"Victory!" "We've won!"

At the forward position, the fighters of the 19th Division shouted victory. They know that it's over, it's all over, and they can go home with honor.

However, after this battle, the 19th Division fought less than a thousand people remaining.

Tanaka Seido was killed, Ichikawa was seriously wounded, and the Japanese were unable to fight again, and the 19th Division could enjoy the joy of victory in advance.

Li Jue ordered all the troops on each hill to assemble the main position and wait for Li Hansoul's 64th Army to come and change the defense.

"Clean up the battlefield, the position can be left to the 64th Army, but the combat power must not be left to them, the honor belongs to our 70th Army!"

Li Jue was relieved, and he firmly believed that the 70th Army was not finished. With equipment, they can also rebuild the 70th Army, and they will fight the devil in the future!

Shao Fei led the special combat team to the position, and Li Jue personally stepped forward to greet him.

Li Jue said gratefully: "Hard work! Thanks to you, the battle can end early. ”

Shao Fei saluted Li Jue with respect and said, "This honor completely belongs to your 19th Division."

Shao Fei's respect is from the heart. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, there were often a division of the national army that was chased by a brigade of devils and ran all over the mountain. But this time, the 19th Division had less than 10,000 people, but it severely damaged two Japanese wings, and the opposing wing commander was killed and wounded, which cannot but be said to be a miracle.

"Report, call from headquarters."

The communication soldier handed Xue Yue's message to Li Jue, and after Li Jue read it, he leaked a smile.

This was a congratulatory telegram from Xue Yue, and ordered the 19th Division to evacuate Jing'an to rest after Li Hansoul arrived.

"We're going to Jing'an, come with us. You should also take a good rest and relax. When we get there, I'll treat you to a big meal! ”

Li Jue's expression returned to when they first met, giving people a sleek feeling.

Shao Fei looked at the team members behind him, who had been fighting almost day and night in the past few days, so he agreed to Li Jue's invitation.

At ten o'clock in the afternoon, Li Hansoul's 64th Army arrived at the Jinguanqiao position on time and found more than a dozen carriages loaded with Japanese equipment. What was left for them was a mutilated position, and tens of thousands of corpses.

Li Hansoul couldn't laugh or cry a little, but he also understood Li Jue's approach. The 30,000 horses and horses of the 70th Army when they started the war from Jiujiang only half a month later, only more than 100 remained.

Just as Li Hansoul looked at this large area of ruins and sighed, Li Jue walked over with Shao Fei. Li Hansoul found that Li Jue was not as pessimistic as he imagined.

The two sides saluted each other, and Li Hansoul smiled: "The cleaning is really clean enough, and I don't leave any points for our 64th Army." ”

Li Jue looked at the Jinguanqiao position, and said with a little pride: "These equipment were exchanged for 7,352 brothers from our 70th Army, how can they be easily given away." Besides, I'm sorry to give it to you, right? ”

"Hehe" Li Hansoul smiled heartily and nodded: "It should be, it should be." ”

Li Jue's expression sank suddenly, and he pleased: "We are leaving, I hope the brothers of the 64th Army will bury my brothers well." ”

"Definitely. I will order to go down and bury these heroic souls who sacrificed their lives for the country. ”

Li Hansoul readily agreed to Li Jue's request. In the first battle of Jinguanqiao, the 70th Army won the respect of all troops, as well as Xue Yue. This battle not only won a big victory, but also indirectly helped their old superior, Zhang Fakui, to go out of the mountain again and be promoted to the commander of the Fourth Theater of Operations. For these generals born in the Cantonese army, in addition to admiration, there is also gratitude.

Li Hansoul looked at Shao Fei behind Li Jue and said, "This should be the commander of the falcon, he is already a colonel at a young age, I should be right." The Xuzhou battlefield wanted to see the demeanor of the falcon, and now I finally saw it. ”

Shao Fei immediately saluted and greeted: "Good general." ”

"Do you want to stay and help our 64th Army, I'll send you a regiment and a staff officer of the military department."

