The Battle of Shindo took place on December 27, 1939.
On December 26, 1939, the 27th Regiment of the 10th Military Subdistrict of the Jizhong Military Region received a notice from the Military Region, saying that more than 40 people from the sub-Japanese military region had sent a working group to the 10th Sub-District with a batch of funds and medicines to inspect the work, and that the 27th Regiment should immediately go to Shentang Village to the area around the Daqing River to greet them, and that the safety of the military region's work group must be ensured.
Located in Pingchuan, northeast of Xiongxian County, Hebei Province, Shentang Village is a village with an east-west length and a north-south width, and the luchong river and the Daqing river are located in the south of the village.
At that time, the whereabouts of the military region's working group had been discovered by the Japanese and puppets, and some of the Japanese and puppet enemy troops were in hot pursuit behind them, and the situation was very critical. The commander of the 27th Regiment and the other regimental commanders decided to personally lead the second and third battalions to Shentang Village to protect the safety of the military district's working group, so they rushed to Shentang Village overnight to build fortifications and prepare to meet the enemy.
The next morning, the battle between the soldiers of the two battalions of our 27th Regiment and the Japanese puppets began in the village of Shentang, and the enemy dispatched more Japanese puppet troops under the condition that they could not be broken for a long time. After 12 hours of arduous fighting, our army defeated the multiple attacks of the enemy who had four times more troops than our side, and achieved the results of eliminating more than 450 Japanese and puppets, destroying 1 tank, and shooting down 1 aircraft at the cost of more than 250 casualties.
With regard to the victory in this "Battle of Shentang," Lu Zhengcao, commander of the Jizhong Military Region, commented on this battle: "In the form of regular warfare, the weak will win the strong, and the less will win more, which is still a pioneering move in Jizhong. ”
So, who was the commander of the 27th Regiment who commanded the battle of the Shrine?
He is Yang Xiukun.
Yang Xiukun was an old Red Army soldier who joined the revolution in 1929, he joined the Long March of the Red Fourth Front and the Western Route Army, and served as the deputy commander of the 88th Division of the Red 30th Army during the Long March. Later, Yang Xiukun was transferred to the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army, and when the Central Plains broke through, he was then the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Column of the Central Plains Military Region, and he led the Southern Route Army to break through to northwest Hubei, and later served as the commander of the 2nd Army Sub-district in northwest Hubei.
In 1947, when the team advanced towards the Tongbai Mountains, the enemy besieged troops suffered heavy losses, and Yang Xiukun's regiment was only left with more than 20 people, and had to disperse to break through. After that, he endured countless hardships, nine lives and one death, and was escorted to the Taiyue Military Region with the help of the underground party. It just so happened that at that time, Nakano's 10th Column had just been established, and the 28th Brigade was the most effective unit of the 10th Column, and Wang Hongkun, who was the commander of the 10th Column at the time, named Yang Xiukun as the brigade commander of the 28th Brigade.
After that, because Yang Xiukun fought many victorious battles, he was first promoted to deputy commander of the Erye 58th Army and concurrently the commander of the 172nd Division, and the 58th Army was transferred to the deputy commander of the Siye 44th Army after revoking the number.
After the founding of New China, Yang Xiukun transferred to a local government for some reason as a deputy department-level cadre. On May 5, 1993, Yang Xiukun died at the age of 82.
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