26th Division, under the leadership of General Liu Yuqing and with the cooperation of friendly forces, launched a fierce attack on Liantang Airport, an important airfield set up by the Japanese army on the outskirts of Nanchang. Liu Yuqing launched wave after wave of attacks on the Japanese troops at Liantang Airport with the momentum of determination to seize the airport. He knew that if he could destroy this airfield, it would play a very good role in protecting and motivating the troops throughout the Battle of Nanchang. Because, in the short period of a few years since the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese Air Force has suffered almost complete losses in the fierce air battle with the Japanese army, and because there is no cover and battlefield support from the air force, all front-line positions can only be wantonly humiliated by Japanese aircraft and bombed indiscriminately, and many officers and men who hold their positions are killed in the bombardment of Japanese aircraft, or are seriously injured and cannot return to the battlefield.
It was precisely on the basis of this extreme anger toward the Japanese aircraft that Liu Yuqing pushed the division command post forward, and he wanted to see for the first time how this airfield was occupied by our army and how it was destroyed by our army, so that the Japanese army could not take off and land aircraft to bomb our army's positions in a short period of time.
The officers and men witnessed the firm will of Commander Liu Yuqing and the heroic spirit of never giving up until they took liantang airfield, which aroused the enthusiasm of the officers and men participating in the battle. The Japanese troops guarding the airfield had never seen the Chinese army in charge of the attack have such a tenacious will to fight, although desperately resisting, but with little success, had to gradually shrink inside the airport, trying to protect the aircraft parked in the airport.
Liu Yuqing saw the intention of the Japanese army, and he loudly ordered the troops that as long as we continued to maintain this high fighting style, we would certainly be able to take Liantang Airfield and eliminate these stubborn Japanese troops. The officers and men who were responsible for attacking the airfield became more and more courageous in the Vietnam War. In the face of the continuous attack of the officers and men of the 26th Division who went forward and were not afraid of sacrifice, the Japanese troops guarding Liantang Airfield were all defeated, and after attacking the core of Liantang Airfield, their subordinates reported that there were still three aircraft in the airport and how to deal with it. Liu Yuqing smiled happily, how to deal with it, since it can't be taken away, it will ruin it. After obeying the order, the officers and men were full of vigor and handed over gasoline to all three planes that had harmed countless chinese people and troops, and then lit a fire so that they could quickly be buried in the sea of fire.
Under the leadership of division commander Liu Yuqing, the officers and men of the 26th Division made certain sacrifices when attacking Liantang Airfield, they achieved the record of annihilating thousands of Japanese troops and burning 3 Japanese aircraft, thus making due contributions to the smooth progress of the operations in the early stage of the Battle of Nanchang formulated by the Military Commission of the National Government. If you have any comments, welcome to leave a message below to discuss! (Please support a variety of original articles and physical books of the Yi Pin Wen team, independent professionals have a kind of material)