Shao Fei just smiled at Li Hansoul's invitation and declined: "Thank you for your kindness, general, and rest after a battle." Besides, the vitality of the 106th Division was greatly damaged, and the fighting should stop for a while because it was unable to fight. If you need our help in the future, I will definitely come. ”

"Okay, not a word."

Immediately, Shao Fei followed the remnants of Li Jue's 70th Army to Jing'an. The mission of the 70 Army ended with a victorious retreat.

The Jinguanqiao position is like an unbreakable copper wall. After a few days of fierce fighting, the 106th Division of Matsuura lost its troops and lost its troops, suffered a great loss of vitality, and was unable to fight again.

Looking at the corpses of their comrades who fell in front of the Chinese defenders, these arrogant warriors tasted defeat for the first time.

The Japanese army had a traditional habit of snatching back corpses on the battlefield in China, burning them and sending them back to their hometowns.

However, in this battle of Jinguanqiao, the Japanese army was unable to recover it because of too many deaths, so they had to make an exception and change to a workaround, cutting off the ears or palms of the dead soldiers to replace the whole corpse.

Looking at the same kind of people who were like sun-dried yellow croakers and in front of the corpses, witnessing the sacks poured out during the incineration, the bloody ears and palms of the sacks, and smelling the pungent stench of the incineration, these former samurai were frightened, and a negative, tired, and war-weary mood spread among the army.

From the diaries of the Japanese troops captured later, there is such a record: During several attacks, mortar shells on Lushan rained down from the sky, and the imperial army was greatly threatened, and the casualties were terrible.

There is also a Japanese soldier who graduated from a junior college wrote in his diary: Lushan is a famous place in China, "it is difficult to see the true face of Lushan" is worthy of the name, the imperial army was strongly resisted by the 19th Division of the elite unit of the China Army here, and the unprecedented fierce battle, the squadron leader and squad leader died a lot, the battle continued, and the hope of reuniting with the family was difficult......

In front of the burning pit, Junrokuro Matsuura's heart was heavy. This time, they lost completely.

At this time, two soldiers carried the body of Seido Tanaka to Junrokuro Matsuura. Matsuura opened the white cloth and looked at the last appearance of Tanaka Seimichi, and couldn't help but feel sad.

I was a good person last night, and today I ...... Maybe he shouldn't have forced him, or he wouldn't have gone into battle himself.

Immediately, Matsuura waved his hand and asked the soldiers to cremate Tanaka's body and transport the ashes back to their hometown to hand over to their relatives.

The crushing defeat of the 106th Division was a huge shock to Okamura Ninji. Since taking over as commander of the 11th Army, he tasted defeat for the first time, and for the first time felt the will of the Chinese soldiers.

Subsequently, Okamura Ninji ordered the 106th Division to return to Jiujiang to rest and recuperate, replenish the troops, and fight again in the coming days. But Okamura Ninji didn't know that an even bigger disaster would fall on the 106th Division.

In the fierce fighting for several days, Li Jue's 19th Division inflicted heavy losses on the 106th Division of Songpu, and its own casualties were very heavy, almost to the point of annihilation.

At noon on the 6th, Li Hansoul's 64th Army was ordered to rush to reinforcements and take over the position, and Li Jue's 19th Division was ordered to withdraw from the battle and go to Jing'an to rest. The 106th Division was unable to fight again, and both entered a short truce.

The Battle of Jinguanqiao ended with the victory of the Chinese army.

According to the materials released by the Japanese side after the war, the 106th Division of Matsuura had a total of five wings, and about 16,000 people from three wings and nine brigades participated in the operation. The casualties in this battle amounted to 8,000 people. Among them, 1 wing leader was killed, 1 was seriously injured, 3 group leaders, 1 wing adjutant, and more than half of the squadron leaders and squad leaders were killed or wounded.

And Li Jue held the Jinguan Bridge, and when the 19th Division was ordered to withdraw to Jing'an for rest, there were only 780 people left in the division!

(End of chapter)