More than 80 years ago, due to China's poverty and weakness at that time, countless imperialists regarded us as a fat sheep to be slaughtered, especially Japan, a neighbor with whom we have a strip of water, and has coveted China for a long time.
So today in 86 years, it brazenly launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, after the Lugou Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937, when the entire military strength of our army in North China was only 100,000 people, but at this critical moment, Tong Linge, deputy commander of the 29th Army, still ordered the front line to resolutely resist, so what was the final outcome of this battle? What is the ending of General Tong Linge?
The ancestor was a Manchu nobleman, who abandoned literature and military service in order to serve the country
In 1892, Tong Linge was born in an ordinary rural family in Gaoyang County, Hebei Province, although Tong Linge's ancestors had made great achievements for the establishment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but with the passage of time, to Tong Linge's father's generation, has already become a farmer who has nothing.
Although it is said that the family is in the middle of the road, but Tong Linge's uncle is a local Confucian, so when Tong Linge was seven years old, he worshipped his uncle as a teacher, under the uncle's earnest teaching, he not only read the four books and five classics, but also has a lot of achievements in calligraphy.
In this way, in 1908, at the age of 16, he entered Gaoyang County and became a clerk, In 1911, with the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Tong Linge suddenly felt that his opportunity to serve the country had finally come.
In troubled times, in order to serve the country and the people, he resolutely embarked on the road of joining the army, in 1911, 19-year-old Tong Linge joined Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, in the subsequent military career, he rose step by step with his outstanding military exploits, and in 1916, he was deeply appreciated by the Yunnan overseer Cai Yi.
The Northwest Tiger General with great achievements
During the six years from 1916 to 1922, he gradually grew into an outstanding military commander, and by the end of 1922, he had been appointed by Feng Yuxiang as the commander of the Advanced Teaching Corps of the Army Parade Mission, and two years later he became the commander of the 1st Regiment of the 25th Mixed Brigade.
In the next few years, he gradually grew into one of the five tiger generals under Feng Yuxiang, in 1924, the second Zhifeng War broke out, with Feng Yuxiang's anti-water, soon Zhang Zuolin gradually grasped the actual power of the **, and Tong Linge was also promoted to the commander of the 201st Brigade because of his military exploits, and after less than a year, he became the commander of the 1st Division.
However, soon Feng Yuxiang and the Feng warlords parted ways because of the uneven distribution of power, so in 1926, Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army and Zhang Zuolin fought a decisive battle in Nankou, in this battle, although Feng Yuxiang's troops suffered great losses, but Tong Linge suddenly became a famous and famous winning general in the squadron at that time by virtue of the achievements of the three armies.
In 1926, the situation of the Chinese land war changed abruptly, and the National Revolutionary Army began a huge Northern Expedition in order to unify the whole of China, and Feng Yuxiang in the northwest region also responded to the Northern Expedition of the National **, so Feng Yuxiang was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Second Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and Tong Linge, who was Feng Yuxiang's confidant, naturally got promoted.
In 1927, he was promoted to the commander of the Eleventh Army, in the next few years, his life was not easy, with Feng Yuxiang's downfield, he was also suppressed a lot in the army, but in 1933 in the Great Wall of Resistance, Tong Linge led the army to the Japanese army to achieve a great victory in Xifengkou, with the outstanding performance in Xifengkou, even the principal at that time also praised Tong Linge.
The official was reinstated and shed his last drop of blood for the war of resistance
In 1936, with the increasing tension in North China, the principal also realized that Tong Linge had to be the unifier of the army in North China, so in 1936, Tong Linge once again served as the deputy commander of the 29th Army and the head of the teaching regiment, stationed in Fengtai District, Beijing.
On July 7, 1937, the Japanese brazenly launched the Lugou Bridge Incident, and with the first shot fired by the Japanese, it also meant the full-scale outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
After the war began, Tong Linge, who was the deputy commander of the 29th Army, sent a telegram in the middle of the night ordering all the soldiers on the front line to resolutely resist.
Due to the excellent command of General Tong Linge, our army repelled the Japanese army's attacks again and again, but on July 28, 1937, under the cover of the air force and heavy artillery, the Japanese invaders launched a three-dimensional attack on the forward positions of our army from the southeast, west and west.
Because of being outnumbered, coupled with the lack of air defense and heavy support, our army was forced to withdraw to Dahongmen, but soon the Japanese army in order to capture General Tong Linge alive, they concentrated superior forces to surround our army, and finally under the breakthrough of our left wing troops, General Tong Linge led the remaining troops to retreat to Shicun.
After coming here, Tong Linge was ambushed by the Japanese invaders, Tong Linge was also seriously injured in the leg, at this critical moment, his personal guards wanted him to retreat to the back to deal with the wound, but at this time General Tong Linge shouted: "The situation is so urgent, how can I retreat because of a small injury, my personal safety is a small matter, and the cause of the War of Resistance is a big matter." ”
So he insisted on commanding the battle with his wounds, and later died on the spot because his leg was fiercely attacked by the Japanese invaders.
Write at the end
After all, before June 1937, the defenders of our army in North China were only one corps of the 29th Army, with a total strength of only 100,000 people, and they were also distributed in Beiping, Zhangjiakou, Tianjin, and along the railway.
At that time, there were only more than 1,400 officers and soldiers of the third battalion of our army guarding the front line of Lugou Bridge, so it was naturally difficult to resist the superior force attack of the Japanese invaders.
However, since the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, our 400 million compatriots have formed an unprecedented phenomenon of great unity, and no matter what nationality, class, or party, they have all embarked on the road of resisting Japan and saving their lives as always.
Time flies, now 86 years have passed, New China has already changed from the original poverty and weakness to the world's second largest power, New China can have today's hard-won, you still do it and cherish it!