Lost and Spy

Chapter 684 Bloody Yunnan Army
"We came from the place where the Yunnan Uprising was great, walked through the mountains and mountains, and went to the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War. The brothers fought for the liberation of the nation with flesh and blood, and carried forward the glory of protecting the country and Yasukuni.

We cannot allow the enemy to run rampant in our country and cannot allow enemy planes to soar in our airspace.Yunnan is the hometown of the [-]th Army, and the [-]th Army is an armed force to defend China!Yunnan is the hometown of the [-]th Army, and the [-]th Army is an armed force to defend China! "

Amidst the high-pitched military songs, the 60th Army of the Dian Army arrived at the front line when Xuzhou was most stressed.

However, the Dian Army, which had just arrived at Xuzhou Railway Station, heard a fierce cannon before they could get off the train.

In the Battle of Taierzhuang, almost all the national army units near Xuzhou fought fiercely with the Japanese army, and suffered certain losses.For example, Pang Bingxun's troops suffered more than [-]% casualties, and Zhang Zizhong's casualties also reached [-]%.And Sun Lianzhong, Tang Enbo's troops suffered heavy casualties.

At this time, the Dian army had no casualties, and its morale was high. The ammunition race was a new force, so it was naturally used in the most important position.

Li Zongren ordered the Dian army to immediately rush to the northeast of Taierzhuang to assemble in preparation for the invading Japanese army.

The 183rd Division of the Dian Army assembled in Chenwafang, Xingjialou, and Wushengtang, and the 182nd Division assembled in Puwang, Xinzhuang, and Daizhuang. The 184th Division temporarily stayed behind as the general reserve.

Li Zongren asked the Yunnan Army to stick to these two places first, and then reinforce all aspects at any time according to the needs of the war situation.

Unexpectedly, the Dian army encountered a fierce battle as soon as it entered the battlefield, and its tragedy was beyond everyone's expectation.

At that time, the Japanese army had already started a fierce attack in the north of Taierzhuang, but due to insufficient troops, the progress was relatively slow.

In the Battle of Taierzhuang, the defeated Isoya Rensuke Division was eager to save face and was on the front line of the offensive.After rapid replenishment, the division charged forward with 2 troops and a large number of heavy weapons.

At that time, Tang Enbo's troops on the periphery had been ordered to transfer to prevent the Japanese army from outflanking Xuzhou's rear, and the small number of blocking troops left behind could not resist the sharp Japanese offensive momentum.

At this time, the northern position of Taierzhuang had been torn open by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army drove straight in.

Before the 60th Army had time to enter the position, the Japanese army was already under their noses, and the two armies met in an instant without knowing each other.

As the vanguard of the Yunnan Army, the 1081 Regiment had just advanced more than ten kilometers, and encountered the vanguard of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army Isoya Rensuke. Neither army was prepared, and a tragic melee broke out.

At the same time, almost all units of the 183rd Division of the Yunnan Army encountered the main force of the Japanese army.

The first three days of the battle were the most intense ever fought by the Yunnan Army.

The Dian Army is located in remote Yunnan, and there are only a few enemies around them, all of which are warlord troops with weak combat effectiveness. Even the French colonial army has enough combat effectiveness, and was defeated by the Black Banner Army back then.

The Dian army has never fought against an army with such advanced equipment before!

The most powerful enemy of the Yunnan Army in the previous ten years was actually the army of the Workers' and Peasants' Party equipped with only light weapons.

At this time, facing the heavy artillery shells from the Japanese army, the officers and soldiers of the Yunnan Army were once stunned.The most combat-experienced veterans in the army had never seen such a scene. Some recruits trembled with fright, and some veterans also trembled nervously.

But even though they were afraid, none of the officers and soldiers of the Yunnan Army retreated after the start of the war, and they still stood by their positions.

The Japanese artillery fire was extremely fierce. There were more than 182 Japanese artillery pieces attacking the position of An Entao of the 100nd Division alone, and more than a dozen bombers and fighter jets bombed and strafed back and forth.

