In the fourteen-year combat history of the Chinese people resisting Japanese aggression, they gave full play to their wise minds, and various tactics such as tunnel warfare, mine warfare, sparrow warfare, and curtain-picking warfare emerged in an endless stream, providing many assistance to the vast number of anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians behind the enemy lines who were extremely short of guns and ammunition, and eliminating many Japanese devils and puppet troops who played for the tiger.
In the anti-sweeping struggle in 1942, the New Fourth Army of the Huaihai Sub-district had a whim and used more than a thousand dead dogs to win the battle, so that the Japanese puppet army with advanced weapons and solid bunkers fell without a fight. So how did these dead dogs help the New Fourth Army to take the enemy's stronghold and win the war?
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Since 1939, the Japanese army has successively carried out the three-light policy and the cage policy in central China, north China, and other places, sweeping up the vast number of anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines, and the Japanese army's strongholds have also been established in various townships and towns, and some traitors who defected to the enemy and betrayed the country have become the best defenders of the strongholds.
The Eighth Route Army attacked the bunkers
In May 1943, the New Fourth Army in the Huaihai area launched a summer offensive according to the instructions of the central government to remove the Japanese strongholds in Subei, and the task of the Seventh Regiment of the three detachments of the military sub-district was to uproot the Japanese puppet army strongholds in sangxu town in the north of Muyang County.
Sangxu Town is a small place, but it connects Suqian and Lianyungang, and is also an important communication channel between the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu and the Eighth Route Army in Shandong. In order to cut off the anti-Japanese forces behind the enemy lines, the Japanese army sent a part of the puppet army to the town of Sangxu to guard.
Li Donghai, the notorious leader of the puppet army, took the initiative to ask for help, and led more than 500 traitors who were also traitors to build a strong bunker in the town of Sangxu. Because these unscrupulous traitors had no ambition and no ambition, they only knew how to eat, drink and have fun in the stronghold of Sangxu Town, thus attracting a large number of puppet troops with equally soft bones to come to their aid.
Zhang Xingzhong, Zhang Shengzhong and Zhang Hanzhong
The three brothers were originally bandits in the vicinity, and their burning and looting behavior was the same as that of the Japanese army. The Japanese army saw their destructive ability and incorporated them into Li Donghai's puppet army third brigade, so they came here at the end of 1942 and were entrenched in various areas north of Sangxu with Li Donghai.
The puppet army in film and television dramas
In order to better save their lives, these puppet troops pulled up a series of barbed wire fences outside the bunkers, and there were secret passages between the various turrets, and they were equipped with Japan's advanced guns and heavy artillery, and the protection of the three outer three layers was enough for these pests to sleep peacefully.
At the beginning of the battle, Song Yaonan, the commander of the Seventh Regiment, led the troops to charge many times, but they were defeated by the fierce enemy fire. Later, the Seventh Regiment was held
Table, wet quilt and wooden wheels
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"Dirt Tank"
Attacking the enemy, he was forced to retreat by the enemy's powerful fire before he could get close to the stronghold.
The weapons and equipment of the Chinese communist army have always been backward, the Seventh Regiment does not even have decent heavy machine guns, and the soldiers of the whole regiment have only 3 bullets and several grenades per regiment.
The militiamen could only go to the battlefield to kill the enemy closely, and fought against the Japanese puppet army with weapons such as red guns, large knives, and maces in their hands.
Japanese troops guarding bunkers
Qin Jian, deputy commander of the Huai naval sub-district, personally came to the front line to command the battle and demanded that Song Yaonan implement the tactic of "encircling the points and attacking aid" that our army was best at, so as to isolate the puppet army in the Sangxu stronghold. Unfortunately, the puppet army in the bunker was closely linked to the Japanese gendarmerie, and soon sent ghosts several times their size from nearby towns.
Once the Japanese troops in Muyang, Haicheng and other places arrived, they would sweep up the nearby villages.
The villagers' behavior of covering up the Eighth Route Army made them angry, and every time they came to sweep the village, there would be a few more people wearing ma dai filial piety.
Song Yaonan and others were indignant, but there was still no way to defeat the enemy in the stronghold.
