Chapter 238

At the same time of attacking Yichang, the Japanese carried out a more extensive and crazy bombing of Chongqing.

After a round of continuous bombing, Chongqing city is full of dead people, just like a human Torah. During the bombing, the Japanese army never let go of foreign embassies and churches, not to mention some ancient buildings and temples in Chongqing.

After hearing the news, Qiao ruochu remembered that the urn of master Miaoyi and WAN Yingru was still in Chang'an temple. He ran there.

By the time she arrived, Chang'an temple, a thousand year old temple, had been razed to the ground. The broken Buddha's head and hands could be seen in the rubble, which made people feel sad. In this troubled time, the Buddha could not protect himself.

Shen Lunan is searching for his lover's ashes box in a pile of ruins. His dark blue shirt is full of ashes, like the blood of the setting sun. It's unspeakable desolation and despair.

"Father." Qiao ruochu said softly.

Shen Junan turned around, looked at her and said, "Oh, you're here."

After that, she spread out her hand full of mud and ashes, looked at the southeast direction for a moment, and then said slowly, "although she is a Buddhist, she always hopes to return to her old age

It's in the house

"Father," Qiao ruochu said with a choking voice, "my mother may not have thought about it before she died. In case you can't find it, you don't have to blame yourself too much."

Shen Ru Nan shook his head and continued to push away the broken wall to look for it carefully.

The air raid siren went off again.

Shen Ru Nan did not hear it. He broke his finger and he took the shovel handed by his subordinate. He digs it and digs it in his mouth. Automatic speaking, he said, "it's right here. Yes, it can be found."

The Japanese planes roared over the top of their heads, and the bombs fell to the ground like demons in hell. They exploded and burned madly, devouring the living creatures greedily.

"Father, let's go." Regardless of etiquette, Qiao ruochu came forward and grabbed Shen Runan's arm. "You are a hero. You must not be easily bombed by Japanese bombs..."

Before she finished her words, a incendiary bomb exploded on the top of the mountain beside the Chang'an temple, and the fire spread instantly, and the black smoke rushed here ferociously.

"Commander, grandmothers, let's go." Shen Ruonan's close aide shouts, and orders someone to help Qiao ruochu and quickly evacuate to the foot of the mountain.

The fire burned through the ruins of Chang'an Temple all night,

All the objects were reduced to ashes, even the stones were burned to carbon black.

Shen Runan was too sad and bent on revenge, so he wrote to Chairman Jiang, asking him to lead troops to support Yichang and fight to the death with the Japanese.

Chen Cheng, Chiang Kai Shek's beloved general, received instructions and went to Shen's residence in person to reply, "brother Shen supported the chairman unconditionally in those years and handed over 100000 elite troops to the group armies. The friendship chairman will never forget. Now Brother Shen's grief is excessive, and it's reasonable for him to take revenge. But brother Shen is determined to die in battle. The chairman of the Committee absolutely can't agree. "

After hearing this, Shen Ru Nan clapped his hands and pointed to Chen Cheng's nose and scolded him for being greedy for life and fearing death. He shrunk his head. Chen Cheng brushed his nose and left angrily.

If the plan failed, Shen called Zhang Zizhong, commander of the 33rd army in Yichang, and said that he was willing to work under his account to capture the Japanese and the battlefield.

At this time, Zhang Zizhong was surrounded by the Japanese. He had made up his mind to die in the war. He didn't want Shen Runan to die, so he refused Shen Runan's request on the ground that Lin Junmai had been fighting on the flank. Shen Lunan had no way to serve his country. He was about to take his adjutant and entourage to Yichang when news came from the front line that Yichang had been occupied

General Zhang Zizhong, then commander-in-chief of the North China army and commander of the 33rd group army in the fifth theater of the national army, died on May 16 in a personal struggle with the Japanese army.

The whole country was shocked.

Before the July 7 Incident, Zhang had close contacts with the Japanese. He used the power of the Japanese to squeeze song Zheyuan out of North China. He also openly took his family members and others to visit Japan. At one time, he was called a traitor. When Chinese people mentioned this man, their tone was nothing more than ridicule and curse.

During the Lugouqiao Incident, the Japanese still opened fire on his army without any warning. Zhang's good brothers Tong linge and Zhao Dengyu died in bloody battles. This incident hit him a lot and made him start to reflect on whether his pro Japanese behavior was correct. After that, the Japanese army's atrocities in Nanjing made him so impressed that he finally chose to die in battle.