Not to mention the frontline officers and soldiers, even Commander An Entao's command post, which was located relatively behind, was bombarded by Japanese artillery with hundreds of shells back and forth.

At this time, Army Commander Lu Han called to ask An Entao about the battle situation, but only heard a series of huge explosions on the phone.Lu Han was very surprised and asked:

"It sounds like an earthquake and thunder in your camp, what's that sound?
An Entao yelled into the phone with the sound of heavy gunfire: "This is the sound of shelling and bomb explosions from the Japanese army!"

Lu Han was taken aback: "The Japanese artillery fire is really so powerful? You must be careful. After the bombardment by the planes and artillery, the Japanese tanks and infantry are about to charge."

After a day and night of fierce fighting, the 183rd Division of the Yunnan Army suffered heavy casualties.

Pan Tuan's Yin Guohua Battalion defended Chen Wafang, and was flanked by more than 1000 Japanese troops.

This battalion never retreated and severely damaged the attacking Japanese army.During the fierce battle, the battalion suffered all casualties, and battalion commander Yin Guohua was shot and died.

Pan Shuodan, the head of the regiment, hurriedly sent another battalion to support, but this battalion was intercepted by another Japanese army outside the village.

During the fierce battle, Huang Yunlong, the deputy head of the battalion, died for his country, but he was still unable to break through the blocking of the Japanese army.

Under such circumstances, the remaining officers and soldiers of Yin Guohua's battalion persisted in fighting to the last man.

In the end, none of the 500 people in the battalion survived except for one wounded soldier, Chen Mingliang, who fell into a coma due to excessive blood loss and was later rescued by friendly troops. All of them died honorably.

In the final stage of the battle, the regiment leader Pan Shuoduan personally led the guards to try to break through the Japanese blockade, only barely succeeding, but Pan Shuodan himself was hit and injured by a machine gun bullet during the fierce battle.

In addition to Chen Wafang, the battles in other places were equally fierce. The whole brigade of Xin Bi of the 183rd Division encountered fierce battles with the enemy in Xingjialou and Wushengtang.

Xin Biquan led a guard out of the village to contact the defense, but he did not expect to encounter a large Japanese army as soon as he arrived at the entrance of the village.

The two armies immediately exchanged fire fiercely, and the guard platoon only had more than 50 people, so it was naturally no match for the hundreds of Japanese troops.The platoon fought hard to stop the Japanese army, and only managed to protect Xin Biquan to break through and retreat to the village after suffering almost all casualties.

As soon as the battle started, the brigade commander directly exchanged fire with the enemy, which has never happened in the history of the Yunnan Army.

The Japanese army then rushed into the village, and the Yunnan army in the village immediately counterattacked. The two armies fought in the Wushengtang, and fought hand-to-hand everywhere in the village.

Some officers and soldiers of the Yunnan Army found it difficult to use French bayonets, so they simply threw away their rifles, pulled out their privately equipped Burmese knives, and directly fought the Japanese army.

Burmese knives are commonly used by ethnic minorities in Yunnan, mainly made by the Achang people.

Back then, Yunnan was full of mountains and primeval forests. There were a lot of tigers, leopards and wolves, and there were frequent conflicts between tribes.

Therefore, most ethnic minorities in Yunnan have a tradition of wearing swords. For example, men of the Dai, Wa, Brown, Jino, and Hani ethnic groups generally carry swords with them, and the sword is their second life.

After thousands of years of hard work, the Burmese knives in the Republic of China period are exquisite in workmanship, paying great attention to actual combat performance, and using silver penetration technology to make them bright and not easy to rust.

High-quality Burmese knives are extremely sharp and practical. They cut iron like mud. Most of the knives are flat. Decorated with silver and ivory handles.

Most of the ethnic minorities in Yunnan do not use long weapons when fighting, but use Burmese knives more.This is mainly because Yunnan is mountainous and forested, and weapons such as spears and broadswords are not easy to deploy in the forest, and they are not as flexible as the shorter Burmese knives.

