As long as there is war, there will be wounded. If you are surrounded by superior enemy forces, you will be wounded more. Then the question arises, the best thing to do for the surrounded and helpless troops is to break through, what to do with the wounded? When the troops broke through under extremely severe conditions, whether it was a field breakthrough or a breakthrough outside the city, the seriously wounded were basically abandoned on the battlefield. Although it is cruel, it is also a helpless move. The fate of these poor seriously wounded can be imagined, often at the guns or bayonets of the Japanese soldiers.
It's not that the commander of the unit is completely inconsiderate of his subordinates, the real reason is that in an extreme environment, breaking through with a seriously wounded is basically equivalent to giving up hope of breaking through. Not only will the wounded not be able to leave, but even the officers and soldiers who still have combat effectiveness may be wiped out by the Japanese army. It is not convincing to say that the most seriously wounded in the Anti-Japanese War will be more miserable after the troops break through, so let's take three more famous breakthroughs to talk about the tragic experience of the wounded: the Battle of Changde, the Battle of Tengxian and the Battle of Xuzhou. Commander Yu Chengwan led the 57th Division to fight in Changde for 16 days, and was almost shot by Chiang Kai-shek after breaking through the siege, partly because many of the wounded soldiers he left behind were killed by the Japanese When Commander Yu Chengwan led his troops into Changde again after the city was broken, he ordered all his subordinates to assemble in the Catholic church in Changde City. At this time, the 57th Division had less than 1,000 men, and most of them were still the 3rd Battalion of the 169th Regiment that had been stationed in the fierce battle at Sun Mountain on the outskirts of the city. This means that the 8,000 Tiger Ben soldiers of the 57th Division, which resisted the Japanese army in the city, have basically lost everything.
Because a few wooden boats were hidden by the Yuan River under the wall of the South Gate in advance, the commander of the Yu Chengwan division and a few people, including the head of the artillery regiment, Jin Dingzhou, were able to successfully break through the siege. Chai Yixin, the commander of the major general and regiment who led more than 50 soldiers who still had combat effectiveness at the end, covered the breakthrough of Division Commander Yu and others, and also died heroically. Many of the officers and men of the 57th Division, who were seriously wounded and incapacitated, were brutally killed by the Japanese army. Although Chiang Kai-shek convicted him of "abandoning the city and escaping without authorization" and wanted to shoot Yu Chengwan, there may also be an element of Chiang Kai-shek's anger at Yu Chengwan's failure to properly handle the wounded. Compared with the encounter of Fang Xianjue, the commander of the Tenth Army who led his troops to hold Hengyang for 47 days, I am afraid it is more revealing. After 47 days of fierce fighting, considering that the 7,000 wounded could not break through and could not be treated, they had to wait for death, Fang Xianjue gave up the breakthrough and chose to put down ** to the Japanese army. After Fang Xianjue later returned to Chongqing under the control of the Japanese army, Chiang Kai-shek not only comforted him, but also invited him and several subordinate division commanders to dinner, and awarded him the Blue and White Medal.
The 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army held Teng County for three days and nights, and the commander of the Wang Division, who was shot in the waist, fought hard to kill three Japanese soldiers and died in the country, and more than 300 seriously wounded in the city were killed in the defense of Teng County before the Battle of Taierzhuang, and the attacking and defending sides were a brigade of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army and more than 3,000 people from Wang Mingzhang's department. The numbers on both sides were about the same, but the Japanese troops were equipped with heavy artillery, and the 122nd Division, which was the Sichuan Army, was poorly equipped. Therefore, this was originally a matchup without suspense. In the end, Tengxian County was broken, and Division Commander Wang, Chief of Staff, and Regiment Commander were killed. Did any troops manage to break through? Yes, it was two or three hundred soldiers from the third battalion of the 727th regiment who broke through, and they successfully broke through under the leadership of the deputy battalion commander. As for the wounded, especially the seriously wounded, it is absolutely impossible to break through. Perhaps what awaited them was only the cold bayonets of the inhuman Japanese army. In this case, more than 300 seriously injured people in Wang Mingzhang's department, in order to avoid being insulted and insulted by the Japanese invaders, detonated a grenade and committed suicide, they are worthy of the country, and even more worthy of the commander!
In the Battle of Xuzhou, in order to avoid being surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army from the north and south, hundreds of thousands of troops in the Fifth Theater of Li Zongren successfully broke through the encirclement, but due to the interruption of the railway, more than 3,000 wounded soldiers of the first army column were slaughtered by the Japanese army At the end of the Battle of Xuzhou, Li Zongren, who smelled that the troops of the Fifth Theater were in danger of being surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army, ordered all units to break through. Regarding the orderly retreat, Li Zongren is very confident. He said that Li is not Tang Shengzhi, and he will not be like a pot of porridge when he defended Nanjing in person. Li Zongren's promise has almost been fulfilled. Except for the more than 1,000 personnel of the commander's department led by him who encountered a little trouble when they broke through the siege, fortunately, they reached the safe place - Fuyang without danger, and even the Tang Enbo department with more than a dozen 15 heavy guns also jumped out of the encirclement of the Japanese army quickly. However, a military train with more than 3,000 wounded soldiers was left at Xuzhou Station and never had a chance to drive away again.
It turned out that because the iron bridge of Jinpu Road to the south had been blown up, and the Longhai line heading westward had also been occupied by the Japanese army, the military train full of wounded soldiers could not move. As a result, the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, which had already committed heinous crimes in Nanjing, stabbed bayonets at the poor wounded soldiers from ...... carriage after carriageGenerally speaking, although it is customary to retreat early, so the breakout action under extreme conditions is not too much during the entire Anti-Japanese War, but once it is necessary to break through urgently, the wounded soldiers, especially the seriously wounded soldiers, may be forced to leave the devils and become the victims ......of their bayonets