The full moon sets and the sun rises.
A new day has arrived.
The valley was littered with corpses.
But here, there is no longer a living Japanese soldier.
They were driven out of the valley by the national army soldiers with bayonets!
Shipai, keep it!
There was no cheering.
Only the national flag planted at the highest point of the mountain is still flying in the wind!
Someone was calling loudly, looking for his comrades.
Some people touched the remains of their comrades and cried bitterly.
Meng Shaoyuan supported himself with a rifle and looked around blankly.
He saw it.
Miao Zhixing was injured everywhere, but he was trying his best to save a brother.
He saw it.
Su Junwen was injured in three places and was sorting out Yi Mingyan's body.
Is Yi Mingyan just gone?
Is this brother who was loyal to his duty and always protected him just gone?
He saw it.
Li Zhifeng pushed away the body pressing on him and stood up unsteadily.
He had become a bloody man, clutching his abdomen, as confused as himself.
Where is my brother?
Where are my brothers who fought bloody battles with me?
In the largest hand-to-hand battle in the history of World War II, more than 1,500 Chinese soldiers fell on that hillside forever.
They used their young lives to block the Japanese attack.
Later, someone once described the young man who died in this fierce battle:
“At that time, children from Chinese peasant families were generally not well-nourished, and most of the soldiers who were sixteen or seventeen years old were not tall enough to mount a rifle with a bayonet.
They went into battle with guns longer than themselves and fought tooth and nail. If they were alive, they would be in their seventies or eighties.
They will also sip sips of fragrant tea in their own orange groves, look at their children and grandchildren leisurely, and live their lives warmly. But they died so that other Chinese could have all this. "
died.
What a simple three words.
Meng Shaoyuan stumbled towards his brother.
He was covered in wounds.
But he didn't feel any pain at all.
Li Zhifeng, Su Junwen, and Miao Zhixing also stumbled towards him.
When they stood face to face, Meng Shaoyuan looked at them blankly and only asked one sentence:
"Still alive?"
What a stupid statement.
Is this something that Master Meng, whose mind spins faster than the wind, should ask?
Li Zhifeng was equally confused and stupid as he answered him:
"It seems that you are still alive?"
"Dead, Commander Yi is dead."
On the battlefield, facing life and death, Su Junwen, who never changed his color, started to cry like a child.
Miao Zhixing's voice became even louder: "I was brought out from Guangxi, and there are only three left even with me!"
"They are all dead, why are they all dead?" Meng Shaoyuan murmured: "But we are still alive, we are still alive. At least, we can collect their remains."
When they die one day, who will take care of their remains?
have no idea.
"Director Meng, brother Shao Yuan."
Mao Renfeng is here.
He also used a gun as a crutch.
"Why are you injured too?" Meng Shaoyuan looked at him blankly.
"You left, a Japanese soldier came." Mao Renfeng said in a daze: "He rushed too fast, I had no time to throw the grenade, I hid, but he stabbed my leg.
Just as I was about to die, a soldier rushed over and died together with the Japanese soldier. That was a child, maybe seventeen, no, no, sixteen, he should only be fifteen or sixteen years old. "
"Old Mao, we are all still alive." Meng Shaoyuan's voice was trembling: "So many brothers have died. When you go back, you must ask for credit for them."
"I'll do this myself."
Mao Renfeng has never been so cheerful: "I will supervise the process. Everyone who dies is a martyr and a role model for us!"
All the soldiers of the 11th Division successfully completed the battle to defend the stone with their flesh and blood!
They defended the stone tablet, defended the gate of the last kingdom, and defended this country!
The Japanese army had been attacking Shipai's men for a long time, and their morale was low.
Moreover, their supply lines were also cut off by the Chinese Air Force.
The defenders on my flank began to counterattack.
At this point, it was difficult for the Japanese army to advance in frontal combat, and their roundabout operations were blocked by the defenders on both wings. The defenders attacking from the flanks became more and more courageous, and air superiority was also seized by our air force. The Japanese army retreated hastily.
It was not until June 3 that this "Battle of Stalingrad in the East" finally came to an end, ending with a great victory for the Chinese army.
A great victory in Shipai, a great victory in western Hubei!
But what price did China pay for this great victory?
In hand-to-hand combat, 1,500 Chinese soldiers were killed and 2,000 Japanese soldiers were killed.
After several days of fierce fighting, more than 7,000 Japanese troops were killed and wounded.
In the peaceful times decades later, a large number of skeletons were often found during road construction in the Shipai area.
There was once a village where more than 3,000 remains of our soldiers were discovered in one go!
The green mountains are proof that the loyal soul will never die!
But even with heavy casualties, the Battle of Shipai made the Chinese army famous!
The oath Hengshan made before the battle was destined to never come true.
After the Battle of Shipai, the Japanese no longer dared to invade Shipai, and instead detoured to Hunan to attack the Nationalist Government's rear areas.
In Hengyang, Hengshan Yongjiang once again suffered an unprecedented defeat.
In this battle, Japan's elite 13th Division was crippled.
The 13th Division was originally scheduled to head to the Pacific battlefield after the Battle of Western Hubei.
After the Battle of Western Hubei, the 13th Division suffered more than half of its casualties and was no longer adaptable to the brutal fighting on the Pacific battlefield, so it had to be stationed in Jiangxi.
This tiger and wolf division, which was once regarded by Okamura Neiji as one of the most powerful divisions on the Chinese battlefield and participated in the Nanjing Massacre, had few achievements until the end of the Anti-Japanese War.
This battle destroyed the morale and confidence of the Japanese army.
The 11th Division of the 18th Army of the National Army became famous in one battle and became the first-class elite ace division in the Anti-Japanese War!
Hu Lian's name is known to the whole country!
The Battle of Western Hubei, centered on the Battle of Shipai, resulted in a total of 25,718 casualties from the Chinese and Japanese invaders, and more than 10,000 casualties from the Chinese army.
The Battle of Shipai was one of the few famous battles in which the national army and the Japanese army defeated the strong with the weak, and finally achieved a greater victory at a smaller cost.
Hu Lian, who led his troops in a bloody battle, became the most famous general in Shipai.
When Hu Lian looked around the battlefield, he still couldn't believe that he had really won.
The piled corpses and wounded soldiers everywhere told him clearly:
The war is over.
He won!
"One general's success will lead to ten thousand bones being withered. My brothers, our 11th Division has been severely injured in this battle."
Hu Lian whispered, then he looked around and suddenly asked: "Where are the people from the military commander? Where is Meng Shaoyuan? Where are they?"
"have no idea."
Wang Naichao shook his head: "It seems that once the battle is over, they will no longer be seen. I heard that the members of the military commando team suffered heavy casualties in this battle. I'm afraid they are already on their way back at this time?"
"Give Dai Li power, reward Meng Shaoyuan, and reward the commandos!"
…
At this time, on the mountain trail, screams of misery came:
"Ouch, my ass, please be gentle!"
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