Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Courage is needed at any time (2)

There are walls on all sides, so you can't hit your head hard, but if you lower your head and look carefully, you may find that there is still a hole in the corner! You might say it might be a dog's hole, but whatever it is, if you can find a way out, you have to bend down and drill it. It is well said in the book that face is more precious than life, but if life is gone, what is the use of face? In this world, he still has to learn from Wei Xiaobao in him, and he must not be like his master, who was about to slash his neck with a Qing soldier's knife, and still swayed there, showing off his leader's genealogy.

In the current situation, face is worthless at all, the one who can save their lives is a hero, and the one who can lead everyone to save their lives is a hero among heroes. To say that the dog hole is too ugly, let's talk about the gap. What Li Zongren has to do is to quickly find a gap and get out. What Hata Junroku casts is a net, which can easily give you the false impression that there are gaps everywhere, but it is not the case, many places are stronger than walls, and you cannot get out. Therefore, this gap must be chosen well, and it is necessary to see where the real weak link of the other party is. Not only must you ensure that you can get out, but you must also ensure that this gap can be continuously expanded so that hundreds of thousands of people can get out.

Although Yongcheng fell, the "rapid advance team" had just passed through, and the infantry might not be able to keep up. That must be the weakest point. After selecting the breakthrough point, Li Zongren quickly transferred the defenders to the south and organized the troops to retreat one by one. On May 17, the "North China Front Army" approached Xuzhou from the north, and shells continued to penetrate the city. Even Li Zongren's chief's department was shot several times and caught fire. On May 18, Li Zongren left Xuzhou and went to Yongcheng by train. As I was walking, I suddenly heard explosions in front of me. I stopped and asked, and it turned out that engineers had blown up the railway bridge.

Who told you to leave late, the engineers thought that the chief of the Fifth War Zone had already withdrawn. Helpless, get out of the car and walk. On May 19, Li Zongren heard the news that the "Central China Dispatch Army" had moved eastward along the Longhai Railway and occupied Xuzhou, but all the troops from the five theaters had withdrawn. Although people have already left the city, neither the "Central China Dispatched Army" nor the "North China Front Army" chased after them, and they did not encounter too strong obstacles along the way. Obviously, this is related to the utilitarian mentality of the Japanese army. .The main strength of this group of people was not used to deal with the breakout troops. Their minds were turned around, or how to win the first prize in front of their colleagues, and how to hold a "celebration banquet" in Xuzhou.

The Japanese army who occupied Xuzhou only thought about how to hold a "celebration banquet" On the way to his desperation, the main danger Li Zongren encountered was not the Japanese field divisions on the ground, but the bombers flying around in the sky. Of course, bombs thrown by bombers can also kill people, and for so many years in the military, Lao Li was able to brush shoulders with death time and time again, relying on the super feeling formed by years of immersion in the battlefield. One day, everyone buried pots for cooking in a village.Li Zongren looked up and saw a Japanese plane coming from the sky. The strange thing was that the plane just circled the village without doing anything, and flew away without even dropping a bomb.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking it was peaceful.Li Zongren's face changed suddenly, and he ordered to move quickly, and he could not stay in the village for one more second. The entourage didn't understand what he meant, and after walking two or three miles away, they suddenly saw more than 20 Japanese planes flying towards the original village. In an instant, a good village was razed to the ground. Only then did Li Zongren say that the reason why the Japanese plane flying in front did not drop a bomb was because it was a reconnaissance plane. After reconnaissance, he found that there were so many people in the village, so he went back to greet the bomber group.If the big guys are still squatting in the village to eat, these people, including Li Zongren himself, will definitely be blown into a pile of powder.

It took seven days and seven nights to reach the safe area. During this period, Bai Chongxi fell off his horse many times during the night march because of exhaustion. The whole process can be said to be extremely difficult and dangerous. heroic nature According to the original retreat order, the Tang Army and the Gui Army rushed forward, the Dian Army and other departments were in the middle, and Sun Lianzhong was in charge of breaking the rear. Li and Bai originally thought that Sun Lianzhong would be following closely behind, but they didn't expect that when he retreated, he completely lost his position and didn't follow at all.

To make matters worse, he himself lost contact with his main force and became a bare-bones commander. He ran on the road and was almost caught by devils.It was only because of the morning fog that happened at that time that the Japanese invading army could not see clearly, and they were all in a hurry to enter Xuzhou City, so he ran out of the crack. The main force went west, but he went east, and ran to Han Deqin in Northern Jiangsu. In the end, Chiang Kai-shek sent a plane to take him back to Hankou. In fact, retreat is often a greater test of courage than attack. Except for Tang Enbo, Zhang Zizhong, and the Gui army who were on the edge of the encirclement, almost all the retreating troops encountered the same scene as before, that is, the soldiers could not find the officers, and the officers could not find the soldiers. After a few days of chaos, order was gradually restored.

There are retreat plans, and the lessons learned are not only summarized once, but when it is actually implemented, it is another matter. If you can't meet the standards of a modern army, you can only rely on your personal performance. If you don't perform well, you can be a mess, but if you perform well, you can be calm and unhurried. Sun Lianzhong, who was supposed to be behind, didn't know which direction to run. The covering force for Xuzhou's retreat became Zhang Juntuan, and Zhang Zizhong actually replaced Sun Lianzhong's role. Although Zhang Juntuan was in the rear, they retreated in an orderly manner. Zhang Zizhong also adopted a method for this, that is, all officers and soldiers wear their hats backwards, so that no matter how chaotic it is outside, as long as they look for the military caps, they can find each other.

The cannons of other troops were thrown away, for fear of becoming a burden on the road, but every cannon of Zhang's regiment was well protected and always moved forward with the team. Not only that, on the way to retreat, Zhang Zizhong also destroyed a Japanese army's convoy, and seized hundreds of horses and more than a hundred boxes of ammunition. At the beginning of the retreat, due to the disruption of the organizational system of the various troops, the broken soldiers who lost their restraint even started to loot the houses along the way.The common people were really in bad luck. They were afraid of both devils and defeated soldiers.

Zhang Zizhong saw a soldier coming out of the village, riding a donkey and preparing to go on his way. Obviously, the donkey couldn't have been in the army. Zhang Zizhong stepped forward to inquire: Why did you forcibly pull the livestock of the common people? Give me a valid reason. The straggler faltered and couldn't speak.Zhang Zizhong ordered his guards to come forward and shoot him to death by the side of the road, and announced on the spot: Anyone who takes things from ordinary people or pulls livestock by force will be shot on the spot! As soon as this example was opened, the military discipline along the way changed drastically. Although the main forces of the divisions of the Japanese invading army are basically marching towards Xuzhou, facing the retreating army in both directions, the Japanese reconnaissance planes circle the sky every day and find that so many combat troops are moving, it is impossible to be completely indifferent, so the road is still on the way. Dangerous situations happen from time to time. Since Tang's army passed through early, Zhang's army had to stay behind and advance forward. The army retreating towards Yongcheng from the fifth war zone was almost entirely escorted by such a force. Just when they were about to break out of the encirclement, the armies suddenly encountered a roadblock.