In the TV series "Bright Sword", Kong Jie's Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army was secretly attacked by the Japanese special forces led by Yamamoto, and the losses were not small, and as a result, he was removed from the position of regimental commander and replaced by deputy regimental commander. Li Yunlong, who was sent to the service factory as the director of the garment factory because of his mistake, was ordered to go to the independent regiment as the regimental commander, and led the independent regiment to a bloody shame, playing the prestige of the independent regiment, and making the Japanese army tremble with fear. This plot actually has a real historical background.
In the real history of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the regiment that was secretly attacked by the Japanese army was actually the 771st Regiment, the main regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. The 771st Regiment was reorganized from the 91st Division of the 31st Army of the former Central Red Army, and its combat effectiveness was very strong. The commander of the 771st Regiment, Xu Shenji, the commander of the 91st Division, was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955. How did the 771st Regiment get attacked by the Japanese? It happened in September 1937, when the Nationalist 3rd Army, led by the Kuomintang Zeng Wanzhong, was in a frontal position at Niangziguan to block the attack of the Japanese 20th Division.
Liu Bocheng, commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, was ordered to come and offer to assist the Nationalist army in its defense, but Zeng Wanzhong did not appreciate it and looked down on the Eighth Route Army, which had extremely poor weapons and equipment, Liu Bocheng found that Zeng Wanzhong's strategic deployment had loopholes, but Zeng Wanzhong did not adopt it, and when he left, Liu Bocheng ordered the 771st Regiment to set up a defensive position at Shimen south of Xinguan to prevent the Japanese army from circling behind the Nationalist army and launching a sneak attack. After the 771st Regiment arrived at the designated position, it found that the position had old fortifications from the Central Plains War, so it directly used these fortifications in order to save trouble, in this regard, Liu Bocheng warned Xu Shenji that the old fortifications were not available, but Xu Shenji did not listen.
On the night of September 25, the 5 brigades of the 40th Brigade of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army really took a detour to sneak attack the Nationalist troops, and the Stone Gate south of Xinguan was a necessary place, and when they arrived, the 771st Regiment was scattered by a charge by the Japanese army due to lack of strict vigilance and fortifications. In the following 10 hours, the 771st Regiment completely lost contact with the 129th Division headquarters and the 386th Brigade Brigade Headquarters, and Liu Bocheng and Chen Geng Brigade Commander both had a premonition that there was more evil and less luck.
However, on the afternoon of the next day, the officers and men of the 771st Regiment returned one after another in the form of squads, platoons, and companies. When they returned, each of them had one or two pieces of booty in their hands from the Japanese army, and what made the brother troops even more envious was that the weapons in their hands were actually replaced by the three or eight large covers of the Japanese army, and some units also captured crooked machine guns. What's going on? Originally, after the 771st Regiment was scattered, it quickly formed a new combat collective with squads, platoons, and companies, targeting small groups of Japanese troops, and moving while fighting, which not only effectively reduced losses, but also eliminated many Japanese troops and captured a large amount of booty. In this regard, at that time, a reporter reported that the victory they fought did not surprise us, and the defeat they fought was really admirable.