Where to bury loyal bones
1938 at the beginning of the Shandong commercial newspaper, the outbreak of the battle of Taierzhuang. Meanwhile, 486 officers and soldiers killed in a battle in Linyi's blocking war were buried in the wilderness outside Xi'an's Le Village, Ge Gou Town, Linyi.
these casualties, the youngest sixteen seven years old, the largest but forty years old. Today, the soldiers are buried in a barren forest, and a dirty ditch runs through it. Under the ditches, there are many loyal soldiers.
"they also have a father and a mother's child, and died for the country, and now this situation is not to bear." The year before, the old secretary of the village, Liu Jingli and other old people, began to plan the monument to these officers, but limited to the economic ability, the tombstone failed to be built. Chen Xuechao
nearly five hundred men killed the country for four or five days
in the memory of the old people in the village, the fighting took place in the 25th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar 1938.
the day afternoon, the Chinese garrison sent a Marine Corps in the ferry to the river to search for investigation, in the shrubs east of the Xi'an music village and a squadron of Japanese troops encountered.
occupied the advantageous terrain, the Japanese army, with the advantage of equipment, sprayed from the height to the Chinese defenders, and the Chinese defenders gradually lost their support and suffered heavy losses and withdrew from the fighting. On the night of
, the Japanese army entered Xi'an Lok village outside one after another.
twenty-seven, the Chinese army sent a regiment of troops to block the Japanese army. When the two sides were in the middle of the war, Japanese troops came into the battle from the road by truck. "4 first, then 7, 11 cars pulled the Japanese soldiers."
immediately the Chinese garrison on the periphery also imposed an anti encirclement on the Japanese troops who had been there. "Inside three layers, outside three levels, the two sides fight like this." According to Liu Jingli, the old people in the village recalled that after the first firefight, the people in the village were all running out, leaving only some old and weak, sick and unwilling villagers who were unwilling to leave home, but they could still hear the cry of the village, "there is no one."
this tragic battle lasted for several days and nights, almost without ceasing.
at the beginning of February, after the battle ended, the villagers who fled fled back to the village and found that the whole village had almost become a scorched earth. "The walls of the Hutong are full of blood, and all the bodies are dead. In a small hospital, there are more than 30 bodies. According to the old men, the corpse was lifted for four or five days.
Liu Jingli said that the villagers who returned to the village voluntarily carried the remains of the Chinese soldiers who had been killed in the village for about a mile away to bury them. "At the beginning, a big pit was dug, but there were too many dead people. The pit soon filled up. Two more pits were excavated, and 18 dead straw sheets were used to cover the soil to bury all the dead bodies. Liu Jingli said that the villagers buried a total of 486 Chinese soldiers' corpses, "this is not the kind of incomplete bodies bitten by wild dogs."
the Japanese army also suffered heavy casualties. The old men said that the Japanese casualties were about 300 people. "They were chopped away by one hand, and the remains were piled up in the east corner of the village."
"now we still have a doggerel called" Xi'an music, Xi'an music, devil's death. " Liu Jingli said.
"the miscellaneous army" killed the Japanese trump, and a battle that had only 29 people left in
may have come in and out in detail, but Zheng Guohua, the deputy director of the former Party History Research Office of the Yinan County Committee for the defence of Linyi, confirmed that the battle was actually the battle of Taierzhuang. The sentinel of Linyi's defending war is aimed at blocking the Japanese army's Itagaki division's response to the attack of Taierzhuang's Valley division.
this battle, the Chinese side participated in the battle for Pang Bingxun's Third Army fortieth army field battle regiment, one of the Qingdao Marine Corps. Compared with the well-equipped Japanese army, Pang Bingxun, as a "miscellaneous army", is rather backward in weaponry.
with the main force of the bloody battle of Xi'an music village, the third group army fortieth army field supplementary regiment, as an example, was only 6 light machine guns, the rifle was half made in the early Republic of China, and the other half was the old "old sleeve" made in the late Qing Dynasty. In addition, as a Northwest army, each soldier is equipped with a broadsword. When the
fighting broke out, Li Zongdai, a 20 year old Qixia man in Shandong, was the leader of the company. He was the prototype of the captain of the death squad in the movie "Taierzhuang", who died in 2011.
the old man recalled that there were more than 170 people in the two regiment of the 40 army supplementary mission. The task was to obstruct the Japanese army at any cost. "The devil first was the cannon bombing, the airplane bombing, and then the cavalry upsurge, finally was the armored vehicle and the tank to cover the infantry attack. Seeing the enemy cavalry rushing to our position, I shot at the horse's head, and the devil fell to the ground before he could turn over. I rushed up and shot two more. The cavalry and the armored vehicles and tanks of the enemy rushed forward. Without guns, soldiers can only use grenades and explosive packets. Some are too late to carry on the explosive bags and then die with the enemy. In the bombardment of the Japanese army, Wang Jingzhou, the commander of the company, died in battle, and the successor also successively died or wounded. During the period, there was a row of troops to reinforce the two company.