The Burmese knife is a sharp weapon in actual combat. Some mountainous ethnic minorities on the China-Myanmar border are still in the clan era. They sometimes kill living people to sacrifice to their ancestors.If you use a Burmese knife, you can cut off the head of the sacrificial priest with one knife.

However, most of the Yunnan Army's equipment is not used for hand-to-hand combat, because after all, it is no longer the era of cold weapons.

They wear Burmese knives mainly because Yunnan is a mountainous and jungle terrain, with bushes everywhere, and it is difficult to march. It is often necessary to use sharp Burmese knives as all mountain knives to open the way.

Burmese knives are extremely sharp, and many officers and soldiers of the Yunnan Army know how to use them.Compared with the Japanese bayonet and the Japanese bayonet, the Burmese knife did not lose the wind. For a while, the Burmese knife was against the Japanese bayonet, and blood flowed everywhere.

The remains of Japanese and Yunnan soldiers were everywhere on the ground. Some Japanese soldiers had their heads chopped off by Burmese knives, while others were split from shoulders to waists.

From the night of the first day to the noon of the second day, the troops that the Japanese army rushed into the village could not resist the bravery of the Yunnan army, and began to retreat slowly.

Xin Biquan saw that the Japanese army couldn't stand it anymore, so he jumped up and swung his guns to the front, shouting: "Brothers, go, even if you die, you can enter the Zhonglie Hall!"

The soldiers of the whole brigade immediately rushed and fought fiercely, the Japanese army was in chaos, and they withdrew from the village in embarrassment.

But at this moment, the deputy brigade commander Ma Jiwu yelled: "Cavalry! Cavalry!"

A group of Japanese cavalry suddenly appeared.

The battlefield was too chaotic, charging everywhere, and they didn't notice the appearance of this cavalry at all.

When it was discovered, the cavalry was only tens of meters away.

It has to be said that although they are also retreating, the Japanese army's combat quality is extremely high.They keenly saw that an officer rushing to the front was wearing the uniform of a senior officer, and immediately concentrated their firepower on him.

Xin Biquan couldn't dodge in time, and immediately fell to the ground after being shot several times.

But his mouth still shouted:
"Brothers, go ahead!"

"Save the Brigadier! Save the Brigadier!"

Ma Jiwu's eyes turned red all of a sudden.

Dozens of soldiers of the Yunnan Army desperately carried Brigadier Xin off the front line...

……

"Five Holy Churches, Five Holy Churches."

It was night, and Xin Biquan's eyes were already blurred, but he kept chanting this name all the time.

"Brigade Commander, the Five Saints Hall, the Five Saints Hall has been taken back!"

Ma Jiwu, who had just rushed back from the front line, said with red eyes.

"well."

This news seemed to have stimulated Xin Biquan, and his spirit seemed to improve a lot: "I can't do it, Ma Jiwu, you will take over the position of brigade commander and continue to command."

"Brigade Commander, I don't, you have to live, you have to live!" Ma Jiwu roared loudly.

"My Yunnan army...has been infamous for decades, and today I got snow..." Xin Biquan seemed to have heard nothing, and just murmured:

"Son... son... take care of yourself, yourself... Wang Shibei set the Central Plains Day, and there are no family sacrifices..."

On the day when the Yunnan Army arrived at the front line to participate in the battle, Brigadier Commander Xin Bi, a senior officer of the Yunnan Army, died heroically!
The entire brigade under his command suffered almost all casualties.

"For decades, the Japanese have bullied me too much. This time I went out to fight against Japan, I have made arrangements for my family, and I vowed to repay the country with my determination to die."

This is the rhetoric of Brigadier Commander Xin Biquan before his expedition.

This heroic general in the Yunnan Army fulfilled his oath with blood and life!

（注：辛毕全旅长的原型为滇军183师542旅旅长陈中书，阵亡于1938年4月22日。）
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