The battle process of the defense of Teng County, the defense of Teng County, Shandong

<>< March 16, 1938, the Japanese army launched a general attack on Tengxian County with artillery, tanks, and aircraft. Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division defending the city, and the commanders of the brigades and regiments respectively led their troops to block the Japanese army. Wang Mingzhang supervised the battle in Xicheng, and after being shot in the waist, he still killed three enemies and died heroically.

In addition to a few hundred defenders who broke through the siege, the remaining more than 2,000 people were all killed. Although Tengxian County was lost, it created conditions for a large number of reinforcements to arrive in Taierzhuang in time to encircle and annihilate the enemy.

There are several reports on the defense of Tengxian County, the first is reported by the Tengxian Group Army of the Sichuan Army, with more than 4,000 people, the second is reported by the Fifth War Zone of the Sichuan Army, with more than 7,000 and more than 4,000 enemies killed, the third is reported by Li Zongren, and the fourth is the Japanese army cleaning the battlefield.

In the defense of Tengxian County, Zhao Weibin, chief of staff of the 122nd Division, and Zou Shaomeng, chief of staff of the 24th Division, also died heroically, and no one from the Chinese defenders surrendered. On March 18, Tengxian and Lincheng fell into the hands of the Japanese army. On March 20, Hanzhuang and Yixian were occupied by the Japanese army.

After the war, a Japanese journalist wrote: .

At the beginning of March 1938, after our army captured Jinan, it organized a mixed detachment of Segu, with two infantry wings with a considerable number of artillery, tanks, and aircraft, and continued to advance southward. ”

On April 21, 1938, Li Zongren sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, saying: "With inferior equipment and troops, the group army is uniquely able to bravely resist against a stubborn enemy with absolute superiority, and the officers and men have fought bloodily for more than three and a half days, thwarting the enemy's fierce front and blocking the enemy's advance, so that our reinforcements can arrive in time, and Xuzhou, the center of the campaign, can turn the corner from danger to safety. And he said, "

If there is no Teng County's stubbornness, there will be a great victory in Taierzhuang! In order to praise General Wang Mingzhang, the national ** explicitly ordered him to be posthumously awarded the title of army general. Chiang Kai-shek personally planned to mourn Wang Mingzhang:

Fight to defend the country, the strong man does not return, and he will be loyal to the universe; Hearing the drums and thinking of the generals, the national mourners cried together, and the statue of the forbearance mark was cleared and high.

The battle report of the 10th Wing of the Japanese Army said: The enemy had been dealt a considerable blow by our army (Japanese army) in Shanxi, and the number of soldiers had been greatly reduced, and now most of them were young soldiers, and the Sichuan Army was quite stubborn in its resistance because of its unique patience and absolute obedience viewpoint, but its actions were relatively passive, and it rarely carried out counterattacks, and had to defend its position to the death. The enemy tried his best to avoid the damage of our superior artillery fire, often seeking decisive battles with stubborn grenades at close range, and relying on the walls and walls of the village to defend as much as possible, doing everything possible to hinder the advance of our troops.

The Japanese army's "Detailed Report on the Battle near Tengxian of the 10th Infantry Wing" recorded 148 dead and missing (16 killed in battle, 129 wounded in battle, and 3 unknown in life). One is that when the wing attacked the county seat, the Sichuan army immediately abandoned several defensive positions in the north of the city and directly defended the city, so that the Japanese army could not win quickly. 2 is the 16th when the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Army attacked the east city wall, the Sichuan army occupied the dense houses outside the city gate to resist, which made it very difficult for the Japanese army to approach the inner city.

On the 17th, the 3rd Brigade successfully broke through to the south gate with artillery support, but was suppressed by the side-fire of the Sichuan army and a large number of grenades. 4 is the command center should be defeated first, after Wang Mingzhang died in battle, the defenders quickly collapsed. - This reflects the struggle of the Sichuan army from one side.

The battle for the defense of Tengxian County was divided into two phases; The first stage is the defense of Tengxian County, and the second stage is to defend Tengxian County.

The battle to defend Tengxian County began in the early morning of March 14, 1938 and ended with the fall of Tengxian County at noon on the 18th.

On March 17, 1938, at dusk, the Japanese finally captured the East Gate. So far, the Japanese army has occupied the eastern, southern, and western walls of Tengxian County, but there are still scattered defenders in the city who are constantly attacking the Japanese army and engaging in street battles with the Japanese armyThe troops who defended the inner city were all martyred by 3,000 officers and soldiers below Wang Mingzhang。In particular, when the city was breached, more than 300 seriously wounded soldiers, after learning the news, preferred to die rather than fall into the hands of the enemy, or fought hand-to-hand with the enemy to the death, or blew themselves up with grenades, until all of them were killed at noon on the 18th.

It is worth mentioning that there was no prisoner in the defense of Teng County. At that time, the entire battlefield was full of corpses, and the city of Tengxian was covered with gunpowder smoke and scorched earth. Our defenders paid a high price for it.

There are more than 4,000 people under Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division of the 41st Army of the 22nd Group Army, and nearly 5,000 people from the 127th Division of the 45th Army on the front line of the Jiehe。According to Chinese estimates, more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded in this battle.