In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in our country, the Communist Party led our Red Army soldiers through one bloody battle after another before they returned to our vast and boundless territory; of course, in the War of Resistance Against Japan, in addition to the extremely great contributions made by our great Communist Party, there were also some other heroes involved.
For example, our non-governmental businessmen, who used their own efforts to accumulate money to support our soldiers, transport them materials, and so on, and there were also many people and troops in the Kuomintang who were worried about the country and the people who made great contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japan.
For example, in the Battle of Xifengkou, the soldiers of the Kuomintang 29th Army, they relied on the machete in their hands to repel the Japanese army several times, the intensity of the war can be seen from the large knife that the soldiers held in their hands that has been rolled up, this battle caused the Japanese army to suffer huge losses, but the division commander of the 29th Army, Feng Zhi'an, commented that although this battle was won and shamed, why would he make such an evaluation? Let's take a look!
The Japanese attacked Xifengkou
In 1931, the September 18 Incident in our country shocked China and foreign countries, and the shameless Japanese directed themselves on September 18 and created an incident in our country, claiming that our country's army had attacked their Japanese garrison in China for no reason, and using this as an excuse, they began to frantically invade our territory, kill the innocent people of our country, and in a very short period of time, they invaded and occupied the three eastern provinces of our country, and began to stir up trouble against other places.
At that time, the Nationalist side that received this news began to take action, and the Kuomintang leadership issued an order to the 29th Army to defend the various passes of the Great Wall to prevent the Japanese from really occupying various other areas within the Great Wall Pass, so the 29th Army was ordered to be responsible for defending the place of Xifeng Pass.
At that time, Xifengkou was an extremely important pass, because if the Japanese wanted to invade the Kannai area from the northeast region they had already occupied, they would definitely pass through this place of Xifengkou, so they sent the 29th Army to take charge of the defense, but in fact, by the time the 29th Army reached the Xifeng Pass, it was already too late.
Because at this time, more than 500 Japanese cavalry had reached the Xifeng Pass one step ahead of the others, and had begun to attack the soldiers responsible for defending the Xifeng Pass, so the soldiers of the 29th Army reacted very quickly, immediately joined the battle, and began to clash with the Japanese army, fortunately, this time, the number of cavalry sent by the Japanese army was relatively small, only more than 500 people, and our 29th Army had a very large advantage in numbers, so it quickly ended this battle and successfully drove away the Japanese army.
The 29th Army formed a large knife team
Although in the first confrontation, we successfully drove out the Japanese, at the time of the confrontation, Wang Changhai, the brigade commander of the 29th Army, also found that this victory was due to the small number of Japanese troops at that time, and we had a very large numerical advantage, so we won the victory. However, compared with the elite weapons of the Japanese army, the weapons held by the soldiers of the 29th Army were not lethal enough, and if the number of enemies increased the next time the Japanese army attacked, then the 29th Army was likely to be unable to resist and risk defeat.
Therefore, Wang Changhai reported this situation to his superior, Zhao Dengyu, and after understanding this specific situation, Zhao Dengyu decided to abandon the fire weapon with rich combat experience, but instead selected some people in the 29th Army, formed a small team, and named this small team the big knife team.
Originally, Zhao Dengyu wanted this large knife team to use machetes to engage in close confrontation with the Japanese army, while the rest of the 29th Army's companies still used fire weapons, so that they could work together to achieve better results. So, the soldiers of this small knife team were given a large knife to each of them, and they quickly learned how to make better use of this large knife to slash and kill the enemy.
Night attack enemy forces
Not long after, Zhao Dengyu, the brigade commander of the 29th Army, decided to give the Japanese troops a surprise attack and drive them away completely, so on the night of March 11, four regiments of troops gathered and began to advance in the direction of the Japanese army's camp.
These four regiments included the 29th Army's secret weapon knife team, and after arriving at the Japanese army camp, the soldiers of the 29th Army found that the enemy was sleeping very soundly at that time, and no one noticed their arrival, and this was a good opportunity for a surprise attack.
So the members of the big knife team directly took the machete and rushed to the enemy camp one by one, a knife is an enemy, the knife fell under the knife, and actually killed a large half, and this big knife is not the same as those guns, it will also make a sound when killing, the machete kills people very crisply and neatly, there is no sound, so the enemies do not have a little defense, so they died directly under the machete.
Therefore, the soldiers of the 29th Army combined swords and guns in this way, and with the cooperation of fire weapons and cold weapons, they directly annihilated two Japanese companies, probably killing more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers, and the machete in the hands of the members of the 29th Army's large knife team was even slashed and rolled up.
The result of this night raid was very successful, not only eliminated many enemies, but also successfully captured more than a dozen tanks, as well as nearly twenty cannons, and also obtained an aircraft, from then on, the reputation of the big knife team also spread among the Japanese army, and later, many Japanese soldiers had to wear an iron circle around their necks when they slept at night, just to prevent the big knife team from cutting off their necks.
epilogue
However, although this night raid of the 29th Army achieved great success, Feng Zhi'an, commander of the 29th Army, commented on the battle and said: "This is a shameful thing although victorious.", why did Feng Zhi'an make such an evaluation?
In fact, this is Feng Zhi'an's irony of our weapons at that time, when the Japanese army had very sophisticated thermal weapons, such as machine guns, cannons, etc., but at that time, our soldiers could only use the most primitive machetes to resist, which was indeed not a glorious thing.
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