In early August 1942, Xia Desheng, then commander of the 8th Regiment of the 3rd Brigade, received orders from his superiors to lead his troops to remove the Xulou stronghold. Xulou is a large stronghold, garrisoned by hundreds of puppet troops, and is a bridgehead for the enemy to attack our Kunzhang base area. Although the 8th Regiment is a regimental formation, but the total strength is only 5 companies, Xia Desheng considered that Xulou is very close to Yanggu County, once the battle starts, the devils are likely to come out to reinforce, so he decided to take 4 companies to besiege xulou stronghold, and wu Zhong, the regimental combat staff officer, took a company to be responsible for reinforcements.
Wu Zhong, a native of Cangxi, Sichuan, joined the Red Army at the age of 12, and because he was too young, the company commander made him a propagandist. After only a year of service, he insisted on going down to the front line to fight, and he could not stand the soft and hard bubble, and the company commander approved his request. In addition to being brave, Wu Zhong is also willing to use his brain, so the bigger the battle, the better, because he has made meritorious contributions many times and his personal position has also been continuously improved. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wu Zhong's unit was incorporated into the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
Due to the downsizing of the troops, many people were demoted and used, and Wu Zhong was demoted from battalion commander to combat staff officer. After receiving the task assigned by the regimental commander this time, Wu faithfully surveyed and finally chose the location for reinforcement on Jingyang Gang. If the Japanese army in Yanggu wants to reinforce Xu Lou, Jingyang Gang is the only place to pass. The post is full of pines and cypresses, and the post is a dense field of millet and sorghum, which is a very ideal place for assistance. After choosing the ambush site, Wu Zhong began to consider tactics again, at that time, the equipment of the Eighth Route and the Japanese army could not be compared at all, if you fight hard with the Japanese army on Jingyang Gang, it is likely that there will be large casualties.
After some thought, Wu Zhong set his sights on the millet and sorghum fields under his post. Wu Zhong, who was born as a peasant, was no stranger to the millet field, and knew that the grain ears and barns were the most likely to entangle people, and the cloth shoes worn by our army were better, and the "cow's hoof" leather shoes of the Japanese army could not be walked in the millet field. Thinking of this, Wu Zhong decided to ambush the 2nd and 3rd platoons in the sorghum field next to the millet field, and led the 1st platoon to block the enemy at Jingyang Gang, and then looked for an opportunity to lead the ghosts to the millet field, using the characteristics of the grain pole to wrap their shoes to trap the ghosts, and then concentrate their firepower to eliminate them.
The Battle of Xulou started in Yanggu County, and the Japanese army in Yanggu County sent a small team to reinforce, but unexpectedly, just after reaching Jingyanggang, it was blocked by 1 platoon, and the devils launched a fierce attack with firepower superiority. After resisting for a while, Wu Zhong saw that the fire had arrived, so he led his troops to the post. When the Japanese commander saw that this small group of eight roads was not "fleeing" to a sorghum field that was more than one person tall, but was bending over and circling in a half-man-high millet field, he mistakenly thought that the eighth road was fleeing for his life and did not choose a path, so he chased after the troops with his troops. After a while, the stepped millet wrapped around the "cow's hoof" leather shoes of the Japanese army, and the devils could not break free for a while. Wu Zhong, seeing the situation, immediately led the troops to turn around and kill, at this time the 2nd and 3rd platoons buried in the sorghum field also copied from the rear to the Japanese army, and attacked back and forth, and quickly wiped out this Japanese army.