The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 656 The Fall of Baoshan
Li Youcai came again and issued two completely different orders. After informing Xia Yuan of the order, Li Youcai sat down on the ground.

"Regardless of your identity, I respect you as a man. At the Sitang River, the front line had been breached by the Japanese. You were able to kill so many Japanese and retreat safely. That's really impressive."

He sighed and continued: "It's a pity that this battlefield is not just about fighting and killing. If you disobey the order, you will have to be given another order. To be honest, the situation in Qiaoping is complicated, with broken troops and regular troops everywhere. , that is the last line of defense of the [-]th Brigade, and the [-]th Company has been ordered to defend the position. If you go there, the possibility of survival is not high."

Xia Yuan's face was calm and he waved his hand casually: "Don't talk about this matter. Since it is an order, I will follow it. If I can come back alive on the Sitang River, if the bridge is flat, I can come back alive."

"Xia Yuan, everything else about you is good, but you are a little arrogant." Li Youcai said: "Supporting Baoshan is an order from Shangfeng Command. If completed, your career will be smooth sailing, but you did not seize the opportunity."

"Before dawn, I can't support Baoshan. If I take them, I will die. Since I can refuse this order, why not refuse." Xia Yuan shook his head and said, "Let's not mention this matter for now. The battle situation in Baoshan is becoming more and more dangerous day by day. Even if I was promised that I could support them during the day, the battle in Wusong has reached this level. Whether Baoshan can hold on for one day is still a huge problem. Even if I support them, there will be only one platoon left. How many people are there? What’s the difference between this and one person supporting the past?”

He looked at a few people and said, "Pack up and get ready to go."

"Where are you going?" Li Youcai stood up.

"We were originally soldiers from the new barracks in Yudi. We traveled all the way and were taken in by Captain Lu. Now that Captain Lu died in the battle, I should go find my troops, the [-]th Brigade, not my troops." Xia Yuan looked at Li Youcai and said: " Your orders are of no use to me."

"Stop!" Li Youcai said angrily, "Thank you for leaving the medicine to you."

"I respect you, but not Zhang Guangqi. Zhang Guangqi tested my marksmanship. Let's not talk about it for the moment. I have nothing to do with fighting the Japanese. The Japanese are enemies of the nation and I will punish them. But Zhang Guangqi asked me to die. Adjutant Li, you say, How can I follow such a person?"

Xia Yuan's eyes were calm: "I will definitely repay you for your gift of medicine in the future, but I can't do such an order asking me to die on the front line."

He thought Zhang Guangqi was a capable general, but he didn't expect that he was on the same level as other officers of the national army, which made him feel a little chilled. Such a person is a standard smiling tiger, one thing on the surface but another behind the scenes.

But Li Youcai is pretty good.

"I might as well go find my troops."

Hearing this, Li Youcai lowered his eyes and could only watch Xia Yuan and the others leave.

The sky shimmered, the rain stopped, a drop of water hung on the grass on the road, and the eaves of the ruins were dripping. Li Youcai stood in the ruins, looking at the retreating figure before he looked away and went back. Afterwards, he reported to Zhang Guangqi:
"Xia Yuan has already gone to Qiaoping, I'm afraid."

"I don't care whether it's life or death. The support team has already set off. Go and report this matter to the team." Zhang Guangqi took out a document and handed it to Li Youcai. After Li Youcai left, Zhang Guangqi smiled on his face.

"Special Operations Team, this is a great achievement."

For Zhang Guangqi, whether it is Xia Yuan or the order issued by Shangfeng, it is a great achievement for him. How to expand the credit is what he cares about most. As for the life and death of other people, he does not care. .

The Special Operations Team consists of one platoon, but the document states that the Special Operations Team has one company. The weapons and equipment are luxurious and were collected by the [-]th Battalion after being reorganized for a long time.After all, this matter attracted the attention of the commander of the theater, so he had to ask him to pay more attention and pay more attention. Sending out the special operations team was a great achievement. The document clearly marked his position and unit. As long as he With his name appearing in front of the theater commander, it would be difficult not to get promoted.

No matter what the [-]th Battalion did, since Xia Yuan left, the [-]th Battalion has nothing to do with him.

The next Battle of Baoshan also anticipated what Xia Yuan said.

On the second day after the Japanese army captured Baoshan West Street, that is, at [-] a.m. on the [-]th, the Japanese army assembled a large number of troops at Baoshan West Street and Sitang River Bridge and began to attack Baoshan City.

