In 1944, the Seventh Regiment of the Third Brigade of the First Division of the New Fourth Army was ordered by its superiors to annihilate a regiment of puppet troops stationed in Fengli Town, Rudong County, Jiangsu Province.
In order to fight this battle well, Lin Shaoke, the commander of the Seventh Regiment, repeatedly surveyed the terrain around Fengli and carefully arranged the tactics of luring the enemy to the wild for ambush.
To this end, Lin Shaoke ordered a battalion to bluff attack the town of Lifeng in the early hours of the morning, but left an opening in the northwest of the town.
Although the New Fourth Army dispatched only one battalion to carry out a feint attack, under the cover of night, the puppet army could not figure out how many troops the New Fourth Army had, and after a little resistance, they were frightened to flee.
When they learned that there was no New Fourth Army blockade in the northwest, they all fled to that side. In this way, the puppet army obediently entered the "pocket array" under Lin Shaoke's cloth.
This ambush position was carefully selected by Lin Shaoke, located in Chaling, ten miles northwest of the town, where there was a necessary road to the japanese puppet army stronghold in the county seat, and the two sides were high, which was very conducive to ambushing.
Unexpectedly, before the puppet army entered the ambush circle, an unexpected situation occurred.
It turned out that after guo Shigui, the commander of the puppet army, led his troops to escape from Lifeng Town, the more he thought about it along the way, the more wrong he became, and he felt that the New Fourth Army must have deliberately given up this road to the northwest.
This guy is also familiar with the surrounding terrain, and knows that he has to pass through the Tea Ridge ten miles out of the town, where the terrain is very suitable for ambushes.
Because he knew that the best tactic of the New Fourth Army against the Japanese puppet army was ambush warfare.
Guo Shigui pondered this matter while running away, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, so he led his men to stop and go, that is, he refused to honestly drill into the ambush circle.
Just over a mile away from Chaling, he ordered his men to stop advancing and sent a squad with a trumpeter to explore the way.
Guo Shigui instructed these soldiers to fire a warning if they found something wrong in front of them, and let the trumpet soldiers blow the passage signal if there was no problem.
Lin Shaoke carefully set up this "pocket array" and counted on this "big fish" to come in so that he could beat them up. However, the enemy was so timid and hesitant that the commanders and fighters of the whole regiment were anxious to scratch their ears and scratch their cheeks, but they could not make it strong.
Seeing that the enemy's squad was about to come to the ambush position, as long as they went two hundred meters further, they would find the soldiers of the New Fourth Army hidden on the side of the road.
In this way, the entire ambush plan will be destroyed! What to do? Everyone was helpless, they were all in a cold sweat on their heads, and even Lin Shaoke's brow was twisted into a knot.
At this critical moment, a usually unremarkable warrior stepped forward and played the role of a strange soldier.
He was the old commander Chang Shilin.
This man was 38 years old, he joined the Red Army in 1936, but he could do nothing but blow the trumpet, so although he had been a soldier for eight years, he had never been promoted, and he was still a trumpeter.
Just as the enemy's squad was searching forward, Chang Shilin found that one of the enemy soldiers had a military trumpet pinned to his waist, and he suddenly had an idea in his eyes, so he quietly crawled to the side of the regimental commander Lin Shaoke and said in a low voice: "Commander, I have a way to let the enemy's large troops continue to move forward." ”
"What's the solution?" As soon as Lin Shaoke heard this, he immediately came to his senses.
"You see if this works..." Chang Shilin attached himself to Lin Shaoke's ear and briefly told him his thoughts.
Lin Shaoke listened and said, "Okay, just do it!" ”
Chang Shilin received the approval of the regimental commander and took immediate action. Only to see him quietly move to the front of the ambush site, take out the military trumpet around his waist, and blow up the contact number.
The warriors were all shocked and did not understand what Chang Shilin was going to do, and some impatient warriors even secretly scolded him for making trouble.
The few enemy soldiers who had been ordered to search the road were startled when they heard the sudden sound of a military trumpet, and immediately tightened their guns and rolled into the grass beside the road.
But to everyone's surprise, after the enemy trumpet soldier heard Chang Shilin's trumpet clearly, he also took out his military trumpet and blew it up, signaling the large troops behind him to continue to advance.
When Guo Shigui heard that the second trumpet sounded was the "forward trumpet", he was sure that there were "his own people" in front of him, so he made up his mind and commanded the team to swing forward.
As soon as they entered the ambush circle, gunfire suddenly erupted around them, and the commanders and fighters of the New Fourth Army rushed down the hill like tigers. Guo Shigui and his men were stunned, and did not resist at all before surrendering their weapons.
In this battle, the seven regiments of soldiers completely annihilated one regiment of the enemy without bloodshed, and won a very clean and neat victory.
It is undeniable that Chang Shilin stepped forward at a critical moment and lured the enemy into the ambush circle with his military trumpet, which played a crucial role in the victory of the whole regiment.
It was not until the end of the battle that Lin Shaoke told the commanders and fighters of the whole regiment why he would accept Chang Shilin's suggestion to lure the enemy at a critical moment.
This is because Chang Shilin will blow the enemy's military trumpet.
As we all know, the New Fourth Army was reorganized from the Red Army units and guerrillas in the southern provinces. When the Red Army was first established, the trumpeters used the trumpet score of the National Army, which was divided into "Errands" and "Footsteps" scores.
Among them, the "Errand" score includes the wake-up number, the meal number, the out-of-action number, the assembly number, the lights-out number, the forward number, the charge number, the encirclement number, and so on.
The "Footsteps" score is divided into ten large scores and five big ones (old code division, new code division, British code division, Tanpai, curt).
That is to say, the number spectrum used by the Red Army and the Nationalist Army was basically the same, and most of the pseudo-army under Guo Shigui came from the Nationalist Army, and their trumpet scores did not change.
It was not until the winter of 1930 that the headquarters of the Red Army, on the basis of the reactions of the troops, began to compile our own trumpets.
Although Chang Shilin joined the army in 1936, when he first entered the army, he was carefully taught by an old trumpeter, and he practiced the trumpet score inherited from the Nationalist Army in the past.
In this way, Chang Shilin, a veteran who had been a trumpeter for eight years, did not make a sound, became a surprise soldier at a critical moment, and let the troops achieve a big victory.