"We came from the great place of the Yunnan uprising, walked through the mountains and mountains, and drove to the battlefield of resistance against Japan. The brothers fought for the liberation of the nation with their flesh and blood, and carried forward the glory of our defense of the country and the glory of Yasukuni.

We must not allow the enemy to run rampant on our territory, nor can we allow enemy planes to soar in our airspace. Yunnan is the hometown of the 60th Army, and the 60th Army is the armed force to defend China! Yunnan is the hometown of the 60th Army, and the 60th Army is the armed force to defend China! ”

In the high-pitched military song, at the most critical time in Xuzhou, the 60th Army of the Dian Army arrived at the front line.

However, the Dian army, which had just arrived at the Xuzhou Railway Station, had not had time to get off the train when they had heard a fierce cannon fire.

In the Battle of Taierzhuang, almost all the ** units that had been near Xuzhou fought fiercely with the Japanese army, and they all suffered certain losses. For example, Pang Bingxun's casualties exceeded eighty percent, and Zhang Zizhong's casualties also reached sixty percent. And Sun Lianzhong and Tang Enbo's casualties were not light.

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

Li Zongren ordered the Dian army to immediately rush to the northeast area of Taierzhuang to assemble and prepare for the invading Japanese army.

The assembly places of the 183rd Division of the Yunnan Army are Chen Wafang, Xingjialou and Wushengtang, and the assembly places of the 182nd Division are Puwang, Xinzhuang and Daizhuang. The 184th Division remained in the rear as a general reserve for the time being.

Li Zongren asked the Dian army to hold these two places first, and then reinforce all sides at any time according to the needs of the war situation.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the Dian army entered the battlefield, it encountered a fierce battle, and its tragedy made everyone not expect.

At that time, the Japanese army north of Taierzhuang had begun a fierce attack, but due to the lack of troops, the progress was relatively slow.

In the Battle of Taierzhuang, the defeated Isoya Ryosuke Division was eager to save face and was on the front line of the attack. After being rapidly replenished, the division made a fierce advance with 20,000 troops and a large number of heavy weapons.

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

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

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

As the vanguard of the Yunnan Army, the 1081st Regiment had just advanced more than ten kilometers when it encountered the vanguard of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army Isoya Ryosuke.

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

The first three days of the battle were the fiercest in the history of the Dian army.

The Yunnan army is located in the remote location of Yunnan, and there are only a few enemies around it, all of which are warlord troops with weak combat effectiveness, and even the French colonial army is strong enough in combat effectiveness, and it was defeated by the Black Flag Army that year.

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

In the previous ten years, the most formidable enemy of the Dian army was actually the army of the Workers' and Peasants' Party, which was armed only with light weapons.

At this time, in the face of the heavy artillery shells coming from the Japanese army, the officers and men of Yunnan were stunned for a while. The most experienced veteran of the unit had never seen such a scene, and some of the recruits were trembling with fright, and some of the veterans were trembling with nervousness.

However, despite fear, none of the officers and men of Yunnan retreated after the start of the battle, and still held their positions.

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

Not to mention the officers and soldiers at the front line, even the command post of Division Commander An Entao, who was relatively far behind, was shelled by the Japanese artillery before and after shelling no less than 100 shells.

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

"It's like an earthquake and thunder on your position, what is this sound?

An Entao shouted loudly into the phone under the sound of heavy artillery fire: "This is the shelling of the Japanese army and the explosion of bombs!" ”

Lu Han was taken aback: "Is the Japanese artillery really so powerful?" You must be careful, after the bombardment of aircraft and artillery, the Japanese tanks and infantry will charge. ”

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

Pan Tuan's Yin Guohua battalion was held in Chenwafang and was flanked by more than 1,000 people from a Japanese brigade.

This battalion fought to the death and did not retreat, inflicting heavy losses on the attacking Japanese troops. In the fierce battle, the battalion suffered casualties, and the battalion commander Yin Guohua was shot and martyred.

The regiment commander Pan Shuoduan hurriedly sent another battalion to support, but this battalion was intercepted by another Japanese unit outside Zhuang.

Huang Yunlong, the deputy commander of the battalion, was martyred in the fierce battle, but he was never able to break through the Japanese resistance.

In this case, the remnants of the officers and soldiers of the Yin Guohua battalion insisted on fighting to the last man.

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

In the final stage of the battle, the regiment commander Pan Shuoduan personally led the guard troops to try to break through the Japanese blockade line, but Pan Shuoduan himself was wounded by a machine gun bullet in the fierce battle.

In addition to Chen Wafang, the fighting in other places was just as fierce. The 183rd Division's Xinbi Brigade encountered fierce battles with the enemy at 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 fierce fire, and the guard platoon was only more than 50 people, which was naturally no match for the Japanese army with hundreds of people. The platoon struggled to hold back the Japanese and suffered all casualties before barely protecting Xin Biquan to break through and retreat to the village.

