Chapter 4: Turning to War (5)

Hearing that Mo Di came in person, Li Ben ran out as soon as he wore slippers.

This one was indeed a little disgusting, with long unkempt hair, a thin and dark face, dressed in peasant civilian clothes, a hollow cotton coat, without buttons, a straw rope tied up at the waist, and actually dragged behind the buttocks, and walked like a tail dangling.

Compared with the Japanese army leather shoes, wearing a Japanese-style military coat, and the national army hat on his head, there is a Japanese-style steel helmet painted with the symbol of the blue sky and the white sun, and the invincibility of the flower mouth oar pinned to the waist, it is really a bit of a world apart.

"Brother Li Guang, you are back to basics!" Mo Di said.

asked Xu Ping to go to the car and get a coat for Li Benyi to put on, and found a pair of well-fitting leather shoes to replace the slippers under his feet, only to find that this was a pair of cloth shoes from a local farmer, and the heel had long been worn off, leaving only the front half.

"Fuck me!" Mo Di exclaimed: "These shoes are also exquisite!" ”

Li Benyi smiled bitterly and said, "As far as I still have a pair of shoes, the other brothers are all barefoot, everyone wants to come out to welcome you, but they can't get out." ”

Mo Die laughed and asked Xu Ping to lead people to send the shoes to the barracks first, so that the people of the 1038 regiment could come out first, otherwise, no one would unload the car.

With shoes and coats, the garrison of the 1038 regiment immediately became lively.

Li Benyi brought Mo Enemy to his headquarters, and as soon as he entered the door, there was a thick smoke, and it turned out that there was a roaring bonfire burning inside, emitting a pungent strange smell.

Mo Di stood at the door, why didn't he go in, Li Benyi stayed in for less than a minute, ran out by himself, and said with a wry smile: "The smell inside is a little big!" ”

I found a house that had not been burned, and shoveled the fire that had burned red before, and there was no smoke, but there was a temperature. Wipe the table and chairs, Li Benyi and Mo Di sat down, and the staff who had already put on leather shoes sent an iron kettle, simmered on the fire, and soon white steam came out, and threw a handful of local earthen tea leaves into it, and a strong tea fragrance suddenly spread.

"I heard that brother, you crossed the Qiantang River in winter, how do you feel?" Mo Di asked with a smile.

"It doesn't matter what it feels like to see you alive." Li Benyi said: "I thought I had arranged an easy job, but I didn't expect it to be the worst!" ”

On the day when the 170th and 172nd Divisions were preparing to block the attack in Wuxing, Nanxun, the 171st Division retreated to Hangzhou to cover the withdrawal of the Hangzhou party and government organs across the Qiantang River, and Li Benyi's 1038th Regiment was in this ranks.

The Japanese army landed at Jinshanwei and took the national army by surprise, and Hangzhou was not far from Jinshanwei, but it never made a large-scale move to Hangzhou, but only sent a small force to harass Hangzhou, mainly because of the lack of troops. The 6th, 18th, and 114th Divisions and the Kunisaki Detachment, which landed from Jinshanwei, were all in Nanjing, and it was not until December 13 that they were freed up to attack the cities around Taihu Lake after the fall of Nanjing.

The attack on Nanjing was the 35th Brigade of the 18th Division, the 3rd Squadron of the 12th Field Artillery Wing and the 2nd Brigade of Armored Vehicles.

When Zhang Guangwei fought bloody battles in Wuxing, there was silence in the city of Hangzhou, and when Rao Guohua committed suicide in Guangde, Hangzhou was still singing and dancing, and Huang Shaojun, chairman of Zhejiang Province, actually had the idea that the Japanese army would definitely encounter an unprecedented fierce resistance in Nanjing City, and the Japanese attack on East China would come to an end in Nanjing, and Hangzhou, as the front-line city, would definitely be in the hands of the Chinese, and it would be impossible for the Japanese to enter.

However, all this became completely different after the fall of Nanjing, and the provincial party headquarters began to move to the south of the Qiantang River, and Professor Mao Yisheng was studying how to blow up the bridge over the Qiantang River, which had only been in use for less than three months. The 171st Division, as a defensive force, began to build fortifications on the outskirts of Hangzhou, preparing to meet the invading enemy.

On 18 December, the Japanese army flew 28 sorties and carried out a two-hour carpet bombing over Hangzhou's Dongcheng District. During the bombing, Japanese planes dropped a total of 120 bombs of various types, causing nearly 200 people to lose their lives and more than 1,000 to be injured and disabled.

On the morning of December 21, the Japanese army surrounded Hangzhou from three sides.

The 35th Brigade Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army, the 124th Infantry Brigade of the East Road, the Gangjing Infantry Brigade entered the Qingtai and Wangjiang gates; The Guchuan Infantry Brigade on the North Road entered Wulinmen West Street; The Sanlin Infantry Brigade on the West Road entered Hangzhou from Fengshan Gate, and Hangzhou fell.

On December 23, 1937, the first day of the Japanese army's invasion of Hangzhou, in order to prevent the Japanese army from crossing the river, Mao Yisheng destroyed the Qiantang River Bridge, which had only been used for 89 days, and wrote a tragic stroke in China's modern history.

