Gui Jun @ Guilin Battle
In the war against the enemy in 1944, the Japanese army was absolutely vicious. They assembled their own seven divisions, more than 300 tanks and more than 30 bombers, and headed for Guilin, Guangxi, ready to open this southwest traffic line at one time.
Bai Chongxi returned to Guangxi from Chongqing during the military tension of Hunan Anti-Japanese War. He thinks that the battle plan decided by the Fourth Theater Command to garrison Guilin with the 31st and 46th Army is inappropriate, and has changed this battle plan: the 31st Army draws out the 131st Division, the 46th Army draws out the 170th Division, and is assigned to a regiment of the 79th Army and a 15th howitzer company of the 6th Artillery Regiment as garrison troops in Guilin, and the 46th Army Command and the 175th Division (the commander Gan Chengcheng is Harvey's nephew), the new 19th Division and the deputy commander Feng Huang. However, the number of Japanese troops has reached 6.5438+0.5 million, which is ten times that of our army. They completely ignored the small town of Guilin and thought it was just an easy thing to succeed.
Then, this arrogance quickly made the Japanese army suffer a big loss. Gui Jun was ordered to defend the city for three months. Therefore, in the face of the fierce Japanese army, Gui Jun also showed his stubbornness in his bones: never beat the Japanese army out and never retreat!
However, 13 1 division (Mr. Kan) has the worst combat effectiveness, and 170 division (Mr. Xu Gaoyang) is the post-transfer division of all recruits. After the plan was changed, the officers and men guarding the city thought it was tantamount to burying them in Guilin and were filled with indignation; Therefore, the army's morale is lax, morale is low, discipline is slack, and there are many days of flight. Bai Chongxi also ordered Liu Qingshi to recruit new soldiers to supplement the garrison troops in Guilin, and to fight immediately with untrained reinforcements. He ordered the time limit for guarding the city to be three months and collecting food and ammunition for three months, but in fact, the food and ammunition collected was less than one month. He went back to Chongqing when there was military tension in northern Guangxi.
A large number of Japanese troops rushed into the city in batches. However, Gui Jun's desperate battle led to the Japanese army's crushing defeat and heavy casualties. The Japanese leader looked at Gui Jun, who killed him in the eye and gave a stern order: storm with tanks. At that time, apart from bombs and ordinary guns, Gui Jun really had no available equipment. Faced with impenetrable tanks, they had to form a death squad. A death squad of 1000 people, each with a bomb strapped to his head, then rushed at the Japanese tank with all his strength. The tank was blown up and Gui Jun died.
But even so, those who sacrificed Gui Jun still glared, and even if they were blown to pieces, they were brave. This battle made the Japanese army retreat again and again. They almost felt the threat of death from the bottom of their hearts, and even didn't want to look at Gui Jun who died heroically, because it would make their hearts tremble.
In the end, Guilin City was not saved, but no one in Gui Jun retreated. Sacrifice means nothing to them. They expressed their firm patriotic feelings with their will, leaving a lingering nightmare for the Japanese army. After the end of World War II, a head of the Japanese army recorded the war in this way: although they were not well equipped, they were extremely brave and determined to death. Our army is far less brave than before. At that time, the morale of our army had been hit to the lowest point. Another Japanese soldier in Tibet recorded this: Nanjing is heaven, and here (Guilin) is hell.