In April 1945, the 28th Division of the 90th Army moved to Huayin County, Shaanxi Province, when Ding Wudao was the commander of the 1st Company of the 1st Battalion of the 83rd Regiment. One evening in late April, division commander Wang Yingzun gathered officers at and above the company level to speak, asking the whole division to immediately advance toward the Xixia Gorge in Henan to block the Japanese invasion.
Japanese army
The military intelligence was the order, and the regimental commander immediately summoned the whole regiment to speak, and the troops assembled in the afternoon of the same day and set out for the West Gorge, and the 1st Company acted as the outpost of the sharp soldier company to search for the West Gorge. The whole company walked for more than 10 days to the mouth of the West Gorge and prepared for battle according to the preset position. The position defended by the first company was about 400 meters wide in front, but it was held for more than 10 days and nothing happened.
A few days later, the first company suddenly received orders to advance 7 miles to the left, strictly guard the heavy area of the pass of the motor road, and block the passage of Japanese tanks. When the whole company arrived at the position, it immediately planted mines, and the battalion sent 10 sappers and 1 guide to help. After the whole company planted the mines, an ambush was set up to ambush the mines around the mine array, ambushing the devils at any time.
The Japanese army crossed the Yellow River
One morning, suddenly, gunshots rang out from the left front, and became more and more intense. Immediately after that, there was the sound of heavy weapons and grenades, and the next moment it was the sound of rushing to kill. Ding Wudao climbed up a small plateau and found that the 2nd Company had already fought with the ghosts. At that time, the task of the 1st Company was to fight Japanese tanks, so even if the 2nd Company engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese, it could not easily leave the position to reinforce.
Dozens of minutes later, dozens of people were carried down from the position of the 2nd Company, and Ding Wudao quickly ran to take a look and found that the commander of the 2nd Company had been shot through the heart socket by a bullet and was seriously injured. Ding Wudao had just asked the stretcher soldiers a few words, and the commander of the 3rd Company's Horse Crooked Company rushed up with the whole company and continued to attack. Ma Wei is a Xi'an native, because his head is usually crooked to one side, so people call him Ma Crooked Company Commander. The commander of the ma crooked company was very experienced in combat, and soon attacked the second hill. After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the whole company suffered more than 50 casualties, and was forced to retreat because they could not withstand the Japanese offensive.
Japanese machine gunners
Ding Wudao understood that the Japanese army was going to attack their positions next. In order to preemptively attack, Ding Wudao ordered the whole company to be ready for battle and launch a counterattack against the Japanese army at any time. Just as the 1st Company was preparing to charge, the regimental headquarters suddenly changed its order and asked the 4th Company Liu Yimin's unit to launch an attack on the Japanese army. When the 4th Company attacked the third hill, the Japanese concentrated heavy fire to block, and the company commander Liu Yimin's leg was broken by the Japanese machine gun, and the deputy company commander commanded for less than an hour, and his leg was also seriously injured. Even so, the platoons of the 4th Company remained in their positions and did not take a step back.
At this moment, the regimental commander urgently withdrew the 4th Company and let the 5th Company attack. The commander of the 5th Company was a Hebei man and was very tall. The whole company quickly followed the 4th Company to attack, but due to the fierce Japanese firepower, the devil's marksmanship was accurate and the artillery was accurate. Before the 5th Company could be deployed, the company commander was killed by Japanese shells, and the platoons suffered heavy losses under the heavy japanese fire.
Japanese soldiers
At this critical moment, the 1st was connected to the offensive command. After the attack began, the heavy machine guns of the 1st Company fired in a salvo, so that the Japanese could not lift their heads, and the whole company quickly rushed up the hill. After a bloody battle, the 1st Company successfully took the first hill. Subsequently, Ding Wudao ordered the first platoon to attack the second hill, and the second platoon followed. Ding Wudao paid special attention to the oblique firing of the Japanese army, and when he was about to climb up, suddenly a row of bullets bounced past him about two inches in front of his head. Ding Wudao was startled and lay in place for about 3 minutes without daring to move, in order to make the Japanese mistakenly think that they had hit him.
