In the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, at its most intense, the strength of the two sides involved in the war was millions, and although China's 5.6 million troops were a little more than Japan's 4.1 million, because the weapons and other military equipment were far apart, the Japanese army made China pay more than 35 million casualties at the cost of more than 1.3 million casualties, which was very tragic.
As the mainstay of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Eighth Route Army also suffered heavy losses, among which the most tragic of the main regiments of the Eighth Route Army, the first regimental commander and three battalion commanders were heroically sacrificed, only the deputy regimental commander survived, and later became the number one general in Erye!
Eighth Route Army epaulettes
I. 772nd Regiment: The main regiment with the worst casualties in the Eighth Route Army's War of Resistance
During the period of the Kuomintang-Communist Joint War of Resistance against Japan, the Red Army was reorganized into the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army, of which the Eighth Route Army was the main force, With Zhu De as the commander-in-chief, Peng Dehuai as the deputy commander-in-chief, Ren Bishi as the director of the Political Department, and Deng Xiaoping as the deputy director; ye Jianying as the chief of staff, and Zuo Quan as the deputy chief of staff.
The Eighth Route Army administered the 129th Division, the 120th Division, the 115th Division, and the Headquarters Special Service Regiment. Marshal Liu Bocheng served as the commander of the 129th Division, and Marshal Xu Qianqian as the deputy commander; the commander of the 120th Division was Marshal He Long, and the deputy division commander was General Xiao Ke; the commander of the 115th Division was Marshal Lin Biao, and Marshal Nie Rongzhen was the deputy division commander.
The Eighth Route Army had a total of 15 main regiments. According to incomplete statistics, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army fought more than 115,000 battles of varying sizes with the Japanese puppet army, killing and wounding more than 960,000 Japanese puppet troops and capturing more than 280,000 enemy soldiers.
But it also paid a heavy price of more than 580,000 casualties, of which the main regiment with the worst losses was the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division.
The Eighth Route Army charged
2. The Heroic 772 Regiment
The 772nd Regiment was attached to the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
The 386th Brigade was reorganized from the 91st And 93rd Divisions of the 31st Army of the Fourth Front of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, with the brigade commander being the famous General Chen Geng, the deputy brigade commander being General Chen Zaidao, and the chief of staff being General Li Jukui.
Because the 386th Brigade, under the leadership of General Chen Geng, fought the ambush battle of Qiqi Village, the ambush battle of Changshengkou, and the ambush battle of Shentou Ridge, which became a thorn in the eyes of the Japanese devils, the Japanese army swept up and fought under the banner of "specializing in the 386 Brigade".
The former site of the headquarters of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army
In the deathly battle with the Japanese Kou, the 772nd Regiment, as the main force of the 386th Brigade, suffered heavy casualties, and the first regimental commander and three battalion commanders were killed.
Ye Chenghuan, the first commander of the 772nd Regiment, was only 24 years old at the time of his death;
Ding Silin, the commander of the first battalion, was only 26 years old at the time of his death.
Guo Guoyan, the commander of the second battalion, was only 29 years old when he died in battle.
When the commander of the third battalion, Yi Liangpin, died heroically, he had already been promoted to brigade commander and commander of the military sub-district, and he was only 33 years old, which was a pity.
Among the first senior military commanders of the 772nd Regiment, only the deputy regiment lived until the founding of New China, grew up to become a general of the Erno, and participated in the 1955 award.
Eighth Route Army Cultural Park
Third, Wang Jinshan, the first deputy commander of the 772nd Regiment, grew into a general of the Second Wild Army
The first deputy commander of the 772nd Regiment was Lieutenant General Wang Jinshan, the famous "Madman Wang".
Lieutenant General Wang Jinshan is a native of Hong'an, Hubei Province, and Li Yunlong, the protagonist of the anti-Japanese TV series "Bright Sword", which is popular all over the north and south of the great river, has his shadow. In October 1943, General Wang Jinshan commanded troops to set up an ambush in the village of Hanluo in the position of commander of the second sub-district of the Taiyue Military Region, completely annihilating the Japanese "field watch group" of more than 120 people and killing the Japanese brigade commander Major General Hattori Naoto.
Memorial building of the Eighth Route Army
During the Liberation War, Lieutenant General Wang Jinshan led his troops to work hard in the Shangdang Campaign, the Dingtao Campaign, the Handan Campaign, the March on Dabie Mountain, the Xiangfan Campaign, and the Huaihai Campaign, and was promoted all the way to the position of deputy commander of the Erye Third Corps.
Among them, the Dingtao Campaign of Dayanghu Bloody Battle laid the foundation for the position of Lieutenant General Erye of Wang Jinshan.
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in 1950, Lieutenant General Wang Jinshan led his troops to join the Volunteer Army, crossed the Yalu River, went to fight in Korea, and made outstanding achievements in the Fifth Campaign and the Battle of Shangganling, and in 1955, General Wang Jinshan was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General.
Nino veteran
4. Summary
The 772nd Regiment, the main regiment of the Eighth Route Army, suffered heavy losses, the first regimental commander and battalion commander were all killed in battle, and the deputy regimental commander became the number one general of Erye. See the cruelty of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Our happy lives were created by the martyrs, with their blood and lives. Remembering the martyrs, not forgetting the national shame, and serving the country is the obligation of everyone.
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