There are talented people in the jiangshan generation, each leading the way for decades.
The legendary heroes of the Anti-Japanese Resistance are not easy to obtain, and it is even more difficult to maintain, which has to pay an unparalleled price, blood and tears, and the past can be considered.
It was the turn of autumn and summer, and the fire umbrella was high all day long. Surrounded by mountains and a narrow plain, there is a small village of unknown name.
Although the village is not large, with only thirty or fifty households, there is a well-known hero named Li Erxi.
Born in 1921, Li Erxi was born in Qizhuang Village, Shangzhai Town, Lingqiu County, Shanxi Province, where the spring is dry and windy, the summer rainfall is concentrated, the autumn is short and cool, and the winter is long and snowy.
Li Erxi's family was very poor, because God did not give people a way to live, the crops were in arrears, his parents were taken away by hunger and cold diseases, leaving him alone to rely on the help of neighbors to barely grow up.
In 1937, the Outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, 16-year-old Li Erxi joined the Eighth Route Army, his goal is not very great, that is, he wants to be a soldier and eat a mouthful of food, there is a place where he can do some work and eat a full meal.
In the Battle of Pingxingguan, Li Erxi followed the independent regiment to participate in the Stagecoach Ridge Blockade Battle, captured several Japanese mountain artillery and mortars, and since then the independent regiment has begun to establish an artillery company, Li Erxi joined the artillery company with curiosity and excitement as a small artilleryman.
On November 3, 1939, the troops of the First Military Subdistrict of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Communist Party of China surrounded and annihilated more than 500 Japanese troops at Yansu Cliff in Hebei Province, and only a few people, including the japanese army's captain Mura Kenji Daisa, escaped.
The arrogant Japanese lieutenant general Abe Norihide was so angry that he led 1,500 troops on the 4th to seek revenge on the Eighth Route Army.
Known in the Japanese army as a "new tactical talent" and a "mountain warfare expert", Abe Norihide is a generation of natural pride.
On this day, the north wind whistled and swirled, churning, like a group of invisible and shadowless madmen roaring in mercedes, that moment just blew away into the distance, this time it came one after another, the wind, just so strongly blowing, as if there was no end.
Abe Did not take the Eighth Route Army seriously, he thought that the Eighth Route Army could not have artillery, and even if it did, there was not much firepower, and he set up his headquarters in a separate courtyard in a small village east of loess ridge.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the battle was in full swing, and Commander Chen Zhengxiang looked at the foot of the South Mountain opposite with a telescope and found several officers carrying combat knives coming in and out.
The regimental commander, Chen Zhengxiang, judging that this was the command post of the Japanese army, immediately ordered the artillery company to quickly go up the hill to reach the artillery position.
In an instant, Li Erxi and other gunners quickly came to the position with mortars, and Chen Zhengxiang pointed to the opposite target and asked, "Can you hit?" ”
Company Commander Yang Jiuwei did not dare to guarantee 100 percent after visually measuring the distance, Li Erxi ran over and said: "Report regiment leader, that place is not far away, guaranteed to hit!" ”
Chen Zhengxiang looked at this confident young man and knew that he had not lied, because Li Erxi's shelling technique was known to the whole regiment.
Li Erxi liked to tinker in the artillery company, and he studied hard to become a sharp gunner of the artillery company, as long as he looked at the target, he could accurately estimate the distance and angle of the starting gun, and never walked through the eyes, which was also the reason why the regiment commander believed him.
The northwest wind blew strongly on the woods on this large slope, the branches were groaning and shouting, the slope was connected with gray mountains, and under the slope was the cropland of Humo, Li Er looked at the crop field with joy, looked at the only four shells, and sighed in his heart, if the Japanese were dead, how good it would be, now he will definitely appreciate a beautiful land.
It was now late autumn dusk, the north wind was blowing on people, as if they were cut with a knife, that kind of cold energy, like being able to penetrate people's skin pores, straight into the bone slit, Li Erxi was not only cold, icy reloading, checked the angle of the cannon, waiting for orders.
Bang! A loud noise hovered in the mountains, only to see that after the smoke had dissipated, the enemy hurriedly dragged the dead bodies and the wounded and hid around.
Li Erxi modified Zhu Yuan, and came to the independent campus, only to see Li Erxi steadily load the shell into the gun chamber, and with a whimper, a shell caught the whistling sound of the north wind jumped straight up to the courtyard, and a wailing sound came all over the field, and the crowd was surging.
After Chen Zhengxiang saw it through the telescope, he slapped his thigh and shouted, "Well played!" Well played! Two more shots! Give him double insurance! ”
This was followed by two more shells, which exploded exactly where they had just been.
When our army shelled, Abe Norihide was sitting at the door of the main room of the courtyard, and when he saw the shells coming, Abe Norihide was anxious, he roared like a thunderbolt and stomped his feet, ready to dodge, and the second shell came again, and it exploded impartially at the door of the main house of the courtyard.
Abe's abdomen and legs were hit more than twenty times by the shrapnel of the shells, and he fell in a pool of blood, and the shouts and shouts were instantly mixed, and the Japanese army was furious, the position was chaotic, and the shadows and wolves rushed to the ground.
At 9 p.m., Norihide Abe, a mountain warfare expert who was hailed by the Japanese as the "Flower of Famous Generals," died of excessive blood loss.
The dozen or so villagers who were arrested witnessed this scene with their own eyes, and when they saw the scene of the Japanese officer being killed by the shells, they couldn't help but shout: "The shells of the Eighth Route Army are also god-like!" Specially fried little devils! ”
The Japanese, who had lost their commander, were in a chaotic mess, carrying the body of Abe Norihide desperately to break through, and on the same day the Japanese army also sent aircraft to cover and carry out strafing and bombing against our army, and the two sides formed a state of confrontation.
At about 10:00 a.m. on the morning of the 8th, 3 enemy fighters and 1 transport plane flew over the Loess Ridge, and they crossed their cover and parachuted 8 commanders and some supplies.
Since the Japanese army received reinforcements and a new commander, Commander Nie Rongzhen judged that the war situation had changed and ordered a retreat.
In this battle, more than 1,000 Japanese puppet troops were killed, the brigade commander Norihide Abe was killed, more than 10 Japanese troops were captured, and 1 artillery, more than 100 long and short guns, 5 light and heavy machine guns, more than 200 mule and horse carts, and more than 300 mules and horses were captured.
The great news of Abe's death was announced by the Japanese Army Ministry on November 21, more than 10 days after the war: "At the moment when Lieutenant General Abe gave the order in the front yard of this house, an enemy mortar shell flew in and exploded a few steps away from the lieutenant general. Fragments of the shells inflicted dozens of fatal wounds on the lieutenant general's left abdomen and legs. The flowers of the famous generals of the mainland battlefield have withered. ”
The fall of Norihide Abe, the "flower of the famous generals" of the Japanese Kou, made the spiritual significance of the victory of the battle far greater than the victory of the battle itself. He inspired countless fighters on the anti-Japanese front.
This year, Li Erxi was only 18 years old, he was awarded the honor of "Sharpshooter", and many years later, the mortar that killed Abe Norihide also became a first-class cultural relic in China, displayed in the China Military Museum.