When the War of Resistance Broke Out, the Japanese Army invaded and occupied Jiangsu and ravaged the people
On July 7, 1937, the all-out War of Resistance broke out, and on August 13, the Battle of Songhu, the Nationalist army collapsed, Shanghai fell, and the Japanese army quickly occupied a large area of land in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Due to the limited strength of the Japanese army and the long battle line, the Japanese Kou focused their defense on the railway and road, and built large and small artillery towers and bunkers.
In order to control this road, the Japanese Kou specially set up a small artillery tower here, and only 1 ghost and 3 puppet troops were stationed.
This devil is fierce and domineering, pretending to be a ruler, and forcing the people to bow to him through this place, otherwise the people will invite the disaster of killing.
Japanese sentry
In order to buy medicine, the villagers broke through the checkpoint and were brutally killed
The father of a farmer in a nearby village was seriously ill, and the villagers were so anxious that they set off from home before dawn and rushed to the turret, he stopped and waited for the devils on the turret to come down to check and approve it. The devils did not appear for a long time, and people waited until noon, the sun scorched the earth, and people were sweating and waiting patiently.
The villagers were worried about his father's illness, he had the courage to carefully stride forward, walked not far, a gunshot, the villagers fell in a pool of blood on the spot, it turned out that the ghost on the turret had fired, he killed innocent people at will in order to deter Chinese.
The villager's father was seriously ill, and when he learned of his son's death, he became angry and screamed in bed, and a happy family was broken.
The Japanese set up checkpoints
Lu Xiao, the leader of the armed forces, attacked the artillery tower at night to eliminate harm for the people
When the news spread, the masses were filled with indignation, and the little devils did not regard Chinese as people and killed them at will; such a day could not be lived, and they reported the situation to the Armed Workers' Brigade of the New Fourth Army.
At that time, the Huai'an area in northern Jiangsu, where Lianshui County was located, was the place of activity of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army, and the 3rd Division sent many armed teams to operate in sixiang, and they attacked the Japanese puppet army and carried out anti-Japanese propaganda among the masses. Moving near lianshui county town was Lu Xiaoxian, the commander of the New Fourth Army's armed engineering team; he was resourceful and daring, and when he heard about this tragic incident, he felt indignant, and in order to crack down on the arrogance of the Japanese Kou, he decided to take this artillery tower to cut off the harm to the people. He sent scouts to collect intelligence on the Japanese puppet army.
In 1942, the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the Japanese puppet army in the turret also ate and drank heavily, and relaxed its vigilance. Lu Xiaoxian dressed as a night walker, he quietly touched the gun tower, observed for a while, found that there was no movement, he suddenly rushed into the turret, holding a pistol in one hand, holding two hand bullets in the other, shouting: "Surrender the gun and don't kill!"
The four members of the Japanese puppet army were eating and drinking heavily, caught off guard, and were suddenly stunned, the devils were about to raise their guns to resist, and were killed on the spot; one puppet army tried to grease the soles of their feet to escape, and was also killed; the remaining two puppet soldiers quickly knelt down and raised their guns to surrender, shouting in their mouths, "Spare your life, spare your life!"
Lu Xiao, the leader of the martial arts team, cut off the devil's head and put it in a cloth bag, and he thought: We must not let the Japanese Kou use this turret to harm the people again, and simply burn it.
So he lit the turret with kerosene from a horse lamp and retreated with his captives. When the common people saw the roaring fire in the artillery tower, they all smiled happily and praised the New Fourth Army for its great achievements and doing a great thing.
Japanese artillery tower
In the spring of 1943, at the anti-"sweeping" celebration meeting, Huang Kecheng, commander and political commissar of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army, praised Lu Xiaoxian, the captain of the armed forces, and rewarded him with a shell gun.
In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army attacked China in a large-scale manner with sophisticated weapons and well-trained soldiers; with the awakening of the Chinese people, the resistance force continued to increase, and the people's armed forces under the leadership of the Communist Party of Chinese China became the mainstay of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.