Chapter 23 Chapter 23 We all have to not be afraid of death

The success of the Battle of Pingxingguan, the Japanese High Command attributed more than half of the credit to Itagaki.Because he was facing the main battlefield, he almost drove away hundreds of thousands of Jinsui troops with the strength of half a division. As a result, Itagaki became the most prestigious general in the Japanese invaders at that time, and he was unparalleled for a time. The next goal of the first player is Taiyuan. Tojo was ordered to withdraw to the northeast, but before he left, he left the Tojo Corps and put it under the command of Itagaki. In addition, the brigade transferred by the North China Front Army was also restored, which made the overall force that Itagaki could dispatch instead. Having surpassed the original division, he himself is full of ambition and is ready to show his skills in front of his fellow countrymen.

The most depressing person is Lao Yan. Now he has retreated to the edge of a cliff. A series of setbacks finally made him admit the fact that he really doesn't know how to fight, and his Jin army and Jin army generals are equally unreliable (the Sui army was also unfortunately drawn into it). Lao Yan, who lost his self-confidence, began to turn to "Thaksin" from then on, believing that the Central Army and the Eighth Route Army could save his Shanxi, so he urgently called Chiang Kai-shek, requesting that reinforcements be sent quickly, and at the same time he was willing to give up his position and replace himself with the Central Army capable of fighting in the future Command—maybe a little hypocritical before, but this time it is absolutely sincere.

After Chiang Kai-shek heard the news, of course he had to plan for it.Although the Ping-Han battlefield was equally tense at that time, Chiang Kai-shek still allocated Wei Lihuang to reinforce Shanxi. Wei Lihuang was also a veteran general of the Central Army. At the beginning, Tang Enbo was trapped in Nankou, and there were only two people who hoped to get him ashore. One was Wei Lihuang and the other was Fu Zuoyi. Everyone is an expert in fighting, and only those who are more capable than you can save you from the fire and water. This is a very simple truth. After receiving Chiang Kai-shek's order, Wei Lihuang rode alone to Taiyuan to meet Yan Xishan. Before coming, he had already had his own overall consideration on how to fight.

He told Lao Yan that if he wanted to guard Taiyuan, he must guard Xinkou. Commander Yan, don’t worry, don’t be afraid. This time is no different than the battle at Pingxingguan. The Central Army will go all out to help. Worry-free in Taiyuan. Hearing these words, Lao Yan was so happy that tears were about to fall, he really wanted what he wanted, when he needed a famous general, the famous general would arrive as promised, Shanxi has hope. He immediately appointed Wei Lihuang as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy in the second theater, responsible for directing the upcoming battle with full authority.

Wei Lihuang is very discerning in choosing Xinkou as the future battlefield. There are high mountains on both sides of this place, and what needs to be guarded is the 50-mile defense zone. The right wing of this defense zone is close to the high mountains with an altitude of 1,000 meters, and the left wing is next. Worrying about the outflanking of the Japanese army can save a lot of troops. The most difficult thing to defend is the central area on the front. The gatekeeper here, Wei Lihuang ordered Hao Mengling. Hao Mengling, born in Hebei, graduated from the sixth phase of Baoding Military Academy.

Among the generals of the Republic of China, Hao Mengling is a typical Confucian general, not the kind who pretends to be a fake. When he is in the army, he does not have any bad habits. When he is paid, he uses it to collect rare ancient books. It is said that he still has a complete set of books at home. Twenty-four histories, a diary is written almost like a literati. Hao Mengling is very old in the army. He served in Fengjun and served with Feng Yuxiang. He fought countless battles in half his life. As soldiers, what is our role? If we fight like this, the people will suffer and blood will be shed for thousands of miles, so what is the benefit to the country?

He often thinks of one of his classmates—Han Guangdi, a famous general of the Northeast Army who died in the Sino-Soviet War. In his opinion, that is glorious and worthy of emulation. On the eve of the "July 7th Incident", Hao Mengling had been ordered to be transferred to the general class in Sichuan for further study. Halfway through the trip, he heard that the war in the north had suddenly started, so he immediately invited Ying to go north. The value of soldiers is here. When the country is in trouble, we should serve as pioneers. Even if he is a general, he can't help but love his sons and daughters. Knowing that he was going to the front line, the whole family cried around and advised him not to leave.

