Feng Xueyou of shipai village said that after the Japanese bombing, the granary caught fire and the rice was burnt, so the national army had nothing to eat, so they cooked the burnt rice into porridge, put some salt and stirred it.

The headquarters of the National Army 18 Army 1 1 is stationed in shipai village. The 18 Army, founded by Chen Cheng, commander of the Sixth Theater, is one of the most elite troops of the National Army. 18 army 1 1 division is so hard, other troops can imagine.

The first four divisions of the 75th Army stationed in Nanbian Village, Huanghua Township, Yiling District, Yichang City are not small groups, and their situation is even worse than that of 18 Army.

Nanbian Village is more than 30 kilometers away from shipai village, and the 75th Army and the18th Army are both national armies participating in the western Hubei campaign.

If it hadn't been for the heavy rain of 20 10, the story of the first four divisions would have been buried in the folk forever and gradually disappeared in the long river of time. Since then, no one has ever known that there is such an arduous army.

Heaven has eyes, just in the summer of 20 10, a heavy rain washed out 3000 bones beside the Yiwan highway under construction. The tragic situation of the Fourth Division of the 75th Army in the battle of western Hubei is well known.

Yiwan Highway is a highway from Yichang to Wanzhou, Chongqing. 20 10 will be opened to traffic at the end of the year, and Yiwan Railway will be opened to traffic at 20 10. Therefore, when the Japanese attacked Chongqing 67 years ago, they had no choice but to take the Yangtze River waterway.

There are 5000 people in the first four divisions. Now we can only know the names of several people, such as teacher Fu Zhengmo. The remaining thousands of soldiers have melted into the dust. They are as obscure as dust and unknown to future generations.

Yi Shengquan is an ordinary farmer in Nanbian Village, Huanghua Township, Yiling District, Yichang City. At the time of the battle in western Hubei, his family was rich, and hundreds of acres of land around Jinyuping Village belonged to their family. His mansion became the field hospital of the Fourth Division. Yi Shengquan's father Yi Shuncang witnessed the horrors of the soldiers in the Anti-Japanese War. Yi Shuncang has been dead for ten years, but he has repeatedly told his son Yi Shengquan about the battlefield at that time.

The old villagers in Jinyuping Village can still remember the scene at that time. They saw that every time Fu Zhengmo, the commander of the Fourth Division, came to the field hospital, he took the horse and sat or crawled with a wounded soldier, sometimes two wounded soldiers. The guards followed. When Fu Zhengmo went back, he sat in the saddle with a veteran who had returned from injury. Although Fu Zhengmo has a war horse, no one in the village has seen him ride it. Someone asked him curiously, as a teacher, how can you give horses to soldiers? He said: "Although there are 5,000 people in my division, none of them are redundant."

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Fu Zhengmo was promoted to deputy commander before the battle of western Hubei was over. Later, he stayed in the mainland, 1957 was wrongly classified as a rightist, and 1968 died.

Fu Leping, the son of Fu Zhengmo, has been in Taiwan Province Province since liberation. After the reform and opening up, the two sides can move around each other. Fu Leping came to Jinyuping Village and stood beside the cemetery outside the former field hospital for a long time, sobbing.

Those graves are at the foot of the mountain. After a heavy rain in the summer of 20 10, 3,000 bones were washed away here. Those bones belong to the fourth division.

The first four divisions began to enter people's sight.

At that time, Yi Shengquan's grandmother was still there, and she was a witness of the wounded field hospital of the Fourth Division. Grandma said that there were too many people who died in the national army at that time, so we should have a good burial. Every morning, several villagers pull the bodies out of the field hospital and put them in the pit at the foot of the mountain outside the village. Spread a layer of dead bodies, spread a layer of soil, spread another layer of dead bodies, and spread another layer of soil. Just as the villagers carried the body and threw it into the pit, several wounded people suddenly woke up, let out a whoop of * * *, or opened their eyes, and the villagers pulled him back to the field hospital. However, the next day, the wounded soldier died again and was dragged to be buried.

Why did so many people die? Grandma said that there was mainly no food, no medicine, some starved to death, and some died of illness.

Sometimes, Fu Zhengmo came to the field hospital with his adjutant. Yi Shengquan doesn't know his name, and he may have forgotten his name. Now he only knows his last name is Wen. At that time, people called him adjutant Wen.

When Wen first came to the field hospital, he was so ill that the doctors in the field hospital could not treat him. Many people think Wen is hopeless. Yi Shengquan's uncle said, let him try. Yi Shengquan's uncle, Zhou Renfeng, is a famous local Chinese doctor. As a result, adjutant Wen's illness was cured with earthwork. Wen is very grateful.

