Shang Zhen and the others finally avenged Erhanzi and Huzi.
They once again joined the ranks of the broken troops, heading south like tiny waves carried by the torrent.
There were many defeated troops, and the Guangdong Army and Hunan Army's Central Army all had men and horses, but Shang Zhen and the others could certainly hope to find the remaining members of the 67th Army.
They can participate in battles among various units of the Northeast Army, but they are never willing to join other units.
Japanese planes still flew in from time to time to bomb and strafe, and Japanese troops and scouts on the ground were also constantly harassing them.
It's just that the number of Japanese troops catching up was too small after all, and they could only harass them, but they couldn't have a significant impact on this torrent of defeated troops.
There was another roar of aircraft ahead. Shang Zhen and the others saw a Japanese aircraft swooping down in front, then flying high, and another huge plume of smoke exploded on the ground.
Shang Zhen and the others could fight back against the Japanese scouts, but there was really nothing they could do against the Japanese aircraft.
Fortunately, the Japanese planes had already flown away, and they finally arrived at the place that had just been bombed by the Japanese planes.
There were more corpses of Chinese officers and soldiers on the ground, and some injured officers and soldiers were rolling and groaning on the ground.
After seeing so many such situations, Shang Zhen and the others have become numb. In other words, this is a kind of self-protection formed by human beings after seeing the tragic situation.
They were unable to change the status quo and could only move forward. But at this time, Shang Zhen discovered that there was a problem because there was a fork in the road ahead.
One road points to the southeast, and the other points to the southwest, but there are broken troops on both roads, so where should they choose?
When they arrived here, there was no record on the map in Shang Zhen's hand. They could only listen to the officers and soldiers of other troops around them talking about the situation in various dialects. In the end, they chose to go southwest.
Because those officers and soldiers said that if they go further to the southwest, there is a Wufu defense line there, and if they go further they will reach Nanjing.
Nanjing is the capital of the Republic of China, so the defense there should be the strongest.
Anyone would choose to run there, so Shang Zhen and the others would naturally go southwest.
But they didn't know that the remnants of the 67th Army had already taken a different path at this time, heading southeast.
A torrent split into two halves, but it was still rolling forward. Everyone was running for hope of survival, and Shang Zhen and the others parted ways with the people of the 67th Army.
"Where did that kid come from?" Wu Keyong, who was walking on the southwest path, asked Chang En beside him.
"He was recommended by Lu Cao. The letter said that they had a fight with the military commander in Xi'an." Chang En replied after hearing this.
Wu Keyong said "Oh" and didn't ask any more questions. He was the commander of an army, and there were too many officers and soldiers he didn't know.
Familiar and unfamiliar lives were passing away in front of his eyes. It was already good that he could think of Shang Zhen and his group.
The remnants of the 67th Army moved forward in silence. Along the way, they also avoided bombings from Japanese aircraft.
Until dusk, they encountered a river lying in front of them. The river was called Wusong River, which Shanghai people used to call Suzhou River.
The setting sun is shining faintly on the water. If it is usually a beautiful scene, but now when there are many ragged and exhausted soldiers standing by the river, the situation seems sad. .
What is sad is not only the river, but also the fact that the bridge over the river has become a broken bridge.
As for the Broken Bridge, the Broken Bridge in West Lake is where the legendary White Snake and Xu Xian met.
But the placement of the broken bridge here seems to have cut off the livelihood of the Chinese officers and soldiers who took this road.
Everyone in the 60th Army looked at Wu Keyong, and as a soldier, Wu Keyong was not one of those sentimental young men and women. He only believed in his own actions.
"Find a shallow place and swim directly there!" Wu Keyong ordered.
The people below heard the order and were about to take action, but at this moment the roar of planes was heard from afar, and the Japanese planes came again.
"Don't be afraid, this is probably the last flight of the little Japanese plane!" Wu Keyong encouraged his officers and soldiers.
Since there is a bridge here, there is a home. Even though the walls of that home have been blown down by Japanese planes, they still have a place to hide.
Regardless of whether they were from the 67th Army or from other troops, they all looked for cover and hid.