Hao Mengling also shed tears. He said, I love you, but I have to leave. Think about it, if the country is gone, what else will we have left? It was not the first time for Hao Mengling to set foot on the land of Shanxi. During the Northern Expedition, he was invited to relieve the siege of the Jin army. As if it was destined somewhere, ten years later, the heavy task of rescuing the Jin army fell on me again, but this time, the meaning was fundamentally different, because this was a national war, a just war that contributed to the country. Yes, the survival of the nation, at this moment, only sacrifice like Han Guangdi is the final destination of the soldiers.

His designated battlefield is in the Jin Dynasty, but he still cares about Hebei, which is a province away, because it is his hometown. However, the situation in the Pinghan battlefield is also not optimistic. Since Baoding fell, Shijiazhuang is in danger. Seeing that the ancestral tomb is about to fall, it is really heartbreaking and heartbreaking. Hao Mengling deeply blamed herself for this in her diary: the country is in such a state, or we are too hopeless and unfulfilling. The fate of the country and the nation has never been so real as it is today, and it can be tightly held in your hands. The so-called victory means the country survives, and defeat means the country perishes.

Hao Mengling said to the officers under him, we must not retreat in Shanxi, if we retreat again, we can only retreat to the Yellow River, by then, the soldiers will be scattered, how can you officers continue to serve? Therefore, from now on, we must be prepared. I will die and the country will survive. Said these words, Hao Mengling is very meaningful. Along the way, he found that most of the Jin troops on the front line were as cowardly as mice. After withdrawing from Pingxingguan, they almost fled. Provide logistical supplies. Hao Mengling has been fighting for so many years, and often reads ancient books on war strategies, so he naturally knows that this is something that military strategists should avoid.

If the Central Army did not arrive, I am afraid Itagaki would have killed Taiyuan long ago. He was anxious about this. After all, this is a battle, and whichever army is weak will become a shortcoming. Fortunately, Yan Xishan started to be ruthless. He wanted to fulfill his original promise to Huang Shaohong and behead Ma Su with tears. It's really useless if you don't cut it once, seeing that the three armies are unwilling to use their lives. Even after being detained, Li Fuying never thought that Yan Xishan would kill him.Because although he is a layman in war, he is an expert in making relationships. Not only is he ranked as the "big brother" in the "Thirteen Taibao" of the Jinsui Army, but he is also the adopted son of Zhao Daiwen. He is very popular in the military and political circles of Shanxi. Will be attached to myself. Perhaps, if the Battle of Pingxingguan can be won, not to mention the annihilation of the Banyuan Division, at least if Pingxingguan and Yanmenguan can be kept, Li Fuying may have a better ending, but he lost the battle. What can I do. It is said that when Lao Yan announced the execution order, he shed tears in front of everyone and Li Fuying, saying that I promoted you from platoon leader to army commander, and there was nothing wrong with you, but you are sorry for me, Tianzhen In the first battle, why can't you help me hold on to it instead of retreating? This is really sad to say, if Tianzhen does not lose the chain first, the "Battle of Datong" will be fought, maybe Banyuan has already become a fish in the net, a turtle in the urn, why would I be forced to come down to Taiyuan City by him . Li Fuying also shed tears, but the matter has come to this point, he also knows that there is nothing to think about. After the start of the all-out war of resistance, Li Fuying was the first lieutenant general to be executed for ineffective combat. Although there was a reason for the incident, there was no precedent for such a severe punishment. For Li Fuying's death, or to put it a little bit older, for the incompetence of the generals of the Jin Army, Lao Yan himself was not entirely responsible.For a long time, he only knew how to pull the abacus beads and use the economic method to manage the military, but he ended up with problems. The first is too much money.He trained many generals below to be like him, so that most of them only pay attention to collecting money and don't pay attention to training. Once they really go into battle, they will naturally lack confidence.Fu Zuoyi once had a clear judgment on soldiers, that is, soldiers cannot have money, and if they have money, they are afraid of