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Yi Shengquan clearly remembers that his father said this sentence:

On one occasion, adjutant Wen came to their home and secretly asked Yi Shuncang, "Is there anything to eat at home?" Yi Shuncang asked, "Yes, what's the matter?" Adjutant Wen said, "I'm a fellow villager. I'm in a field hospital. There is no food in the field hospital. He's starving. " Yi Shuncang took two cakes from the kitchen and ran into the field hospital with the adjutant Wen. In a field hospital, the ground of a house was crowded with people, all sallow and emaciated and scarred. Aide Wen's hometown is lying on the outermost side, waiting to be taken away by the corpse collector. Aide Wen tore the bread into long strips and stuffed it into his hometown's mouth. Unfortunately, his hometown is too hungry to move his mouth and chew. Adjutant Wen burst into tears, tears streaming down her face.

Soon, this fellow villager's adjutant Wen died.

At that time, the soldiers of the Fourth Division of the National Army fought to the death with the Japanese army at the front line, and only when they were seriously injured would they be carried to the field hospital in the rear. But the field hospital is short of food and medicine and is still waiting for death.

A heavy rain on 20 10 washed away 3000 bones of the fourth division of the foreign army and shocked the world. Yi Shengquan said that there were far more than 3,000 bones buried at that time. In the early days of liberation, shepherds in the village went up the mountain to herd sheep and climbed on these bones. Although everyone knows that they are the bones of soldiers during the Anti-Japanese War, no one has ever collected them and let them be exposed to the sun and rain. At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, some people burned the bones of anti-Japanese soldiers as fertilizer and scattered them in the ground.

Chinese medicine practitioners who pulled adjutant Wen back from the death line have the same tragic fate as these anti-Japanese fighters.

As soon as Yichang was liberated, Zhou Renfeng was arrested by the local militia and would be shot because of his treatment of national army officials. In those years, Zhou Ren had only patients and no class. I didn't expect to bring disaster to myself. A senior official working in Yichang heard that Zhou Renfeng was going to be shot and came from Yichang on a fast horse, but he was still a little late. When he arrived, the gunshots had already sounded.

This senior official fought a guerrilla war in the mountainous area of western Hubei during the Liberation War, and Zhou Renfeng once saved him.

The battle in western Hubei was very tragic.

Liu Bangrui, a veteran of the first four divisions who participated in the battle of western Hubei, once told his son Yi Qiang that there was a mountain called Baoshi Mountain 30 kilometers away from the field hospital. A company of the first four divisions once fought there, and never retreated in the face of more than 400 Japanese troops and their heavy machine guns and small steel cannons. At that time, Liu Bangrui's company had only 140 people, only one light machine gun, and the rest were made in Hanyang. Many guns have worn out due to long-term use. The Japanese army attacked fiercely, coming like a flood, and the bayonets of the March 8th cover were long and shiny. Japanese shells flew overhead and fell behind. air billow blew off his hat. The light machine guns of the national army could not suppress the heavy machine guns of the Japanese army. Bullets from heavy machine guns rained down on the ground. The soldier who was shooting just now suddenly stopped. Liu Bangrui saw that the soldiers' faces were covered with blood. The company commander waved a mauser pistol and screamed: "People are fighting positional warfare. It is enough to kill one, and fight * * *."

Although the national army was very brave, but outnumbered and poorly equipped, the Japanese army finally captured the mountain. The national army ran out of bullets, but no one stepped back. Seeing that the Japanese army was getting closer and closer, Liu Bangrui jumped into a ditch, pulled a few dead bodies around him and built several layers for himself. The Japanese army came to the ditch and stabbed the body with bayonets. Liu Bangrui heard the sound of * * from a few meters away, followed by the sound of a bayonet stabbing into the body, and the sound of * * * was gone.

Liu Bangrui waited in the ditch for a long time, and when there was no movement outside, he moved the dead body covered in his body and wiped the blood on his face. Liu Bangrui stood up and saw dead bodies everywhere. He doesn't know what to do. After a while, six unarmed men appeared on the top of the mountain. Like Liu Bangrui, they are all survivors of the battle.

140 people, now there are only seven people left.

After dark, seven people picked up empty guns and went down the mountain to look for large troops.

Later, Liu Bangrui's army went to war with the Japanese.

