Jiang Chaobo: 1925—
Nationality: Hengnan, Hunan
Number: Document of the Fourth Company of the Second Battalion of the Former Fourth Army's Heavy Regiment
Rank: Clerical Sergeant
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In 1944, after the defeat of the 48-day defense of Hengyang, the hometown also fell, I remember one night the dog barked very noisily, the father went out to see, the next day the father came back and said that several people escaped with a person hidden in the village, late at night the father and his party escorted the person to Changle (sound) to a person named Xia Jianyin, the father said that the person was General Fang Xianjue.
My father's classmate Guo Jiaqiang set up a field service regiment in my hometown, Guo Jiaqiang was the regimental commander, the subordinate four brigades, my father Jiang Jing was the captain there, I joined the field service regiment with my father, during which I fought with the Japanese army in Hengyang Nanxiangpu and Huanghuaqiao.
Soon the field service regiment was scattered by the Japanese army, and the commander of the regiment, Guo Jiaqiang, was captured. I joined my father Jiang Jing into the fourth company of the second battalion of the Fourth Army's Heavy Regiment, the company commander Xiao Gangbing, my father was a captain clerk in the battalion headquarters, stationed in front of the temple in Changning County, Hunan, usually responsible for food transportation, during which he fought with a small group of Japanese troops, and once captured Japanese guns. In August 1945, when the Japanese army surrendered, Commander Guo Jiaqiang was released and led people to post the Japanese surrender notice, and many Japanese soldiers knelt in front of the notice and cried, as well as officers with knives.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, I continued to study, working in the Shaoguan Wunitrate Factory in 1951, working in LianXian County, and in 1954 I was transferred to the Bantan Tin Mining Area in Sijiu Town, Taishan City, Guangdong Province, until I retired.
Huang Fanhua: 1920-2018
Nationality: Tai Po, Guangdong
Number: Signal Platoon of the 175th Regiment of the 59th Division of the Fourth Army
Class: Superior
In 1943, when I was 23 years old, I was digging bricks in a brick kiln factory in Meixian County, and then I was arrested and sent to Meixian county, where I was checked, and then I walked with my fellow villagers who were arrested together to Shaoguan via Xingning to join the recruit company.
After a little training, we were sent to Hengyang, Hunan Province, to supplement the signal platoon of the 175th Regiment of the 59th Division of the Fourth Army as soldiers. At that time, the commander of the army was called Zhang Deneng, the division commander Lin Xiancha, the regimental commander Tao Fuquan, the platoon leader Liu Mingchun, and the squad leader Hou Fagui.
Artillery unit of the Fourth Army at the Battle of Changsha
Many of the soldiers in the communication platoon did not have guns, that is, they used telephone lines in groups of two or three to carry telephone lines and pull down the battalion headquarters from the regimental headquarters to facilitate direct contact between the officers. The troops were first stationed in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, and then transferred to Changsha, Hunan province, to repair fortifications for about a year. In the Battle of Changsha in 1944, he retreated with his troops all the way to Chenzhou, Hunan Province, and fought and retreated. When the Japanese surrendered, I was in Rucheng, Hunan, and then went to Jiangxi with my troops to receive Japanese weapons.
After the surrender of the Japanese army in 1946, the troops were reorganized in Nanchang, Jiangxi, then to Nanjing (1947) via Jiujiang, and in 1948 to Huai'an County, Yangzhou and Zhenjiang in Huaiyin City, Jiangsu Province, to defend the Yangtze River. On April 21, 1949, when the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River, he served as a squad leader in the 104th Regiment of the 12th Army of the People's Liberation Army when he surrendered in Anhui, joined the DPRK in 1951 to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and returned to China in 1954. He was demobilized in Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, and returned home at the age of 37. After retiring from the army, he returned home to work as a farmer and served as a production captain until the reform and opening up, and was not affected.
Wang Mingsheng: 1918-2015
Nationality: Jiaoling, Guangdong
Number: Communications Company, 102nd Division, Fourth Army
Rank: Second Class Soldier.
Self-description: I was drafted into the army in 1943 and distributed to the Communications Company of the 102nd Division of the Fourth Army as a signal soldier, the predecessor of this division was the Qian Army, and the division commander was surnamed Bai. Many of the officers in the division were Guizhou Yankees, and they put peppers in their food, and they were spicy to death.