Chinese soldiers who lack heavy firepower support can only take advantage of the night counterattack. They selected 20 strong fighters to form a death squad. They used their broadsword and grenade to cover the Japanese positions with the help of topography and night. After throwing the hand grenade away, the enemy will launch a bayonet battle. The enemy troops were in a mess and fell back. In the battle, 7 of the 20 death squads were injured without any sacrifice.
the Japanese trump army attempting to March southward was so stuck by China's "miscellaneous army" that it could not move for several days.
when the army launched the ninth attack on that day, two companies were almost unavailable, and the cooks and servants also brandish the broadsword. The Chinese defenders used wall corners and broken walls to compete with the enemy for every inch of land. The bloody battle lasted until the afternoon, and the fighting was very fierce. The number of casualties in China's defenders was increasing and the positions were at stake. Li Zongdai ordered the remaining brothers to smash the guns. If the Japanese army came up, they would pull grenades and die together with the Japanese army. They would not be prisoners. "At that time there were only dozens of soldiers, so they wrote me the names and addresses of their families one by one. The soldiers said, "if I get killed, send a message to my family, tell them, tell me how I died."
fortunately, with the changing situation of the war, these letters were not used. After a few days of sticking to the position, two successive positions withdrew from the position, together with the 29 men, including the staff and the staff.
burial ground is barren, and local villagers want to give a monument to
in 80s of the last century, as a branch of the Xi'an music village, who had met an old man during a visit to the other county in the county. "In the vicinity of Qingzhou, Weifang, everyone else got off the train and I didn't get off the bus." Liu Jingli said, at this time, a more than 60 year old grey haired old man hesitated to get close to their car. "He circled our car for two turns, then patted the car glass." Liu Jingli said, "when I got off the train, he asked me if Ge Gou was written in Ge Gou, Yishui. I said it was, at that time Ge Gou was in Yishui county. " "After listening to me, the old man looked like tears. He then asked me which village I was, and I said it was Le Village in Xi'an, when he looked very ugly and heavy.
the old man said, "I killed a lot of people in your village that year. I was only seventeen years old that year. "
Liu Jingli answered, "yes, I have heard the old people say that nearly five hundred people have died, and the number is more than 480, and some of the wild dogs have been torn out."
the grizzled old man looks more and more serious: "have you built the cemetery of martyrs? We told them that we were building the cemetery. We've killed hundreds of people there! "
knowing that the cemetery had not been built, the old man kept silent and left quietly.
Liu Jingli said, "I remember now. I asked him to be afraid when he was fighting." He said that he was not afraid at all, and that he was afraid of death after he had been removed.
now, this place where 486 buried bones are buried is a barren forest.
a ditch goes through the wilderness that has no tombstone and no tombs. "In the early days of the rain, the bones were often washed out from the ground. The old men told the children not to let the children go down the ditch to fish in case they were hurt by their bones.
the clear ditch was filled with sewage and covered with loyal bones. During the holidays, people in the village will come to burn the paper.
years ago, Liu Jingli and several elderly people in the village were planning whether they could set up a tablet for these officers and men.
these are also children with mothers and mothers. The time of death is sixteen seven, the biggest is forty years old. The old man said, when the dead body was lifted, the book that had fallen out was written by the Hankou military academy or the military school there. It was a little pitiful to look at all the students. Liu Jingli said, "if we feel that our old people are dying outside, we will feel miserable. I am just holding a sympathy for them to get a monument. It's a comfort to worship at festivals. They are all heroes of the war of resistance against Japan.
"the village is also very supportive. Unfortunately, the economic situation in the village is not good enough to repair a little better. " Liu Jingli said, "it would be the best to repair them with a warm heart, and if it really didn't, some of my old men would make some money to repair them." The victory in the war of resistance is all 70th anniversary, and there must be a slightly decent graveyard.