The Fifth Battalion of the Japanese Independent Siege Heavy Artillery and the Artillery of the Third Division began to bombard Baoshan City. The ancient Baoshan City Wall was a five-meter-high masonry structure with a pitiful thickness. The bunker fortifications built on such a wall could not be built at all. Resisting the modern heavy artillery of the Japanese army, the Japanese army destroyed many walls of Baoshan City in just one hour.

At nine o'clock, the Japanese army began to approach the south of Baoshan City. The Chinese soldiers fired tenaciously from the ruins in the city to block the attacking Japanese army. However, the Japanese engineers still quickly arrived at the gate of Baoshan City and attacked the southeast of Baoshan City. The horns explode further.

At 10:[-], it only took the Japanese army [-] minutes to scale the Baoshan City Wall. The Chinese army in the city immediately launched a resistance against the Japanese army and tried to repel the Japanese army. However, the Japanese army relied on its strength advantage to continuously expand the breach and at the same time dispatched Chariots assisted in the attack on Baoshan and destroyed the city wall southwest of Baoshan.

The national troops who counterattacked suffered heavy casualties and could only continue to retreat.

At ten o'clock in the morning that day, the Japanese army captured most of the southern part of Baoshan City. At the same time, Japanese tanks captured the east gate of Baoshan City. The Tiangu detachment stationed on Baoshan West Street also entered the northwest of Baoshan City, blocking the last line of the Chinese army in Baoshan City from the rear. retreat.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, the Japanese army occupied Baoshan City.

Xia Yuan underestimated the fighting capabilities of the Japanese army. He expected that the Japanese army would fight for a day, but he never thought that the Japanese army in Wusong began to launch an attack and Baoshan City fell in only a day and a half. It took half a day.

In fact, the defenders in Baoshan City had been resisting for many days, with more casualties and serious consumption of guns and ammunition. The Japanese attack on the [-]th was larger, stronger, and more ferocious.

Subsequently, according to Japanese military records, the final commando team composed of a small number of national troops broke out from the northwest toward the Tiangu detachment.According to the records of the national army, all the national troops in the city were wiped out. In the end, only one soldier contacted the 98th Division and reported the battle situation in Baoshan City to the 98th Division.

It was probably influenced by some movies and TV dramas. There are some plots on the Internet, such as the Japanese army was very moved, collected the bodies, and fired salutes. However, according to the records of the Japanese army, the Japanese army did not do such a thing. They were just Chinese people. It's just wishful thinking and self-impression.

However, there is such a passage in the diary of Matsui Iwane, the commander-in-chief of the dispatch army that day.

'In this battle, about 500 enemy troops surrendered, but later it was discovered that they attempted to resist, and they were all shot. 'As for whether there is any attempt to resist, it is still just one-sided rhetoric of the Japanese army. The benevolent sees benevolence and the wise see wisdom. Jinling City fell and hundreds of thousands of unarmed people were able to wantonly massacre, burn, kill and loot, just 500 people. To the Japanese devils, Just like an ant on the ground.

War is war, and there is no tenderness. In the Battle of Baoshan, Yao Ziqing lived and died with Baoshan City. His determination and will to resist the war was not low. This incident was later reported by newspapers in Shanghai, and Yao Ziqing also became a representative of the heroic resistance of the national army.

Yao Ziqing also wrote at the end of his famous telegram: "A lonely city without help will be difficult to support as time goes by. Both the people and the city will die, which will not help the overall situation."

It is enough to show how helpless Yao Ziqing was at that time.

Xia Yuan left and did not participate in any wars in Baoshan City. He was like a bystander who watched an insignificant event in the long history. But this event, in the long history, was like A star shines brightly, guiding the direction for countless anti-Japanese heroes.

And he is more like a passer-by, coming and leaving in a hurry.

With the fall of Baoshan, the connection between the Japanese Army's No. 11 Division and the Third Division was finally opened up, and the National Army's anti-landing operations basically failed. Currently, the National Army's No. 15 Group Army is still struggling to launch an attack on the Japanese Army. The 98th Division Still holding on in Yuepu.

At this time, the sky above Luodian was filled with smoke, and a thick layer of blood floated in the air. In the battle zone between China and Japan, among the ruins, there were corpses of national soldiers everywhere. Every ten steps, there were One can see one among the ruins. Some corpses have haggard faces, rotting skin and flesh, and mosquitoes are flying around. Some corpses have just died and their bodies are still complete.

After the 11th Brigade retreated, the Japanese Asama Detachment attacked from the Shizilin Fort in an attempt to open up the connection between the No. [-] Division and the [-]rd Division. The National Army also began to mobilize its troops in Luodian.