I took part in the Fourth Battle of Changsha, where the commander led us to resist the enemy, and I charged while holding a gun. The Japanese fired their guns in my side, and I heard bullets flying in my ears three times, but luckily didn't hit me. At that time, the japanese booty was captured, and the most sought-after was the Japanese saber and pistol. When I found a Japanese officer killed, I untied his pistol and the command knife and handed it to the commander, who took the gun and rewarded me with the command knife. Later, I felt that his old man was in the way, and took it to the market for a few pounds of meat to eat.
Lee Yew Chung
Lee Yiu-chung: Ninety-nine years old
Number: Signal Platoon of the Fourth Army Regiment
Rank: Upper Infantry
Self-description: 捱 (Hakka "I") is a reader who has read books, although he has only read for a few years, he is also a reader, isn't he?
How many years have you been reading? From the 20th year of the Republic of China to the 24th year of the Republic of China, a total of 4 years, great, right? ...... After that, go and herd the cattle. Well, cattleherds...
In the 26th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese attacked China, although in the remote mountain villages, they also knew the news. Knowing that there is also a way to do it, a cowboy, what can be done?
In the 30th year of the Republic of China, he joined the township self-defense force and trained our platoon leader Lu Qingfang, a retired soldier from the 19th Route Army. At the beginning of the next year, the superior said that the troops should replenish the source of troops, and Wang Binliang and Liu Shihong, three people from the next village, were drawn from the Self-Defense Forces.
We walked past Wengyuan and rested at Qujiang Maba. In Maba, he wrote a letter to go home, telling his parents not to worry about it, and to sacrifice their lives for the country.
On the way, we learned a lot of songs, one of which was sung like this: "The tide of anger to resist Japan and save the country is high!" Our blood is already boiling! Chinese Unite Ah! Our muzzles are aimed at the enemy! Thunderbolt, thunderbolt, clench your gun and kill forward! Hit the Japanese ghosts, kill the traitors, and plant our national flag all over China. ”
How come there are so many a, a, a...?
Do you know? The song was written in a song. (The song is based on the anti-war song "Thunderbolt" based on "Riding the Wind and Waves": The anger tide of anti-Japanese national salvation is rising, and our blood has boiled, huh!) Chinese united, and our guns were aimed at him. Thunderbolt, thunderbolt, clench your gun, kill forward! Bring down the Japanese bandits. ）
After resting, we took a bus from Shaoguan to Xiangtan, Hunan, and then took a boat to Changsha. All three of us were replenished into the Fourth Army' Heavy Regiment, and the Fourth Army was our Guangdong unit, and we had heard of the prestige of this unit since childhood, and the most capable of fighting several of our commanders, Zhang Fakui, Xue Yue, Miao Peinan, and Wu Qiwei, were all from our Hakka. To be honest, we didn't know in advance to replenish the Fourth Army, and we didn't want to come. Wang Binliang went to the regimental headquarters special agent platoon as a brother-in-law, Liu Shihong became a soldier in the special agent platoon, and I went to the regimental communication platoon, and the commander of the communication platoon was a Taishan native, named Zhen Hongwo.
Within two months of training, we were transferred from the east to Jiangxi to participate in the Battle of Zhejiang and Gansu. Wang Binliang ate a bowl of noodles from the common people on the marching road without giving money, and was found out and caught and shot.
Before the execution, he told the military judge that he was tired, hungry and had no money, so he had to eat and run. The battalion commander said to him one by one: Our Fourth Army is an iron army, iron discipline, and it is not qualified to say that it is a last resort.
The Monument to the Martyrs of the Fourth Army in the Battle of Zhejiang and Gansu stands in Futian Town, Jishui, Jiangxi Province.
The time of my first battle was June 13, 1942, and I remember very clearly that our army attacked From the southeast of Xingan County to Le'an and Yihuang. After fighting for two days, Chongren and Yihuang were recovered. However, we were then encircled by the Japanese 3rd Division and the Imai Detachment, and almost fell into a heavy siege. On the way to the breakthrough in the direction of the Le'an Mountains, the troops were attacked by the Japanese army from the waist, which made us very embarrassed. I once picked up a Japanese command knife on the battlefield, and when I broke through, the squad leader said that the knife was very obstructive, and it was a pity to grab it and throw it into the river. The knife was very sharp, and it was better to use it to shave the pig after the battle and take it home. At the beginning of July, we retreated to Hunan and stationed our regiment in Liuyang, where our regiment was stationed at Dingjiayuan.