The New Fourth Army could only lurk, wait for the night to move, and quietly sneak into the vicinity of the bunker to carry out night attacks on the enemy. However, the puppet army, which was also Chinese, knew too well the tactics and plans of our army, and they dug deep trenches all around the perimeter of the stronghold, making it impossible for the tunnel tactics of the New Fourth Army to be used.
Trenches and barbed wire outside the bunkers
Song Yaonan could only find another way to lure the puppet army away from the protection of the stronghold and fight in the wilderness.
Unfortunately, these puppet armies did not fight well, greedy for life and afraid of death but ranked first, no matter what tricks the New Fourth Army used, they all shrank in the stronghold and refused to come out.
The battle plan over the past few days has been frequently frustrated, and Song Yaonan was so anxious that the corners of his mouth bubbled, and he could only venture to the vicinity of the stronghold at night to observe the situation.
Unexpectedly, Song Yaonan's whereabouts were exposed by the dogs of the masses.
Originally, the people raised dogs to resist the Japanese army and the puppet army, but the sweeping of the Japanese puppet army was basically carried out during the day, and the dogs they raised worked at night, which coincided with the tactics of the Eighth Route Army, which was good at night combat, and the result was that the dogs exposed the whereabouts of Song Yaonan and others.
Chinese Pastoral Dog
At night, everything was silent, a dog bark in the village could cause all the dogs in the whole village to bark, the traces of Song Yaonan and others were discovered by the puppet army, and the searchlights on their bunkers shot directly at several soldiers who had nowhere to hide, Song Yaonan was unfortunately hit in the abdomen, and only under the strong cover of everyone did he get out of danger.
In the next few night visits, the whereabouts of the New Fourth Army were exposed by the dogs raised by the people's families, and these helpers who were originally used to defend against the enemy not only did not help, but also sold their own people. Just when Song Yaonan's injuries did not improve, several small soldiers were indignant and shouted that they would kill the dogs.
The soldiers' ideas coincided with those of the villagers, because Song Yaonan was injured, and several villagers had killed their dogs and thrown them outside the village, and Wang Tongwu, the chief of staff of the three detachments, happened to see the bodies of these dead dogs on the way to visit Song Yaonan.
Because it was the hottest part of the summer, these dead dogs exposed the wilderness, which soon attracted many flies and maggots, and the smell emitted from the dog carcasses was also very reclusive.
After Wang Tongwu learned the cause of the dogs' deaths from the villagers, he immediately thought of using the corpses of these dogs to deal with the enemies who were holding the stronghold. He discussed his ideas with the regimental headquarters and was unanimously approved by everyone. So the warriors went to work among the masses, collecting dead dogs from them.
Dogs
Under the implementation of the discipline of the Eighth Route Army, the soldiers explained to the masses that they wanted dogs for the sake of war, not for the sake of coveting the people's property.
The villagers expressed their understanding, not only actively contributed their own dogs, but also ran to send dogs after hearing about it, and the seven groups raised more than 1,000 dogs in one day.
Wang Tongwu asked everyone to cut some of the dog's corpses into large pieces, which is not only convenient to carry, but also has a wider coverage. That night, the Seven Regiments used heavy fire as cover, and some people took advantage of the night to throw all the dog's corpses and pieces of meat into the trenches dug by the enemy.
Because of the sheer number of dogs, several trenches were filled in, and the carcasses of dogs that were divided into chunks quickly decayed during the hot summer months. The next day, the puppet army in the bunker was very dissatisfied with the scene of blurred blood and flesh and corpses in the outer trenches, and even laughed at the New Fourth Army for not intimidating them.
The soldiers of the 3rd Company of the Seventh Regiment threw several nights in succession, and finally filled the trenches outside all the enemy strongholds with dog corpses, and after the exposure of the sun during the day and the evaporation of the high temperature, these corpses and pieces of flesh began to play a role, and every place where the flesh and blood were exposed attracted a large number of flies and mosquitoes, and maggots with white flowers were born inside the rotten flesh.