His wife, Ms. Li Minhui, died on hunger strike for seven days after hearing the bad news, adding a good story of mandarin ducks in troubled times to later generations.

"He's dead." Shen Ru Nan can't believe it's true. "He died in the hands of the Japanese."

As a political figure who once dominated one side, Shen Ru Nan had unspeakable regret and complexity for Zhang Zi Zhong's death.

However, he really admired Zhang, who had been fighting in the South and killing people all these years

There are so many enemies that he is much more happy than hiding in Chongqing for a casual job.

With a long sigh, Shen Runan immediately took people to Zaoyang overnight to meet Lin Junmai, his son who was fighting, and expressed his willingness to serve under his account.

"Nonsense." Lin Junmai, who had just withdrawn from the front line, disregarded the etiquette of his father and son and said in front of his subordinates, "I can't accept my father's identity here without the consent of the Military Commission."

Shen Runan was rejected by his son. He was so angry that he took care of himself and took more than 300 people with him. Under the banner of Shen family army, he became a guerrilla in Zaoyang.

Shen Runan, who has never fought with the Japanese army in person, now knows that the Japanese army not only has better tanks and guns than the national army, but also its generals are inhumane. As long as his soldiers retreat on the battlefield, they will not even be given the chance to commit suicide, and they will all be burned alive. This is tantamount to cutting off the retreat of Japanese soldiers, so they will fight desperately on the battlefield, like a wild beast in a magic armor.

Not only that, the Japanese army also carried a powerful comfort women group wherever they went, which paralyzed the young soldiers' homesickness and fear of killing, greatly stimulated their demons and made them powerful fighting machines.

On the other hand, the generals of the national army are not as vicious as the Japanese. The newly recruited soldiers have not been trained to kill before they go to the battlefield, and many of them dare not

He shot and killed people. What's more, he was shocked by the shell, and his courage was broken. He was scared to death.

Looking at the 300 or so brothers around him, Shen Ru Nan felt that continued guerrilla warfare would soon become the cannon fodder of the Japanese, so he returned to Lin Jun Mai's residence and discussed with him about going back to Chongqing for instructions and training new soldiers for the government.

Lin Junmai was naturally relieved when he heard that his father was going to return, but he knew from the bottom of his heart that his father's wish could not be achieved.

Most of the people who train for the national army come from the U.S. military instructors and Huangpu Military Academy. The government disdains to use his father's old style of decades ago.

Before Shen had time to return, half of the troops in the fifth theater were trapped in a semi encirclement pushed forward by the Japanese army. Lin Junmai's troops were just on the edge of the encirclement where the Japanese army was closing. Naturally, they took on the heavy responsibility of holding down the enemy and covering the evacuation of the army. At this time, Europe was basically occupied by Germany, and Italy and Germany frequently communicated with the Japanese emperor, leading to a greater war situation. Therefore, in Asia, Japan is more anxious to occupy Yichang and threaten the Chongqing government in order to make a quick decision on the war against China, so as to spare its strength to participate in the international war and share more interests.

The Japanese attack was fiercer and crueler than usual, and they vowed to fight in this battle

To eliminate the main force of the fifth theater corps, they quickly surrounded their small encirclement in the big encirclement, one encirclement, one encirclement. Outside the encirclement, they were all equipped with heavy tank weapons. Coupled with the bomb attack in the air, the retreat of several corps of the national army was almost blocked.

Lin Junmai personally directed the army to cooperate with his brother army to tear up several openings in the Japanese defense circle. Several regiments of the National Army gradually withdrew from the Japanese encirclement and retreated to Yichang area in the form of back-to-back mutual cover.

As soon as the cover mission was about to be completed, the Japanese army suddenly changed its strategy and increased its troops from Zaoyang to the West. Under the cover of air bombing, the ground troops invaded Yichang strongly.

The fifth group army needs time to deploy its defense plan. According to the deployment of the Military Commission, it has become an important task for Lin Junmai and his brother army to hold down the Japanese army. In fact, they have to fight the Japanese army head-on with weak troops and inferior equipment, and use their flesh and blood to buy time for the deployment and mobilization of the Yichang army.