Yang Yong is a famous general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, who was awarded the rank of general after liberation, and served as the commander of the Volunteer Army, the commander of the Beijing Military Region, and the deputy chief of the general staff of the People's Liberation Army.
Shortly after the Great War of Pingxingguan, Yang Yong, who was only 26 years old, served as the commander of the 686th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and was ordered to lead his troops to the Lüliang Mountains in central Jin. On the Lüliang Mountain, Yang Yong led the 686 Regiment to launch one fierce battle after another with the Japanese Kou, winning successive battles and playing a mighty battle. When the Japanese troops in the Lüliang area heard the names of Yang Yong and his 686 regiment, they couldn't help but be frightened.
In 1938, while the Japanese army was advancing on Wuhan and Guangzhou in a big way, it tried to cross the shanxi Fengling south to advance into Xi'an, and the first route from the Shanxi army to the Line of Wubao in Shaanxi to cross the Yellow River to attack Yan'an, in a vain attempt to invade and occupy the northwest of China.
The 686th Regiment was ordered to advance to the Fen(Yang) section of the (Shi) Highway and wait for an opportunity to strike at the enemy.
One day in early September, when the sky was just bright, Yang Yong took the cadres of various battalions to Xue Gongling to observe the terrain. At this time, the reconnaissance sent an urgent order from the headquarters of the 115th Division: 20 enemy cars full of ammunition and river crossing equipment would be transported from Fenyang in two days, and the 686th Regiment should be intercepted by camera.
Everyone thought that the hollow area of Xue Gongling was a good battlefield, but Liu Shanfu, the leader of the reconnaissance team, sat on the side and did not make a sound. He had come to Xue Gongling more than a week ago, and the situation was the most familiar, so why didn't he speak? Yang Yong asked him what the reason was.
Liu Shanfu pointed to the bunker on a small hill bag opposite and said to Yang Yong: "Good is good, that bunker is annoying!" ”
Yes, whenever an enemy convoy of transports arrives, patrols are always sent first to search the ravine, and then to control the bunkers and cover the passage of the cars.
When everyone was discussing countermeasures, Wu Jiade, the commander of the mortar company, who had been looking down and drawing on a stone, assured Yang Yong with confidence that three cannons would destroy the bunker.
At 7 o'clock in the morning of September 14, Yang Yong received a report from the scouts: the enemy's car had left the city.
Two hours later, the team reached Wangjiachi, not far in front of Xue Gongling, where they added water and oil, and half an hour later they were on the road again. According to the Japanese puppet army guarding Wangjiachi, a patrol was sent to open the road in front of them, covering the passage of cars through Xue Gongling. At the foot of the East Hill, the cars were temporarily extinguished, and the patrol continued to search and move forward. Seeing that there was no movement around, he walked confidently and boldly toward the bunker.
The enemy then fired two signal flares signaling safety at the car convoy waiting across the hill. Soon, 20 cars full of enemy soldiers and military supplies entered the ambush circle of the 686th Regiment.
Yang Yong immediately issued an order to the artillery company commander Wu Jiade to open the cannon, and as soon as he blurted out, he only listened to the sound of "bang", and the first shell had already exploded in front of the bunker. The two subsequent guns fired accurately, and the enemy inside the bunker was almost completely reimbursed.
With the sound of shells, the warriors carried bayonets, and the divine soldiers rushed out of several ravines at the same time. Before the enemy could figure out what was going on, rows of grenades exploded on the car. In less than an hour, all but 3 of the more than 200 enemies surrendered were annihilated.
On September 15, the Japanese troops stationed in Fenyang dispatched a company, plus thousands of puppet troops to Xue Gongling to pull away 5 truckloads of enemy corpses.
This battle made the enemy a little frightened. For several days in a row, there were no enemy cars along the highway. The Japanese troops far away on the Yellow River could not get support from the rear, and the enemy Major General Yamaguchi had to order his men to kill horses and eat meat, and hold on to help. Reluctantly, the Japanese army soon began to transport again.
But the enemy became cautious, and on the 18th, the enemy first escorted a cart of grain as a tentative advance. According to the instructions of the division headquarters, Yang Yong first gave the enemy a "sweet head" and spared the grain of this cart.
The enemy saw that there was no accident with this car, and indeed dared to get up, and the next day, it was raining heavily, and the Japanese army dispatched 18 cars to the west from Fenyang. There are more than 100 enemies escorting the car.
The car was bumpy for 1 day, and it was difficult to pass through Wangjiachi, climb over Xue Gongling, and see that it had walked two-thirds of the way, but it was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army Supplementary Regiment in a flat area around the oil house. The enemy was completely annihilated, and many communications equipment was captured by the Eighth Route Army.
On two consecutive occasions, the enemy was annihilated by more than 300 people, and nearly one-fifth of the original 50 transport vehicles of the enemy's 108 brigade were destroyed by the Eighth Route Army. This blow seriously shook the Japanese army's determination to cross the Yellow River in the west.
At this moment, the division headquarters also ordered Yang Yong: The enemy shows signs of retreat, and he must quickly prepare for another battle regardless of fatigue. He also temporarily assigned the 2nd Battalion of the 685th Regiment and the Special Agent Company of the Division Headquarters to Yang Yong.
The enemy suffered two losses, and it is estimated that he will be more careful on the way back. Yang Yong and everyone held a meeting to discuss countermeasures, and finally decided to go to the enemy's stronghold in Wangjiachi to do it unexpectedly.
At midnight on September 20, our troops quietly reached the vicinity of Wangjiachi by separate routes, quickly entered the designated position, and hid.
At about 9 o'clock on the 21st, the enemy was indeed dejected and set off from Lishi to retreat to Fenyang. In the evening, the cavalry nodded, followed by spokes, artillery vehicles, and infantry, crowded forward and backward, and noisily came to the Wangjiachi Valley.
The enemy had just stepped out of Wangjiachi, and with Yang Yong's order, the 2nd Battalion took the lead in the battle. Suddenly, the sound of charge trumpets and shouts shook the valley, and the warriors came out of all directions to kill the enemy in unison. The enemy was annihilated on the spot.
This great victory annihilated more than 1,000 enemy troops, which greatly shocked the enemies in Fenyang and Taiyuan. The gates of Fenyang City were closed, the enemy was busy burning corpses, and a meeting was held to "mourn" the dead. Yang Yong and they held a grand celebration meeting in the Lüliang Mountains.
Ironically, the commander of the Japanese army stationed in Fenyang also gave Yang Yong a letter of challenge. In the challenge book, the enemy said that the Tactics of the Eighth Route Army were not honorable and just, and asked the 686th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army to "decide between male and female in The Nine Yus." For this stupid challenge, Yang Yong smiled.
(Reference to "Spark of Fire")