Chapter 3 Chapter 3 You Need Courage at Any Time (3)

After receiving the information from the Japanese aircraft, the Japanese invading army living on the outskirts of Luxi rushed over. Seeing that they would not be able to celebrate the victory in Xuzhou, they wanted to gain a vote by intercepting. When Zhang Zizhong arrived, many troops were stopped there, crowded into a noisy pile, unable to advance or retreat. If it was the beginning of the battle, even if there were more Japanese invading troops, everyone would rush to them, and they would be able to settle down with all their hands and feet.But when is this, this is the time of desperation, the majority are eager to escape, everyone is afraid that they will fall into the encirclement and cannot get out, who is willing to stay and fight?

He didn't want to stay behind, and didn't dare to rush forward, so he blocked the way to retreat by himself. Zhang Zizhong saw that this was not the answer, so he offered to let Zhang Juntuan stand alone and let other troops withdraw first after opening the passage. Although Zhang Zizhong was nominally the commander of the regiment, it was still the old unit of the 59th Army who could directly command and dispatch in his hands.After the two great victories in Linyi, the remaining capable soldiers of the 59th Army were very poor, and its elite 38th Division dropped sharply from 15,000 before the war to less than 3,000.

What if the 3,000 people were defeated again?After the change of defense from Linyi, Zhang Zizhong selected elite soldiers from among 3,000 people and reduced them into an independent brigade of 1,000 people, which was directly under the command of the army, and others were sent to the rear to supplement and train new recruits. The main force of Zhang Juntuan is only Liu Zhensan's 180th Division, but this division cannot always be by his side. Since Zhang Zizhong was actually responsible for covering the retreat of the large troops, his marching order was that the military headquarters was in front, and Liu Zhensan's third division was in the rear. The latter usually could not follow up until two hours after the military headquarters set off.

Before Liu Zhen's third division could catch up, Zhang Zizhong had no choice but to transfer the independent brigade that followed the military headquarters, and use the latter to attract the Japanese army to make way for others to survive. Taking advantage of Zhang Zizhong's bitter battle with the enemy, the other retreating troops quickly moved. At that time, a liaison staff officer sent by the Fifth War Zone was in charge of coordinating the scene. After witnessing this scene, he couldn't help but praise repeatedly: Zhang Zizhong gave people peace and put himself in a dangerous situation. He is really a typical example of a famous general.

Knowing that the head of the army was fighting, Liu Zhen's third division ran forward and rushed to the battle site as fast as possible. The field artillery that had not been thrown away came in handy, and the ammunition collected by the ghosts was also loaded. After a deadly battle, it was finally ensured that all the retreating troops behind them were able to cross the border safely. After everyone finished walking, Zhang Juntuan was still stuck with the Japanese invading army, unable to escape. In order to get rid of chasing the enemy, Zhang Zizhong quietly pulled up the reserve team and made a feint attack on the Japanese invading army's side, making a gesture of encircling and annihilating them.

If you want to retreat, you must attack. This is the key to using troops. With the help of night cover, the independent brigade protection headquarters went first, and Liu Zhen's third division then withdrew step by step, and did not leave the battlefield until ten o'clock in the middle of the night. In the Xuzhou retreat, Zhang Zizhong performed the most dazzlingly. Because this person was no longer afraid of losing anything, he became enlightened and became the bravest person, looking down on the audience, unattainable. The KMT Commander specially issued a commendation order to the Fifth War Zone, commending Zhang Zizhong as a model of the War of Resistance, giving priority to replenishing the weapons lost by his troops, and making up for the missing soldiers.

Yue Fei in the Republic of China When Hata Junliu adopted the "rapid advance" tactic to cut off the Longhai Railway in advance, although the Eastern Henan Corps planned by Chiang Kai-shek had not yet been successfully formed, the commander had already been selected. Xue Yue, courtesy name Boling, was born in Lechang, Guangdong. He graduated from the sixth phase of Baoding Military Academy and served as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Henan Corps at that time. In the second year after Xue Yue was born, the Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1895 came to an end. China completely lost in this battle that determined the fate of the two nations. The "Treaty of Shimonoseki" directly ruined the power of the eastern power. The road to ZTE.

