The War of Resistance

After all, Shang Zhen and the others avenged Erhanzi and Huzi.

They joined the ranks of the rout again, heading south like fine waves carried by a torrent.

There are a lot of defeated troops, and there are troops from all departments of the Central Army of the Guangdong Army and the Hunan Army, but Shang Zhen and the others can certainly hope to find the rest of the 67th Army.

They can participate in battles among the various departments of the Northeast Army, but they are absolutely unwilling to join other troops.

The Japanese planes still flew in from time to time to bomb and straf, and the Japanese troops and scouts on the ground were also constantly harassing.

It's just that the Japanese army's catching up force was too small after all, and they could only harass them, and they couldn't have a major impact on this broken army like a torrent.

There was another roar of planes in front of them. Shang Zhen and the others saw a Japanese plane swooping down in front of them, and then flew up again, and a huge column of smoke exploded on the ground again.

Shang Zhen and the others can counterattack the Japanese scouts, but they really have no way to deal with the Japanese planes.

Fortunately, the Japanese plane had already flown away, and they finally arrived at the place that had just been bombed by the Japanese plane.

There were more corpses of Chinese officers and soldiers on the ground, and some officers and soldiers who were wounded were rolling and moaning on the ground.

Seeing such situations too much, Shang Zhen and the others have become numb, or this is a kind of self-protection formed by human beings after seeing the tragedy.

They were unable to change the status quo, so they could only continue to move forward, but at this time, Shang Zhen realized that there was a problem, because there was a fork in the road ahead.

One road points to the southeast, and one road points to the southwest, but there are routs on both roads, so where should they choose?

When they got here, there was no record on the map in Shang Zhen's hand, and they could only listen to the officers and soldiers of other troops beside them talking about the situation in various dialects. In the end, they chose to go southwest.

Because those officers and soldiers said that if you go to the southwest, there is a Wu-Fu line of defense, and if you go further, you will reach Nanjing.

Nanjing, that is the capital of the Republic of China, the defense there should be the strongest.

If anyone would choose to run there, Shang Zhen and the others would naturally go southwest.

It's just that they didn't know that at this time, the rest of the Sixty-seventh Army had already embarked on a different path, and they were heading southeast.

A torrent was divided into two halves, but it was still rolling forward. Everyone was running for the hope of life, but Shang Zhen and the Sixty-seventh Army parted ways like this.

"Where did that kid come from?" Wu Keyong, who was walking on the path to the southwest, asked Chang En beside him.

"He was recommended by Lu Cao, and the letter said that when they were in Xi'an, they fought with the military commander." Chang En replied upon hearing this.

Wu Ke said "Oh" and didn't ask any more questions. He was the commander of an army, and he didn't know too many officers and soldiers.

Familiar and unfamiliar lives are passing away before his eyes, and it is already very good for him to think of Shang Zhen and his group.

The rest of the Sixty-seventh Army moved forward in silence. On the way, they also avoided the bombing of Japanese aircraft.

Until dusk, they encountered a river lying in front of them. That river was called the Wusong River, and Shanghainese used to call it Suzhou Creek.

The setting sun is shining faintly on the water surface, if it is a beautiful scene in normal times, but at this moment when there are many ragged and exhausted soldiers standing by the river, the scene looks sad .

The sad thing is not only the river, but also the bridge on the river has become a broken bridge.

As for the Broken Bridge, the legendary place where the White Snake and Xu Xian met on the Broken Bridge of the West Lake.

But if the broken bridge is placed here, it seems to have cut off the livelihood of the Chinese officers and soldiers who walked this road.

All the people in the 60th Army looked at Wu Keyong, and as a soldier, Wu Keyong was not those sentimental young men and women, he only believed in his own actions.

"Find a place where the water is shallow and swim directly there!" Wu Ke ordered.

The people below heard the order and were about to act, but at this moment, the roar of the plane came from afar, and the Japanese plane came again.

"Don't be afraid, this is probably the last flight of the little devil's plane!" Wu Keyong encouraged his officers and soldiers.

