1at the end of 937, after the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, in order to communicate the north-south battlefield, it attacked north and south along Jinpu Road in an attempt to capture Xuzhou, and the battle of Xuzhou started. Under the tenacious resistance of China's army, the Japanese offensive momentum in the south section of Jinpu Road was blocked, and the two armies formed a confrontation across the Huaihe River. The northern section of Jinpu Road was abandoned by Han Fuju before the Japanese attack, and Jinan, Tai 'an and Qufu were abandoned. The situation is extremely critical. The 22nd Army was ordered to rush to Lunan to reinforce the northern line.
1938 1 early month, the 22nd army arrived in Lincheng (now Xuecheng), with the 45th army as the first line and the 4th1army as the second line, all of which were deployed in the north of tengxian. 122 division is the army reserve, ready to defend tengxian. At the beginning of March, the Japanese army sent a large number of troops to Zouxian and Yanzhou, and repeatedly scouted the 45 th Army position with small troops and planes, preparing to launch a large-scale attack. 10, in order to strengthen the garrison,
Re-adjust the deployment, transfer the headquarters of the reserve 122 division to Tengxian County, and appoint Wang as the commander-in-chief in front of the 4 1 Army to command the 122 and 124 divisions in a unified way. Wang ordered the Zhang Xuanwu regiment of the 364th Brigade to station in Beishahe, north of tengxian, to deploy the second line of defense; Wang Wenzhen's regiment of the 366th Brigade is stationed in front of Pingyi City in the northeast of tengxian, covering the right rear of the 45th Army position to guard against the side attack of the 5th Japanese Division in Linyi direction. On March 14, the 1st 10 division of the Japanese army, under the cover of aviation, launched a full-scale attack on the frontline position of the 45th Army outside tengxian. After a day of fierce fighting, the frontier position of the frontier defenders of the border river stood firm. /kloc-on the morning of 0/5, the Japanese army continued to storm the position of the 45 th Army in the border river, but failed. On the same day, another Japanese army, about 3,000 men, attacked the 3700 brigade of Shenjing 124 Division from the stone wall in the southeast of Jining, with heavy casualties. In order to prevent the enemy from surrounding the left rear of tengxian from a deep well, Wang sent the 372nd Brigade of the124th Division, which served as the garrison in tengxian, to rescue the 370th Brigade. After fierce fighting, the line of defense was finally stabilized. /kloc-on the afternoon of 0/5, in order to prevent the enemy from infiltrating to the left of tengxian, Wang ordered the 727th regiment of Beishahe to take out a battalion and deploy it in Hongming and Gaomiao in the northwest of tengxian.
/kloc-on the afternoon of 0/5, the Japanese position on the front of the boundary river was still not breached, so they sent more than 10,000 troops from the east of Longshan to the right wing of tengxian. At about 5 pm, its vanguard troops have respectively entered the areas of Fenghe and Longyangdian, more than ten miles northeast of Xi County. The Japanese attempt is to abandon the frontal position and directly attack tengxian, forcing my frontal position to surrender without a fight. At this time, there are only 122, 124, 1273 divisions and 364 brigade headquarters in tengxian. Each division has only one guard company, one communication company and one health team. The police and security team led by Zhou Tong, the county magistrate of tengxian, has 400 to 500 people. The situation in tengxian is very critical. Most of the troops of the 4 1 Army and the 45/Army stuck to the front line. Only Wang Wenzhen's regiment of the 366th Brigade of the122nd Division in the direction of Pingyi has not been in contact with the enemy. Wang urged the regiment to return quickly, but the regiment was hundreds of miles away, and it was difficult to be stopped by the enemy on the way. Wang asked the army headquarters for reinforcements, but the only mobile unit controlled by the 22 nd Army Headquarters was the spy battalion directly under the 41 ST Army. Sun Zhen left only one pistol company as the guard of the headquarters, and the battalion commander Liu Zhirong led three infantry companies to tengxian by train overnight. Wang ordered Zhang Xuanwu, head of the 364th Brigade, to take a battalion from the Beishahe position to rescue him. On the night of 15, the combat troops in tengxian Chengguan were a regimental headquarters, three battalion headquarters, ten infantry companies and a mortar company, four guard companies in the division brigade headquarters, and an infantry company in the 124 division who came to the city temporarily to lead and transport ammunition. Together with the police and security team, the total number is 3000; But the real combat troops are less than 2,000. Wang ordered the 1st Battalion of 366 Brigade to guard Dongguan County from Pingyi Town, the 1st Battalion of 366 Brigade was responsible for the east-west city defense, and the military spy battalion was responsible for the north-south city defense. Xiguan from the tutor department. That night, the troops rushed to build fortifications and carry ammunition.