After the [-]th Brigade retreated, it was the [-]st Regiment of the [-]st Division that had just arrived at the front line to replace the [-]th Brigade.

The 98th and 98th Regiments of the 14th Division left the east side of Luodian and assembled towards Yuepu. The gap left by the [-]th Division was left to the defense of the No. [-]th Division, which was in better condition.

The No. 14 Division originally stood on the west side of Luodian. After the 51 Division was transferred, it was Wang Yaowu's [-] Division that took over the [-] Division's defense on the front line of Caowang Temple.

The time for the national army to change defenses was September 11. After the change of defenses, the national army prepared to besiege Luodian with the strength of three divisions: No. 51, [-] and [-]. However, the mobilization of the national army's forces was blocked by the Japanese army. The reconnaissance plane discovered that the Japanese army knew in advance the direction of the main gathering of the national army.

That night, the Chinese army concentrated three divisions to launch a night attack on the Japanese army. The battle was extremely fierce, with the two sides fighting in towns several miles deep.

One attack was not enough. Every night after that, the national army would mass its troops, like the waves of the sea, washing away the Japanese positions over and over again. The positions were fought over and over again, and dead bodies were everywhere in the alleys, especially at the Japanese defense line. On the front end, the number of dead soldiers of the national army has reached [-], and corpses are scattered everywhere.

In attacks every day and night, the Chinese soldiers stepped on the corpses of their own people and charged towards the Japanese positions. Time and time again, blood gathered in the low-lying areas at the entrance of Luodian Street and dried up. The ground turned pitch black. When the weather got hot, , a pungent odor floated in the air.

There were many corpses of the National Army soldiers, and there were also many corpses of the Japanese soldiers, but most of them were taken away by the Japanese army. What was left behind were the corpses of the National Army soldiers. Because they were too close to the Japanese positions, during the day, the Japanese soldiers were again At that time, the Chinese army did not dare to go to the front line to collect the remains of the Chinese soldiers, so that the corpses were already rotting and smelly in front of the Japanese positions.

On September 11, the main force of the Japanese No. 40 Regiment had just landed, making up for the gap between the second brigade of the Japanese No. 20 Third Regiment and the Japanese No. [-] Second Regiment due to the stretched defense line.

During the day, the two sides were still engaged in a tug-of-war. In order to cope with the increasing number of Chinese troops facing the two wings, the Japanese army began to strengthen the two wings and tried to advance, but it also ended in failure. From the end of August to the beginning of September, the two sides seemed to There was a stalemate.

During the day, the Japanese troops could not fight out.

At night, the national army could not penetrate.

Since the 98th Division has turned all its strength to Yuepu to intercept the Japanese Asama detachment, there are no more troops available in the rear.

The national army had no choice but to transfer the 60th Regiment of the No. [-] [-]th Division, which initially fought bloody battles in Luodian and suffered heavy casualties and retreated to Jiading for rest, to Yuepu as a reserve. It can be seen that the national army's strength at this time was extremely tight.

That night, the national army launched another general attack on Luodian.

The Chinese army brought in fifteen-centimeter howitzers and began shelling the Luodian Chang Street area, which caused considerable damage to the Japanese positions. The Japanese army measured the positions of the Chinese troops based on the shelling and the fire observed at night. Although the Japanese artillery tried to fight back, it failed to suppress the Chinese artillery.

The fifteen centimeter howitzer has an extremely terrifying range. Even if the Japanese army observed the location of the Chinese artillery position, it was limited by the range of its artillery and could not cause much damage to the Chinese artillery position.

However, due to concerns about the Japanese army's gaps, the Chinese artillery could only support the frontline battle at night and did not dare to fire during the day.

On September 11, with the fall of Baoshan, the No. 15 Division and the [-]rd Division established contact with each other. The anti-landing operation basically failed. The overall situation of the Songhu Battle began to deteriorate. The flanks of the No. [-] Group Army were attacked. A serious threat.

No.15 Army Headquarters.

Chen Cheng looked at the combat situation and casualty summary transmitted from various areas on the table without saying a word. The knocks on the door continued to ring, adjutants kept coming in and out, and documents fell like snowflakes.

As the situation worsened, Chen Cheng was undoubtedly the one who suffered the most.

At this time, the total casualties of the Songhu Battle Commander had reached as high as three divisions, and the casualties were still increasing. The entire Baoshan City defenders were wiped out, and all the reinforcements were wiped out by the Japanese army. This is undoubtedly tragic news.

The real thing is, every inch of mountains and rivers, every inch of blood.

(End of this chapter)