Grief and astonishment spread from the front to the rear, and from the city to the countryside. People everywhere were missing that unborn national hero——Yue Fei.The father of the Xue family is no exception. The farmer from the mountain village in northern Guangdong did not hesitate to name his son "Yang Yue", which means to pay tribute to Yue Fei.But what he didn't expect was that his son's ambition was greater than that of Lao Tzu, and later he directly removed the word "Yang": "What do you want to look up to, I am the future Yue Fei!" It's crazy, but this is Xue Yue.

Xue Yue called himself Yue Fei Cantonese call Xue Yue a tiger boy, but in fact Xue Yue's qualifications in the military are very old, so old that even Chen Cheng can't hold a candle to him. At that time, Sun Yat-sen was surrounded by three masters, that is, the three battalion commanders of the security regiment, namely Ye Ting, Xue Yue, and Zhang Fakui. All three were from Guangzai, and Ye Ting and Xue Yue were classmates at the Baoding Military Academy at the same time. With this golden resume, Tiger Cub was really lively at first. The earliest commander of the "No. 1 Division in the World" was not Hu Zongnan, but Xue Yue. At that time, Chen Cheng was only the company commander, and Hu Zongnan didn't know where he was staying.

But after that, it gradually entered the stage of the tiger falling into Pingyang. Xue Yue first lost his position as the commander of the first division, then rebelled against Chiang twice with Zhang Fakui, and finally turned himself completely, leaving only one jobless at home. end. This slack is two years.Time waits for no one. In just two years, Chen Cheng from the eighth phase of Baoding jumped up, and unexpectedly created a "civil engineering department" on the ground, becoming the "little committee chairman", leaving Xue Yue, who was in the sixth phase, far away. in the back.

It's really pissing people off.However, what Xue Yue wanted to thank most was his junior, and it was the latter who tried his best to protect him in front of Chiang Kai-shek, so that he was able to come out of the mountain again. The full-scale outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War provided an opportunity for "Yue Fei of the Republic of China" to rectify his name: it was a mule or a horse, and he was pulled out for a walk. When the Battle of Songhu reached its climax, Xue Yue rushed to Shanghai to participate in the war as a reserve army of the Anti-Japanese War.That was Xue Yue's first command of the Anti-Japanese War. Although he had experienced hundreds of battles in the civil war, he had fought countless hard and tough battles, but he had never encountered such an earth-shattering battle. When it was time to retreat, Tiger Cub was close to death, and his life was almost lost in Shanghai Beach. Yue Fei is not so easy to do, if you don't taste some hardships first and gain some knowledge, you will have no chance to become a real tiger. During Xue Yue's tenure as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Henan Corps, the Corps was also known as the Xue Yue Corps. Members of the Xue Yue Corps, except for a few units such as the 64th Army that had just been transferred from Guangdong to the north, most of them were the main force of the Central Army preserved after the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing. They were scattered in various places. It is indeed not easy to convene in a short period of time. Although the formation has not yet been completed, Xue Yue also had to change his plan and command the troops who arrived earlier to Shangqiu because Hata Junliu "advanced quickly" and cut off the Longhai Railway in advance. Shangqiu is like a stone lion in front of the west gate of Xuzhou. If you guard here, each department in the fifth war zone will have an extra exit for retreat and escape. Just when he was about to repair the railway, Xue Yue heard a piece of news that caught him off guard: the cavalry unit of the 14th Division of Utsunomiya blew up the railway in Lanfeng again. If the Shangqiu Railway belongs to the lower reaches of the Longhai Railway, the Lanfeng Railway is the middle reaches of the Longhai Railway. Once it is destroyed, all strategic materials cannot be rushed back. What made Xue Yue even more worried was that if the main force of the 14th Division continued to move south along the Longhai Railway and join forces with the Japanese invaders who invaded Xuzhou, it would be enough to wipe out all the nearby Chinese troops—not only the troops in the fifth theater of the encirclement, You have to add the Xue Yue Corps in Shangqiu.