As soon as the battle began, the brigade commander directly exchanged fire with the enemy, which had never been seen in the history of the Dian army.

The Japanese army then rushed into the village, and the large army of the Yunnan army in the village immediately counterattacked, and the two armies fought in the dark at the Five Holy Churches, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat everywhere in the village.

Some Yunnan officers and soldiers felt that it was not convenient to use French bayonets, so they simply threw away their rifles, pulled out their Burmese knives that they had privately equipped, and directly engaged the Japanese soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.

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

At that time, Yunnan was full of mountains and primeval forests, tigers, leopards and jackals were very numerous, and there were often conflicts between tribes.

Therefore, many ethnic minorities in Yunnan have a tradition of wearing swords, such as Dai, Wa, Brown, Kino, and Hani men, who generally carry swords with them, and knives are their second life.

After thousands of years of tempering, the Burmese knife in the Republic of China period is exquisite in workmanship, attaches great importance to actual combat performance, and uses silver seepage technology to make it bright and not easy to rust.

High-quality Burmese knives are extremely sharp and very practical, they sharpen iron like clay, the tip of the knife is mostly flat, mainly used for chopping and not stabbing, no guard, generally made of bamboo copper wire inlay, and the knives of the Tusi nobles are decorated with silver and ivory handles.

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

Burmese knives are a sharp weapon in actual combat, and some mountainous ethnic minorities on the border between China and Myanmar are still in the clan era, and they sometimes kill people to sacrifice their ancestors. If you use a Burmese sword, you can cut off the head of the sacrificer with a single sword.

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

They wore Burmese knives mainly because Yunnan was mountainous and jungle terrain, full of bushes, and difficult to march, and often needed to use sharp Burmese knives as all the mountain knives to open the way.

The Burmese knife is extremely sharp, and many of the officers and soldiers of Yunnan know how to use the knife with a few hands. Burmese knives did not fall behind Japanese bayonets and Japanese swords, and for a time Burmese knives against Japanese bayonets, killing everywhere was a river of blood.

The ground was littered with the remains of Japanese and Dian soldiers, some with their heads cut off with Burmese knives, others split from their shoulders to their waists.

From the night of the first day to the afternoon of the second day, the Japanese troops who rushed into the village could not resist the courage of the Dian army, and began to slowly retreat backwards.

Seeing that the Japanese army could not stand it, Xin Biquan jumped up and waved his gun and rushed to the front line and shouted: "Brothers, rush, even if you die, you can enter the Loyal Martyrs' Hall!" ”

The officers and men of the whole brigade immediately rushed and attacked, and the Japanese army was in chaos and withdrew from the village in disarray.

But at this time, the deputy brigade commander Ma Jiwu shouted: "Cavalry! Cavalry! ”

A squad of Japanese cavalry suddenly appeared.

The battlefield was so chaotic that there were charges everywhere that they didn't notice the appearance of this cavalry at all.

By the time it was discovered, the cavalry was already only a few dozen meters away.

It has to be said that although they are also retreating, the combat quality of the Japanese army is extremely high. They keenly saw that one of the officers who rushed to the front was wearing the uniform of a senior officer, and immediately concentrated their fire on it.

Xin Biquan couldn't dodge it, and immediately fell to the ground with several bullets.

But his mouth still cried out:

"Brothers, rush!"

"Save the Brigadier! Save the Brigadier! ”

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

Dozens of soldiers of the Yunnan Army carried Brigade Commander Xin off the front line without their lives......

……

"Five Saints, Five Saints."

It was night, Xin Biquan's eyes had diluted, but he kept saying the name in his mouth.

"Brigade Commander, the Five Saints, the Five Saints have been recaptured!"

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

"Okay, okay."

This news seemed to stimulate Xin Biquan, and his spirit looked much better: "I won'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...... Decades of infamy, today it will be snow......" Xin Biquan didn't seem to hear anything, just muttered:

"Son...... Son...... Take care of yourself and ...... yourself The king set the Central Plains Day in the north, and the family sacrifice was ......"

On the day when the Yunnan army arrived at the front line to participate in the battle, Brigade Commander Xin Bi, a senior officer of the Yunnan army, was martyred!

The officers and men of the entire brigade under his command suffered almost all casualties.

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

These were the bold words of Brigade Commander Xin Biquan before he set out on the expedition.

This brave and warlike general in the Dian army fulfilled his oath with blood and life!

(Note: The prototype of Brigade Commander Xin Biquan is Chen Zhongshu, commander of the 542nd Brigade of the 183rd Division of the Yunnan Army, who died on April 22, 1938.) ）