In early February 1939, more than 300 Japanese troops from Toko Castle were dispatched to repair the stronghold at Dengmingji Temple under the leadership of Fujii. Dengming Temple is only more than 30 miles away from the county seat of Dongguang County, and it is a large village that can be counted in dozens of miles. When the devils came to the Dengming Temple, they arrested the masses who had no time to escape and forced them to work as coolies. In order to prevent the Night Raid of the Eighth Route Army, the main road of the village was blocked with furniture, agricultural tools, carts, deer and tribulus scavenged from the homes of the masses. In order to catch up with the progress, the devil forced the villagers to work day and night, and the movement was slightly slower, that is, punching and kicking, making people miserable.
Xiao Hua, who was then the commander of the Jilubian Column, was moving to the Wuqiao area with the column headquarters and a battalion of the five detachments, and when he learned of this, he decided to sabotage the devil's operation and rescue the captured villagers. Xiao Hua, a native of Xingguo, Jiangxi, joined the revolution at the age of 12 and became the political commissar of the International Division of the Young Communist Party at the age of 17. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the Eighth Route Army's eastward anti-Japanese advance column, and led his troops to Jilubian to open up anti-Japanese base areas. At this time, although Xiao Hua was only 22 years old, he had already experienced hundreds of battles and could write and fight. After the battle, he would always take time out to read, especially the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and he was even more familiar with zhuge Liang's tactics.
After reconnoitring the terrain, Xiao Hua decided to follow Zhuge Liang's tired tactics against Cao Cao at Hanshui to deal with the devils. In the middle of the night, there was a loud military trumpet outside the village, interspersed with the sound of fried beanshots. The devil quickly rolled out of bed, climbed onto the roof in a panic, and shot at the four fields. After a while, the sound of trumpets and gunshots outside the village stopped, and when Rikou saw that there had been no movement outside the village for a long time, he thought that our army had withdrawn, so they all took a nap, and some of them fell asleep with their gunshots in hand.
Suddenly, military trumpets, gunshots and shouts rang out again. The devil was awakened, and with sleepy eyes, he picked up the gun and hit it, and it took another hour before he stopped. By this time, the sky was already faint. In this way, there was a whole three nights of commotion. Fujii sent someone to inquire, and the spies reported that some nearby militiamen were "tricking the ghosts." Teng Jing gritted his teeth angrily and scolded "Eight Ge Ya Lu". On the fourth night, the sound of trumpets, gunshots, and shouts was again half-dead. Fujii had become accustomed to this, thinking that it was still the militia to "make trouble", so he did not take it seriously, and asked the devils not to fight back and continue to sleep.
Xiao Hua saw that the time was ripe, so in the second half of the night he led his troops to kill the devil's sentry and rushed into the village. Surrounded several courtyards where the devils were stationed, and opened fire violently. The devils did not sleep well for three consecutive nights, and at this time they slept like dead pigs, many people were killed in their sleep, and the devils who hurriedly got up were also fighting with their eyelids. Under the fierce attack of our army, the devils soon collapsed, and eventually most of the devils were eliminated, and Fujii fled back to The county seat of Toko with only a few dozen people. After the war, the soldiers all admired Xiao Hua's five-body throwing, and even said that this strategy was used well, and in 1955 Xiao Hua was awarded the rank of general.