In August 1937, the 4th Division of the First Red Army was reorganized into the 686th Regiment of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Li Tianyou served as the regimental commander and Yang Yong as the deputy regimental commander (at this time, the Eighth Route Army did not have the position of political commissar, and the deputy post was equivalent to the political commissar). At that time, the task of the 115th Division was to march towards Lingqiu, due to the retreat of the Nationalist army without a fight, the 115th Division had not yet arrived, Lingqiu was already under japanese control, and the Eighth Route Army decided to take advantage of the favorable terrain of Pingxingguan to ambush the Japanese army.
The 686th Regiment was ordered to ambush near the Laoye Temple. The regimental command post was located under the slope of the valley under the slope of Baiyatai Mountain, with Yang Dezhi's 685th Regiment ambush site to the west and the former enemy headquarters of the 115th Division 500 meters behind it. Here in front of the road, on both sides of the mountain, Li Tianyou and Yang Yong entered the command post, with a telescope to observe closely.
At this time, brigade commander Chen Guang called: "Note that more than 100 cars of the 21st Brigade of the Enemy Banyuan Division have come down the road and have arrived east of the Laoye Temple. ”
At nearly 8 o'clock, the sound of the motor came, and a small red dot appeared in front of it, slowly becoming clear, which was the red plaster flag of the Japanese army. Moving forward, behind them was a piece of black pressure, under the plaster banner, walking side by side 20 arrogant Japanese troops, 20 meters away from them, three columns of Japanese troops, bayonets shining, and then behind them was a military vehicle.
The red flares crossed the sky behind Li Tianyou's head, and the 686 Regiment fired its first shot, and the gunfire exploded like a fried bean.
The charge trumpet sounded. The hills on both sides roared with rage, and machine guns, rifles, grenades, and mortars were fired at the same time, knocking the Japanese troops caught on the road upside down.
The well-trained Japanese army used cars to resist and organized troops to seize the favorable terrain. Several Japanese troops were climbing to the commanding heights of the Laoye Temple.
The divisional headquarters urgently ordered the 686th Regiment to rush down the road, dividing the enemy into several sections, and ordering the 3rd Battalion to seize the commanding heights of the Laoye Temple.
The ravine was filled with smoke and the noise was deafening, Yang Yong personally led the 3rd battalion into the smoke, ran and rolled, rushed onto the road, and launched a fierce white-knife battle with the Japanese army!
Only to see the butts of their guns flying, sabers flashing, roaring and exploding in a circle, enemy planes hovering against the top of the hill, and more than 500 Japanese troops rushing to the top of the hill...
How fierce was this white-knife battle to seize the heights of the Old Master Temple? The memories of Tian Shien, the platoon commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 686th Regiment, are thrilling.
“...... I led the whole platoon of warriors to the Old Master Temple at once, and the rushing and killing sound of the warriors shook the mountain rock like a thunderbolt. When I rushed down the slope, I saw a ghost in front of me running towards the old temple, so I chased after it, not wanting to shoot at a ghost hidden in the pile of dead bodies on my right, saying that it was too late, then fast, suddenly, a tall man flashed out from behind the slope, jumped down, grabbed the neck of the ghost, and the ghost only screamed twice and was honest. I saw the crowd come to help the battle, the momentum was even stronger, I hurried a few steps to catch up with the devil, I held my breath, held my breath, slammed a knife into his back, and this guy rolled down the hill before he could call. ”
"Under the cover of the flank company, we finally rushed onto the road and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. Comrades who did not have bayonets pulled out machetes and killed devils, and some warriors did not even have machetes, so they tore and wrestled with the enemy with their bare hands. ”
"I stabbed at a short devil with my bayonet, not wanting the guy to turn around at once, I jerked off and stabbed him in the chest again, and the devil, with another hard stop, hardened against me, I took the opportunity to retreat, drew my gun and stabbed, and he blocked the bend with his bayonet. Just then, a bullet flew through my right arm, the guy saw that I had been shot, and was about to loosen up, I gritted my teeth, flashed my waist, turned the butt of the gun and grabbed it, jumped down, and shot straight down his head, and the gun fell to the ground, the guy screamed, and fell to the ground, I took his long gun with my hand, slashed twice into his stomach, and then I fought with a ghost officer who rushed over, he was holding a foreign knife, and without the strength of the spear I was holding, I stabbed him down with one knife. At this time, Gao Jianzhi, a soldier in my platoon, rushed over, and he stabbed the devil twice, which completely sent him back to Japan. ”
"A small group of enemies occupying the Temple of the Old Master saw that we were starting to climb up, so they shot at us one by one, and the machine guns did not stop, so we took advantage of their change of shuttles, rushed upwards, and then stopped and returned fire. However, when we rushed to the middle of the mountain, the devils in the ditch came up to us again and opened fire on us, and the commander of the 3rd Battalion was wounded, but he insisted on directing the battle..."
In this battle, Yang Yong, deputy commander of the 686th Regiment, was wounded in the left arm by a shell, which was the third time he had been wounded in the bloody battlefield.
At the Pingxing Guanda Victory, our Eighth Route Army shattered the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army and greatly encouraged the confidence of the military and people throughout the country in resisting the war. And those commanders and fighters who heroically sacrificed themselves in battle are even more immortal national heroes!