"Have you ever fought with Japan seriously?" Mo Enemy asked, to be honest, he looked down on the 171st Division a little, a division could not compete with a wing of the Japanese army, and it was really a bit unreasonable to see Hangzhou given to others. Mo Di also made the mistake of subjectivism, in his opinion, every regiment should have the strength of the 1056 regiment, but he did not expect that the 171st Division, which was greatly injured in Chen Jiaxing, was not replenished after being withdrawn, and encountered the Japanese Tenth Army that landed in Jinshanwei in Jiashan, and after the 171st Division came to Hangzhou, although there were some supplements, but the recruits did not train for a day, and the veterans did not rest for a day, and the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

"Not before the fall." Li Benyi said honestly: "Before the fall, the 171st Division became a porter, and every day he kept helping the provincial government and provincial party headquarters to transport materials to Jiangnan, and he was as tired as a dead dog. Our 1038 regiment made a few large wooden rafts and ferried in the Qiantang River all day long, and I almost became an old captain. ”

Mo Di laughed, fortunately it was a Guangxi soldier, and he was quite an expert in manipulating the boat, if it was a northern soldier, he would be dizzy as soon as he got on the boat, let alone maneuvering the boat.

"Then how did you get it like this, it's like a wild husband who was caught stealing people, and I heard that he was chased into the river." Puzzled asked.

"The devil soldiers entered the city in three ways, and our people have not yet finished withdrawing, so we have to entangle with the Japanese in Hangzhou City for a day after our division." Li Benyi said: "This day was a terrible fight, it was for cover before, but then it was entangled by the Japanese, and it was impossible to leave if you wanted to. In the evening, we finally found an opportunity, and the whole division retreated along the river to Fuyang, but we never thought that we ran all night, and the Japanese caught up in an hour, and they had cars, but we only had two legs. The whole division was exhausted and could no longer fight, and our 1038th regiment became the queen of the whole division, covering the withdrawal of the whole division. When the division commander left, he left all the ammunition for us, and by the time we fought in the evening, we ran out of ammunition and food. Retreat to the Qiantang River, there is no way back, or be killed by the Japanese, or jump across the river to cross the Jiangnan, if it were you, which one would you choose? ”

"I chose to return to Hangzhou to continue to fight with the Japanese, I don't believe that a big Hangzhou city can't accommodate my regiment, there are no guns, Lao Tzu robbed the Japanese, there was no food, Lao Tzu ate the Japanese, the Japanese army entering Hangzhou is just a wing, I don't believe that they can't be killed." Mo said in a yin and yin voice.

"Tianzhong, you kid, I can't go with you, you can do martial arts, you can fight, and you can stumble under the stick in the city, that's the business, we people can't do anything but shoot, there are no bullets, we can only run away." Li Benyi said.

"This too!" Mo Di recognized Li Benyi's words: "You are really ruthless, so cold water, you dare to jump in like dumplings!" ”

Li Benyi was a little proud, and said: "Don't talk about you, even the Japanese admire us, they chased us to the river, and when they saw us swimming in the river with our upper bodies naked and a pair of bottoms, they didn't hit us again, and they also shot at the sky and marched for us." ”

Hearing this, Mo Di couldn't help but have a little respect, nodded, and said: "You guys who have swam across the Qiantang River are estimated to become some people who eat people and don't spit out bones in the future!" Those who are cruel to themselves will be many times cruel to their enemies. How many people are still alive in your group? ”

As soon as Li Ben heard Mo Di's praise, he couldn't help but feel proud, and said: "There are not many people, more than 400 people, all here." After more than 400 of us crossed the river in Fuyang, we all had only a pair of underwear, and finally found some to wear, and made a detour back to Tonglu, only to find that the Seventh Army had been drawn and headed for Anhui. Chief Li Zongren was appointed commander of the Fifth Theater, and the Seventh Army was also considered to be rebuilt, and all the things were taken away, and not a single firewood was left. The local government raised some supplies for us, barely enough for us to go to Yuqian, rest and wait for replenishment, and after the replenishment was completed, we crossed the river and went north to rebuild. We stayed here for a few days, and the days were getting worse and worse, with no food, no guns, no clothes, miserable, you have seen it all. These days, I'm bored here, and I've written a poem, and you give me some comments. I took a blank piece of paper, on which was written Li Benyi's masterpiece: "Fuyang broke through the siege in the first battle, the soldiers charged and did not return, thousands of horses galloped and there was no way out, and a few people on the Qiantang River returned." ”

"Yes, you have made great progress, it seems that you have not forgotten to study all these years." Mo Di said.

"I don't read much, so I haven't dared to put down my books all these years, and when I have time to study, the stupid bird flies first." Li Benyi smiled and said, "Tianzong, you also have a poem, I know that you are both civil and military, and it should not be difficult to make a poem." ”

"You think I'm Cao Zhi, and I can do seven-step poems." Mo Di said.

"I don't want you to make a seven-step poem, I'll go to the kitchen to see if there's anything delicious, and ask someone to get some wine, even if it's just local rice wine, our brother will drink two sips." Walking to the door, Li Benyi turned around and said, "When I come back, your poem will be ready." ”

Mo Di laughed, there was actually homework assignment, this one is really talented. Picked up Li Benyi's poems, flipped over and read them several times, a sense of poetry came to my heart, I picked up the pen, and wrote next to Li Benyi's poems: "Brother Li Guang's poem "Fuyang First War" is invincible, Fuyang is sad in the first battle, the warriors are angry and bloody, the Qiantang River is full of loyal bones, and the fish is buried in the cold sea as a monument. ”

After a while, Li Benyi came back and said: "Tianzong is still your subordinates, I have already prepared it, the wild boar bones boiled a pot of thick soup, put the pheasant in it, braised rabbit, stir-fried rat meat, and red stewed wild boar, and seduced all my soldiers, and I will not get drunk tonight." ”

"Alas! You are really poor. If we hadn't hunted all the way, we wouldn't have found a trace of meat today. Mo Di sighed.

I didn't hear Li Benyi's answer, and when I looked up, this guy was holding his own poems and was settled!