death.The tragedy of the Jin army can be traced back to one word, that is, money. The second is too heavy weight.Lao Yan grasped the military power very tightly. It is said that officers at the division commander level of the Jin Army cannot use the adjutants around them. On the ground, the officers and soldiers are in charge of their own affairs, and they only know how to act according to the orders of Lao Yan, and we will do whatever we are told to do. For a long time, we don't even know how to fight a war. Beheading Li Fuying is equivalent to using his head to sacrifice the banner and establish military prestige. This made Hao Mengling, who was a bystander, feel sincerely that the appearance of the Jin army has changed a lot since then, "senior generals have long been determined to die." . The "senior general" of the Jin army he mentioned is typically Jiang Yuzhen. Jiang Yuzhen has made great contributions. If Hao Mengling and other 80,000 troops want to rush to Xinkou to assemble and complete the deployment as scheduled, it will definitely not work in a few days, and at this time Banyuan is also rushing to follow behind the retreating Jin army.Jiang Yuzhen's mission is to hold Banyuan back and buy time for Xinkou to deploy defenses. Yan Xishan told Jiang Yuzhen at first that he must persist for seven days. Seven days later, Jiang Yuzhen was about to be ordered to retreat, but Yan Xishan sent a telegram from the rear: stay on guard for three days. Before sending out this telegram, Yan Xishan was actually very hesitant. The reason for the continuation was that Hao Mengling's deployment in Xinkou had not yet been fully organized, but Lao Yan knew very well that if the "continuation" continued, Jiang Yuzhen might be completely wiped out, so the telegram he started to draft read like this: The cover task has been completed. If you can observe the rules, you can't withdraw. Just as he was about to send the telegram, he suddenly thought, if Jiang Yuzhen is withdrawn, what if there is a problem with Xinkou's defense? He has to take care of both sides, and he can't take care of either side. For the first time, he couldn't count. He was still sleeping under the quilt, so he asked someone to invite Zhang Peimei. When Zhang Peimei entered the door and saw the content of the telegram, she became furious and shouted: I am a soldier, and I only know how to move forward, not how to retreat.If he, Jiang Yuzhen, dies in battle, I will build a temple for him when he returns. If he escapes, I will cut off his head when he returns! Old Yan murmured, "The current battle cannot be fought like in the past. Don't you think the Central Army in Shijiazhuang is also going to retreat?" It's okay not to say this, but when Zhang Peimei said it, she became even more furious: I am learning from Guan Yunchang, not a bastard. So the two of them fought against each other, and to the end, Lao Yan still obeyed the black-faced Bao Gong and revised the telegram again. Three days later, Jiang Yuzhen had fewer than a thousand people under his command. He sent the last telegram to Yan Xishan, which was a fatal telegram. In the telegram, Jiang Yuzhen said: As long as the Xinkou position has not been set up, I will never leave it lightly. It's hard to say that Li Fuying's execution had no effect on the Jin army's tenacious defense, but Jiang Yuzhen's own quality is indeed hard to pick. With such a brave general, what more can a husband ask for. Yan Xishan called back: Don't worry, I will take care of my family. In the evening, the task was finally accomplished, but Jiang Yuzhen was already surrounded. Later, he led the remnants to break through the encirclement and bravely crossed the death line, but unfortunately fell on the second death line. Under the northern sky, the morning glow was about to rise in the sky, but the brave general of the Jin army would never see it again. This is a team of heroes. When they regrouped in Taiyuan, there were only five or six hundred people left in a brigade of 4,000 people, but they bought time for Xinkou's defense and also won a reputation for the Jin army-people can fight against them. I recalled again that this army was indeed famous for its good defense in history. Since then, Jiang Yuzhen's brigade has been named the Honor Brigade, and the designation will never be cancelled. On October 13, the Xinkou Battle, the largest and most intense battle in the north, officially kicked off. The focus of the competition between the two sides is Nanhuaihua on the south bank of the Yunzhong River. Yunzhong River is a river to the north of Xinkou. If Banyuan wants to gain a foothold on this side of the river, it must establish a reliable position in Nanhuaihua, and if the defenders