Wang is well aware of the situation that the enemy is strong and we are weak, but he is determined to serve the country with his death. He once said. "The Sichuan army is weak and its weapons are worn out, and it has shouldered the heavy responsibility of defending Xuzhou on the Jin-Pu line. It goes without saying that the strength is not enough. We are soldiers. Sacrifice was originally a bounden duty, but now we have to sacrifice everything to complete the task. Although a single soldier, but no complaints. If not, it is not good for the country, and it is not enough to redeem the 20-year civil war of the Sichuan Army! "
/kloc-at dawn on 0/6, the Japanese army continued to storm the 45 th army position along the border river. The Japanese army, which detoured to Fenghe and Longyangdian, began to attack the garrison in Dongguan, tengxian. At about eight o'clock, the enemy concentrated their artillery fire on Dongguan, Chengguan and tengxian Xiguan Railway Station. At the same time, more than ten enemy planes flew to tengxian for bombing and strafing. Yu, who was stationed in Xiguan, inquired about the situation by phone after the enemy began bombing, and then ran into the city to discuss with his colleagues and subordinates, judging that the enemy in the eastern suburbs was about to attack on a large scale, and war was imminent. There are two operational contingency plans. One is to defend isolated cities; The second is to go out of the city for mobile operations. After the meeting, Wang immediately reported to Sun Zhen, commander-in-chief of the group army. Sun Zhen replied, "Chairman told us to hold tengxian and wait for the Tang Group to come to the rescue. The vanguard troops of the Tang Dynasty arrived in Lincheng yesterday, and the follow-up troops are also arriving one after another. I should urge Wang Lian and Zhong Jun to go north quickly, and you should make sure that tengxian is waiting for reinforcements. Your headquarters should be moved to the city at once, so that you can personally command the guarding city. If the strength is not enough, you can transfer all the 4 1 troops outside the city back to the city and stick to it! " Wang made up his mind and said to the officers and men in the city, "I am determined to defend Tengcheng and work together with you. The city will survive and the city will die." He also ordered the blockade of the north and south gates, and the east and west gates were temporarily closed and ready to close at any time. Division headquarters and directly affiliated units also moved from Xiguan to the city.
Since 8 o'clock, the Japanese have been shelling for two hours. 10, stop shooting, silent for about 30 minutes. Suddenly, the concentrated artillery fire suddenly hit the protruding part of the village wall in the south half of Dongguan, blasting a gap of more than ten meters wide. The enemy concentrated dozens of machine guns on the gap to cover the infantry attack. The officers and men of the garrison are fearless, calmly fighting and hiding on both sides of the gap. When about fifty or sixty enemy soldiers just got down to the moat and prepared to charge the gap, they threw grenades at the enemy and destroyed most of them. In this way, the company in charge of the gap repelled the enemy's charge three times in a row, with nearly 100 casualties, and the reserve team took over. At 2 pm, the Japanese army stormed the northeast corner of Dongguan Dongdong; At five o'clock, they stormed the east gate and were all repelled by the defenders. Japanese corpses were everywhere, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties. That night, the fighting stopped.
After three days of bloody fighting, the 45th Army of tengxian suffered more than half of the casualties. /kloc-on the afternoon of 0/6, the frontal position was breached by the enemy. The 45th Army retreated from both sides of tengxian. That night, the 4th1Army124th Division and the 727th Regiment of122nd Division were ordered to enter tengxian one after another. The 366 brigade met an accident halfway and made a detour to Lincheng. According to the change of troops, Wang adjusted the deployment of troops. At the same time, ordered the ministries to replenish ammunition and build fortifications; The troops are hidden under the city wall, and each class is tied with a ladder, ready to attack the city at any time.