When the Japanese plane flew in, it surprisingly did not drop bombs this time, but only fired with machine guns.
Perhaps the Japanese plane was also tired. After the bullets sent up strings of smoke and dust between the broken walls, the plane flew away again.
The Chinese officers and soldiers on this side of the river gathered again.
"Report to the commander, the water here is shallow." Some soldiers shouted. Because at this time, there were already soldiers with good water skills swimming directly over.
According to other people's observations, the water only reaches a few meters in the center of the river before it reaches the top of the head.
"Everyone cross the river!" Wu Ke ordered with a wave of his big hand.
"Commander, you go first, I will protect you!" Chang En said at this time.
"It's better that you take the people over first. We can't chase the little devils after we cross this river. Thinking about what this war has been like, I, the army commander, always have to start well and persevere until the end." Wu Keyong answer.
At this point, Chang En no longer insisted. The entire 67th Army was almost wiped out. The commander wanted to start well and end well, and Chang En had no reason to object.
Chang En crossed the river and looked back, and saw that there were less than a hundred Wu Keyong and others who stayed on the other side.
He was about to ask Wu Ke to cross the river when he suddenly saw a group of people walking towards the river on a small road in the distance.
Chang En was stunned for a moment. He stretched out his hand and asked his guard for the binoculars.
This time the Chinese army retreated in a rout, and the Japanese army naturally could not miss this good opportunity to pursue them. Shang Zhen and the others lost contact with them when they were dealing with the Japanese army ambushing halfway.
Of course Chang En could also imagine that the Japanese scouts might pretend to be civilians, and he wanted the binoculars just to confirm the identities of those civilians.
But before he even raised his binoculars, he suddenly heard gunshots!
"There are Japs!" a soldier shouted.
Chang En instinctively fell to the ground, but when he looked to the other side again, he saw that Wu Keyong and the people around him had fallen into the Suzhou River, and his commander had been shot!
All this happened so fast that Chang En had no time to react!
At this moment, he suddenly realized what a big mistake it was for Shang Zhen and his gang to be sent out without his knowledge.
If Shang Zhen and the others were here, the team should have set up a guard post next to them when they were crossing the river.
"Commander!" Chang En shouted as gunfire broke out.
But his answer was still the sound of gunshots. He only saw a lot of waves splashing on the water, but he could no longer find Wu Keyong's shadow!
Postscript: Wu Keyong, commander of the 67th Army of the Northeast Army, finally fulfilled his determination to rectify the name of the Northeast Army with his own sacrifice.
It's just that the development of things was not based on Wu Keyong's thoughts during his lifetime.
Just after Wu Keyong died for the country, when the remnants of the 67th Army requested pensions from the National Government, they were sternly rejected by the Military Command. The reason is: "The Sixty-seventh Army suddenly retreated, causing the entire army to suffer heavy losses!"
Why is this happening?
Just because Commander Wu Keyong had participated in the Xi'an Incident and led his troops to confront the Central Army. Later, he tried to cooperate with Yu Xuezhong and other Northeast Army generals and soldiers to rescue Zhang Xueliang with arms, which was the so-called "Cow Herding Plan" (because Zhang Xueliang belongs to Ox).
Wu Keyong not only failed to prove the Northeast Army because of the nearly annihilation of the 67th Army, but the rest of the army was reprimanded.
The Military and Administrative Department of the Nationalist Government even falsely accused Wu Keyong of rebelling and surrendering to the enemy. In the end, the 67th Army was revoked, downsized into the 108th Division, and assigned to other central armies.
So far, the 67th Army of the Northeast Army has become a cloud of history.
It was not until 1982 that General Wu Keyong's unjust case was vindicated by the Taiwan authorities and he was posthumously recognized as an anti-Japanese martyr of the Republic of China.
In 1989 AD, the Taiwan Kuomintang authorities moved the spiritual tablets of Lieutenant General Wu Keyong and other generals who participated in the war to the Taiwan Martyrs' Shrine.
On September 1, 2014, General Wu Keyong was included in the first batch of 300 famous anti-Japanese heroes and heroes published by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