want to drive Banyuan into the river, they also need to stick to Nanhuaihua. Itagaki was determined to win Nanhuaihua, and his Banyuan Division and Tojo Corps, like a trident, concentrated their strength and stabbed directly at Nanhuaihua. As the commander of the infantry, Hao Mengling did not show weakness, you have the trident, and I also have the Qinglongyanyue knife. This sword is Liu Jiaqi's division. This division is the core force of Hao Mengling. He has been in this division for the longest time. He has never left since he was promoted from company commander to army commander. He has a deep relationship with the officers and soldiers, so he is naturally the most effective in command. . But the strength of Itagaki's trident is indeed beyond the reach of ordinary troops, even Hao Mengling's Central Army. Nanhuaihua once fell into the hands of the Japanese army. Seeing this, Hao Mengling organized death squads and launched two counterattacks in succession before regaining Nanhuaihua. At this time, Liu Jiaqi's division had suffered more than a thousand casualties, and the commander of the regiment and battalion was injured, and the ravine was full of wounded soldiers. Sudden blows, the morale of the troops was also greatly bruised.When an injured company commander ordered the wounded soldiers in the ditch to crawl back to the position with him, no one responded, only one orderly soldier was willing to go with him, but he couldn't get up halfway. Nanhuaihua had to stick to it, but Hao Mengling was facing a battalion full of wounded soldiers, and his fighting spirit was greatly reduced. This was just the beginning. He immediately came to the front to readjust and deploy. Hao Mengling was also heartbroken seeing the heavy casualties of the troops he brought out, but he thought it was nothing, because sacrificing for the country is what should be done. In view of the fact that the original grass-roots command system has been disordered, he had to downsize Liu Jiaqi's division, and the regiments were merged into battalions, and the battalions were merged into companies. After the reorganization was completed, Hao Mengling did not leave. He said to the officers and soldiers, before I set off, I wrote my will, and I will never survive until the Japanese army is defeated. Now I will stand firm with you and never retreat first. If I retreat first, no matter who you are, you can shoot me, but if you retreat, no matter who you step back, I will kill him immediately. After finishing speaking, Hao Mengling asked her subordinates loudly: Now I am not afraid of death, can you be afraid? The morale that had already been weakened was suddenly stimulated, and a thunderous voice sounded from below: Don't be afraid! Hao Mengling was very happy, and left a famous saying with emotion: generals have the will to die, and scholars have no greed for life. The battle became more and more difficult. Due to insufficient front-line troops, the northwestern mountain ridge in Nanhuaihua was lost, and the Japanese army continued to extend to the two wings with the help of this mountain ridge. Hao Mengling waved the flag and sent Li Xianzhou out. Li Xianzhou, one of the famous Shandong Sanli, graduated from the first phase of Whampoa. As early as when he was studying in Huangpu, Li Xianzhou was known for his straightforward personality.At that time, the Whampoa students were divided into two factions. Li Xianzhou, Du Yuming, and Guan Linzheng belonged to one faction, and Chen Geng and other Communist Party members belonged to the other faction. Guan Linzheng is known as fierce and has a very hot personality, but after being teased by Chen Geng, he has no choice but to admit that he is unlucky.Chen Geng succeeded repeatedly, so the more he played, the more addicted he became, and then let Du Yuming step on a "trap", and was criticized by the principal. No one else dared to provoke Chen Geng, only Li Xianzhou fought against the injustice and stepped forward to criticize. When the two sides disagreed, they twisted together. Li Xianzhou is a big man from Shandong, tall and burly, and ten years older than Chen Geng, so he naturally had the advantage, but he beat him up. After he recovered from the injury, Chen Geng's eyes were disfigured, and he put on glasses ever since. During the Anti-Japanese War, Li Xianzhou's performance was very hard, and it was also due to a special experience he had in the Lushan Officer Training Corps in Jiangxi. He usually has the habit of taking a cold bath. One day, he found a secluded place, was wearing shorts and carrying a large bucket of water, and was washing vigorously. When he turned his head, he suddenly saw Jiang and his wife coming. It was too late to