Ding Wudao immediately moved to the left and came to the vicinity of the shooter of the third group of light machine guns, and he ordered the third group to remove the tripod and press the bullet, dial it to the single shot and hand it to him. After Ding Wudao took the gun, he rolled forward to the right for a few meters in his arms, then raised the machine gun and shot at the top of a tree in front of him on the right, and after a few bullets were fired, 2 Japanese soldiers who were killed fell from the tree, followed by another machine gun and a bullet box. After defeating these two devils, the 1st Company successfully took down the second hill.
artillery
After laying down two hills, there is the last one. At this time, there were only 60 people left in Ding Wudao's 1st Company, and judging from the degree of casualties of the Japanese troops on the first two hills, there would not be many Japanese troops on the third hill. Sure enough, only a few Japanese machine guns were still firing at the third hill, so Ding Wudao ordered the grenadiers to fire several rounds at the third hill. After the launch, the third platoon took the lead in rushing to the top of the mountain, and on the top of the hill the Japanese army dropped sixty or seventy corpses, so Ding Wudao asked the seventh squad leader how many ghosts were left when he rushed up the mountain, and the seventh squad leader said that there were more than 10 of them all put down.
Ding Wudao looked around the mountain, looking for clues on the battlefield. Suddenly, on a small hill in front of the right, a lush tree was found halfway up the mountain. Ding Wudao suspected that the undead Japanese army had hidden on this hill, so he ordered to go to the hill in front to investigate. Ding Wudao walked in front of the line and led the remaining brothers towards the hill.
The Japanese carried the body down the hill
When I walked to the tree only about 10 steps away, I suddenly saw a military kettle behind the tree and shook it. There was indeed an undead ghost hiding inside, the ghost was drinking water, maybe he had seen Ding Wudao and wanted to fight with him. Ding Wudao hurriedly crouched down, staring at the tree with both eyes. Ding Wudao thought to himself: You are just a person, Lao Tzu will fight with you, my people are coming from behind, what are you afraid of?
The bullets of the box gun in Ding Wudao's hand had been loaded, and he calculated that if the Japanese army came out, he would shoot him to death. But the devil suddenly burst out of the tree, raised three or eight large covers and stabbed him. Ding Wudao was startled, did not shoot, followed the forward momentum of the devil, and pulled at his gun body, beating the devil into a.
A veteran's equipment
Ding Wudao kicked the devil, and the devil quickly got up and raised his bayonet to stab. Ding Wudao quickly took a half step back, the Japanese army rushed over again, he squatted down violently, the Japanese army was too strong, pounced on him, fell on him, he wrapped his arms around the devil's waist, trying to catch a live.
At this time, Ding Wudao suddenly remembered that the pistol was placed on his back, so he slammed his head against the Japanese army. The devil took the opportunity to stand up, and Ding Wudao picked up the devil's three or eight big covers from the ground and stabbed him in the heart with one shot. Just at this moment, the brothers of the 1st Company rushed up to 3 people, and everyone shot me and I solved this devil on the spot. The task of capturing three hills by the 1st Company was successfully completed.
A large knife to kill enemies
In the Battle of Xixiakou, the 1st Battalion of the 83rd Regiment attacked three Japanese-occupied hills in turn for nearly a week, eliminating more than 200 devils occupying the hills and more than 300 casualties of the 1st Battalion. Judging from Ding Wudao's records, although the Japanese army at this time is far less effective than the ghosts of a few years ago, it is by no means vulnerable. It can be seen how hard it is to fight the War of Resistance and how difficult it is to eliminate a devil.
[This article is collected by Barnyard Shi Hou to collect anti-war materials, memoirs to sort out and write, errors and omissions, Jingxi readers correct]