The most tenacious battle of the Eighth Route Army, more than half of the troops were lost, and the two wounded soldiers later became lieutenant generals!
Dazongjia, located in Ling County, Shandong, was an active area for the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army to open up base areas, and it was also a heavy place for heavy japanese troops to sweep. After the Japanese army captured Wuhan, it launched a crazy sweep of the Jilu Border Area, but it was crushed by the Eighth Route Army many times, and the most tragic and tenacious battle fought by the Eighth Route Army at that time was the Dazongjia Breakthrough Battle.
After the Eighth Route Army won many anti-sweeping victories, the 5th Detachment of the 115th Division's Eastward Anti-Japanese Advance Column eliminated more than a thousand traitors when it opened up the area around Deping and Lingxian and garrisoned at Dazong's house.
On March 27, 1939, the 5 detachments led by zeng Guohua, the commander of the detachment, and the 5 regiments (owed to the 2nd Battalion) arrived in the area of Dazongjia in the east of LingXian County for a short rest and stayed for 3 consecutive days. On the evening of the 3rd day, the stage was set up to sing, and the military and civilians celebrated the victory. This move of the 5 detachments was detected by intelligence personnel sent by the Japanese army in Tokuyama County.
The Japanese army judged that the name of the unit that appeared in the Dazongjia area was "the special column of the Eighth Route Army and its 5th detachment", its strength reached thousands of people, and it was a team that had defeated the invincible Japanese army in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
In order to thoroughly reconnoiter the movements of the 5th detachment of the Eighth Route Army, the cavalry brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, a half-squad of a certain infantry company, a small detachment of the 8th Squadron of the 5th Regiment of Field Artillery, and a detachment of a certain squadron of the 5th Regiment of Field Artillery, and later mobilized more than 800 people from the garrison troops of Dexian County, Shanghe, Linyi, Dongguang, Yanshan, and Pingyuan to carry out follow-up reinforcements.
The enemy infantry divided into two columns directly between the Dazong family and the Hou family, and then separated left and right, like two poisonous pythons tightly surrounding the two villages, and gradually narrowing the encirclement, and launched an attack on the Eighth Route Army that encountered each side. The Japanese army came quite quickly and suddenly, completely unexpected by the Eighth Route Army. The sentries stationed at Dazong's house first discovered the enemy situation, and Long Shujin, commander of the 5th Regiment, immediately organized troops to fight hard, and Zeng Qinghong, the political commissar of the regiment, immediately reported the enemy situation to the detachment.
When zeng guohua, the commander of the detachment, heard the gunshots and received the report, the enemy had surrounded the Dazong family and the Hou family separately, and the telephone line was also cut off. At this time, it is impossible to ask for help, and we can only fight independently. On the one hand, Zeng Guohua organized the detachment organs and the guard and communication detachments to block the enemy, and on the other hand, he sent a messenger to immediately inform the 5 regimental headquarters of the Dazong family and the 5 regiments and 1 battalion of the Zhao Yuzhi family to calmly respond to the battle.
Four days later, the battle of Daimune was still raging, and Japanese reinforcements arrived one after another, and the situation became more and more unfavorable to me. Regiment commander Long Shujin, political commissar Zeng Qinghong, and commissioner Xie Jiashu led the fighters to occupy favorable terrain to resist the Japanese attack. Although our army has created a miracle in the history of offensive and defensive warfare, the casualties of the troops are very heavy, and the enemy and we have engaged in a hand-to-hand battle of house by house. The Japanese army was fierce and barbaric, and the Eighth Route Army was even more brave and tenacious.
The 1st Company and 5th Squad fought bloodily with the Pursuing Japanese troops until night, and finally all died heroically, and the 5th Regiment Special Agent Company that had been fighting with the enemy for a whole day was also lost. At the same time, troops in other villages also successfully broke through.
In order to prevent the enemy from encircling again, Zeng Guohua led the detachment headquarters and the remnants of the 5 regiments through Gaojiazhuang, northeast of Zhao Yuzhi's home, crossed the Dazongjia Dry River, and moved to The Yidu Port in Deping County for recuperation. The Battle of the Great Sect Slowly Came to an End with the arrival of the Bloody Sunset.
According to post-war statistics, the enemy chief Yamada Daisaku was killed, and Long Shujin, the commander of the 5th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, was wounded and disabled, Zeng Qinghong, the political commissar of the regiment, Zhu Tingxian, director of the Political Office, and Xie Jiashu, the regimental commissioner, were killed, and the Eighth Route Army defending The Zong family lost more than half of its strength, especially the main regiment of the 5th Regiment, which was the most tragic and sacrificial battle in the entire period of the War of Resistance.
Soon after the war, the 5 detachments organized the 4th Regiment into the 5th Regiment to restore the vitality and strength of the 5th Regiment. Judging from the collection of corpses by the villagers and the reorganization of the troops, there were more than 1,700 people in our army in the battle of Dazongjia, and the casualties should be in half or even more.
It is worth mentioning that there were two brothers from Tongliao who participated in this battle, the older brother was called Liu Cunzhi, born in 1924, the younger brother was called Liu Cunxin, born in 1926, there were 7 people from their village who joined the Eighth Route Army, only they survived. Both brothers took part in the Battle of Dazongjia, and both were seriously wounded in the battle, and after recovering from their wounds, they both joined the Chinese Communist Party.
In the subsequent war, Liu Cunzhi and Liu Cunxin were both braver in the Vietnam War and made many military achievements; Liu Cunzhi successively participated in the battles of liberating Nan'ao Island and Nanpeng Island and participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea; Liu Cunxin successively participated in the battles of Liaoshen, Pingjin, and Hengbao.