hide, so Li Xianzhou had no choice but to pretend he didn't see it.But Chiang Kai-shek saw him and stood behind him.Military discipline is the most important thing, and Chiang Kai-shek especially values ​​this, so Li Xianzhou was in a state of agitation, and closed his eyes to prepare for training. But Chiang Kai-shek did not train him, but told him that the temperature on the mountain is not as good as that on the mountain, and the temperature on the mountain is too low, so bathing in cold water like this will make you sick. Get dressed quickly and come to my office! The first sentence sounded very warm, but the latter sentence really frightened Li Xianzhou.I thought I could pass the test with a little training, but I didn't expect that things are not so simple, and maybe I have to be punished. Li Xianzhou was like a student who made a mistake. After getting dressed, he walked into the office of "Principal Jiang" tremblingly. What he didn't expect was that Chiang Kai-shek's tone was very gentle: I want to criticize you, not for taking a bath, but for not telling me about difficult things. It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek had always admired Li Xianzhou, thinking that he neither smokes nor gambles, and he can't even dance, which is really commendable. As for the difficult matter, it was Chiang Kai-shek who overheard that Li Xianzhou's father wanted medical treatment and his sister wanted to study abroad, but Li Xianzhou had no money and was looking for someone to borrow from him. Chiang Kai-shek prepared two checks for Li Xianzhou, one to help his father treat his illness, and the other to send his sister abroad. Li Xianzhou was so grateful that he would risk his life in every battle since then, never daring to slack off in the slightest. Hao Mengling asked Li Xianzhou to take back the lost mountain ridge, but the attack was blocked all the way, and the troops suffered heavy casualties. Li Xianzhou supervised the battle from behind, and saw his subordinates fall one by one through the binoculars, he was anxious. Simply, I will go up too. The soldier was aiming in the trench, and suddenly found a familiar face next to him. At first glance, it turned out to be the commander! Commander, this place is dangerous, you should leave immediately. Li Xianzhou acted as if nothing had happened, and asked them instead: What are you doing here? Of course it is to beat devils. Li Xianzhou is happy, you are not afraid of danger when you fight devils, so I am worse than you when I am an officer? The division commander fought side by side with everyone, which immediately inspired the army, and the whole division rushed towards the mountain ridge like a tsunami.In the end, even the cooks came up to help transport the bullets and deliver the wounded soldiers. The mountain ridge was finally restored, and there were only one official and one soldier left on the Japanese army's position. The soldier wanted to run away, but was beaten to death by the official, and the official himself committed suicide by cutting open his stomach. On a hill, all the flies died, and the world became clean. Li Xianzhou regained the mountain ridge, and happily brought the army commander Hao Mengling to inspect the enemy's situation. While chatting on the hillside, why did something touch my chest, a mosquito?bee?Pebbles? Master Li was in a very good mood, he didn't even look at it, and continued to climb to the top of the mountain.But after Hao Mengling found out, she asked loudly: Are you injured? Li Xianzhou still looked ignorant: It's all right, it's just a touch. Hao Mengling's expression changed: she said she was fine, her back was bleeding. A bullet penetrated from the front and exited from the back. Hurry up and bandage it. It's okay not to be reminded, but once reminded, Li Xianzhou fell down with a gudong, as if he was suddenly awakened while sleepwalking. Just as he was about to be carried on the stretcher, he woke up again, took a breath, and said something that made everyone around him dumbfounded—hey, didn’t I die? When sending them down the mountain, everyone had a disagreement. The military doctor was an expert and believed that the blood did not flow out when he was injured, so the congestion had to be drained. How to put it, when carrying him down the mountain, his head must be facing down. But the stretcher soldiers disagreed, no way, the hillside is too steep, the division commander will not be able to bear it, and we can't bear to do this. The military doctor couldn't hold back these soldiers, and finally carried them down the mountain with their heads up. As the saying goes, if you have no heart and no lungs, you will be blessed with great fortune.After sending it