Since there is a bridge here, there is a family. Even though the house of that family has been bombed by Japanese planes and collapsed, there is still a place to hide.

Regardless of whether it was from the Sixty-seventh Army or other troops, they all searched for concealment and hid.

But when the Japanese planes flew over, they surprisingly didn't drop any bombs this time, but just fired with machine guns.

Perhaps the Japanese plane was also tired. After the bullets sent strings of smoke and dust between the broken walls, the plane flew away again.

The Chinese officers and soldiers on the other side of the river gathered again.

"Report to the commander, the water here is shallow." A soldier shouted. Because at this time, some soldiers with good water skills swam directly over.

According to other people's observations, the water is only a few meters from the center of the river to cover the top of the head.

"All cross the river!" Wu Ke ordered with a wave of his big hand.

"Commander, you go first, and I'll protect you!" Chang En said at this time.

"It's better for you to take people there first, we can't chase and kill the little devils after we pass this river, think about this war has been like this, I, the army commander, always have to start well and stick to the end." Wu Keyong answer.

The matter has come to this point, and Chang En no longer insists. The entire 67th Army is almost wiped out. The commander must start well and end well, and Chang En has no reason to object.

Chang En crossed the river and looked back, and saw that there were less than a hundred of Wu Keyong and the others staying on the opposite bank.

He was just about to greet Wu Ke to use them 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, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he asked his guard for the binoculars.

This time the Chinese army retreated, and the Japanese army naturally couldn't let go of this good opportunity to hunt down. Shang Zhen and the others lost contact with the Japanese army ambushing halfway.

Of course, Chang En could also imagine that the scouts of the Japanese army might also pretend to be civilians, and he wanted the binoculars to confirm the identities of those civilians.

But before he raised his binoculars, he suddenly heard gunshots!

"There are devils!" A soldier shouted.

Chang En instinctively lay down on 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 Creek, and his army commander was shot!

All this happened so fast that Chang En didn't even have time to react!

And at this moment, he suddenly realized what a big mistake it was for Shang Zhen to be sent out without his knowledge.

If Shang Zhen and the others were there, the team should have set up guard posts nearby when crossing the river.

"Commander!" Chang En shouted amid the gunfire.

But what he answered was still gunshots. He only saw a lot of waves splashing on the water, but he couldn't find Wu Keyong's shadow anymore!

Postscript: Wu Keyong, commander of the 67th Army of the Northeast Army, finally used his own sacrifice to practice his determination to justify the name of the Northeast Army.

It's just that the development of the matter is not based on Wu Keyong's thoughts during his lifetime.

Just after Wu Keyong died for the country, when the remnant of the Sixty-seventh Army requested compensation from the National Government, it was sternly rejected by the Military Command. The reason was: "The sixty-seventh army retreated suddenly, causing heavy losses to the entire army!"

Why are things like this?

Just because Commander Wu Keyong participated in the Xi'an Incident before his death, he led his troops to confront the Central Army, and later tried to cooperate with generals and soldiers of the Northeast Army such as Yu Xuezhong to rescue Zhang Xueliang with armed forces. ox).

Wu Keyong not only failed to prove to the Northeast Army that the 67th Army was almost wiped out, but the rest of the army was reprimanded.

The Military and Political Department of the Nationalist Government even falsely accused Wu Keyong of defecting to the enemy. In the end, the designation of the 67th Army was revoked, and it was reduced into the 108th Division and assigned to other Central Army.

So far, the Sixty-seventh Army of the Northeast Army has become a cloud of history.

It was not until 1982 AD that the unjust case of General Wu Keyong was rehabilitated by the Taiwan authorities, and he was traced as an anti-Japanese martyr of the Republic of China.

In 1989, Taiwan's Kuomintang authorities moved the plaques of Lieutenant General Wu Keyong and other generals who participated in the war into Taiwan's Martyrs' Shrine.

On September 1, 2014, General Wu Keyong was included in the first batch of 300 famous anti-Japanese heroes and hero groups announced by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China.

If you have time tomorrow, grab the one owed today. Lao Zhe needs to organize new materials.