Seeing the title of this article, many people may wonder, what is the White Bone Tomb? Why is it called a white bone grave? What happened to this place? Today, let's learn about this place that impressed the Japanese veterans and the fierce bloody battle of the white bone grave.
Bai Bone Tomb, located in Nanjing, near Hongmao Mountain, is part of the Zijin Mountain Range and is a steep hilly mountain. Here, the Taiping Army and the Xiang Army fought fiercely, three days and three nights, and finally, the war dissipated, time passed, the vicissitudes of the sea and the mulberry fields, only white bones remained. Locals have seen this place even more than ten years later, when encountering heavy rain, there will be white bones being washed out, and it is precisely because of this scene that it is called the white bone grave.
Decades later, the bones are everywhere, many people may not know the existence of this tragic day, today, let us walk into a period of history, to touch the blood and smoke of that time, to feel the bravery and determination of the ancestors to face the strong enemy, dare to fight, to understand the Japanese veterans as a nightmare of the white bone grave blood war.
The beginning of the story is that the Songhu battlefield has just come to an end, the company commander was killed in battle, and the protagonist of the story, Comrade Li Muchao, led more than seventy people of the whole company to withdraw from the battlefield and return to Nanjing. By mid-January, the Ninth Company was again under the command of Yu Yilin on a ship escort mission.
At that time, the Japanese army was approaching the outskirts of Nanjing. At this time, Hongmao Mountain was defended by Zhou Shiquan, commander of the Third Battalion, Xie Chengrui, commander of the Second Regiment of the Teaching Corps, was under the command of xie Chengrui, the task of escorting the ship was taken over by the soldiers of the Teaching Corps, and the Eighty-seventh Division, which was originally a defensive unit in this area, had not yet arrived on the road, and the third battalion defended it on its behalf.
The story unfolds in a fierce bombardment. In the early morning of December 8, the earth was no longer quiet. The Japanese began bombing the ground using reconnaissance balloons. At the same time, the outpost positions near the Qilin Gate were also shelled. Immediately after, a large number of armored troops were sent to the vicinity of the Qilin Gate, and the fierce fighting between the two armies began.
At this time, Li Muchao was leading a group of soldiers whose average age was less than twenty years old against the Japanese tank troops. They were a group of hot-blooded young people who had a bloody vendetta against the Japanese Kou, who did not flinch in the face of the threat of life, and in the end, they died with the Japanese army, and exchanged their blood for the crushed bones of the Japanese army.
Blood and fighting continued until the evening, when the third battalion moved to the White Bone Tomb, with a clear division of labor among the units, 10 companies guarding the lower horse card; 11 companies doing reserves near the noble school; machine gun companies and mortars at any time. More than 70 people led by Li Muchao held the white bone tomb until the next morning, when the Japanese army began to attack the white bone tomb.
The Japanese army bombed one after another, and the troops led by Li Muchao always responded calmly, and the two sides held a stalemate for a long time, and finally ended with the Japanese army being killed and wounded more than 10 people and had no choice but to retreat. Another fierce battle lasted until the evening, when the Japanese attack never progressed, leaving only a group of cavalry wandering the battlefield, as if thinking of a countermeasure.
That night, Li Muchao led the soldiers to dig a trench, and after digging out, he began to hide behind the trench to observe the enemy situation, until about 11 o'clock, the ghost, touched the white bone grave. They were actually preparing to attack the White Bone Tomb at night, just to attack the Purple Mountain as soon as possible, and then completely turn the city of Nanjing into a bag, but they did not expect that there was a huge trap waiting for them.
When the Japanese army was full of luck and was about to kill the camp of the teaching corps, they were caught off guard, and they fell into the trenches dug by Li Muchao and his men in front. Next, there was the rain of artillery fire, only to hear the wailing of the Japanese troops in the ditch. Later, another machine gun was set up, and the ghosts had no way to escape and were killed. Only vague flesh and blood remained in the ditch.
The next day, the Japanese launched a frenzied retaliation operation, and the main position of Purple Mountain turned into a sea of fire. At the same time, the units of the Teaching Corps were also under heavy attack. In the fierce battle, none of the soldiers of the whole company led by Wang Jun died heroically. The troops led by Li Muchao also suffered heavy casualties, but no one gave up, and they invariably chose to die.
The White Bone Tomb could not be attacked, so the Japanese shifted the focus of their attack and turned to the mountains on the south side. Another fierce battle lasted until six o'clock in the afternoon of the 12th. The Teaching Corps received orders from Nanjing to retreat in all its members.
However, when Li Muchao's troops arrived at the Taiping Gate, they found that the city gate was congested, the meeting place was empty, and the commander was missing. The crowd could only spontaneously retreat to the lower gate. It was the arrival of the early morning again, the Japanese army was about to enter the city, the people fled one after another, the people could not cross the river, and the crowd was in a riot. Li Muchao and others used their own belongings to make simple rafts and crossed the river to protrude from the encirclement.
In the memories of Japanese veterans, in the battle of the White Bone Tomb, the Japanese army lost more than 100 people and failed to capture this position, he said, the white bone grave is the grave dug by the Nationalist army for the Japanese army. The bloody battle of the White Bone Tomb is the history of Nanjing and the memory of the world.