Chapter 31 8. Sun Lianzhong's direct line teacher

In the Battle of Taierzhuang, there was another heroic unit, that is, the 27th Division of the 2nd Army.Like the 31st Division, this division played very tragically.Like Mr. Chi Fengcheng, Mr. Huang Qiaosong is also a legend.He was born in Weishi County, Henan Province in 1901. After graduating from middle school, he joined the army and joined Feng Yuxiang's army in 1922. He was named a model soldier for his excellent character and learning. After Feng Yuxiang launched the Beijing coup in 1924, Huang Qiaosong was promoted to platoon leader, and later to company commander and battalion commander. Participated in the Northern Expedition in 1927.When the 26th Route Army was established, Huang Qiaosong served as the commander of Gao Shuxun's division. Later, he was promoted by Sun Lianzhong as the division commander of the 27th Division because of his bravery in combat.

Master Huang Qiaosong is a patriotic soldier with national integrity.He hated those generals in the Kuomintang army who were greedy for life and fear of death in the war against Japan to preserve their strength, and called them the scum of the Chinese nation.When educating officers and soldiers, he used these examples as negative teaching materials.He turned his full of anger into the strength to fight against the Japanese invaders, and set an example for his allies and his officers and soldiers with practical actions.In the battle of Niangziguan, he took the lead and led the broadsword team to rush to the Japanese army, killing the captain of the 70th Japanese regiment Lideng Dazuo.After the Niangziguan battle, Huang Qiaosong was promoted to commander of the 27th Division.

The 27th Division is the backbone of Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Army, and Sun Lianzhong once served as the division commander.Because of this relationship, the 27th Division can be regarded as the direct line of Commander-in-Chief Sun.Therefore, after Sun Lianzhong fought, the 27th Division was listed as an adjustment division of the Kuomintang army. Although its equipment, ordnance and weapons were not as good as Chiang Kai-shek's elite troops, they were much better than the other two divisions of the 2nd Army. On March 23, when the Battle of Taierzhuang started, the 27th Division was still in the Jiawang area 30 kilometers southwest of Taierzhuang. According to the original combat plan, they would stop the enemy there.Unexpectedly, the Jigu Division attacked the position of the 31st Division in Taierzhuang, and the momentum was very fierce. The battle became fierce from the beginning, so the 27th Division was ordered to rush to Taierzhuang at 4 o'clock in the morning on March 24.Master Huang immediately led the three echelons of the whole division to march towards Taierzhuang on foot, and arrived at Taierzhuang South Station in the afternoon.

The 27th Division and the 44th Independent Brigade built fortifications on the right wing of Taierzhuang. Time was running out, and the defensive positions of the 27th Division were built hastily, unable to withstand repeated bombings by Japanese artillery and planes. Under the fierce enemy attack, almost all the fortifications of the defensive troops were razed to the ground.In fact, only the 27th Division was the only defensive force on the right-wing position in Taierzhuang. The Independent Brigade was the general reserve of the group army and had been used piecemeal for other positions.

Right in front of the right wing of Taierzhuang, there were two regiments of the Japanese army. They attempted to break through from the right wing of Taierzhuang and copy the rear of the main position of Taierzhuang.Division Commander Huang Qiaosong ordered his troops to occupy the Huanglinzhuang area and use the favorable terrain to attack the invading enemy. The brutal battle lasted for three days and three nights, with heavy casualties on both sides.The first and second lines of defense of the 27th Division have been breached, and now there are only a few small villages left.In the village, the defending army and the attacking Japanese army fought for a house and a yard every day. You come in and I go out, and you go out and I come in. The entire row and company of soldiers fell in the tug-of-war.

It's not worth it, to fight for a courtyard, you have to pay a lot of people's lives. The commander of the 1st Battalion really couldn't bear his soldiers to make such a huge sacrifice, so he voluntarily gave up the fight, but he didn't consider the situation of the whole village and the whole battle situation.If you give up one courtyard, it means the loss of other courtyards, which means paying a greater sacrifice. Master Huang Qiaosong couldn't stand it anymore. When he was fighting, he couldn't rub half a grain of sand in his eyes.He rushed to the front line, beheaded the commander of the 1st battalion who was weak in combat, and ordered the whole battalion to take back the lost territory.The soldiers of the whole battalion did not dare to retreat, and raised their swords and returned until there was no one left.

When the 27th Division was in critical condition, Commander Huang Qiaosong responded to Commander-in-Chief Sun Lianzhong's call, organized death squads, gave full play to his strengths, fought night battles, close combat, and carried out sneak attacks on Japanese positions. The division commander personally led 20 attack detachments to carry out sneak attacks on the Japanese army from all corners in the middle of the night.Master Huang shouted, brothers, our broadsword is not a fire stick, we want to let the Jigu division know how powerful the broadsword is.Follow me if you have the guts!The 20 night attack teams of the 27th Division drew out the broadswords on their backs with a clatter.With such a teacher who is not afraid of death, what else can I say?They jumped into the Japanese army's position vigorously, their big swords drew one cold light after another in the air, and the whizzing sound of the wind made the little devil terrified.