Dead dogs
The puppet army in the bunker can also resist the smell by closing the door and closing the window or plugging the mouth and nose in the early stage, but with the passage of time, these odors become more and more intense, and within a kilometer radius, they are completely surrounded by the smell, and the flies and mosquitoes on the dogs also begin to invade the bunker, and the puppet army is disturbed.
In order to remove mosquitoes and flies from the bunkers, these puppet soldiers burned torches and lit fires everywhere, and the table bedding burned several sets, but the flies and bugs did not decrease. In the later stages of development, even the roof of the kitchen was crawling with flies and maggots, which would fall into pots and bowls from time to time.
These pseudo-soldiers could not swallow, even if some people barely endured the nausea to eat, but finally they were infected by the germs carried by these bugs, poisoned and more and more people with dysentery, who wanted to call the Japanese army for help, they desperately found that the telephone line had long been cut by the New Fourth Army.
In desperation, they could only withstand the invasion of the stench and drag their weak bodies to the outside of the bunker to clean up. However, the New Fourth Army had already laid an ambush outside. Taking advantage of the time when the puppet army was overwhelmed to dig trenches and lay out fortifications, only to wait for the puppet army to be seriously injured and take all the strongholds in one fell swoop.
Miserable people in the old society
Therefore, these puppet troops were killed by the New Fourth Army as soon as they emerged, and after more than a dozen people died in a row, the puppet army finally gave up the idea of leaving the fort and continued to shrink in the bunker and refused to come out.
However, the loss of food, the spread and outbreak of the virus has made them more and more desperate.
During the day, the puppet army did not dare to appear, so the puppet army organized a breakthrough at night and tried to escape from behind the turret, and after the New Fourth Army, which had already been lurking in all directions, the gunshots of our army rang out, and several puppet troops fell down.
This escape caused the puppet army to lose more than sixty people, and the New Fourth Army had dozens of guns and boxes of bullets and grenades, which could be described as a great gain. Zhang Xingzhong, the small leader of the puppet army, found that there was really no way to retreat, and could only extend a white flag from inside the bunker to announce surrender. They said that as long as they could survive, they were willing to meet all the requirements of the New Fourth Army.
After careful consideration, the captains of the three detachments believed that the long delay would only attract more Japanese encirclement, and then the remaining advantage of the New Fourth Army would be lost, so they sent people to negotiate with these puppet troops and proposed it to them
It is not possible to harass the people, to attack the troops of the New Fourth Army, and not to destroy the communication line of Sang Ruins
The three points of demand, and assure them,
As long as these three points are achieved, all the materials of the puppet army can be taken away, and the safety of life is also guaranteed.
The Eighth Route Army fought
The already tortured puppet army could not wait to agree to these very favorable conditions, and the next day they walked out of the bunkers with their hands raised above their heads. At this time, their faces were yellow and thin, and they were weak, and they never saw the fierce and vicious faces of their compatriots in the first place.
After the New Fourth Army conquered the Sangxu stronghold, it quickly buried the bodies in the trenches and removed all the surrounding barbed wire and artillery towers, and the troops of the New Fourth Army also arranged a garrison in Sangxu Town to connect the communication lines between the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu and the Eighth Route Army in Shandong.
Unfortunately, The commander of Song Yaonan was hit by enemy bullets, and the Japanese weapons were too lethal, and the rear hospital of the New Fourth Army was unable to treat him, and Song Yaonan was killed on August 29, 1943.
In order to commemorate the martyrs, the military district renamed a primary school in his hometown to Yaonan Primary School, and the village was also renamed Yaonan Village.
Tomb of martyr Song Yaonan
In the fourteen years of resisting the Japanese aggressors, the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army, unlike Chiang Kai-shek, made every combat operation to show the international community and to ask the United States for aid and materials.
The CCP's contingent fought with rudimentary weapons and flesh and blood and advanced weapons of the little devils, just to protect their homeland and protect the compatriots of the motherland from harm.
Therefore, their weapons are diverse, axes and hooks and forks can become tools to kill the enemy, and their tactics are also complex, as long as they can save the survival, they do not care whether the means are advanced or not. In the 76 years since the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, almost all the people who witnessed those cruel past are no longer alive, but we must not forget their sacrifices and dedication.