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Chapter 370: A number full of tragedy (Part 2)

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    For Li Fuying, he and his troops had done their best, because before the Tianzhen Defense Battle, his 61st Army had been cooperating with Tang Enbo's troops on the Nankou line in accordance with the orders of the theater headquarters.

    At that time, they faced the fifth division, the most elite Japanese army. After several days of bloody fighting, the 61st Army suffered heavy casualties. Of the 20,000 people fighting in the army, less than 10,000 were left, including many wounded.

    On the other hand, those who attacked Tianzhen were all the elites of the Japanese Chahar Dispatch Corps. This force was not an ordinary Japanese army, but was composed of elites drawn from the Kwantung Army in Northeast China. The commander was even the Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army, Dong Dong.  Lieutenant General Jo Hideki.

    The Japanese army has three brigades with more than 20,000 people, but the 61st Army has less than 10,000 people. This battle is impossible to fight, and there is no chance of winning.

    But the 61st Army did not retreat. They had been working hard for the overall situation. When they received the retreat telegram from the theater headquarters, there were less than 4,000 people left in the entire 61st Army, and more than half of them were wounded.

    If the fight continues, this force of more than 20,000 people may be completely surrendered on the front line of Tianzhen. Therefore, whether it is emotional or logical, the 61st Army has done its best.

    However, one thing happened during this period that Li Fuying had not expected in advance, that is, the 414th Regiment stationed in Yanggao suffered too many casualties. Therefore, the regiment leader Bai Ruyong, under the general trend and without a defense time limit,  Lead the remaining troops to break through and retreat.

    This matter was actually big or small. Li Fuying didn't pay attention to it at the time, but he never imagined that this matter would become a fatal factor that led to Li Fuying being attacked.

    Of course, if it were just this matter, Li Fuying would not have been killed for no apparent reason. Another important reason why Li Fuying was criticized was the raging public opinion!

    Because Li Fuying and the 61 officers and soldiers he led fought desperately to block the enemy on the 60-70 mile long defense line and defended the gate for ten days, it was difficult for the Japanese army to advance straight in and occupy Yanbei.

    More importantly, Li Fuying's troops fought very tenaciously in Tianzhen, causing huge casualties to the Japanese army and even forcing Hideki Tojo to change the siege commander three times.

    Because of this, the Japanese army was completely angry. Out of anger and its always cruel nature, after capturing Yanggao and Tianzhen, they immediately carried out retaliatory punishment on the local people.

    The Japanese army attacked Tianzhen County on September 6 and then occupied Yanggao County, killing more than a thousand people.

    On the 12th, Tianzhen County fell. The Japanese invaders burned and killed more than 2,200 people for three days and wiped out 293 families.

    In Tianzhen, the Japanese army fully demonstrated their cruelty and inhumanity. The entire Tianzhen city turned directly into a hell on earth. There were countless casualties among the people. In addition to the people fleeing for their lives, this important military town with hundreds of years of history has no room for ten rooms.  Nine empty.

    When the news came, the soldiers and civilians across the country were angry and strongly demanded to be held accountable for the fall of Tianzhen. For this reason, Yan Xishan immediately arrested Li Fuying.

    In fact, at this time, the country was being defeated everywhere. Judging from the record of Li Fuying's troops holding the north gate of Shanxi for more than ten days, it was not only faultless but also meritorious. However, in the end Yan Xishan executed Li Fuying.

    There is certainly a need to quell public anger, but the more important reason is that Li Fuying knows too much and Yan Laoxi wants to silence him.

    Why do you say that? Because the two charges that led to Li's death penalty were imposed on him. The first was fleeing without fighting, and the second was that the city defenses were not repaired well.

    In fact, this has nothing to do with Li Fuying. The real situation is that in April 1934, Yan Xishan applied for a huge sum of money from the Nanjing National Government in the name of building national defense fortifications in northern Shanxi, and personally sent Li Fuying to lead it.  The troops went to Tianzhen County, northwest gate of Shanxi Province, to build national defense fortifications.

    But in the end, most of this huge sum of money was taken by Yan Xishan to major commercial ports across the country for his own private business.  This led to Li Fuling not being able to complete the project as he wished during more than a year of construction.

    After being arrested, Li Fuying knew that something was not going well, so he urgently called Tang Shengzhi, the director of military justice of the Nanjing government, and asked Nanjing to send someone to Shanxi to investigate or order him to go to Nanjing to personally report the actual situation of the Tianzhen battle.

    After receiving the call, Tang Shengzhi immediately ordered Yan Xishan to send Li Fuying to Nanjing immediately to "engage in military law". In fact, to put it bluntly, he wanted to investigate the matter thoroughly.  However, Yan Xishan was afraid that Li Furying would "reveal the secret" after going to Nanjing, and he could not afford the punishment, so he escorted Li Furying back to Taihe Ridge to stay, and repeatedly called Chiang Kai-shek to ask Chiang Kai-shek not to send Li Furying to Nanjing, saying that  They must be severely punished by military law on the spot.

    In this way, in the call for resistance from the people across the country, Yan Xishan used Li Fuying as a scapegoat in order to shirk responsibility and explain to the Nanjing government and the people across the country.

    Therefore, it can be seen that Yan Xishan killedKeep in mind, in fact, this is just a tactic used by superior officials to blame others and clear their own innocence.

    ¡°Just imagine, Li Fuying should be killed if he loses Tianzhen, but should officials who lose Peiping, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Guangzhou and other places be killed?

    Not to mention other places, in Shanxi alone, Wang Jingguo lost Nao County, and Chiang Kai-shek himself lost most of China. Yan Xishan also lost most of Shanxi. Should they be killed?

    When the enemy was strong and we were weak, what could Li Fuying do wrong? Not to mention that most of his army had suffered casualties.

    Besides, Yan Xishan's Battle of Datong was originally a blind command. The pocket battle he arranged was too big and the troops were too far apart. And his bullshit Battle of Datong was just a pretense. There was no appearance of a battle at all, and there were no reinforcements.  It's just child's play.

    Li Fuying was the first senior Kuomintang general to be executed after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. More than three months later, Han Fuju, chairman of Shandong Province and deputy commander of the Fifth War Zone, was executed in Wuchang.

    What¡¯s interesting is that both of them are 48 years old.  It's just that the crime is the same, the method of death is the same, but the inside story is different.

    In fact, as early as after Han Fuqu was executed, the Shanghai "News" commented: "Although the methods of death in my country have been different since the war, many anti-Japanese generals have died in our country. The deaths of Zhao Dengyu, Tong Linge, and Hao Mengling are all for everyone. There are still people who shed tears for the death of Zhu Yaohua (commander of the 18th Division, who was defeated and committed suicide in the Battle of Songhu - author's note). There are still people who feel sorry for the death of Li Fuying. Han Fuju died, but people thought he deserved it."

    But Li Guoyao never expected that the Military Commission would give such a tragic designation to their temporary seventh division, and this also made him think of the 67th Army in his previous life and the bloody battle that killed him.  But he was slandered as the army commander Wu Keren who surrendered to the enemy and treason.

    One is the Northeastern Army and the other is the Jinsui Army. The same miscellaneous army also received orders from their superiors and almost wiped out all the troops, but in the end they did not receive rewards from their superiors.

    Li Fuying ended up being shot on charges of incompetence in combat, while Wu Keren's fate was even worse. After he was killed in battle, he was directly accused of treason and surrendering to the enemy. It was not until decades later that the new government vindicated him, and his injustice was finally avenged!

    To be honest, Li Guoyao really didn't like this number. It was too sad, which made Li Guoyao doubt Chiang Kai-shek's intentions.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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