On the afternoon of September 27, 1948, the governor of The Fifth District of Fengqiu County, Jiang District, rushed to the 2nd Regiment of the Jigan Regiment of the Northern Henan Military Subdistrict, found Zhang Gengzhi, a combat reconnaissance staff officer of the regiment, and reported: "Deputy Li of the Kuomintang Northern Henan Commissioner's Office came to Jinglonggong Town on a special trip to prepare 150 kilograms of steamed buns for a steamed bun and asked them to be delivered to Zhouzhuang before 12 o'clock tomorrow. Do you see that this information is useful? ”
"Useful!" Zhang Gengzhi said, "The enemy will definitely flee. ”
Then, he analyzed that the enemy would not leave Zhouzhuang before 12 o'clock tomorrow, and according to the number of steamed buns he bought, the enemy should be between 100 and 150 people.
Zhouzhuang is on the bank of the Yellow River, with about 200 households, and the terrain around the village is complex. Zhang Gengzhi immediately reported this important information to the regimental commander Wen Junjie and suggested that the enemy be quickly annihilated.
The regimental commander said: "Staff Officer Zhang, our chief of staff has been transferred, you can put forward specific opinions to see how this battle is fought well?" After some thought, Zhang Gengzhi put forward the following suggestion: According to the terrain of the enemy's situation and the situation in which our troops are absolutely superior, we should adopt the tactics of encircling and killing on all sides and striving to completely annihilate the enemy. The offensive deployment was completed before 4 o'clock at dawn on the 28th, and the attack was launched at 5 o'clock. ”
"Well, I'll listen to you!" Regiment leader Wen Junjie said.
At about 4 o'clock the next day, the main force of the 2nd Regiment occupied the starting point of the attack on the northern, eastern and western sides of Zhouzhuang. To the south is the Yellow River Road, from which the enemy cannot escape. Zhang Gengzhi led 4 companies to occupy the bank of the Yellow River southwest of Zhouzhuang, forming a tight siege of Zhouzhuang.
At exactly 5 o'clock, the regimental commander ordered: "Send three red signal bombs." "And so the siege began.
Then, the sound of charge horns and gunshots resounded through the sky. Under the cover of light and heavy machine gun fire, the officers and men of the whole regiment launched an attack on the enemy of Zhouzhuang, and then the sound of explosions and shouts of death shook the whole village.
After 30 minutes of charging, the 2nd Regiment completely occupied Zhouzhuang, most of the enemies in the village surrendered their weapons, and a small part broke through from the southwest of Zhouzhuang along the Yellow River to the west. As a result, they happened to hit the blade of the 4th Company, and 6 light machine guns were firing at them at the same time.
Enemy soldiers cannot escape.
The 4th Company rushed up and shouted, "Preferential treatment for prisoners, surrender guns and do not kill!" ”
More than 50 enemy soldiers all surrendered.
The entire battle lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes, the 2 regiments captured a total of 128 enemy personnel, captured 1 light machine gun, 1 60 guns, 105 long and short guns, shells and bullets and countless others. Except for one wounded war horse, the 2nd Regiment suffered no casualties and fought a beautiful "encirclement and death" annihilation battle.