Tang's reinforcements arrived in Lincheng on 15th and 16th, and a regiment of the vanguard troops just got off the train. Sun Zhen was in an emergency in tengxian, so he went to reinforce. The regiment was attacked by Japanese troops in tengxian and was besieged in Nanshahe, but it was defeated. Other ministries only stand at Nanshahe Station. When his army arrived, he learned that tengxian was besieged by a strong enemy, so he used mobile warfare as an excuse to detour his troops to the east of the northeast peak of tengxian. So the enemy of the South Shahe River moved forward, and the headquarters of the 22nd Army was unable to resist, and retreated to the Guoli outpost on the south bank of the canal, losing contact with the defenders of tengxian and being completely surrounded by Japanese troops. Unexpectedly, the Japanese army ran into a hard nail in tengxian, so they mobilized elite troops that night, with dozens of armored vehicles and a large number of artillery. 17 At about 6 o'clock, the enemy concentrated their artillery fire and violently strafed Tengxian County. More than 20 enemy planes bombed indiscriminately, and the whole tengxian was filled with smoke, and houses collapsed and became a sea of fire. After more than two hours of bombing, the enemy began to attack Dongguan, with more than a dozen tanks as the forerunner, covering the infantry from the gap in the Dongzhai wall. The defenders in Dongguan braved the enemy's gunfire and fought to the death at close range, with heavy casualties. Another Japanese army attacked the collapsed southeast corner wall, and a company's defenders blew up two enemy chariots with cluster grenades. The company suffered heavy casualties under the enemy's intensive artillery fire. More than forty enemy infantry rushed to the corner of the city, and the defenders sent another company to fight back against the invading enemy. After fierce hand-to-hand combat, they wiped out the invading enemy, leaving only 14 officers and men in the company. At this time, Wang sent an urgent telegram to Sun Zhen: "The enemy bombarded the city wall and southeast corner with artillery fire, and several sections near Dongguan were washed away. Enemy soldiers entered the city, and after my counterattack, countless enemies were killed and repelled. If there is no news of friendly forces at night, this isolated city will be in danger. "
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army stormed the street under the wall of Chengnan City with heavy artillery. At the same time, more than 20 enemy planes bombed Nanguan. Subsequently, enemy infantry attacked Cheng Nan under the cover of tanks. The defenders fought bravely and lost all their lives. The enemy occupied the south wall. At this time, the Japanese army on the Eastern Front concentrated on attacking Dongguan, and the enemy infantry broke into Dongguan under the cover of tanks. Seeing that reinforcements were hopeless, the king sent a telegram to Sun Zhen saying, "I am determined to serve my country to the death."
After the enemy captured the city wall and Dongguan, Wang came to the crossroads in the center of the city to direct the operation. At this time, under the cover of machine gun fire, the enemy occupying the south wall pushed from the southwest corner to the west wall, and the enemy artillery concentrated their fire on the West Gate Tower. Ximen, the railway station and the defenders lost the cover of fortifications such as city walls and were exposed to enemy fire, causing great casualties and still persisting in resistance. At five o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy occupied the Western Wall and the West Gate. The king ordered all the departments in the city to engage in street fighting with the enemy. Xiguan defenders fought to the death, boarded the northwest wall, and personally commanded a platoon of the guard company to attack the Ximen Tower. Due to the fierce enemy fire, there was no cover on the wall and the whole platoon was killed. At this time, Wang came to the crossroads in the city center to direct the operation. Unfortunately, he was shot several times and died on the spot. Heroic martyrdom At the same time, Zhao Weibin, chief of staff, and Zou Shaomeng, chief of staff of124th Division, were also martyred. After General Wang's sacrifice, the officers and men guarding the city continued to fight against the Japanese army, and all but a few of them shed their last drop of blood.
In the Battle of tengxian, General Wang commanded the 4 1 Army, defeated the enemy's onslaught front, stopped the enemy's advance, bought time for China's army to assemble in Xuzhou, and caused heavy losses to the Japanese 10 Division, which created favorable conditions for the subsequent victory in Taierzhuang.
General Li Zongren, commander-in-chief of Xuzhou Battle and commander of the Fifth Theater, spoke highly of this: "Without tengxian's hard work, how could Taierzhuang win?" The victory of Taierzhuang was also caused by the martyrs of tengxian! "