During the Fourth Battle of Changsha, our four armies defended Changsha. The 102nd Division guarded the North Gate, the 59th Division guarded the South Gate, the 90th Division guarded Yuelu Mountain, and our heavy regiment guarded the Foreign Fire Bureau near the North Gate. After a few days of bitter fighting, the Japanese army saw that Changsha could not be defeated head-on, so it sent troops to take a detour to attack the 90th Division of Yuelu Mountain. Causing the commander Zhang Deneng to fight and aid, he finally decided to withdraw across the river to reinforce, which was contrary to Commander Xue's order, and he wanted us to die in Changsha. As a result, the first was not well organized to cross the river, and second, Pan Kongzhao, director of the adjutant general of the military department, collected black money and let go of the seized steamer used to cross the river. It was the rainy season in June, the Xiangjiang River was swollen, and many comrades-in-arms were drowned while swimming across the river, and their bodies floated on the surface of the river.
When he withdrew to the cold water beach to rest, he was punished. Yang Jizhen, commander of the 177th Regiment of the 59th Division, Pan Kongzhao, director of the Adjutant General's Office of the Fourth Army, Liu Ruiqing, director of the Military Affairs Department, Chen Jiyu, director of the Adjutant's Department, and Xia Deda, director of the Changsha Ship Management Department, were all shot, and even the commander was arrested and escorted to Chongqing, and finally shot. My compatriot Liu Shihong also disappeared during this battle, and it is estimated that he died in battle.
The three of them went out together for the country, and when they returned home after the victory of the War of Resistance, I was the only one left. It's really a pair and a half outings, and it's still a family trip.
Chen Guohua
Chen Guohua: 1920-2017
Nationality: Qujiang, Guangdong
Number: Document of the 269th Regimental Headquarters of the Ninety Division of the Fourth Army
Rank: Clerical Sergeant
Chen Guohua is the name of my unit, and if anyone in the Fourth Army still remembers me, you will tell him this name. Chen Yugui was given me the name given to me by the old master of Bu Bu Zhai (private school), and I spent six or seven years in private school.
When I went to become a soldier, all four of my brothers married wives, only I did not have children, and I definitely went to smoke, and I volunteered to become a soldier without waiting for the lottery. I found Chen Chizhong in the front village to write a letter of recommendation to carry on my body, and I took a train to Changsha to find Chen Chizhong to sign up as a soldier, when he was the commander of the 269th Regiment of the 90th Division of the Fourth Army.
At first, I was an ordinary soldier in the army, because I was literate and educated, coupled with Chen Chizhong's connections, I was transferred to the regimental headquarters to do paperwork, and at the beginning I was a corporal, and I got forty-five pounds of rice for grain (military salary). The officers of the Fourth Army are all Cantonese, not Cantonese, and you can't even be a commander. The exception of the 102nd Division is the Guizhou Yankee.
Not long after the fourth attack on Changsha, our regimental headquarters was stationed at the foot of Yuelu Mountain, Longhuitan, and within a few days of fighting, the troops fought a defeated battle and retreated, retreating to Xiangtan and not being able to enter, and instead taking Xiangxiang to shaoyang and retreating all the way, because I was a close associate of the regimental commander, I always followed the regimental commander.
Halfway through, Commander Chen received a circular order saying that the commander Zhang Deneng had been shot by the veteran commander Zhang Fakui in Guangxi, telling us to stop and retreat and stand by, at this time I learned that Zhang Deneng was our commander, and I had seen you at the regimental headquarters, with a face of numbness and a medium stature. I asked the regimental commander why he had been shot? The regimental commander said: Our fourth army is a well-known iron army, and the first three battles have won battles, Zhang Deneng made a mistake in command this time, did not fight according to the deployment, damaged the reputation of the iron army, and did not shoot him to shoot whom (according to the press, Zhang Deneng was enforced military law in Chenzhou).
There were only about 200 people left in our regimental headquarters, and we retreated to a place called "Tiger Cave" in Chenzhou for rectification. Once when the soldiers sang two military songs, Chen Chizhong heard the anger in his heart and scolded: Throw away your old mother, you waste firewood, fight and lose the battle, and what qualifications do you have to sing that you are an iron army. You are a tofu army, lose the reputation of the iron army, and are not allowed to sing... We were scolded so much that we didn't dare to make a sound.
At this time, we put the word "waste" on our clothes, and we heard that chiang kai-shek gave the fourth army the four words "shame and shame" after the fourth army defeated the battle. The military armband is "shame", the Fifty-ninth Division is "shame"; the Ninety Division is "waste"; it means scolding us for waste wood (useless).
...... When I said goodbye, I could only send Chen Guohua veteran four Shaoguan red rose smoke, there were a few in the back, and more than one was sent to the back, it was really helpless.