In the battle, a bullet flew by and Liu Bangrui was injured in the leg. He still insisted on fighting, crawled on the ground and shot when he saw the Japanese approaching.

The national army won the battle, and the rest of the Japanese fled down the mountain.

When cleaning the battlefield, the battalion commander saw that Liu Bangrui was injured in the leg and could not get up, so he arranged for two soldiers to carry Liu Bangrui back to Jinyuping Village where the field hospital was located. During his recovery, Liu Bangrui kept asking about the front line. Later, he heard that the battalion commander had died on the battlefield.

After the war in western Hubei, Liu Bangrui's leg was not healed and he could not accompany the army, so he had to continue to recuperate in Jinyuping Village. Later, I lost contact with the army and became the son-in-law of this village.

Yi Zipei, the second master of Yishengquan, is the leader of the local militia.

Due to the heavy casualties of the Pre-Fourth Division, local militia soldiers were transferred to the Pre-Fourth Division.

Yi Zipei said that the first four divisions were a unit of the Xiang army. When I first came, the teachers from Fu Zhengmo to ordinary soldiers were all from Hunan. Later, the casualties were too great, and people from all over the country were constantly added.

Everyone knows that Xiang army is tough. In the battle sequence of the national army, except for Xiang, and, he is a tough guy and a fierce soldier. There is a saying in the Qing Dynasty: "Without Hunan, there would be no army." In the past, people thought that eating salt could strengthen the spirit and increase strength. Therefore, for a long time in the Qing Dynasty, salt was not supplied to Xiangxi. There are 100,000 mountains in Guangxi. The land is barren and the people are poor. The soldiers in Guangxi are extremely tenacious. They are as hard-working as the Sichuan Army and as strong-willed as the Xiang Army. "Military God" Lin Biao suffered two failures in his life. One was a bloody battle in Siping, which was defeated by Xiang. One is the battle of Qingshuping, Gui Jun was defeated, and 29 army, who fired the first shot of the Anti-Japanese War, was mostly the son of Shaanxi. In the battle with the Japanese army, the Japanese army wore an iron collar, and the knife was not as good as it was. 29 army's soldiers hacked from top to bottom and cut the Japanese army in two. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the most brave and effective Japanese trump card was no match for 29 army.

On the eve of the departure of the Fourth Division, Fu Zhengmo came to Jinyuping Village for the last time. He set up a stone tablet at the foot of the mountain, where more than 3000 bones were buried. Educated people in the village didn't know the teacher's name was Fu Zhengmo until they saw the inscription. The inscription was written by Fu Zhengmo, and the name of Chen Cheng, commander of the Sixth Theater. In the Battle of Western Hubei, the warring parties were the Sixth Theater of the National Army and the Eleventh Army of the Japanese Army.

Fu Zhengmo stood in front of the stone tablet for a long time. It was not until dusk that he turned around. People saw his face full of tears.

After so many years, people have forgotten the content of the inscription, only remembering one sentence: "Immortal and honorable, glorious forever."

In addition to this stone tablet, every officer who died in this battle above the platoon leader of the fourth division has a stone tablet. Stone tablets are arranged from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, dense.

Among these stone tablets, there is a stone tablet of the battalion commander. Since then, every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Spring Festival, Liu Bangrui will come to the tomb of the battalion commander, order paper money and sit still for a long time.

After liberation, some people set their eyes on these stone tablets when they wanted to build a house. Some people dragged them home to build a pigsty, while others paved the way with stone tablets and let thousands of dirty feet step on them. Now, there are no stone tablets on the mountain, and there is no "Millennium" for the martyrs of the Anti-Japanese War.

The stone tablet engraved with Chen Cheng's name and Fu Zhengmo's eulogy was smashed because it was too big to move.

After the reform and opening up, many people came here to look for relatives among the martyrs. Yi Shengquan's father Yi Shuncang once had a classmate named Yang Yinchi, who first joined the militia and later joined the Pre-Fourth Division. I was a platoon leader when I left. Later, when the mainland was liberated, he went to Taiwan Province Province. After the two sides were able to get through, Yang Yinchi came to Jinyuchi Village to learn about the martyrs of the Anti-Japanese War. When he left, he cried into tears.

A man surnamed Liu, who works in Beijing, is said to be the director of the Third Civil Aviation Bureau (I don't know whether this unit and title are exact). He also came. In the battle of western Hubei, both his uncles died here, and both held official positions in the fourth division. Director Liu searched here for many days and finally found an uncle's tombstone with the name of Zhong written on it. Another uncle's tombstone was not found.