Huang Qiaosong regained the lost position. The sound of gunfire, cannons and shouts from both sides in Taierzhuang intertwined together, like a mass of muffled thunder, rolling out from the sky above Taierzhuang, and the left and right wings of the main position could be heard very clearly.Huang Qiaosong could imagine the scene of the main position, and he knew the suffering of the 31st Division brothers. The 31st Division is really suffering. They have to resist the attacks of thousands of Japanese soldiers every day.No matter how hard we suffer, we can't suffer more than Chifeng City in Taierzhuang.

Master Huang Qiaosong did not forget to help a group of brotherly and friendly 31st Division under difficult circumstances.He ordered the 7th and 8th companies of the 3rd Battalion of the 158th Regiment, led by Deputy Battalion Commander Shang Shangbin, to rush to Zhuang Nei for reinforcements. Shi Shibin looked at Mr. Huang incomprehensibly, and asked, is my teacher under a lot of pressure?At this critical moment, if two companies were drawn out, wouldn't that kill our division?Huang Qiaosong shouted loudly, obey the order!Focus on the big picture.Once the main position is lost, the battle cannot be fought.

Seeing that Master Huang was so determined, the deputy battalion commander shouted the names of the seventh and eighth company commanders loudly, and set off immediately.Wang Fantang, commander of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 158th Regiment, recalled: After I received the order, I started from the southeast area of ​​Taierzhuang, in a evacuated formation, braved the fierce Japanese artillery fire, ran to the south and detoured, entered Taierzhuang through the south gate, and entered the counterattack.Due to the complex terrain in the village, without detailed investigation, the Eighth Company was ambushed by Japanese machine gun fire after entering the village. In less than half an hour, all officers and soldiers of the company died.When Deputy Battalion Commander Shi Shibin saw me, he cried with tears in his eyes: Company Commander Wang, it's over!It's over!The eighth company is over!At this time, it was dusk, and my seventh company was ordered to be a mobile force, ready for emergency at any time.

At dawn on the 28th, the Japanese army invaded from the northwest corner and stormed the southwest area in an attempt to cut off the connection between the Shonai garrison headquarters and the 31st Division headquarters stationed in the canal. The offensive was very fierce.Our Seventh Company was ordered to carry out a blockade in the forward position. The friendly troops used heavy machine guns to organize the cross-fire from both sides, and equipped with our company's light machine guns to strengthen the fire blockade in front of the position.With the strong cooperation of the friendly and neighboring troops, after several days and nights of fierce fighting, we repelled the repeated attacks of the Japanese army and held our position. At that time, of the more than 130 officers and soldiers when I entered the village, there were still 57 of them. The heroic 7th company was not intimidated by the arrogance of the Japanese army, nor was it sad and discouraged because their comrades fell.They volunteered to their superiors and asked them to complete the most difficult tasks. The commander of the 7th company recalled their 57-member death squad, saying this: In order to completely repel the Japanese invading from the northwest corner, I also suggested to lead the 57 surviving officers and soldiers of our company to form a death squad, go around to the enemy's side, and attack back and forth, in order to completely wipe out the invading enemy.The commander-in-chief of the defense, Wang Guanwu, accepted my request, and planned to concentrate mortar firepower on the enemy's formation again before dusk, followed by light and heavy machine gun fire.My company went out of the west gate when the bombardment began and assembled outside the walls.After the artillery fire stopped, run northward along the wall to enter the predetermined position. When the machine guns stopped firing, the score route went over the wall outside the village and inserted into the enemy's side. Fifty-seven death-defying members, for the sake of the rise and fall of the country and the dignity of the nation, went forward in the bloody struggle with a fearless spirit, and regarded death as home.After more than an hour of fierce fighting, one part of the enemy was wiped out, and the other fled northward. Only thirteen survivors survived, and only me and the corporal squad leader Yang Changbing remained among the cadres.After the victory in the battle, Chi Fengcheng, the commander of the 31st Division, received us and awarded us 300 yuan as encouragement. The 27th Division can be said to be the favored son of heaven in the 2nd Army, but it does not have the slightest pretensions, and is not as domineering and arrogant as the direct descendants of the Central Army.Huang Qiaosong, who served as the commander of the 27th Division, is a modest person, and the relationship with the brother troops is quite harmonious.During the Battle of Taierzhuang, no matter how dangerous his situation was or how difficult his position was, Huang Qiaosong always considered the difficulties of others and offered to lend a helping hand.