to the rear for a diagnosis, I found out that Li Xianzhou had stepped into the gate of hell, and he would not be able to pull out if he was one step away. The bullet entered from his left chest and exited from the back, which is a typical pair pass, and the survival rate in this case is very small. But this "micro" happened to be met by Li Xianzhou. When the bullet passed through his body, he happened to be exhaling, and the bullet passed through the middle of the lung lobe without injuring the lung, otherwise he would definitely have died. Li Xianzhou was not heartless. When he was lying in the hospital, he still thought about how well the soldiers treated him. Chiang Kai-shek wrote him a letter of sympathy, and gave him 50,000 yuan as a medical fee. He didn't touch a cent of the latter money, and bought medicines for his troops. Just after Li Xianzhou was seriously injured and carried down, the commanding height of 1200 in the northeast of Nanhuaihua was once again broken by the Japanese army. Itagaki continued to invest troops in an attempt to use this highland as a breakthrough to expand across the board. Wei Lihuang, who was sitting in the base camp, saw this clearly. Itagaki wanted to outflank me, and the only way to completely interrupt his idea of ​​outflanking was to use anti-outflanking. At this time, on both sides of the central area, a garrison regiment had been established on the left and the right.Wei Lihuang's military strategy is to first rely on Hao Mengling to recapture Nanhuaihua in the center, suppress Banyuan in the Yunzhonghe Basin, and then use the garrison to surround Banyuan and finally defeat it. Obviously, the biggest key is to regain Nanhuaihua. After Hao Mengling got the order, he organized two hand-to-hand counterattacks in succession, but failed to recover the 1200 heights. When a strong team was needed to help, Zheng Tingzhen's independent brigade came. Zheng Tingzhen is from Henan, and he bid farewell to his mother at the station before. Lie on the ground and kowtow, because he knew that this might be the last time. Looking at his homeland, Zheng Tingzhen drew his sword and vowed: If we don’t defeat Japan, none of us will come back. The foreign war is glorious, even if it is to wipe out the team, it is worth it. One word turned out to be a prophecy. Under the supervision of Hao Mengling, Zheng Tingzhen's brigade began to launch a counterattack again, but failed to recover four times in a row. Seeing this, Zheng Tingzhen went to the front line to command in person, but was unfortunately shot in the head, becoming the first brigade-level general who died on the Xinkou battlefield. Hao Mengling ordered the brigade commander to take over, but the acting brigade commander was killed again. Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Hao Mengling re-appointed acting brigade commander for Zheng Tingzhen's brigade, and at the same time planned a new major counterattack. In order to ensure the success of the counterattack, Hao Mengling decided to go to the front to supervise the battle in person, and the division commander Liu Jiaqi voluntarily accompanied him. The chief of staff objected to their going in person because the situation on the front line was different at this time. The entire battlefield was at a fever pitch, and a regiment would soon become a battalion, or even a company, with as many as thousands of officers and soldiers retreating from the line of fire every day. It is too dangerous for the army and division commanders to go at this time. Hao Mengling said that she must go, this is a task and a duty. When I got to the frontier regiment headquarters, I realized that I really had to come. It was originally planned to launch a counterattack before dawn, but when the time came, there was no movement from Zheng Tingzhen's brigade. Hao Mengling was very anxious and felt that she had to go to Zheng Tingzhen's brigade to supervise. A commander of the regiment headquarters immediately came up to dissuade: No way! From here to Zheng Tingzhen's brigade, you must pass through a small road blocked by Japanese firepower. This road is more than 20 meters long. The Japanese army set up light machine guns at the dead corner of the highland to shoot. Before that, more than 20 people including the messengers died in the This road is called "Death Passage". Hearing this, the subordinates and staff around him also agreed, hoping that Hao Mengling would not commit the danger himself. That said, it is best not to go, if you really want to go, you have to pass at night, so the danger will be less. That way, writing an order and sending someone to send it is not the same. After careful consideration, Hao Mengling still thought it was necessary to come in person. Today's big counterattack is very important. Whoever can persist until the last five minutes can win. Zheng Tingzhen's brigade commanders, the new mourners and the acting brigade commanders, can make people feel relieved if they don't supervise them personally. Seeing that Hao Mengling insisted on leaving, the chief of staff accompanying him asked him to rest at the regiment headquarters for a while before speaking. Hao Mengling shook her head: We didn't come to rest, let's go! In desperation, the chief of staff told a lie, saying that the chief of staff had a call and asked Hao Mengling to answer the call in the cave. Hao Mengling waved her hand, you take it, I'll go. Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay and had no choice but to continue to follow the commander. After fighting for so many years, it's not that Hao Mengling is ignorant of the danger ahead, but at this moment his whole mind is full of counterattacks, and he has long put personal life and death aside. Reading through the history books, at this moment, he may think of many people and many things. There are two brave generals in ancient times, Hao Mengling alone, one is the Han general Ma Yuan, and the other is the Wei general Pang De. Ma Yuan is in his 50s and 60s, with a big white beard, and he is completely retired, but he said no, the border is still not peaceful, I have to settle it, and even if I die, I have to die on the battlefield. How can you lie on the bed and wait for your children to serve you when you bring the leather bag back, how aggrieved it would be. In contrast, Pound is young, but he is also an unbelieving master.At that time, he carried the coffin board to fight with Wu Sheng Guan Yunchang, and shot the opponent's forehead with one arrow, which made the Shu army very afraid of him. Ma Yuan's "returning in a corpse" and Pound's "carrying the coffin for a decisive battle" are both heading towards victory and at the same time heading towards death. Death is something everyone has to face, especially the soldiers. The so-called "If the crockpot is not separated from the mouth of the well, the general will inevitably die before the battle." Besides, the battle has reached such a cruel level. For soldiers not to be greedy for life, as a general, one must have the heart of death. The Japanese soldiers peeping on the high ground finally found them and began to shoot with machine guns, but at first there was no danger. Everyone passed through the "death passage" and was about to go uphill. At this time, the accompanying chief of staff felt even more disturbed. He pulled the army commander one last time and whispered: Let's go into the cave and listen to the phone call. Hao Mengling could hear the subtext of his subordinates, and replied: We all have to not be afraid of death! keep going up. After turning over this hillside, you can see the position of Zheng Tingzhen's brigade. Whether the counterattack can be successful depends on it. The bullet followed, and everyone quickly got down and took cover. When the gunfire subsided, Hao Mengling was the first to stand up. He was so impatient that he wished he could go to the battlefield and issue orders immediately. The bullet rain came suddenly, and the death surprise attack, the lieutenant general was suddenly shot twice in the waist and fell to the ground. Liu Jiaqi, who was behind him, hurried forward to rescue him, and was also hit by three bullets in his throat and chest, but he could barely sit up after falling down. The guards and their subordinate staff lay on the ground, and after shooting bullets, they dragged them over and carried them to the regiment headquarters. After being carried to the regiment headquarters, Hao Mengling had already died. At this time, his subordinate Liu Jiaqi was weak and unable to speak. The regiment headquarters was at the forefront and could not be effectively treated, so they were carried to the military headquarters. Before arriving at the military headquarters, Liu Jiaqi died halfway. So far, in less than two days, the army commander, division commander, brigade commander, and acting brigade commander died in battle one after another. Hao Mengling once said before his death that if we want our nation to survive forever, we must pay a price. Although I may not be able to see the day of national revival with my own eyes, I can sacrifice for it first. He finally fulfilled his promise. After "returning the corpse" and "carrying the coffin decisive battle", he will enter the martyrs' shrine of national heroes with Liu Jiaqi and others after his classmate Han Guangdi. Flowers bloom and fall, spring and autumn come, and the moment they fall has already become eternity.